Nd. Jacki schechner im sorry, jim is not here. He is in the bathroom drinking. Thats a lot of information. [ glugging sound ] [ door slams ] stephanie were having too much fun at speaker boehners expense this morning. Yeah he has had a rough go lately. Media right had a story that he was getting ready to step down, but then they pulled that story. I dont think thats actually the case. They have the vote up today, and i dont think thats going to happen. I think that probably came from somebody who was frustrated with him, and leaked the news and somebody ran with it. Stephanie jacki i have a story with the words gopkaball. Well how important is accuracy to you. Stephanie not much. Good morning, as the children and teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School return to class today. The fbi said it conducted a Record Number of background checks of people looking to buy firearms last month. There were 2. 8 million background checks conducted in december. Thats up from 2 million a month before, and 1. 9 million the year before. Tighter background checks is one part of possible legislation that lawmakers will be considering. According to reuters a senate panel taking a closer look at the connections between zero dark 30 and their cia contacts. The committee will investigate records of contacts between the records, screen writer and cia personnel to find out if they provided inappropriate access to secret materials. Its a movie about the hunt for osama bin laden, but it has been criticized for its graphic depiction of torture techniques. And after the new house of representative is sworn in today they will elect their new speaker and as we mentioned john baner is expected to keep his gavel, but it is possible we see a second ballot for the since 1923. Were back after the break. 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. 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Stephanie she is a gold gold golden terry doodle. All of the girls like to be told they are shmall. Huh . Stephanie she likes to sit on peoples lapse and lick their faces. And their shmalls. Stephanie we would like to be they be the official canine tea baggers of the Stephanie Miller show. Well, thats disturbing. Stephanie yeah. It was a disturbing picture. Well stephanie and this one [ romantic music ] stephanie randy wanted me to know. Hello, you are the most interesting person i have ever seen. Thank you randy. Thank you. [ applause ] thats loaded. Thats very loaded. Stephanie and im going to ask the most interesting man in the world, David Shuster what he thinks about that in the next hour. I like letters that start hello. Stephanie it was ant letter. It was a subject line. Stephanie so he got his point across. He could have tweeted that just as easily. Stephanie i dont care. I know. Stephanie why did you send this to me to make me cry. I did. Stephanie because i needed a happy story, like i havent spent my entire vacation watching lay messerables, and crying. I cried four times. Stephanie oh, my god, man up. Its not called the les happies. Thats right. Stephanie so i needed this. [ inaudible ]. Stephanie lost blind dog finds its way home in alaska. In the winter. And sarah palin shot him [ buzzer ] stephanie stop it. This story does not end that way. [ glugging sound ] [ door slams ]. Actually i use that sound effect for harddrinking lincoln. [ glugging sound ] stephanie yes. Blind and alone, and temperatures 40 below zero im just laughing about sarah palin, it does not thaend way. Yogi so cold. He shot me yogi. Stephanie thats an old sketch where sarah palin shots yeah, and yogi just rips her to shreds. Stephanie yeah it was a very sad sketch. A lost fair banks dog wasnt given much of a chance to make it, but abby found her home. [ applause ] [ sobbing ] and there was another blind dog story. They adopted a stray cat. And the cat is like the seeing eye dog for the blind dog. Stephanie oh no [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie and this makes me feel like less of a looser. Stephanie well drunk. Drunk looser. Shut up stephanie i love it when [ inaudible ] meets ironic file. Isnt it ironic stephanie man gets dui after driving on to an aa founders lawn. That is ionny. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie the man faces drunk driving charges after driving on to the historic lawn of the founder of aa. Im a friend of bills shhhh stephanie you just gave away his name. [ buzzer ] stephanie hi bill. Its in the title of the organization, anymore rod. You are thinking of brian wilson. Stephanie oh, there you mentioned another [ buzzer ] stephanie stop it. The wilson house website calls a, quote unquote, sanctuary where people can come to give their lives to god. Or park on the lawn. Stephanie or pause shortly while they sober up. Exactly. Get a cup of coffee. [ applause ] stephanie all right. Eric in fort worth texas. Hello, eric. Caller hi, stephanie. I was just listening to the local news here and originally they said that al gore sold his aljazeera yet recently. Stephanie yes. But then i got confirmation that current tv was sold to alja sere. And al gore did not own aljazeera. Stephanie yes. Im here in fort worth. I moved here when it was a reasonable place to live and it has changed over the past ten, 11 years but im glad you confirmed that for me. Stephanie yeah. That is true. Probably not the best of news for us. Caller yeah. What is that going to do to the show. Stephanie it depends on how they feel about women in baseball hats, but i dont think we know yet. Programming decisions have not been made yet. So we dont have any answers. Stephanie i would just like to announce that i do have hair if that matters to anybody. I could take this off. Caller okay. [ applause ] stephanie were laughing this morning. Yeah. Stephanie at least im not going to end up on [ applause ] yeah its just its too soon. We dont know. We dont have any answers. Stephanie right. Dont look at me. Dont make eye contact. Lets go to cheryl in illinois. