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The Gist

The Imperfect Republican Defense

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, partisanship. In the interview, Brian T. Brown is here to talk about his new book, Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness. He and Mike discuss the ways the US and the USSR felt about each other, how those feelings persist today, and the different intelligence structures in the US and Russia. In the Spiel, Republicans and impeachment. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0

It's Monday, November 11th, 2019 from Slate. It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca, a note on partisanship as a disqualifier.

0:50.0

Retiring Republican representative, Mack Thorneberry, went on this week, this week, and laid it all out.

0:57.0

The problem is they started this basket not with the Nixon and Clinton precedence as far as making sure there was appropriate transparency and due process.

1:09.0

They have made it one-sided from the beginning, very partisan.

1:14.0

So I think whatever happens now, there will be a taint to this one-sided partisan approach to impeachment that is different than has been used before.

1:26.0

The partisan taint, oh beware! That taint, the partisan taint. Now I'm going to meet the press, Republican Senator Rand Paul, co-signed to the taint warning.

1:37.0

And has nothing to do with legality or illegality or impeachment. It's purely a partisan way of trying to overturn the election.

1:44.0

When speakers use partisan in this manner, they're clearly using it as a stand-in for biased or unfair. But in reality, it just means organized by party.

1:55.0

There are partisan efforts and initiatives that were indeed unfair like repealing Obamacare.

2:02.0

Every vote to repeal Obamacare until the last couple of the 67 or so votes they took was entirely partisan.

2:10.0

So the Republicans gained power, they made a vote in the House of Representatives, it went along entirely partisan lines and they wanted to scrap Obamacare.

2:18.0

But also entirely on partisan lines, the Democrats wanted to keep it.

2:23.0

So if partisanship is bad, if partisanship is unfair, you'd have to conclude that since it was an entirely partisan effort to scrap Obamacare, then scrapping Obamacare was unfair.

2:34.0

But also since it was an entirely partisan effort to keep Obamacare, then keeping Obamacare was unfair.

2:42.0

See what's wrong with blaming partisanship? And this brings us all back to a crazy and backward sentiment as expressed by Senator Paul.

2:50.0

And so it becomes partisan, that's why no Republicans voted for impeachment.

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