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!

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?

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

Oh and I have a new co-host.

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!

Our first topic today was Afghanistan, a subject Dick was anxious to talk about. My complaint is the CIC’s willingness to tell the enemy our exit strategy. Other than that I am grateful that the dithering has ended.

WE quickly moved on to the MA senate election. Dick is still planning on voting for Pagluica in the primary because he is not an incumbent. He is considering the republican, Scott Brown in the General. Certainly if you oppose the trillion dollar health care bill pending in Congress, you do not want to elect another democrat – or as Brown pointed out (according to Dick) “You can vote for the 60th vote for government run health care, or you can vote for the 41st vote against it.

We spent some time on Climategate, which Dick has still heard very little about in the state run media. I tried to impress him with the magnitude of the story, and the magnitude of the exposure to the press’ liberal bias in ignoring the story.

WE talked about the Globe story about President Obama’s National Economic Council director Larry Summers who lost $1.8 billion of Harvard’s money when he worked there. Like Tax cheat Tim Geithner, our President apparently thinks Summers is too big to fail.

We talked about the current tug on the President between interim senator Paul Kirk and Governor Deval Patrick over Cape Wind. Kirk wants to protect late Senator Kennedy and Senator Kerry’s pristine ocean views in Nantucket Sound, while Governor Patrick wants to get on with it. Dick is convinced the President will side with the Governor. He is probably right.

At one point Dick suggested that taxing marijuana would solve the bulk of the deficit problems. I responded that I didn’t think the revenues from pot were that big. During the break I was deluged by people assuring me that everyone in the known universe smokes pot. I was surprised.

We also talked about the Salahi’s crashing of the state dinner, Nancy Pelosi’s flower budget (nearly $3000), and Mike Huckabee’s grant of clemency to murderer Maurice Clemmons.

Enjoy!

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.