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Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here this fine Thursday. I hope you are doing fantastic.

The full number, 87737-977-37425. Should you wish to be on the program,

always happy to have you. I've got to begin with what's becoming a growing pet peeve.

The Republican establishment for years and years made promises they never intended to keep.

The Republican establishment, you will recall, said if you won them back the house, they'd

stop Obamacare.

And they won back the house, they said, well, we actually need the Senate too.

Got them the Senate? They said, well, we need the White House too. Surprise, Trump wins. You got it all.

Obamacare's to the law of land. Along the way, what they did is they made it more complicated.

Now, you can argue it was John McCain who scuttled it and that's all, but it's still the law of the land.

Republicans for years and years said they were pro-life and they were fighting for pro-life culture and they kept funding

Planned Parenthood. They never fight. In fact, that's part of the problem. Republicans always

pledged to fight and then never actually fought. How many times did you get an email or a text

message or a letter in the actual mail urging you to contribute to the Republicans

and they would fight on your behalf and all you got was another solicitation for money.

You never actually got a fight.

The Republicans promised to cut spending and the only reason Republicans actually cuts

spending during the Obama years was because the

House Freedom Caucus forced through sequestration.

It was the Republican leadership that fought against sequestration.

Those were actual real meaningful cuts, not cuts to future growth, but actual cuts to actual

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