Outside the Beltway

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

The fact that Republicans lack anything approaching a coherent immigration plan makes it hard to take their criticism of the President seriously.

Always as many military personnel identify as Independents as with the GOP.

In many states, there aren’t really any races at all this year even if both parties have candidates on the ballot.

Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Dispelling a rising myth,

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

Down to the wire in Mississippi.

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

The GOP “establishment” keeps beating back challenges.

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

It might not be pretty.

Top Republican donors are starting to look at the former Governor of Florida as their candidate in 2016.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

A story that has turned into a partisan kickball and some bad journalism have resulted in a celebrated news program getting considerable egg on its face.

Chris Christie did as well as expected last night, but that’s just the beginning.

Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.

Talks between the two Senate leaders haven’t exactly gone so well.

The House is going to make it more likely that we see a government shutdown at the end of the month.

Lindsey Graham is playing cynical political games with a dangerous part of the world.

Some interesting taking of sides is already taking place in the GOP Senate race in Wyoming.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

There seem to be some signs that defense hawks in the GOP are concerned about Rand Paul’s growing popularity in the party.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

John Boehner clearly wants to see an immigration bill passed this year, but he has a very narrow path to victory.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.