WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.839 Attention. You're listening to the top huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:09.080 not bitter talk radio. Be advised that the content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.839 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:33.479 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Tod Huff. 5 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.600 All right, my friends, I am actually I was like glanced down in 6 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.320 my shirt as I'm getting the microphone ready to rumble here to day. I've 7 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:51.200 got the old logo on the old tot Huff Show polo. You're gonna have 8 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.240 to get a new one, which you can get. I don't think we 9 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:59.280 have polos, but we got other merchandise at the tot Huffshow dot com store. 10 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:00.520 But it's a pleasure to be here today, my friends. Thank you 11 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:07.120 for joining us. Want to pick up, excuse me where we left off 12 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.599 yesterday. I guess I want to continue our discussion either way. If you 13 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.040 want to be a part of that, always free to email Todd a y 14 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.599 To at to should dot com. You can also text three one seven two 15 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.719 one zero twenty eight thirty three one seven two one zero two eight three zero. 16 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.560 Message and data rates apply. So I want to talk about these this 17 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:40.359 list of nine speakers that has been, of course introduced. I want to 18 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.560 talk about just who they are and where we go from here, of course 19 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:48.560 is a different I mean that's it's going to be where we go right. 20 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.480 I mean, there's all this discussion and embarrassment, which, by the way, 21 00:01:55.079 --> 00:02:00.760 I think is a tactic to get these conservative republics to fall into line. 22 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:05.319 Oh, we gotta do this, we gotta do it now. The 23 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.639 world is watching. Oh the world. The world doesn't even know we have 24 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:14.759 a thing called the House of Representatives. Heck, my friends, I'm not 25 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:19.800 sure if half of America knows that there's a thing called the House of Representatives. 26 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.120 You ever see these men on the street interviews? I mean, it's 27 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:28.080 funny, but it's not. It's not funny because these people, these people 28 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.639 say some of the most outlandish things you can ever imagine. Our public school 29 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:39.560 system is absolutely atrocious. How can someone graduate high school? Someone tell me 30 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:47.199 this, How can someone graduate high school who believes that America was founded in 31 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:53.879 nineteen twenty seven or nineteen seventy two. Who knows I mean that we fought 32 00:02:53.919 --> 00:03:01.120 for our independence from Portugal, or from Colombia, or from Greece or so 33 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.439 who knows. These are the sorts of questions you get, or excuse me, 34 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.800 answers you get. And these men on the street interviews the speaker. 35 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:16.639 The world is not waiting with baited breath on who the next Speaker of the 36 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:20.599 House is going to be. I got it, by the way, I've 37 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.560 got an op ed, which I think is a stupid op ed. I 38 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:29.199 just put it in today's stack of stuff written by ceing In. I go 39 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.159 on CNN dot com. They want you to think that people like me, 40 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:37.280 don't. They want you to think that people like me only go to Fox 41 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.000 News, which I gotta be honest, I'm not a big fan of Fox 42 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:45.520 one candid now, I will tell you when they they came to the house 43 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.280 for the interview several years ago, some of the nicest, best people I 44 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:53.719 think you could possibly start with on an interview like that. They were really 45 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:59.439 good people. Mike Tobin and his producer and his cameraman. That was that 46 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.560 was good, good people. I'm not talking about them, I'm just talking 47 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:09.000 about those running the show at Fox. I'm not sitting here waiting to see 48 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.840 what Fox says before I say it. In fact, recently I've been saying 49 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.959 a lot of things. You can say the polar opposite of Fox. A 50 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:20.639 lot of conservatives have been saying that I don't think Fox is the answer, 51 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:26.720 but I think Foxes has done something that no one else in the mainstream media 52 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.120 care to do, which was, at least try to present try to present 53 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:34.319 the argument in such a way that or at least the news in such a 54 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.839 way that it gave the other side to an opportunity to present its argument. 