On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, Things are now happening in this country that will affect you directly. 19 Republicans in the Senate have surrendered to the American Marxist movement, with Mitch McConnell leading the way. How can McConnell be the Republican leader if the majority of Senate Republicans voted against the bill? The $1.2 Trillion infrastructure bill is filled with pork and pet projects, empowers Democrats, and expands government even more. Every Republican that voted for this bill has now paved the way for trillions of additional Democrat spending. Later, Philip Klein of National Review calls In to discuss the infrastructure bill and the failure of Republicans to stop it. Also, there isn’t any difference between the various Democrat Marxist movements and the media. The climate movement has nothing to do with clean air or water, and everything to do with de-growth and anti-capitalism. The Green New Deal is exactly what Thomas Jefferson was referring to when he described tyranny of the legislature. Finally, Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York, forced out not because of the nursing home deaths he caused but because of a damning report of sexual harassment. How does Biden keep escaping his sexual harassment scrutiny? Rep. Lee Zeldin calls in to give his take on Andrew Cuomo and the next governor of New York.
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Hour 1 Segment 1
By the way, Andrew Cuomo resigned. I thought you’d want to know. We’ll discuss that in the last hour. Not in the first hour, because things are now happening in this country that are going to affect you directly. Directly. Republicans in the Senate. 19 of them. Have surrendered. The American Marxist movement led by the Republican leader, so-called, of the Senate. Mitch McConnell. Right after this vote was taken today, Mitch McConnell started to attacking the Democrats on the next infrastructure bill. He did that. Because he didn’t want you to pay attention to the first one. All kinds of pork and pet projects in these bills, the Associated depressed, of course, the biggest media organ in the world, is out there saying the Senate demonstrated that it can work. And do big things. You see, doing big things doesn’t mean something’s working. You can do big things that are disastrous. But the Senate, you see, is only working if it is actually. Expanding the massive side of the already massive leviathan. The bigger the government gets, the more powerful the Democrat Party gets, the more powerful the Democrat Party gets, the bigger the government gets. One in the same. Virtually every Republican president finds that they’re being undermined by the bureaucracy. And the Democrats do everything they can to defend the bureaucracy, to unionize the bureaucracy, to ensure that their bureaucracy is very well and highly paid and that it is expanding year after year after year at your expense. At your expense. And I know when I speak like this, it hurts my ratings in Washington. I don’t care. I don’t care. Did you know, according to the Heritage Foundation, did you know that each household in this country is on the hook? Of over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in debt. Who’s going to wipe out that debt over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in debt, every household on this country? And that this so-called infrastructure bill adds almost another three thousand dollars per household. And it’s not one trillion, one point one trillion, one point two trillion, the real number is closer to two trillion. Hundreds of billions of dollars are unaccounted for. Hundreds of billions of dollars. You want to know what else is in this and we’ll get to the three point five trillion later that’s coming to. As pointed out by heritage. A lot of radical causes. Special treatment for disadvantaged groups, establishing a new bureaucracy to increase the number of female truck drivers, the Hypergrowth Digital Equity Act, which includes expanding Internet access for prisoners, did you know that’s in the infrastructure bill? Tens of billions on subsidizing electric vehicles and charging stations, electric buses, electric ferry boats, so-called green energy production, mandating reports on climate change, even half a billion dollars to try to cool down pavements in cities pavements. What else? Federal funding of local projects that involve traffic calming, you ever heard of that phrase, traffic calming? It’s closely related to the left wing concept of road diets, hello, road diets. Which Transportation Secretary Budish has endorsed, he endorses road diets. What does that mean, deliberately slowing traffic and creating congestion? In order to force people into public transportation, do you still support this bill? I love these polls. 