Nut Cases in The House with The Washington Post's Dana Milbank
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The great columnist for The Washington Post Dana Milbank has a hilarious/frightening new book: Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House. Bill’s conversation with Dana highlights the perceived incompetence and extremism of the current Republican House members, including figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kevin McCarthy. Milbank’s book chronicles the dysfunction and conspiracy theories within the House Republican caucus. Milbank argues that if Republicans maintain control of the House with Trump-aligned members like Mike Johnson as Speaker, it could pose a serious threat to American democracy, as they would likely seek to overturn election results at Trump's behest. The podcast emphasizes the high stakes of the 2024 House races and the need for Democrats to regain control to prevent further damage to the institution of Congress.
Bill points us to SwingLeft , an organization targeting the key races that could win control of the House and Senate. If Harris wins, she will need a Democratic Congress to get things done. Go to SwingLeft.org and give what you can.
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| 1:04.2 | Good day, good friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:13.4 | Well, you know, everything is on the line in 2024, the White House and the Senate, and the House of Representatives. We've talked a lot about the White House and the Senate so far, but today we want to focus on the House and why it's so |
| 1:19.4 | important for Democrats to win back control of the House, which Republicans are now held by the |
| 1:24.5 | slimmest of margins. One thing for sure, if you surveyed the entire country, |
| 1:30.3 | you could not find a bigger bunch of nut cases than sit today in the House. Think about it, |
| 1:37.0 | Marjorie Taylor Green, Mac Gates, Lauren Bober, Ronnie Jackson, Nancy Mace, and dozens of others. |
| 1:43.3 | They're all crazy. They're all sitting members of Congress, Republican members of Congress. They're in charge, and they're incapable of and uninterested in government. |
| 1:53.9 | In fact, I learned that they're all even crazier than I thought after reading the hilarious but scary new book on Congress by Washington |
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