Outside the Beltway

Further evidence of Bachmann’s extreme views on homosexuality.

While most of the Republican field was at the Iowa State Fair, Rick Perry was in South Carolina shaking up the field.

Rick Perry’s entry into the race could quickly turn the 2012 GOP fight into a two man race.

The Obama re-election campaign is preparing an extraordinarily negative campaign against Mitt Romney.

Texas Governor Rick Perry got lousy grades as an undergrad at Texas A&M. Does it matter?

Does it matter which candidate the GOP nominates?

Once again, the debt ceiling deal is raising questions about the President’s leadership.

Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would involve abrogating an enormous amount of power to the Executive.

And you thought the bad economic news was over.

Steven Metz muses, “Scholars argue that too much political mobilization can make democracies dysfunction. Is that where the US is today?”

Barack Obama’s biggest enemy in the debt negotiations has been himself.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

The two Minnesotans in the Presidential race are starting to trade barbs.

Some on the left are upset with the President, but does it really matter?

President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.

Speculation about Michele Bachmann’s health continues.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

Thomas Ricks makes the case that JFK was the worst President of his century but his argument misses the mark.

President Obama has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with an agreement is nowhere in sight.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has a radical suggestion: While we’re playing chicken with the nation’s debt, let’s cut $1.3 trillion from the debt ceiling!

The so-called “14th Amendment option” to fix the debt ceiling crisis is really just a prescription for an even more powerful Presidency.

Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the arrogant French aristocrat whose career was ended by a courageous chambermaid, shedding light on a corrupt social system? A funny thing happened on the way to the slammer.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

The Senate Republican leader is running a shrewd political game. But what’s good for the GOP is bad for America.

The odds of history are against Michele Bachmann.

The normally loquacious Chávez has been almost silent since emergency surgery in Cuba on June 10th.

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel and EU Ambassador, has signed on as the chair of the Jon Huntsman policy team, Mark Halperin reports.

Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal sent a warning to his fellow Republicans. Too bad they probably won’t listen.

Turkey has had elections, and the ruling AKP has retained a majority in parliament. The next major issue appears to be constitutional reform.