Fun With Dick & Jane

Dick spent some time on the MA senate race to open the show today. He will vote for Steve Pagliuca primarily because he is not an incumbent. I like Pagluica’s financial background (ex-partner with Mitt Romney at Bain Capital) but I hate his platform. He wants to tax the rich, expand government healthcare and crack down on Wall Street.

I brought up Climategate, which had not reached any of the media sources Dick relies on. I am hopeful that this huge scandal will put an end to the global warming baloney we have been subject to for so many years, and bring down the liberal media at the same time.

WE talked about The President’s unpopularity, and Dick reminded me that if he is not popular, he won’t be re-elected. I reminded Dick that a lot of damage can be done between now and 2012.

Next we talked about the health care vote on Saturday and Harry Reid’s $300 million Louisiana Purchase in exchange for Mary Landrieu’s vote. That didn’t seem to trouble Dick. So I wondered if putting $300 million for every senator’s vote in the bill would bother him.

We also talked about ACORN’s discovered document dump, the emerging policy in Afghanistan and Sarah Palin’s book sales of 700,000 in the first week. Amazing!

Dick and I had vastly different agendas today. He wanted to talk about Sarah Palin. He’d received an email from the MIA Father Peter who had written that the Oprah interview “was a disaster”. I saw the Oprah interview, and missed the disaster. I was disappointed that the interview was all fluff and no policy, but that was Oprah’s choice.

We then went on to the MA Senate race. Dick has decided to vote for Steve Pagluica who is in a 3 way race for the democrat nomination with Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano. His reasoning is that Pagluica is not an incumbent. He’s in a “throw the bums out” frame of mind.

We went on to the decision to try KSM in New York Federal Court, the attempt to quash the Congressional investigation into Fort Hood, and the current state of denial by this administration about the war on terror.

We talked about the errors in the government reporting on the stimulus bill. The government has reported millions of dollars creating hundreds of jobs in congressional districts that do not exist. It’s a joke. Interestingly, there is not one error on the side of under reporting either money or a job.

We talked about Geithner’s newly discovered overpayments to Wall Street firms while he served as the head of the Fed in NY, and the general state of the economy. The question is whether this can be sufficiently swept under the rug so that Geithner survives.

Joe (next door) wanted us to talk about the President’s waist deep bow to the emperor of Japan, the suicide Chicago’s school superintendent (who was a big part of the “let’s make money off the Olympics” team, moving GITMO to Illinois and the unconcession of Doug Hoffman in NY 23.

Enjoy!

After a little kvetching by Dick over state transportation issues (more money, more money more money) we talked about Fort Hood, Hasan’s ties to jihadists, and political correctness.

Anyone who reads here knows how I feel about political correctness. It is doing great damage to this country – and now even the terrorists are escaping scrutiny in our desire to create rules to make every word, act and deed equal – unless of course you are a white male. It is shameful and we saw the consequences at Fort Hood last week.

We talked about the fact that 44% of the people serving in Congress are millionaires, compared to 1% of the general population. The critical part of this statistic is how few of the millionaires have actually ever held a job outside of elected office. Charlie Rangel comes to mind. And bear in mind that the calculation of who is a millionaire does not include personal property. The number presumably would be much larger if it did.

We revisited last week’s elections – Christie defeated Corzine in NJ and McDonnell defeated Deeds in VA. Doug Hoffman lost, but we learn today not all the votes were counted (and still haven’t been counted.) Hoffman is 3000 votes behind with 10,000 to be counted. Even so it is unlikely the election will be reversed. The winner, Bill Owens broke four (4) campaign promises within an hour of being sworn in – including voting for the health care bill, while campaigning against it days before.

Next up was Barney Frank who was present when his boyfriend was busted for pot in 2007. (We have just learned.) Barney says he doesn’t know what pot looks like (certainly he knows what it smells like) and it is disrespectful to question him on the issue. Indeed.

And of course we talked about jobs. JOBS JOBS JOBS – actually the lack of them. Unemployment is now at 10.2% with the real rate at about 17%. What a disaster.

Finally we talked about Joe Wilson’s proposal to force Congress onto the Government health insurance plan. What’s good enough for the people is certainly good enough for YOU TOO Congress. Sadly, it will never make it to the floor.

Election Day! Today’s show took place while they were voting in VA, NJ and NY. Dick was less interested in the results than I, but I waxed on about it anyway. I was hoping for a Christie, McDonnell, Hoffman sweep, but as everyone knows by now, Hoffman did not pull it out. Since Hoffman was the Tea party candidate, that bums me out.

Next up: Health care. Dick feels strongly that something will pass, and he’s probably right. I hold out hope that the Congress will fix what is broken before adding 111 new government bureaucracies.

WE had some fun discussing Al Gore’s projected $1 billion paycheck for his phony carbon credit scheme. I reminded Dick that his unrelenting criticism of Dick Cheney’s supposed profit from Haliburton pales in comparison to Gore’s take. (I wonder if the administration will opt to claw some of that back?)

That led us to a discussion of the looming $12 trillion national debt – a frightening statistic if there ever was on.

We also talked about Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton’s performance thus far, and Deval Patrick’s new “Red-light cameras” as well as a few other things.

Enjoy!