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To at to should dot com. You can also text three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty three one seven two one zero two eight three zero. Message and data rates apply. So I want to talk about these this list of nine speakers that has been, of course introduced. I want to talk about just who they are and where we go from here, of course is a different I mean that's it's going to be where we go right.
I mean, there's all this discussion and embarrassment, which, by the way, I think is a tactic to get these conservative republics to fall into line. Oh, we gotta do this, we gotta do it now. The world is watching. Oh the world. The world doesn't even know we have a thing called the House of Representatives. Heck, my friends, I'm not sure if half of America knows that there's a thing called the House of Representatives. You ever see these men on the street interviews? I mean, it's
funny, but it's not. It's not funny because these people, these people say some of the most outlandish things you can ever imagine. Our public school system is absolutely atrocious. How can someone graduate high school? Someone tell me this, How can someone graduate high school who believes that America was founded in nineteen twenty seven or nineteen seventy two. Who knows I mean that we fought for our independence from Portugal, or from Colombia, or from Greece or so
who knows. These are the sorts of questions you get, or excuse me, answers you get. And these men on the street interviews the speaker. The world is not waiting with baited breath on who the next Speaker of the House is going to be. I got it, by the way, I've got an op ed, which I think is a stupid op ed. I just put it in today's stack of stuff written by ceing In. I go on CNN dot com. They want you to think that people like me,
don't. They want you to think that people like me only go to Fox News, which I gotta be honest, I'm not a big fan of Fox one candid now, I will tell you when they they came to the house for the interview several years ago, some of the nicest, best people I think you could possibly start with on an interview like that. They were really good people. Mike Tobin and his producer and his cameraman. That was that was good, good people. I'm not talking about them, I'm just talking
about those running the show at Fox. I'm not sitting here waiting to see what Fox says before I say it. In fact, recently I've been saying
a lot of things. You can say the polar opposite of Fox. A lot of conservatives have been saying that I don't think Fox is the answer, but I think Foxes has done something that no one else in the mainstream media care to do, which was, at least try to present try to present the argument in such a way that or at least the news in such a way that it gave the other side to an opportunity to present its argument.
And I'm not Look, there's plenty of things to not be happy with Fox about, but I just don't sit here and read Fox News all day. I go to places like the CNN. Stephen Collinson writes an op ed talking about how embarrassing this is, how embarrassed senior Republican leadership is that they can't find a speaker. Well, I gotta be honest, then do something about it. What kind of a leader sits there in wines and bemoans, Oh, it's so embarrassing. Get a lot forgive me, my friends. I
couldn't care less about this that they're embarrassed. I've been through this extensively. I've been through this extensively. I don't want to keep having to repeat myself, but it bears repeating to say. What should truly embarrassed Republican leadership is an open border. What should truly embarrass the Republican leadership is thirty three trillion
dollars in debt. What should truly embarrass the current Republican leadership is that we have a fire metaphorically and literally burning around the world because of the Biden administration. What should embarrass the current Republican leadership is what happened in the previous Congress with the Make Believe January sixth Committee and the Make Believe impeachment trials. What should embarrass the current Republican leadership is that they did not have a red wave
in twenty twenty two. What should embarrass the current Republican leadership is that they capitulate and they give in, and they compromise principles on a regular basis, allowing this nation to move towards all sorts of direct well one direction has all sorts of negative consequences, from bankrupting US to putting US at greater risk from enemies coming across the border, from enemies firing missiles from around the world targeting
US bases, they should be embarrassed that these wars that have started all on Biden's watch, by the way, all of them on Biden's watch, leaving weaponry in Afghanistan that finds its way into the hands of Hamas, the terrorists who attack Israeli's citizens on October seventh, they're embarrassed about not being able to
find a speaker. Spare me the drama. Spare me the drama. Why would you be more embarrassed about choosing a leader than about any of those things that I just listened, Tell me, tell me why it is a show? Now? Do I think that some of these uh, some of these quite what I want to say, folks who think very highly of themselves, How about that? Do I think that some of them are truly embarrassed? I do. I think it's also used as a ploy. I think it's
also used as a game to try to put pressure upon conservative Republicans. I think it's all a tactic. But I also think that they really are They're embarrassed. They're embarrassed because their Democrat colleagues are coming down on them hard. They're embarrassed because they got to go and answer questions in the media, and they don't like people like Matt Gates. Gotta talk about this. Guys are so embarrassing. How am I going to get a serious ambassadorship after I retire?
