Outside the Beltway

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.

With the advantage of hindsight, it’s clear that more creative strategies were needed. But they probably couldn’t have been passed.

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

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Palin has some odd things to say about US history.

To the shock of no one, Mitt Romney announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination today.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

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

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

It seems to me that inactivity can have just as profound affects as activity and likewise that it is rather difficult to argue that health care isn’t part of interstate commerce.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

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

Krauthammer thinks Obama tricked the GOP into agreeing to Stimulus II.

The New York Times has joined the mostly muted chorus calling on Democrats to select someone other than Nancy Pelosi as their new Minority Leader. In all likelihood, their call will go unheeded.

NYT columnist Nick Kristoff says America’s income inequality makes us a banana republic.

If you believe that the United States is built on Judeo-Christian principles, why would you oppose the redistribution of wealth?

If the polling is anywhere close to accurate, a Republican wave will come crashing down today, repudiating the first two years of the Obama administration. What does it mean?

The Washington Post looks around and discovers that the Tea Party isn’t racist after all. Their bad, I guess.

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic HOPE poster, is disappointed with President Obama.

And we return, yet again, to specious comparisons to Hitler (and Lenin).

Michael Gerson argues that the source of our polarization isn’t the Democrats and the Republicans but the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party.