Sean Spicer
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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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 โ 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 โ 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.
Yeah, yeah. And it's actually โ 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 โ 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.
Yeah, yeah. And it's actually โ 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 โ 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.
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.