MIKE DAVIS SAYS McCARTHY IS THE UNIPARTY, THE ESTABLISHMENT, THE DC SWAMP
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In these historic times, history is being made in Washington. Not the kind the Swamp likes, of course, not the kind that the Marxist dims, deep staters and corporate globalists like, but history nonetheless. And it s history that may, just may, save our republic.
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Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show and it's particularly great to
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have you with us in these historic times. History is being made in Washington, not the kind the
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swamp likes of course, not the kind that the Marxist dims, deep staters and corporate globalists like,
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but history nonetheless and it's history that may, just may, save our republic. Of course you won't
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hear that from the corporatist news media. The cable newsers think the battle for the speakership
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by 21 patriots who want to limit the speaker's powers, restore regular order and transparency
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is unnecessarily unseemly. And rhino and establishment tool Kevin McCarthy should just be coronated,
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they say, because he does exactly what the lobbyists, corporatists, yes even Marxist
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establishmentarians tell him to do. After all, he was trained by Paul Ryan, who was trained by John
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Boehner. You know how it goes in D.C. And so does the political savant Karl Rove, who thinks it's just
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awful, disastrous, of course he would. He's affixed to the republican establishment for his livelihood
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and the wailing and moaning about 21 republicans standing up against the status quo is more about
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their grief should the 21 congressmen actually prevail and change the autocratic rules of the house
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that deny the vast majority of our representatives any real say in the actual creation and passage of
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legislation. We citizens are such a bother to the elites, aren't we? How far will the McCarthy and
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status quo supporters go? The corruption is just fine with us crowd supporting McCarthy or testing the
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possibilities right now. Even if, well, being a bit unseemly about it all, here's a newbie to the
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swamp whose swearing-in's been delayed by democracy. His name is Don Bacon. He's from Nebraska,
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freshly elected in November, but as you will hear, obviously possessed of considerable swamp talent.
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Here he is talking with Fox's Sandra Smith and John Roberts about a plan to embrace
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the Rhinos' very best pals, the Marxist Dems, of course.
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This is what I am advocating, and others are as well, not just me. If these 20 refuse to be part of the team
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and don't come on board, we have no other choice but to go across the aisle and start negotiating,
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and there's a lot of things you can negotiate. Committee ratios is a big one, because ordinarily you get
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like a four-seat majority in a tight house like this. Maybe we get it to the two-seat majority
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instead of four in all these committees. There may be things we can negotiate on subpoenas.
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There's also on rules, like how to do motions to recommit. There's a lot of things that we could look
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at to see if we could come up with a more bipartisan house. And by the way, we need to do that.
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If you think we can get past totally partisan bills out of the U.S. House, and that a Democrat
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Senate is going to pass them with a filibuster and get it to the president and get a signature,
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it's not going to work. In the end, to get things done, you're going to have to have Democrats on
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board anyway. And maybe we could build a structure that reflects that from the beginning.
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So this is a historic battle underway, one that both political parties want you to,
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well, if they have their way, ignore. And whatever you do, please, they say, don't change a thing.
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Actually, that's what the establishment is ordering, not asking. They're ordering,
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and McCarthy better deliver. Or otherwise, the American people will win one. And it is a big one.
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Our guest is a constitutionalist, a D.C. attorney who's worked in all three branches of our government,
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who's guided a number of Republican presidential Supreme Court nominees through their confirmation
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hearings. Founder of the Article III project and fighting to rein in big tech, here's Mike Davis.
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And Mike, great to have you with us. History in the making. McCarthy has broken a century-old record,
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1923 it was, when the Speaker election then took nine rounds of voting. McCarthy last night set a new
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record, 11 rounds of voting. And today, more votes on the way. Your thoughts?
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Kevin McCarthy does not have 218 votes to become Speaker. He's never had 218 votes to become Speaker.
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He's never earned 218 votes to become Speaker. And he'll never earn 218 votes to become Speaker,
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because too many House Republicans do not trust him. And there is a very good reason that they do not
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trust him. And that's because he's not honest with them. He's not been an effective leader for them
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as the minority leader in the House or any other of his leadership posts over the last many years.
