Progressives retract letter on Ukraine.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Today, we're covering the progressives criticism of Biden's approach in Ukraine — and then the backtracking. Plus, a correction and a question about what it means to caucus with a party.
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| 0:40.7 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:48.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Progressive Caucus's letter about Ukraine and then their withdrawal, kind of |
| 1:12.8 | retraction of that letter, what it means, some interesting commentary from the right and the |
| 1:17.7 | left who are quite divided on this. Before you jump in, though, we do have two things ahead |
| 1:22.5 | of our quick hits today. First up, I have a correction. This was actually an older correction that I just caught |
| 1:28.7 | when I was scrolling through some reader emails because it was kind of a small one, but a few |
| 1:33.3 | people did notice it. In our lengthy primer on the 2022 midterms, we noted that Governor Doug |
| 1:40.5 | Doocy in Arizona had, quote, resigned when previewing the race to fill his seat. |
| 1:46.1 | This was actually inaccurate language, kind of a silly flub. |
| 1:50.5 | Doocy is a term-limited governor who was first elected in 2014 and simply can't run again |
| 1:56.2 | because he's already finished his second term this year. So he's not resigning. He's just |
| 2:00.7 | stepping down after |
| 2:01.6 | serving the maximum term allowed in office. This is our 70th correction and tangles 168-week |
| 2:08.3 | history and our first correction since October 10th. As many of you know, I track corrections |
| 2:13.5 | and place them at the top of the podcast in an effort to maximize transparency with my readers. |
| 2:19.7 | Also, I want to shout out some reader feedback we got that I just thought was important, |
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