WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:05.040 Attention. You're listening to the top huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.279 not bitter Talk radio. The advice that the content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:13.000 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:33.799 to the right. Here's your Conservative but not bitter host, Tod Huff. 5 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.960 Well, greeting's, my friends, and thank you for tuning in to America's 6 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.640 home for conservative not bitter talk. I've told you before, I will tell 7 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:53.039 you again there is no alternative. There is no version of liberal or I 8 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:58.759 should say, radical left not bitter talk. In fact, it's radical left 9 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:07.480 hatred. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Those two things come as 10 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.200 a package deal, my friends, and it is of course one of the 11 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.400 problems we are dealing with today. But I want to get into a lot 12 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.840 of things today. Well, two main things. Two main things. Number 13 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:25.879 one, I want to speak a little bit on the race for Speaker of 14 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.480 the House. And I want to paint the picture as to what is going 15 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.560 on there, why it matters, and so forth, what's going to happen. 16 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:41.040 I mean, we'll explore some possible solutions or some possible outcomes. And 17 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:46.879 I want to talk about what's happening in of course Israel, and in gays 18 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.239 in particular. Hospital was struck recently, and there's of course a war of 19 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.920 blame, a finger pointing. I want to explore that and talk about that 20 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.480 as well. If you want to be part of the converse station, I 21 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.239 welcome you to do that. And you don't even have to agree with me, 22 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.760 my friends, that's part of being conservative, not bitter. You can 23 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.599 email me your thoughts, your questions, your opinions, your feedback, and 24 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.759 you're always asked to include some amount of adoration and praise to at Toddshow dot 25 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:21.639 com. Is that email. You can also text in to the hotline here 26 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.000 three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty Again three one seven two one 27 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.960 zero twenty eight thirty. Be advised that message and data rates could apply from 28 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:37.280 your carrier. So let's start today by talking about the speaker's race. The 29 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:42.520 speakers race, of course, has been an interesting dynamic. It's been a 30 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:50.639 dynamic that I think has been a necessary I think it's necessary. Now some 31 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:55.919 people think that that's crazy. What are you talking about? All this Republican 32 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.759 in finding prevents us from dealing with the real issues, And I say, 33 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.960 we've been dealing with the real issues in a way that doesn't solve the real 34 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:13.800 issues for a long long time, a long time decades. My friends and 35 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:20.000 I think that it's foolishness. I think that it's folly. I think that 36 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:28.680 it's not wise to continue with the same types of leaders who recommend the same 37 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:32.800 types of solutions, which, by the way, are never conservative. They're 38 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:42.800 never truly limited government, they never really truly cut any spending. And I 39 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.560 know, folks, look, the House is one piece of the puzzle, 40 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:53.840 but I think we have to I don't know. I was when I was 41 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.039 younger. No, no, I'll say this. When I was younger. 42 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.400 This is no longer the case. But when I was younger, I was 43 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:02.199 an athlete, and I just remember, and maybe it's the mind of someone 44 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:08.120 who participates in sports. I played football, I played basketball, I ran 45 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:12.479 track. As a younger kid, I played baseball. Stopped playing baseball. 46 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.280 I think I stopped playing baseball after fifth grade. And the reason was, 47 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.279 and this will give you a little bit of insight into how my mind works, 48 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.040 I thought, baseball. Boy, this is gonna upset some people. 49 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:27.480 This was fifth grade, todd, Okay, fifth grader. I decided that 50 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.120 I wasn't gonna play because there wasn't enough action for me. It was too 51 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:36.560 boring. Now I've been watching the Major League Baseball playoffs. I don't watch 52 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.600 the entire games, but I watched chunks of them. I've watched the Rangers 53 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:50.160 and Astros. I've watched the Phillies and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Watched the Phillies 54 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:57.160 game recently. You know, I've been watching these games. So I'm not 55 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.160 against baseball now, but at the time it was not a fast enough pace 56 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.600 sport for me. So but I always went out there to win. And 57 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:11.519 I don't think, really, I don't even know that I fully realize this 58 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:15.000 now as of someone who's almost forty six. I'll be forty six here at 59 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.160 the end of the year, still got the body of a forty five year 60 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:26.319 old, though, I can tell you that. But but this this concept 61 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.240 of in my mind, you you know, you strapped up, strapped on 62 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.480 your pads, and you went out to play to win. I was amazed. 