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And so if Kevin McCarthy knows, if he wants to do what's right for his party and for his country,
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he needs to step aside because there are people who are very dug in. It just takes five House
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Republicans who are dug in. Right now, there are 21. Maybe that changes. Maybe that goes down to 10
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or 7. But at the end of the day, there's always going to be, there are always going to be five
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House Republicans who will never vote for his election for House Speaker. He needs to step aside
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to let someone else run. It's looking at him as he's walking around from the floor, then going back
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to the back wall. He, his body language is terrible. If he's a leader, he's leading them in a bad place
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because you can just tell he is flummoxed by the proceedings. He doesn't seem to have any,
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any direction, any apparent strategy. And to watch 10 rounds of this result in, you know,
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just a worsening, a worsening condition for the would-be speaker. I can't even imagine how he feels.
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Can you? I don't think Kevin McCarthy has a conservative bone in his body. I don't think he has
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any guiding principle other than Kevin McCarthy. And he, I mean, what does he stand for other than
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representing corporate special interest, including big tech monopolist? What, what does Kevin McCarthy
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stand for? How is he inspiring his members to vote for him? How is he a leader? Why is he the
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indispensable leader here that, that why is he the leader? You know, you know, the answer to that,
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I mean, he's handing out chairmanships of committees before he's made speaker. He is making
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promises, uh, across the conference, uh, and acting big. And in fact, moving into the speaker's office
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for crying out loud. You talk about a, uh, hubris and really bad judgment. Uh, he is the walking, uh,
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poster boy for it. Yeah. He has known Lou since the, uh, the, he's known since the election that he does,
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he does not have 218 votes to become speaker and that he'll never have 218 votes to become a speaker
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because he didn't win enough house races around the country to make up for the never Kevin votes
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that is in the house before the election and after the election. So he's known this for two months.
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He's the one that's the, who's delaying this. He's the one who is taking house Republicans
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to the cliff today. He's the one who is forcing two days of these votes for house speaker. He has
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known all along his strategy has been, first of all, his campaign manager is Jeff Miller,
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his longtime best friend and top advisor, who is a lobbyist, uh, who has taken millions of dollars
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from Amazon and Apple. He's Kevin McCarthy's campaign manager for the speaker race and their strategy and
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their tactics are, we're going to have Kevin win at all costs. We're not going to make any
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arguments for why he's the best pick. We're just going to use threats and fear and name calling
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to, to get holdouts to finally cave. That was their strategy. They knew that they were going to have,
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they thought they were going to have five votes against them on the floor. They started off with
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19 votes against them. Now there's, there are 21 votes against them. It just keeps getting worse
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by the vote for Kevin McCarthy. He's just not inspiring. He doesn't stand for anything other
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than representing big corporate interest in being a creature of the swamp. Uh, everyone who listens to
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this podcast knows my position on Kevin McCarthy, whom I consider to be, uh, objectionable for a number
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of reasons, but most of all, because he is a rhino, uh, he is not a, a loyal Republican, let alone
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conservative and pretends to be, uh, he is without question, uh, a man who is ruling by fear before he
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even gets the gavel. You can only imagine what would happen. And that brings up the issue of
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what happens next and why in the world is the mainstream corporatist media so averse to open
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public debate about important political decisions that are made by the Congress of the United States.
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We're talking about the second person, uh, from the presidency as the speaker of the house.
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Why in the world was, is mainstream media just melting down over the coverage of this historic event?
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Because Kevin McCarthy is part of the uniparty, the establishment, the DC swamp. Uh, he is, uh,
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the, the, he represents the corporate interest. He represents the status quo, all the lobbyists in
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town love Kevin McCarthy. They've already bought him. Uh, you know, Kevin McCarthy's bought and sold.
