Outside the Beltway

Facing a difficult economy and a very bad November, the Obama administration is considering a tax cut proposal to spur hiring.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas’ new book, AMERICAN TALIBAN: HOW WAR, SEX, SIN, AND POWER BIND JIHADISTS AND THE RADICAL RIGHT, continues a long tradition in political polemics.

Another political analyst is out with a 2010 prediction that should make Democrats very nervous.

The perfect storm of a bad economy and a new, massive, unpopular government entitlement program may be combing to cause serious damage to Democrats in November.

Republicans now have the largest lead in Gallup’s Generic Congressional Ballot poll that they’ve ever had.

Lisa Murkowski’s one chance at political survival if she loses the ongoing vote count in the Alaska GOP Senate Primary has gone out the window.

The Nevada Senate race is, in many ways, a three-way in which none of the above could be a spoiler for Angle.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held a rally on the National Mall, but at times it sounded more like an old-time religious revival than a modern political rally.

A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

If Republicans regain control of Congress, you could be seeing a lot of scenes like this on your television for the next two years.

Up in Alaska, Lisa Murkowski and Joe Miller remain deadlocked and waiting for a vote count that could take two weeks to complete. In the meantime, though, the Senator is already considering other options for getting on the November ballot.

Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski still has a mathematical chance of pulling off a victory over Joe Miller, but it’s going to take an electoral miracle at this point.

Last night’s primaries continued the anti-establishment narrative we’ve seen so far this year, and put both of the statewide offices in Florida in play.

Before Sarah Palin endorsed him, most Alaskans had never heard of Joe Miller. This morning, he’s on the verge of upsetting an incumbent Senator in the GOP Primary.

House Minority John Boehner is getting a lot of attention for calling for mass firings at the White House. The real news, though, is that his speech is shifting the focus of the political conversation back to the economy. Which is just what the GOP needs.

Glenn Greenwald argues that the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate is about more than just a “mosque” near Ground Zero. He’s right, but that also means the debate is likely to get uglier.

The Daily Mash combines two topics that have taken up entirely too many pixels at OTB and elsewhere of late with their parody article “OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN.”

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a US basing rights deal.

Robert Gates says he wants to retire next year, but will the call of duty cause him to stay longer ?

You heard it here first, the GOP will not gain control of Congress in 2010.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

President Obama’s decision to speak out on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has turned what was a hot-button cable news item into a political issue that even his fellow Democrats don’t want to deal with.

The poll numbers look grim for the President, but it’s still far too early to be making predictions about the 2012 elections.

Republicans should hammer big themes — the loss of jobs, the poor health of the economy, reckless spending, increasing the size/scope of government, and tax increases — and avoid getting bogged down in policy details this campaign season.

According to a new MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the public that will head to the polls in November is increasingly gloomy and pessimistic.

Tonight’s topics: Yesterday’s primary elections, the cost of hiring workers in the public and private sectors, anti-Muslim sentiment, and the move to repeal birthright citizenship.

The results of last night’s Colorado Senate primaries should be causing Democrats to worry.

Are we nearing the point where presidents won’t be able to fill Supreme Court vacancies?

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

November’s elections will set modern records for most Senate seats and governorships on the ballot.

What impact will Judge Walker’s decision on Proposition 8 have on politics in 2010 and beyond ?

Despite her mis-steps, Sharron Angle still has a shot at beating Harry Reid in November

Missouri voters became the latest to express displeasure with the new health care reform law yesterday.

The Democrats are pulling a trick from the Reagan playbook for the fall campaign. They might want to rethink that.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

Democrats have not figured out how to use President Obama during the upcoming Mid-Term campaign, if at all.

The Electoral College is the worst way to elect a President, except for all the others.

The United States Congress is starting to resemble a grade-school playground.

The latest GDP numbers are nothing but bad news for Democrats.

A new poll claims that the health care reform law is now supported by a majority of Americans. Don’t believe it.