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No one cares. Anyway i can put another log onhe fire. Im going to bed. Stephanie exactly. Here she is in the current news center. Shes a lot younger than i am. Shes pluckier, like an energizer bunny. Stop that. Stephanie here she is. Good morning, everybody. Obama for america is using its Campaign Email list to put pressure on lawmakers to extend the bush tax cuts for the middle class. The latest from Stephanie Cutter includes a twominute video reminding voters that the President Campaign and won on that same platform. Obama we need to give tax relief to working families trying to raise their kids to keep them healthy send them to college, keep a roof over their heads. Thats the choice in this election. The administration is still asking you to send in stories about what being able to keep about 2,000 more a year means to you and your family. The president is planning to meet with state governors this week and the business roundtable, a big business lobbying group. This morning fiscal cliff negotiations appear to be at a stand still. Treasury secretary tim geithner says the president s offer is unwavering. Were going to let tax rates go up for top earners and republicans will have to work with that reality. There is no responsible way we can govern this country with those low rates in place for future generations. Those rates are going to have to go up. House Speaker John Boehner appears to be struggling now that the president and democrats are negotiating for a position of power. Talking points memo points out republicans are used to getting 70 to 75 of what they ask for in these types of negotiations but now Speaker Boehner is going on and on about how hes shocked and amazed at president s plan and is refusing to offer a counter plan on the republican side. You want to talk about this or anything else, join us online at current. Com stephaniemiller. Well see you with more after the break. Now . You know the kind of guys who do like reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all of the time now. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers, thinking. Okay, so there is wiggleroom in the ten commandments, is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. Brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Visit geico. Com for a free rate quote. Youve heard me talk about one reverse mortgage for years now. And no matter where i go i get the same questions what is it . How does it work . So i thought that the best way for you to get those answers is to actually meet a client and a one reverse mortgage licensed professional. Come on. What happened when you made that call . First of all we had to clarify immediately that the house would be mine. 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It helped me pay off a few of my debts that were hanging over my shoulders and i stayed in my home. I am in my house i am glad i made that call. The reverse mortgage has given us more comfort, given us a little nest egg. I would say that one reverse mortgage was onei made in my lifetimes and i am very, very pleased i made that decision. Can one reverse mortgage help you . Youll never know unless you call. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. Im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good stephanie dont ask me important questions before im about to go on. Im getting in character. Im nervous. Its show time. Im talking to you about show stuff. Not your party this weekend. Stephanie shouldnt we be nervous . The show is about to begin. It has been eight years. Come on. Stephanie happy monday. Jim was at my party this weekend. He said the funniest thing when he came in. I had to leave early a because i was exhausted. I had a corporate gig in anaheim that day and also i was surrounded by beautiful women who im not sleeping with which is endlessly frustrating for him. Stephanie you should have seen the look on his face. He was in the middle of jacki my friend lisa with a goofy 7th grade look on his face. A lot of pretty girls. Pretty girls im not having sex with. [ hypnotic ] 7th grade was german for me i was hot for ingrid. Stephanie who wasnt. She already had the cans. Stephanie right. She was the one there was one really wow stephanie jim, sorry to get you going this morning. But hey. Thats vaguely creepy. 7th grade, come on. Stephanie speaking of sexy parties oh, boy. Stephanie nick in d. C. , we got d. C. Sexy liberal tickets. Hey, mama, yea youre finally coming to d. C. I cant wait. I just bought tickets. Will you be getting naked . Nick, i gotta do something to top myself at every show. I may have to. I dont know. [ applause ] where is my recycling bin. You really want to top the teabagging . Stephanie i havent done the naked tea bag yet. Always a first. Stephanie i booked a huge celebrity for panel already. Who . Stephanie have we not done this enough . Thats why it is a big surprise all right. January 19th for ain inauguration weekend on d. C. On sale in d. C. Took me by surprise. Right now, the entire orchestra is already more than half sold. Were down to about 25 meet and grope tickets. If you want them, you can get them today. The warner is an intimate theatre for us. Only 1800 seats. Dont be afraid to buy the affordable tickets according to sexy liberal director, roland. Four years ago, we had the first inauguration of president obama. In november, america decided one term just wasnt enough. Do that to me one more time announcer this time around, Stephanie Miller and her team of comics is coming to make this a party d. C. Will never forget. On january 19th, two days before obamas second inauguration the sexy liberal comedy tour starring hal sparks, John Fuglesang aisha tyler and the goddess of liberals, Stephanie Miller will perform live at the Warner Theatre in washington, d. C. Tickets are available at ticketmaster. Com and if you want to skip the fees, stop by the Warner Theatre box office at 513 13th street northwest. The tea baggers lost in november so stephanie is going to do her thing before the inaugural ball. That means two things. Thats the Stephanie Millers sexy liberal comedy tour live in d. C. Inauguration weekend. For more information, go to sexyliberal. Com. Nice stephanie thank you [ applause ] what else do i do . Every weekend. Watch meet the press drink . Stephanie well, yes and then watch meet the press so my head can explode. Plosion they start with some ridiculous premise. People from cnbc like Grover Norquist is the guest you know will start with a premise that is not favorable to the president on the fiscal cliff. They take Grover Norquist seriously. Seriously enough to have him on the panel. Stephanie who is he again and why . Why does he literally i have a pledge. I got a pledge stephanie he was all threateny. If you thought ive got pictures of people doing naughty things. Stephanie hes Like Tea Party two is going to dwarf tea party one. Oh grover [ dramatic ] scared grover. The Tea Party Kind of crashed and burned of its own volition. Stephanie people are on tv threatening the president. Heres the thing. I found this great piece in the wall street journal. Weve talked about this before but heres what i hate is we start from the premise that this president has been such a crazy spender. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] this is why i find handy dandy charts so helpful. Theyre so helpful and visual. In fact, well put this one up. Ill find it. Dont worry. Dont give me that look. Okay. Ive got it somewhere. All right. Stephanie found this at home during box one. Ive got carbonite ill find this. Okay. [ world news tonight ] market watch writes of all of the falsehoods told about president obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would be president mitt romney tells it, i will lead us out of this dt and s snding inferno. Oh, come on. Really . Stephanie how did that go for you, mittens . Government so heres the graph. Government spend would you like the fun facts . Government spending under obama including his stimulus bill is rising at 1. 4 annualized pace slower than at any time in four years. How outrageous. Stephanie look. Thats very visual. Stephanie everybody look. See the chart . Those poor radio people. Stephanie as compared to reagan 8. 7 . Reagan 8689. Bush two the second term im talking about 8. 1 . 1. 4 is where obama is. Spending, spend spend outrageous i wont spend that. Boehner is flabbergasted. Im really flabbergasted stephanie did you see Mitch Mcconnell said he burst out laughing at the president s proposal. Somebody sent me a picture of a galapagos turtle. Ill have the last laugh. Ill live to be 370 years old. Stephanie okay. Federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the korean war to an end. Meaning it is rising at the fastest pace. Ever just by way of comparison, in the twine fiscal year, the last of george w. Bushs presidency, the fiscal year goes federal spending rose by 17. 9 from the 2. 98 trillion to 2. 52 trillion. In fiscal 2010, the first budget under obama spending fell 1. 3 to 2. 36 trillion. You say that like itss good thing. Im flabbergasted. Who uses the word flabbergasted anymore . Stephanie john boehner. Cracky. Stephanie the big surge in federal spending happens in fiscal 2009 before obama took office. The 2009 fiscal year which republicans count as part of obamas legacy, isnt that handy . Brought on by george w. Bush. Flabbergasting. Stephanie it is like george w. Bush ran over a pack of cub scouts drunk and barack obama shows up. Look at what you did here. See what you presided over . Shows up in the ambulance. Look what you did stephanie oh my god. No im emt. It began four months before obama moved into the white house. The major spending decision in the 2009 fiscal year were made by george w. Bush and the previous congress, just an fyi. Flabbergasted. President thinks hes won an election or something. Flabbergasted. [ laughter ] stephanie it is a funny word. No normal person ever says that. Say it when youre drunk. Flabbergasted. Stephanie actually jim did say it. Its raining im flabbergasted. Flabbergasted by everything. All right. Yeah Lindsey Graham, drama queen that he is i would rather talk about him than lindsay lohan. Stephanie he said i think were going over the cliff. It is clear to me theyve made a political calculation. I wonder if Lindsey Graham looks better in a dress . Im pretty sure. Stephanie president has put forward, it is in the g. O. P. s court. Theyre the ones that arent responding. Tim geithner said no agreement without an increase in tax rates for the wealthiest americans and if that meant going over the fiscal cliff republicans would be to blame. So nancy pelosi, little scamp that she is, she is threatening [ world news tonight ] she threatens to force a vote if the republicans dont act on the middle class tax cuts. Teehee. Im guessing boehner is going to be flabbergasted. It has never been done before. Ever. Flabbergasting. It is flabbergasting. Stephanie flabbergastacious. Im impressed by your flabbergastivity. Stephanie Lindsey Graham went on to say well lose everything we know as america if we dont fix entitlements. Were becoming the greece of outofcontrol spending. [ dramatic ] it in no way does that. Stephanie shut down that argument. The spending graphs of who nonsense. Also, greece is falling apart because of the austerity programs implemented by the inf and the world bank. Stephanie we have references on that. Theyre wrong wrong wrong on everything. [ wah wah ] stephanie im flabbergasted how wrong they are. 17 minutes arrive the hour. You know what else flabbergasts me . Being able to carbonate soda in 90 seconds. My friend had a soda stream. I got to do it. It is amazing. Did you karate chop . No but it is amazing seriously. Stephanie youre such a sad little man. I dont get out much stephanie new way to enjoy greattasting soda made fresh at home. Im flabbergasted. Stephanie flabbergasting how good it is with bourbon. You can make it fresh at home. Everybody loves a soda stream. Producer geeks kids, grad parents. Grandparents. It is smart. Transforms water into fresh fizzy soda. You saw how quick. There it goes. We needed mixers last night so we made club soda. Stephanie im sure did you. Lugging, storing and disposing of cans. Environmentally friendly and so it makes your cans of soda be like 25 cents a can. Thats cheap. 25 cents a can im flabbergasted. Stephanie theres over 60 flavors of soda. Regular, diet, energy drinks, brands you know and love like country time and crystal light. No High Fructose Corn Syrup ors a aspartame. It is a christmas miracle. Stephanie check out soda stream at bed both and beyond at Bed Bath Beyond and many other stores. It is flabbergasting that well be right back. Its weird on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer call stephanie now. Shes easy. 1800steph12. [ male announcer ] red lobsters crabfest ends soon. Hurry in and try five succulent entrees like our tender snow crab paired with savory garlic shrimp. Just 12. 99. Come into red lobster and sea food differently. And introducing 7 lunch h h vo always outspoken, now unleashed. Joy behar. On my next show, fashion savant Carson Kressley goes from dancing with the stars to dishing with moi, on say anything. 