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At Least Republicans Have a Variety of Voices · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Thursday morning, fifth day
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of October. I'm West Thanks for joining me. I was about to call
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this the anniversary of my first broadcasting gig, but that's not true. That
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actually started in August. But this is the anniversary of my first radio gig
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today, fifth of October. So anyway, just kind of just kind of
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crept up on me. I thought about it yesterday at lunch. I was
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having lunch, a business lunch, if you will, with the folks from
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the Columbus Ballet. As we've got we've got something special in the works.
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We'll go public with this very soon, but something very special in the works
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that we're working on for this year's Nutcracker Ballet. But we were talking about,
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you know, my my broadcast, and I said, oh it tomorrow
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is the anniversary day for my first radio job. At It's sunny one hundred.
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I about that anyway, So, oh yeah, the big news coming
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for Columbus Ballet, something special, something extra. If there's a kid in
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your life who loves the Nutcracker, loves the ballet, has an interest maybe
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in dance and interest in performing and just wants to get up close with some
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of the performers in the show. That's a good tease, right, something
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special to do, And there'll be a lot of me involved in all this,
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right, Me and the role of Mother Ginger will be involved in this.
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Just something a little extra, little something special that we'll be doing with
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this year's a Nutcracker Ballet. Just an add on. I don't know how
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much more I can say. I'll just say that at this point, it
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looks like it's going to be the Saturday of this of the day of the
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Saturday show, which is December sixteenth, So we have a December sixteenth evening
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show, and then we have a matinee show on the seventeenth, and then
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there's a school show on the fifteenth in the morning on that Friday for schools
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that want to come and watch the show. And if you are involved at
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a school, you should want to bring the kids to see the ballet,
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the Nutcracker Ballet at the school show during the school day in the morning.
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It's a field trip. You come in, you check it out, you
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have a good time, you watch the show, and then you go back
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to school, talk about what you heard, talk about the incredible music,
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talk about the amazing dance performances. Talk about how great that mother Ginger up
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there is and how sparkly her beard was. I've started growing the beard,
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by the way, and it's starting to get a little itchy. It's a
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little too warm. I like the beard and the colder weather months. I
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know it's been a little cooler at night in the mornings, but in the
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heat of the day, Man, this thing is a little itchy. That
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beard starts to come in. But I have to grow it in because I
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like to have the beard in the mother Ginger role. I think the beard
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just adds something to the role. You know, there's something about it that
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just makes it pop. Especially last year we introduced the idea of putting glitter
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in the beard, so that was something else that was a lot of fun.
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Anyway, that's coming up, the Nutcracker Ballet, and another quick thing
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I want to talk about because we talked about this at lunch yesterday too.
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The best place when it comes time to purchase your tickets for the Nutcracker or
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any show really that's happening here in the Chattahooche Valley area go to the website
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of the venue. Don't just google what you're trying to buy tickets for.
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I've had people in the past ask me, I was going to go to
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the Nutcracker, but the tickets were one hundred and twenty dollars. That's not
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coming through any official ticket broker. That's not coming through the River Center's box
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office. That's not coming through the Columbus Ballet. That's someone who is up
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charging you for tickets. Just a heads up, the ticket prices are not
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one hundred and twenty dollars for your baseline tickets, So don't get fooled by
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that. Go through the River Center box office when you get your tickets for
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a show like that, and really any of the shows happening there. You
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don't want to go through those other places and pay way more than you should
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for the tickets. So through the river Center or through the box office,
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but through their website. Either way, that'll get the job done. So
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just adds up. All right. I want to talk about the We got
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Jim Jordan, We've got Steve Scalise that have thrown their names in as potential
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Speakers of the House. Now that Kevin McCarthy has been booted out. Is
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it is a bit of chaos going on in the House of Representatives. I
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think if you, I think if you had basically been paying attention to the
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ridiculous votes that were happening when Kevin McCarthy got into the role of Speaker of
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the House when that was going on, and you can go back and listen,
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because we had a few things we actually talked with. I was texting
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with Drew Ferguson, who represents part of our listening area, of course,
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a friend of the show, and he and I were texting each other during
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this historic vote that was going on and on day after day, and it
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was stretching, and you know, he just basically, you know, referenced
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the fact that it was, you know, unprecedented. This was you know,
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brand new waters and it was something historic. But on the surface you
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look at it and you say, not not for the right reasons, for
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none of the right reasons. Was this something historic at least not on the
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surface. Were there are a few aspects of this that certainly they could be
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praised for it, and then some aspects of it you just kind of were
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rolling your eyes because it was turning into a real at least for the people
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who shape the news, for the people who get to dictate what is happening
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in the form of the news. And this is one of the reasons we
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have so many problems by having a basically a media that's in for one party.
