Republicans Make Their Choice

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With so much going on in the news this week, it’s hard to pick one headline. Is it Liz Cheney being ousted from her leadership role for telling the truth? Or the fact that a major oil pipeline was attacked by ransomware? Or maybe the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine heating up and heating up fast? The gang discuss all of those topics and why a rise in independent voters may not actually be a good thing. Show Notes: -Cheney speech on the House floor -Cheney after her removal -Why more independents is actually bad -Latest version of “The Sweep” -“Doom” by Niall Ferguson -The Remnant with Klon Kitchen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.1	I'm your host, Sarah Izger joined by David French,
0:05.1	Steve Hayes, and Jonah Goldberg.
0:07.7	We've got a lot to talk about today, a lot in the news.
0:10.8	We're gonna start with the Outdoor of Liz Cheney
0:12.9	as the number three Republican in the House.
0:14.8	Talk about the rise of independence in our electorate,
0:19.8	the colonial pipeline hack,
0:22.1	and finally hostilities escalating in Israel.
0:26.0	Let's dive right in. Steve, to you first.
0:42.2	Wednesday morning, Liz Cheney was
0:46.8	ousted from her position as the number three Republican
0:50.4	in the House GOP conference.
0:53.4	Nobody is surprised by this.
0:56.8	It was, as we speculated last week,
1:00.6	it was done by voice folks so that there was not
1:03.5	an actual tally of votes for and against keeping Cheney
1:09.5	in her position, but fair to assume
1:12.2	that the result was overwhelming.
1:14.8	She was strongly opposed by, in the end,
1:17.0	by Kevin McCarthy, the House GOP leader, Steve's Collease,
1:20.8	the number two in the House Republicans,
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