Oh, for the best!

Extend the worst!

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The way of knowing which way it's going!

Oh, for the best!

Extend the worst!

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023.

I'm John Pudhor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine.

With me, as always, executive editor, egg-bearing, wild-hye, Abe.

John, media commentary columnist, an American Enterprise Institute,

senior fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine.

Hi, John.

And our Washington commentary columnist, and also a senior fellow at AI, Matthew Kahnetti.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

So Joe Biden has called Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the house, called him in Israel,

where he was on a trip to say, come into the White House next week, and let's talk about the debt limit.

This is after weeks or months of Biden saying he would not talk to anybody about the debt limit.

They should just raise the debt limit, and he's not talking to anybody, and he's not going to talk to anybody.

Despite the fact that he ran on the campaign, that he's somebody who can talk to anybody,

and he can talk to people across the aisle, and he can change the temperature in Washington.

And apparently, the success of Kevin McCarthy in pushing through a Republican debt limit bill,

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