the book. are you ready to rumble joining me on the panel tonight for our round all three esteemed political commentators heather ceremony and serve as strategist and managing owner of for forty group public relations joe madison the black eagle host of the joe madison show on sirius x.m. satellite radio and brian darling director of government studies at the heritage

foundation and columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com and big government. oh we love big government. and let's get started for the u.s. economy slow down in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven coincidentally it's the first quarter the republicans have been in control the war of the house of representatives economists are pointing their fingers at rising gas prices the call for to slow growth but while most of those are our wallets emptied. at the pump are obviously our wallets and i've thought of all of those that some was ten point seven billion dollars profit b.p. rang up a seven billion dollars profit allegan cashed in a five billion in change profit so to all the oil companies and the republicans who insist the taxpayers should consist to continue subsidizing these well governments think that profiting off the american downturn is patriotic. or profiting

is patriotic i mean making profits and i'm only doing is suffering. who's i mean you're talking about suffering these people are producing something that's very important to our economy people who have millions more to make it to work any more but i have a hard time affording to make it to work too but i would rather lame the early economies are already well we haven't been who is hostile to energy he does not want to draw in the gulf of mexico he won't for a while go on has nothing to do with these what has a lot to do it would take you ten years of the time drilling begins that's absolutely right so we should have started ten years ago but we could have start our survey if we start so you want to criticize george bush's policies i think george bush wanted to drill in many of these places like anwar he wanted to expand drilling in a lot of areas in the he should be criticized for not drilling i was it was a chaotic to to be you know making profits on oil. oh it's patriotic i don't have a problem with making profits but i don't think that when you make the types of profits that you just resign it is that the government should be subsidizing these

these companies in any way and i think that's one of the reasons that you even have speaker of the house banner kind of backing off because of just what you said people who are suffering the reason what high oil prices we know now are leading to what high grocery store prices and so to answer your question directly it don't look everybody wants to make a profit everybody wants more assets than they. do they have liability but when you have a kind of profit there's no sense in having these oil companies subsidize the way the way they are and i do disagree with this president not being energy. friendly because one of the criticisms i have of he certainly is very pro nuclear energy and of course he comes from a state that is very pro going to new ten you drill in our brains and i also say that you know once we start subsidizing typing it's very hard to stop i think

america has become very good record of containing subsidized things that we so you joy in your brain or let's hold those subsidies from the big oil companies not idolise the virtually in the entire tea party movement in congress is going. for the size i think it's a good way that movement is monolithic is the party movement is all over the place there are a lot of different types of people who are involved in tea party movement there's no one tea party so you know conservatives are different now united on subsidies being main how to characterize the conservative movement i think the movement agrees no subsidies for ethanol subsidies no subsidies for electric cars nor for big oil i think most would agree if you do it to comprehensive tax reform take away all the subsidies to these industries i think liberals and conservatives agree that that needs to happen. i think it'll be a cold day in hell before it does and the republicans have to take it well but they

may not have a they may not have a choice because what i find interesting about the tea party is bad i think they finally have realized many of them have realized wait a minute we have a little guy who we look around and now and i've had this on my show many times i don't like and title notes and then i would ask is your grandmother still alive yes does she have medicare yes do you want to see her lose that medicare when there's a hesitation and they realize they're losing some. but they really can't afford to lou medicare is not mean we're going to cut off seniors that well ok in fact let's not let's get we're going to harry reid announced this week that he's going to force a vote in the senate. budget plan speaking of privatizing medicare over the last two weeks house republicans have felt the wrath of their constituents for voting in favor of the ryan plan take a look. you just. can't

do it mcconnell it's magic probably playing back seat recording they're more adult for they pumped have not been that here that i said nothing in the campaign i'm going to change that now you hear oh you for that will destroy. the right for. the job it's really. sort of republicans just blow their shot at real life and twenty two all that after only four months in office by adopting this radical platform that they're the party that's going to privatized medicare i mean what what ninety year old is going to

