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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Thursday, November 18th, 2021. I am John Pothoor. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine. We are four days out from the roast of Rabbi Marisol of H at Commentary's big

annual event here in New York City. If you're coming, I can't wait to see you. If you're

not coming, as Shakespeare says in Henry V, you shall call yourself a curse that you were

not among the band of brothers there that day.

So save up your pennies for next year. I don't know who we're roasting next year, but it's

always good. With me is always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosem, high Christine.

Hi John. And associate editor Noah Rothman, high Noah. Hi John. So the house censured

representative Paul Gosar yesterday in an act that when you look back in history, turns

out to have been astonishingly rare. Like there appeared to only have been six censures

in the last hundred years. And interestingly enough, the last one having been of long-term,

rascally wrapped scallion, cutie pie, representative Charlie Wrangle of New York, who was found

to have been scurrying all kinds of rules and laws relating to rent control in New York

and all kinds of things. So we have this thing that is almost never used. And here it

is. And they've used it against Paul Gosar. And there seems to be in general an idea that

this was a foolish move because Republicans are just going to use it against Democrats

when Democrats lose power and Republicans get back into power. And my view is the more

of this, the better. More ethics investigations that target disgraceful congressman. Congress

has always circled the wagons against its own bad behavior. On precisely on these grounds

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