Outside the Beltway

Senate fails to revoke tax cuts for big oil.

All signs are that Michele Bachmann is running for president. What impact will she have on the race?

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

For the first time, a majority of Republicans support creation of a third political party. Does it really mean anything?

The first round of appellate arguments over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act took place today in Richmond, Virginia.

Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

New rules for the 2012 primary open the door for a Tea Party candidate to take the GOP nomination.

For the most part, April’s jobs report was good news.

The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

The bottom line is that the problem with the Ryan Plan is the Ryan Plan.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

Why are many of the top Republicans are sitting out the race despite a seemingly vulnerable incumbent?

So, some bright people are surprised at new polling showing that a significant minority of Southerners have not enthusiastically embraced their ancestors’ loss in the Civil War.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

Contempt for Congress is an old American tradition. Unfortunately.

The new CBS/NYT poll is out and the numbers are not exactly happy, no matter whom you support.

Standard & Poor’s didn’t believe the Obama Administration’s argument that Washington would be able to fix the deficit. There’s no reason they should have.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

According to a new poll, the American public still isn’t sold on the idea of cutting entitlements to cut the budget deficit.

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest