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Once again, Republicans reject their own plan
Only hours after President Obama proposed a new “grand bargain” for job creation, Republican leaders quickly condemned the idea. On Tuesday, the President spoke at an Amazon.com warehouse in Tennessee, where he unveiled a new plan that paired corporate tax cuts with infrastructure spending, in an effort to gain bipartisan support. However, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was quick to criticize the president's proposal, saying, “It's just a further-left version of a widely panned plan he already proposed two years ago, this time with extra goodies for tax-and-spend-liberals.”
The Republican lawmaker refused to acknowledge that President Obama's plan did exactly what GOP leaders have been calling for – lower the corporate tax rate and simplify the tax code. Instead, Senator McConnell focused in on infrastructure spending, calling it “extra goodies,” and ignoring the fact that it would put many Americans back to work. This out-of-the-gate obstruction is just more Republican economic terrorism. They will oppose anything that the President proposes, no matter how many Republican ideas are included.
Republicans in Congress would rather create another manufactured debt crisis, so that they can blame President Obama for the damage that crisis inflicts on our economy. But, more and more Americans are recognizing that the goal of the GOP's insurgency strategy is not to help our economy, or put Americans back to work – it's simply to oppose anything and everything President Obama stands for.
As the President said during a speech last week, it's time for Republicans to stop being against everything, and tell the American people what it is they actually stand for. Because as it looks now, the only thing Republicans will spend their time on, is making sure that nothing the President proposes ever actually gets done.
-Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: NSA...time to restore the 4th amendment- Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project
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.".
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Plus, Manning verdict is in- Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
Hour Two: Dear Peter...Americans ARE socialists!- Peter Ferrara, The Carleson Center for Public Policy.
Hour Three: It can't happen here...but it IS happening there!
Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Using eminent domain to help home owners
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Should cities use eminent domain to protect people from foreclosure?
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Politics Panel - Why Was Bradley Manning Tortured?
Politics Panel - Going back to the 1890s!
Is Obama pulling a Kennedy on taxes?
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Full Show 7/30/13: Fast Food Workers Strike for A Living Wage
Tonight's "Big Picture Politics Panel" discusses the announcement of Obama's "grand bargain" with Republicans on taxes, the verdict in the Bradley Manning trial and whether Congress will demand a reform of the FISA court. Thom talks with Labor Journalist Sarah Jaffe and Burger King striker Terrance Wise about the recent fast food strikes, and with ACLU's Kade Crockford on the police tracking of license plates. Thom corrects Sean Hannity in tonight's "Politically Corrected," and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom calls on President Obama to once and for all say no to the Keystone Pipeline.
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