Outside the Beltway

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Aides to Governor Chris Christie apparently think there’s still a way he can run a credible campaign for President, but it seems unlikely.

Five years after it became law, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be over.

A federal judge has ordered the people of California to foot the $100,000 bill for sexual reassignment surgery for someone serving a life sentence for murder.

As expected, New Jersey’s senior Senator has been indicted.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

Sen. Charles Schumer says Democrats made a mistake by concentrating on getting health care reform passed instead of on fixing the economy.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

Should the Legislature take back legislating from the Executive?

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

Two prominent Republican groups point out the blindingly obvious.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

It seems unlikely that Eric Shinseki will have a job for much longer.

The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

Bureaucracy at its finest.

It might not be pretty.

The anti-vaccination movement has earned a dubious achievement, the return of a disease that was effectively eradicated 15 years ago.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an important First Amendment case.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.

Another day, another delay.

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

Thanks to current patent and drug regulation laws, we’re paying up to $2,000 for a drug when there’s a drug that does the same thing for orders of magnitude less.

The GOP seems to be shifting strategy on the Affordable Care Act.

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

It is clear the President has been failed by those under him. So, when is someone going to pay the price?

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

President Obama has apologized for breaking his “If you like your plan, you can keep it” pledge. Does he have anything to be sorry about?

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

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

This is a good time to remind ourselves that the plural of anecdote is not data.

If Congress isn’t able to reach a deal, the big problem going forward would be uncertainty.

One Virginia Republican suggests that defaulting on our bonds wouldn’t be that big of a deal.

Paul Ryan is back, and he has a plan his party ought to be paying attention to.

They’re back…….

There’s a way for President Obama and Speaker Boehner to talk out a deal to resolve the current crisis, but they have to want to do it.

The outlines of a possible new GOP proposal are emerging. Can it go anywhere?

Not raising the debt ceiling will create a true constitutional/legal crisis.

The “Hastert Rule” isn’t the reason Speaker Boehner isn’t bringing a “clean” CR up for a vote, political survival is.