Outside the Beltway

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

Faced with mounting debt, the lame duck Illinois legislature rushed through a massive tax hike in the wee hours this morning.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.

Palin’s infamous “target” poster recycles a theme used by both parties over the years.

Rumors are floating that Rudy Giuliani is thinking about running for President again. All of America asks, Why?

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

The filibuster reform package that Senate Democrats unveiled yesterday has much to recommend to it. Unfortunately, it’s probably doomed.

Why is the press gushing over routine movement in White House team?

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.

Will the Tea Party Movement grow up?

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, and Chris Christie have been in the news this week due to the political fallout over their handling of the East Coast blizzard.

Was John McCain’s place of birth as big an issue to the fringe left as Obama’s has been (and continues to be) to the fringe right?

The seemingly sensible end-of-life counseling that was originally part of the Health Care Reform Bill is making a comeback.

Republicans are renaming three House committees, including bring back Ethics and taking out Labor.

For the first time in 35 years, the Senate may finally be on the verge of reforming the filibuster.

If Democrats had been this effective the previous two years, would they have lost as badly in November?

The new House Republican majority will force lawmakers to vote when they want to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, publish committee attendance records, ban former members from lobbying in the House gym and require new mandatory spending to be offset by cuts to other programs.

What’s up with McCain and DADT?

How likely are more sweeping health care reforms in the US? Not very likely at all.

The Congress has passed a repeal of DADT.

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year 2010.

According to two new polls, Sarah Palin has absolutely no chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. So, why does it look like she’s going to run anyway?