The Republicans Can't Control Their Attachment To Unpopular Extremist Measures Their Donors Demand
Many Of Them Are Starting To Realize DeSantis Is Too Extreme Let’s start with 2 important, loosely related questions— Why is the GOP...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 10
- 6 min
The Congressional Far Right Just Admitted What Its Members Want To Do To America
This morning, the House Freedom Caucus— both the most extreme edge of the House GOP and the party’s trend-setters— demanded about $130...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 27
- 4 min
Do They Really Want To Cut Social Security Benefits?
They Sure Do... Did You Vote For One Of Them? Progressives have proposed bills to protect and expand Social Security benefits by raising...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 14
- 6 min
Do GOP Politicians Really Want To Cut Social Security & Medicare Benefits? You Better Believe It!
Short of a goobers like Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and multimillionaire criminal Rick Scott (R-FL), even the most reactionary...
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Helen Klein
- Feb 5
- 8 min
The Debt Ceiling And The Constitution
-by Helen Klein As an older American citizen who views herself as rational, the horror of the showdown about raising the national debt...
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Noah
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Debt Ceiling Compromises Are Compromises On Human Decency
by Noah So now we wait to see how both parties team up to use us and our hard earned money to even it all up. They'll call it a...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 26
- 5 min
McCarthy Is Worried That Too Many Of His Members Are Too Ignorant To Make A Rationale Decision
What a coincidence! I asked my A.I. buddy a question that doesn’t appear to have been especially welcome: “Which members of the 118th...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 21
- 9 min
GOP Hostage Takers? Disarm Them... Permanently, Part II
Friday night boxed-in Speaker-in-name-only Kevin McCarthy tweeted “President Biden: I accept your invitation to sit down and discuss a...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 21
- 6 min
GOP Hostage Takers? Disarm Them... Permanently, Part I
25% Of All The National Debt Ever Accrued In American History Was Added Under Trump In 1996, the Republicans rammed through a platinum...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 20
- 3 min
The French Have A Good Answer To Conservative Plans To Raise The Retirement Age-- General Strikes
Last night, Le Monde reported that over a million people took to the streets to protest the kind of pension “reform” that the Republicans...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 17
- 8 min
Who Will Save The World Economy From The Republican Party Terrorists?
The lame, dysfunctional and untrustworthy Democrats should have dealt with the debt limit while they still controlled both chambers of...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
The 2 Obstacles To Eliminating The Debt Ceiling Scam: Mitch McConnell & Joe Biden
Early yesterday, John Bresnahan reported for Punchbowl News that Philadelphia area Democrat Brendan Boyle has been organizing to do...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 13, 2022
- 4 min
If Republicans Win Control Of Congress…
According to Norm Ornstein, if the Republicans-- he doesn’t call them fascists in print— take over the House, “the country will face a...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
How Badly Will Trump's Mister Destructo Actions Hurt The GOP In The Midterms?
Lawrence Lessig's essay for the New York Review this morning, Why the US Is a Failed Democratic State, begins flatly, that a...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 9, 2021
- 5 min
Old Crow McConnell Out-Maneuvers Imbecile Trump Again, This Time On Debt Ceiling
We started the day with a look at how Trump continues to poison the Republican Party's midterm efforts. But it's a theme that never stops...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 5, 2021
- 7 min
Is The Fight Over The Debt Ceiling A McConnell Maneuver To Get The Dems To Kill The Filibuster?
Annapurna Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm founded by Marshall Brandt, currently serving as a managing partner. I have no...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 30, 2021
- 6 min
Will Pelosi Be Forced To Pull The Conservative Infrastructure Bill Today?
What could Schumer have imagined would happened when he recruited the chair of the Blue Dogs-- also the member of the House with the...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 28, 2021
- 5 min
Chaos-- It's All The GOP Has Left
So the way it stands now, McConnell and Schumer have maneuvered the country into a place where we wake up early Friday morning with "no...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 22, 2021
- 6 min
McConnell Prepares To Halt Social Security Payments And Paychecks To Military Families
On her show last night, Rachel Maddow explained the genesis of a dysfunctional congressional borrowing situation that began in 1917 when...
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