55 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.279 And I'm not Look, there's plenty of things to not be happy with Fox 56 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.759 about, but I just don't sit here and read Fox News all day. 57 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:51.879 I go to places like the CNN. Stephen Collinson writes an op ed talking 58 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:59.079 about how embarrassing this is, how embarrassed senior Republican leadership is that they can't 59 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.519 find a speaker. Well, I gotta be honest, then do something about 60 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:08.000 it. What kind of a leader sits there in wines and bemoans, Oh, 61 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:13.480 it's so embarrassing. Get a lot forgive me, my friends. I 62 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:19.079 couldn't care less about this that they're embarrassed. I've been through this extensively. 63 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.879 I've been through this extensively. I don't want to keep having to repeat myself, 64 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:30.240 but it bears repeating to say. What should truly embarrassed Republican leadership is 65 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:36.160 an open border. What should truly embarrass the Republican leadership is thirty three trillion 66 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:43.439 dollars in debt. What should truly embarrass the current Republican leadership is that we 67 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:48.160 have a fire metaphorically and literally burning around the world because of the Biden administration. 68 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:54.199 What should embarrass the current Republican leadership is what happened in the previous Congress 69 00:05:54.439 --> 00:06:00.759 with the Make Believe January sixth Committee and the Make Believe impeachment trials. What 70 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:05.240 should embarrass the current Republican leadership is that they did not have a red wave 71 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:12.120 in twenty twenty two. What should embarrass the current Republican leadership is that they 72 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:19.600 capitulate and they give in, and they compromise principles on a regular basis, 73 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:27.839 allowing this nation to move towards all sorts of direct well one direction has all 74 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:34.879 sorts of negative consequences, from bankrupting US to putting US at greater risk from 75 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:42.480 enemies coming across the border, from enemies firing missiles from around the world targeting 76 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:48.800 US bases, they should be embarrassed that these wars that have started all on 77 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:54.720 Biden's watch, by the way, all of them on Biden's watch, leaving 78 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.800 weaponry in Afghanistan that finds its way into the hands of Hamas, the terrorists 79 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:06.680 who attack Israeli's citizens on October seventh, they're embarrassed about not being able to 80 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:14.839 find a speaker. Spare me the drama. Spare me the drama. Why 81 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:20.199 would you be more embarrassed about choosing a leader than about any of those things 82 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.560 that I just listened, Tell me, tell me why it is a show? 83 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.800 Now? Do I think that some of these uh, some of these 84 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.560 quite what I want to say, folks who think very highly of themselves, 85 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.560 How about that? Do I think that some of them are truly embarrassed? 86 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.959 I do. I think it's also used as a ploy. I think it's 87 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:48.839 also used as a game to try to put pressure upon conservative Republicans. I 88 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:54.040 think it's all a tactic. But I also think that they really are They're 89 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:59.360 embarrassed. They're embarrassed because their Democrat colleagues are coming down on them hard. 90 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.800 They're embarrassed because they got to go and answer questions in the media, and 91 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.199 they don't like people like Matt Gates. Gotta talk about this. Guys are 92 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:16.279 so embarrassing. How am I going to get a serious ambassadorship after I retire? 93 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.920 How am I gonna get hired to a think tank after I retire? 94 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.079 If I've got to defend this sort of stuff. Oh, it's so embarrassing. 95 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.199 Oh, give me a break. The American people don't care if you're 96 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.559 embarrassed. The American people want to be able to survive and live a life 97 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.000 like they did prior to what happened when this president walked into office. That's 98 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.159 what they want. The American people want to be able to trust the results 99 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.519 of their elections again. The American people want to see security matter to the 100 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.279 people in Washington, d C. They want to see people held accountable who 101 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.600 are corrupt. That's what the American people want. We don't care. We 102 00:08:54.759 --> 00:09:00.799 do not care. If you're embarrassed. I don't care. If you're embarrassed, 103 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:07.759 do something about it, Do something about it. The Shenanigans, the 104 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.240 games, the make believe legislating. I just and they keep using this word. 105 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.919 I don't want to I don't I know what they mean. I don't 106 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.799 want to be splitting hairs here. But they got to get back to the 107 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.799 business of governing. Well, let me just I don't want to be a 108 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:30.639 stickler here. But Congress doesn't govern. That's the job of governors, that's 109 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:35.159 the job of the executive branch. Turns out, turns out that liberal presidents 110 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.279 don't govern either. They just let this nation go straight to hell in