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You may be right, i may be crazy you may be wrong but all i know, you may be right stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. The rude pundit in hour three today. Eric boehlert coming up to cohost rightwing world at the top of the hour. All right. So lots going on. It is getting fiscal cliffy around here. [ world news tonight ] nancy pelosi is threatening to force a vote on the bush tax cuts for the middle class. Friday, yeah the house g. O. P. Will not hold a vote on the middle class tax bill. Not going to do anything. Stephanie he will be over there making a mitch face. I dont feel like it. This is stupid. Stephanie the senate has approved one in response, nancy pelosi announced democrats plan to bring the legislation to the floor vote no matter what. Democrats plan to use a discharge petition if it has been stuck in committee for more than 30 legislative days. Youre not the boss of me. Stephanie flabbergast. As most things do. It is flabbergasting. Stephanie from West Virginia . Caller hi, im a College Student. Me and my peers were talking. Im glad to see that theres some kind of push by the Democratic Base to make real changes in tax loopholes or Capital Gains tax. But also wanted to see if there could be any there was like there is a lack of talk i guess as far as obamas foreign policies also. So i just want to i want to see what you say about that, too. Stephanie im sorry. About his Foreign Policy . Yeah. About his foreign policies. Theres no real path that i see by that. Where they where theyre going with that, i guess. Okay. Thats a little doughy. He was spitballing a term paper. Somehow the fiscal cliff got in the Foreign Policy. Here is monday morning. It is all right. Yeah, we just flush the lines with that one. Stephanie sure. A little telephone call and blow. Yeah. Is there something happening we should have a policy for that. Said he was a College Student so my guess is that if hes up this early hes probably still up from last night. Stephanie hes been up all night. Things are a little doughy in there. Thats okay. It is like jim give him 30 minutes. Stephanie lastminute ideas. Curious your thoughts on stuff that happened [ jeopardy theme ] stephanie policy as it relates to the fiscal cliff and humanity ive been there. Im feeling his pain. Ive been panicky. What do i do . Stephanie we were of no help to him. The catcher and the rye caulfield is the protagonist. And theres rye and hes there and in a rye field and hes there catching stuff. Stephanie theres no barley. Pitching the barley. Stephanie all right. [ world news tonight ] stephanie its monday. Sometimes people sound a little like they have a sponge left in their brain from surgery. Maybe that was his problem. We may never know. Steph excess thoughts. Okay. All right. The president on this whole fiscal cliff. Obama i dont think it is acceptable for you for a handful of republicans in congress to hold middle class tax cuts hostage simply because they dont want tax rates on upper income folks to go up. Stephanie uh, yeah lets go to kathy in mobile, alabama. Mobile. Caller actually, it is mobile. I know youre not from the south. Something ive heard recently which is totally stupid was someone made the comment that normally we only work 25 years and then we live only 40 years after that. A. Stephanie right. Caller which is crazy. If you started at 18, you reach retirement at 43 or even if you start working at 35. Stephanie this is something Grover Norquist said yesterday. Im like who only works 25 years . Math is thats what the president said. Republicans have to stop using political math to say how much theyre willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 and specify the spending cuts. Theyre the ones that arent being specific. Im flabbergasted how few details were in boehners response. Okay. Kathy in illinois, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller Grover Norquist is wrong when he says the president has to worry about the Second Coming of the tea party. Theyre over. Everybody is running from the tea party. Everybody is fleeing the tea party. Stephanie there is this sad little man sitting on meet the press named grover threatening the president with tea party caller it is getting really embarrassing to even say that youre republican. Everyone is ashame and theyre running from the party. John boehners really destroying the party. Stephanie i know. Tea party 2, the sequel. [ screaming ] oh grover electric deficit boogaloo. 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ male announcer ] red lobsters crabfest ends soon. Hurry in and try five succulent entrees like our tender snow crab paired with savory garlic shrimp. Just 12. 99. Come into red lobster and sea food differently. And introducing 7 lunch choices for just 7. 99. Salads, sandwiches, and more. Rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. Dont forget about that payroll meeting. Rolo. Get your smooth on. Also in minis. So check out the web site. Just google elizabeth warren. I think i want to write her a check plyself. I would really love to see her join the ranks of the United States senate and get rid of scott brown. 186655press. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Keith in milwaukee your eaten the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi, stephanie, how is it going guys . I wanted to slip in that Reince Priebus is my facebook friend. Stephanie wow. Caller wow. Yeah. The thing that democrats really have to point out is the fact that not only has president obama offered up cuts in the cuts in the tax increases that helped bring the deficit in the first place but hes already clocked out around 2 trillion in spending cuts and interest decreases over the next ten years. Now, as we know, the republicans have run and beaten the democrats on this idea that theyre going to cut things, that theyre going to find waste and eliminate it. Well guys, now is your chance step up to the microphone. What exactly are the cuts . It is funny. Were not hearing anything from these guys after they talked about it for so long. Stephanie exactly. Thats what the white house is saying. The ball is in the republicans court. Were four weeks from the slope hill ramp. Boehner republicans have a plan for providing as much as 800 billion in new government revenue over the next decade and we considered the elimination of Tax Deductions on highincome earners but when pressed for details, he declined to say. Weve got a plan but i cant explain it to you because you would be flabbergasted. Stephanie right. We would be too flabbergasted. Last week, the white house delivered to capitol hill its opening plan. 1. 6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade. Republicans responded with laughter and disbelief. Which is helpful when youre trying to, you know, avert a financial catastrophe. Boehner the aforementioned said i was flabbergasted. I looked at him geithner and said you cant be serious. I am serious and stop calling me so. Boehner suckle me flabbergasted. [mumbling] stephanie boehner described negotiations as going nowhere, period and there is a chance the nation will go over the fiscal cliff. If youre driving it is. Boehner was geithner was more optimistic. He doesnt expect a counter offer right away as they work to sort out tensions within the party. Yeah thats the thing. Now we need to wait until they finish having their argument among themselves. He and his tea party caucus. [ whatever ] stephanie and then get back to us. He said all thats blocking is republicans reluctance to accept higher taxes on the wealthy. Revenues will have to go up. They havent told us anything about who should pay higher taxes. So you cant negotiate with somebody whos not offering any details. Stephanie yes. Thank you. All right. The president. Obama if congress does nothing, every family in america will see their income taxes automatically go up on january 1st. Every family. Everybody here, youll see the taxes go up on january 1st. Im assuming that doesnt sound too good to you. Thats like the lump of coal you get for christmas. Thats a scrooge christmas. Stephanie yeah. Heres the picture of the laughing turtle someone sent me. Theres Mitch Mcconnell. Thats ridiculous. [ world news tonight ] Stephanie Tim geithner presented the president s opening offer on the fiscal cliff. Mitch mcconnell said he burst into laughter. The republicans said no offense was meant. You know, can i just say this is further the kind of disrespect they treat the president with. I think thats exactly it. They dont take him seriously for some reason, even after their electoral asswhooping. We played that clip last week. It was horrible. Groher norquist saying we should keep the president on a short leash and if hes good, give him an allowance. If hes bad what . Who are you lets go to cody in arkansas. Caller good morning, stephanie, i love you guys. Stephanie thank you. Caller if palin ryan bonehead would take minimum wage for about five years and have no insurance, they would see what it is like to live in the real world. Stephanie right. Caller and would get on board maybe. Stephanie thats the other thing, someone did a good analysis of this we all know but the rise in food starches, it is because of the economy that george w. Bush left him with he didnt come in and say gee the first thing i want to do is raise food stamps, a lot has been the unemployment insurance. If has been to address the worst financial crisis weve had since the great depression. Since herbert hoover. The last businessman president. Obama both parties say we should keep middle class taxes low. The senates already passed a bill to keep income taxes from going up on middleclass families. Democrats in the house are ready to do the same thing. If we can just get a few House Republicans on board ill sign this bill as soon as Congress Sends it my way. Tax cuts for the 98 . Slight raise in taxes for the top 2 . Seems like a pretty good deal. Stephanie yes. Oh, by the way. [ world news tonight ] , robert rice as usual has a great piece of why we should stop obsessing about the federal budget deficit. He knows something about something. He was around when clinton remember that economy . Okay. He said i wish president obama and the democrats would explain to the nation the federal budget deficit isnt the major problem and deficit reduction shouldnt be the major goal. Problem is lack of good jobs and the goal must to be revive both. Deficit reduction leads us away from jobs and growth. The reason the fiscal cliff is dangerous is because its too much deficit reduction too quickly that would suck demand out of the economy. More jobs and growth will help the deficit. Recall the 90s when the Clinton Administration balanced the budget because of faster job growth than anybody expected bringing in more tax revenues than anyone had forecast. Europe offers the same lesson in reverse. Thank you. As jim says, every time we talk about this, they keep taking the wrong Lindsey Graham said were going to be greece. Yeah, if we do what you want the best way to generate jobs and growth is for the government to spend more, not less. And for taxes to stay lor owe become lower on the middle class. So you know, just roosevelt made that mistake in 1937 when the deficit hawks were saying we gotta slow this thing down. Things started reverting to the depression era. Levels and he quickly changed course. Stephanie rise finishes by saying most of the media have bought into the narrative it stems from an outofcontrol budget deficit. Were talking about the fiscal cliff. He said lets see. Interest rates he was talking about are lower than theyve been in our living memory. In fact, if there was ever a time for america to borrow more to put people back to work, rebuilding our schools and crumbling infrastructure, it is now. Robert reich. See, i would listen to the guys that were there then in the Clinton Administration. Were asking you what you think why . Because theyre the ones who tanked the economy. Stephanie okay. Lenny in wisconsin. Your eaten the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi. How you doing, steph . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller i have a few things to say. I hope you dont cut me off. Stephanie all right. Caller im a 62yearold gay man who is on disability and ive got my because of scott walker, all of my healthcare removed. All of my food stamps removed. Im making 700 a month. I have 500 a month in prescriptions which of course, i cant afford. So i had to decide which ones are the best for me to take and i have no money for food. But ill tell you one thing right now i pay 10. 