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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sweet, how sweet the sound?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
But say the range Lord, I was lost.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Wood, no.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Fall was blood.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I see towards gray lot.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
To my home two feet and gray small fee.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Free shall sty.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But gray salt.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My fely just tay sad.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
The opening of Notre Dame, where once in future President
Donald Trump was welcomed on the world stage again, that
beautiful rendition of amazing grace absolutely echoed around the world.
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What a beautiful, beautiful thing. I want you to go
back in your mind. Many of you will remember Barack
Obama was elected in November of eight, takes office in
January of nine. Obamacare, the control of our healthcare system
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and control of our industry were the two goals. They
were going to do that with the carbon tax and Obamacare,
and the thought was Obamacare would be easy, the carbon
tax would be harder, so they would start with Obamacare.
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When they started, they had a majority of Americans under
the belief that everybody deserves health care and government will
fix it. And basically, whatever you didn't like about your
health care system, they were going to fix it, because
that's what the government does, isn't it government make sure
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everybody has enough of everything and everybody's happy. Well, they
ran into a snag, and by early twenty ten, a
year into it, they realized, we've got to pass this
thing and put it behind us, because it's turned out
to be very unpopular and we don't want the Republicans
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in November of twenty ten to be campaigning against Obamacare.
So we've got to get it passed. And by the way,
we won't have it go into a fact. Nobody will
know how bad it is, won't have it to go
into a fact for years into the future. But we've
got to get this thing done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
During all of this, the Republicans had a majority in
the House, and we had a guy who was perpetually
drunk and he would cry all the time named John Baynor,
who was the Speaker of the House. And Americans were
demanding we did not want Obamacare. Fight it with everything
you've got, defeat it. And John Bayner, the Republican Speaker
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of the House, the House was supposed to be the
bulwark against there was supposed to be the last ditch effort.
We weren't going to let the Democrats win this thing.
John McCain ended up saying, well, you know Obama has
a mandate, he gets his Obamacare. Well, what are you
there for? And then the White House leaked a voicemail
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that had been left and it was John Bayinner's chief
of staff, and the voicemail had said, we're going to
come to the White House. We're going to work out
these last few details. And the details were they would
allow Obamacare to pass, they just didn't want it to
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apply to congressional staffs. So, in other words, our voters
back home, we'll let you put obamacall on them. We
just don't want it for ourselves because it's that bad.
He left that on the voicemail, and the voicemail said,
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we're coming over to negotiate the last round. We just
don't want Obamacare to apply to us. But if the
press sees us coming in, then tell them that we're
arguing over something else. And he made up something that
people back home goes, look at them there, they're just
fighting for us. And it was a bit of a
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betrayal by the Obama white House. But what they were
doing was showing Republicans back home, your people have sold
you out. They don't care about you. They're not actually
fighting for you. It's a devastating blow to congressional Republicans.
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And it was like that scene in Braveheart that I
am so fond of. You remember the scene. I'll discuss
it in the moment. I only know two scenes from Well,
that's true. But the reason I bring that up is
that that is what has happened. While many of you
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were watching the SEC Championship on Saturday afternoon, the Republicans
in the State House were gathered in Austin. There are
one hundred and fifty state representatives. You have managed to
give Republicans an eighty eight to sixty two majority, so
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we could very easily pick the Speaker of the House.
That's how it's supposed to work. You've also given Republicans
a majority in the Senate, every state wide seat, and
the governor's office. We should be able to secure the border,
we should be able to be business friendly, we should
be able to do the things we need to do
in this state. But the same forces behind drunk Date
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we've managed to kick drunk Date out. He won't be
the next speaker. Those forces have now teamed with Democrats,
so that the sixty two Democrats and then to get
to seventy six, all they need is fourteen more. When
you hear this story of betrayal, this is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I do know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
You say, Michael, buddy, you work so hard to get
the government. You want what.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They do beside in your face all the time.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
They want to take your place, the facistas bestaders to
decide in your face all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You want to take your place, the fakistan us, all.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Your famos who had some bon and do any care.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then it's all the mall.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Has better Beware.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Somebody is out to get your lady at the man
his days show up shading hands alone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Let's tart and up.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
You've got eighty eight Republicans in the House. Democrats have
got sixty two. The Speaker of the House drunk Dade
Feelin because he divided the House trying to impeach Ken Paxton,
which was grinding an axe against Ken Paxton. That some
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business groups that support him and tell him what to
do have always they hate Ken Paxton. Fine whatever, but
they're willing to destroy the party over this. It's exactly
what's going on in DC. Think John Cornyn, Think Jony Ernst.