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They, they know they already have their hooks into him and they don't want to have to do the work of
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buying a new speaker. So they really, really want Kevin McCarthy at all costs here. The problem is,
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is that he doesn't have the votes and the, in order to be the speaker of the house, you need 218
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votes. And that's very clear. I interned for Newt Gingrich back in, uh, 1998 when he went down as the
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speaker of the house after the Clinton impeachment, because he did not have the 218 votes, but speaker
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Gingrich did the right thing. Remember he, he called them cannibals at the time, but he did not
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force these embarrassing floor votes that he knew he would lose because he thought it would be bad
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for the country, bad for the party. And so he decided, decided to resign and then Livingston ran
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and then he got chased out and then Hastert became the speaker. But that's what Kevin McCarthy should
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have done instead of taking the house and his colleagues, making his colleagues go out there
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and make these embarrassing floor speeches where they're fake crying, uh, and groveling and begging
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and twisting arms and threatening people for votes. He should have just stepped aside. He doesn't have
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218 votes. He's never going to get 218 votes. And frankly, Lou, if this were an anonymous
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roll call, if this were an anonymous vote, he would, Kevin McCarthy would get one vote for speaker.
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It's, I think that that is, well, I think a very good summation, Mike, of the, of the problem he
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faces. But I think that the, the issue for the national corporate media, uh, is that they don't
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comprehend the role of these 20, uh, gladiators and sparks the, the Congresswoman who is voting
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present as a vote against him as well. Of course, those 21, uh, are, are, are remarkable because
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they are saving the Republican and I am not being hyperbolic. I am not being sensational. And when I
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say, I believe they're saving the Republic. If anybody listened to the passion and the words that
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these people are speaking, uh, they're, they're not indulging in the, uh, the platitudes and the
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cliches, uh, that the rest of the conference is, it's pitiful to watch the speeches of the pro
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McCarthy, the pro Rhino, uh, supporters. Think about, listen to, uh, listen to Matt Rosendale
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as he talks about reforming, reforming the, the conference, the Congress itself and their rules
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and restoring integrity, uh, to the house of representatives. Here he is. We have had more
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discussion and debate over the last three days than I have participated in on this floor for
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And it's healthy. It absolutely promotes the collegiality that everyone is striving to obtain.
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We're having discussions, not just within our own party, but amongst each other as we walk around
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and start planning for the legislation that we will need to address over the next two years in the
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118th Congress that sooner or later, yes, sooner or later, we will begin to function as those are the
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good days. And guess what? Our constituents think as they watch us on C-SPAN today, that this is how
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every day functions. They think that this is how every bill gets addressed in this body. And they will
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be shocked to learn the ones that you have not disclosed the little nasty secret to that, unfortunately,
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So Mike, there you have it. Matt Rosendale, uh, giving, I think one of the most important civics
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lessons, uh, in the history of the house to the American people, because he laid out the dirty
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little secrets as he put it. He, I added dirty, but the little secrets of the house, uh, the American
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public isn't aware of, of what a, uh, an authoritarian structure, uh, exists within that great democratic
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house. That's exactly right, Lou. I mean, we're seeing with this house speaker race, what's the
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house, what the members of Congress, what the leadership does every, every year with the federal
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budget. They wait till the very last minute, uh, and they, they go behind, go behind, uh, go, go out
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of the public view, closed doors, smoke filled room. They put together these horrific deals.
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They come back and they say, you need to vote on this. We're going to jam this down your throat.
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Otherwise the country is going to fall apart, right? Or some hysterics. And then the rank and file
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members of the house and the Senate as well, they have to vote for this stuff. And this, this needs to
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change. We need to have a, uh, uh, you know, the Democrats can pretend like they, they care about
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democracy. Let's return, return some democracy to the house of representatives and to the Senate.
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Let's have some more regular order. Let's have it where, where the rank and file, uh, members of the
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house and Senate actually have a say, and it's not just controlled by the leadership and the lobbyists.
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Yeah, I, I, I think that there, it's, it's much worse than that. It's not just the Democrats.
