Howie Klein3 days ago2 minArizona-- Still A Political Insane AsylumElijah Norton has a new ad running in the Phoenix media market featuring Karen Garrett, Rep. David Schweikert’s former campaign treasurer...
NoahJun 145 minMidnight Meme Of The Day! The Senate's Motto: Doing The Least We Can Do!by Noah I'll just start today's Midnight Meme post by paraphrasing some lines from yesterday's post in which I mentioned the $enate's...
Thomas NeuburgerMay 38 minThe Quid Pro Quo That Keeps Washington Corrupt (With a Note on Roe v Wade)If both parties do it, who will blow the whistle?
Howie KleinMay 24 minRitchie Torres Is Not A Conservative But...Only two super-progressives, Marie Newman (D-IL) and Andy Levin (D-MI), have more progressive voting records than Ritchie Torres (D-NY)....
Howie KleinApr 256 minWhat's This About Juan Vargas At "The Corporate Pig Trough?" You Thought Only Republicans Did That?San Diego Reader politics columnist Matt Porter quoted some Blue America material in his latest slash'n'bash: Juan Vargas challenged for...
Howie KleinApr 233 minBrad Sherman Gets Tons Of Cash From Corporate Interests--But He's Still Using Tax Dollars To Run AdsIn the last few weeks-- just before the California primary, in which he has a very serious challenge from progressive activist Shervin...
Howie KleinApr 204 minNepotism Has Defined Jared Kushner's Entire Life-- Why Stop Now?Early this morning, The Nation published a short piece in support of Elizabeth Warren's demand of the DOJ that they investigate the $2...
NoahApr 192 minMidnight Meme Of The Day! Take "Hunter Biden's Laptop" And Shove It Up Your Ass!by Noah I find it's impossible to have a rational discussion about anything with any Republican these days without them interjecting the...
Howie KleinApr 187 minWhat's Wrong With The GOP? It's Not Only Florida But... Let's Begin By Looking At Rick ScottLast night I was writing a headline for today's 5am post. I started with "There hasn't been a Florida governor as bad as Ron DeSantis...
Howie KleinMar 299 minLore And Order-- Half A Trill Got Heisted... Who's Going To Prison? Trump?Trump's Small Business Administration Oversaw The Looting Of The Treasury The Biden administration was off and running yesterday about...
Howie KleinMar 263 minAs Long As Congress Tolerates Bribery, Drug Prices Will Remain Outrageously HighRepublicans and the Blue Dog, New Dems and corporate whores from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and their allies in the...
Howie KleinMar 255 minWho's In Worse Trouble With Their Voters-- Jeff Fortenberry Or Madison Cawthorn?Nebraska's first congressional district surrounds-- but doesn't include-- Omaha, but does include Lincoln. The good ole days when Jeff...
Howie KleinFeb 243 minTrump Didn't Try To Drain Any Swamps-- It's Much Worse Than Ever NowColumbus, Ohio political hack Joyce Beatty-- along with her bagman lobbyist husband-- made her career courtesy of the payday lending...
Howie KleinFeb 224 min"Safety Is At The Core Of Who We Are At Boeing." Is That So?I haven't been on a plane since January of 2020 when I flew back from Seoul just as the pandemic was kicking into high gear. Luckily for...
Howie KleinFeb 203 minEthics-Wise, Ami Bera = Sean Casten?Ami Bera's sick, elderly father, Babulal Bera, only got a year in prison-- the designated scapegoat to keep his corrupt New Dem son out...
Howie KleinFeb 165 minCorrupt Blue Dog Kurt Schrader (OR) Belongs In Prison, Not In CongressI got so excited yesterday morning when Kathleen Rice's e-mail to her constituents went out explaining that she would not be running for...
Howie KleinFeb 63 minNo One Has To Wonder Who's More Corrupt-- Beatty Or Gottheimer; They're In Business TogetherIt Would Be So Much Easier If All Corrupt Member Of Congress Were Republicans And All Dems Honest, But, Alas... Some people say all...
Howie KleinJan 283 minFriday Political Corruption, Part II: Another Conservative EMILY's List Loser, Heidi HeitkampI guess I could have added this as an update to this morning's post on political corruption. Brett Wilkins' reporting on corrupt...
Howie KleinJan 286 minDemocracy Loses Legitimacy When Elected Officials Are As Egregiously Corrupt As Ours AreWhen the ABSCAM scandal played out in the media in the late 70s/early 80s, it wasn't quite as thrilling as Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad,...
Howie KleinJan 225 minAzerbaijan Is A Magnet For Corruption, So Of Course It Attracted Trump... And Henry CuellarJust before Hillary Clinton somehow managed to lose an election to a 2-bit con-man from New York, I spent some time in Azerbaijan, a...