Shutdown? What Shutdown? McCarthy Survives Another Day As Speaker

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the government was able to avoid a shutdown while simultaneously dealing with bitter in-fighting between GOP representatives. They then discuss the legacy of the late Senator from California Diane Feinstein before expressing their disbelief that Brett Kavanaugh has become the moderate voice on the Supreme Court. And the pod would not be complete without calling out more tomfoolery from Mr. Elon Musk. Go to http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast and become a patron. This gets you an additional episode every week, but also supports the show, keeping it commercial free and editorially independent.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. Okay, Dave Sexton. I'm here, Nick Housman. Nick Housman, how are you doing, bud? I'm going, I'm doing well. I'm looking forward to discussing some things with you today. I think it'll be some interesting conversation.
0:16.6	We, we document for a living, the decline of democracy and attacks by the far right.
0:24.3	And I love the attitude that you bring to it. I'm looking forward to the discussion.
0:28.2	Yeah. There'll be some interesting things. I mean, listen, interesting as a word, bad shit crazy is another word we could use. Not sorry to swear so early in the pod, but man, why not? At times being what
0:38.6	they are. Here we are. You're right. We have a hell of a lot of shit we got to talk about. We
0:43.9	narrowly averted a government shutdown. The Republican Party is basically turning into the Lord of
0:49.1	the Flies at this point. Diane Feinstein, dead. A replacement in place. We've got, we've got Elon Musk wearing a
0:59.2	backwards cowboy hat, not knowing any better, going to the border and just spewing some awful
1:04.2	anti-immigrant stuff. And we've got a new Supreme Court term where, Nick, our hero in shining armor, that's right.
1:13.1	Brett Kavanaugh is our only hope of continuing on.
1:16.7	This is what they call a good time.
1:18.9	If only I had coconuts to cobble together to make the night and shining armor sound
1:23.7	effect of Kavanaugh riding in on his steed.
1:27.2	If you know, you know, that's all we'll say on this podcast.
1:31.9	We'll get to all of these stories and more.
1:34.8	A reminder that on Fridays we have an additional bonus episode called The Weekender.
1:40.2	It is fantastic.
1:41.4	Obviously, you're listening to the preview of it.
2:02.6	You want to listen to the whole thing. You want to ask questions for us, a reminder for all of our patrons. Ask your questions. Leave your voicemails. We'll get to them on Friday's edition of the weekend. All you need to do is go over to the patreon.com slash Moncrank podcast. Nick, the government's still going. The checks are still being mailed. The people are showing up at the office. That's right. A near certain shutdown of the government,
2:06.6	which for those who are trying to keep track, the near shutdown for no reason.
2:13.2	Absolutely no sticking point besides a continuing resolution had been met.
2:18.7	But at the last possible second, a continuing resolution that puts the next possible
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