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The Sequester Blame Game
The sequester deadline is March 1st, and there's only four days until Republican austerity measures start to kick in. President Obama released new reports Sunday, which detail how spending cuts will harm each state, and he continues to call on Congress to find a way to avoid the sequester. The Republicans were hard at work too. But, instead of working on a compromise to prevent austerity, they've just come up with a new way to make Obama the bad guy.
Since the American people didn't buy the Republican's attempts to blame the President for the sequester, the GOP now wants Obama to decide just where, when, and how these cuts should take place. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri floated this new idea in an interview over the weekend, saying “the compromise is to give the president authority that he should be willing to use as the leader of the country to target the cuts, rather than to take the cuts on every line item.” This is just their latest ploy to avoid any responsibility for the financial pain our nation is about to feel, and President Obama needs to say “No” to their latest scheme.
If Congress doesn’t act to prevent these austerity measures, the American people will know who's really to blame. It's Republicans who refuse to compromise, and they'd rather subject our entire nation to devastating cuts, than stop the tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. Call Congress now and tell them that if they don't act to prevent the sequester, soon they'll be joining the unemployment rolls with the one million Americans who lose their jobs because of Republican austerity.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Washington's dangerous game... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Washington's dangerous game... - Dr. Richard Wolf, Economist, New School University / "Democracy At Work" 
Screwed: Goodbye vote...emergency manager coming to Detroit?- Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow Push/Detroit
The Best of the Rest...
Everything You Know is Wrong Are cats leaving New Zealand for good? - Gareth Morgan, "Cats to Go" campaign in New Zealand
Daily Take: TSA now traumatizing disabled toddlers...
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, Jobs & Democrats' plan to avoid sequestration- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Hour Two: Conversation w/the President re: Sequestration & Voting Rights Act- Joe Madison, Host-The Joe Madison Show
Article: " 15th Amendment". Section 1. he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Article: " Tornado" by Wikipedia. " The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country ... followed by the UK ... per year".
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Why do conservatives hate pre-school?- Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum
Hour Two: Should we move to a new monetary system?- Dr. Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City / New Economic Perspectives
Hour Three: The right has a new "welfare queen" lie going- Joshua Holland, Alternet / "The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy"
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on the sequestration...will Congress do the right thing for "we the people?"
Plus, what's the real reason conservatives want the President to give up on green energy? I'll have a debate with Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should “Zero Dark Thirty” Have Been Nominated for Best Picture?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
It's Time to Bring Back the Draft for Men & Women
What will Mitt Romney's new show on Fox be called?
Rumble - Saint Ronnie wanted to cut tax loopholes for wealthy!
Conversations w/Great Minds Eyal Press, P1
Conversations w/Great Minds Eyal Press, P2
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 2/22/12: The Draft: A War Killer
Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses how growing wealth inequality has been driven by the low capital gains tax rate, how Republicans in Congress are benefiting from our country's private prisons and another argument from the gun nuts on why Americans need to be armed. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains how we need to reinstate the draft in order to have less war and kill the military industrial complex.
Thom Hartmann on The News: February 22, 2013
Time To Talk Another Permian Extinction
SCOTUS & The Voting Rights Act
Mercury Going Retrograde!
Joe Madison: A Conversation With The President
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
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