Did you know that the government could shut down again? Didn't they just deal with that? Well, they should be dealing with it because we've got about a week, and House Republicans still have not come up with a viable plan to pass a funding bill. And there's a number of different things that have been stymieing efforts [00:00:17] to fund the government. Some of them, perhaps not surprising, others certainly stand out to me. So let's see. We've got a tug of war over how deeply to cut spending. Okay. They're always going to fight about stuff like that and whether to wade into controversial debates, like a person's right to use birth control [00:00:35] without losing their job. That's the thing. This is not like the Wyoming state legislature that's arguing about this. House Republicans are potentially going to shut down the government because they think you should be able to be fired if you take birth control. [00:00:51] If you're wondering if Republicans have learned much from the last few elections in terms of their views on reproductive rights, no. Anyway, over the past two days, the House has attempted to vote on one of 12 different annual funding bills. We had the Financial Services bill, and that bill funds the Judiciary Branch, [00:01:07] the Treasury Department and the IRS. So that didn't work. I'm sure big cuts will be coming to most of those, but that's considered among the least controversial of the ones that they are looking into. So as I alluded to, they had this one about whether you should be [00:01:23] able to be fired for using birth control. So the one of the ones that's coming up, language would block a District of Columbia law that prevents employers from discriminating against workers who seek contraception of family planning services. Now, the good news is that there are Republicans who don't think that [00:01:39] that should be overturned. So New York Republican Representative Mark Molinaro said he would oppose the bill if it continues to block that protective policy and estimate estimates that about eight GOP lawmakers side with him, saying, I think there's an understanding that we feel strongly about it. [00:01:54] So it is good that there are at least some Republicans on that side. But nine there are hundreds of Republicans in the House, and only nine apparently think that you should not be able to be fired for taking the pill. [00:02:12] I mean, I thought perhaps we dodged a really crazy Republican House when Jim Jordan didn't get in charge. But no, the crazies are still there. I want to start with you. What do you what do you think about the current dysfunction in the house? I mean, listen, I don't understand how we don't think this is normal now. [00:02:28] I mean, this is the. This is the nature of Republicans. Find the least popular. Find the least popular issue and die on it. Like, just stay with it and keep losing. Elections don't matter because you can gerrymander entire states into one Republican district. That's what we're that's what I think. That's their plan. [00:02:43] It has to be their plan, because there's no way in hell you can keep going after contraception and women's right to choose and keep losing in the manner you're losing. I mean, we see Democrats winning in spaces we shouldn't be winning. We just saw a conservative sheriff talking about contraceptives in Georgia [00:02:59] lose in a district that Trump won by plus 30. So I don't I don't know what their plan is other than to, you know, cheat gerrymandered districts in Mississippi. They ran out of ballots. They keep the ballots low. I think they join anything except for convince voters that they got any damn common sense. [00:03:15] Yeah, absolutely. And it's so funny to see this happening, like just days after they lost massively in elections on Tuesday because of their stances on abortion. We covered a story a couple months ago about how now Republicans and senators [00:03:32] in closed door meetings were talking about how they need to use the messaging that they support the same protections that were granted under ROE and somehow try to spin that as pro-life. But here they are. They and I'll just end with this. It's amazing to see this Republican Party that for most of my life was [00:03:51] very cohesive, you know, to our detriment as the American people, but very cohesive. They voted in lockstep. There was, you know, some ideological difference between, you know, members of the party. But when it came to voting, they had their ducks in a row. [00:04:07] They were all on the same page. And now in just a few years, we've seen this party descend into utter chaos. And they are just I think Lindsey Graham described it well, the speaker fiasco is happening, that they've shot themselves in the foot. [00:04:23] And I mean, of course, Donald Trump played no small part in allowing this to happen, and I'm here for it. I love it. Yeah. Just. Like, I've often thought there's there's nothing that they love more than power. And that might be true, but it's possible that they hate people who can get pregnant [00:04:42] more than they love power. Like it might be, that they're willing. Like, you know, if you follow all of the independent right wing commentators, they were all coming out of those elections this week saying, no, we need to double down. We need to do even more. And it's a great strategy. I mean, they failed for like 60 years to convince people of their position. [00:04:59] Why shouldn't they try for another 60? Anyway, we'll see if the government ends up getting funding. That will be probably the most important early test of the new speaker. 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