Outside the Beltway

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

Rep. Jane Harman is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

Virginia Thomas’s political activism is once again a political issue.

In response to charges that it was attempting restrict abortion access beyond the boundaries of the Hyde Amendment, the GOP has agreed to drop the phrase “forcible rape” from its abortion bill.

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would remove the exception for non-forcible rape.

The Senate leadership has agreed to exempt 1/3 of nominations from the confirmation process.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

The House has voted to repeal the broken system of financing presidential elections.

It is always easier to compromise on more spending and less taxes.

The initial instant reaction to the President’s speech last night was largely positive, but does it really matter?

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.