view. how many are republican? okay. how many are democrats? how many voted for barack obama? how many voted for john mccain? a little more for mccain. here s the question i want to start. i think 2011 will be remembered as the year that america did not recover. how many of you know people that have either a., lost their job, are struggling or they have lost their home, in a tough spot. how many? now, the question is: who do you hold responsible for ha? obama, mainly. why? he s want shown the leadership we need. the over regulation has been oppressive and we don t have any new jobs being created. who do you feel is responsible? i blame all of washington. the president is the captain of the team. but if the president and congress can t get their act together to pass legislation, how can the country move forward. is washington broken?
this room, dont apply to congress? and that many people go to congress, public serve abts and they get insider information and they get to be part of ipos. that s all true. the reason why, you know, a point we made earlier, talking about today we have 401(k) versus pension plans. our futures are basically cast with the you know, with the stock market. you know, they re profiting from inside information wreaks from top to bottom. sean: go ahead? they are beholden to big-money donors and they are trying to make a name for themselves, so when they get out, they have a big job lined up. they are promising benefits in the future that they cannot pay, just to get re-elected. it is not just that. i think a big part of the problem is that re-election becomes way more important than finding solutions to anything. even if we get a whole new group
we discussed how we needed to cleanse and think get new people in there. but we try to do that with the tea party and john boehner in charge. but it seems no matter who comes in, at this point, no one s getting the job done because everybody s pandering to their base. frank: what s wrong with congress? it s all about me. that s what the congressmen are into. they are not look out for us. we have had a problem since 2000 to 2002 and the economy s going downhill. but now it s a massive grab in congress. everybody s now deciding to split and grab what they can before they are thrown out or the next election. frank: i have a theory eye am going to go to you next. i have a theory that the republicans are in trouble, that the anti-incumbept move will impact them and even the people who voted republican may vote them out can i add one layer to this? how many of you would be surprised fitold you that insider trading laws, which would apply to everyone here in
finding solutions to anything. even if we get a whole new group in, they will become the people concerned about their re-election. sean: term limits? oh, yeah. i think they say anything to get elected. sean: how do you change it? it s a quandary. have you to find people with integrity. it is tough to find. sean: go ahead? i often joke to my family and said, you know, i think i am going to run for congress and we don t have to worry about health care. i can find the best stocks. you know? we will be set for life. sean: are you a conservative? i m a conservative. sean: i will vote for you. it s not funny, though. i mean, i didn t know that until peter schweitser was on our show. he discover that the insider trading laws did not apply to congress. and that all of these congressmen and -women would go into congress and they didn t have assets and they all leave millionaires. they don t care about us.
jimmy carter. how many of you think you are better off than when you were before obamma was electd? wow. how many of you think we can afford the spending of obama? if high if he continues? how many of you think a good bumper sticker might be: you want four more years of this? wow. that s very telling. frank: particularly when he had it in the question. sean: exactly. we will come back. we have had a year of heated debates in washington. we will take a look back at what congress and the white house has been up to. but first, this year, america paused to remember the 10th anniversary of the day that our country changed forever. 9/11. [singing star spangled banner] .