with articles of impeachment. i commend our committee chairs and our members for their somber approach to actions which i wish the president had not made necessary. in signing the declaration of independence, our founders invoked a firm reliance on divine providence. democrats, too, are prayerful, and we will proceed in a manner worthy of our oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the united states from all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us god. thank you. there you have the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and with those words there, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. she begins with a reference to history and notnotably, dana ba noting the declaration of independence from an oppressive
stimulus. then they made a couple more predictions. one is it would start to shoot up and accelerate. they got that right, too. it did start to accelerate. they thought it would hit something called escape velocity, it would keep accelerating into the upper atmosphere and everybody would be great. that was where they got things wrong. it started to accelerate and then i would argue from my perspective in my narrative, the reason they re getting it all wrong is they re not looking at the lack of investment. they re trying to manufacture money or manufacture spending to drive action. but they re not looking at the hole in the bucket, which is the lack of capital requirements, et cetera, et cetera. it s a debate that s why i wrote a book, too. you did. johnathan, the last word. do you discount the political realities faced by president obama, particularly when he was trying to negotiate that first stimulus deal? i recall back then that the idea that a $1 trillion number coming
no mustache. but that a name that means business back in certain parts of new york, you know. right. he wants members of congress to be banned from ever becoming lobbyists. if you have the privilege of serving america and defending the constitution and debating our most consequential issues, you forfeit the right to take money afterwards to try to persuade lawmakers to do what you want because you re getting paid to do it. that s pretty simple stuff. right? absolutely, dylan. this is a simple idea. when your service is concluded, when you retire or move on, you can t become a lobbyist or engage in lobbying activity. there are 370, according to the center for responsive politics, 370 former members of congress engaged in some kind of lobbying. i think about 280 are registered federal lobbyists. i ve only been here a little over a year. this is a pretty broken place. the power of special interest,
how much of this is a function of not the split delegates or the money or all this but the fact that the actual debate is a terrible debate? that we re complaining not of course you want to short an lousy debate, but you could have a long fantastic debate as well. no. absolutely. look, the if you re an independent voter, and let s say rugt now the independent voter is the key to the outcome in november, first of all, the entire field, the bachmanns, the perrys, the her man caines, you re convinced this is nothing more than a clown circus, number one. then, number two, as you narrow the field, the candidates, particularly senator santorum, keep talking about issues that are just way out of the mainstream. you know, making contraception illegal, attacking jfk for his reasonable statement on church and state. it s not focused. if you look at clinton versus
fell, for those of you asking yourself what wonders interstellar travel may hold for all of us, what would incentivize people to pay all that money to fly to outer space, i have two words for you space bunnies. i know this may sound like some sort of fantasy or adolescent dream or science fiction. but if the world s two most notorious playboy s get their way, a playboy mansion in the stars may become the initial incentive to load space planes. in fact, the playboy company is making plans for such a facility. here are some renderings shown to space.com. the intergalactic playboy mansion would be on a station on orbit like a cruise ship circling the earth. think of this as the beginning of the whole potpourri of market of places you could stop sports stadiums, shopping, all in space. it would include the playboy facility, a zero-gravity dance