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Guns and Rhetoric

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Another busy week with much to talk about and to help out we've got (along with @jongabriel sitting in for Rob Long) the great Yuval Levin and Adam Carolla. Yuval schools us on the rumors that the President will fire Robert Mueller and the black box that is the Congressional Budget Office, and Adam stops by to talk about his upcoming film the Dennis Prager (they're raising money to underwrite it -- donate here). Also, 30 years ago this week, Peter Robinson jotted down a few words for Ronald Reagan. We get some of the backstory in this very podcast. You don't want to miss that.

Music from this week’s podcast: Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads

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

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Hosts:
James LileksJon GabrielPeter Robinson
Guests:
ACAdam CarollaYuval Levin

Discussion (27)

  • Spiral@HeavyWater

    Great podcast. During the discussion with Yuval Levin I kept waiting to learn everyone's opinion on the legislative filibuster.

    When will the Republicans have 60 US Senators? Do we have to wait that long before any of the Republican party's campaign promises can be fulfilled?

  • BD1
    Mike Lee's ideas come from Yuval Levin. It's not surprising that Levin thinks those ideas are great.
  • Banned Member@Valiuth
    Peter, with respect to your analogy about Kennedy ordering the end of the FBI investigation into MLK. The essence of abuse of power is that you do something nominally legal for ulterior and self serving motives. MLK wasn't a close associate of JFK nor was it plausible that an investigation into MLK could have led to criminal charges against JFK or other of his political associates. Would it be obstruction of Justice if JFK had quashed an investigation into his father's dealing with organized crime? By the MLK logic you set out, no, because it is within the President's power. But one would look more suspicious than the other. Is there probable cause to assume Trump might have acted in bad faith with respect to the Russian investigation and Mike Flynn?
  • Chris@Chris

    Spiral (View Comment):

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    When will the Republicans have 60 US Senators? Do we have to wait that long before any of the Republican party’s campaign promises can be fulfilled?

    This is the feeling one gets these days, isn't it? Like @exjon I'm no expert but I understood from Civics and School House Rock that our system was made to have people compromising and creating legislation together rather than needing supermajorities. Thanks to Nancy and Harry creating the ACA via institutional arcana our system now seems literally broken.

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