Outside the Beltway

Another day, another EC fantasy,

Democracy produces good rulers, right?  Sometimes.  What good democracies actually produce best is good losers. Let us then be grateful for gracious losers, for our losers no less than our winners carry forward the American experiment in self-rule.  

If one believes the electoral college is awesome, one cannot make an argument from the position of “the wisdom of the Founders” nor from a viewpoint based on original intent.

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

No, the Clinton dynasty isn’t dead just yet.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

This is not exactly what Rick Perry had hoped he’d be doing this fall.

Early indications are the Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other older Justices don’t plan on leaving any time soon.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

If you think that once elected Trump will be corralled by cooler heads and experts, I would submit to you that this week underscores this will not be the case.

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

Donald Trump would be a horrible president. That doesn’t justify Hillary Clinton’s bad acts.

Regrets, he’s had a few…….

In the immortal words of the Fonz, I was wr-wr-wr-wr . . . not exactly right.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

If Marco Rubio can’t win in his home state, where can he win?

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

Donald Trump says he might sue Ted Cruz over his citizenship if Cruz continues attacking him.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

As Michael Bloomberg flirts with the idea of running for President, a poll finds very little enthusiasm for the idea.

Donald Trump displays some appalling ignorance about an important part of America’s military, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

The juxtaposition of two headlines at memeorandum is amusing.