If the elections work, then you are going to have people of very diverse perspectives in Congress

debating these spending bills and we should be debating these spending bills. I am not at all

down in the dumps. I loved what President Biden said about how everybody's frustrated. That's

what being in government is. I know what it to. I love that so much. I loved that. And I loved it when

somebody said, you know, are you going to get that done by October 31st? And he was like, who cares

when it gets done? The point is that it gets done. And I thought, this is the healthy perspective that

we have been lacking in a lot of these conversations about how legislation unfolds.

This is Sarah and Beth. You're listening to Pantsy Politics, the home of Grace-filled political conversations.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsy Politics. We are almost nine months out from the events on

January 6th and thanks to the congressional hearings, criminal investigations, and investigative

reporting, we're learning more and more about how close we came to a coup. We're going to

process that in the first segment of our show today. And in our main segment, we're going to talk

about voter accessibility, including sharing some of our conversation with the wonderful Michelle

Bishop, who advocates for disability voting rights. And finally, we're going to talk about what's

on our mind outside politics. Before we get started, we have so appreciated your responses to our

holiday gift guide, including a very lively discussion of hiring someone to clean your house on

Instagram. The follow that episode. If you have not had a chance to paruse, it will put the link here

again in the show notes. You will find a very wide range of ideas that we hope are helpful to you.

Over the weekend, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed entitled January 6th

was worse than we knew, where they argued for reforms to the electoral contact. Now, why are we

talking about the electoral contact? Well, that is the law that's been in the spotlight since the

reporting of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for their book, Paralll, revealed the existence of a two

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