Hey, residents of DC Land and parts unknown, welcome to Under the Hood at the Beltway

Garage.

Last takes for 2,000 miles, as always, I'm your coach Franklin Derro, aka the Philones

Wang.

And I'm Taft Hartley, and we're here to break down the winners and losers of DC in the

year 2018.

I feel like 2018 was longer than most years.

Honestly, by March, I just kept thinking we still have eight more months of this.

I mean, hello.

I was saying around March, hey, 2019, can you come over now and I was posting things to

that effect.

I remember posting a fake screenshot or I pretended to text 2019 with the words you

up, indicating that I was interested in in in liaison with 2018 because 2018, I mean,

as the as the women say, I would swipe left on 2018.

Well, before a baby new year gets born, hopefully not in Ohio, old man 2018 needs his

due with the winners and losers of the whole ding dang year.

Yes, we need to find out after all of this mishagosh, after all of these fights, after

all of this battling between Republicans and Democrats, donkeys and elephants, the midterms,

the cabinet reshuffles men and women, men and women wars, Supreme Court justices, beer

likers and beer scorners.

The question is, who is emerged from these battles on the top of the heap?

You have winners and you have losers and that's really all there is to it.

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