How am I gonna get hired to a think tank after I retire? If I've got to defend this sort of stuff. Oh, it's so embarrassing. Oh, give me a break. The American people don't care if you're embarrassed. The American people want to be able to survive and live a life like they did prior to what happened when this president walked into office. That's what they want. The American people want to be able to trust the results
of their elections again. The American people want to see security matter to the people in Washington, d C. They want to see people held accountable who are corrupt. That's what the American people want. We don't care. We do not care. If you're embarrassed. I don't care. If you're embarrassed, do something about it, Do something about it. The Shenanigans, the games, the make believe legislating. I just and they keep using this word. I don't want to I don't I know what they mean. I don't
want to be splitting hairs here. But they got to get back to the business of governing. Well, let me just I don't want to be a stickler here. But Congress doesn't govern. That's the job of governors, that's the job of the executive branch. Turns out, turns out that liberal presidents don't govern either. They just let this nation go straight to hell in a handbasket. But the job of Congress is to legislate. The job of Congress
will went appropriate. It doesn't mean that they should be full time coming up with new laws, right. It doesn't mean that they should be sitting there coming up with new laws so that the American people can somehow function. We're actually doing quite well. And well, we're not doing well in the matters that you have put your hands in, Congress, federal government, President of the United States, we're actually doing well in those areas that you've just left
us alone. We don't need your help. We need you to fix the problems that you've created. We need you to fix the problems in this economy. We need you to fix an open border. We need you to fix the problem of corrupt leadership. We need you to fix the problem of wars erupting all over the globe. We need to stop having to understand, to live a real life example of watching what it means for American weakness to provoke the world. That's what we need. We need justice for the hunter By
laptop scandal. We need Republicans to stop following the narrative of the media. We need Republicans to actually lead, not to one and cry about being embarrassed. Don't tell me you want to be a leader when you tell me you're embarrassed? Is that even how leaders think? I just I just can't get
my head around this. I just can't get my head around this. I mean, I'm just I'm trying to think of some of these leadership professionals who would ever tell you to just you know what, You should just be embarrassed about that. You should be embarrassed. You should quit trying, you should start blaming people, and you should be embarrassed. It embarrasses me to have to say those words. You're not a leader. You're not fit to be
a leader if you're out there whining about this. And I understand those real problems, But if you read this op ed, which is written by a guy named Stephen Collinson at CNN. I read stuff by Steven Collinson from CNN from time to time, and I usually do so to entertain myself or to see what the rest of the well, what the polar opposite of reality looks like and so. But Stephen Collinson says, you know, Congress can't it
can't function. It can't get together to approve massive amounts of money for Ukraine and Israel, which I it seems to me that Biden finds all sorts of ways to get Ukraine money and so forth. Anyway, But be that as it may, let's say, we're not to the point of needing to fork over billions of dollars more for just a moment, I think it's important.
I think it's important to point out that the biggest problem he mentioned in his op ed as to what Congress should be doing right now, specifically the House of Representatives, is to pass a measure condemning hamas the world's waiting. The world is waiting for the US House of Representatives to put a formal acknowledgment out there that we condemn Hama. The truth is, there's gonna be a couple of jokers in clowns. I can't do that in Congress. I don't think
any of them, heaven forbid, would be Republican. They'd be the folks that are like Rashida talib or aoc or Iona Presley or somebody like that. So spare me the drama. Spare me the drama. If you're embarrassed, fix it, fix any of these problems that have been on your list of problems to fix for decades. Now that you've done absolutely nothing to help, You've done plenty of things to make the problem worse. Spare me the drama of being embarrassed. Man up, how about that? How about you man
up and lead. I just it's pathetic, it really is. It's embarrassing that you would say it. Congress. Timeout is in order, timeouts in order. When I get back, I want to go through some of these folks. And I know we've got six PM votes yesterday closed door meeting to get a single person, but I at least want to take the time to go through the people, even if they're not going to be voted as a speaker, just to give you an idea of who has thrown their name in
the hat. I want to give you these something called a liberty score, which is something that has been comprised by a group called Conservative Review. I'm just going to give you those scores, give you a little bit of background as to what a liberty score is. And I want to ask you who you think a responsible Congress would elect as Speaker of the House, or more specifically, a responsible Republican party in the House of Representatives, who they would
elect to be the Speaker of the House. Quick time out is in order, my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better Talk. I am your host, Todd Huff not the least bit embarrassed today, my friends back in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. There's an organization called Conservative Review. Conservative Review, and they put together what is called a Liberty Score, and I'm gonna read what it says here on the website. You
can check this out yourself. Liberty Let's see libertyscore dot Conservative Review dot com. I think is the yeah. And it's got a map of the country off fifty seven states Obama visited and you can click on a state. As there's fifty states, I'm dismissing. You can click on a state and I'll give you all the representatives, all the senators in that state. I think it's just federal you know, representatives, US members of Congress, US senators,
I believe is what's in here the only things. So you open up and you can go, and you can somebody's score. I happen to pull up Representative al Green, who I believe, if memory serves me, right, was I think the first person to call for the impeachment of President Trump eleven days into his first term, eleven days in two I guess its term. We're waiting on, hopefully what will be his second term here at the beginning of twenty twenty five. But nonetheless, this is what it says.
