Outside the Beltway

The mounting troubles of the PPACA continue.

It is clear the President has been failed by those under him. So, when is someone going to pay the price?

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

Things don’t seem to be going well for the Affordable Care Act.

President Obama has apologized for breaking his “If you like your plan, you can keep it” pledge. Does he have anything to be sorry about?

Republicans are contending that the nearly won the Virginia Governor’s race by emphasizing Obamacare in the closing weeks, but the evidence supporting that contention is far from clear.

Charlie Crist, and his tan, want the Governor’s Mansion back.

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has endorsed “none of the above” for governor of Virginia.

Paul Ryan is back, and he has a plan his party ought to be paying attention to.

The government shutdown seems to be having an impact on the one competitive statewide race in country this year.

The GOP’s plan to defund reality becomes even more disconnected from reality.

An employer has scored a major victory in its fight against Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage mandate.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

A new GOP would make it very difficult to get a good read on the state of the nation’s economy.

Bullheadedness is a virtue?

The Speaker’s version of what went down during the negotiations does not make the Speaker look good.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

A graph on public debt making the rounds is being used to misdirect rather than clarify.

Provisions in the Affordable Care Act may cause the entire statutory scheme to collapse.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

Democratic rhetoric since the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare raises the question of whether they made a political mistake.

A new report will likely add fuel to the fire of conservative outrage over Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to uphold the PPACA.

One part of the Supreme Court’s PPACA ruling has not received a lot of attention, but it has the potential to have a lot of impact in the future.

There is another explanation for the sometimes confusing nature of the dissent in the ObamaCare case.

Either the majority and dissenting opinions in NFIB v. Sebelius were among the sloppiest in Supreme Court history or the Chief Justice switched sides at the 11th hour.

Thanks to a surprising decision by Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act has survived the Constitutional challenges against it.

An unsurprising decision on the Defense of Marriage.

Illinois wants to solve its Medicaid problem by hoping its citizens smoke more cigarettes.

The Catholic Church has fired a legal shot across the bow of the Affordable Care Act.

It would be nice if people in power would be a bit more introspective and thoughtful.

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.