63 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:38.399 I didn't understand this when I was in high school. I don't think 64 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.600 I understood this in college. As I begin to talk, you know, 65 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.959 you kind of go through some of these stories with you know, with friends 66 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.600 and you're talking to you know, just going through the good old days and 67 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:54.560 you know, flashbacks and all this to the high school days or college days 68 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.560 of sports and just some of the things that I have heard and realized that 69 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.040 they did not look at it the same way that I did. I didn't 70 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.959 care who folks, you could have suited us up. Again. I know 71 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.600 this is going to sound this is maybe a tad bit of hyperbole, but 72 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.879 you could have suited us up against the Indianapolis Colts, and I would have 73 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.959 expected to go out there to win. In my mind, what is the 74 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:24.839 point of going on that field If I didn't intend to win, If I 75 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.920 knew we were going to lose, then, in my mind, what's the 76 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.759 point of playing the game? The game itself is what determines the outcome. 77 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.480 And that's why you'll find a little bit of this in some of the things 78 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.839 that I say. Maybe a lot of the things that I say, you'll 79 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:43.959 hear me. For example, during election time, I'll almost almost certain I'll 80 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.360 say this, you know, I will say, polls don't elect anybody. 81 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:54.839 What elects people are vote tallies. And of course that opens another can of 82 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:56.680 worms. I don't want to get into it at the moment, but you 83 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.720 got to get out and on game day, metaphorical game day, when you 84 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.560 can cast your ballot, whether you mail it in again, I don't want 85 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:08.040 to open up that can of worms. Whether you can go to early voting 86 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.279 at the polls or whether it's on election day. What matters is showing up 87 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:17.839 and doing your job on the metaphorical game day election day. Everything else doesn't 88 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:24.560 matter. So what happens on that field, on that court, on that 89 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.680 diamond, that is what matters. That is who determines that that That's what 90 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:36.000 determines who wins or loses the game. And so that impacts my thinking on 91 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:42.600 a lot of what's happening in Congress or in politics in general. I don't 92 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.120 care that we don't have I do care in a sense that I wish we 93 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:53.319 did have the Senate, but it's not going to stop my thinking from what 94 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:58.360 should happen in the House. Even if the Senate is in Democrat control, 95 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:03.079 which it is, even if the Presidency is under the control of Democrats, 96 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.399 and it is, that doesn't mean that I've got to throw up my hands 97 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.680 and say, well, there's no point, because I believe, folks, 98 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:15.279 this is going to be we lost control of this country inch by inch, 99 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:20.560 we are going to regain control of this country. If we do inch by 100 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.079 inch. We can't think And this is one of the reasons, and I 101 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.279 don't want to again. There's so many tangents you can jump into on a 102 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.279 day like today, with all these things that are going to pop up as 103 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.639 we have this discussion. But this is one of the reasons why I think 104 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:43.440 conservatives sometimes are their own worst enemy in the sense that we require people who 105 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:48.279 are some of us, require people who are quote unquote conservative to be in 106 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.600 one hundred percent lockstep with us, maybe they're only eighty percent or eighty five 107 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.240 percent or some such thing. We have to look at this as we have 108 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.480 to advance the ball. If you're playing a sport played football, you know 109 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.080 that every play that you run is not designed. You're not expecting a touchdown. 110 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.519 You're expecting to pick up positive yards, you're expecting to get a first 111 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:16.159 down, you're expect to expecting to get the ball into the opponent's territory territory, 112 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.480 and you're ultimately expecting to get it into the endz and that's your hope. 113 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:28.200 But things happen on every play that interrupt your goal, the team's goals. 