Outside the Beltway

The ineptitude is staggering.

Our leaders are afraid to lead.

Don’t let the door . . .

All of 47’s controversial nominees have been confirmed. Save one.

Another piece of an appalling cabinet is now in place.

The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is not doing its job.

A disturbing loyalty test.

Some quotes to ponder.

It is too soon to tell.

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

Not Gaetz and Hegseth bad, but still, pretty bad.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

Of leopards and faces.

There is no such thing as “the perfect candidate.”

The ludicrous appointments keep coming.

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

A microcosm of the campaigns and the candidates.

We live in interesting times.

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

Running for office or just running?

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

He’s a long way from 1991 delegates but no one can beat him.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

The vanity candidate may impact the race.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Andrew Yang had an impressive fourth quarter when it comes to fundraising, but it appears unlikely to help his campaign at all.

Pete Buttigieg had a very successful fundraising quarter at the same time he is rising in the polls.

Tulsi Gabbard is under fire back home for her vote on impeachment and for missing votes on the House floor.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.