[ theme ] yeah, its the Stephanie Miller show. This is chris. That is jim. Chris is sick as a dog and stephanies not here. It will be a wonderful show today. We only had a day off the fiscal cliff. So theres that. Representative john boehner told senator reid to go f himself. Twice. Really . According to the folks at politico. So im shush well be talking about that if stephanie gets here. Hoping and praying she gets here. Happy new year to everyone out there. Yeah, Jacki Schechner happy new year. Happy new year to you too. Some things dont change. You like to step all over my news before i start. Oh, geez, did i do that . Oh god okay. Theres stephanie. Stephanie happy new year. Lets go to Jacki Schechner in the current news year. Whatever, steph. Thanks for joining us good morning everyone. Happy new year to you. Not only did Congress Wait until the very last minute to come to a deal to stave off the fiscal cliff but by all accounts, nobody is generally thrilled with what they came to or how it happened. In fact, as chris just mentioned, several sources reporting this morning that House Speaker john boehner told Senate Majority leader harry reid to go f himself on friday after reid said that boehner was treating the house like a dictatorship. The white house and the senate did come to a deal and then the house voted on it late last night. They passed with 257 votes. Leadership on the republican side was split however. Boehner and Budget Committee chairman paul ryan voted yes while eric cantor and Kevin Mccarthy voted no. If he decides to run for president in 2016, he might be going up against rubio or rand paul, they both voted no. Ryan would be only one of the three that voted yes. The plan means the bush tax cuts will continue for those making under 400,000 a year and couples making less than 450,000 a year. The tax rates will go back up for those making more. The automatic spending cuts that were set to kick in today are delayed for two months. The deal with extend Unemployment Insurance for some two Million People for a year. The estate tax goes back up to 40 . Also tax credits will continue for child care, tuition and research and development. On the flip side, the payroll tax rate will go back up to more than 6 . Next up, congress and the administration have to figure out what to do about the spending cuts that are going to go into effect in two months if we dont do something and also, there is the issue of raising the debt ceiling. Were back with more show and with steph arrive the break. Stay with us. Right have, about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really . Youre going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. Really . I want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ ryon ] eating shrimp at red lobster is a fantastic experience. 30 shrimp for 11. 99. I cant imagine anything better. Youre getting a ton of shrimp and it tastes really good [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobsters 30 shrimp for just 11. 99 choose any two of five savory shrimp selections like mango jalapeno shrimp and parmesan crunch shrimp. Two delicious shrimp selections on one plate all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. 30 shrimp, just 11. 99 for a limited time. Wow, thats a lot of shrimp. Im ryon stewart im the ultimate shrimp lover, and i sea food differently. Irene, drop the itch. We dropped the itch, you can too. 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I paid 90 for a ticket to something and i didnt go. Stephanie Jacki Schechner i cannot show you the text that she sent me because she looked drunk and hot on new years or as you call her easy pickings. Right here. You know, we were all doing the drunken new year text. Happy new year to you. I was asleep. Stephanie aww you poor little thing. We celebrated the day after. Stephanie what did we miss . Republicans acting like [ bleep ] holes. Dana perino said that john boehner was acting most like an adult in negotiating the fiscal cliff. Adults tell other adults to go f themselves. It is f you. Stephanie harry reid said excuse me. [ bleep ] he said it twice. Stephanie its hilarious. He said i copyrighted that. Stephanie yep right. Ive had zero sleep. [ applause ] huh . Stephanie i just landed. Your immune system will be really low. Youll get as sick as chris and then i will get sick and then the whole show will be in the toilet. The show has been in the toilet before. Stephanie let me just say this. Thats the problem with going on vacation where they allow whats the word, children little freakin germ wagons we had a great time. We were in maui. Whats not great about that. But every now and again i get in an elevator with a family and there is a kick hacking up a lung. Oh oh and then roland went in the steam room. I dont know what the deal is with parents. There was another boy hacking up a lung and the father says go in the steam room. Hack it all up. Contaminate whoever else is in there. Stephanie theres people in here. Dont want your germ wagon to come in here. Oh boy. Im getting a hazmat suit. Stephanie im sorry. I didnt mean to start in an antichild frenzy. Just because ive gotten off screaming airlines as i do. One day, we did a massage down by the ocean. Oh, you can hear the sounds of the ocean and the childrens laughter. Roland and i said that isnt laughter. Thats screaming. Not a big selling point. Stephanie irritating even childrens laughter would not be a selling point for me. Stephanie it sounds like the parent years. Mommy, that ladys naked u i saw her boobies. Stephanie . [ screaming ] stephanie can i say being on vacation with roland is like being on vacation with an 8yearold. A, hes a boy. I didnt have to see his balls this time, thank god. Good. Stephanie i got pages of roland material. Because its just you know i love him more than life itself. Thats on hotel stationery, isnt it . Stephanie yes, it is [ laughter ] stephanie it was a hungover plane trip. What else is funny . We were drunk the whole time. What was the thing . Anyway, what was i saying . No he just parents can tell me you were boys once. I dont know what hes like a pigpen. Hes like a tornado of dirty clothes and socks and tissues and snacks and i dont know. Picking up after him constantly. Boys are like that. Stephanie yeah. Then he gets overly excited about like foods theyve likes. Im ordering like Room Service Breakfast one morning. Can i have a can i have bananas with coconut milk at the buffet. Okay honey. Mommy will get it for you. And then and then stephanie i get on the plane. Hes like i want candy. Im like honey theres no candy. Didnt you have a werthers in your percent . Stephanie you would think at my age. Grandma would have a butterscotch. All kids love ribbon candy. [ laughter ] oh wow. Stephanie really . I cant laugh this morning. Im a germ wagon. Oh, god. I have norovirus great thanks. If you had norovirus, you would know it. You would be spewing out both ends. Stephanie one more thing about roland, sexy liberal tour director, my soul mate. The man has got to get a pedicure. Have men never heard [ ding ding ] [ applause ] stephanie he had a little bit to drink new years eve. He was like a gila monster. It was like a lizard. He was like latched on to me and his toes hes like a tree sloth. It is horrible. Was he latched on to you like a koala . Stephanie he was clawing my legs. Get to your side of the bed. Oh my god for the love of god for anyone youre ever with romantically, cut your toenails. Whats wrong with you . Dudes dont look at other dudes toenails. Stephanie anybodys legs are going to get cut to ribbons. It felt like one of the what is it called . A tree sloth. A gila monster. Stephanie hes a lizard with incredibly long toenails. He needs moisturizer too . Stephanie in his defense i did almost kill him as usual with exercise. [ applause ] we went on three or four hour bike rides every day. Just nuts. Stephanie one night apparently im told because i kind of fell asleep but he was having really horrible leg spasms. Yeah, as one does after you need to take potassium if youre on a threehour bike ride. Thats why he wanted the bananas. For the potassium. For his leg cramps which you caused [ laughter ] and you couldnt provide him with a candy. Stephanie man up. Grandma has a lot of ribbon candy. Man up. No. He heres what he said. This is why i think i always someone in the chat room said im going to rolands twitter feed for the other side of the story. [ laughter ] and now for the rest of the story stephanie ill tell you the whole story. Yes, there was a whole arc. There is a dramatic arc. Youll love it. [ magic wand ] stephanie where was i . Excellent. Stephanie i think it was you guys could tell anybody. Ancient kind of wisdom thats universal. [ magic wand ] sure. Uhhuh. Right. And im the queen of satan. Im so glad were back. Stephanie they may be trying to code this wisdom. So when roland had his leg spasms and i was drunk. Stephanie passed out sleeping yes. As you do after threehour bike rides every day. Stephanie it is a little creepy. Follow me. Okay. I had to write this down because historians are going to be trying to crack this code for centuries. He said im having what should i do . Apparently i said pretzels, theyre good. Wow. [ applause ] stephanie probably some sort of da vinci code. Something the dalai lama would say when you get to the top of the mountain. For centuries well go what did i mean by that . Indiana jones may find that in the arc of the covenant. Stephanie i said was i helpful . You said pretzels, good. I probably meant he needed salt, jim. Potassium. Ancient accidental wisdom. What can i tell you . Hmm okay. Stephanie pretzels. Chase in the chat room said that was stephanies pretzel logic. [ circus ] stephanie all right. All right. So i will you know what . Ill sprinkle out details all morning of the trip. Roland did post theres other pictures but he did post a picture of Willie Nelson playing poker. There is a story behind that. Did he know when to fold em . Stephanie he did. We got invited to annie and Willie Nelsons house. How much fun is that . So does oprah. Stephanie let me tell you one thing. Thats a whole other story. Ive got stories about this trip that you wouldnt believe. You have an oprah story . Stephanie heres some ancient wisdom. Anyone in the world roland, listen to me, salt, pretzels, good. Anywhere you go on vacation in the entire world time snatched the pretzel from my hand. Stephanie oprah has a house there. Everywhere ive ever been. It has a lanai going all the way around. Stephanie we bicycled by her thousand zillion acres. Oprah has her own road. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] stephanie everyone else has 30 something miles to get to the beach. Not oprah. She has her own road. [ applause ] is it called oprah highway . Stephanie no. I dont know what it is called. They changed the name of the island to oprah. Travis wants me to ask you how you spent your Christmas Eve. Stephanie Christmas Eve. Why . Were you in stephanie very eventful. [ laughter ] stephanie listen. I was in criminal court. There is a story behind that. You were in criminal court . Stephanie i got stories to tell. Oh, my god stephanie yes i will talk about my life of crime as well. Who did you kill . Come on stephanie nobody. Okay. You committed a crime. Stephanie do people want to hear i want to hear about the life of crime. Stephanie what about my visit to Willie Nelsons house. You want to hear about my night at Willie Nelsons house or not . Should we after the break maybe . All right. Stephanie all right. Well, isnt that something . Thank you for your help. No problem. 