in is not a laughing matter and that his the tax is he said an unfair punishment on small businesses has found twenty three other republicans to agree with him and sign out of the bill is co-sponsors conspicuously absent from that list of speaker john boehner the man who arguably has the most to gain from repeal the tanning bed tax it's unclear what the name of the new legislation will be i hear they're thinking of calling it the jersey shore recovery and reinvestment act. after the break all challenged by two conservative pedals jamie weinstein and daniel helper in tonight's lone liberal brothel. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it thought it made who can you trust no one who is you in view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called satchels when nobody dares to

ask we do our tea question more. food. for. thought about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour anthony weiner admits he did indeed tweet his body parts for below prompting republicans to call for his immediate resignation. but i wonder had it been one of their own but

they call for the same action and there was a battle brewing on capitol hill today between wal-mart and wall street over debit card fees even though one side lost the real losers in the debate are you and me we don't have high paying lobbyists to fight for their cause. it's was it time for the lone liberal and i take god to conservative expert commentators on the big stories of the week on our pals and i had daniel helper ebony on line editor at the weekly standard and jenny weinstein editor of the daily caller dot com daniel jeannie both based on great to have you guys with us let's get going here unfortunately the big news of the week was winner gate democratic congressman anthony weiner admitted after a week of lying that he did indeed send lewd photos of his junk and carried on

internet relationships with a variety of women on facebook and twitter and though he assured everyone that these relationships never became physical if that makes anything better when you're apologize in a press conference on monday but is refusing to step down smelling a lot of the republicans are circling here's our in c chairman reince priebus this morning on the today show. nancy pelosi needs to do our job and be a leader of her caucus and tell anthony weiner to really hit the bricks and go home i don't think here's the problem i don't think we need to spend taxpayer dollars investigating whether or not anthony weiner the creep or not nancy pelosi debbie wasserman schultz through the obama's hand-picked leader of the democratic party ought to sit down with him and tell him that he needs to leave the night so why is it that when republicans like david vitter john ensign christopher lee mark sanford newt gingrich you get the point why is it that when these guys step in it republican leadership says it's up to the constituents. but when

a democrat gets in trouble they pounce and ask for an immediate resignation you know look this is really pathetic what he did it's no question about that he apparently showed his writings previous to the to the world but it's out now. hours . and barney frank who didn't leave after after sex scandals i think that he probably should resign but that's not anthony weiner's thing to do that's not what he said type of person he is taking into account what had a person he is this is what he should say he said yes i sent those pictures it's not illegal and guess what i'm going to be sending more so you better get used to it i'm staying around i'm owning this that's that's at least the first half of that is what he should this day want obviously it's a case then all of the cover it's this is just like just like watergate and just like clinton for that matter the cover up is worse than the crime i've thought long and hard about this and i'm against premature resignation i think this and i think by the way that the republican party is making a huge mistake i don't know why as you said this is

a bipartisan problem this happens to everyone not everyone but it happens every party. happens every party and i think there's no question that the republicans should just be quiet let the guy self-destruct he's doing a fine job without without them piling on of it my biggest turn is that you know the republicans were self destructing before this came along with the whole you know paul ryan let's you know blow up medicare thing and it's been off the press off the page of the post not only that one meters wieners esther for democrat primary difference was this is a right wing conspiracy that's out to get right the primary cover up first and i think the republicans can really stand to benefit by shutting up and just saying look this wiener has no idea what he's talking about we would not be involved in something like this he did it to himself and he can go out there is not sure was once one suggestion if i was his political advisor right now i would look at the scenario what's going on here you have dominant strauss kahn who is not going to be able to run for the press. in france this type of thing would increase his

