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The Hartmann Report

WITHOUT THE FILIBUSTER OUR POLITICIANS ARE BARE NAKED

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, Economics, Climate Change, America

4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The filibuster is the world’s largest fig leaf, big enough to hide dozens of cowardly or bought-off senators of both parties, all at one time. An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy - Signed by Billy Kristol and Noam Chomsky and others...

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

1:09.9

Well Joe Biden, President Biden just walked out on the thinnest ice of his political career.

1:15.1

I am guessing we will see. He's just wrapping up a speech right now in which he points out that

1:22.1

the American middle class, over the last 40 years of Reaganomics, my addition to that, not his,

1:28.6

but basically he said over the last few decades, we have been shoveling money, again,

1:34.9

I'm paraphrasing you, this is all my language, not his, but basically we've been shoveling

1:39.3

money up to the people at the top, the billionaires who've made $2 trillion just during the pandemic.

1:46.8

And we've been screwing middle class people. And he basically announced that we've got this deal.

1:56.0

The $3.5 trillion package is now a $1.75 trillion package.

2:01.3

The Medicare expansion that was going to be vision, dental, and hearing aids is now hearing aids.

2:09.3

The climate plan is $555 billion. He has to have this if he's going to go to Scotland,

2:18.7

to the COP conference. He's off to G20 now, and then he's off to Scotland, which I believe

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