Outside the Beltway

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has managed to become a media star, but she has a lot to learn about politics.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

The Speaker was dealt a winning hand and played it with the skill of a seasoned pro. But the outcome was all but inevitable.

In a deal that can only be described as a cave by the President, the government shutdown is on course to be ended by the end of the day today.

As the shutdown enters day thirty-five, there are some signs of movement in Washington but no real progress.

The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic proposals as expected but there are some signs of movement forward.

As the shutdown enters its thirty-fourth day and the Senate gets ready to vote on proposals that have no chance of succeeding, Democrats are preparing a new proposal.

As the shutdown continues, the President’s political position is becoming weaker. He doesn’t seem to care, though.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

As the shutdown continues the numbers get worse for the President, but he doesn’t seem to care.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

The government shutdown has now entered historic territory, and the Trump Administration is moving closer to a “national emergency” or other extra-legal means to get money for his wall.

President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.

President Trump stormed out of a meeting with Congressional leaders as the shutdown drags on with no end in sight.

New polling clearly indicates that the President is losing the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown.

President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.

The longer the shutdown goes on, the wider its impact is likely to become.

Democrats have unveiled what appears as if it will be their first effort to end the shutdown, but there are already signs Republicans will reject it.

Congress will not be returning to Washington until some time next week. Thus guaranteeing that this shutdown will last at least through January 3rd.

With Congress out of town until at least Thursday and negotiations apparently deadlocked, the White House is saying it’s likely the shutdown will last into 2019.

There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.

The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.

With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.

The Senate passed a bill that keeps the government funded through the beginning of February, but fails to provide any funding for the President’s border wall.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

The mystery surrounding a secret proceeding in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has at least partly been solved.

With three days to go before a government shutdown, there are at least some signs that the President may be backing away from his threats to shut down the government over funding for his border wall.

Republicans scored a win in Court last week, but it seems likely to lead to a political loss in the long-term.

Mystery continues to surround a proceeding that has been making its way through the Federal Courts in Washington, D.C.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Nancy Pelosi is apparently close to a deal with dissident Democrats that will keep her in power until at least 2022.

President Trump’s first choice to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff turned the job down, leading one to wonder why anyone would want the job.

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

The 2020 campaign is already heating up, and California Senator Kamala Harris could be one of the first serious candidates for President to throw her hat in the ring.

Nancy Pelosi won a key vote yesterday on the road to returning as Speaker of the House again in January.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro is preparing a run for the White House in 2020.

British voters appear to be regretting their decision to leave the European Union, but it may be too late to stop the process.

It’s all over but the vote counting.

Faced with the probability of losses today, President Trump is already getting ready to blame everyone but himself.

With less than forty-eight hours to go until voters head to the polls, the odds are pointing to a Democratic House and a Republican Senate.

National Republicans are worried that the President’s concentration on hot-button issues could end up backfiring. They should be.

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.