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The Republican Party self-destructed in front of the entire nation last night...
As Speaker of the House John Boehner failed to get his members in line to vote on a plan to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.” It was a bad idea to begin with – a plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire for millionaires – but let those same millionaires keep generous tax loopholes, while getting rid of many of the tax breaks used by the middle class. It was another huge giveaway to the rich, but the Republicans Party flew over the cuckoo’s nest and couldn't even stomach passing a very, very modest tax increase on billionaires like the Koch brothers.
In a statement late Tuesday night, Speaker Boehner said he didn't have enough votes within his own party to pass the measure. He then urged President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to come up with a plan while he sends his Republican House members Christmas vacation. Financial markets are not reacting well to the news. Yesterday’s events in the House made the President’s hand even stronger in negotiations.
A plan to avoid the “fiscal cliff” will not pass out of the House without Democratic support – and everybody knows it now. So it’s time to take cuts to Social Security Insurance benefits off the table, and come up with a deal that’s more in line with what the nation wants, which is for the rich to pay their fair share in taxes and no cuts to social insurance programs. If a few sensible Republicans in the House don’t join Democrats and take this sort of deal, then off the cliff we go, and President Obama’s hand will get even stronger.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Big Picture Presents "A Christmas Carol" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Big Picture Presents "A Christmas Carol":- Richard Eskow, Campaign For America's Future  - Zaid Jilani, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) - Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Big Picture Presents "A Christmas Carol" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Big Picture Presents "A Christmas Carol":- Richard Eskow, Campaign For America's Future - Zaid Jilani, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) - Aaron Huertas, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Monday night on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Best of: Chrystia Freeland and Bruce Bartlett (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Chrystia Freeland, Journalist/Author "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else"
Conversations with Great Minds - Bruce Bartlett, Historian / Domestic Policy Adviser to President Ronald Reagan / Treasury official under President George H. W. Bush / writes for New York Times, Financial Times, Fiscal Times, and Tax Notes magazine
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Tuesday night on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... No show - enjoy the holidays (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: "Newtown tragedy...different outcome if men were in charge"- Charlotte Allen, National Review Online / Author-The Human Christ
America's Political Prisoner...Don Siegelman- Dana Siegelman, Daughter of former AL Gov. Don Siegelman
Hour Two: Time to throw Netflix into the Boston Harbor
Article: "" by .
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Geeky Science Rocks! - Will your next burger be ground-up mealworms?
Hour Three: Why is Obama shooting Santa Claus?
The bad: George Will: "" by Zack Beauchamp.
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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) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he's taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: Issues of the day...fiscal cliff, war on labor- Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
Hour Three: Anything goes on townhall Friday!
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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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's a special "Conversations With Great Minds" with Journalist Tim Noah, author of the brilliant book "The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It".
Plus, author Marianne Williamson on moving forward from the Newtown tragedy...let's remember them as we celebrate with our families...
...and to all of you, thank you for listening and have a very happy holiday, from all of us at...
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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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
James Hoffa talks about the war on Labor and Michigan's "right to work for less" law...
Plus, my conversation with Jamie Weinstein of the Daily Caller about drug tests for welfare checks...
And, to all of you, thank you for listening and have a very happy holiday, from all of us at...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Take away free speech rights for corporations...you BET! Check out my debate with conservative Peter Ferrara of the Carleson Center for Public Policy...
Plus, my rant on CEO power...and a special edition of Geeky Science, "your brain on breakfast" right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
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Thom's Poll
Is the failure of "Plan B" the end of Boehner's speakership?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Netflix Blacks Out the Revolution
Sean Lennon on Artists Against Fracking & Gun Violence
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Kenspeckleously Ugly!
Why are White Middle-Class Males Committing Mass Murders?
Your Next Burger May Be Ground-Up Mealworms
Are you willing to let millions of Americans work as slave labor?
Is it right to screw millions of Americans in favor of defense funding?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/20/12: Netflix Blacks Out the Revolution
Thom discusses how Obama may become the only Democratic President in history to cut Social Security. Also discussed: how raising the federal minimum wage will boost the economy, why only men are involved in shooting massacres and Thom talks with musician Sean Lennon on fracking, Newtown and the 32nd anniversary of his father's death. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom warns of a new law being discussed in Congress that would give Netflix the power to stop the revolution.
Thom Hartmann On The News - December 20, 2012
Time To Throw Netflix Into Boston Harbor
America's Political Prisoner: Don Siegelman
Caller: When Did Americans Get So Afraid?
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Mr. President, Please Don't Kill Santa
Caller: Women Are Fierce Protectors of Children
Mass Shooting Caused by Women Running School
Conversations WIth Great Minds-Timothy Noah p2
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