able to do it anonymously. depends which state you re in. if you re in the state of illinois you have to go public when you win. we ll find out who these folks are. get a little it about their story and share that with you a little later in this hour. rick: but first, the secret service prostitution scandal getting even uglier. some are asking if our national security was compromised? and mitt romney now weighing in saying what he would do if he were in the white house. another scandal keeps snowballing. looks like family members of those gsa workers also got a few perks on our dime. rick: and in the face of painful gas prices at the pump the president taking on oil speculators proposing new regulations, doing that live on this show yesterday. will it really help consumers or is it all just politics? a fair and balanced debate. it is all happening now. rick: glad you re with us,
garden today, campaign appearance. and starts trashing big oil. starts trashing the oil speculators. let me ask a question aren t these green energy people all speculating? are they not speculating with our money, taxpayer dollars and they re all getting loans from the federal government, from obama, you have solyndra. you have all these solar firms that either have filed for bankruptcy or on the way, you have wind energy companies that are biting the dust. all of this the chevrolet volt is having trouble. all of this green energy stuff is literally imploding. it is collapsing. isn t obama, in fact, a green nr energy speculator? aren t all of these people speculating? that s an excellent point that rush made and speaking of the speculators, given what rush just said, solyndra, remember
the president would need to go after some of these oil speculators he has in hand. now the president and his team are making the case that you know what? this market has grown over the past few years and i think the analogy the president used in his rose garden remarks was to say imagine the nfl had more teams but didn t increase the number of referees. he wants to do what he calls putting more cops on the beat to stop the oil traders from artificially creating scarcity by buying up oil futures and then driving up oil prices for me, you and mary katherine. rick: mary katherine he almost seems to be daring republicans to say, no, we re not going alongwith this. just as democrats dared republicans to vote down the buffett rule which happened other night. yeah. rick: is this same kind of thing and will we see more and more of these kinds of things as we get closer to november? we might see one of these ideas a week will not go anywhere and probably not solve problems they concede th
[ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the 2012 e-class bluetec from mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. bill: impact segment tonight, president obama announcing new measures to try to bring down oil prices. they center on oil speculators. people who buy up barrels but don t actually take delivery of them. it s all a paper chase. we can t afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage and driving prices higher only to flip the oil for a quick profit. bill: here now to explain what s going on fox business correspondent sandra smith and co-host of the five eric bolling. had you a special with sarah palin on this friday or something like that. friday and saturday night.
the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16. billion. the buffet tax would have raised only $4.7 billion a year. the taxpayers that means you are shoveling out $255 million to upgrade these tanks. the pentagon doesn t want the upgrades and the pentagon is upset about the cuts they are facing. if they say they don t need this they probably don t need it. lawmakers from both parties thought otherwise. pork is bipartisan. $48.5 million for the national domestic preparedness consortium.