Outside the Beltway

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

The Catch-22 of passing a massive spending bill in an undemocratic system.

Is the debate over the cost of the “infrastructure” bill a distraction from its content?

Despite a rising groundswell of support, the obvious solution to our crisis has not been implemented.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Millions have health insurance who otherwise wouldn’t.

Mostly about how not to do it.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Is a de minimus standard too small?

The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

The talk radio megastar has died, aged 70.

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Sigh.

What has the Supreme Court wrought?

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.