Ep. 1062 - Clown World
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Summary
Senators voted on a bill that does a lot of things that don't make sense, and they voted for it anyway. It's the latest example of a disturbing trend: Democrats are not even trying to make arguments anymore, they're just redefining the terms.
Transcript
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Senate Democrats just passed a $740 billion bill
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during a 16-hour marathon voting procedure known as Vote-A-Rama.
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of the Democrats' pals in the green energy industry.
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It extends Obamacare subsidies for an extra year.
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It raises all sorts of taxes on different groups and corporations.
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It even increases taxes on gas and oil imports,
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which is pretty wild because gas and oil prices
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are probably the single greatest driver of inflation.
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As the Penn-Wharton budget model showed last week,
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These are not the words of Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.
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it will in fact have a minimal impact on inflation.
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and they voted for it not because it will reduce inflation,
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but because it gives them a lot of the dumb legislative agenda
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The whole sorry spectacle is just more evidence
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of a disturbing trend that I have mentioned on this show
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to mask their power grabs and their personal interests
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in the language of logic and reason and the common good.
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but hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
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Increasingly, today, that kind of language is gone.
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Can't explain why your crappy economic policies
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My favorite comment on Friday is from Harry Martins,
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There are, Russia's not even the harshest country on drugs.
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and they tried to bring all the moderates in line,