a 111 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:46.120 handbasket. But the job of Congress is to legislate. The job of Congress 112 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.320 will went appropriate. It doesn't mean that they should be full time coming up 113 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.519 with new laws, right. It doesn't mean that they should be sitting there 114 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.360 coming up with new laws so that the American people can somehow function. We're 115 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.519 actually doing quite well. And well, we're not doing well in the matters 116 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.840 that you have put your hands in, Congress, federal government, President of 117 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:11.519 the United States, we're actually doing well in those areas that you've just left 118 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.720 us alone. We don't need your help. We need you to fix the 119 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:20.320 problems that you've created. We need you to fix the problems in this economy. 120 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.039 We need you to fix an open border. We need you to fix 121 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:30.320 the problem of corrupt leadership. We need you to fix the problem of wars 122 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:35.600 erupting all over the globe. We need to stop having to understand, to 123 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:41.000 live a real life example of watching what it means for American weakness to provoke 124 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.840 the world. That's what we need. We need justice for the hunter By 125 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:56.080 laptop scandal. We need Republicans to stop following the narrative of the media. 126 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.840 We need Republicans to actually lead, not to one and cry about being embarrassed. 127 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.039 Don't tell me you want to be a leader when you tell me you're 128 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:13.080 embarrassed? Is that even how leaders think? I just I just can't get 129 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:18.360 my head around this. I just can't get my head around this. I 130 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.879 mean, I'm just I'm trying to think of some of these leadership professionals who 131 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.039 would ever tell you to just you know what, You should just be embarrassed 132 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:31.600 about that. You should be embarrassed. You should quit trying, you should 133 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.039 start blaming people, and you should be embarrassed. It embarrasses me to have 134 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.519 to say those words. You're not a leader. You're not fit to be 135 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.399 a leader if you're out there whining about this. And I understand those real 136 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.399 problems, But if you read this op ed, which is written by a 137 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:52.240 guy named Stephen Collinson at CNN. I read stuff by Steven Collinson from CNN 138 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:58.039 from time to time, and I usually do so to entertain myself or to 139 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.120 see what the rest of the well, what the polar opposite of reality looks 140 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.720 like and so. But Stephen Collinson says, you know, Congress can't it 141 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:15.360 can't function. It can't get together to approve massive amounts of money for Ukraine 142 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:20.799 and Israel, which I it seems to me that Biden finds all sorts of 143 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:28.759 ways to get Ukraine money and so forth. Anyway, But be that as 144 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.159 it may, let's say, we're not to the point of needing to fork 145 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.480 over billions of dollars more for just a moment, I think it's important. 146 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.200 I think it's important to point out that the biggest problem he mentioned in his 147 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.639 op ed as to what Congress should be doing right now, specifically the House 148 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:52.559 of Representatives, is to pass a measure condemning hamas the world's waiting. The 149 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.320 world is waiting for the US House of Representatives to put a formal acknowledgment out 150 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.279 there that we condemn Hama. The truth is, there's gonna be a couple 151 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.519 of jokers in clowns. I can't do that in Congress. I don't think 152 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.320 any of them, heaven forbid, would be Republican. They'd be the folks 153 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:16.399 that are like Rashida talib or aoc or Iona Presley or somebody like that. 154 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:22.559 So spare me the drama. Spare me the drama. If you're embarrassed, 155 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.399 fix it, fix any of these problems that have been on your list of 156 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.919 problems to fix for decades. Now that you've done absolutely nothing to help, 157 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:37.080 You've done plenty of things to make the problem worse. Spare me the drama 158 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:43.519 of being embarrassed. Man up, how about that? How about you man 159 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:48.000 up and lead. I just it's pathetic, it really is. It's embarrassing 160 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:54.639 that you would say it. Congress. Timeout is in order, timeouts in 161 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.519 order. When I get back, I want to go through some of these 162 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:05.320 folks. And I know we've got six PM votes yesterday closed door meeting to 163 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.440 get a single person, but I at least want to take the time to 164 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.559 go through the people, even if they're not going to be voted as a 165 