Outside the Beltway

It’s Liz Cheney’s fault!

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee turned maverick is gone at 82.

The fourth place candidate for second place in the Republican primaries has taken his ball and gone home to Mother.

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

My latest publication.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

The proxy war is working.

It would appear to be the case.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

A guy I’ve never heard of is apparently replacing the legendary Alex Trebek.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

The seemingly unremarkable event hadn’t happened in four decades.

A curious bit of branding.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

Who can keep count?

It’s not clear if Congresswoman Liz Cheney wants to run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming. If she did, though, she’d be the prohibitive favorite.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose identity was outed during the Bush Administration, is running for Congress in New Mexico.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

The office has been vacant for 81 days. President Trump has yet to nominate a replacement.

Walter Jones, a former supporter of the Iraq War who became one of the most prominent anti-war voices in Congress, has passed away at the age of 76. He will be missed.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

Fifty years ago, a young college student who would become one of the most influential women in Washington was sexually assaulted by a Senator. She didn’t come forward with her story for more than fifty years, and the reasons why strike close to what we’ve been talking about for three weeks now.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

President Trump has issued another controversial pardon.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

Out of the blue, President Trump plans to pardon Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, but the move seems to have more to do with James Comey than it does Scooter Libby.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

Donald Trump’s own lawyers are afraid he can’t help but lie to such an extent that he should not sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.

The Moore situation illustrates the nonhierarchical nature of US parties. This is nothing new.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.