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INTERPOLITICAL:
Who won the bloody war, anyway?!
Wow- thanks a ton, gents! This was the funniest episode of T&T yet! Thanks for joining the chorus of wise heads decrying the cowardice of the Republican leadership. You want our guys to show some spine? Keep up the heat on them via e-mail, phone calls, social media, etc. Don’t let them get away with slinking into their holes when they show signs of yellow.
RE: Sports. Right. Whatever happened to the notion of gentleman sportsman? See the article “He plays pretty good football for a murderer” from a few years back.
“That was conflating sex and love. What is this? 1972?”- excellent.
This show has been making this Kentucky Bible-thumper smile since Podcast #1. Keep it up, as there is nothing else like it on the Ricochet podcast choices.
But I will defend M. McConnell. Two of you don’t seem to understand his position, which is defensive coordinator, not quarterback or head coach. He has a couple of dazzling DEs with guys like Cruz and Lee, and some solid LBs with Rubio and Flake. Paul is a SS who gets the tackle in a stunt, and we are going to shore up our line and backfield with Cotton, Ernst, Gardiner, Sullivan, and Perdue. Even so, the Senate was designed to be a defensive redoubt, at once guarding against a Runaway House wanting to spend all the money and an imperial executive trying to impose Federal will on the sovereign states. While it can score on turnovers, its job is to prevent harm and get the ball to the House with good field position, and hopefully to the Executive to take aggressive offensive action.
Mitch saved our bacon on defense from 2009-2011, and has learned from it. I don’t want him to change his job, or ask him to change how he does it. What we need is the other half of the team to do their part.
I agree that McConnell should not be seen as the spokesman for the Republicans. He should continue to confound the Democrats with parliamentary procedure, let other stars take the credit, set up a succession plan that solidifies conservative leadership, and simultaneously invite the Northeastern patricians to join in with plausible deniability.
Our spokesmen need to be all the members of Ricochet, questioning every liberal premise, demanding devolution of Federal power regardless of party, and getting a grip on the college-industrial-complex that fuels most of this nonsense in the first place. Someone from the House or advisors to the President are bound to hear, and they are going to be the implementors of this 100 year project that is the destruction of progressivism.
I hope to laugh a lot during the process. That’s your job.
I haven’t listened to this show yet, but the fact that I’m looking at it says something. What it says is that after listening to the first show on a ITA1 whim, I almost consigned you to the outer darkness with Rubin-Kaus and HWX. But I had to recognize that your hearts were in the right places and one or two of you were pretty quick with the quip. So I’m still here.
You’ve gotten a bit better, though I could do with
Mugs, I agree with you. Mitch McConnell led the GOP through the sequester which actually cut a lot of spending in many departments. He’s not exciting, he’s not going to win Mr. Congeniality, and he isn’t as loud as I would want, but the fact that he figured out a way to cut spending and government should be applauded. The defensive coordinator analogy was very good.
There seems to be one volume on this podcast which is loud shouting. There seems to be a guy with a vaguely east coast accent who is from LA? Otherwise you could have one of them faking the other two. That’s why I think there’s only an autobot out there. The debate is among three guys who agree with each other. Ooo, not to mention the edgy ironic background music between segments. 50 year old guy stuff to other 50 year old guys.
Only one of us is in his 50s. The autobot is like 14.