114 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.720 The other team has a goal to stop you. And so I think 115 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.240 Republicans have to look at the realities as they have them and say, look, 116 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:46.679 we understand that we can't control the agenda right now, and voters need 117 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:48.960 to know that too. Voters need to know that the mess that we're in 118 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.279 is caused by the people who are making the decisions. And the decisions are 119 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.960 not being made by conservative Republicans. They are being made by radical leftists. 120 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:05.480 They are unequivocally being made by leftists. Now, not everybody who casts a 121 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.200 ballot, casts a vote, I should say for a particular issue in Congress, 122 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:15.120 is necessarily a radical leftist. But the Democrat Party has been hijacked, 123 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.399 as I've said before, by the extreme radical left. And there's a fight 124 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:24.720 between the liberals and the radical leftists and the Republican Party. There's a fight 125 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:31.279 for control between conservatives and the country club Republicans. And that's what's that is 126 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.279 what this issue is. That is when you look at what's happening in the 127 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.480 Speaker of the House and the race for that that is this is precisely what 128 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:46.919 this is about This is about This is about who's going to control the Republican 129 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:54.360 Party. This is about having whether we're going to have conservative leadership or country 130 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:03.720 club moderate Republican leadership. McCarthy the country club moderate leadership, Paul Ryan previous 131 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:13.360 Republican Speaker of the House, country club Rhino moderate leadership, Dennis Hastard. 132 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.399 I was then trying to think of his name the other day, trying to 133 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.480 think of his name the other day, and just as we were on the 134 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.039 show, and I couldn't think of it, Speaker Hastard, same sort of 135 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.960 thing. The last time there was a Republican excuse me, a conservative Speaker 136 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:33.960 of the House was for two terms two congresses, back in nineteen ninety five 137 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:41.840 through nineteen ninety nine, and that was Speaker Newt Gingrich from Georgia. That 138 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:50.759 was that was the what is that called drawing a blank on the campaign name? 139 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.879 The contract with America? There we go, contract with America. That 140 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.440 was the last time we had conservative leadership in Congress. And so a lot 141 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:07.279 of people in the media on the left, they conflate, sometimes intentionally, 142 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:13.440 sometimes out of ignorance, this idea that Republican equals conservative, and that's not 143 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.480 the case we have had Republican leadership. I would like for those two things 144 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:24.720 to be synonymous. But we have had a Republican Speaker since the beginning of 145 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:26.879 the year, but we have not had a conservative speaker. This is what 146 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.720 Matt Gates was concerned about, and this is why he took all the flak 147 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:41.399 for withholding his vote for Speaker now well then Speaker McCarthy or Speaker Elect McCarthy. 148 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:48.799 But he got McCarthy to do some things that allowed us to be in 149 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:56.519 this position here. Now there's another group of Republicans that are They don't want 150 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.120 to have these fights. They don't want to fight about they don't really they 151 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:05.399 want to be fiscally responsible. They want to be they want to be irresponsible 152 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:11.559 fiscally, but less fiscally irresponsible than the radical left. They don't want to 153 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:18.039 be completely woke, but they're not really interested in defending conservative principles and values. 154 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.720 They're not really interested in defending truth. They can't quite get to the 155 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:30.480 point where you can openly state such ridiculous, absurd things that you hear coming 156 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.240 from the radical left smuths. They're not to that point. They're but they're 157 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:41.759 also not interested in restraining, truly restraining and reducing the size of government. 158 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.519 They're not interested in that. It's just I don't know how else to say 159 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.840 this. It pains me to say this, and I don't know the percentages. 160 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.639 I don't know the percentages, but there's there's a lot of folks that 161 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.159 will go kicking and screaming if they are actually forced to cut one red scent 162 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:03.960 from government spending. Notice I didn't say a budget, because those clowns and 163 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:09.279 jokers in DC don't operate by a judge a budget. They just continually they 164 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.960 just keep spending money. And then when we run out of the ability to 165 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.840 spend money, they say, we got to go borrow more money, just 166 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.759 you know, have to have the ability to have more funds released. Just 167 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:24.080 spend it like it's water, my friends. And so along comes a group 168 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.879 of people, and there's not many, right, the Matt Gates types, 169 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:35.279 the Jim