This House Party Sucks (with Mondaire Jones!)

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kevin McCarthy is finally Speaker, and now we get to see what having a Republican House under his nominal stewardship, but really under MAGA control, actually means. We also get to see how Democrats respond and react in order to exploit the GOP's ineptness, harm, and flat out corruption. Republicans wasted no time this week sabotaging criminal investigations of Donald Trump and of themselves, and McCarthy all too happily promised them a Benghazi style committee that will have authority to access the inner workings of those very criminal investigations. Setting aside how corrosive it is to the rule of law, does the new Democratic leadership see the committee as a political opportunity? Has there been any rethinking on the part of leadership since the midterms of the political value of having opponents who are so corrupt? Will Democrats continue to pass up opportunities to exploit the corruption of their opponents to maximum benefit? Member of the 117th Congress and current member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Mondaire Jones joins to help us sort some of this out and share insight on how this new status quo took shape from the insurrection through the 2022 midterms.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boiler.
0:23.2	So when we recorded last week's episode with Greg Sargent, we weren't actually sure how
0:28.6	the Kevin McCarthy shambles in the House of Representatives were going to shake out.
0:33.3	It was sort of a look ahead at what to expect out of a MAGA controlled
0:37.9	speakership, no matter who ultimately won, on the assumption that the mass of
0:42.8	Republicans would never stand up to the Trump wing. That turned out to be a
0:47.4	pretty good assumption. Since then McCarthy locked down the job, he sold
0:51.6	whatever was left of his soul for it.
0:53.3	All the different members, and hanging with me through all those different votes,
0:57.0	but I do want to especially thank President Trump. I don't think you should
1:02.9	doubt anybody should doubt his influence.
1:05.1	And so now we get to see what having a Republican House under McCarthy's
1:10.6	nominal stewardship, but really under MAGA control, with five votes to spare,
1:14.9	actually means. We also get to see how Democrats respond, react,
1:20.4	parry in order to exploit the GOP's ineptness and to protect the country
1:26.6	against the harms Republicans are threatening to cause, and also hopefully to
1:30.7	make Republicans pay a price for re-embracing this MAGA wing after voters
1:36.6	just rejected it for the third consecutive election. So that in theory
1:41.8	encompasses a lot of stuff. It will mean parliamentary cleverness on the part
1:46.0	of Democrats in the House. It'll mean uniting the Democratic caucus against
1:50.1	the Republican agenda and the hopes of dividing them, and hopefully figuring
1:53.8	out other ways to divide Republicans or also make them keep reaffirming this
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