These people working behind the scenes to defeat Donald Trump's
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agenda when it is Trump's supporters who are voting for them. Somebody,
somebody asked me, how come these state reps do this?
Why don't they just switch to being Democrats. Know, that's
not how it works. The people of Lubbock, where Dustin
Burrows runs, they want a solid conservative Republican. Then once
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he gets in there, he cuts little backroom deals against
the very interest of his own district. And what they're
counting on, which has typically been the case, is that
you're too busy watching the ut football game, you're back
to work, you won't know what's going on, what goes
with the little game. This is what John Cornyn and
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Mitch McConnell are masters of. They're counting on you not
understanding what happened. And the best part is now they've
started to come out, coming out and say on the
other side, which is the side we voted for conservative values,
is owned by billionaires. If you looked the people who
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were cutting this deal behind the scenes, the people who
support them, it is a who's two of the Nicki
Haley list that when the Republican primary happened, here we're
raising money for Nicki Haley. It is the same group
of people to a t same exact group of people.
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Because the Democrats have got their sixty two votes locked up,
all they got to do is get fourteen Republicans to
peel away and join them. So now you've got the
minority party controlling the Republican party. This was sort of
how Saddam Hussein governed Iraq from a very small minority
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of people. So the vast majority of the people of Iraq,
we're not being governed by their own kind because of
the way that Saddam had put together his coalition and
held on to the power, and that's why there was
such a fierce, ferocious backlash when they got a chance
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to topple him. What we're seeing is Republicans, a few
of them who are in the back pocket of some
business interests who don't want the grassroots to have our way.
This is the lobby all over again. Texas Medical Association.
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These are the people who are scared to death that
you will rise up and say, we'll decide if we
take a vaccine, we'll make decisions.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
These are the.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
People that have had the run of government for a
long time, and they have deep pockets and they have
bought and paid for Lacey Hull, Sam Harless. This is
the group of people, and I'll tell you this, there's
a few of them that are voting our way, that
are huddling with the other side. But they're scared to death.
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They're more scared of you right now than they are
the other side. And it's creating quite the They are
not true to their hearts. So Dustin Burrows was the
number two for drunk Day. Remember drunk Day lost his
Republican primary going into the runoff. There hadn't been three candidates,
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there were two. He would have lost, but there were
two candidates who challenged him, and the vast majority of
people didn't want him there. But the vote was split.
David Covey, who ran against him, got forty nine I
think forty nine point five forty nine point seven percent,
couldn't quite get to fifty point one. So then there's
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a runoff. What'd they do. They held a bunch of
fundraisers in Austin, not in Orange Jefferson, in Jasper County
to send daid back, and all the lobbyists poured their
cash into it, millions and millions and millions.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Of dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
And how did he win. He had over one thousand
Democrats show up who've never voted in the Republican primary.
They showed up in a state rep Republican primary. There
was no Trump on the bottles and nothing else. They
got all these Democrats to go and vote, and he
wins by four hundred votes. Went over one thousand Democrats voted.
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He could not win his own district with Republican voters. Well,
his number two was a guy named Dustin Burroughs. So
drunk Day realized he can't be the speaker again, so
he steps down. Let's go back and see who Dustin
Burroughs is. In twenty seventeen, he actually wrote the rule
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that said the speaker, when we have the majority of
the House, the speaker should be chosen by the majority
of the majority party. The Democrats were going to keep
the Democrats from doing this. This was him in twosy seventeen.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
One of the things I don't want to be in
a situation, you know, a year from now, where a
member of the Republican Caucus comes in and says, guys,
guess what, I've got fifty five Democrats who have made
a deal with me to put me in the chair.
