Thursday 23 February '23 show notes

Feb. 24, 2023 8:37 am

By SueN

Snow day! Epic Snow in Portland...hope you enjoyed today's best of Thom Hartmann. It was yesterday's show but this is what happens when you have minutes to spare!
Yesterday's show was replayed today
Today's best of podcast...
- What the Supreme Did to America When They Legalized Political Bribery
- Cole Stangler - Will the French allow the pension age to be raised?
- Chalice Blythe from The Satanic Temple Reproductive Rights Campaign on the new Sam Alito's Mom's Religious Abortion Clinic
Today's op ed: The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job

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The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job

Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base. Kevin McCarthy just came back from a press trip to our southern border, full of talk about how bad the Biden administration is doing with asylum and immigration. Today, another group of House Republicans are "holding a hearing" at the Mexican border. If you watch Fox "News" you know all about it.

Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base, claiming that Democrats are responsible for increasing numbers of undocumented or "illegal" immigrants living and working in the United States.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Snow day!

Epic Snow in Portland...hope you enjoyed today's best of Thom Hartmann.

It was yesterday's show but this is what happens when you have minutes to spare!

Links for yesterday's show which was replayed today...

Please either see yesterday's newsletter or go to Sue's Stack

Links for today's best of podcast...

Hour One: What the Supreme Did to America When They Legalized Political Bribery

See hour one from Thursday 16 February '23 show notes

Hour Two: Cole Stangler - Will the French allow the pension age to be raised?

See hour two of Tuesday 14 February '23 show notes

Hour Three: Chalice Blythe from The Satanic Temple Reproductive Rights Campaign on the new Sam Alito's Mom's Religious Abortion Clinic

See hour three of Tuesday 14 February '23 show notes

Today's op ed: The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job

Article: "The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Biden administration proposes limit on migrants who pass through 3rd country to seek asylum in US" by Armando Garcia, Quinn Owen and Luke Barr.

Article: "Mo Brooks blasts Socialist Democrats' open border policies for helping kill Americans" by Elizabeth Patton.

Article: "Bilirakis Denounces Biden's Dangerous Open Border Policies on House Floor" by Gus Bilirakis.

Article: "Biden's Open Border America" by Tom Cole.

Article: "Biden's Border Blunders" by Tom Cole.

Article: "Gaetz Torches Mayorkas On Deceitful Agenda At The Border" by Kari Donovan.

Article: "Congressman Good Introduces the Close Biden's Open Border Act" by Bob Good.

Article: "Joe Biden is Destroying America with His Open Border Policies" by Paul A. Gosar.

Article: "The Dirty Game Republicans are Playing with Desperate People's Lives" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Congressman John Rose calls out Biden Administration's open border policies" by John Rose.

Article: "No Dogs, No Italians: remembering the Marcinelle Tragedy." by Marianna Randazzo.

Article: "House Speaker Kevin McCarthy leads GOP delegation to US-Mexico border" by Ben Kesslen.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene BLASTS Open Border Hypocrites In Congress" by Dinesh D'Souza.

Article: "House Republicans turn southern border into second campus" by Emily Brooks.

Article: "Democrats' Open Border Problem" by Roger Williams.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime by Lou Cannon.

Article: "The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party? Part II Part 2: Matthew Continetti and The Right" by Alan Vanneman.

Article: "Cruz: Biden Open Border Policy â€˜a Very Craven Political Decision'" by Trent Baker.

Article: "Marco Rubio: â€˜Nothing Compassionate' About Joe Biden's Open Borders Policies" by John Binder.

Article: "Exclusive â€” Rep. Jim Jordan: Joe Biden's â€˜Deliberate' Support of Illegal Immigration Could Lead to Impeachment" by Robert Kraychik.

Article: "Impeaching Biden over border crisis is Republicans' 'only tool,' Andrew McCarthy says" by Timothy H.J. Nerozzi.

Article: "McCarthy, in Arizona, says 'no one believes' Biden admin's claim border is secure, cartels are in control" by Adam Shaw.

Article: "Rick Scott blasts Biden immigration policies: 'Americans don't want open borders'" by Fox News.

Article: "Hawley Says Biden's Open Borders Policies Have Created A "Moral Crisis"" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Sean Hannity On Board for National Divorce â€“ Then Warns of Looming Civil War" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Lessons From The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986" by Betsy Cooper, Kevin O'Neil.

Article: "Large sanitation company facing child labor accusations" by NBC News.

Article: "Rep. Lauren Boebert to Newsmax: Border Crisis 'Root Cause' is in White House" by Eric Mack.

Article: "Owned by the Fans: A Brief History of Green Bay Packers Inc." by Al Davis.

Article: "Rand Paul said that Marco Rubio is for an 'open border'" by Amy Sherman.

Quote: "The Biden administration's failure to secure our southern border puts every American's security at risk, biden's open border policies have been a complete disaster, causing the worst border crisis we've seen in over 20 years. As the number of encounters continues to rise, drugs and weapons are flooding across our southern border, and Democrats have turned their backs on our Border Patrol agents and law enforcement." - Elise Stefanik.

Article: "Our National Security is at Risk Because Democrats Have Turned Border Security into a Partisan Issue" by Ron Johnson.

Article: "Here are the Democrats who have called the border situation a 'crisis'" by Carly Roman.

Article: "McCarthy heads to border as GOP puts Mayorkas on notice: 'He's utterly failed'" by Anna Giaritelli, Marisa Schultz.

Article: "Congress tried to fix immigration back in 1986. Why did it fail?" by Brad Plumer.

Article: "Sen. Tom Cotton insists â€˜the border is wide open' after Mayorkas claims border is secure" by Valerie Richardson.

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