50 a month on my cable bill to see you stephanie thats very sweet and i think probably not the wisest thing. Considering food. I would go with Stephanie Miller. Should we send a cheese basket or something . Stephanie something. For some nourishment . Stephanie i can share my government cheese that i get as a single woman. According to rush limbaugh. Right. Stephanie okay. Nita in michigan. Hi. Caller how are you today . Stephanie good. Caller i live here in michigan with Governor Snyder and something about these crazy republicans that he cut our unemployment from 26 to 20 weeks. Stephanie right. Caller its like okay. And trying to make it a right to work state. We have democrats we as democrats need stand up and tell the republicans no, youre not. Were not going to go through this and were not going to take it. Theres something wrong with them. Seriously wrong with policy and everything. Now, my question is they want to close gitmo. Where are they going to put the prisoners. Stephanie what . Has that been a debate recently . Caller it was in the newspaper here last week. Stephanie oh i see. Caller the concern about gitmo. I know they wanted to put them up stephanie i think the fiscal cliff is the most pressing issue. Whats going on this morning . Why are people mixing their topics together . I dont understand. The plan is to amuse it is a cushion as you fall off the cliff. Stephanie i see. I thought we were on one top thick morning and people are sort of what about gitmo . What . [ scoobydoos huh . ] stephanie is that being debated right now . No. Stephanie you know what . Can you get that first guy thats in college and give her his number because she could help him finish his term paper. Gitmos fiscal policy. What do we do about gay penguins . Stephanie tbone, hook them up. 45 minutes it is a steph a date and term Paper Service and im a dessert topping. Cliff notes. Good for each other. Stephanie 45 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer damn it, jim. You made me snarf on my keyboard again. Its the Stephanie Miller show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can questitititititititititititititititititititititititititititititi i jump out of my skin at people when im upset. Theyre doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. Thats an understatement, eliot. But when joint pain and stiffness from Psoriatic Arthritis hit even the smallest things became difficult. I finally understood what serious joint pain is like. I talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. Enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. Because enbrel, etanercept suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. Serious, sometimes fatal events including infections tuberculosis lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and Blood Disorders have occurred. 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Just another manic monday wish it were sunday thats my fun day it is not that manic. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. 49 minutes after the hour. Beth in minneapolis says when boehner says theyre flabbergasted, we should reply youre despicable stephanie flabbergasted by the president s offer. Flabbergasted. Stephanie right. Despicable. Stephanie okay. Spending. Stephanie other people whose heads explode when they watch meet the press. George says on meet the press, we heard it again with maria. Americans realize the three biggest drivers are medicare, medicaid and Social Security of our debt. [ buzzer ] computer says no. Stephanie does David Gregory correct the statement or challenge credibility . No once more, this ridiculous fib goes unchallenged. The truth is our National Debt began to skyrocket under george bush with Medicare Part d fiasco. Year under year under george w. Bush, deficit came in at 500 billion. It is finally year of 20072008 president obama inherited the mess of trillion dollar annual deficits but none of this has been caused by medicare or medicaid. Obviously entitlements. Those lazy 47 percenters. Stephanie maria and David Gregory should know better. Yeah, they do. Theyre both major news anchors of major news networks. Theyre paying them lots of money to say lies. Stephanie the real culprits are the lack of revenue caused by the tax cuts. Oh, he sent a helpful pie chart as well. We love pie charts. We love pie. Stephanie i love pie charts and graphs. The military security pie charts ala mode. Stephanie responsible for more than half the remaining spending or the 1. 3 trillion. If David Gregory would correct guests American Public would know what the main drivers are. Who would be infected by the top increase . Im guessing dade gregory and Maria Bartolome mow. Its not like they have a dog in that fight. Hello, myra in cleveland. Caller hi, stephanie love your show. Just wanted to talk about entitlements. I understand that the congress is going to go down to 126 days of working this year. Which, to my knowledge makes them parttime. Yep. Caller so im wondering why they still get medical benefits, pensions and why they still get all kinds of perks from the government, paid vacations. Those are entitlements i think we need to look at, dont you . Right. Stephanie if we were greedy republican pizza guys, we would make sure they dont get any healthcare. We should make them parttime. Stephanie tim geithner yesterday. The only thing that stands in the way of a deal right now is if a group of republican members decide theyre going to block a deal because they want to extend tax cuts. We cant afford for the wealthiest 2 of americans stephanie i love this. Orrin hatch gave the republican response and he called the president s long his economic proposal bait and switch. This is exactly what he ran on. This is exactly what he ran on. Heres orrin hatch yesterday. What he proposed this week was a classic bait and switch on the American People. A tax increase doubled the size of what he campaigned on. Billions of dollars in this stimulus spending and an unlimited, Unchecked Authority to borrow from the chinese. Maybe i missed it. Because i dont recall him asking for any of that during the president ial campaign. Where are tax cuts for people like orrin hatch. Stephanie 400 billion in savings and medicare. 50 billion in stimulus spending to begin the year, an end to the current debt ceiling rules reflects the same policy hes advanced for years and extensively on the campaign trail. Not only are they pretending like the campaign they didnt lose it, they dont remember. Republicans are feigning shock. Americans just voted for it in november shocking. Okay. Theyre flabber shocked. Increasing tax rates draws money away from our economy that needs to be invested in our economy to put the American People back to work. Its the wrong approach. Yeah. Tax cuts, big tax cuts for rich people started under george w. Bush and then we had the biggest economic collapse since the great depression. What does that tell you . Stephanie why cant they ever acknowledge that . They ran away from bush. No one campaigned on george bush. They must know his policies didnt work. Why are they pretending they did . He wasnt even at the convention. Memory hole. Stephanie gee, who was really front and center of our campaign . Bill clinton kind of weird. Good president. Stephanie mary in pennsylvania. Hi mary. Caller hi, there. I love your show. Didnt start watching it until late in the campaign. And i feel like i found a wonderful friend. Stephanie aww. Caller my question is Grover Cleveland stephanie his ideas are just as fresh. [ laughter ] caller exactly. If he think the average career only lasts 25 years has he signed up all of those people to the pledge 20 years ago shouldnt we be getting ready to throw him a Retirement Party pretty soon . Stephanie yeah, one would think. A lot of people were saying it applied to the congress that they signed it for and that was 20 years ago. Don in columbus. Hi don welcome. Caller hi, steph, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller i was curious. I watched the shows yesterday and it was noticeable that tim kind of explained himself to everybody including chris wallace. Stephanie geithner. Caller yeah, right. And mr. Boehner decided that only chris could clear his and no one else could give him any guff about it. So i thought that was pretty interesting. One show against five. Stephanie right. We only need to say flabbergasted once. Flabbergasted. Stephanie all right. The boehner yesterday. There is a stalemate. Lets not kid ourselves. Stephanie i wonder who could be impeding any progress. What kind of orange idiot could be standing in the way . Somebody is not cooperating. Some people feel like they won an election or something. Some sort of mandate. Flabbergasted. Stephanie allen in gary, indiana. Welcome. Caller good morning. Im wondering how much money can we get by taxing the top 1 or 2 . Stephanie a lot. Caller do you know how much will we get per year . Well, lets see. Raising it to about 39 from what is it right now . Stephanie same rates as during the clinton years. Caller what does that amount in money . Trillions. Billions. The answer is like 3 trillion. Steph just had the number. Caller 3 trillion per year . Over the next ten years. Caller okay. There is my premise. Here is my thing. We get with that thats 300 billion a year and were in debt 1. 2 trillion per year. How do we offset the rest of it . Thats my question. Stephanie okay. How do we offset the rest of what . Caller the debt per year. That 1. 2 trillion. The war has just ended. Caller if you could explain that, i would appreciate it. Stephanie not all spending is the same as weve said many times in this robert reich article i was referring to. Since we outspend the rest of the world by a huge margin. Thats just the beginning. Stephanie Robert Reichs point is when you spend with stimulus that, creates jobs and it creates growth. It creates revenue. Stephanie which helps the deficit, you see . Yes but your numbers dont add up, clearly. Stephanie okay. 58 apparently my numbers are flabbergasted. 58 minutes after the hour. Right back with Eric Boehlert and rightwing world next on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme ] stephanie oh hello. Hello tv world. Hour number two. Jacki schechner is a brave and trep id journalist. She ventures coming to my house on a weekend when she knows jim ward will be there in person. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] in the rain. In the rain. Stephanie i know it. He had that same dopey look on his face when he was sitting between you and melissa fitzgerald. Ly attest to the fact sha she is beautiful. Stephanie you all are. Jim like like a kid in the candy store except he couldnt eat the candy. I had met her in person once before. Shes lovely. Stephanie you all were too much for jim. You need to turn down your stun ray next time. [ laughter ] he was merely speechless. All right. Here she is, Jacki Schechner the aluminum nissent luminescent Jacki Schechner. President obama would wants Debbie Wasserman shuttle to stay on as the chairwoman of the dnc. Shes been busy in the past year and a half politico reports that shes taken part in 885 events in 31 states. The dnc will meet to elect their Party Officers the day after inauguration and that would be january 22nd. Newark mayor cory booker is starting his food stamp challenge tomorrow and over the weekend he went out and bought 29. 78 worth of food for the week. That is a little bit less than what the average new jersey recipient got from the federal Supplemental Nutritionist Assistance Program or snap in 2011. Other public official have taken the challenge. I remember reporting it on it years ago. Several members of congress have done it. Also the mayors of las vegas and phoenix and former utah governor jon huntsman. Booker came to the challenge on twitter with a follower who was is asking why it is kids need nutrition in school if they have access to food stamps. That twitter follower is supposed to be taking the challenge alongside booker as well. Alarming news out of syria. The ap reporting syria has been moving around chemical components in the last week. Secretary of state clinton is underscoring president obamas warning that if the Syrian Government uses chemical weapons, the u. S. Will take action. Theres no evidence theyve done more at this point than move the components around and it could be a bluff but officials believe they have access to several hundred missiles that could carry chemical warheads. Were back after the break. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. The chill of peppermint. The rich dark chocolate. York peppermint pattie get the sensation. Of sununu, youre wrong. Mitt romney, youre wrong. We need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our did you get chips for the party . Nope. 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Stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. This is the age of taking action. Viagra. Talk to your doctor. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its a the Stephanie Miller show. Im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Chuckling warmly over jims hobby. Getting irritated by the people that comment on yahoo stories. The yahoos who comment on yahoo about the Kennedy Center awards last night. Take your honors and shove it up your collective socialist butt starting with you socialist in chief. What . Stephanie the other one. Liberals giving liberals liberals giving liberals awards how ironic. What . No. What . Irony . How do you work a keyboard if youre that dumb. Ironic . It is not ironic. Stephanie like a black man in your chardonnay. [ applause ] stephanie i got one not just an email from michael. It is liberal policies, your show then why is the state of california facing a plethora of financial crises. Jim, would you like to answer that . [ jeopardy theme ] first of all our republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the fine folks at enron enron started it. Somehow people like darrell issa managed to blame enron on gray davis who was the one guy who tried to stop all of the nonsense. We end up getting arnold. Actually, jerry brown is doing hardest job in the world trying to get this down. Doing a good job. Stephanie he was the analogy we made last hour about george bush is the one who ran over the pack of cub scouts and barack obama is the ambulance driver who shows up to help. Oh, look what you did. See, jerry brown is the ambulance driver. I wonder how much the taxpayers, me, paid for the dress that mrs. Obama is wearing. She could be dressed up but shell never cover up taxpayers didnt buy the dress oh, my god wow what a bunch of morons. Stephanie jim, dont go in the yahoo comments all right. Generally writes d. C. Sexy liberal show this is more like a love letter. Steph, i live in sacramento. My parents live in d. C. Ive been out of work for awhile. My parents bought me tickets to visit for the obama inauguration and they bought tickets to to the sexy liberal show. They bought two for themselves in the nosebleeds and one v. I. P. For me. Wow, fun wow. Theyre so such awesome parents. Ive listened to your show for years. My parents know how much i love your show. Jenny and her awesomely cool parents. [ applause ] stephanie no more sad panda. Happy pandas, all of them. Hurry. Theyre going fast. V. I. P. Meet and grope will be sold out today for the january 19th inauguration weekend show in d. C. Very exciting. Hal sparks, John Fuglesang aisha tyler and i. Huge surprise celebrity guest on panel. You and jim. We get to go to an east coast function. Stephanie theyll be opening the show. Fun. Wow stephanie okay. Speaking of fun wow Eric Boehlert from media matters from america doing the lords work as usual. Hurts so good come on, baby, make it hurt so good stephanie lets dive into the rightwing world. I dont know what that means. Stephanie Eric Boehlert from media matters who we love. Some april fools day were going to get eric bolling. Stephanie no dont replace my Eric Boehlert. Good morning Eric Boehlert. Good morning. Then i would have to be wrong about gas prices. Stephanie exactly. Love your tweets as usual. Dow up 600 points this year. Obama clearly the worst socialist ever. Corporate profits reach alltime high. Hes not good at it, is he . Yeah. This never really gets talked about. Remember if you go back to the first few months when obama in 2009 became president and jim kramer was doing his freak out on cnbc because the dow was down to like 6500 and jim kramer was talking about how obama was destroying wealth in america and oh, by the way it is now at like 13,500. It seems the stock market has doubled under obama. A, it doesnt really get that much press and b that certainly doesnt do anything to knock down his socialist bon nafieds apparently. Stephanie you say it was definitely the urban vote, right, mitt, wisconsin wins. Good job paul ryan. Yeah, right. They got absolutely trounced in wisconsin and so that was one of the arguments after the election, well, it was really close but you know, the africanamerican vote the urban vote as they talked about afterwards and so how did obama you know, beat them so badly in wisconsin . And iowa . And New Hampshire . And places you dont you know are not synonymous with large minority populations. Stephanie right. They can cling to that belief but they as we take a step back from the election, they really got their clock cleaned. Stephanie yep, exactly. You say i love your piece by the way on county hammer specifically. Krauthammer. Condy rice a pass on the 2003 iraq war. 2012 g. O. P. Hangs susan rice over 1998 Embassy Attack . Hash tag figures. Yeah. It really it is astounding, the double standard here, isnt it . It is astounding. So i mean theres condy rice, a year after she helped market this disastrous invasion, you know. Her most famous line of the National Security adviser was warning americans there was going to be a Mushroom Cloud over bag tad if we didnt invade or not over baghdad but saddam was going to unleash a Mushroom Cloud. And 12 months later there she is being you know, confirmed as secretary of state and how dare those dozen democrats even raise questions about what she had to do with the iraq war. You flip the script, yeah stephanie you quote krauthammer. Rice was not a generator of intelligence. She was a consumer of a highlydefective product. That really is the whole nut because susan rice, they are they admit she did not generate this intelligence about baghdad which turned out to be wrong. The 100 concede she was merely repeating the talking points on television. On one sunday. So condy rice, Charles Krauthammer gave her a pass to be secretary of state because she didnt generate the bad intel. She just was a consumer of it. Susan rice did not generate the intelligence about benghazi. Shes a consumer of it and therefore that this qualifies her to be secretary of state on fox news. I mean i dont know how much more black and white the hypocrisy stephanie as you and others have pointed out the iraq war obviously cost us god knows how much blood and treasury in the final analysis. The benghazi attack, as horrible as it was compared to the iraq war, not even close right . Right. So condy rice helped initiate a war plus 3 trillion, 4,000 american lives untold number of iraqi dead and susan rice was reacting to a terrorist attack that killed four americans and in the eyes of the republicans eyes of fox news and the eyes of the right wing crazies these are now equal events. It is thankfully, the whole thing seems to have petered out. It has been one of the most frustrating and maddening smear campaigns weve seen in awhile. Stephanie it really is. A woman of such obvious inelect and capability and it also mentioned last week, you know g. O. P. Gets absolutely slaughtered at the polls by women so what do they do . They launch a smear campaign. Exactly. Stephanie and a black woman. Nicely done. Okay. Lets dive into the rightwing world and get some more, shall we . Sean hannity on the radio. Now, the second thing that republicans need to do dont refuse to negotiate with stupidity. They need to shine a spotlight on obamas proposal to ensure that the American People know how insane this is. And fourth, they need to use this as an opportunity to pass their own agenda. Stephanie so lets review. The president is stupid however he ran and won those on proposals. Yeah, right. And what party that loses the election doesnt pass their agenda during a lame duck session . It is so obvious. But media matters had a good item last week about the right wing media. Is absolutely encouraging and if not threatening republicans to do not negotiate with obama. Do not even you know, no compromise. No good will effort at all. You dont have to do a thing. This is his problem. And republican parties should just sit back and even though, you know, that message didnt do so well on election day that is what the rush limbaughs of the world are sticking to. Stephanie here he is, your friend, Charles Krauthammer. As a matter of policy, it does absolutely nothing about our catastrophic deficits. Its 8 cents on the dollar. It is a ul a political attempt by obama. He created this issue as a way to have a class war issue in the campaign. It has no effect on deficit. It will have no effect on rescuing us and i think republicans ought not play that game. It doesnt help the economy. Stephanie how many times can we can it be said and proven the deficits were caused by the bush tax cuts . So obama created this whole fiscal cliff for an election issue. The amazing thing is no one talked about this during the campaign. It was the day after the election that suddenly d. C. And the d. C. Press was abuzz about the fiscal cliff. This wasnt a campaign issue. No one even talked about it. Stephanie right. The idea that this is all obamas fault. It has nothing to do with the 3 trillion war paid for with taxes. Stephanie Eric Boehlert remains in the sidecar. We continue with rightwing world next on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer its really weird but its also the coolest thing ive ever heard in my whole life. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. That viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets vo youve heard stephanies views, no bs, authentic, the real vo now lets hear yours. At the only online forum with a direct line to Stephanie Miller. Current. Com stephaniemiller the only thing that can save america now, current television. Here she come now say mony mony stephanie oh you didnt put in the other part. Okay. I like our s. E. C. License. Stephanie 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Eric boehlert rejoins us to continue rightwing world. Oh, rush limbaugh. Here we go. For as long as ive been doing the show and longer, the democrats create a fiscal crisis they take us to the brink and then its all blamed on the republicans and then the pressure to stop it is placed on the republicans and every two years, the republicans play ball with this. I think it is time that they stop talking like bureaucrats and robots and just come out and boldly bluntly say were not going to support obama bankrupting the country. So apparently you were broadcasting during the bush administration. Stephanie i seem to recall him being on during the clinton years. We just posted this piece from market watch. Wall street journal. Yep. Stephanie obama spending binge that never happened. It is so easily provable. Literally, Government Spending under obama including the stimulus is rising at 1. 4 . Annualized pace. You can see every single president. The same is true with the size of government in terms of the number of people working for the government. But yeah, limbaugh, as we talked about, not to play ball. This notion that the pressure is on republicans to fix this deficit problem or you know, this fiscal cliff, its not. Both sides are willing to negotiate i mean white house is willing to negotiate. They made an offer and Mitch Mcconnell laughed at that time yesterday. John boehner went on the sunday shows and said basically were not interested in any of this. So its not the onus is not on the republicans. Theyre the ones who havent done anything since election day to try to advance the ball. Stephanie yep absolutely. Oliver north on hannitys show oh, is he judging susan rice . Her basic yeah. Susan rice, if she gets to become ill make a prediction for you. She gets to become secretary of state. You will see the United Nations get get a United States shot on the arms control treaties that the United Nations launch and they will supercede the constitution of the United States. Thats where theyre headed. Oh, my god this from the guy who sent weapons to the iranians, funding right wing death squads. And lied about it all. Very Glenn Beckish right . Going to be a world government. United nations is going to be you know, dictating american law and things like that. Look, all of the crazy talk they did for the first four years and then we had election the American People said yeah, we like that guy. None of this is i think theyre going to spin the tales for four more years because they sound, for that echochamber it sounds fun. Stephanie ben stein on oreilly. A lot of angry bitter people out there. Theyve got to attack something. So they attack christmas. Theyre not i dont consider them well in the head. What nobody is being forced to bow down and worship anybody. Nobody is being forced to do anything against his will. If you drive by a crash how are you possibly harmed by that . How can you be harmed by that . I thought he was going to talk about susan rice. Stephanie eric, you know why he had to join the war on christmas, because he stepped off the reservation saying the rich people should pay more in taxes a couple of weeks ago. So i think he had to redeem himself, right . Like i mentioned last week this war on christmas it gets thinner and thinner every year. I think i first wrote about this ten years ago at salon. It is like the ornaments out of the attic. Fox has them up there. They bring them down and every year they look older and more broken. Stephanie good news is dont talk about it. Because it is this echo chamber. It sounds good. There is a war on christmas. Christians are under attack. Poles going to hand over obamas going to hand over the constitution. This is a war on kwanzaa. Stephanie the good news for you eric, less work at the end of the year. You can go back to your template from ten years ago. Who is going to remember the same article . [ laughter ] all right Eric Boehlert, see you next week, honey. Thank you. Byebye. [ applause ] stephanie okay. Lets see. Dale in illinois. Youre on the the Stephanie Miller show. Hi, dale. Caller good morning. Stephanie good morning. Caller i have tried i called you guys a few weeks ago and i continued calling republicans to say you know, work with this president. If theyre willing to move, you know to cut entitlements here and there, you should agree to tax the rich a little more. Can they raise it to a Million Dollars . I mean i know people that make 250,000 a year on paper and theyre not very wealthy people. You know, theyre people that live in the neighborhoods down the street from me. Theyre struggling. If they got taxed any higher, they would be going out of business and the employees stephanie dale, they were taxed at that rate during the clinton years and everybody seemed to be doing fine. I hear that but its a whole different ball game today. It is a long time ago when clinton was in office. Gas is now almost 4 a gallon all the time. Price of things that has nothing to do with the president. All i want to say is will you stop if you get what you want now, will you stop so we can all rest at night knowing that youre not going to tax us again next year another 2 and the year after that, another 1. 