And by the way, you're gonna have to vote to
repeal sanctuary cities. You're gonna have to be against life.
You're gonna do these things if you want to be
on the team. You know, And I've got the other
twenty Republicans that are gonna vote with me. I'm gonna
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say bye buck. They said, Hey, the Hides and Carcass
Committee I just formed. It's gonna be one member bigger
and have to deal with that. I think we should
take control of it as a caucus. I think it'll
be a unifying thing. I think it's a good thing.
I think the majority of Republicans will end up getting
behind this, and we'll find out December first. If two
thirds don't support this, it goes why.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
But if they do support it, then you're going to
march out of that room with one candidate.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
You're gonna put that person up for Speaker and there
are going to be no strays. Well, he's doing the
absolute obvious opposite of that today, and full of Republicans
are about to hand your party over to the Democrats.
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Mind you, the majority of the supporters of the next speaker,
if it's Dustin Burroughs will have been the Democrat Party,
and they're trying very hard to keep this looking like
that's not what's going on. But they can't get enough
Republicans to do it. Out of eighty eight Republicans, they're
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going to have a dozen or two.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
In the past, what they would do is once they
had the win, then a lot of Republicans would go
over and vote with them, so it would look like, oh,
it's a vast majority of Republicans. It is all a
sham in Lubbock. It's Dustin Burroughs. That's the one run
in this whole thing with his outside money from his
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business interests. But I'll tell you who in this area
if you want to know who the people are. Lacey
Hall from Katie, Will met Calf from Conroe, Greg Vonnon
from League City, Sam Harlest from Spring. There's your traders there.
They are Lacy Hull, Will met Calf, Sam Harlest.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Very Frigame, Greg Vondy the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Many times in the United States, Senate John Cornyn has
been Mitch McConnell's man. What they will do on a
bill that you want, or let's say a bill that
you're opposing, that Democrats are pushing is they could prevent
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using cloture that bill from ever being voted on. But
what the Republicans will do that are part of leadership
John Cornyn at Mitch mcconn's direction is they will vote
to end the cloture, which means bring the bill onto
the Senate floor, but you don't notice that vote. Then
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once they get there, these same Republicans will vote against it,
and then it'll be a fifty to fifty tie. Kamala
Harris comes in more than any vice president in American history.
She has broken more ties to give the Democrats the win.
The way to beat that bill was to prevent it
from coming to a vote because you had the votes
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to do that. But they know that that won't be covered.
You see, these are very procedural things that are done
behind the scenes. And that's what John Cornyn has done
again and again and again. And that's why there is
the divide between the grassroots who despise John Cornyn and
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everybody else who says, why are we so mad at him?
It's very hard to understand what he does. It is
complicated by design. That is exactly what's going on. If
you want to know who one of the good guys is.
Steve Toath from the Woodlands, constitutional conservative. Poor bastard goes
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up to Austin every session knowing he'll never be on
the inside track, in the same way that Ted Cruz
would never be in a leadership position in the Senate,
in the same way that they'll never let Donald Trump
in the inside circle. They don't want the people who
are willing the same reasons that they don't want Pete
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hegg Set to be the Secretary of Defense or Cash
Mattel to to lead the FBI. It's the same mindset.
They do not want people who don't play ball with
the lobby, with the establishment, the Lindsey Grahams run things,
and that's the reality. Mitch Little was elected to the
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State House this past election, and he has been involved
in all of this. He's a new state representative. Mitch,
your thoughts after what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, good mornings are welcome to the Texas House of Representatives.
Huh so, I really my first official act as a
representative elect was to participate in the House Republican Caucus.
We go in there and after two rounds of voting,
thirty one of my colleagues, many of whom have still
never spoken to me, literally never have haven't talked to me,
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I haven't called, then't texted whatever. They stand up and
walk out of the meeting. So you just spoke coming
out of the break about process and procedure and how
important those things are. Well, they all the process and
procedure is important until it is since and it's it's
for the uniparty. And by the way, this term of
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uniparty gets thrown around a lot in politics and you're like,
does it really exist? I have now seen it firsthand.
My colleagues in the Texas House, in the Republican Caucus
who walked out, and they're all thirty one of them.
