Outside the Beltway

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

Anthony Weiner’s campaign for Mayor Of New York isn’t exactly getting off on the right foot.

Bill Clinton is on Twitter for reals.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised a little over a million dollars.

Is there any there there?

The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

States are racing to put obstacles in front of voters in the name of fraud prevention.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.

Is Jon Stewart a useful idiot?

Much like Jon Stewart, the late-night comedian went out-of-character at the top of last night’s show to talk about the shootings in Arizona.

The younger voters that flocked to Barack Obama two years ago feel let down. They need to grow up.

215,000 people attended the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” compared to 87,000 for “Restoring Honor.” Even if you believe the numbers, they don’t tell us much.

The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear ended up having a point after all, but it’s not one that anyone is likely to take to heart.

Did President Obama degrade his office by appearing on “The Daily Show”? Or is that notion a relic of a bygone era?

Some Democrats believe the Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rally this weekend will serve as a get-out-the-vote drive.

Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer has put out a satiric memo mocking the policies NPR and others have issued to reporters regarding this weekend’s Jon Stewart – Stephen Colbert rallies

Once again, CNN’s Rick Sanchez discovers that opening his mouth probably wasn’t a good idea.

Jon Stewart’s response to Glenn Beck is taking place on the weekend where party leaders usually conduct their big get out the vote push.

Jon Stewart has made the transition into the post-Bush era much more effectively than his protege, Stephen Colbert.

A major part of the problem with the seeming growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in some quarters of US politics is that it seems to equate Islam as “the enemy.” If that’s the case, then US foreign policy has some ‘splainin’ to do.

Michael Gerson argues that the source of our polarization isn’t the Democrats and the Republicans but the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party.

A comedian’s farcical run for mayor of Reykjavik ended in victory. It’s as if Stephen Colbert’s 2008 presidential bid had worked. Or Al Franken got elected to the Senate!