Pay A Republican Enough And They'll Make The Case For Higher Drug Prices With A Straight Face
Every time Gallup does its poll on honesty and ethics in professions, lobbyists come out at or near the bottom (63% low or very low),...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 6
- 4 min
When Will The Fascists In The House Freedom Caucus Move Against McCarthy?
Everyone knows that Kevin McCarthy is the most lobbyist-friendly Speaker of the House in contemporary history. He doesn’t represent Kern...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
How Dare The UAE Bribe Members Of Congress Just Like Israel Does?
Yesterday, the Washington Post published a report by John Hudson on the UAE’s interference with domestic U.S. politics, mentioning almost...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Lobbyists Ready To Own DC Again-- Or Own It More Than They Already Do
It’s 18 more days ’til election day and you can already hear the champagne corks being popped on K Street— and I’m talking about bottles...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 6, 2022
- 3 min
Corrupt Conservatives Are Fighting To The End To Keep Drug Prices High
Big day today in DC. The Senate will start going through a plethora or idiotic amendments from Republicans trying to hold up the...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Congress Makes Corruption Legal... And We Pay The Price
In mid-September, we ran a post, Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There, noting that the politicians...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 12, 2021
- 4 min
Can Anyone Claim With A Straight Face That The Democratic Party Is Less Corrupt Than The GOP?
Last year Democrats burned a ghastly amount of money on a vanity campaign by corporate lobbyist Jaime Harrison in South Carolina....
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Howie Klein
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
Lobbyists Don't Give Money To Politicians They LIKE-- They Give Money To People For Sale
The story of the fight to pass Biden's Build Back Better compromise-- which is good but could have been/should have been great-- can't be...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 21, 2021
- 6 min
The Word "Corrupt" Is Inexorably Tied To The Word "Conservatism"
Zack Stanton's interview with George Will for Politico a few days ago pretty much equated American conservatism, a political philosophy,...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 16, 2021
- 7 min
Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There
I don't mean to denigrate Biden in particular with that clip. It could have been Hillary-- who's a much worse lobbyist patsy-- or Mitch...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
It Takes Decency, Courage & Determination For Justice To Triumph-- Just Ask Lucas Kunce
I saw the Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, a decade ago but I watched it again last night. What a movie! Jamie Foxx was...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
When We Have Dems Fighting Climate Crisis Amelioration, Who Needs Republicans?
Yesterday 7 Texas Democrats shot another a arrow into hopes that the reconciliation bill would begin to deal seriously with the climate...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 9, 2021
- 6 min
The Fight Over Reconciliation Isn't About Policy... It's About Money-- Who Will Pay?
If it's beginning to dawn on the Washington Post's "Power Up" reporter, Jacqueline Alemany, perhaps the rest of the Beltway media is...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 8, 2021
- 4 min
Think Democratic Corruption Is Less Egregious Than Republican Corruption? Meet Tony!
If you missed yesterday's post on corruption, you should go back and read it. It's pretty much impossible to understand American politics...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 11, 2021
- 5 min
Corrupt Conservatives Will Do Anything To Keep Rigged Tax System In Place
All that wailing and gnashing and rending from Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and Josh Gottheimer and the other conservative Dems in...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 4, 2021
- 7 min
The Democratic Establishment Beat Nina But Cori Bush Took Them To The Cleaners Over Evictions
The Democratic base was majorly pissed off at the ugly little game Biden and Pelosi played with the expiration of the eviction ban,...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 17, 2021
- 6 min
Regardless Of Party, Do You Trust Members Of Congress Enough To Let Them Have Earmarks Again?
Every member of Congress I've discussed the reemergence of earmarks with is very enthusiastic-- and in theory, it sounds like a decent...
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- Nov 12, 2020
- 6 min
Trump Is Too Low A Bar To Measure Anything... Ever. Biden Needs To Measure Himself Against FDR
Except for the friends who didn't vote, I'm the only one of my friends who did vote for Biden. I didn't argue with them or criticize them...
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