Outside the Beltway

The Senate is voting one-by-one in the face of the Tuberville hold on top nominees.

The MAGA wing is driving us over a cliff.

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

The race is returning to expectation.

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Too little, too late.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Is the settlement of the government shutdown just delaying the inevitable?

As the shutdown enters day thirty-five, there are some signs of movement in Washington but no real progress.

A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.

In addition to winning back the House, Democrats also made gains in Governor’s races.

President Trump is suggesting he may force a government shutdown over his immigration policies just a month before the midterm elections.

Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

The Senate passed a tax cut bill last night, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

House Republicans passed their tax reform bill. That was the easy part.

The charges against Roy Moore continue to mount as national Republicans continue to push back against him.

Senate Republicans are considering one more last-ditch effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

The Senate GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is headed for a bumpy ride.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

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

Republican hopes that Wisconsin might go Republican this year seem to be slipping away.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

A crack in the wall.

Notwithstanding polling that indicates the American public disagrees with them, Senate Republicans emerged from a meeting today largely united on the idea of not giving any Supreme Court nominee named by President a hearing, or even the courtesy of a meeting.