Mike Johnson is the new House speaker
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So yesterday, Republicans elected a new speaker of the house. Mike Johnson MJ. I'm just going |
| 0:07.2 | to call him MJ, okay? That ends 22 days without a speaker of the house. |
| 0:13.3 | What do we think of this guy? A lot of people are starting to get to know him. |
| 0:17.5 | Some comments from his opponents on the other side. Jamie Raskin says that he's a nice guy, |
| 0:23.2 | but nobody should be fooled by him. Hakeem Jeffery says that he's an extreme right wing, |
| 0:29.4 | right wing ideologue, but a lot of Republicans seem to really like the guy. Okay, so before we talk |
| 0:36.3 | about Mike Johnson, can we talk about the broad, the broad picture here? Yeah. Because there's |
| 0:42.8 | something way more important going on than Mike Johnson himself. It is the behavior of the |
| 0:51.2 | establishment wing of the Republican Party. And I am talking about people like professional |
| 0:57.6 | office hopper Aaron Houchin. I'm talking about people like Mike Pence. I'm talking about people |
| 1:03.1 | like Jim Banks, who acted like petulant little children over the past three weeks, claiming the |
| 1:10.7 | world was going to end and that that this was just the worst thing that had ever happened. And |
| 1:15.9 | that Matt Gates was this horrific awful human and that he and his, you know, eight, his seven |
| 1:21.3 | other buddies had thrown the country into chaos and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:27.6 | Now, and Aaron was on the Tony this morning. I'm surprised he didn't ask her this. |
| 1:32.8 | Does Aaron Houchin believe that Kevin McCarthy was better for the country than Mike Johnson? |
| 1:40.5 | This is a very simple question now. And everyone should ask Aaron Houchin if you see her out in |
| 1:45.7 | public. Does Aaron Houchin believe that Kevin McCarthy? I dare her to say it. I dare Aaron Houchin |
| 1:51.2 | to go on the record and Mike Pence and Jim Banks and Jim Baird and Larry Bouchon and the rest |
| 1:57.4 | of the good time fun gang to make up the establishment wing of the Indiana Republican Party. |
| 2:02.8 | If the answer is no, and I dare him to say that it's yes, but if the answer is no, that Kevin |
| 2:09.6 | McCarthy was not better for the country, then Mike Johnson, are they willing to man up or in |
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