#389 "We Need to Talk About Kevin (w/ former Rep. Justin Amash)
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 54 min
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* Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight??
* Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do?
* And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want?
* Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy “isn’t that bright” and “will do whatever it takes to maintain power”
* Why the system is broken and how it got that way
* Congress is becoming more European
* Reminder: Amash created (and named) the Freedom Caucus
* Are you really putting yourself forward to be speaker?
* The whole system is broken. And all the other speaker options are reflections of this brokenness
* The NYT and “ultraconservatives”
* The Ukraine objection exception
* A qualified defense of the execrable Skip Bayless
* Idiots deciding who gets to speak
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