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi, cheryl. Caller hi i want to make a comment about that lady that called before. My gosh. Obama is the best president we have ever had. They are still complaining. I mean let the guy go to hawaii. Stephanie she was concerned he is not educating his children because they are out of school this week. Caller yeah, he has done so much. My god let him go to hawaii. But the guy before her, im an extea partier too. And i got republican rehab, and since i am rehabilitated, i feel very screwed over by boehner. We were good tea partiers we never messed up our talking points if reporters asked a question, we would throw them under the bus. We feel screwed over by boehner. And im from independent party now. Stephanie okay. Caller i dont want to be a tea partier anymore. Stephanie all right. Cheryl what were your main issues you were concerned about . Caller its just embarrassing to talk about. In the grocery store, you hear people talking politics, and people say are you a republican . And i almost say yes, because i used to be. But im just like independent now because im so embarrassed and its John Boehners fault. And they dont care about the bottom poor or im a 47 tea partier, thats what i am. Stephanie yeah, most of us are part of the 47 . Cheryl i have far more things to be embarrassed about in my life. So dont be embarrassed. Caller thank you. Stephanie oh boner you made her a sad panda. [ mumbling ] [ glugging sound ] [ door slams ] stephanie okay. Seventeen minutes after the hour. Im going to put that sound effect in my computer, and play it back during cocktail hour. And you know how i will keep it safe carbonite bringing it home. Stephanie who wants to do stuff . Not me . Stephanie right . Well, that goes without saying. Start backing up all of your computer files with carbonite. It does it for you automatic automatically. Carbonite will back up all of your files to the cloud automatically and continually and all for just 59 for the entire year. And it is secure. I have lawyer friends that use it. Plus access those files from any computer or smartphone. Wow stephanie thank you for acting like you just found that out. Thats new. Stephanie right . Carbonite. Com and the offer code is stephanie. Eightteen minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer you cant turn her off. Not in the middle of turning her on. Its the Stephanie Miller show. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. vo shes joy behar. Current will let me say anything. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Didnt start the fire it was always burning since the worlds been turning announcer Stephanie Miller. Didnt start the fire we didnt light it, but it is the time to fight it [ mumbling ] i was thinking smoking the cigarettes was the same thing. From what im reading, harry reid started the fire by throwing obama owes first proposal into the fire. Stephanie can you believe there . I love when boner told him to [ censor bleep ] off. And he is like excuse me . What do you mean . I dont know if he doesnt know what that means. And then boner explained it. I said [ censor bleep ] off. Yeah, i said it im not entirely sure harry reid has ever used that phrase before. Stephanie and then he balled up boners balls and through them in the fire. [ applause ] stephanie gop kaball ready to unseat boner. Good. [ mysterious music ] stephanie now sources told breitbart that enough republicans are ready to throw boehner out, at least 20 House Republicans have gotten together and are willing to unseat boner. Cantor tweeted majority leader cantor stands with speaker boner. [ screaming ] stephanie speculation is otherwise silly, nonproductive and untrue. Okay. Stephanie i cant even remember where i put my lying sack. Its in there somewhere. You lying sack of crap john boner is a bastard. I hate his fface. Stephanie all right. Cindy in michigan. Hi, cindy. Caller hi. This is a good year because yesterday the republicans exposed themselves for what they are. They use everything for leverage, even people who got hit by a hurricane. I think that that hurricane help was they were actually trying to tie that to the fiscal cliff in some way. And that poor lady who used to belong to the tea party, i hate to tell her, you were always being used. Stephanie yeah. Yeah. Caller you have always been used. Stephanie look at dick army. He takes 8 million. He is like i couldnt leave empty handed. He used all of those people like that woman. Caller absolutely. Not just their money, but their sincerity. Their humanity. The things that made them look like they were doing something, those people on the front line like that lady made the Tea Party Look human where dick army was going off and basically took a golden parachute. Stephanie right. The Disaster ReliefChris Christie obviously didnt like the beating he took for basically getting blamed for romney losing. Caller absolutely. The quote of the day was when boehner looked at those people in his own party and said i dont want to talk to you people. And i thought well thats because it was new years day, and he didnt get to recover from new years eve and have a little hair of the dog or whatever. Stephanie right you wonder if its part of the steam we have been talking about, is republicans only understand issues when it happens to them. And because its peter kings state, he just now noticed that republicans act like douche nozzles. And ass hats. Caller exactly. Boehner has been working under some agreement called the hahser rule. When he went against that rule and brought it in, it got voted in, period. Stephanie yep. Caller this is great. Stephanie happy new year. Caller happy new year. And im sure with the hastet rule involved pork. Stephanie thats right, jim. It is always going to have some sasage involved. Stephanie its our nickname for oh, gad stephanie oh, gad, it has been a while. He has been out of the news there. I hear he stepped on a bag of vipers. Stephanie now the hahser rule and john boehner gets hit with a bag of vipers. [ laughter ] you know its a disaster when you run out of meat products. Thats a disaster. Stephanie when youre in chicago and they run out of bratworsts. Thats a disaster. I need some relief from that. Stephanie were doing denny haster humor . You are hit with a bag of kibasa. [ laughter ] stephanie well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. 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 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. While other people are out living their lives, i wasted mine watching tv because deep down i knew it might help announcer Stephanie Miller. Save the world. Stephanie oh, well. It is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. Save idaho. Stephanie David Shuster coming up at the tom of the hour. John in minnesota, welcome. Caller hello. Stephanie hello. Caller i am john [ inaudible ] in minnesota. Stephanie okay. All right. Dont beat your meat. [ laughter ] caller anyway, she should be a shamed to be a tea partier, at the same time she could have joined the occupy movement. Why do you let these people off of the hook for being tea partiers. They are morons. [ laughter ] stephanie it didnt start they got dupeddy dick army who started a grassroots thing and then took 8 million out the door. But their beliefs were sincere. You have got to respect that. Stephanie yeah, they got used by the sure. Stephanie bobby in florida. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hello. Stephanie hello. Caller i have a question for you about this cliff that we all just fell off of stephanie yeah, ouch. Caller what does that mean for a retired smo like me who is living on Social Security and a couple of pensions. Stephanie what is that noise . Bobby, i dont think it means anything. Are you in the top 1 . Caller oh, heck know. Then youll be fine. [ applause ] stephanie he is happy about it, oh, no. Can i have festive music, please. All right. [ festive music ] stephanie that crying you hear is the Republican Party, that crunching is obama ating them for lunch. The crying you hear is the Republican Party who just came to the realization they just had their asses handed to them on a plate. They are a united front that has stayed firm since the reagan era until now has just fallen apart. After the election they are like everybody we talked to agreed with us, and hated obama and then they lost. Thats right. Stephanie and then they were bewildered what sean hannity lied to us. Stephanie carefully hiding their agenda behind propaganda and fox news. Mitt romney is going to win in a landslide. Lots of pictures in it. Stephanie president obama lured them into the open with his carefully crafted chess game with his pretend broken wing, flap, flap look at me im practically a lame duck. The speaker of the house has been turned into a laughing stock. He is at the point he told harry reid to go [ censor bleep ] himself. Consider obama has how managed to get them to break on their number one priority. Now what do they stand for. And then Grover Norquist says they didnt raise taxes on anybody. They signed the pledge. Stephanie the republicans sleeves are empty of tricks. Tricks are for kids. Stephanie actually he is comparing it to the i just [ censor bleep ] shot myself guy on youtube. He set the same trap twice and republicans walked right into it, and wtf, did obama manage to get them to shoot themselves again. My brother got me to touch the electric fence once and obama just got them to touch it a third time. Dont ever whiz on the electric fence. Stephanie thats not happy, happy joy time. Happy, happy, joy [ electrical buzzing ] our [ glugging sound ] the electric bottle. Stephanie my exs cat made me do that. Oh, touch my stomach. [ screaming ] look at me im cute. Im cute. [ screaming ] [ laughter ] stephanie okay. The new congress will be dealing with immigration, i think obama is about ready to cement the immigration block as solidly democratic. But first hell get the republicans say a bunch of nasty things on the record. Yeah. Stephanie the republicans are crying because they have turned into monsters and they just dont seem to be able to stop themselves no matter what. In this case its self inflicted cuts. Chris christie attacked boner in a way i have never seen before. Well, when Chris Christie jumps on you, there is going to be a lot of fracturing. Ow i need more bourbon [ glugging sound ] stephanie do what boehner sounds like with Chris Christie sitting on him . [ mumbling ] stephanie all right. Bah da bing. Oh god. Oh. Stephanie sit back ladies and gentlemen, we can get a bargain in the place of strength. Crunch, crunch crunch, the president is eating their lunch. Look at me im a lame duck. I have a broken wing. Please. Hah hah nah nah nah nah nah suckers stephanie i bet he did say that. He just signed it in hawaii by auto pen. And then he wrote suckers. [ laughter ] stephanie susie in florida, you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi susie. Caller hi. I want to talk about the nras plan to arm schools. I think they should higher veterans. Someone suggested the National Guard stephanie you know, i have to say. I do have a little bit of concern with the amount of posttraumatic stress syndrome that we have with the vets that have served. Believe me, i understand, because im not a parent that you want to do immediately what is going to protect your kid. So i dont want to say that should be off the table but i dont want to introduce more guns and more people with mental problems. Caller between that and training teachers to use weapons. Come on. The whole thing is asinining. Stephanie yeah. Caller i dont understand the philosophy behind it. But i think theres a lot of out of work military people that could use some jobs if they are really gung ho on this. Stephanie right. And they are always talking about cutting Government Spending. So its like where are you going to get that money . Caller exactly. The nra seems to be able to garner a lot of funds stephanie yeah, why dont they pay for the guards then. There will be a way of coming to the table. We will pay for the armed guards for every school in the country. Caller exactly. Stephanie all right. Thanks, honey. Lets go to albert in tucson. Hi, albert. Caller good morning. Stephanie good morning. Caller i hope the republican behavior since the election has proved to everybody that they will not be a responsible senate. All talk of reforming the filibuster has ended as of two weeks ago. I havent heard anything about it, have you . Stephanie i have not either. I dont know we should some people talk about it, and it comes up but we had rob reiner talk about this. And it really is something that i think they should address. Because its this new makeup is better of this congress. But i dont see it getting much better. And i think thats why the president made the deal he did because he didnt see more cooperation happening with the new congress than the old one. Plenty of people voted democratic. Just stephanie yeah, about a million more people voted for democrats for Congress Even than republicans. All right. Fortyfive minutes after the hour. Right bag on the Stephanie Miller show. I love it. Its a fabulous program. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. At the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, whats going to happen tomorrow. Rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. Dont forget about that payroll meeting. Rolo. Get your smooth on. Also in minis. Rogaine . Well, ill admit it. I was skeptical at first. But after awhile even my girlfriend noticed a difference. [ male announcer ] rogaine is proven to help stop hair loss. And for 85 of guys, it regrew hair. Save up to 42 now at rogaine. Com. 