They have gone and talked to Jean Wu before they've
talked to me. Jean Wu being the new chairman of
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the Texas House Democrat Caucus. They would rather talk to
him for purposes of gaining power than they would talk
to me. They would rather disenfranchise the voters of my
district and collude with the Democrats to obtain the gavel,
then they would espouse Republican values. The uniparty is alive
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and well in tech firsthand.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
And explain why that is because you came to my
attention as somebody that had been identified to me as
one of the star lawyers for Ken Paxton when the
House impeached him and Senate to the Senate. But for
people who don't understand why they there is a unit party,
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which means Republicans who get up there and will keep
company with Democrats because the goal is never what they
campaigned on. The goal is the lobby, the establishment, the
big government, the packs. But explain that to folks who
don't understand that, because you had a pretty good sense
going in. But even you, I'll tell you, when I
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first went into government and I realized what goes on
once you get down there and the campaigns are over,
it kind of depressed me, to be honest with.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You, Yeah, I had that moment on Saturday, I went
I confessing to you. I had a moment after these
fellows walked out where I said, I have made a mistake.
This is going to be a total waste of my time.
And then some this switch flipped in my mind to
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this thing where somebody get up and walk out of
a meeting rather than stay and invest in Republican leadership.
This thing has to change at any cost. So you
asked about the existence of the UNI Party, how I
know it's real. Let me give you the perfect example
of this from Saturday. So, my Republican colleagues, after it
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becoming clear that David Cook was going to at some
point win the vote, or at least Dustin Burrows could
not obtain the nomination through the House Republican Caucus process,
my Republican colleagues can get up and walk out of
the meeting with no consequence to them. Under the bylaws.
We cannot censure them, we cannot find them, we cannot
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expel them. But if I, as a sitting House member
and Republican in the Texas House, if I think that
an incumbent is not as good as a primary challenger,
I cannot campaign for or assist that primary challenger because
I will risk censure or an expulsion from the Republican Caucus.
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There are more consequences for me and ensuring that my
colleagues are going to be the most conservative, high fidelity
Republicans I can get, then there are for them for
walking out of the meeting and going to talk to
Democrats for purposes of obtaining power.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Mitche that's messed up. It is very messed up. Hold on.
It reminds when I got elected to city council.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I was.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
And I noticed that we had some bad city councilmen,
and yet the lobbyists were still giving them money. The
first time I ever heard the term friendly incumbent rule,
and that is that the political action committees will always
give to the incumbent unless they go out of it.
That's how you know the lobby is protecting itself.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Say to it, dude. The Michael Berry shows.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Os around and rounds rist to put his moments up
down and pain ump show that parts of course ends
fencers Faith.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Who used to meet you.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Those views in Christ said natures.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That representative Mitch Little is our guest. Mitch, do you
know why Snoopy quit his job?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Tell me he was tired of working for peanuts. So
it's your first session as a state representative. You go out,
You beat an incumbent.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Didn't you, Yeah, I beat an incumbent.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Fifteen incumbents were defeated over exactly this behavior that we're
talking about. And people will say to me, Michael, I
don't understand why are they doing this? Why don't they
just do what they campaigned on. And I explain, you
go to Austin, you make seventy two hundred dollars a
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year with your per diem, it's about fifteen thousand dollars
a year. That used to be the numbers. You can
tell me if that's wrong. You go up there, you're
one out of one hundred and fifty. The average person
sees themselves going to Austin, Texas to be a state rep.
To do the right thing, and come home like the
volunteer choa president or the volunteer coach because no one
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else would coach the team. And then you get the
guy who gets up there who wants to wield power.
And that power source is not the people are doing
the right thing. That's not where they derive their sense.
