1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,480 We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Desnski, 2 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:23,079 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,719 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr LST. 4 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,640 Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and to the freemium 5 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,439 version of our website. I'm joined today by the Big B. You might 6 00:00:35,439 --> 00:00:38,679 be wondering who the Big Bee is. It is the greatest nickname I've ever 7 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:42,920 heard. It was sent to us by listener Gregory loved that email immediately forwarded 8 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,560 it to Bedford instead. I'm only calling you the Big Bee from now on 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,840 because it's so funny. I not only do I accept, but I insist 10 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:54,880 that sounds about right. The Big B. Before we started recording, in 11 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,840 the midst of all the upheavle here in Washington, d C. The Republican 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,560 House Conference and members of the Senate as well or in some state of upheaval, 13 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,760 fault lines are being drawn over the stat suiling deal people you would have 14 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,760 assumed previously where allies have split. It's sort of Shakespearean in the district this 15 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,599 week. But it's all of this and everything going on with the intelligence community. 16 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:22,159 Chris had a thought I found to be rather profound. Well, thank 17 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,680 you. My thought on this week's news is that there is Washington DC does 18 00:01:27,719 --> 00:01:32,159 not cut spending. There's simply not a constiterency to do that. And another 19 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:37,480 truism of Washington DC that the FBI director does not arrest himself. And because 20 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:41,840 no matter what you conservatives say or what pundits say or whatever, it's really 21 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,359 just comes down to power. So you can find out, well, Kevin 22 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:48,079 McCarthy has a slim majority, they have the control of the power of the 23 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,680 port purse. A muscular Congress should be able to hold the White House and 24 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:53,680 the Senator account on that. But not really it's about power does he have 25 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,079 The Republicans want to surrender on spending? Do they want to do any of 26 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:01,359 this? No? I mean even the seventy plus or so no votes in 27 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:06,680 the GOP, if it was actually close and their vote was needed, would 28 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:08,479 not have been no votes. Maybe it would have been like twenty or something. 29 00:02:09,439 --> 00:02:15,439 And just a few months ago when wat's his name from Perceive, Bannon 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:21,439 got arrested for contempt of Congress, the first person to have that happened since 31 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:25,400 she Gordon lydie in nineteen seventy four, people said, oh, well, 32 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,199 this is a new precedent. You know, I hope there was, but 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,960 it's obviously not. Maybe it's a new precedent for when Republicans controlled the DOJ, 34 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:36,360 but as we saw do Donald Trump, that never actually even happens. 35 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,919 So there were people who are kind of hoping for that when their hold when 36 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:45,120 the Republican Congress starting to hold Christopher Ray of the FBI in contempt. But 37 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:50,319 well, that would require the Justice Department arrest in the Justice Department on Republicans 38 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,520 orders for what for doing what the Justice Department felt like doing, which is 39 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:59,680 not investigating Hunter Hunter Biden. It's just it's all this game. So you 40 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,360 can all these cries of hypocrisy or all these cries of squish or whatever, 41 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:05,719 but at the end of the day, it just comes down to who's got 42 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:08,719 power, And well that's a tough one. You know. The argument that 43 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:14,520 the counter argument not to you, but to Kevin McCarthy would be that he's 44 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:19,039 not. He has some measure of power that as let's see. I think 45 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,919 I think new Gingrich is the one who said he really because Biden is going 46 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,599 into a presidential election year, McCarthy really had a lot of leverage, meaning 47 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:32,319 Biden wouldn't want a potential default on his watch going into a presidential election. 48 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,719 Gingrich then championed the deal Kevin McCarthy broker, which lost to you know, 49 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:39,599 seventy plus Republicans. It may have just been Freedom Caucus people if that was 50 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:46,000 actually a meaningful vote, but nevertheless, nevertheless, Gingrich said, this was 51 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,800 a great accomplishment because nobody could have foreseen a couple of months ago Republicans getting 52 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,520 anything out of the steal whatsoever. So it's a take it or leave it, 53 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,120 it's better than nothing type situation. And the question, though, then 54 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:01,479 to your point about power, is whether power or is just being wielded for 55 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,319 the sake of power in Washington, DC, whether it's whether we're talking about 56 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:08,520 the FBI, whether we're talking about the dj I mean, one of the 57 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,639 things I found most fascinating about the Republican fight over the debt from a very 58 00:04:13,759 --> 00:04:17,360 very thirty thousand foot view, are the fights that Republicans chose to pick. 59 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,399 So this is not even talking about the minutia of the deal that was brokered, 60 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,399 but thinking back a couple of months ago to what could have been. 61 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,319 It's it's very strange to me that this deal had like a three percent budget 62 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,360 increase for defense spending built into it. Why are Republicans not making Joe Biden 63 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,519 defend going into a default over some of the surveillance programs at the Pentagon? 