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Howie Klein
7 hours ago4 min read
Drug Prices Were Coming Down— Señor T Put A Stop To That On His First Day Back In The Oval Office
How Long Before Trump’s Voters Start To Understand They’ve Been Had? It’s no longer a pending nightmare; as you know, Trump’s back in the...
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Howie Klein
Nov 25, 20246 min read
RFK Jr May Be The Anti-Vax Crackpot But It’s Dr. Oz Who Wants To Privatize Medicare
Will Trump Achieve The Longtime GOP Dream Of Privatizing Medicare? I don’t watch Fox, so I don’t know how good or bad Dr. Janette...
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Howie Klein
Nov 5, 20244 min read
If You Haven’t Voted Yet, Please Take A Look At These Clips Before You Do
Get Out Of My Bedroom, You Creep Progress Action Fund put up a strong series of ads this cycle. The two most recent and the most...
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Howie Klein
May 31, 20247 min read
Sometimes A Democrat Is So Terrible, They’re Not The Lesser Evil— An Equal Evil… Meet John Avlon
Dick Durbin isn’t going to be running for reelection in 2026, when he’ll be 82. He’s been in Congress since 1983; he’s earned a rest....
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Howie Klein
Mar 21, 20246 min read
House Republicans Want To Make The Nov Election About Raising The Retirement Age— Will Dems Fight?
Most GOP Members Just Grabbed The 3rd Rail Of American Politics Last week, I heard Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires,...
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Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20234 min read
MAGA-Mike Thinks Social Security & Medicare Is An Unfair Burden On Wealthy Americans
Who Will Stop The GOP From Eviscerating Those Programs? As DeSantis sees his chances of beating Trump fade away. He’s finally released as...
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Howie Klein
Jul 27, 20237 min read
Are Young Voters Finally Coming For The Republican Politicians Who Are Threatening Them?
New Data Is Very Bad News For The GOP The Harvard Youth Poll, which doesn't just poll Harvard students, shared some new data with Greg...
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Howie Klein
Apr 8, 20237 min read
McCarthy Needs Scapegoats For His Catastrophic Speakership-- Which Gets Worse By The Day
His Deal With The Fascists Is Coming Home To Roost Based on a new poll the AP commissioned, Amanda Seitz and Hannah Fingerhut reported...
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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 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
Feb 27, 20234 min read
Do They Really Want To Cut Social Security Benefits?
They Sure Do... Did You Vote For One Of Them? Progressives have proposed bills to protect and expand Social Security benefits by raising...
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Howie Klein
Feb 23, 20234 min read
Mike Pence Previews His Platform On CNBC: Austerity For Us, Billions For Wall Street
So Mike Pence wants to run in the Privatize Social Security lane. He’s now publicly embracing his old austeritarian self— the opposite...
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Howie Klein
Feb 19, 20236 min read
Reactionary Republicans— The Old Country Club Variety— Have Grabbed The Third Rail And Can’t Let Go
Biden And Trump will Eat Them Alive Neither Trump nor Biden has clean hands when it comes to Social Security. Trump is an inveterate liar...
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Howie Klein
Feb 16, 20235 min read
Congressional Republicans Are Not Unified Around Policies-- Just A Naked Lust For Power
The Neo-Fascist Wing Has Wrecked The Party Agenda Aside from Hunter Biden’s laptop, do the House Republicans have any agenda— something...
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Howie Klein
Feb 14, 20236 min read
Do GOP Politicians Really Want To Cut Social Security & Medicare Benefits? You Better Believe It!
Short of a goobers like Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and multimillionaire criminal Rick Scott (R-FL), even the most reactionary...
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Howie Klein
Jan 20, 20233 min read
Trump Demonizes House Republicans For Plans To Cut Social Security And Medicare Benefits
Tongue planted firmly in cheek this morning, Catherine Rampell wrote that “Researchers have identified a previously unknown species in...
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Howie Klein
Jan 20, 20233 min read
The French Have A Good Answer To Conservative Plans To Raise The Retirement Age-- General Strikes
Last night, Le Monde reported that over a million people took to the streets to protest the kind of pension “reform” that the Republicans...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20226 min read
Healthy, Wealthy And Wise-- Ro Khanna & Mark Pocan Have An Idea
Yesterday I got a letter from the Medicare administration folks and you can see part of it above. I’m a huge Medicare supporter and I...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20225 min read
The MAGA Kiss Of Death Is Beginning To Kick In All Over The Senate Map-- NH & AZ Are Already Lost
Trump’s shady Save America PAC raised almost $100 million so far this cycle and, by law— not that Trump has ever cared about any laws—...
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Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20223 min read
How Will Big PhRMA And The GOP Fight Back Against Lower Drug Prices?
By Flooding The Airwaves With Twisted Ads Piyush Jindal (AKA- “Bobby”) served as governor of Louisiana from January, 2008 to January,...
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