Losing Is Winning, Spending Costs Nothing—and Other Liberal Delusions

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today’s podcast notes that liberal opinion seems determined to cast the left’s refusal to spend $1 trillion because it wants to spend $4.5 trillion as some kind of victory—and asks whether that makes any sense. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Go for the best.
0:05.1	Extend the words, some preach a pain, some diaphers.
0:11.7	The way of knowing which way it's going,
0:18.8	hope for the best.
0:20.4	Extend the worst.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.3	Today is Friday, October 1st, 2021.
0:29.7	I'm John Potterhore.
0:30.6	It's the editor of commentary magazine
0:32.6	with me as always executive editor,
0:34.3	A. Greenwald Hyab.
0:35.7	Hyjon.
0:36.6	Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyj Christine.
0:38.8	Hyjon.
0:39.7	An associate editor Noah Rothman.
0:42.0	So guys, as we have been predicting
0:44.3	or anticipating the effort yesterday to pass
0:50.9	some kind of major spending measure failed
0:55.9	the infrastructure, the hard infrastructure,
1:02.1	$1 trillion bill did not get a vote
1:05.6	as Nancy Pelosi had said it would.
1:09.2	That vote was supposed to be on Monday
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