64 00:04:43,639 --> 00:04:46,920 These things that are just there. There's been a lot of reporting on them. 65 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:49,800 These are offices that are set up basically with the purpose of surveilling American 66 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:56,399 citizens. They're extra constitutional. Clearly, why are Republicans not making Biden threatened 67 00:04:56,439 --> 00:05:00,759 played default, chicken threatened default for specific over some of the woke programs baked 68 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:03,680 into the federal budget that folks like Russ b would have called attention to. 69 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:08,120 That is the what could have been in my mind, rather than saying we 70 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,879 wanted defense and but it sounds naive obviously to the people who were in the 71 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,639 back rooms where these this deal was being brokered, because you can't cut defense 72 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,319 spending period. That is a truism in Washington, d C. To your 73 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,160 point, Chris, but then what is the point of the power. There's 74 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,160 none, and Repulicans aren't against that. That's the problem, Not against Pentagon 75 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,639 surveillance programs. Half of the American Surveillan state was built under Republicans watch, 76 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,600 and rest Republicans got it. I mean, I went to UM years ago 77 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:39,480 when I was in college and interning for Homeland Security Today magazine. I went 78 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,720 to which is an awesome internship by the way, big By. I went 79 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:50,120 to a meeting at a press conference held at Heritage Foundation where then Secretary Chertoff 80 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,399 was touting these new TSA scanners that were going to be put in. They 81 00:05:55,439 --> 00:06:00,079 could take perfect images of your naked body. And it was applauded like I 82 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,839 steady innovation and people people on the audience. So the Heritage Foundation conservative back 83 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:10,399 then, supposedly, we're like, why aren't these already in place? Why 84 00:06:10,519 --> 00:06:15,439 isn't exactly why isn't TSA already taking naked pictures of us? This is insane. 85 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,839 As quickly as possible, they built this state. It's of course they're 86 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:24,879 not against it. And you know, even before the budget deal was actually 87 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,480 struck, when McCarthy was still trying to negotiate, you were having congressmen out 88 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:30,160 there and being like, well, we're going to get some more money to 89 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,279 Ukraine. Of course, we're gonna have to get some more money to Ukraine. 90 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,040 It's uh, it's absolutely wild that they want it. I mean, 91 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,600 the unit, it's uh. My wife told me it was lazy to call 92 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:44,199 it the UNI Party of the day, but it truly is. It's just 93 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,040 like, yeah, right, sweet, there's just a bunch of Republicans out 94 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:50,759 there who are like, they just want to spend and everyone's got their programs 95 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:55,240 and I mean, for the right, it's defense. For the left, 96 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,040 it's really everything else. Yeah, but it's it's so to your point, 97 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:00,240 I think, which I think is a really good one power for the sake 98 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,759 of power and also incompetence at wielding that power in it or incompetence at even 99 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:12,199 like your own, because for instance, the security start the intelligence community is 100 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:15,040 actually a real threat to Republican power like they potentially with. I mean, 101 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,639 when was the last time the intel community took down a president? It never 102 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:25,439 bombed well, the CIA, like so Sean Davis, obviously there's our CEO 103 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,439 of the Federalists, had a great report a couple of weeks back about how 104 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,759 the CIA there was an there was somebody using their CIA email address to solicit 105 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,160 signatures for the nonsense letter that hunter Biden's laptop. The new York Post story 106 00:07:36,199 --> 00:07:41,079 looked like Russian disinformation, so you had the CIA actually involved in that. 107 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,680 Beside the fact the fact that it was fifty one former intelligence guys, we 108 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:51,319 now know that somebody literally in Langley was soliciting signal. Rising star Anthony Wiener 109 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,720 had been busted a few weeks later. Yes, that appears to be a 110 00:07:56,759 --> 00:08:01,399 picture of my member, but it's really just russ disinformation. I mean, 111 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,319 Hunter got away with that right a riddle. I know it looks like a 112 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:09,399 naked