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good to be here today, and I want to talk really about what is
going on now the next phase here of the battle for the speaker, battle
for the Speaker of the House. As you know, and as we've discussed,
Kevin McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House of Representatives. And
now we are beginning or resuming, or however you want to look at this
starting afresh with picking a new Speaker of the House of Representatives. So I
want to do a couple of things today. First of all, there was
a bit of a clown show on Fox News. I've got this audio that
I'm going to play a little bit of Brian Killmead on Fox and Friends interviewing
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee. And I got to tell you, Brian kill
Mead, I've got no words for it. I have no words for the
clown show that Brian Killmead created in this interview. I mean, it is
absolutely absurd, ridiculous, rude, just terrible. I don't understand. I
don't understand why people like Brian Kilmead, why he is so utterly embarrassed by
what's going on in the House of Representatives. I actually would be embarrassed by
his behavior. That's what's embarrassing. My goodness, I've interviewed him on here
before. I well, I won't talk about that, but you know,
I just I just do not I don't understand this. I just the level
of angst and animosity and hatred that he showed towards Representative Tim Burchett. And
by the way, I know many of you listening to my voice today in
the Knoxville, Tennessee area, this is your representative. So I want to
talk about that. I want to talk about how some people are more concerned
with how things appear than with actually how things are are and focusing on doing
the next best thing, the right thing, so much as they can discern
that and try to take the step to do the right thing. Also want
to play a little bit, a little bit of That's what I want to
do first here. Representative Matt Gates, of course, from the great State
of Florida, has nominated Donald Trump for Speaker of the House. Trump has
said, I love folks, I know, I know that this is a
lot for some of you. I know, I get it. I'm not
telling you to like it. What I'm telling you is that in order to
fix the mess that we have, this is going it requires there to be
an uncomfortable period. I mean, think of any an uncomfortable, uncomfortable period
of time, a transition, a time to fight back. I mean,
my goodness, this is this is the only way. And when anytime we
get to the next step, right, the next step, well, next
time we'll do this, or next time we'll do that. And then we
don't because we flinch, because we lose at the proverbial game of chicken,
and we just allow, we just allow the radical left and the weak,
feckless leaders in the Republican Party to continue the status quo. And we talked
about the status quo yesterday or the day before, and the status quo is
what takes us. The status quo is what has taken us to this point.
The status quo has brought us here. Donald Trump did not bring us
here. Donald Trump exposed and highlighted some of the status quote behavior that has
been happening, some of these things that have been happening right there for anyone
to see who cared to pay attention. But some of this has been happening
behind closed doors. But the end result is that it has hurt and harmed
the American people. And so I just look. This whole notion of Trump
being speaker, I know is a ton is a lot for someone some people
to deal with. But there's a part of me, there's a part of
me that thinks this would be the most awesome thing I've ever seen, especially
in an election year. I just and part of me thinks, too,
make these Republicans vote on this, because I'm telling you, in the majority,
perhaps the vast majority of cases, those that do not support a speaker
Trump. And I'm look, I want to say these things with not coming
on and saying I'm endorsing the idea. I just think that there's some some
good that can come from it. There may be some some other negatives that
I'm just not mentioning at the moment. I'm just saying, I'm saying that
as far as controlling the narrative, ramping up what the next election needs to
be about, focusing on what the House should be doing, regardless of what
the Senate does, regardless of what Biden does, differentiating us from the left,
forcing the hand, forcing these Republicans who are often weak and not what
I want to say, not principled, right, They're just they're there to
just get by with the bare minimum forcing them to play their hand, forcing
them to either continue to move in a direction to clean up the corruption,
to rein in the spending, to balance the budgets, to put pressure on
them in that way, or to expose them for who they really are.
I see, and again I know that there would be drama and tweets and
truth social posts and probably things press conferences like the Speaker of the House has
never had before in the history of the House of Representatives. I get all
of that, But if you look at people, the people that are well,
I did see Mike Pence. And by the way, I've got again
the stack of stuff on our website has a link to a lot of things.
