Outside the Beltway

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.

Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.

Bob Corker, who has served in the Senate since winning election in 2006, announced yesterday that he would not stand for re-election.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.

The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

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.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

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.

Jeb Bush predicted that Donald Trump would preside over a “chaos Presidency,” and he was right.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

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

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

Team of Rivals?

Future Supreme Court Justice?

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The GOP civil war continues…..

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.