Outside the Beltway

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

The streak continues.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

The South Dakota Republican Party has officially endorsed the impeachment of President Obama.

There aren’t nearly as many “meta” lessons in Eric Cantor’s loss as pundits have been claiming.

Signs continue to suggest that a GOP Senate takeover is likely.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.

Preserving the filibuster.

A big loss for the Tea Party, and a big win for Mitch McConnell,

A new poll indicates that Democratic candidates are holding their own against Republican challengers in three southern states.

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

The GOP “establishment” keeps beating back challenges.

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

The Tea Party challenge to Mitch McConnell has not exactly gone as planned.

It might not be pretty.

Purity for profit on display.

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.

Another day, another delay

Mitch McConnell’s hopes to become Senate Majority Leader could hinge on what happens in his own state and in Georgia.

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

Time to watch a bit of true American exceptionalism in action.

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

Democracy was nice while it lasted.

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.