In fact, there's a link to NBC News, which again enter that
site at your own risk, but it is there. It's kind of a
live feed where there's updates on the battle for the Speaker of the House.
In there you'll find links or parts of the story about Pence being quote deeply
disappointed that Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker, or Pence saying, for example,
that this whole notion of Trump being Speaker of the House is Trump inserting
himself. I feel like other people brought it up. It's one of the
first things that crossed my mind once I heard that Speaker McCarthy had actually been
ousted as the speaker. Of course, anyway, Trump has been official Trump
has been officially nominated. Now you might be wondering if you've not followed politics
for a long or maybe this again we're in unchartered waters. But you can
actually have a Speaker of the House. Well, there's debate on this.
There is debate on this. It doesn't specifically state in the Constitution that the
House the Speaker of the House be a an active member of the House.
It doesn't specify that this is long This by the way, just like all
the stuff that happened leading up, well that happened actually in twenty twenty one
on January or sixth, and all the things that well, that people wanted
Pence to do to reject the electoral votes of certain states because of questions about
the integrity of their states particular elections. That had been something that was not
dreamed up by the Trump campaign or the Trump administration. That was something that
people had spoken about and conjectured conjectured about for a long time. Right,
they were postulating theories and formulating opinions and everything else, having these discussions and
so forth about what would happen in the event that the vice President of the
United States found reason to not accept some of the electors. This was not
just made up on the spot. It might have only been in academic circles,
but it was something that was discussed. I remember some of these discussions
in college or what have you, just in some of our exchanges or you
know, when people would point out something in conversation. I don't know if
it was in class, but I just remember some of these with folks that
studied and found an interest in these things. Just like that is the case.
It has long since been debated, or it seems to be the case
that you don't have to be a member of the House to be the Speaker
of the House. At least it does not specify that explicitly in the Constitution.
So that's where this Trump nomination can potentially come into play. So time
out is in order. I want to play this sound bite now, but
I'm going to try to keep us on schedule today. So what I'm going
to do is I'm actually early, my goodness, actually a couple seconds early
here. So what I'm going to do is when we get back from the
break, I want to play Matt Gates from the floor of the House nominating
President Trump, and I just want you to listen to what he says.
I know that some people don't have the stomach for this. I know that
some people think, can't we just get along again? I challenge that behavior,
that thinking. I believe that if that is your thinking, or if
you know people that have that thinking, I think that that really needs to
be questioned and challenged because because of my friends, this is the course that
we are on. The course that we are on has been preset, It
has been programmed into the GPS of the metaphorical controls of this jet, if
you will, in an analogy, the direction that this jet is taking us,
or the car that we're in, is taking us towards larger governments,
larger deficits, less freedom, less opportunity, more tearing things that are not
in the Constitution. That is where our destination is programmed. In order to
change that, we're going to have to eventually engage in a fight and hold
people accountable who refuse to change the coordinates that had been programmed into the GPS.
Kevin McCarthy did not program the GPS in this metaphor, in this analogy.
He did not program it to direct us to a place that was actually
on the path to trying to rein in the mess that government has created for
its citizens, for its taxpayers, for the listeners in this audience. And
so I mean he has to go. I don't see the problem here.
It doesn't bother me, it doesn't embarrass me. I don't even that doesn't
even cross my mind. I think about what is best, how do we
get from where we are to where we need to be. And it's clear
to me that that did not involve former Speaker McCarthy. So I want to
place Gates's nomination of Trump on the other side of the break. Get to
a lot of other things, including text messages I got from one of you.
I want to address those. Time permitting here today, So we'll take
a time out. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not bitter talk.