Jordan types. Again, there's not many. And I'm not defending 170 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:41.200 everything about every one of them, but I don't know in many instances, 171 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.200 specifically all the motivations. But when I look at this on paper, I 172 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:52.200 think Matt Gates is absolutely unequivocally correct. He is There's no doubt in my 173 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:58.320 mind if we really want it will forget about wanting If this nation is on 174 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.240 the trajec victory that I say it is, that Conservatives say that it is, 175 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:09.000 and that's the truth. The only way to save this the only way 176 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.639 to turn this ship around, is to have people who are not going to 177 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:18.240 continue to make the same mistakes that previous leaders have made. McCarthy has made, 178 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.840 capitulating and giving in, not fighting, not fighting hard enough. I 179 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:33.480 understand that there's realities today, but I also understand I also understand that it's 180 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.919 much more troubling to have thirty three trillion dollars of debt. It's much more 181 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.480 troubling to have an open border. It's much more troubling to have seven whatever 182 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.679 billion dollars of US weapons that were abandoned in Afghanistan along with I think it 183 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:54.759 was fifteen thousand American citizens initially. That's much more troubling to me than whether 184 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.440 Republicans are fighting over who's going to be the Speaker of the House. Give 185 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:03.200 me a break. And by the way, if any of these twenty Republicans 186 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.440 that initially voted against McCarthy, if any of them come back and say at 187 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.519 any point in time that not having a Speaker of the House puts America in 188 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.159 jeopardy. I'm going to remind them that they could have put an end to 189 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.039 that by voting, I said McCarthy. Any of these that voted against Jordan, 190 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.200 I'm going to remind them that they didn't vote for Jim Jordan. So 191 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.679 don't be coming at me with sophistry. It's fine that you've drawn this battle 192 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.639 line. It's fine that you don't like Jordan. But we're going to explore 193 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.759 this and we're going to talk about this because it matters. It matters a 194 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.639 whole lot. These are the incremental battles we have to win. There has 195 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:44.600 to be a speaker Jim Jordan or someone very close to that type of individual. 196 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.720 So timeout is in order. Quick time out, my friends, come 197 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.279 back and continue this conversation. You're listening here to conservative not better talk. 198 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.799 I am your host, the one, the only Todd Huff back in just 199 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:12.960 a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So we're going through this situation 200 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:18.599 in the house Speaker of the House. We laid some background last segment. 201 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.240 I had mentioned that the last time there was a conservative speaker in the House 202 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.240 was from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine, great years. By the 203 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.920 way, OZ is sitting here with me. OZ would agree that these are 204 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:37.400 great years as well. She nods in agreement, thumbs up approval by by 205 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.240 Oz. I graduated in nineteen ninety six. I won't tell you when OZ 206 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.880 graduated, but it was after that, but it was in that same window. 207 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:48.160 So you can have a couple of guesses there. Anyway, So Conservative 208 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.319 Speaker of the House, New Gambridge nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine, 209 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:55.640 and we saw, we saw some really good things happen in that period of 210 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:00.400 time. Right, America's well, the contract with America, the Republican already's 211 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:04.519 contract with the America. They nationalized the election, they made it about a 212 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.559 series of issues, pledges to the American people, and they got it done. 213 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:14.359 Compare and contrast that with what happened in twenty twenty two. Right, 214 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.680 we were told there was going to be a red wave. McCarthy was in 215 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:19.680 Now he wasn't Speaker of the House, but he was the minority leader. 216 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:29.599 This was McCarthy's job to inside the apparatus of the political well, the the 217 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:36.160 political party itself. McCarthy was the one that was kind of organizing and structuring 218 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:42.640 and working on elections from that angle, and we barely barely by the skin 219 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.519 of our teeth, which, by the way, is the reason we're having 220 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:52.640 all this controversy over speakers is because there's just a couple of Republicans, a 221 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.880 couple of there's just a few seats of majority for the for the Republican Party, 222 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:07.799 and so there's not a lot of room for error. There's two hundred 223 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:12.559 and twenty Republicans two hundred and twelve Democrats right now, and so there's not 224 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.599 a lot of room for error. You have a couple of Republicans defect, 225 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.799 you need a two hundred and seventeen vote, two hundred and seventy people to 226 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.319 vote for the speaker of the House, or you don't have a speaker. 