Outside the Beltway

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

Republicans are going to find it difficult to distance themselves from Donald Trump.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

Reports indicate that President Trump will seek to increase military spending. We don’t need to, and we can’t really afford it.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for only the second time in a decade, but it still seems like it’s chasing an inflation monster that doesn’t exist.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio have won the endorsement of the Des Moines Register, but it’s unclear how much this will help their respective campaigns.

Republicans haven’t really moved beyond the legacy of George W. Bush’s failed Administration as much as they’d like to think, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them very much.

Compromise is simply necessary for the country to function.

John Boehner let loose on the “false prophets” on the right yesterday, and he’s absolutely right.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

What if this is the new normal?

Bernie Sanders is running for President. He’s not going to win, but he’s not running because he thinks he can win.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

What happened Tuesday? And what does it tell us about 2016?

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

The next Attorney General will likely see their nomination taken up by Senators who will not be in office past December. That’s somewhat disturbing, but it’s become all too common in Washington.

A political earthquake in the Sunflower State that could have a big impact on the battle for control of the Senate.

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Relying on the policies of a man who was President in a very different time is not a substitute for a rational foreign policy.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

Republican leaders continue to say stupid things. They may still retake the Senate in November.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

My review of Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.

The “Hastert Rule” isn’t the reason Speaker Boehner isn’t bringing a “clean” CR up for a vote, political survival is.

A comment from one Congressman sums up the attitude of the small group of Congressman and Senators who have placed us in this situation.

As expected, President Obama’s latest “pivot” to the economy is less than meets the eye.

It looks for all the world as if the House GOP Caucus isn’t really under the control of the leadership.

The Federal Budget Deficit appears headed in the right direction, for now.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

The sequestration cuts are fast approaching, and the political battle is continuing.

Pretending like the Bush administration never happened is a problem for the GOP.