I Keep Reading About A Bipartisan Tax Resolution That Would Extend The Child Tax Credit
The Republicans Are Going To Agree To Something Good For Poor People? Yesterday, in a statement, Erica Payne, president of the Patriotic...
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Patrick Toomey
Jun 6, 20233 min read
Democratic Progressives Are Charlie Brown And The Party Is Lucy
-by Patrick Toomey Occasionally, one cartoon can summarize a long history of events. This Peanuts classic sums up, once again, how the...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20235 min read
Bipartisanship In Washington Means A Conservative Consensus Fueled By Corporate Money
Yesterday, Politico reported that "somehow, both McCarthy and Biden emerged from the potential economic debacle in better political...
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Howie Klein
Jun 1, 20236 min read
The McCarthy-Biden Turd Sandwich, Slathered In Fear Mongering & Overwrought Drama, Passed The House
Yesterday, before the House vote, Bernie tried to focus his supporters on what's really important, wroting that “Washington DC, with its...
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Howie Klein
May 31, 20235 min read
Ultimately, The Public Will Blame Biden, Not McCarthy, For The Turd Sandwich
Yesterday, I asked a friend with whom I'm planning a holiday in India, if she thinks we should rent a house in Delhi or stay in a hotel...
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Howie Klein
May 30, 20235 min read
Biden May Have To Deliver A Lot More Dems For His Humiliating Deal With McCarthy Than He Imagined
The Freedom Caucus vs McCarthy McCarthy’s message is simple: he owned the Democrats in the deal. The extremists in his conference aren’t...
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Howie Klein
May 28, 20235 min read
Conventional Wisdom On The Conservative Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal: It Could Have Been Worse
Let’s begin with a premise from professional moderate Matthew Yglesias: “The debt ceiling standoff itself has, as the White House itself...
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Howie Klein
May 24, 202310 min read
Hostage Crisis? Or Weak, Senile President Crisis?
Sure, McCarthy And Ricchetti Are Pieces Of Shit, But Biden's The Caitiff Default countdown— 8 days? Biden seems fine with caving to GOP...
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Howie Klein
May 21, 20234 min read
My Granddad Told Me There Was only One Thing Worse Than The Democratic Party-- The Republican Party
How Many Dems Will Refuse To Back Biden's Shitty Deal With The GOP? GOP crackpots— both nationally and in red states— are passing...
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Howie Klein
May 21, 20236 min read
Biden & McCarthy Will Both Tell Their Bases Their Hands Were Forced By The Default Cliff
Biden Alone Could Have Prevented That-- But Chose Not To The White House has been telling progressives to stop yammering about the 14th...
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Howie Klein
May 20, 20233 min read
Do The Freedom Caucus Nuts Want To Force A Default-- Or Are They Just Playing Poker Against America?
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Sinema is “more and more confident” of a deal to avert a US default. She told them that she’s...
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Howie Klein
May 18, 20239 min read
Biden Has Always Been Ready To Cave— The Question Is Only How Bad It Will Be
Biden appointed his most detestable aide, lobbyist and corporate whore Steve Ricchetti, to take charge of negotiating the final deal with...
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Howie Klein
May 17, 20235 min read
Would Conservative Dems Work With Non-Fascist Republicans To Keep McCarthy In The Speaker's Office?
Which conservative Democrats would actually vote to keep the speaker's gavel in Kevin McCarthy's hand? People in DC think they know who—...
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Howie Klein
May 10, 20235 min read
Who Will Save The Economy From The GOP's Plan To Push It Over The Fiscal Cliff?
Do Joe Biden And Hakeem Jeffries Have What It Takes? The other day, my friend Helen called to tell me how excited she was that Laurence...
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Howie Klein
Feb 22, 20227 min read
Governance Is About Compromise... But No One Has The Right To Compromise Away Someone's Life
Ever hear of the Corwin Amendment? I fancy myself a student of history and I never had until a member of Congress mentioned it to me...
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Howie Klein
Sep 24, 20214 min read
Don't Get Fooled Again
This morning, Blue America was one of over 150 progressive groups to send a letter to every single Democrat in the House-- from Pramila,...
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Howie Klein
Jun 27, 20215 min read
AOC Is Much Smarter Than Any Republican Who Was On The Sunday Talking Heads Shows Today
Was there ever any real doubt in your mind which side-- conservatives or progressives-- lifelong conservative Joe Biden would come down...
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Howie Klein
Jun 21, 20215 min read
Republicans Don't Negotiate In Good Faith Because They Want Everything To Fail Before The Midterms
There isn't a Republican or a Democratic position on Big Tech. That's why it seems so bipartisan. There will be lots of Democrats and...
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Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20213 min read
Everyone Wants Biden's Infrastructure Bill To Pass-- Except Republicans
In a new Morning Consult poll for Politico, released today, registered voters were asked whether or not they approve of Biden's $2.3...
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Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20217 min read
America's 2 Party System: Democrats Are A Largely Conservative Party & The GOP Has Turned Fascist
This morning, Dana Bash had AOC on State of the Union as her guest. Eager to lead her into an attack on conservative Democrats, Bash...
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