Outside the Beltway

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

Here’s why nobody in Washington will allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire.

Americans Elect is dead. This should surprise nobody.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

A pro-Republican SuperPAC may be bringing the Jeremiah Wright story back. That would be bad news for the Romney campaign.

Common Cause has filed a specious lawsuit alleging that the filibuster is unconstitutional.

A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.

The battle lines are being drawn for another showdown over the debt ceiling.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

How the Vice-President’s comment’s on Meet The Press led to an historic Presidential announcement.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Another bizarre conservative rant about the President.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

The argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

Ruthlessly avoiding fights that aren’t worth the risk is shrewd leadership. But Romney still needs to show he can fight and win.

A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.

Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.