2017 Archives

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 21, 2017

Can The Democrats Blockade TrumpCare?

With a vote on the still-secret Republican healthcare bill scheduled for sometime next week, Democrats are finally taking action to try and stop Mitch McConnell and the GOP.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 20, 2017

Is This Any Way To Run A Democracy?

As they begin slowing the Senate down to a virtual halt to protest the secret GOP healthcare bill, are Democrats finally learning what it means to "resist"?

Posted at Alternet.org on May. 5, 2017

Republicans’ Vicious and Immoral Health Care Bill Is Just Part of a Sinister Long Game

While Democrats are jubilant that the GOP passed a terrible healthcare/tax-cut bill through the House, which they think will cause voters to reject the GOP in 2018, it’s a very, very premature celebration.

Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 23, 2017

Our Constitution Vs. the Deep State Run by Intelligence Agencies and the Pentagon – Only One Will Survive

It is virtually impossible to read a newspaper or a blog analyzing the politics of America in 2017 without thinking "disaster."

Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 23, 2017

The Bizarre Experience of Watching Cable News in America on Earth Day

Just exactly what the hell are they afraid of? Are the fossil fuel billionaires, corporations, and lobby really so strong that they can cow entire television networks and newspapers? Not to mention politicians?

Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 7, 2017

The Republican Party Is Ready to Sell Off Your Internet Privacy at a Level That Boggles the Mind

Trump’s new Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, recently co-authored what is either an intentionally or naively deceptive op-ed in The Washington Post.

Posted at Alternet.org on Mar. 22, 2017

America’s TV Media Crisis Goes Far Beyond Covering Trump: We Simply Aren’t Hearing About the Most Pressing Issues of Our Time

America has a “lying press” problem. And it’s not the “enemy of the people” situation our president has asserted.

Posted at Alternet.org on Mar. 14, 2017

How Republicans Quietly Sabotaged Obamacare Long Before Trump Came into Office

Donald Trump suggested that the Affordable Care Act was a clever ruse by our first black president and his Democratic friends to have a successful health-care system in place for his own presidency, but was set up to fail in the first year of the next president's term.Donald Trump suggested that the Affordable Care Act was a clever ruse by our first black president and his Democratic friends to have a successful health-care system in place for his own presidency, but was set up to fail in the first year of the next president's term.

Posted at Alternet.org on Mar. 10, 2017

Right-Wing Billionaires Have a Project to Rewrite Our Constitution, and They Are Shockingly Close to Pulling It Off

Imagine if the U.S. Constitution barred the EPA and Department of Education from existing. All union protections are dead, there are no more federal workplace safety standards, and even child-labor laws are struck down, along with a national minimum wage.

Posted at Alternet.org on Feb. 27, 2017

Here’s Proof Republicans Are Done With Democracy

Show up for a protest, and end up losing your home, car, and retirement account? How about losing everything over just being at a meeting or on a conference call?