Republicans in Senate are missing the chance to buck history

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00:00 Here's what's so frustrating about the whole shooting match. We have a chance. We have literally the best chance in our lifetime of bucking history. 00:18 and the party that holds the White House actually gain seats in the House and the Senate. We have the best chance that we have ever had and these Republicans are blowing it. And I believe they're doing it intentionally. That's the only thing you can say. That's the only thing you can say. 00:41 If you've got a receiver, 00:45 on your offense and this receiver is open every single play and you don't throw the ball to him? 00:55 That's just poor coaching. That's poor leadership. Well, no, I'm not, I'm not throwing, you know why I'm not throwing that ball to that receiver? Because they got a pretty good receiver too. And if I throw the ball to our best receiver, then when we're on defense, they're gonna throw the ball to their best receiver and I don't like that. That would be bad. That would be bad. 01:25 So you've got the filibuster. It's preventing us from getting anything done because everything that starts in the House goes over to the Senate. 01:34 Can't get anything done. We got the funding for Homeland Security. We've got the Save America Act. Can't get those things done. Lindsey Graham, his big bright idea was to try to get the 60-vote filibuster reduced to a 57-vote filibuster. Oh, that's going to work? That's a brilliant idea. 02:01 But here's the most frustrating thing of all, I just alluded to this. We got a chance here. We've got a big chance. Listen to CNN. Look at this, net favorability. Party ahead at this point, midterm of years with the GOP president. In 2018, Dems were up by 12. In 2006, on net favorability, which party you like more, Dems were ahead by 18. Republicans are actually ahead on net favorability at this point by five points. So Democrats... 02:26 are just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks and they need to be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the United States Senate. Given that map to be clear, both parties are wildly unfavorable right now. However, Democrats are even more unpopular than right now. More unpopular. So the Republicans right now in the Senate have a plus five lead plus five. Are they gonna blow it? Now I don't know how we look in the House. That's going to be the one to watch. 02:56 those House seats because there is going to be an impeachment proceeding every single week against Donald Trump. It's going to be like, hey, welcome back to the news. It's Thursday and the Democrats are impeaching Donald Trump again. This guy's going to be impeached so much in the House of Representatives is not going to be funny. He's going to hold the all-time, but never to be broken, all-time record. 03:25 for most impeachments. Now will he be removed from the Senate? Well, we're to have to see how the RINOs vote on that one. Have to check that out. But we've got a chance, and the Republicans are like, I don't really want to govern. I just don't want to govern. I'm sorry. I just don't like it. I'd rather sit in the back of the room and just cry foul. 03:55 I'd rather throw shoes from the back of the room than actually do something. That's what it is. That's what it is. So they don't like to govern. I don't know why they run. Well, I do know it. I know why they run. It's the power. I read a quote this weekend that just kind of hit. Wham! Whammo! You know, we always hear that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 04:27 But somebody kind of flipped that around. I don't know who to give credit to for this, but they said power attracts the corruptible. 04:40 And I thought, wow, you are exactly right. Power attracts the corruptible. As I always tell you, when you don't get involved in politics, you relegate yourself to being governed by your inferiors. And that's what we got going on right now. 05:01 The people who are attracted to power are the most open to corruption b ...

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