Outside the Beltway

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

The differing reactions among Republicans in Washington and the base of the Republican Party to the charges against Roy Moore have enhanced a civil war inside the Republican Party.

Roy Moore’s most die-hard defenders are living in a world of their own, and it’s unlikely they’ll change their minds.

Forget all the talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, the truth is that Republicans and conservatives have already surrendered to Trump and Bannon.

President Trump remains the most unpopular newly elected President since the end of the Second World War, and there’s no sign that will change.

Due mostly to cowardice and naked self-interest, you shouldn’t expect many other Republicans to speak out against Trump in the near future.

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

A new poll shows Democratic nominee Doug Jones tied with twice-removed former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate race, but it’s still too early to be optimistic.

At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

Independents don’t seek to shape party nominations.

President Trump reportedly openly humiliated his own Attorney General after learning of Bob Mueller’s appointment.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

President Trump likes to take credit for the state of the economy, but the truth is that things are actually doing slightly worse under his Administration than they were under his predecessor.

Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke loses out on yet another Trump Administration position thanks to Chief of Staff John Kelly.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.

Donald Trump’s Secretary of State is refusing to defend his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?

The problem with the Trump White House is the man who sits behind the Resolute Desk.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Another one bites the dust.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

The Hasenpfeiffer Hustle Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

Trump appears to undervaluing existing bureaucracies listening more to hacks and ideologues.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

The Don’t Dream It, Be It Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.