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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, seven twenty one. As mentioned, the Democrats have no ideas,
so what do they do? Instead? They just complain and
they just attack. Lee Carter joining us now, Lee, thank
you for the time this morning. The Democrats are in
a very very bad way with American voters, at least
according to the latest polls. When do you think they're
(00:20):
going to actually come up with an idea to save
themselves rather than just attacking Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I mean, I think it's a really good question. And
the Democrats are in a crisis in every level right now.
They have a crisis of message, a crisis of leadership,
and now a crisis of trust after everything that's now
come out about Joe Biden's health and the cover up.
When you look at the polling right now, seventy percent
of Americans believe that Democrats aren't in touch with the
needs of people like them. They have no ideas, they
(00:48):
have no strategies, and their only thing that they can
do right now is attack Donald Trump. They threaten that
he is going to be a threat to democracy. They
say that he is a fascist. They talk about the
oligarchy and all of these things, and it's just not resonating.
And there was a period of time where Donald Trump's
polls were sinking a little bit and people expected that
(01:09):
the Democrats are going to surge, and they just haven't.
And it's because they've come up with no ideas that
make people feel that they are going to be any
better off than they would be today. Now, on the
flip side of all of this, most recently this week,
we started to see Donald Trump's polls surge again, and
that's going to put Democrats even at more of a disadvantage, no.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Question about it. And you know when it comes to,
for example, to this battle over the Reconciliation Bill. Okay, Democrats,
you don't like the idea of extending the Trump tax
cuts and actually strengthening them and making them permanent. What
would you rather do just have every middle class American
see a massive tax increase at the end of the year.
How are they not offering some sort of an alternative
(01:48):
to what President Trump wants to do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's a really fair question, and it's in such stark
contrast to the way they behaved in Trump's first term.
And Trump's first term, they exploited the the misses that
Donald Trump had. He didn't get healthcare accomplished right away,
so they started talking about what they were going to
do with healthcare, and they ended up winning in the midterms.
Right now, instead of coming up with an alternative strategy,
(02:12):
they're just pointing out any deficiency that they see in
the plan and it's just not gonna work. That's the
strategy that they've been using for the last several years,
and they continue to lose. So I'm not sure. You know,
obviously there's a struggle with leadership there. It's not clear
who's in charge. It's not clear where their ideas are
coming from. But they're certainly all united in one thing,
(02:33):
and that is hatred for Donald Trump. And meanwhile Donald
Trump is collecting whens. The price of eggs is down,
people are looking at the price of you know, the
price of gas coming into Momorial Day weekends at a
new low. People are starting to feel good about the economy,
things are stabilizing or seeing some trade deals come in,
and everything that they've attacked is now starting to seem
like maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to begin with.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's exactly correct. You know. The problem right now for
the president is the entire Republican Party is not united
behind him. What are your thoughts on the spending issue,
because the biggest criticism is this Reconciliation bill goes to
the Senate is that it doesn't cut spending. On the surface,
the facade says, yeah, it's about a one point six
one point seven trillion dollar spending cut, but when you
add all of the new spending, that offsets any of
(03:17):
those things. And that's why Ron Johnson, that's why Ran
Paul and several others are going to balk at this
when this hits the Senate. What are your thoughts so I.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Can understand the point of wanting to say that we're
going to we need cuts. Of course, we do need cuts,
but we also need economic growth. The only way that
we're going to get out of the situation we're in
is by having growth. And the lot of the policies
and plans that are put into this bill are really
focused on economic stimulation. We focus on that at once,
and then the other side we start looking at cuts.
(03:48):
Then we're going to have a chance of getting things done.
But if you do it all at once, I don't
think it's ever going to get through. I think sometimes
even though we're calling this a big beautiful bill. Sometimes
they're too big to get through, and so I think
they should look at this is a phase approach. Phase one,
let's look at what we need to do to grow
the economy, get things moving again, and then we can
talk about the cuts coming later.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. And you know, so many of the tax issues
are important, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
which were two of President Trump's three no tax promises.
The third one is no tax on Social Security. That's
not in this bill. There is a tax savings, but
it's not a full on elimination of taxes for seniors
for their Social Security. Do you think that's something that
(04:28):
Republicans will consider as a standalone after this is over.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think they might. I mean, look at the process
of all of this getting through. There's so much you know,
sausage being made that happens here, and there's so much
negotiating that had to happen in order to get it
where it is. I think it's impressive that many of
the promises that Donald Trump made are still intact after
everything they've tried to get through, and I think that
that might be something that they look at separately and
(04:52):
then they're like just like he looked at TIFFs. He said,
you know, we're going to deal with farmer pricing separately.
