Outside the Beltway

The firing of Juan Williams from NPR has led many conservatives to call for an end to government subsidies. As is often the case, they’re right but for the wrong reasons.

The biggest outside spender in 2010 isn’t the Chamber of Commerce but the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

John Cole is ashamed that some House Democrats are running against Nancy Pelosi, given her effectiveness. It’s all a matter of perspective.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

Republicans greatly fear the government — when Democrats are in power. And vice versa.

The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to an historic victory in 2008 is seemingly falling apart, and the President is reacting by blaming the voters.

Some Democratic candidates for Congress are working hard to distance themselves from Nancy Pelosi.

The “Ronald Reagan” that many of today’s conservatives wish today’s Republicans were more like didn’t actually exist.

To the extent that these faux debates are a measure of competence to hold the office in question, Sharron Reid’s holding her own against the veteran incumbent demonstrated that she was up to the task. Or, at least, as up to it as Reid.

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

54% of Americans want an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. The question remains as to what kind of third party they want.

A group of conservative activists is planning a last minute ad blitz that could help put several Republican challengers over the top.

Harry Reid think it’s his Constitutional duty spend other people’s money and bring it home to Nevada. His constituents seem to have other ideas this year.

Greg Mankiw notes a curious revisionism in Barney Frank’s pronouncements on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

Republicans are suddenly targeting — and Democrats in some cases are conceding — House seats that were until recently considered out of play.

Citizens United really wasn’t that big a deal.

President Obama and the Democrats are charging the Chamber of Commerce of funneling foreign money into ads for Republicans. It’s a desperate move unlikely to work.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

Like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell is no fan of the press.

More numbers for campaign 2010–in this case, ones that show the maintenance of the status quo in several states.

If the Republicans win back Congress in November, it will be largely unearned. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no incentive for change in American politics.

Once again, Washington is abuzz with rumors that Hillary Clinton will be replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee in 2012.

If the Bush TARP initiative saved the economy at no cost to taxpayers, we have the odd situation of Republicans nonetheless angry it happened and Democrats who thought it a good idea annoyed that it worked.

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

Among the unintended but not unforeseen consequences of the new health care law is that companies who were previously offering some health coverage may stop altogether. In some cases, that’s just as well.

Despite hopes that they could help reverse a 20 year trend, both Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are beginning to lose ground in their races for statewide office in California.

Tonight’s topics: Democrats’ infighting, the continued Tea Party “takeover” of the GOP, the Obama administration’s following of its predecessor’s lead on executive power, and the degree to which America’s economic competition is fair.

Support for the Tea Party is at record levels but that movement does not have a coherent policy platform. Can the energy be harnessed to good use?

If South Carolina’s Jim DeMint has his way, the Senate won’t be conducting any business unless he approves of it.

Vice-President Biden has a message for the Democratic base — stop complaining and just support us already.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at week’s end to run for mayor of Chicago.

Under what conditions might we see filibuster reform?

A newly released poll on the Kentucky Senate race may not be an accurate measure of what’s actually going on in that race.

If the 2012 election were held today, President Obama would be in serious trouble. Luckily for him, he has two years to go.

After several years in the wilderness, Dick Morris has returned as a Fox News analyst and, bizarrely, adviser to several Republican candidates for Congress.

President Obama’s approval is at its lowest point to date, matching President Clinton’s in 1994. It’s 14 points higher than his predecessor’s.

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