Prediction: If Dems Fail To Deliver Lower Drug Prices, They Will Lose Both Houses Next Year
Some of the issues Congress is grappling with are complicated enough that everything gets muddied in the wash. But not drug prices....
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Howie Klein
- Sep 30, 2021
- 5 min
Manchin Lays His Cards On The Table-- There May Be A Way Forward. Today WE HOLD THE LINE
Manchin says his spending limit is $1.5 trillion on the reconciliation bill, not even half the compromise($3.5 trillion down from $6...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 28, 2021
- 10 min
Will Sinema Officially Join The GOP After Sabotaging The Build Back Better Agenda?
As head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila claims she has at least 48 votes to block passage of the conservative-- and...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 10, 2021
- 8 min
What Does Clean Energy Actually Mean?
Orange County progressive Mike Ortega had his first child this week-- Michael Maximilliano Ortega-- so Mike has been thinking about the...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 1, 2021
- 8 min
One Step Closer To Handmaid's Tale
The Democrats could have reformed the Supreme Court-- except for one problem: too many fake Democrats from the Republican wing the...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 23, 2021
- 6 min
Democrats Can Win The Midterms-- But The DCCC Can't
Every time I've done anything Google related this week, I've gotten a Gavin Newsom ad. They're annoying and they're constant-- so...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 18, 2021
- 5 min
Peace Dividend? Or More Billions Transferred To The Military Industrial Complex?
Reporting for Roll Call yesterday, Andrew Clevenger wrote that it isn't expected on Capitol Hill that the disastrous collapse in...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 15, 2021
- 6 min
Biden Is Locking In The Youth Vote For The Dems? On What Planet?
Beltway consultant Ben Koltun tried making the case yesterday that Biden's policies are locking in the youth vote for Democrats. Let's...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 13, 2021
- 7 min
Will Drug Prices Actually Come Down This Time? Or Are We Being Scammed Again?
I never tire of saying that if he were still in the Senate today, Joe Biden would be Joe Manchin-- which is what he was since 1973. But...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 9, 2021
- 7 min
Want To See Democrats Turn The Midterm Map Blue? Passing The Soft Infrastructure Bill Will Do It
Hours after shutting down the GOP filibuster (68-29) on the conservative "hard" infrastructure bill that the media insists on calling...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 9, 2021
- 7 min
Governments Can Ameliorate The Impact Of Climate Change... Or Make It Worse
The first thing I saw when I woke up this morning was news of a very ominous report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 8, 2021
- 9 min
Climate Change In Congress-- For The Record
In April of 2019 Business Insider ran an extensive report about the 130 then-current members of Congress-- so before the sociopathic crew...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 7, 2021
- 5 min
I Think I Know The Date Biden Plans To Cancel Federal Student Debt: Never
Progressives have had mixed emotions about Biden's announcement that he's going to-- grudgingly-- continue a moratorium on federal...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 31, 2021
- 7 min
Dems Fail To Extend The Eviction Moratorium-- Did They Even Try?
Conservatives must be walking around with boners today. Evictions begin again! And when I say "conservatives," you now what I mean: all...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 27, 2021
- 6 min
Are The Democrats Offering Voters Anything Other Than Fear Of The GOP?
With Manchin and Sinema blocking all attempts by the Democrats to pass any legislation that the party's candidates could point to in the...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 21, 2021
- 6 min
CCC-- Worth Fighting For?
This is a letter to Pelosi and Schumer you might want to read. It was sent yesterday by 84 members of Congress-- some senators and some...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
Nina Turner Vs The DC Swamp
Joyce Beatty just staged a high profile media arrest for herself. She's been all over TV. No one mentions she and her husband are...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 14, 2021
- 8 min
The "Weed" Part Of "Workers, Wages, Weed"
There were two quotes that stood out for me during Marianne Williamson's Candidate Summit II last night. First came Florida candidate for...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 11, 2021
- 9 min
If Democrats Pursue Suburban Voters Too Strenuously They Risk Alienating Their Own Base
In his NY Times piece yesterday, The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing?, Trip Gabriel made a common error:...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 9, 2021
- 6 min
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer... About That Civilian Climate Corps
This letter calling for a bold, ambitious, fully-funded CCC to Pelosi and Schumer-- as the Senate Democrats rush to put the finishing...
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