They might look at that separately as well.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They carter great analysis of what's wrong with the Democrats,
the party of complaints, the party of no answers or ideas. Lee,
Thank you so much, Thank you
Okay, seven twenty one. As mentioned, the Democrats have no ideas,
so what do they do? Instead? They just complain and
they just attack. Lee Carter joining us now, Lee, thank
you for the time this morning. The Democrats are in
a very very bad way with American voters, at least
according to the latest polls. When do you think they're
(00:20):
going to actually come up with an idea to save
themselves rather than just attacking Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I mean, I think it's a really good question. And
the Democrats are in a crisis in every level right now.
They have a crisis of message, a crisis of leadership,
and now a crisis of trust after everything that's now
come out about Joe Biden's health and the cover up.
When you look at the polling right now, seventy percent
of Americans believe that Democrats aren't in touch with the
needs of people like them. They have no ideas, they
(00:48):
have no strategies, and their only thing that they can
do right now is attack Donald Trump. They threaten that
he is going to be a threat to democracy. They
say that he is a fascist. They talk about the
oligarchy and all of these things, and it's just not resonating.
And there was a period of time where Donald Trump's
polls were sinking a little bit and people expected that
(01:09):
the Democrats are going to surge, and they just haven't.
And it's because they've come up with no ideas that
make people feel that they are going to be any
better off than they would be today. Now, on the
flip side of all of this, most recently this week,
we started to see Donald Trump's polls surge again, and
that's going to put Democrats even at more of a disadvantage, no.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Question about it. And you know when it comes to,
for example, to this battle over the Reconciliation Bill. Okay, Democrats,
you don't like the idea of extending the Trump tax
cuts and actually strengthening them and making them permanent. What
would you rather do just have every middle class American
see a massive tax increase at the end of the year.
How are they not offering some sort of an alternative
(01:48):
to what President Trump wants to do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's a really fair question, and it's in such stark
contrast to the way they behaved in Trump's first term.
And Trump's first term, they exploited the the misses that
Donald Trump had. He didn't get healthcare accomplished right away,
so they started talking about what they were going to
do with healthcare, and they ended up winning in the midterms.
Right now, instead of coming up with an alternative strategy,
(02:12):
they're just pointing out any deficiency that they see in
the plan and it's just not gonna work. That's the
strategy that they've been using for the last several years,
and they continue to lose. So I'm not sure. You know,
obviously there's a struggle with leadership there. It's not clear
who's in charge. It's not clear where their ideas are
coming from. But they're certainly all united in one thing,
(02:33):
and that is hatred for Donald Trump. And meanwhile Donald
Trump is collecting whens. The price of eggs is down,
people are looking at the price of you know, the
price of gas coming into Momorial Day weekends at a
new low. People are starting to feel good about the economy,
things are stabilizing or seeing some trade deals come in,
and everything that they've attacked is now starting to seem
like maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to begin with.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's exactly correct. You know. The problem right now for
the president is the entire Republican Party is not united
behind him. What are your thoughts on the spending issue,
because the biggest criticism is this Reconciliation bill goes to
the Senate is that it doesn't cut spending. On the surface,
the facade says, yeah, it's about a one point six
one point seven trillion dollar spending cut, but when you
add all of the new spending, that offsets any of
(03:17):
those things. And that's why Ron Johnson, that's why Ran
Paul and several others are going to balk at this
when this hits the Senate. What are your thoughts so I.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Can understand the point of wanting to say that we're
going to we need cuts. Of course, we do need cuts,
but we also need economic growth. The only way that
we're going to get out of the situation we're in
is by having growth. And the lot of the policies
and plans that are put into this bill are really
focused on economic stimulation. We focus on that at once,
and then the other side we start looking at cuts.
(03:48):
Then we're going to have a chance of getting things done.
But if you do it all at once, I don't
think it's ever going to get through. I think sometimes
even though we're calling this a big beautiful bill. Sometimes
they're too big to get through, and so I think
they should look at this is a phase approach. Phase one,
let's look at what we need to do to grow
the economy, get things moving again, and then we can
talk about the cuts coming later.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. And you know, so many of the tax issues
are important, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
which were two of President Trump's three no tax promises.
The third one is no tax on Social Security. That's
not in this bill. There is a tax savings, but
it's not a full on elimination of taxes for seniors
for their Social Security. Do you think that's something that
(04:28):
Republicans will consider as a standalone after this is over.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think they might. I mean, look at the process
of all of this getting through. There's so much you know,
sausage being made that happens here, and there's so much
negotiating that had to happen in order to get it
where it is. I think it's impressive that many of
the promises that Donald Trump made are still intact after
everything they've tried to get through, and I think that
that might be something that they look at separately and
(04:52):
then they're like just like he looked at TIFFs. He said,
you know, we're going to deal with farmer pricing separately.
They might look at that separately as well.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They carter great analysis of what's wrong with the Democrats,
the party of complaints, the party of no answers or ideas. Lee,
Thank you so much, Thank you
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