Outside the Beltway

63% are angry at Republicans, 57% are angry at Democrats, and 53% are angry at President Obama.

There’s a way for President Obama and Speaker Boehner to talk out a deal to resolve the current crisis, but they have to want to do it.

One cannot support the shutdown tactic and then be outraged that part of the government is shutdown.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

Ted Cruz wants his fellow Republicans to follow him down the rabbit hole again.

Speaker Boehner sends a signal that there won’t be a quick resolution to the government shutdown crisis.

90 percent of DoD civilians will go back to work soon. What message does that send?

The outlines of a possible new GOP proposal are emerging. Can it go anywhere?

One of the dumber aspects of the current shutdown repeats itself.

The Pentagon is recalling up to 300,000 furloughed civilian employees on the same day that Congress voted to pay all furloughed employees when the government reopens.

The government shutdown is starting to have effects in the “real world.”

The Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia wants a quick end to the Government Shutdown.

Not raising the debt ceiling will create a true constitutional/legal crisis.

Democrats in the House will attempt to use an obscure House procedure to force an end to the government shutdown. It’s success is by no means guaranteed.

The “Hastert Rule” isn’t the reason Speaker Boehner isn’t bringing a “clean” CR up for a vote, political survival is.

Speaker Boehner told his caucus members that he will not allow a default over the debt ceiling but don’t look for a change in strategy.

The first poll taken after the shutdown began has little good news for the Republican Party.

A tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.

A comment from one Congressman sums up the attitude of the small group of Congressman and Senators who have placed us in this situation.

The situation we currently find oursevles in is very much driven by structural issues.

Reasonable members of the House GOP caucus are fighting back. Are they outnumbered?

The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.

The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.

President Obama had some potentially market-moving news for Wall Street.

The NFL donates its game broadcasts to troops deployed in harm’s way but they still won’t get to see them during the shutdown.

If you want to understand why Republicans in Congress are acting like they are, just look at the polls.

Why is Apple unable to meet the demand for its products?

Air Force lieutenant colonel (designate) Erik Brine is so unessential that it hurts.