Outside the Beltway

What exactly is the GOP trying to accomplish in the debt ceiling negotiations?

House and Senate Republicans are pushing a Balanced Budget Amendment. It sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t.

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

Will last night’s debate have any influence on the potential candidates who weren’t there?

The debate format was the biggest loser last night, but there were a few memorable moments in New Hampshire.

We might be looking at a potential fiscal crisis.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Is it possible to address the U.S. fiscal situation?

The main issue, above all else, is taxes.

We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

You don’t often see a candidate for President tell Iowans that he wants to eliminate ethanol subsidies, but Tim Pawlenty did.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

A lot of people appear confused at to what the debt ceiling is and why it has to be raised.

Santorum has an interesting theory about the decline of great powers.

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

The bottom line is that the problem with the Ryan Plan is the Ryan Plan.