Heating Up

The hard thing about producing a weekly podcast is coming up with relevant topics to talk about. Nothing ever happens in this boring administration we've elected. Yawn. This week, we've got Pat Buchanan (you must buy his new book Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever) who weighs in on those endless Nixon/Trump comparisons, and gives us his take on how the President is doing so far. Then, our old pal Dennis Prager made some waves this week with a column titled Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump. We delve into that and his new project with Adam Corrolla (he'll be on in a few weeks too), No Safe Spaces, a film on the decay of free speech/thought on college campuses and what this means for our country. Also, join us on July 23rd for a special taping of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at the Reagan Library, hosted by Pat Sajak. Details here.

Music from this week’s podcast: Fixing A Hole by The Beatles

The all new opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

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Hosted by James Lileks, Peter Robinson, and Rob Long, with guests DPDennis Prager and PBPatrick Buchanan

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Spin@Spin9y
Can't wait to listen!
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Arahant@Arahant9y
Good job on the segue, Rob. James, you need to learn how to step on his segues.
I also love how the bits that are supposed to be edited out never are.
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Wolverine@Wolverine9y
Rob,
Were you critical of Bush when he signed No Child Left Behind, when he signed Medicare Part D, when federal deficits exploded under his watch, when he turned Iraq into a nature building excercise? Did you say he brought some of Bush Derangement Syndrome on himself? It is just my perception, wrong though it may be, that you are not willing to give this President much slack. Even when you agree with him it is begrudging. It is demoralizing to many of us.
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outlaws66889y
Wolverine (View Comment):
Were you critical of Bush when he signed No Child Left Behind, when he signed Medicare Part D, when federal deficits exploded under his watch, when he turned Iraq into a nature building excercise? Did you say he brought some of Bush Derangement Syndrome on himself?

Probably not because GWB had the right, "Character." It is how they justify support for McCain and condemn Trump.
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Majestyk@Majestyk9y
Wolverine (View Comment):
Rob,
Were you critical of Bush when he signed No Child Left Behind, when he signed Medicare Part D, when federal deficits exploded under his watch, when he turned Iraq into a nature building excercise? Did you say he brought some of Bush Derangement Syndrome on himself? It is just my perception, wrong though it may be, that you are not willing to give this President much slack. Even when you agree with him it is begrudging. It is demoralizing to many of us.

I thought each of these things were wrong and I became disillusioned with Bush at some point even though I was incredibly happy to support him in 2000.
At the time, my thinking was that Bush was playing along with Democrats on domestic policy issues in order to ensure he could get his way on defense and the terror war. As it turns out, he needn't have ceded that territory so easily and he had the support of the nation until the Iraq debacle.