Outside the Beltway

Regardless of one’s preferences in terms of endgame in Wisconsin, democracy will win out.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

Public support for the war in Afghanistan continues to plummet, but will that hurt the President when 2012 rolls around?

If the Republicans need their own Bill Clinton, how about Mark Sanford?

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

Was the GOP’s maneuver legit? And what’s next?

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

The funny thing is that the quorum-busting in WI is more like a filibuster ought to be: a true delaying tactic that eventually has to give way to a democratic outcome.

As gas and oil prices rise, the pressure is increasing to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s a dumb idea.

The Democrats appear ready to come home (or, as per the update, maybe not).

Republicans are about to take a walk along the third-rail of American politics.

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

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.

Democrats won’t say if they consider Mitt Romney a threat, but they’re sure acting like they do.

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was a Tea Party darling when he picked up Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last year, but he’s not embracing the movement as he prepares to run for re-election next year.

The drive to cut taxes is at the heart of the budget mess.

The American right has become infected with the notion that Barack Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil. That won’t be healthy in the long run.

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

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

In the Middle East, protesters are marching for democracy. In the Midwest, they’re protesting against it.

In a new Gallup poll, Americans rank Ronald Reagan as America’s Greatest President.

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.