Fun With Dick & Jane

Today’s show was fun.  As is typical recently, Obamacare dominated the conversation.

We also talked about Nancy Pelosi’s 3-20-10 stunt to malign the tea partiers protesting the Obamacare vote, and Harry Reid’s egg throwers in Nevada who protested the tea party there.

I encourage everyone to attend a tea party this April 15th.  You can see a list of what is happening in Massachusetts here.  If you are not in the Commonwealth, there are tea parties happening all over the country.  I am returning to DC, and hope to get to see Senator Scott Brown while I am there.

We then talked a bit about the growing scandal between public sector jobs and private sector jobs.  The private sector works to pay taxes so those in the public sector can take home 45% more pay and benefits that are on average 70% better than what we get in the private sector.  My sentiment remains  – fire all of them and start over or at least demand a huge reduction.

We talked about Congress bullying of companies complaining about the huge costs of the health care bill.  Those costs will of course be added to what we as consumers pay.  Henry Waxman (D-CA) has demanded hearings to beat down the execs who dare criticize this bill.

There was more.  Enjoy!

Dick was back today for a rare appearance. The subject was health care, and more health care and then even more health care.

Dick doesn’t like the health care bill much (I don’t know anyone who does – except maybe Scotty McCall. Joe, Scotty and I did a remote on Friday where we discussed the then, pending bill).

Dick pointed out that this is business as usual. I disagree. We have never ever had a bill, so opposed by the public (75%) passed by one party full of nothing short of bribes.

We talked about the immediate ramifications, the exemptions (among them the staffers who wrote the bill exempted themselves from the bill) and what is going to happen going forward.

We spent some time on the latest GITMO detaineee to be released, Slahi Ali Saleh Nabhan- who by most accounts is the worst guy at GITMO. The problem is there is no place to release him to, so the president is in a bit of a pickle. Will he now argue that he can hold someone with no hope of a trial, after fighting so hard for just the opposite? Or will he release the most dangerous operative of al Qaeda in GITMO? We await his decision.

It became apparent this week that we need some liberal voices on FWDAJ. It was great fun talking about Rahm, Massa, democrat scandals, and stuff like that. But it would be better if there was a little opposition. I’m hoping that people will start calling and add their opinions.

We talked about the status of the health care bill which changes minute by minute. It’s a fascinating charade at this point, and it is hard to know where it will end up. I’m still on the “it will not pass” side, and you can see how I instruct a brave democrat to become a hero – here.

We talked about Stephen Lynch (D-MA) Massa, Rahm who this week killed and amendment which would prohibit tax cheats from working in the government. Joe thought that was a little harsh and he actually convinced me to see things his way. I do think politicians and people who work for the federal government should be held to the same standards the rest of us are held to. That probably won’t happen in this administration.

We also talked about how people are really starting to pay attention and there is a lot of pent up activism that needs a place to go. Tea Parties, where are you?

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.

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!