Are House Republicans Unable To Raise Money Because Of How Badly They've Performed For Past 2 Years?
Why Would Anyone Pay For More Chaos & Dysfunction? House Republicans barely avoided a government shutdown Monday— and only by making a...
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Howie Klein
Sep 214 min read
Once Again, Trump Is Demanding House Republicans Shut Down The Government To Sow Despair And Chaos
As always, Trump wants chaos and dysfunction, certain that turmoil will help him in November. And when it comes to shutting down the...
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Howie Klein
Sep 178 min read
Will November Bring A Nice Blue Wave— Or Will Execrable Candidate Quality Keep The House Red?
About a week since Trump lost the debate, Kamala is— according to YouGov— 5 points ahead of him, 50% to 45%, up from 47% to 46% in late...
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Howie Klein
Sep 115 min read
Will The Weirdos In The House Shut Down The Government For Trump Right Before The Election?
MAGA Mike is in a difficult position. As Speaker— not just some yahoo from a backwater district in Louisiana— he has to be seen as trying...
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Howie Klein
Aug 304 min read
Would The Freedom Caucus Force A Government Shutdown Right Before The Election?
They Would If They Could There are two potentially-pending self-inflicted wounds House Republican leaders are hoping avoid before...
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Howie Klein
Mar 238 min read
From Top To Bottom The Republican Party Is Disintegrating Right Before Our Eyes
Suicide Is Painless, It Brings On Many Changes The sword of time will pierce our skins It doesn't hurt when it begins But as it works its...
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Howie Klein
Mar 224 min read
Democrats Keep Propping Up MAGA Mike Against The GOP's Lunatic Fringe... What Happens If They Stop?
Instead of one gigantic omnibus spending bill— the old Pelosi way of passing a budget— Republicans, at the insistence of their far right...
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Howie Klein
Mar 96 min read
Do You Need To Be Reminded What Kabuki Theater Means In A Political Context?
Using the phrase “kabuki theater” in the context of Congress is something of a good old American metaphorical critique, describing a...
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Howie Klein
Mar 13 min read
New York Congressional Maps Finalized— After All That Expensive Sturm Und Drang Not Much Changed
After stalling for a few days, MAGA Mike finally swore Tom Suozzi into Congress this week. After the ceremony, Suozzi delivered an...
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Howie Klein
Jan 195 min read
When Will Trump Fire MAGA Mike? He Passed A Short Term Spending Bill To Keep The Government Open
If He Passes A Border Bill, Trump Will Pounce Late yesterday afternoon, the House voted 314-108 to fund the government for another few...
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Howie Klein
Jan 184 min read
More Than Anything Else, Trump Wants Payback
So Do Millions Of Voters Who Have No One To Blame For Their Sense Of Humiliation But Themselves Generally speaking, Trump doesn’t have a...
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Howie Klein
Jan 133 min read
Trump May Have Decided The Only Way To Stay Out Of Prison Is To Spark A Civil War
Threatening Doesn’t Seem To Be Working For Him Unlike the White House, which remained the seat of the U.S. government throughout the...
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Howie Klein
Jan 133 min read
Government Shutdown... Tick, Tick, Tick-- Will Keeping It Open Cost MAGA Mike His Job?
Last year, Kevin McCarthy made a deal with Biden— a compromise by both sides— to keep the government open. Congressional MAGAts, entirely...
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Howie Klein
Jan 93 min read
Trump Wants A Government Shutdown-- Does MAGA Mike Really Want To Go Up Against Him On That?
Trump Has More Power In The House Than MM Does Hear the loud grumbling from the far right fringe of the GOP? Just installed Freedom...
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Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20232 min read
Republicans Sabotaging Biden Means Republicans Sabotaging America--& In JD Vance's Case Also Ukraine
Vance Wants To Appease Putin With Ukrainian Territory When he was running for the Senate last year, MAGA candidate JD Vance said “I gotta...
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Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20235 min read
Do You Ever Feel Like Congress Is Disintegrating Before Our Eyes? That's Exactly What Trump Wants
So now what happens in January when MAGA Mike’s short-term continuing resolution runs out and his shattered majority has to pass a...
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Howie Klein
Nov 15, 20233 min read
The MAGA Mike Government Shut Down Is Postponed 'Til Next Year-- Democrats Save Him From Extremists
Yesterday, the House voted 336-95 for MAGA Mike’s bifurcated CR, so postponing a shutdown to January or February. 93 Republicans and 2...
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Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20233 min read
MAGA Mike Flops— Ted Lieu: "The Training Wheels Fell Off For GOP Leadership”
Ready for a government shutdown at the end of the week? It’s what Trump and his campaign operatives adamantly want and what a great many...
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Howie Klein
Nov 9, 20235 min read
MAGA Mike's Transportation, Housing & Urban Development Appropriations Bill: Too Lame To Be Voted On
The MAGA Mike nuts have been voting on H.R. 4820, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill— or at least on...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20233 min read
GOP Strategy Is To Create An America That Looks Like Scenes From Mad Max-- Now They're Being Blamed
Former Obama communications director Dan Pfeiffer asserts that the GOP is a dangerously unserious party and that the Dems should run...
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