popularity if he was a politician in france and why did he leave congress moved to france to run for the presidency there he probably would be with it when he could run on this that was really strong on actually i mean if if what's what he has been alleged is true there's a difference between great compared i'm just saying this sex i'm just saying that that wiener would be popular in france for what he did not just there is a case to be made that anthony weiner could use the spotlight to now it's his run for the for the major world race the new york city glad he decided not to be political in the little so for for see i think you look at the matchup in new york you can see out baldwin might jump in you have these guys he calls his daughter a pig and anthony weiner who shows his wiener on commuters if you are somebody that is new york city or city ten years after the bush tax cuts our economy is in the tank it the rich have never been richer a gang of millionaires or as they call themselves patriotic billionaires have now come forward to talk about what they did with all that excess cash that they got thanks to the bush tax cuts and here's

a hint they didn't create any jobs with one million or so they did nothing with the money just put it in the bank another million million or so he traveled more boosting probably outside the united states one million or so he bought a new boat but it was built in italy didn't do anything to the u.s. economy and another millionaire went ahead and build advance for his house some small little job stimulus there so considering that bush only created three million jobs in his tax cuts but bill clinton created twenty six million jobs in this tax hikes isn't it obvious ten years later that the bush tax cuts were a bad deal or was there a secret plan going out to boost the foreign yacht industry decided this is so stupid millionaires wanted to do something good with the tax refund they got they could have donated to charity they could've invested in the business created jobs they chose not to do anything with it in the other complaining that they could have done what they were doing is that that we didn't have any kind of significant deficit or debt for the two hundred years of the existence of this country outside of when we fought world war. i want to world war two and the civil war and the

revolutionary other than wars until ronald reagan came along and started spending like a drunken sailor and i guess that was in two thousand and seven with one hundred thirty billion dollars one hundred fifty billion dollars it's not like you know deficit i'm talking about the debt well that would ronald reagan came into office was under a trillion dollars when he left it was about their economy and our economy grew quote you give me a three trillion dollars credit card i'll show you how to grow an economy it's a phony growth these patriotic millionaires first of all there is a belief that that our political freedom is intrinsically tied with our economic freedom so they had they were free to do this and good for them they did it i'm not there but on a smaller scale playing ball akim point on a second all are political and on a smaller scale there are people tell your people families from use that extra cash to spend it and that it did create some growth now it's average you got two hundred fifty dollars fantasy to suggest a year it's a liberal fantasy to suggest that back if we had the revenue if we had the revenue

that we would then do greater things with it it's not first of all it's not true because there is the political freedom that people gain and second of all i mean we gain freedom by but i don't think you should we all the concessions are just the logistics of how she goes to pay for my you surely in dollars in tax can't control it for the conditions and conditions change good nine eleven which was devastating to the economy we don't cut as the internet bubble that busted no that's not true that we would necessarily agree in the morning not more and we also have any final response from a long term scale it's not true that if we raise more money if we raise taxes it would raise more money in the long term scale obviously it's true within a couple years the question is are you looking for an economy that has a long term growth that's a sustainable and that creates jobs or is eisenhower. going to if these are so bad if these were so bad why did obama and the democratic congress pass and because they got blackmailed it was the course to point to standing unemployment because they're not going to have those two points that have to be made first or if it's a right wing. the point to say that political and economic freedom are tied

together it is you know it's also a little south it's also called lucky and if you're going to do what they were doing and the only job available is working to hold money from job got it you've got to do it coming to the property with the central part of freedom that's a locking principle upon which the country was founded but secondly. secondly actually if you want to take john locke and extended to two through the whole era through the whole whiteman air there was also a recognition that many people don't have economic freedom because of the circumstances of their life that's true of law about half of them are there's this several i mean i'm a scottish. i'm not a french i'm late meaning i like the scottish and so i'll take that and let me know opposed to the emotional tone of the press but the second point that has to be made on this is that taxes are not why we have this fourteen trillion dollar deficit a very small part it's the spending that is the problem it is the trillion and a half those three has been two trillion dollars or more start with the stimulus and it comes from from the misallocation of funds that is the problem with the bush

