Outside the Beltway

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.

Senator Jim DeMint demonstrated clearly today what is wrong with Washington.

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.

Thanks to their own ineptitude, House Republicans suffered a big defeat this week. They totally deserved it.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has set the House GOP adrift.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

The House GOP doesn’t seem to have any idea what it’s doing right now.

How likely is it that a GOP Senate would eliminate the filibuster? Not very.

Even if the Senate operated under wholly majority rules, it would not be the House.

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

Mitt Romney is once again the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

Neither political party is resonating with the public right now, and neither is acting in the manner the public would like.

FEMA is about to run out of money, but don’t worry your Congressman is getting his vacation time in.

Supreme Court nominees were confirmed quite easily within recent memory. What’s changed?

The immediate reaction among the political class to the debt downgrade was the play the same old stupid games.

The agenda of the Tea Party movement doesn’t necessarily coincide with what voters say they want from Washington.

Has a precedent been set for future requests by the President to increase the debt ceiling?

Once again, the debt ceiling deal is raising questions about the President’s leadership.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

We have a deal in Washington. Now, the leadership just has to make sure it can pass Congress.

The Senate killed the Boehner Plan but the debt ceiling crisis is still unresolved and the way out is murky.

The failure of House Republicans to pass a bill that would have been dead on arrival in the Senate, anyway, raises questions about whether a deal is possible and whether John Boehner can lead his own coalition.

It hasn’t been a very productive weekend in Washington, D.C.

The Gang of Six is back together. And they have a plan.

Let’s look at the actual proposal.

A Mitch McConnell-Harry Reid brokered deal on the debt ceiling looks promising.