Outside the Beltway

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.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

The case of Katie Porter’s committee assignments.

Is the stimulus bill it for this administration?

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.