walk into an insurance company and say here's my seven thousand dollars mount your please take care of me had three heart attacks construction i need a pacemaker you know that's not going to affect ninety year olds this is not going to go into effect tomorrow in effect nine year old you don't think they are the ninety someday you are talking about a nine year old right now this is going to be taking a fact over a course of years reforming it is going to be very grass twenty and thirty and forty year olds who she really post oh yes you know i guess so but you know they're not they are they. are not receptive to. eighteen you know yeah i would never anything that you know i thirty forty twenty thirty forty year olds are not bad i've got children thirty forty years ago is because they think they're invincible at this point in time let me tell you and as one sitting here who just last year had to have who ended up with prostate cancer and then ended up with something as simple as kidney stones do you know it cost me ten thousand freakin dollars to

get a kidney stone procedures now let's say my son who is in his thirty's now finds himself with the same problem or let's say that his prostate cancer we know that there's some in some genetic connection. if he does not have a good medical claim or he finds himself under employed what does he do because that eight thousand dollars would hardly get you a doctor's visit at all you might have a lot of the rationing of president obama under obamacare i mean there's going to have any rationing and yes there is going to have to be rationing because the government's going to be controlling what is paid for and what do you think you don't have a rational right now for united health care you don't think that when you call up when your doctor has to call and say may i please have this procedure met please have this test before they can even tell you whether they can have a test or the same you know i should add i should be doing this test right now but i got to call it an insurance company first you think we don't have rationing you

know states are you seriously so we have a bad system you want to make it worse we haven't necessarily here are where we are the only live a lot of people or else only seriously again trees we are the only one that allows by law for profit corporations to operate as medical insurance companies every other one of them stephen j. hensley with his hundred million dollars a year run in united health care would be in prison in every other developed country which we really have here in and again we're sitting here fortunate we all have jobs we hopefully have good medical. medical practice and i'm like you go i just talked with a friend of mine today who who has prostate cancer and he wants the cyberknife and the and the insurance companies saying you can handle it even though that's probably it even though they recommended that he go to this particular specialist for cyber nice then when he when he came back he said no we're not going to approve it but i mean those situations are are there are not as ramp it as as what happens

when can they are when you ask that something time and you are it's about it's about here isn't here's the point i was going to make what we're talking about is for poor people to have a safety net and that's really what this is all about not the fortunate few who have jobs but we have. poor people underemployed people and unemployed people who need a safety net and that's what the best is you know what why do the wealthy have medicaid because that's something that we have well they don't either given. this right here . frankly to answer the original question and republicans blown it for two thousand and twelve i don't think so because it's a year and a half away and. i don't think people are paying attention a politician. will say yeah i think the republicans still have a good he just gave us a yeah and the president had to stoop out of the likes of. trump to release his long form birth certificate this week temporarily be fleeting the birth or bubble

the birth the birth has stuck to their predictable talking points take a look. today i'm very proud of myself because i've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish i was just informed while on the helicopter that our president has finally released a birth certificate but white house obviously wants to make everything about the purser to fit and was he really from hawaii or kenya instead of his record of wars torture bailing out banks signing statements and lobbyist i really feel could be as if i am on ground zero of what this is whether the number two i was orly taitz on this show day before yesterday. and she's. this is in this is absolute credible . claiming the president's committing social security fraud and you've got the

donald now wanting to see the president's educational records so rather than taking a victory lap shouldn't the burglars be apologizing to the american people for wasting their time over the least last two years and in fact i even stated separately shouldn't donald trump be apologizing for his talk about i want to know how this guy got into college and he spent too much time on the basketball court the seems to me like. code language for just apps you know racist dog whistle stuff i don't think donald trump's a racist at all i think that donald trump i mean this whole birth of the one percent of americans i believe in it or whatever i mean the hard core i believe right fifty five percent of the republicans so you're saying that fifty five percent of the republican party is racist i mean that's absurd that's absurd not to say are racist i've. actually been friends and i defy racists but i don't i don't recall any but can you name one white politician who has ever been asked that his worst of those to this country i don't know why i took on take so long to present it could have been it's a long time ago by just saying here's my stereotypical it if he if you want to

prolong the controversy i mean i agree that birth or should stop talking about it when he showed it but he's a lot you could have nipped it in about a lobby and somehow really israel a little strategy and you know what's interesting and there's only going to use me . i'm old enough to know exactly what racism minutes i've lived through it i've experienced it i know what a metaphor is when i hear one and this is all that it's been i've lived through jim crow and what we now have is a very sophisticated cousin of jim crow and i refer to him on my shows james crow esquire these are metaphor it's and the reality of if i will present a united states and someone came up with a ridiculous assertion that i was not born in the united states and i've got a card myself i've been a u.s. senator i've been a state senator and now you want me to card myself it reminds me