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Let's, let's be clear. The Republicans have been as offensive and egregious, uh, and lazy. Uh, they
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want power, but they don't want to work. They do not want to have to go to the trouble of, uh, going
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through the democratic process and actually getting a vote on bills. Uh, it is to me appalling. And,
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and for Rosendale to go through this, Andy Biggs, uh, standing up there, uh, leading the,
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leading the charge on this, he is the point of the spear. He is the one who first opposed McCarthy.
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These people are doing this because they honestly fervently believe in this country,
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it's government and our way of life. And those 200 people in the conferences, you said,
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they're scared to death because they, they don't know if they're going to have the right committee
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assignment. They don't know if they're going to get a chairmanship. They know that there can be
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great retribution from a, from an upset Kevin McCarthy, uh, if he is speaker and that's why
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they're supporting him. I mean, it's that bald, that raw and that repugnant. Yeah, that's absolutely
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right. The speaker of the house has a tremendous amount of power in the house of representatives
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and Republicans will only control one of the political branches over the next two years. The
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Democrats obviously control the white house and the Senate. It is critically important. We put
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someone in that speaker's office who is red pilled and who understands that our country is on the
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break. This is not our parents or grandparents Democrat party anymore. These are not liberals who
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love America and just disagree with conservatives on the best way to get there. These are not liberals
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who believe in equality and due process and free speech. These are leftists who hate all of those
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things. They believe in equity and BLM and censorship. We need a speaker of the house who understands
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that we need to be fighting. We need to be fighting. We've had three years of COVIDians trying to control
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every aspect of our lives. We've had BLM and Antifa, uh, destroying American cities and going to war
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against the police and bringing crime crime and chaos, uh, to America. We've had these, uh, this
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gender chaos in schools where they're going in and praying on kids, making them confused about their,
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their gender and gender affirming care, which is sexual mutilation of kids and, and hormone pills,
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the kids. We need someone who understands that this is not the liberal Democrat party of the past.
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This is the Marxist left. And we need a, we need a speaker who is, who has, who has very thick skin
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and is willing to recognize the threat we face and who is willing to fight them.
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Do you have anybody in mind who fits that bill?
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You know, I, I, I, I think that there are a lot of good people out there in the house of
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representatives. Uh, I think at the end of the day, the consensus candidate with such a narrow margin
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in the house, I think we have what, 222 seats or 221 seats in the house. I think, I think the person
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222, I think the Republican who can get the 218 seats to appease all sides and actually have thick
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skin and leadership ability and is conservative and principled. I think the person, I really do think
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it's going to come down to Steve Scalise from Louisiana. He's currently, he's doing a, whoa, whoa,
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Steve Scalise. I really do Lou. And I can tell you why he's a rhino. Come on. No, I, I, so look,
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he's not my first choice. I don't think he's the perfect choice, but I actually think Steve Scalise
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is the person who can thread the needle here. And, and he, I mean, I don't know Steve, Steve Scalise
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personally. I've never met him. I know people who have worked for him and they've worked with him
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and they like him. They say he's a good guy and he's principled. I think when people think that
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Steve Scalise is a rhino right now, it's because he's being a second fiddle. He's being a loyal
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lieutenant to Kevin McCarthy over the last many years. Well, that, you know, that paradigm has
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worked out pretty well to indicate the politics and the, and the philosophy of, of the, of a speaker
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or any member of leadership. We go from John Boehner. We go to what was going to be at one point,
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Kevin McCarthy, but then Vince intervened and it became Paul Ryan. And now here we are with Kevin
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McCarthy again, rhinos lead rhinos, lead rhinos. It's the nature of the thing. And the, and the
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driving determinant in it all has been, it seems no matter how conservative the conference is elected
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from all across the country, the Republican party is the only party of the two that's dumb enough
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to then turn and say, we would like a rhino to lead us because rhinos get along better with radical
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Marxists and Democrats than we do. It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen. Well, and this is an
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opportunity for that to break. Well, you know, listen, I, if, if we could pick a conservative
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superstar, I mean, hell, I would love someone like Marjorie Taylor green or Matt Gates or Boebert's or one
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of these fire breathing conservatives. I would love that Jim banks. Uh, I just don't think that
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they're, they're ever going to be able to get the 218 votes to get elected. I actually don't think
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Scalise is a rhino. I actually think he's, you don't think he's a what? I don't think Scalise is a
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rhino. I think he's pretty solidly conservative. I I'm just curious why you think he's a rhino.
