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 . 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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