80 percent of the American people support infrastructure. Do you support this? Of course not. Because you’re lied to, there’s censorship, they don’t tell you what’s in the bill. But I’ll continue. It provides one hundred and twenty five million towards studies and pilot projects to encourage state governments to do what? To push for miles, traveled tax on cars. Miles traveled tax on cars, one billion for a reconnecting communities program that would tear down highways in urban areas. The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan called for 20 billion dollars, a variety of activist groups already demanding more politicians often accurately cite crumbling roads and bridges to justify infrastructure spending. But in this case, crumbling roads and bridges would be the go. Giving as large a share of new spending to mass transit and inner city rail as it does for highways, even though transit and rail account for a miniscule share of national travel. Because their radical kook base demands an equal amount of funding for highways, as it does for mass transit. The Senate bill spends 55 billion dollars on local water systems, which in many cases will mean bailing out city governments that neglected one of their core duties. Creates dozens of programs for Budish and Transportation Department bureaucrats get to decide how to distribute over 100 billion worth of infrastructure grants, and Budish is emphasized he will prioritize the radical goals related to race and equity in such decisions. And most insidious of all is when the federal government elbows its way into the private sector. The Senate bill does so in two key areas energy and broadband Internet. A combined 138 billion will go toward a variety of subsidies, mandates, government operated enterprise competing with private providers. Engorging the federal leviathan, it’s not just a problem for limited government conservatives, reducing the power of state and local governments turns federal elections into winter winner take all competitions. Unbelievable. What kind of a Republican will vote for this? What kind of a Republican would vote for this? You want to hear the names of the Senate Republicans who voted for this. Well, I’ll give them to you. Mitch McConnell. Now, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, right, 49 Republicans voted. There are 50 I don’t know what happened to the other one, but 49 voted. 19 voted I. That means Mitch McConnell and 18 of his comrades voted for this. Thirty Republicans voted against it. How can this guy be the leader when he’s leading 18 other senators went 30 in his own party, voted against this. Roy Blunt, part of the Republican leadership not running for re-election, he voted for it, Richard Burr of North Carolina retiring. He voted for it, Cappato of West Virginia, who is a disaster and a disgrace. She voted for it. Cassidy of Louisiana. These bills are killing the energy system of which Louisiana is a key part. Cassidy votes for this, Collins and Maine. Collins in Maine. Let me go through this list to make sure I’m getting it all correct. Excuse me. I’m looking at the yays bercot him, Cappato got her, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Cassidy got him. Collins got her. Who else among the Republicans voted? Yes, Kramer of North Dakota. I saw this guy on TV who’s an idiot, was the governor of North Dakota. They McConnell begged to please run, please run. We can’t hold the seat without. Course we can. North Dakota Kramer. Followed by a Republican senator, by the name of Crapo spelled Crapo. I like Crapo. So Idaho. Both of its senators, as you’ll see. Vote for this massive phony bill with all this social engineering. Shocking, shocking. Adding more debt on the shoulders of each and every one of you. What other Republicans voted for this? Fisher of Nebraska. Fisher of Nebraska, by the way, you should never vote for any of these Republicans ever again. Some of them aren’t running again, is the retiring some just one you should never vote for any one of them. If they can’t even stand up to this, they’re not worth a damn thing. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dizzie Lindsey, Charles Grassley, please, Chuck Wright again, we need one hundred and seventeen year old senator, please. Chuckles Right again, loser. Who else voted yes among the Republican? Hoeven, North Dakota, Hooven, another one, oh, please, please run, we need you so badly, no we don’t hope you lose. What are the Republicans? Let’s see here. I’m looking, I’m looking, give me a second, I got to go through the whole damn list. Oh. Let’s see here, Murkowski of Alaska. She’s up for election, you’re paying attention, Alaska. I hope so. She’s never met a spending bill. She’s opposed and she’s bought and paid for by the NEA, by the way. Yes. The critical race theory, NEA, that’s Murkowski. That’s Murkowski Portman of Ohio, always so good, he was a Bush, he was OMB Bush guy, such a centrist, such a temperate guy. Get the hell out, you jerk. That’s right. I said it. Then we have this guy, Rich of Idaho. We once tried to get this guy on the show and I talked to the committee. Mr. Bush is not available. Idaho, that’s two votes out of Idaho. For a massive government spending and massive federal government social engineering, Romney out of envy you. I mean, if we can’t get serious men and women out of Utah and South Carolina and Idaho, then where the hell are we going to get them from? Let’s continue. With the repu me, I think I will let’s see as I go down the list, I know there’s OSullivan of Alaska. The man came on this show, he’s Mr. Big Conservative. He was fighting for his life for reelection. Sullivan of Alaska, another another one who throws in. Now, Thune of South Dakota voted no, but this is perplexing not. Because he made a statement earlier today said, you know what, sometimes we have to do this sort of thing. I know it upsets the base, but, you know, we got to show that we can work together on bipartisanship, that he votes against it. So there is a guy with two feet firmly planted in the air, Thune. Thelma Tillis of North Carolina, another one comes on the show running for his life in North Carolina. He’s a conservative, though, don’t