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Okay. How long has he been in Congress? He's been there. I don't know, since 2012 years,
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maybe. Yeah. And over that period of time, uh, has he been a part of those buying into, uh, the
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omnibus bills and the, uh, 30 plus trillion dollars of debt? Uh, when's the last time he
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stood on principle, you know, uh, stood like Atlas in the front of the, in the, at the well and said,
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we're not going to do this. Uh, you name one, one act of courage, uh, in that legislative process.
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During his period. And, and I, and I will take that into account. Well, he, I just can't think
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of it. He certainly was a bomb thrower when he was part of the freedom caucus. Um, so, you know,
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I, I think it's, it's different when you're the number two versus the number one. If you're,
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if you're the speaker, I think you have a lot more leeway to be more conservative and bold when
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you're the number two, you just have to kind of play second fiddle. Here's the thing about
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Scalise. And, uh, and I hope, uh, let me be very clear about this.
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Mike, you know, the, the fact is McCarthy trained Scalise just like Ryan trained McCarthy. I mean,
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this is a chain and like banner trained Ryan. Uh, it's, it goes on and on and it's how we perpetuate
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this cesspool, this swamp, this aggravating disappointment, uh, for the American people.
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It's more than a disappointment. It's an outrage. And then they sit there and they talk about
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nonsense. Like, uh, you know, we're going to investigate the Biden's and we're going to
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stop 87,000 IRS agents. You and I, and they know that what they're saying to the American people,
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when they say that they will not be able to do because they won't have a justice department.
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They won't have an FBI and they won't be able to deliver on a single one of those stitches. And
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when it comes to the budget, the budget of the United States government is settled until the end
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of September, 2023. Right? Well, yeah, I would ask this Lou, who would you pick for Speaker of the
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House? Who would I pick? Byron Donalds right now. Oh, I'm with you on that. I'm, I'm fully with you
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on that. We're in agreement. But I, but let me say why too. Byron Donalds has been there. This is
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his second term in office. And some people say, Dobbs, you've got to be crazy. This man has only been
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there two years. You know what? That's an advantage right now to only have been in the swamp for two
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years is a, it's unlikely that the swamp will ever get to a man of his integrity. In my opinion,
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I'm pretty good at judging character. His is outstanding. And I love the fact that those,
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those 20 men and women who were standing up for the American people in this process,
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reminding us that this is a democracy, that this is a constitutional Republic and that they have
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obligations to us. This is one of the most refreshing moments in our country's history.