227 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:33.240 And so the initial group of twenty, which I'm going to read their names, 228 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.640 I did something I'm talking immediately after the vote on Tuesday, the first 229 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:44.000 vote on Tuesday. I watched that vote. It is one of the more 230 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:48.079 painful things that you can do is to watch the vote. I watched it 231 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:51.200 on a social media feed, and I was watching, I was reading some 232 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.599 of the comments. I responded to a couple of them. People don't know, 233 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.839 people didn't understand any of the thing. First they got to call the 234 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:02.359 quorum and get the counts of how many people are there. Then people were 235 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.680 tuning in, you know what, you know, what's this mean? Who 236 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:10.599 did this? And there were people that were literally thinking that Hakeem Jeffries could 237 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:15.640 win the speaker and technically he can. Technically he can. There would only 238 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:21.599 have to be a couple what five Republicans to to actually cross over and join 239 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.000 the two hundred and twelve Democrats to get them to two seventeen. But that 240 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.839 I know that there are some people that are afraid of that happening, and 241 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.559 there has been talks I mentioned earlier in the week, I think I mentioned 242 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:40.480 it on here where there was a Republican from Alabama. I'm drawing a blank 243 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:45.960 on his name, Member of the House Republican who basically said that he was 244 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:52.359 going to be negotiating or having conversations with Jeffries and the Democrats to see if 245 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.480 they could get a couple of Republicans to join the Democrats or to have kind 246 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:03.920 of a consensus canon a bipartisan speaker. Of course, of course that just 247 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:12.160 means a Democrat that has tricked Republicans or that has given make believe Republicans the 248 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:19.000 opportunity to vote for a Democrat. He has since that that individual has since 249 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.599 decided he is not going to go that route. He ended up he actually 250 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:29.920 ended up voting for Jim Jordan on the first ballot. Interestingly enough, Kevin 251 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.160 McCarthy voted on the first ballot for Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise. These are 252 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.599 people that Republicans were voting for. So instead of voting for Jeffries, right, 253 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:41.160 there were two nominees. One was Jim Jordan, I'm talking about the 254 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.599 first vote. One was Jim Jordan. One was the King Jeffries. So 255 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:49.759 two hundred Republicans voted for Jim Jordan, two hundred and twelve Democrats voted for 256 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:56.240 a Keem Jeffries, and then twenty Republicans voted for someone else either. Let's 257 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.119 see, Kevin McCarthy got some votes, Steve Scalise got votes. Steve Scalice 258 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:07.000 also voted for Jim Jordan. Kevin McCarthy also voted for Jim Jordan. Interesting 259 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.640 if you go back in time too, remember remember these these self righteous Republicans. 260 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:15.359 They were they were in the crowd that was saying, what is Matt 261 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:22.000 Gates expecting to get? Back when Matt Gates was voting for anyone besides McCarthy, 262 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:26.039 back in the early days, back in January when the House Speaker was 263 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:33.559 selected, or February whenever that was anyway, So they were saying, well, 264 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.160 you know, what's why is he voting for this person? Jim Jordan 265 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.680 doesn't even want it? Well, why are they voting for Kevin McCarthy. 266 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:47.799 Kevin McCarthy is voting for Jim Jordan. Why are they voting for Steve Scalise. 267 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.920 Steve Scalise is voting for Jim Jordan. So that's what's going on. 268 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.039 I think they also voted. Someone voted for Massey that was actually someone here 269 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:03.680 in Central Indiana, uh victorious Sparts District five. I called, I actually 270 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.400 called their office. I don't do this very often, as soon as I 271 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:14.599 because I saw the vote on Tuesday and she didn't vote the first time through, 272 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.559 right, which of course tells you a lot right there. So they 273 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.039 want to see how everyone else votes and then they're going to make their symbolic 274 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.519 move or whatever. She ends up voting for a guy that at that point. 