It is the political action committees and their very narrow
interest and they got big checks and they've got a
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credit card to the steakhouse and the strip clubs and
the booze, and that's where the parties are, and that's
where you feel important, and that's how you rise to
the ranks. How wrong am I on that?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh, you're not wrong at all. In fact, your song
coming out of the break was very appropriate. I mean,
I've met the devil. The devil is the guy who
you know, you meet for the first time and he's
very nicely dressed and he's got a beautiful family. Ask
you how you are and how your kids are doing,
and you turn around, he knifes you and your values
in the back. And we have those people in the
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Texas House. I've met them, and this is There's one Michael,
I think you saw in primary season. There's one variable
they cannot control for. And the variable that is at
its most effective now this year twenty twenty four is
the strength of the grassroots and their voice. They cannot
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control that variable, and when the grassroots are aggressively going
after or the UNI Party, they really have no answer
for it. When they hit the polls, when they go
to their club meetings, when they pound them on social media.
They have no way to control for that variable. We
need to energize them against what's going on right now.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
It's very frustrating because the average person who's showing up
at the lumber mill or the construction site, or wearing
a badge or as a firefighter or whatever, stay at
home moms, they don't have the time or energy or
access to a lot of this information. And you've got
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to be a real insider and spend a lot of
time to understand how these deals are being cut, that
are meant that are meant to muddy the water. Because
what they're doing is they are teaming with the Democrats
because they couldn't win among their Republican colleagues. And when
the average person understands that, then we'll and Greg Bonnan
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and Sam Harless and Lacyhull and Jeff Leech. I mean,
these folks ought to be ashamed of themselves. And if
people fully understood what these people are up to, if
they fully understood and grasped what was going on, I
have to think those people would be so embarrassed to
have to leave the state.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, there's to put this on the bottom shelf for
people who listen to you every day and may not
be super engaged in this. There was one big miscalculation
Saturday by Team Burrows and you may have seen it
on their faces in their press conference. You can find
that picture online. Is everybody looked very somber. They had
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a miscalculation. The miscalculation was they thought they would have
more Republicans on their list than Democrats. The problem is
there were some of the Republicans on their list that
weren't supposed to be on there and didn't give them
permission to put their name on Burrow's list. So now
Burrough's list has more Democrats than Republicans, and that was
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the miscalculation. You can go find his list right now online.
There are more Democrats on his list than Republicans. And
none of the people in that room, none of the
people who got up and walked out of the House
Republican Caucus, thought they were going to be in that position.
They thought it would be a Republican majority subset of
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people supporting Burroughs, and they miscalculated. So now they're caught
with their pants down. No one wants to be on
a list with more Democrats than Republicans and deal with
the primary consequences of that, Michael.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, and they've seen this year what those primary consequences
look like, because you're going to have the big political
action committees writing you checks. Drunk day did but for
the sitting Speaker of the House to get his ass
whipped in Jasper Jefferson and Orange County in his first
round of his own parties primary, and I'm from there.
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I'm farm Orange County where he was trounced, and for
an upstart candidate to beat him in the first round
and to get to just short of fifty percent, causing
a runoff in the primary, and then they have to
have thirteen hundred Democrats vote to keep you as a
state rep. And then you can't be the speaker. If
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drunk Dade had it all to do over again, of course,
if he wasn't a puppet of the establishment, it never
would have been there in the first place. But it's embarrassing,
it's humiliating. Can't hold his head up in Beaumont, Orange
or Jasper County. It's embarrassing. And what they're witnessing is
and I think this is the Trump phenomenon all over again,
and it actually preceeds Trump. It goes back to the
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Tea Party. Is that the average voter has said, I
don't trust the Republican establishment any more than I do
the Democrats, the John Cornins, the Mitch McConnell's, the John Bahners,
the Paul Ryans, and the Jeb Bushes. And we have
had enough. You know what bothers me, Mitch is that
how much energy we're having to waste within our own
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party purging these bastards who are snakes behind the scenes,
because we ought to be able to use this time
for accomplishment and we're not. Mitch Little looking forward to
having you as a state representative and reporting back.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Thank you, brother, Thank God for that, Thanks for your show,
and thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
By the way. By the way, our friend Martha Golden
is back in the hospital. Can you please call check
on her. She's got an infection.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
My understanding is I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'll do that right now.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yes, I know you love an adore our sweet ninety
two year old Martha Golden. I just got another update
on her. Will Metcalf, Lacy Hull, Greg Bonnin, Sam Harless.