I am your host, the one, the only Tod huff back in
a minute, welcome back to my friends. So here is Matt Gates on
the floor of the House of Representatives, nominating for Speaker of the House one
Donald Jay Trump. I want to well, I want you to to hear
this. It's interesting. I think that this could actually do a whole lot
of well, I don't know. I just think that Trump pushed these folks
to do the things that they should have been doing all along. And I
just there's something about this that I would love tremendously. I'm not suggesting it
should actually be done, but I am saying. I am saying that,
man, just as I think about all of the positive things that could come
from this, including just setting the course of the House of Representatives, helping
differentiate between what this country would do under the leadership of someone like Trump versus
the leadership of someone like Biden. By the way, did you see Biden?
Now, Biden has suddenly realized that he can actually create something along the
southern border, not a wall, as Oz has pointed out to me,
A barrier. They tell the American people. They've told the American people that
they have had to suspend or just overrule laws twenty six or twenty four laws
so that they can finish building a section of the barrier. Not the wall,
no, no, no, A barrier that resembles a wall along the
southern border in a particular particular part of Texas. But that's not how that
works. By the way, funding had been approved for this. I don't
want to get into that, but I'm just saying it's ironic that when you
start to see the removal of the Speaker of the House and now movement towards
who knows, someone who may be a little bit more aggressive, a little
bit less forgiving and graceful to the left for their behavior and so forth.
I'm not saying vindictive, but I am saying folks that may actually try to
hold them accountable for all the corruption and nonsense has been going on. Someone
maybe like Jim Jordan, I don't know who knows, maybe someone like Trump
anyway, but here is Trump being nominated. Here's Trump being nominated for Speaker
of the House by one Matt Gates. Why did that not hold on?
Here? I literally just had this queued up position of Speaker of the House.
Here we go, Sorry about that? Well, here we go?
What purpose ses A gentleman from Florida rides to place a name and nomination for
the position of Speaker of the House. The gentleman is recognized, my friends,
When Donald Trump was president, taxes were cut, regulations or slashed.
Energy was abundant, wages were rising, capital was returning from overseas to fund
the dreams and ambitions of our fellow Americans, and the economy was roaring.
What a contrast to what we have seen from this administration now. And so
I rise to nominate Donald Trump for the position of Speaker of the House.
And for all of the vitriol that we hear from the media and at times
the left, there were great moments of bipartisanship under the Trump presidency, and
the Democrat nominee for Speaker knows that well because he led valiantly on the efforts
for criminal justice reform, and I was honored to join him. And I
know, no matter who's sitting in that speaker chair, we got a lot
of work to do on that very issue. We took a first step,
but there's a second step and a third step to take, and I'm glad
that we were able to work with President Trump, with Republicans, and with
Democrats to provide real outcomes for Americans, to create greater prosperity and more opportunity.
I also care deeply about President Trump's focus on our nation's veterans. It
seemed for far too long on the campaign trail, veterans were disregarded, forgotten
about. When we would get elected to office, their issues would not always
rise and get center stage. But we were able to pass veterans accountability measures.
We were able to actually get people fired at the VA when weren't doing
their job. What a great thing that would be to extend and continue and
to continue to nourish. President Trump oriented our views on trade so that we
actually put the American people first, not foreign interests abroad or special interests here
at home. President Trump knew that we had to confront China, that China
had already engaged. So that's you get an idea. He also calls out
corruption in this address where he nominates Trump as Speaker of the House. It's
interesting, and I tell you what, I tell you what Trump's Trump can
get a lot more votes for speaker than a lot of people realize. Trump
can get a lot of a lot more votes. I don't know that he
can. I don't know he might be able to get enough votes. He
might not. But it is an interesting thing to think about because because I
mean, it matters what is happening in this country, and you know,
there's there's so many different things to talk about in relation to this. But
one of the things I just I don't have a lot of time here.
