WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.160 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff radio show, America's Home for Conservative 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.400 not Bitter Talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:13.080 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:33.920 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:41.920 All right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's Home for Conservative 6 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.679 not bitter Talk. I am your host, the one, the only, 7 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:50.920 the beloved, Todd Huff. Email Todd at todhufshow dot com. I just 8 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:55.079 realized here, I got to change my configuration a little bit because I am 9 00:00:55.079 --> 00:01:03.040 now in the home studio. We returned back from our stint down south in 10 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:07.640 Florida, where we've been since gee mid February, I think. So back 11 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.959 up here in good old Indiana, I saw some things trending. I'm not 12 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:17.519 a social media guy, but I did with the Indianapolis five hundred on Sunday 13 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.000 see that there were some things trending. I think, at least I saw 14 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:27.200 him people complaining about this state, the state of Indiana, as far as 15 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.799 far as what it has to offer and so forth. Anyway, it's good 16 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.239 to be home. It's good to be here with you. If you want 17 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.439 to join or participate in this conversation by text, you can join us as 18 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:44.799 well by texting three one seven two one zero two eight three zero three one 19 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:49.159 s two zero twenty eight thirty. I want to start today by talking about 20 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:57.159 this debt ceiling negotiation, this debt ceiling negotiation that has been struck up between 21 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:05.920 the wine House and Speaker McCarthy, who of course is the Republican leader in 22 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.319 the House of Representatives. We have a divided government, as you well know. 23 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:15.120 The Republicans are in control of the US Senate just by a couple of 24 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.080 votes, but they are in control. That's why they have Speaker McCarthy as 25 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:25.919 a Republican, and the Democrats control both the Senates and of course the White 26 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:35.840 House as well. So this is the well I actually, candidly you know 27 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.120 my true thoughts on this. I think the left, I think the Democrat 28 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:47.159 Party actually prefers this particular setup where they have more than half of the power, 29 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.039 but it's divided, and it's divided in such a way. I call 30 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:55.879 this the Mia Michael Scott dream, which is to get all of the credit 31 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.400 with none of the blame, and that For those of you the watch The 32 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:05.719 Office, you will remember that line. I cite it from time to time 33 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:12.039 on here in the Golden Ticket episode. Sorry, I'm just picturing Michael dancing 34 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:16.120 around with Whimsy in that episode. But anyway, he says, I want 35 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.319 all of the credit, David, but none of the blame. This is 36 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:28.000 what the left effectively gets when there is divided government because what happens. What 37 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:35.240 happens is Republicans are there, and Republicans can be blamed. Now, don't 38 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.080 get me wrong, Republicans can be blamed. If there was one Republican in 39 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:44.360 the US Senate, the US House of Representatives, Republicans would still be blamed 40 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:49.840 for whatever was plaguing or whatever ills this great nation would have. They would 41 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.080 still be blamed. The media, the Democrat Party, they would find a 42 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:58.120 way to do that, and a certain percentage of the American people would swallow 43 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:02.840 that hook line and anchor. But of course, reality tells a different story. 44 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:09.080 Reality demands that we understand context and the context and the reason of the 45 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:14.599 Left is totally content with a divided government so far as they hold more than 46 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.680 half of the power is because exactly what I said earlier. They they get 47 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.079 all the credit and none of the blames. So if they pushed through one 48 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:28.839 of their wacky, insane, delusional ideas, they can say if went well, 49 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.480 when not, if when it doesn't work. First of all, they 50 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.160 will deny it, tell us we didn't have enough time to measure it, 51 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.879 tell us we didn't really know what we were looking for to begin with. 52 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.360 Whatever they have to tell us. But once it's unavoidable that their policies, 53 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:50.959 that their ideas, that their solutions simply have failed the American people and there's 54 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.879 no way out of it, and they have to capitulate and say, you 55 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.480 know what, it didn't work. They're never gonna say. They will never 56 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:03.160 say mark this down. This is a fundamental truth of the universe, my 57 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:09.040 friends, as as we know it. The Democrats are never going to say 58 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:13.240 our ideas did not work. For starters, they don't have ideas, they 59 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:17.240 have feelings. But beyond that, their ideas will not work. But they 60 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.839 will never take well, they will never admit that. And my friends, 61 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:33.160 that's candidly a pretty what I want to say, pretty standard response from a 62 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:39.319 position of human nature. Nobody likes to say I was wrong, but especially 63 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:44.800 the Democrats, the Dramocrats and why why do they want to maintain that position. 