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go back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a big cat is out of the bag republicans are outed for passing taxpayer dollars to legal oil executives and he does not only coming from democrats with their own constituents as well plus there's a growing on line campaign aimed at coal refinery plants or coal power plants how coal carer's is using grill theater to raise awareness about the negative effects of coral on children and forget about the revolving door in washington d.c. also using the doggy door on capitol hill in efforts to sabotage the progressive agenda. today senate majority leader harry reid brought a bill to the floor of the sun it cuts off taxpayer subsidies for the five most profitable oil companies technically the bill isn't exactly constitutional since

cutting off subsidies raises revenue and any revenue raisers must originate in the house of representatives not the son of the constitution still read want to force republicans to put their name on these subsidies any to vote with the people who vote with the polluters turns out they voted with the polluters and predictably the republicans blocked the bill meanwhile the news of these subsidies is. reverberating in congressional districts around the country republicans are catching flak from their constituents for handing over billions of dollars in taxpayer money to some of the most profitable corporations in the history of the planet pretending to be concerned about the deficit and what's the republican strategy to deflect this criticism pretend like you all subsidies don't even exist here's republican ben quayle yesterday responding to a constituent asking him why he supports the subsidies.

it's not. i don't think you hear afterwards people laughing said that actually it's not true and here's republican bob bishop talking to a constituent earlier this year on the same issue. for subsidies you. still need. something. oddly enough special something actually. that's a lie to sort of republicans really think they can get away with passing tens of billions of dollars under the table to the oil industry just by lying to their constituents for more on this genie weinstein is here he's the deputy editor at the daily caller dot com jane welcome back it's good to be back here and i think i'm afraid it by the end of this i'm going to be both a liar according to you and a polluter pretty poorly i think so i just wanted this would make it sound like you know why do republicans vote with the polluters instead of the people first of all

i think this is a pure demagoguery this is not a serious deficit reducing bill this is to get three million dollars this is this is closer to four but this is a republican election and election year issue lection times coming around they want to put up a bill to make it look like the republicans are you know part of the high gas prices which is absurd the fact of the matter is that most of the three quarters of what you call subsidies and ben quayle was. actually partly right. our our our our three quarters of them are the type of tax breaks that go to all industries that the oil companies get the ability to handle drilling cause for seven point eight billion over ten years over ten years sixty seven million ford hands. depletion allowance for owners of oil wells ten which is which is which is what i said one billion per year we take it that's goes up it has the oil it's can million over ten years right where you get out of their hands do it ok put the other people who probably didn't know it's not white now because my god why did you get this is it

only our kids to agree with he said he was right seventy five percent of the other three billion a year thirty billion over over over ten years are actually taxes that go to all industries go to those who is most industries many many many many factory or also making fracturing in the united states also industries that pay taxes or brought the i don't know if we're talking about things like being able to block launches being able to document or you caused able to appreciate of course and if you can this is what you want isn't working or that it is that no that's not the stuff that harry reid brought to the floor today what i would harry reid brought to the floor today was the stuff that was that was unique largely due to the extractive industries and the specific stuff that was not unique to the oil industry so you know if you and i agree and you're not with the political union you are with the whole if you call big will wire he wasn't a liar he was right that most of that stuff was not subsidies that i said most of the stuff he said none of this stuff and that's only seventy five percent right yeah but to say that in your twenty's i was able to zero only twenty five percent of what he's a liar he's seventy five percent right so he wins on that effect this is

demagoguery tom this is not this is not this serious place i disagree with doesn't it overall or it's in this you know out there absolutely is an element of politics in this and the reason why it's important politically is because it's emblematic of how the republicans consistently on issue after issue after issue vote with industry rather than people who i see i think you have a different opinion than we say profits it's like a bad thing. you say i didn't say profitable profits and bank stays in like a mistake you had men with like barry jersey out there bad. thing is the reason people sometimes create jobs or people for the people of the county and it's rational it's not it's not that i hate jobs we buy things on employment insurance but create jobs and then i actually with kids they create entrepreneurs' have to make decisions sometimes to expand to to meet market demand those are risky decisions that by the end comes from our jamie but no but. if they're giving money and they're reaching this or that we need to build another factory the demand might

