Outside the Beltway

The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Thanks to a united Republican Caucus, the Senate failed to take up a deeply flawed campaign finance “reform” bill.

Recent debates over the economic and fiscal impact of the Bush tax cuts indicate that Republicans still haven’t learned the lessons of the Bush years.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

Two widely-hyped reports have Wall Street firms donating less money to Democrats as payback for financial reform efforts. But a closer look reveals no such thing.

More Politics 101 for Rand Paul.

Mitch McConnell says he’s open to a filibuster of the Elena Kagan nomination, but he has a very limited idea of what a “filibuster” actually is.