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Howie Klein
- Jan 24
- 4 min
Great News On The Blue Dog Front— Terminal Disarray
The Corrupt Conservative Caucus Just Fell Apart Members of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party— the Blue Dogs— aren’t overtly...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 13, 2022
- 6 min
Gottheimer Mobilizing The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Against Fair Taxes For The Rich
The title of Jonathan Chait’s column in New York Magazine today sounds like a DWT post: Josh Gottheimer Is on a Mission to Destroy Joe...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 10, 2022
- 5 min
The Democratic Party Will Be Even Worse Off When It's Rid Of Biden
The word I kept hearing on the radio every time there was an item about Biden’s too-little-too-late half-assed attempt to pretend he kind...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 5, 2022
- 7 min
It's Fine That The Conservative Dems Are Vanishing-- But They're Wrecking the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party Is Self-Destructing At The Worst Possible Time Yesterday, if you got past my reminiscences about my early...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 13, 2022
- 8 min
Liz Cheney For President? Give Me A Break
On Friday, during an interview with the Fox affiliate in L.A., Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco, said there was nothing...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 6, 2022
- 9 min
How Bill Clinton Wrecked The Democratic Party As A Legitimate Vehicle Of The Working Class
The New Dems-- The Anti-FDR Wing Of The Party Even if neoliberalism still drives much of the Democratic Party establishment, you may have...
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Howie Klein
- May 23, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Howie Klein
- May 17, 2022
- 8 min
Polls Are Open And Today Biden & Pelosi Are Doing More To Hurt Progressivism Than Trump Is
We ran through the big races yesterday. I was so busy that I forgot to mention Alexandra Hunt in Philly and Matt West in the crowded new...
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Howie Klein
- May 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Blue Dogs Are Trying To Sell Some Especially Heinous Candidates This Cycle-- Aided By The DCCC
On Friday the Wall Street Journal covered the Oregon congressional primary pitting conservative Blue Dog incumbent Kurt Schrader against...
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Howie Klein
- May 12, 2022
- 6 min
It’s Fear That Cripples The Democratic Party-- Fear Of Our Policies, Fear Of Who We Are...
"Somehow, in my lifetime, the Democrats have gone from being the party of the factory floor to the party of the faculty lounge." -Paul...
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Howie Klein
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Pelosi & Her Cronies Are Pro-Choice-- Except When It's Politically Inconvenient (Henry Cuellar)
Yesterday and today, as everyone in the country talks about the Supreme Court anti-Choice leak, Pelosi and Clyburn have been in south...
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Howie Klein
- May 2, 2022
- 4 min
Will Democrats Choose To Go Softly Into The Night?
It was a different Barbara Ellis who Dick Clark introduced in the clip above (1959). The Fleetwood' song made it to #1 but Ellis went on...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 25, 2022
- 5 min
We Need To Enlarge The Squad-- Axios Predicts That Will Happen
Earlier this evening we saw that Biden had endorsed Kurt Schrader, the Oregon Blue in danger of losing his seat because... he votes...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 24, 2022
- 6 min
Is Utah The Template For The End Of The Democratic Party?
Is Being Anti-Trump Enough? When Bernie ran for president in 2016, he beat Hillary in every single county, mostly in landslides. Of...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 11, 2022
- 4 min
The Democrats' Messaging Problem Is Just A Symptom For What Ails The Party
When a party controls the White House, Senate and House, there is only one pair of messages voters want to hear: this is what we did for...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 8, 2022
- 9 min
Would Messaging Discipline Help The Democrats' Midterm Efforts? Or Is It Too Late?
The surly mood in the country right now is so anti-Democrat, that Republicans don't even have to hide who they are-- which they usually...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
Bernie: "We Have An Oligarchy In This Country And We Might Want to Be Focusing On That As Well"
Because establishment Democrats made the conscious decision to move the Democratic Party away from the wildly popular and successful FDR...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Midterm Fate Of The Democratic Party Rests With Its Corrupt Republican Wing
Without many tangible accomplishments, many voters who could be reasonably expected to vote blue in the midterms will probably stay home...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
The Anti-Union, Anti-Working Class Wing Of The Democratic Party Fits Nicely With The GOP
Depending on how you measure it, it's pretty much true that any Democrat is better than any Republican, even if just a bit better. That...
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