Outside the Beltway

Evidence continues to mount that the Russia investigation was the real motivation for President Trump’s decision to fire James Comey.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

Trump appears to undervaluing existing bureaucracies listening more to hacks and ideologues.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

With repeal of the Affordable Care Act now likely sooner rather than later, key Republicans are urging the party to have a replacement in place before repeal is voted on.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

The GOP civil war continues…..

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.