about this audience. it is a warm experience to just look randomly through some of the names and faces and stories of all of our facebook friends. in contrast that with the way this audience and your host are portrayed by the media as racist sexist bigots home folks and all that. instead homephobe and all that instead this audience is the heart of america, heart working decent judging from the comments they left, caring and kind as well. greta: since his show today rush is at 234,000 friends. if he keeps going at this pace maybe he will be going head-to-head with lady gaga and president obama soon. does he look distressed by ethics charges hanging over him? that is congressman rangel at his 80th birthday bash last
some of her more extravagant tastes. spanish vacation being the most recent example where they stay at the five star resort. remember last year when she opened up the white house vegetable garden she was wearing boots that cost $779 there s a disconnect between extravagant taste and the economic anxieties of the american people. greta: the luxury hotel. my guess is she didn t pick it that is the secret service and we have to have the first lady safe, we must. but the but there are a lot of fancy hotels here in the united states. do you think it was the extravagance of her cost or where she went, the fact it was foreign? i think she decided to go with friends to a national park in the united states and stay at a lodge or something approved by the secret service, i think there would have been less controversy than going to europe. compare her to first lady nancy reagan, first lady hillary clinton and first lady laura bush.
at 9.5, we ate teen months in and there is no job creation what will it take to get the white house at what point does the white house think maybe this isn t working? let me say this i agree with the congressman on one point. one failing of this administration is if you look at the top level people from tim geithner to the department of commerce secretary, department of labor secretary and so on, none of them have any private sector experience running a business that s a big problem. greta: west complained about that before and i wouldn t mind if the numbers were going in the right direction. they are failing terrible. i m suspicious why christina romer has jumped ship. she said she wants to go back with her family. i think people are unhappy and there s dissention when you are failing. i think the writing is on the wall. i think is one of the biggest failings of washington. so few making these decisions have worked for business true
of republicans and democrats in the white house. thank you that we ve seen the failure of the stimulus so far the only strategy has been more stimulus. this week we have another 30 billion dollar spending bill. you don t throw good money after bad. if something isn t working you change strategies. greta: it is disturbing. i have a great job. you have a great job. there are a lot of people who don t have any job. to have these numbers jobless claims go up. unemployment level it is unbearable. artificially low. nothing more demoral rise hraoeutz nothing more demoralizing than not having a job. greta: either people who don t have jobs and think it is a bad economy are delusional or the white house is delusional. the fact is people are hurting. all we are hearing from the white house is stick with the program, spend more on the third thing they say is, it is bush s fault.
necessarily they are in a rotten position to say take responsibility for it. true. another thing happening which is tone and bearing. for example, monday president obama went to texas, bush country and went after bush there. on the very same day, almost within the same hour that president bush announced he was headed to haiti to work on the haiti recovery effort at the request of president obama. people see this. they are unhappy with the numbers. they might blame bush. they might be mad at bush. if you cancel our house and you can t find a job you want to know what the guys in power now are going to do. great the economy he was handed was a lousy one. but he does own the trend in february when he shifted our whole direction by the stimulus, if it had been successful he gets all credit. [ talking over each other ] greta: at the least he owns the trend. right now the trend is lousy.