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Yesterday, Democrat Joe Manchin, Working With The Senate GOP, Doomed Humanity
It's Too Late To Contribute To Paula Jean Now, But... The last time he faced the voters, November 2018, Joe Manchin has a rough time and...
Howie Klein
Jul 15, 20226 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Jul 13, 20226 min read
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A Different Vision From The Manchin-Biden Perspective-- Read Ro Khanna's New Book Yet?
This morning the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Andrew Duehren and Richard Rubin about how Manchin may include a few scraps of...
Howie Klein
May 28, 20226 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
May 19, 20223 min read
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Is What Democrats In Congress Feel Now Righteous Indignation? Or Hypocrisy?
I received a few fundraising e-mails yesterday from Democratic members of Congress-- starting with Chuck Schumer-- asking for...
Howie Klein
May 12, 20223 min read
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A Roiling Conservative Mess: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Maria Salazar is a Miami-Dade freshman who was formerly a TV anchor. And she's really, really dumb... and loyal to McCarthy. She managed...
Howie Klein
Apr 30, 20228 min read
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Is Manchin Just A Convenient Excuse For Biden?
In 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) faced off against conservative Democrat Al Smith in a lesser-of-two-evils presidential election. Hoover...
Howie Klein
Apr 26, 20228 min read
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We Need To Enlarge The Squad-- Axios Predicts That Will Happen
Earlier this evening we saw that Biden had endorsed Kurt Schrader, the Oregon Blue in danger of losing his seat because... he votes...
Howie Klein
Apr 25, 20225 min read
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Manchin's Not Going To Do Anything To Help The Dems. Will... Mitt Romney?
Michelle Cottle, a member of the NY Times' editorial board doesn't have much faith in Joe Manchin coming to the rescue of the Democratic...
Howie Klein
Apr 6, 20224 min read
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The Midterm Fate Of The Democratic Party Rests With Its Corrupt Republican Wing
Without many tangible accomplishments, many voters who could be reasonably expected to vote blue in the midterms will probably stay home...
Howie Klein
Apr 4, 20224 min read
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The Anti-Union, Anti-Working Class Wing Of The Democratic Party Fits Nicely With The GOP
Depending on how you measure it, it's pretty much true that any Democrat is better than any Republican, even if just a bit better. That...
Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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The Inextricable Manchin Problem... And The Agony Of The FDR Wing Of The Democratic Party
Desolation Row Manchin vetoed Biden's modest plan to require billionaires to pay a small minimum tax. While a a progressive tax plan...
Howie Klein
Mar 30, 20225 min read
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Build Back Better Again? Not If Joe Manchin Is The Decider
Although that was Joe Biden stumbling through his first State of the Union address last night, it could have almost been Joe Manchin....
Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20224 min read
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Joe Manchin Is Always Out To Screw West Virginia Voters-- and The Rest Of Us Too
I hope that no one mistakes that statement by Manchin as something remotely progressive. It isn't. Voters overwhelmingly want the rich to...
Howie Klein
Feb 11, 20223 min read
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Bernie, On Behalf Of The American People vs The GOP (+Manchin And Sinema)
Neither Republicans nor Democrats-- and Democrats are usually even worse on this than the Republicans-- want the voters to take what...
Howie Klein
Jan 28, 20224 min read
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In Defense Of Chuck Schumer
AKA- Little Chucky Schmucky I'm going to guess that no one reading this has disliked Chuck Schumer longer than I have. Before you...
Howie Klein
Jan 25, 20227 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Kathryn Harris's New Friends Manchin & Sinema
by Noah Jim Crow not only lives, it's getting stronger every damn day as the Republicans clap and cheer; the Tinkerbell effect in full...
Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20223 min read
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The Democrats May Suck, But The GOP Is The Party Of Dysfunction, Perfidy, Anomie & Violence
Washington Post reporters Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett broke the news today that the Department of Justice has a new unit to address...
Howie Klein
Jan 12, 20226 min read
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Self-Serving Corruption Is Not A Partisan Issue: Ron Johnson (R) & Joe Manchin (D) Are The Worst
Wisconsin may well be the most flippable Republican-held Senate seat. Extremist Ron Johnson broke his own promise to serve just 12 years...
Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20228 min read
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The Frustration For Democrats Around Election Protection And The Jim Crow Filibuster
It's mostly theater but Schumer sent a letter to the Senate Democratic caucus today telling his colleagues that if the Republicans...
Howie Klein
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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