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The Israel-Hamas war has been going on for a week and a half now. Israel has been dropping thousands of bombs on Hamas targets in Gaza, and the U.S. has been sending in massive amounts of arms and troops to assist in the effort. Meanwhile, the Swamp Dwellers are scrambling to elect a new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mitch McConnell and the deep state are not sure which way to go.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. This is The Great America Show and welcome. Great to have
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you with us. The Israel-Hamas war started one week ago when Hamas terrorists crossed over
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what most Israelis thought was a secure border into Israel. Hamas launching thousands of rockets
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into Israel and the Israeli war government declared it means to kill every single Hamas member in Gaza
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and they've gone about achieving that goal with determination. Dropping 6,000 bombs on Gaza
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already. Almost a thousand bombs a day and those bombs having effect. Killing Hamas terrorists in
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untold numbers, reducing much if not most of Gaza to rubble. And the Israeli ground war hasn't yet
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even begun. Their armored units not yet rolling into Gaza as surely they will. And polling shows that
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Americans support the Israelis. Their vow to eliminate Hamas in Gaza three to one. Americans support
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Israel in that objective, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. The Biden administration is remarkably
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quiet these days. They've declared their commitment to Israel. That meant a carrier strike force was moved
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into position in the eastern Mediterranean. More U.S. warships on the way and huge supplies of U.S.
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munitions pouring into Israel. While Hamas supporters cry out with calls from the United Nations,
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so-called humanitarian groups from global Marxist groups, for Israel not to retaliate further against
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Hamas. Those calls, in my opinion, pitiful and repulsive in their hypocrisy and duplicity.
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This war, it seems to me, will end only when Israel decides, and no sooner, as it should be.
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In the midst of the Hamas atrocities, this war they wanted with Israel, Washington seems completely
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united in support of Israel. But the swamp itself is in turmoil as they watch the House Republicans
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searching for a new speaker. The Marxist Dems in the deep state seem confused, unsure of which way to
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return. And as of today, they're contemplating what it would mean to all of the desperate swamp
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creatures to have a Speaker of the House who isn't a Marxist Dem, who isn't a tool of the left or K
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Street, not a rhino, but instead a real Republican, who will lead the conference with integrity and
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advocate and advance the America First agenda of the Republican Party and its 2024 presidential nominee.
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As of this moment, it appears Jim Jordan is the likely winner of the Speakership.
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Jordan, the well-regarded and respected Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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It's unclear how long it will take for the process to elect the Speaker. No one knows, and I can't even
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guess, frankly. Days, certainly, but no one knows how many.
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And now, a late add to the confusion, brought to you by little-known Congressman Austin Scott.
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He says he now wants to be the Speaker. It's unbelievable. Another establishment congressman,
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a rhino by any other name, and a never-Trumper to boot. And the conference better wake up to what
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McConnell and the boys in the Senate, the boys and girls in K Street and the Chamber are doing now.
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The swamp would rather have a Marxist Dem speaker than an America First Republican.
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It's a battle, and it's going to be determinate in how the republic fares, in my opinion,
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over the coming decades. Joining us now is attorney and great American Mike Davis.
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He heads up the Article III project. And Mike, let's start with what is now the week-long war
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between Israel and Hamas and the role of the Biden-Obama regime.
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Yeah, I mean, there are deadly consequences when Obama and Biden fund Iran, and then Iran uses that
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money to fund Hamas. And we just saw the worst attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas in many,
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many, many years, maybe 50 years. And they mass-murdered many Israeli people, including
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kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering women, children, including babies, and the elderly.
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And it's just sick. And I don't know how Biden can send money to Iran and then turn around and say
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that he's pro-Israel. I just, I don't know how you can do that. Biden has created a national security
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crisis for Israel by funding Iran. Well, if, you know, you, if you can put together six billion
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dollars, release it to the Iranians, and look straight ahead and say, you know, I had no idea
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that they would in any way be funding terrorism. Surely they're not. The largest state sponsor of
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terrorism, you give them six billion dollars, and this administration is so inept that they can't
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come to the conclusion that terrorists will do what terrorists will do. They'll use six billion
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dollars to commit atrocities and attack Israel. There's, this is just mindlessness on the part
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of the national media who puts up with this tripe and this pretend president who has no idea in the
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world what he's being told to do. But only to this point, he has been following orders nicely. Thank
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you. And what's so sick is that the Democrat coalition has now brought in BLM and these other
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third world Marxist trash organizations that hate Israel and make no bones about it. You see BLM
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sending out messages after the worst terrorist attack in decades, praising the paragliders,
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flying into Israel to, to kidnap rape, torture, rape, torture, and murder women, kids, and the
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elderly. I mean, that, that's where we are with the Democrat party today. If they have become
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a coalition of misfits, including BLM, including these, these terrorist sympathizers in Dearborn,
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Michigan at the movie theaters, cheering on these terrorist attacks, what the hell have we become as a
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country? And why has Biden let our border become wide open where he is mass importing these fighting
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age men, unvetted fighting age men from these terrorist hotspots? What the hell does Biden thinks
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going to happen in America when he imports these fighting age men from terrorist hotspots?
