Thom Hartmann: The GOP is Terrified & They're Going to Lose

[thomhartmann]

Speaking of showdowns - our country is in the middle of an epic battle between two different visions of what our society should become…

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on RT TV & FSTV "live" 9pm and 11pm check www.thomhartmann.com/tv for local listings

[snagglepuss]

1. "Me" society billionaires versus "We" society. Bang on.

k and r

[Stuart G]

2. Great Video..Thom is correct. they are going to lose...nt K and R

[freshwest]

3. Excellent, Thom. Thanks for this.

[drynberg]

4. YEP, I AGREE, BUT AT WHAT PRICE TO "THE 99%"?

Even though I fully support our President in not yielding to these RW yahoos, we may face defaulting on our debts and face many unforeseen consequences...just so no one is caught totally by surprise. We may get a black eye and a bloody nose from these RW bullies, but this is a fight worth fighting.

[LongTomH]

5. A friend made this comment on Facebook:

I am witnessing the most perfect example of Cognitive Dissonance you can ever imagine. Republican Conservatives who are Federal Workers who are just getting filleted and flambeed by the very people they voted for. They ran on the government shutdown platform, they threatened to do it and they all voted them in thinking only people on welfare or food stamps would get hurt. Karma is indeed a bitch. Now that the pain is setting in I keep hearing the same mantra, "Well, BOTH sides are greedy and equally at fault!!!"

No, let's be very clear and let's be intellectually honest. Harry Reid didn't do this, Nancy Pelosi didn't do this, gays didn't do this, people on food stamps didn't do this, I will say it again to drive it home hard: John Boehner and a minority of Tea Party Republicans in the US House of Representatives did this because they disagreed with a law they didn't like. They threatened to do this, they promised if elected they'd do this, and I gotta point out, you Republicans elected them. Now I love all of you Conservatives but choices have consequences. You don't like Obama, no, you REALLY REALLY don't like him. We all get it. We didn't like Bush and Cheney either but we were told to "get over it!" We didn't shut down the government over Iraq. I think it's horrible to toss these federal workers out of work I mean WTF?!!

Throwing a tantrum over a law you don't like, which BTW Republicans are signing up for in droves, solves nothing. To blame "Both sides" is disingenuous at best or cynically deceptive at worst. ~ Tom Robinson

[zebonaut]

6. Republican Bottomfeeders don't understand the Cooperative Ethic

Bottomfeeders want to profit off of ill health. Crush them through the power of the Cooperative Ethic. Everyone gains through cooperation.