What's Worse, The Senate, The Supreme Court, The Drug Companies Or The Republican Party?
"All Of The Above" Is Not Allowed This Time Senate rules are arcane, serpentine and, most of all, outmoded and anti-democratic. From the...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 12
- 5 min
Trump's Ubiquitous Presence As The Face Of GOP Politics Is Dooming Their Candidates Again
The Tufts Public Opinion Lab is dedicated to studying contemporary controversies in American public opinion using quantitative data...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
NY Senator Chuck Schumer (D) Prepares to Make Global Warming Warmer
Yesterday, the American Petroleum Institute finally finished its 2022 91 page fossil fuel bill for Schumer and Manchin. It’s as bad as...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
There Are Always Excuses For Progressives To Behave Like Corrupt Conservatives
Climate Progress Is At Stake-- Let's See Who Gives A Damn When Blue America first started in 2006, we would ask candidates for the House...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
What Does Chuck Schumer Really Think Of The LGBTQ Community?
This afternoon, Schumer let Republicans off the hook and screwed over the LGBTQ community by delaying the marriage equality vote until...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 13, 2022
- 9 min
Someone Needs To Tell The DCCC & DSCC That It's Always Better To Be Wise Than To Be Smart
Technically AIPAC and DMFI are not part of the Republican Party. Technically. But almost all the money they spend on political...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 12, 2022
- 7 min
Members Of Congress Have An Opportunity To Make The Climate Crisis Even Worse. Let's See Who Does
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been eager to see the names of the members of the House who have signed onto Raul Grijalva’s letter to...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 10, 2022
- 4 min
Would You Clam On A Member Of Congress If There Was A Good Reason To?
New rule: any member of Congress who votes for the Manchin-Schumer deal to increase global warming can’t ever call themselves a...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Today Is Bernie’s Birthday. Here’s The Latest Reason All Of Mankind Should Be Celebrating
This morning we looked at Chuck Schumer’s repulsive, closed door “side deal” with Joe Manchin. Are there any progressives— I mean real...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Chuck Schumer’s Got His Head Up Joe Manchin’s Ass
Which House Dems Will Stand Firm Against Climate Catastrophe? Do “progressives” have the guts to block Joe Manchin’s proposal to make it...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 10, 2022
- 7 min
Kyrsten Sinema-- Chuck Schumer's Frankenstein Monster
I can’t say I know Kyrsten Sinema well, but probably better than you do. About a dozen years ago, when she was still serving in the...
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Thomas Neuburger
- Aug 9, 2022
- 3 min
The Reality of the Democratic Drug Price 'Victory'
On the victory that's not a victory
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Howie Klein
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Out Of Control Monopolies Like Google & Amazon Sure Know How To Control Schumer, Pelosi & Hoyer
This morning John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman had a quick couple of paragraphs for Punchbowl News about presidential hopeful Amy...
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Howie Klein
- May 25, 2022
- 7 min
Schumer, Demonstrating Utter Democratic Party Fecklessness, Quickly Changed His Mind On A Gun Vote
Just before the latest NRA-GOP massacre of school children-- the one in Uvalde-- Morning Consult did a poll for Politico that asked...
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Howie Klein
- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
Is What Democrats In Congress Feel Now Righteous Indignation? Or Hypocrisy?
I received a few fundraising e-mails yesterday from Democratic members of Congress-- starting with Chuck Schumer-- asking for...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 25, 2022
- 7 min
In Defense Of Chuck Schumer
AKA- Little Chucky Schmucky I'm going to guess that no one reading this has disliked Chuck Schumer longer than I have. Before you...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 20, 2022
- 5 min
EMILY's List Brought Us Kyrsten Sinema. Now They Have Someone Just As Bad In Mind Now
2018 was shaping up to be a blue wave-- and it did turn out that way, the Dems flipping 42 Republican House seats. 60,572,245 voters...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 13, 2022
- 4 min
Who's Worse-- Sinema Or Manchin? And Tell Me Today Why Any Blue Will Do (No, Don't)
The votes were barely tabulated and announced this morning before Mondaire Jones didn't let his Westchester and Rockland County...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 10, 2022
- 6 min
2 Strategies For Winning The Midterms-- Democrats Need BOTH, Not One Or The Others
In his NY Times column today, Ezra Klein used Tufts political scientist Eitan Hersh to define "real political work"-- as opposed to...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 3, 2022
- 4 min
The Frustration For Democrats Around Election Protection And The Jim Crow Filibuster
It's mostly theater but Schumer sent a letter to the Senate Democratic caucus today telling his colleagues that if the Republicans...
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