Outside the Beltway

Is the President governing like he means it?

The President flubbed a softball question. Oh noes!

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

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

Here we go again . . . .

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

Do you believe in miracles?

It’s Manchin-approved.

Hillary Clinton edition.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Why oh why won’t people stop commenting on the lady Senator’s outfits?

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

Joe Biden has bet his presidency on a caucus that may simply be irreconcilable.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

Continuing and expanding on thoughts from the previous post.

The enigmatic Senator is a world-class attention seeker.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

Instead of complaining, she should use her leverage.

The internecine fight over the budget is coming to a head.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

More machinations from the mischievous mining mouthpiece.

He beats the alternative.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

Is the stimulus bill it for this administration?

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.