17 minutes after the hour. Stephanie this i remember. Ive done this before. You know, im going to keep all of these magical vacation memories in my computer. And who wouldnt . Stephanie right . Also your criminal court records. Stephanie okay. Carbonite is can going to keep all of that safe because i have pictures or as some people call it evidence. Some people in court. Most of the new years resolutions we make require more work from us. Heres one that requires no work from you. Carbonite online backup backs up all of the stuff. You dont have to remember to do it. Set it up once. You never have to remember to back up again. Carbonite will back up all of your computer files on the cloud, all of the files on the cloud. I like the way it sounds. Somewhere magical. [ magic wand ] stephanie pretzels, good. Okay. 59 a year. Climb up the mountain for that . Pretzels are good . Stephanie specifically, pretzels there. Right. Stephanie all right. 59 a year for unlimited backup space for your computer plus you can access the files from anywhere even when youre on maui. Right. They have internet on maui. Stephanie type in stephanie for a tree trial plus two free bonus months. Thats carbonite. Com. The offer code is stephanie. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Eek, i just spewed on my dashboard again. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Every day presents another exciting issue. From financial regulation, fraud on wall street. Things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. Were going riding on the freeway of love stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Regular big show today. Hump days with sexy liberal hal sparks. Right over there. Stephanie annie borowitz has the best headlines that summed up everything that happened while i was gone. Solving necessary cries is i they created. Hi dana. Happy new year. How are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller first of all, if i would have been invited to Willie Nelsons, i would have parked my butt there and never left. That bike would have been history. Stephanie it was pretty awesome. Caller i cant imagine. I would love to hear about it. Happy new year. Chris, i just called to wish you all happy new year and tell you that as i was getting ready for janes addiction i have been waiting for four three months, i wasnt feeling great you know. The whole day. Yeah. Im getting ready and my husbands like just take your temperature. 102, baby. [ wah wah ] he was so cool. He didnt leave me. Well trade the ticket. Stephanie hes going to blame you for that for the rest of your life. Hes going to you know what . He thinks thats a free pass. Anything that ever happens remember that time i stayed home from janes addiction on new years . Caller it was such a bummer. But jim your haircut looks great. Love it. Adorbs. Happy new year. We miss you. I miss my charters on current tv and chatting right now. Were chatting about how we missed each other because of all of the nonsense that was going on. They act like children. And they dont give they dont give about us. My son even was just like what it is like theyre going neener neener. Im glad we got something done but theres more work to do. Stephanie it is. It is a congressional tantrum. Absolutely. Stephanie the president is always weighed down by actually caring about people. Normal humans would not have to trade for. Saying the f word to people. Really . Go have some more gentleman jack or whatever. Stephanie all right. Okay. Not so gentlemanly. Stephanie oh dear. All right. Yeah okay. So i had forgotten they live there and i just email and shes like oh, come for dinner. I love this part. She said well pick you up. Which i was like it is awesome. I was picturing cheech and chongs car. We were like are there only munchies for dinner . No. Shes an amazing cook. [ magic wand ] here is the only bad news for us it was poker night. Woody harrellson, owen wilson and Kenny Chesney are about to show up. Roland i said i think this may be above our pay grade. [ wah wah ] we knew when to fold them, before we sat at the table. Did you meet them . Stephanie yes. What do you mean, meet them. We had dinner at annie and Willie Nelsons house. Nice little place. Yikes nice little shack they have there. Willie has made a good stephanie hes made a little bit. He probably doesnt need to go on the road for awhile. Stephanie you got another song in addition. [ circus ] stephanie all right. Anyway, thank you guys. Oh, my god, it was amazing. Theyre the sweetest people in the world. Very cool. Stephanie christine in king ston, illinois. Caller im disappointed and embarrassed to be a republican. It is not my fathers or grandfathers or great grandfathers Republican Party. It is nice to see theyre doing some work now but you know, the damage is done. Ill never be a regular republican again. I used to be a tea partier. Im more in like the rehab. Stephanie youre in republican rehab. Christine, welcome to the light. [ magic wand ] glad to have you. [ applause ] stephanie it is almost like youre on vacation. I could tell you the headlines in advance. Here we go again. Thats why i love annie borowitz. Washington celebrates solving totally unnecessary crisis they created. They were in celebration on new years day after kind of averting a necessary crisis. If we all procrastinate long and hard enough, we can solve any selfinflicted problem in a way that satisfies no one says mitch mcconnell. It is up to us to concoct new optional disasters that well have to undo at some later date in a more half ass way. Im guessing he didnt really do that. Andy borowitz made it up. Stephanie he also didnt say we should make poor people into mulch. Newsbusters picked up on that. In a related story, an arsonist received an award for putting out his own fire. Fantastic. Stephanie well get into all of that and more on mamas vacation and the fiscal cliff. And your life crime. I want to hear about that. Stephanie i seem to be avoiding that, dont i . Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Have you forgotten about your new years resolution . Im never drinking again. No, before that. I am gonna finish this whole bottle. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number. Oh wait, before we get to my life of crime oh . Stephanie somebody sent me this. In honor of new years. Things that are difficult to say when youre drunk. As jim says, most things are difficult for me to say when im sober. We posted this on your facebook page. Stephanie cinnamon. Indube etedly. Imagine john boehner saying any of these words. Stephanie innovative. Preliminary. We have a preliminary preliminary deal. Stephanie proliferation. Things that are very difficult to say when youre drunk. British constitution. Loquacious trend substantiate. Aggressive disorder. And specificity. We have no specifics. Any more specifics . Stephanie things that are downright impossible to say when youre drunk. Thanks, but i dont want to have sex. Nope no more alcohol for me. Sorry, youre not really my type. Good evening officer isnt it lovely out tonight . Oh, no one wants to hear me sing and youre right, i cant jump over that table. [dingdong] [ applause ] fis fiscal cliff. Thats another hard one. Stephanie apparently i left tbone to some specifics of ply life of crime. [ dramatic ] it was help, im in jail. Stephanie if you listen carefully i got a voice mail on Christmas Eve about how stephanie had to to be at the courthouse because she got a ticket for having her dog off the leash. Stephanie yes, thats me. Why was your dog off the leash . Stephanie it was a park a park. Where you have to walk your dog on a leash. Stephanie okay. Its your backyard. You cant just follow laws willynilly. Stephanie im a wild one. Come and get me. Youll never take me alive copper. I imagine you sharing stories, what are you in for . Dog off the leash. Stephanie you have to hear this story. Travis, you know the whole story. I got this thing it is like a traffic ticket. Ive been trying to fix this ticket for a month. Stephanie two of my best friends are lawyers. Theyre like why dont you just give this to me. Travis isnt a lawyer. Youre associate producer. I dont know. Help me. How do i travis is great at booking guests. Hes not all that great at getting you out of jail. She didnt pay you to go to law school. Stephanie because i figure you can pay it by mail. Like a traffic ticket. Go on vacation. I call and i get to somebody at the courthouse. Oh, she needs to come in or theyre going to issue a bench warrant. Stephanie apparently a lot of people who have to go there dont have producers to take care of things for them. How long ago did you get the . Ict. A few weeks. It is travis fault. Jacki made me do it. She wanted you to go to jail so she could take over. Stephanie i spent Christmas Eve in the and its downtown. It is never good news when you have to go downtown. Were taking it downtown. Stephanie it is a mens jail. Criminal courts. Ive been there. I had jury duty there. Stephanie are you kidding me . I had to appear in court for a dog off the leash . Then when she got there she sat there for an hour not knowing what to do. Stephanie this is new for me. I was there with an interesting variety of people. As one would find in that area of downtown. Spend your hour making a shiv. Stephanie i fashioned you a lovely shiv as a christmas present. And then you recognized stephanie ill tell the whole story. So i had to go downtown Christmas Eve. Right. So i didnt because this is new to me. I didnt realize you have to put your booking whatever in the basket. Okay, let me just say the judge was like Wilford Brimleys grandfather. So im sitting there for like an hour and a half and im like how come theyre not calling my case. There are some sketchy people. Stephanie domestic violence. One guy they brought in from jail. His hairs all i was like oh, my god. So im listening to case after case and then i finally like catholic girl that i am, why arent they calling me . You didnt put your thing in there was a sign that clearly said that, wasnt there . You just didnt read it. Stephanie in the criminal courts building. I have people to do that sort of thing for me. [ laughter ] you have travis to do that sort of thing for you. Stephanie surprising amount of people try to ride the train without buying a ticket and first of all im like there is a train . How much is the ticket . Okay. Anyway, so then i finally get called by judge be methuselah. Hes like so, you tried to ride the train without a ticket. I said no. I had a dog off the leash. Then at that point people started giggling. Because everyone else had been there for murdering people. Stephanie you should have seen them. I killed a man nicknamed dog. Stephanie a lot of people shot a man in reno just to watch him die. Even the judge was befuddled. Did the dog bite anybody . I was like no. I dont see the point then. Stephanie so at this point, several of the Court Officers recognize me and started waving wildly and going mama mama so you could have talked to them to maybe get you off. Stephanie i swear to god during the judge thing the guy is like can i get your picture later . Can we get an autograph . Rusty the bailiff. [ laughter ] stephanie and then you have that you have to quell that rebel spirit. Hes like are you guilty . I felt like going no, at ca yes. You did say they were medium sized dogs and theyre not mediumsized dogs. It was a large dog, that would get you in more trouble. Stephanie like can you pay im like yes just how much is it . For gods sakes. So then i go pay it and i come back and people are running out from other places to get their picture taken with me so that was nice. [ applause ] judge probably thought you were like Lindsay Lohan. Whats going on here . [ laughter ] what the sam hell is this . Stephanie anyway, thank you for your know how tbone. I almost ended up in the clink on christmas day. Because of you and your lack of legal training. [ laughter ] thank you honey. Ill put it on my to do list. Stephanie dont tug on supermans cape. All right. That was my Christmas Eve. Enjoy, everybody. Okay. Lets go to john in tulsa. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi john. Caller is this stephanie . The real one . Stephanie yes. Caller we really missed you. Stephanie i miss you too. Caller especially my wife. It is like when bill maher goes off, they always do interesting things when hes off. Stephanie right. Caller not to downgrade the fiscal cliff but i want to talk about the nra. Stephanie go ahead. Caller i do not understand why the democrats arent embracing the nra plan. Unless i miss my guess the nra suggested we need to appropriate the funds to hire and train security agents. I dont know of any dems that are supporting that. Stephanie john whats your point . Caller i think because they asked us to appropriate the funds, obviously that means we have to raise taxes. We could hire oh, i dont know five million new jackbooted atf agents. Each of them at schools churches malls. Stephanie you know, we were on obviously live. We took wayne lapierrres press conference live. Our last day. Stephanie thats the problem is you gotta look at all parts of it. That was just stunning in itself. Hes just a crazy person. He is. Stephanie guns are absolutely no part of the problem at all. More guns is the only solution. He doubled down a couple of days later on meet the press. He didnt listen to the criticism from republicans that he got. Stephanie yeah. He blamed everybody. Everybody but guns. He went on and on about how the politicians dont know the difference on training an Assault Rifle and a machine gun. Well, thats crazy. Who doesnt know that . Stephanie heres the thing. We disagreed but as a liberal taking on some of our sacred cows, violent video games Mental Health, everybody gets emotional about every aspect of it. It is like you have to look at all of it. He just thats exactly why were not going to solve it because people on his side think theres no other answer. By the way lets see tosh wrote Jared Loughner is still alive despite there was an armed guard where he was. There was one at columbine. He could not get a clean aim because he was concerned about not hitting an innocent bystander. Trained guards are taught not to shoot into crowds. We need to look at what worked where they were having a regular diet of australia which they stopped in the mid 90s. Virginia tech has its own police force for gods sake. Fort hood. Arsenal. Stephanie jim made the point weve made over and over, japan has they have more violent video games. They have ones they dont even release anywhere else. Two people get killed a year. Stephanie because they cant get guns. Maybe they have how do you they have a more active fantasy life with the video games but they dont actually shoot people because they cant get guns. They have a less violent culture. Very disciplined culture because theres millions of People Living on small islands. Stephanie right. You know what, Michael Moore wrote a good piece. There is a good point he made on that too. Lots more to get to. We havent even gotten into the fiscal cliff thing. Too busy covering my life crime. Just go jump off the fiscal cliff. Your life crime and poker. Stephanie i havent even gotten to the good parts of my vacation. 46 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. That laughter sounds like the result of misbehavior. Announcer its a the Stephanie Miller show. There is so much going on that every day presents another exciting issue. From financial regulation, iran getting a nuclear bomb, civil war in syria, fraud on wall street, destruction of medicare and medicaid. There are real issues here. Having been a governor, i know that tradeoffs are tough. Things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. I want our viewer to understand why things have happened. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. [ lisa ] my names lisa, and chantix helped me quit. I honestly loved smoking and i honestly didnt think i would ever quit. 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Common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. With chantix and with the support system it worked. It worked for me. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. I want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. Stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 51 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number. Toll free from anywhere. Lets go to marsha in illinois. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hey, marsha. Caller hi. If i see eric cantor on tv, i think of that young guns video infomercial. Remember with the cowboy hats. Stephanie oh yeah. Caller there were three young guns and i just get so mad because theyre about my age and the president s about my age but he seems so mature. These guys, i dont know. I watched the show last night. I dont know what it was. Republicans saying talking about the lower middle class how theyre not religious anymore. Just because you dont go to church doesnt mean you dont have traditional values. Theyre so out of touch with the regular people. Every time i see cantor, i think of him dressed up in the cowboy hat being a young gun. He seems so immature. You shouldnt advertise that way. Help them with the spanish people. Stephanie when you think macho cowboy, jim you think eric cantor for sure. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] of course. Spurs and chaps. And moisturizer. Moisturizer of course. Stephanie he was most concerned about moisturizing much like eric cantor. Okay. Tweet that irritated me most over vacation. Grover norquist. We had an election and boehner was elected speaker now lame duck obama should get over it. Okay, a boehner hasnt been boehner hasnt been elected to anything yet because theres going to be a fight between him and eric cantor coming up. Stephanie crazy cowboy, eric eric cantor. Okay corral. And it wont be okay for you. It will be super okay for me because i moisturize. Stephanie oh, boehner boehner. I am just an orange boy i have squandered my influence for a pocketful of tax cuts for the filthy rich my eyes get wet still a man cries when he thinks about which fabric is the best on the house floor stands the boehner and hes whining constantly and the fiscal cliff reminds him of every vote that let him down as he cried out in his anger and his shame im weeping i am weeping but he still remains crying eyes crying eyes yea Rocky Mountain mike. Stephanie Rocky Mountain mike never on vacation. Never. Stephanie you gotta keep working while mamas on vacation. Go great stuff. We have more. The boehner. Stephanie sunday, he warned president obama he should not cast blame on republicans. No why would he do that . For a possible failure. [ world news tonight ] because theyve been so helpful in every way. As dana perino says, hes been the only adult in the room. Im the only adult in the room. Shut up. I hate you. Stephanie weve been reasonable and responsible. [ laughter ] stephanie the president is the one whos never been able to get to yes. The president he has thats the problem. He is stephanie thats why the Andy Borowitz headlines are the best. Job of destroying congress is in their hands. Mission of destroying the economy is in the capable hands of the u. S. Congress. In an official statement congresss conduct o during the fiscal cliff showdown convinced terrorists they had been outdone. We had been working overtime to come up with ways to terrorize the american people. Even we couldnt come up with Something Like this. The idea of holding the entire nation hostage with a clock ticking is worthy of a bomb villain. You have to admire when someone else has beaten you at your game. We made so many scary videos but none were as terrifying as mitch mcconnell. Sharks with laser beams on their heads. Stephanie yeah. Sure. Stephanie exactly. Thank you Andy Borowitz. [ applause ] make fun of it at some point. By the way i watched half the speaking of terrorists, zero dark thirty. How was it . Stephanie i fell asleep. Ill give you my review. Roland brought screeners on vacation. Although new years eve we fell asleep long before new years and then they had fireworks. I thought it was zero dark thirty. I said someone is going to break into the compound whats happening . [ explosion ] thats what happens when you fall asleep way before new years. Stephanie actually the movie i think is good. You know, i couldnt watch the torture stuff. I want to watch the whole thing before i before you it sounds like dick cheney was the adviser. Stephanie the fact is we tortured in the time period in which obviously they got the clues that led to bin laden but obviously as john mccain, senator feinstein and everybody on the Senate Intelligence committee has said, we didnt get that information. And the movie leaves that impression, i think. That we did get that information. The movie leaves the impression that we did get that information . Stephanie yes. Thats a problem. Stephanie all right. We also watched les miserables. I saw it on christmas day. Wasnt it great . Stephanie somebody diagrammed what note Anne Hathaway hit when she wins the oscar. A what notes Russell Crowe didnt hit. [ wah wah ] not the strongest singer. Im not a strong singer. I had never seen the stage production. Stephanie it was amazing. I knew nothing about the story and i loved it. Stephanie i was weeping. It is so sad. Roland said its not called the happies. They gave you warning. Theyre all miserable. Wow, there is a lot of misery in that. Stephanie holy moly okay. Lets go to kathleen in fresno. No kathy bates. Mr. Man. Stephanie hi, kathleen. Go ahead. Hi, kathleen in fresno. Caller hi. Stephanie hi. I was wondering if you might be able this is my first time call. My husband and i love your show. Stephanie thank you. Caller i have a problem with my motherinlaw. Shes started saying that obama has cut the healthcare. Stephanie obama has not cut healthcare. Well get to that. Unfortunately, were in a hard break. Much more right back on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme ] stephanie hello hour number two. Good morning Jacki Schechner. Good morning stephanie hi, im here now. I know. Thanks for joining us. Stephanie i didnt show jim your smokin hot new years eve picture. Which one did i send you . Stephanie well, that seems to be the difficulty there. [ magic wand ] there was a moment when i went back through my texts yesterday to make sure i hadnt said anything that i would regret. Stephanie new years day. What did i send, who . Roland sent someone a picture of my cleavage. You have cleavage . When is cleavage never not important . i spent it with some friends at a small house party. We had a very good time. How small was the house . Stephanie big enough for you and jacki. Here she is. All snugly in the current news center. Jacki schechner. Good morning, everybody. The dow is up 200 points so far this morning. In the aftermath of news that we did strike a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. But while that business got done politico reports that the 112th congress leaves today having enacted the fewest laws of any Congress Since 1947. The year that we first started keeping track of these sorts of things. There is now outrage on both sides of the aisle as House Republican leaders have decided not to take up the aid relief package for those struggling in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. The congress will close without that legislation being handled. The senate had approved a package of 60. 