Outside the Beltway

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Think Progress continues a silly meme: “12 programs that Congress cares less about than averting flight delays.”

The political antics surrounding the sequestration cuts is a prime example of what’s wrong with Washington.

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama. But, there are other fights to come.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Getting to the heart of the problem from my POV (plus historical numbers).

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

Not exactly journalism.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Many on the right are heavily invested in the argument that current polling is intentionally biased against Mitt Romney. Their argument is not very plausible.

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

The GOP Platform will include an abortion plank that Todd Akin would love.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

Matt Fisher’s post “My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court” is going viral.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

Once again, people are demanding to see Barack Obama’s college transcripts for no good reason.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

President Obama set off a firestorm by claiming business owners didn’t build “that.”

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.