They are committed to the Democrat side. You know what
to do, Mono Dialla, who my understanding was, has now
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flipped to David Cook, which has decide that is majority Republican.
Good for you, Mono, do the right thing. That's all
I ask
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sweet, how sweet the sound?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
But say the range Lord, I was lost.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Wood, no.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Fall was blood.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I see towards gray lot.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
To my home two feet and gray small fee.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Free shall sty.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But gray salt.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My fely just tay sad.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
The opening of Notre Dame, where once in future President
Donald Trump was welcomed on the world stage again, that
beautiful rendition of amazing grace absolutely echoed around the world.
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What a beautiful, beautiful thing. I want you to go
back in your mind. Many of you will remember Barack
Obama was elected in November of eight, takes office in
January of nine. Obamacare, the control of our healthcare system
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and control of our industry were the two goals. They
were going to do that with the carbon tax and Obamacare,
and the thought was Obamacare would be easy, the carbon
tax would be harder, so they would start with Obamacare.
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When they started, they had a majority of Americans under
the belief that everybody deserves health care and government will
fix it. And basically, whatever you didn't like about your
health care system, they were going to fix it, because
that's what the government does, isn't it government make sure
(04:27):
everybody has enough of everything and everybody's happy. Well, they
ran into a snag, and by early twenty ten, a
year into it, they realized, we've got to pass this
thing and put it behind us, because it's turned out
to be very unpopular and we don't want the Republicans
(04:50):
in November of twenty ten to be campaigning against Obamacare.
So we've got to get it passed. And by the way,
we won't have it go into a fact. Nobody will
know how bad it is, won't have it to go
into a fact for years into the future. But we've
got to get this thing done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
During all of this, the Republicans had a majority in
the House, and we had a guy who was perpetually
drunk and he would cry all the time named John Baynor,
who was the Speaker of the House. And Americans were
demanding we did not want Obamacare. Fight it with everything
you've got, defeat it. And John Bayner, the Republican Speaker
(05:33):
of the House, the House was supposed to be the
bulwark against there was supposed to be the last ditch effort.
We weren't going to let the Democrats win this thing.
John McCain ended up saying, well, you know Obama has
a mandate, he gets his Obamacare. Well, what are you
there for? And then the White House leaked a voicemail
(05:57):
that had been left and it was John Bayinner's chief
of staff, and the voicemail had said, we're going to
come to the White House. We're going to work out
these last few details. And the details were they would
allow Obamacare to pass, they just didn't want it to
(06:19):
apply to congressional staffs. So, in other words, our voters
back home, we'll let you put obamacall on them. We
just don't want it for ourselves because it's that bad.
He left that on the voicemail, and the voicemail said,
(06:39):
we're coming over to negotiate the last round. We just
don't want Obamacare to apply to us. But if the
press sees us coming in, then tell them that we're
arguing over something else. And he made up something that
people back home goes, look at them there, they're just
fighting for us. And it was a bit of a
(07:01):
betrayal by the Obama white House. But what they were
doing was showing Republicans back home, your people have sold
you out. They don't care about you. They're not actually
fighting for you. It's a devastating blow to congressional Republicans.
(07:22):
And it was like that scene in Braveheart that I
am so fond of. You remember the scene. I'll discuss
it in the moment. I only know two scenes from Well,
that's true. But the reason I bring that up is
that that is what has happened. While many of you
(07:45):
were watching the SEC Championship on Saturday afternoon, the Republicans
in the State House were gathered in Austin. There are
one hundred and fifty state representatives. You have managed to
give Republicans an eighty eight to sixty two majority, so
(08:09):
we could very easily pick the Speaker of the House.
