Episode #382: Truth Or Consequences
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
With the Senate tied at 50-50 and a crucial Supreme Court confirmation vote coming up, the last thing the Democrats wanted, politically, was to see one of its own, New Mexico’s Ben Ray Lujan, sent to the hospital with a stroke. New Mexico political blogger Joe Monahan sums up the dilemma facing a party that can’t afford to lose even one of its members.
And Joel Goldstein, a preeminent expert on the vice presidency, sums up Mike Pence’s decision to declare Donald Trump “wrong” for thinking he could pressure him into altering the 2020 electoral college results, something Trump had been insisting on as part of his effort to undo the election that made Joe Biden president.
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| 0:00.0 | Lujan speaks, Putin waits, and Marjorie goes from nuts to soup. |
| 0:05.2 | No soup for you! |
| 0:06.2 | On the political junkie. |
| 0:07.8 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president. |
| 0:11.9 | Add light to you and link to me. |
| 0:14.2 | I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:16.0 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top. |
| 0:23.0 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabotlach, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:34.1 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 382 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Rudin. |
| 0:41.8 | The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s by those who opposed the spread of slavery. |
| 0:48.1 | Some 170 years later, it is under siege for its opposition to law and the Constitution |
| 0:53.9 | and for its slavish backing of a man |
| 0:56.9 | and an ism who has made it clear that if he or it ever returns to the presidency, he will never |
| 1:03.3 | give up power again. Witness the RNC calling the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, legitimate |
| 1:10.3 | political discourse, and its decision to |
| 1:13.5 | Central Liz Cheney and Adam Kinziger, two House Republicans who, along with other Democrats, |
| 1:19.2 | are investigating that assault and who was responsible for it. Given the fact that several were |
| 1:24.5 | killed and hundreds were hurt, including several police officers, |
| 1:28.2 | at that January 6th attack, an investigation has to take place. But at a recent rally, |
| 1:34.4 | Trump threatened more violence if the investigators got too close. |
| 1:39.0 | If these radical, vicious, racist, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal. I hope we are going to have |
| 1:46.8 | in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta, |
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