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. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Fortynine minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Well what the Holiday Gifts just keep on coming. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie what now former House Majority leader was sentenced to prison monday with a scheme to influence elections that already cost him his job. I wonder if hell be drinking at barfys bar and grill. [ mumbling ] i think ill call john boehner [ mumbling ] thats the truth you should you shouldnt mix yaeger meister with [ hiccups ] southern comfort. Stephanie is the truth thats the truth stephanie you should not mix yaeger myself we are southern comfort. [ overlapping speakers ] in the and prepared for war. Liberals saw the [ mumbling ] of the 9 11 attacks and want to prepare indictment and offer therapeutic understanding for our attackers. Thats not slander, thats the truth. Thats the truth. [ glugging sound ] [ barfing ] stephanie i think they are going to have a fairwell liquid lunch at barfys bar and grill. I think you are right. Stephanie i hope the judge hey, where is the bar in this joint . What . There is no bar . Stephanie i hope the judge sentenced him to the pokey with you. Its back to the bar. Stephanie that took time but see justice. [ applause ] the arm of justice is really stephanie long. Yes. Stephanie melon flavored liquor always works [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] stephanie since you brought up madoreri. Yes you did. Stephanie no that was grasshoppers. I was in College Although i bet they still never got that off of the 405, because that was heavy. It has caused sections of the 405 to collapse. Stephanie thats why we had karmageddon. They had to replace that section of road. [ laughter ] Stephanie Richard you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller good morning, i do not find any shame in saying im a republican. I see a party maturing and finding its legs. Stephanie really . Caller yes, i do. Stephanie how it is maturing . Yeah, its pretty old. Caller its a party of transition [ magic wand ] caller i understand character assassination and the linsky tactics and all of that [ laughter ] caller but by your conditions all right. We paint their lives in the teachings of sal linsky. Caller i know your listeners probably doesnt understand gentrification, but thats the problem you cant have a debate without you immediately whipping it into some kind of character assassination. Like our side is completely ignorant. Like your comments. Caller my comments come from an academic background. Stephanie richard seriously now is this what a Party Looks Like when it is transitioning. [ magic wand ] caller yes. Wasnt it just 15 years ago that the Democratic Party was self deinstructing no that was during the Clinton Administration and the Democratic Party was just fine. Stephanie what are they transitioning to . Caller lets take Chris Christie in new jersey the bill he wanted passed wasnt it full of other things stephanie no. They pulled most of that out. Caller all right. Ill look into that. And dont just believe your word. Stephanie would you be offended by somebody calling your hose that was lost pork . Caller this is a twoparty system. And i wish it was four or five parties, because i dont want corporations stephanie there are four or five parties, but they are all in the Republican Party now. Caller i am not going to let them tell me how to live my life stephanie how are they telling you how to live your life . Caller [ inaudible ] a few tiny people in chicago that cant take care of their own house are going to tell people in the entire state how to run our lives. Stephanie but look at new york the gun laws there they have worked. Is that not a good outcome . Caller yes, is there gun violence in texas like there is in chicago . Yeah, there is a hell of a lot gun violence in texas. Caller there is far more in chicago, illinois. There are far more people in chicago than there are in waco. Caller come on now. What do you mean come on now. Stephanie what are you saying chicago is a big city . Lot of people live there stephanie you are counting right . Because you believe in gentrifying. Because im an academic. Stephanie joe . Arizona. Hi, joe. Hello . Stephanie oh, joe is talking to somebody else. Obviously less important than me. Chuck in seattle. Hi, chuck. Caller hi. Stephanie hi caller guess what i just got off of the phone with harry reids office, and they are not really sure if they want to do this filibuster reform thing or not, and they need a little more convincing, so any of your live listeners should call harry reids office. Stephanie oh people who are listening live not the ones that are live. Caller yes call them and say what they are for. Stephanie okay. You actually called harry reids office. Yeah the lines are wide open. Wow. Kind of a busy day there on capitol hill. Stephanie im sorry, harry reid is not available right now. He is betty [ censor bleep ] off. Mrs. Reid is very happy. [ laughter ] stephanie all right. Fiftyeight minutes after the hour. David shuster is next on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie hello current tv land. David shuster, the most interesting man in the world coming up in just a moment. Oh, jacki schechner. Yes . Stephanie its like our first prom. The new congress convenes in less than an hour. Do they get corsages and stephanie oh my god. I forgot to buy wrist corsages. But you do have that goofy pink dress right . Stephanie my was powder blue as i recall. I designed my own prom dress. It was epic. We need a picture. Stephanie that was the day my mom gave me a home perm and i remember my boyfriend just said oh its so big i dont think my boyfriend liked my prom haircut either at the time. If i remember correctly. Stephanie all right. Mrs. Schechner send a picture. Oh, stop it. Good morning secretary of state Hillary Clinton is out of the hospital today after being treated for a blood clot in a vein in her head. They say she is making Good Progress and is expected to make a full recovery. Clinton suffered a concussion when she fainted and fell about two weeks ago, and the clot was discovered during a routine examination. And also plenty of fluid is important because dehydration is another cause for blood clots. More than 40 of the 82 new house members being sworn in today come with campaign debt. One example is the incoming member coming from illinois is holding a fund raiser. The incoming member is alan grayson. He owes about 2 million. But most of that is to himself. And he said he is in no rush to fund raise. He has other priorities. Well be back with more after the break, including current tvs own David Shuster. Well see you on the other side. 