This is how it describes what a Liberty score is, it says Conservative Reviews Liberty Score grades excuse me, grades members of Congress on the top fifty votes over a rolling six year term. A letter grade is assigned to each member to help you quickly determine whether a lawmaker is supporting conservative principles. The Liberty Score helps evaluate your representatives and senators, providing the tools necessary to separate rhetoric
from reality. We don't expect any elected officials to be perfect, but we do expect them to keep their promises, and so they give people a score, and it's got a list of votes, like on this one, it's got let's see a vote from March of twenty twenty three end federal control of local schools. It says, the Conservative Review position is support that support the
end of federal control of local schools. Of course, is a conservative guiding principal constitutional principle, by the way, And then it says this member, in this particular member, being the radical Al Green, who has a four percent liberty score, tearing it up out there, Texas right. I believe he vot voted that down. So of course he's got a four percent score. Some of these folks actually have zero scores, zero percent every issue that
concern And look, I understand there can be nuance. To use one of the favorite words of the left, there can be some nuance here. There needs to be some contexts. Sometimes it's a little bit more complicated than some would have us believe, but in reality it's pretty clear on some of these issues. And usually if you give it some thought and some time, we
can agree on the vast majority of these things. At these things, I mean, Conservative Reviews going to be right, The vast, vast majority of the time, as far as what the proper position conservatively speaking on an issue is, constitutionally speaking on an issue is, and so and so. Let's look at the liberty scores of the nine people who want to be speaker, the nine Republicans who have decided they want to throw their proverbial hat into the
ring and run for Speaker of the House. Jack Bergman from Michigan fifty seven percent. As I'm reading these, I want you to tell me, now, we're putting trust here in conservative review. I'm going to tell you that
that is a reasonable thing to do. Again, I'm not suggesting conservative reviews perfect, that they're always right, but in general, these numbers I give you are indicative of a good indicator on how much individuals respect liberty and the constitution versus big government, for example, So he said, Jack Bergman of Michigan fifty seven percent, Byron Donald's of Florida one hundred percent, Tom Emmer of Minnesota sixty nine percent, Kevin Hearn of Oklahoma eighty two percent, Mike
Johnson Louisiana seventy four percent, Dan Muser Pennsylvania sixty eight percent, Gary Palmer alb Obama eighty percent, Austin Scott from Georgia sixty five percent, Pete Sessions from Texas sixty three percent. So of course we know that Emmer has the support of McCarthy. Which what's McCarthy score. Let me see if I can find I didn't do this off the top here. Let me see if I can find him really quickly going to California. Here, come on, work
for me machine. Let's just pull up McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy. And by the way, they turn these percentages into grades just like school, well, just like how school used to be for us old people. You go back in history and you had a Kevin McCarthy fifty four percent. That's an F I'm looking at it. Kevin McCarthy fifty four percent is an FT. Byron Donalds, who have hundred percent, of course, is an A or an A plus or if you're like Michael Scott, you forgot all
about the A plus plus for Byron for Byron Donalds. And so this this matters, This matters, what this represent, What this represents matters these scores for individuals. And so there's a clear front runner here, is there not with Byron Donald's of Florida, who has a one score with the Conservative Review on his liberty score. There's some there's some really atrocious scores on here. Jack Bergmann fifty seven percent. That's an f uh, what's m R sixty
nine percent? What would that be? Is that a D six oz must have had a lot of ds. She knew that immediately. She shook her head immediately when I said sixty that's a D. Time. Is that your GPA? Yeah, she said, She says that's her GPA straight D. What would that be? A one point one point? She doesn't remember. She doesn't know that. So you're looking here at these scores. These are
this matters now. It matters for a couple of reasons. Number One, it helps, as the website said, it helps separate the rhetoric from reality. It helps separate the rhetoric from reality. It also goes to show what I've been saying on this program for a long long time, but there is
a battle for control of the Republican Party. I mean, just in the list of scores, in these nine speakers, who are all Republicans, who are all supposed to be from the same party, who are all supposed to be from the party of Lincoln, who are all supposed to have some amount of respect for liberty in the Constitution. It ranges from an abysmal fifty seven
