(2013/12/09) Congress just got slightly less unmitigatedly horrific (Filibuster)
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🗓️ 10 December 2013
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Edition #780
Congress just got slightly less unmitigatedly horrific
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: It's Time to go 'Nuclear' on the Filibuster! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-20-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: You're not going anywhere - Brad Sucks
Ch. 4: Act 2: Harry Reid presses the button - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date: 11-21-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: I dare you - Dead to Me
Ch. 6: Act 3: Reid Finally Realizes GOP Will Never Work With Democrats - Young Turks - Air Date: 11-22-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Game over - Alexa Vega
Ch. 8: Act 4: The Floodgates are Open - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 11-22-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Everybody loves a happy ending - Tears for Fears
Ch. 10: Act 5: FLASHBACK: When Limbaugh Urged Republicans To Use Nuclear Option - Media Matters - Air Date: 11-21-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Everybody loves a happy ending - Tears for Fears
Ch. 12: Act 6: Taking The Nuclear Option - CounterSpin - Air Date: 11-29-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: I'm against it - Groucho Marx
Ch. 14: Act 7: 'Democrats Will Rue' Using 'Nuclear Option', Says Krauthammer - Young Turks - Air Date: 11-29-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Impressed - Natalie Imbruglia
Ch. 16: Act 8: Congressional Baby Steps - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 12-03-13
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on changing the paradigm of understanding around gender and biology
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 of |
| 0:06.3 | visit the membership tab at bestopulf.com. |
| 0:08.3 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with Cups today, from the |
| 0:12.1 | Tom Hartman program, all in with Chris Hayes, the young Turks, the Rachel Maddo show, |
| 0:16.0 | the Media Matters Minute and Counter-Spin, and a quick note that the term nuclear option |
| 0:20.4 | in reference to the filibuster is ridiculous hyperbole and not at all representative |
| 0:24.9 | of what it's referring to, but unfortunately that's the term we're stuck with, so enjoy. |
| 0:29.5 | Okay, I want to talk about some kind of seemingly wonky stuff, but this is really important. |
| 0:41.1 | This is the core stuff of government, and what I'm talking about is the DC Circuit Court |
| 0:48.7 | and the filibuster. |
| 0:50.4 | Now, let me explain how this works. |
| 0:54.8 | You have the Supreme Court, everybody knows the Supreme Court, you know, it's basically |
| 0:58.5 | our constitutional monarchy. |
| 1:02.1 | Below the Supreme Court, there are a group of what are called federal appeals courts or |
| 1:06.8 | federal district courts that can feed a case to the Supreme Court or not, they sometimes |
| 1:15.4 | they're not appealed to the Supreme Court, and most of them are numbered, but there is |
| 1:22.0 | one that is not, it's the District of Columbia Court, and the Federal Circuit Court for |
| 1:30.4 | the District of Columbia is the most important of all of these courts, and here's why. |
| 1:38.6 | When you sue, and the lawsuit gets all the way up to just below the Supreme Court, it's |
| 1:44.2 | getting to one of these circuit courts, it's getting to one of these district courts, and |
| 1:48.6 | these appeals courts, and it has to be in the right court, it has to be in the court |
| 1:55.0 | for that jurisdiction, so if you're dealing with a case that has to do with BP, you'd |
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