picture of me smoking back with the prostitute taking itself that I had on 113 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:13,480 my laptop. Who keeps naked pictures themselves on the laptop. Let's not, 114 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:18,959 let's say, like a dude thing, but totally seems like a dude That 115 00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:22,160 seems like exclusively a dude though of themselves. I don't know, Oh my 116 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,439 gosh, well the but man, if if only Anthony Winner, who was 117 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:31,080 recently spotted again at his once a strange wife's side, Um, if only 118 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,360 that happened a few years later, because now, I mean, the Clintons 119 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,919 used to be able to say it's either a right wing vast right wing conspiracy, 120 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,679 or it's old news. Those are like their two responses. But now 121 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,879 it's just it's just the Russians. It's always the Russians. Yeah, the 122 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:52,120 Russians love naked pictures. I believe that. But this is seriously this conundrum, 123 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,200 um, I think is a really real one that you have Republicans who 124 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,480 are increasingly whare aware of the fact that the intelligence community, as you rightfully 125 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,000 pointed out they helped create, is being wielded against them. And you've talked 126 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,399 about this before. It's from Lee Edwards book that actually Lyndon Johnson had I 127 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,159 believe the CIA spy on Barry Goldwater's campaign, maybe in the FBI, the 128 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,080 FBI. Yeah, Okay, for some reason, I was think you CI 129 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:24,039 they had the FBI spy on Goldwater's campaign, and going back all of those 130 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:30,159 years, and if you look fast forward to now, Kevin McCarthy is pretty 131 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:37,240 aware and he talks a decent game about the threats that the intelligence community poses 132 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:41,279 to Republican power. So if you're going to make any type of power grab 133 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,759 with your House majority, why are you not touching any of this stuff? 134 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,039 I think a lot. I think there's probably a lot of fear. And 135 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,960 also they just ignore you. I mean a muscular Congress of the seventies or 136 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,080 the eighties, I think would have probably had the power or the x for 137 00:10:00,159 --> 00:10:05,240 tease in the oversight to really do something about an out of control executive or 138 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:11,080 forget about an intel. That muscle no longer exists. I mean, as 139 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,440 in front of mine said to me last night when were arguing, I thought 140 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,960 McArthur should have gotten a better deal than he did, should have fought it. 141 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,039 And she said, what power does even have. Well, he's got 142 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,519 the power of the purse. Yeah, I mean Congress has largely forgotten. 143 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,440 I'm granted he's got a slim majority and he's got he'd have to really work 144 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,320 hard to keep Republicans online, but that is your traditional power. It's been 145 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,279 given up. I mean Congress. Congress is largely a fundraising and re election 146 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,879 machine where expertise and growth machine, and people, even if they're very good 147 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:43,480 it could potentially be very good, often leave their positions in their late twenties. 148 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:48,039 There's at least in the House, there's not a lot of people in 149 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,279 their thirties and forties and fifties, and in the Senate there's some more. 150 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:54,039 But even then, like the old the old teams that used to I used 151 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,960 to exist for these top senators. They don't have the pay, they don't 152 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:05,279 the expertise doesn't come with the same level of respect that it used to come 153 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,399 with. And I think that's really just her Congress, and it's part of 154 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,919 like the Congress dumb self of Republicans cutting their own budgets, et cetera. 155 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:16,879 But General has to spend the muscle. I don't even know how to use 156 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:18,000 the muscles anymore. They don't know how to do. They don't know how 157 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:22,200 to use proper oversight over over organizations and the federal government that are public. 158 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,039 Well, it's an organized can oversight hud forget about the CIA. Well, 159 00:11:26,159 --> 00:11:30,759 so that's exactly it. If you're using crutches for years, your muscles are 160 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:35,840 going to atrophy, and the administrative state has become the permanent crutch essentially for 161 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:39,200 the for Congress and Richel Bobard our friend has talked about this for a long 162 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,559 time, that there's no way you can get back to like really legislating well, 163 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,000 well, Congresses muscle reflex is just to punt to the administrative state on 164 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,200 issue after issue because they'll always have their back and remember when they couldn't get 165 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,639 gang of eight immigration through the Elbama just use the executive use an executive order. 