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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 23
- 4 min
Mike Pence Previews His Platform On CNBC: Austerity For Us, Billions For Wall Street
So Mike Pence wants to run in the Privatize Social Security lane. He’s now publicly embracing his old austeritarian self— the opposite...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 19
- 6 min
Reactionary Republicans— The Old Country Club Variety— Have Grabbed The Third Rail And Can’t Let Go
Biden And Trump will Eat Them Alive Neither Trump nor Biden has clean hands when it comes to Social Security. Trump is an inveterate liar...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 16
- 5 min
Congressional Republicans Are Not Unified Around Policies-- Just A Naked Lust For Power
The Neo-Fascist Wing Has Wrecked The Party Agenda Aside from Hunter Biden’s laptop, do the House Republicans have any agenda— something...
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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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Howie Klein
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Trump Demonizes House Republicans For Plans To Cut Social Security And Medicare Benefits
Tongue planted firmly in cheek this morning, Catherine Rampell wrote that “Researchers have identified a previously unknown species in...
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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
- Oct 16, 2022
- 6 min
Healthy, Wealthy And Wise-- Ro Khanna & Mark Pocan Have An Idea
Yesterday I got a letter from the Medicare administration folks and you can see part of it above. I’m a huge Medicare supporter and I...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 22, 2022
- 5 min
The MAGA Kiss Of Death Is Beginning To Kick In All Over The Senate Map-- NH & AZ Are Already Lost
Trump’s shady Save America PAC raised almost $100 million so far this cycle and, by law— not that Trump has ever cared about any laws—...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 26, 2022
- 3 min
How Will Big PhRMA And The GOP Fight Back Against Lower Drug Prices?
By Flooding The Airwaves With Twisted Ads Piyush Jindal (AKA- “Bobby”) served as governor of Louisiana from January, 2008 to January,...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 4, 2022
- 6 min
Dems Must Embrace Progressivism The Way The GOP Embraces Conservatism Or Lose... Bigly
Democratic Candidates Have To Come Out Against What Biden Is Doing To Medicare Or Catch His Cooties I was in the middle of researching a...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 9, 2022
- 5 min
Conservatives Have Come Up With A New Way Of Ruining Your Life: DCEs
Earlier today, you may have read, once again, about how Manchin was never serious about allowing Build Back Better to pass once he...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 3, 2021
- 10 min
Progressives-- And The American People-- Want To Expand Medicare; Conservatives Want To Privatize It
Trump moved forward with a pilot program that would lead to privatizing Medicare. Shockingly, the Biden administration has continued it....
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Howie Klein
- Sep 15, 2021
- 3 min
Conservatives In Congress Fight To Impose Their Own Will On The American Public
Yesterday, we took a look at how some of the paid-off corrupt Democrats in Congress are slyly working to undermine Biden's domestic...
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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
- Apr 27, 2021
- 5 min
The Public Likes Biden's Quiet Lurch Left... and So Does The Stock Market!
Remember when Trump kept predicting/threatening that the stock market would crash if he wasn't reelected? That was another bout of...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 27, 2021
- 4 min
It's Saturday & The First Day Of Passover & Bernie Is My Hero
Manchin-- whose wife is getting appointed to a regional development sinecure-- is all gung-ho going big on the infrastructure bill,...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 19, 2021
- 6 min
Why We Can't Have Nice Things-- Plus The Demise Of The Lincoln Project
I've told this story before but let me mention again that as the president of a Time Warner division, I was contactually entitled to the...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 24, 2020
- 7 min
How Stupid Do You Have To Be?
Medicare sent out an e-mail this morning warning that "As the country begins to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, there's no doubt scammers...
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