Outside the Beltway

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

A North Carolina Congressional Election that was tainted by Absentee Ballot Fraud will be redone.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

The right has spent a seemingly inordinate amount of time focusing on relatively powerless Members of Congress.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

All three of the elected state officials in Virginia are under some kind of cloud, and nobody seems to know what’s going to happen next.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has rejoined the Republican Party, leading many to wonder if he’s considering a challenge to President Trump in 2020.

Lindsey Graham is telling his fellow Republicans that they better back the President if he decides to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall.

There’s not really a good explanation for this, Governor Northam.

A new study reveals that the Republican tax cut package passed at the end of 2017 has not had the economic impact the GOP claimed it would.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

Jeff Flake says he won’t be running against President Trump in 2020, but there may be others.

Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the latest entrant into the 2020 race for President. To say is a long-shot is an understatement.

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

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

As the shutdown goes on, the polls are getting worse for the President.

Don’t expect the Congress (i.e., the Senate) to pull us out of this shutdown mess.

Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

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

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

With Pat Roberts retiring, Kansas Republicans are reportedly looking at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to succeed him.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

New polling indicates that President Trump is getting the blame for the ongoing government shutdown.

Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.

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

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.

House Republicans reportedly don’t have the votes to fund the President’s border wall.

The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

The verdict of last month’s elections was clear, but Republicans still don’t seem to get it.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

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

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.