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It's amazing to watch this proceed. And Tlaib and Omar, in representatives of the, in the U.S.
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Congress, I can't believe that there hasn't been a censure, that there hasn't been a condemnation of
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their, their remarks and support of Hamas. Can you? Well, I think what the next house speaker should
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do when that person's elected, I think he needs to put a resolution on the house floor, condemning
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this terrorist attack against Israel, right? Including the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of women,
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kids, and the elderly. And if any Democrats votes against this resolution, house Republicans should
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kick them out of the house of representatives. And if any cowardly house Republican doesn't go along
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with this, house Republicans should kick out that house Republican. We could not have these
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subversive terrorist sympathizers like the squad in the house of representatives.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm too much a proponent of free speech, Mike, to go as far as you on that.
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Voters, at least ostensibly, they won majorities in their district. I think free speech prohibits me
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from my commitment to free speech prohibits me from joining in that call. But I understand
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your passion and I understand why you would want to do so. I have a bloodlust, I guess,
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just as high as anyone else when it comes to what has happened to Israel and what these
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terrorists of Hamas and Iranians sponsored have done. Your thoughts?
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Well, I think that your, your thoughts on free speech are quaint and that is the way we should
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operate in America, but that's not the way we're operating in today's America with the Marxist
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left. They play for keeps and conservatives and other people on our side want to play by the old
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rules. And these Marxist Democrats want to destroy us. They want to destroy our country. They want to
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destroy everything we stand for. They want to mass import these, these people from third world
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Marxist hellholes who do not share American values. They want to have them come in as unvetted fighting
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age men. And I think it's time for conservatives, Republicans, and other people on our side to,
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to understand we're dealing with a real enemy here. And sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
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There's no chance that these Marxist Democrats wouldn't do that to us if we, if we, you know,
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criticize their side. So I think that we need to fight fire with fire.
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I think we do too. I don't know what to make of Republicans. I have to tell you, I'm extremely
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disappointed in them and the pace of their investigations of Biden. Let's remember that.
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And I don't have to tell you, but remind the many in the audience, a, an impeachment inquiry is
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simply that it's an inquiry move to impeachment. If you bring charges with evidence and move forward,
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it's not a judgment. It isn't a conclusion. And the president has every right once impeached to
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defend himself just as president Trump did not once, but twice. And I certainly would not mind giving
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Mr. Biden that opportunity. What do you think? I mean, I think there's no question that House
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Republicans need to move forward with their impeachment inquiry on president Biden. There is
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strong evidence that the president of the United States is compromised by tens of millions of dollars
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and foreign bribes and other corruption to what seems like every Biden family member, except for,
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of course, the five-year-old granddaughter who they finally acknowledged after five years of political
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pressure. You have evidence that Burisma bribed the Bidens and Biden changed American policy.
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You know, $10 million from Burisma to the Bidens and Biden threatened to cut off a billion dollars
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in U.S. aid to Ukraine if the Ukrainian president didn't fire the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating
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Burisma and the Bidens, right? And guess what? This foreign bribery and corruption leads to very
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disastrous consequences for the United States. That $10 million bribe has now cost American taxpayers
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$100 billion and growing. That's a 10,000 times return because Putin smelled Biden's weakness and
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corruption. Putin invaded Ukraine when Obama put then-Vice President Biden in charge of Ukraine.
