Outside the Beltway

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

Do you believe in miracles?

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

Better than nothing, but still not enough.

The 46th President will follow the lead of the 40th in making a historic appointment.

Some pundits have high standards.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

It’s not compelling.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

Politicians gonna politician, but still…

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

The liberal media is giving all their attention to the tax and spend Democrats!

It does not create better deliberation.

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

The Catch-22 of passing a massive spending bill in an undemocratic system.

They shall not submit to blackmail!

He beats the alternative.

The President hit all the right notes.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

Discussing the filibuster.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

He’s in the minority but promises to start obstructing again if that changes.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

Look at who’s lined up against H.R. 1.

Yes, it’s complicated, but it is also time to stop relying on cliches.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.