spending ok i'll agree with you it's the spending it's the illegal war it's not either it was incredibly good party that is stripped away nearly every single effective gun control over the last few decades to any american while was that gun ownership and one organization has taken notice of this idea take a look at this new video by an al qaeda spokesman encouraging jihadi to purchase firearms at american gun shows and launch mumbai style attacks that's where the shot of that hotel the taj mahal in mumbai in india around the country. america is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms you can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check and most likely without having to show a very difficult so what are you waiting for. actually the hotel is called the taj thank you jane a.p. reporter the more than two hundred suspected terrorists were able to buy guns and

ease last year thanks to lax gun restrictions to given our nation's revamp nearly every aspect of our life from flight in airports letting the government spy on us just to keep us safe from terrorists republicans will immediately close the terrorist gun show loophole right this really oppose that it's not something that i . strongly against however i don't think that would stop it. that i was just in the taj hotel couple months ago it was a terrible attack that happened in mumbai the idea that if you close this loophole that they can't get guns they can buy them illegally even if you and if you got rid of this i committed that ban guns there still people that would have guns are criminals and guess what terrorists could buy from criminals because you know what they're in a type of purpose so the solution is for us to make sure that everybody in america has a gun in this maybe a gun lobby is going to take any news and try to use it to their advantage which is what you're doing here on the anti-gun lobby yes but i think the solution ager's aleutian is they go after the terrorists itself themselves you can you can stop

selling guns but but terrorism will still exist i do i agree that we should have the background checks should be even at gun shows and i have been to gun shows and they actually do quick background checks on people like me who are licensing gun dealers to the guys who are showing up and saying i'm just doing a flea market thing and there's and that's forty percent of all sales and gun shows are the guys who we say to some do it i think more should do it and i think and i think they should they should cross check in on terrorists on terrorist list also but i don't think this is the solution to our problem the solution to our problem is to stop terrorism and to get rid of terrorism from within afghanistan so we had an iraqi election we saw in other people's countries you know we're not going to be part of any country we are we are through improving iraq and afghanistan and i think people of those countries might just go actually i'm not so sure. they certainly have a better than they had before let me guess when we respond to if you want your

money let me respond they would have died under some. five thousand people a month back under sanctions during very before the rest of our sanctions but before the citations it was a and the kurds that were massacred let's not go there again this is going to let me just point out that you said it would be better if everyone had a gun that would be better for cassidy well yet if everyone had a gun in the streets of mumbai and those guys were coming with guns i don't think as many people want to be killed more people would have it i don't know because those guys are professionals and they were prepared and if you had a bunch of amateurs running around with you i was in they would have been killing and i was it would have been i would hope i had a gun and how many people would you have actually shot when you were trying to shoot a terrorist i think it would have been a disaster remember when republicans were campaign during the two thousand and ten election and pledged to repeal and replace obamacare after winning back the house republicans immediately repeal the health reform law but over five months in power they have yet to replace it he says some freshmen members of their caucus were here's wisconsin congressman sean duffy at a recent town hall event. i go to somebody. told me.

the spring we're going to. replace the proposal and they're very concerned. because you know or you know. considering the republicans can really pass whatever they want the house including paul ryan's budget to privatized medicare which they've passed is very telling that they have yet to pass any sort of health reform law only to replace the one they just repealed or is it that they really had no intention of replacing obamacare again it's not that we were the house could do this but you haven't even really repealed obamacare yet you have to have the senate on board so that's not going to i don't let's make it you have to have the senate then you have to have the grandson of you have to. get my replaces it look at martin feldstein i think he has a very smart plan is called catastrophic insurance i think that's a pretty good plan but i think that we have to do one step at a time you have to repeal it and it has not yet been repealed could. well there's but there there is a proposal to repeal it that has been passed by congress by the house of representatives by the house of representatives paul ryan plan and and there has

