Creatures of Capitol Hill

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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As the House enters a third day of its parade of pettiness, Sarah, Steve, and Jonah discuss Kevin McCarthy’s slow, tortuous slug of concessions towards becoming a speaker in name only. Also on the agenda: Biden’s 2024 vision, Mayor Pete’s carpetbagging, and the online right’s grotesque response to Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest. Out of context: “That is a trifecta of wrongness.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, I have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor.
0:04.2	I don't have a problem getting a record for the most votes for Speaker too.
0:07.8	Thank you all.
0:08.7	Welcome to a new year of the Dispatch Podcast.
0:11.6	I'm your host, Sarah Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes.
0:16.6	Well, there's plenty of drama happening on the Hill this week.
0:21.1	We'll talk a little bit more big picture.
0:23.3	How we got here and what it maybe says about the next two years of Congress,
0:27.6	the next two years of the Republican Party heading into 2024.
0:31.4	And we'll see if we hit a few other topics along the way.
0:48.8	Let's dive right in.
0:49.8	Steve, it is Thursday morning.
0:54.7	There is no Speaker of the House.
0:59.0	How did we get here?
1:02.4	Where do you want me to start?
1:03.8	We'll see back in 2015, the Skyrim for President.
1:09.0	No, we won't do that.
1:12.4	This has been an interesting few days.
1:13.8	We've had now six votes on Kevin McCarthy's bid to become Speaker.
1:20.3	And he has stagnated, actually lost a couple votes.
1:27.7	And it appears, appeared as of evening news time yesterday that we were at an impasse
1:35.5	and that the people supporting Kevin McCarthy were losing patience
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