Outside the Beltway

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

Both #TrumpShutdown and #SchumerShutdown put the blame in the wrong place.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.

Thanks to Donald Trump, public opinion around the world about the United States is at its lowest level in ten years.

With less than two days to go, the prospects for Congress finding a way to prevent a government shutdown aren’t looking good.

Former White House and Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making it clear she has no intention of leaving office before the 2020 election.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Contrary to expectations, jobs growth in December was relatively modest.

Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.

POTUS decided to start the New Year by insulting Pakistan over Twitter.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Fixing long term shifts in manufacturing isn’t easy.

New York Knicks Center Enes Katner is at the center of an international legal dispute for speaking out against the President of Turkey.

A new poll shows President Trump losing to a “Generic Democrat.” This poll means nothing.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

As we near the end of the year, the President’s job approval numbers remain at historically low levels, and there’s no sign that they’ll improve in 2018.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

We’re looking to inject some new life into an old blog.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

As expected, Minnesota’s Governor has named his Lt. Governor to replace Al Franken in the Senate.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

November’s Jobs Report was stronger than expected, but there are several caveats to keep in mind.

Donald Trump Jr. is claiming that some conversations between him and his father are covered by the attorney-client privilege. Based on what we know about those conversations, there’s a good possibility that he’s right.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.