Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio to discuss Joe Biden’s consistent failures and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s hypocrisy.
(Trump rally clip plays)
Leahy: Crom, that was 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. That was the opening line of the rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, Saturday night at 8 pm Eastern. He began with that, and he kept up that theme for an hour and a half.
Carmichael: Well, he could have kept it up for three hours.
Leahy: (Chuckles) You are quite right.
Carmichael: Because when I stop and think about it and I actually have done this, I’ve actually asked myself, is there anything that Biden has done that I think is correct? Has he had one single policy that I think is good?
And I came up with one and then he dashed it. And that is when he came out on Thursday with the Democrat senators and the Republican senators and announced that they had negotiated an infrastructure deal and he didn’t actually say that there wouldn’t be a tax increase to pay for it, because the Republicans said that as part of the deal.
When he did that, I said, well, that’s shocking. I’m surprised that Biden agreed to that. This is completely out of character for him to agree to something that made sense. and then low and behold he holds another press conference two hours later and blows up the deal.
It says, I agree to that deal, but I will only sign that deal if I get everything else I want. What’s the point in negotiating a deal when that deal is contingent upon the other side agreeing to give up everything that that deal made? Biden, unfortunately for the country did not disappoint me by doing something correct.
Leahy: See, this explains to me, I think, Crom why he has brought former Secretary of State John Kerry into the administration to be some kind of global climate advisor because obviously, he’s following in John Kerry’s footsteps.
He was for the infrastructure deal before he was against it. The only difference, in this case, is it only took him two hours to change his mind. It took Kerry about two weeks to change his mind on that other deal.
Carmichael: By the way, there’s a report that Kerry in taking the position sold a bunch of assets, stocks in the energy and fossil fuel industry that have been paying him significant dividends and financial institutions so he could take the position with clean hands.
(Leahy chuckles) That’s like Al Capone turning in all of the guns that he used to shoot people with and saying, I’m now a good guy. (Leahy laughs) Kerry has been making money off of the very companies that he has been complaining about for years.
Leahy: You kind of get the impression Crom, that all of the people in the Biden administration are dishonest supporters and hypocrites and supporters of the collapse. The intention to collapse the American Constitutional Republic
Carmichael: I don’t think they all sit around and say explicitly, what can we do to destroy the Constitution?
Leahy: They don’t say that. That it’s just embedded in their worldview.
Carmichael: It’s embedded in their world view that there should be one party in power and the government should have the final say on everything. And so if you believe those two things, then automatically you find the Constitution to be a very constraining document.
And any institutions that would uphold the Constitution would stop you from doing those things. And that’s the Supreme Court, which gets us to Sheldon Whitehouse.
Leahy: Sheldon Whitehouse!
Carmichael: Yes.
Leahy: We’re talking Democratic hypocrisy here.
Carmichael: Yes. He’s a Senator from Rhode Island.
Leahy: And what did he do?
Carmichael: Well, two things that he did. One is he has been for for a very long time a member of an all-White boating club or some kind of a beach club. But it’s an all-White club.
Leahy: And Rhode Island, by the way, during the Gilded Age, all of the Robber Barons went to the Coast of Rhode Island and built these grave mansions.
Carmichael: Was that the Hamptons?
Leahy: No. The Hamptons is in Long Island. This is Rhode Island. But if you go along the coast, there all of these great mansions from the Gilded Age, there there’s a big a social scene there. looks like Sheldon Whitehouse is right in the middle of it.
Carmichael: Right in the middle of the hoity-toity elitists. And I say this only because he is such a hypocrite. If he didn’t make such a big deal out of the importance of critical race theory and so supportive of Black Lives Matter then his membership in an all-White club wouldn’t bear the newsworthiness. The media is completely uninterested.
Leahy: I think it’s interesting because it’s been reported that this club, and I don’t have all the details, it’s been reported as an all-White club. The all-White club has said, no, we’re not an all-White club. And yet I don’t think they have anybody who’s not White who’s in the club. And Sheldon Whitehouse’s explanation has been something like, well, this is just a family tradition.
