Outside the Beltway

With less than a week left, the odds of a deal to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” seem longer than ever.

Joe Lieberman has had a change of heart on term limits: He’s now for them.

Outgoing Senator Jim Webb is making another attempt at passing the Stolen Valor Act, deemed unconstitutional last year by the US Supreme Court.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

Politico’s Mike Allen reports that several Republicans are expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention next month.

The vetting process for a Vice-Presidential running mate will likely be very different with memories of the Sarah Palin debacle fresh in everyone’s mind.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront

Senator Joe Lieberman said today that we should intervene in Syria using the same rationale we did for Libya. Because, you know, what’s the big deal about a fourth war?

The CNN Effect has given away to Twitter Standard Time.

The Senate leadership has agreed to exempt 1/3 of nominations from the confirmation process.

Joe Lieberman will not run for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.

Mitt Romney has hired my wife’s boss as his pollster.