64 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:51.199 They maintain that position. They maintain that position because politics is nothing more 65 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:59.480 than a performance for them, and it is more troubling to them. Let 66 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:04.319 this sink in as I'm thinking this through. It is more troubling for them 67 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:11.439 to actually eat their words than it is to implement policies that hurt the average 68 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:16.199 American family, the average American worker, the average American voter, the average 69 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:21.000 American period. It is more problematic to them. Now this extent through Republicans 70 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:27.240 as well, and it's not too politicians of all stripes. But the truth 71 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:32.079 is, the truth is they care more about their electability. They care more 72 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:40.519 about staying in the end crowd, maintaining the correct position on an issue so 73 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.519 that they can position themselves. It's just like office politics, my friends. 74 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.519 It is they want to be friends with the end crowd. They want to 75 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.800 be critical of the people who are on the fringe and on the outside, 76 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:56.560 people that they don't think are hip and cool and sophisticated and so forth, 77 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.240 the hay seed hicks, as they would probably say, people that live in 78 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.000 flyover country, which of course is precisely the bull's eye. It's pretty much 79 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:11.720 where we live, and they don't really care. Honestly, they don't. 80 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.720 They just don't care. They care about their power, they care about their 81 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.680 positions, they care about their retirement, But they don't care about balancing budgets. 82 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:25.079 They don't care about cutting spending. They don't care about driving this nation 83 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:30.839 deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into debt. They simply could not care 84 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:35.959 less. In fact, this latest bill, this bill that's supposed to avert 85 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:41.920 crisis, right, this bill that's supposed to avoid a government shut down in 86 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:47.000 America defaulting on its debt and so forth, increases the credit limit by four 87 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.360 trillion with the tea four trillion dollars over the next two years. Now, 88 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:55.920 they can play all sorts of games that they want to play here. They 89 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.199 can tell us when they pass the next bill that's going to cost money for 90 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.720 the American taxpayer, they can tell us that it doesn't really have a net 91 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:11.639 increase in revenue, or meaning that they don't need more revenue to pay for 92 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.120 the program, or whatever. They can do all these fancy shenanigans with numbers 93 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.360 and hide the true cost from the American taxpayer, which is what they do. 94 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:26.800 In fact, recently, what don't I just Inflation Reduction Act that things 95 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:33.080 can end up costing many, many billions more dollars than they originally told us. 96 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.360 But of course it doesn't matter now. The narrative is, the headline 97 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.320 has gone, the narrative has passed. They've already gotten their political capital out 98 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:48.000 of passing that so called Inflation Reduction Act. Sign a piece of paper with 99 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.720 people standing around clapping for the president. That's enough for many people to say, 100 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.879 man, he cares. He cares about making sure I can afford groceries. 101 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.879 He cares about making sure that I can afford my gas or whatever. 102 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.799 And the truth is, when you look at the numbers, even when they 103 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.159 told us the numbers prior to this bill, think about this, the numbers 104 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.639 that they told when they passed the Inflation Reduction Act said that it would have 105 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.720 a negligible impact on inflation. In fact, the first couple of years it 106 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:24.279 was going to actually into or excuse me, add to inflation, add to 107 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.399 it, I mean a small amount. And then they said in the remaining 108 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:35.759 years it gradually shaved off a millimeter of a millimeter off of the amount of 109 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.720 money out or excuse me, off of the amount of inflationary pressures that were 110 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:41.440 facing, and effectively, at the end of ten years there was a net 111 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.399 zero effect on inflation. But they still called the bill the Inflation Reduction Act, 112 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:52.039 and they still got their political capital off of it. Same sort of 113 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.440 thing is happening here. The Democrats are going to get all sorts of kudos 114 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:05.200 and applause for negotiating with Kevin McCarthy, negotiating with the Republicans to stave off 115 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:11.519 a financial meltdown in calamity. Of course, the irony of ironies is not 116 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:22.240 that this particular need to increase