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When you have a situation where the press acts as a conduit for one
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of the parties, you're not in a good place for getting to the actual
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truth of what's going on. You get one side that uncharted waters is the
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word that sorry, I want to pull up the actually, we'll text and
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read it. He referred to it as uncharted waters that was going on while
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he and I were texting while he was there still in d C. At
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least at some point during the proceedings that were going on, So during the
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vote process or between votes. He certainly wasn't while he was voting. All
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right, So here's here's the overall thing on what was going on there.
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You had a situation where and again, when one side is able to just
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say this is horrible, Republicans are in disarray, and then the media just
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runs with a story and tells everyone, Yeah, Republicans are in disarray.
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They don't know what's going on. It's unorganized, it's chaotic. But here's
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the reality of what we have with our two party system. Okay, and
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we can throw the Libertarians in the mix a little bit. The Green Party
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doesn't really count because I don't know that the Green Party has ever really had
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any significant impact on an election. Libertarians have having a third party at least,
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you know, there's been questions about some races. Maybe the Green Party
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in some states has had an impact on the state level or a city level.
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But but when we talk about the two parties, Democrats are completely in
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line with one another. I mean, they are absolutely in step with everything.
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If they say that Hillary Clinton is going to be the candidate, and
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the people who you know, want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee or to
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be the candidate from nominee, they just don't even give it a look.
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No, Ary Hillary. That was not intentional. Hillary was overlooked for the
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sake of Barack Obama because he was the guy. You know, he had
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the sizzle, he was the cult of personality, if you will. He
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was the person. They were just bypassed her for him. So she waited
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her time. After that, she waited her eight years, and then it
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came to a point where it was going to be her or it was going
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to be Bernie Sanders, and they just brushed him aside because they were in
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step. They had a system in place that was not going to let it
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be decided any other way than the way that they wanted the outcome. I
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think we had a little bit of that as well with Joe Biden. He
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didn't really have to campaign much. It was a pretty easy run for the
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nomination. He got a little embarrassed in the debates, largely by his now
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vice president. But they're lockstep. They have an understanding of what their expectations
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are, what they're supposed to do, and how they're supposed to do it.
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And when they get told you need all the women need to show up
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wearing a white dress to show unity, that's what they do. They'll they'll
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follow suit if that's what what's expected of them. They stand in line,
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even on the most ridiculous pieces of legislation or on the most ridiculous ideas or
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concepts. You're not allowed to oppose things. You can't come along as a
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Democrat right now and say I think twelve weeks or sixteen weeks is a good
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limit on abortions. They're not allowing that. Who's doing that. Who in
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that party is stepping up and saying we need to come up with a compromise.
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They're not doing that. Republicans occasionally will offer something up to them and
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they don't even hear it out. They want to keep it wide open,
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and they'd like to be at a point where, you know, potentially late
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term abortions are still fine right up until birth in some cases. And many
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of them have voted and supported that. So but they even the ones that
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would maybe you know, want to say something different, they don't feel like
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they can. They don't not in general, they don't and they're certainly not
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going to vote differently. Republicans lined up and went to you know, vote
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after vote after vote, uh through when when McCarthy was ultimately voted in as
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Speaker of the House, Democrats, none of them did anything but vote for
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Akim Jefferies. They were looking to say, no one has received more votes
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for Speaker of the House than Akiem Jefferies. They had a plan and they
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executed that plan, and they carried it all the way to the end.
