Outside the Beltway

More on an ongoing saga.

A likely lost seat for Democrats in 2024.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

House Republicans still can’t get out of their own way.

Let the punditry begin.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Survey research is not without flaws. But we dismiss it at our peril.

Looking ahead to November 5, 2024

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

Why is the Senate pretending to do that which it can’t possibly do?

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.

Fading into the background is the appropriate end to his dance with MAGA.

The fourth place candidate for second place in the Republican primaries has taken his ball and gone home to Mother.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Contrary to some public opinion, the economy is in decent shape.

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

We finally have a winner. And we’re all losers.

Sigh.

Could the fourth time be the charm?

Emmer drops out.

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

A hopeful irony.

Squirrel!

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.

Yesterday the Kraken. Today the Cheese. Whose flipping tomorrow?

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

In a bathtub?

Bidenomics is dragging Biden’s approval.

He might prefer McDeath.

She took a plea deal.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

Demonstrators once again breached Hill security.

He’s losing by a bigger margin in Round 2

Will at least four Republicans have a spine?

We need to do better.

A high-stakes move.

The crazies are this close to a complete takeover.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

The clown show still lacks a ringmaster.

Or, if you prefer, stupid headline tricks.

Some thoughts on the Speaker contest.

The Arizona gubernatorial loser is back to lose the Senate.

McCarthy lost it. Turned in his gavel. You, guy, are number 1.

An amusing lede to an exasperating column.