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Party of Reform - February 11th, Hour 2
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Even 20% of Democrats now saying Trump is doing a great job.
We went over his poll numbers with CBS yesterday, and Americans are finally getting it and getting the speed of Trump and adapting very quickly.
Democrats, they just seem as, I've never seen a party in such disarray as I have now, and what they now stand for, and I think this was evidenced by who they chose to be the top two people to lead the DNC into the future.
They're to the left of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
And the parties become radicalized, and Chuck Schumer's big plan to, you know, and the Democrats' plan to just scream and yell and rant and rave about waste fraud abuse internationally, hunt what will be hundreds of billions of dollars.
We've already found tens of billions of dollars in in monies spent abroad for their radical Green New Deal for woke programs, wokeism, uh DEI, transgenderism, LGBTQ plus, and the American people, you know, are thinking, why isn't that money being spent on law and order and safety and security and better schools and better transportation and infrastructure in our country?
And why aren't we benefiting from this money?
And if they want to die in that hill, that's fine.
If they want to die on the hill of protecting, you know, Harris Biden illegals that include murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, known terrorists in our country, okay, die on that hill.
If they want to die on the hill of fighting for men to be able to play in women's sports, let them let them die on that hill.
But there's uh the they're just becoming completely unhinged.
Um here's Chris Murphy, you know, lashing out about doge, comparing it to the death of democracy.
Okay, really?
Not a little bit of hyperbole here at all.
Yeah, listen, I I mean, I uh this isn't hyperbole to say that we are staring the death of democracy in the eyes right now.
Um the the centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings, criminal court rulings, civil court rulings, and constitutional court rulings.
No one is above the law, and whether we like it or not, the courts interpret the law.
So, yes, throughout uh the history of the United States, the courts have made rulings on when the executive branch is exercising legal power and when they are going beyond the power that they have.
If the president of the United States says, you know what, I don't care what the courts say, I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want.
That's essentially the end of the rule of law, because if the president isn't bound by our laws and the constitution, then why would anybody else be bound by our laws and the constitution?
This is a really dire moment.
But for years, Democrats didn't utter a word with the weaponization of the DOJ or the fact that Harris and Biden were aiding and abetting illegal law breaking.
I mean, I'm I'm not exactly sure even what court case he's talking about.
Here's more of the democratic meltdown.
Elon Musk, where are you?
Bring your ass over here so you can see who's here.
This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.
We are here to fight back.
That is what they are doing.
They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny the American people, the services and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure economy, and a secure future for themselves.
Every time you hear Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember it is the Department of Government evil.
Over.
This is thavery.
This is gangsterism.
Okay.
Uh The bank robber that's working for free, the Department of Government evil thievery.
Uh we're coming after you.
What?
Because we discovered that your hard-earned tax dollars, average American making sixty-six thousand dollars a year and and their hard-earned money going for twenty million dollars on a Sesame Street show in Iraq and fifty-six million to boost uh Egyptian and Tunisia tourism and forty million to build schools in Jordan, but not in the U.S. and eleven million to tell the Vietnamese to stop burning trash, and this is how they react because they've been exposed.
Anyway, here are those thoughts on all of this as the former Speaker of the House, New Gingrich.
He's the last speaker to ever balance the budget, and uh uh I I can't imagine all the waste, fraud, and abuse that you found in in your line-by-line examination of the budget at the time, but I doubt you found this kind of craziness.
Okay, I think Elon Musk is doing the country an enormous service and just surfacing all this stuff.
I mean, when people begin to realize uh the depth of corruption, uh the depth of fraud, uh the special sweetheart deals, uh the programs that are useless and a total waste of our money.
If by the time they're done, uh we're gonna have this mountain of evidence that the establishment government was a corrupt, incestuous, incompetent system that failed to protect America, failed to provide for a prosperous economy, uh, and failed to spend your tax money that you work hard for in a prudent and wise way.
I think this is gonna be one of the great educational experiences in American history, and I doubt if the establishment is ever going to recover from the evidence that's going to come pouring out about how much corruption there's been.
This is only one agency.