2 and three years later another 3. 1 because stephanie the president has said continuously that these tax cuts, as jim always says, were meant to expire. George bush meant them to expipi. Hey h h an Expiration Date. I agree with you 100 . It is just that out here, the conservatives like myself feel like it is the camels nose is now eyes, ears and most of his neck are under a tent and how much more will [ scoobydoos huh . ] will the rest want . Have you ever heard that before . Stephanie no. Hell explain it to me later. Caller dominoes fall. Slippery slope. Kind of thing. Stephanie but on a camel. Caller slippery slope analogy. 250 goes a lot further than in kansas than in new york. It is a different scale. My point i dont think you guys are my enemies. I dont think youre out to change the United Nations and all of that silly stuff but it is concerning me when you look at california, the absolute perfect example of what the left wants of America Stephanie no. You just missed what we we talked these were not liberal policies that got california where they are. Arnold schwarzenegger, the republican governor is very caller thats not true you guys. Stephanie enron is a big reason of what happened in california. Arnold schwarzenegger made it worse. Jerry brown is trying to clean up what happened and doing a fairly good job. Hardest job in the world. Hes doing it admirably i guess. Stephanie we booted most of the republicans out now. 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ piano plays ] Troy Polamalus going deeper. And so is head shoulders deep clean. [ male announcer ] with 7 benefits it goes deep to remove grease, gunk and flakes. Deep. Like me. [ male announcer ] head shoulders deep clean for men. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Mas not cookin. Mamas not cleaning, mamas not digging no fence posts. Stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. The boehner yesterday on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Increasing tax rates draws money away from our economy that needs to be invested in our economy to put the American People back to work. Its a wrong approach. Stephanie which one was that . That was six. Stephanie okay. No, i wanted 8. The white house spends three weeks trying to develop a proposal and they send one up here that calls for 1. 6 trillion in new taxes. Calls for a little not even 400 billion in cuts and they want to have this extra spending thats actually greater than the amount theyre willing to cut. It was not a serious proposal. Not serious. So right now were almost nowhere. Stephanie heres the reason why were almost nowhere. [ world news tonight ] boehner declines to name certain entitlement cuts. Asked what specific cuts over the fiscal cliff he pointed reporters to previous budgets declining to name further stuff. Stephanie then he said there is a stalemate because stalemate. Do not put anything on the table. Were just going to do stuff. Stephanie speaking of cuts fabulous piece in the l. A. Times by michael. Cut medicare and Social Security, whats the rush . Senator Bernie Sanders every time we have him on, howard dean. First of all as weve said over and over, we hate the term entitlements because you are entitled to it. You have paid into it. Number one. And number two it is not in crisis. Bernie sanders speaks about this all the time. This is the problem they try to panic us. Michael with some of the fun facts. We posted this. Let me share a couple. Thats why shows like meet the press made my head explode because they start with this premise. [ explosion ] were not all in agreement on that. Stephanie he says that because Economic Projections because Economic Projections for a year or two from now let alone 20 to 70 years it is best to resist being pressured to act on entitlements. Bush tried this. It is a crisis. [ screaming ] we have to privatize it now yeah. Because the market will take care of it. Youll see. By take care, i mean destroy. Stephanie Social Security adds what to the deficit . Zip. Zero. Nada. [ applause ] stephanie from the article, talking about projections of the cost of entitlements, a noxious way of referring to medicare and Social Security excellent programs most workers have paid into and kept millions of americans healthy. The talking point by the antideficit lobby is that the rising cost will eat us alive. The future of the argument continues is coming at us like an onrushing train. We best cut benefits now. Right destroy it now so it doesnt fall apart later. Stephanie hit by the train. What . Also if they lift the cap so that people making more than 130,000 a year still pay into it, that would solve it. Stephanie there you go. Element of haste is a crucial element in this debate. Dont think. Do it now stephanie crisis. The worst decisions are made under duress like that. Stephanie thank you think on to your own life. For example, taking this job. Stephanie what . Huh . You made me move here in like a week. Stephanie see . Yeah, you did. Oh, my god, should i take it . Oh god oh, god stephanie if you thought it through no one else would have taken the job to work with me. No need to have overreacted. This has turned out to be the longest running show ive ever worked on. Stephanie the element of haste, a crucial element in debate because late night tv pressured act now. Call right now. Marks to overlook the basic premise. Youll get this brazilian power crystal. Stephanie if we raise medicare we get call now to get six free minutes and while supplies last, this brazilian power crystal absolutely free. Stephanie awesome. Lets do that then call to privatize Social Security or youll lose this excellent opportunity. Okay. Consider the prevailing assumptions about the future of Social Security and medicare. Trust fund will run dry in 2033. The money coming in will be enough to cover only about 75 of currently scheduled benefit. Will this happen . It might. But it might not. The programs trustees, the source of the projection, dont bet the farm on it. Under certain conditions of economic and employment growth, all perfectly plausible it might never run dry. It doesnt fit into the narrative that Social Security is going broke. Healthcare costs with medicare and medicaid have been projected to rise as much as 40 of gdp. Weve heard this. By 2082 if not restrained, that es a fearsome prospect but based on a it is not impossible in the first place. That projection like others employed about i the antientitlement lobby to project future without changes in policy or behavior. He makes it easy to understand. This piece he says put it another way just because your son is four feet tall at age 6 doesnt mean he will be eight feet tall at age 12. Anyway. This is the part where i saw this guy the head of Goldman Sachs. He says these questionable forecast results in the nauseating spectacle of corporate ceos such as Lloyd Blankfein lectures about he woulder healthcare coverage are things we cant afford. Dont you love it when they say we cant afford it. What do you mean, kimosabi . The money ive paid into my whole life . I cant afford not to steal it from me. Stephanie blankfein didnt worry about what the country could afford when he pocketed 12. 9 billion in taxpayer funds to cover the collapse of aig. There he was on cbs saying you have to do something to lower peoples expectations. The entitlements and what people think theyre going to get because theyre not going to get it. Thanks to you stephanie blankfein proceeded to lecture his interviewer Social Security wasnt devised to be a system that supported a 30 year retirement after a 25year career. Blankfein think that the average retiree has spent only 25 years in the workplace instead of 45. Does Goldman Sachs do all of its math like this . Anyway, good points. No business, no agency makes plans today based on the vision of the world 20 years from now. Ibm doesnt do it, google doesnt do it. The department of defense doesnt do it, not even Life Insurance companies do it. The reason they dont make bets on the distant future is because it is unknowable. Anyway. He closes by saying there is a big difference between making a congressional budget and fundamental changes as complex as Social Security and medicare. The lifespan of a congressional budget is two years max because no congress can combine. So when you hear we have to do it now stat or were doomed, take it for the snake that is. We posted that on Stephanie Miller facebook. Listen to Lloyd Blankfein for financial advice. Trust me. You dont need to look at the numbers. Stephanie we just cant afford to give you your money back that you paid in through your entire life. We cant do it. We would like to exactly. You need to die. Stephanie bill in pittsburgh. Caller hello stephanie. Great show. Stephanie thank you. Caller im a lifelong democrat and additionally, theyre earned benefits not entitlements. We pay into them so that we could draw them out later on. Stephanie Lloyd Blankfein says we cannot afford you anymore. [ hypnotic ] sorry. Go ahead. Caller the point of my call was that you know, in 2008, everybody celebrated and i told everyone were one cycle away from getting kicked around. It happened because obama kept working but the democrats let a buffoon get elected in 2010. Were living with that guy. Stephanie yep. So obama never stopped. He won in 2012. The democrats gotta pick up on that and they gotta start working now for 2014 to work on the house especially and keep the senate. Stephanie bill, youre right. We may need to throw out the rest of we need to we got like act like we got something done in the last two years. Hello, groher. Grover norquist on meet the press. If the president pushes us off the fiscal cliff tea party 2 is going to make tea party 1 look wharf grover whatever, grover sequels almost always are stephanie suck. Way worse than the original. Stephanie okay. Gayle in syracuse. Hello, gayle. Caller hi. Stephanie hi. Caller now, i was thinking, now im as concerned as anybody else about the fiscal cliff. But thinking you know that the new congress that is coming in has less of the crazy tea baggers than the ones that were dealing with now. As my understanding that congress can write legislation thats retro active to the first of the year. It may not be such a bad thing going over it afterall. Stephanie gayle, i swear to god i understand people even the white house saying that would not be preferrable to do that and that markets may react. Im starting to agree with you. The more i see mcconnell and boehners comments and how unseriously theyre treating this, the lack of specificity of what their plan is, thats what i think. Go over the bunny hill or whatever the hell it is. Whatever this thing is. The slopy thing. The ramp. The hump. Stephanie bush tax cuts are gone for the rich. Theyre gone. Theyre done. You fix it retroactively with a new congress. It is not like it really is like a cliff. Maybe a couple of weeks, you go back and retroactively fix it. It is not going to hit all at once it is my point. We have to contemplate getting out of afghanistan and taking our troops out of europe because theres no point in protecting them from a threat that doesnt exist anymore. Stephanie europes not a threat . I thought greece [ screaming ] fall into a pot of sub lacki or something. Stephanie maybe thats whats at the bottom of the a pot of socialist souv lookky. Something. Span ac is or feel toe wrap or feel low wrapped feta cheese. Stephanie if we went down the cliff and bounced on a big i could do it. Stephanie all right. Ridiculous bunch of food analogies. 46 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. That sounded like the result of misbehavior. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. vo when the clock runs out when the last card is played what will be remembered . Explore the lives of the famous and infamous who changed our world forever. Experience the drama, back to back to back. Of all the hours in all their days, the ones youll never forget are the final 24. Dont miss the final 24 minimarathon this sunday on current tv. 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Here i go again mama, how can i resist you Stephanie Miller. Now i really know, mama, i could never live without you were talking about greek food and now there are swedes singing italian. But the play and movie mamma mia are set on the greek islands. Is there a greek restaurant open right now . Im starving for greek food right now. Stephanie everybody settle down. Simmer down, everybody. 