the death assuming the debt limit. That is 117 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:30.440 not the real problem here. If we uh just didn't, If we if 118 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.399 we were not continuing to borrow money at the rate that they say we need 119 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:39.559 to borrow money, that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the 120 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.279 overall picture of where this this country is being taken by those who make fiscal 121 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:48.159 policy, and when you look at the total not just not just whether or 122 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.320 not we need to increase our debt our debt limit by four trillion, which 123 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.799 is a huge number for regular for regular people, but in in DC that 124 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.399 basically means they're adding what the deficit. Excuse me, The current debt is 125 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.559 thirty one trillion dollars thirty one in some change. Adding another four trillion to 126 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:15.279 that is, what's it like? Maybe what's that twelve percent? Which is 127 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.559 crazy? Right? I'm not, I'm not. I'm just ballparking the figure 128 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:24.399 there. It's craziness to think that we've probably thirteen percent, But it's crazy 129 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.799 to think that we're just blowing off I don't mean to blow off those numbers. 130 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:30.720 I'm saying. It's not like they're wanting to double it. Thank goodness. 131 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:35.240 I don't put it past them, But it's still devastating those the the 132 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.799 death by a thousand cuts comes to mind this, this concept that we continue 133 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:52.320 to nick the arteries and the veins of the average American taxpayer. You put 134 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:56.320 burden upon burden upon the American taxpayer, little by little. Of course, 135 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.519 four trillion and of itself is a massive number, But if you bread it 136 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.879 out over a couple of years, and if you say that, hey, 137 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.960 we're gonna make the wealthiest Americans pay for this thing, and you demonize people 138 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:16.000 and you make Americans well basically resent people who have more, and you point 139 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.879 to that group and say they're the culprits. They're the ones that aren't paying 140 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.000 their fair share to begin with, and all this nonsense, you stir up 141 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.799 this frenzy, this hatred, and then you've got a built in culprit named 142 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.120 Kevin McCarthy, who I'm not defending by any stretch of the imagination. McCarthy 143 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.720 is out there trying to frame this as a victory. But my friends, 144 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:39.960 we've not really achieved anything. We've not really achieved anything. But McCarthy's out 145 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:46.200 there bragging about this thing. House Freedom Caucus members are saying no conservative can 146 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.080 vote for this thing, and good conscience. We've got the wine House and 147 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.960 the left out there saying we didn't really get anything we wanted in this bill 148 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.480 as well. I don't know if that was kind of a deal they wanted 149 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.720 to make with McCarthy to help him sit save face behind the scenes, or 150 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:07.120 what. But the bottom line is, the bottom line is what I thought 151 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.600 would happen, and what you thought would happen appears to be happening. It 152 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.360 appears to be happening. There might have been a couple of tiny wins here 153 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:20.600 and there for the Republicans, but the bottom line is that America is still 154 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:28.120 spending itself into oblivion. To increase the government's ability to add to its debt 155 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:35.840 by four trillion dollars over the next two years is beyond inexcusable. There is 156 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:41.840 nothing. There is absolutely nothing unless we got well four trillion dollars in spending 157 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.519 cuts, I guess in exchange for that. But that's of course not what 158 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.480 happened. House Republicans want in McCarthy to go in with a one point five 159 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:58.600 trillion debt limit increase, and he's at nearly what almost three times that, 160 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:07.799 not quite again in the ballpark of that. So I'm not discouraged because I 161 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.799 know, yeah, you know, we know how the game is played, 162 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:15.240 right, you know how the game is played. I know how the game 163 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.600 is played. I know McCarthy is not a principled conservative, and I do 164 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.639 not mean that as an insult. He may be a personal personally a very 165 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.600 likable guy. There's nothing to do with it for me, But you go 166 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:33.159 back to when Matt Gates and Lauren Bobert and others were opposing his speakership, 167 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.679 and this is one reason why. Now there's some other takeaways from this too 168 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.320 that I want to get to next segment. One of those, of course, 169 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:46.759 is that realities are what they are. McCarthy can't unless he's really and 170 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:52.600 truthfully prepared to shut this thing down and deal with the ramifications, which maybe 171 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.399 he should be. I'm not saying. I'm not saying that one way or 172 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.200 another. I'm just saying that's not going to happen. Like that just isn't 173 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.919 going to happen. This not a realistic expectation that we should have for for 174 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.279 McCarthy. So you know, what else could he have done at some point? 