of when i lived in detroit michigan you remember the city of dearborn where an african-american who worked in that city would have to have a letter from his employer if he got caught in a city before dusk or before dawn or after this was an absolute insult to this president of the united states. it's the most unpatriotic thing that could be done and quite candidly i think that down trump has done the democratic party a big favor because the birth thing is over with and as i had an hour conclude by saying i have valerie jarrett on my show the other day and i asked her are they going to release the college transcripts and she said something very interesting the president is almost fifteen years old. no fifty year olds should be asked to do these college transcripts it's ridiculous and was a law that their public and party as a whole is not asking for him to release his college transcripts and i would also

say that during the whole health care debate i was out there protesting like a lot of other americans are protesting and someone on the other side said me we don't like him because he's black right so what that was the furthest thing from my mind i don't like his policies it has nothing to do with whether it's why are black our peach colored it has to do with his color some people if it's bigger than. to make out everybody to be a burglar who's a conservative or republican it's the left trying to play the race card to say if you don't like president obama's policies you're somehow way excuse me i'm not going to sit here and hand this race card play i am sixty plus years old i've seen it i've got children your age i know a metaphor when i see it and i get really sick and tired of white people telling me that when i recognize something that i've seen all my life i'm playing the race card i'm sort of like whoopi goldberg on this one you know what i'm playing the cards that were dealt me the reality is nobody is accusing the republican party in

the whole of being racist you know by is accusing all conservatives of being racist and you probably absolutely honest in your assessment but you've got to recognize when these polls are taken you're right tom you've got over fifty percent of the people who question whether this man is illegitimate and this is what we're dealing with reason as he just i'm at the top elation start asking questions because he didn't he didn't show it he shouldn't have actually you know no i mean he she was a weird situation and it's not like it and president and no one else has ever been asked to do it why should this pretend you know why it's because he's got this name it's because somebody started his crap about is the legitimate and if i were you. you know him as a candidate i wouldn't honor a ridiculous request but he said the only reason he was doing it is because it had . actually a conversation it was titled reaction and i am just one of the thing i think we all

can agree on is the media ought to be is equally criticized about this as anybody else they really should because they kept playing it and kept playing it and my shows on your show you know if you criticize losing is bertha's and making believe all concerned yes ok all right ok final question quickly why are we couldn't make it through the entire show without talking about what everyone else is talking about the royal wedding and since william and kate's marriage is supposed to be called katherine i received wall to wall media coverage for weeks i couldn't help but wonder what high profile political marriage in america would elicit similar nonstop coverage step into an alternative universe and see which couple would get the most attention y'all can vote on it here would be a move over todd sarah pailin and former congressman christopher lee's shotgun craigslist marriage or be donald trump and congresswoman sheila jackson lee's

character strategy ends a marriage or c. president obama and michele bachmann's marriage you know just to get his green card . ok. and. you have now i can i say something serious about give this wall to walk over it's only thing that really bothers me is that there is some very serious hurt people in the southern part of this country from mississippi to get genuine i wish the media will give and have given wall to wall coverage i mean over three hundred lives were lost and there's been tremendous destruction down there and i would have much rather have seen that and calls us to respond much the way we did to katrina and then the hurricane in new. orleans we did watching disneyland princes and everybody living vicariously through these two with

a baby last night. i slept like a baby no i didn't get up early third i'm sure there are no i just not all my friends did i felt like an oddity but you know nuthin so i think it's something that many americans love to watch just because we don't have a king we don't have a queen here certainly and if you. talk to them they're fascinated by it but i did not watch it all i think it's going to be the marriage between louie gohmert and steve king a republican is once and for all kick homophobia out of the party brian darling how the joe madison thank you all from turkey is here much appreciated coming out tennessee wants to legalize political corruption seriously the history behind their movement what it means for the working class and provides daily to.

