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Yesterday Was Meatball Ron Day-- Is That All There Is?
Yesterday, America welcomed Meatball Ron into a strictly self-indulgent race to try to stop Trump from getting the GOP nomination,...

Howie Klein
May 25, 20238 min read


The Nature Of Conservatism: Over The Cliff... In England And In Our Own Country
British far rightists threw their economy over the cliff with Brexit. So don’t think for a moment that Tim Burchett (R-TN) is the only...

Howie Klein
May 16, 20236 min read


Republican Education Is Detrimental To America’s Future, Part II
GOP Is Modeling Its Education Agenda On Fascist Hungary's Yesterday, we ran a post, Republican Education Is Detrimental To America’s...

Howie Klein
May 9, 202316 min read


Dianne Feinstein's Staffers Weren't Elected To Anything-- But They're Holding The Country Hostage
The Senate is such a dysfunctional pile of junk that just about the only thing it can do now is confirm nominees. But with Dianne...

Howie Klein
Apr 19, 20235 min read


No Labels-- Part of America's Political Heart Of Darkness
We’ve been covering the scumbag profiteers at No Labels since Nancy Jacobson started it as a meal ticket for herself and Mark Penn at the...

Howie Klein
Apr 5, 20235 min read


Trump's Kiss Of Death For 2024 Will Be Even More Lethal For Republicans Than It Was Last Year!
The Indictment-- And More Jonathan Chait’s column on how Trump is using DeSantis’ record on Social Security and Medicare to destroy his...

Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20237 min read


Some People Object To Using The Word "Fascist" To Describe The GOP, Trump & Meatball Ron
Branko Marcetic noted in his coverage of the SVB collapse and bailout that “The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by...

Howie Klein
Mar 14, 20237 min read


The Debate Continues: Who Would Be More Destructive To Our Country— Trump Or DeSantis?
Yesterday, writing about CPAC for MSNBC, conservative #NeverTrumper Charlie Sykes declared that in the annual far right event that...

Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20237 min read


America’s Authoritarian Future?
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meatball Ron’s book, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20237 min read


The Circus Has Come To Town— The 118th Congress’ First Two Bills
Protecting Rich Tax Cheats And Putting Abortion Doctors In Prison Trumpism rules in the 118th Congress. No one can deny it— although Paul...

Howie Klein
Jan 13, 20238 min read


Even Republicans Hate Republicans... And There's Every Reason In The World That They Should
The Monmouth poll released this morning gaged favorability for the top congressional leaders, among other things. McConnell is easily the...

Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20227 min read


MAGA: The GOP Totally Deserves The Worsening Plague Of Locusts It Is Living Through
If The Republican Party Had A Soul, It Would Be Trump Geoff Duncan, Georgia’s very conservative Republican Lt. Gov, stood on line for an...

Howie Klein
Dec 1, 202210 min read


Jumping A Sinking Ship Doesn't Make A Rat A Hero: William Barr
Last week, Jonathan Chait noted that Trump and Barr’s Corruption of the Justice Department Was Worse Than We Knew. Hold that word “and”...

Howie Klein
Sep 11, 20226 min read


The Mar-a-Lago Crime Scene
The GOP Is A Nation In Decline If I was a conspiracy theorist I might say that the whole FBI shebang at Mar-a-Lago yesterday— which the...

Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20226 min read


Decades Ago, Marco Rubio & I Had The Same Job-- He Got Arrested For It But I Didn't
Republicans Are Obsessed With Homosexuality New York Magazine chose a photo of Marco Rubio for the top of Jonathan Chait’s column, Once...

Howie Klein
Jul 21, 20228 min read


Gottheimer Mobilizing The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Against Fair Taxes For The Rich
The title of Jonathan Chait’s column in New York Magazine today sounds like a DWT post: Josh Gottheimer Is on a Mission to Destroy Joe...

Howie Klein
Jul 13, 20226 min read


It's Fine That The Conservative Dems Are Vanishing-- But They're Wrecking the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party Is Self-Destructing At The Worst Possible Time Yesterday, if you got past my reminiscences about my early...

Howie Klein
Jul 5, 20227 min read


Today’s GOP Can’t Be Trusted With A Role In Governance. Part II
I spent most of yesterday at City of Hope. None of the doctors, nurses, aides or other staffers I ran into knew anything about the select...

Howie Klein
Jun 29, 20224 min read


The Republican Civil War May Be Scary, But Will That Be Enough For Democrats To Save Themselves?
There's been quite a bit of talk lately about how next time the far right tries a coup, they'll be better prepared and... successful....

Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20226 min read


Conservatives-- From Both Parties-- Keep Anything From Happening... Even An End To Gas Price Gouging
In his column for New York Magazine this morning, Jonathan Chait asked if the feckless Democrats are already giving up and just ceding...

Howie Klein
May 19, 20223 min read
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