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.279 speaker, just to give you an idea of who has thrown their name in 166 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:22.519 the hat. I want to give you these something called a liberty score, 167 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:28.759 which is something that has been comprised by a group called Conservative Review. I'm 168 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.279 just going to give you those scores, give you a little bit of background 169 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.919 as to what a liberty score is. And I want to ask you who 170 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.919 you think a responsible Congress would elect as Speaker of the House, or more 171 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.639 specifically, a responsible Republican party in the House of Representatives, who they would 172 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.720 elect to be the Speaker of the House. Quick time out is in order, 173 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.799 my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better Talk. I am 174 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.120 your host, Todd Huff not the least bit embarrassed today, my friends back 175 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:09.879 in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. There's an organization called 176 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:16.120 Conservative Review. Conservative Review, and they put together what is called a Liberty 177 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:22.080 Score, and I'm gonna read what it says here on the website. You 178 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:28.679 can check this out yourself. Liberty Let's see libertyscore dot Conservative Review dot com. 179 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.360 I think is the yeah. And it's got a map of the country 180 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:41.039 off fifty seven states Obama visited and you can click on a state. As 181 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.279 there's fifty states, I'm dismissing. You can click on a state and I'll 182 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.000 give you all the representatives, all the senators in that state. I think 183 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.279 it's just federal you know, representatives, US members of Congress, US senators, 184 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.720 I believe is what's in here the only things. So you open up 185 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.399 and you can go, and you can somebody's score. I happen to pull 186 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.519 up Representative al Green, who I believe, if memory serves me, right, 187 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:14.000 was I think the first person to call for the impeachment of President Trump 188 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.039 eleven days into his first term, eleven days in two I guess its term. 189 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.279 We're waiting on, hopefully what will be his second term here at the 190 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.159 beginning of twenty twenty five. But nonetheless, this is what it says. 191 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.799 This is how it describes what a Liberty score is, it says Conservative Reviews 192 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:36.200 Liberty Score grades excuse me, grades members of Congress on the top fifty votes 193 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.039 over a rolling six year term. A letter grade is assigned to each member 194 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.679 to help you quickly determine whether a lawmaker is supporting conservative principles. The Liberty 195 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:53.720 Score helps evaluate your representatives and senators, providing the tools necessary to separate rhetoric 196 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:59.639 from reality. We don't expect any elected officials to be perfect, but we 197 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:04.160 do expect them to keep their promises, and so they give people a score, 198 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.279 and it's got a list of votes, like on this one, it's 199 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:15.960 got let's see a vote from March of twenty twenty three end federal control of 200 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:22.920 local schools. It says, the Conservative Review position is support that support the 201 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.839 end of federal control of local schools. Of course, is a conservative guiding 202 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:33.160 principal constitutional principle, by the way, And then it says this member, 203 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.000 in this particular member, being the radical Al Green, who has a four 204 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:42.640 percent liberty score, tearing it up out there, Texas right. I believe 205 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.920 he vot voted that down. So of course he's got a four percent score. 206 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:56.000 Some of these folks actually have zero scores, zero percent every issue that 207 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.640 concern And look, I understand there can be nuance. To use one of 208 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.119 the favorite words of the left, there can be some nuance here. There 209 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:08.000 needs to be some contexts. Sometimes it's a little bit more complicated than some 210 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:12.640 would have us believe, but in reality it's pretty clear on some of these 211 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:18.359 issues. And usually if you give it some thought and some time, we 212 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.759 can agree on the vast majority of these things. At these things, I 213 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.960 mean, Conservative Reviews going to be right, The vast, vast majority of 214 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.799 the time, as far as what the proper position conservatively speaking on an issue 215 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:37.880 is, constitutionally speaking on an issue is, and so and so. Let's 216 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:44.480 look at the liberty scores of the nine people who want to be speaker, 217 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:49.720 the nine Republicans who have decided they want to throw their proverbial hat into