The Tragedy of Speaker McCarthy

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Oct 6, 2023 · 19m

It’s been a very tough week. Between some health issues and the loss of a fellow SubVet, it’s been long and stressful.

The Congress this week voted to remove the Speaker. It was an unusual event, one that hasn’t happened – at least in this manner – before. It has caused a great deal of brouhaha, and a great deal of “discussion” between conservatives as to whether or not it was a “smart” moves.

I tend to look at things from a historical perspective and so I wander back through those halls and ask myself what the people who actually invented democracy would have had thought about it all?…