Outside the Beltway

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

Scott Walker could be the GOP’s surprise candidate in 2016.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

There is only one serious candidate in the race for Frank Lautenberg’s old Senate seat, and he’s got pretty much no chance of winning the election.

The TIGTA audit reveals the BOLO “Tea Party” list was right 81% of the time. But does that change anything?

Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.

Just about all of the substantive information in the excerpts was already revealed in the TIGTA audit.

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

Almost no one can confidently explain, let alone define, the specifics of the 501(c)4 designation.

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

A starting point for two important stories.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.

Is someone who’s only be a Senator for just over 100 days a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2016?

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.

Senator Rand Paul has stepped into the immigration debate, but his plan is less than desirable.

The White House is backing an effort to overturn a bizarre ruled recently enacted by the Library of Congress

Institutional dynamics in the US constitutional system are the key to undertstanding our current predicament.

The GOP’s public image continues to be bad and there seems to be little sign that they’re doing anything to change that.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.