166 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,120 So much of our poorest border walk or our poorest border is being enforced 167 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,240 right now by the administrators. I mean, basically all of it is being 168 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,519 enforced through the administrative state. And they're poking a million little holes in the 169 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:13,320 supposed wall, the metaphorical wall of our policies through the administrative state, because 170 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Congress has made the decision to punt all of those duties to the administrative state. 171 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:24,600 So Combers decided to go after Ray, and McCarthy's backed him, which 172 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,519 is great to see. But I mean, here they've got someone where the 173 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:35,240 FBI is supposedly, according to this whistle blower, varying evidence of actual corruption 174 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:39,279 that ties back to the president in their states, millions of dollars in deals 175 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,559 when he was vice president, actual bribes that were paid. So he's been 176 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,080 a mystery how he became a multi he went from one of the poorest members 177 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,919 of the Senate to one of the wealthier so quickly. But this was a 178 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,840 blowers proposed to solve some of that. Now. The only reason anyone even 179 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,480 knows about that because the FBI has been slow drag is because he went to 180 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:05,080 a senator. The senator wasn't able to subpoenat him because the Senate Republicans aren't 181 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,399 in charge and Democrats aren't going to let it, so I send it down 182 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:13,120 to the House Comer did the investigation. They threatened to hold the whole Ray 183 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,440 in contempt. Now that that would really do anything other than this be like 184 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:20,879 a little chapter in his Wikipedia page. And thus they took the set the 185 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:22,440 sergeant in the arms down there to arrest them. But I think that'd be 186 00:13:22,759 --> 00:13:30,159 that'd be wild. And they meet last night to kind of discuss, all 187 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,159 right, how do we how do we hold this off? And Ray said 188 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:35,840 basically says, here, I'll give you a little peekaboo at these documents. 189 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:37,600 You can you can look at them, but you can't take him home. 190 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,879 You can't make photo copies. Obviously you can't take a picture. But here's 191 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,120 the document. And that said, there's no more talking. It's an ongoing 192 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:48,279 investigation. Forget about the fact that ongoing investigation. They never once said we 193 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,879 can't comment an ongoing investigation during a single one of the January sixth areas, 194 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,080 because those are hearings that the FBI wants politically prosecuted with this something they're trying 195 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,240 to sit on, and they claim that they go after that. But that's 196 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,200 what as far as you can go, I mean, and that's on domestic 197 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:13,159 stuff with a whistleblower with proven documents showing wrongdoing. Yeah, how much further 198 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:16,600 are they going to really get against the deep state than that? And that 199 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:24,399 this shows you, This shows you just the limits of their power. The 200 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,759 Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. 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That's sad because it's it's really a point where you need to 209 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,039 have the presidency um, and that is not how our system is designed, 210 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,639 is not what the Constitution prescribed for the American people. I hope that the 211 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:13,120 next Republican president kind of learns the lessons of Donald Donald Trump's administration that you 212 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:20,399 must completely and totally ignore the shrieks of the blob and the and the and 213 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:24,879 the absolute panic and shrieks of everyone around you, and decapitate the administrative state, 214 00:15:24,919 --> 00:15:28,960 including your defense, as soon as you get in Like no, this 215 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,120 nonpartisan FBI head and this nonpartisan said, none of those people state. All 216 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:39,039 of them are gone. Every general over three stars. I accept your resignation, 217 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,240 and I mean, just it has to be a full on this is 218 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:50,000 over. Politicization is over, or a hyper politicization, as some people advocate 219 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:50,679 for, like all right, this is over. Right now, I put 220 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,000 my people in charge, which is dangerous, but that's right now. With 221 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,960 the level of capture that the left has, I mean, it's it's just 222 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,080 it's responding to fire. It's not star the new one. And there are 223 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,879 some groups that have I mean obviously in the sort of professional political class on 224 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:11,879 the right in Washington, DC, among the kind of movement conservative wing of 225 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:18,120 that professional political class. There's a huge awareness of prepping for a potential Republican 226 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:22,279 administration. There's actually across the room from us. You see that massive, 227 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:27,519 gargantuan book that's the Heritage Foundations, like policy prescriptions for going forward, American 228 00:16:27,559 --> 00:16:33,120 Compass, other