I mean, and and the tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that was just wasted abroad to advance their radicalism is breathtaking.
Uh both Senator Thune and Congressman and Speaker of the House Johnson vowed to take Doge spending cuts to the next level.
There is a little problem that has emerged.
It was on Fox News.com that uh apparently Freedom Caucus members, you know, are there's a little bit of a mutiny against House leadership as the Trump budget bill, you know, talks have hit an impasse, and now we've got competing bills, and I don't know how they're going to end up reconciling themselves.
They don't have b a big margin, as you know, in the House.
Well, and I think at some point the country will tell them to get get their act together, sit in a room and sort it out.
I don't I don't fully understand what their complaint is.
I think we need to add uh a provision to the reconciliation bill.
I think unless unless they deliberately want to be destructive, the Freedom Caucus ought to find a way to reach out and solve this.
They're gonna have hundreds of billions and maybe well over a trillion dollars in savings that Musk and Trump are going to find.
They're gonna have a substantial increase in revenue from Trump's new tariffs.
Now those should be able to be wrapped into the reconciliation bill and counted towards getting to a bill which is more than paid for.
I mean, if you count those things in the reconciliation bill, you will reduce the deficit in the out years, which reduces the amount you're spending on interest payments, which further reduces the deficit.
And you know, we got to the only, as you point out earlier, the only four consecutive balanced budgets in a hundred years were created by the House Republicans in the 1990s, and we did it frankly by being clever, not stupid, by finding ways to listen to each other, not argue, and by looking for every savings and every revenue opportunity, particularly through economic growth.
So uh I think that uh you have to recognize that the Congressional Budget Office is a left-wing institution.
Uh I called years ago for it to be replaced.
Uh that the budget act was written in 1974 by radical Democrats, so it has a huge bias in favor of spending and a bias against tax cuts.
Uh those things need to be smoothed out.
But the fact is, what you're going to discover, now I'll just give you an example of health care.
We currently pay billions and billions to crooks.
Now, I can defend every penny going to honest people.
I don't want to cut a single penny from doctors and nurses and hospitals and from patients.
But that doesn't mean I want to send give money away to crooks.
And if you just had make America honest again to match up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s make America healthy again, I'll bet you could get two or three trillion dollars that wouldn't wouldn't come from cutting anybody who was honest.
In fact you could take part of that money and increase the salary for doctors and nurses and people who are actually dealing with patients.
And in the process you could start reducing the bureaucracy.
You know, we have a system today where the bureaucrat, whether it's government or insurance company bureaucrat, has more power than your doctor.
Now they've never seen you.
Many of them don't have a medical degree.
They're operating off of some cookbook and and it's part of why American health has not improved even though we spend twice as much money as the number two country, Switzerland.
Twice as much per capita and we have worse outcomes.
I mean all of this is transformational consequential and it's the reform that this government has needed a top to bottom accounting of how they spend the people's money.
And I think when all is said and done we may end up with hundreds of billions, maybe even over a trillion dollars in in waste fraud, abuse and corruption and I think what the American people are seeing already is breathtaking.
Now the political side of this is the Democrats have seem to be leaning on a strategy which is to blame the messenger and attack the process that exposes all of this and uh to me that's a losing strategy because I don't think any common sense American is is going to look at this kind of spending and be happy about it because it's their money.
Every Democrat who we can get on tape defending things that are totally stupid or corrupt uh is is good for us in 2026.
Do we have time just for s for a story to draw the parallel out here from the course take your time.
Okay.
So it's 1981.
Ronald Reagan has been elected president.
I have been endorsed by the professional air traffic controllers uh and I represented the largest air traffic control area in the country combination of the Hampton Center and the Atlanta airport.
And they designed a strategy to take on Jimmy Carter and they were going to strike and they knew that Carter would cave and they would give him what they wanted.
So Reagan was clearly not going to do that.
And I went down to the White House and I saw Drew Lewis who was Secretary of Transportation and I said look well we're headed towards a real crunch here and is the president really going to fire these guys?
And Lewis said to me, look, you want Reagan to succeed.
I said of course he said well we have to break the back of wage inflation.
