Outside the Beltway

Castrating their party’s Speaker is not smart politics.

Pretty much.

“You can’t be against everything.”

He is so close.

A truly bizarre vote.

The response to extreme rhetoric from Trump is producing the some old responses.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

More centrist fantasies.

There will be 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the next Congress.

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

One of these things is not like the other.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Losing has a way of creating intraparty strife.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

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

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Meeting with people who are essentially couplotters should be disqualifying.

See is paying the price for her defense of democracy.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

You’re goddamn right he did.

The laying out of the case begins.

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

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

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

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

A massive investigation into the Capitol riot looks at what came before, during, and after.

The liberal media is giving all their attention to the tax and spend Democrats!

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

Short-term politics and long-term harm.

I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

And illustrations of the fact that this isn’t a regular trial.

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.