Outside the Beltway

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

The bane of the Trump presidency is already thwarting President Biden.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

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

143 at the 11th hour.

President-Elect Biden is planning a big first few days, Congress be damned.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

So says Pew.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

So. Much. Winning.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

They’re actually going to go through with it.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

The zombie idea for ousting an erratic and dangerous President.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

That’s unpossible!

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

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

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

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

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

Governing without Congress has its price.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

We have a President-Elect.

The early reaction was premature.

He needs one more state to hit the magic 270.

A lot to think about, not a lot of conclusions.

It’ll be days before we know the final 2020 results but a resounding repudiation is unlikely.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Same endless song, different verse.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.