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🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay. |
0:07.0 | I won't tell you that it's going to be okay. |
0:15.0 | And welcome to another episode of Bicari Sellers podcast. |
0:18.0 | Today we got somebody who's a friend of the show. |
0:20.0 | This is almost like a special because we're trying to figure out what the hell is going on in Washington, D.C. |
0:27.0 | By the way, are you wearing a T.C. or that LSU? What is that? |
0:31.0 | This is an SEC SEC polar here so |
0:34.8 | I'm representing the conference that there you go I mean I'm not not mad about that one I mean if it was |
0:41.5 | TCU I you know last time they played that SEC they got 60 points. |
0:46.4 | It wasn't that pretty wasn't. No, it was not. So look, jumping right into it. what happened this week with Kevin McCarthy, who's lived his entire life trying to be Speaker of the House, and he flamed out? So what exactly happened? How do we end up here and who's the speaker now? |
1:03.0 | Well, the short answer is that the House GOP is basically ungovernable. |
1:08.6 | They don't want to be in the majority. They're not built to be in the majority because being in the |
1:13.8 | majority necessarily involves governing, which means compromising and especially |
1:19.2 | when you've got Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House. And that's just |
1:22.3 | not why a chunk of folks in the House |
1:24.9 | GOP came to Washington, but they're there to make a point. And they did that and they |
1:32.2 | got ready to Governor McCarthy after nine months of his |
1:34.8 | speakership and look he tried to play with them at every turn and he bought himself |
1:41.4 | some time in doing so but you know this day was always going to come because that fundamental issue of |
1:47.0 | They don't want to be governed and they don't want to govern so whose speaker now? I don't think we're going to know immediately. |
1:53.8 | I mean, it's going to take a little while. |
1:56.1 | I believe after the shock of last week, |
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