Outside the Beltway

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

Some numbers from the Emerson poll.

Some depressing stats.

Here we go again.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

The market for competent centrists.

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

And if you’ll buy that, I’ll throw the Golden Gate in free.

The Biden administration has a point.

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

One of these is not like the other.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

Open access to party labels has consequences.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

The race is on before the 89-year-old has announced her intentions.

Mike Pompeo’s PAC wants you to know that Mike Pompeo’s book is a “thriller with stories from the heart” of Mike Pompeo

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Mostly about the majority party.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

Some amazing images.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

The Michigan Senator’s stepping down at a reasonable age shocked everyone.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

You gotta have the votes.

He is proving the opposite of his argument.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

More than a quarter of Americans know something that isn’t true.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Castrating their party’s Speaker is not smart politics.

Pretty much.

There’s training on uncomfortable subjects. Oh noes!

The griftiness of it all is not surprising, but remains astounding.

Could it be that he was untruthful?

The Supreme Court may revisit a controversial criminal justice ruling.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

As I have noted before: he betrayed his oath.

What Americans say they want in the Oval Office.

A perennial outrage.

“You can’t be against everything.”