Archives for June 2012

Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith is a busy man.  The freshman Republican from southwest Virginia is introducing a critical new bill for gun owners, battling Medicare fraud and trying to roll back what he sees as environmental regulations that will cripple the economy in his district.  First, Rep. Griffith is sponsoring a new bill designed to end lots of headaches for law-abiding gun owners.  The resolution would allow transportation of a firearm from one state where a gun is legally possessed to another where it is also legal.  That means states traveled through between the two states would not be able to charge the gun owner with a crime.  Griffith says a number of responsible gun owners have been hassled for no good reason and at great legal expense.  In addition to protecting the transportation rights of gun owners, any jurisdiction that improperly files charges will be responsible for the legal fees of the citizen involved.  Griffith also takes us inside two other fights.  He is actively involved in investigating Medicare fraud and discusses hearings into how the government and insurance companies are impacted by this illegal activities.  And Griffith takes us inside the fight to push back against new environmental regulations that threaten the existence of the coal industry, the surrounding economy and your electricity rates.

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The U.S. drone strikes scored another high-profile kill this week by taking out the second highest figure in Al Qaeda.  President Obama has shown no hesitation in claiming credit for the killing of top terrorist figures, including Osama Bin Laden.  And as the Capitol Steps show us, the references to Osama may become more frequent as the economy stalls.  Our guest is Steps star Elaina Newport.

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Daniel Foster of National Review Online enjoy Bill Clinton’s latest dig at President Obama – even as he was apologizing for contradicting the president on tax policy.  They also slam Obama for suggesting the private sector is doing fine.  And they marvel at Eric Holder’s attempt to claim an email that specifically cited Operation Fast & Furious actually had nothing to do with Operation Fast & Furious.

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Daniel Foster of National Review are impressed that Mitt Romney easily raised more money in May than President Obama.  They’re also a bit worried as a new poll shows Obama ahead by five points in Virginia.  And they comment on Nancy Pelosi’s revelation that the ghosts of deceased women’s rights leaders spoke to her at her first White House meeting after being elected Speaker of the House.

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David Limbaugh’s new book, “The Great Destroyer”, chronicles multiple “wars” that Limbaugh alleges President Obama is waging against the American people and against this country as a whole.  In this portion of our conversation, Limbaugh explains the extent of Obama’s spending and the rapid expansion of our debt.  He also takes on Obama’s assertion that his level of spending is rising at the slowest rate since the Eisenhower years.  Limbaugh also confronts the president over energy policy, calling Mr. Obama liar when the president claims that he is aggressively expanding energy exploration and that the U.S. sits on just two percent of the world’s energy reserves.  Finally, Limbaugh tells us what he thinks a second Obama term would bring and why he thinks Mitt Romney will win convincingly come November.

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Syndicated columnist David Limbaugh is back with a new book that picks up where his last critique of the Obama administration stopped.  In “The Great Destroyer”, Limbaugh documents what he sees as Obama’s “war” on everything from America itself to our culture, our economy, oil and more.  In this part of our conversation, Limbaugh cites multiple examples of how the president is diminishing America’s stature by apologizing to the world and retreating from the idea of “American Exceptionalism”.  He also rips Obama for demanding political civility in the wake of the Tucson shootings and then bombarding his opponents with very harsh rhetoric.  Limbaugh also details how Obama is circumventing not just the Congress but the Constitution in how he is advancing his agenda through executive orders.

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House Republicans are spending Thursday afternoon repealing another provision from the president’s health care law.  Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen is sponsoring a bill to repeal a 2.3 percent increase in taxes on medical device makers.  Paulsen says the tax would be devastating to a thriving industry, saddling manufacturers with $29 billion in new taxes over the next decade.  He also estimates that some 43,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the additional tax burden.  Critics of the repeal claim the tax should not be a concern because the infusion of newly insured patients will create a demand that should more than compensate for any negative impact of the tax increase.  Rep. Paulsen tells us why he believes that logic is incorrect and what he expects the Senate to do once the bill passes the House.

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Adam Ulbricht of Radio America looks at the debate over Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Opponents of the bill, say American citizens could be locked up without charge or trial. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union along Shahid Buttar of Bill of Rights Defense Committee, share their concerns over the legislation. However, not everyone disagrees with the NDAA. Andrew McCarthy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains that no changes are made to existing law under the NDAA.

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Tea Party leader and Virginia Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Jamie Radtke says she is poised to mount a very strong showing in Tuesday’s primary.  Radtke says her polling has her near 20 percent while E.W. Jackson and Delegate Bob Marshall are mired in single digits.  Allen still leads but Radtke says she is in the same position Deb Fischer was just days before her shocking win in the Nebraska U.S. Senate primary.  Radtke continues to make the debt and spending reductions the hallmark of her candidacy, and she explains her proposal to balance the budget in just four years.  She is also the only GOP challenger to Allen who seems ready to go after her party’s frontrunner.  Radtke says nominating Allen would bring more of the same to Washington and give Democrat Tim Kaine opportunities to run to the right of the Republican nominee.  The founder of the Virginia Tea Party also discusses what it’s like to raise money when a presumptive nominee is in the race and why she’s confident she’s raised enough to get her message to voters by Tuesday.

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Barry Farber has been a radio staple for more than 50 years and the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity consider him the real trail blazer in talk radio.  Now Farber is publishing a book of his favorite life experiences entitled “Cocktails with Molotov”.  The book includes stories ranging from his first encounter with segregated drinking fountains as a young boy to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and from actually rubbing elbows with Molotov while in the USSR to the story of how Bob Hope likely saved his early radio career.  Farber also explains how his time in Hungary profoundly impacted the rest of his life and what role he played in the rise of political talk radio.

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