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talk about her big picture on thom hartmann coming up in this half hour of the cat is out of the bag republicans are outed for passing taxpayer dollars to people who will executives and he is not only coming from democrats but their own constituents as well plus there's a growing on line campaign aimed at whole refinery plants or coal power plants how coal cares is using guerilla theater to raise awareness about the negative effects of coal on children and forget about the revolving door in washington d.c. i thought he was using the doggy door on capitol hill in efforts to sabotage the progressive agenda. today senate majority leader harry reid brought to build the floor of the son of cuts off taxpayer subsidies to 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 senate on the constitution still really want to force republicans to put their name on these subsidies any to vote with the people or 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 criticism pretend like you're all subsidies don't even exist here's republican ben quayle yesterday responding to a constituent asking him why he supports these subsidies. trusts.

it's not since. i don't think you hear afterwards people were laughing and said it actually it's not true and here's republican bob bishop talking to a constituent earlier this year on the same issue. the substantive point means. nothing. oddly enough special something more tax money. that's a lie too so to 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 of the daily caller dot com jane welcome back it's good to be back here and i think i'm afraid of by the end of this i'm going to be both a liar according to you and to pollute or pollute really i think so i this would this would make all sound like you know why do republicans but with the polluters

instead of the people well 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 and times coming around they want to put up a bill to make it look like the republicans are you go 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 then where was. courtly right r r r r r r three quarters of them or type of tax breaks that go to all industries that the oil companies get the ability to handle drilling costs about seven point eight billion over ten years over ten years sixty seven million ford hands to uncover. depletion allowance for owners of oil wells ten but which is which is which is what i said one billion a year where we can take it that's got those up it has the oil it's ten million over ten years later you get out of their hands do it ok but the other what you probably know it's not quite now because i got three b.n.

why didn't you get it it's only lichens to agree with what you said he was right seventy five percent of the other three billion a year thirty billion over over over ten years are actually type of taxes that go to all industries not only is most industries many many many many factors or also manufacturing in the united states also industries that pay taxes abroad the only you know if we're talking about things like being able to talk lunches being able to deduct employee costs being able to appreciate of course and if you can this is what you want is a mortgage that is that no that's not the stuff that harry reid brought to the floor today but what i would harry reid brought to the floor today was the stuff that was that was unique largely due it's the extractive industries and the specific stuff that was eating to the oil industry so you know if you and i are green and you're not with the pollute you you know you are we believe you called inquiry but he wasn't a liar he was right that most of that stuff was not subsidies that i said all of this stuff he said none of this stuff and that's one of three seventy five percent rate but to say this in your twenty's i was able to zero leave twenty five percent right now he's a liar and he's seventy five percent right so he wins on that because this is

demagoguery tom this is not this is not the serious place i only disagree with the president over our exodus. 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 what with the industry rather than people well i see i think that you would different opinion we say profits is like a bad thing in. you say i didn't say it's profitable but i will use it properly the banks phrase it like a misguided man with like barry jersey on their back this is the thing is that these people sometimes create jobs or people are the people who are living on honey it's rocks and all it's not it's not that i had a job who went by things people got unemployment insurance but create jobs and then i actually with great entrepreneurs have to make decisions sometimes to expand to to to meet market demand those are risky decisions that by the end comes from our jamie but no but tom if they're if they're giving money and they're reaching a certain way they have to build another factory that may or may not be there yet

because you know what you like your i pod if you like it before apple invented it you didn't because you didn't know it existed they had to take a risk because they didn't know the demand was there for actually they did they saw what sony did with walkman and sony saw what was done with it through you know trying to recede ios literature sometimes people come up with invention and they trained these original transistor radios you know were actually subsidized by the federal government that research. so coke so would have a coke and it was new coke can turn out well sometimes it will take risks actually it's going to be some is that because they want to switch over of course or because it's been subsidized by the go to group the subsidies i think we're going to let me know that's a whole other discussion but really what's more important for america right now forty holy about sort of the forms is what is more important not only so we believe these jury votes on the floor comes through for the last year is also security has as a two point six trillion dollars because it no business although that's twenty thirty forty seven years we've learned in play and i use as well as i say that's called investing in treasuries you george bush was born with

a cup with you know millions of doses of the measure as you would see what was he was he born most of the movie where he where do you point out where they put a suitcase or a million dollars and i guess these are all i'll use and avoid christmas because i use are as good as money they're not as good as money. these are i used to. that's an iou still from the treasury is that the cash and social security invests in treasury bills are you telling me that the treasury little treasury is fine but the fact of the matter is if you are in debt if you're in trouble and you owe money it's easier. for you and i'll be long gone before saturday to truly know unfunded liabilities between social security medicare and medicaid those are the other wherever here jeff these were all these are were the issues because the republicans are not in 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 take it out it's going to be is won't do it's growth for you i think a lot of it well i think a lot of well well i hope and i hope you know and i agree with you medicare is in