not be there yet because you know what you like your i pod if you like it before apple invented it you did because you didn't know it existed they had to take a risk that they didn't know the demand is there for a while actually they did they saw what sony did with walkman and sony saw what was done with it through you know trying to literature sometimes people come up with invention and they train their regional transistor radios you know we're actually subsidized by the federal government. so we're happy with coke and they want new coke and turn out well sometimes it will take risks actually it's going to be service does that because they want to switch over to conserve because it's been subsidized to go that's where you always agree with the subsidies i think we should eliminate i that's a whole other discussion but really what's more important for america right now forty talking about it sort of forms is what is more important not doing he said we believe it's these votes on the floor come through for the last year is also security has as a two point six trillion dollars because you know there's going to solve that it's funny really only seven years we've known them play and i use as well as i said that's called investing in treasuries george bush was born with a cup with you know millions of us love the measure is human what was he was he

born most of the movie dumb and dumber where they were yesterday where they put up a suitcase for a million dollars and i guess these are all i use and enjoy christmas because i use are as good as money no they're not as good as money. these are i used to. it's an iou steal from the treasury he said oh yeah cash out of social security invests in in treasury bills deeds and you tell me that the treasury little treasuries vibe with the back of the matter is if you are in debt if you're in trouble and you owe money it's as if you say it's easier. for you and i'll be long gone before separating trillion unfunded liabilities between social security medicare and medicaid but really we're here jeff these are with all these are with the issues because the republicans and not even these oil subsidies which are which as you even agreed it's not four billion it's it's one billion per year ten million and over and let's say here is let's as your reality get out it's way over to our kids want to let's go for it i think a lot of it well i think a lot of them will well i hope i hope you know and i agree with you that medicare

isn't probably in trouble and it's in trouble because you've got billy tauzin who left his job as you know about pushing through medicare part d. even got permission from the house to leave early to go to work for a two million dollars a year job is that a pharma i mean you know they they they they require republicans require medicare buy drugs at retail that's insane of course that's going to break medicare i don't think it's probably the older friend that it will be hardest problem though i think it was a lawyer so long. are the aging populations living longer all of them we're going to hear about the actuarial told the bush administration came along and said we're going to give away these this this these these really we have a long standing agreement to disagree on this one treaty it's not really well i think you could or should. of course the republican party is the same party a lot about death panels in the health care bill back in two thousand and nine so we shouldn't be surprised if they're not being quite straight about the oil subsidies today do we really expect these guys to be honest about their agenda of taking welfare away from poor people and giving it to transnational corporations

that are worth billions of dollars and generously pass it out to their favorite politicians. the other day i came across the website named cole care you can find yourself at cole cares dot com or www dot org took typical of what seemed to be another industry back website coal appears coal is the cleanest safest form of energy there is but here's where it gets a little bizarre call carol goes on to describe how coal companies are now reaching out to youngsters who have developed asthma encouraging them to keep their heads in the face of those who would treat them with the full dignity after all mate is asthma awareness month along those same lines cold care offers a line of customized inhalers for asthmatic kids including ones decorated with elmo

miley cyrus or diamond bling it's their way to make using an inhaler cool and cool carers is offering them free of charge to any kids living within two hundred miles of a coal fired power plant at this site on the web seems a little too unbelievable to be true because it is too unbelievable to be true it's not real it's a product created by the yes lab and a group called coal is killing kids to raise awareness about the effect of dirty holes externalities as in the diseases that hit communities thanks to pollution joining me now is lauren whitney a professor at pace university and environmental science advisor to the u.s. lab lauren joins me now to talk about the campaign against cold all laurel welcome to the program. i thought thanks for having me thanks for joining us how did this thing get hatched this this brilliant scheme. well basically we had

a group of concerned individuals that came to us with a great idea and that is exactly what the lab is all about trying to help people get these issues out into the media in very creative and possibly funny ways. the coal companies you know when you when you refresh the page it'll be peabody called on to help with the inhalers you know one time we have showed ron want to make asthma related bullying a thing of the past and he pushed the button refresh the page and chevron gets replaced with with you know peabody or with another coal company. also for every one thousand heller actuators donated by a coal carriers chevron will make a five hundred dollars donation for the cost of one long replacement therapy it's amazing and bizarre and i'm wondering if any of these companies have threatened to like sushi or something. oh that's a very interesting question because when the website first came out last week on

