Fun With Dick & Jane

I’m sure you have noticed that I’m having trouble uploading podcasts lately. And I owe Jay Fleitman another spot on the show once I get it working.

Tuesday’s show was fun – we talked Charlie Rangel, health care, reconciliation, Jim Bunning, Climategate and lots more. The hour flew by!

WE now have live streaming so if you want to listen to the show simultaniously with the broadcast go here and click on “listen”. The show is broadcast Tuesday morning at 11:00 AM.

Keep your fingers crossed that the upload works – oh and don’t forget to check out You Too Congress!

Jay Fleitman, candidate for the republican nomination for the congressional seat for the 2nd district in MA was our guest for the entire hour. He’s a physician so a lot of the conversation was about health care legislation and tort reform. We also talked about spending, taxes, entitlements, Afghanistan, Iraq and the people’s anger at the federal government. Jay promises to be responsive to the people if elected, which as all you listeners know is one of my major issues.

We have a new producer at WESO and she and I haven’t quite figured out how to get the podcast into uploadable form. My apologies to Jay. Once we get the kinks worked out I’ll invite him to come back again.

Speaking of which, don’t forget to check out my newest venture: You Too Congress. If it is good enough for us, it’s good enough for You Too Congress!

Today’s show was really fun. I had expected to interview Jay Fleitman who is running for the republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District in Massachusetts, but I had the wrong week. So Joe and I just talked politics.

First we have a new theme song – Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, which has absolutely no relevance to anything but is fun. Secondly I think I’ve got the podcast to 2 segments instead of 4. Let’s hope.

Joe and I talked Scott Brown, SOTU address, budget, debt, debt and more debt, the Virginia’s legislative victory (democrat) which makes it illegal to mandate health insurance (thus sticking a fork in any hope for resurrecting health care) NASA, Nancy Pelosi and affirmative action.

Meanwhile, I have a new project with some friends called YOU TOO CONGRESS which you can see here. We are pre-launch while we work out the bugs, but feel free to poke around. Congress gives itself a lot of perks on our dime and excludes itself from a lot of obligations. Our goal is to point those things out, which should lead to voting them out.

One can hope.

We started today’s show simply giddy over the Brown victory in Massachusetts. I’ve been smiling for a week and it has been really fun seeing Massachusetts voters so clearly proud of themselves.

Tom Wesley joined us. Tom is running for the republican nomination for the Congressional seat in MA 2nd District, currently held by Richard Neal. He has a primary opponent, Jay Fleitman who we will interview next week.

Tom talked about his credentials, his plans for the economy, taxes, health care and terrorism and other issues. If you are in the 2nd District, he is clearly a contender and wants your support early and often. Check it out.

BTW A few weeks ago Joe Managiacotti replaced Dick Vaughn as my co-host on the show. For obvious reasons the “Fun With Dick and Jane” title is no longer relevant. We don’t really have a new name yet, but apparently we do have theme music!

This is my first attempt to download the podcast by myself, and for some reason it is in 4 parts. So persevere.

Finally I’m involved in a new project with some friends. Check it out here.

Today it was all about Scott Brown. Scott Brown, Scott Brown, Scott Brown.

Oh and I have a new co-host.

I apologize for the lack of recent activity. I am trying to learn how to edit my own podcasts (my friend Roger has been doing it) and I haven’t quite got the hang of it.

Most of my attention has been focused on the Scott Brown Senate Race and the coming launch of YOU TOO CONGRESS.

More about that later.

Sorry about the lateness of this entry – it slipped my mind in this holiday season

Tuesday’s show started with a discussion of the MA senate race – Martha Coakley v Scott Brown. Both Dick and I were chagrined that Brown has not come out more forcefully as the 41st vote against Obamacare.

We also talked about Gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill’s use of nearly $400,000.00 of state money to pay lawyers to defend him against contract rigging allegations concerning the state lottery.

We talked about the President’s tanking approval ratings (46% strong disapproval), the sharp downward revised GDP and other economic bummers.

Nevertheless the hour flew by, and some Christmas cheer actually surfaced before we were done.

It was a pretty dour episode this week. The economy and health care led the way – so the mood was understandable. We talked about the ballooning deficit, the huge disparity between public sector pay (average $119k) and private sector pay (average $51k) and the fact that the taxes from our $51k support that $119k).

WE also talked about the MA senate race. Dick is convinced that Coakley has it in the bag unless Scott Brown can get “in her face”. Sadly he may be right.

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd both had their spot in today’s show. Dodd is losing ground in CT and Frank is reportedly crushing under the pressure. His district needs to wake up.

Much more on the podcast.

Today’s show was really fun. First of all it was election day – the primary to fill Senator Kennedy’s seat. We predicted Coakley (d) and Brown (r) to win and we were right. Dick then went into campaign mode and made the case for a republican taking the seat. Listening to the rest of the media you would have been hard pressed to know 2 republicans were on the ballot.

Next we moved to Climategate, which I have been talking about for 3 weeks. The story got more complicated right before the broadcast when the UN declared that CO2 is “a danger to human health” thus giving the executive branch the power to regulate without Congress – which of course will be used as leverage to pass Cap and Trade.

We talked a little about health care and then Dick told me something I didn’t know: Apparently the Obama administration threw Deval Patrick under the bus over the weekend. You will have to listen to see how.

Enjoy!