Daily Topics - Thursday June 16th, 2011
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Thom is live on radio row from Netroots Nation in Minneapolis, MN today and tomorrow with guests...Markos Moulitsas, John Nichols, USW President Leo Gerard, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Dr. Jared Bernstein and more!
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann seeks out interesting subjects from such disparate outposts of curiosity that you have to wonder whether or not he uncovered them or they selected him."
I like these conference episodes. It's great to hear a string of real liberals talking about the underlying issues of how our political process works. I missed the first 45 minutes, so I don't know if it was mentioned that Lizz Winstead is one of the co-creators of The Daily Show, nor did I catch what she's working on now ,though I heard a while ago she was doing some show about Planned Parenthood.
As for the workings of politics, I think we need to have a separation of duties in the Democratic Party (really, every party) so that the politicians can be just policy makers and the party would take care of campaign funding. Sure, you'll have banquets to show off the "product", but the politicians wouldn't have to whore themselves out. To help enforce this, the party charter should institute a wall between public office and party office. Not that you couldn't go from one to the other eventually, but you shouldn't be allowed to be one while being a nominee or candidate for the other.
This certainly would have helped Anthony Weiner, who was abandoned by his party because he didn't raise enough money for them.