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Who’s screwed if the Republicans take control of Congress?
Who’s screwed if the Republicans take control of Congress? Labor unions, that’s who. Well, I guess you can argue we all might be…but organized labor - the last big funder of Democrats left standing - feels they will surely become public enemy number one in a Republican controlled Congress. On the agenda will be two anti-union pieces of legislation dealing with “card check” and limits on election spending – yes, the Republicans will consider pushing legislation limiting election spending by unions, can you spell hypocrisy? While Democrats failed to pass organized labor’s top priority “card check” bill that allows for easier organization in the workplace through potential members simply by signing pro-union cards, Republicans will be sure to pass legislation of their own ensuring that card check never comes to fruition. In other words, they want to make it easier for your boss to intimidate you and squash any organizing attempts. And, to ensure they hold the upper hand in future election spending, Republicans will forbid unions from using members’ dues for electioneering unless the individual members provide their consent. Yet Republicans are adamantly opposed to limiting corporate election spending without a vote of shareholders. Unions were able to provide a meager balance in their financial support for Democrats this election cycle, but still paled in comparison to the avalanche of money thrown at Republican candidates by unknown billionaires through the Chamber of Commerce.
-Thom
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FreeSpeech TV’s Progressive Take On Election
The progressive point of view on the 2010 midterm elections will be available tonight via Free Speech TV, which will provide live coverage from the network’s broadcast centers in New York, DC and Denver. Dial-Globalsyndicated talker Thom Hartmann (pictured) will co-host the broadcast, along with progressive media veterans Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Laura Flanders, Gloria Neal and Marc Steiner. Analysis and commentary will be added by KKZN/Denver host David Sirota, along with Herb Boyd, Rosa Clemente, Jim Hightower, John Nichols, the NAACP’s Ben Jealous and filmmaker Michael Moore. FSTV airs on Dish Network and DirecTV, and online at www.FreeSpeech.org.
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Watch Thom's new show on the RT channel called the Big Picture, or stream it live from 9 to 10pm, and it repeats at 11. You can catch the shows you have missed on Youtube.
Tonight: Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained with Greg Palast, Investigative journalist; author "Armed MadHouse"; he reports regularly for BBC News and The Guardian. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own." -- Daniel Webster, The Works of Daniel Webster 1853.
Election Day 2010 - Remember to Vote!!
Hour One: 8 false things the public "knows" before the election
Article: " Shocking Turnout" by Huffington Post (live coverage, story may have scrolled).
Straw poll - what do you think about today's election - in 10 seconds?
Hour Two: It's election day...campaigning is over...so, what do the left and the right have in common? I'll challenge Conservative Party USA President Mark Williams, former Chair of Tea Party Express; radio host & author " It's Not Right Versus Left, It's Right Versus Wrong; Exposing the Socialist Agenda and Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time".
Hour Three: A look behind the curtain...how did Citizens United end up with the best democracy money can buy? Thom confronts David Bossie, President/Chairman of Citizens United.
Can the Democrats still pull off a "super Tuesday?" Campaign Strategist David Morey, Vice Chairman of Core Strategy Group and Founder of DMG, author of " The Underdog Advantage", joins Thom.
The good: You! If you voted, or do so before the polls close.
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
The Midterm elections are behind us and the results are in...who won, who lost and what does it all mean? We'll have the latest on what happened, where and what's next...
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OUT NOW!
Time to overtake other countries again
Before the Reagan presidency, it was possible for any American student with academic competence to attend college and graduate without debt. Such a scenario is unthinkable today. Instead, public higher education has become a big business and is often totally corporate, costs are through the roof, and if you’re not from a very wealthy family, odds are you’ll graduate college with a debt that can take decades to repay. As a result, the United States is slipping in virtually every measurement of innovation, income, and competitiveness.
The experiment of Reaganomics and Reagan’s anti-intellectualism worldview are demonstrably disordered and dead; we must put them behind us and build anew our country on the solid, Jeffersonian foundation of good and free education for all. Combine that with breaking up the media monopolies in this country and fostering competition and its attendant innovation through intelligent regulation of the “natural monopolies” in our nation, and we would have a more informed citizenry with better and faster access to real news and information – including information about our body politic.
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Congressman Peter DeFazio - Election Day 2010
Former Tea Party Express Mark Williams - What does the Tea Party Really Want?
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