Sometimes A Democrat Is So Terrible, Theyâre Not The Lesser Evilâ An Equal Evil⌠Meet John Avlon
Dick Durbin isnât going to be running for reelection in 2026, when heâll be 82. Heâs been in Congress since 1983; heâs earned a rest....
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Howie Klein
Mar 216 min read
House Republicans Want To Make The Nov Election About Raising The Retirement Ageâ 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. Heâs 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 Chaitâs column on how Trump is using DeSantisâ 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. Heâs now publicly embracing his old austeritarian selfâ the opposite...
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Howie Klein
Feb 19, 20236 min read
Reactionary Republicansâ The Old Country Club Varietyâ Have Grabbed The Third Rail And Canât 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 Bidenâs laptop, do the House Republicans have any agendaâ 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 âResearchers 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 âreformâ 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. Iâm 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
Trumpâs shady Save America PAC raised almost $100 million so far this cycle and, by lawâ not that Trump has ever cared about any lawsâ...
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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- âBobbyâ) served as governor of Louisiana from January, 2008 to January,...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20226 min read
Dems Must Embrace Progressivism The Way The GOP Embraces Conservatism Or Lose... Bigly
Democratic Candidates Have To Come Out Against What Biden Is Doing To Medicare Or Catch His Cooties I was in the middle of researching a...
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Howie Klein
Jan 9, 20225 min read
Conservatives Have Come Up With A New Way Of Ruining Your Life: DCEs
Earlier today, you may have read, once again, about how Manchin was never serious about allowing Build Back Better to pass once he...
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Howie Klein
Dec 3, 202110 min read
Progressives-- And The American People-- Want To Expand Medicare; Conservatives Want To Privatize It
Trump moved forward with a pilot program that would lead to privatizing Medicare. Shockingly, the Biden administration has continued it....
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