Outside the Beltway

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

Once again, the House GOP is risking sending the economy into the tank to prove a political point.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

(As well as party behavior).

The House GOP is moving in an ever more dangerous direction.

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

You can’t always get what you want.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Representative democracy is a process of delegation of power to agents who act on behalf of citizens. The process of delegation matters.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

The bizarre dynamics of Virginia politics.

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.

The GOP’s image problems continue

Well. medium length anyway.

What Crist demonstrates about the US party system.

Charlie Crist, run out of the Republican Party, is now a Democrat.

Elections put the players in office. They don’t dictate the outcome of the game.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

The Governor of Iowa thinks the Ames Straw Poll should be ended, but he really ought to go further than that.

Guess who’s back?

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Republicans need to realize that they are at a disadvantage in the upcoming negotiations regarding the Fiscal Cliff.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

Judging by the record of the past decade and a half, movement conservatism has accomplished very little.

The GOP’s problems extend far beyond immigration.

Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.