Outside the Beltway

It’s just resting.

Steamboat Willie is about to be ripe for exploitation.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

Hamas continues to cynically manipulate the world’s humanitarian impulses.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

Could the fourth time be the charm?

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

A hopeful irony.

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.

In a bathtub?

He might prefer McDeath.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

He’s losing by a bigger margin in Round 2

Will at least four Republicans have a spine?

The timing is not auspicious.

A high-stakes move.

The crazies are this close to a complete takeover.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

The clown show still lacks a ringmaster.

Some thoughts on the Speaker contest.

McCarthy lost it. Turned in his gavel. You, guy, are number 1.

One of the worst movies in memory may be getting a sequel.

A roundup of news and opinon.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

The inmates are running the asylum.

Wherein I finally reveal my answer (spoiler: it is hardly surprising). And, also, wherein despite the goal of brevity, I fail at that goal.

His lawyers and Democratic lawmakers are urging an exception.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

Some interesting (and potentially disturbing) polling trends.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

Some of these things are not like the other.

What was once impossible, then inevitable, has now happened.

He is proving the opposite of his argument.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Some tab plus some tabs equals some tabs.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Local issues barely matter in Congressional races anymore.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

Another potential deal that doesn’t address the central issue.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

It’s happened. What does it mean?