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 . [ 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. 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Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine woe ho im walking on sunshine woe ho its time to feel good, hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie hehe. It is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Oh, its almost time for the new congress in less than an hour. Jacki and i were saying it is like our first prom. Oh dear god it must be him for current tv our good friend David Shuster. Stephanie as if tuesday isnt exciting enough David Shuster is coming up. He is the most interesting man in the world. Stephanie good morning, David Shuster. Good morning, Stephanie Miller. Always a pleasure to be with you. Stephanie yeah im all a tingle about the new congress. Im sure everything is going to be different now. I have to say the start to this congress is going to be fun. The first thing they do is have a vote from the speaker. And its not one of these electronic things. Each individual member gets asked whether they want to support the speaker or not. And i think theres a very good chance that we will see for the first time in 90 years we will see a second ballot, because all of the democrats are going to vote against john boehner, [ inaudible ]. Stephanie i was reading a story with the headline kaball in it. Yeah and i got to believe one of them quietly plotting behind the scenes is eric cantor. Stephanie what . Why would you suspect him . I dont think eric countered on Chris Christie after telling Chris Christie anything [ inaudible ] vote on sandy relief aid and i dont think he quite expected that Chris Christie would turn right around and go in front of the cameras. Stephanie yeah. David i think you are going to have to call us back because this connection is really bad. Would you mind. Nope. Ill call you right back. Stephanie he is a guy that means it when he says hell call me back. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] as opposed to your High School Boyfriend who saw your prom perm. Stephanie my hair was like six times bigger than my bad mitt inracket. Paul in nevada you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome. Hi, paul. Caller yeah hi, stephanie. I dont know why you guys are so happy. This deal. We just got our clocks cleaned. Stephanie we did, how so . Caller we just made 99 of the bush tax cuts permanent, limited the revenue stream. Its not stephanie right. Caller and guess what else . Everything else is limited. A fiveyear limit let me finish. Stephanie no, i cant, because David Shuster is back. I think as the president said were going to have to do this in steps clearly. Right. Stephanie hi David Shuster. Wow, i dont want to be accused of you not letting that guy finish stephanie. Stephanie its because of David Shuster. [ laughter ] i think president obama is a horrible negotiator, and he proved it and i think the democrats are pulling their hair out saying this guy just won reelection. Why not hold firm . I dont quite get i think the president is scared. I think he is something of a wuse. Stephanie David Shuster see you have gone and ruined our romance. It is interesting the different takes on it, david. I hear you, and i know some on the Progressive Side deal that way, i was reading a day in Democratic Underground today, that a lot of people feel the opposite way that the republicans got their assed handed to them on this. I think the democrats i think look i agree, president obama won the battle but i think he may have lost the war. The president took you know democrats were able to sake Social Security, medicare and medicaid cuts off of the table this time they will be on the table next time. And this time around the democrats have no leverage to protect them. Well this was nothing compared to what i think the democrats are going to be staring at two months from now. I think my point and maybe the callers as well, that some of it could have been avoided if the president held a little stronger now. Stephanie david do you really i think what the white house, you know, said is that this congress is going to take office in what 45 minutes from now. Do you think he is going to get more cooperation from them . I think he could have gotten more out of this deal. And my question to the white house is what leverage do you have next time . The republicans are going to hold the debt hostage, and the cost of it next time around is going to be pretty dramatic cuts to entitlement programs. And right now the democrats have no way of protecting themselves on that. They dont have any leverage stephanie pat tumi said we need to tolerate a temporary partial government shutdown. How do you feel like that is going to play out . Are the American People going to tolerate the republicans saying were going to default on our debt again . I said the next time around the question will be you either default on the debt or cut Government Spending. The whole issue of taxes is off of the table. And now its fine to sort of blame the republicans now, because they are trying to protect the wealthy. And thats why the republicans backeddown, because they dont like being accused that they were willing to shut down the government in order to protect the wealthy. And now are they willing to shut down the government and cause economic chaos over Government Spending, i think thats better terrain for them. Most americans will say of course, if its Government Spending standing in the way, then of course the democrats should give in and agree with Government Spending. We all think the government should be smaller. And thats how the mantra is going to go. And then democrats are going to realize they no longer have a flank protecting them. And i just i think democrats who are right now celebrating, fine. Celebrate the battle but i dont see how democrats win the war. Stephanie im looking at tweets from donald trump saying the republicans may be the worst negotiators in history. Obama and the democrats are laughing at the deal they just got. The republicans got nothing. Well, so far. Stephanie yeah. The thing that really scares me is Mitch Mcconnell. I think democrats might be okay if this was completely left up to the