One of the things I do want to get to. I'm looking at the
clock. One of the things I do want to get to is a little
bit of this what I'm calling a clown show, because that's what I see
it as a clown show. Brian Kilmeade interviewing representative Tim Burchett from the Knoxville,
Tennessee area, and I mean, it's a terrible interview. Brian Killmeade
comes off like an absolute jerk in this interview. I don't know what else
to say about this, and he I just I think he's he's utterly embarrassed,
and I think, look as what really quickly? When I first,
I shouldn't say first, when when I started doing this show a couple of
years in, I had a conversation with someone in the industry who actually had
some really nice and humble you know, I was humbled by the nice things
he had to say about our program. This is several years ago, and
one of the questions he asked me he asked me, would you ever consider
moving to New York? Is what he said to me, and I said
to him, I did too, I said no, and I did follow
that up with a well, I would like to at least know what the
opportunity is first, But I don't want to go to New not that there's
anything. I think New York is an amazing city, but I think that
one of the benefits that come from living in the Heartland and living in the
Midwest, living in Flyover Country, living in small town USA, semi rural.
I've been to rural America. We're not quite rural, but what's not
You don't have to go too far for me to get fairly rural. But
then there's really rural outs out western places and so forth. But I just,
you know, I think when you're in these big cities, you think
about things differently. I think sometimes, not always, there's always exceptions.
And I think those of you that are in cities and know what I mean,
you have people who and I'm not saying I'm not saying this directly to
kill me, so please don't put words in my mouth, but you have
people who maybe sometimes overthink these these things, or they're too concerned about what
other people think of them, or, in some cases the worst case scenario,
you have what my dad used to call over educated idiots who overthink things
to the point that they look pastous the obvious solution and kill me. In
this interview, came across not just as a jerk, but as somebody that
just didn't make any sense to me. And I'm gonna play a little bit
of it. I can't play the whole thing. But he's embarrassed. He
seems overly concerned with the appearance of something rather than just finding someone who can
actually lead this party, lead this country, lead the House of Representatives,
and do the work that needs to be done. It's it's not enough for
someone to have an arm by the who cares? Who cares what the letter
next to the name is. If the result is the same. Now you
can say, well, of course, Speaker Pelosi took us further left.
That's right. But in another sense, McCarthy and the rhinos like him have
not done anything to move the needle outside of the pressure put on them by
Trump. It just has not happened. It hasn't happened. And really quickly,
I'll tell you a story I think I've showed it on here before.
It reminds me of a disagreement I had with with our youth pastor, a
friend of mine years in years, there's a long time ago. This is
twenty some years ago, and I remember he was talking to our students and
he was talking to them about the importance of showing people your faith. And
look, I don't you know, I don't make any bones about the fact
that I'm a follower of Jesus. And but I'm not a follow This is
the important part. I'm not. I'm not a follower to show any one
about it. I'm a person that's old school in the sense that you do
you live by faith as a follower of Jesus, and you communicate that as
clearly as you can, but you don't focus on how it appears. I
think that that is such a detrimental thing. Instead of putting all this focus
on thinking how does it look to somebody else, why don't I focus on
doing the right thing? Doing the right thing, and then when asked about
it, try to communicate clearly why I'm doing that thing. See, leaders
identify the path that people need to go down, that we need to go
down and then they inspire others to join them on that path. And the
problem in DC, the problem in many places, the problems in some businesses
and some churches, and some communities and some families, comes from this idea
that says, you know, I got to pay my dues, I've got
to way my turn, and then when I get my turn, it's my
turn. My my mind. No, leadership isn't about telling people you're the
boss. Leadership is about having people who are actually following the person who's the
leader. I remember saying this in the past and positions that I had running
a nonprofit. If you have to tell people you're the boss, you're not.
Now I get a boss can say I'm the boss. Da da da
da da. But maybe it's more appropriately said, if you have to tell
people that you're the leader, you're not, you might be the boss.
