We played this clip on the air today:

It was only a matter of time before we saw more programs like this cash for clunkers. So next up on the list ... home appliances! Yep, the government has a $300 million federal program to boost the sales of energy-efficient home appliances. The program begins late this fall. It will offer rebates ranging from $50 to $200 to purchase household appliances. This program will actually vary state by state and consumers will not have to trade in old appliances for their new purchases.

Well ... let's see if these ace businessmen can pull this one off without looking as bad as they did with Cash-for-clunkers. CFC, in case you don't know, ended last night. Dealers have until noon today to turn in all of their paperwork. We should point out that there is no deadline for government to get the money back to the dealers.

For those of you who, due to some cranial parasite or similar medical or emotional tragedy, still believe that government can do a good job of handling our health care, here are a few reminders of how the government handled CFC. Now remember, CFC was a simple automobile trade-in deal. This is something that car salesmen with nothing more than a high school education have been doing with absolute ease for decades. To handle one CFC deal the dealer had to generate 69 pages of paperwork. A medical textbook can tell you how to do heart bypass surgery in fewer pages.

More CFC goodies? Sure! I got 'em!

I played golf with the owner of several auto dealerships over the weekend. The federal government owes him $1.4 million for the clunkers he's taken in. He's received less than $10,000.

Dealers are suffering with a massive rejection percentage of clunker deals due to paperwork errors. One dealer received a letter from the government telling him that a specific CFC deal was being rejected "for reasons stated below." At the bottom of the form letter in the section for reasons for rejection the words "no reasons given" appeared.

After seeing the disaster that was cash-for-clunkers, one can only imagine why industries or consumers would continue to trust the government to do things efficiently.

Mark Steyn has another great column about Barack Obama spending your future away in order to fund the dreams and schemes of the Democrats. Here's a snippet:

For Mr. Obama, government health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture in which all elections and most public discourse will be conducted on Democratic terms. It's no surprise that the president can't make a coherent economic or medical argument for Obamacare, because that's not what it's about -- and for all his cool, he can't quite disguise that ...

He is absolutely right. If you really believe that Barack Obama and the Democrats are advocating healthcare reform because they care about your health ... then you probably also believe that the rich don't pay their fair share and they only have money because they are lucky. In other words, you're a moonbat. The Democrats are doing this for one reason and one reason only: to make you more dependent on the government. The more dependent you are on the government, the more power they wield over you. It's all about power, folks. How hard is this to understand?

Gotta admit, this guy can flat-out deliver a speech. At the Hannity Freedom Concert on Saturday night Cain reminded the audience that our Declaration of Independence states that when government becomes abusive towards liberty it is not only the right but the DUTY of the people to alter or abolish it. Cain then said that "we have some altering to do, and we have some abolishing to do." Never was he more right.

Also heard Herman deliver a rather succinct explanation of the difference between liberals and conservatives: Liberals believe in bigger government, higher taxes and less freedom and personal responsibility. Conservatives believe in smaller government, lower taxes, more personal responsibility and more freedom.

Just about covers it.

Besides the healthcare debate, Washington is also figuring out how to handle large executive salaries at companies that received bailout money. Not only do we have our pay czar Kenneth Feinberg; but Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs decided to chime into the debate. Baby Huey says, "I don't think the American people begrudge that people make big salaries, as long as they're not jeopardizing the good will of the public in doing so."

Oh, isn't that just so sweet! It's OK with the American people if private companies pay their executives big salaries ... but they need to make sure that they keep the good will of the public along the way. Fine .. so how do we determine whether or not a particular company still enjoys the public's good will? Does some political hack figure that out for us and let us know? Hardly. The public votes with their pocketbooks. If they feel good about the company, they become customers. If they don't, they don't. It is not for the government to decide.

Last week sometime I told you about Henry Waxman's little letter that he sent to the nation's largest insurance companies demanding to see their financial records. Well now we have come to find that this investigation into the insurance companies started a month ago ... probably around the same time the Obama administration decided it was going to change this to health insurance reform rather than healthcare reform. But that is beside the point. The reason I bring this up is because a spokeswoman for Waxman's House Energy and Commerce committee tried to defend these probes, and here's what she had to say:

" ... lawmakers need to know that private insurance money is being spent effectively as part of the effort to control costs."

