this is not a battle of talking points. these are lives being affected every day. if this were happening off of new jersey or north carolina or chesapeake bay would the government have reacted differently? i don t know. i don t think so. of course they would. of course. i don t know that they would. of course they would. i think, look, he s going to be more critical of the government than i am. look, i think after katrina, everybody knew you had to take this kind of thing seriously. there isn t a competence it seems. i know james is critical of the market, but the government seems to be critical of the market. you have got to get people there who know what s going on and who know are credible. only bp had the technical equipment. that s true. bp said we didn t have the toolbox. it wasn t the government s the government s fault was in permitting this. the government s fault is that this mms had become so corrupted that they were like putting it in pencil and it were go
the vehicle stability control software. this is a fix they say will be ready, kyra, by the end of the month and once it is ready, they say it will take about an hour at the dealer to fix it. in the meantime, if you don t want to drive this vehicle they will make free loaner cars available for the lexus customers who don t want to drive their gx 460 until they get that fixed. so this is exactly what consumer reports thought the problem was, the vehicle stability control. that is the software in the car that coordinates the accelerator and the brake to make sure if you re taking a high-speed turn or sharp turn that the car doesn t tip and it was consumer reports in its own testing that found this. it wasn t the government. it wasn t toyota itself, lexus or toyota itself. so interesting, very rare for a magazine to come out with a do not buy this car list and have such a widespread impact and that s exactly what happened. i don t know about you, but consume are reports that was alwa
potbelly stove and he gave it away so everyone could have it. it was his choice. this guy didn t say let s set the government up so we could take his invention away. he gave it of his own free will. that tradition continued. when there is earthquake or tsunami, hunger or poverpoverty who comes? there is no other country in the history of the world more charitable in america. name the country that giving is such a way of life name a country that s more generous than america. is it france? is it spain? is it germany? china? faith, hope and charity. they re not just the essential teachings of christ. they are the essential teachings of our founders. i said something a long time ago. way back when i was still living in the world, you know where.
what we do with rights? here it is. like every right that we ve ever passed for the american people. every right? tom, i don t know if you ve read the declaration of independence but you don t have the power to grant people rights. you don t create them. you don t enhance them. they are not yours. in case you missed it, let me show you. the declaration of independence. bring it up. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator. endowed by their creator. with certain inalienable rights. who the hell do you think you are, congress? you re not god! last time i checked i am imperfect so you could have created me, but i don t think you did. america, if you start depending on the government to grant you rights, what they grant, they can take away. if you depend on them to
faith in the government to give you charity. government to be the grantor of rights. two days before christmas, we celebrated real savior s birth and tom harken said this. i want you to watch and listen to this carefully on what he said about rights. here it is. what this bill does is we finally take that step. as our leader said earlier, we take that step from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare as an inalienable right of every american citizen. as i said before, this bill is not complete. i used the analogy of a starter home. in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. like every right that we ve ever passed for the american people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights. glenn: listen, here is the thing. can you just bring up the part where he is saying about