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. he 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 require republicans require medicare to buy drugs at retail that's insane of course that's going to break medicare i don't think it's probably the better of the largest problem though i think it was a lawyer so long. are the aging populations living longer all of them we're going to or by the actuarial itself and so the bush administration came along and said we're going to give away these these these i think we have a longstanding agreement to disagree on this whole treaty it's not really well but if it's good you 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 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 on to their favorite politicians. the other day i came across the website name whole care you can find yourself and call cares about com or god or check typical of what seemed to be another industry backed website coal here's coal is the cleanest safest form of energy there is but here's where it gets a little bizarre. kerry 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 less than 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

cyrus or diamond bling it's their way to make using an inhaler cool and cooler carer's is offering them free of charge to any kids living within two hundred miles of a coal fired power plant if this site on the web seems a little too unbelievable to be true that's 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 affected dirty coals externalities as in the diseases that hit communities thanks to pollution joining me now is lauren whitney a professor at pace university and byron mental science advisor to the u.s. lab joins me now to talk about the campaign against cold war laurel welcome to the program and. i found 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 call wants to help with the inhalers you know one time we have chevron want to make asthma related bolian a thing of the past then you push 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. well that's a very interesting question because when the website first came out last week on

tuesday it was actually just peabody coal that we were targeting and peabody basically the reason we had picked them is because they're the largest coal company in the u.s. but a couple of days later we did get a little bit of a threatening legal letter and the funny part was that 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 website to reflect all the coal companies in america this is this is absolutely hysterical the clean energy fact page right 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 get hit by a car and then you're wind chills wind turbines can kill you know for seventy thousand birds a year could clear kills fewer 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 bio 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 cause i would pull this thing off that. well i mean that is the point you know the coal companies basically don't want to put these technologies on that either could reduce pollution or they're just you know lobbying for roche's lee against congress to try to get alternatives out of these clean energy 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 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 the you know the more doctors use them for sort of. i'm guessing that your presence and the presence of other people sort of push back is starting to have an effect on like 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 up parody web states and the point is that hopefully there is this momentum whether it's on 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 on ending and all this political crap it can be hard to level the media playing field to get issues like this across and 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 coal pollution and the connection between that and asthma and kids and it's brilliant 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 amendment so. laura. 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 but we want very good laurel 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 are in pain for the trillions of dollars of our military to protect their energy interests in the middle east maybe i could be a new offering on the coal cares website for any flak 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 really are tied on capitol hill is simply a dress rehearsal for the post politics career on k. street. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right.

i think. even on the well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you're going to their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm trying hard luck is a big issue. but

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 this smack down of pop so-called news for how the network is targeting the white house for inviting a rapper named. why are you drawing the line at common and 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. but bad the anti-abortion group on line 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 party providers they come across a slew of misleading ads pretending to be medical council insights websites but in reality they're anti-abortion propaganda sites. online for wife says their goal is rescuing pre-born babies from abortion using the internet the 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 on life on line for life is necessary public and the congress is doing a dandy job of their own blocking women getting abortions and

a very very ugly one back i put up his next big rally in august which will take place in jerusalem beck broke into tears on the 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. god you 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. going back considers himself so according to god will take notice of him first before any other man or woman in the history of the world is pretty obvious now beck is leaving fox news to become a televangelist after all it's a real money sale that's also very fearful of.

at the beginning of two thousand and nine democrats want to work in washington d.c. with a mandate from the american people rocco bamma just won a landslide election for the presidency and progressive swept into congress with huge majorities in both the house and the sun and american people wanted 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 the blue dogs opened their

office doors to lobbyists from wall street health insurance industry and said how 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 krokus 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 where the majority rule wins and blue dogs figured they could get their way even though they were in the minority and they were right they whittled down the stimulus package they killed off the public option health care a save big polluters and. x. 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 of the pay set out to do stock the progressive agenda in its tracks did a payoff politically like they hoped it would. not no caucus took more of a hit in last year's elections and the blue gums with half of their members twenty

six out of fifty two getting to boot the midterms you know what harry truman said holds true when voters have a choice between a republican or a 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 the 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 route of revolving door on capitol hill and got a lobbying gig on k. street stephanie herseth sandlin from south dakota and chair of the blue dog caucus took a job with

a lobbying firm olson frank we determined bowed math 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 her corporate andren 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 that a lobbying firm of course with nearly three million dollars in contracts and while in congress tanner voted against health care reform and against energy reform and he 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. minutes voted no on health care reform you proposed energy reform evo to against 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 modify government policies to 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 avoid a government regulations and careful 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 with people like 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 but 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 of our nation's capitol and walk out k. street from congress for good and vice versa only then can we walk 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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