Now we have two choices.
We have 19,000 air traffic controllers in June and 637,000 postal workers in August.
Which one do you think we ought to pick the the head on television with?
And I said, got it.
I went back to see the air traffic controllers and I said guys this isn't Jimmy Carter.
He's going to fire you.
And they said oh you can't fire us it'll close the whole system down.
They'll never be able to do it.
Well the Reagan people were smart.
They'd already organized the replacements the system had about a three-day period of glitches and then it worked perfectly.
They all lost their jobs.
Now the reason I tell you the story is the the freedom caucus right now is a little bit like the professional air traffic controllers.
They're still using all the techniques they developed to fight Biden.
But now they've got Trump.
So instead of picking fights and and and reaching for exaggerated positions and trying to maximize temporary leverage for three days what they ought to be doing is working with Johnson and with the president and figuring out positive ways to get the maximum done you can and while getting a bill through in either May or June, which you desperately have to do if you're going to keep the House and then work on additional projects.
I mean it's not like Trump is in any way gonna walk off he's he's going to want more goodies.
He's going to want more reform he's going to want more change and they have a chance if they could just unlock their brains say to themselves this is not this is not Joe Biden.
This is not Kamala Harris.
This is Donald J. Trump.
Maybe I could work with him.
I think the Freedom Caucus could be enormously valuable if it decided to be cooperative.
Well I I think so too I th look at that they're either going to succeed together or fail together but I think in the end I think that the the sheer you know power and popularity of Donald Trump is going to propel all of them to to do something that maybe they wouldn't otherwise do, and that is unite behind his his agenda, which I think is ultimately going to be good for the country.
Um I I I want to go back to this issue, though.
The Democrats seem to have doubled down on all of this reckless international, you know, spending.
I I mean if you can explain to me.
No, yes, this is their world.
Since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, they're but Franklin Roosevelt wasn't what wasn't spending American tax dollars for Sesame Street shows in in Iraq and transgender comic books and transgender operas and DEI musicals.
Of course not.
But I'm just saying that machine, that system, which which grew even bigger under Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, and then moved to the left over the last twenty years in a sort of an insane left wing power you know version.
I mean, it's just i it's it's very hard for me to fully understand why they're prepared to die on these things.
But the left wing of the Democratic Party, this is life and death.
I mean, this is not politics.
This is their very identity.
Uh and I think it's very hard for them to back down.
And they're gonna they're very I think they're gonna cause a civil war in the Democratic Party.
I think there will be a nut wing of the party, which will be very left wing, very radical.
But but they control the party.
I can name through three people that have spoken out against it.
James Carvel, David Axelrod, and r and Ram Rombo Deadfish Emmanuel, the the Clinton people, the only ones with enough common sense to say this is stupid.
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Okay, so look at the recent elections of the new head and and the second in charge as David Hoge of the DNC.
To me, radical left, far left of even Kamala Harris.
And they seem to have, as a party, even Chuck Schumer, have doubled down, and their strategy is to fight for, you know, this the reckless tens and hundreds of billions of dollars waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption abroad, not even money spent on Americans for Americans.
And then they doubled down on they they want to keep the borders open, and and there's there's absolutely nothing but complaining about Donald Trump finding illegal immigrants that were unvetted, even known terrorists, rapists, murderers, cartel members, gang members.
And then the third thing is they've doubled down on men playing women's sports.
That's he that that that the only three examples are the ones I gave you at the end of the last half hour, and that is James Carvel, David Axel Rod, and Ram Emanuel saying you guys better let this go because it's a it's jackassery to quote James Carvel so eloquently stating it.
Um but they but th this is the party now.
This is not this is not the party you dealt with when you were speaker.
This is not the days of Tip O'Neill when Reagan was president.
Look, this is a religious movement disguised as a political party.
Uh I mean you're asking them to give up the their deepest held values.
Uh I'm talking now about the left wingness.
It's not totally true of there are people out there who are not totally crazy.
But the hardcore part of the Democratic Party of the day is a religious movement.
It's a movement which believes in transgenderism as the highest ultimate value.
