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Four More Years Starts Today
As many as a million Americans gathered on our National Mall today, to watch Barack Obama be publicly sworn in to serve his second term as President of the United States. And he rides into his second term with a mandate – as the only President since Dwight Eisenhower to be elected twice with 51% of the vote. But if there’s one thing the President learned from his first term, it’s that Republicans will at all costs destroy whatever mandate he’s earned.
In fact, on this day, four years ago, Republicans gathered at a fancy steakhouse in Washington, DC, just as President Obama was attending the inaugural balls. The likes of Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, and Frank Luntz all attended this meeting. And the purpose of the meeting was simple: How to destroy the Obama Presidency and retake the White House in four years. That night – Republicans committed themselves to four years of obstruction and economic sabotage. And that’s exactly what they did – even though it didn’t work out for them in the end.
Today, the question is – what are Republicans plotting now? How will they sabotage the President’s second term? Let’s hope the President has learned lessons from the first term, and accepts that he’s facing a loyal opposition in the Republican Party. He’s facing economic terrorists – and the only way he can succeed is by taking the debate to the American people, using his bully pulpit, and shaming the fossils on the Right who serve the Billionaire Class.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Bring back our jobs (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Bring back our jobs
Bigger Picture: Inauguration Panel:-
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator 
- Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator / Attorney / Author
- Neil McCabe, Human Events Online 
Your Take / My Take Live.
Daily Take: A Second Inaugural, A Second Conspiracy.
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Friday's Daily Stack 
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'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site. - plus special guest Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT)
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: ...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8. " ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; ..."
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
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."
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
President Obama's 2nd inauguration
The anniversary of the disastrous SCOTUS decision on Citizens United
A celebration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
New York is fighting back against dark money in politics and we'll tell you how...I'll have a conversation with NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Plus...jobs, trade, and the debt ceiling, oh my! I'll talk with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on the work ahead for the new Congress...
And, the best of the rest of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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
Will Obama's call for unity have any effect on Congress?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
What the Billionaire Class is Doing Behind the Scenes
Bigger Picture: Politics-Money Out, Voters-In - P1
Bigger Picture: Politics-Money Out, Voters-In P2
Big Picture Rumble - 90% of restaurant workers don't get paid sick time
Big Picture Rumble - Should GOP be happy about rigging elections?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full show 1/18/13: Billionaires Corrupting Democracy
In tonight's show, the Big Picture Rumble discuss how Obama's been very good to Corporate America, and why millions of Americans could be in flood danger as a result of Republican intransigence in Congress. And in the Daily Take, Thom discusses how the fiscal problems that the United States currently faces are not due to voters, but rather the Billionaire Class.
Thom Hartmann on The News: January 18, 2013
Caller Argues With Thom Over 2nd Amendment
Another Permian Extinction On The Way?
Happy Gun Appreciation Day!
Brunch With Bernie: January 18, 2013
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