passing out checks from the tobacco lobby to members of congress on the floor of the house back in 1995. the guy has no shame, and now they ve rigged the rules so that more people will have to follow his lead. with me know is a radio host on a.m. 760 in california and the author of hostile takeover. david, first on boehner, let s talk about this vote sdsh before we get to boehner, let s talk about the vote to end public financing for presidential campaigns. why do you think that s such a bad idea? because as you eluded to, it will further encourage presidential candidates to fund their campaigns, exclusively through private donations. now, a lot of the candidates already are talking about foregoing public financing of election. but once you eliminate the possibility of presidential candidates using a public source of money, you are effectively
they ring aing it will save $600 million over ten years, in reali reality, it will cost us billions if not trillions. that means our politicians will be even more dependent on private cash to get elected. and then as usual, they will give away billions of our taxpayer money to pay back their private donors. unfortunately, that s how the system works. and a perfect example of that is john boehner. today, we learned that john boehner will give the keynote address to insurance lobbyists dead set on repealing health care reform. boehner got over $240,000 in total from the insurance industry last year alone. and he knows how to pay them back. his first act as speaker of the house trying to repeal health care reform. i m sure it was yet another funny coincidence. and don t forget, it was john boehner who got caught literally
have ever heard. and beck s nazi comparisons have 400 rabbis protesting. one abbuy protesting joins us live tonight. speaker boehner and the republicans are of bought and paid for by big business and they re not even trying to hide it. i ll expose their insurance plan tonight. and what the heck was sarah palin talking about last night. she called the president s sputnik moment a wtf moment. now our headline tonight. goldman sachs owes you $10 pl se. serio seriously, they do. a lot of banks got backdoor bailouts. at the time, goldman claimed they were just passing that
happening. last night, we released a documentary no, that s the one where he s laughing around the charges. there s another one where he said on fox that people get shot in the head. look, this is very dangerous times. rabbi, i hope that people take your call to action to do something about it and calm the rhetoric down very, very seriously. we want to thank you for joining us. thank you very much for the opportunity. all right. now, coming up, we already knew that speaker boehner and the republicans were bought by big business, but now they re not even trying to hide it. i ll show you what boehner is up to next. a privilege for the ultra-wealthy. it s a necessity. find investments with e-trade s top 5 lists. quickly. easily. use pre-defined screeners and insightful trading ideas to dig deeper. work smarter. not harder. depend on yourself the one person you should trust to take charge of your financial future. e-trade. investing unleashed.