you know? Yeah, OK, great. Wicker of Mississippi, if you can’t get a vote against massive federal engineering, massive debt at a Mississippi. Where are we going with this? Mississippi, South Carolina. Idaho, Utah, Alaska, the Republican leader. They sold you out, America. Every family in this country, you’re going to see Hiren. They cannot say not one of the 19 cannot say and blame inflation on a Democrat because we have inflation and they just added to it hundreds of billions of dollars that are not accounted for in any serious accounting or budgeting scheme. Every damn one of these 19 should be defeated regardless of everything else. Because you and your children and grandchildren are going to pay a price for this. And on top of all the rest, they grease the skids for what’s coming behind three point five trillion, it’s five point five trillion. And when we come back, I want to tell you what’s coming behind this and that these 19 Republicans helped grease the skids for it. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Now that these 19 Repu. Help set the stage for a whopping three point five trillion. I want to I want to slow down prior to voting on this first so-called infrastructure bill today. Nineteen Republicans led by McConnell. The Democrats had passed the one point nine trillion dollar bill. So that’s one point nine. One point to buy their numbers and then three point five, the one point nine really turns out to be two point three, the one point two really turns out to be two point oh. And the three point five really turns out to be 5.5. So that comes to. Nine point eight trillion. They hope to do. In seven or eight months. Now, in this three point five, which is really 5.5 trillion, they have a whole slew of new entitlements. I want to remind you, thanks to our friend Steve Moore, that of the one point nine several months ago, they expanded unemployment benefits, free health care, more generous food stamps, rental assistance, more money for teachers unions, state governments. Now in the three point five trillion, they want new entitlements, universal and fully subsidized day care, prekindergarten free, free community college, student loan forgiveness for children who went to places like Harvard University. Now they’re debating whether to make the weekly 300 temporary bonus on unemployment benefits permanent, permanent. But most dangerous of all, I hope you seniors are listening to planned expansions of Medicare and Medicaid. They’ve already taken money out of Medicare and Medicaid for covid. These programs have a long term deficit of 55 trillion dollars, but now they want to expand them. So they going to sink faster, more when I return.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Philip Klein is a senior writer, is a senior editor at the National Review Online. Phil, how are you, sir? Doing well. Well, are we doing well as a nation? When the Republicans passed the so-called infrastructure bill and 19 of them fan out across the media and tell us how small this is? No, it’s really disgraceful. Basically, Republicans, everything that they’ve told us about this for months has been a lie. They claimed it would be fully paid for. The CBO says it’s going to add a quarter trillion to the deficit. They claimed it would only narrowly focused on things like roads and bridges. That’s only 20 percent of the bill. And they claimed it would scare away moderates from supporting the larger three point five trillion dollar bill that crams and the entire radical liberal agenda. And the Democrats are moving full speed ahead with that larger bill. They didn’t waste a moment. And, you know, this is an at a time when we’re running a massive surplus, we’re already coming around the pandemic, coming out of a pandemic where if all these bills pass, we will spend 10 trillion dollars in just the past year and a half above our existing spending. And Biden’s own budget says that we’re on pace to break the World War to record for debt as a share of the economy. Inflation’s out of control. So it’s it’s infuriating that Republicans would essentially grease the wheels for Biden to pass his his big bipartisan accomplishment at this time. And what’s especially enraging is that it’s coming at a time right after Biden defied the Supreme Court and issued an illegal eviction moratorium and that Congress was supposed to act on. And it did it. So he thumbed his nose at both the other branches of government and Republicans responded by delivering him this huge victory. And it’s disgraceful. I agree 100 percent. And, you know, they always claim we’re in the minority. We have no power. What are they talking about? When the Democrats in the minority, they exercise a lot of power, especially in the Senate. I mean, we have massive numbers of people coming across the southern border is a significant percentage of them have the coronavirus. Many of them are criminals. Many of them are are drug pushers and on and on and on. Why would they vote for one extra dollar to support anything Biden wants and Joe Biden even attempts to secure the southern border. They don’t even use any leverage, do they film? No. I mean, look, when when Trump wanted to have infrastructure, we Democrats said that they weren’t going to give him the victory. They didn’t want to enable Trump’s other actions that they disagreed with. And they drew a line in the sand and Trump never got infrastructure done. Now Biden comes and the Republicans just roll over to give him everything he wants. And