1800steph12 the phone number. Were workin here 1800steph12. Lou in pueblo, colorado. Hello, lou. Caller hey, steph, how you doing . Stephanie go ahead. Caller i wish someone would explain to the top 2 that freedom isnt free. Some people have paid for it with their life, their limb. It is up to these guys to pay a little bit. To pay their share. It reminds me of a guy who says i love my family but dont ask me to help pay for the utility or clothes or anything that i use. Stephanie exactly. All right. The boehner on the our original framework still stands. Instead of raising tax rates, we can produce similar amount of revenue reforming the tax code to close loopholes and lower tax rates. Stephanie no, you cant. Dont have enough. Dont shoot down specifics. You give him specifics. He will give you his specifics. Stephanie theyve got to stop doing political math and start doing actual math. You cannot raise enough revenue that way. The bush tax cuts were set to expire two years ago. They were designed to expire. Stephanie on friday, the president hit the trail. [ world news tonight ] to extend tax cuts for americans making over 250,000. I need to remind members of congress to not get bogged down by bickering. He had a message Tell Congress to pass a bill enacting his tax agenda and fast. Once those middle class tax cuts are secure, moving on to find a fair and balanced plan to cut the deficit. Call send an evident mail, post on their facebook wall, my2k hash tag. The key is the American People have to be involved. It wont be enough for me to do this on my own. You focus on shutting your pie hole. Stephanie boehner is flabbergasted by how many tweets and postings hes had on his facebook wall. Hes not accustomed to this whole social media. Stephanie eric cantor. He with dont want to increase tax we dont want to increase tax rates. We want to do something about the spending problems. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Stephanie eric cantor. This is not a game. Were not interested in playing ropeadope. Were interested in trying to solve the problems for the American People that are destroying the American People. So we dont see tax go up on anybody so we can engage in tax reform. Were not playing a game. Were being serious. That offer yesterday was simply not serious. Were going serious. Stephanie fyi you lost [ wah wah ] tax cuts were set to expire anyway. If they didnt want them to expire, they wouldnt have put an Expiration Date in it. Stephanie speaking of bad math, they released the internal polling that convinced romney he would win . Their numbers dont tend to be the numbers they were. Smiley faces. Exclusive internal polling results from mitt romneys president ial campaign. The results in key swing states wisconsin, pennsylvania, minnesota, iowa, New Hampshire showed romney either within striking distance or leading president obama. Leading by a million points. Stephanie in concert with the conventional wisdom that they for the challenger, the romney team was convinced they indicated their computer their victory was a forgone conclusion. Computer says no. Stephanie okay. Reminds me of the budget numbers that those guys were just talking about. They just dont work. But theyre the numbers they believe in i guess. All right. Did you see this story . Where was this . A detached romney tends wounds in seclusion. That was the washington post. How sad. Stephanie the man who planned to be president wakes up each morning without a plan. Gone are the minute by minute schedules and the swarm of secret service. The saddest article ever. Stephanie i know. Oh, my god. Mitt romney is depressed. Stephanie theres no aide to make his Peanut Butter and honey sandwiches. Anne is riding her horses. Stephanie romney hangs around the house. Oh god. Which one . Stephanie this one in san diego. Okay. Stephanie sometimes alone pecking away at his ipad and emailing his ipad buddies swooping in and out of la jolla to visit. Four weeks after losing a president ial election he was convinced he would win romneys retreat into seclusion has been marked by repressed emotions and second guessing sustained boredom. No wonder ann is more depressed. Hes probably pestering her endlessly. Why do you think i lost again . Im surprised theyre not in the cayman islands. Trying to count his money. Stephanie they say wee or dyeing into it like scrooge mcduck. Stephanie right. Why not. Exactly. Do the backstroke. It is good exercise. Stephanie it should make him happy. Scrooge mcduck is always smiling when hes doing that. Stephanie this part is sad. The past month has been particularly difficult on romneys wife, ann who friends believed right up until the end that ascending to the white house was their destiny. She wasnt kidding when she said its our turn. They said shes been crying in private and trying to get back to riding horses. How do they know this . Stephanie i dont know. The son of detroit, mitt romney who boasts of the cadillacs he owned as a sign of support for the u. S. Auto industry which he has always supported of course he has of course i didnt. Stephanie he was spotted driving a new black audi, a luxury Sport Utility vehicle manufactured in slovakia. I guess he dropped the ruse that he cares about the American Auto industry in any way. Did you see him on the matterhorn at disneyland . It was sad. He was there there with his family, sitting in the seat by himself. Stephanie i saw the one of him hugging ann from behind like a deranged muppet and she just looked like this like hes going to be here every day. Stop it stop it ann stop it. We already have 17 kids. Ann stop it stephanie he clung like on the back of the sea doo. She had that look of ann stop it. Look on his face when they get to hell. Stephanie okay. Oh dear. Well we wish them well. Okay. [ applause ] thats a real sad panda. Sad. Stephanie oh, dear. 58 minutes after the hour. Rude pundit and more as we continue on the Stephanie Miller show. Im going to be on with the governor tomorrow night. She is awesome. Well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Rr stephanie Jacki Schechner did you see the Republican House chairs . Yes the 19 white men. Stephanie i just saw the movie lincoln. It could be the same cabinet. From when lincoln was in office. Women werent allowed to run back then. There was one woman appointed to juan committee after they got a to one committee after they got a lot of flak. It is a really minor committee. Stephanie considered the congressional housekeeping committee. You go ahead and clean up in here. What can i get you from the kitchen committee. Stephanie that didnt look even worse. They scramble after criticism. Okay well let a chick clean up. It is the get me a cup of coffee committee. Dollface, get us some news. You got it. Happy to chair that committee. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says if house Speaker John Boehner does not want to call a house vote on the bill, that would let the bush tax cuts expire for top earners shell do it herself. The Senate Passed the bill in july. The president has been saying hes ready to sign it. Politically, she will introduce whats called a discharge petition to bring the bill to the floor of the house. I just learned about this one. It lets the bill get to the floor without having to go to committee or pass through house leadership approval but in order to pass, the bill would then need an absolute majority, 218 vote. Right now, there are 192 democrats in the house. Some republicans would have to sign on. Some republicans most notably oklahoma representative tom kohl had indicated that they are willing to do so or at least willing to consider it. Nbc now saying the Supreme Court is going to take up the issue of samesex marriage coming friday. Theyre going to discuss it at least. We expected the court to decide whether or not to hear arguments on a couple of Different Cases regarding gay marriage last friday but they emerged from their meeting without having done so. Theyre not going to touch on it today according to the notes this they released this morning. The cases concern the defense of marriage act and proposition 8 here in california. The justices sometimes put off complex cases according to reuters in order to give themselves more time to think about it. They have a weekly schedule where they discuss what theyre going to put on the agenda. It takes four votes to add a case and set up oral arguments. President george h. W. Bush remains hospitalized at houston Methodist Hospital today. Hes still suffering from a lingering cough related to bronchitis. The family had expected him to be released over the weekend. Were back with more steph after the break. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ male announcer ] red lobsters crabfest ends soon. Hurry in and try five succulent entrees like our tender snow crab paired with savory garlic shrimp. Just 12. 99. Come into red lobster and sea food differently. And introducing 7 lunch choices for just 7. 99. Salads, sandwiches, and more. So check out the web site. Just google elizabeth warren. I think i want to write her a check plyself. I would really love to see her join the ranks of the United States senate and get rid of scott brown. 186655press. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Stephaniemiller. Com. You can email us all there chris lavoie, jim ward. Sexually libbial. Com the sexyliberal. Com the web site. George says i want you to be the first to see the Bentley Christmas cart. I edited our photos from the meet and grope at the pantages to make a big group shot. Look at us. All of the sexy liberals. It is up on your facebook page. Stephanie jen in maryland, steph, mama in september i sent my sister to your show in seattle but i became jealous. Why must the sexy liberal tour be so far away then the heavens responded with the announcement. I didnt just get three. I get all four plus jim and chris and hopefully jacki. I might be able to hear chris giggle in person. Maybe. Give me cheese. Ill giggle for you any time, anywhere. Stephanie got my meet and grope tickets. Cant wait to finally meet you. [ screaming ] stephanie me too sexy liberal tour director roland is highstrung. Something that took me by surprise. The third biggest onsale ever beating new york city. Hello. Lets see. Right now entire orchestra section, more than half sold. Down to 25 meet and greets. It is really four years ago we witnessed the first inauguration of president barack obama. Like a virgin in november, america decided one term wasnt enough. Do that to me one more time this time, stephanie and her team of twoterm comics are coming to d. C. This make it think a party nobody will forget. On january 19th, two days before obamas second inauguration the comedy tour stars hal sparks, John Fuglesang, aisha tyler and Stephanie Miller will perform at the Warner Theatre in washington, d. C. Tickets are available at ticketmaster. Com and if you want to skip the fees, stop by the warn he Theatre Box Office at 513, 13th street northwest. The tea baggers lost in november so stephanie is going to do her thing before the inaugural ball. That means two things. Thats the Stephanie Miller show sexy liberal comedy tour live in d. C. Inauguration weekend. For more information go to sexyliberal. Com. Stephanie yea my friend jeff says he will be your date to every ball. Stephanie hes so cute okay. Hes also barely out of his 20s. Stephanie whatever. I need elder care. Okay. [ laughter ] stephanie this is a cautionary tale from sexy liberal tour director roland. He tried fizz his white wine. It kind of explodes all over the kitchen. Oh, stick to water. Water goes in the soda stream. I dont think thats in the instructions. Stephanie oh dear, drunken experiments. Wow it might be fun. Ill try it flabbergasted. Stephanie that was not fun. Wow. Okay. So by the way im glad im not the only one that reacts to meet the press. Grover norquist. Cnbc. Grover said we need Economic Growth instead of higher taxes. Reagan era taxation levels would promote growth which would pay down the debt. Jim kramer got props. The clinton era rates which america will return to in january unless the fiscal cliff is resolved. It brought more revenues than at any point in the 1980s. Thank you. [ applause ] grover Stephanie Norquist and maria commented this is a different environment than the 1990s. Grover said we got four years of bad regulation, higher taxes. He wants to add more taxes to the tea party too. It will starve tea party i if obama pushes us over the cliff. [ screaming ] cant just wait for tea party three. Probably about 150 billion. Stephanie that would be bad. Okay. Oh, lets see. Phillip in durham disagrees with everything i say. About everything . Ever stephanie hi, phillip. Caller hi, stephanie. Look. Appreciate the show. I think you have not been fair to the facts and let me just ask you from the what were talking about stephanie the facts are oversensitive in my opinion. Caller thats why youre better as a comedian than a political pundit. Stephanie all right. Caller the fact of the matter is simply this. Timothy geithner proposed a budget plan that was already presented to the senate and was voted down 990. Have you told your listeners that and why not . Stephanie phillip, what happened . [ jeopardy theme ] we won an election. And the president ran on the president ran on everything that he is proposing. Thats not an answer to my question. Have you told your listeners that Timothy Geithner is proposing to the republicans stephanie right, the president just won in a landslide. He won in an electoral landslide on the same priorities. Still not an