The Donkey In Decline
-by Patrick Toomey While the Dems have had more than their share of bad weeks since the watershed year of 1980, this week was an...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 27
- 5 min
Corruption Is A Way Of Life In Congress-- It Is Bipartisan... And Progressives Do Not Fit In
Reactionary Centrism In the House last night there was a long series of votes on amendments to a Republican messaging bill to limit the...
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Sam Husseini
- Jan 7
- 4 min
Three Cheers For Justin Amash; Seeing The Two Centers
Amash putting himself forward for House Speaker took guts. It's a step to seeing the reality of our political spectrum: There's the...
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Patrick Toomey
- Jan 4
- 4 min
When Your Opponent Is Drowning, Throw The Son Of A Bitch An Anvil
-by Patrick Toomey Just as a stopped clock is correct twice a day, James Carville was 100% correct in that famous quote. If only the...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 12, 2022
- 5 min
Are Democrats Turning Off Young Voters To Electoral Politics?
Young people are inclined to support progressive policies and support candidates who back those kinds of policies. In 2018, 64% of young...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 27, 2022
- 5 min
Nobody Wants The MAGA Freaks Around-- Not Even Other Republicans... Dateline: Alaska
You’re surely aware that Alaska voters rejected Trump’s crackpot MAGA candidates Kelly Tshibaka, who was running against Senator Lisa...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 6, 2022
- 5 min
No One Plays The Bipartisanship Game Any Longer But A Hapless Biden
Yesterday, Ashley Parker and Matt Viser quoted former Harry Reid staffer Adam Jentleson: “There is a leadership vacuum right now, and...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 3, 2021
- 4 min
How Many Lives Are Republicans Willing To Sacrifice To Make Biden's COVID Response Look Bad?
Last week, the House passed the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021 (H.R. 550), which is meant to direct the Department...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 18, 2021
- 11 min
Can You Be A Republican And Still Be A Patriot?
On Monday, when Biden signed the hard infrastructure bill at a showy media ceremony, he said "The bill I’m about to sign into law is...
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Noah
- Sep 18, 2021
- 1 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! A Better World!
by Noah Saturday Morning Cartoon: Imagine a world... Yeah, you're gonna have to imagine it because what's depicted in the above cartoon...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 7, 2021
- 8 min
Infrastructure Bill Moved Forward Today-- As 18 GOP Senators Ignore Trump's Ravings
Not fringe extremists like Marjorie Traitor Greene (Q-GA), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
The Public vs The Republicans: Infrastructure
Late yesterday, the Washington Post published a Jeff Stein and Tony Romm deep dive into the infrastructure bill soon after Schumer moved...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 5, 2021
- 3 min
Progressivism Can Win-- And It Isn't Always Only About Candidates
I started getting really involved with politics while LBJ was in the White House. That picture above includes me (holding that Brooklyn...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 2, 2021
- 4 min
The Democratic Party Is Being Bidenized-- Which Will Split It In Two
Ben Burgis' Jacobin post yesterday, Bipartisanship Is Garbage could have been titled Bidenism Is Garbage... and it could have been...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 1, 2021
- 5 min
Don't Delude Yourself About Biden-- He May Not Be As Bad As Sinema, But He's The Same As Manchin
Biden Is Not On Our Side-- Get Over It Jake Tapper had guests on State of the Union this morning with some interesting things to say....
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Howie Klein
- Jul 29, 2021
- 9 min
Who's A Worse Threat To America-- Sinema Or Ricchetti?
Trump is against the conservative infrastructure bill and flipping out about the 17 Republican senators who ignored his threats and voted...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 27, 2021
- 6 min
Are The Democrats Offering Voters Anything Other Than Fear Of The GOP?
With Manchin and Sinema blocking all attempts by the Democrats to pass any legislation that the party's candidates could point to in the...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 25, 2021
- 6 min
Can Republicans & Dems Work Together For Americans' Benefit Without Hatred, Rancor? Pelosi Thinks So
This morning, Nancy Pelosi issued a statement the likes of which conservative Republican Adam Kinzinger (IL) probably never imagined he'd...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 13, 2021
- 7 min
McConnell Continues To Dance Circles Around Schumer & Biden, As Trump Does The Same To McConnell
Who Gets To Define What-- And Who-- A RINO Is? In their analysis of where the Senate is with Biden's infrastructure package, the folks...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 12, 2021
- 6 min
Trump, McCarthy And McConnell Killed Bipartisanship
I think yesterday morning's post, Trump Took Russian-Style Disinformation And Information Warfare & Applied It To American Politics, is...
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