Down Ballot Republicans Are Worried That Trump's Poor Debate Performance Could Derail Their Careers
Democrats Want A Walz-Vance Debate— Republicans Don't On Wednesday, Karl Rove declared the debate “ a train wreck ” for Señor T, “far...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 10
- 5 min
Trump's Weird Press Conference: “That Vast Well Of Stupidity That Takes Up Most Of His Brain”
“The Stupidest Person Who Has Ever Won A Nomination For President” Trump was furious Thursday when he held his Mar-a-Lago press...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 2
- 7 min
Trump Succeeded In Reminding His KKK Base That He's Still As Racist As He Ever Was— And Proud Of It
Trump’s appearance onstage at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday was a bust— or worse. On paper it sounds...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 31
- 9 min
Kamala’s Unlikely Coalition: Can NeverTrumpers And Progressive Skeptics Unite?
Another Battle For The Democratic Party's Soul Yesterday, Trump’s nephew Fred Trump, was on The View, where he said he believes in...
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Howie Klein
- May 3
- 5 min
If Abortion Is Trump's Electoral Tar Baby, Biden's Is The Protests Over Israeli Genocide In Gaza
Eric Adams 2024 Channels Richard Daley 1968 I was already a left-winger when I saw 14, thanks to my socialist grandfather who had come to...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 2
- 7 min
McConnell Is 82 & In Failing Health— Will We Pretend He Was More Than A Scumbag When He Dies?
“His Partisanship Ultimately Overwhelmed His Patriotism-- If That Even Ever Existed” On February 20— my birthday and Mitch McConnell’s...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 25
- 5 min
MAGA Cultists Are Delighted To Turn Out For Their Cult Leader-- Others... Not So Much
Yesterday, I noticed that the Financial Times had dug up the same photo that we had of robber baron/bankster, putative Democrat Jamie...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 16, 2023
- 2 min
Who To Have Been Hating, 2023... Although There Can Be A Cost
A 2020 study, Violent Extremism and Moral Disengagement found that “Violent extremism is commonly conditioned by a variety of...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 16, 2023
- 6 min
Worse Than A Do-Nothing Congress Is A Do-Bad Congress-- This One Is Both
Will Swing Voters Turn On Republican Incumbents Next Year? Yesterday, Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell reminded Washington...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 14, 2023
- 8 min
The 2024 Greater Evil Is Also America's Greatest Evil Ever-- And It's Not Old Joe Biden
Jennifer Rubin’s column on Sunday, A Wasteland: Political Coverage Ignores The Threat To Democracy, was one long kvetch about mainstream...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 11, 2023
- 4 min
Trump Wants To Be A Dictator; It's More Disgusting That So Many Voters Are Enthusiastic About That
The Threat To Our Country Is Ignorant Wing-Nuts, Not Just Trump Yesterday, Ruth Ben-Ghiat tweeted that a picture of the Capitol being...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 3, 2023
- 3 min
What Trump Demands From His Allies In Congress: Chaos And Dysfunction… That He Can Blame On Biden
Trump owns the House and the mess there—from an endless battle over the speaker’s gavel, a tit-for-tat fact-free impeachment...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 19, 2023
- 5 min
How Much Longer Will Gym Jordan Keep Denying He Lost The Speaker Election?
Does He Really Think He Can Wear Down The Opposition? Gym Jordan’s colleagues turned him down again. Yesterday, on ballot #2 he did even...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 18, 2023
- 5 min
Is Gym Jordan Toast-- He Needs To Do A Lot Better Today... Or He's Screwed
Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 26, 2023
- 6 min
Watch Which Democrats Call For Menendez To Resign-- And Which Democraps Stand By One Of Their Own
Corruption Runs Very Deep In The DC Establishment Corrupt conservative Josh Gottheimer, the consensus Jersey machine candidate for...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 14, 2023
- 3 min
McCarthy's Big Mistake Was To Toss Aside Working In A Bipartisan Way Despite Such A Narrow Margin
That Gave Trump And His MAGAts Complete Control Of The House I almost feel sorry for Kevin McCarthy— almost but not— screw him… another...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 26, 2023
- 4 min
P01135809— Will They Hang This Presidential Portrait In The National Portrait Gallery? Part I
The East Room? The State Dining Room? Yesterday, Juan Cole reminded us that “the tactic of staring sternly into the camera in defiance...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 2, 2023
- 3 min
Conservative Billionaires Think They Have It All Under Control... German Billionaires Thought So Too
The Republican base knows what it wants and no one can accuse them of walking into this blindly-- stupidly, sure, but not blindly. The...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 27, 2023
- 7 min
Are Young Voters Finally Coming For The Republican Politicians Who Are Threatening Them?
New Data Is Very Bad News For The GOP The Harvard Youth Poll, which doesn't just poll Harvard students, shared some new data with Greg...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 20, 2023
- 8 min
Nasty Old Trump Is Just Like His Father-- He Can't Get Along With Anyone
Will They Make A Reality Show SitCom Out Of His Prison Time? Trump is foolishly still fighting with popular Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. He...
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