(2013/10/30) Postmortem is prologue (Congressional obstruction)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 October 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #769
Postmortem is prologue
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shutdown Over, GOP Crushed, Funding Secured (Until January) - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: The impression that I get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Ch. 4: Act 2: A Congress of comics: Laugh 'til it hurts - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: The entertainer - Scott Joplin
Ch. 6: Act 3: Sarah Palin Nonsense: Obama Risking 'Impeachment' Over Debt Ceiling - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Philosophy - Ben Folds
Ch. 8: Act 4: GOP Loses But Right Wing, Corporate Policies Win - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Sad but true - Eric Lindell
Ch. 10: Act 5: Chamber of Commerce vs. Tea Party - Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Strange but true - The Moths
Ch. 12: Act 6: We didn't really dodge a bullet - On the Media - Air Date: 10-18-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Insane - Scars On Broadway
Ch. 14: Act 7: Did Harry Reid Stop Obama Admin.'s Grand Betrayal? - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-21-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Street fighting man - The Rolling Stones
Ch. 16: Act 8: John McCain & Mitch McConnell Say No More Shutdowns - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-25-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Lessons learned - Matt & Kim
Ch. 18: Act 9: Martin Wolf on the Debt Ceiling Circus - Moyers and Company - Air Date: 10-18-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Seeing issues from conservative perspectives brings clarity - Emma from Houston
Ch. 20: We need a national holiday for election day - Joe from PA
Ch. 21: The deserving vs the cheaters - Maureen from Mass
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments on understanding conservatives, voting rights, social safety nets and The Daily Show reports on my theory a few days before I presented it
Bonus Clip: Suppressing the Vote - The Daily Show - Air Date: 10-23-13
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.9 | Jim Hightower at the David Pakman show, the Progressive Magazine on the media, the Majority |
| 0:17.2 | Report, and Moyers & Company, and a quick note that I hate that I'm even wasting time |
| 0:21.9 | on today's topic, but it's important to understand what an unbelievably terrible bullshit |
| 0:27.1 | distraction it is. |
| 0:30.0 | It is finally, officially, over what kind, not completely officially, because they haven't |
| 0:35.9 | completely signed off on the list, but anyway, it's over almost everywhere. |
| 0:41.8 | Yes, the GOP has been defeated. |
| 0:44.7 | We will get funding of the government back, and the government will be reopened, of course, |
| 0:49.9 | until January, and a debt ceiling will be elected until February, and then we'll go through |
| 0:56.0 | all this drama again, unless, of course, at some point, President Obama finally gives |
| 1:00.5 | in. |
| 1:01.5 | It's not really giving in. |
| 1:02.5 | He wants to do it anyway and does a grand bargain, cut so security, and Medicare, that's |
| 1:05.9 | what this is about. |
| 1:06.9 | It's not about Obamacare. |
| 1:07.9 | They knew they never had a chance. |
| 1:09.1 | In fact, the head of the heritage action fund, the guys who pushed them harder on this, came |
| 1:13.6 | out today and said, oh, yeah, Obamacare, I mean, obviously, we can't touch that until |
| 1:17.0 | 2017. |
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