Never a Dull Day
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Just when you thought it was safe to stop thinking about politics, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona shows up and throws a wrench into Joe Biden's Democratic machine by announcing she is becoming an independent. Does it matter? Noah says no. I say it might matter a huge amount. For this debate, and talk about the Twitter transparency project, give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Friday December 9th, 2022. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm John Paul for it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor |
| 0:35.4 | a Greenwald hi a hi John media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute fellow |
| 0:42.0 | Christine Rosen high Christine hi John and associate editor and author of the rise |
| 0:46.5 | of the New Puritans no Rothman high Noah hi John you know my mother used to say in one of |
| 0:53.5 | my favorite things which is sort of antiquated or anti deluvian cliches things you know |
| 1:01.0 | said in the past that no longer make any sense in the present she used to say never a dull |
| 1:06.0 | day with the Dodgers which apparently was a thing said in Brooklyn in the 30s and 40s |
| 1:12.1 | because the Brooklyn Dodgers whatever you may say about them never failed to stimulate |
| 1:21.3 | anxiety and fear and hope and depression and terror in the hearts of its fans because they |
| 1:30.0 | were good one year they were terrible the next year they were good in the half first half |
| 1:33.6 | of the season bad the next half of the season never a dull day with the Dodgers and so apparently |
| 1:38.4 | it is with American electoral politics two days after the defeat of Herschel Walker in the runoff |
| 1:45.6 | or two and a half days with the defeat of Herschel Walker in the runoff thus handing control of |
| 1:51.7 | the Senate unambiguously to Democrats so that they can get extra members of committees and more |
| 1:59.5 | dominance than they could have with a 50 50 split and the tie breaking vote from from the vice |
| 2:06.9 | president comes news that Arizona Democratic Senator is it Kirsten or Kristen can somebody help |
| 2:15.4 | me because I can never remember no not there are four of us here and Kirsten Kirsten I thought |
| 2:24.4 | it was Kirsten hold on a second Kirsten's actually spelled Kirsten it's Kirsten cinema okay |
| 2:31.1 | Kirsten cinema announced like our Commonwealth problem yes and I'm still in our bed in in the |
| 2:38.8 | Arizona Republic that she was becoming an independent that she did not fit up properly in either party |
| 2:46.8 | unless she will become the third independent in the US Senate the other two being Bernie Sanders |
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