Welcome to the politics, guys, place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at North Kentucky University.

If you're a regular listener, you might be wondering, what's with the new opening music?

Well, if you're a listener from Wayback, you might recall that it was our original opening music, a song called Love the Government by Il Papa Giraff.

Now, we moved away from it a while ago in favor of a sort of a mellow jazz song called Low Pressure that, well, I seem to like it a lot more than most listeners.

Now, once that became abundantly clear to me, we just scrapped opening music all together.

But for the new year, I thought we might try bringing back the old theme.

So what do you think? Should we go with Love the Government as our theme? Though I know

if you're a conservative listener, that might be difficult. Maybe, I don't know, you can look at it as

sort of an ironic title or something. Should we have no theme at all or maybe do something else? I don't

know. Anyway, let us know we'd really appreciate it by emailing us at

mail at politicsguise.com or commenting on our Facebook page, Facebook.com slash politics guys page.

Thanks. And now on to today's show. With me today is a special guest, Beth Silvers, from

Pantsuit Politics.

Beth, thank you so much for joining me today.

Oh, thanks for having me, Mike.

It's always a pleasure.

Yeah, you know, and when Beth and I were talking about what we'd be talking about for

this episode, I asked her if she'd be willing to sort of indulge me.

I have these ideas. Some of them might be a little radical.

I don't know about changing the, changing the constitution. I teach a course on American political

institutions. In fact, I'm getting ready to teach it this semester. And one of the things I always do

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