Daily Topics - Monday August 8th, 2011
By shawnt56
The Big Picture "On Air" Questions or Comments for Thom?
Hour One: Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack On GOP Revenue Intransigence
Hour Two: The S&P downgrade: what it means - Richard Wolff
Hour Three: How much of the debt is 'our' fault...and where are the jobs? Ryan Streeter, Conservative Home USA
Comments
#2
Brilliant choice to show Harry Truman's speech! I see the Republicans have not changed .
#3
Where is the petition to ensure that Sen. Bernie Sanders is on the "Gang of 12" waste of time committee?
Thanks
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
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.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Hartmann combines a remarkable piece of historical research with a brilliant literary style to tell the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel."
From Screwed:
"The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong — and what you and I can do to help set American right again."
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."
I'm guessing that this downgrading of the US credit rating is going to have a major effect on the Wisconsin elections tomorrow. Either voters are going to be more motivated to show up because they're seeing the writing on the wall, or they are going to stay home because the figure all it lost.
I think we'll see a record number of voters at the polls tomorrow. But I'm going to be keeping my ears attuned to the turn out results. I truly believe its going to give an accurate snapshot pulse of the American people.
I'm also expecting all sorts of shenanigans to take place. The Republican't party has been very lucky to find missing ballots and voting irregularities the day after elections take place, that always seem to favor them... overwhelming numbers are often not enough it seems.
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