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In all likelihood, tea party candidates will not win their primaries in Kansas and Tennessee, meaning establishment Republicans will have beaten every tea party challenger for the Senate. But that doesn't mean the tea party is going away.

George W. Bush's forthcoming memoir on his father should be worth a read, but the best memoir by a former president skipped his presidential years. 

There's a report that the Senate has already blocked the House border bills, passed on Friday, from going anywhere. That time may come, but it hasn't yet.

The Senate's failure to pass a border bill and the House's fumbling efforts to pass its own speak to how many different people can 'veto' legislation in American politics. That's nothing new, but the tea party insurgency has added a new levels of complexity.

The House passed a $694 million border bill that's better than nothing. Had the House tried to pull off what the Senate got away with, they would have been attacked mercilessly.

House Republican leaders expected to pass their version of a border bill Thursday, but a revolt within the caucus blew things up, again. What was most curious, perhaps, was Republicans' counsel to President Obama: act on your own.

Republicans love to nominate the 'next in line' for presidential elections, or so the thinking goes. Well, this time, all the potential next-in-lines are no-sure-things.

Suing the president makes sense (for both parties) because politics is increasingly not about results, but about burnishing partisan credentials. Why? It all has to do with party 'sorting.'

Is America's 'friends door' open? Do we want the thousands of migrant children pouring into the US to stay? Maybe we should. Maybe they can be great Americans.

Historically, the number of competitive House races is declining. But that's not Democrats' problem this year. And that holds hope for them in elections beyond 2014.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a loyal following, and her donors love her, of course. But if Hillary Clinton's in the 2016 game – and perhaps even if she isn't – they want her to stay in the Senate.

The problem of poverty in America defies easy answers. But it has often been approached only through a liberal lens. A few Republicans are trying to change that.

Democrats have certainly taken up the issue with gusto in recent days, sensing a political advantage, but there's little question where the chatter started.

If President Obama wants to do anything on immigration, it will probably have to come through executive action. Depending on what he does and when, that could kick the current impeachment talk to a new level.

The new round of US and EU sanctions against Russia are the toughest yet, and they might well hit their mark: Russia's business oligarchs. But that still might not be enough to change President Vladimir Putin's behavior.

Republican leaders say they have no intention of impeaching President Obama. Then again, they said they had no intention of shutting down the government in 2013, either.

With an array of crises facing President Obama, his competence has come under scrutiny. But that might be the wrong way to look at the situation.

President Obama is not enjoying the best of times in his foreign policy, which has resulted in criticism. But President Bush went about things in exactly the opposite way and was also pilloried. Maybe this foreign policy thing is just hard. 

Some of the charges that President Obama is 'mailing in' his second term are silly. But he can give the impression of being disengaged, and he has no one to blame for that but himself.

A new poll suggests that America is perhaps open to accepting the children crossing the border illegally. That's different from much of what you see on TV.