Carmichael: Yeah. Well, the family tradition is that he’s a member of an all-White club. (Leahy chuckles) I mean, his whole family is now. But then let’s go to the next thing. And this is why this matters.
Sheldon Whitehouse now has formally sent a letter to the Marshalls office or whatever it is that oversees the Secret Service and the people who guard Supreme Court justices wanting to know the places that the members of the Supreme Court have been for each of the last 10 years. Every location.
Leahy: Why is that his business?
Carmichael: It’s not. It’s supposed to then remain classified. He wants to intimidate the justices.
Carmichael: He’s trying to intimidate the Supreme Court justices. And maybe he’ll be maybe he’ll do it from his all-White club.
Leahy: (Laughs) That’s a good one Crom.
These Democrats are vile.
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Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) to the newsmakers line to discuss the out of control power trip of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, changing mask mandates, and the elusive role of John Kerry.
Leahy: We are delighted to welcome back to our microphones, the voice of sanity (Burchett chuckles) in Washington, D.C., Representative Tim Burchett from Knox County. Welcome back to The Tennessee Star Report Congressman Burchett.
Burchett: Thanks for having me on, brother. I really appreciate it.
Leahy: I don’t know how you guys do it up there right now with Nancy Pelosi running the House of Representatives like it’s her own little dictatorial club. How do you stand it?
Burchett: You pray a lot, honestly. There is no rhyme or reason and even our own party or parties and shambles. They’re on us about an election for the person who literally just schedules our meetings and at the end of the Republican Party. But dadgum, look at them.
We can’t even have a meeting during the day on a Zoom call because she scheduled three at the exact same time and we don’t have the bandwidth to do it. They are always collapsing. We were on with Secretary Buttigieg a few weeks back and I asked the chair lady, why does he keep freezing?
Why can’t we have this testimony? And she said, well, there are three other meetings going on at the same time. And that is just a small sample of a bigger problem. I think she and the President, their day is come and gone and the country is not being well served by them and all the radical agenda.
Gas lines, who would have thought we had gas lines in 2021? Inflation is rising, of course, at an alarming rate. The border is overflowing. There’s trouble in the Middle East. And all they’re concerned about is making sure that the media over there is taken care of.
And the media should know better and put their headquarters where Hamas headquarters are or where there are missiles being launched. And it’s just beyond belief. I think our priorities are completely out of whack with this bunch. We’re spending a one trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.
Then it went to a one-point three then two. Now it’s a three. And five percent of it, I think, goes to roads and bridges, traditional infrastructure. The rest is Green New Deal and virtue signaling. The midterm elections could not get here soon enough.
Leahy: I’m with you on that. How different is it under the Pelosi speakership now than it was previously when they actually had somewhat normal operations?
Burchett: This year, it’s just kind of gone. I’ve always been under her reign of terror so to speak (Leahy laughs) when I came in. But just in the last year, under COVID, she’s lost any resemblance of leadership. Then there is the mask mandate.
Everybody’s saying, well, take the mask off. And now I read early this morning that the reverse in that they’re saying, well, maybe we went too fast on that. She’s allowed unelected bureaucrats to dictate to us American citizens what we can and cannot do and to me, that’s that is wrong.
And she is wrong as she could be. I know there’s plenty of edited versions of her speaking but just go watch some of the unedited versions. It’s just unbelievable. It’s unbearable really is what it is.
Leahy: Yeah, that’s a good term. Unbearable.
Burchett: The Democrats know it. If you talk to any of them off the record, the vast majority of them, they’re just waiting their turn. It’s all they’re doing right now.
Leahy: Now you talked about the mask mandate. This is so very confusing. The confusion starts with the CDC, but also, I don’t know if you call it confusion more dictatorial anti-science policy in the House of Representatives itself.
I saw last week the CDC said you don’t need to wear masks if you’ve been vaccinated. Then on Saturday, they said, oh, but yes, school kids have to wear masks or they recommend you should. Now Nancy Pelosi there was a little bit of a brouhaha about this. One of your colleagues, I think it was Brian Mast from Florida who appeared on the House floor.