the 218 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:56.440 ring and run for Speaker of the House. Jack Bergman from Michigan fifty seven 219 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:03.720 percent. As I'm reading these, I want you to tell me, now, 220 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.119 we're putting trust here in conservative review. I'm going to tell you that 221 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.359 that is a reasonable thing to do. Again, I'm not suggesting conservative reviews 222 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:17.000 perfect, that they're always right, but in general, these numbers I give 223 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:26.960 you are indicative of a good indicator on how much individuals respect liberty and the 224 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:33.079 constitution versus big government, for example, So he said, Jack Bergman of 225 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:41.319 Michigan fifty seven percent, Byron Donald's of Florida one hundred percent, Tom Emmer 226 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:48.839 of Minnesota sixty nine percent, Kevin Hearn of Oklahoma eighty two percent, Mike 227 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:59.240 Johnson Louisiana seventy four percent, Dan Muser Pennsylvania sixty eight percent, Gary Palmer 228 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:07.880 alb Obama eighty percent, Austin Scott from Georgia sixty five percent, Pete Sessions 229 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:15.799 from Texas sixty three percent. So of course we know that Emmer has the 230 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.920 support of McCarthy. Which what's McCarthy score. Let me see if I can 231 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.799 find I didn't do this off the top here. Let me see if I 232 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.319 can find him really quickly going to California. Here, come on, work 233 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:33.839 for me machine. Let's just pull up McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy. 234 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.839 And by the way, they turn these percentages into grades just like school, 235 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.960 well, just like how school used to be for us old people. 236 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.880 You go back in history and you had a Kevin McCarthy fifty four percent. 237 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.359 That's an F I'm looking at it. Kevin McCarthy fifty four percent is an 238 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.359 FT. Byron Donalds, who have hundred percent, of course, is an 239 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.680 A or an A plus or if you're like Michael Scott, you forgot all 240 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:06.920 about the A plus plus for Byron for Byron Donalds. And so this this 241 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:15.000 matters, This matters, what this represent, What this represents matters these scores 242 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.319 for individuals. And so there's a clear front runner here, is there not 243 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:29.880 with Byron Donald's of Florida, who has a one score with the Conservative Review 244 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.759 on his liberty score. There's some there's some really atrocious scores on here. 245 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:40.920 Jack Bergmann fifty seven percent. That's an f uh, what's m R sixty 246 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.799 nine percent? What would that be? Is that a D six oz must 247 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:47.440 have had a lot of ds. She knew that immediately. She shook her 248 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.200 head immediately when I said sixty that's a D. Time. Is that your 249 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.240 GPA? Yeah, she said, She says that's her GPA straight D. 250 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:57.759 What would that be? A one point one point? She doesn't remember. 251 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:03.759 She doesn't know that. So you're looking here at these scores. These are 252 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.200 this matters now. It matters for a couple of reasons. Number One, 253 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:15.279 it helps, as the website said, it helps separate the rhetoric from reality. 254 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.880 It helps separate the rhetoric from reality. It also goes to show what 255 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.720 I've been saying on this program for a long long time, but there is 256 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.319 a battle for control of the Republican Party. I mean, just in the 257 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:32.559 list of scores, in these nine speakers, who are all Republicans, who 258 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:34.440 are all supposed to be from the same party, who are all supposed to 259 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:38.759 be from the party of Lincoln, who are all supposed to have some amount 260 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:48.079 of respect for liberty in the Constitution. It ranges from an abysmal fifty seven 261 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:55.079 percent to a one hundred percent. Jack Bergmann's score puts him in the midst 262 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:02.880 much puts him much closer to a lot of liberals or even Adam Kinsinger than 263 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:04.279 it does to But I shouldn't say I mean it puts him right in the 264 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:08.480 middle, Like there's some people who straight up have a zero on their liberty 265 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:11.920 score. And I don't want to overstate this. I'm just saying that this 266 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:18.319 is a measure that tells us something. It also goes to show. It 267 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:26.079 also goes to show, in my opinion, the commitment and the intestinal fortitude 268 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:32.440 of the individual's in Congress, because maybe on paper, let's just say, 269 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:36.720 maybe ideologically speaking, I'm not saying that this is true, but just for 270 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:41.359 the sake of discussion, maybe these folks are people who really believe in liberty, 271 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.680 but when it comes time to make the tough vote, they don't do 272 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:52.400 it. My friend's leadership requires that you do the right thing even when you 273 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:57.279 don't have the support at the time that you need. A good leader. 