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It’s Time To Tax The Rich
That’s the essence of what Vice President Joe Biden said following the Democrats’ big wins on Election night. Speaking to a pool of reporters on Wednesday, Biden said Democrats clearly have a “mandate” on tax reform. And this issue of taxes will have to be settled soon, as Congress returns for its lame duck session next week and the so-called fiscal cliff looms at the end of the year. Democratic Senator Patty Murray, who was the architect of the Democrats election strategy in the Senate, argued that Democrats now have a much stronger hand after the election as they head into negotiations with Republicans over what to do about the expiring Bush tax cuts and automatic spending cuts coming down the pike.
Murray told reports, “If we can’t get a good deal—a balanced deal that calls on the wealthy to pay their fair share—then I will absolutely continue this debate into 2013.” In other words, Democrats aren't caving this time. Unless the Republican Party is still living in an alternate reality – which is likely – they have to accept that they failed at making President Obama a one-term President by stifling the economy. They should take Tuesday’s election as a rejection of their obstructionist agenda and strike a deal with Democrats to raise taxes on the wealthy.
If they don’t – and if they continue their economy-crashing agenda – then they’re committing political suicide and, tragically, risk taking the country down with them.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Full speed ahead to the fiscal cliff... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Full speed ahead to the fiscal cliff...- Erikka Knuti, Democratic Strategist  - Sam Sacks, Progressive writer/strategist 
Screwed: Is Germany headed for recession too?- Professor Richard Wolff, New School University NYC, author "Democracy At Work: A Cure for Capitalism"
The Best of the Rest of the News...
How we voted for Democrats but still have a Republican House- Attorney Mike Papantonio, host of "Ring of Fire Radio"
Geeky Science - Your dog knows more about you than you realize
Daily Take: Monopoly Endgame for the Global Economy
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Obama wins! Today is all about your reactions
Quote: "I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality" by George Washington.
Hour Two: Obama wins! Today is all about your reactions
Hour Three: Obama wins! Today is all about your reactions
Article: " 2nd Amendment". " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" 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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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Obama's win..."Beginning Again"- Tom Hayden, Peace and Justice Resource Center / Former CA State Senator / Author & Progressive Activist
Election results and the democratization of public media- Tavis Smiley, Host-"The Tavis Smiley Show" / Co-host-"Smiley & West" / co-author of "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto"
Hour Two: Is American Capitalism approaching an end-game Monopoly state?- Austin Petersen, The Libertarian Republic.com / Freedomworks
Geeky Science Rocks - The real reason birds fell from the sky!
Hour Three: Ignore the MSM...Americans want Dems to run the country
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Plus, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what do you want to talk about?
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The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Was the election a mandate for increasing taxes on the 1%?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Third-Party presidential debate: Gary Johnson vs Jill Stein
Harry...Fix the Filibuster now!
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Muckibusously Ugly!
Corporate Personhood Lost Big on Election Day
A Republican Caller Calls Out Republicans
Big Picture - Will the GOP ever join the 21st century?
Big Picture - Democrats are pro-life - they want everyone to live to 80!
What Karl Rove Promised the Billionaire Class & Couldn't Deliver
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 11/7/12: The Obama Mandate
Thom talks the 2012 election results and what it means for the country with "The Big Picture Post-Election Panel." Thom takes your calls in our new "Your Take, My Take Live" segment and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom calls on Harry Reid to once and for all end the filibuster.
Thom Hartmann on the News - November 7, 2012
11 7 12 Caller debates SCOTUS with Thom
11 7 12 Caller Tina from Staton Island talks about voter supression
11 7 12 Thom on the new poll tax long lines to vote
11 7 12 Caller Argues Constitution with Thom
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