Thom Hartmann

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Sep. 9, 2009

Medicare Part E "Everybody"

The President this morning admitted on national television that he lost control of the message with health care. It’s time to reboot – and use a very, very, very simple message so all Americans can understand it.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Aug. 25, 2009

Cash for Geezers? Lower the Retirement Age to 55 Now!

One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to our economy right now would be to lower the current Social Security retirement age from the current 65-67 to 55, and increase the benefits back to where they were in inflation-adjusted 1960s dollars by raising them between 10 to 20 percent (so people could actually live, albeit modestly, on Social Security).
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Aug. 16, 2009

Dear President Obama,

I understand you’re thinking of dumping your “public option” because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jul. 21, 2009

The Great Tax Con Job

Republicans are using the T-word - taxes - to attack the Obama healthcare program. It's a strategy based in a lie.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on May. 11, 2009

Arlen Specter Checked A Card

The irony was hard to miss. Senator Arlen Specter, checking a card changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democratic, saying that he won't support the right of working people to check a card to change from unaffiliated to affiliated with a union.

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