Outside the Beltway

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

House Republicans passed their tax reform bill. That was the easy part.

While many on the right are condemning Roy Moore, there are far too many prevaricators and defenders out there.

Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore is accused of having molested a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s.

Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge and reduction in rank, but will not serve time in prison.

Forget all the talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, the truth is that Republicans and conservatives have already surrendered to Trump and Bannon.

Due mostly to cowardice and naked self-interest, you shouldn’t expect many other Republicans to speak out against Trump in the near future.

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

John McCain, George W, Bush, and Sarah Huckabee-Sanders had warning for us this week. We should heed them.

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.

Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

Most Americans don’t support President Trump’s statements about the protests by N.F.L. players, but it’s just another example of him using hateful rhetoric to pander to his base.

What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.

Speaking about his cancer treatment for the first time, Senator John McCain paints a grim picture.

The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.

The GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to suffer a fatal blow as Senator John McCain announced his opposition to what is the last gasp of that effort in the Senate.

Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.

Senate Republicans are considering one more last-ditch effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

Once again, Congress is abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

It’s possible we haven’t heard the last from “Sheriff Joe.”

The pardoning of Joe Arpaio was distasteful and an affront to the Rule of Law, but it was completely within the powers of the President and should not be a ground for impeachment.

President Trump’s shameful decision to ban transgender Americans from the military has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to do with pandering to his far-right base.

The president has abrogated his duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Donald Trump gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

In a vote close enough to require the Vice-President to cast a tie-breaking vote, the Senate voted to proceed to debate on a health care bill even though nobody seems to know what bill they’ll ultimately be voting on.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

With the fate of the Senate health care reform bill hanging in the balance, the Senate will delay consideration of the bill due to the unexpected absence of one Senator.

The Senate GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is headed for a bumpy ride.

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.