Outside the Beltway

It’s going to be a long four years.

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

It’s Liz Cheney’s fault!

I really do not want four more years of parsing this stuff.

My turn.

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

Or is that low-T(rump)?

Who did Nazi this coming?

It’s not 2019 anymore.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Why we are where we are (at least in part).

It is worth repeating

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

More centrist fantasies.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

Is the President governing like he means it?

It’s easy if you try.

A dramatic if likely symbolic move.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

A few stories to comment on that did not lead to full posts.

Thoughts on the scenarios.

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Meeting with people who are essentially couplotters should be disqualifying.

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

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

It was far more compelling than expected.

The laying out of the case begins.

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

The silly season has commenced a mite early.

The head of the House investigatory committee seems to think so.

A minor story that illustrates a far bigger problem in our politics.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.