percent to a one hundred percent. Jack Bergmann's score puts him in the midst much puts him much closer to a lot of liberals or even Adam Kinsinger than it does to But I shouldn't say I mean it puts him right in the middle, Like there's some people who straight up have a zero on their liberty score. And I don't want to overstate this. I'm just saying that this
is a measure that tells us something. It also goes to show. It also goes to show, in my opinion, the commitment and the intestinal fortitude of the individual's in Congress, because maybe on paper, let's just say, maybe ideologically speaking, I'm not saying that this is true, but just for the sake of discussion, maybe these folks are people who really believe in liberty, but when it comes time to make the tough vote, they don't do
it. My friend's leadership requires that you do the right thing even when you don't have the support at the time that you need. A good leader. A good leader can actually develop support. A good leader can actually get people to come over to his or her side of an issue. A good leader can be persuasive, a good late. A good leader can be a very good communicator, a good listener. A good leader can find ways to get
things done. And it starts, and it starts with principle. And as I look at this and just what I know about, and I don't know
a lot about some of these folks. But when you look at Byron Donald's who I know, you know we all know a little or a decent amount about regarding his stance for conservative principles, I mean, is that not the clear and obvious choice for people that want to see for people who want to see Congress be led by principled conservative Now I'm under no illusion here, I'm under no illusion that this is going to be some sort of an easy fight
of this. Who knows even possible, I don't know, But that's the sort of individual we need leading the country. By the way, before I take a break, I'll mention too, for those who don't know Byron Donald's is black. I don't know if Biden thinks he's black or not. Biden would say he's not black because he didn't vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in twenty twenty. But I waited to the end to say that because it
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the person's race. But if this was a if he were a Liberal and the rest of these folks on here were Republicans or whatever. If he was a Democrat and the rest of these folks were Republicans, that's all we would hear about. And I just pointed out to illustrate just how much we live in a world of identity politics. So I don't want that to make a difference in your thinking. I'm just saying. I'm just saying that it does doesn't matter. But it wouldn't matter if he
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four, the word Patriots with an S four Patriots dot Com. Use promo code huff to save ten percent on your order for Patriots dot Com promo code huff. I mentioned yesterday, Well, a couple of things along. Let's talk about some other things that we've got to deal with as a nation, a couple of other things that the House should be doing something about. I know that there's not a speaker at the moment. There was a speaker. I'm wondering what got done when there was a speaker. So again, I'm
not embarrassed by this, Biden Braggs. I mentioned this briefly yesterday. I'm gonna kind of look at this story a little bit more depth here. Today, US budget deficit stores to one point seven trillion. That's trillion with the truck a tr trillion, not to be confused with million or billion. It is trillion. US budget deficit stores to one point seven trillion. That's up twenty three percent from last year, so meaning the fiscal year ended September thirtieth
of twenty twenty three. If you don't know, Congress operates. The federal government operates on a fiscal year that begins October one and runs through September thirty of the following year. They call it the fiscal year of twenty three. They call it. We're in fiscal year twenty four. Now, it'll end in twenty four, ten months or nine months of the way through twenty four. That's where the end of this fiscal year is. This is one that
we're in now. But the last one fiscal year twenty twenty three, the budget deficit soared to one point seven trillion. So what's a budget depfith I know many of you know this, but again we have people from all different experience levels who listen to this program. I just want to make it clear
really quickly. A budget deficit means if you take the amount of money that the federal government brought in in the form of taxes, and then you compare that to the amount of money that went out from the government in the form of whatever, from entitlements to defense spending to you name it, all the things that the government spends money on. If you look at the money that
came in, and then you subtract the money that went out. If the money, if you're left with a negative number, meaning if there was more that went out than came in, you have what's called the deficit. Right, So in this case, in this case, we had a one point seven trillion dollar deficit. I mean, that's not even trying, that's not even trying to get close. That's not even pretending to try to get close. And that's up twenty three percent from fiscal year twenty to twenty two.
