 All right, quickly, we have to talk about this. I mean, McCarthy failed again yesterday, as you probably heard. They spent the night trying to cut deals and give the people voting against McCarthy more stuff that they want. The reality is that there's a bunch of them who don't want anything. They just don't want McCarthy to be Speaker of the House. This is, for the most part, not some principled opposition to McCarthy because he's a weasel and a pragmatist. I mean, I wish he is a weasel and a pragmatist, but this is not some principled conservative opposition that they want more conservative, although some of the demands are demands that make sense. Some of the rule changes they want in the House are rule changes that make sense that would prohibit monstrosities like this $1.7 trillion appropriations built from passing so easily at the end of last, just a few weeks ago, a week ago. So there are definitely Republicans there who are trying to make changes that make sense. But I would say that mostly this is the anarchist, the nihilist, the Trump, what do you call it? Trying to get as much attention as you can attitude, these are people who just want attention, these are people who just want to smash stuff, these are people who, and it's not even, all make America great again. I mean, certainly the people there are, the five that are objecting, but the primary five, six who are objecting, but so not, because a lot of the make America great, again, type people are voting for McCarthy, right? Jim Jordan, who's been proposed as an alternative speaker by these guys, has consistently voted for McCarthy and has nominated him. This is nihilism and narcissism. Yes, narcissism was the word I was looking for, thank you, Frank, narcissism, it's, look at me, this is Bobette who has learned nothing from the fact that she almost lost a massively Republican district, she almost lost to a Democrat because of her shenanigans and because of her irrationality and because of her nuttiness. Yet she came back to the house and continues the same way. I mean, hopefully she will lose next time to a Democrat. Maybe she'll, maybe Republicans, some Republicans will learn a lesson. There's nothing principled going on here. This is all a power play, this is all an attention play. This is just, for many of them, just nihilism. All right, so, I mean, I'm no Kevin McCarthy fan. I think he's a ultimate weasel and in a sense, I am enjoying this if only to see him squirm and if only to see him pay the price. This is a guy who sold himself to the devil, you know, on many occasions, repeated occasion, changed his mind, flip-flopped on issues like that, basically tries to appease everybody, tries to be on everybody's side and understands for nothing. So, in a sense, this couldn't happen to a nicer guy. On the other hand, it's just pathetic and it gives you a sense of exactly what the Republican Party is all about. You know, Paul Ryan, who was hated so much today, who's despised so much, why? Because he took a principled stand against Trump. For the first time in his life, he actually took a principled stand on something meaningful and so he's hated today. But Paul Ryan in 2011 was the compromise candidate when the conservatives refused to vote for a moderate and Paul Ryan was put forward as, he said he didn't want it, he refused to be speaker, he didn't want to be speaker and then he was the, he was the conservative guy who the conservative put forward, many of the, some of the people actually withholding the Kevin McCarthy vote right now put forward Paul Ryan at the time and he was the hero of the conservatives and Paul Ryan was one of the, you know, he kept selling out but in terms of ideas and in terms of proposals and in terms of, he was one of the best congressmen we've had in a long, long time. I mean, the Paul Ryan budgets that passed the house during the Obama years, which would never be turned into law, of course, so some of the best budgets the United States House or Senate have ever voted on, including one budget that had Medicare turned in, voucherized, turned into vouchers. But of course, that was unacceptable to Trump who ran on, I won't touch Medicare, I will fight for Medicare for you because he knew who his voters were, I will protect Medicare and Social Security and of course, he would never, I mean, Paul Ryan ultimately always voted with the statists but a lot of his proposals and a lot of his ideas and a lot of the budget that Paul Ryan Congress passed were terrific and fantastic. They were too terrific and fantastic for Trump and that's where they butted heads. You know, his ideas were unacceptable to Trump the kind of things he wanted to do. I mean, if Trump had been on board with Paul Ryan in those first two years where Trump had the House and the Senate, wow, we could have done, the Republicans could have done some major stuff, but anyway, the McCarthy catastrophe and clown show continues at the House of Representatives. Republicans are making a joke of themselves. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. 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