Outside the Beltway

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

One thing is clear: anyone who tries to make cheap political hay over the LRA is a fool.

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

When the old rules don’t apply anymore, the system breaks down.

Whether it’s a “Ponzi Scheme” or not, Social Security has serious systemic problems that must be addressed.

The White House is still smarting over the fact that they got burned by John Boehner, again.

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

The climate change deniers aren’t going to like what Chris Christie has to say.

John Boehner’s debt ceiling plan is being amended. And not in a good way.

David Brooks is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore.

More than any other time in the past, the GOP is now firmly under the control of its most conservative members.

The Ronald Reagan that Republicans lionize is very different from the one who actually served as 40th President of the United States.

Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal sent a warning to his fellow Republicans. Too bad they probably won’t listen.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

Despite the disdain for him on the the hard right, Mitt Romney is the man to beat right now in the race for the GOP nomination.

As with most of the other issues facing us, our political conversation about climate change and what to do about it basically just involves yelling at each other.

Here’s another way that Romney will be called a RINO.

More on the whole “republic not a democracy” discussion.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

Will the successful action against Osama bin Laden cause people on the right to stop believing crazy things about the President? Don’t count on it.

Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

Donald Trump, who may or may not be running for President, is continuing his strange obsession with the birther myth, and reminding Republicans that two years of silence in the face of lunacy may come back to bite them.

The American right has become infected with the notion that Barack Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil. That won’t be healthy in the long run.

Four years after Barack Obama became a Presidential candidate, the birther myth not only persists, it seems to be becoming more prevalent. Why?

Is the only possible motivation conservatives could possibly have for calling out the lunatic fringe a desire for the acceptance of liberals?

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

The political firestorm that has erupted in the wake of the shootings in Arizona is drifting, inevitably, into calls for more government control over the content of speech.

President Obama is likely to issue a signing statement in order to keep his Gitmo options open.