Dennis Prager Show - Dennis and Stephen Moore Talk Build Back Better!
Aired: 2021-11-08
Duration: 05:51


=== Why 13 Republicans Betrayed Voters? (05:15) ===

[00:00:00]  They've had money in Washington like it's M&M's candy.
[00:00:03]  And now they want to spend another 50 to 100 billion dollars on that sham thing.
[00:00:07]  So explain this to me, Dennis.
[00:00:10]  Why would 13 Republicans, after what happened on Tuesday, when the voters repudiated the Biden agenda, why would they do this?
[00:00:17]  And I blame Kevin McCarthy.
[00:00:19]  And I'm friends with Kevin McCarthy.
[00:00:20]  He's from California.
[00:00:21]  But he did not whip this.
[00:00:23]  And Pelosi did not have the votes to pass that bill.
[00:00:27]  It is astonishing.
[00:00:29]  It truly is.
[00:00:30]  So my theory, which I wanted to bounce off you, I thought you would have a better answer than I. My theory is it's great money for their districts, and that is more important to these Republicans than the country.
[00:00:47]  I think, unfortunately, you're right.
[00:00:49]  There were port barrel projects.
[00:00:51]  There were earmarks for special districts.
[00:00:54]  Democrats bought these votes, but I would have thought that Republicans would have put the principle of this.
[00:01:01]  I mean, my God, we already gave the states $1.9 trillion, remember, in March.
[00:01:06]  That's right.
[00:01:07]  This is 1.1 trillion.
[00:01:08]  Well, the key thing is what you said, money we don't have.
[00:01:11]  Let me read their names.
[00:01:12]  Don Bacon, Nebraska.
[00:01:14]  Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania.
[00:01:16]  Andrew Garbarino, New York.
[00:01:18]  Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio.
[00:01:20]  John Kotko, New York.
[00:01:22]  Adam Kinzinger, Illinois, Nicole Maliotakis, New York, David McKinley, West Virginia, Tom Reed, New York, Chris Smith, New Jersey, Fred Upton, Michigan, Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey, Don Young, Alaska.
[00:01:36]  These are Republicans who have nothing in common with the conservative principles, basic moral principles that your country comes before money for your district.
[00:01:54]  So, do you think that's the number one reason that they bailed the Democrats out?
[00:01:59]  No, I think so.
[00:02:00]  Well, for some of them.
[00:02:02]  For others, they bought into this lie that this is an infrastructure package.
[00:02:07]  How do you buy into that?
[00:02:10]  No, no, I don't understand.
[00:02:12]  What if they called it an investment in Topps baseball cards?
[00:02:17]  Would they buy that?
[00:02:19]  Here's the thing.
[00:02:20]  I mean, if I had been the Republicans, I would have said this.
[00:02:24]  Incidentally, it's not bipartisan.
[00:02:26]  The Republicans had nothing to do with writing this bill.
[00:02:31]  Pelosi wrote this bill herself with her Democratic colleagues.
[00:02:35]  They never even consulted with the Republicans.
[00:02:37]  Do you remember, Dennis, what the first act of Joe Biden was when he became president?
[00:02:43]  The first act?
[00:02:45]  Yes, the pipeline.
[00:02:48]  This is a guy who says he cares about infrastructure.
[00:02:51]  And by the way, that pipeline costs nothing.
[00:02:54]  That one is free.
[00:02:55]  It's paid for entirely by the private sector.
[00:02:58]  He killed that while he approves the pipeline from Russia to Germany.
[00:03:02]  And then he says this is an infrastructure bill.
[00:03:04]  And the Republicans said, when you approve the Keystone pipeline, we'll talk about infrastructure.
[00:03:09]  But my God, there's so much money in this bill for mass transit projects.
[00:03:13]  Why is it that a company, Tesla, right now, is the third?
[00:03:17]  Most valuable company in the world.
[00:03:20]  It has a $1 trillion market cap.
[00:03:22]  You get that?
[00:03:23]  $1 trillion is the worth of this company.
[00:03:26]  Why does the federal government have to shower with subsidies?
[00:03:32]  It's a disgrace.
[00:03:34]  And I think of the small business owner getting clobbered and Tesla getting billions.
[00:03:42]  Billions.
[00:03:43]  Billions.
[00:03:43]  Yes, billions.
[00:03:44]  It's unbelievable.
[00:03:46]  So tell me this, what I'm not clear on.
[00:03:49]  Do you think that these Republicans who voted for this one will vote for the bigger one coming up?
[00:03:56]  Oh, God forbid.
[00:03:57]  Remember, we talked about this three weeks earlier.
[00:04:00]  This is the worst bill.
[00:04:01]  That I've seen.
[00:04:02]  I arrived in Washington in 1984 when Reagan was president.
[00:04:05]  I've been proud to work for Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
[00:04:08]  That's pretty cool.
[00:04:09]  And everything that we have done to accomplish, whether it's work for welfare reforms, with supply-side tax rate reductions, whether it's limited government and whether it's education choices, all of these things are in jeopardy.
[00:04:21]  I can be on your show for two hours and tell you all the horrific things that are in this bill.
[00:04:26]  We need every single Republican.
[00:04:28]  Why is it, Dennis?
[00:04:29]  There are only two Democrats out of 257 in the Congress.
[00:04:34]  That's less than 1% are against a massive spending bill that would bankrupt our country.
[00:04:41]  Because, I know you're asking this rhetorically, but I would just like to answer it nevertheless.
[00:04:50]  Everyone left of center believes in government.
[00:04:53]  I would like you to hear, we have a couple of, we have a minute.
[00:04:58]  Sean, please play for Stephen Moore what the head of the DNC said last week.

=== DNA Of The Democratic Party (00:51) ===

[00:05:06]  Steve, this is something for you to embed in your mind and send out even.
[00:05:15]  It's just one line from a press conference that Jamie Harrison gave.
[00:05:25]  Because they have become a party of fascism and fear.
[00:05:29]  And those are the two things that really motivate them right now.
[00:05:32]  Right, no, no, that's not the quote.
[00:05:33]  The DNA of the Democratic Party is what I wanted.
[00:05:37]  That was bad enough.
[00:05:39]  Imagine that, the head of the Democratic Party says the Republican Party is fascist.
[00:05:45]  The DNA of Democrats is that we believe in government.
[00:05:49]  There you go.
[00:05:50]  That's the answer, Steve.