Right Thing for the Right Reasons

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On the coronavirus stimulus package front, Biden has refused to compromise on his commitment to sending $1,400 checks to Americans. Is it wise for the president to push such a bill through Congress in spite of Republican opposition? As Steve argues on today’s episode, “If Joe Biden’s intransigence this early is pissing off people like Rob Portman and Anthony Gonzalez, that’s a tough place.” Also on the menu for today: GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy’s intra-party spats with Rep. Liz Cheney, the media’s obsessive fixation on Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the United Kingdom’s decision to welcome Hong Kong citizens. Show Notes: -“The Challenge of Going It Alone” by Amy Walter in the Cook Political Report. -“An Interview With Sen. Rob Portman” by Steve Hayes in The Dispatch. -“Can We Have (Another) Conversation About Cancel Culture?” by David French in The Dispatch. -“Republicans Are Playing a Risky Game in Elevating QAnon” by Jonah Goldberg in The Dispatch. -“The GOP’s Conspiracy Theorist Problem” by Audrey Fahlberg in The Dispatch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dispatch podcast.
0:02.6	I'm your host, Sarah Isger, joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg and David French.
0:08.2	We have a lot to talk about today and this episode is going to run a little long because
0:12.4	of it, but I think y'all are going to agree that it is worth it.
0:16.6	So we are starting with budget negotiations, Joe Manchin as the grand Puba.
0:22.3	We are going to move in to wherefore Kevin McCarthy and the Republican House Caucus problems.
0:31.2	And then you will hear my rant, my rant on why we keep elevating these people.
0:37.8	And lastly we'll end with some positive news coming out of Hong Kong.
0:57.2	Let's dive in, Jonah.
0:58.9	We're starting with you.
0:59.9	I'll be it reluctantly because it's you.
1:02.4	But the COVID package is looking like it is on the verge of success.
1:12.0	And Joe Manchin is as powerful as everyone said he is?
1:16.2	Yes, I mean, I think our new style guide should refer to Joe Manchin as regent or vice
1:25.5	Roy Joe Manchin because he is the most powerful person in Washington right now.
1:29.7	And I'm kind of obsessed with the way in which that is a natural outgrowth of the Madisonian
1:37.0	structure of our constitution is that even though you have two extreme polarized parties,
1:41.8	you have that by definition takes away power from the extremes and gives it to the people
1:49.0	in the middle who can be the different splitters, the majority makers and whatnot.
1:54.1	But that's for our philosophy class later, which only goes to fully paid members of dispatch.
2:02.0	I think that it's really interesting to me on this sort of very much eat your spinach
2:08.3	punditry topic, how much the 2008 or 2009 early Barack Obama stimulus looms over both
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