Outside the Beltway

Sound and fury, signifying nothing?

President Trump’s Senate co-partisans are growing increasingly frustrated with him.

It’s their own damn fault.

The two oldest members of the Supreme Court are taking a big gamble.

An ominous sign for the majority party.

The question mark is for the peak, not for the cowardice.

The octogenarian Speaker Emerita will not seek re-election.

The reality is, I can’t say no.

A potentially costly rebrand and strange bedfellows.

Have I ever noted the Congress is less responsive to the public than it should be?

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

…and I write a bit more than that.

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

Don’t let the door . . .

Another piece of an appalling cabinet is now in place.

The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is not doing its job.

Yet again, too little, too late.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers insurrectionists are now free.

Not to mention impotence.

South Korea demonstrates itself to be a more mature democracy than the United States.

A disturbing loyalty test.