it’s really perplexing. And it’s hard to know what the political strategy is here, because if we’re just talking about things from a crude political perspective and keep in mind, they think this is substantively a bad idea. But even if we go into cynical politics in it, when has obstruction ever hurt? Right. Republicans tried to block everything Obama did, and they took back Congress under Obama Democrats. When they blocked what Trump did, they took back the Congress. So I don’t really see where is the the idea comes from that if you give Biden this huge victory, it’s going to somehow win Republican Congress in 2022? I think it’s the same defeatist strategy that Republicans had for decades when they were the permanent minority. And it really wasn’t until 1994 that, you know, in the early years when they decided to fight back and that’s when they return to power. This stinks to me like they’re just in the permanent minority mindset or they’re getting a lot of money to bring back to their states and they don’t care about all the other things that are going to happen as a consequence. And they they in a soft Mirandizing way, they go out and they actually argue there. The conservatives actually heard this guy from North Dakota, not Hoeven. The other one actually say that they’re the real concern. I saw this guy Cassidy unhinged on television going on and on about how this was going to suck the moderates into their position. I’m thinking. You are so, so brainwashed by inside the Beltway in the Associated Press praising these people for what they’re doing, they’re like certainly Supreme Court justices. Once they get on the court, Phil, they just flip and they’re led by McConnell. McConnell and 18 of his colleagues voted against 30 of their colleagues. How can you be the Republican leader when you’re in the minority of your own party? I honestly I don’t know what’s going on. And I think that, you know, what’s frustrating is that what’s going to happen is Democrats are going to push through this three point five trillion bill and all these Republicans will vote against it and they’ll try to convince us that they oppose the big Biden bill. But the reality is that this grease the wheels for the whole spending, this this with something that they needed to get everyone. You know, Biden said that this was in tandem. Pelosi said they were connected. Schumer moved them both on parallel paths. This was a they had a tricky job to try to get legislation that Manchin and AOC could both vote for. And Republicans did them a huge favor by getting this along the finish line. A few weeks ago, Manchin had said if the bipartisan bill falls apart, the whole bill falls apart. So as far as I’m concerned, any Republican who voted for this infrastructure bill should be treated by us as having supported the entire four trillion dollar bill, because Democrats certainly see it as the same thing, which is exactly why right after the vote, McConnell runs to the microphone and says, we’ve got to defeat this Democrat socialist bill. We’ve got to defeat because he’s spending his own constituents. He’s spinning the American people just like a Democrat. You know, Phil Kline, we used to talk about social conservatives. Oh, they’re so controversial. Oh, the conservative hawks. Oh, they’re so controversial. But at least we can all be fiscal conservatives. We can’t even be that anymore, can we now and again? I mean, we’re in a situation where it’s much worse than all the previous times that we talked about basically as a result of the pandemic. It’s moved up by a decade. All of the fiscal problems that all of us have been warning about. Right. Will, we talked about debt as a share of the economy, exceeding the size of the economy, were over 100 percent of GDP for the first time since fighting World War Two, except after World War two. We said the crisis is over now. We’re going to return to more normal spending levels. And back then, Social Security was in its infancy. We didn’t have Medicare or Medicaid or Obamacare. So now we’re coming. We’re already came into the covid crisis on an unsustainable path due to our entitlements. Then we add six trillions of dollars spending in the name of fighting covid, and then we come out of it. And instead of saying, OK, now that the crisis is receding, we have to, you know, get our fiscal house in order. The Democrats say let’s move full speed ahead in redrawing the social safety net to make us more like Europe, where we have a cradle to grave welfare state system and Republicans are going along with it. I mean, this should be a fight and call. I mean, look at the three point five trillion dollar bill. They want to give away, you know, universal pre-K and, you know, pay for everyone’s child care. Community college. The Green New Deal stops. And if they want to expand Medicare, add dental and vision to Medicare, which is already broke. And, you know, I mean, last year before the pandemic, the trustees said that Medicare was going to run out of money in by 2026. That’s five years away. It’s probably even sooner than that. Now, if they ever get around to issuing a new report, which they’re months late. And let me ask you this, Phil Klein, what kind of a representative republic is it when they keep passing these massive omnibus bills that are 2700 pages long? The next one will be even bigger. We have no say in it. There’s no debate about it. They do it as fast as they can, as big as they can. So the American people are cut out of the process