House Republicans, democrats might be able to get themselves through this and be fine. Mitch mcconnell now has all kinds of leverage and also some credibility on the republican side, and i think Mitch Mcconnell is taking the long view. And i think donald trump and others may be taking something of the short [ inaudible ]. Yeah, republicans got killed in this round of negotiations just like when president obama got nothing last time around. Im just a little worried that all of the things that might have helped the democrats are now gone and there you have Mitch Mcconnell saying. Okay. Here we go. You are going to cut Government Spending, or else it is going to be your fault stephanie david. Go ahead. Stephanie i think that it i think it cant be underestimated how huge it is that republicans had to vote enmass for tax increases on the rich. I dont care what Grover Norquist says no they didnt vote for a race. Yes, they did. For the First Time Since 1990 republicans have agreed to raise taxes. So yes that is a huge deal. But are we going to be looking at democrats having to make major cuts. Stephanie right. Yep. And the question people have to ask is what is more important, raising taxes on the wealthy . Or cutting Government Spending . Well, i think were going to end up having both and my point is i think president obama could have gotten raising taxes on the wealthy. I think thats a pretty compelling argument and he could have gotten that without having to agree to cutting Government Spending. Stephanie uhhuh. David the Hurricane Sandy relief stuff, what i think is striking is that that laid bare as a lot of reasoning pointed out, that the republicans are in complete disarray, and it is things that didnt used to be a partisan issue, right . Yeah, i think thats right. And the republican does not only have a leadership dysfunction, there are some that say the [ inaudible ] nothing to do with Hurricane Sandy relief. And all of a sudden they hear this stuff and start to believe it, and become convinced that the right optics to view these issues is through the prism of conservative media, so they follow conservative media and then they get killed. No fox news is wrong, Rush Limbaugh is wrong. How could you schedule a vote especially after the senate has already given you cover because they overwhelmingly passed the Hurricane Relief bill. And john boehner looks up and is sort of dumbfounded by the reaction he is getting, they dont want to talk about it now because they see the country is agast at this. Stephanie were going to end on the word agast. Thank you honey. Thanks stephanie. [ applause ] stephanie eighteen minutes after the hour. Right bag on the Stephanie Miller show. Ongoing train wreck aside, i love this. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Were patrolling the area looking for guns, drugs, bodies. The cartel is so heavily armed the military needs everything theyve got to go up against these guys. Yeah this is the story of announcer Stephanie Miller. Nasty, bow wow, wow, yippi yo yippy yay stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome it to. Twenty three minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. You know i believe the children are our future right. I believe that children are our future stephanie particularly laura wait its lauras daughter kat. Got ya. Stephanie subject line you are my role model. That cant end well. My name is kat from cleveland. My mom had your podcast, and we were listening before vacation when all of the fox and friends viewers were telling you to kill yourself. Oh, yeah. Stephanie it truly made me depressed. I dont know why people have to be so mean to you because of your political beliefs. Yeah, kat. Ever since i was four you have made me want to run for office. Wow they were illogical plots to kill yourself. Yeah, thats true. It was the person that suggested remember that i shoot myself and then kill someone else i cant remember oh yeah. Stephanie right. Oh i dont remember. Stephanie oh, no kill myself and hide the gun. Yeah, that was it. Which was difficult because you are dead. Stephanie it makes me sick. Were so lucky to have someone like you. That is adorbs. Stephanie it is. Steven in chicago [ circus music ] stephanie he is engaging in a little hyperbole, i think. Steph i think the schools should be surrounded with barbed wire, and surrounded by moats, and in the drop ceilings there should be a billion automatic weapons so that they can drop from the ceiling like pingpong balls like on captain kangaroo. [ applause ] why do you hate the children . Stephanie right. And sharks are freaking laser beams on their heads. But does the mote have alligators rising up chewing on children. Stephanie exactly. Wearing boller hats. [ laughter ] Stephanie Don in michigan you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi, stephanie, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller the reason i called is republicans are always talking about how they are antitax. They are antitax if you are a rich man but if you are a run of a mill worker somewhere, they are not antitax. Michigan we never used to have a state income tax on the retirees, once we got a republican governor, we have one now. The average retiree doesnt get that big of a retirement to begin with and there goes a hundred dollars a month out of it. And you were talking about pork barrel stuff. Stephanie right. Caller it seems to me that if a bill is going to be over say, x amount of dollars say 2 million. Okay. Then thats the only thing that can be in that bill. You know, why the reason they dont do it that way is so they can get in all of the pork. And these congressmen and senator they need to work harder anyway. Lets face it. Stephanie yeah exactly. Caller and if they would just change a few rules they could do a much better job. Stephanie yeah exactly. All right honey, thank you. Tax the poor. It just makes sense. Stephanie thats where all of the money is. Sure. Welfare queens in cadillacs. Stephanie i love this story. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie our old friend slams mischel bachmann. She brought unnecessary drama. Oh, no. Im good thanks for asking im feeling super dont you think i look good in this hat stephanie see you went there before i even went there. Brent in memphis. Caller hey, steph. Hi guys. Stephanie hi. Caller we were talking about speaker of the house john boehner, and of course he is opposed to spending so i think he should step up and call for a pay freeze in the house, and they should maintain that pay freeze stephanie how about we put them on merit pay . There you go. Stephanie twenty eight minutes after the hour. Jacki schechner joins us next on the Stephanie Miller show. Yay 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 . My name is announcer Stephanie Miller. I am a very famous minor television personality. Wow, your voice really changed. