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The Hartmann Report

WHY SHOULD AMERICA TAKE THE GOP SERIOUSLY ABOUT RAISING THE DEBT CEILING

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Why should America take the GOP seriously, about raising the debt ceiling, when the GOP is responsible for most of the national debt? Why public schools favor the wealthy in our current system and Republicans want to privatize education. Thom debates Republican strategist Jennifer Stefano, Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation and Fellow of the Independent Women's Forum.

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This is the Tom Harbin program and greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth,

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and justice, believers, and peace freedom in the American way.

0:54.3

I want to start out with a kind of a follow-on to an op-ed that I published back on September 20th,

1:00.0

titled Santa Claus is about to drop a bomb on Biden.

1:03.0

You recall back in on March 6th, 1976, in the Wall Street Journal, a political,

1:08.9

Republican political strategy, Jude Wyniske, published a piece in which he said,

1:13.2

the only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

1:17.3

And he built this case, the Democrats were below, this isn't 76,

1:21.4

the Republican Party was in complete wreckage, Jerry Ford couldn't even be to peanut farmer for

1:27.7

president, an unknown peanut farmer at that, all because of the Nixon bribery scandals and

1:32.8

everything else. And so he said in the Wall Street Journal, the problem, the reason Republicans

1:38.2

keep losing elections is because Democrats are viewed as Santa Claus, they brought us Medicare,

1:42.1

they brought us Medicaid, they brought us unemployment insurance, they brought us minimum wage,

1:45.6

they brought us all this stuff, and the Republicans said no to every single thing.

1:50.4

And he said Republicans have to become Santa Claus and they have to force Democrats to shoot

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