groups are working. Yeah, you can see it's it's massive, 229 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,879 um, and they put a ton of time into it. But you 230 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:41,519 can see like people are trying to develop roadmaps with this awareness that Republicans can't 231 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:45,120 just come in and do what For instance, it seems like Tim Scott thinks 232 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:48,320 that he can do, which is take the driver's seat, hit the gas 233 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,279 and keep going. Um, you know, you can just take the wheel 234 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,399 of the federal government without you know, doing anything dramatic and just hit the 235 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,559 gas, keep going and steer it in a better direction. It actually needs 236 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:03,200 an overhaul in and of itself. That car is the flawed the car itself. 237 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,480 While I'm torturing this amountiford to death. But um, it's true that 238 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:10,480 like you you hear Tim Scott and Nicki Haley and the way they talk about 239 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,599 it, their plans, it's going, it's just got going in the right 240 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:17,279 direction. And yeah, but this system has been it's like I'm trying to 241 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:19,200 think of how to make this Mountiford more ridiculous. The system. It's like 242 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,720 when people add, you know, like things that make the car not work 243 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:26,119 right to make it. You know what I mean, you put diesel in 244 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,839 your car. I haven't done that been of you. It seems like maybe 245 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,440 that it's definitely a check move. I wouldn't do that, but almost once 246 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,960 owned a car for a week, by the way, so I don't have 247 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,920 an amount of time to be aware of the diesel pumps. Also, if 248 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:42,400 I can give you a piece of advice for men to women, you have 249 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,839 to take the gas out of the car and put it back in the nozzle 250 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,680 before you drive away from the gas station. It's funny. If my mom 251 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:52,880 is listening to this, that's really going to resonate with her. But it's 252 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,079 it's also somewhat rich coming from from you kind new mother in law has done 253 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:02,400 that twice. Isn't to stake It's an easy to say. We're not saying 254 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,240 that it's it's just women who make that mistake. But I think actually maybe 255 00:18:06,279 --> 00:18:08,920 Chris is saying that, well, one way to avoid it is to look 256 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,839 over your left shoulder and check your side mirror, which is two other habits 257 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:17,119 that you should be in the habit of otherwise, just bring them up, 258 00:18:17,319 --> 00:18:22,119 just keep it in the trunk along with your cigarettes. Said you're lighter. 259 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,000 But to keep going with should I should I go back to torturing the metaphors? 260 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:30,359 Should I go back to elongating this joke? It's a now I met 261 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,599 a fork in the road, Chris the car is that wow? Wow, 262 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,960 No. But I think when you hear Nikki Hill and Tip's got and you 263 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,319 know, maybe Chris Christy would ever talk about their plans for a potential presidency, 264 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:45,599 they're not talking about things like Schedule F right, which says we need 265 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,920 to actually radically deconstruct the administrative state. We need to reign in executive powers, 266 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:56,279 we need to restructure the way that the federal government works and delegate powers 267 00:18:56,279 --> 00:19:02,119 once again and the tradition of federalism, etc. Etc. Chevron Doctrine is 268 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:07,000 on the Supreme Court docket that's up for a decision that we'll know about soon. 269 00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:10,920 There are some things that are being planned. There's an awareness, but 270 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,759 then again, you still have Tim Scott and Nikki Haley talking like it's twenty 271 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:18,640 twelve and Kevin McCarthy broke. You know who made a really good point. 272 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:22,079 Oh, I won't say who made the really good point, but someone we 273 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:27,000 know made a really good point that there's a difference between McCarthy saying, hey, 274 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,240 you have to make you like, we just have to swallow this deal. 275 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,920 It's Biden's fault because he won't negotiate with us, Like it's ridiculous that 276 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,519 we're even debating a debt ceiling lift when our debt is this high, that 277 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:42,400 we're even debating whether to cut spending. It's it's a sign of a broken 278 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,480 government. But Joe Biden is not going to let's do anything else. So 279 00:19:45,599 --> 00:19:49,440 we're going to take this tiny win but acknowledge that it's a tiny win, 280 00:19:49,559 --> 00:19:55,759 as opposed to going out and trumpeting it as a huge achievement for reigning in 281 00:19:55,799 --> 00:19:57,240 the federal government, which is what most of the press releases I've gotten in 282 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:02,119 the last twenty four hours have said, you've heard that from Republicans, this 283 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,680 is a big achievement. Yeah, Kevin McCarthy, that's what McCarthy himself is 284 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,559 saying that why didn't McCarthy just say, like, this is Biden's fault, 285 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:11,079 