Rachel Bovard
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256 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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It's funny.
I talk a lot about the Senate to various groups in Washington, and I talk about when senators were titans, when they moved history, when senators were statesmen.
And they really – honestly, there were times where senators were more famous than presidents because they were more powerful than presidents in many ways.
And they wielded power with dignity and authority.
And you have a Senate now that is literally run like an adult daycare.
You know exactly when you're going to vote.
You know exactly when you're going to have lunch.
And you know exactly when you're going to go home.
And for all of the remaining time, you sit on your carpet square and sip on your juice box and wait to be told by the leadership what's next.
That is not what the Senate is for, right?
And the more it behaves that way as an institution, the quality of senators are going to go down because why would any respectable member of society want to put themselves through that?
But two, you're also at a critical point in the conference where members have never seen a Senate that operates any differently.
They don't know how to aspire to what the Senate used to be.
And so I do think we are at a very dangerous point, a tipping point for the Senate, where it's either going to save itself or it's going to continue into this complete irrelevance and decline.
Well, Trump has said in clear terms, you're starting to see him throw hands at John Thune, which he hasn't done before, you know, and to say to him, look, this is unacceptable.
I think it's it's time.
It seems as though Trump is starting to realize that the Senate Republican conference is actually the problem.
He's talked about the filibuster being the problem and the parliamentarian being the problem.
And those are foils.
Those are proxies for what the actual problem is, which is the conference itself.
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