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Less than a week for the GOP to completely ignore voters
Only a mere four days after taking back control of the House of Representatives - Republicans are already drunk on power. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discussed the GOP’s agenda over the next two years and it can be summed up in 2 words: Dump Obama. McConnell says that the only way Republicans can succeed in passing legislation to repeal health care reform, end bailouts, and cut spending is to, “put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.” Keep in mind that a plan to simply repeal health care reform and end bailouts won’t do anything to bring down the nation’s nearly 10% unemployment rate - So the American people shouldn’t expect any real solutions to come out of the House for the next two years. Republicans have already made their choice - politics over policy. And they are not going to budge as indicated by GOP Congressman Mike Pence who said there will be, “no compromise” with Democrats on their legislative agenda. “Are you listening President Obama?!” This statement comes on the heels of a new Reuters poll that said 56% of voters want to see bipartisan consensus on policy making and according to a CBS poll - 78% of Republicans - that’s Republicans! - want their party to compromise to get things done. There you have it - it only took less than a week for the GOP to completely ignore voters. As Harry Truman said 1948 when he accepted the Democratic nomination, “the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.” Something’s don’t change. And if Obama doesn’t start acting like Harry Truman, they never will.
- Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Screwed! A debate on consumers rights vs corporate rights with Tom Bowden of Ayn Rand.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
The clear winner from this week's elections? Secret corporate cash... Final Report on corporate $ spent on the midterms with Zach Carter of Alternet.
Green report Don't eat Gulf seafood... a report on the health of the Gulf of Mexico and its inhabitants with Independent Investigative Journalist Dahr Jamail.
It's Crazy! Is Slurpee the key to bipartisanship?
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... Nov 8th - 12th, 2010
Monday
Hour Two: Have the Republicans learned to play fair or will they continue to be the "Party of No?" - Thom confronts Tom Pauken, former head of the Republican Party of Texas.
Hour Three: Money, Power and Corruption...can lessons from the original financial crisis save us from another one? Financial Times columnist Greg Farrell, author of " Crash of the Titans" will be here.
Tuesday
Hour Three: Have we witnessed "The Death of the Liberal Class? Thom challenges author and fellow liberal Chris Hedges about his new book " Death of the Liberal Class.
Wednesday
Hour Two: Politics and corporate media...strange bedfellows?! Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
Thursday
Hour Two: Geeky Science Rocks - find out why food tastes better after a day of hard work...really!
Friday
"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Remember remember the fifth of November...the gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot..." -- author unknown.
Hour One: If it's Friday it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always spends the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday"
Hour Three: "Anything Goes on Townhall Friday"
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Thom Hartmann says his piece on "Talk Rumble"
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Save the profits wasted on health insurers
When premiums skyrocket, the usual response from the insurance companies is that they are simply passing along the increase in health care costs to the consumers. And the corporate media never ask whether the profits of these insurance companies are also suffering. In reality, they are making out like bandits, as a 2009 report from Health Care for America Now shows:
"Profits at 10 of the country’s largest publicly traded health insurance companies in 2007 rose 428 percent from 2000 to 2007, from $2.4 billion to $12.9 billion, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In 2007 alone the chief executive officers at these companies collected combined total compensation of $118.6 million—an average of $11.9 million each. That is 468 times more than average American worker made that year".
The excess is money that could be spend on providing health care that enables people to stay productively in work and on providing a safety net so that more people can afford the risk of becoming entrepreneurs.
Learn more about how to save the profits wasted on health insurers in chapter five, "Medicare “Part E” – For Everybody" of " Rebooting the American Dream". (On Kindle too) |
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