been no no of paul ryan plan isn't just to repeal the polarized i'm offering this if expensive reforms to certain elements of the health care for health care system so yes that's a that's the reply no i'm saying it's a step i'm saying they need to do more things that only hasn't any. place yet there are numerous we'll i'm going to rings on replacement at this point when this can't even possibly happen until republicans have a majority a super majority in the senate and a president who will sign into law so let's say that they did have a supermajority in the senate and and the house and they could pass it with us martin feldstein is as i said i think he was a harvard he's a he is a harvard economist it's a catastrophic insurance plan i think it's quite smart i don't know why they had to discuss that more so basically everybody. i don't know what that is but well it would it would you would you would be responsible for instance this is one version the main part of it is up to twenty percent of your income on your on your medical

matter what you make and after that there would be a catastrophic government would provide you a catastrophic plan that would go above that so there would be no emergency so if you've already been working at wal-mart and making fifteen thousand bucks a year with twenty percent thirty percent other income which is more than what they're going to spend what they would it would it be that it would be wiped out the way it works is closer to your car your car insurance so when you have you have you have to have car insurance of course and if you drive a car and when the car when there is no maintenance problem the car you you don't you fix it yourself unless you have a catastrophic problem and then you know for the record something more serious and i go in for i think our bodies are a little different than what i thought because no it was a question of this is the safety that this is that goes beyond what you what people can tell you that there may be there may be a reasonable i don't see any on the wake of the winner of the episode righteous andrew breitbart is now claiming that you know zigzag. what women want in an interview with the daily beast breitbart said i don't know with one hundred percent

confidence that this guy's a narcissist he was not sending photos to women to go to allow for what pleases women which is a nice kind of dollar sweet nothings about how beautiful you are which is what it takes in that department so breitbart knows what it takes to please women so what exactly is what's in the republican guide book and taking up a half million dollar line of credit tiffany's is going as you can keep it a secret you're the girlfriend or be john boehner about that a night of drinks and then more drinks or see dinner with dinner with mel gibson and mel gibson we've got nikki haley who do you see what the republicans have nikki haley who you have. what is that i'm saying that we have we have very beautiful women in the republican party and i think that there's a beautiful woman in the democratic party but what does that have to do with the republican plan to pick up women we've got the republicans have done a good job of picking out women to come into the party who are pretty everybody getting dollars winners that really would take advice from breitbart he's not the one for landrieu not the one cheating on his wife and i think that's far behind

i've met him right or two other times he says he's been he's happily married to his wife and in california i think i think i think you could learn a thing or two from growth or minus i have had you see madam on speed dial likelihood or i that's not my cast of the republicans right but who knows i mean i'm not up here you'll help her get to the online editor the weekly standard jamie weinstein senior editor of the daily caller thank you both for being here thanks don after the break it's a very busy day for lobbyists on capitol hill and it's a deal we take i'll tell you why one expensive fight and son of a highlights just how dysfunctional our political institutions have become. you go through. and get.

into it and we're mechanisms and you don't work to bring justice or. i have every right to do what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. he. is the good the bad in a very very odd nation just way oddly a good move on dot org the progressive organization that's how it's over five million members announced a new campaign set to begin on june twenty third called rebuild the dream purpose

of the campaign is to shift the political debate from austerity measures to actual job creation measures as move ons executive director justin ruben said the goal here is to really change the debate and refocus it on stuff that is necessary to create jobs and make the economy work for regular people is unreal it with widespread misery across the country washington is focused on closing the deficit and giving tax breaks to millionaires. who've on joins tons of other progressive organizations getting active all around the country to combat the speaker that is john boehner is right wing agenda to get out there and pick one or a few and join up the bad former democratic senator evan by the former democratic senator who decided not to run for another term last year is getting ready to walk through that infamous revolving door on capitol hill and become a lobbyist. it was reported yesterday the buy has taken a job lobbying from the u.s. chamber of commerce which explains why by seem to be interviewing for the job as

