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Barack Obama might have been named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year...
But he’s also making a run at capitulator of the year. Fallout continues one day after the White House proposed turning the austerity knives on Social Security Insurance in their latest “fiscal cliff” proposal. To make matters worse, Democratic leaders in the House signed on to the President’s proposal, while at the same time acknowledging there is “understandable resistance.” Founder of the DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas, weighed on the latest White House offer saying, “Capitulation is never a strength. A deal will obviously require concessions by the president, but you make those to FINISH the deal, not in the middle of negotiations, and not until after you've branded the opposition with the concessions they're demanding.”
But once again, another negotiation on Capitol Hill has been completely on Republican grounds. Our lawmakers are debating just how many wealthy people will get a tax cut, and how hard seniors and the poor will get hit with cuts to insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security. Yet, no one is talking about progressive reforms, like a financial transaction tax on Wall Street, a single-payer health care system to reduce healthcare spending and the deficit, breaking up the big banks, raising the minimum wage, and making hedgefund managers and vulture capitalists like Mitt Romney pay their fair share in taxes.
To see just how progressive institutions across America have been damaged by thirty years of Reaganomics and union-busting, one doesn’t have to look much farther than the current ludicrous debate on Capitol Hill. The progressive counter-balance in America has been damaged, and now all we have is center-right Republicans debating far-right Republicans – and neither side seems to give a damn about the Middle Class.
We have a lot of work left to do.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Immunity...the gun makers' get out of jail free card (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Immunity...the gun makers' get out of jail free card- Howard Nations, Attorney / National Trial Lawyers Association
The Best of the Rest of the News...
YOUR TAKE / MY TAKE LIVE
Daily Take: I thought we voted for Democrats?
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns...
Article: " Special Edition: Gun Violence" by Media Matters. "40% of Americans have themselves or personally know someone who has been a victim of gun violence."
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator 
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Hour Two: The NRA has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda...when will America wake up?
Best of the rest of the news and your views
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: I thought we voted for Democrats
Hour Two: Moving forward from the Sandy Hook tragedy- Marianne Williamson, Speaker/Author of 10 books including "A Return to Love" & the forthcoming, "The Law of Divine Compensation"
Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds- Timothy Noah, The New Republic, Author-The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
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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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations...
Plus, find out what you can do to help free America's Political Prisoner...Governor Don Siegelman...I'll have a conversation with Dana Siegelman of free-don.org...
And, the best of the rest of the news along with 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
Is it too late to take Social Security cuts out of the "fiscal cliff" deal?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The NRA has more blood on their hands than Al-Qaeda
Update - Don Siegelman...America's Political Prisoner
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Jumentously Ugly!
Crazy Alert! XXX Doggy Loveshack
Shift Change...How to create a democratic workplace
Time to give Wal-Mart the corporate death penalty
Call the WH @ 202-456-1111 - Don't throw seniors under the bus!
NRA in WDC is out of the Mainstream - why listen to them?
Gun Lobbyist thinks - It's a "right" to "take on" government with guns
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/18/12: NRA Has More Blood on Its Hands Than al-Qaeda
Thom discusses how the Newtown School Shooting has done nothing to deter the crazies of the GOP to continue their pro-gun talk. Also discussed: a debate on the latest "fiscal cliff" negotiations, a new movie detailing stories of employee owned businesses and Thom talks with Don Siegelman's daughter on the effort to free her father. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom compares the NRA with Al-Qaeda and explains which organization has more blood on its hands.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 18, 2012
What the NRA and the AARP have in common?
NRA Has More Blood on Hands than Al-Qaeda
A personal story of mental illness and gun violence
Almost as many gun dealers as there are gas stations in the USA
Caller: Progressives to Blame for Gun Violence
Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns
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