Republicans are filibustering while they're sitting by the pool with their billionaire donors...
Aug. 3, 2011 8:10 amBy louisehartmannLike the House – the Senate is now on vacation too – but not before Republicans could latch on to a procedural gimmick to keep President Obama from making a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Daily Topics - Wednesday August 3rd, 2011
Aug. 3, 2011 8:02 amBy shawnt56The Big Picture "On Air" Questions or Comments for Thom?
Hour One: Revealed...The Tea Party take over you didn't know about!
Hour Two: The debt deal and the economy...what's next? Professor Richard Wolff
If a plane goes down this month – call Speaker Boehner
Aug. 2, 2011 6:29 amBy louisehartmannFAA workers are screwed. With the debt-limit deal out of the way – it’s time for Congress to resolve the FAA funding impasse right? No. Instead of figuring out a way to restore full funding to the agency in charge of making sure our airplanes don’t fall out of the sky – and also figuring out a way to get 4,000 furloughed FAA employees back to work – Republicans are going on vacation.
Daily Topics - Monday August 1st, 2011
Aug. 1, 2011 8:56 amBy shawnt56The Big Picture "On Air" Questions or Comments for Thom?
Hour One: Latest on the debt ceiling deal and what it means
Republicans should be Dancing in the Streets
Aug. 1, 2011 8:18 amBy louisehartmannRepublicans should be dancing in the streets. So says Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver after an 11th hour debt-limit deal was struck yesterday between President Obama and Congressional leaders to avoid our nation from defaulting. Unfortunately – once again – the President let right-wings take the American people hostage and then gave in to the hostage-takers. The deal – which still needs to be approved by lawm
Transcript: The Big Picture: Thom Hartmann Exposes the History of "We're going broke!" 14 July '11
Jul. 31, 2011 5:08 pmBy SueNFriday 29 July '11 show notes
Jul. 31, 2011 12:45 pmBy SueN- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). "Brunch With Bernie".
- John Nichols, Washington Correspondent, The Nation Magazine.
We're turning into a nation of peons....
Jul. 29, 2011 9:39 amBy louisehartmannAs debt-limit talks stall - the economy hit a wall. Economic growth in the second quarter of this year was less than expected – only 1.3%. Not only that – first quarter economic growth was revised downward showing that our economy grew by less than a half-point at the beginning of the year – just .4%. The reason why our economy stalled is consumer spending which only grew by .1% - the slowest growth rate in two years
Daily Topics - Friday July 29th
Jul. 29, 2011 8:09 amBy shawnt56The Big Picture "On Air" Questions or Comments for Thom?
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - Senator Sanders takes your calls