4 billion in aid and the House Appropriations committee came up with a smaller deal of about 27 billion. But since the laws dont carry over from session to session now were going to have to start all over again. House speaker John Boehners office says he is committed to passing that aid before the end of the month but that, of course, does nothing for people who need the money right now. And just before the break president obama nominated senator john kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton when she decides to step down. That will leave an opening in the senate. Many people think scott brown who lost to Elizabeth Warren in november will run again but theres new concern amongst democrats that brown instead may try to run for governor. Thats another option for him. See if he runs against representative ed markey and loses, that would put an end to any future political ambitions. We shall see what happens. Were back after the break. Stay with us. Coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. 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Im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good stephanie happy new year, everybody it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Look, a late holiday gift for you, jim. The new twitter adolf twittler. You know what else looked at my profile . Adolf twitler . It is the adolf twitler. Thats funny. Stephanie all right. Also this late holiday gift, kim jong il died of rage. Well have audio on that. Bring back kim jong il. Hes beyond ill. Stephanie hes way beyond ill. [ magic wand ] by the way ma hollow, aloha. Im just back from maui. A good time was had by all including me and sexy liberal tour director, roland, who, by the way im not sure if hes home yet. It took him 48 hours to get to hawaii. You dont want to know because there were storms. You mean in a row boat . Okay. Stephanie to get from new york to hawaii. We went on christmas day. Although he didnt get there until the day after that. [ ding ding ] [ laughter ] stephanie mama spent christmas alone room service. [ wah wah ] his flight was cancelled from newark. Then they flew him, i dont know where. You ready for this . He was supposed to join me to fly to maui from l. A. And a woman had a heart attack on his plane and they made an Emergency Landing in salt lake. Then they had to fly him to San Francisco and it took him like 1,5001 hours but he made it. Then you put him in a grueling bicycle stephanie i made him ride four hours uphill up a volcano. Dont make him ride into a volcano. He probably wished he had fallen into the volcano after that. There are no live volcanos on maui. Just on hawaii. Stephanie i spent christmas alone. Christmas morning were like any other married couple, we dont have sex because by the second or third day of the vacation, everybody is calling him my husband. Yes. If that makes you happy. Did you have join that nice old couple on the cruise at the dinner table . Stephanie one dinner, the waiter said happy new year, miller family. Were like sew took your name. Stephanie apparently. Of course. Stephanie apparently hes mr. Miller. You would make him take your name. Stephanie hes now my beeotch. Or gets the volcano again. Stephanie first morning he got there, i started crying. Roland, hold me. Im so lonely. And last night, he was drunk and on me. I was like get off me. Youre so clingy and cut your toenails. Seriously. He has to take a picture and put it on twitter. Its like no, thats not the sort of thing you share on twitter. Stephanie it is like spooning with a screech monkey. You know this how . Stephanie dont men groom . [ screaming ] i generally leave my shoes on all the time except if im in the shower. Stephanie really . Oh god. Whats going on . As you get older it gets harder and harder to bend down. Stephanie is that what it is . Im noticing that. Stephanie are you going scuba diving . Are those slippers . Theyre your webbed feet with your toenails. [ screaming ] [ whatever ] what . Stephanie what. Can i just say roland is magical. [ magic wand ] we had the most amazing you know where we stayed . I dont believe it. Maui four seasons. Thats pretty sheshe. Thats pretty 1 . Stephanie i know. Dont ask me how we scored this. But it was it is an amazing guess who i said hi to at the pool. Jeff zucker, the new head of cnn. How you doing, jeff. Everyone was responsible for one of my canceled shows. Which one did he cancel . On cnbc. Good luck at cnn. He said well have to leave it there. [ wah wah ] stephanie it was worth it just for the conversation to listen to the conversations at the pool and stuff. We literally we walked across lounges and one person was on the phone saying what time is the private jet going to be here . There is a am would on the phone going are we giving them access to the private jet or not . And roland and i are like we came in economy plus. You should see the legroom hey, everybody we really did. We were excited we got economy plus with extra legroom. Literally very 1 percy. All of the peanuts you could eat. Macadamia nuts, sure. Stephanie they dont give you those anymore. Theyre expensive. We were saying we were looking at breakfast because the one lady, the one private jet lady was a beautiful africanamerican lady. We saw her and her son at breakfast. Were just wondering what what their sense of history is like when you grow up like that. What it must be like to grow up with that kind of money. He must be like let me get this straight, there was a time in america when all people didnt have their own private jet . We all got 40 acres and jet at some point . What happened, mommy. I dont understand. [ wah wah ] where is my gold bouillon . I wonder what it is like to be a kid with that kind of cash. Why are you snuffling your nose at me . Hes doing that face. So anyway. Thank you, maui. We love you what does maholo mean . You dont know . Stephanie it is like one of those catch alls. Thats aloha. And goodbye. Stephanie whats maholo . Thank you. I was like holy cow on some of the bike rides. Stephanie i watched the bette midler thing which is fun. Speaking of fun, speaking of sexy liberal fun, it is coming up in d. C. What up, mama and the mooks . Stephanie oh, audra. Happy new year and welcome back. For all of the sexy liberals out there. Check it out. January 19, 2013, the sexy liberal show is live at the Warner Theatre in washington, d. C. For inauguration weekend. Sexy liberal this is going to be a great show. Oh and Stephanie Miller. Stephanie oh, audra. That was funky thank you. All right yeah, quick get your tickets. Theyve going fast. Is this the boy thing with the gadgets because roland never stops he never puts down his iphone. Yes, it is a boy thing with gadgets. Stephanie hes constantly, it is not just ticket sales. Twitter something. I moved to a new place over the weekend. Stephanie right. The first thing i did was make sure all of my gadgets were set up. It is a boy thing totally. Stephanie he literally i was roland i was like i can hear you. We have not made eye contact in two years. Look at me why do you need eye contact . Stephanie its rude. You work on radio. You dont have eye contact with your listeners. Stephanie i do now because im on current. Look at me okay. All right. Jim [ jeopardy theme ] i have a quote for you. Who said while most liberals were stewing at barack obama for his quoteunquote capitulation on tax rates i confess i was feeling philosophical about it. Hes negotiating with mad men and you cant negotiate with mad men because theyre well, mad. Who said that . Hal sparks. [ buzzer ] stephanie no, he but he will be here in about an hour. Michael tomasky on the daily beast. By the way did you see who is it, Elsie Hastings, democratic representative, the house passed the deal yesterday he said well, theyre crazy but theyre not that [ bleep ] crazy. He used our term. Quoted the whole word. He said i love Elsie Hastings. Hes awesome. Stephanie who said so im feeling for obama. A number of president s have had to deal with this kind of behavior and most havent done it well. If obama can get the deal he discussed, higher tax rates at 400,000 and up and a higher estate tax rate and extension of Unemployment Benefits and delay in the sequester, he will have done all right. Liberals who think he should stand talking and they hold the cards should recognize he doesnt hold all of the cards. Republicans have enough to block. Those cards are serious ones. Second they arent remembering that his opponents draw on and are part of this nations long and often tragic history of people who represent the minority viewpoint but do so all the more tenaciously because they know the viewpoint to be both of those things. Obama is have tog cross swords with the intense concentration of the type. Who said that . Dick cheney. Stephanie bad guess. Michael tomasky, daily beast. I have to confess because i tried to check out a little over vacation. As we were saying before the thing, what . Why are we compromising on tax rates when you know, i think the problem is its a lot more complex than we like to think than both sides would like to think if we went over the cliff. Why dont we go over the cliff and get to 250 . Because everybodys taxes would have gone up. Stephanie yeah. I mean and the president obviously claimed victory. A lot of people obviously the democrats absolutely did win on this one. Stephanie just last month the president said just last month, republicans in Congress Said they would never agree to raise tax rates on the wealthiest americans. Obviously the agreement thats currently being discussed would raise the rates permanently. The president said in the midst of this. So yeah, you go through all of the like the problem is this is going to keep happening. Were going to have again so just if you dont have the fun facts the deal raises income taxes to clinton era levels on families making more than 400,000. Thats a far i couldnt cry from the 250 but white house officials said they had to compromise on that number to win renewal of several provisions which would have expired. This is the part i was saying earlier. Were weighed down by actually caring about actual people. Unemployment insurance for three Million People. Tax credits for low income working families and reduction of the impact of the alternative tax on middleclass families. The white house argues it achieved 85 of its revenue goals raising 600 billion a third of which comes from phasing out exemptions and with incomes greater than 250,000 a year. Republicans achieved none of the draconian cuts they wanted. Well get into the nuts and bolts of it as we continue. 18 minutes after the hour. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Makes me sick in a wonderful wonderful way announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Every day presents another exciting issue. From financial regulation, fraud on wall street. Things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. Announcer Stephanie Miller. What a blast stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. All right, the president yesterday. On the fiscal cliff. Obama this law is just one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy and broaden opportunity for everybody. [ world news tonight ] stephanie democrats win key tax fights and emerging fiscal cliff deal. It is seen as a win for the president. Even the president was saying i guess were going to have to do this in stages. People were trying to govern with, it is not were going to go through this whole fight again in two months. Stephanie this is what being ungovernable looks like. Politico writing the emerging fiscal cliff deal enough to leave republicans with a major new years hangover. Theres that silver lining. Not only raise tax rates but what theyre saying, one of the things, this is like breaking this huge how many decades long stranglehold of republicans never voting for tax increases no matter what. The problem is the cbo is saying its still not enough. I wish we could have gotten the two above 250 because its not enough to reduce the deficit. Anyway, but politico writing it not only raises tax rates but extends stimulus era tax policy, maintains targeted tax breaks and receives limits on deductions for the wealthy dormant for decades. All policies the g. O. P. Has fought. Above all, the emerging deal has shattered years of orthodox. Identity built around getting no order to any tax increase ever. Lets see. Event vote would mark the first time republicans have voted en masse on a tax increase since george h. W. Bushs read my lips no new taxes. Democrats making concessions on the threshold. We talked about that already. It is 400 instead of 250. Still conservative commentators were quick to pan the deal and urged republican lawmakers to fight it. They should kill the plan for the fiscal cliff. I actually was surprised they did it although as Elsie Hastings theyre not that bleep crazy. It was hard to predict what theyre going to do. Are they going to torpedo this or try to amend it which would have effectively killed in. Grover norquist has drown himself in the bathtub. Stephanie oh, no. I was misinformed. [ world news tonight ] Stephanie Lindsey graham said hats off to the president he won. Said it is a political victory for president obama. He said i hope well have the courage over our conviction when it comes time to raise the debt ceiling. Oh, god. Stephanie the president yesterday. Obama i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that theyve already racked up. If congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire Global Economy would be catastrophic. Far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff. Stephanie not to mention who gets to do that . Who gets to get their mastercard bill and go yeah, i know i already spent it but im not going to pay that now. Computer says no. Stephanie you cant it is almost Like Washington just has this normal place. You dont get to negotiate with that. The president again yesterday. Obama todays agreement enshrines, i think a principle into law that will remain in place as long as im president. The deficit needs to be reduced in a way thats balanced. Everyone pays their fair share. Everyone does their part. Thats how we grow. Stephanie thats how we roll bitches. Steve in florida youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi steve. Caller hi, steph, how are you . Stephanie good, go ahead. Caller i saw last night on the news, i believe it was cnn congress decided not to give up the vote to give themselves a pay raise. Is that absurd at this time to be talking about Something Like that . Stephanie because youre doing such a great who cant agree youre doing such a great job. You know what they also didnt take up . Funding for recovery from superstorm sandy. Stephanie republicans didnt think that was timely or important. It made obama look good. So they hate it. The whole idea. Stephanie the president. Obama the one thing that i think hopefully in the new year well focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little bit less drama. Not scare the heck out of folks quite as much. You know what . Its going to happen again in two months. A little less drunken lunacy from boehner. Stephanie deb in california. Hi deb. Caller happy new year. Stephanie happy new year. Caller theres confetti all over the house right now just for the three of you. Yea caller so im calling because we were awake and paying attention to news channels and things on the new years eve time. And really we cant let the even the Senate Republicans and the congressional the house of representatives, we call them the house of republicans but we shouldnt let them get off the hook because we did go over the fiscal cliff. That was what was being reported at least an hour before all of the b. S. With oh the senate is now all of a sudden passed the bill. Thats the only way they could get the republicans to agree to anything. And i dont mean to be quibly but we shouldnt be getting them off the hook. Stephanie quibly . I love that word. Caller you guys are so cool. Stephanie youre right. We went off the cliff. It was a gentle incline. Otherwise, they wouldnt agreed to anything. Thats whats so bogus. These people are getting paid and im worried about how im going to pay my utility and water bill due on the same date. At my age i never thought the economy would well be so quibbly, i cleaned that way up for you. I was not going to be able to pay basic bills. Thats stupid. Stephanie quibbly word of the day. 29 minutes after the hour. Rightwing world next on the Stephanie Miller show. Hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really . Youre going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. Really . I want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. 70 years ago, wasnt a man in this city that wouldnt have given up his family, his career for one night with her. Stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. Toll free from anywhere. Sexy liberal hal sparks in hour number three live in studio here with us. [ applause ] i wonder what he thinks about the stephanie well find out when he gets here. What else was i saying . Sexy liberal tour director roland, he may be home by now. He took a red eye. [ applause ] he just got back from maui. What it says on my shirt because im the geek that wears the shirt where youve just been. You wear airport. Stephanie airport tshirts like im cool. Maholo. Thank you to the maui four seasons. What a joint that is. Wow. I dont know how we scored that. What a great vacation. They have air conditioning and hbo. Wow and a continental breakfast. Stephanie you meet some interesting people around at the adult pool. Around the lanai . Stephanie the adult pool which is where we spent most of our time. We met someone who is a matchmaker. Shes like im a matchmaker. It wasnt Patty Stanger was it . Stephanie it is 10,000 a month. Three month minimum. 30,000 for three months. Stephanie roland i are like, shes a pimp. Pretty highend pimp. She can afford to stay at the maui four seasons. There you go. Stephanie apparently a lot of people are like yes heres 30,000. Find me some pooch. I meant something else. Cooter. [ buzzer ] stephanie lets dive into the rightwing world. [ circus ] so i spent Christmas Eve as we know in criminal court. Yes you did. Stephanie in my life of crime for my dog off a leash ticket. I almost could have created another international incident. Guess what i saw. Gayle king. If i could have flagged her down, i could have gotten invited to oprahs for new years eve then there would have been some drunken incident. Was this the oprah story that you had . Stephanie i didnt know it was her. You teased in the first hour stephanie oh, my god. It was gayle king. If i would have flagged her down. In the first hour, you teased you had an oprah story. Stephanie we rode our bikes by oprahs. You cant get close to the house. The snipers will get you. Much like her house stephanie if you make it past the snipers. If you get anywhere near the house. It is lovely. May i just say. Ive seen it from the air in a helicopter. Stephanie pretty much anywhere you vacation, oprah has a house. It is the universal truth. Call and tell me where youve been. Oprah has a house there. Malaysia. I doubt she has a house where i went to spring break. Ill bet she does. Mexico . She does she does not there are only trailers there. Stephanie she owns the cantina in ensenada. I saw her dancing on a table there. Stephanie no, jim ward. Heres a late holiday gift. Hannity lost half his tv audience after the election. Gee, i guess people dont like being lied to . Stephanie right viewers were basked in his antiobama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up and discover the president won a second term. A scenario that hannity promised would never ever happen. Stephanie he had a parade of oh, i love this, thought leaders, on the right. Thats a contradiction of terms like jumbo shrimp. Dick morris and ann coulter who all predicted the president would lose in a landslide. Lets dive into the rightwing world. See whats doing today. We already did the sounder. Do you want to do it again . [ circus ] obama and the white house have narrative setters in the liberal media who are just raring to blame republicans for not giving in enough. I think its obvious that this was the strategy to drive a wedge between house conservative republicans and house capitulation republicans and now, of course, between the Senate Republicans and the House Republicans and if they dont come up with something again that wedge gets driven further and obama can sit in the catbird seat and blame blame, blame republicans for their obstructionism. It is called politics. Stephanie by the way he won again [ nah nah nah nah nah ] somebody probably needs to tell michelle. Stephanie neener nanny booboo. Ultimately, the Mainstream Media will rebel in the Republican Party is in disarray. The buck stops with the president of the United States. What weve seen over the last month or so, through all of the negotiations, he was never really serious. What . Stephanie oh i see. Okay, raising the tax rates going from 250 to 400 that wasnt serious . That wasnt compromising enough for you . Stephanie that was a lot of give in my opinion. Okay. God, these people are stephanie the president actually cares about the hostages like the unemployed that would suffer. I know. On the face of it, i was like what . Why are we compromising at all . We gave a little so we wouldnt get a lot in the behind. Okay. Song of some sort. What we really should do, honestly guys, is swan dive over the fiscal cliff. President obama owned this let him own the fiscal cliff. Good try. Stephanie just throwing stuff against the wall now in rightwing world. Throwing poo. Fox news. Stephanie charles krauthammer. It has been very clear from the beginning that he had no intention to solve the fiscal issues. Hes been using this and i must say with great skill and ruthless skill and success to fracture and basically shatter the Republican Opposition and his objective from the very beginning was to break the rule of the republicans in the house and to create an internal civil war. And hes done that. Stephanie yeah. No president s ever played politics before and won. Who could ever i think the republicans created their own civil war. The president had nothing to do with it. Stephanie exactly. Okay. Wow. Neil cavuto and dr. Mark found themselves another fox news medical expert to explain jim your doctor doesnt want to but because of obama care, hes going to have to kill you now. There is a new study showing surgeons make mistakes more than 4,000 times a year. Anything from leaving surgical instruments in you to removing the wrong kidney from you. Bill, these are the exceptions but theyre very expensive exceptions. Youre talking about 1. 