Jessica Tarlov
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And we'll see what the Supreme Court does with the tariffs.
But we know he doesn't care.
Oversight is not a thing to him.
He'll tell a few Republicans about something else.
you know, if he particularly likes them.
But there's no chance that a Democrat is getting within, you know, 50 feet of it.
And Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley issued a joint statement about, you know, how they can't be ignored in these kinds of matters and there needs to be oversight.
But he just doesn't give an F, right, about it.
And I'm curious, you know, the point about you have to just stand up for what's right.
And that's the case that you have to make, and then you have to sell it to the American people, right, thinking about what Democratic leaders should do.
And I liked the statements from Governor Polis, for instance, Senator Kaine, that all acknowledged how terrible Maduro is, and then just said, like, you didn't ask anybody for their opinion on this, or at least show us what you're doing, and also what comes next.
And, you know, today is the anniversary of January 6th.
And, you know, that's a whole show unto itself, but something that has...
bothered me, I guess, for the past five years, not just what happened, but the fact that the implications of January 6th and that we have a president who now has been reelected that has absolutely no respect for the rule of law or our constitutional right to vote completely trampled on it.
Right.
That people basically just said, I don't care about it.
Right.
Like you talking about January 6th is not winning you any elections.
Talking about grocery prices and health care costs are the way to do that.
And so how do you think about kind of putting more of a politics like trying to win elections cap on?