Outside the Beltway

Judicial activism doesn’t mean “reaching a decision I don’t like.”

The incoming House Republicans aren’t making a good first impression.

A new poll shows that the American public is discontented, nervous about the economy, not entirely sure they can trust the new GOP majority in Congress, and has no idea what it wants from Washington. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

More on the No Labels label problem.

Has anyone told Mike Bloomberg that “No Labels” is, well, a label?

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

Columbia political science professor David Epstein has been charged with a 3-year incestuous relationship with his adult daughter.

Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to rail against President Obama’s tax cut deal. It was history in the making, but it’s not clear that it actually accomplished anything.

Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.

The Senate has constructed the legislation to correspond to the Obama-McConnell deal, sweeteners and all.

Democrats can’t stop using the F-word when talking about President Obama.

Krauthammer thinks Obama tricked the GOP into agreeing to Stimulus II.

Republicans have blocked a bill that would have helped rescue workers who became sick helping others at Ground Zero.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he isn’t running for President, but he’s sure acting like a guy who’s at least thinking about it.

Senate Democrats cancel vote on DREAM Act, meaning the immigration measure is likely dead for the year.

Internal memos reveal that Fox News spins the news in ways that favor conservative Republicans. Is that really news?

Don Surber imagines this edition of “Hardball.”

Even though it will likely be unsuccessful, a primary challenge against President Obama could end up harming him enough to hand Republicans the White House in 2012.

President Obama’s press conference yesterday, bitterly railing against Democrats in the Congress for being “purist” and “sanctimonious,” is brilliant triangulation.

Amid signs that Democrats in Congress might rebel against the tax cut deal he struck with Republicans, President Obama took to the airwaves today to defend it at the same time that his base is rebelling against it.

Many Congressional Democrats both campaign for a higher minimum wage and employ interns at less than the existing minimum wage, many for no pay at all.

President Obama and the GOP have reached a deal on extending the Bush tax cuts that gives the GOP virtually everything it wanted.

According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is not only less popular than George W. Bush, but the only president from the last half century less popular is Dick Nixon.

How would appointed Senators affect the partisan mix of the Senate?

Republican maneuvering to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans appears about to pay off.

Democrats are losing the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, but when you look at the playing field it seems pretty clear that that they never had a chance.

They aren’t going to stop, but the cliches that pass for debate sure are tiresome (plus some musings about the tax cut extension debate).

The Senate rejected an effort to limit the extension of the Bush tax cuts based on income level. At this point, the only question is when Democrats will concede defeat on this debate.