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Republicans, whether you agree with either side, for the Republicans. You have
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some that are capable of standing together and working together and getting things done in
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that regard, but then you also have some who will actually stand up and
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say, we're not going along with you just to do it. You're not
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conservative enough. Uh, you're we're not going to go along with that as
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a concept, because it's you're you're you're not conservative enough. There's some conservative
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there, some Republicans who say, hey, we're not going to be part
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of this, you know, fringe group. We're not going to support something
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that's so extremely far right, so extremely conservative. So there's a outspoken reflection
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of ideas within the party. Now, folks that are voted in should represent
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the people who put them in office. Shouldn't be just about, you know,
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getting your face on TV. It shouldn't be just about trying to be
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a rock star. Put yourself in a position where you can run for another
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office later, whether it's president or whatever it is. That shouldn't be the
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goal. It's to represent the people who put you into office. And if
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you represent an area, even if you're of a different party, if you
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represent an area where the people there want something different than what you have supported
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in the past, you should be representing them and not just following marching away
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from the people who run your party. That's not the way it's supposed to
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work. You're put there, you're not necessarily put there in most cases when
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you're elected into it, at least into a role by people in authority over
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your party. That's not what happens. You get voted in by the citizens
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there that you're elected to represent. You should be representing their ideas. Now,
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if your party overall says, I don't know, Obamacare is great,
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and you have a district that wants you to represent them but opposes Obamacare,
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well you should go with what the people in your district represent. It shouldn't
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just be blind allegiance to your party no matter what. And that's one of
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the divides and one of the splits that really starts to reveal itself, especially
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in cases like when the first votes were happening for ultimately that went to Kevin
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McCarthy, and by the end of the process it was pretty clear that those
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standout Republicans that were not going to support him basically said, we get to
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a point where you're not handling things the way we want to, we're gonna
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kick you out. So that's ultimately what they did. He's been oustered.
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And now we have two I think quality candidates that have thrown their name in
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as a potential replacement because McCarthy says he won't run again. Steve Scalise,
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his name has come up a number of times. He's already the majority leader
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there in the House. Jim Jordan's someone who's Both of them I think got
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votes during the during the McCarthy I was gonna say McCarthy hearings, But that's
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different, isn't it. That's a different thing. McCarthy hearings are not the
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same as the Kevin McCarthy votes. So we'll see how this all plays out.
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And all I can say is it's good to know that at least one
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of the two parties is making some attempt at representing the widespread opinions of that
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party. Conservatism covers a broad spectrum. Now. It does feel like as
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the country pushes more and more to the left, there are some cases where
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I think you get some people like Elon Musk or maybe even a Bill Maher
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who is still technically someone who considers themselves on the left, but as the
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line has moved over and they're not as liberal as the rest of the party.
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It certainly makes it feel like there's a broader spectrum that encompasses those folks
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that are actually conservatives. But it's good at least now. I know.
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It's frustrating. I know that, especially with the press and especially with you
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any time again you have a media who will carrie water for one party,
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they're able to dictate and lay out exactly what they think is going on inside
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the house. They're certainly making a huge deal about Nancy Pelosi's little secret,
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hidden office that she's got there in the Capitol that she's been kicked out of,
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and you know that being something that you know she's upset about because she
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was at Diane Feinstein's funeral and she doesn't think it's fair. Hakeem Jeffreys had
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to go in and clean out the office and all those sorts of things.
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So it's it's a mess in that it's not flowing the way that the government
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did when Democrats were in there. But was at the best case scenario for
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the country to just have a party that just did everything down the line.
