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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2007/04/12) A New Congress in Town (MP3)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2007

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Act 1: Uncle Marvin's molestation - The Young Turks Act 2: Privacy issues - Countdown Act 3: Pap Attack on Bush - Ring of Fire Act 4: Tim Ryan on the new congress - The Young Turks Act 5: Impeachment - Ring of Fire Act 6: Liebermann on oversight - LeShow Act 7: Being a leftist - Democracy Now! Act 8: Pap Attack on the New Congress - Ring of Fire Act 9: Bush can ignore congress - The Young Turks www.TheYoungTurks.com www.Countdown.MSNBC.com www.RingOfFireRadio.com www.HarryShearer.com/LeShow www.DemocracyNow.org Music: God's Gonna Cut Down-Johnny Cash Satellite-Aimee Mann Shuffle Your Feet-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Not Ready to Make Nice-Dixie Chicks Shut Em Down-Public Enemy Rawkfist-Thousand Foot Krutch Truth No. 2-Dixie Chicks Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness-Smashing Pumpkins Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeftPodcast.com Contact me directly at HippieSympathizer@gmail.com Leave us comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes. Digg us at www.Digg.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to a community supported and guest-produced edition of the Best of the Left podcast, with clips

0:14.7

today from the Young Turks, Countdown with Keith Olverman, Ring of Fire, Lashou and Democracy Now.

0:30.0

Okay, so that's late on the show, but first, we got big news for you guys. Ladies and gentlemen,

0:40.0

we got him. That is just as premature we got him as has ever been murdered.

0:48.8

Well, look, we took a huge first step here and a very important first step.

0:55.2

But Faisalah that we've been talking about for so long that the president has been in violation of

1:02.6

the president has announced that he will finally submit to the actual Faisal Court and start to get

1:09.8

warrants from here on out for it looking into possible case of terrorism, etc. So it appears for

1:19.9

the moment. First, we're going to give you the 100 caveats in a second and the things that are

1:23.8

about to come up. But it appears for the moment being the president has agreed to start following

1:29.6

the law again. And that's why if anything deserves it, we got it. And it's not a we got him,

1:35.1

we got it. In this case, this does because this is enormous if it proves to be what they claim it.

1:42.0

I couldn't be less moved by this piece of information. Well, we tried. Oh, well, we didn't work.

1:49.1

The reason being like, oh, wow, the president is going to follow the law. Oh, crazy.

1:56.0

Well, I mean, who gives a flying F? Let's let's prosecute him or let's hold him accountable for all

2:02.0

the laws that he's broken up until now. I mean, that's the story. Well, Jill has made a good point in

2:08.2

what I think is missing another good point. But I think, I mean, first of all, to this shows what

2:13.3

what can happen when when there is political change that that's unquestionably one of the themes.

2:18.4

I mean, it is good news that there was a law in the books that he ignored. And now it would appear

2:24.5

because he simply had all Democrats and many Republicans against him was actually going to change.

2:31.0

And Republicans now all of a sudden feeling free to say, I always said you should follow the

2:35.8

law. So, but whatever forget the hypocrisy, the important thing is that they follow the law and

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