Outside the Beltway

Should public employee pensions be an asset in the administration’s foreign policy?

Finally.

We may be in a national crisis but it’s still politics as usual in Washington.

Maybe it’s time to stop joking about senile politicians and do something about the issue.

She’s continuing to swing at the candidates beating her at the polls.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The Majority Leader was reportedly unaware of the manuscript.

Rules for covering the Senate trial highlight changes in how we get the news.

And now the real farce begins.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has decided against running for Senator Kansas, decision that could force the GOP to defend an otherwise safe seat.

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting she might hold back on sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This seems like a bad idea.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Mitch McConnell and the other 99 members of the Senate will be required to take an oath to “do impartial justice” in the impending impeachment trial. He’s already admitted that he won’t.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Especially Senate inaction.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

It’s mostly a quiet Election Day around the country, but there are some races for Governor worth watching.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

As the Turkish invasion of northern Syria continues, Donald Trump responds with basically nothing.

President Trump’s latest Syria move is coming under heavy criticism even from fellow Republicans.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

Republicans from around the country want Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for Senate in Kansas. Because they’re afraid they can’t win without him.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

Another poll in the wake of this month’s mass shootings shows increased support for several gun control measures. That doesn’t mean Congress will act, though.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

President Trump and the Republican Senate rewarded a top Republican donor with a prized diplomatic appointment.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

In contrast to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the American public appears to strongly support statehood for Puerto RIco.

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger. Much like 2014, though, it’s far too early to start writing his political obituary.