you know sometimes you see a story at the scene so you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you saw. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

but rather give that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us. i think the rocket readable and on the oil. republicans in tennessee are on the verge of legalizing political corruption legislation is moving along in that state's government that will allow corporations to contribute directly to politicians something that is currently illegal

corporations can funnel maalik through political action committees and thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision last year they could now throw unlimited amounts of cash into electioneering i television radio ads those kind of things. but it's always been illegal for corporations to give money directly to politicians there's always been this wall in place between corporations and politicians and tennessee is quite serious about blowing that wall up this is just the latest salvo in the race to the top of the race to see which state will be first to be wholly owned by big money interests in this race to the bottom as a long history after the civil war and the construction of the transcontinental railroad eight hundred seventy s. for the first time in american history a landed gentry rose up of people who in today's dollars were our country's first

billionaires they made their fortunes by playing dirty building up monopolies and trusts sabotaging the competition and buying off politicians to get favorable treatment here in washington d.c. look up the presidential administration of ulysses s. grant one of the most corrupt white houses in the history of the united states thanks to the billionaires of his day this is what was known as the gilded age in american history and it's no coincidence that the rise of the billionaires coincided with the dying off of the previous generations of americans who had fought against british billionaires and the east india company the british east india company when our nation was founded thomas jefferson worried about corporate power but he was confident that since america was born out of rebellion against the world's largest corporation the east india company that in anti-corporate spirit would be ingrained into the american culture that it was until he in the rest of

his generation died off and then sure enough the corporations rose up in america with the economic and political clout that rivaled with the east india tea company had held generations earlier. it wouldn't be long before the billionaires were out their welcome in america and the working class tired of being screwed over rose up and an eight hundred eighty five democrat the only democratic president in fact during the entire from the civil war until the ninety early one thousand nine hundred democratic president grover cleveland moved into the white house with a plan to end the google the gilded age of billionaires and political corruption it is eight hundred eighty eight state of the union address president cleveland as we view the agreed achievements of aggregated capital we discovered the existence of trusts combinations and monopolies well the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death behind an iron heel corporations which should be the

carefully restrained creatures of the wall and the servants of the people are fast becoming the people's masters again this was coming out of the mouth of the proudest of the sitting president of the united states in his annual constitutionally mandated reporter congress on the state of the nation saying that the irony he'll of corporations were trampoline the working people of america and you imagine a president obama said something like that today grover cleveland's words by the way did not fall on deaf ears soon that corporate iron heel would be broken up by a tidal wave of state and federal laws making trusts the monopolies illegal because sherman antitrust act and by eight hundred ninety two the gilded age was winding down with nearly every statement country putting the laws of the books to break up corporate trusts most notably ohio home of senator sherman who proposed the sherman

act of eight hundred eighty one and coincidentally the home of john d. rockefeller and his standard oil trust but these billionaires would not back down. they figured if the current politicians didn't want to be their friends then they'd buy new politicians who would want to and they did until. when teddy roosevelt passed the tillman act that made it illegal for any corporation to make any contribution to any politician but in one hundred years after the tillman act was passed republican presidents and some democrats would water it down so much that today a state like a c. will soon pass a law that says the exact opposite the law that they're proposing in tennessee will say that any corporation can make any contribution to any politician similarly those states back then that had passed anti-trust laws in eight hundred ninety s. they soon gave in to the pressure of corporate power after all high o.

kit's rockefeller a move distrust to new jersey first state to adopt adopt wild west like rules of incorporation giving them free rein to get out of any sort of business that reich became standard oil in jersey and delaware soon follow it passing laws that would give corporations the easiest right of any other state the union and sure enough today more than fifty percent of all u.s. publicly traded companies and sixty three percent of fortune five hundred companies called delaware home and that's pretty much where it stood and so reagan stopped in force in the sherman act in one thousand nine hundred two and george bush for john roberts on the supreme court because of these two guys we've entered another gilded age in america and with this latest move by tennessee to legalize the wholesale purchase of our color of our politicians by corporations but for other states to follow suit just to prove that they can be more favorable to big business the irony

he'll of corporate power has descended once again under the throats of the working class unless we wake up and do something about it soon we're all going to be screwed. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories covered check out our website it's al hartman dot com and archie dot com entire series available for free podcast on i tunes also check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash not me picture are two tea party. and no forget them obviously begins when you show up when you get active tag you're it will see i'm not.

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