Outside the Beltway

The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.

Sixteen Senators are backing a single-payer system. Another forty-four to go.

80% of GOP voters approve of Trump. This explains GOP behavior in large measure.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

For the second time this year, there are rumors that Mitt Romney could run for Senator from Utah if Orrin Hatch decides to retire.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

No, the deal this week is not Trump becoming an independent.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.

While the rest of us have been distracted by a hurricane in Texas, Robert Mueller’s investigation continues moving forward.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

August’s Jobs Report came in below expectations.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

Democrats and “Never Trump”ers shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Another one bites the dust.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

On Trump’s anger.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

And some comments on Trumps’ anemic rhetoric.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

According to initial estimates, the economy grew at faster pace in the second quarter than at the beginning of the year, but it was hardly anything to write home about.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

Is there anyone in the Trump Administration or family who hasn’t held undisclosed meetings with Russians?

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

When the Kremlin Says ‘Adoptions,’ It Means ‘Sanctions’

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

Being a public servant, especially serving as President or in the White House in general, means you are going to be criticized, lampooned, ridiculed, and even “attacked.”

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Forget the imperial presidency. Welcome to the indolent presidency.