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This week, noted author Rob Long (come on, buy his book!) is back on the big show, so we booked a guest he'd have a lot to chat about with, California Congressman Devin Nunes. We talk collusion, Russia, Mueller, all the good stuff. Also, Bush the elder says the President "is a blowhard," are entitlements bad for the nation's health?, and Steve Martin's King Tut is racist. Well, at least at Reed College it is.
Music from this week's podcast: King Tut by Steve Martin
Hosted by James Lileks, Peter Robinson, and Rob Long, with guest DNDevin Nunes
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He actually stayed on much longer than the agreed upon time (10-12 minutes). We’ll have him back on again soon.
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What does "take Washington on mean?" Basically, sending Washington elites routinely violating laws to enrich themselves to jail. By enriching, I don't mean necessarily through money - power can be just as addictive as money.
Right now there is the belief among many in the heartland there are two sets of laws: one which apply to the regular Joes and Janes and the second which apply to the coastal elites. A veteran accidentally carries an empty magazine into DC and he is facing hard time. A journalist brandishes an illegal magazine on a television show filmed in D.C. and the chief of police laughs off the idea of bringing charges.
We want the elite to suffer under the same laws as the "normals" do, the laws they have passed. We have Mueller looking to bring technical charges against Republicans while ignoring substantive corruption and lawbreaking by Democrats. We have Progressives Hodgkinsoning Republicans and the press and political class ignoring these actions. We want the law applied evenly.
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I was walking my dog listening to your opening discussion of the comments on Trump from the Presidents Bush. (Fortunately, it's a chilly day and not many people could see me ranting walking down the street.)
What all of you are leaving out of the discussion is context.
Forget Bush 41. Calling Trump a "blowhard" is stating a simple fact. Like Trump or hate him, "blowing hard" is what he does.
The comments of Bush 43, however, are quite disappointing.
All through his years in office, he was the political gentleman. Working with Teddy Kennedy to give us the Common Core educational debacle. Working across the aisle to implement the Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act. He never vetoed a single bill his entire eight years in office.
Throughout that time, the Left was gripped with Bush Derangement Syndrome, almost as feverish as it is with its current anti-Trump hysteria. Bush never answered back. He never defended himself. He was always the gentleman. I didn't see where it was going, and I admired him.
Once out of office, he did oil painting through eight years of Obama. He was following the time-honored tradition of presidents getting out of politics. Fine.
And now he leaps into the fore to say that Trump doesn’t know how to be president? He should go home and paint his toes some more.
He had a chance to show how a gentleman fights. How a seasoned politician fights. The president is in some ways the people's champion, particularly in a life-or-death struggle like the one we're fighting with the Left. What should a president do? He seems to think he knows all about it. Why didn't he?
That's how we got Trump. He wasn't my first choice. Possibly my 15th. I didn't even vote for him in the election. But if it came down to him and George W. in the primary, today, I'd vote for Trump, unless there were someone in the race who knows how to fight like a seasoned politician.
Our gentlemanly Presidents Bush didn't stand up to the media, didn't even make an attempt to drain the swamp, never let out a peep as the Washington bureaucracy ran all over us under Obama. They closed their eyes to the Clintons' money laundering and influence peddling beginning in the '90s, with never a word of gentlemanly protest.
Trump is an imperfect advocate, a "blowhard," but at least he's goading the Left to reveal what a mass of slathering insanity they are. I hate to say it, but "at least he fights."
I love you people, but I felt that you left out important context.
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