something that somebody s a back-bencher. now she s a key player in kevin mccarthy s speakership, and i m just i m curious what is the impact of having somebody who s a 9/11 truther, somebody, at the top, anti-semitic remarks. we laugh about jewish space lasers, but, you know, it s it s not actually funny when you have somebody who s who s made bizarre anti-semitic comments and the whole george soros conspiracy theories, anti-jew, the hatred that spews out. suddenly on these critical committees. suddenly being put in positions to be one of the more powerful members of the house? it s not funny, joe. this is probably one of the most serious moments in modern american history to think about what we re rated against
totally trivialize the santos story. it is bad when somebody who is a giant liar is elected to congress but the most back bencher in the house of representatives. the idea we re fixating o know this screw ball character who is clearly way out of his depth that is also a return to normalcy in its own way. the idea that the temperature of politics and the stakes of politics is a little bit lower now at the point where we can spend this much time talking about stuff that just doesn t really matter certainly on the level of the pandemic or global recession or chaotic sort of presidency careening all over the road kind of is a return to normal. something has to fill the vacuum. if you don t have a main character in american politics or on twitter, something does fill the gap and it is going to be the stoves act, the santos act. small outrages. i want a new normal. i m sorry. i don t want this normal. i don t want the trump normal. we deserve something better. i hear you.
she didn t get into serious leadership until the end of the 90s. she apprenticed under her father. mitch mcconnell, he got into leadership late in the 90s. i think some of this is, kevin mccarthy has not done the groundwork to understand what every rank and file member needs. he has been through the perspective of leadership. i wonder if that s why he doesn t seem to be able to close this deal. nancy pelosi could go and say, i was you. i was the back bencher. i know what it is like. kevin mccarthy, he fast tracked himself. if he fast tracked his way to leadership, why shouldn t these other guys? i wondered how much of his lack of working his way up into the institution is working against him today. what s remarkable is that some of these members voting against him are members for whom he contributed and raised money.
right. first of all take a look at the past two years. joe biden hasn t come looking for republican votes especially in the house. it s been a steam roll factory over here. at this point now we re in a lame duck session we re going to have divided governments, there should not be any major deals being cut because the american people have now spoken. and he was referring there to getting the ball in december and saying we re going to speak, we re going to act. sometimes they use this term back-bencher. he s a second termer but certainly feels like he s coming off the bench and wants to be a starter. right now his name is floated for speaker. even his supporters have said they may not of course ultimately have such an experienced person be up for speaker. your thoughts on what it means this is the person they ve turned to today, this is the face they want, and this is the aggression politically assertively they want. he s a strong man in the
ready to step in a way that gave the members of the caucus confidence and provided this sense of unity. it is remarkable how well nancy pelosi and her other leadership team pulled off this transition and what class she showed today sitting as a back bencher and applauding for her successor as leader of the democrats in the house. and over on the senate side, you had patty murray, the first woman in history to be pro tem. so you have jeffries and murray both makes history today and the democrats really showing off their unity and ability to govern and obviously the longer this chaos continues, the stronger their hand becomes for the last two years the biden term. alexi, if you wanted to further the narrative that cost mitch mcconnell the majority for second time in two years, and