Let's talk about McCarthy math....
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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Let's talk about McCarthy math....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people, |
| 0:02.0 | Lidsboo again. |
| 0:03.0 | So today we are going to talk about McCarthy's math |
| 0:06.0 | and Republicans bucking him in the House. |
| 0:11.0 | You know, ever since the whole idea of a Biden impeachment inquiry came up, |
| 0:15.4 | I've been like he doesn't have the votes. You're going to need congressional |
| 0:19.0 | approval and you don't have the votes. That's, that was all based on my personal math. I figured he |
| 0:26.7 | needed about 10 more than he had from the Republican side of the aisle to get |
| 0:31.0 | this moving. So he announced it without taking of the |
| 0:32.8 | I'll to get this moving so he announced it without taking it to the floor for a vote. |
| 0:39.7 | The ten votes that I thought he needed. I was apparently wrong about that. I was |
| 0:45.0 | apparently wrong about that. Buck, Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican, who is definitely, he's not a moderate, he's also not ultra far right. |
| 1:01.9 | He was one of those people who very much played the political side of things. |
| 1:07.6 | You know, like he signed on to a brief about the election and then later was like no Congress doesn't have the power |
| 1:15.4 | to influence this like he's very pragmatic he also has a pretty good read on |
| 1:22.2 | his colleagues particularly those in the Republican conference. |
| 1:25.8 | Normally when he says something like this, he's right. |
| 1:30.3 | So my 10 vote gap that McCarthy needed to close? |
| 1:36.4 | I guess that's not right because Buck says |
| 1:39.2 | the reason that McCarthy didn't take it to the floor |
| 1:42.0 | was quote, he knew it wouldn't pass there were |
| 1:45.0 | probably more than 20 Republican votes that would not have been in his favor |
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