Outside the Beltway

Well. medium length anyway.

Harry Reid appears to be short of the votes he needs to enact filibuster reform.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

Electing Romney hardly means repeal of the PPACA, even if he will make it sound that way.

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

Congressmen are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in stock in companies over which they have oversight. And it’s perfectly legal.

The history of the DREAM Act underscores the significance of the 60-vote Senate.

As of today, there are 75 vacant Federal Judgeships, including one that has been open for seven years.

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Common Cause has filed a specious lawsuit alleging that the filibuster is unconstitutional.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

The Senate didn’t have a productive 2011. Is this just a case of laziness?

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

A crack in the orthodoxy?

What walking around knowledge about our political system is necessary to be an informed citizen?

Worried the GOP might eliminate the filibuster if they gain control of the Senate? Don’t be.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

Senator Jim DeMint demonstrated clearly today what is wrong with Washington.

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

There is a fundamental problem with the feedback loop in American politics.

Newt Gingrich last night declared that he would abolish the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

How likely is it that a GOP Senate would eliminate the filibuster? Not very.

A Democrat sees doom and gloom as far as the eye can see.

Will we wind up with a backdoor mandate? Or a single payer system?

Have Republicans been co-opted by the Big Government they claim to hate?

Even if the Senate operated under wholly majority rules, it would not be the House.

Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” has changed the rules of the game, for now.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

When the old rules don’t apply anymore, the system breaks down.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.