175 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.440 I'm not again, I'm not excusing it. I'm not saying that there 176 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.000 couldn't be more things that were done. But ultimately, the idea, and 177 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.240 that's why I was saying it from the beginning, the idea that we were 178 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.080 really going to come out of this with massive spending cuts in America on a 179 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:31.559 correct physical path was I think wishful thinking at best, maybe absolute delusion at 180 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.320 worst. And that's why we said I didn't, you know, I didn't 181 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:39.519 expect much to come out of this. So again, this is still new. 182 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.840 The text of the bill was just released. I guess it was yesterday, 183 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.519 but it's Memorial Day weekend. That's another thing that happens. They do 184 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.679 these things on the weekends or late at night or over the holiday weekend, 185 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:56.360 and you know, the average person can't really know what's going on. And 186 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.720 so here we are. Here we find ourselves arguably in a worse position. 187 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:07.840 I mean, we might have avoided some fiscal and financial turmoil in the near 188 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.759 term, but what we added on the backside of it is going to be 189 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.559 I don't honest say infinitely worse, but if you can allow me to be 190 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:23.600 metaphorical, infinitely worse, because that's going to be compounding with everything else, 191 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:29.159 all of the other bad fiscal decisions and all the other bad fiscal decisions this 192 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:34.759 nation hasn't even officially adopted yet. That's going to be pushed next well, 193 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:41.279 next week and next month and next year and so forth, because it doesn't 194 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.399 seem any to be any real desire to stop it. Maybe from a couple, 195 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.559 maybe, but you're gonna have to prove it to me. This did 196 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.840 not prove it to me. But I've gotta take a break, quick time 197 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:53.559 out, my friends. When we get back, I want to talk about 198 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:59.799 some of the lessons and takeaways that we should at least be reminded of or 199 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.799 maybe even learn through this whole process. Timeouts in order, though, my 200 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.799 friends, sit tight, you're listening to conservative not better talk. It's going 201 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:25.480 to be back here on this Tuesday, back in just a minute. Welcome 202 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.160 back, my friends. So what are the takeaways? What are the takeaways 203 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:38.160 from this negotiation between Kevin McCarthy and Biden, the Republicans and the Democrats or 204 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.519 dare I say the dramacrats. What are the takeaways? Well, the first 205 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:48.359 one is an obvious one, and that is that the Republicans are not in 206 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.400 control. I mentioned off of the top of the program. I think that 207 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:59.319 for many strategists on the left, this is actually their preferred breakdown of government. 208 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:03.599 They like have in control of the Senate, or maybe it's maybe it's 209 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.680 even the other way. They have the House and they want the presidency. 210 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.720 They can't stomach the idea of their being a president Donald J. Trump. 211 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.200 Again, Remember this is when they howl at the universe a scream whenever there's 212 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.400 a problem, well, when there's someone there that they don't want there. 213 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:26.200 This is where they request service dogs to deal with the trauma of President Trump. 214 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:32.160 It'd be the same for De Santis as well, but service dogs adult 215 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:37.319 coloring books, they stage cry in. This is literally the things that they 216 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.759 did in twenty sixteen. This is not hyperbole. This is not designed to 217 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:45.920 be satire, although I wish that it was. That is not what happened 218 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.880 in twenty sixteen. Legitimately, these are the sorts of things that happened. 219 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:53.880 This is how they react when Republicans have the wine House, and I mean 220 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:59.160 for obvious reasons. I mean, the obvious reason is that the average left, 221 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:06.079 well today's radical leftist, is a statist, and they like strong executive 222 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:11.400 power, and having someone like Trump or someone like the Santists or someone who's 223 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.599 not a well an avowed leftist, they don't like that, and so they 224 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.359 can't stomach that. They can't deal with the press conferences and the tweets and 225 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:23.400 all that stuff happening when Trump's in office. And so they definitely don't want 226 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:29.279 to give up the presidency. But I think, don't get me wrong, 227 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:33.759 they don't necessarily want to lose the House and the Senate. But strategically I 228 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.400 think they kind of like it. So maybe they would be okay having the 229 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.880 House and losing the Senate. They want it close. They don't want it 230 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:45.839 to be a supermajority for the Republicans, or maybe they would be happy giving 231 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:48.400 up the House and having control the Senate, which is really what we have 232 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:56.759 right now, because again it allows them. When you have weak well weakness 233 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:00.640 on the Republican side, or when you have moderates the Republican side, you're 234 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:07.680 going to get effectively the same sorts of policies you would get if the radical 235 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.359 left we're in complete control, not to the degree. I will grant you 236 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.039 that there are some things that people like McCarthy are not going to go for 237 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:22.480 that a group full of Democrats in Washington, DC would go for. But 238 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:29.759 they don't have any scapegoat. They don't have anyone that they can blame. 