Outside the Beltway

Now that the storm has passed, the media is being accused of over-hyping Hurricane Irene.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

The climate change deniers aren’t going to like what Chris Christie has to say.

Is Chris Christie reconsidering his previous statements about not running for President? More importantly, why are so many Republicans still dissatisfied with the field?

Some Republicans apparently still aren’t satisfied with the 2012 field.

Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel are being criticized for the brusque manner they handled questions about their children’s education.

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

It’s the marketing of college as a panacea that’s a scam, not college itself.

The passage of a new same-sex marriage law has Democrats talking about Andrew Cuomo.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

Some think that 2012 will be like 1992. However, that analogy is problematic.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

With the 2012 GOP field looking very underwhelming, GOP insiders are looking toward Indianapolis for a savior.

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

The American people have no idea what’s really in the Federal Budget, which makes any discussion about what to cut virtually impossible.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

As the standoff in Wisconsin drags on, there is no sign that the public accepts the argument being made about public sector unions by Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans.

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

It’s time to end the ability of public sector labor unions to hold taxpayers hostage.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for a second straight year. But YAF has voted him off its board over his opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Chris Christie turned down the chance to give the response to tomorrow’s State Of The Union Address

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.

The newest WaPo/ABC News poll numbers.

Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, and Chris Christie have been in the news this week due to the political fallout over their handling of the East Coast blizzard.

While Tim Pawlenty and John Thune get high marks from insiders, they have next to no shot at winning the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

When conservatives start attacking one of their own for pointing out the obvious, you really have to wonder if they want to win.

Last night’s election results stand as a mixed verdict on the Tea party and its impact on the Republican Party.

A call for ideological purity in the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times demonstrates that Democrats can be just as foolish as Republicans.