Daily Topics - Friday October 4th, 2013

Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Anything Goes Friday
Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: Are the banksters looting YOUR pension fund? Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine
Comments
God, this is so FRUSTRATING!! Callers keep bringing up how LAME the Democrats are (with a couple exceptions) and that they refuse to stand up and do the right thing. Tom, you keep repeating the same thing over and over -- get involved at a local level, do what the Tea Party did, take over the party. THAT DOESN'T WORK WHEN YOU NEED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO COMPETE WITH THE REPUBLICANS!!!!! WHY DO YOU KEEP REPEATING THAT THIS IS THE ANSWER?????
The answer is that we MUST get rid of Citizens United, or we must pass a constitutional amendment that will once and for all control campaign finance and mandate public funding.
I know you try to be upbeat and hopeful and I thank God for your program (I'd likely have blown my brains out by now without it), but we must open up this conversation and stop DELUDING ourselves that we have any chance up against BILLIONAIRES who simply BUY ELECTIONS. THAT'S HOW THE TEA PARTY GOT ELECTED -- BECAUSE THEY HAD THE BIG MONEY BEHIND THEM!!!
I was also a big surprised by how reticent Bernie seemed to talk about the TPP which could literally dismantle the U.S. as a sovereign nation. We need MUCH MUCH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS.



Comedy - look at the images on John Boehner's Facebook page!
Today's images has captions: From the White House: "It doesn't really matter to us" how long the shutdown lasts. Senior Administration Official. Wall Street Journal 10/3/13.
The quotes are only around "...It doesn't really matter to us" - so that could be in reference to ANYTHING. Someone added the remainder of text out of context and should be sued for fraud!