239 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.359 They don't have a patsy to fall back on to point at. They do 240 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.599 when there's a speaker McCarthy, and I think they like that, I really 241 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:42.759 do. They get all of what they want without having to take any of 242 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:49.119 the blame. I call that the Michael Scott well, the Michael Scott dream. 243 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:55.519 Really, but what else can we learn from this little incident regarding the 244 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.480 debts sailing? Well, we know that most elected republic Blicans are actually not 245 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:11.039 conservatives. I say that again, most elected Republicans are not actually conservatives. 246 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:17.319 Now, when it's time to get votes, they'll get in their pickup trucks. 247 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:22.559 Some of them might even put a dip in if it appeals to certain 248 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:27.880 demographics. You know, they might drink a certain brand of beard. To 249 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.319 connect, they'll you know, get the blue jeans out, they'll get the 250 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.079 American flag out, they'll pound their chests, talk about how their their love 251 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:45.680 for this great country. And that's what that's really the purpose is to connect 252 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.680 with people who feel that way legitimately, as I know many of you do, 253 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:57.039 as I do, but they don't necessarily well, they're embarrassed. The 254 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:03.039 simple way of looking at it is they are embarrassed by us. They they're 255 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.519 around people all the time, and I mean, I seek to understand this, 256 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.440 not just to be critical. It's going to come across as being critical 257 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:15.440 because candidly, I think it's weak. I think it's I mean, it's 258 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.319 the sort of things Actually my children don't even think like this, but it's 259 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:25.359 the sort of thing, sort of way that someone who is a juvenile or 260 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.559 a young person would think if they're just trying to be accepted by the cool 261 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:33.039 crowd. So you've got three the Democrats, and you've got the media, 262 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:38.559 and you've got Hollywood celebrities, and you've got athletes. All these folks that 263 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:44.240 these organizations are are leftist today, they're at least liberal. Many of them 264 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:47.519 are leftists. By the way, My favorite part I did watch part of 265 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:53.119 the draft NFL draft here a month ago. Favorite part of the draft is 266 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:56.160 I don't want to say the favorite part, but the part that makes me 267 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:02.200 chuckle every time, and I forget about it until happens. Roger Goodell walks 268 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:06.480 out to the microphone to announce the first pick or the three hundred and eighth 269 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:10.519 pick, or however far he's out there at the microphone, and the booze 270 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.880 from the audience, the cacophony of booze that's out there as he walks to 271 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.039 the microphone, makes me chuckle every time, because the average football fan is 272 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:26.039 not cool with the things that Roger Goodell is doing. But the average football 273 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:33.000 fan, the average the average joe here in this country, you're you're out 274 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.640 there. They are out there living their lives around other average joe's. They 275 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.400 don't have to worry. I don't mist understand. I'm not using this to 276 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:48.880 say this to excuse it. But these folks aren't worried about not getting invited 277 00:23:48.799 --> 00:24:00.519 to some fancy, high falutin liberal I don't know, some little party or 278 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:06.079 something. In fact, in fact, a lot of those folks do absolutely 279 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:08.839 do not want to go to those things. I would include myself in that, 280 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:15.799 and so, but the people in DC do, and so they're they're 281 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:22.400 mocked and ridiculed for being stupid the left and the liberals. The Democrat Party 282 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:26.559 is supposed to have all these answers. Of course that's patently nonsense, but 283 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:33.119 nonetheless it sticks with the narrative. The media turns up the pressure. They 284 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.839 always ask you about Trump or Trump's tweets, and people just get embarrassed. 