Outside the Beltway

The GOP civil war continues…..

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

A crack in the wall.

President Obama has selected his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, now the question is whether the Senate will act.

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

Further signs that Ben Carson’s Presidential campaign, which has been in a death spiral in the polls for some time now, is in real trouble,

For good reason, many Republicans are worried about the prospect that Donald Trump could end up winning the Republican nominee, but they don’t seem to have a plan to stop him.

Ohio politicos are predictably unhappy about the decision to return Mount Denali to its rightful place.

Some Republicans are trying to move their party in the right direction on marriage equality, but it’s unclear if they will succeed in the short term.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not running for President, and she is unlikely to change her mind on that. Nonetheless, the speculation that she is will continue for some time to come because it suits her interests and the interests of others.

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

Talks between the two Senate leaders haven’t exactly gone so well.

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

Is the answer to the same-sex marriage debate as simple as getting the government out of the marriage business, or is it more complicated?

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.