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Putin went in and took Crimea. Four years of peace and prosperity under Trump, and then Biden's back
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with his corruption, with his incompetence, and so is Putin. And Putin's trying to take the rest of
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Ukraine. Having a compromised president of the United States has disastrous consequences for the
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United States. And that's why foreign bribery is one of the key reasons that you move forward
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with impeachment on the president of the United States. So why are these feckless Republicans doing
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all but nothing? We're going to take that up with Mike Davis as we continue here on The Great America
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And we're back now with Mike Davis, founder of the Article 3 Project. And Mike, just before we pause there
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for a moment, I said, let's figure out what's going on with this Republican Party. Here we are. We're in
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October. And nothing has been done in terms of moving evidence to closure in the investigation
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Well, that's a very good question. I think that House Oversight Chairman James Comer has done a very
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good job of gathering. I agree. He's been he's been methodical. He's been dogged. He's been
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underplaying his hand, frankly, and he is building the case. And I think it's time for House Republicans
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to move forward with with opening this impeachment inquiry and being serious about this inquiry,
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because you cannot have a compromised president of the United States like we have right now. I mean,
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it led to you say you say we can't we have had now for almost three years. And he was vice president
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of the United States. He lied to get the job of president. He had a lot of help in a rig 2020
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election. When you say we can't we have what what can we do now?
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Well, I think House Republicans, once they get this new speaker in place, what they need to do is move
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forward immediately with this impeachment inquiry. They need to do it aggressively and they need to
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start issuing subpoenas. They need to issue subpoenas for Hunter Biden, for James Biden,
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for Joe Biden, for Joe Biden, every Biden family member who received the proceeds of this foreign
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bribery and corruption. They need to be holden before Congress to talk to staff investigators to get
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their documents. OK, I got I've got the process down. I understand. But what I'm asking you is how
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you know, should it be by the end of this month? Should there be impeachment voted on and brought against
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Joe Biden? Why are we waiting all of this? And you recited much of the evidence that is there that is
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extant. It is in their face. Why in the world should it take another month or two months? They have played
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this game until now. We're in the fall of 2023 and nothing has been done.
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Yeah, I agree with you, Lou. I mean, that's been my problem with this House Republican majority
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since day one. They I think they got off to a very slow and sloppy start with the oversight across
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the House of Representatives, except for James Comer's oversight committee. And that's a very good
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question. That's going to be a key issue for the next Republican House speaker to address this and
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to write this ship and get moving immediately. That's going to be a big test. I wrote a Fox News
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opinion piece on this for Kevin McCarthy, and it was a big test for Kevin McCarthy that House
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Republicans control the power of the person, the House of Representatives. Right. And, you know,
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if House Republicans do not appropriate the money to the to the executive branch, the executive branch
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doesn't have the money. So House Republicans can say this. Look, the American people are going to put
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the federal government on a crash diet because the federal government is spending way too much money
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and we have interest rates that are out of control. We have inflation that's out of control. We have the
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federal government that's out of control. We have a weaponized and politicized federal government
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that's out of control. And it's time for House Republicans to draw the line and say, you're going
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to take the budget we give you, you're going to take the diet we give you, or you're not going to eat.
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I have to quibble with you on just one minor little item. The federal government is not out of
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control. It's in control. It's in the control of the Marxist Dems and their
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corrupt their collaborators, the deep state there. And this is not about, you know, a bunch of dumb
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half-witted bureaucrats who are just going to wait around for the House to come to its senses.
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The reality is that the federal government is not in any way run by the consent of the government.
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It is not run by the House. The House can't even make Christopher Wray,
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Merrick Garland, anyone. They can't even carry out their oversight duties because they are so
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feckless and weak. And you know it, and you just don't want to admit it, do you?
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No, I mean, I agree with you that the House is feckless and weak. And they,
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like, other than James Comer, I haven't seen very good oversight from anyone else in the House of
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Representatives, right? And that's the problem. And so that's why I think this upcoming appropriations
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process is so important. You appropriate the levels of spending that House Republicans want,
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and you include appropriations writers. For example, we're not going to have federal funding
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of gender-affirming care or gender chaos with kids or prisoners. We're not going to have federal
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funding of equity, BLM, BS, where it's racial discrimination. They can put appropriations writers
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in this process that have the support of 60 or 65 percent of the American people and let Senate
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Democrats and President Biden shut down the federal government to appease the Democrats' radical
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constituencies like BLM, right? This is where House Republicans can draw the line. I don't think the
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American people are going to lose much sleep if the executive branch goes out of business for a few
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weeks until Biden and Senate Democrats come to their senses and take the reduced spending,
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the diet that House Republicans need to put them on.
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Do you think there's anyone in the House of Representatives who can outwit the Biden White
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House, the Marxist Dems, and the deep state? Is there one, is there two, maybe three people in
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the House of Representatives so smart, so clever, so energetic, so animated by their patriotism and
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concern for the republic that they will actually outwit the Marxist Dems in the Biden regime and
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No, I mean, but I don't think you need to outwit them. I think you just need to say,
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here's the appropriation, here's the appropriation bill that you get, here's the reduced diet.