285 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.519 They just get embarrassed. I've pointed out one of my senators, Todd Young 286 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:48.279 here in Indiana. He is happier to tell you he's not supporting Trump than 287 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:51.839 he would ever be to tell you he's not supporting Biden. And that is 288 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:56.400 really to me. All you need to know that he is one of dozens 289 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.599 of senators in the Republican Party who act and behave like this, and I 290 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:03.759 guarantee it when twenty twenty eight comes around in our state, you're gonna see 291 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:08.680 the same campaign ads and the same proud to be an American and you know, 292 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:17.480 talking about the traditional campaign and a sort of approach, But what happens 293 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:21.839 between the six years the six years that you know, from campaign to campaign, 294 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.480 the only thing I hear is how he capitulates and gives in to the 295 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.759 left. And so there's a lot of Republicans like that. Now, the 296 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:41.240 average Republican voter, the rank and file Republican he is, she is a 297 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.000 conservative, not just the Republican. So we want to talk about saving our 298 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:49.319 democracy, maybe we should start finding people who represent the people that vote for 299 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:53.880 these jokers a little bit better. But that's another takeaway from this. The 300 00:25:53.920 --> 00:26:02.319 average elected Republican is not conservative. The average republic Looking voter is conservative. 301 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:04.640 And we got to find a way to reconcile that there is a battle not 302 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:11.599 just for control of this country between Republicans and Democrats. There's a battle for 303 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:18.440 control of the Republican Party, between conservatives and moderates, between constitutionalists and lovers 304 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:27.400 of big government, between strong principled people and weak, accommodating, capitulating people 305 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.960 who are only concerned, who are only concerned about again, the things that 306 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.759 you might have been concerned about in high school, fitting in getting invited to 307 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:41.200 the party, being able to be a committee, a high ranking person on 308 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:48.039 the committee or whatever, having the seats of honor, getting the appropriate amount 309 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.960 of applause when you're out in public. Meanwhile, this country is burning all 310 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:57.279 around them, and they're more concerned about appearances. They're more embarrassed with things 311 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:04.359 that they've heard conservatives say. Meanwhile, they're completely completely abe Well, what's 312 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:10.240 the word I would use? Not? They're completely fine with the left driving 313 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:14.599 this country knows first into the ground. It is a remarkable thing to see. 314 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.240 It certainly is timeouts in order to my friends, sit tight. You're 315 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.559 listening to conservative not better talk. I'm your host, the one, the 316 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.440 only Todd Huff. Sorry about that. Just be back here in just a 317 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:41.920 minute. Welcome back, my friends. A couple more takeaways from again what 318 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:52.519 we're doing. We're talking about McCarthy's negotiation over the debt ceiling agreement, and 319 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:57.680 we're again, this is not not something that is good for the American people. 320 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:03.839 This is not something that's good for people who care about reigning in the 321 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:08.400 size and scope of government, the cost of government, and so we're talking 322 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:12.720 about a few things here. Some takeaways, some takeaways. The first one 323 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.119 is Republicans are not in control. The second one, the second one is 324 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:25.519 that Republicans elected Republicans are not many of them. Most of them are not 325 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:32.799 conservatives, but most of the Republican base who actually cast votes, cast ballots 326 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:38.000 for elected representatives and senators and president, they are conservatives. Some of them 327 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:41.720 don't even know they're conservatives. Some of them have been taught to hate the 328 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:48.200 word conservative. Some of them just like conservative ideas. They maybe call them 329 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:53.240 under under another banner. Maybe they'll say libertarian, which I'm okay with that, 330 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.519 And I know I got libertarians that listen. You'll say, well, 331 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.440 Todd, there's a big difference, and that's fine. You can that's fine. 332 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.319 I don't even care. I just want those of us who believe in 333 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:10.200 a limited government to understand there's a lot of us, but there's not that 334 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:14.200 many people who think like us in DC for a host of reasons, which 335 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:18.160 we talked about, which we talked about last segment. Another thing that I 336 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.119 have, and I actually jotted these downs some takeaways. I don't want to 337 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:23.200 make sure I got all five of them down. There might be a few 338 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:30.000 others that I've left out. Negotiations. This is the third one. Negotiations 339 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:38.440 with leftists never yield what we actually need, especially when oh this is the 340 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:45.839 kicker, Especially when our negotiators know that they are going to be blamed for 341 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:52.839 anything that goes wrong. And and you could say, when they're negotiating from 342 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.480 a position of weakness, which I would maintain that as McCarthy. Look, 343 