McCarthy Sells His Soul for Nothing
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Sykes joins B2D to discuss the House soap opera — from the comical to the consequential.
Highlights/lowlights
Charlie's:
Damon's:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/ron-desantis-just-as-bad-as-donald-trump-2024
Bill's:
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gop-hardliners-angle-for-plum-posts-as-price-of-mccarthy-votes-1.1865718
Linda's:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/opinion/eliot-waste-land-poetry.html
https://gideons.substack.com/p/is-the-land-waste
Mona's:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/us/reading-literacy-memphis-tennessee.html
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, |
| 0:07.8 | The Bull Works Weekly Roundtable discussion |
| 0:10.7 | featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. |
| 0:14.3 | We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Mona Charinth, indicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I am joined |
| 0:21.3 | by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:26.0 | Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center, and Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Eyes on the Right. |
| 0:32.2 | Our special guest this week is the Bulwerks |
| 0:36.1 | own Charlie Sykes, host of the Bulwerk Podcast and commonly seen in many places as a respected commentator, |
| 0:47.0 | including one place that you might want to catch both of us, |
| 0:50.6 | which is if you become a Bullwork Plus member, you get a weekly secret podcast |
| 0:56.2 | that Charlie and I do on Tuesdays. |
| 0:59.1 | So welcome one and all. |
| 1:01.1 | Happy New Year, one and all. |
| 1:03.0 | Happy new year. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, it has been quite a week on Capitol Hill |
| 1:08.0 | with multiple votes for Speaker. |
| 1:11.6 | We are heading close to double digits as we record. A recalcitrant |
| 1:16.7 | minority of the House GOP continues to vote against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker. |
| 1:24.2 | The vote has not moved, despite the incredible spectacle |
| 1:29.6 | overnight of Kevin McCarthy, basically giving up everything in order to secure this job. |
| 1:40.0 | And so I'm going to begin with you, Charlie, and ask, who in the world would want a job like this, |
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