Outside the Beltway

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.

Debbie Dingell is set to continue an 80 year legacy of Dingells occupying the same seat in the House of Representatives. That’s not a good thing.

No, it’s not over yet.

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.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

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

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

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

Your tax dollars, not at work.

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

It wasn’t the Democrats.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

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

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

The Grey Lady sees the light on a major part of the War On Drugs.

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

A somewhat surprising win in Georgia.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

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.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

That ball is in your court, Congress.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

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

What could possibly go wrong?

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

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

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

The sad truth is that the bipartisanship that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 no longer exists today.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.