WHAT IS REALLY FREAKING OUT MITCH McCONNELL?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Can the Republicans' latest fake freakouts distract from the popularity of the Democratic party's agenda- including Covid relief and making voting a legal right. Will the dominoes begin to fall as we reverse the failure s of neoliberalism?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.8 | There is a very real possibility that the Democrats are going to pass HR-1, the For the |
| 0:24.0 | People Act, the law that will end gerrymandering across the country, which means that states |
| 0:30.3 | like Michigan and Wisconsin were a majority of the people vote for Democrats, but you |
| 0:34.0 | still end up with a majority of Republicans in the legislative legislatures controlling |
| 0:38.0 | the House and Senate. |
| 0:39.6 | That's going to end that the right to vote is going to be guaranteed. |
| 0:46.1 | That's what HR-1 is all about. |
| 0:47.5 | You have a right to vote, whether you want to vote by mail or whether you want to vote |
| 0:50.7 | in person. |
| 0:51.7 | You have a right to vote and you have a right not to stand in line for 10 hours. |
| 0:58.7 | That's all this bill does. |
| 0:59.7 | It's a very simple, very straightforward, it's just a lecture reform that requires that |
| 1:04.6 | if you're going to use a voting machine, that voting machine has to produce a paper trail |
| 1:07.8 | that can be ordered. |
| 1:10.6 | Mitch McConnell is so hysterical about this. |
| 1:15.2 | I mean, literally hysterical. |
| 1:17.7 | And just listen to this, tell me if this is not hysteria. |
| 1:20.9 | This is what he said, keep in mind, here's what he's talking about. |
| 1:24.1 | Stacey Abrams came out and said, you guys can change, you Chuck Schumer. |
| 1:30.3 | You can change the Senate rules with a simple majority vote and you control a simple majority |
| 1:34.9 | vote with Conala Harris as the tie breaking vote. |
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