answer, stephanie. Stephanie have you told your listeners that the Budget Proposal . No. It is great radio. Stephanie could he be more irritating . Youre not listen doing me. [farting sounds] im commandeering your radio show. Have you told your listeners blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Stephanie as the president said even people that didnt vote for him agree with him on the budget priority. [ hypnotic ] stephanie you can distract me. Im sorry. I apologize. Apologize for being so immature. In my head, it felt like [ hypnotic ] thats what it sounded like to every listenerring so its close. Youre not answering my question. Have you told your listeners blah blah, blah, blah. Should we have phillip from durham call back so you can apologize . Stephanie the Stephanie Miller show apologizes to the immature reaction. [ laughter ] how long until vacation . Stephanie im such a bitch. [ world news tonight ] im sorry. Apologize for the basic bitchiness this morning. I ate an extra bowl of bitch. I drink carnation instant bitch for breakfast. I apologize once again. Took a couple of hours for it to kick in apparently. With that call. Stephanie hour three is quite a kick. Okay. We were just talking to jacki about this at the top of the hour. After days of god, what did you have for breakfast this morning . Carnation instant bitch . Stephanie i said so. Yes. [ world news tonight ] that little thing. Postcards i have in my house. No more bitchy pills for you little miss crabby ass. After days of pressure from republicans and democrats alike they put a woman in charge of a committee on friday. I was saying i just saw the movie lincoln. It looked like the entire cabinet in lincoln. The entire committee for getting a sandwich and making my coffee. Stephanie so then belatedly, oh, we better do something about that. They appointed representative Candace Miller to lead the House Administration committee which is a tokenism. B, it is kind of a congressional housekeeping committee. Isnt that nice . You missed a spot stephanie dollface. They call her jiggles. Representative miller. You can call her jiggles. Hey jiggles grab a bed and bag that gorgeous butt in here. Dont act like you dont like it. Oh, how the representative millers have fallen from the great days. Stephanie the boehner. Adds to his political map. His budget. So he can oh, you know what . Theres some sad stories. Republican women. Jan brewer not a big draw with other governors. Sad story. Although she was introduced as a political rock star saturday, govern jan brewer wasnt a very big draw at the western Governors Association holding its winter meeting in arizona. Of the 19 governors only two showed up to see her deliver a brief keynote speech. In her home state. Only two showed up. Stephanie three minute address. Which she pointed her bony finger at them. Stephanie that was better than her Opening Statement at the debate which contained nothing. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and gary herbert were the two governors who attended. Theyre the current chairman and vicechairman of the organization so they had to be there. So just her and the two guys so she gave a threeminute speech to the three guys. Oh, wow Stephanie Brewer also pointed out she does not believe humans she pointed without a bony finger she does not believe humans are to blame for chi mate change. Everyone has an opinion and you know, i probably dont believe its man made made. I believe that weather elements are controlled by different things. By unicorns. Stephanie wow. Noted scientist bone finger, isnt she . Different things . What . Bone finger. Lets do a quick one here. Eric in las vegas youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi eric. Caller hi, stephanie, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller ive been listening to todays show. I could tecum brage with so many of your callers. Theyre on wacky pills today. Stephanie i dont have enough energy for umbrage but you go ahead. Caller there was a guy in the last hour that called in saying he has lots of poor friends that are only making 250,000 and theyre going to have to be if the taxes go up. But the thing that always drives me insane is that if youre making 250,000, your taxes arent going up. If youre making 251,000, your taxes are going up on the 1,000. 40. Oh, my god stephanie please, cry me a river for your friend. Stephanie theyre paying no extra. Did you hear friends calling him saying he was on the radio . Did you hear the call waiting there . Yes. Hey, you were on the radio. We understand youre on Stephanie Miller. You would have been talking to stephanie Stephanie Miller. Yes, Stephanie Miller. Yes, i know im on the radio. Stephanie could we save our notifications until someone has finished being on Stephanie Miller . Thank you. Stephanie 18 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. I got her number off the mens room stall. 1800steph12. I think the number one thing vo always outspoken, now unleashed. Joy behar. On my next show, fashion savant Carson Kressley goes from dancing with the stars to dishing with moi, on say anything. Rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. Dont forget about that payroll meeting. Rolo. Get your smooth on. Also in minis. All that glitters is gold, only shooting stars stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. The rude pundit coming up at the box the hour. Look whos going to challenge Reince Priebus jim. Reince priebus stephanie jc watts. That will be entertaining. [ applause ] who are you talking about . Stephanie as jim said, when they made Michael Steele the head of the rnc you do get this is not just any black guy right . Good luck with that. [ applause ] jon huntsman has some advice for the g. O. P. The g. O. P. Can stay away from fringe issues instead of focusing and instead focus on bread and butter republican principles, the party will be better for it. Actually they are fringe issues thats theyre bread and butter principles. He says we have some structural issues. Thats so cute. After the whole house just fell down. [ applause ] stephanie all right. Suggesting mitt bot needs some repairs. Stephanie you think . Needs to be reprogrammed. Stephanie looky here. Westpoint chapel hosted its first same sex wedding. Conducted by senior army chaplain. Theyve been together for 17 years, those kids. Just sayin. Todays the day. Whats the latest . The Supreme Court theyre not going to rule today. Not today. Stephanie by friday they will consider prop eight and other Marriage Equality cases. Because we dont know whats going to happen yet. They thought it would be friday. They thought it would be today then they didnt. Sometime this week, hopefully. Stephanie Marriage Equality punked. We dont know. I thought this piece if you could take the organ out for me, we posted this one. In a week when were going to hear about this. I did not know this. It is in the l. A. Times the christian case for gay marriage, 73 of Americans Still identify as christian according to pew. So the fact that many churchgoers have changed their views about gay civil rights is one of the most underreported reasons why samesex marriage is now legal in nine states. It is also one of the reasons that the constitution of prop 8 which took away gay californians right to marry. May get a hearing. The announcement was to be today. Probably friday. A majority of main line protestants and roman catholics now favor legalizing samesex marriage. Did you know that . I knew a majority of americans. I did not know a majority of protestants and catholics favor Marriage Equality. Thats awesome. Stephanie i was quite interested. Thank you. Stephanie so when other more conservative christian kin claim it is against the bible we beg to differ. They wrote this in the l. A. Times, we posted this up on steph Stephanie Miller facebook. There are only three passages that deal with homosexuality in the new testament. The passages dont deal with homosexuality but with temple prostitution and other abuses. Im filling in for the Ecclesiastical Movement until friday. Because of dated translations, many version of the bible imply otherwise. As for the Old Testament they cite leviticus. Most acknowledge if we took all of the Old Testaments literally most of us would make it to age 40. Stephanie kill everyone that commits adultery, kill rebellious sons who disaway their parents. Kill anyone who works on the sabbath. Jesus never addressed the subject of homosexuality other than what can be inferred from his exam of loving and accepting everyone. They were referring to marriage between a man and a woman. Where jesus protested the practice of men getting rid of inconvenient wives by handing them a seth of divorce, in this passage, jesus suggested to penalize women often causing financial devastation, other unjust consequences, he was not saying anything about samesex marriage which does not exist. He never spoke against homosexuality. The majority of churches who view samesex marriage not only accept divorce members but accept them as leaders. He ends by saying as they confront the evidence, it will only be a matter of time before they become allies rather than an tag gists antagonists then well come out on the right side of history once again. Interesting. I didnt know specifics. I think people think all religious people are against it. Thats not true. Thats right. Stephanie lets go to ron in texas. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi ron. Caller hi, sexy mama. Stephanie hey, baby. Caller chris and jim too. My partner of 14 years and i were doing some calculations the other day and you know that as person earning 10 an hour which most people in lowend jobs dont even earn that but the fiscal bunny hop that were going to take, i think we ought to take it because quite frankly, it will be about 8 a week in extra taxes and you know, if they retro act that back to the first theyll get the money back. So really, what is the effect . Its negligible. I think i agree with clinton. Lets do the arithmetic. You know. Count the numbers. Stephanie right. Yeah. Caller im waiting for friday too. We want to get married one of these days. Stephanie aww yea. Me too. Well yeah, thats the thing. It has been fearmonger and demagogued, people dont get you kind of go oh, thats all of the screaming theyre doing . Our last caller was talking about when somebody was saying in some places, 250,000 isnt a lot of money. Youre not paying anymore taxes on the first 250,000. Somehow youll have to scrape by with a quarter of a Million Dollars. Stephanie 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. Hey, are you ever going to do a show on people who have crushes on their farm animals . Why dont you call one of our producers . Her name is begonia. Im going to tell you shes one hell of a goat. [ laughter ] stephanie this is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. Highstrung sexy liberal tour director roland says were now down to only 18 v. I. P. Tickets left for the washington, d. C. Inauguration weekend sexy liberal show. Per christmas gift. A groping of all four sexy liberals, hal sparks, aisha tyler, John Fuglesang, me and chris and jim. Remember the caller we had [ world news tonight ] stephanie maybe youre telling tim geithner put forth the same plan that the president and it was defeated 990 in the senate. Why arent you telling your listeners. That guy. Big headline coming out of congress right now. Obama budget defeated 990 says the Washington Times. Conservatives are tweeting it like crazy. It isnt true. So thats why im not telling my listeners. Because it is a lie. Stephanie just as thitdz march in the house of representatives, the republicans forced to vote on a bill that wasnt the president s budget. A republican senator submitted it and called for a vote. It would look different if it said budget offer rejected by jeff sessions. Senatorial elf. Which is what actually happened. Republicans forced the issue this way because they dont want to contrast obamas budget with their own which is based on the paul ryans plan. So thats why turns out my version of it was right. Stephanie okay. So i guess i was right to mock him in such abyby beeotchy manner. So because of that. [ nah nah nah nah nah ] so you werent being rude. Stephanie no. Well you know. The rude pundit. Ooh pa, pa, pa, pa, pa ooh i heard in the Washington Times that stephanie good morning rudeness. Good morning. That was an excellent segue chris. Thank you. Stephanie sometimes i almost get whiplash. Were in the bumper car together. He goes whamo time for rude pundit. Rudeness, great stuff on the real benghazi conspiracy. Why did conservatives create a scandal where none existed. We were saying that elle this morning. It really is disgusting what theyve tried to do to this woman. Oh yeah, theyre not going to stop because it makes people not think about the fiscal cliff or fiscal roller coaster or slide. Stephanie bunny hill. Right. Stephanie you say right wing [ bleep ] buckets jumped in declaring it as an impeachment worthy debacle. Leprechaun jon was toughing away on john mccain was puffing away calling into question rices intellectual, vowing to block her if shes nominated. It is incredible the difference if you look back at transcripts of them defending condy rice, right . As saying she was not