274 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:03.240 A good leader can actually develop support. A good leader can actually get people 275 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:08.279 to come over to his or her side of an issue. A good leader 276 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.559 can be persuasive, a good late. A good leader can be a very 277 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:18.279 good communicator, a good listener. A good leader can find ways to get 278 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:23.920 things done. And it starts, and it starts with principle. And as 279 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:27.440 I look at this and just what I know about, and I don't know 280 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:33.440 a lot about some of these folks. But when you look at Byron Donald's 281 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.960 who I know, you know we all know a little or a decent amount 282 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:45.200 about regarding his stance for conservative principles, I mean, is that not the 283 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.160 clear and obvious choice for people that want to see for people who want to 284 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:57.440 see Congress be led by principled conservative Now I'm under no illusion here, I'm 285 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:03.680 under no illusion that this is going to be some sort of an easy fight 286 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:08.119 of this. Who knows even possible, I don't know, But that's the 287 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:12.279 sort of individual we need leading the country. By the way, before I 288 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:18.319 take a break, I'll mention too, for those who don't know Byron Donald's 289 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:22.519 is black. I don't know if Biden thinks he's black or not. Biden 290 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.839 would say he's not black because he didn't vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump 291 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:33.519 in twenty twenty. But I waited to the end to say that because it 292 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:38.079 doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the person's race. But if this was a 293 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:42.160 if he were a Liberal and the rest of these folks on here were Republicans 294 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:45.920 or whatever. If he was a Democrat and the rest of these folks were 295 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.039 Republicans, that's all we would hear about. And I just pointed out to 296 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.759 illustrate just how much we live in a world of identity politics. So I 297 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.960 don't want that to make a difference in your thinking. I'm just saying. 298 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:02.920 I'm just saying that it does doesn't matter. But it wouldn't matter if he 299 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.279 were on the side of the Democrats and the radical left. Quick time out, 300 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.319 my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better talk. I am 301 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:23.240 your host, Todd huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back to my 302 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:30.920 friends. So we know the world's on fire. We know that the fires 303 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.960 have been caused, not completely. Look, I want to be fair here. 304 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.680 I want to be fair here. The fires have not been completely caused 305 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:42.799 by this administration, but they have not been helped by this administration. Some 306 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:47.680 of the fires have been caused by this administration. As I've said on this 307 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:52.200 program before, American weakness is in fact provocative. 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Use promo 325 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:25.960 code huff to save ten percent on your order for Patriots dot Com promo code 326 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.559 huff. I mentioned yesterday, Well, a couple of things along. Let's 327 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.480 talk about some other things that we've got to deal with as a nation, 328 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.559 a couple of other things that the House should be doing something about. I 329 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.960 know that there's not a speaker at the moment. There was a speaker. 330 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:51.200 I'm wondering what got done when there was a speaker. So again, I'm 331 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.119 not embarrassed by this, Biden Braggs. I mentioned this briefly yesterday. I'm 332 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.400 gonna kind of look at this story a little bit more depth here. Today, 333 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:07.720 US budget deficit stores to one point seven trillion. That's trillion with the 334 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.799 truck a tr trillion, not to be confused with million or billion. It 335 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:18.720 is trillion. US budget deficit stores to one point seven trillion. That's up 336 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:25.160 twenty three percent from last year, so meaning the fiscal year ended September thirtieth 337 00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:29.279 of twenty twenty three. If you don't know, Congress operates. The federal 338 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:34.319 government operates on a fiscal year that begins October one and runs through September thirty 339 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:41.000 of the following year. They call it the fiscal year of twenty three. 