3 billion in malpractice payouts over the last 20 years from these kind of mistakes. I predict that with obama care coming in, it is going to get a lot worse. Ah, yes. Crystal ball and my magic 8 ball he offered no evidence. Of course not. Because there is none. I predict that napoleon will rise from the dead. Stephanie doctors leaving things in you many of the people in rightwing world sound like someone left a sponge in your head. Sean hannity sounds like that every day. Stephanie during brain surgery that is mopping up important facts you should know. Rush limbaugh and a caller. I remember with Jared Loughner, they said he was a rep canada it turned out he was quite liberal. If theyre mentally disturbed thats not fair. Youre right. Thats not that was im sorry. Wow, he seems youre right. Thats one of those things you cant tell the truth about. Youre right. I take that back. Stephanie wow. Rightwing worlds gotten smaller and sadder since we left. Registered as a democrat when he was living with his parents. As soon as he left home, he became a republican so shut the hell up. Rush limbaugh has no idea what hes talking about. Stephanie canadian lawmaker said if having more guns makes you safer then the United States should be the safest country in the world. And yet stephanie the least safe by quite a bit. If everybody had a gun, it would all be fine. Politicians dont know the difference between a machine gun and an Assault Rifle. [ world news tonight ] stephanie i was reading info on different arguments on all of this. Military Assault Rifles were created to spray the eninny a scatter shot way because it was ineffective to assume young soldiers could become a marksman. They were designed to do the most damage to the largest number of targets. Even those trained to use military Assault Rifles, specifically trained to use weapons are used to kill multiple human beings arent able to use them with precision. Wayne lapierrre explain to us why anyone not in the military should be in the possession of such dangerous firearms. Thank you. [ applause ] collateral damage. Look into it. Stephanie i mentioned this. I just thought particularly right after this fiscal cliff stuff. Michael moore, he wrote a whole piece. It was an interesting section of the whys for why we have so much violence here as opposed to anywhere else. He talked about the me society. Isnt that part of what the negotiations for the fiscal cliff is about. It is the every man for himself is the mess. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Youre not my problem. This is mine. You get sick and cant afford the operation, not my problem. The bank has foreclosed on your home. Not my problem. Cant afford to go to college. Not my problem. It becomes our problem. Take away too many safety nets and everyone starts to feel the impact. You will have a legitimate reason to be in fear. Im not saying it is perfect everywhere else. But ive noticed see the National Benefit to taking care of each other. Free medical care, free or lowcost college mental help and i wonder why cant we do that. I think it is because in many other countries people see each other not as separate and alone but on the path of everyone exist as the whole. You dont punish them because theyve had misfortune. One of the reasons gun murders are so rare is because theres less of the lone wolf mentality. Most are raised with a sense of connection if not outright solidarity and that makes it harder to kill one another. [ applause ] basically in columbine which aired on current multiple times over the holidays. That and marijuana outlaws. That aired a lot on current in our time slot. He was interviewing canadian woman. She was talking about stephanie they have a lot of guns. But theyre not paranoid because they know theyre taken care of. They come from a hunting culture. Thats how canada became rich was the fur trade. Stephanie yep, exactly. Nobodys killing anyone for someones pelt. 46 minutes after the hour. We have some listen, we have some king jong il some kim jong il news. Yes, we do. Join the party. 1800steph12. His ability, is trying to look out for us. I want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. Stephanie miller. Stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 50 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Happy new year everybody its time for the Stephanie Miller show new year muppet show apparently. Thanks to Rocky Mountain mike. Its time to start the new year its time to do the show its time to get things started its time to see who fartherred its time to get there this is the the Stephanie Miller show stephanie thank you Rocky Mountain mike. Happy new year. Ernie and bert. They werent on the muppet show. Entirely different. Stephanie the gifts keep on giving. The news that kim jong il reportedly may have had an anger management problem. Do we have the audio . What . What do you mean . Im furious im extremely violently angry. Oh why didnt anybody tell me that . Ill explode. Gangnam style. You want me to take anger management classes . Manage this ill help ill clean your clock. Hardly new year. Should have told him. Stephanie somebody should have told him that. Become a prosperous country. Stephanie we just did rightwing world. [ world news tonight ] chris, im sure there will be a lot of apologies from right wingers to Hillary Clinton right . About her faking her illness. Her admission to a New York Hospital for a blood clot, it is easy to fake a blood clot, public shaming some conserve dives, not all we played them all in rightwing world accused clinton of faking her illness in order to avoid testifying about benghazi. Now their condition has obviously sampling, a normal person after accusing someone of faking a medical condition that subsequently deteriorates expresses contrition in a normal person. Wonder if those sarcastically doubting senator clintons health will have the decency to apologize. Im not holding my breath, jeff twitted over the holidays. Joe lieberman says hillary will testify. He said this yesterday. I just want to say how much secretary clinton is in our prayers this morning and hope she recovers rapidly from this health problem. Stephanie that was that is scary. Especially when it started stephanie shes taking blood thinners now. You have to be careful taking blood thinners that you dont get internal bleeding so there is this fine line to walk with those drugs. Stephanie yeah. You know, a lot of people on twit her the same reaction i did. Were playing that over and over again. John bolton and others calling it benghazi flu and all of that. President obama by the way, in his most detailed comments since the report on benghazi, said sunday the Security Management clause were huge problems that reflected sloppiness in how the state department regards its missions abroad. He said he reaffirmed the decision by secretary clinton to carry out all 29 of the panels recommendations. My message to the state department is simple. Were going to solve this. We wont be defense biv it. We wont pretend this was not a problem. This was a huge problem. In terms of how they securing embassies in general. By the way, theyve also said that the preliminary the inquiry doesnt cast any plame on secretary clinton. Any blame on secretary clinton. To be continued. Lets go to jerry in colorado. Hi jerry welcome. Hi jerry. Caller hi. I just wanted to talk to you about the reform and not cuts. I think cuts scare a lot of people and i think if we just go in and talk about reforming healthcare reforming defense spending which needs to be looked at and then more like a scalpel instead of a hatchet. I think that helps with the revenue and also maybe some financial tax transaction tax and Oil Subsidies and corporate loopholes. I dont think our revenue is done. Reforming can be done. Raising the cap on Social Security. Stephanie theres lots of stuff if the republicans would start acting like actual partners in government. Debbie Wasserman Schultz while they were spinning on their back in the walmart parking lot. It is unbelievable. There are some republicans maybe many republicans who dont support it. We have angst in our caucus, too. The bill should be put on the floor. There should be an upordown vote. The number of democrats and republicans that are willing to vote for it should be combined. Well see whether it passes but to play games with whether tax rates go up, taxes go up on 98 of americans. Stephanie yeah. They were just having a daylong tantrum yesterday. It was eric cantor having the tantrum trying to corral his side so that he could get more power against john boehner because theyre going to be running for speaker of the house in the next congress, i think. Hot heat of 1,000 white hot suns. Eric cantor was holding the entire country hostage in order to get more power for himself. Stephanie Debbie Wasserman shut. This prevents 978 of 98 of americans from seeing their taxes go up. It is a permanent ifism to middle class taxes going up. It is a bill that makes sure that we have a balanced approach. Weve got an extension of the American Opportunity tax credit which makes sure that more young people can go to college. We have an extension of the earned income tax credit and extension of the Child Opportunity tax credit. Are these things that the republicans actually want to allow to lapse . Yep. Stephanie well, yes. Bobby in detroit. Real quick. Welcome. Caller hello. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller happy new year to everybody. Stephanie you, too. Caller two points here. Im a 70yearold american. My heritage is black. But im an american. I was born here. I have just two things. I am so disappointed in the media. No one is emphasizing we, the people of the United States government. No one is look at us. Theyre talking about oh, the american public. Excuse me. Youre part of the american public. Stephanie exactly. Shes sick of the us versus them. So there. Stephanie 58 minutes after the hour. Back with sexy liberal hal sparks. Hump days with hal next on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme ] stephanie hello hour number three. Sexy liberal hal sparks on the way in. Hump days with hal. Hello, Jacki Schechner. Good morning. Stephanie ive missed with you the heat of 1,000 hot suns. I missed you too. We did have a little bit of Text Exchange then you guys disappeared for a couple of days. I assumed either you were hunkered down somewhere or you had hiked roland to death. Stephanie i biked him to death. And then we dissolved in a pool of booze. He did tell me when you first got to maui, you were frustrated because you felt like the first hike wasnt strenuous enough. I said only stephanie would complain that her vacation exercise wasnt strenuous enough. It isnt strenuous enough. Stephanie a lot of walking, talking about plants. Walking, standing. Were walking. Heres another plant. No move, go go fast not a horticulture tour. I could see where that would be frustrating. Could use a whore to culture. Tom corbett is holding a press conference this hour. Reportedly to announce plans to sue the ncaa in federal court. The republican governor reportedly frustrated with the ncaa stiff sanctions against Penn State University in response to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. The university agreed in july to pay a 60 million fine and that money goes to Fund Child Abuse prevention grants nationwide. Schools also banned from bowl games for four years. It has to reduce its football scholarship and give up 112 wins. Well know more after governor corbett speaks but it seems pennsylvania lawmakers are most upset with word that that 60 million is going to outofstate programs and not being allocated exclusively within pennsylvania. New york republican representative pete king is furious over house leadership cutting out without passing storm relief for victims of superstorm sandy. Hes telling everyone exactly how he feels on fox this morning, representative king says anyone from new york or new jersey who gives a dime to Congressional Republicans is out of his or her mind. He says he plans to break rank with his party and vote on his own from now on and cnn says that he went so far as to not rule out switching Political Parties over what hes calling a g. O. P. Betrayal. Were back with more steph after the break. Stay with us. Getting a nuclear bomb, civil war in syria, fraud on wall street, destruction of medicare and medicaid. There are real issues here. Having been a governor, i know that tradeoffs are tough. Things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. I want our viewer to understand why things have happened. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. Hersheys Simple Pleasures chocolate. 30 less fat, 100 delicious. Before the sneeze, help protect with a spray. Before the tissue, help defend with a wipe. Before the cold flu season help prevent with lysol. Because when you have 10 times more protection with each hand wash. And kill 99. 