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Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles
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If you haven’t listened to Peter Robinson’s Uncommon Knowledge interview of Kevin McCarthy recorded just before the 2014 midterms, you should catch the last 2 minutes or so, wherein Kevin promises Peter that after the Senate flips to Republican, the combined Republican Congress with Boehner and Mitch McConnell in control will do something about Obamacare, pass Tax Reform, come up with a National Energy Policy, and restructure Executive Branch Agencies because they have “too much duplication” and are becoming “too powerful.”
Peter: “Can you get something to the White House? … So you will pass a reform agenda, put bill after bill after bill on his desk and let him [Obama] worry about it?”
Kevin: “Yeah! That’s your job!” [End of interview]
So, Kevin, just what did you, Boehner and McConnell get to the President’s desk?
And you wonder why there’s a revolt in the ranks….
Kristol is almost unintelligible in this podcast – is there a way to control the connection they call in on?
We insist on a land line when we book a guest for the podcast. Bill didn’t play by the rules today. Our apologies for that.
As Instapundit says, “Rules are for the little people.”
Why isn’t Rubio soaring?
Are you kidding? He’s an amnesty shill.
It’s a witch hunt. No. Worse than that.
It’s… It’s… McCARTHYISM!
Has the Tea Party done more harm than good? Peter’s question is posed as if by the Media. Peter’s, excuse me, the Media’s hypothetical question is odd unless one has accidentally forgotten or ignores recent Republican majorities in the House and Senate. The more poignant question might be: have the moderates done more harm than good?
Ditto. Such a bummer. I’m listening on my phone and can make out…maybe 1 in 8 or so words. :(
Hey wait, I’m not going anywhere!!!
Oh, Kevin McCarthy.
Never mind.
p.s. Leave it to a man who perfected the sitcom running gag on “Cheers” to have one of the best running gags in all of podcastdom.
p.p.s. If “podcastdom” isn’t a word, it should be.
It gets better later in the interview (I agree that the first minute or two are basically unlistenable). We run into this sort of thing on a very occasional basis. We’ll have Bill on again soon and we’ll make sure he’s on a better connection.
I have to agree with James’s recommendation of The Lives of Harry Lime (as if my avatar didn’t give my preferences away). It’s a fantastic series and the one thing I listen to between Ricochet podcasts.
Glad you agree, old man. I think it’s the best radio Welles did – and he did a lot.
I wanted to add that those words quoted about the Renaissance and Switzerland are those of the sociopath Lime rationalizing his crimes.