that we have to swallow the steal. But we got a little bit and 286 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:12,720 that's the best we can do, as opposed to saying, how dare you 287 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:18,319 not vote for this amazing accomplishment? So going after but I haven't read my 288 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:19,680 email as much this morning. I haven't read the press releases. I watched 289 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:25,240 the vote last night, but I was just thinking, all right, I 290 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,720 would I don't know. So it's funny that they would brag about it. 291 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,839 It's funny that they also would send out Sarah Guts to whisper At a playbook 292 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,200 and to other newsletters that hey, this was actually a genius stroke of genius 293 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,920 by McCarthy. That really, look, he offered some things that weren't even 294 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,599 ever going to be on the table or make the freedom cock is happy. 295 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:47,079 And then obviously they weren't on the table, but he out smart at them. 296 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,039 He's and he's smart. I don't know, it sounds really stupid to 297 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:56,440 me. The whole thing is rather embarrassing me. It's like, it's like 298 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,039 today, when you're on your way to this podcast and you're scooter broke. 299 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,279 There's nothing to be out of you run a scooter down, just walk away. 300 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,720 I wasn't proud to walk away. I was really actually, I was 301 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:11,039 so unhappy to have to send that signal message because I was like, this 302 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,720 is very embarrassing, deeply embarrassing. Yeah, a press release world. In 303 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:21,240 the podcast, I will take the press releases back, I said, a 304 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:26,599 citywide press release about my scooter breaking down. No, this is the the 305 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:33,160 McCarthy comber ray, you know, twenty twenty four. All of this comes 306 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,079 down to, I think it a very relevant and interesting point, which is 307 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,319 that the Freedom Caucus comes out of this with a big W. I think 308 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,240 a big old W. Because whether you're playing poker or buying used card, 309 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,200 negotiating you know, the fate of the United States of America, there's always 310 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:55,519 some theater involved, and necessarily so um and the theater is actually important. 311 00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:59,559 So, you know, the kind of establishment folks griping about the Freedom Caucus 312 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:03,920 folks going out there and demanding more from McCarthy is just as theatrical as the 313 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,680 Freedom Caucus folks demanding more from McCarthy. If you put the screws to him, 314 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,119 you can get more out of it, possibly, but either way, 315 00:22:11,279 --> 00:22:15,839 you're dramatically on the right side of this conversation as far as your constituents go 316 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:22,440 and to that point, they got to vote against this bill. McCarthy, 317 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,200 who I think had very little leverage because the media is always going to take 318 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,599 Biden's plan and a shot is going to take Biden's side in a default, 319 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,759 just like they do every time there's a shutdown. They will make the Republicans 320 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:34,680 look like evil obstructionists. Voters don't like that. No matter what. I 321 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,519 don't think Biden was going to get the blame for a default. We already 322 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:41,799 saw the hostage narrative playing out across the corporate press. So all of that 323 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,359 is to say Freedom Caucus, you know, got a little bit. I 324 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,960 don't Knowcarthey, McCarthy got a little bit out of Dems. I don't think 325 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:49,960 he was ever going to get much more out of that. Doesn't mean that 326 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,319 he shouldn't have tried, doesn't mean that the deal wasn't as good as it 327 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:56,359 should have been. But Freedom Caucus gets to vote against it, get a 328 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,599 little bit out of it. And now, because McCarthy is so worried about 329 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:04,119 the motion of Vakate, he's giving them stuff. We saw Marjorie Taylor green 330 00:23:04,599 --> 00:23:08,599 As at the time we're taping this say that he's giving January six tapes to 331 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:15,400 some news outlets, um including I think Julie Kelly and John Solomon are getting 332 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,400 January six tapes. So now there they went on offense and now they're getting 333 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,319 stuff out of the establishment. And I don't know how much that's going to 334 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,759 be, but I think the point remains, like Comber, for instance, 335 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,400 putting Ray in this situation, you know, you're at an impast, but 336 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,079 it's an impast that shows how broken the government is. So offense is the 337 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,960 answer, you know. And I don't know why we're so we're so hesitant 338 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:47,799 to prosecute and hall people before before judges after they're out of office. I 339 00:23:47,839 --> 00:23:52,400 mean, like, where's fout you right now? Is he allowed to retire 340 00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:56,599 next ra his garbage pool and Northwest EASTA with all of that money? That's 341 00:23:56,599 --> 00:24:00,839 completely insane? Like I think there's one, Yeah, I don't. I 342 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,200 don't know if many Republicans have the guts for US. I think maybe de 343 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:10,799 Sanis and Trump apossible would potentially, and but they should just once they actually 344 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:14,839 have the DJ and take it go after these people, take take advantage of 345 00:24:14,839 --> 00:24:19,119 the precedent set by the January sixth arrests and all that insanity go after them, 346 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,079 hauled them for it, Like all right, now you're not in power. 