Outside the Beltway

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

Approval is down (again).

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

The economic downturn is hitting groups in different ways.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

One of these things is not like the other.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

As Democrats gain college-educated voters, they’re losing Hispanics and men.

The CPI has hit yet another four-decade high.

With record-low poll numbers, the grass roots wants someone new on the ticket next time.

They went down 3 cents a gallon yesterday and have dropped 24 days straight.

The pressure and expectations of a king, but with considerably less power.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Here we go again . . . .

They should panic, right?

From the Cliché File.

It was far more compelling than expected.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

A recurring genre about presidents.

The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.

Growth continues.

Our ostensible ally is seeking to rebrand itself.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

A diplomatic nightmare brewing since last week is now upon us.

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

The bubble may have burst.

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

The numbers don’t match the perception.

We expect far more from the Oval Office than is reasonable.

Crises tend to be distracting.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

A good jobs report.

The President is taking a page out of Elizabeth Warren’s playbook.

Because of course it was.

Yet another case where good politics yields bad policy.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?