Outside the Beltway

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

History matters.

The one Republican currently polling anywhere close to Hillary Clinton is, unfortunately for the GOP base, Chris Christie.

The House is going to make it more likely that we see a government shutdown at the end of the month.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

And Republicans wonder why they have problems with minority voters.

Lindsey Graham is playing cynical political games with a dangerous part of the world.

Michelle Nunn is running for her dad’s old Senate seat.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

A decade ago. a certain New York Times columnist was more right than your humble host.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

The Supreme Court today struck down the most controversial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A major Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Anthony Weiner’s campaign for Mayor Of New York isn’t exactly getting off on the right foot.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

“Mark Sanford walked out on us, violated our trust … maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking.”

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum apparently talked about uniting to stop Romney during the 2012 Republican primaries.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.