Outside the Beltway

Nick Gillespie advances the counterintuitive argument that President Obama is responsible for today’s government shutdown.

The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

The GOP seems perfectly fine with risking a shutdown, even though polling shows they’d pay the biggest price for it.

Republicans don’t seem willing to let go of the Obamacare issue just yet. But, how long will that actually last?

The federal government won’t have money to pay its workers come Tuesday but it’ll spend like a drunken sailor on Monday.

It’s now clear that, absent an unlikely miracle, there will be a government shutdown.

The House will reportedly vote on a new Continuing Resolution with conditions that would seem to make a shutdown inevitable.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

Ted Cruz is going after the Speaker of the House.

One inmate’s view of the asylum.

If nothing else, Ted Cruz’s quixotic mission has succeeded in cementing him in the minds of Republican voters.

Ted Cruz is holding the Senate floor “until I can no longer speak,” but he still won’t be able to stop the Senate from going forward.

It remains to be seen whether Congressional Republicans will force a government shutdown. What’s already clear is how counterproductive it would be.

If recent history is any guide, there won’t really be a government shutdown next week. But, the zealotry of the “defund Obamacare” caucus could change everything.

Republicans reportedly have another plan to get what they want on Obamacare and other issues.

The House is going to make it more likely that we see a government shutdown at the end of the month.

The GOP’s plan to defund reality becomes even more disconnected from reality.

The House GOP Leadership didn’t endear itself to the Tea Party today.

A case out of New Mexico presents an interesting collision of First Amendment rights and anti-discrimination values.

There seems to be a divide developing between Republican leadership and the Tea Party over the idea of shutting the government down over Obamacare.

The president’s 2008 rival has gone from bitter foe to go-to deal broker.

Ted Cruz is either being incredibly cynical as he deludes his fellow Republicans, or he’s living in a fantasy world.

A top Republican Senator blasts the plan by some of his colleagues to “defund” Obamacare.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are openly disagreeing with a proposed strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Obamacare isn’t repealed.

An American city was essentially shut down today. Was that the right thing to do?