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.920 I don't take pleasure in this. I really do. Don't. Some may 344 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:11.440 think that I do. I truly don't. I don't like to I don't. 345 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:19.319 I don't like to speak ill of Republicans, especially Republicans and leadership, 346 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:26.240 because you know, I don't expect people to agree completely with me, though 347 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.759 they certainly should. I thought that in them for good measure, but I 348 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.440 don't expect that. I understand that there are realities, you know, being 349 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:41.440 a Republican in California, or a Republican in New Jersey, New York, 350 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:47.480 Massachusetts, some places, a Republican in San Francisco, that's almost an extinct 351 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.920 breed of individual. But they're different across the country. I understand that, 352 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.240 and realities are what they are, and you have to be able to make 353 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:06.400 you have to be able to make the majority work for you. But it's 354 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.640 not just the majority in the House. It's of course that's the only chamber 355 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.200 that we have a majority in. We don't have the Senate, we don't 356 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:18.519 have the White House, and so there's a major disadvantage. And so when 357 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:25.279 you have someone like McCarthy, who I don't believe, actually I'm very certain 358 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:29.359 that he's not a principled conservative. And before you think that, I mean 359 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:33.759 that as a complete criticism. I don't because I would say Trump is not 360 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.599 a principled conservative. I think Trump is a common sense guy that ends up 361 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:45.680 at conservative principles. But not because he's someone who's out there trying to articulate 362 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.680 conservative ideas and the philosophy and all that. I just think he's taught, 363 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:52.240 you know, talks it through, thinks it through, and ends up, 364 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.920 however much percent of the time, nine times out of ten, eight times 365 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:01.440 out of ten, at least on the conservative side. But it's not because 366 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.519 of the principles. It's just because of he's a practical kind of a businessman, 367 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:09.480 not kind of that's what he that's who he is. And so as 368 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:15.480 a result, you know, that's why he was he's a good negotiator because 369 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:21.079 he's a good negotiator first and foremost, and he uses sense and things that 370 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:27.559 makes sense, just listens and tries to think through the solutions. But when 371 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:31.079 your starting point, say with the McCarthy is, you know, I feel 372 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:39.400 like it's more about just getting something done. That's an immediate weakness when they 373 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:46.839 know that you are willing what your main priority is just to get something done 374 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.960 instead of standing on principles. Your main priority is to get something that you 375 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.079 can put before your chamber. When you realize that that is the starting point, 376 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.720 it's just not going to end. Well. That's why you could predict 377 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:07.519 this is why we predicted this coming pretty easily. This is just who This 378 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.319 is just who we are. And I don't mean it. I really don't. 379 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:15.160 I know that that's can be seeing clear it is clearly it can be 380 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:16.920 insulting, but I don't mean it to be that way. I'm just saying 381 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:22.559 it to explain who I think McCarthy is. I think he likes, he 382 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.799 likes the position. I think he's just Okay, Hey, I gotta figure 383 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.119 this out. How do I get the votes right? I gotta keep the 384 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:36.839 House Freedom Caucus people happy. I've got to keep the other moderate Republicans happy. 385 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:40.480 I'm definitely not going to leave these negotiations with the government shut down on 386 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.559 a default of our debt or whatever the case may be. That's not going 387 00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:50.039 to happen. So then the people negotiating with him know this, and so 388 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:54.160 here we are. Here we are. So that's that's another point takeaway as 389 00:33:54.160 --> 00:34:00.119 well. I'm gonna take a time out. I've got two more to get 390 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.799 too. I'm long on this segment and I'm going to pick these up on 391 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:06.759 the other side of the time out. Sit time my friends back in just 392 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:23.719 a minute. Welcome back to my friends. I'm gonna have to get a 393 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.920 new Mike stand here. This thing is not going where I wanted to go 394 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:37.320 anyway. Two more takeaways. Two more takeaways from the negotiations between McCarthy and 395 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.239 the White House from number one or number four here, I've gone through the 396 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.760 previous three. If you missed any of it, check it out on the 397 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:50.760 podcast Totally Free to do. But number four, number four, I find 398 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:58.679 myself asking the question if this little letdown, if you will, by McCarthy, 399 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:06.880 has actually laid the groundwork for someone in the House to move to vacate 400 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:12.960 the chair, which basically means moving to replace Kevin McCarthey Speaker of the House. 