Outside the Beltway

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Go ahead and pop a few.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

More stories than there is time to blog.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

We can only hope.

Lawyers in North Carolina are trying to get a Congressman off the ballot.

A vague but inflammatory report sheds little light on the situation.

At least 40 Members violated the law on reporting stock transactions.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Too little, too late.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

Some reports are saying that Roy Moore will run for the GOP nomination for Senate again in 2020.

Roy Moore has not said that he’s running for Senate again in Alabama, but he’s already threatening to up-end the race for the GOP nomination.

Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

The twice-removed Chief Justice is likely getting a promotion.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

A Congressman was shot, and a staffer and security detail members injured, at a practice session for tomorrow’s Congressional baseball game.

With the top conservative caucus in Congress acquiescing to his candidacy, Paul Ryan is largely certain to become the next Speaker of the House.

Despite opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, the compromise budget resolution passed narrowly last night, but not without some last minute drama

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

Ugh.

GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy of California won the vote to replace Eric Cantor as the new GOP House Majority Leader. The question is who replaces McCarthy.

The latest House GOP pronouncements on immigration reform make it exceedingly unlikely that any bill will pass this year.

One Congressman apparently thinks that asserting your Constitutional rights should be grounds for losing a government job.

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