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So you know last week I did my little solo performance of Randy Travis as I told you so because I thought that it was understood that the build back better bill was dead when it was said that it was being shell table child for the next to whatever through the next period or whatever.

And that that was understood to mean the death of the build back better bill well we got another death we got the death more second death yesterday Sunday morning when Joe mentioned the senator from West Virginia Democrats went on Fox News Sunday and said I am not supporting this bill period.

It's a no I may know now I thought he said that I thought they understood that he had said that I thought that he basically been a clear that he was going to be a no from March onward and I don't know how many times you can say no so finally he said no he says I'm never going to vote for this thing.

And you would think that this was a shock and a surprise and a people were saying this is a death this is really a reeling blow I mean the blow to the Biden White House what a blow I mean it came out of nowhere a surprise blow.

And it was on me depressed yesterday with a reporter from the PBS News Hour who said you know this took the White House entirely by surprise and it was terrible blow how could you take it by surprise I don't understand how it could take it by surprise we knew that mansion wasn't going to vote for this bill.

And so in July and before that he said it would be a trillion he could only support a bill up to a trillion five every calculation of this bill has it coming in at a minimum a two trillion.

And if you actually extended out to its honest rational life to four to five trillion.

He wasn't going to support it this is all crazy it's a death blow it's a death blow in the White House interestingly has decided to take the gloves off and go after mansions jugular.

And then he said he would hire he lied to them only last week he came to them with a document that sort of suggested what might be done to create a build back better bill.

That would work we don't know was in that document I think it's entirely plausible that he did produce such a document in which he said let's do these four things and nothing else.

The document was everything that the left ones like climate chip like these trillions of dollars and climate change spending and you know permanent child care whatever.

So I just want to point out two things one is Samstein old friend of mine from the Huffington Post whose mother was my mother's best friend in high school said that this is it for the Earth's climate.

This is it this bill that's it goodbye goodbye Earth's climate if this building past the Earth was going to is the earth was going to survive the bill past.

And now the earth is going to die.

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