altogether, completely cut out. And look, there is no I mean, if you try to read the 2700 page bill, if you’re not, you know, a not just a lawyer, but somebody who’s. Sort of a congressional legislative aide, it’s very difficult to make heads or tails of what’s buried in there, and there’s all sorts of stuff in there. If you look where special deals for Alaska is bad for Alaskan Highway, there’s something in there for the Appalachian Commission which mentions wife is, you know, serves on. There’s just all sorts of things. And I think honestly, for months we’re going to be reading about things and said, where did this come from? We linesville from the. Hello. I didn’t hear you say that again for months, what no, I know I said that like four months after we’re speaking, we’re going to be discovering things that were in this bill that are just atrocious. This is in every respect, at every level, a disaster. This first bill and for 19 Republicans to go along with it, the problem is, Phil, seven of them just won re-election. Three of them are not running for re-election. So that’s 10 out of the 19 people like Lindsey Graham always poses as a conservative and so forth. But I must say, from my perspective, always lets us down. And the. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, no, I was going to say I’m Lindsey Graham. I mean, the thing about it was that if you remember weeks ago, they all met in front of the White House and touted this great bipartisan agreement. And then Biden says, well, if this it comes to my desk without, you know, the the three point five trillion bill, I’m not going to sign it. And so then Lindsey Graham says, oh, he’s acting like we’re a bunch of idiots. What? I’m done with this? And then he turned them by and just issued a mild statement. And then all of a sudden, Lindsey Graham’s back on board a few days later. Do you remember when Romney said he was severely conservative? Yes, I do. I was standing in the room. I think he’s severely unhinged now. I don’t get this at all. We have we have a senator from Mississippi, Wicker, for crying out Mississippi. If we can’t hold a senator from Mississippi, if we can’t hold a senator from South Carolina, a senator from Louisiana. Cassidy, we have Capito from West Virginia, whose father was the governor of West Virginia. She’s got a solid hold on that seat. We can’t hold her. I mean, I’m looking down the list here. It’s just absolutely stunning. It’s shocking, is it not? Yeah. I mean, they must all be getting something. I mean, if you looked at the legislation, it’s pretty clear that they’re leaning states that. Yes, the individual states. It’s it’s a lot of stuff coming back. And I think for Romney, it’s the sense that I’ve gotten is that somehow he was embarrassed by being this liberal bad caricature who ran against Obama and he was never comfortable playing the role of conservative. So he felt like he wanted to become center and resuscitate himself, you know, revive himself and come out with the legacy of somebody who’s sort of this responsible, you know, Republican. And I think really I get the sense that this is what’s driving it. I mean, remember, Romney is why we have Obamacare in the first place, because we in Massachusetts, he did the same thing. He basically wanted to show that he could sort of that, you know, he could be a Republican you could deal with. And he designed this health care program and it became the basis for Obamacare. And it even had the same architect, Jonathan Gruber, who designed the same mechanism and the individual mandate. It started with Romney and he tried to sell it as some sort of conservative individual responsibility idea. Phil, I want to thank you very much. Keep it up. This is very, very important. We got to keep battling this. And I wish you all the best, my friend. Thank you for having me. That’s Phil Klein, National Review. We’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
You know, there used to be you want a bill, you pass a bill, bill that has a specific purpose, that has a funding source, that’s sort of not anymore. We the people have no idea what the hell is going on. No saying it, and 19 Republicans in the Senate are perfectly happy with it, these 19. Ten of whom. Ah, feel they’re immune, seven of the ten just won re-election, so they’re very cocky, three of the ten are not running for re-election. But we have to make the others pay a price. We’re contributing to the destruction of our own country. I mean, these guys and gals. The issues I raised in American Marxism, it’s so over their head, this is why I said do not expect the Republican Party to save you. It is incapable of it. Do not expect the Republican Party to save you. We have to save ourselves. I’m telling you, folks, we have to rally to our own freedom, we have to rally. To our own country, we have to rally to the defense of what we love and what our children need and grandchildren in the future because of you expect Mitch McConnell and Romney and Susan Collins to do it. You’re absolutely wrong. We must vote. But it’s not enough to vote. It is not enough to vote. Now, many of you have children and grandchildren going off to college. You need to arm them with a copy of American Marxism. And same with your own communities and your neighborhoods. So you’re up to speed on exactly what’s taking place, why it’s taking place, who’s behind it and what we can do about it. You are the Paul Revere’s. This is the Thomas Paine pamphlet, American Marxism. I’ll be right back.