Outside the Beltway

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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.”

Part 1

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.

The President’s eldest son has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Trump campaign contacts with Russia.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

A lesson from Puerto Rico and further reasons why the EC is a problem.

The law is not on the President’s side.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

President Trump has backed down in his showdown with Speaker Pelosi over the State of the Union Address, but that does nothing to bring us closer to a resolution of the government shutdown.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.

With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.

House Republicans reportedly don’t have the votes to fund the President’s border wall.

Nancy Pelosi is apparently close to a deal with dissident Democrats that will keep her in power until at least 2022.

With their House majority secure, Democrats must now select their leadership team for the next two years. It’s not going smoothly.

Over the weekend, it was confirmed that the man once referred to as Vladimir Putin’s favorite Congressman was defeated in last week’s midterms.