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Following is our end-of-the-week summary of all the topics covered on our Politics Done Right on KPFT 90.1 FM program, which is also streamed on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitter, and Twitch.

Oct 08, 2023

Monday October 2nd, 2023

Dem & GOP panelists agree GOP has no plans for average Americans as Trump mocks civil society: Jake Tapper played a clip of an unhinged Donald Trump who attacked Pelosi and Biden but said nothing to solve America's problems. The panelists agreed that the GOP has no plan. [More]
Jake Tapper ridicules Matt Gaetz: "You're 'someone who is looking for clicks, likes, & Fox hits.": CNN Host Jake Tapper took irresponsible MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz to task for his attempted government shutdown. Tapper called him out for grandstanding for clicks, likes, & Fox hits. [More]
Chaotic Republican Party. Joy-Ann Reid exposes MSM. AOC exposes GOP impeachment fraud: The Republican Party is in disarray from government shutdown to fraudulent impeachment to embarrassing debates; they are a failure. Joy-Ann Reid exposes the mainstream media. [More]
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele explains why the Republican debate was an embarrassing crap show: Former RNC Chair Michael Steele didn't mince his words as he harshly critiqued the 2nd 2024 Primary Republican debate. He said it was a crap show and embarrassing. [More]

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Tuesday October 3rd, 2023

The Hunter Biden Impeachment story is DONE! AOC and Democrats made it a GOP embarrassment: Republicans used their lies and dirty tricks at the impeachment hearing. AOC embarrassed Republicans, illustrating that they were using photoshopped documents. [More]
Rep. Mike Lawler on shutdown: ‘If you keep running lunatics, you are going to be in this position.’: An adult Republican points out that a shutdown would be caused by Republican lunatics who cannot accept yes as an answer or that they control just a small part of the government. [More]
Shifting 2024 Strategy Further Reveals RFK Jr. Is No Friend to Progressives: If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows through on his apparent plans to run for president in the fall 2024 general election, that will make it all the more important for progressives to have a clear understanding of who Kennedy is and what he really stands for. In advance of announcing that he’ll run as an independent, according to Mediaite, the Kennedy campaign will deploy “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee for preventing an open primary process. The DNC’s shenanigans deserve to be condemned, and we’ve repeatedly done so, including here, here and here. [More]
Largest Healthcare Worker Strike in US History Set to Kick Off on Oct. 4: In what's expected to be the largest-ever U.S. healthcare worker strike, more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states and Washington, D.C. are set to stop working for three days starting Wednesday to protest what they say are unfair working conditions and unsafe staffing levels at hundreds of hospitals and clinics across the country. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions—which represents 85,000 KP workers in eight unions—began its national bargaining process in April in anticipation of worker contracts expiring at the end of September. Union members are seeking across-the-board raises of between 5.75%-6.5%; KP is offering 3%. Additionally, workers want protections against subcontracting and outsourcing, better performance-sharing bonuses, an improved retiree medical plan, and unionization rights for employees of nonunion entities acquired by the KP. [More]

Wednesday October 4th, 2023

Stephanie Ruhle discusses bad messaging by Democrats on the economy: Democrats continuously tell Americans that the economy is firing on all cylinders. While this is the case for many, Stephanie Ruhle states that we must address those left behind. [More]
Republican Congressman Ken Buck made a Biden/Trump false equivalence that will blow your mind: For those who thought Rep. Ken Buck (R-MO) was a serious politician, this interview proves even he is a Trump sycophant who misleads. [More]
NBC reporter embarrasses GOP Rep. Jason Smith's inability to validate reasons for Biden impeachment: Recently, an NBC reporter embarrassed Republican Congressman Jason Smith, who got caught using misleading information about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden. [More]
Profits Over Progress: Corporate Sabotage at the Heart of Our Nation's Dysfunction: It is now conventional wisdom that America is a divided country, with bitter partisan splits over just about everything. It’s undoubtedly true that Americans have divergent views on many important topics. But the narrative of a Divided America obscures an equally important and rarely acknowledged truth: Americans agree on a great deal. [More]

Thursday October 5th, 2023

Rep. Dan Kildee clarified that the GOP should be blamed for ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy: GOP politicians and pundits are trying to spin the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the doings of Democrats. Rep. Dan Kildee sets the record straight. Republicans are to blame. [More]
Rep. Mike Lawler wants Gaetz expelled, calls allies useful idiots, then blames Dems for ouster: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) wants Matt Gaetz expelled from the GOP caucus. He called the Gaetz accomplices useful idiots and blamed Democrats for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. [More]
Neil Aquino from the Houston Democracy Project is here. The Houston Democracy Project works daily to make democracy a top issue in 2023 Houston city politics & to inspire and strengthen pro-democracy coalitions. This week, we'll be discussing Neil's conversation with a Republican Houston Council candidate & Democratic Councilwoman Abbie Kamin's discomfort over questions about the protection of a historic Houston Black community. [More]
Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers by $140 Billion a Year—Enough to Wipe Out Medicare Premiums: A report published Wednesday estimates that privately run, government-funded Medicare Advantage plans are overcharging U.S. taxpayers by up to $140 billion per year, a sum that could be used to completely eliminate Medicare Part B premiums or fully fund Medicare's prescription drug program. Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an advocacy group that supports transitioning to a single-payer health insurance system, found that Medicare Advantage (MA) overbills the federal government by at least $88 billion per year, based on 2022 spending. [More]

Friday October 6th, 2023

Are Republicans poised to elect a pervert or white supremacist sympathizer as Speaker?: Two flawed Republicans, Steve Scalise, and Jim Jordan, are running to be the new GOP Speaker of the House. They will fit right in with the likes of Dennis Hastert. [More]
Steve Rattner highlights the evil within the proposed Republican Budget: Steve Rattner illustrated how the budget is really subdivided. It makes it clear GOP politicians are just evil based on the items they choose to cut instead of raising revenue from the rich. [More]
Neil Aquino from the Houston Democracy Project is here. The Houston Democracy Project works daily to make democracy a top issue in 2023 Houston city politics & to inspire and strengthen pro-democracy coalitions. This week, we'll be discussing Neil's conversation with a Republican Houston Council candidate & Democratic Councilwoman Abbie Kamin's discomfort over questions about the protection of a historic Houston Black community. [More]
Under Trump, IRS Targeted Low-Income Families at Higher Rate Than Millionaires for First Time: During the final year of Donald Trump's presidency, the Internal Revenue Service audited low-income families at a higher rate than millionaires for the first time, according to an Americans for Tax Fairness analysis released as congressional Republicans work to further hamper the agency's ability to crack down on rich tax cheats. Years of Republican-imposed budget cuts have left the IRS badly understaffed and without sufficient resources to aggressively pursue wealthy tax evaders, whose returns tend to be more complex. As a result, ATF noted in its analysis, "audits of millionaires have dropped 92% over the last decade." Audits of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients have also fallen over the past 10 years, but not nearly as dramatically. [More]

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