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Thom's blog
Americans understand real compromise. This is not it
It's the third day of the government shutdown, and Congress appears no closer to a resolution. President Obama and Senate Democrats continue to call for a clean government funding bill, and Tea Party Republicans are still holding our nation hostage with a long list of demands. All the while, Republican leaders claim that the shutdown is the democrats' fault for being unwilling to negotiate. But, their claims are completely bogus.
The so-called compromise that Republicans offer is about nothing more than undercutting Obamacare, even after the law has started to go into effect. And, the conference committee that Republicans say that they want is exactly what Democrats have asked for 18 times, in an effort to prevent our nation from reaching the economic brink where we now stand. Speaker John Boehner won't even bring a clean continuing resolution to the floor of the House, because he knows that democrats and moderate Republicans would vote to pass it. That is not compromise. That is not negotiation.
The fact is, the Senate's version of the bill already included huge concessions to Republicans, like continuing the sequester, and proposed spending levels below the amount that the Tea Party has previously demanded. The Senate Democrats already compromised in an effort to keep our government running, and House Republicans demanded more.
Now, the Tea Party's hostage-taking has led to the furlough of 800,000 workers, the closure of our national parks, and thousands of women and children wondering if they'll be able to afford their next meal. Americans deal with give-and-take everyday in their daily lives, and they aren't foolish enough to believe that this Republican list of demands is anything close to a compromise.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Is this the beginning or the end of the Tea Party? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
Read Thom's latest Liberally Yours column for The Daily Caller....stop by the DC online to leave your comments & support your local liberal!
Need to Know: Is this the beginning or the end of the Tea Party?- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
The Best of the Rest...
Your Take / My Take Live: Call Thom LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (check local listings)
Geeky Science: America...all fracked up
Daily Take: Is Obamacare the GOP's Waterloo
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Obama should take a lesson from Reagan...
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.
Hour Two: Why millennials are screwed- David Rehr, PhD
Book: This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich.
Book: The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling.
Article: " 14th Amendment Section 4". " The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. "
Hour Three: There is no tea party...only a collection of billionaires
Quote: "There is no such thing as society, there is only a collection of individuals" - Margaret Thatcher.
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Live from the White House, where shots have been heard outside the Capitol- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent, Talk Radio News
Live from the Capitol- Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY, 13th District)
Live from the Capitol, where shots have been heard: - Justin Duckham, White House Correspondent, Talk Radio News
Hour Two: Is it un-American or un-Christian to threaten to takeover America by force?- Pastor Rick Joyner, Morning Star Ministries
Plus, Geeky Science - America...all fracked up
Hour Three: Is this the beginning or the end of the Tea Party?- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
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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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's "Brunch With Bernie" and you're invited! America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about the important issues of the week and he'll be taking your calls too...get your questions ready!
Plus, Wall Street is at it again...looting the pension funds of public workers...I'll have a conversation with Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi...
And, it's Anything Goes Friday with 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"
And remember...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will moderate republicans turn on the Tea Party?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
There is No Tea Party Only a Collection of Billionaires
Crazy Alert! Have you seen a Python barf a dog? Yuk!
Jesse Ventura, "They Killed Our President"
Rep. Grayson, "Boehner doesn't want to do anything - just wants to be somebody"
Lone Liberal - How We Get To Single Payer
Lone Liberal - Now Comes the Real GOP Death Panel
I Would Rather See Obama Kick Some GOP Ass
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/2/13: A (Tea) Party of Billionaires
Thom talks with Rep. Alan Grayson on the latest talks to end the government shutdown and with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura on his latest book, "They Killed our President." Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses the shutdown, Obamacare and the fate of John Boehner. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how the Tea Party is just a party of billionaires.
Thom Hartmann on the News; October 2, 2013
Caller: Another way to fix Citizens United
Caller: WIC Program Needs to be Revamped!
JFK did not cut Taxes on the Rich!
Reagan Screws Millennials from Beyond the Grave
There is no tea party only a collection of billionaires
Caller: Boehner has the Votes to End the Shutdown!
Obama Should Take a Lesson from Reagan
The Illusion of Nuclear Safety
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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