It's a movement which believes in open borders, and that it would be uh inherently wrong to have any suggestion that America really is a country.
Uh it is a movement which believes that we shouldn't celebrate the 250th birthday next year, because after all, uh we are we are a racist, homophobic, uh exploitive country, uh, and therefore we should be ashamed that we've lasted 250 years.
I mean, these people believe this stuff.
They sit around and talk to each other in that kind of language, and and and and uh then they dominate the univer the elite universities so much that that to walk in and say, isn't it great that we're gonna celebrate 250 years of freedom will get you into a fight.
Uh and so they can't unlock because you ask it's the equivalent of asking a religious movement uh to somehow behave rationally, and then the very nature of faith-based movements is that they're impervious to practical rationality.
I mean, it's an opportunity, and this is something that you as a historian can uniquely comment on to me that that is uh right in front of our eyes, where this could be the most consequential and transformational presidency in history.
I mean, we can now dismantle the the nanny state of government, return to constitutional order, return to the vision of our framers and founders, return to the idea and ideals of limited government, greater freedom, and really and truly once and forever, hopefully, eliminate waste fraud and abuse, and I think all of that now is real.
It's all possible.
I was just saying to everybody listening to us today.
They're not a call.
No, that's right.
We just we did just get to the dance, but I think the first step of the dance is to pass a very large tax cut deregulation energy bill by Mayor June.
And I would urge everybody listening to you and me today to pick up the phone after the after the show and call Lindsey Graham's office and tell him that he needs to support the House and pass one big bill before certainly no later than Mayor June, so that we can have the economy growing by the beginning of 26, so we can run for re-election and actually gain seats in the House.
And we have a real chance.
We have 13 districts held by people of Democrats to Donald Trump carried.
We have another 21 districts where you got within 5%.
Their votes are exactly what you said.
They're so crazy to the left that if we communicate that, we could actually gain seats next year.
The difference for America between losing the House and having Hakeem Jeffries pretend that he's Nancy Pelosi and immediately launch investigations, launch impeachments, do everything you can to stop Trump.
The difference between that future and a future where the Republicans keep the House, and Speaker Johnson is working as an ally with Trump.
That gap is so enormous.
And the key to that is to pass a spare tax cut energy and deregulation bill no later than May or June.
And for some reason Lindsey Graham, who's in a very important budget committee position, doesn't seem to get it.
And so I'm I'm just uh appealing to everybody.
Give Lindsay a call and tell him that that uh he needs to get one bill, it has to be the economic bill, and it has to get to the Senate president no later than I don't know that Lindsay's leading this effort.
My understanding is is when President Trump met with the U.S. Senate, this is prior to him being inaugurated, is that many in the Senate, including conservatives like Ted Cruz were arguing for two bills.
They were, but they're but they're not the budget committee chairman.
I mean, he's it in his power to sit down with Mike Johnson and President Trump, work out a joint single bill.
I mean, the idea of two bills, I think, is suicide.
It means you're giving up the House next year, in my judgment.
And it's got to be done quickly because you got to give the t the economy time to recover and until you implement Trump's economic policies that has no chance of recovery.
That's right.
I mean, Reagan lost 26 seats in his first off year because the tax cuts didn't go into effect until two thousand until nineteen eighty-three.
Trump lost 44 seats in 2018 because they messed around trying to repeal Obamacare, failed, and didn't get around to a tax bill until October.
Now, at some point you got to say to them, guys, this is the absolute historic record.
And I think as as the guy who helped create the first majority in 40 years and the first re-elected majority since 1928, I think I have some knowledge of this business, and I'll tell you, I am very, very worried that the Senate doesn't get it.
They don't understand the importance of getting this tax bill through early.
And then frankly, it's not their skin if if the House goes Democrat, but it sure is Donald Trump's skin, and it sure is the country's skin.
It really is.
Mr. Speaker, these are historic times, and I do agree with you that I think that Americans need to stay in touch with their elected uh representatives and at appropriate times will be giving out that phone number.
Uh people have it burned into their memory bank and hopefully they'll call people, be respectful.
