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All Through American History, Conservatives Have Always Been About Treason-- And Now More Than Ever
I didn’t read Dana Milbank’s new book, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party, yet, but I plan to....

Howie Klein
Aug 16, 20224 min read
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Let's Face It: The Democrats Have Nothing Going For Them Other Than How Bad The Alternative Is
The juice of a carrot, the smile of a parrot A little drop of claret, anything that rocks Dan Pfeiffer wrote this morning that optimism...

Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20225 min read
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GOP Candidates Are On The Record With Extreme Positions So Spin Doctors May Be Of Limited Help Now
The point of Jonathan Weismann’s and Katie Glueck’s NY Times report this morning about GOP tap dancing around the abortion issue, is that...

Howie Klein
Aug 5, 20224 min read
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Voters May Decide The Democrats Are The Lesser Evil In The November Elections After All
Yesterday, we saw that House Democrats passed a very popular assault weapons ban that only 2 Republicans could bring themselves to vote...

Howie Klein
Jul 31, 20226 min read
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This Year’s Republican Candidates Have An Extremism Problem, Part II (Trump)
Earlier we looked at how scared Republican operatives are that the anti-Choice mania infecting their party is going to hurt their...

Howie Klein
Jul 16, 20225 min read
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How Bad Does A Party Have To Be To Get Beaten By Terrible, Treacherous, Treasonous Republicans?
I doubt anyone who reads DWT with any kind of regularity would disagree with the premise that, in Robert Reich’s words, the Republican...

Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20225 min read
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Karl Rove Begs Republicans To Keep Quiet & Pretend They're Sane Before The Midterm Elections
Mississippi has the highest infant mortality and teen birth rates in the U.S. Last night the last abortion clinic in the state closed its...

Howie Klein
Jul 7, 20224 min read
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The Republicans Just Screwed America... Will The Voters Screw Them Right Back In November?
There's No Way To Make The 6 Evil Justices Pay... But There Is A Way To Get Even-- Defeat The People Who Put Them On The Bench Let’s...

Howie Klein
Jun 27, 20226 min read
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Democratic Elected Officials Tell The Base What's Possible, The Opposite Of How MAGA-World Works
On Friday, writing for The Lever, David Sirota noted that “If Democratic base constituencies— college-educated white collars, communities...

Howie Klein
Jun 26, 202210 min read
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The SCOTUS Decision To Overturn Roe Is Expected To Help The Dems In November-- But Not By Too Much
That Could Be A Big Deal In The Senate, Not SO Much In The House There are states, primarily socially backward ones, where a Republican...

Howie Klein
Jun 26, 20225 min read
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Bernie-- Amos Of These Times. But Who's Pecker, Trump, Jr.? Ron DeSantis? Some Other MAGA Monster?
Some people may see Bernie in terms of an Old Testament prophet, say Amos or Micah. Amos was active about 7 centuries before Christ and...

Howie Klein
Jun 17, 20227 min read
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Progressives May Have The Solutions, But The Corporate Democratic Party? Don't Make Me Laugh
"You really can’t win an election with a bumper sticker that says: 'Well, we can’t do much, but the other side is worse.'" -Bernie...

Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20226 min read
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The Republican Civil War May Be Scary, But Will That Be Enough For Democrats To Save Themselves?
There's been quite a bit of talk lately about how next time the far right tries a coup, they'll be better prepared and... successful....

Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20226 min read
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Is Funding Anti-Semitism The Same As BEING An Anti-Semite? I Wonder What AIPAC Says
When I first heard of AIPAC, in the late 1960s, it was a non-partisan group that seemed to lean heavily towards the Democrats. A lot has...

Howie Klein
May 26, 20224 min read
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A Reactionary Supreme Court Allows Politicians To Sell The Country For Contributions... So They Do
Is Sam Bankman-Fried America's Public Enemy #1? Crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried wants to do good with the 20 or so billion dollars...

Howie Klein
May 24, 20224 min read
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The Democrats As A Party Is Checked Out-- Fortunately For Them, Some Viable Candidates Run As Dems
Yesterday, we looked briefly at the viciously contested Republican primaries coming up tomorrow in Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama. The...

Howie Klein
May 23, 20226 min read
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"Mo Brooks Is The Least Woke Person In The State Of Alabama"
The still undecided multi-candidate Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary may not have had a best choice but it certainly had a worst...

Howie Klein
May 22, 20227 min read
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Trump's Carnival Freak Show Comes To Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan & Ohio
And They Want To Take Away Your Rights About a week we talked about how lucky Josh Shapiro is to have gotten Trump-backed psychopath Doug...

Howie Klein
May 20, 20223 min read
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Idaho Went Nazi On Tuesday-- But The Mainstream Media Is Ignoring It
Many Americans have all but given up on Idaho. At this point, the state seems more likely to secede than Mississippi or Alabama do....

Howie Klein
May 19, 20224 min read
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Conservatives-- From Both Parties-- Keep Anything From Happening... Even An End To Gas Price Gouging
In his column for New York Magazine this morning, Jonathan Chait asked if the feckless Democrats are already giving up and just ceding...

Howie Klein
May 19, 20223 min read
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