401 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:17.880 Now, everyone out there so far has been saying, yeah, that's 402 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.639 not going to happen. I don't see that being the result whatever, but 403 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.599 it could be the first domino to fall. So I would say we should 404 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:32.199 keep our eye on that, because again, this is where I'm actually I'm 405 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:37.440 actually one hundred percent on team Matt Gates with this. I'm one hundred percent 406 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:42.920 in alignment with Lauren Boebert on this. I think that that that actually is 407 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:52.519 probably has probably made this negotiated bill or settlement or agreement or whatever more well 408 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:57.719 closer to conservative principles than it would have been otherwise, which is maybe scary 409 00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.880 given how far it is away from it right now out But that's another takeaway. 410 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:07.280 The last thing is I would I would say this, we as Republicans, 411 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.639 we as conservatives, are never going to win. We're never going to 412 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.760 win the debate, We're never going to win the issue if we play by 413 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:22.920 their rules, if we accept their terms. They're terms of the debate, 414 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:27.079 not just terms of the debate, but actually the definition of terms. I've 415 00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:31.440 shared this story before when I was in college and a hundred years ago that 416 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:37.320 I was debating a girl about abortion, and she said what she called me 417 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:45.079 anti choice, and normally Republicans conservatives would get all defensive. I'm not anti 418 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.079 choice, No, I said, I tell you what. I allow you 419 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.159 to call me anti choice when you allow me to call you anti life. 420 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:58.199 And she stood there, sat there for a moment, kind of shocked and 421 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.960 trying to compute what I told her. Is candidly, I don't think it 422 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:06.440 had ever happened before because conservatives are either too nice, we don't want to 423 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.599 turn up to pressure. Some folks just you know, just don't have it 424 00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:13.920 in them. I don't know. We get defensive, we get the pressure 425 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:17.840 of everyone else in the class. I don't know. But we need we 426 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.800 need more of that. We need more of that. I I remember another 427 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:28.360 time I was in college. My professor we were doing like a mock Congress 428 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.239 thing. Again, this is one hundred years ago. I won't say her 429 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:37.760 name, female professor at Butler University. She was a very militant feminist, 430 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.480 but she we got along. We got everybody. I mean, luck, 431 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.480 everybody gets along with me as much as much as it's up to me, 432 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.199 I'm telling you anyway, so we get along. We haven't you know that 433 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:53.880 this mock Congress. Of course, I'm assigned to be the conservative person in 434 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:58.840 the Congress. And she asks me, what's your position on this? And 435 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.599 I said, well, my position is the government shouldn't be involved in this. 436 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.480 No no, no, no, no todd no no no. But 437 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.239 what's the conservative answer to this? And I kept telling her the conservative answer 438 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:13.480 is that the concern is that the private sector should do this. She literally 439 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:19.079 could not grasp what I was telling her. Probably a PhD in political science 440 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:23.719 wouldn't accept it anyway. But if my point is is, if we continue 441 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:29.559 having leaders who play by Democrat rules, we're never ever going to win. 442 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:32.320 And I think that's another thing that we can learn from this timeouts in order 443 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:45.760 though, my friends, back in just a minute, Come back, my 444 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.000 friends. That is why the things we've talked about today, it is why 445 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:57.599 the time to I guess fight for control of the Republican Party is actually this 446 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:05.440 time before the primaries start, the time before the primary starts. I think 447 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.199 that you know, there are opportunities out there, and we're all different, 448 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:13.559 right, I know, we all have our own lane. Mine is on 449 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.719 this show yours can be. I mean, any any number of things you 450 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:21.519 could you could be doing. We should all be at least influencing those people 451 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.719 in our sphere of influence. But I will say this, some people out 452 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:29.400 there listening to my voice may need to get involved in the Republican Party, 453 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:34.119 maybe even run for a position of leadership. I'm talking about your local Republican 454 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.480 party. If you feel that inkling, now is the time to get involved, 455 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.679 to meet people, to see how the leadership's doing it, and potentially 456 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.119 potentially through your hat in the mix when the time comes right. I don't 457 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:49.239 know anything anyway, I've got to go. My friends, hang in there. 458 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.280 We'll talk with you tomorrow. SDG