barack obama existing and not being essentially, a hand puppet as president, and being quiet, and waving, and saying thank you white people for letting me be president. his retribution is this court, and they are getting it for him. you go back to the original slogan, make america great again, going backwards. their portrait of what a great america is the time before women had rights, before there were any marches for a quality, before people of color could have a fighting chance to compete in higher education, and now they re big accomplishment is that they haven t ruled all of the progress we made in this country. that it is mind-blowing to me that the child born right now will have less rights than we did when we were born. how is that possible that we got to the point where we are seeing progress completely rolled back, and it goes back to the early conversation. institutionalism is in going to work. the institution wasn t designed for the wrecking ball that is the modern republi
joining me for the staff writer for the new republic. former spokesperson and senior adviser for republicans house oversight committee. and to start with you grace segers welcome to the show. there are all these wild stories about kevin mccarthy. one of my favorites is this when it s a new york times story. kevin mccarthy, this is a quote from the new york times. a golden retriever of a man who hates to be mined self, once cozied up to the president by bringing him a curated jarvis favorite cherry and strawberry starburst candies. he called him my kevin because he sees him as a hand puppet. how is this guy the one out of all the republicans in that caucus who is lined up to be potentially speaker? i think the important thing to realize about kevin mccarthy is that his power comes from relationships. so he has spent literally
right back into polite society eight days after biden s inauguration. if any of us do not like the fact that donald trump is as powerful as he is today, thank kevin mccarthy because he s the one that did it. you know, it s been described as this conversion of republican party, you know, rick, i mean, kevin mccarthy wants to be speaker yet, he s the man who sorts donald trump s candy to make sure there are only red and pinks one in because that s what trump likes. i m not making that up. that s an actual thing he did. he s such a fan, the washington post reporting he literally sorts his candy to make sure it s the right flavors. that is not a speaker of the house. what does the house look like if and when these freaks take over? they will take over whether or not kevin is the speaker. it s very clear kevin is a hand