CLAY: One news story that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention — haven’t spent a lot of time on it today; I’m sure we’ll be talking about this week — is that unemployment benefits are finally gonna end. Do you know that there’s more than 10 million jobs open right now? This is the most jobs we have ever had open in the history of the country. A lot of you out there listening to us, you got small businesses, you can’t find people to hire.

There are banners everywhere when I drive all over the city of Nashville where I live, places begging for employees. There are places that can’t even open because they don’t have enough employees right now. What is the impact of all of these employment benefits ending going to be, not only on employment in this country, but also on the murder rate which continues to skyrocket? There was an interesting discussion about that on Fox News over the weekend. Listen to this.

WILLIAMS: You know, I wish I could say it does change the dynamics, but it does not. You’ve got these thugs that are in these neighborhoods that are going to kill and continue to kill as long as these officials don’t take ’em on — and the way you take ’em on is that you hire more police officers. You stop this crap about defunding police departments, and you give police departments more money. In New York alone, you’ve got the lieutenant governor there, Brian Benjamin, who is talking about defunding the police while people are dying! That is just damn-sight ridiculous.

CLAY: That’s Ted Williams. He’s former D.C. homicide detective. He’s speaking truth out there. I do hope that as more people get employed, it just keeps more people busy, which then hopefully keeps people out of trouble. You know, I covered sports for a long time. I remember talking to coaches. I would say, “Man, why do you have early morning practices?” Remember one the guys who did this was legendary Temple basketball coach John Chaney. He would have his guys in at 5 a.m. to do basketball practice that early. (laughing)

And I remember him saying, “Hey, when the guys have to get up that early keeps ’em out of trouble.” That’s true. When you’re super tired, you’re not gonna be out late at night. I’d love it for my own boys as they get older — I got three of them, 13, 10, and 6 — and they go off to college, and they had to get up at 6 a.m. to go to work, sports or otherwise. Man, you’re not gonna be out as late as you otherwise would be.

I tell you in my own life. I did early morning radio for a long time, and that alarm goes off at 4:15? You don’t want to be out that late. And I do think that having a job, having a purpose, having somewhere to go is a big part of getting everything back to normalcy. But the Democrats right now, they don’t want normalcy, because the way they get power is in abnormal times when they could use the excuses of covid to justify absolutely tyrannical moves. And that’s what Senator Amy Klobuchar is talking about as it pertains to the Supreme Court.

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CLAY: Listen to Senator Amy Klobuchar when she is asked in the wake of what’s going on in Texas and what the Supreme Court is doing, whether she would support expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices to more.

KLOBUCHAR: Well, I still am, and you can see why. I don’t think this court is gonna change any time in the near future. Uh, but, again, practically as I look at it, I think, “What is the best way to get to a result that’s the right policy that’s consistent with where the American people are but will not wreak havoc in this country?” And, to me, the best thing is to get rid of the filibuster. But that is an option, and President Biden has a commission in place right now that is considering it.

CLAY: So that’s a radical idea — and look, the reality is, if you ever expand the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court’s never gonna stop being expanded. That’s why we should not do it. That’s why rational, reasonable people — Democrats, Republicans, independents — look at this and say, “Okay, if the Democrats decide to pack the court,” which, if I remember, is what FDR, I believe, if I’m correct, thought about doing back in the 1930s when the Supreme Court was not supportive enough of his New Deal agenda.

What you’ll see is whatever number the Democrats expand for — let’s say it’s three; let’s say it’s six — the next time Republicans have the Senate and have the presidency, they will expand anew and add three or six more to balance out the existing dynamic. And this is where you need to sit back and be reasonable and be rational and recognize that whatever you do — if you do away with the filibuster, for instance — you’re gonna create a massive swing from one year to the next.

And I want to give credit so far to Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema who have said, “Hey, we don’t support changing filibuster from 60 and bringing it all the way back down to a simple majority.” But what the Democrats are trying to do is they are trying to make radical choices, fundamentally radical choices that alter the very fabric of our society in the limited amount of space where they have a tiny sliver of power. Think about it. They want to give two senators to Washington, D.C.

They’re talking about Puerto Rico statehood. They’re talking about adding Supreme Court justices — which is a radical decision, overwhelmingly rejected by the American public. Already they’re trying, although I think they’re gonna fail, to push through a $3.5 trillion budget bill through reconciliation in a tied Senate, because they recognize that they’re gonna lose the House likely in 2022, maybe by an overwhelming margin.

And they also recognize that there are many Senate seats. I think Herschel Walker is gonna win in Georgia against Raphael Warnock. I think if they can get Sununu to run in New Hampshire, I think he’s gonna take a seat there. There are a lot of different moving parts. Even though the battleground isn’t great for Republicans in the Senate, I think there’s a good chance that we’re gonna see a Republican tied in 2022.

And I think it’s gonna sweep Joe Biden’s power out the window, and that’s why Democrats are so desperate right now as we enter fall to change the storyline to abortion and try to hammer through their budget while they can because by the time we get to 2022, their power is gone and we’re getting ready for 2024.