(2013/02/04) A plea for sanity (Conservatives)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 February 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #685
A plea for sanity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Will the GOP double down on stupid? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12-04-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The gambler - Kenny Rogers
Ch. 4: Act 2: Obamacare Survival Guide Targets Stupid Conservatives - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 01-09-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: We're simple minds - Club8
Ch. 6: Act 3: GOP Pollster: Re-Market Policy Until It Sounds Good - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-19-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hair - The Cowstills
Ch. 8: Act 4: Santorum Joins Racists Paranoids & Cane Fighters at WND - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-3-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: You're wrong - NOFX
Ch. 10: Act 5: Republican Leader: We Got an A-Hole Problem - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-13-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: The asshole song - Jimmy Buffet
Ch. 12: Act 6: Only 6% of Scientists Are Republicans - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 01-21-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Science is real - They might be giants
Ch. 14: Act 7: Traitors? Mississippi Trying to Skip Federal Law - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-26-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Dixie - Carolina Chocolate Drops
Ch. 16: Act 8: The GOP - Paranoia as a way of life - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12-07-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: These things take time - Pummel
Ch. 18: Act 9: Conservatism Riddled with Scams - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-10-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Slowing the pace of losing our rights - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 20: Polygamy leads to abuses by men - Shawn from Dallas
Ch. 21: Logistical problems with polygamy - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 22: Discussing pitfalls of polygamy - Ronald from Baltimore
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on the rights of nonconformists
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups today from the Tom |
| 0:12.2 | Hartman program, the David Pakman Show, the Young Turks, the Rachel Maddo Show, and |
| 0:16.1 | the Majority Report. |
| 0:17.1 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners this episode may not be appropriate for those |
| 0:20.8 | conservatives who are faint of heart. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, the president, President Obama, just won re-election of the White House with a |
| 0:34.4 | margin of about 51% of the popular vote. |
| 0:39.2 | This is about the same number he won by in 2008. |
| 0:41.8 | The last president to win both election and re-election by 51% of greater was Dwight |
| 0:47.3 | D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 56. |
| 0:51.2 | So apparently both Obama and Eisenhower were doing something right that a clear majority |
| 0:55.5 | of the American people liked, but what could that be? |
| 0:59.6 | We're all pretty familiar with the platform on which Obama won re-election. |
| 1:03.7 | You know, everybody knows what he was running on. |
| 1:06.0 | We're going to protect unions, we're going to raise taxes on the rich, we're going to |
| 1:09.0 | protect the environment, we're going to, you know, pretty straightforward stuff. |
| 1:13.4 | What about Eisenhower? |
| 1:16.0 | How did he get that big a landslide for re-election? |
| 1:20.3 | And this is after as a Republican, he'd been governing for four years. |
| 1:24.6 | So people knew who he wasn't and what he was all about. |
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