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 is the phone number. Yay here is the happy thing. Come on get Jacki Stephanie we were just talking on the phone before and you were like you were watching me on tv talking to me on the phone. Yeah, i was like oh look at that, you are talking to me. Maybe you should get back to your show. Its very lowtech space time is what we have. Thats exactly what it is. Stephanie you heard from David Shuster said. Its interesting isnt it. All of the different takes of these fiscal cliff negotiations. Yes, i did take a moment on new years day and said let me wrap my brain on what has happened here. And then we sort of figured it all out, but i think its how you interpret it. Mitch mcconnell wrote an oped saying now the tax conversation is over. Now were just going to talk spending cuts, because clearly Mitch Mcconnell calls the shots. Stephanie yeah. It will be interesting to see where we land. Its a very difficult thing to interpret. Coming off of the health care fight there was a lot of thought that perhaps the white house had sold us out a little bit. And i dont know if people feel that way with regard to catering to the republican demands a little bit on raising the 250,000 limit. I just dont know yet. Stephanie i just feel like they seem to have one pr disaster after another. Now this sandy thing is just thats ridiculous. I mean i dont know how you you know, you call off the session without dealing with an aid package. That doesnt make any sense to me. I know the argument was they didnt want to deal with another spending issue right on the heels of the fiscal cliff, and now they are going to have to address it. Stephanie yeah, its not like if you dont have a roof or anything in the winter in the east yeah, those new york and new jersey people are just so demanding. Stephanie exactly. The next thing is Immigration Reform. He reiterated his call for Immigration Reform. I will admit i took some time off from being a total junky and got out of the house. I went to the movies stephanie me too. I needed some separation from David Gregory anyway. I emerged from my news cocoon. Stephanie exactly. He will begin an allout drive to Immigration Reform. And gun control is the other top priority that were hearing about, of course. Those were the two that we are hearing, immigration and gun control. Stephanie yeah. I just feel like the optics have changed, not only with the huge win in the latino vote but now in the wake of newtown. I just think the optics are changing on some of these issues. It will be interesting to see what happens with immigration just in terms of the republicans who decided that perhaps they needed to be a little more inclusive and tackle some things like Immigration Reform because they are not going to garner any votes except from the older white demographic. So it will be interesting to see how that plays out in terms of policy. Because after the election, all of the republicans came out and said we have to deal with immigration. So it will be interesting to see how that changes the negotiation tactic. Stephanie once again, i feel like it is a theme that this version of the Republican Party only does the right thing when they have to. And they say it out loud. Like we may have to do immigration because we lost the latino vote. Its like you arent supposed to say that part. Its like i love you women. Stephanie dont we know it sister. But its that same concept. The idea that you Pay Lip Service to something you dont believe or stan for, and then somehow expect the electorate to believe you. Who knows. Maybe they are at a tipping point. Maybe its time to say we got to do something and make some progress. Im not optimistic, but maybe with this new class we can get some movement. That would be nice. Stephanie oh im sure they are an entirely different breed all together. Stephanie this was a recent story. Republicans have a tolerance problem. Do you think . He says it goes beyond the latino vote extending to anyone who isnt white. And he is talk about the actual numbers, which is pretty stunning. 27 to obamas 71 . He said i think when you define people who look differently than you as yeah, gosh its so hard, because you dont want to make generalizations about an entire political party, but it seems to be that the majority of the Republican Party tens to be gosh im going to get myself in trouble here. Tends to be a little more on the exclusive side when it comes to itsdz racial and ethnic makeup, happens . Stephanie yeah, and they were talking about that he also won hugely among asians. And africanamericans, and young people anybody who is not older and white and male. Stephanie right. The pole said when you call people who believe in global warming, when you talk about gay people, you have a tolerance problem. So thats what he is saying its more of a general tolerance problem. Yeah, and its unfortunate that that defines an entire political party. It would be nice if they could talk about disagreement on policy based on facts, rather than based on fment principals. Stephanie and i think generationally is what weened with. Voters under 40. How do you redefine yourself to almost half of the electorate. We had this rightwing caller on earlier that said oh no were a party in transition. [ magic wand ] yeah, i have some friends that are very reasonable about the reasons why they are republican or conservative. But it tends to be a lot of fiscal policy. It tends to be more financial and they tend to be more openminded on social issues. And as we evolve were more tolerant of social issues just growing up and we talk about gay marriage and more comprehensive immigration policy or just things that we have grown up with that seem very normal to us. Stephanie yeah. Right. Right. You can almost every other day pick up a headline like this. