Outside the Beltway

Monday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the charges made against Judge Brett Kavanaugh is still on as scheduled, but the details are still being negotiated.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

The GOP civil war continues…..

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

A crack in the wall.

President Obama has selected his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, now the question is whether the Senate will act.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

For good reason, many Republicans are worried about the prospect that Donald Trump could end up winning the Republican nominee, but they don’t seem to have a plan to stop him.

Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.

President Obama is set to sign a military spending bill that effectively guarantees that his 2008 campaign promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will go unfulfilled.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

Carly Fiorina, who flopped at Hewlett-Packard and in her lone previous political campaign, wants to be the leader of the free world.

And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.

For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

The GOP “establishment” keeps beating back challenges.

It might not be pretty.

Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

It’s no wonder there’s no compromise in Congress.

Harry and Mitch to the rescue?

The one Republican currently polling anywhere close to Hillary Clinton is, unfortunately for the GOP base, Chris Christie.

An empty threat.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.

The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.