That's probably the better way to say that. Let me let me withdraw that
first statement and let me say, if you have to tell people you're the
leader, you're not. And so all this protesting about McCarthy is saying he
should be the leader. He's bemoaning the fact that Democrats joined or Republicans joined
Democrats and ousting him. He's been whining and saying that the republic the majority
party, get to pick the speaker. No, actually, if you read
the Constitution, the majority of the House picks the speaker. The founders,
by the way, were not fans of political parties. They saw them as
a necessary evil. I guess, in fact, they've got a story in
the stack of stuff on that. Anyway, So I want to play a
little bit of this interview Brian kill me. It's not an interview, it's
a it's a I mean, he's he's just roasting the guy, except for
it's not funny. He's trying to take him down. I just it's just
it's pathetic. It really is. It really is absolutely pathetic. And I'm
gonna play it on the other side of the break. But our timeouts in
order, my friends sit tight. You're listening to conservative, not been a
talking to her. Who's tat huff back in just a minute. Back.
Excuse me, my friends, I tell you this fall weather gets me every
every every year. We're gonna do our best to stave off any problems with
the vocals, but it hits me from time to time. So I want
to get to this interview, and I can't play the whole thing obviously.
I mean, it's it's bad, it's really bad. It's poorly done,
it's unprofessional. I just think it's absolute tone deafness. I don't understand why
someone is so embarrassed about the speaker being removed. It's much more embarrassing to
me that we have thirty three trillion dollars in debt. It's much more I'm
not embarrassed, it's much more problematic. It's much more troubling to me to
think that we have legitimate problems along the southern border, to think that we're
i mean, just creating massive adding to massive deficits and spending, and the
problem in Ukraine, the problems with a lie integrity, if I'm even allowed
to say that, the attacks on the Second Amendment, those things are much
more problematic to me than a little a little disagreement over who should be leading
the party. Again, if McCarthy wanted to lead the party, if McCarthy
wanted to lead the House, he could have he could have done that.
But instead we're on the same trajectory that we have been. I just I
just don't honestly have much sympathy I mean, I just I don't really care
about the whole situation. And I understand if people disagree, that's that's fine.
But the idea that somehow things we are are being handled appropriately, or
that we're setting ourselves up for success in how we're leading and doing things in
the House of Representatives, I mean, it's just it's it's crazy talk to
me. It's exactly what is wrong with this country. As I said back
in two down since sixteen when Trump started running and the Republicans were talking about
various candidates running for office and so forth. The problem sorry about that.
I got it cued up and I came on live there. But anyway,
the problem was is that Republicans are either not conservative enough, or so they
get in, they go out and they get elected in fundraised, and then
they get into DC and they don't actually do what they told us, or
they're just whimps. And you could say one of those things is directly tied
to the other, and maybe it is, maybe it is sometimes or a
lot of times, but the whimpiness factor is not something that Trump had,
and it's what a lot of Republicans do have. And it's candidly annoying as
heck to me. So anyway, we've actually tried to well the House.
Some of these Republicans have actually tried to do something about it. And so
Brian kill Me has representative Tim Burchett on from Tennessee outside of the Knoxville area,
And I just want you to listen to this exchange. Do you think
he's going to do for the Republican Party and chances of holding on to leadership
and the majority when it looks like you're having You're the ring leader of a
circus led by Matt Gates who likes to blow things up, but not for
any new ideas. Are you happy at following Matt Gates? Is that your
leader? A stupid question, Matt Gates, I made my own decision.
I didn't ask me. But if Matt Gates didn't challenge, you weren't going
to challenge? Do what If Matt Gates didn't stand up, you weren't going
to challenge you? Know what? I believe, I believe I would have
come on and there. Well, please, you're praying about it one minute.
The next minute you're going to lead an insurgency, leading insurgency kill me
one minute? How you're going to vote with Matt Gates and the next minute
you're going to lead an insurgency. You're going to surgency. Answer to everything,
No, I have it, I have it a opinion about what's going
on? Do you have an opinion too? And you talk over me every
time I does? Sorry makes your point. The point is thirty three trillion
dollars in the towns. This speaker was woefully, woefully lacking in leadership skills.
