Outside the Beltway

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.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

One member of the Grand Old Party has had it.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

McConnell and McCarthy both reject the notion of a delay.

CBS did a lousy job.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

It’s not clear if Congresswoman Liz Cheney wants to run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming. If she did, though, she’d be the prohibitive favorite.

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

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President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

Donald Trump has endorsed a proposal by a Republican Senator to ban flag burning.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.