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I haven't shared this loudly since Donald Trump was elected in 2016 to break up this establishment that
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is so corrupt and foul. And I'm talking about corporate elitist. I'm talking about, once I used to
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talk about corporate America, but these are corporate globalists, the billionaire donor class
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that pursues only their financial goals. This is a country in, the oligarchs are suffocating us right
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now. And I don't care who they are. And some of them I like even, but what they're doing to the
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country is an outrage. I am with you 100%. I am. I mean, I am a pretty radical bomb thrower and I love
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these 21 house Republicans who were standing firm. They are bold. They are courageous. They are going
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to take, they're taking so much heat right now. There are going to be so many retributions against
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them when this race is over and, but they are doing the right thing. They are putting our country
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ahead of their own interest. I think it's incredible what they're doing. Uh, I just, and look at the
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cowards in the national media who are criticizing them. They are conservative extremists. These are not
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conservative extremists. These are vigilant, vigorous patriots doing the right thing for the country,
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not themselves. Uh, I, I admire each one of them because it takes, as you well know, it is taking immense
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courage for those people to put themselves in front of the national media, the American public, and be reviled
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for standing up for the right things. That's how upside down this country is right now. Right is
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wrong. Wrong is right. You know, the sky is down and the ground is up. These people are doing this
00:26:40.500
nation a service. It's just, they deserve so much gratitude and respect for what they're doing. Byron
00:26:48.040
Donald's in, in straightforward language is the freshest, um, uh, I think, uh, toughest, uh, brightest
00:26:58.140
guy, uh, in that conference right now. I really do. Uh, I, when I've interviewed him, he is crisp. He is
00:27:04.960
thought out. He is, you know, I'm not asking the question for, for the first time to this man. He's had
00:27:10.280
that question. He's thought about it. Uh, he's so underestimated. Uh, and I think those, those
00:27:17.820
representatives who are standing up in Congress and, and, and singing his praises, uh, you know, I, I,
00:27:24.540
they know him best and they are putting him forward. Uh, and I think this is a chance it's going to be
00:27:31.640
lightning in the bottle. And I understand that, but to put him up as speaker and have him win the
00:27:37.580
speakership would be one of the healthiest things that could ever happen to the house of
00:27:41.680
representatives. One of the greatest things that could happen to this government, uh, and the
00:27:47.740
Republican party, but most of all to this Republic and to the American people. I'm with you. I think
00:27:54.740
this guy's great. He's a real American from the real world. He grew up with, you know, a single mom
00:28:00.400
in New York city. He has made it. Uh, he he's, he, you know, he's pretty new in the house, but he also
00:28:06.820
served four years in the Florida house of representative, uh, or two years, wherever
00:28:11.920
it was before he came to the house of representatives. So he has, you know, five or
00:28:16.180
six years of legislative experience. So he's not an amateur. Uh, I, I really liked the guy. I think
00:28:21.140
he's very impressive. I don't know if he has the votes to be speaker right now, but I, I hope that
00:28:25.960
the Republicans put him in leadership because I find him to be so impressive. He's young. I think
00:28:31.620
he's my age, like 44 years old, 45 years old. And I, he has a very bright future in the house
00:28:37.800
of representatives. And so even if he can't make speaker this round, he needs to be put
00:28:42.660
in leadership. If he doesn't make speaker this round, the Republican party is, is nihilistic.
00:28:50.040
It is, it's on the verge of suicidal. This is a moment to do the right thing. Uh, those 20,
00:28:58.740
those 20 Republicans right now have seized the moment and identified the issue. It is the
00:29:05.900
corruption of the house of representatives and the swamp in which it lives. It is time for,
00:29:12.320
for everyone to roll back that swamp. This can be a, everybody wants to do bipartisan things.
00:29:17.960
Uh, they talk bipartisan, principally the Democrats, cause they're not in control,
00:29:21.640
but if you want to be bipartisan, let's get rid of all of that nonsense. Uh, you know,
00:29:28.040
shutting down amendments, shutting down the participation, going to, uh, you know, just
00:29:33.920
unanimous consent instead of a, uh, a vote, uh, on the floor. I mean, the, this, the house of
00:29:42.280
representatives right now is a sick, sick and corrupt institution, just like most of the federal
00:29:47.640
government. And by the way, when I say most, I mean about 90% of it. Am I being too, uh, too harsh?
00:29:54.160
No, I, I think I would love to see the, I would love to see, uh, most of the federal government
00:30:00.120
dismantled. And if you actually, uh, sent power and money out of Washington and back to the states
00:30:06.400
and back to the people who, who, who we send to Congress, wouldn't really make that big of a
00:30:12.080
difference. It shouldn't be so impactful. What happens on that in the house of representatives,
00:30:17.000
it should, what should be most impactful is what hap, what happens in your, you know, your city
00:30:22.000
council or your state legislative body, not the house of representatives. Well, I, I take your point
00:30:28.080
about controlling your, your, your local government, uh, is your, you can exert the greatest influence
00:30:36.580
because of the proximity, but, uh, the house of representatives properly, properly run. And that
00:30:44.300
means following traditional, uh, process and rules, uh, and a distribution of power again, back to the
00:30:51.500
representatives. Uh, no, you're not going to be able to run through all of these bills, spending
00:30:56.080
lavish sums of money that it for projects would like to study, uh, you know, mockingbirds and hummingbirds
00:31:02.740
on their travels to, uh, uh, you know, whatever their origin is in the migration system. Yeah.
