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“Conservatives are yelling “stop” when it comes to marriage equality.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to climate change legislation.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to equal pay for equal work for women.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to critical, life-saving stem-cell research.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to providing health insurance at an affordable cost to all Americans.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to immigration reform.
They’re yelling “stop” when it comes to ending the failed drug war.
And not only are they yelling “stop” – but they’re actively trying to undo most of the progressive victories over the last century that they opposed from the start.
That includes undoing a women’s right to choose – or even have access to contraceptives.
It includes forcing women to submit to mandatory ultrasounds – like they’re children or wards of the state.
It includes passing more and more right-to-work FOR LESS laws – further eroding the rights of working people in America.
It includes gutting food safety programs, unemployment benefits, and food stamps.
And it even includes sabotaging our economy recovery to achieve their ultimate political goal – kicking a black man out of the White House.
This is what Conservativism has been all about in America – and continues to be about: fear, discrimination, and corporate domination.”
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Psychiatrist DR. Justin Frank – The same man who Analyzed Presidents Bush and Obama – has analyzed Mitt Romney – and says Romney is comfortable lying, in part, because of the way he was raised in his Mormon faith. But could the reason why Romney can’t tell the truth be something much more simple – and does it make him unfit to be President.
Sociopath? Or robot?
Gilchrist:
“We can beat the money.”
I wish I had his confidence.
Garlin Gilchrist II, MoveOn.org joins Thom Hartmann. Get your lawsuits ready – the state of Florida announced on Monday that it is filing a lawsuit against the Department of of Homeland Security to gain access to a federal database of undocumented immigrants so the state can continue its illegal purge of Democratic voters. A new poll shows a majority of voters in Florida oppose Governor Scott’s purge – and his own approval rating has plummeted to 31%. But Governor Scott knows what the rest of the Republican Party knows – and that’s that polls don’t matter – votes matter. And if enough Democratic voters are kicked off the rolls – then Mitt Romney will win in November – and Governor Scott will be re-elected a few years after. While the lawsuits play out in court – what can Floridians do now to protect their right to vote?
What do you call it when a small group of Republicans gather to intentionally sabotage an entire nation, just so their party can win political power off the pain of working Americans? Is it “treason”? Sedition? Or simply the most corrupt, evil, and petty sort of politics this town has seen since Newt Gingrich shut down the government and threw millions of Americans out of work because Bill Clinton had made him fly in the back of Air Force One?
Thom Hartmann. ‘Nuff said.
Anyone who reads TPC regularly knows I’m a Thom Hartmann fan, as many of you are. I’ve got some good news for us, and for Thom: His show, “The Big Picture” on Free Speech TV, is going global!
I stream his radio show every day, and even on those rare times when I don’t see eye to eye with him, I admire his knowledge, intelligence, and the patience and respect with which he treats every guest, no matter how vehemently he disagrees with them.
Here is part of his press release:
Thom Hartmann has authored 23 books published in 17 languages on five different continents. So perhaps it was only natural that his hour-long, nationally syndicated television program would follow a similar course. [...]
“This is such an important time, with a U.S. Presidential election as important as any I can remember, a global financial crisis and tensions in the Middle East seeming to rise once again. I look forward to the opportunity to share my common-sense progressive views on these issues and more with viewers throughout the globe.”
[He holds] the #8 spot recently on Talkers Magazine’s list of most influential talkers. And as noted above, he is the author or co-author of 23 books.
Recently, Hartmann has broadcast his radio show from Reykjavik, Iceland and Stockholm, Sweden, and in the coming weeks will do the same in Germany, a country in which he and his family lived for a couple of years. This and the international syndication of The Big Picture should further propel his domestic success into a truly international brand.
Good news for all of us progressives, but especially Thom. Congratulations!
You can stream his radio show here.
Thom Hartmann. ‘Nuff said.
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek & Tim Cavanaugh, Columnist-Reason Magazine andReason.com. Marianne Gingrich is now talking about her ex-husband Newt in an interview airing on ABC tonight. And word on the street is that Newt wanting an “open marriage” is just one of many explosive revelations set to come out in tonight’s interview, in which his ex-wife says he lacks the character to be President. What does it say about our society – and our press – that if a Black man like Obama had done the same he would have had no chance whatsoever to run for high office?
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