Preview: Colleague Salena Zito with wit describes the Pennsylvania politics and out of step with party discipline no matter the party or decade. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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| 0:34.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Selina Zito, |
| 0:37.3 | writes for the Washington Examiner of the Wall Street Journal, about the iconoclasm of Democratic Senator John Federman, now the senior senator from Pennsylvania. |
| 0:45.4 | And Selena makes the case that that is the nature of Pennsylvania politicians, iconoclast. |
| 0:51.9 | Here's Selena to explain. |
| 0:57.7 | Much more of this tonight, about John Federman, about Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. Well, you know, in Appalachia, our Republicans and Democrats |
| 1:06.8 | have never sort of been a straight line with the establishment. |
| 1:11.8 | Think about Arlen Specter. |
| 1:13.6 | He was a Republican. |
| 1:15.2 | Think about he certainly wasn't within the orthodoxy of the Republican Party and |
| 1:20.5 | eventually became a Democrat. |
| 1:22.6 | There is also Rick Santorum and Pat Toomey. |
| 1:26.1 | None of these elected officials, Ed Rendell, Tom Ridge, they've all been sort of out there. |
| 1:35.3 | And I just think it's sort of the Appalachian way. |
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