9 of germs around the house with each spray. Those Healthy Habits start to add up. 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The president does not believe the dynamic shifted in his favor after january 1st because a lot of liberals going why didnt we wait and get the 250 rate. Rejecting conventional wisdom in washington all sides would have more flexibility after higher tax rates took effect. Republicans were no more likely to compromise after it rather than before it. The president believed would destroy not only his leverage but the still fragile economy. It always shocks me when progressives are comfortable with calling republicans out for taking people who need Unemployment Insurance hostage by taking people who want Unemployment Insurance hostage themselves. Because effectively, thats what youre doing by demanding 250 or nothing. And in this 400 450 deal is a twoyear extension of Unemployment Benefits, extension of the farm bill that solidifies things for average americans. And this idea that somehow holding out that is fine but it only affects the tax elements of this of what went through. All of the other stuff, you go back to zero and youre negotiating with people who arent there to negotiate. They dont want to extend Unemployment Benefits. Couldnt get the farm bill through. Stephanie the chaos on new years day validated the president s strategy. To find a solution now despite the ugly process. The west wing thinks it won big. Todays agreement enshrine aspirin into law that will remain in place as long as im president. Everyone does their part. Thats how our economy does best, thats how we grow. Thats why it is not a good analogy, the caller that compared the towns a small business. Right. Because you cant fire the poor. Stephanie you cant fire the poor people. Thats why were not like a small business. Which is why if youll notice red states constantly fight any kind of aid from the government for their poorest citizens because in their mind, they think if they squeeze it hard enough, those people will pack up and move to a blue state where the support system is better. A lot harder for a poor person to move than a total rich person. The idea is they can starve them out. Thats their goal for a long time. Stephanie like during katrina, why cant they get in their escalades and leave . I dont understand. Weve got all of these takers and we want to get rid of them so the makers have more room to stretch out. If our neighboring state actually does the decent thing and creates some sort of baseline support then we figure if we just go below that mark, theyll move to the neighboring states. Theyll move to missouri or theyll move to tennessee or wherever. Stephanie not where the rapey guy is. Shirley in washington d. C. Hello, shirley. Caller hello, stephanie. Happy new year to all of you guys. Youre wonderful. Stephanie thank you. You, too. Caller i just had a couple of comments i would like to make. First of all im a 52yearold. I went back to school at 49. I have been unemployed for almost two years and again im so a positive person. I take ive been taking odd jobs just to make a living but my main comment is at 52 years of age im so sick of these republicans, you know, cant we file a lawsuit against them for putting our life in jeopardy . Jobs bill could have got passed a long time ago where a lot of us could be working. Cant we do a petition or cant we vote them out of i know there is a lot of people that put them in office but im sick of them playing with my livelihood. Cant we do a petition to get them out of office . Stephanie thats not the way our democracy works. Like hal was saying, thats why thats why you vote every two years. There is this tendency, especially on the progressive side, and the liberal side to lay back in these midterms and you cant afford to do that. Thats where all of the rapey candidates get in. Thats where all of the bizarre like we dont need a social safety net that whole crowd they get in the midterms. Every time. Stephanie we could have gotten all of this stuff. 250 level, all of that, if he had a democratic house. All of these rapey candidates. Stephanie ravey guys. Debbie youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome. It is like somebody said when you know your partys in trouble when at the election, they say the rapey guy lost and you have to say which one . Legitimate rapey guy . Stephanie debbie in north carolina. Caller hi, there. How are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller im kind of like the lady that had just called in. Im 51. Dont have a job. Lost my job. And i go i dont travel very much but the places i do go, i see just empty places and manufacturing places. Can mills is gone canon mills is gone. You look around. We dont make anything anymore. We dont have anything that we actually make were bringing in so many things. Stephanie debbie we do make cars still thanks to the president. Thats a perfect case study. Caller yeah. That is the one thing. What gets me, how can the politicians travel from place to place . I mean and see i mean half these towns wouldnt exist if the colleges werent there. Elevators are gone. So is g. E. People are hurting. People are really hurting because of the way things are and it just seems like they really could care less be it republican or democrat. Im wondering where their conscience is. The other thing is all governmental employees aside you know, corporate interests in this country are multinational now. And a lot of what shes talking about, the companies shes talking about produce now for the entire world and u. S. Isnt even the biggest market they produce for. And so they have no vested interest in the success of this market except for whats the lowest amount they can pay somebody and still get their product bought . Stephanie well said. 29 minutes after the hour. Hump days with hal on the Stephanie Miller show. vo as marijuana gains social and legal acceptance, a new pioneer is emerging from the backwoods. Im basically like a farmer. Instead of corn, youve got dope. vo but what is legal and what is criminal . This is, no matter what you do, a violation of federal law. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my livelihood. I have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. Fruit just got cooler. Fruit on one side, cool on the other. Ice breakers duo. A fruity, cool way to break the ice. Have you made any new years resolutions . Yes. Know how i always dread the whole year . This year, im only going to dread one day at a time. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. Hump days with sexy liberal hal sparks. Yeah. I like how youre coming back from break and you sound more like a stripper emcee. Give it up for crystal. Stephanie welcome back to the sexy kitty. There is no ive been all over that place. Stephanie annette from baltimore, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller happy new year. I was calling to let you know i called Economic Terrorists and and even if we vote them in, isnt there a way we can like we can impeach a president. Especially when we pass the laws like the house law, they did everything they could not to fund it . That was a allow. If we break a law it is some kind of penalty for us. Thanks to things like citizens united, you can actually support the candidates not inside your Congressional District through greater support mechanisms that are going to be out there the next cycle. Lets say youre in an area where your democrat congressperson is safe, you have the opportunity now to go after them and i think its worthwhile. Chris i dont mean to be quibly. Thats the word of the day. But they are a little treasony. Pledge to Grover Norquist. A little treasony. Just saying. Talking about secession treasony. How about this one. South carolina state representative introduces bill to exempt state firearms from all federal regulations. So you can just have all right. You cant. Blaming the federal government to regulate firearms is South Carolina to prevent them from all federal regulations. We exempt the state from all federal health then. Heres a good idea. Blue all of the guns yourselves. You build the clips yourself. You actually cast and create all of the ammunition yourself. If someone needs to see your pin or firing pin or like any extra parts none of those cross state lines. You just have it completely encapsulated. Tell you what. Youre allowed to have any guns you can make inside your state and completely but the minute you need another part or anybody crosses your border in to do that, we get to act on it. That just happened so never mind. Commerce clause. Stephanie a lot of people who shot themselves. They like had to macgyver the part. Like the guys who are making plastic guns can shoot 90 rounds before they collapse. But you know, they were going after obama care because of the commerce clause. They thought they were somehow going to you know, wiggle room on getting rid of obama care. Thats where the federal government can deal with firearms because they cross state lines. Guess what. Theyre a product. Stephanie how many more people are going to go i made my own part and i couldnt get it anywhere else and now look what happened. Oh son of a bitch. I just [ bleep ] myself. I just [ bleep ] shot myself. Stephanie i miss that guy. That was an actual quote from an actual guy who shot himself. Stephanie i loved how emphatic he was. I just [ bleep ] shot myself. Michael in florida. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. He needs more guns, clearly. Stephanie yes, thats the answer there. I got a couple of points. One, i do agree with hal, this was a manmade interbeltway messup so they can pat themselves on the back. But were not addressing the fact there is a 2. 2 tax increase on the middle and the working class in this country by removal of the payroll holiday which, in my opinion, is going to have a drastic effect on the economy over the next six months. By the Second Quarter gdp could be down, i would think in the 1. 5 range. I could be wrong. Since we dont have a whole lot of incentives as far as infrastructure, you know, stimulus money in this package where were going with this. Eventually, youre going to eat into the solvency of Social Security. That was meant to be a temporary holiday to jump start things. It was never meant to be permanent or extend this long. Its the longterm damaging. That intention was they went twice as long as it was supposed to go anyways. So granted, thats there. But its for the longterm safety of this particular group of working people and the ones who are reaching retirement now. So the bigger issue, i think is you know, once we get to the what really is the fiscal cliff that was the sequestration cuts that at some point, were going to have to curtail defense spending enough to start paying back what we borrowed out of the Social Security trust fund that paid for the afghan and iraq wars basically and is the biggest driver of our deficit. The biggest borrower is not china. China has less than 8 of our national debt. The highest borrower technically is the Social Security trust fund. Thats where we get most of our money that weve taken. Stephanie right. And that money has to go back in or eventually it will upend itself. Not because it is not a sound program but because we cut into it in two directions. One by borrowing from it for the general fund and one from the payroll tax holiday going on too long. Stephanie this is the republicans game. They say crisis and it is a crisis they created. Like oh, Social Security is in crisis. A, it is not in crisis. Okay. Lets go to b in columbus. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show show with hal. Caller can you hear me . Stephanie yes, go ahead. Caller my nickname is so my friends in ohio will know that. Im hoping with everything we have that we support the president by keeping the pressure on the republicans. We have a tendency to relax when we think things are okay. We really need to make sure we do that. Just keep it going. Keep it going. Take a break. Stephanie i hear you. The next election is a year and nine, ten months away, essentially. We really do have to focus on that one with as much as fervor as we did this one and youll see a game change in the ability to create a prosperous country for everybody instead of just 1. 2 . Stephanie thank you. Lets go to jay in chicago. Hi jay. Welcome. Hi jay. Caller hi. How are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller you know what . I cant help but think this is a laypersons rhetorical question, okay . The feds anniversary it is 100 years since the fed was created. What a surprise, what a coincidence. Kind of got me looking at things. Where is the fed in all of this . I guess a rational explanation to the public if someone can explain to me when we need to inject liquidity, the fed can come up with money at any time. It begs the question why are we in trouble at all . Where is the fed for qe4 or qe5 take care of it. Youve done it for 100 years. They arent doing it wantonly. There is a structure to it. Stephanie i think bill has been trying to do everything he can given that congress has done nothing. Thats exactly it. It was put in place because there was a jobs bill thats been sitting in front of them for over a year. Theres all kinds of elements that our government and our private industry can take and start injecting you know, positive movement into the economy. And when they dont do it or they cant do it, the fed can do that. Our ability to manipulate our currency is our value is the one thick that keeps us for being tied to one particular type of currency or commodity like turkey or greece and you know, being tied to that is actually what capsized their economy. Our ability to do quantitatively is our ability to control the value of our currency and the value of our economy. Stephanie understanding exactly what happened in greece is key. Thats the problem. They keep using it in the wrong way. It is the austerity measures and they keep saying we dont want to be greece. Right, right. Stop doing that. A lot of our economically, were closer to the circumstances they found themselves in britain. The reason we truly did better and came out of the recession faster than they did and with relative ease compared to where they were was because we didnt do as many austerity measures. We should have done more. Our stimulus should have been bigger. But by not doing any britain delayed their escape from the recession by at least three years. Stephanie right. And now theyre coming around to it finally. But we had more of a danger of slipping into the area that you know, britain felt itself in more so than greece. Stephanie more importantly, love letter for jim from julie in seattle. Jim, tell your man jim he looks stylish and handsome with his new highlights and shorter hairdo. Did you get highlights . No. It is just more gray. Little just for men . Stephanie something. It is fabulous. Some love letters from girls this morning for jim. Like his new hair. Stephanie okay. Lets go to lisa in wisconsin. Hey, lisa, welcome. Caller hi. Can i do a little shout out to howard, i believe hes a writer. He kind a phrase yesterday on a show, dont Grover Norquist yourself. People that know him and are getting involved with grover. Grover norquisting themselves. I thought it was kind of funny. My comment my only comment i had was stephanie pretend i dont know what kind of jobs youve had but ive had a few factory jobs. Stephanie ive had go ahead. Caller if we had an assistant manager tell the crew at the factory we were going to build something, he was going to do everything to go against the big boss and the company and hes going to mess up the project, blah, blah, blah, i think you know, his workers would worry about what were going to make and if it would work, you know. At the factory and i think we would want to get the assistant manager fired. Thats how i feel mcconnell embarrassed himself when he said he was going against the president , i dont believe them. When they cooperate now, i really dont. Thats all i wanted to say. Thats an excellent point. If youre talking about him as a mid management kind of guy, if the whole thing is to capsize or sabotage what the company is actually shooting for especially when its stabilizing the economy you cant actually put a lot of faith in his ability to actually do it because again you know how this is the do Nothing Congress of all time. This is theyve actually accomplished less. Well, the republicans actually take that as a badge of honor. The problem is we go we point and go whats wrong with you guys . Look at you. Youve done nothing. Their whole point is the government does stuff and it shouldnt. I dont want it to do stuff. And they no government. Stephanie oh, and lets review. What kind of jobs have i done . Cocktail waitress at universal studio. Dancer at the itchy kitty. I clean small planes at the burbank airport. Quite a few things. Van nuys. Burbank airport. Thats a real airport. Stephanie no tiny airport. I cleaned the bugs off plane windshields. There is a tremendous buildup of filth and muck on there stephanie right. Just checking the luggage. Stephanie fun fact about mama. Did you have to steer the planes . Stephanie yes. Two flashlights. She had two candles every time they turned the engines on, they would blow out and the planes would crash. Stephanie i wasnt very good at it. You were like the guy on airplane. Wheres the forklift . That way stephanie you know how technically inclined i am. Yep, this is all good to go up. They let you check the planes . Stephanie yep. What did you do . Yeah, what was on your resume that allowed you to get a job like this . Did you check the fuel to see if theres water in it . Stephanie college of roommates boyfriend worked there. Thats what you do. Theres no water buildup in the gas tank so the engine doesnt cut out. Stephanie forgot that step. Check the engines for birds nests. Stephanie i did make one good decision. I did not watch flight on payperview. Apparently the scene where he flies the plane upside down is harrowing. Apparently it is nonsense. Right from any which way you can, the sequel to any which way you can. Stephanie 47 minutes after the hour. Back with the remaining moments of the Stephanie Miller show. Hutch days with hal on the Stephanie Miller show. You know who is coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Irene, drop the itch. We dropped the itch, you can too. With maximum strength scalpicin®. 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I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. Upside down Stephanie Miller. You turn me inside out and round and round stephanie uhhuh. It is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 52 minutes after the hour. Happy new year. Hump days with hal continues. [ world news tonight ] oh, Charlie Sheen really what did he do now . Stephanie he is offering a nonapology for a homophobic slur he hurled at nightclub customers. Opening his nightclub in los cabos over the weekend. He warmed up the crowd by saying how are we doing after the audience responded with a lukewarm cheer. He responded lying bunch of [ bleep ] f word for gay man. How are we doing . Then he said i apologize if i offended anybody. I meant to say mag got but i have a lisp. That makes it worse. Wow. Is he going to need another intervention . Stephanie apparently. By Lindsay Lohan. [ world news tonight ] Lindsay Lohan is calling him youre really off the rails too. Stephanie hard to do. Christian slaters playback is the lowest grossing film of 2012. Ive never heard of this. It made a total gross of 264. Really . 33 people bought tickets. How long was it open for . A night . Apparently. The snack barmaid 50 cents. Which guarantees it will make millions of dollars over the next five years and probably outdo movies that did moderately well because i have to see the movie that only made 264. Stephanie i would do that. My message to the producer, change the name of the movie to 264. And then dub every time somebody says im going to get my money to im going to get my 264. Stephanie all right. What else happened over the holiday . Another palin divorce. Oh no. Okay. Sarah palins son not the only palin filing for divorce. I thought this was the family values party. Dont they lecture them . [ world news tonight ] now they can have twice as many families. Wendy palin please and thank you married to todds brother james, cited incompatibility of temperament. Stephanie who doesnt have that . Please. Story of incompatibility. Stephanie please. Im a winter. And hes a spring. I like oranges and those kind of warm hues. He doesnt bring out my eyes. We have the wrong temperment. Stephanie corky in rochest, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi corky. Caller hello. Stephanie hello. Caller yeah, i want to im really proud of him for knocking that Hurricane Sandy bill down. Stephanie yeah, that was nice for republicans deciding not to because thats not timely in any way. Made the president look good. Obviously we cant have that. Stephanie no. Would help actual people. That need it. Larry in virginia. Hi larry. Caller hey, stephanie, how you doing . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller i was calling. I listen to your show. Enjoy the comedic spin on the stuff. You have to keep a comedic spin because if it dont you just go crazy. What im calling about is i dont understand the mentality of the 47 of the country that consistently vote republican and it is probably against the best interest of about 46 of those who do it. I just i cant fathom that. Does it seem like, to you that it becomes almost like a manhood issue . That theyre voting for who they think is tough on some level . Regardless of whether that toughness is measured smart, effective, any of that. Really voting for the mean person. Stephanie it is like the ad for that automatic weapon. Your man card has been reissued. Right. P. S. , that same store where that kid bought that thing you know that a kid about that age walked in and lifted one shoplifted one from that store. They got raided. They found it they were missing 30 guns. Wow. Stephanie nice nice, nice. They had no idea. They couldnt account for where they went. Time to order more then. Stephanie more guns. Thats the answer there. [ world news tonight ] by the way you brought up voting. Floridas long lines on election day discourage 49,000 people from voting. Thats why the Election Results even better than we had thought. Thats with them suppressing the vote of 49,000 people. President still won florida. As many as 49,000 people were discouraged voting in florida due to long election day lines. Obamas the analysts said obamas margin over romney could have been 11,000 votes higher than it was based just on Central Florida results. Wow. Stephanie this is shocking. Research found black and hispanic voters were disproportionately disenfranchised which is shocking to absolutely nobody. The other end is i would love to see how many people i would love to see a poll on how many people were driven to the polls by the amount of Voter Suppression that motivated so many people. I think it was a driving force in the driving force. Stephanie driving force. In the margin of victory the president did hold. Stephanie anything to plug . Our sexy liberal show in d. C. In a couple of weeks. Yeah. Stephanie january 19th. Washington d. C. Do it. Sexyliberal. Com. Get it. Go. Warner theatre. Well see you then. Thank you, hal sparks. Stephanie see you tomorrow on the Stephanie Miller show. n