0 they must be either porn og rafs, late night comedians, or people that work for cell phone providers and need his business. add to that embarrassing spectacle the case of eliot spitzer who is vying for the job of new york city comptroller, the job that oversees finance and spending. the married governor spitzer certainly proved to be a big spender on call girls, so it is hard to see why new yorkers would trust him with their money. despite the entertainment value of having these and other politicians find it impossible to leave the spotlight, no matter how humiliating it must be for their families and what friends they have left. an issue emerges. what's happened to the simple virtue of shame? have we lost completely and forever the red faced head hanging tear shedding sense of shame? i mean, when is the last time you heard a politician associated with words like humility, con triteness, honesty. we blur the lines between shame and fame. in fact, it is as if we have equated, elevated both characterizations as if they were character qualities, in a culture that worships celebrity, we shouldn't be surprised that those in political institutions play by the same rules as those that lead the entertainment industry or sports. embarrassing, immoral behavior no longer keep you from public service but validates humanity. saying i'm sorry wipes the slate clean with the added bonus of 100% name id. ego, narcissism, raw ambition replaced the notion of selfless servanthood. elected offices go to brazen, driven, self fueled megalow maniacs. george washington had to be begged into service as president and refused to make it a lifetime career. washington would never make the first cut of a modern day primary that requires one to have what i call elijah syndrome, saying i'm the only one god has left. what we don't see enough of is the jesus model, the let this cup pass from me, but not my will but yours be done. today's political figures are often just that. figures. as in action figures, artificial miniatures of the real thing. shame and capacity to display the shame that we have is not a bad thing, in fact it is like humility. it is a good thing. it reveals that we in fact know the difference between right and wrong and we're utterly disgusted with ourselves when we fail. where there is no shame, all that's left is fame, and that is a sorry substitute for character. [ applause ] this week we found out that the obama care provision that puts a cap on annual out of pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles will be delayed another year until 2015. it is just the latest in obama care delays which also include the mandate on employers to provide health care for workers who work more than 30 hours per week. irs employees asked to be exe t exempt exempted, members of congress and staff get a break. not a break for you, just them. even if congressional workers that get federal contributions towards health care don't want obama care, who does? joining me now, austan goolsbee, economic adviser to president obama when obama care was passed. thank you for joining me. good to have you. >> an honor. thank you for having me. >> we have seen so many delays, people that say we don't want obama care. interestingly, it is mostly people that are the most invested, irs workers that will administer it, members of congress and their staffs who wrote it, the unions who pushed for it. are you still one of those folks that say i love this stuff? >> well, i think the bill is going to do a lot f very good things, bring 30, 40 million to get insurance so they don't fear going bankrupt because they get sick. i would disagree slightly, governor, on the so-called exemption for congress, that's not exactly what happened. what happened is in the bill, large employers currently pay three-quarters of health care costs for their employees. you pay health insurance but your employer pays about three-quarters. there's no provision in the exchanges because large employers don't participate in the exchanges, there's no way for employers to share the cost. when they move congressional workers into exchanges, there was no provision for how congress would keep paying its share of health care costs. they are not exempted from the requirement that they get health insurance at all. all that happened with this exemption, it didn't exempt them from the law, it said that congress as their employer can pay the share of their health care costs that a normal employer would pay. there was no exemption at all, and everybody is still participating. >> doesn't that prove that the bill wasn't read, researched. members of congress and their staffs who were directly responsible for putting it into 2300 pages didn't even know how want to call it what's good for the goose provision, but did so in a way that was totally different than the law applies to everyone else in the country. >> that's the point. they rushed it through. that's why you're seeing even the president come out and delay certain pieces of it. some suggested maybe before this cake is brought out of the oven, we ought to check the recipe and at least let it fully bake, postpone the whole thing. my question next is this. can you name me any democrat in the country who is running on his or her support for obama care as the primary platform to much they would like to be reelected? personally, i can't think of anybody running with it, they're running from it. >> fair point. i am a policy guy. i am not watching all of the races. i know there are many places where there are millions of people who have been sick in the past or have a family member who's been sick who are denied insurance coverage or seeing their employer, their insurer drop them when they change employers. those people are going to be quite happy under the new system when insurers can't do that and when they're able to get health care they couldn't before. >> you're going to spend an enormous amount of money, $2.3 trillion possibly, but still can't name one democrat who wants to make this the centerpiece of their re-election. >> i am not the political guy. i can't name one that's not doing it either. >> i appreciate your being here. if you come up with any, because i can't, let me know. great to have you. >> i will. i will mail it to you. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> this week, california passed a law that mandates that students no matter their age, k through 12, and who believe that they'd rather identify with a gender other than their biological gender, they can use whatever bathroom they feel comfortable in. i'm not kidding. but what about the kids that have to share a bathroom with students of the opposite sex? did anybody ask how awkward they'll feel? we will talk about it when we ould like to hear from you. go to my website, mikehuckabee.com. tell me what you think on the leave feedback section. follow me on twitter. find a link to that and more at mikehuckabee.com. 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