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Thom's blog
The Rise of a Left-Wing Tea Party?
 During a heated confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Georgia Congressman Tom Price, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, refused to say whether or not he would support cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Price's refusal to answer that very simple question from Elizabeth Warren comes as Republicans are discovering that their quest to dismantle the social safety net is wildly unpopular with the American people. Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman learned this the hard way Saturday during a town hall meeting outside Denver. The event was billed as a "one-on-one" meet-and-greet, but soon turned into a protest as hundreds of people angry at Coffman's Friday vote to repeal Obamacare filled a lobby and began singing protest songs like "This is Your Land." This display of democracy was apparently too much for Coffman, who fled the event early out a back door. A similar scene occurred on Monday in Washington State, where Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, one of the GOP's rising stars, was met with chants of "save our healthcare" during a MLK day speech in Spokane. So, is this going to happen to every Republican? Are we about to see a repeat of those 2010 Town Halls in reverse? Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure: Republicans are playing with fire. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... Bill Ayers: "Demand the Impossible" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Big Picture Interview: Manifesto for Movement Makers
- Professor William Ayers, Demand the Impossible!/University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)  |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Article: " trump" by Oxford Dictionary.
Case: " Bush v. Gore", 2000. " The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
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