(2012/07/26) It's clear who the problem is (GOP)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 July 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #627
It's clear who the problem is
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Iowa GOP Platform: Insane - Majority Report
Ch. 3: Song 1: Location - Freelance Whales
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sadly Not From The Onion - Texas GOP Against Thinking & Voting Rights- Young Turks - Air Date - 06-27-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Throwing stones - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 6: Act 3: Scott Walker Defies U.S. Supreme Court - The Progressive - Air Date: 6-29-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mr. Maker - The Kooks
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rick Scott's Vision: Tuberculosis For Everyone! - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-09-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: The first - Tegan and Sara
Ch. 10: Act 5: GOP Has Become 'Goofy' - Conservative Judge - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-07-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Nearly lost you - Screaming Trees
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Utopia Of Centralism - Professional Left - Air Date 6-29-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: The perfect space - The Avett Brothers
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tea Party Quiet... Too Quiet - The Onion
Ch. 15: Song 7: Brain damage - Pink Floyd
Ch. 16: Act 8: Crazy Iowa Republican Appoints Herself Senator of Alt. USA - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-17-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Crash - The Primitives
Ch. 18: Act 9: Nothing To Teach Me - David Feldman - Air Date 7-2-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Kids - MGMT
Ch. 20: Act 10: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating America - Young Turks - Air Date - 7-10-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Everybody's fool - Evanescence
Ch. 22: Act 11: Opaque Transparency - Bill Moyers - Air Date 7-20-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: We're not destroying the planet - Mara from Pittsburgh
Ch. 24: Why not vote for third parties? - Travis in Missouri
Ch. 25: Thoughts on the living wage - Amy in Denver
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on voting strategy and BotL housekeeping updates
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfAluft.com. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfAluft podcast with Cubsiday from the Majority Report, |
| 0:13.1 | The Young Turks, The Progressive, The Professional Left Podcast, The Onion Radio News, The David |
| 0:18.0 | Feldman Show, and Moyers & Company. |
| 0:20.4 | And a note from our more sensitive listeners, unlike some state legislators, this episode |
| 0:24.3 | encourages you to think critically. |
| 0:30.0 | Iowa Republicans have come out with their party platform, and it is really just as insane |
| 0:39.6 | as you would hope a Republican party platform would be. |
| 0:44.6 | They're really trying to outdo Texas this year, which generally has the craziest of platforms. |
| 0:53.6 | First off, Jesse LaGrecca points out that there is no section of this platform on job creation. |
| 1:05.6 | Zero. |
| 1:06.6 | However, there is a section requiring a candidate prove that he or she meets all requirements |
| 1:16.0 | for that office prior to being placed in nomination, including proof of United States |
| 1:21.0 | citizenship, because you know President Obama, not a citizen, although it seems that the |
| 1:30.6 | Secretary of State of Arizona, Ken Bennett, is now looking like an idiot, because he threatened |
| 1:41.0 | to keep President Obama off of his ballot unless the state of Hawaii verified that they |
| 1:48.6 | had seen President Obama's birth certificate, and they decided to do it. |
| 1:57.2 | Even though they weren't sure that this guy was sure that Bennett qualified to be investigating |
| 2:05.6 | the matter. |
| 2:07.8 | Back to Iowa, the party platform, we support the elimination of the departments of |
| 2:15.8 | agriculture. |
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