Hour 2: Congress will vote on the Speaker of the House again today. Will it be McCarthy?
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, what's it? |
| 0:02.9 | Yeah, I can't remember the day, day. |
| 0:04.0 | It's Wednesday, right? |
| 0:05.2 | You see, because that's a problem with Mondays off. |
| 0:08.4 | So you keep thinking it's Tuesday. |
| 0:09.4 | It's Wednesday. |
| 0:10.0 | It's already in the middle of the week right now. |
| 0:12.2 | At noon, they'll try again to vote in the House for a speaker. |
| 0:17.6 | What do you think, Joe Bartlett? |
| 0:18.5 | You think McCarthy'll get it? |
| 0:21.5 | Well, I thought so when Trump said, you know, he wanted everybody to vote for him. |
| 0:27.1 | But, you know, they may not. |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah. This is not about chaos or the hard right, or it's just about the Republicans |
| 0:34.2 | are sick of no leadership, no direction. |
| 0:39.2 | And this guy's, it's Kevin McCarthy, nice guy, he's not much of a leader. |
| 0:44.3 | He's not great. |
| 0:45.5 | He's a mediocre character. |
| 0:46.8 | And worse than that, he's just a swamp guy, you know, he'll serve a little more in |
| 0:51.8 | Congress than go be a lobbyist. |
| 0:53.2 | It's like a Paul Ryan type. |
| 0:54.8 | And people don't want that right now. |
| 0:56.2 | They want a real leader who's going to really fight for things. |
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