00:31:08.260
That's not going to happen, but that's exactly the point to reduce the size of government, to reduce
00:31:13.700
its rate of growth, to slow down first, and then start spending and start paying our way through.
00:31:22.020
We're now, you talked about, uh, you know, Scalise being there for 12 years. Uh, you know,
00:31:27.860
McCarthy has been there 14 years. Uh, the point was made, I believe by Andy Biggs,
00:31:32.660
uh, $11 trillion was the national debt 14 years ago. And now it's almost $33 trillion. It's, uh,
00:31:43.260
it's going to be approaching 33 trillion by the end of this fiscal year. It's, this is shameful.
00:31:50.460
And the Republicans are supposed to be conservatives and it's obscene to see what the Republicans as a
00:31:56.980
party have done. They are dishonest and they are not as dishonest, but because the Marxist Dems are
00:32:04.580
trying to, trying to overtly destroy the country, but the Republicans have got, got to wake up and
00:32:12.660
talk straight. And when they start the nonsense with these, you know, these cliches and nonsense,
00:32:18.420
about 87,000 IRS agents, I want them the hell out too, but they're going to be there for a year,
00:32:23.860
no matter what, because that's already happened. They're going to have to understand that the
00:32:28.820
American people aren't fools. And this is a great way to start with honest leadership selected by an
00:32:35.300
honest conference, uh, of, of rhinos and moderates, uh, and in conservatives, there is no reason for,
00:32:44.660
for any other result. I just think Byron Donald is such a, an opportunity for true leadership in the
00:32:51.140
house. I would, I would love it. And if we can get 218 votes for him, I am all for it. And I think
00:32:57.220
that this debate that's going on, I think we're on the 11th vote now for speaker. I think this is a
00:33:02.900
very good thing. It tells the DC establishment, the uniparty of the swamp that, you know what,
00:33:08.660
conservatives don't have to take this anymore. So they need to make it. This is such a signal to
00:33:13.940
the, to Washington that, that the American people are demanding, demanding change here.
00:33:18.740
And we should be calling these 21 courageous house Republicans and thanking them, sending
00:33:23.940
them emails, promoting, promoting them on social media and make, make them understand that there
00:33:29.300
are millions and millions and millions of real Americans in the real world who are supporting
00:33:33.860
their efforts. And you know, this is despite the protestations of columnists and the newspapers and
00:33:42.020
the, the left-wing media at large, uh, by the way, and the conservative media as well,
00:33:47.780
they're not exempt either. Uh, suggesting this is some sort of an imposition, uh, on the, uh,
00:33:54.900
on the great national media that has better things to do than watch, uh, a historic moment like this.
00:34:00.980
Yeah. I mean, think about when Republicans will control the house and that's it. Think about if
00:34:06.180
there is a speaker, Kevin McCarthy going into the white house and negotiating at the end of the year
00:34:12.580
with white house, chief of staff, Ron Klain and Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, McCarthy's
00:34:17.940
going to give away the farm like he does every single year, like he's doing right now in this
00:34:25.140
house speaker race. I was saying earlier today, he's given away his shirts and socks and pants,
00:34:32.180
and even his underwear, he has nothing left to give. And here we are on the 11th vote for speaker.
00:34:37.940
This guy desperately clinging on, he can't even get 218 Republicans in the house to vote for him.
00:34:44.980
And yet we want him to go, go negotiate against the Biden white house and the, the, the Senate
00:34:50.260
Democrats and represent Republicans and conservatives. He's ineffective. He's, he's the worst combination
00:34:56.660
of incompetence and arrogant. You can be one, you can't be both. It's time for speaker or for Kevin
00:35:03.540
McCarthy to step aside. He cannot be the speaker. And, uh, I want to just turn to one other issue.