He always plays to blame somewhere else. America is going to be better
off with new leadership. Who is it? But who cares? Possibly it
could be State Scalise, It could be Sonic, could be Rocket Williams out
of Texas. Yes, it could be Jim Jordan. So they all supported
They all supported Kevin McCarthy, including the most conservative guy I know, Jim
Jordan. Okay, Brian kill me. I can't take this well. I
guess I should play the rest of what he's saying smarter than Jim Jordan and
the two hundred and ten plus Why are you smarter? What a stupid,
eightyoddic moronic question, What a clown show, What an absolute disgrace. And
I know many of you I don't watch five. I never really. I
mean, I've said on here. Fox came to our house and did an
interview several years ago, and they were fantastic. They were fantastic people,
the producer, the cameraman, the the journalist. They were It was great,
It was absolutely great. But Fox is not this bastion of conservatism.
Fox. You can see this is what Fox is. Fox is. Fox
is elitist New York moderate Republicans. Brian Kilmead shouting over members of Congress in
an interview. What is this? How juvenile and childish and pathetic. I
don't know who finds this appealing. Kill Mead can think whatever he wants,
can think whatever he wants, but this behavior is just absolutely pathetic. And
by the way, what's this talk about, Oh, are you smarter than
What's it got to do with being smarter than Jim Jordan. I don't like
the leadership, Brian Killmead that Kevin McCarthy displayed. I think that we can
find someone better. I think that the decisions he made has put this country
on a path that is unsustainable. I think that is a lot more serious
than whatever you're outraged about, because now we have to find a new leader
when when when cry me a river tough guy. This is pathetic and embarrassing
and juvenile and stupid. And you can think that my opinion is wrong on
this, but this approach, there's nothing of substance here calling him stupid.
Then he actually says, you know, Jim Jordan didn't join you. Well,
I don't know, Brian, did you notice that Jim Jordan has now
considered running for the Speaker of the House. You see he's open to that,
but he didn't vote to oust Kevin McCarthy. See how these things aren't
necessarily mutually exclusive, See how they can actually one doesn't necessarily determine the fate
of the other. It seems to me, Brian Kilmead, that that's the
erroneous thinking here to think that just because someone doesn't want to vote to oust
the speaker, that they won't run if there is a vacancy. The thinking
here is just I I don't know, I don't know. Does it does
it get filtered out when you when you leave the land of common sense?
I don't know, I don't know. But none of this makes any sense.
And it was again, I don't care so much about the opinion I
care about the condescending behavior, the shouting over the guy, the the accusation
that he's stupid. Give me a break. This is this pathetic stuff.
Anyway, That's only about half of the clip. It doesn't get any better.
You can watch it on the website. It's in the stack of stuff
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I wanted to get to. It's it's just it's it's tough the timing here.
In fact, I had a listener that had message. We get messages
from listeners a lot by email or by text or whatever, and I actually
had one that I wanted to read. I just don't have the time.
I don't have the time. I wanted to get that Kill made clown show
interview before you as well. I don't know if I if we ever start
doing interviews, I can promise you they won't be like that. It's just
embarrassing. It's pathetic, it's not well done, it's not respectful. It
does nothing of any benefit whatsoever. And I've got to get time out,
my friends. You're listening to conservative, not better talk. I'm your host,
Todt huff back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends. So
I got so many other things I wanted to get to today, but we're
simply out of time. I did mention I didn't mention earlier that Biden has
now somehow found that he has the authority to continue building a wall, or
excuse me, a barrier that should not be confused with the wall. By
the way, walls have never let me down, believe it or not every
day I have broadcast to you, I have done so from within the confines
of walls. The ceiling has never collapsed on me. I've always had to
use a door to get out of the wall. It's remarkable, really,
if you stop and think about it. But Biden's finally found that he can
do something about border security, and he acts like he's got to move heaven
and earth to do it, when in reality he's had that authority all along.
So all sorts of games are being played there. We've won the issue,
by the way on illegal immigration. I wrote about that in the column
this week, but I've got to go. Thanks so much for listening.
Have a great weekend. SDG.