347 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,799 I mean, you're going to have all these people the David French is 348 00:24:25,839 --> 00:24:29,559 probably the Wall Street Journal, probably lets a host of Fox News saying well, 349 00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:34,759 you can't go after unpunish your political opponents bus why they did wrong, 350 00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:37,680 and they refused to be held to account because they used their power. When 351 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,279 you're out of power, you don't get that protection anymore. They're wielding the 352 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:45,079 powers their political opponents. I mean, it's James call me out there going 353 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:48,000 this week seeing Donald Trump presents its existential threat to the rule of law. 354 00:24:48,039 --> 00:24:53,279 Remember when they rated Marlago for what they they No one believed it for a 355 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,240 heartbeat, and then they were like, oh, it's nuclear coach, really 356 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:02,839 because zero that ever ever the case, and everybody knows the nuclear code is 357 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:11,519 just zero zero zero zero. Yeahs, passwork and your bike lock. They 358 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:15,680 completely mowed down that president. They're going after the president. They're going after 359 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:18,359 him everywhere. I mean, just all right, just just take their gloves 360 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,039 off. And by the way, I mean you got to wonder how many 361 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,079 how tribal has just the voting gotten. I mean you look, you look 362 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:30,680 at the Chicago, where where there was someone who was supposed later formers saying, 363 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,519 Hey, this city has gone complete out of control and your kids are 364 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:33,920 getting killed. I want to run for office. Yeah, but they went 365 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,480 with someone who's, you know, more of the machine. They look at 366 00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:45,839 Philadelphia. I mean, it's just American politics have gotten extremely tribal and the 367 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,799 left has gotten very good at retribution and the right isn't very good at wielding 368 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,359 power. But maybe they'll take a few lessons. I'm not very hopeful, 369 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,440 but maybe, yeah, who knows. I mean, it's one of those 370 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:03,119 things where like they're so we've talked before about how we are coming to a 371 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,480 reckoning with the garbage that we put in our body for years, food wise, 372 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:11,480 big Big Pharma, all of these things, and I mean the schedule 373 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:14,920 F stuff is just the beginning of what you would need to do. I 374 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,279 mean, it's a revolving door that favors industry. There are no free markets 375 00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:22,279 in some of these really top industries that affect the everyday lives of average Americans, 376 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:23,200 what they put in their body, what they eat, how they raise 377 00:26:23,279 --> 00:26:27,920 their kids, Big Ed for instance, and our government right now, even 378 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,720 if you have a Republican president unless that person is willing to make dramatic changes 379 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:36,519 and has the winds at their back and a Congress that's actually listening to its 380 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:41,640 constituents. Good luck. But you did get a new car stuff some goodness. 381 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,759 You know it's a used it's a new used cars. Thank you. 382 00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:48,039 Than buying new cars is that's for suckers. I wouldn't buy anything that's that's 383 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,519 younger than nineteen ninety four. I don't like the look of new sub SUVs. 384 00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:57,160 I don't like how they're rounded. I think it's a trout. Yes, 385 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,240 it's appalling. Um so I had to go back more than ten years 386 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:03,920 to get one elect but it's say, hey, it's already been camping, 387 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,400 it's doing great. Yeah, you gotta drive a nineteen ninety four land Cruiser. 388 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:12,160 Far from having the new congressionally mandated breath elizer. I can't even start 389 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,200 it without a beer. It's back from America or America? Am I right? 390 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:19,440 And then you pour the beer into the gas beeps at me when I 391 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:26,440 buckle my seatbelt. It hates safety. Yeah, that's probably true. Well. 392 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:30,480 Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, Thank you, 393 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,559 as always big Bee for joining us. That's how I go. Now, 394 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,680 all right, you've been listening to another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, 395 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,160 and then Lashinski, culture editor here at The Federalist. We'll be back 396 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:57,960 soon with more. Until then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for Frey