00:35:12.180
And that is, you know, we're not, we're not holding up important people's business, uh,
00:35:17.860
either. I think we should point out they're doing the people's business in selecting a speaker,
00:35:24.500
ultimately God willing, uh, who will be representative of, uh, uh, of the principles
00:35:31.940
and values of the Republican party. Uh, someone said the other day, Mike, to me, uh, you know,
00:35:38.180
the, the, there were, they were concerned about, uh, you know, the, the agenda here, the Republican
00:35:44.340
agenda. You know, I don't know of anybody who can tell us what the conservative agenda is. I don't
00:35:50.980
know of anybody who knows what the, uh, the commitment to America is. Uh, this, this is a,
00:35:58.260
this is a bizarre Republican party. That's asking, why did we have such a narrow win in November?
00:36:05.140
The reason is don't want to do what the hell they were going to do. And they made no promises,
00:36:09.700
no substantive promises. Uh, and that was just fine with the leadership of the, on Capitol Hill,
00:36:16.100
wasn't it? Well, I mean, that's the problem. That was the problem with Kevin McCarthy. He,
00:36:19.540
he, he doesn't, he doesn't have a conservative bone in his body. He doesn't have any guiding
00:36:23.540
principles. His guiding principle is Kevin McCarthy. And, uh, he, he will, if you have
00:36:28.820
a $5,000 PAC check, he'll, he'll talk to you. If you don't have a $5,000 PAC check, good luck. So
00:36:35.220
if you're a parent concerned about gender chaos in schools, forget about it. Kevin McCarthy's not
00:36:41.860
going to talk to you. You don't have a corporate lobbyist. You know, if you're a real American in the
00:36:46.260
real world worried about gas prices or crime or these COVID lockdowns or BLM or that the Marxist
00:36:54.260
chaos that they've watched for the last three years and done nothing about Kevin McCarthy is not your
00:37:00.900
man. If you are a fortune 50 corporation, Kevin McCarthy is your man. Oh yeah. Well, and, uh, and
00:37:08.980
quite a large number of the Democrats and Republicans in the house of representatives as well. Uh, right
00:37:14.980
now, hopefully that will change. I want to, and also you're working very hard, uh, to, to bring rain in
00:37:24.100
the immense power of big tech and this, in this country, uh, give us a sense of what you think,
00:37:31.140
not what you want, but how much power, how much influence can there be in this, this new 118th
00:37:39.460
Congress that's that will be dedicated to reigning in the immense power of corporate globalists.
00:37:47.140
And this is my biggest problem with Kevin McCarthy. Lou, if Kevin McCarthy becomes the house speaker,
00:37:53.460
uh, you can forget about any bipartisan effort to reign in big tech. That is done. Kevin McCarthy
00:38:02.580
is the number one impediments to internet accountability projects efforts over the last
00:38:08.740
three years to reign in big tech. Number two is Jim Jordan. Kevin McCarthy is by far number one. And the
00:38:14.740
reason is Kevin McCarthy takes so much money from big tech and he does their bidding. And the bigger
00:38:22.340
problem is, is Jeff Miller, Kevin McCarthy's top advisor has taken millions from Amazon and Apple.
00:38:29.620
He is Kevin McCarthy is a complete total obstacle to any efforts to reign in big tech. And that's why
00:38:37.860
he could not be the speaker of the house. And that's why we need to have a viable plan B. If we don't have
00:38:43.860
a viable plan B, Kevin McCarthy is going to win by defaults by attrition. Mike Davis. Thanks so much for
00:38:50.500
being with us for being with us. We appreciate it. Uh, and thank you for being here and let's, uh,
00:38:54.420
let's all pray that, uh, the Republic is well served by the choices that the Republican conference makes
00:39:00.420
here, uh, over the next few days. Uh, we assume it'll be a few days, few weeks, whatever it may be. History,
00:39:08.340
history is being made. Thanks so much for being with us. God bless. Thank you. Mike Davis,
00:39:15.060
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