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie mississippi governor calls for putting gay people to death on his facebook page. Yeah, it doesnt make sense. Stephanie he quoted the wildly popular leviticus. Oh. Stephanie which is quite selective. And so modern. Stephanie have you ever heard anyone respond to that, when they say they also tell you should kill people who eat shrimp . This is all out of my area of expertise. Stephanie he responded there was a bit of criticism. He said to be clear, i will not apologize for the inspired word of god. You know who uses facebook so profoundly . Sarah palin. Hitler . Stephanie jim that is not the answer to every question. I dont think he has a facebook account. Stephanie he does its twitler. Here is a picture of him shaking jesses hand. Psych my favorite is the modern seinfeld. If there were still new episodes today. Stephanie you know you are my bff and everything, but i have to drop you for a bigger name, because road flair mary is on the phone. Oh i cant compete with that. Love you honey. Goodbye. What you lost her jingle. And now on the phone from chicago hold on everybody its road flair mary good morning, mary. Caller good morning. Hello, happy new year mary. Caller happy new year. You talk about immigration. Stephanie uhhuh. Caller i dont know what it is that most of these people dont get. Illegal means illegal. Come to this country legally like my ancestors did through ellis island. What is it that you people dont get . Stephanie by you people you are not referring to your people. Caller they want the latino vote because they are most of the population . Is that what it is . Stephanie no because he doesnt refer to them as you people. [overlapping speakers] stephanie if i did what . Caller maybe if you were in a closed room with him you would. Stephanie if i was caller you dont know what goes on in his mind. Stephanie if i was in a closed room with the president. Mary . Mary, where did your people come from . Caller that is my private business. Stephanie oh, all right. Im just trying to make conversation. Caller thats what you people do. Stephanie now im a you people. Caller you have one viewpoint in which we already know with the anointed one you are a sean hannity viewer, arent you . Caller you blame you blame okay you blame the republicans when who is the leader or supposedly leader of this country . As far as the hurricane victims why dont he sign the bill . Stephanie because Congress Congress needs to pass the bill caller well, he is supposed to be a leader stephanie so he is not leading [overlapping speakers] caller all of these illegals, you know, they could vote and this and that people who are here illegally cannot vote. Caller oh, really . Really . Yeah. Caller is that why there were sixhour lines . No, the reason there were sixhour lines is the republicans were trying to shut it down caller no, wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Stephanie was that why the president won because it was entirely illegals that were voting. Caller im not even going to go there. If you people were smart. You would know how this country runs. Stephanie how come you people lost the election . Mary you think the president is a king. And passes legislation. Caller not the king of africa. He does have a statue. Stephanie the president has a statue . Caller in africa sure. I hear it is a country with a lot of diseases. Stephanie whats the matter with having a statue in africa . Caller fine. Fine. Well, why did you bring it up in a pejorative sense. Caller you are the one that said i think he is a king. Stephanie well because you said he could just pass the bill caller isnt he the president . Stephanie yes. But at least hes not back in chicago in an escalade stealing food stamps from your son. Caller yeah, yeah yeah. Start that again. Well you brought it up. Caller you dont live in chicago. We all have lived in chicago. Caller now he is the mayor its all written out. Why do you hate chicago . Caller i dont hate chicago. Stephanie who do you hate . Caller i dont hate anybody. Stephanie i thought it was going to be a whole new day for new years and you seem extra cranky this morning. Caller no, like i said last time i called. I am disgusted. You know what america when you get your first paycheck and you see the 2 that they take for taxes, then lets see what people will think. Why dont americans boycott and say im through giving these people money that we worked for stephanie wait, what . 2 , what . Caller its the truth. Why do i have to give you people and the government my hard [overlapping speakers] stephanie you dont think we should have to pay taxes at all . Caller i think we pay enough taxes. Stephanie oh okay. Caller i think we pay enough. Stephanie theres no tax increase for 98 of us. Caller i dont know what you make. But when you get your check when you see it is 2 less stephanie where are you getting that 2 figure from . Are you in the top 1 mary . Caller everybody is so smart there stephanie thank you. Caller why dont you look it up and figure it out. Stephanie i will. All right. Well, i still love you. Caller how long are you going to be on the air . [ laughter ] stephanie okay. If you cut her does she not bleed . I think she is subtracting the 2 from 100 , and therefore the 98 who are not getting 2 out of my check so she did a little math there. Stephanie i will not be getting 2 taken out of my check. I will have no check according to her. Ill just be over here in the corner bleeding out. Does that mean we get a check. Stephanie no. Well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. And well be right back. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious. But say i press a few out flat. Add some beef sloppy joe sauce. And cheese fold it all up and boom i just made an unbeatable unsloppy Joe Pillsbury grands biscuits. Let the making begin. 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I have been listening to your show and i heard a comment earlier the racial bias that the republicans have against president obama because hes African American. Stephanie uhhuh. Caller im curious, though, when i hear the statistics from the election the vast majority in the 90somepercent range of africanamericans voted for president obama. Stephanie right. Caller and somewhere in the 50 range of white or caucasian people voted for president obama. So couldnt it be interpreted as a racial bias against white people by the African American community. Stephanie let me think about this. No. Computer says no. Stephanie but thank you for calling. What . No. They obviously thought he was the better candidate. And he has policies that appeal more to them. Blacks are all racist for voting for obama. [ applause ] stephanie i brought these out early. Fred willard avoided trial after completing a Diversion Program for that adult theater arrest. What does that mean. Look over here. Stop touching your penis. Look over here. Thats what a Diversion Program