Howie KleinJun 138 minLiz Cheney For President? Give Me A BreakOn Friday, during an interview with the Fox affiliate in L.A., Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco, said there was nothing...
Howie KleinJun 69 minHow Bill Clinton Wrecked The Democratic Party As A Legitimate Vehicle Of The Working ClassThe New Dems-- The Anti-FDR Wing Of The Party Even if neoliberalism still drives much of the Democratic Party establishment, you may have...
Howie KleinMay 236 minThe Democrats As A Party Is Checked Out-- Fortunately For Them, Some Viable Candidates Run As DemsYesterday, we looked briefly at the viciously contested Republican primaries coming up tomorrow in Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama. The...
Howie KleinMay 178 minPolls Are Open And Today Biden & Pelosi Are Doing More To Hurt Progressivism Than Trump IsWe 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...
Howie KleinMay 154 minThe Blue Dogs Are Trying To Sell Some Especially Heinous Candidates This Cycle-- Aided By The DCCCOn Friday the Wall Street Journal covered the Oregon congressional primary pitting conservative Blue Dog incumbent Kurt Schrader against...
Howie KleinMay 126 minIt’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...
Howie KleinMay 42 minPelosi & 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...
Howie KleinMay 34 minWill 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...
Howie KleinApr 265 minWe Need To Enlarge The Squad-- Axios Predicts That Will HappenEarlier this evening we saw that Biden had endorsed Kurt Schrader, the Oregon Blue in danger of losing his seat because... he votes...
Howie KleinApr 246 minIs 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...
Howie KleinApr 114 minThe Democrats' Messaging Problem Is Just A Symptom For What Ails The PartyWhen 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...
Howie KleinApr 89 minWould 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...
Howie KleinApr 53 minBernie: "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...
Howie KleinApr 44 minThe Midterm Fate Of The Democratic Party Rests With Its Corrupt Republican WingWithout many tangible accomplishments, many voters who could be reasonably expected to vote blue in the midterms will probably stay home...
Howie KleinMar 313 minThe Anti-Union, Anti-Working Class Wing Of The Democratic Party Fits Nicely With The GOPDepending 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...
Howie KleinMar 2811 minThe Democratic Party-- What Is It Good For, Part IIYesterday, Democracy published an important essay about the Democratic Party by Sarah Miller and Faiz Shakir, The Democrats' Progress....
Howie KleinMar 263 minAs Long As Congress Tolerates Bribery, Drug Prices Will Remain Outrageously HighRepublicans and the Blue Dog, New Dems and corporate whores from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and their allies in the...
Howie KleinMar 202 minDoug Schoen, Still Pretending To Be A Democrat If there was a dictionary definition of "conservative treacherous scumbag lobbyist," the photo would be of Doug Schoen. Usually referred...
Howie KleinFeb 274 minPulling The Democratic Party Right-- Prevention Is A Battle Worth Fighting All the regular suspects are inundating the media with "news" items about how the only way for Democrats to win is by turning right and...
Howie KleinJan 176 minAny Blue Will Do? No... Especially Not During Primary SeasonA case can be made that there are worse Democrats in the House than corrupt Oregon reactionary Kurt Schrader, a prominent Blue Dog. But...