tuesday it was actually just keep body call that we were targeting antibody basically the reason we had picked them is because they're the largest coal company in the u.s. but a couple days later we dig a little bit of a threatening legal letter and the funny part was is they weren't asking us to take the website down they were just complaining that it was unfair that we were targeting peabody on themselves and in fact we thought they were right because there are twenty eight other coal companies that again in that pollution that causes asthma and other illnesses in kids so we thought it was only fair to change that on the web site to reflect all the coal company in america this is this is absolutely hysterical the clean energy effect page you know people have to check this. you know we all know the risk is part of life what is risky crossing the street is risky you can buy a car and then you're wind chills wind turbines can kill up to seventy thousand birds a year coal kills through than thirteen thousand people per year so. how have the

coal companies the oil companies the fossil fuel industry basically been able to manipulate science and biology politicians for so long and keep us paying their externalities keep us paying for the these thirteen thousand people a year who die the millions of people who get asthma we're paying all those costs how do we pull this thing off effect. oh well i mean that is the point you know the coal companies basically don't want to put these technologies on that either could produce pollution or they're just you know lobbying ferociously against congress to try to get alternatives out of these clean energies that we were making fun of on the website which are inherently safer and cleaner how they've been able to do this they've just launched this massive campaign especially companies like exxon mobil who is an oil company. launched math of this information campaign they're taking these tactics from what used to be the anti-smoking campaigns way back in the fifty's and indeed they are in fact and back in the fifty's there was nobody

pushing back or back in the fifty's you had ronald reagan in a doctor's coat going on television saying if you have a sore throat for paul there that you know the more doctors use them for sort of. if. i'm guessing that your presence and the presence of other people sort of push back is starting to have an effect on light back in fifty's. and i mean that's what we're hoping is that people are really waking up to this i mean especially coal in general because so many people live near coal power plants if you go to the website and you actually look at the map you can find out where there is a coal plant near you and chances are it's closer than you think and people are just done they don't want to take this anymore and so either you can write letters your senator or you can engage in civil disobedience or you can put a parody web sites in the point is that hopefully there is this momentum whether it's in campuses or whether it's with families you know in cities across america

that we are starting to fight back in so a lot of times if you're going to combat these huge corporations that have budgets that seemingly are an ending and all this political crap it can be hard to level the media playing field to get issues like this across in the thing with coal cares about or that was helpful is because it was a parody you know it was a better story for journalists to carry out and so we really reached you know hundreds of thousands of people to talk about pollution and the connection between that and as my kids and it's growing and have been able to do with a regular press release right and i'm pretty sure the supreme court ruled years ago that parodies are protected by the first moments of. loral so good there i was going to say you know we had these legal threats last week they really don't have a leg to stand on because we have these first amendment rights thirty rock we want there you go laura thanks so much for being with us. hey thanks for having me on and keep up the great work it's fabulous besides the extra health care costs the

coal and oil companies don't have to pay but stick you and me with they also aren't paying for the trillions of dollars of our military to protect their energy interests in the middle east maybe that could be a new offering on the call cares website trying to flack jackets to protect soldiers fighting for their right to pollute and have us pay the bill. after the break a daily take on why some members of congress view their time on capitol hill as simply a dress rehearsal for their post politics career on k. street. and. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right.

i think. be the one well. we have the government says to keep him safe get ready because of their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you live something else hears you some of the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry it was a big picture. it's

the good the bad of the very very collaboratively oddly good jon stewart last night stewart went into the lion's den also known as the o'reilly factor to smack down fox so-called news for how the network is targeting the white house for inviting a rapper named. why are you drawing the line a common there is

a selective outrage machine here at fox that heavy fog only when it suits the narrative that suits them this guy is in the crosshairs in a way that he shouldn't be whether you agree with him or not. the pad or the anti-abortion group online for life group was a bunch of ad space on google purposefully to mislead women considering abortion now when someone types abortion into google instead of finding providers they come across a slew of misleading ads pretending to be medical council incites websites but in reality they're anti-abortion propaganda sites. online for life says their goal is rescuing pre-born babies from abortion using the internet group is also trying to solicit money on the internet claiming the six hundred seventy six dollars will save three babies from abortions though i really don't understand why online or on line for life is necessary but with cancer congress is doing in the end you job in their own blocking women you know portions and the very very ugly one that i put

up his next big rally in august which will take place in jerusalem back broke into tears show yesterday. the world will little note nor long remember what we say here but this august in jerusalem. possibly. for the first time in man's history. we will remember and make note of what we do there. for more information even if you can only attend electronically. go to glenn beck dot com you know. while glenn beck considers himself sorrow of gordon god will take notice of him first before any other man or woman in the history of the world pretty obvious now beck is leaving fox news to become a televangelist after all that's where the real money. that's also very clear.