Now, remember Biden's out there patting himself on the back, pounding his chest, telling us how great Bidenomics is, telling us that he's reducing the budget deficit. It's all a lie. This is total. This is a black and white There is no interpretation here. This is in official documents that show income. If you will, I don't want to call it income. It's it's let's call it revenue, revenue for the federal government and expenses for the
red federal government. It's I say it's black and white, it's really all red. It's red because it's all in the negative. It's not they're not in the black. We are spending one point seven trillion dollars more than we're bringing in, and that's up twenty three percent from the previous year. That's three hundred and twenty billion dollars more this year that we're in the deficit than last year. So let's see. I don't want to get into I don't
want to get too much into the numbers. That's tough on radio, but suffice it to say, suffice to say that we're in the thirty three quickly approaching thirty four trillion dollar federal debt, and that's the compilation. So that's that's compiling all of the budget deficits over the years. So we're starting off nearly thirty four trillion dollars in debt. As we move into not quiet,
I think I think it's as thirty three point six trillion. So we're point four trillion, four hundred billion away from being thirty four trillion in debt. And then, however much of a deficit we run next year will be added on to that thirty three point six trillion dollars. And they want you to think, my friends, these jokers and the Republican leaders in Congress want you to believe the most embarrassing thing for them is that they don't have a speaker.
This happened when we had speakers. My friends, I'm again, I understand. I understand that we have the realities of a divided government, and we have the minority share of that of the control of government. Right. I understand that. I also understand that the House is supposed to be in charge of the of the budget. They're the ones that are supposed to be driving these things. They don't. And again, or if they do, why are they doing this? See, no matter how you slice it,
my friends, it comes back to me to McCarthy. While we agree with these days because we don't want to shut down Todd Okay, we don't want a government shut down, but we're okay driving ninety miles an hour off the cliff towards the end of the road that in like it did for what Bonnie and Clyde or whatever. Right now, Thelman, Louise, Belman, Luise, sorry about that. You just run it off the just take it right off the edge of the cliff. They're not concerned about that because that's not
today, that's not this moment. And maybe in a couple of years, maybe in a couple of decades. It's going to be for your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. They don't care. They're more embarrassed about their precious little who has the gavel sort of thing, which again I'm not saying doesn't matter, and I'm not minimizing to the point. I mean it matters. It's our government. We should have someone there that does a good
job. But my point is we haven't. My point is that we haven't. They've abdicated their responsibility, They've paid lip service. They've driven us to these unsustainable levels of debt and ridiculous behavior. And I'm not sorry. I hope they are embarrassed, but if they're embarrassed over not having a speaker, they're clearly embarrassed about the wrong things. Quick time out, my friends back
here in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. I didn't mention this yesterday, but there was there was a story that I saw over the weekend. I saw this, I think in a couple of places. You may have seen this too. There's a leader in Black Lives Matter named Sean King, and that's s h a u N Sean King. And there's a lot just if you look at some of the things he's said some of the I mean, you can look into him. He's not got the best history
of being accurate and honest with with things. But anyway, he You may have heard over the weekend, and if you have them, happy to report that there have been a couple of American hostages that were freed by Hamas. And on Saturday, this leftist named Sean King went on to social media and he claimed that the family of one of the hostages was a supporter of his. I'm looking here at an article in the postmillennial dot com Postmillennial dot com.
This will be on the in the stack of stuff if you want to take a look. But he says that one of the the hostages released was a supporter of his, and he decided that he was going to jump in and try to help facilitate her release and her mother's release. So he's basically taking credit for this. This is what he wrote on an Instagram post. Hamas just freed the teenager Natalie Rannon and her mother. I'm grateful, as I said last week, he continued, Natalie and her family have been supporters
of mine and protested police violence in America alongside us. I'm also thankful to the Katari government for helping to negotiate this. Dozens of us work frantically behind the scenes to help make this possible. I spoke to Natalie's family this afternoon and they are anxiously awaiting more updates. But according to her family, there was a reporter who asked her family about this. The family doesn't know who this guy is. This was a journalist and her name is Yuna Leibzan.
She said that it's important to clarify that the family says they have no idea who Sean King is. Anyway, my friends just wanted to share that quick time out back here in just a minute, just to have a minute here of my friends. But the Middle East, as you know, is a tinder box, and there's of course missiles being fired towards Israel from other locations.
Now there's the northern front of this war, which could involve a direct you know that there's been from what I gather, from what I could understand, it appears that there have been some skirmishes on the northern front, which would include well Hesbelah, which is not Hamas. But again the same general group of people. They're all funded and supported by Iran. Now we get
the United States. Of course, with our involvement and support. Over there, we're drawing redlines saying if you basically, if you attack US troops, it's gonna be We're gonna jump in. Nobody wants to escalate, but no one wants to be attacked either. So it is a mess over there, my friends, So out of time here, hang in there, have a great week. SDG.