The GOP House Meltdown
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As the new year begins, the podcast looks with wonder and horror at the really insane start of the new Congress, in the hands of a tiny Republican majority—and controlled, it seems, by a tiny minority within the majority that wants to see the world burn. Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | The first podcast of 2023, this is Tuesday. |
| 0:31.5 | I was about to say June, which is crazy January 3rd, 2023. |
| 0:37.7 | And here I am. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm still writing 1987 on my checks. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm John Pajor. |
| 0:41.9 | It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, A Greenwald |
| 0:45.4 | Hyde. |
| 0:46.4 | Hyde John, media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine |
| 0:51.7 | Rosenhy Christine. |
| 0:52.7 | Hyde John. |
| 0:54.6 | And associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans, No Arothman, Hyde |
| 0:58.8 | Noah. |
| 0:59.8 | Hyde John. |
| 1:00.8 | As we speak, the new Congress has arrived in Washington. |
| 1:06.7 | Its first order of business is the voting in of a new speaker of the house, which happens |
| 1:13.1 | every two years. |
| 1:14.3 | It is the first order of business. |
| 1:16.0 | You can't even do anything in the house constitutionally until the speaker is installed. |
| 1:23.7 | And as I'm sure many, if not most of the people who listen to this podcast know there is |
| 1:27.6 | a crisis in the very tiny majority Republican conference. |
| 1:35.1 | 218 votes are needed to elect a speaker. |
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