a senator he blocked a slew of government regulations killed labor reform and killed energy reform so much for the senator representing his constituents in indiana the only cared about his constituents on k. street and the very very ugly republican congressman paul brown in a radio interview yesterday congressman brown pledged to vote against raising the debt ceiling and shrugged his shoulders at the idea that a quarter million government jobs could be lost as a result of his actions. the c.e.o. says well if we if we don't. if we don't raise the debt limit it's going to put. so many people out of work i don't remember the numbers but i think it's two hundred fifty or something like it will be put out to work with those goofy government employees that are put out of work there a lot of go to employees that need to go found a real job. because delivering our mail making sure our food and water are safe teaching our children those are real jobs every now and again

a republican slips up and reveals how their party really feels about working and that's a very very ugly. today to lobby giants were pitted against each other in the united states senate it was wal-mart versus wall street on the issue of debit card swipe fees besides oil barons and health insurance c.e.o.'s good luck trying to find two industries that spend more on lobbying in the days to heavyweights. if i can think of a good metaphor here. i. think. that's right the irresistible force wal-mart and the giant retailer and merchants that get pretty

much whatever they want from congress up against the immovable object wall street an industry that's practically untouchable the issue at hand is the sixteen billion dollars in debit card swipe fees that retail merchants have to fork over to the banks trees every year so that you and i can use plastic when we buy stuff as part of some new federal regulations that go into effect next month rages swipe fees will be reined in and kept depriving big banks of over a billion dollars a month in profit that is frankly largely revenue because with all these innovations in computers he's wifey's no longer reflect the actual cost to collect the credit card things needless to say the wall street lobby was scrambling to delay the new regulations saying small banks that are dependent on swipe fees could suffer that's why senator jon tester introduced an amendment today to delay these new regulations but on the other side of the fight retail merchants like wal-mart

also have a powerful lobby on the hill and they're throwing their weight around too claiming that the swipe fees cripple retailers in fact there's been so much lobbying activity and capitol hill over this bill that senators have dubbed it the k. street full employment act and it's put lawmakers in a tough position i guess that's unlike legislation to raise the minimum wage or to prohibit for profit health insurance of uses or to cap carbon emissions or lawmakers apparently only have friends on one side of the aisle and transnational corporations so while bankers and corporations are duking it out but if this bill mean for the rest of us not much. we'll be able to use or debit cards either way it really just came down to who's going to keep footing the bill or making the profit from the cost of these transactions the retailers as they currently do or the banks there's ultimately the immovable object known as wall street was the loser in today's fight senator tester's amendment was defeated and the swipe fees will be

cut starting next month but that's not really all that important what's important is why this bill was even on the senate calendar for today especially with all the other problems facing the ninety nine percent of us who haven't made millions in the retail business or on wall street actually it wasn't just today actually this was this right the bill has been a priority in fact priority number one in the senate for quite a while well you may think our senate has been hard at work trying to raise the debt ceiling to get people back to work they've actually been working on this white card fee all year and that's because there's a lot of corporate cash at stake and does a lot of lobbying going on behind closed doors lots of campaign contributions being passed out lots of expensive dinners the whole bit and this debate strikes right to the heart of what's wrong with politics in america instead of considering legislation based on the best interests of our country. congress considers

legislation based on the highest bidder the corporate giants as the old saying goes when elephants fight the mice get trampled who knows what legislation is being pushed back on the senate calendar to handle as showdown between two lobbying power houses because we didn't get limit the jobs bill up for the ninety nine er's war funding were not. but one thing is clear about congress unless you're willing and able to pass out millions of dollars good luck getting lawmakers to pay attention to your gripes and there's only two ways around this pay to play scheme one ninety nine er's and people opposed to the war could theoretically hire high priced obvious like evan buyer ralph reed but there isn't much profit to be made in helping the unemployed or any wars so that leaves option to kick the whole cohens in the under the giants out of the lobbying world of capitol hill we need campaign

reform and lobbying reform not all there should be only one irresistible force and that's the will of the people and only one immovable object our democracy as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website at www dot com. also check out our you tube page at youtube dot com slash not big picture artsy but you do you tube dot com slash. and this entire show is available as a free podcast on i tunes and don't forget to mark receive begins with you when you show up and participate tag your it.

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