February 12 - The Journalist who is Suing the President; Two Tea Party Rebuttals; Progressive Strategies for Obama's Second Term; How to Move an Implacably Hostile Republican House

Full Program

Part 1

Part 2

Then we hear from Adele Stan, Alternet’s Washington Bureau Chief who has followed the Tea Party since its inception. We discuss the two successive Republican responses to Obama’s State of the Union from two Tea Party Senators, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. We also look into whether the president will put the Republicans on notice as they are poised to let the sequester crash the barely recovering economy, thus throwing us back into recession and impoverishing millions of Americans.

Part 3

Then we look into whether the president has taken on too many challenges in his second term with gun control, immigration, global warming, jobs and economic recovery. Mike Lux, the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies joins us to discuss what the president might be able to accomplish in his second term before the next mid-term election and whether the Democrats could re-take the House in 2014 and extend Obama’s ability to govern before he becomes a lame duck

Part 4

Then finally we be joined by Tara McGuinness, the Executive Director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. We assess the likely impact of the president’s address on the public, and more importantly, the Congress that remains implacably hostile to Obama’s efforts to revive the economy and appoint his choices to his cabinet and fill the growing backlog of judicial appointments.