And um anyway, we appreciate your time as always.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Take care.
800 941 Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program, Rosemary, Florida, my free state.
What's up, Rosemary?
How are you?
I'm just calling Oh, Rose Marie, I believe.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
I'm just calling because I think this is a genius idea, what um Donald Trump has Elon Musk doing.
Elon Musk is an outside auditor.
And everyone that's screaming that he has no right to see uh this government agency or what's going on in that government agency, he does because he's there to keep it on the straight and narrow.
I worked in banking for over 30 years.
I can't tell you how many times we were met unannounced by an outside auditing firm, not auditors that were employed by the bank, but an outside firm.
And when they would come that day, they'd be there in the parking lot before you.
So anything you did from the time you unlocked your bank Doors you had to do with an auditor.
You couldn't sign on your computer.
You couldn't go into your bank vault.
You couldn't do anything without the auditor there watching what you were doing, counting your cash to see if it matched up with your closing the night before figure.
I I mean this this is just what people and and really the Democrats don't realize that no matter what financial institution you deal with goes through audits.
And they not only do that for the cash count, later on in the day the auditors actually go through signature cards, safe deposit box cards, checks that are written out.
So people that are not employed by the bank, the auditors from the outside firm have all this information on the customers.
Customers never complain.
We never stood there last week like Maxine Waters did, um, you know, shaking the doors trying to get in.
We couldn't do a thing.
We just waited until the auditors did their job, and then we were given the okay.
We can sign on to our computers now, we can do our cash.
But I just think this was a ingenious idea, and Elon Musk is doing exactly exactly what he's supposed to do.
I agree.
I think what he's doing is heroic, and the fact that he's being demonized, uh, it speaks volumes.
Uh, but the American people will support him and support what he's doing, and they don't want their money spent this way, and just like most people don't want men and women's sports, and just p like most people support the president's policies on deporting those people that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty, and getting rid of these criminals and others.
Um anyway, good call, Rosemary.
Thank you.
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Uh let's say hi to John in South Carolina.
What's up, John?
How are you?
Good afternoon.
I'll make it quick.
You are much more familiar with the process of getting an item attached to a spending bill.
My question is who hired the paid lobbyists?
These wasteful spendings.
You see, it was even more sinister than that.
If you look at USAID, because you you're you're bringing up a very good question.
Who's responsible?
Well, I think the people that are screaming the loudest we figured out are the ones that are the most responsible, right?
Because, you know, no American would support their hard-earned tax dollars going to programs like this.
Now there have been attempts at congressional oversight and inquiry that have failed because they thought they were being very clever and they would obscure and hide deceitfully at what where the money was really going, and they would put a lofty title, and meanwhile, we find out where the money really went and what the money was really for.
So the the the process was they they'd pass the budget and they'd fund USAID and then USAID would spend all this money, and there was no oversight at all whatsoever, no accountability at all whatsoever.
And now that they're being exposed is why they're being there's they're so angry.
Now, why are they so angry?
Because these are their heartfelt radical beliefs.
And number one, and and number two, this is also where they got their power from.
They got their power abusing and frankly stealing your money, your kids' money, and your grandkids' money.
And and that's why they're so angry at Elon Musk.
They're so angry at Doge, and they're scaring bloody murder about it.
But they it's it's not something that they they there were there were congressmen and senators trying to get this information.
And and they would get very, very, you know, benign answers that were not factual to hide what they were really up to.
but this is how deeply entrenched this this radical mindset is it must be a way to find out who hired the paid lobbyists to get that into a spending bill it gets in there because it gets into the overall bill in this case usaid and when it gets in that bill then then it that's where the abuse took place and that's where the cover-up took place because it was a cover-up they didn't
they didn't want the American people to know what they were doing, so they would hide it under obscure titles and and not reveal the real purpose of where the money was going, where they knew it was going.
you know, what lobbyists are behind that?
I mean, I mean, there could be any list of them.
And then you're, oh, I think your next logical question would be, well, did these, did these elected officials benefit from these groups that lobbied to get the money?
And were there any kickbacks?
none of that would surprise anybody.
Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
It's a great question.
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