Outside the Beltway

A microcosm of the campaigns and the candidates.

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

Will wonders never cease?

McHenry has no more terms to give to his country.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

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

In a bathtub?

The game is the game.

What’s behind the sure-to-fail bid to oust his own party’s Speaker?

Why it’s inevitable and what it means.

The inmates are running the asylum.

A shutdown may be averted after all.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Setting the tone.

Another bill doomed to die.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

Some tab clearing.

Open access to party labels has consequences.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

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

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

You have to be suspicious of people who enjoy gangster movies a bit too much.

Did we not already know this?

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

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

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

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

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

The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.

As expected, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over a full copy of the Mueller Report

Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.