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No, I just don't, I don't think this requires wit. This just requires will, right? You just have to
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pass the bills that House Republicans want, the appropriations bills that House Republicans want,
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with the policy writers that House Republicans want. And if Democrats want to keep the government
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running, they accept this reduced diet with these policy writers. And if the Democrats want to shut
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You know, go for it, bring it on, etc. The fact of the matter is we're looking here at a massive defeat.
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President Trump wanted and endorsed Jim Jordan.
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Scalise represents a defeat for MAGA, for the American first, and for President Trump,
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the presumptive nominee of the party. What in hell is going on in the House of Representatives?
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We're going to continue the conversation with Mike Davis. We're talking big time politics in the
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House of Representatives and some very, very delicate and small minded people who haven't got the guts
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to admit the only person with an idea right down the Republican Party is none other than their
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presumptive nominee. Donald Trump. We'll be right back.
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We're back. We're talking with Mike Davis. He is the head of the Article 3 project.
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And we were just talking about what this represents. Scalise prevailing, the rhino number two,
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taking up the baton from the previous rhino, Kevin McCarthy, and Jim Jordan endorsed by President
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Trump, and who President Trump made it very clear he wanted as speaker. That's a huge defeat,
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is it not? Well, I mean, I don't know if it's a huge defeat. It's I think that well,
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they've just told the presumptive head of the nominee of the party, the head of the party,
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because he is the leader of the Republican Party to go to hell.
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Yeah, I mean, I think that the House of Representatives, they're going to pick their own
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leader. I think it's good that other people can weigh in on it. But that's a decision for the House
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of Representatives. They've made their decision by picking Steve Scalise. I actually have more hope
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about Steve Scalise than you do. I think he's more conservative than McCarthy was.
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Okay, that's subjective. So let's you and I talk about something. What is the last thing he led?
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Well, show me, just give me one example of his leadership. Was there any movement toward any
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particular policy that he led over the course of his 15 years in Congress? Was there anything he did
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in leadership that sparked of originality and fresh mindedness? Is there anything here that suggests
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he isn't just another hack rhino waiting who waited his turn? No, I mean, I think that he's been a I
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think he's been a loyal deputy to Kevin McCarthy for many years. I think. But Mike, I'm asking you,
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what has he ever done? Has he ever run a business? Has he ever? What is it? What is his distinguishing
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achievement that makes us think he is should be the number three person in the succession of the
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No, I mean, I hear what you're saying. I mean, look, I think that he is Steve Scalise is trusted and well respected by
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all factions of the Republican House Republicans. You know, you even see like Matt Gaetz, who was a vocal
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opponent of Kevin McCarthy, is supportive of Steve Scalise. Matt Gaetz has said he'll support whoever the Republicans
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pick, whether it's Jim Jordan or that's not a it's not a testament for it to Scalise because he was going
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to vote for or support whoever they put forward. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's like he backed Steve Scalise.
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He just said, I'll go along with it. But it just shows you that Steve Scalise did not does not have that animosity
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among the MAGA crowd and the among the House Republicans that Kevin McCarthy did. Right. So there's more trust of Steve
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Steve Scalise. They're willing to they're willing to give him a lot more running room than they were to
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give. They were willing to give to Kevin McCarthy. Right. So let's ask the obvious question. Was this
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a sympathy vote because he has been and may still be taking treatment and has been ill? No, I actually
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think his cancer hurts it hurts his chances to become speaker. You saw that with Marjorie Taylor Greene that
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she says that she's a huge fan of Steve Scalise. But because of his cancer, he should just step back and
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focus on his cancer. I don't think the cancer creates sympathy. I actually think it hurt his
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chances of becoming speaker. I just think we're being we're being subjective. I mean, I would think
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that the 435 members of the U.S. Congress would be sympathetic to one of their own who was going
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through a serious illness. I don't I take a different view. I've got a sunnier view of the
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character of the 435 representatives than you. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm just telling you what
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said, but I was joking. I was joking. I mean, I think that, look, he what they
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know about Steve Scalise is he's a known commodity in leadership and House Republicans are very
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conservative in every aspect of their lives, including who they pick for their leaders.
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All right. All right. You got me convinced. You got me convinced. But do you think it makes sense,
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on the other hand, to have a speaker who is undergoing treatment and has to be losing some of his
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energy and time to to that treatment? Yeah, I mean, that's that's certainly a drawback. Right. And
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I guess I would say that this is going to be Steve Scalise. It looks like we'll be the speaker
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for the next year or so. And we'll see what happens with the House of Representatives. I'm
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I'm worried we could lose the House of Representatives in the next election. We could see.
