Outside the Beltway

Public trust in Congress is at an all time low, again, and the public doesn’t trust either party to fix things.

The Republican “Pledge to America” is chock full of photographs of Real Americans. And they’re disproportionately old white people.

The Democratic Party seems to have decided that the best way to begin the final leg of the midterm election campaign is with a legislative cave-in of epic proportions.

According to a new book from Bob Woorward, American policy in Afghanistan is the result of a decision making process that can only be described as chaotic at best.

Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.

Jon Stewart’s response to Glenn Beck is taking place on the weekend where party leaders usually conduct their big get out the vote push.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine thinks all his party’s problems will be solved with this new web site. Yea, that’s the problem you guys have this year, bad web design.

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

Will appointing Elizabeth Warren to head a consumer protection agenda unleash an eruption of Democratic votes in November?

Ohio has long been a bellwethers state and, if a new statewide poll is any indication, it looks to be ready to hand the Democrats a very bad defeat in November.

Democrats are sending some of their candidates to the Death Panels.

President Obama was a rock star on college campuses during the 2008 campaign, but that popularity has not necessarily turned into loyalty to the Democratic Party.

The first ad of the 2012 presidential cycle has aired, by some dentist touting Hillary Clinton. She’s not running. Could she?

The perfect storm of a bad economy and a new, massive, unpopular government entitlement program may be combing to cause serious damage to Democrats in November.

The Daily Mash combines two topics that have taken up entirely too many pixels at OTB and elsewhere of late with their parody article “OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN.”

Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

The First Family can go on vacation, but politics never does.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Democrats have not figured out how to use President Obama during the upcoming Mid-Term campaign, if at all.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

Republicans are much closer to America’s political center than Democrats.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.

Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee is starting to look more and more like the beginnings of a run for the White House.

Senator Robert Byrd has died at 92, after years of poor health.

Contrary to popular belief, Adolf Hitler didn’t come to power by democratic means or because of his ability to whip the public into a frenzy.

If the trend continues, 2010 will mark a record number of conservatives for the Gallup poll since it began asking the question in 1992.