Let's talk about McCarthy and voting your conscience....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Let's talk about McCarthy and voting your conscience....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. |
| 0:03.0 | So today we are going to talk about McCarthy and everything going on in the House of |
| 0:09.5 | Representatives in voting your conscience, that term, what it really means up on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:17.2 | Because it means one thing to us, it's an entirely different language up there and that term may become important and it's a good |
| 0:27.0 | time to highlight it because if you miss the news, the resolution that the far right Republicans were |
| 0:38.5 | promising talking about Alsting McCarthy,, it was put forward. |
| 0:44.0 | So two legislative days, there has to be movement on it. |
| 0:48.0 | Now there's a bunch of different ways that could happen, and we have talked about them all |
| 0:51.2 | before. And we have talked about how both sides of this, both |
| 0:55.8 | the far-right Republicans and McCarthy, whatever it is their goal is, they need the Democrats to make it happen. I know that the talking point is just |
| 1:07.0 | the other side needs them, but in real life they both need them. |
| 1:13.2 | And we've talked about the various ways that Jeffries might handle that and kind of steer the party. |
| 1:21.9 | We talked about how there will be some Democrats who no matter what, they will not |
| 1:30.1 | work to save McCarthy. Even if in private they think it's a good idea, they won't do it because |
| 1:39.2 | they'll be voting their conscience. Doesn't make any sense, right? |
| 1:43.0 | Because if they were voting their conscience and they thought it was a good idea, |
| 1:46.0 | they would vote to save McCarthy. |
| 1:48.0 | But they won't, because that's not what that term means up there. |
| 1:53.0 | Voting your conscience up on Capitol Hill does not mean vote the way you think it should go. |
| 2:01.0 | It means vote whatever is most politically expedient for you. Whatever |
| 2:09.0 | would poll best in your district. Here's the thing. Every vote in the U.S. House of |
| 2:19.6 | Representatives should be one where the representatives are voting their |
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