There is NO obligation whatsoever for the insurance companies to cough up this material. The people of this country are making a stand ... with the insurance companies do likewise?

Another goodie from the White House. Let's see how you feel about this one.

Barack Obama has decided that the task of interrogating terrorists and terrorist suspects should be left up to the White House, rather than the CIA. Obama has created an "elite team" of interrogators that will question suspects in accordance with the Army Field Manual. The name of the unit will be the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. The unit will be overseen by the National Security Council, which gives the White House direct oversight. The rules are that all interrogation of terrorist suspects must be interrogated in compliance with the terms of the Army Field Manuel. Does that tell you enough? Well ... here's more. This means that if you catch some Muslim goon who you absolutely know is involved in a plot to kill a few thousand innocent Americans; and if you are dead-on certain that this individual has information on the details of this plot, but he refuses to talk ---- we cannot deprive him of any sleep or play loud music to encourage him. Loud music and sleep deprivation are, I suppose, defined by Team Obama as "torture."

Is anyone keeping a scorecard here? First we learn that the White House is going to seize control of the 2010 Census. We know that this is so the census can be politicized and the numbers of people prone to vote Democrat can be inflated. Now we learn that the Obama White House is going to have its own Presidential Unit for Safe Suspect Interrogation.

Interesting acronym there.

As soon as the Democrats get through with seizing control of your health care, they're going to go right back to the Cap-and-Tax bill. It's already passed the House, and Senate Democrats are licking their chops?

How eager are the Senate Democrats? Well, Maryland Democrat Senator Benjamin L. Cardin is positively giddy with excitement. He recently called cap-and-tax "the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time." Revenue producing? And here stupid me thought this was about the economy. Cardin also said the Democrats would have to pass cap-and-tax in a reconciliation bill because to do otherwise would be to allow a "handful of Republicans" to tie up this great revenue bill in the Senate.

There is not one dollar in your pocket that these Democrats don't want to put their hands on. Hope you're planning your escape.

Yesterday I (@talkmaster) suggested on Twitter that someone should do a poll: Which would you rather have? (1) Swine Flu, or (2) ObamaCare. Here are some responses:

@rachelburks - I will take my chances with the swine flu.

@shizelbs - Swine flue without a doubt.

@ContractHdwGirl - Definetly the swine flu.

@hoss7071 - I would rather have the swine flu. Unlike ObamaCare, swine flu is something I have a chance of getting rid of.

I loved our marginally-intelligent HHS Secretary telling us yesterday that the Swine Flu is so dangerous because it is a new strain and most people don't have immunity. Well ... here's a flash for you. Every year we have a new flu strain and every year people don't have immunity. Duhhhhhh.

I'll be constantly throwing out tweets during the show. Some will make sense.

Did you know that the Republicans have offered three alternative healthcare reform bills?

Thomas Sowell writes: "The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity."

Political correctness gone mad ... organizations in Europe are banning common words and phrases that could be considered "racist."

Discovering more in the Democrat healthcare bills ... one version would mandate that restaurants display nutrition information on their menus.

Only 17 of the 58 Democratic senators had the gonads to hold townhall meetings on healthcare in their home districts.

Who was asked to help process cash for clunkers rebates? How about employees of the FAA's air-traffic-control unit.

I guess this is what they meant by 'stimulus' money.

Hugo Chavez has taken government school indoctrination to a whole new level.

Has Jeanine Garofalo truly lost it? Here are some of her latest thoughts on the tea party protestors.

Small business owners are starting to realize the realities of Barack Obama's healthcare plan .. and they aren't too thrilled.

Now that the cash for clunkers program is over ... auto dealers are preparing for the 'hangover.'

How many billions does Africa want to be given by the achievers in order to battle against global warming?

What do young Obama supporters have to say about the debate on healthcare? Nothing. That's the point.

Here's a more specific example from the NHS on how patients with muscular dystrophy are being treated under government healthcare.

The real reason Americans are so vocal lately: Big government.

This attempt to reform the health insurance industry is nothing but a massive government wealth redistribution scheme.

Speaking of wealth redistribution, Barack Obama says that rebuilding New Orleans is still a top priority for his administration.