at the beginning of two thousand and nine democrats went to work in washington d.c. with a mandate from the american people rock obama just won a landslide election for the presidency and progressives swept into congress with huge majorities in both the house and the sun the american people want to change and bought what the democrats were selling health care reform energy reform and a new new deal but there was one group of democrats who didn't get the memo they call themselves the blue dogs coming from mostly conservative states the blue dogs made a calculated political maneuver to sabotage the progressive agenda in the hopes of winning reelection in two thousand and ten it wasn't about doing what's best for america it was about bringing in the corporate campaign contributions to be reelected in two years so just like the republicans and blue dogs open their office

doors the lobbyists from wall street big oil health insurance industry and said now what would you like to me to do for you and from that point on most of the fifty two members of the blue dog caucus set out watering down or blocking altogether every single piece of progressive legislation introduced over the course of the hundred eleventh congress unlike the republican caucus or the majority rule wins the blue dogs figured they could get their way even though they were in the minority and they were right they will. on the stimulus package they killed off the public option in health care they say big polluters and tax increases and they ensure that the banks on wall street remain too big to fail and when all was said and done and they accomplished all that they set out to do stock the progressive agenda in its tracks that it play out politically like they hoped it would. no caucus took more of a hit in last year's elections than the blue dogs with half of their members twenty

six out of fifty two getting the boot the midterms you know what harry truman said holds true when voters have a choice between a republican or democrat who acts like a republican to choose the republican every time so it's time to put to rest this idea that acting like a republican wins elections for democrats it doesn't it's time to fire all of blue dog political consultants right. exactly turns out that most of the blue dogs weren't playing politics at all when they were acting like republicans they were simply training for their next job after congress their next job as a corporate lobbyist nearly a third of the blue dogs who were kicked out of office last year walked right through that door on capitol hill and got a lobbying gig on k. street. stephanie herseth sandlin from south dakota the chair of the blue dog caucus took a job with

a lobbying firm olson frank we determined bowed matts that's according to its website lobbies on behalf of drug health care and energy companies not so coincidentally as a congresswoman stephanie herseth sandlin voted against the health reform bill voted against the energy reform bill and even voted against the disclose act which forced corporations to come out of the shadows and disclose their political contributions you could say she was showing her corporate angeline skills. and there's john tanner from tennessee one of the founders of the blue dogs he wasn't voted out of office he retired to become the vice chairman of a prime policy group what's that a lobbying firm of course with nearly three million dollars in contracts and well in congress cantor voted against health care reform and against energy reform any now lobbies on behalf of health insurance companies and energy companies and then there is walt minnick from idaho he went on to create his own lobbying firm the

majority group after he was kicked out of office i don't see many voted no on health care reform you proposed energy reform evo to begin to the disclose act even opposed the stimulus package remember this is a suppose a democrat we're talking about here according to the majority group's website minnick now offers his corporate clients strategic plans to bottle fire government policies that help them improve their profitability. and he has the resume to back it up making sure as a congressman that health insurance companies and big oil companies avoided government regulations and kept raking in the profits and that's just a few of the eight blue dogs who are now lobbying working as lobbyists in washington d.c. and according to ethics rules there's nothing illegal about what they're doing just so long as they don't physically lobby other members of congress themselves though

i'm sure a phone call here and there could be swept under the rug this is what money in politics has done to our government the people elect representatives to go to capitol hill those representatives that represent big oil or the chamber of commerce instead of their constituents and when voters get tired of it they kick them out of office then the lobbying firm step in to give these same guys a golden parachute several times bigger than what they were making as a member of congress congress has become just a wrong on the ladder now toward making the real big bucks as a d.c. lobbyist long as you can prove you can play the game and these particular blue dogs definitely proved they can play the game it's time to turn the bolt on the revolving door in our nation's capitol and lock out k. street from congress for good and vice versa only then can we like expect our elected representatives to actually represent us and not just go through a two year dress rehearsal to be a lobbyist for a think tank or

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