340 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:42.839 They call it. We're in fiscal year twenty four. Now, it'll end 341 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.559 in twenty four, ten months or nine months of the way through twenty four. 342 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.039 That's where the end of this fiscal year is. This is one that 343 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.720 we're in now. But the last one fiscal year twenty twenty three, the 344 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:00.039 budget deficit soared to one point seven trillion. So what's a budget depfith I 345 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:02.720 know many of you know this, but again we have people from all different 346 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:06.400 experience levels who listen to this program. I just want to make it clear 347 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:11.000 really quickly. A budget deficit means if you take the amount of money that 348 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:17.680 the federal government brought in in the form of taxes, and then you compare 349 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.960 that to the amount of money that went out from the government in the form 350 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.799 of whatever, from entitlements to defense spending to you name it, all the 351 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:32.240 things that the government spends money on. If you look at the money that 352 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:37.160 came in, and then you subtract the money that went out. If the 353 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.880 money, if you're left with a negative number, meaning if there was more 354 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:45.119 that went out than came in, you have what's called the deficit. Right, 355 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.480 So in this case, in this case, we had a one point 356 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.000 seven trillion dollar deficit. I mean, that's not even trying, that's not 357 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:57.039 even trying to get close. That's not even pretending to try to get close. 358 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:03.039 And that's up twenty three percent from fiscal year twenty to twenty two. 359 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:06.839 Now, remember Biden's out there patting himself on the back, pounding his chest, 360 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:11.680 telling us how great Bidenomics is, telling us that he's reducing the budget 361 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.319 deficit. It's all a lie. This is total. This is a black 362 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:22.799 and white There is no interpretation here. This is in official documents that show 363 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.440 income. If you will, I don't want to call it income. It's 364 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:33.160 it's let's call it revenue, revenue for the federal government and expenses for the 365 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.640 red federal government. It's I say it's black and white, it's really all 366 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.079 red. It's red because it's all in the negative. It's not they're not 367 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:49.279 in the black. We are spending one point seven trillion dollars more than we're 368 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:57.680 bringing in, and that's up twenty three percent from the previous year. That's 369 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:02.160 three hundred and twenty billion dollars more this year that we're in the deficit than 370 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.279 last year. So let's see. I don't want to get into I don't 371 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.759 want to get too much into the numbers. That's tough on radio, but 372 00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:15.480 suffice it to say, suffice to say that we're in the thirty three quickly 373 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:23.200 approaching thirty four trillion dollar federal debt, and that's the compilation. So that's 374 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:30.680 that's compiling all of the budget deficits over the years. So we're starting off 375 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:36.960 nearly thirty four trillion dollars in debt. As we move into not quiet, 376 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.960 I think I think it's as thirty three point six trillion. So we're point 377 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:45.720 four trillion, four hundred billion away from being thirty four trillion in debt. 378 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:51.599 And then, however much of a deficit we run next year will be added 379 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.480 on to that thirty three point six trillion dollars. And they want you to 380 00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:01.200 think, my friends, these jokers and the Republican leaders in Congress want you 381 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.400 to believe the most embarrassing thing for them is that they don't have a speaker. 382 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:08.880 This happened when we had speakers. My friends, I'm again, I 383 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:15.519 understand. I understand that we have the realities of a divided government, and 384 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:21.480 we have the minority share of that of the control of government. Right. 385 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:25.599 I understand that. I also understand that the House is supposed to be in 386 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:32.680 charge of the of the budget. They're the ones that are supposed to be 387 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.359 driving these things. They don't. And again, or if they do, 388 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.640 why are they doing this? See, no matter how you slice it, 389 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.519 my friends, it comes back to me to McCarthy. While we agree with 390 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.079 these days because we don't want to shut down Todd Okay, we don't want 391 00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:54.720 a government shut down, but we're okay driving ninety miles an hour off the 392 00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:02.319 cliff towards the end of the road that in like it did for what Bonnie 393 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:08.119 and Clyde or whatever. Right now, Thelman, Louise, Belman, Luise, 394 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:13.639 sorry about that. You just run it off the just take it right 