Bill Kristol

It would take, what, two Republicans now, I think, given how narrow the margin is, to say they're going to temporarily vote for Collins.

Jeffrey's for Speaker.

And again, they could cut deals.

They could get some committee chairmen.

All the ones I mentioned could get committee chairmanships.

One of them could become Speaker or Majority Leader, conceivably.

And if you get really... In this kind of emergency, I think it is worth at least trying to get people to think a little more broadly.

And it has been so infuriating for the last year to have all these, you know, everyone's, well, I guess it's 53-47.

There's just nothing that can be done as if...

People can't act to change the status quo.

And there's enough unhappiness I should think about tariffs, war powers, the Fed now, some about ICE, I would think, I hope.

Maybe this is a moment where it all comes together.

Maybe it is kind of fantasy, but I put it in warning shots to try to give people something to think about, you know?

I mean, well, the killing of Renee Good and everything else we've seen, and then the administration's lying about it, God, to say the least, lying immediately about it and continuing to lie about it and lying in the face of all the evidence about it makes it all the more horrible and also all the more laying the groundwork for this continuing.

And it's not just laying the groundwork for this continuing.

They've doubled down.

They're sending more people into Minneapolis.

They seem to have intensified their brute force intimidation tactics and other tactics.

lesser forms of violence so far.

Someone asked me earlier this morning on a different call about Kent State and how it compared, and I got back and looked at that a bit over the weekend.