This is the podcast for August 3rd, 2012. It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from Day 41 of the Tax Return Crisis, America held hostage. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

And really, you know, Mitt Romney says that Harry Reid should put up or shut up on his

to own tax return thing.

Oh, I've been in meetings with this guy.

Yeah, have you?

I have worked for this guy or people like this who just, and the virtue of working in the

private sector is you don't get called on your cluelessness.

Yeah.

And the absolute jaw-dropping, you don't get called on your cluelessness. Yeah. And the absolute jaw dropping, you can't really mean what you just said, given what you said five minutes ago, bullshit, because you're the boss.

Well, and we're seeing a lot of examples of that, not just Mitt Romney, but Bill Keller came out this week with this crazy editorial about the third way.

You know, we need the third way.

And the third way is these pesky pensioners are preventing us from building a bridge

to the future.

And it never ends.

No.

No.

And if I may quote Al Pacino from Donnie Brasco.

Because we've been watching Mob Week on AMC this week quite a bit.

You know, wise guy is always right.

Even when he's wrong, he's right.

No, it's here's the problem.

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