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The Bulwark Podcast

Dana Milbank: Fools on the Hill

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The current Congress is the most do-nothingest since 1861—when the Union was falling apart right before the Civil War. Speaker Mike Johnson is completely beholden to Trump, Republicans used Russian propaganda for their sham impeachment effort against Biden, and a clown car of Santos-style fakers are cruising to reelection. Plus, the prospect for chaos post-election is high if Trump loses. Dana Milbank joins Tim Miller.

show notes

Dana's new book, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House"
Will's piece that Tim mentioned

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the board podcast I'm your host Tim Miller it's Wednesday so remember I'm guest today I'm very excited about. Nationally syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.

0:24.7

His most recent book was published yesterday,

0:26.8

Fools on the Hill, The Hooligans,

0:29.0

Saboteurs, conspiracy theorists, and Duns who burned down the house. It's Dana Milbank. I thought my subhead of my book was obnoxious, but that one is really, you just really go for it there.

0:40.8

I just, I want to leave people guessing as to where they where I might

0:43.8

land on the subject. Dunces yeah you know I went with the Republican road to

0:48.8

hell which always tickles interviewers when they get to read them.

0:53.0

But I've dons is in hooligans I like.

0:55.0

Well, thanks for going on the pot.

0:57.0

I want to spend most of the time here today talking about the House GOP

1:02.0

because there's a lot there and it does

1:03.8

sometimes fall out of the radar because of you know what's happened on the top of the

1:08.5

ticket. Right there's there's so much crazy you can't even concentrate on it all.

1:12.6

Exactly.

1:13.2

So I do have one Donald Trump item, though.

1:15.4

I do have to start with before we get to the house.

1:17.7

I was reading Politico this morning and I got my dander up.

1:21.3

There was an article about how people around Trump

1:24.0

are concerned that he's not focused.

1:26.9

Steve Wynne, the advisor.

1:29.2

Now, this isn't noted in the political article,

1:31.0

but for our listeners, you should know that Steve Wynne was a

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