And even after the CDC said, you don’t have to wear a mask if you’ve been vaccinated, she set the little dictatorial rule that you’ve got to wear a mask on the floor. So Brian Mast from Florida went into the House and dramatically ripped his mask off.
When last I saw this, she said, you’re going to be fined $500. a day. And then thereafter $1,000. a day. Where does maskgate stand now in the House of Representatives?
Burchett: I’m sure she’ll make us wear it until the end of the year or something. It’s just more of her just showing her power. And it’s ridiculous because if you look on the floor and if the media would ever show it, the Democrats are always huddled over there and a very un-social distancing manner.
And they come over there and tell us to separate. We got to wear our masks. The Sergeant at Arms is threatening to fine us. And it’s just like the metal detectors, which is another ridiculous rule that she’s done. She waves it for herself.
She walks right through it. Don’t forget, she brought somebody there that was COVID positive to vote for her because it was a very close vote on the House floor.
Leahy: I remember that.
Burchett: The national media sort of forgot that. I mean, it was just a bogus deal all the way around. It’s just a power kick for them. And we all know it and it’s ridiculous, but we got to live under it because she is the Speaker.
Leahy: The Speaker does get to set the rules of behavior in the House of Representatives. But if the Speaker said, everybody has to hop on one foot before they speak, would that be a legitimate rule?
Burchett: I would say about half the people in there would start hopping on one foot. (Leahy laughs) The Republican Party would not because there are some others that think that she’s just the greatest thing in the world.
You know, something else I don’t get is how can a Catholic be just wide open on pro-choice? And if a baby is born alive, if a doctor is allowed to kill that baby, how can she get by with that? I question that. That makes me very angry. Her agenda is clearly for her and not for anybody else and not for the wellbeing of the country.
Leahy: Congressman Burchett, why do the Democrats go in lockstep along with this sort of dictatorial approach of Nancy Pelosi? Why is no one there of independent mind or courage or spirit on the Democratic side?
Burchett: I would say the Democrats use the carrot of the stick pretty much. If you act up, they give you the stick. If you don’t, they give you a carrot. Jim Cooper, your representative from right there voted against Pelosi a couple of times, and I guess he ended up in the closet for an office. But they punish pretty well.
They do a pretty good job of that. And we don’t. I don’t know that we should, but they sure do. They sure do punish their people. They get out of line like the girl with the throuple or whatever her name was in California, she was a wild card. And then, surprisingly, if something got leaked to the press.
Leahy: Surprisingly. (Laughs)
Burchett: I doubt that that was any Republicans that leaked it. But they just figured she was too much of a wild card and they took care of her. If I was a Democrat, I would fear other Democrats before I would fear Republicans because they’re a pretty vicious bunch. Everybody down there is trying to get to that Speaker’s office somehow. Everybody thinks that they got a shot at it.
Leahy: They want to be the Speaker. They want the power.
Burchett: I just want to make sure I get home to my wife and daughter.
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Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed all-star panelist Clint Brewer to the studio to weigh in on John Kerry’s no mask flight and Senator Elizabeth Warren’s irresponsible and historically inaccurate rhetoric to remove the filibuster.
Leahy: We are talking with all-star panelist and recovering journalists Clint Brewer about our big story at The Tennessee Star with a picture of John Kerry on a commercial flight yesterday not wearing a mask. That story has gone all over the place. It was a lead story at Fox News.com all yesterday. It was on Brett Beers and Fox News, followed by Tucker Carlson, followed by Sean Hannity, followed by Shannon Bream. All these stories last night. Breitbart has covered it. The Dail Mail has covered. The Daily Caller has covered it. TheBlaze has covered it.
Brewer: They’re crediting you guys appropriately?
Leahy: All of them. Crediting The Tennessee Star.
Brewer: Good.
Leahy: A couple of questions from Breitbart that boil my friends on the editor at Breitbart. John Kerry said to Tweet about the photographic evidence about this clear violation of the Federal Order and American Airlines policy that it was ‘momentary.’ He was not eating or drinking. He does not claim that he was.
