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Howie Klein
Oct 25, 20236 min read
The Most Dysfunctional Political Party Since The Whigs Broke Up In 1856, Has Failed At Everything
Trump Has Wrecked The GOP Entirely According to Forbes, conservative Democrat Dean Phillips (New Dem-MN), heir to the Phillips Distilling...
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Howie Klein
Oct 24, 20234 min read
Will The Republicans Really Get Serious And Pick A Speaker Today? Don't Bet The House On It
Exactly 3 weeks to the day in the chaotic GOP speaker-less dysfunctional House… the kind of nihilism that Trump thrives on. From Trump’s...
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Howie Klein
Oct 22, 20234 min read
The Coverage Of The Speaker Candidates Is Incredibly Bad— Take Tom Emmer (R-MN) For Example
The Media Is Hushing Up Emmer's Crypto-Corruption On Friday, when McCarthy was asked by a CNN reporter if the GOP conference is “broken,”...
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Howie Klein
Oct 22, 202310 min read
Fascists And MAGAts Love Matt Gaetz— Everyone Else Wants to Punch Him Out
Everyone in Washington pretty much thinks of Nancy Mace (R-SC) the same way— an opportunistic careerist, unanchored by any semblance of...
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Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20235 min read
Why Don't They Just Bring Back McCarthy And Tell Gaetz If He Votes Against Him, He's Dead?
Last night, Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan and Mica Soellner brought everybody up to date on the GOP speaker catastrophe, reporting, for...
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Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20231 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! The Speakership: Ohio's Jordan Still In The Running But...
by Noah We don't know exactly how the naming of a new speaker will run its course. Just as I sat down to write this, the plan to have...
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Howie Klein
Oct 19, 20235 min read
How Much Longer Will Gym Jordan Keep Denying He Lost The Speaker Election?
Does He Really Think He Can Wear Down The Opposition? Gym Jordan’s colleagues turned him down again. Yesterday, on ballot #2 he did even...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
11 Of California's 12 Republican Members Of Congress Voted For Jordan Yesterday-- Are They Crazy?
Last Sunday, when Jake Tapper asked Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw— who wasn’t one of the 139 House Republicans who tried to overturn the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Is Gym Jordan Toast-- He Needs To Do A Lot Better Today... Or He's Screwed
Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...
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Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20233 min read
It Didn't Take Much Arm-Twisting By The Fascists To Flip The GOP Holdouts, Did It? It Never Does
Ready For Speaker Jordan? As part of his… um, charm offensive, Gym Jordan promised a handful of Republicans who were reluctant to vote...
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Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20237 min read
Are There 5 Republicans With The Intestinal Fortitude To Save America From A Speaker Gym Jordan?
Is A Bipartisan House A Real Option? Brent Larkin was editorial director of the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1991 until he retired in...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20234 min read
Of The 55 House Republicans Who Cast Secret Ballots Against Jordan, How Many Can Resist Bullying?
Not Many Gym Jordan had enough votes in a secret ballot meeting of the House GOP conference to win the Republican nomination for the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 14, 20233 min read
And The Dysfunctional GOP-Led House Went Home For The Weekend, Unable To Do Anything At All
Legislative terrorist Gym Jordan, who hasn’t passed a single bill in his 16 years in Congress, can only afford to lose 5 votes to win the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 14, 20236 min read
Trump Has Ruined The Republican Party-- And He's Not Done Yet
Blame The Wreck In The House On Trump The title of John Harris’ essay yesterday— Trump Watches While His Party Implodes— uses the word...
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Howie Klein
Oct 13, 20239 min read
Steve Scalise Withdrew From The Speakers Race Last Night, Thowing The GOP Conference Into More Chaos
Troy Nehls (R-TX): “We are a broken conference” Most people are busy with their own lives, too harried to think much about what's...
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Howie Klein
Oct 12, 20236 min read
Speaker Scalise? Is That The Same As Speaker David Duke (Without The Baggage)?
Trump Failed To Deliver In a giant slap in the face to Trump, House Republicans rejected his candidate for Speaker. Depending how you...
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Howie Klein
Oct 10, 20238 min read
Gym Jordan Has Been Plotting To Be Speaker For Years-- Will The OSU Wrestling Scandal Prevent That?
On Monday, the Punchbowl crew reported that McCarthy and his allies are looking at an opportunity— GOP dysfunction + the mess in Israel—...
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Howie Klein
Oct 9, 20234 min read
You Can Count On This: In The House GOP Fever Swamp, The Fever Is Not Going To Break
Over the weekend, campaigning in Iowa, Mike Pence “tore into Donald Trump and pointed to isolationism in the Republican Party as...
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Howie Klein
Oct 9, 20237 min read
Entropy & Disarray Plague The GOP’s Tiny, Fractious Majority-- Virginia Voters Are Watching
Don’t Expect Even Any Relatively Mainstream Conservatives To Act Like An Adult The Virginia legislative elections a month from tomorrow...
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