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You get the occasional standout, You do get the occasional and I'm not saying
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that there aren't any. We know that there have been a couple. We
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know that there have been a couple of cases, Joe Manchin being the one
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that stands out the most. But obviously we're not talking about, you know,
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in the House specifically, but when you're talking about just Democrats in general,
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and Joe Manchin being one to stand out, so Kirsten Cinema, who's
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not independent, because proving that if you stand out, then you basically have
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a bullseye on you. But again, we're talking about in the Senate,
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not necessarily in the House. But I'm not going to say that all.
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I want to make sure to make it clear some Democrats do pop their head
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up for the whack them all. And as far as this office goes,
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you know, Representative McHenry is the person who McCarthy had put in line for
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if he was removed from office, to be the one to take over.
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And he's the one who's taking it upon himself to let the first order of
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business to be to get Pelosi out of the office. So we'll see in
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the coming days this could go on for a very long time. McHenry could
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hold the gavel for a while as the interim and we'll see exactly where all
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this is headed. But I do think it is worth noting that it's frustrating
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as this all can be, it is nice at the very least to know
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Carol Morning Show right after the break. Just a few days ago, on
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October third, that was the day that fans of the movie Mean Girls its
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reference in the movie, it was October third. He asked me what day
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it was. I told him it was October third. I think something like
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for other movies and in this case mean girls. That's a nice tie in
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with coffee. I think most people agree that the best part of a salad
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is the dressing. I mean, I think so, unless you're just really
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one of those weirdos who really likes the vegetables the best. I don't know.
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It depends on the salad. I guess if you get one of those
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salads that has a steak on top of it, then the steak is the
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best part a taco salad. I'm starting to think about all the proteins.
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People like salad dressing. So the most popular salad dressings in the country,
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according to sales figures, wrench sits at the top of the list. I
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don't think that's a big shot. Thirteen of our fifty states celebrate wrench as
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their favorite. Other favorites include Thousand Island, Zesty, Italian raspberry vinigarrette among
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the favorites. Looking at it by region, and Georgia and Alabama don't have
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the same favorite salid dressing. Alabama puts a Thousand Island at the top of
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the list. Georgia and the Carolinas and Florida. And when I say the
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Carolinas, it continues up into Virginia. West Virginia likes classic ranch, no
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zesty Italian for Louisiana, but that classic ranch other than Tennessee that celebrates also
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classic Catalina dressing just looking like Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, the Carolina's up
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to West Virginia and down to Florida all likes ranch. So Alabama that stand
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out there. Texas likes the raspberry vinigarrette, zesty Italian all the way over
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in California. The Pacific North, we likes a thousand Island. So there
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you go. That's just kind of a breakdown around. There's not really a
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clear favorite. I guess amongst the Midwest it's a mix of ranch and Thousand
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Island. But up into the far Northeast though all classic Catalina up into Maine
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and New York and others. So there you go. Yeah, I really
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for me, it can change. And it's based on the salad, based
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on the mood. I like a balsamic. I know you didn't ask,
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but I'm just telling you I like a balsamic. But I can eat many
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of those any any of those named. I guess I could possibly just throw
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on to a salad and need it. It's not to me. I mean,
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there are definitely some that I don't like, but I could mix it
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up just a little bit. Picture worth a thousand words. New dating apps
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slashing words to make room for more pictures. Si Match is the name of
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the app sci m a tch. Sie Match has ditched profiles all together and
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characteristics. So it's basically doing an algorithm based completely off of your face.
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So there you go. It's the the whole dating app thing I think is
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getting weirder and weirder. I don't know. I guess there may be some
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sense to this, but I don't really know what it is. I do
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know that you'd probably be shocked to find out because I was that in many
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cases it makes sense. But the initial shock, I think is what gets
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you that you often do look somewhat like your partner that you choose and It
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has to do with familiarity in faces, and sometimes there's something about them that's
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familiar to you. And anyway, I was part of a study once where
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I submitted a photo of me and Jill and others that were part of the
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group, and everybody voted on which couple looked the most alike, and Jill
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and I looked the most alike. I don't necessarily see it, but apparently
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other people did, so, you know, I mean, I don't know.
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