275 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.799 I don't believe he had any other votes. Tom is it Thomas Massey 276 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:36.720 anyway from Kentucky. I believe so. Of course, it's it's symbol, 277 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.880 it's it's it's symbolic, and there's there's you know whatever. It's her right 278 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:44.680 to do it. But I called, and I was very polite. Of 279 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.359 course, they didn't answer. I left the message. I've interviewed her on 280 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.920 this show. I told her, I told the office, hey, if 281 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.400 she wants to come on here, I would consider having her explained of the 282 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:59.960 audience why she didn't vote for Jim Jordan. I mean, go for it, 283 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.960 have had it. I'm not here too like I mean, we're conservative, 284 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:08.000 not bitter. I just want to have a conversation. I think I 285 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:12.920 want to make this very I want to make a stark contrast between what what 286 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:18.680 has happened with a speaker McCarthy leadership and what can happen with with Jim Jordan. 287 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.079 And I would say that the people who are not prepared to vote for 288 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:29.599 Jordan that played these little games voting for McCarthy and Massey and Steve Scalise, 289 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.640 and I'm drawing the blank on a couple of others. But there were a 290 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:40.039 couple of others that they that they voted for as well. They are I 291 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:47.279 think I know why. It's not reasonable. It's not really reasonable, But 292 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:52.240 have them explain it. I think you continue to make them cast their ballots 293 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.319 for someone else, even even if, as is predicted, the numbers of 294 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:02.640 votes for Jordan might go down a little bit. But let's figure out. 295 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:07.160 Matt Gates had a clear goal with what he was doing earlier in the year. 296 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:12.559 He of course didn't want McCarthy and was wanted to have somebody else. 297 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.759 However, he was willing to renegotiate with certain concessions, concessions that he got, 298 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:25.720 commitments that he got from the Speaker elect McCarthy. And by the way, 299 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:32.079 because of those concessions, we are here because he was given the speaker. 300 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:37.640 McCarthy agreed that in order to be in exchange for being Speaker, that 301 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:44.279 he would lower the threshold for the motion to vacate the chair to one member 302 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.240 of the Republican Caucus. And that's what Matt Gates did. And Matt Gates 303 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.440 has laid out why he did it. It's pretty crystal clear. You can 304 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:56.559 disagree with his assessment. That's okay. I don't. I do agree, 305 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:02.640 because we're continuing to head down the wrong path. And so what is the 306 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:07.680 intention of these other folks? What is the intention of the Victoria Sparts. 307 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:10.359 And that's just the one that's here in my district. There's nineteen others. 308 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.599 What is their endgame? What is their goal? Who else do they want? 309 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:17.240 Do they want to speaker McCarthy, Well, McCarthy just voted for Jordan. 310 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.480 Does McCarthy even won it, Steve Scalise, they won him? Well 311 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:23.680 he's voting for mccarthur or excusing me for it for Jordan? What's going on 312 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.599 here? What's your plan? Are you willing to talk with and negotiate with 313 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:33.400 Jordan? Anyway? Timeouts in order plenty more to say about this. I 314 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.000 still want to get to what's happening in Israel too, but this is important 315 00:26:36.039 --> 00:26:38.279 as well. This is important as well. Time out though, my friends 316 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:52.960 sits eight back in a minute. I'm back, my friends. 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Be sure to tell Crispin and 334 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:22.920 a scene you heard about him here on the Top Half show. So what 335 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:29.480 is really the problem. Why can't people get behind Jim Jordan? Why are 336 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.799 there twenty Republicans? And I'm going to pull up the list, I'll read 337 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.200 it next next segment. I'll read to the list next segment, and if 338 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.519 you feel like you should call, which I'm telling you is a very effective 339 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.640 method, and you can leave a message. You just have to keep it 340 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:52.039 respectful. It shouldn't get controversial or you know, you don't want to yell 341 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:57.559 at him or something like that. I voice my displeasure with Representative Sparks. 342 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:04.240 I said, you know, she's been on the program before. I'm very 343 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:10.119 disappointed in how she voted for the speaker role. I don't know what she 344 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:15.680 was trying to accomplish by voting for Massy. This is I don't think this 345 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:22.000 is a serious way to deal with this. I disagree. I would consider 346 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.079 even having her explain to our audience, because we're going to talk about this 347 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:30.799 on our program, because it's important. We would have her give you have 348 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:34.720 the opportunity to explain your vote. Of course, I haven't gotten a callback, 349 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.039 but I may. I may go ahead and reach out to all these 350 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.079 folks. I don't know, but you can do that. It's just got 351 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.200 to be respectful. You know these you know, you just and I know 352 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.559 most of you won't. It's you know, it's sometimes emotions can get involved 353 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.880 there, but we just have to keep it to the facts. You know, 354 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.839 we want you to support Jordan because of this, right, there's no 355 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.480 reason. There's no reason to not support Jordan's but I will tell you from 356 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:07.200 their their position, there is, and I it's not good reasoning. Let 357 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.200 me tell you some of the things that Jordan, a speaker, Jordan would 358 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:15.240 do that they do not really want to mess with. They don't really want 359 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:19.200 to mess with investigations into Hunter Biden. Now that's already kind of moving along. 