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John Boehner and his Tea Party zombies played the Grinch yesterday
Congress is now taking their payroll tax cut fight to the media. Speaker of the House John Boehner and his Tea Party zombies played the Grinch yesterday – refusing to even hold a vote on the Senate’s payroll tax cut extension bill – meaning in just 10 days – taxes will go up on 160 million Americans. You can call it the Tea Party Tax Increase. House Republicans left town last night to head home for the holidays – leaving behind a few members to stick around in DC to put pressure on the Senate to come back in session. House Democrats plan to stay in town, too – to put pressure on House Republicans to pass the Senate’s bipartisan compromise bill on the payroll tax cut.
So now it comes down to who’ll blink first. As House Republicans make it virtually impossible to pass a tax cut for working Americans – it’s glaringly obvious why Congress has it’s lowest approval rating ever of just 11%.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Will Republicans cave on payroll tax cuts? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Will Republicans cave on payroll tax cuts?- Karen Finney, Democratic Strategist 
Fukushima...deadlier than we thought?- Dr. Janette Sherman, M.D., Internist and Toxicologist
Daily Take: FBI says factory farm whistle blowers are terrorists...who's next?
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The Daily Stack 
Hour One: Why Is NPR giving out Republican Talking Points?
Hour Two: Should we tax the Church?- Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and of Law, Vanderbilt University
Quote: "The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state, or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community" -- James A. Garfield, 1874, Congressional Record, 2: 5384.
Quote: "When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one" -- Ben Franklin to Richard Price, Oct. 9, 1780 Writings 8:153--54.
Hour Three: Introducing a new trend in the high cost of low prices: domestic outsourcing- Dave Jameison
Speech: " Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.
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Thom's Poll
Congress is now taking their payroll tax cut fight to the media - who will win the media war - The Democrats or Republicans?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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Full Show 12/20/11 The Tea Party is raising your taxes...
Thom explains how the GOP gridlock on Capitol Hill centered around the payroll tax cut extension is courtesy of the Tea Party supporters within the Republican party.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 21, 2011
Dave Jamieson - A new trend in the high cost of low prices: domestic outsourcing
Hartmann - Why is NPR giving out Republican Talking Points?
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