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Ski parka. how does phil robertson have anything do with that. how does sitting down with a&e and cracker barrel have any to change the people that jesse jackson represents. this is about jesse jackson and his deep pockets or bottom line. this is also about a&e s bottom line or cracker barrel s bottom line. i think a&e is much more interested in reflecting the sensibilities of americans than trying to shape them through these programs. they found themselves completely misjudging their viewership. they are out to make money. i think this marathon shows that that s what this is about. they fired the star of show let me explore this for a second. he is in the marathon. exactly. let me finish. they have nine shows in the can. meaning nine shows that they have already taped and have not shown that will be shown beginning in january. and phil robertson isn t s. in all nine shows. ....
So much waste in this project that they are surprised the thing is going to come together at all. what do we say about the waste and abuse associated with this project? well, this isn t s. entirely a political project. what you have here is crony capitalism. masquerading as a public works project. kind of pretending to be mass transit. clayton: how so explain the coney capitalism side of it. what happened is you had this interesting coalition of contractors who stood to make billions of dollars from building the railroad. unions who stood to employ hundreds of thousands of their workers. and politicians who got benefits or campaign contributions from those groups. they put this on the ballot and the people of california voted about 53/47. now the people of california have woken up to it and they don t like it imin. majority of california voters don t like this project. clayton: to the tune of $68 billion. chuck, thanks for staying on top of us. ....
Other potential money losing ventures, that later were vindicated. what is the lesson to be learned from the government rescues, in general? guest: the biggest lesson is as long as we have a financial system where our regulators are so captureed and deferential to wall street, it does not matter who is in power the bailouts look like they do here where we see a focus on protecting and enabling the banks. until we do two things, one, break up the banks so they do not have the corrupting blue and rethink the regulatory structures so we do not have the isn ts built in for the regulators not to do their job, we will have the problems the one incident i was con fronted by a senior member of treasury and said if i didn t change my honey i would do harm to mile. my criticism of wall street and of the administration but if i change my tone with a little bit ....
Despite the horrible economy you have to get a number of democrats across the aisle. it s doable but it s not easy and a 12 percent employment rate, believe it or not, doesn t make it an automatic that democratic isn ts incumbents or the party is going to get rebuked on election day. martha: these races with tightening up in a very interesting way and we ll continue to follow these numbers all through today s show and beyond. david drucker, judge napolitano, thank you. it s going to be very interesting how meg whitman and jerry brown fare. bill: back to this situation, southeastern pennsylvania, delaware county, where you have several vehicles here, including at least one school bus that s submerged in water, this is part of this giant storm system that was moving up the east coast, dumping 21 inches of rain in wilmington, north carolina yesterday, killing five in north carolina and now you see the after effects, the sun is well up in the morning, it s 9:39 in pennsylvania, this stor ....