Matt Walsh

I still think, was it Ann Coulter who referred to John Edwards as the Brett girl?

Or was that Peggy?

Exactly.

There you go, Ben, thinking like a landlord.

I'm sorry.

No, but the thing that I find to be so ridiculous about the conversation around this is that this is in part the consequence of Republicans pushing an idea years ago, one that I myself thought sounded like a good idea, including a lot of smart people, to block grant money to all these states.

that basically we would just take money out of the federal government, send it in a block portion to these states, and then they could set up their own programs that they would presumably manage more responsibly than the terrible bureaucrats in Washington.

It turns out that bureaucrats can be terrible anywhere, including in Ohio.

And it's the kind of situation that, unfortunately, I think is far more rampant

in people's communities than maybe they understood before this whole conversation started.

That all of this kind of money flow from DC that goes there, there are a lot of people there who are totally willing to stand in line to fill out forms, to do the basic DMV crap that they need to in order to apply for these Medicaid grants and the like.

and get a lot of money out of it.

And frankly, I think the next time that I need to renew something at the DMV, I need to find somebody from one of these Somali families to go and just go through the process for me because they're clearly far more efficient at it than I am.

They should feel guilty now.

But also, I think one of the things we have to keep in mind is that if we're going to pay people to take care of their elderly relatives, should we be paying boomer grandparents to watch my kids?

Because the same kind of idea is kind of there, right?

It's like, wait a minute, maybe this will be a lot easier if we just pay all the boomers who already have taken so much money out of the system to spend more time with their grandchildren.

which is something that shows up in poll after poll after poll of younger parents complaining about.

Speaking of kids, we have Mary Margaret Olihan, who I believe is joining from the White House.

I do want to say, we are talking... Oh, yes.