Unfucking Congress: And the Fucking Fuckers Who Fucked Us.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Congress is a quirky place. The rules are arcane. The people are diverse. The power struggle is real. We take a brief, and sometimes ridiculous journey through history to examine the beating heart of our democracy to find out whether or not Congress has always been this fucked up. We call out some of the best and worst actors in the 117th Congress, why it’s impossible to get anything done these days and look back at some of the biggest assholes that ruined it for everyone else. (Hint: Newt Gingrich has a starring role.) We finish with the biggest hurdles we face in straightening out this whole mess and the one priority that supersedes all else.

Show Notes:

The text of H.R. 1: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text

NYT Kinzinger Profile: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/us/politics/adam-kinzinger-republicans-trump.html

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781631497773

The Man Who Broke Politics Story by McKay Coppins: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

NYT Op-Ed. Former Congressman Steve Israel: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/opinion/steve-israel-confessions-of-a-congressman.html

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0:00.0	Hey, unfuckers. Here are the ways you can get in touch with us. Subscribe for free on Substack at
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0:19.0	a cup of coffee. That's right. Top right corner of the site,
0:22.1	you can buy the whole unfucking team a cup of coffee. A hundred percent of the proceeds
0:25.3	literally go towards jacking us up on caffeine so we can keep pumping out hot steaming piles
0:29.9	of unfucking fresh episodes. No affiliate links, mattress coupon codes, or meal kit promos. Just coffee.
0:36.1	A direct payment into our coffee fund like a stimulus payment right to our fucking veins.
0:39.6	And guess what?
0:40.4	Even if you don't buy us coffee, that's okay.
0:42.5	Literally, nothing will change.
0:44.4	So you can just keep listening anonymously doing your thing and be like,
0:47.3	this is great.
0:47.8	I don't even have to pay for this shit.
0:49.3	Fuck them.
0:50.0	I'll never know. Anywho, stay tuned to listener shoutouts at the end of the episode, and now, on to the show.
1:02.0	The year is 1830.
1:04.2	In his third year in the U.S. Senate, 48-year-old Daniel Webster was debating Robert Hayne over the future of the Union.
1:12.3	Webster's speech lasted two days and was transcribed and distributed all over the nation. The issue at hand was nullification,
1:18.6	which pitted the North versus the South in a precursor to the Civil War. A massively important
1:23.9	procedural and constitutional issue. Here's the last paragraph of Webster's speech,
1:29.0	considered by many to be the finest ever delivered in Congress.
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