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...
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Howie Klein
Jan 20, 20225 min read
EMILY's List Brought Us Kyrsten Sinema. Now They Have Someone Just As Bad In Mind Now
2018 was shaping up to be a blue wave-- and it did turn out that way, the Dems flipping 42 Republican House seats. 60,572,245 voters...
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Howie Klein
Jan 13, 20224 min read
Who's Worse-- Sinema Or Manchin? And Tell Me Today Why Any Blue Will Do (No, Don't)
The votes were barely tabulated and announced this morning before Mondaire Jones didn't let his Westchester and Rockland County...
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Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20226 min read
2 Strategies For Winning The Midterms-- Democrats Need BOTH, Not One Or The Others
In his NY Times column today, Ezra Klein used Tufts political scientist Eitan Hersh to define "real political work"-- as opposed to...
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Howie Klein
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20217 min read
America's Screwed... Progressives Care Too Much To Tank Manchin's Build Back Worse Act
Or Even To Fight Schumer & The DCCC Filling Congress With More Sinemas & Manchins When The Nation's headline writer came up with the cute...
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Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20216 min read
The Ohio Democratic Party Wouldn't Do Worse If Failing Was Their Actual Goal
Ohio has an open Senate seat-- and predictably, one of the hottest Senate races in the country. Keep in mind that the last time Ohio...
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Howie Klein
Oct 22, 20213 min read
Are Identity Politics Campaign Contributors Happy They Gave Big To Kyrsten Sinema?
You don't always look for wisdom-- not even political wisdom-- by turning to members of Congress... except in a few cases. The other day...
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Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20215 min read
Psycho-Sinema-- Worse Than Manchin
When this whole reconciliation mess began, I noted-- a thousand times-- that the real problem in the end wouldn't be Manchin, who the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20215 min read
Who's To Blame When Parties Get Out Of Hand?
Over the weekend, the NY Times made it official: Biden's domestic agenda is in limbo, exactly what McConnell and the GOP wanted before...
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Howie Klein
Oct 14, 20219 min read
Who's A "Serious" Candidate And Who's Not?
I usually have a rule of thumb about political fundraising: if someone who isn't a candidate is collecting money they claim they will...
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Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20217 min read
Ruben Gallego vs Kyrsten Sinema?
Arizona Democrats, determined to kick Kyrsten Sinema out of the party and defeat her when her term expires in 2024, have been looking for...
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Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20216 min read
Will Pelosi Be Forced To Pull The Conservative Infrastructure Bill Today?
What could Schumer have imagined would happened when he recruited the chair of the Blue Dogs-- also the member of the House with the...
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Noah
Sep 10, 20213 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! GOP Hero, Susan "Coathanger" Collins
by Noah The sentient among us saw it coming. The moment Susan "Coathanger" Collins smugly told the world that she had spoken with Brett...
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Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20214 min read
Schumer Knows Exactly How To Lose Senate Seats; He's Had A Lot Of Practice
Yesterday Alex Seitz-Wald and Henry Gomez, reporting for NBC News did some lazy Chuck Schumer puffery with a poorly researched story on...
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Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20216 min read
The 2022 Senate Elections Are Far Too Important To Leave To Schumer & The DSCC
CNN did a story yesterday, The 10 Senate Seats Most Likely To Flip. Not mentioned or even taken into account: the perpetually failed DSCC...
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Howie Klein
Jul 16, 20214 min read
DSCC Pretending To Be Switzerland All Of A Sudden?
Trump is determined the select the Republican Senate nominees. His criteria is simple: the candidate most abjectly loyal to him is the...
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Howie Klein
Jun 21, 20213 min read
Who Is The Worst Democrat In The Senate?
Manchin is a rational political player; Sinema isn't. I know her; she's certifiably insane. I'm not joking. When I first met her she was...
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Howie Klein
Jun 20, 20215 min read
Status Quo-Loving Democratic Leaders Are Endangering The Party's Midterm Prospects
On June 10, Paul Waldman wrote that the conservative Democrats-- who, he forgot to mention, completely and utterly control the ability of...
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Howie Klein
Jun 19, 20213 min read
Another Reason Schumer Is The Worst Senate Majority Leader Ever
There's a lot wrong with Chuck Schumer and he's bound to go down as one of the worst Senate majority leaders in history-- and not just in...
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