Ep 993: Fools In a Burning House

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

Politics, Midterms, News, News Commentary, Election, Presidential, Indivisible, Government, Progressive, Debate, Liberal, Campaign, Democrat, Resistance

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 993 of The Professional Left finally arrives at the pivotal year of 2008 — the moment the Republican party began eating itself alive — and traces exactly how a party that had just driven the country into a ditch decided that the best response was to sabotage the guy trying to pull it out. Driftglass and Blue Gal walk through the deliberate, coordinated Republican strategy to destroy Barack Obama before he even got started, complete with the death panels lie, the "government takeover" ...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Netroots Radio or at our website, proleftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:10.2	There's a PayPal button at our website, where you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.1	This is the podcast for May 19th, 2020.
0:23.6	It's not safe for work.
0:25.6	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we're still in countdown mode.
0:29.9	Four, five, seven, six, six, eight, nine, nine.
0:39.9	Because this is the 993rd episode of the Professional Left Podcast with Drift Class and BlueGal.
0:57.0	And in case you didn't recognize it, either because you don't remember it or didn't
1:01.7	study it in American political history class.
1:04.4	Yeah.
1:04.8	Thanks for making me feel old Blue Gow.
1:06.6	Well, I mean, come on.
1:08.2	There's a lot of people who were born 50 years after this happened.
1:14.1	Exactly.
1:14.7	We're adults.
1:16.1	Several of whom have graduated from college recently.
1:18.4	Yeah.
1:20.0	Dr. Class and I now have all of our children as college graduates, as of this past weekend.
1:27.0	Yes.
1:27.4	Which is a milestone.
1:28.6	It really is.
1:29.5	It really is.
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