Outside the Beltway

We have a deal in Washington. Now, the leadership just has to make sure it can pass Congress.

President Obama and Congressional Republicans have the outline of a deal to raise the debt limit past the 2012 elections.

It’s another Friday of drama in the debt ceiling crisis.

By insisting on perfection in the debt ceiling debate, the Tea Party has made itself irrelevant to the process.

The electoral map should be making the Obama 2012 camp just a little bit nervous.

If Mitt Romney looked in the rear view mirror he might just see Rick Perry gaining on him.

Their mouths were moving, but nothing of substance was coming out.

The debt talks in Congress are moribund now, and both sides are working on their own versions of a plan, again.

It hasn’t been a very productive weekend in Washington, D.C.

It wasn’t a good day for the debt ceiling negotiations.

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

The House GOP has scheduled a vote next week on a debt ceiling package that is solely designed to mollify the base.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

It was a largely fruitless weekend in the debt negotiations.

It’s still politics as usual in Washington.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

The Obama administration is arguing the 14th Amendment renders the debt ceiling moot.

The odds of history are against Michele Bachmann.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

Talks about a deal to raise the debt ceiling seem pretty close to collapse now that there are no Republicans involved.

Is Congress set to vote to authorize military action in Libya?

I’ve been arguing for years that what the Republican Party needs is to embrace its crazies and play more to racist elements in its base. It looks like someone’s listening.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

Dennis Kucinich and nine other Members of Congress are suing the President. They won’t get very far.

Apparently, some people haven’t gotten over Lebron James taking his talents to South Beach.

Texas A&M professor finds serious flaws in college faculty productivity study.

A new study finds that college tuition costs could be cut in half if lazy professors got off their butts.

Another appellate panel heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the health care reform law this week.