the what did Eric Boehlert say . She was just the consumer of bad intelligence. She wasnt the author of it. That was a war that led to what, 4,000 americans dead and how many millions of dollars. Meanwhile, susan rice is you know doing the intelligence that was given to her about something that already happened. Right. Right. And did you see the thing this morning in think progress that mccain actually was on tv on september 16th and said and said the same thing susan rice did. It is hard to know exactly what to play. I dont have that information. I know there were demonstrations, that there was a group of either alqaeda or some radical islamists so he said you know, he said that there was that there was a demonstration and that terrorists took advantage of the demonstration. Stephanie oh dear. Doesnt that make him look even more ridiculous . The thing i love about republicans is theyve all taken up the mania the strange behavior of mitt romney of lying and not caring about lying. You know. It used to be okay, well change the subject but instead, they just cling to it and cling to it and or retend it never stephanie they never say anything and move on to the next fake outrage. As you were saying, theyve changed their story so many times. Every time theyve been proven wrong on benghazi. Every time theres been more information, they change their story but they make sure to keep the outrage factor amped up. Stephanie yours might be a fa my favorite title for Grover Norquist. Doublefaced stubblefaced [ bleep ] double talking isnt going to do [ bleep ] about tax rates. Explain what you mean. Theyre going to keep talking about closing loopholes and thats what republicans have made their starting negotiating position is you know, what was it . Bob corker said that there is going to be 50,000 of deductions and i mean how many people reach that . You know. Maybe you. But certainly not the vast majority of americans. And so the idea that this is going to somehow raise revenue its a game it is a negotiating tool and norquist said he would calm down a little bit and not talk about people having impure thoughts as he did the other day then they wont really break his pledge. Stephanie right. What was it somebody said . I love, there was one guy that said he was going to violate norquists pledge because his district got redrawn. Stephanie oh. So hes not officially from that district that he signed for before. Thats weasel nailers. [ laughter ] stephanie you say the terms of the fiscal cliff debate for republicans are that the only way theyll raise revenue is through the same magical loophole closing that romney ryan lost on. The senates most pissed off munchkin john mccain said as much. He said i would be very opposed to raising tax rates but i do believe we can close a lot of loopholes. Charitable giving and home loan mortgage deductions, the ones that will make plenty of middle class households pay too. Theyre the worst ideas. Again, if norquist would back off, not to give norquist advice or help but if he would back off the closing loopholes as in any way raising taxes, he could say nobody violated my pledge. Norquist comes out on top again. Stephanie i have to also say you have the best description ive heard yet of Lindsey Graham and john mccain. You said since john mccain and Lindsey Graham are like a human circular centipede theyre like a senatorpede, part of the same organism. They keep feeding and defecating the same talking points into each others mouths constantly. Stephanie Lindsey Graham of course repeated exactly what john mccain said. As you say they eat the same [ bleep ] in an endless loop. Like a senatorpede. The siamese senators. And its become so boring on sunday mornings. You know. Now it is either mccain, graham or which other boring senator is going to be on there . Stephanie at any rate, i was saying what is your prediction on the susan rice thing . Ive heard people saying hes not going to nominate her now. It is a shame. It really is. No, i think that at this point, if he were to nominate her, it would be a direct confrontation. It could be a way to call them out. And to say and to force them to say okay, what do you really have . I think i dont know. I think hes in a confrontational mood. I think he feels like that republicans are on the wain and what are they doing . Theyre staking their battle on not raising taxes on the top 2 versus making poor people pay more for medicare. Making middle class people pay more for medicare or forcing a janitor to work for a couple more years is the way paul krugman put it. Stephanie yep. Absolutely. Rudeness, great stuff as always. Love you. Miss you already. See you next week. Bye. Stephanie bye, honey. [ applause ] the daily beat and the daily caller, both of the daily dailies have some great stuff. Susan rice, another incompetent black woman is the headline. You can disagree with susan rice but a u. N. Ambassador is not an incompetent liar. Good piece from cynthia nelson. If i didnt know anything, i would think i was back in the summer of 2008 when the angry men of fox news were attacking a smart, welleducated woman for not being patriotic and loving her country. Although this it is not michelle obama, it is susan rice. Weve watched people go after rice like shes a rabid apologist for extremists or on the side of those who set out to kill our libyan ambassador. Susan rice is not the trouble. It is very troublesome. Stephanie they already have all of the answers. All right. Now we have those answers. Answers are even more troubling. [ hypnotic ] stephanie oh, boy. The daily caller [ world news tonight ] but we love john kerry. John kerry would make a great Stephanie John kerry is a jimdandy idea. The daily caller black history attack. It brings us the attacks against u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Temperament had been so subtle as to obscure their illegitimacy. The daily caller rode into the rescue with a scoop about dr. Rices collegiate effort to africate your student. It talks about the importance of teaching black history in american schools. [ dramatic ] shocking. Stephanie in this game, the password is uppity. Central to the books ambition was reclaiming lost black achievements and giving black children pride in their history. What . [ screaming ] white kids cant be proud of black history . Stephanie no, that was her plot when she was a College Student. [ dramatic ] frederick douglas. Hes a negro. Stephanie oh, boy. All right. 45 minutes after the hour. Right back with the remaining moments of the Stephanie Miller show. That womans about as supple as a Rhinoceros Horn at the back side. 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[ whistle ] Stephanie Miller. Make me lose my mind pumping here stephanie the Stephanie Miller show up in here. Up in here. Okay. 50 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number. Toll free from anywhere. Oh Kate Middleton is with child [ world news tonight ] good heaven. Do we know who the father is . I believe we do. Stephanie oh, my goodness. Highstrung sexy liberal tour director roland is now more highstrung. Now down to 14 v. I. P. Tickets left. Probably your last chance to get meet and grope tickets for the sexy liberal in washington, d. C. Inauguration weekend. Did you have a thought on the royal seed . I was thinking of the play i did the musical where i played elvis the father of the royal twins. Kids. Stephanie in a stroke of best show business luck timing, what happened . Yeah, well, the show was about to go on tour except that that night the real Princess Diana died. [ wah wah ] the understudy who played diana was in the tunnel two hours before the real diana. Spooky. Stephanie that sucks all of the comedy out of the room right there. All right. Speaking of comedy, damian in johnstown, pennsylvania, he was in new york city. He made the cookies and freedom bitches tshirt. Aisha tyler. Goes well with the Boogity Boogity cheese. Stephanie one thing i love i can laugh. My office, not so much. A little while ago chris made his electric boogaloo joke and i laughed outloud which earned me strange looks from my office mates. Thanks for making me that guy. Eat it. [ world news tonight ] stephanie once again florida, just weird. Weird stuff happens in florida. Woman allegedly assaults boyfriend for orgasming too quickly. Maybe there is a reason he did that too quickly. He needed to get out. Stephanie the cops came not a moment too soon. See what i did there . [ circus ] okay. I gotta go. Stephanie okay. A florida couple were having sex on monday afternoon after he climaxed the woman started scratching and hitting him. This is not the first time sex has led to violence in the great state of florida. In september, a woman was arrested after pulling a gun on a man while they were having sex in a moving car. How is that . Wowee. [ applause ] need to hype up the i dont know. Stephanie dont know if you can stand unless is a convertible. A couple wound up also in florida, of course, in the slammer after menage a trois gone wrong. Police tasing the s. W. A. T. Team surrounding the house. Regular missionary with the lights out. Forget about it. Thats a whole lot of fun wow. Not hot unless theres gunplay involved. Apparently. Maybe tarantinos stephanie speaking of florida. [ world news tonight ] they rejected Christian Slaters ballot. I saw that. Stephanie he live tweeted his process on election day. Even as a celebrity he had to endure the hours long lines as other florida voters. He was told his dmv registration was out of date. Of course. Stephanie he received the letter he said it was discarded. How about that. Thats only somebody wellknown that tweeted about it. Imagine how many other unbelievable [ world news tonight ] you know what . Something vaguely wrong and unamerican socialistic about this. After nearly 60 years bazooka gum is killing his comic strip. Forever the First Time Since it was introduced in 1953, bazooka bubblegum will do away with the familiar red, white and blue colors. Theyll feature fuchsia and yellow. [ buzzer ] for booze ooka . It seems wrong stephanie a little part of america just died. Theyre keeping about a zoo kalamazoo and his friend but theyre going to be skateboard punks now. Stephanie i hate when they try to hip up classic things. [ laughter ] stephanie i have the decency to stay dorky. Gloria allred has confirmed shes representing the woman punched in the face by lindsay lohan. She is everywhere that glow rx o. Lindsay supposedly sucker punched in the face. As you do. Stephanie that could be a whole law business right there. Just people punched or run over by lindsay lohan. Yeah. A whole law firm dedicated to that. [ world news tonight ] stephanie why i had to cut down on my touring. Madonna gave up alcohol for her tour. Stephanie i dont. Every city i go to goes for booze and dope otherwise im not going. Probably wont have a mini bar in your room if history is any guide. [ laughter ] thats true. Stephanie ever since the guy on the show took our mini bars out. There is a big spot on the carpet where you can tell there was one. Like hours before. [ world news tonight ] stephanie raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens Carrie Underwood as maria. She will play maria in the sound of music. The tv movie remake of the sound of music. The sound of banjos . Stephanie mike tyson was revealed he caught brad pitt having sex with his then wife robyn givens. You should have seen the look on his face. The person that hurt people for a living. Probably wasnt wise. Stephanie all right. Should have seen his face before i bit his ear off. Stephanie kids dont i dont so Bobbie Christina brown, her adopted brother were going to get married . Something. They werent officially related in any way shape or firm. Stephanie they split up. I think we can feel better about that. There is a reality show involved so yes she confirmed her engagement to boyfriend and adopted brother this their lifetime show. Taken to twitter as you do to announce that youve broken up with your adopted brother fiancee. Pat in texas, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi pat. Caller good morning stephanie. Good morning mooks. Real quick, i know youre running low on time. There is a reason that those tax breaks that bush implemented were made to sunset. Stephanie right. Caller the reason is legitimate. Anything that goes ten years or longer, the cbo must score by law and it gets added to our budget. Stephanie yep. Caller bush knew that at the time that happened that it would have blown up the clinton surplus. Stephanie yes. Caller thats the reason they sunsetted them. No one is bringing that up. Stephanie yep. We just did so there were the smartest kids in class. I dont know who was talking behind you. Josh in madison real quick before we go. Caller good morning, guys. Real quick we need to call the that fiscal bust thing exactly what it is. It is a gentle 3 incline. For people who are big old fat cats like rush limbaugh, i can understand how hard it might be to climb up a 3 incline. The rish people became such delicate snowflakes because they cant handle a 14 cents a pizza . Or a 3 raise . Stephanie theyre such delicate little financial flowers arent they . Dont forget sexy liberal d. C. Hurry tickets going fast. Well see you tomorrow on the Stephanie Miller show. n