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Are the Koch Bros and their Tea Party followers shutting down the Government now?
Negotiations in Congress to prevent a government shut down have reportedly fallen through. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid placed the blame on Tea Party Republicans who are refusing to compromise in budget negotiations saying, “The infighting between the tea party and the rest of the Republican Party…is keeping our negotiating partner from the negotiating table."
One of the main obstacles in the budget negotiations are demands by Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood and “Obamacare”. In other words – Republicans are arguing that if disadvantaged women and more than 52 million people nationwide are allowed to have access to critical healthcare services – then they’ll shut down the government!
You can’t make this stuff up. Are Koch Bros and their followers shutting down the Government now?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Dems put GOP on notice re: Social Security (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Screwed: Dems put GOP on notice re: Social Security With Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Need to Know: GOP blame women & sick for looming govt shutdown With Erikka Knuti, Democratic Strategist, and Phil Kerpen, VP-Americans for Prosperity.
Bizarro Robin Hood strikes again...Michigan Gov cuts 6 weeks of unemployment.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Weekly Standard Publishes Hagiography To Koch Brothers, Doesn’t Disclose Financial Ties To Kochs With Lee Fang, Reporter / Blogger - Think Progress, and Robert Greenwald, Filmmaker/Director/Founder-Brave New Films - latest campaign: http://kochbrothersexposed.com/.
Daily Take: Corporate death penalty.
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read the Chapter Three: Banding Together for the Common Good today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." -- Abraham Lincoln.
Hour One: Are the Koch Bros and their Tea Party followers shutting down the Government now?
Latest on the war on democracy with John Nichols of The Nation Magazine...
Hour Two: Best of the rest of the news
Hour Three: Why should your kids have give up their American Dreams to pay for lifestyles of the rich? Thom asks Ryan Streeter, Editor of ConservativeHomeUSA; Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush-White House Domestic Policy Council.
U.S. drops to 3rd in clean-energy investment with Governor Jennifer Granholm, Former Governor of Michigan and Senior Advisor to Pew's Clean Energy Program.
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Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two:Government shut down is looming...and the conservatives are blaming women and sick people?! How about those tax cuts for billionaires?! Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor,Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
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
Are the Koch Bros and their Tea Party followers shutting down the Government now?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
500,000 Brits protest in the streets...where was the mainstream media?
Indian Point...could it be America's Fukushima?
Do we take Prosperity Drive or Depression Drive?
Or watch the full show...
Full Show - 3/28/11. Fighting for Union Rights
Thom sits down with Erica Sagrans, a freelancer writer present at the UK UNCUT demonstration in London. He later discusses how GE executives plan to ask workers to make wage and benefits concessions, despite having not paid any federal taxes. In the second half of the show, Governor Peter Schumlin shares Vermont's plan to adopt a single payer health care system.
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