Outside the Beltway

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Trump’s second term would be much worse than his first.

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Could the fourth time be the charm?

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

A hopeful irony.

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.

In a bathtub?

He might prefer McDeath.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

Will at least four Republicans have a spine?

The crazies are this close to a complete takeover.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

The clown show still lacks a ringmaster.

Some thoughts on the Speaker contest.

McCarthy lost it. Turned in his gavel. You, guy, are number 1.

One of the worst movies in memory may be getting a sequel.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

The inmates are running the asylum.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

He is proving the opposite of his argument.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Some tab plus some tabs equals some tabs.

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

Did we not already know this?

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

They know how Congress works, but are banking on the fact that many Americans don’t.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

Well, of course they are.