360 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.480 McCarthy did do that. Of course, they don't really want to look 361 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:30.359 into impeachment inquiries and so forth, which is where the House is headed. 362 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.559 That's already those things have already been done. But Jordan is going to push 363 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.799 harder. Jordan is going to be more peddle to the medal. Jordan is 364 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:45.000 well, he's I think he has a clearer understanding of what we're really up 365 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:51.039 against in today's modern Democrat party and he's prepared to fight against that. And 366 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:55.640 people don't People don't like that. They don't really want what comes along with 367 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:59.759 oversight of the executive branch, because I mean, it gets them that they 368 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.640 don't get some times. And this I don't mean this to a person. 369 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.759 I'm just painting a general picture. You know, it's hard to be the 370 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:14.240 person that the media is coming down on, Democrats are maligning, and then 371 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.240 on top of that you feel a little bit kicked out of the of the 372 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.119 cool kids group in Washington, d C. I'm not defending it. I'm 373 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.319 just saying that that feels a lot more of this than people realize. The 374 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:33.200 human factor of I want to be liked is a much stronger force in elected 375 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:41.880 politics and even unelected politics. Then people really stop and take credit for They 376 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:48.480 don't want to really be fiscally responsible. They don't really want to be tied 377 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:51.839 to Trump, and Jordan, of course is tied pretty closely with Trump. 378 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.279 They don't really There's there's an anti Trump wing that's still of course in Washington, 379 00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.680 d C, in the Republican Party, and that's who a lot of 380 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:05.079 these folks are, and a lot of them are anti Jordan primarily because of 381 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:09.839 Trump and Trump related things. They think. And I read this in an 382 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:13.640 article that I think it was at Newsmax, it'll be in the stack of 383 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:19.039 stuff today. But they think that electing Jim Jordan to be Speaker in twenty 384 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:23.200 four, well excuse me now, will be political suicide for them in twenty 385 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:28.000 four when in reality it's just the opposite. So I'll talk about that a 386 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:29.839 little bit on the other side of the break quick time out, though my 387 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:44.640 friends don't take a break back in a minute now. A lot of this 388 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:50.200 is fear. A lot of this is personal, this fight over the speaker. 389 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.119 A lot of this is fear based. A lot of this is, 390 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:59.240 well, you did this to us, We're going to do this to you. 391 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:05.200 I understand that to a point. I would like to know in this 392 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:07.559 if I interviewed any of these folks, and we don't do interviews, but 393 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:15.319 I tell you I will. I will offer to any of these twenty Republicans. 394 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.799 This is in the official record here at the Todd huff Show. Now 395 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.480 I will make an offer. As I'm googling to make sure I get you 396 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:31.759 the names Republicans who voted against Jordan, there's twenty of them. I will 397 00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:35.680 be very kind and polite. I don't agree with you, by the way, 398 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.039 I'm not gonna. And I won't tell you that I agree with you, 399 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:44.200 but I will let you explain why you did it the thinking, because 400 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:49.519 I don't understand. I mean I do. I just laid out some reasons 401 00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:53.400 why I think that it's clear that they do not support or have not yet 402 00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:01.119 supported Jordan. But this last one that I mentioned before the break, this 403 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:07.840 idea that a speaker Jordan would create a political bloodbath for Republicans in twenty twenty 404 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:13.519 four is craziness to me. It really is crazy to me, because we 405 00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:17.360 just got through a situation where we were supposed to have a red wave, 406 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.119 right, we were supposed to win forty fifth I don't remember the forty to 407 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.440 fifty seats, and we barely eked across the finish. I mean barely. 