395 00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:16.679 off the edge of the cliff. They're not concerned about that because that's not 396 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.440 today, that's not this moment. And maybe in a couple of years, 397 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.039 maybe in a couple of decades. It's going to be for your children, 398 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:32.119 your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. They don't care. They're more embarrassed about 399 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:37.320 their precious little who has the gavel sort of thing, which again I'm not 400 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:39.920 saying doesn't matter, and I'm not minimizing to the point. I mean it 401 00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.440 matters. It's our government. We should have someone there that does a good 402 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:49.519 job. But my point is we haven't. My point is that we haven't. 403 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.400 They've abdicated their responsibility, They've paid lip service. They've driven us to 404 00:34:53.480 --> 00:35:01.519 these unsustainable levels of debt and ridiculous behavior. And I'm not sorry. I 405 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:06.639 hope they are embarrassed, but if they're embarrassed over not having a speaker, 406 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.280 they're clearly embarrassed about the wrong things. Quick time out, my friends back 407 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:24.320 here in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. I didn't mention 408 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:30.440 this yesterday, but there was there was a story that I saw over the 409 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.400 weekend. I saw this, I think in a couple of places. You 410 00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:43.199 may have seen this too. There's a leader in Black Lives Matter named Sean 411 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:52.280 King, and that's s h a u N Sean King. And there's a 412 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:59.880 lot just if you look at some of the things he's said some of the 413 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.719 I mean, you can look into him. He's not got the best history 414 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:13.800 of being accurate and honest with with things. But anyway, he You may 415 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.039 have heard over the weekend, and if you have them, happy to report 416 00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:25.159 that there have been a couple of American hostages that were freed by Hamas. 417 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:36.199 And on Saturday, this leftist named Sean King went on to social media and 418 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:44.360 he claimed that the family of one of the hostages was a supporter of his. 419 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:50.360 I'm looking here at an article in the postmillennial dot com Postmillennial dot com. 420 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:53.760 This will be on the in the stack of stuff if you want to 421 00:36:53.760 --> 00:37:01.719 take a look. But he says that one of the the hostages released was 422 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.880 a supporter of his, and he decided that he was going to jump in 423 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:15.400 and try to help facilitate her release and her mother's release. So he's basically 424 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.400 taking credit for this. This is what he wrote on an Instagram post. 425 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:25.639 Hamas just freed the teenager Natalie Rannon and her mother. I'm grateful, as 426 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.360 I said last week, he continued, Natalie and her family have been supporters 427 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:37.119 of mine and protested police violence in America alongside us. I'm also thankful to 428 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:42.719 the Katari government for helping to negotiate this. Dozens of us work frantically behind 429 00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:46.880 the scenes to help make this possible. I spoke to Natalie's family this afternoon 430 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:52.760 and they are anxiously awaiting more updates. But according to her family, there 431 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.639 was a reporter who asked her family about this. The family doesn't know who 432 00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:06.719 this guy is. This was a journalist and her name is Yuna Leibzan. 433 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:13.039 She said that it's important to clarify that the family says they have no idea 434 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.480 who Sean King is. Anyway, my friends just wanted to share that quick 435 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:28.199 time out back here in just a minute, just to have a minute here 436 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:30.840 of my friends. But the Middle East, as you know, is a 437 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:35.840 tinder box, and there's of course missiles being fired towards Israel from other locations. 438 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:43.000 Now there's the northern front of this war, which could involve a direct 439 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.039 you know that there's been from what I gather, from what I could understand, 440 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:50.440 it appears that there have been some skirmishes on the northern front, which 441 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:55.840 would include well Hesbelah, which is not Hamas. But again the same general 442 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.400 group of people. They're all funded and supported by Iran. Now we get 443 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:05.760 the United States. Of course, with our involvement and support. Over there, 444 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.800 we're drawing redlines saying if you basically, if you attack US troops, 445 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:15.039 it's gonna be We're gonna jump in. Nobody wants to escalate, but no 446 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.559 one wants to be attacked either. So it is a mess over there, 447 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.800 my friends, So out of time here, hang in there, have a 448 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:23.840 great week. SDG.