Sean Spicer
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520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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I think one of the hijackers was living with an FBI informant for like a year. I think that's correct.
What is that? I don't know what's happened to Congress. I think it's probably a combination of... Obviously, the more responsibility you take, if you're going to take 100% of the powers you've been given by the founders and the Constitution and exercise that every day, you're going to have 100% of the accountability. There's nothing a member of Congress politician hates more than accountability.
Yes. So they are generally happy to delegate all of their authority to the executive where they can just blame stuff on bureaucrats. Oh, it was a bad process. It was a bad bureaucratic. People in Washington love blaming process. Have you noticed that? I have. Always the process. There's never a person at fault for anything. It's always a process that can be strengthened.
We fought with them more than Democrats. Okay.
Yeah. And man, Coburn was, that guy was a unicorn. There will only ever be one of him. He didn't care what anyone thought about him. He hated everyone in Washington. He hated Washington itself. All he wanted to do was like go up there and cut spending and restore some sanity and then go deliver babies on the weekend. And then the Senate was like, actually, we're going to ban you from doing that.
Because it's a conflict of interest. Delivering babies? Delivering babies. He's like, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it for free. I'll pay MedMal out of my own pocket. And I said, no, no, you can't do that. We're going to ban you. The Senate Ethics Committee went after him for years. For delivering babies. For delivering babies.
Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, actually touching and being with constituents, that was too much. But I remember doing stuff with him where we would have constantly people telling us, we don't do things like that around here. Really? Yeah, all the time. And we'd be like, what do you mean you don't do things like that? No, that's not how we do things around here.
And because we were all so young and green and idealistic, it was actually the genius in how he put together staff that It wasn't like an all-star cast of elite players. He just took a bunch of chuckleheads who believed in his mission and was like, yeah, go do damage out there. And so we did it. And so we were too stupid to know what we weren't supposed to be doing.
Yeah, it's super weird. For most of them, it's like their Senate tenure is five years of doing what they want and then a year of promising to do what their voters want. Yes, it's like a sickness. I genuinely don't understand it.
I don't know if something happens when you become a Republican senator that happens like 90 percent of them where they get there and they just like being important and that becomes the thing they care about. And they're so you talked about the media being a player. The media exists in large part to gaslight Republicans into doing what they want. To control them. Yeah.
And so these guys, for whatever reason, they care what CNN thinks about them. They care what the New York Times thinks about them. And they don't understand that if you actually want to be powerful as a Republican... Not caring what anyone thinks about you makes you a freaking superhero. I agree with that. Makes you untouchable.
They don't like the machine doesn't know how to handle someone who doesn't care about their next job or the next puff piece. You're basically an alien to them. They don't know how to intimidate you or how to threaten you. Like, oh, you'll cast me out of this awful city full of terrible people. Oh, no. What will I do?
A little bit. It changes with the class. So I've got a friend who's like one of the few really good true believers on the right. Worked in the Senate for a long time. Total genius. Parliamentary genius. And he says you can kind of judge senators unlike House members. You can judge senators by the class that they were elected into.
And that kind of tells you about the character of that whole group of people. So you've got the guys who came in in 2002. War on terror. Got to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. They're the worst neocons. The worst. And that kind of bleeds into 04.
And then you get the 06 thing where I don't think we even elected a new Republican senator because it was such a political bloodbath because the Iraq war is a disaster. Then oh wait, you've got the Obama years. And then the first kind of big year was 2010. That was all Tea Party. Those guys still have the Tea Party mentality, which is fine. I think the Tea Party was great.
But you have to be able to like evolve with the electorate. They're still stuck in like Tea Party town. And then 2014 was like the repeal of Obamacare. That was the thing. And it really wasn't until 2016 where you actually started seeing a change that was reflective of where the people are. Happened again in 2018.
And then most of the guys coming in now are so much better than the people they serve with who got elected 20 years ago that it's not even close. Yes. And yet, they're still senators. And they still care about what people think about them. Like... Someone like you or me will never, ever be in that body.
Yeah, yeah. And it's actually – do you see guys who really want to get on the intel committee? Yes. Like, unless you're going to do real oversight, which I think one person, Devin Nunes, has ever done on that committee – The only reason to be on that is to be cool. You get to be with the spies, and you get read in on it, and they make you feel special, and you get to go on codels.
And then maybe one day they'll write a book about you, like Charlie Wilson's war, about how courageous you were in shipping a bunch of weapons all around the world and starting wars that we're still dealing with the ramifications of. It's the Jason Bourne, like John Le Carre kind of stuff that they actually think they're a part of.
I just think that's evil. It is evil. It's people who... It's almost like they get off on the rah-rah team sport aspect of people getting blown to bits. Yes. And having their lives, if not ended, ruined forever. And I swear... I don't see how any of these people, they must not have ever talked to anyone who spent any time actually doing dirty work in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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