The Kevin McCarthy Clown Show

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This is an abbreviated version of our weekly Patreon show. To access the full-episode and support the pod, head on over to http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast It's hard to fathom that we're on the 12th ballot to decide who will be the Speaker of the House, but here we are. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the embarrassment of a party the GOP is, and what it is they think they're fighting for with this vote. They also discuss the near tragedy on the football field involving Damar Hamlin and how the NFL wanted to continue playing despite the players' protest.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Macbred
0:07.4	podcast of JJ Sexton. I'm here with Nick Housman. Listen, you're going to want
0:11.6	to hear this whole episode. We're talking about poor in Louisiana. We're talking about
0:15.4	Desanthesis, Florida. We're talking about NFL labor actions.
0:21.5	And by the way, Nick, we got to talk about what's happening in the House of Representatives.
0:26.6	But if you want to hear this whole episode, go over to patreon.com slash McCrack podcast to gain access to this and all other weekend or episodes and part of the community, all that good stuff.
0:36.8	There's a lot of you out there that want to listen to this part of it here. And, you know, it's an easy click to finish listening to the rest of the episode and be part of our community. And by the way, start off the new year the right way. Support the Muckrake podcast. We're growing. We're doing awesome things. Nick, we have to start here in the House of Representatives.
0:56.6	Kevin McCarthy's absolutely snake bit campaign to become the new speaker of the House has now
1:05.9	just drug itself forward. We just watched the ninth ballot go past. It is an absolute gridlock
1:17.0	in the last one, and this has been the predictable sort of result. Hakeem Jeffries has basically
1:23.6	won all of these stands at 212 votes. McCarthy is right around 200.
1:29.4	All of a sudden now you've got Donald's and Hearn who's in it.
1:33.3	This is mass hysteria cats, dogs living together.
1:38.0	Nick, what do you think about this?
1:41.1	Because this is just becoming more and more surreal by the hour. Well, we knew this is going to happen. This is not even a surprise. He did not have the votes two weeks ago. He did not have the votes a week ago. He doesn't have them now. We were actually looking forward to it a little bit, right? This would be a little bit of a clown show, fun and entertainment. This really show how the Republicans have no desire to legislate.
2:03.7	They have no desire to actually govern.
2:05.9	This is what governing would be, which we have to get into the whole way they're doing
2:09.8	this and why they keep going over and over the different votes.
2:12.2	But the entertainment value and whatever satisfaction I might gain from observing this is tainted
2:19.7	because of Donald's, for instance.
2:23.4	All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a guy who served one term in Congress from Florida,
2:28.8	it's suddenly now being thrust upon the stage, getting 20 votes to be the Speaker of the
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