Mankind's Greatest Thinkers Have Always Inveighed Against Our Tendency To Slide Into Plutocracy
Let's Take A Look— From Plato To Tolstoy To Chomsky Let’s go back to high school for a minute. When we read War and Peace — in my case—...
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Howie Klein
May 116 min read
Trump Wouldn't Sell The GOP Running Mate Slot To Rick Scott, Would He?
$100 Million Dollars Is A Lot Of Temptation First the good news: a poll released yesterday by Florida’s Chamber of Commerce shows that...
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Howie Klein
Apr 142 min read
It’s Insane That Someone Who Is So Glaringly Unfit & Unable To Do The Job Of President…
…Could Get Anywhere Near The Oval Office... Again Earlier today we looked at some of the wisdom of Jonathan Pie. He usually does...
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Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20235 min read
Schumer Found Another Loser, In A Long Line Of Losers, To Run For A Winnable Florida Senate Seat
Identity Politics At It's Worst A few weeks ago, we floated the rumor that former Congress Member and mediocre New Dem, Debbie...
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Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Which GOP Candidates Are MAGAty (And Transactional) Enough To Earn The Trump Seal Of Approval?
I had a chat with the progressive Democrat running for a central Oregon congressional seat, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. We were wondering if...
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Howie Klein
Aug 6, 20233 min read
Leave It To The Dem Establishment To Find Candidates Who Can't Even Prove They're A Lesser Evil
How Do You Find A Candidate Who Can't Beat Rick Scott? Like most of the voters in western Miami, Carlos Curbelo is a Cuban-American. He...
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Howie Klein
Jun 23, 20232 min read
I Think We Can All Agree On One Thing: No One Wants To Make America Florida
That RNC rule about how no one’s allowed on the first debate stage unless they pledge to back the eventual winner of the primaries,...
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Howie Klein
Apr 15, 20235 min read
Rick Scott Draws A Conservative Primary Opponent Who Won't Win But Could Soften Him Up For A Dem
If There Was A Dem Florida multimillionaire and fraudster Rick Scott, is one of the most disliked men in the Senate— by the members of...
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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 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 25, 202311 min read
Congress Has A Choice— Cut Social Security Benefits Or Make The Rich Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes
Yesterday, Catherine Rampell wrote that the House Republicans “say they want to reduce deficits— but meanwhile have ruled out virtually...
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Howie Klein
Jan 11, 20233 min read
Why is Twitter Shilling For Florida Senator Rick Scott?
Will they censor the hot new song, "Fuck L.A.?" In a couple of weeks, Virginia duo Illiterate Light— singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman and...
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Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20223 min read
Trump Drumming Up A Dump Mitch Drive Among Senate Republicans To Take The Onus Of Defeat Off Himself
I’m positive Trump planned to swagger out on the stage Wednesday and take credit for the red tsunami and especially congratulate himself...
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Howie Klein
Sep 2, 20225 min read
On Top Of The GOP's Other Midterm Woes, Rick Scott Is Already Blaming McConnell For Likely Losses
When the history of the 2022 midterms is written, the way the GOP blew their early lock will be explained by pointing out how much more...
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Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20226 min read
The Great GOP Rip-Off of 2022 Isn’t Even Just About Trump Robbing The Base Blind
Trump isn’t happy that his hand-picked Pennsylvania Senate candidate, Mehmet “Dr” Oz, who is suspected of having paid Trump several...
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Howie Klein
Apr 19, 20227 min read
Do Candidates Matter? Or Is It Just About Political Parties Now?
Bonus: The End Of Ron Johnson? On aggregate, voters are telling pollsters they're not sure yet who to hand control of Congress over to in...
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Howie Klein
Apr 18, 20227 min read
What's Wrong With The GOP? It's Not Only Florida But... Let's Begin By Looking At Rick Scott
Last night I was writing a headline for today's 5am post. I started with "There hasn't been a Florida governor as bad as Ron DeSantis...
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Howie Klein
Apr 15, 20223 min read
The GOP Is Racist & Xenophobic, But Essentially... Not Populist
The GOP is primarily appealing to the white working class, while making inroads into the Hispanic and Black middle class. But, in the...
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Howie Klein
Mar 29, 20229 min read
Lore And Order-- Half A Trill Got Heisted... Who's Going To Prison? Trump?
Trump's Small Business Administration Oversaw The Looting Of The Treasury The Biden administration was off and running yesterday about...
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Howie Klein
Mar 18, 20223 min read
There Are A Very Small Number Of Members Of Congress-- All Republicans-- Still Working For Putin
Late this afternoon, the House voted overwhelmingly-- 424 to 8-- to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus (HR 7108). The...
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