Yes, there are Republicans in DC. And they’re mad about taxes

Welcome to Tuesday’s Washington Secrets. Republicans in the city want you to know they are alive and well ahead of next week’s elections. And they want you to know they are ready to fight D.C.’s planned tax hikes. Plus, there are signs (faint signs, but signs nonetheless) that some of the wilder predictions of a blue tidal wave around the country are facing up to reality…

A rare species was spotted in Washington’s Farragut Square on Monday at lunchtime. Not the homeless man dragging an oversized suitcase and shouting at himself, not the pigeons landing on the namesake statue, nor the office workers carrying paper bags of lunch and looking for a bench in the sunshine.