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Howie Klein
Apr 5, 20235 min read
No Labels-- Part of America's Political Heart Of Darkness
We’ve been covering the scumbag profiteers at No Labels since Nancy Jacobson started it as a meal ticket for herself and Mark Penn at the...
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Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20237 min read
Trump's Kiss Of Death For 2024 Will Be Even More Lethal For Republicans Than It Was Last Year!
The Indictment-- And More Jonathan Chait’s column on how Trump is using DeSantis’ record on Social Security and Medicare to destroy his...
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Howie Klein
Mar 14, 20237 min read
Some People Object To Using The Word "Fascist" To Describe The GOP, Trump & Meatball Ron
Branko Marcetic noted in his coverage of the SVB collapse and bailout that “The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by...
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Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20237 min read
The Debate Continues: Who Would Be More Destructive To Our Country— Trump Or DeSantis?
Yesterday, writing about CPAC for MSNBC, conservative #NeverTrumper Charlie Sykes declared that in the annual far right event that...
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Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20237 min read
America’s Authoritarian Future?
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meatball Ron’s book, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,...
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Howie Klein
Jan 13, 20238 min read
The Circus Has Come To Town— The 118th Congress’ First Two Bills
Protecting Rich Tax Cheats And Putting Abortion Doctors In Prison Trumpism rules in the 118th Congress. No one can deny it— although Paul...
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Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20227 min read
Even Republicans Hate Republicans... And There's Every Reason In The World That They Should
The Monmouth poll released this morning gaged favorability for the top congressional leaders, among other things. McConnell is easily the...
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Howie Klein
Dec 1, 202210 min read
MAGA: The GOP Totally Deserves The Worsening Plague Of Locusts It Is Living Through
If The Republican Party Had A Soul, It Would Be Trump Geoff Duncan, Georgia’s very conservative Republican Lt. Gov, stood on line for an...
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Howie Klein
Sep 11, 20226 min read
Jumping A Sinking Ship Doesn't Make A Rat A Hero: William Barr
Last week, Jonathan Chait noted that Trump and Barr’s Corruption of the Justice Department Was Worse Than We Knew. Hold that word “and”...
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Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20226 min read
The Mar-a-Lago Crime Scene
The GOP Is A Nation In Decline If I was a conspiracy theorist I might say that the whole FBI shebang at Mar-a-Lago yesterday— which the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 21, 20228 min read
Decades Ago, Marco Rubio & I Had The Same Job-- He Got Arrested For It But I Didn't
Republicans Are Obsessed With Homosexuality New York Magazine chose a photo of Marco Rubio for the top of Jonathan Chait’s column, Once...
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Howie Klein
Jul 13, 20226 min read
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 5, 20227 min read
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 29, 20224 min read
Today’s GOP Can’t Be Trusted With A Role In Governance. Part II
I spent most of yesterday at City of Hope. None of the doctors, nurses, aides or other staffers I ran into knew anything about the select...
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Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20226 min read
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....
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Howie Klein
May 19, 20223 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Apr 8, 20225 min read
The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party-- The Democrats Have A Big Tent, But Not That Big!
This isn't news to DWT readers, but yesterday Jonathan Chait told his readers that the GOP has a pro-Putin wing. He noted it is also a...
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Howie Klein
Jan 7, 20228 min read
Prediction: Trump Will Never Face A Firing Squad Or Hangman's Noose
Yesterday, CNN reported that a group of former Trump administration officials are banding together in an effort to block their former...
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Howie Klein
Dec 2, 20215 min read
Proponents of Fascism Don't Like Vaccinations
About 59% of Americans are fully vaccinated now, woefully low and certainly not even close to the 80% or so needed to stop the pandemic....
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Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20213 min read
Trump's 2024 Dream-- Him vs Kamala... And It Is Moving In That Direction
Vice President Manchin? There was a lot of buzz last night that Trump is getting serious about jumping into the presidential race sooner...
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