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I think you can almost take it to the bank right now. Yeah. I mean, I think Trump's going to win the
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White House. I think Republicans will win the Senate and we could lose the House of Representatives
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in that process. And, you know, so this could be a very short tenure for the speaker of the house.
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When you've got the when you've got the conference divided, as it is between rhinos and conservatives,
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and I'm I'm sure that there are moderates in between. But I don't see how the Republicans
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survive this in the House. I think the American people are going to be sick, sick to their stomachs
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watching one rhino after another. The country is moving, moving to America first. The movement is
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alive and strong and well. And you have people like Steve Scalise. I have to say I have to say
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it this way, Mike. Everything you've said is wonderful. It's glowing and it's terrific.
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There's just one thing. None of what you've said in glowing terms about Steve Scalise is connected
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to anything of substance or reality. There is no achievement. There is, you know what? He followed
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orders. I mean, that's the big that seems to me to be the distillation of what you're saying.
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He followed orders and didn't make a noise when it was in disagreement with leadership.
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You know, if he's going to expect the same of the conference, I think it's going to be a very long
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day over the course of the next year and a half. Well, I would say this. I think that that Jim
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Jordan, you have to you have to vote for someone. And it looks like the two candidates are Steve Scalise
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and Jim Jordan. And I would say to Jim Jordan that he's I opposed him for many years because I think
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he is too much of a an advocate for Google and the rest of big tech. I still think he is. And that
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is a major drawback for Jim Jordan as speaker. I think that Jim Jordan after a, you know, I mean,
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we can you can you can you can rag down, you know, Jim Jordan all you want. Here's the reality.
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There was one candidate who in Paul Ryan, the conference had to beg him because there was no
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one else who wanted the job. They did the same thing, by the way, with Boehner. Now, suddenly,
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Kevin McCarthy is anointed by by Paul Ryan, who was a do nothing, know nothing, who and a pretender in
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that office, who selected Kevin McCarthy handpicked. And now here's Steve Scalise,
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who would have been, I'm sure, Kevin McCarthy's choice at the conclusion of his speakership.
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If that day hadn't come sooner than he wanted, it's just we we're looking at a mess here
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politically that the American people, I think, are going to be devastated by.
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Yeah, I mean, we'll see. I like I said, Lou, I think that we have to give Steve
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Scalise the opportunity to succeed. But I think he's going to have that opportunity with the next
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government shutdown. Right. Is he going to actually hold the line and cut government spending
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or is he going to be wrong with the D.C. Uniparty? You know what? If you have to shut down
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the government to do this, that means that you don't have a leader. This should not be about
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coercion. It should not be about holding the budget hostage. This is this is the stuff that is
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animating the rhinos who are pretending to be conservatives. It has got to stop. There's
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got to be public education. There's got to educate and under. And by the way, that's reciprocal.
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There's got to be education in those districts with their representatives.
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If the American people are too stupid to figure this out and the representatives are too stupid
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to do anything other than play legislative terrorist, if you will, then we're we're in real
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trouble here in this country. And I don't think you're going to see it. Well, in my opinion,
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add anything positive to the future over the course of the next year.
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Well, I hope Steve Scalise proves you wrong, because I think he's a lot more conservative
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than Kevin McCarthy was. And I think that he is more ideological as well. So I let's give him the
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chance to prove himself right or wrong. Well, you know, I have no, no, no vote. So he's he's assured
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of, you know, my willingness to watch him proceed. But I really wonder, as we wrap this thing up,
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just exactly how we got to a point where no one wants the speakership. That was my point. Jim Jordan
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didn't want it when Kevin McCarthy was seeking it. Jim Jordan wanted it this time. And they're only
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two really who were strong enough to voice their interest in it. And then what you get at the end
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is, you know, a surprise, another rhino following another rhino. That's not the way the first America
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first movement is working these days. We always give our guests, as you know, Mike, the last word.
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So have at it. I've given you a lot to beat me over the head with. I think that Steve Scalise is
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going to prove he's going to prove that he is a conservative leader as the Speaker of the House.
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I think Jim Jordan has his hands full with the critical task of going after the weaponization
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of our federal governments. That is more than a full time job. And I think Jim Jordan should double
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down his efforts there. And that will be the best combination to help get our House of Representatives
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in our country steered back to the right track.
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Well, Godspeed to that right track. And I mean speed. Thanks so much, Mike. It's always great to
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have you with us. We appreciate it. Mike Davis, the Article III Project, a great American.
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Thanks, Mike Davis, for being with us. We appreciate it. Thanks, everybody, for joining us.
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