you re saying that it s either/or. no. i m saying a bought congress making rules is not anecdote to a subsidized cost of oil, and i m saying all the rules in the world from a bought congress are nothing until you actually release the pressures as we saw in europe, by the way, where there s 71 miles a gallon, they also pays 12ds tos 15ds a gallon and have way more of an incentive to actually buy that car. no argument getting rifd the subsidies for oil makes sense. we re saying that if prices are going up you need to make sure all americans have the best vehicle possible so they re fought getting stk with high prices. we re saying, is the best way to make sure of that to actually release the marketplace to drive them as they did in germany or the best way, make sure americans get the best thing and trust a bunch of bought precision politicians to do it? two things. in europe they ve had these standards for a longening time. why they have the vehicles on the road. the standard i
of the government, i think that s the wrong answer. to the degree that the government is propping up the banks. whether this is fdic then the government gets to set the rules. okay? to the degree what if setting the rule, small fantasy government is still bought by the banks? this is why you come in hold on. because one at a time. you re saying corruption is the cancer and the cure for this cancer is kill the patient. and that is absolutely fundamentally wrong. explain your view. the problem is not the fact government is ruptable. of course it is. you must make it harder for government to be corrupted, and government is corrupted by money. and you to do that you need to take so much excess capacity, so much extra money and get it out of the hands. power is a hero sum game. diminish government s power someone gets more power and that is going to be the rich who already-doctor. go ahead. please, please. can i ask a question? how about politicians and peopl
associated press reported today, mr. boehner quickly exited, saying off stage, quote, i can t believe i just said that. right! nobody can believe you just said that! read my lips. read my lips. right! this week we have put forth the hiypothesis that john boehner, speaker of the house, is bad at his job. not that he is a bad man or even that he has bad ideas, but that when it comes to doing what a speaker of the house does, he is bad at doing those things. mr. boehner is bad at counting votes. what? we lost that? mr. boehner is bad at passing legislation. he blew three things in 24 hours last week. mr. boehner is bad at scheduling votes. the republican freshman telling the press he didn t even know what the patriot act vote was about before boehner made him vote on it. a freshman? mr. boehner is bad at making rules for the house that the house can keep to. a constitutional citation in every bill except for when we forget it all the time. mr. boehner is bad at talking to
read my lips. read my lips. right! this week we have put forth the hypothesis that john boehner, speaker of the house, is bad at his job. not that he is a bad man or even that he has bad ideas, but that when it comes to doing what a speaker of the house does, he is bad at doing those things. mr. boehner is bad at counting votes. what? we lost that? mr. boehner is bad at passing legislation. he blew three things in 24 hours last week. mr. boehner is bad at scheduling votes. the republican freshman telling the press he didn t even know what the patriot act vote was about before boehner made him vote on it. a freshman? mr. boehner is bad at making rules for the house that the house can keep to. a constitutional citation in every bill except for when we forget it all the time. mr. boehner is bad at talking to the press, in that he keeps saying things to the press that are really, really off message, off his own message. if some of those jobs are lost, so be it? yeah. but as we have b
speaker of the house, is bad at his job. not that he is a bad man or even that he has bad ideas, but that when it comes to doing what a speaker of the house does, he is bad at doing those things. mr. boehner is bad at counting votes. what? we lost that? mr. boehner is bad at passing legislation. he blew three things in 24 hours last week. mr. boehner is bad at scheduling votes. the republican freshman telling the press he didn t even know what the patriot act vote was about before boehner made him vote on it. a freshman? mr. boehner is bad at making rules for the house that the house can keep to. a constitutional citation in every bill except for when we forget it all the time. mr. boehner is bad at talking to the press, in that he keeps saying things to the press that are really, really off message, off his own message. if some of those jobs are lost, so be it? yeah. but as we have been reporting on all of this stuff this week, and as we have been looking into and documenting the thin