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Howie Klein
Jul 28, 20239 min read
Think House Republicans Fantasize About Marjorie Traitor Greene Going Back To The Gym Business?
She's Going To Lose Them Their Majority In recent days, various Democrats wrote privileged censure resolutions for George Santos— Ritchie...
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Howie Klein
May 21, 20236 min read
Biden & McCarthy Will Both Tell Their Bases Their Hands Were Forced By The Default Cliff
Biden Alone Could Have Prevented That-- But Chose Not To The White House has been telling progressives to stop yammering about the 14th...
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Howie Klein
May 10, 20235 min read
Who Will Save The Economy From The GOP's Plan To Push It Over The Fiscal Cliff?
Do Joe Biden And Hakeem Jeffries Have What It Takes? The other day, my friend Helen called to tell me how excited she was that Laurence...
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Howie Klein
May 3, 20232 min read
Maryland Needs Jamie Raskin In The Senate... And So Does America
In 2016 Rep. Chris Van Hollen ran for Senate, successfully, when Barbara Mikulski retired. That opened up Van Hollen’s safe blue House...
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Howie Klein
Mar 9, 20237 min read
I'm OK With Nikki Haley's Cognitive Test For Candidates-- What About IQ Tests As Well?
Lie Detectors For Members Of Congress? Not everyone in Congress is an attorney, something I always thought was a good thing. However,...
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Howie Klein
Feb 16, 20234 min read
A Society Drowning In Corruption-- A Society That Has Elevated Trumps & Kushners
James Comer Could Care Less-- Jamie Raskin To The Rescue? Do you often get the feeling that, as a society, we’re just drowning in...
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Noah
Jul 17, 20221 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! As Christian As I Can Be
by Noah Sunday Thoughts: Or should I say should be? In a better country, a country that actually lived up to the professed ideals of this...
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Howie Klein
Jul 12, 20224 min read
Do American Voters Deserve One Lesser Of 2 Evils Contest After Another? We Need To Wise Up
CPAC, the biggest annual gathering of the Republican Party activist base is almost upon us. Having turned sharply fascist in the past 4-5...
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Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20224 min read
The Plot Thickens: Suddenly Señor Trumpanzee Says It's OK For Bannon To Testify
There were several times over the past 4-5 years when we thought we would never hear from “Sloppy” Steve Bannon again. Obviously, he...
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Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20222 min read
House Passes Modest Gun Reform Bills Opposed By The GOP/NRA-- Senate Will Kill It
Last night, the House voted 223-204 in favor a package of gun control bills they're calling the Protecting Our Kids Act. 4 of the 5...
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Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20226 min read
Does Trump Deserve The Death Penalty For His Violent Coup? What About His Co-Conspirators?
The Select Committee has its work cut out for it. According to NBC News polling conducted between May 5 and 10, "Just 45% of Americans...
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Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Will Jamie Raskin Save American Democracy?
As an intro to an hour-long chat with Jamie Raskin, Vanity Fair wanted to be sure its readers knew Raskin sees Trump as a one man crime...
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Howie Klein
May 3, 20224 min read
Will The Select Committee Prove Trump's Treason... Enough To Change Any Minds?
Langer Research has a new poll out today for ABC News and the Washington Post. The headline was about Trump's enduring sway over...
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Howie Klein
Apr 29, 20222 min read
House Passes A New Lend-Lease Act-- Only 10 From The Putin Wing Of The GOP Voted No
On Thursday afternoon, the House voted on a bill originally proposed by John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate, S.3522-- Ukraine Democracy...
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Howie Klein
Apr 22, 20226 min read
JFK Library Announces Liz Cheney Gets A Profiles In Courage Award-- Kevin McCarthy Never Will
If you were in the mood for a nice hike, you could walk from the northern tip of Adam Schiff's district up into Kevin McCarthy's. Schiff...
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Howie Klein
Apr 15, 20225 min read
Most Republicans See Trump's Coup & Insurrection As "Patriotic"
Would They Ever Accept Seeing Trump Hauled Off The Prison? Yesterday, the New Republic published polling results from Hart Research that...
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Howie Klein
Apr 7, 20224 min read
Normal GOP Members Of Congress Celebrate Hitler's Birthday In Private-- But Not Paul Gosar!
Last night, Pelosi allowed Republican Michael McCaul to introduce a bipartisan resolution about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It passed...
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Howie Klein
Jan 6, 20229 min read
Karl Rove Explains "True Patriotism" To His Fellow Republicans-- And Rebecca Solnit Explains America
The New, Polite Word For Low IQ: "Guillible" Republicans-- most Republicans-- are in their own walled-off Fox/Hate Talk radio world. In...
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Howie Klein
Oct 14, 20216 min read
The Party Of Trump's Absurd Big Lie-- They No Longer Stand For Anything Else
Yesterday, a few hundred right-wingers showed up for Steve Bannon's "Big Lie" rally for Glenn Youngkin in suburban Richmond. Trumpanzee...
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Howie Klein
Mar 12, 20216 min read
How Can Democrats In Congress Work With Actual Fascists (And Bozos)?
Before Mali's latest convulsions into anarchy, I visited Mopti, a seedy Niger River port which was able to boast that it had the most...
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