Dana Milbank on The Nutcase Republican House

The Al Franken Podcast

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dana Milbank, Washington Post Opinion columnist joins us this week! His latest book, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theories and Dunces who Burned Down the House", chronicles the ineffectiveness of the members of the U.S House. He makes the case that the MAGA members in the House have turned it into a dysfunctional nightmare with no interest in making policy. From Lauren Boebert to Marjorie Taylor Greene, they have turned the "conservative" party into a party that exists solely to carry out the wishes of Donald Trump.

We also discuss the latest Trump press conference in which he floats the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America and doesn't rule out military force to acquire Greenland. Anyone ready for another 4 years of this??

Read Dana's column in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dana-milbank/

Check out Dana's book Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theories and Dunces who Burned Down the House: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dana-milbank/fools-on-the-hill/9780316570923/?lens=little-brown

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0:42.7	Hey, everybody, we got a great one today. You know, for a change, Dana Milbank of the Washington
0:49.0	Post is my guest, and we discuss his book, Fools on the Hill, about the Nutcase Republicans in the House of Representatives.
0:57.6	Before I go any further, our hearts on the Al Franken podcast, and that's mine and Peters,
1:05.2	go out to the folks in and around Los Angeles. I have friends out there, so does Peter, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right.
1:13.2	My daughter and her husband and the grandchildren live out there and had to evacuate their home.
1:21.9	So far, they're very lucky. Their house has not burned down. They went to her mother-in-law's place near Anaheim and
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