If that is okay for John Kerry to do, can anyone else have “momentary slip of the mask?” This was a question to American Airlines. Second, what is an acceptable amount of time for someone to have their mask slip off their nose and mouth for a momentary period? Has John Kerry been disciplined in any way for violation of this health order? Will American Airlines allow John Kerry to continue to fly or ban him from future flights for this violation?
Brewer: Does President Biden have a press briefing today? I kind of think he does.
Leahy: He has like a March 25 press conference. Somebody will ask him about that.
Brewer: As an avowed, dedicated mask-wearing American (Leahy laughs) during this pandemic and as a Republican I wish Czar Kerry would set a better example for the American
Leahy: A pretty bad example. Let me tell you what the consequences of this is. I suppose at the Tennessee Star we will be responsible for more global warming because clearly what John Kerry is going to do now is he’s going to go to the President and say, Mr. President obviously, I cannot fly commercial flights anymore because they’re going to take pictures of me not wearing my mask. I need to use my private plane now.
Brewer: Mike, you’re in talk radio, all the hot air alone is hurting the climate. (Leahy laughs)
Leahy: That’s good. Speaking of hot air in Washington, DC, Senator Elizabeth Warren is generating a lot of hot air with her desire to get rid of the filibuster. You just saw this the story come out. Tell us about it, Clint.
Brewer: There’s a story on Axios about her saying that the filibuster is racist because it is used based on what I read, she seems to believe it’s used primarily by Southern politicians to hold back advances and civil rights legislation. Now, I hate to sound like a musty old historian here, but let’s get our facts straight. The filibuster is not something created in the Constitution, but it has existed as a rule of the Senate since 1806.
Leahy: That was before civil rights legislation, I would think, right?
Brewer: Yes.
Leahy: It’s 150 years before.
Brewer: And it was not used until 18 37 but it has been used ever since then. And I’m pretty sure that Democrats have had the majority in the U.S Senate several times since 1837. now, Yes, it is correct that the longest and most famous filibuster was sent by the late Senator Strom Thurmond fighting the federal Civil Rights Act. That is accurate.
But to put it in a modern-day context and say that it only exists for Southern politicians to hold back civil rights, first of all, it’s irresponsible rhetoric. Second of all, it paints a large group of very dedicated public servants from one part of the country with a broad brush that is unfair and inaccurate. And it’s just more of the same from Elizabeth Warren. It just feels like her usual level of attention-seeking and grandstanding.
She couldn’t get nominated president, and she’s not in the cabinet, and it’s just gross and it’s irresponsible. And it’s the kind of partisan hackery we don’t need in this country right now. We’ve got bigger problems to deal with. But this is like the whole talk about packing the court. And this flies all over me as a taxpayer and as a voter with both parties. Just because you’re either out of power or in power, you don’t change the institutional rules of something like the U.S. Senate just to suit your immediate purposes.
Go win some elections. Quit trying to move the goalposts to suit your agenda. Work within the system that has brought this country along successfully for 200 plus years. You don’t just flip the paradigm in an institution like the Senate because right now it suits your purposes. That’s very short-sided. It’s not good for the Republic, and it’s not good for the American people.
Leahy: Isn’t that what the Democratic Party is about right now, though? Will for power? Having power and exercising it with no regard for the institutions of the American country?
Brewer: What you’ve got in the senators is a very thinly, divided Senate with a couple of very moderate Democratic senators who are siding as much with Republicans as they are with Democrats. That’s uncomfortable for progressives like Elizabeth Warren. Now in the House, it’s less struggle because they got more of a majority.
Progressives like Warren in the Senate are feeling the heat because they can’t move the ball for their particular agenda. And so what’s the answer? Well, we’ll just change the rules that have existed since 1806. It’s cheap, I guess, is the best way to say it. It’s a cheap attempt at moving the goalposts. And other than that, it’s also just inaccurate.
Leahy: Yes. But you’re talking Senator Elizabeth Warren, who’s been known for being inaccurate about her own personal heritage and other things. I look at Democrats, and I think they are generally a bunch of insane liars who hate the country. But that’s just my view.
Brewer: Look, I know plenty of good people who are Democrats. I just don’t think Elizabeth Warrens one of them.
Leahy: I’m with you on that.
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