The Republican Conception Of Freedom Is Downright Orwellian
The Last Thing We Need Is Some Tin Pot Big Brother From Florida Yesterday we looked at what freedom means from the Democratic...
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Howie Klein
Mar 17, 20238 min read
The Republicans Can't Control Their Attachment To Unpopular Extremist Measures Their Donors Demand
Many Of Them Are Starting To Realize DeSantis Is Too Extreme Let’s start with 2 important, loosely related questions— Why is the GOP...
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Howie Klein
Mar 11, 20234 min read
If McCarthy Gives In To Freedom Caucus Demands To Cut Social Welfare Programs, Who Pays Politically?
First Victims Are Republicans Running For Senate Mike Gallagher is a shoe-in for reelection. The 8th district, in the northeast of the...
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Howie Klein
Mar 10, 20236 min read
The Congressional Far Right Just Admitted What Its Members Want To Do To America
This morning, the House Freedom Caucus— both the most extreme edge of the House GOP and the party’s trend-setters— demanded about $130...
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Howie Klein
Feb 13, 20236 min read
If You're Ever Asked To Name The 5 Most Fascist Members Of Congress, Don’t Forget Scott Perry (R-PA)
Corrupt Party Hack Hakeem Jeffries Backs Perry, Not America or Democracy I hope you’re not one of the people Salon referred to yesterday...
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Howie Klein
Jan 18, 20238 min read
Which Tragicomic Crook Do You Like Reading About More, Sam Bankman-Fried Or George Santos?
How About The Great Kitara? Yesterday, Ally Mutnick and Nick Wu noted that “Crypto-funded super PACs flooded the midterms with millions...
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Howie Klein
Jan 18, 20236 min read
McCarthy Is Doing Something He's Never Done Before: Keeping His Promises-- & They're Bad Promises
House Fascist Fringe Cashes In All that bad behavior on the part of the GOP’s fascist fringe… it sure paid off— in spades. A year ago,...
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Howie Klein
Jan 11, 20235 min read
The Case Of The Missing Secret Agreement— McCarthy’s 3 Vanishing Pages Of Promises
A couple of days ago— before the fascist fringe had wrung every last conceivable concession out of McCarthy— a progressive in the House...
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Howie Klein
Jan 8, 20235 min read
Marge In Charge?
Russell Berman’s column for The Atlantic yesterday, Speaker In Name Only, poses the question: what next? As you can probably guess, the...
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Howie Klein
Jan 5, 20237 min read
Republicans Hate Everything And Everyone-- Including Themselves; It's The Nature Of Conservatism
Nathaniel Banks won a congressional seat from Massachusetts as a Democrat in 1852. By 1854 he was reelected as a Know Nothing and was...
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Howie Klein
Dec 7, 20227 min read
Wonder What McCarthy Winds Up Conceding To The Neo-Nazis In His Conference For The Speaker’s Gavel?
Or Will Blue Dog Josh Gottheimer Be The King-Maker? Arizona fascist Andy Biggs knows he’s not going to be Speaker and he probably knows...
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Howie Klein
Dec 5, 20225 min read
Freedom Caucus Founder Matt Salmon Says To Expect Government Shutdowns
Matt Salmon is a lobbyist who served in Congress a couple of times and ran for higher office a couple of times, losing each time. His...
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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
Nov 30, 20224 min read
How Desperate Is McCarthy To Please The Freedom Caucus? Desperate Enough To Grow A Hitler Mustache?
Today, the anti-democratic House Democrats will sneak the most corrupt corporate leadership team into place, with no recorded vote. That...
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Howie Klein
Nov 17, 20227 min read
House Republicans Are In No Shape To Lead
Last night CA-27, in the northern suburbs of L.A. County, a district with a D+4 PVI, was called for Republican incumbent Mike Garcia,...
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Howie Klein
Nov 2, 20229 min read
You Enjoy Marjorie Traitor Greene & Boebert? Plenty More Nuts Just Like 'Em On The Way To Congress
Gang-Greene Set For Explosive Growth Earlier today we noted that some new polls are showing that white suburban women are trending...
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Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20229 min read
McCarthy Is NOT Going To Be Able To Control The “Legislative Terrorists” In The GOP House Caucus
Marjorie Traitor Greene and Matt Gaetz have been public and outspoken about a crucial dynamic the extremist Freedom Caucus expects in the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 22, 20228 min read
Building An Organization For A Fascist Takeover-- Right Under The Nose Of Biden's Pathetic DOJ
Before dawn this morning, Axios published a piece by Jonathan Swan about Señor Trumpanzee’s fantasy second term in which the federal...
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Howie Klein
Jun 28, 20223 min read
Today’s GOP Can’t Be Trusted With A Role In Governance, Any More Than The KKK Could
As we wait for former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson to further expose the fascist plot to overthrow the government— and make it...
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Howie Klein
Feb 27, 20223 min read
Will Trump Allow McCarthy To Become Speaker?
The DNC was tormenting Kevin McCarthy today. They sent out a press release that said "As Congress comes back into session Kevin...
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