tom harkin here on the news you need to know this after president obama unveiled
his plans for gun control including signing more than twenty executive
orders
republicans are reacting with calls for impeachment
despite presidents routinely sign executive orders republicans are
accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanors
boating congressman steve stockman
compare the president is saddam hussein and
previously threatened to impeach him
ulcer but with his lead gomer and trade rebel piled on
sane impeachment is one of a number of options that should be on the table
responder the president's been reforms
first of the rational person the president's executive orders are common
sense reforms
clean better record sharing between federal agencies
studies and gun violence
and even providing incentives for schools to hire resource officers
but to be in saying that
these are tierney
justified because the same public ans didn't seem to mind a bit when bush
signed number a far more radical executive orders during his term
including a ban on stem cell research authorization torture
brady more powers for the vice president's office
and making it harder to get a hold of presidential records
all of these actions were taken without
any consideration of congress
but none of them were taken against the deep pocketed gun industry to
republicans were just fine with them
enough with the rhetoric cyber congress to do with the american people
overwhelmingly support which is take action to get weapons of war off our
streets and out of the hands of the mentally bill
and that also includes addressing the wealth any quality issue america's
underlying all this violence in our society
pass an assault weapons bill and repeal the reagan tax cuts too
in scrutiny reads we can say we were warned
republicans in pennsylvania taking the boulders step yet inbreeding the next
presidential election
on monday seven republican state lawmakers introduced legislation to
change the way pennsylvania counts its electoral college votes
under the proposed scheme rather than winner take all pennsylvania walked a
lot elect borough votes to candidates
her congressional district they win in the state
to extra votes going to the states pocketbook winner
this is a huge benefit republicans who are now in control of these
traditionally lead states and had gerrymander the congressional districts
car about a bunch of seats seats the republicans while dividing democratic
strongholds
infec at this republican plan dinner fact pasta babbar
president obama would have only collected seven pennsylvania's twenty
electoral college votes
despite winning the popular vote that state by it
points
aneta other swing states like ohio michigan wisconsin also pass this plan
net romney would be our president today
missus blatant election redeem
the fact that the republican party is allowing this to move forward shows they
really don't give a damn about american democracy more
it does the rest of the news at a time when republicans are so concerned about
the debt
wire taxpayer dollars being funneled to a private schools that teach creationism
instead of all evolution
according to the new research by exact
cop-one msnbc
more than three hundred and ten private schools that teach creationism
are also receiving tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers
angst about your programs in states like florida georgia oklahoma
critical money that could shara public education budgets
has been funneled toward religious
corporate schools
their only interested neither a indoctrinate young people with radical
religious ideology instead of actual science
or b
turning a hefty profit off each student or c
one school in oklahoma receiving taxpayer dollars to pull life christian
academy
as advertisers
life science class will quote
leave the student to recognize that god created all living things at these
living things there
fearfully and wonderfully made
so all students in china and the developing world where actual science
and prepare themselves for jobs the twenty first century
american students are learning from the bible
paying a lot more for that useless education
corporate america las vegas harder for you to retire
following the footsteps of c_e_o_'s who organize the so-called
fixed the debt campaign which promotes raising the retirement age for social
security
another corporate front group the business roundtable is calling for the
same thing
they want a razor charities to sell for social security up to seventy years
chris just like
fix the debt
the business roundtable is made up of wealthy c_e_o_s who have little use for
social security anyway
will do just fine other multimillion dollar nest eggs when they retire
fearing that they might see their taxes go up if the payroll tax campus lifted
to make social security more solid
these executives would rather see americans lame breaks into a seventy
years old
and for the record this argument that americans and living longer it is
while the wealthy who worked non physical jobs like bank stirs are indeed
movie marker
the working people in physical jobs have seemed very few games everglades
expectancy
that the democrats in congress to protect social security program they
create
and file a seven americans are among forty one hostages taken in algeria
after an islamist militant group attacked but it will feel partially
sound-bite p
regular jury government the heavily-armed militants use three
vehicles and launched an attack in the early morning hours apparently killing
three people in the process
group is affiliated with al qaeda and claims the attack is revenge for the
ongoing bombing
of suspected militants molly by french forces over the last week
tragic tragically the switch homers johnson would refer to as low back
consequence of decades of meddling internal politics in the region
extracting natural resources so for the safety of the hostages
that's the way it is that a thursday january seventeenth twenty
i'm tom harkin