Podcast Chaos In DC

From the Iowa Caucus to the State of the Union address to the impeachment acquittal, this week in DC was the very epitome of chaos on the part of both parties. Tom has some advice for them both.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard radio presents Tom Broke now here this do
you know how to spell chaos? The Democrats a week
ago were full of optimism in Iowa on a roll.
The president was the subject of an impeachment proceeding and
the Democrats for preparing the long process of choosing their nominee. Now,

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just a week later, the impression is Democrats could screw
up a two car funeral. The Iowa caucuses were an
unmitigated disaster of chaos, and no one quite knows what
went wrong or how it could be fixed it. It's
always been an awkward system. You stand in public and
express your choices, you lose control of the precious right

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of securing your vote, so no one else knows how
you're voting. Stop and think about this for a moment.
You're a small town citizen in Iowa. You may owe
the bank some money, or you may not watch a
cross paths with someone in tound. But now in public
you have to say who you are for, and so
a lot of choices are changed at the last minute

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to accommodate, if you will, the idea that you can
continue to live in that small town. How all this happened?
We're not entirely clear. But as much as sure the
Iowa caucuses are history, we won't have to go back
to Iowa four years from now. At the same time,
Donald Trump was acquitted in his impeachment proceedings, and in

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his State of the Union speech he was only defiant,
refusing to shape the hands of Speaker Pelosi as he
took the stage. At the same time, the President might
have reached across party lines at the end of this
chaotic week and said, let's find ways to work together
on public works, let's find ways to work together on education.

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But he doesn't do that ever. And by the way,
those of us who knew him in New York are
not surprised. That's how he approached every problem that was
put before him. Even when he clearly clearly owed money
to banks or other lenders, he would throw them out
and say, I'll see you in court. The Republicans that
I know who get to the Oval Office, the Republicans

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that I know who get to the Oval Office from
time to time now quietly will say, just between us,
he throws a hissy fit, they can go in with
a very carefully worked out plan for a solution to
whatever you want to describe climate change, or education or healthcare.
He throws it away almost immediately and says, no, I've
got a better idea. An old acquaintance of mine, who

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was a Donald Trump devote, believes everything, honestly said to
me this past week. I believe these charges of his
sexual history are entirely made up by those of you
in the media. I said, how can you believe that
the evidence is so clear? He said, I just don't
believe anything that comes out of MSNBC, for example, or

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people who are writing about him who are lept of center.
We finally had to hang up. It's just hard for
me to believe that someone can take something as fundamental
as Donald Trump's sexual exercises and his history going way
back to New York and say no, it's not true.
It's all been made up. So that's where we are now.

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Let's get to where we are politically. The Democrats, the
candidates who are running so far, are playing hard left
at this moment, kind of free everything, especially with healthcare
and education. And Iowa businessman that I've come to know
over the years is a kind of up from never guy.
He's in a small town in central Ohiowa, He's built

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a very successful convenience store. He has as well a
successful auto repair shop. He's kind of the classic American
operating in the capitalistic system. He said, what do you
mean they're going to give free education? I just finished
paying for my children's education. Does that make me a
sucker of some kind? By the way, two of his

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sons are deputy sheriff's in de Boines, Iowa. Trump unleashed
is a dangerous guy. He worries me because I don't
know who can in any way control him when it
comes to impulsive behavior. A perfect example is this week's
prayer breakfast, where the President said, I know that people

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don't talk about this kind of thing at a prayer breakfast,
but let me tell you, speaker, Pelosi is a vicious person.
Adam Shift is a vicious person. Not the kind of
language that you find in a Christian setting or any
kind of rulagis setting where the idea is to forgive
and go forward and find common ground. That's just not

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what he is inclined to do under any circumstances. He
never tempers his language. Politics, after all, a great nation
like ours is a form of persuasion, not vicious division.
Can you imagine Lincoln at the height of the Civil
War using the kind of language that Donald Trump does,

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or FDR going into World War Two using that kind
of language In New York. He was always known for
taking every slight as an excuse to go to personal
war against whoever expressed it. Democrats in the meantime are
playing pretended. They're pretending we're not at war in the
Middle East and Northern Africa. They're not talking about that

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at all. I have no idea what their national security
military plans are. They're pretending as well that we can
have it all healthcare, especially without paying for it as
we go along, piling up enormous deficits. The division in
this country is as great as it was, if not

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more so than the nineteen sixties when we had revolutions
in the streets over Vietnam and race, when we had,
if you will, a new generation of partically active young
people coming into the streets, and later those same young
people said, I don't know what I was thinking. You
can only work through the system or change the system.

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Those are the two choices. What happened, by the way
to Trump's promise to fix healthcare in this country he
said it's a snap, or public works that again would
be a snap. That was his first promise to night
that he was elected. We've heard very little from him
about those two critical issues in the time that he's
been in office. Democrats have to understand that not every

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problem requires a government solution. There can be private sector incentives.
There can be ways that all the parties involved can
find a way to work together. Climate change is a
perfect example. It is real, and it is threatening, and
it requires everyone on board to find a way to
deal with it. A strong economy doesn't change all of that.

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A stronger economy gives us more tools, however, to attack
these kinds of problem ms, and we do indisputably have
a very strong economy at the moment. Let's find a
way to use it to change the challenges that are
coming every day. At the moment, China is cheetering between
a weaker economy and a terrifying runaway virus. We're at

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a crossroads in this world of ours. We're trying to
figure out what the new relationship is between the United
States and its old western allies. What are the role
of the NATO Alliance. Great leaders find a way to
reach out and invite others to join them in finding
those solutions. Those out of office have to understand that

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extreme solutions lead to no solutions. This has just been
one week in February, but it's a week that you
cannot imagine how we get out of. But we've always
found a way. I am at an age having just
celebrated my eightieth birthday when I've seen almost everything and

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one or how can we repair ourselves? But in the past,
for the most part, we have. But this one week
goes to Donald Trump in a big way, and we
have miles to go before all this is resolved and
before we have the next election. I'm Tom broke Off

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for I Heart Radio now Here. This