Outside the Beltway

The President has lost his patience with the unvaccinated.

This time in the CA recall.

The Lone Star State has enacted some peculiar new laws.

The system is not defensible.

For anyone who might be interested.

A novel but flawed legal argument.

It hasn’t changed in over 100 years (but the population sure has).

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

An interesting podcast conversation.

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

Part of a disturbing trend.

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

Oh, FFS.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Discussing the filibuster.

Or, you know, not.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

The saga continues.

Looking to Federalist 22.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Mostly about how not to do it.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

Let’s call it what it is.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.