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Don't look at the Bankster Behind the Curtain.....
There are reports that AWOL Democrats in Wisconsin may be returning home soon to allow Walker’s anti-union bill to pass. The missing Democrats are calculating that even if they lose this fight – Walker and his Republican cohorts have inflicted so much political damage on themselves – they’ll be crippled for the rest of their terms.
I wonder if the Democrats understand that Republicans nowadays are shameless in their war against working people. One missing senator – Bob Jaunch - put it this way, saying, “I think we have to realize that there's only so much we can do as a group to make a stand…it's really up to the public to be engaged in carrying the torch on this issue." And the public IS listening. Union protestors will soon see reinforcements in their opposition to Koch brothers’ lapdog Scott Walker’s attempt to bust up unions. Thousands of farmers are planning to drive their tractors to Madison this coming week to stand in solidarity with their fellow workers. Farmers are calling the event the “Farm Labor Tractorcade.“ If tens of thousands of protestors didn’t sway Walker - maybe the sight of hundreds of tractors on the capital grounds will.
Meanwhile in Iowa – Democrats are preparing for a Wisconsin-like show down over collective bargaining rights. A hearing is scheduled for tonight in the state capital in Des Moines to debate SB117 – a bill that limits collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. The Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal said Republican are simply, “pitting Iowans against Iowans.”
That’s the plan. The Republicans want us to pay NO attention to the crooks on Wall Street who are the REAL cause of every state’s budget problems – and the main campaign contributors to the Republican Party. Instead – they want us to blame each other.
Let’s not fall for the gimmick.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Are Wisconsin's AWOL Dems about to head home? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Are Wisconsin's AWOL Dems about to head home? With John Nichols, Washington correspondent-The Nation Magazine.
Screwed: ABC special on "buy American"...How Long Will It Take To Close The Job Gap?.
What are conservatives up to now? With Ken Klukowski, National Board of Advisers - Pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
The Decline of Glenn Beck With James Downie, Reporter/Researcher - The New Republic.
Texas approves bill requiring sonogram before abortion and Anti-Life — When It’s a Woman’s Life With Heather Cirmo, 440 Group Public Relations (conservative consulting firm), and Sam Bennett, President - Women's Campaign Forum.
Daily Take: States look to pass voter ID bills
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: Latest from the trenches...Wisconsin's war on Labor with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine; Associate Editor-Capital Times; author/co-author of several books, latest (with Robert McChesney) "The Death and Life of American Journalism".
Hour Two: Latest from the trenches...Dems fight back with Wisconsin State Senator Jon Erpenbach, District 27 (one of the 14 awol WI state senators).
Hour Three: The Longest War Veteran investigative journalist Peter Bergen, author of "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and al-Qaeda" will be here to give his thoughts on the evolution of the war from 9/11 to Afghanistan to Iraq and the conflict in Pakistan and how the current strategy is working...or not.
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Coming up on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: Why are conservatives pushing for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget? Thom challenges Ken Blackwell, Chair of the Pass the Balanced Budge Amendment...
Hour Three: the "wage gap myth" Thom confronts Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum on the economic status of women and what she calls the "wage gap myth"...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Thom's Poll
192,000 new jobs were added in Feb. - If 200,000 jobs are added monthly - we won't recover until 2023 - can we recover sooner?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations with Great Minds - US Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Part 1
Conversations with Great Minds - US Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Part 2
It all boils down to "corporate personhood"
Or watch the full show...
Full Show - 3/4/11. Conversations with Great Minds with US Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
Today's conversation with Great Minds is with Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Thom asks him how he originally got into politics and what he thinks about the Ohio and Wisconsin labor protests. Then, the Big Picture Rumble this week is with Alan Nathan, host of the Battle Line, democratic strategist Erikka Knuti and Kerry Pickett, editor and blogger of the water cooler column at the Washington Times. Thom covers the Wisconsin stalemate, unions and wealth inequality, taxing millionaires, consumer safety, why Wall Street banksters aren't in jail, Libya and birther legislation. Then Thom's daily take is on Supreme Court unequal protection.
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