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Lore 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 Klein
Mar 29, 20229 min read
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As Long As Congress Tolerates Bribery, Drug Prices Will Remain Outrageously High
Republicans and the Blue Dog, New Dems and corporate whores from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and their allies in the...

Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20223 min read
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Who'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 Klein
Mar 25, 20225 min read
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Trump Didn't Try To Drain Any Swamps-- It's Much Worse Than Ever Now
Columbus, Ohio political hack Joyce Beatty-- along with her bagman lobbyist husband-- made her career courtesy of the payday lending...

Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20223 min read
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"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 Klein
Feb 22, 20224 min read
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Ethics-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 Klein
Feb 20, 20223 min read
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Corrupt Blue Dog Kurt Schrader (OR) Belongs In Prison, Not In Congress
I 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 Klein
Feb 16, 20225 min read
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No One Has To Wonder Who's More Corrupt-- Beatty Or Gottheimer; They're In Business Together
It Would Be So Much Easier If All Corrupt Member Of Congress Were Republicans And All Dems Honest, But, Alas... Some people say all...

Howie Klein
Feb 6, 20223 min read
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Friday Political Corruption, Part II: Another Conservative EMILY's List Loser, Heidi Heitkamp
I guess I could have added this as an update to this morning's post on political corruption. Brett Wilkins' reporting on corrupt...

Howie Klein
Jan 28, 20223 min read
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Democracy Loses Legitimacy When Elected Officials Are As Egregiously Corrupt As Ours Are
When 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 Klein
Jan 28, 20226 min read
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Azerbaijan Is A Magnet For Corruption, So Of Course It Attracted Trump... And Henry Cuellar
Just 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...

Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20225 min read
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Anyone Surprised That The Corrupt Congressional Establishment Opposes Banning Stock Trading?
The Democrats should pass a quick bill-- Jon Ossoff's bill to be precise-- to ban stock trading among members of Congress and their...

Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20223 min read
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Institutionalized Corruption In Congress Is The Most Bipartisan Thing About DC
Ever since Pelosi cluelessly blurted out a ritual self-serving defense of congressional corruption a few weeks ago, there has been a...

Howie Klein
Jan 19, 20228 min read
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With Trump It's Always Been About What He Thinks He Can Get Away With... Including The Census
Is it possible that anyone was surprised to find out that Trump was trying to cheat on the census? The surprise would come if he wasn't...

Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20224 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! The K Street Streetwalker!
by Noah I have been listening to senate speeches for decades now, most of them while I was sitting in the Senate chamber as a Democratic...

Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20227 min read
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Self-Serving Corruption Is Not A Partisan Issue: Ron Johnson (R) & Joe Manchin (D) Are The Worst
Wisconsin may well be the most flippable Republican-held Senate seat. Extremist Ron Johnson broke his own promise to serve just 12 years...

Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20228 min read
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Politically-Connected Billionaires Don't Go To Prison-- The Michael Steinhardt Story
Slimy hedge fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt's birthday is December 7. This one was probably his worst. To avoid prison, he turned...

Howie Klein
Jan 1, 20224 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Inflation By Design
by Noah And don't forget that when corporations raise prices and claim they're "doing it because of inflation," they then embrace...

Noah
Dec 28, 20211 min read
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Should Members Of Congress Be Allowed To Trade Stocks? Pelosi Thinks So
A few days ago, Business Insider ran a piece that listed the 25 richest members of Congress. With a net worth of over $46 million, Pelosi...

Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20217 min read
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Many People In DC Wonder Why Manchin Hasn't Jumped To The GOP Yet
Everyone in DC knows that Manchin-- not the sharpest knife in the drawer to begin with-- gets many of his talking points from the RNC via...

Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20214 min read
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