MAGA Mike Flops— Ted Lieu: "The Training Wheels Fell Off For GOP Leadership”
Ready for a government shutdown at the end of the week? It’s what Trump and his campaign operatives adamantly want and what a great many...
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Howie Klein
Nov 10, 20236 min read
A Pair Of Louisiana Reactionaries Are Steering The Country Towards A Government Shutdown Next Week
MAGA Mike & Scalise Are In Safe Gerrymandered Districts This Bloomberg headline yesterday was, in part, misleading: House Speaker Johnson...
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Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Adam Kinzinger vs A Republican Party Wedded To Authoritarianism
The first I remember ever writing about Adam Kinzinger was when then-closet case Aaron Schock was signaling his heart was all aflutter in...
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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, 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 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 15, 20233 min read
There Are No Good Republicans In Congress-- But There Certainly Are Plenty Of Bad Democrats There
In case you couldn’t guess that an Atlantic column by Tom Nichols, titled The Source of America’s Political Chaos was about Señor...
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Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20232 min read
"Let's Make America Florida?" Hard Pass On That One... How About If We Make Florida More American?
Partially because of gerrymandering, Florida has a huge bloc of Republican members of Congress— 20 of them to just 8 Democrats. Almost...
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Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20234 min read
Chaos Is Trump's Brand-- And Therefor The Republican Party's Brand
Dysfunction Defines The GOP: "Abnormal, Unhealthy Interpersonal Interaction Within A Group" What will the Republican Party dysfunction...
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Howie Klein
Jul 12, 20235 min read
What A Bunch Of Freaks! And I Mean The Ones Who Vote For Them!
Yesterday, Traitor Greene went whining to McCarthy that the “Freedom” Caucus “drama club” had kicked her ass and it was hurting her...
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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
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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