Outside the Beltway

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Because he’s an idiot.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

The President’s message is getting through.

The purge of non-loyalists continues.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Some surprising poll numbers.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

Is that wise?

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

New numbers show more consistency.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

Are “trust issues” in the way?

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

Those who wish to vote for Tommy Tuberville or Jeff Sessions will have to walk to the mailbox.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

Always look for evidence.

Iowa Republicans have had enough of being represented by a racist buffoon.

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

Especially for Joe Biden.

Sigh.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

A much-needed call for unity.

Sanders supporters need to get on the bus.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

We may be in a national crisis but it’s still politics as usual in Washington.