Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

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It is Eric Erickson here.

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Look, we've got people on hold right now, and I need to tell all of you on hold. You're all

listening to me. Be patient with my call screener. He has a lot of balls in the

air right now he's dealing with. He's on, he's trying to process the call. So just if you're on hold,

stay on hold, please. I'll get to your phone calls. So it is the time of year. I got stuff where

I need to talk about stuff, but I also have other stuff I need to talk about. Does that make any sense? No, it probably doesn't. But I want to talk about Kevin McCarthy right now. I want to explain to you why I think Republicans should defeat Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

Even if it means that the alternative is more rudderless and more moderate than Kevin

McCarthy.

Now, I need to say going into this, I don't know that they will do it.

I suspect McCarthy will be able to cut a deal and McCarthy will be able to be speaker.

I suspect that as so.

It may come down to January 3rd when they're on the floor of the House at the new

Congress in a floor vote and a floor fight, but I think the Republicans need to oust Kevin

McCarthy as Speaker. I want to explain to you why.

Kevin McCarthy is a principalless, rudderless, spineless politician who has climbed the ladder by schmoozing and wooing people and changing his

principles as needed to get there. And I particularly don't care for people like that.

I would prefer a speaker of the house who has some principles.

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