A Game Of Crazy Eights

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

There's a chill in the House. The U.S. House of Representatives has entered its third week without a Speaker following the ousting of Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), a decision backed by House Democrats and eight members of the Republican caucus. Trey provides insight on the detrimental implications the division amongst House Republicans will have on appropriating government funding and delivering President Biden's proposed $105 billion aid package for Israel and Ukraine. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
0:30.0	House Republicans are proving that it can taste pretty good, warmed up also.
0:37.0	For those wondering, and that would be almost everyone, how a Republican controlled house squandered its majority and has been rendered
0:47.8	feckless for three weeks so far. Look no further than October the 3rd. That's the day Kevin McCarthy was ousted,
0:59.5	eight House Republicans linked arms, held hands, whatever visual image you want to conjure up with
1:07.6	Rashida Talib, I'll Han Omar, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and any other House Democrat you can think of.
1:16.0	Eight Republicans joined hands, linked arms with every single House Democrat to kick out the last person who was actually able to get
1:27.2	217 Republican votes.
1:31.1	It is becoming increasingly clear.
1:33.3	These eight, maybe y'all are like me.
1:37.8	My daughter used to love to play this game called Crazy Eights.
1:40.8	I didn't really like it that much, I acted like I did but these crazy eight had no
1:46.2	plan no replacement no real reason for undoing the will of the conference and so if you want to understand what happened on October the 3rd, let's back up, we'll review.
1:58.1	If you want to understand what's happening right now, go back to October the 3rd.
2:02.0	If you want to understand what happened on October the 3rd,
2:04.6	you must go back to January of this year. When again, a handful of House Republicans made
2:10.0	Kevin McCarthy literally beg to be what they had unanimously elected him to be, which was their leader.
2:18.1	This is not a point that gets made very often, but I think it is worth making when Kevin McCarthy ran for minority leader in 2020.
2:27.2	Republicans didn't have a majority so he ran for minority leader in 2020.
2:32.2	Everyone supported him, literally every single member of the conference.
2:38.3	Every one of them voted for him. He did not have a detractor. And so you may be asking yourself,
2:47.0	okay, well what did he do in those two years between the time everyone voted for him and then January of this year
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