408 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.960 It wasn't even like a like a splash from if you had dropped an ice 409 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:35.760 cube and a cup. We're talking about a tsunami and we're barely getting a 410 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:40.960 splash from dropping an ice cube and a glass of water. That was and 411 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:46.400 now we still won because the Democrats had been so terrible. But it wasn't 412 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:52.800 because McCarthy led us to some great victory. That's not at all what happened 413 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:59.159 there, and so the idea that there would be a political bloodbath against them. 414 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.159 Now, maybe certain districts, maybe that's the case. Like this, 415 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:08.159 Don Bacon of Nebraska, that's a very split division. All right, excuse 416 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:12.880 me a district. So these are the twenty, I'll read them quickly, 417 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.280 Don Bacon, Nebraska. These are all Republicans, by the way, all 418 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:20.360 Republican members of the House of Representatives. These are the twenty who voted against 419 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.320 Speaker McCarthy on the or excuse me, speaker against Jim Jordan for Speaker on 420 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:31.599 the first vote. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez Dreamer of Oregon, 421 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:46.239 Anthony Di Esposito, Marie uh Mario Diaz Balart, Jake Elzi, Andrew Garbarino, 422 00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:52.360 Carlos Jeminez, Tony Gonzalez. I should have been saying the estates. 423 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:58.480 He's Texas, Kay Granger of Texas, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Kiggins 424 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.360 of Virginia, Nick Lolota, New York, Mike Lawler, New York, 425 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:09.920 John Rutherford Florida, Mike Simpson, Idaho, Steve Womack Arkansas, Kin Bock, 426 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:20.440 Colorado, John James Michigan, Doug LaMalfa, California, Victoria's sparks of 427 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:22.719 the Great State of Indiana. So there's the twenty Any of them have a 428 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:27.920 We don't interview people. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for these 429 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.559 reps to be on this show because we don't do that. We don't do 430 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:38.159 that, but I will give them an opportunity to explain themselves to you, 431 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.360 the American people, the voter. What they're thinking is why are they so 432 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:52.000 against Jim Jordan? Are they against an aggressive pursuit of actual oversight holding this 433 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:58.480 administration of President Bribery accountable? Is that scary? Are they really afraid of 434 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:05.360 fiscal respond it's ability? Are they simply bothered by Jim Jordan and his connection 435 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:09.719 with Trump? What is this? Are they really afraid of a bloodshed political 436 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:15.320 bloodshed metaphorical of course, in twenty twenty four because of a speaker Jim Jordan. 437 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:21.239 I don't buy any of it. None of that makes sense. Well, 438 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:24.880 that last part. I do believe that they're afraid of strong leadership. 439 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:30.199 I do believe that at their core they're not really conservative. I do believe 440 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.760 that they're quite comfortable in Washington, DC. So you can call these folks, 441 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.840 and if you do, just keep it respectful. Tell them you disagree, 442 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:42.000 tell them why they should you think they should vote for Jordan, if 443 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.239 that's what you decide to do. These things matter a lot more than we 444 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.960 think. I have people all the time. Well, I would say the 445 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.679 most common question I get, what can I do? Well, here's here's 446 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:57.239 a served up opportunity. Call your representative, even call them if they're not 447 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:00.039 leave them a message. If they don't answer, I guarantee they are being 448 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:07.400 overwhelmed by people telling them to support Jim Jordan for speaker. Quick time out, 449 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.360 my friends. You're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. Be advised. 450 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:13.960 Listening may, of course cause you to lean to the right, so 451 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:21.760 exercise extreme caution while driving, operating heavy machinery, simply walking down the hallway. 452 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:38.119 Back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends. Not a lot 453 00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:44.199 of time remaining here today. I don't have time. I wanted to get 454 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:51.199 to this controvert or this well, this battle of narratives over what is actually 455 00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:55.320 happening in Israel. There was a hospital that was struck. Israel has provided 456 00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:00.360 evidence to say that it's a Hamas missile that misfired from gaza that didn't make 457 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:08.639 its way out. They provided a recording of Hamas chatter and they of course 458 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:15.400 interpreted it where they basically acknowledged as much hamas Iran. Others are saying Israel 459 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:22.159 struck the hospital and you know, killing all these innocent civilians and so forth. 460 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.079 Anyway, I just can't get into it, but that's going on as 461 00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:25.320 well. I gotta go. STG