PG24: The GOP Leadership Mess, Big Trade Deals, Hospital Bombings & the Limits of Airpower, and Inmate Debaters Stick it to Harvard

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The battle for the House Speakership leads off this week’s Politics Guys. Jay thinks it’s a result of the GOP being a victim of its own electoral success and that the media is making much ado about very little. Mike agrees, more or less, but points out that changes in how campaigns are financed, as … Continue reading "PG24: The GOP Leadership Mess, Big Trade Deals, Hospital Bombings & the Limits of Airpower, and Inmate Debaters Stick it to Harvard"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.1	Hello and welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
1:00.4	My host this week is, as always, Cleveland Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson,
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1:09.4	Our top story for this week is, on Thursday, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California,
1:11.3	who's the current House Majority Leader, shocked pretty much everyone in the media by withdrawing his name from contention
1:16.0	in the race to succeed House Speaker John Boehner in what was expected to be pretty much
1:21.5	a pro forma vote to select him as a nominee.
1:25.3	So what's going on here with your Republicans in the House, Jay?
1:29.1	Well, I don't know. And, you know, I'll tell you, first of all, I guess I'd step back and say
1:35.5	that, you know, the media loves these Republican Civil War sort of stories.
1:43.4	There's always this battle going on for the heart and soul, the Republican Party, and
1:47.1	it's the parties in disarray and so forth.
1:50.4	And I think we can touch in a couple reasons for why there tends to be more of these
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