Outside the Beltway

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

With a win in Nevada, the party will retain at least 50 seats.

Is the President governing like he means it?

The President flubbed a softball question. Oh noes!

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

One of these things is not like the other.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Here we go again . . . .

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

Much ado about a perfectly normal phenomenon.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The President is taking a page out of Elizabeth Warren’s playbook.

Do you believe in miracles?

It’s Manchin-approved.

Some pundits have high standards.

Hillary Clinton edition.

Gotta make space for all the new tabs that we are going to get for Christmas!

Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

Joe Biden has bet his presidency on a caucus that may simply be irreconcilable.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

The enigmatic Senator is a world-class attention seeker.