Outside the Beltway

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

What happened Tuesday? And what does it tell us about 2016?

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

Always as many military personnel identify as Independents as with the GOP.

The odds say that the GOP will end up with a Senate majority in the 114th Congress when all the votes are counted, but if it doesn’t happen then there’s likely to be quite a battle inside the GOP.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

America’s federal workforce is increasingly disenchanted.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

Cowardice, or politically prudent?

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.

David Trott’s victory in Michigan’s District 11 Republican House primary marks the first time this year a Republican Establishment candidate has upset a Tea Party Incumbent.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

We federal civil servants are apparently in for a backdoor pay raise.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

The South Dakota Republican Party has officially endorsed the impeachment of President Obama.

As a legal matter, the new allegations against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker don’t amount to much. But, will they impact his bid for re-election.

Did sending some of its workforce home without pay impact the work environment at the Defense Department? Duh.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

Mostly because of politics, the hopes of some and fears of others will never be realized.

Some old fashioned political arm twisting has up-ended the apple cart in Richmond.

Boehner ready to pack it in?

More bad news for the Tea Party.

An award for breaking a campaign promise.

The Tea Party challenge to Mitch McConnell has not exactly gone as planned.

It might not be pretty.

Purity for profit on display.

Cliven Bundy still has his defenders among the hardcore right, but many people have joined Kentucky’s junior Senator in throwing Cliven Bundy under the bus

Once again, the Tea Party wing of the GOP is talking about taking out John Boehner.

As Sarah Palin and the Tea Party turn on Paul Ryan, they are making apparent their own lack of relevance in the political process.