Lauren Boebert has gone crawling back to the Biden administration begging,
begging for tens of millions of dollars in resources to help with
the infrastructure in her state, the great state of Colorado.
Now, it's important to mention that she not only voted against Biden's
infrastructure bill, she spoke out against it referring to it as garbage and
waste, but Boebert wants $33.1 million for
the South Bridge in Glenwood Springs, according to a newsletter from her office.
She also sent a letter to US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
advocating construction of the Glenwood Springs bridge.
Now the city is requesting grant funding through the rural surface
transportation grant program for the south bridge project.
This funding would allow the community to construct a new bridge connection
to provide a critical second emergency route between the highway state,
Highway 82 and the western side of the Roaring Fork River, which sounds fun,
in the city's south corridor.
Okay, so
I'm of two minds on this because remember she voted against the infrastructure bill.
She also tweeted things like rhinos just passed this wasteful $1.2 trillion
infrastructure bill,
Pelosi did not have the votes in her party to pass this garbage.
Time to name names and hold these fake Republicans accountable.
Okay, well then are you of rhino because you're now asking for
infrastructure funding from the Biden administration when you
previously referred to that funding as waste.
But like of course, I mean she's not gonna be held accountable for any of this,
it doesn't work that way.
But Wos, I actually want to ask you what should the federal government do
in this situation, because if they deny her the funding,
the people who suffer are her constituents, are the people of Colorado.
I don't want them to suffer.
I think it would be great for
them to have a second emergency route in the area that's specified here.
But at the same time, like, there should be political consequences for
people like Lauren Boebert.
>> Yeah, it's almost as if she ran on the opposite of this, right?
It's almost as if she's branded herself as no matter what policy comes out of this
administration, if it has Democratic party cooties on it, it's bad, it's terrible.
Even if it's something that will help your constituents, it's stupid.
However, I am of a mind that I thought build back better was
supposed to do this very thing, right?
Like put Americans to work with good, well paying union jobs,
making the country better investing in the betterment of the country.
I thought that was the point of these quote unquote infrastructure legislations,
right?
Obviously they became convoluted and
a lot of it became a lot of this corporate give back, give away corporate welfare,
quite frankly, not that there's anything wrong with welfare.
>> It is one corporation are collecting it.
>> Exactly, but I'm just saying like this is the point I feel like
of a federal government, and this is what they should be doing.
But yeah, this woman's hypocrisy notwithstanding.
I think this would be the right thing to do.
>> Yeah, I mean, look again, I don't want the people of Colorado
to suffer even though they unfortunately elected someone like Lauren Boebert.
And remember Boebert also derided Biden's plan saying only 6% of his
$2.3 trillion so called infrastructure plan goes to roads and bridges.
I'm assuming she was specifically talking about the bill before
it was decoupled before the social spending was stripped away from it.
The rest goes to climate change, it doesn't.
Increasing government bureaucracy barely and unrelated liberal wish list items.
Look, let's not get it twisted.
Wos stated it correctly.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill has some good provisions within it, okay?
Our infrastructure is crumbling, it is a disaster.
At the same time, it is a corporate handout bill.
That is why there was bipartisan support for the bill.
And one other thing I'll note is Lauren Boebert,
I guess she's as stupid as I think she is.
She actually got the political strategy right here because remember one of
the Republicans who actually voted in favor of the infrastructure bill was
Fred Upton.
And then he made the mistake of bragging about it because he thought that his
constituents in Michigan would be super excited about how he secured
resources for them.
He got death threats instead because the Republican party is the party of Trump,
Trump demanded that Republican lawmakers tank any agenda item for
the Biden administration.
Upton and a handful of republicans voted in favor of it.
And so what do you think is gonna happen?
So he should have played it the way Lauren Boebert played it,
vote against it, rail against it.
And then when push comes to shove and you need some resources, you need some funds,
just ask for the funds.
It's not anyone in the Biden administration is gonna be like, no,
you voted against it, we're giving you nothing.
They're not gonna do that.
>> Yeah, they're not those kind of score settling people
unless you're progressive within the party.
Then they'll they'll close ranks and they'll start cracking a whip so
long as you know, whoa, hold on now, you're trying to be progressive,
you wanna be for the people.
No, we got to rein you in,
other than that, everything else is kosher with this administration.
And man, these guys started off with such a bang and
it's just become more and more pathetic by the month.
I don't care if you are the most blue,
no matter who, Democratic party shill.
You can't have watched this Biden administration and
not think that this has been an abject failure.
It's been awful.
>> I feel that in my soul as you say it because I'm not one of those vote blue,
no matter who people, look I'm in California.
So I have the luxury of voting the way that I want without suffering any
consequences like electing a fascist, right?
I did not vote for Biden, I wrote in Bernie.
I also didn't advertise that on the show because it's my personal opinion and
I don't wanna persuade anyone in a swing state to do something that could be
reckless.
With that said though, no, this administration is an embarrassment.
And while they're constantly fearmongering, rightly, by the way,
rightly fearmongering about the very real threat of the Republican party dismantling
what's left of our democratic process, they're not willing to do what's necessary
to address how the hell it is that we've gotten to this point in America.
Why are Americans so angry?
Why are people so disillusioned with the Democratic party?
It used to be that the Democrats would at least, at least stop the bleeding.
But honestly, there have been moments during the Biden administration where I
forget that Democrats are in charge, where I forget that Biden got elected, right?
Where you hear about the Supreme Court essentially stripping us of various
rights, including our reproductive rights.
And it's like, damn, no democrats are so far gone and so corrupt at this
point that they can't even stop the bleeding, and that's a huge problem.
>> And you've got to be reassured Ana when news comes out that sleepy Joe,
he was on the phone with Larry Summers.
The guy who basically along with Geitner,
along with all of those clowns in Barry's financial sort of group of wise men,
they orchestrated that recovery which was for who, nobody but Wall Street.
But Biden was on the phone with Larry Summers folks, so it's gonna be great.
And Larry Summers said, the people who need to feel this the worst,
this inflation, are normal working people, unemployment is too low,
Larry Summers said.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah he said that.
So that's a story that I'm gonna dig deep into tomorrow.
I wanted to do that in my solo hour because I want to explain all of that.
Yeah, he is saying that the solution to inflation is to increase unemployment.
>> Not for us to fix the supply chain issues that are causing these price hikes,
not to directly spend on that and get those things rolling so
that prices can get back in order.
And not that we haven't done this already in the past,
this austerity stuff, it doesn't work.
But guess what?
It's the path of least resistance for our richest most powerful people.
And so of course it's the path that Larry Summers is stumping for and
he's taking his little inflation victory lap and because he's like well I told you
inflation was coming because these people got $3,000 and
it's like no you were right about inflation coming, but
it's not because people got $3,000 from the government.
>> Exactly, you can judge me if you want.
But there was actually an excellent interview by Ezra Klein.
He interviewed an economist on the inflation issue.
I thought it was fantastic.
Mostly because of the guest he was interviewing.
Please check that out because she did a fantastic job explaining
how the Federal Reserve really single handedly led to the inflation that
we're experiencing in various assets including housing, right?
That's an asset that impacts all of us whether we have the money to buy or not,
because if you don't have the money to buy, you're looking to rent.
And if you have inflation in real estate,
that ends up transferring over to rentals as well.
It was a great interview, so check that out.
Anyway, for now though, we're gonna take a brief break and
when we come back we'll talk about how Elon Musk is being disowned by one
of his family members, we'll tell you why.
And later in the show we will talk about a narco monkey.
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Like I just got to keep it real.
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