If Republicans Take The House, Who'll Really Calls The Shots?

Kevin McCarthy is another in a long line of lily-livered frontmen. He may dream of being Speaker, but who'd really be calling the shots and how crazy will it get (impeaching Biden, Harris & Biden's entire Cabinet?). Cliff has The Takedown.

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donald trump is betting and hoping that we lose in the midterms because then because then the congress could start impeachment processes on joe biden for whatever they decide to impeach him on right they will if they take the house you could i mean it's it's will a couple depending on how much they take the house by what a couple of them refuse to do it probably not maybe i don't know but if they take a majority you can bet you're you know the person who's gonna be running that the house is not going to be uh what's his face in california mccarthy it's gonna be your favorite marjorie trailer crane the only way that that mccarthy will be allowed to be speaker will be if he's sort of if he's just the face the way when tom delay was the real evil they allowed denny hastert to be the speaker for a while of course then it turned out danny hastert was the real evil we didn't know what that guy was doing molesting wrestlers but but you know because denny hastert put on this sort of nice old guy face and so whereas tom delay was his mean sob that everybody hated the only way to let kevin mccarthy do it is if they're calling the shots behind the scenes which means they'll have to impeach biden doesn't matter what the reason is they'll have to hold a vote and the only question will be how much of a majority do they have can they hold everybody on that vote and will every single one of them be cowards and willing to do it and i i wouldn't bet on any one of them having the strength to do anything i mean i'll admit there were a couple that surprised me some of the ones in the house that voted for trump's impeachments were the ones in the senate who voted for you know for trump to be convicted but they they there haven't been very many profiles in courage so you can bet those those impeachment proceedings will start the january 6th committee will stop um you know like that's what we're looking at i mean we have to we we have to take the house we have to and we have to or hold it i should say i'd love to add to our margin but we have to at the very least even if it's by one vote how is it looking though um incredibly oh you know the problem is 60 you know nine whatever days in politics is a lifetime but i mean a hell of a lot better than was looking a month ago biden is up seven or eight points in the polls finally people are feeling the positives of all the economic bills and things he did in past mostly with only democratic support the only one the republicans supported was the infrastructure bill and that created a lot of jobs but the inflation reduction bill it's money you know money the the fact that he got a hold of covet and put money out there with that coveted bill that no republicans voted for when he first came in got people shots and arms so people could go back to work and they're in everything the child tax credit which helped people what he just did cutting prescription drug prices in half i mean i got to tell you somebody who who worked a lot on washington in washington and washington stuff for 20 years now more um that was one of the biggest things we could never accomplish we tried that so many times which was to allow you know medicare to negotiate bulk negotiate drug prices and it was criminal that they wouldn't allow the i mean it was like saying you know john you can't go buy this beer that you want you got to go buy that i mean it was literally like to tell people they weren't allowed to use the democratic process and the capitalistic process of negotiation it was ridiculous and finally we got it done i mean for seniors what that means in the end i mean with the power that medicare has to is that's what all these european countries do that's what the veterans administration does they're going to have the power to negotiate down the price of a lot of these drugs by 40 percent you know i mean so seniors are going to feel it right we made sure that the bottom corporate tax rate is 15 no more amazon or you know whoever the hell hobby lobby religious nuts paying like a negative tax rate they have to pay at least a 15 tax rate and hopefully somewhat more but at least there's a bot so so many good things were done right and and people saw that and then they've seen the crazy overturning roe versus wade only eight republicans in the house or ten what was it eight ten voted to to say that they would they would fight a ban on birth control i mean it's ins that's crazy you know cliff they voted no on the va bill right and then pump pumped fists i mean bump fist i mean i mean like it took jon stewart to go in there and get in and shame them and get public attention on it so they had to