Lobbyists Don't Give Money To Politicians They LIKE-- They Give Money To People For Sale
The story of the fight to pass Biden's Build Back Better compromise-- which is good but could have been/should have been great-- can't be...
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Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20219 min read
Society Needs To Protect Itself From Political Violence, Terrorism And Anomie
Writing in the wee hours of the night, Jonathan Allen penned a piece for NBC yesterday, Bannon Fires Up 'Shock Troops' For Next GOP White...
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Howie Klein
Oct 2, 20214 min read
Many People Have Noticed That Josh Gottheimer's Modus Operandi Is As Slimy & Dishonest As Trump's
Pelosi staffers aren't supposed to talk to me, not even off the record. That doesn't stop all of them and a couple of weeks ago one...
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Howie Klein
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Prediction: If Dems Fail To Deliver Lower Drug Prices, They Will Lose Both Houses Next Year
Some of the issues Congress is grappling with are complicated enough that everything gets muddied in the wash. But not drug prices....
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Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20215 min read
The Democratic Tent Got Too Big And They Are Now 2 Distinct Parties With Little In Common
As a former music industry executive, I'd like to see the song above by Garfunkel and Oates redone by a grand congressional choir made up...
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Howie Klein
Sep 25, 20219 min read
How Can Members Of Congress Call Themselves Democrats While Opposing Lowering Drug Prices?
ALG Research primarily polls for conservative Democrats-- Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Tom O'Halleran (AZ), MJ Hegar, (TX) Carolyn Bourdeaux...
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Howie Klein
Sep 24, 20213 min read
22 Conservative Dems Join The GOP To Make Sure Local Police Can Buy Tanks And Assault Weapons
Yesterday, the House passed the disgustingly bloated National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, 316-113, with 38...
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Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20218 min read
Racial Resentment? Economic Insecurity? Does It Even Matter As Long As The GOP Has Sinema & Manchin?
Look, I've never been a Biden fan-- nor did I vote for him-- but the idea of Trump being seen by America voters as somehow better than...
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Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20216 min read
Zach Carter Is Much More Than Just Brutalism
Any Blue will most certainly NOT do-- especially now that the Republican Party has transmogrified into a genuine authoritarian fascist...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20218 min read
Will Progressives Be Stronger This Time Than They Were On Behalf Of The Public Option?
Think back to 2009-10, when the Democrats were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act. Conservative Democrats were screwing everything up...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20217 min read
Any Blue Will Do? If You Ever Considered That, You Need To Read This
Looks like Pelosi fell right into the transparent trap the Republican wing of the Democratic Party set up. Manchin and Sinema got...
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Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20218 min read
Who Is America's Worst Democrat? Manchin? Gottheimer? Schrader? Cuellar? Sinema?
They're all so profoundly wretched-- and so dedicated to maintaining a corrupt status quo-- that it barely matters if one is slightly...
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Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20217 min read
Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There
I don't mean to denigrate Biden in particular with that clip. It could have been Hillary-- who's a much worse lobbyist patsy-- or Mitch...
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Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20215 min read
Midterms: If The Democrats Don't Give People A Reason To Vote For Them, They Won't
Every Single Conservative In Congress Exists On Bribery Republicans seem out of their minds and unimaginably impossible to support. In...
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Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20218 min read
From Day 1, It's Always Been About The Benjamins-- And Whose Ox (Or Cash Cow) Gets Gored
The fight over Biden's very popular agenda-- basically the "soft" infrastructure/Jobs/Family bill-- is a classic battle between...
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Howie Klein
Aug 24, 202112 min read
How Much Further Right Is The Democratic Party Poised To Move?
Is The Party Of Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt Turning Into The Anti-Trump Party? Does the Democratic Party really need unrepentant...
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Howie Klein
Aug 22, 20217 min read
Democratic Party Civil War Will Be In Full View Tomorrow Before Tuesday's Vote
Tomorrow, the House will take a rare break in it's long summer recess and come back to DC for 2 days. Last night, Pelosi sent this letter...
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Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20216 min read
Conservative Democrats Are NOT Moderates-- They're The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party
Six of the worst of the corrupt corporate Democrats in the House-- Josh Gottheimer (Blue Dog-NJ), Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR), Jared...
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Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20216 min read
Never Forget: Conservatives-- From Both Parties-- Killed Raising The Minimum Wage
New polling by YouGov shows how popular raising the minimum wage to $15/hour is. Overall, 57% of registered voters favor it and 33%...
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Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20213 min read
It Isn't Hard To Figure Out Why Rightists Love Sinema & Manchin
The Democrats won the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. But nothing much is happening. It's like when I was a...
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