That's how it's supposed to work. You've also given Republicans
a majority in the Senate, every state wide seat, and
the governor's office. We should be able to secure the border,
we should be able to be business friendly, we should
be able to do the things we need to do
in this state. But the same forces behind drunk Date
(08:36):
we've managed to kick drunk Date out. He won't be
the next speaker. Those forces have now teamed with Democrats,
so that the sixty two Democrats and then to get
to seventy six, all they need is fourteen more. When
you hear this story of betrayal, this is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I do know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
You say, Michael, buddy, you work so hard to get
the government. You want what.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They do beside in your face all the time.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
They want to take your place, the facistas bestaders to
decide in your face all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You want to take your place, the fakistan us, all.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Your famos who had some bon and do any care.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then it's all the mall.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Has better Beware.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Somebody is out to get your lady at the man
his days show up shading hands alone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Let's tart and up.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
You've got eighty eight Republicans in the House. Democrats have
got sixty two. The Speaker of the House drunk Dade
Feelin because he divided the House trying to impeach Ken Paxton,
which was grinding an axe against Ken Paxton. That some
(10:17):
business groups that support him and tell him what to
do have always they hate Ken Paxton. Fine whatever, but
they're willing to destroy the party over this. It's exactly
what's going on in DC. Think John Cornyn, Think Jony Ernst.
These people working behind the scenes to defeat Donald Trump's
(10:43):
agenda when it is Trump's supporters who are voting for them. Somebody,
somebody asked me, how come these state reps do this?
Why don't they just switch to being Democrats. Know, that's
not how it works. The people of Lubbock, where Dustin
Burrows runs, they want a solid conservative Republican. Then once
(11:09):
he gets in there, he cuts little backroom deals against
the very interest of his own district. And what they're
counting on, which has typically been the case, is that
you're too busy watching the ut football game, you're back
to work, you won't know what's going on, what goes
with the little game. This is what John Cornyn and
(11:30):
Mitch McConnell are masters of. They're counting on you not
understanding what happened. And the best part is now they've
started to come out, coming out and say on the
other side, which is the side we voted for conservative values,
is owned by billionaires. If you looked the people who
(11:53):
were cutting this deal behind the scenes, the people who
support them, it is a who's two of the Nicki
Haley list that when the Republican primary happened, here we're
raising money for Nicki Haley. It is the same group
of people to a t same exact group of people.
(12:18):
Because the Democrats have got their sixty two votes locked up,
all they got to do is get fourteen Republicans to
peel away and join them. So now you've got the
minority party controlling the Republican party. This was sort of
how Saddam Hussein governed Iraq from a very small minority
(12:41):
of people. So the vast majority of the people of Iraq,
we're not being governed by their own kind because of
the way that Saddam had put together his coalition and
held on to the power, and that's why there was
such a fierce, ferocious backlash when they got a chance
(13:03):
to topple him. What we're seeing is Republicans, a few
of them who are in the back pocket of some
business interests who don't want the grassroots to have our way.
This is the lobby all over again. Texas Medical Association.
(13:26):
These are the people who are scared to death that
you will rise up and say, we'll decide if we
take a vaccine, we'll make decisions.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
These are the.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
People that have had the run of government for a
long time, and they have deep pockets and they have
bought and paid for Lacey Hull, Sam Harless. This is
the group of people, and I'll tell you this, there's
a few of them that are voting our way, that
are huddling with the other side. But they're scared to death.
(14:01):
They're more scared of you right now than they are
the other side. And it's creating quite the They are
not true to their hearts. So Dustin Burrows was the
number two for drunk Day. Remember drunk Day lost his
Republican primary going into the runoff. There hadn't been three candidates,
(14:22):
there were two. He would have lost, but there were
two candidates who challenged him, and the vast majority of
people didn't want him there. But the vote was split.
David Covey, who ran against him, got forty nine I
think forty nine point five forty nine point seven percent,
couldn't quite get to fifty point one. So then there's
(14:43):
a runoff. What'd they do. They held a bunch of
fundraisers in Austin, not in Orange Jefferson, in Jasper County
to send daid back, and all the lobbyists poured their
cash into it, millions and millions and millions.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Of dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
And how did he win. He had over one thousand
Democrats show up who've never voted in the Republican primary.
They showed up in a state rep Republican primary. There
was no Trump on the bottles and nothing else. They
got all these Democrats to go and vote, and he
wins by four hundred votes. Went over one thousand Democrats voted.
(15:21):
He could not win his own district with Republican voters. Well,
his number two was a guy named Dustin Burroughs. So
drunk Day realized he can't be the speaker again, so
he steps down. Let's go back and see who Dustin
Burroughs is. In twenty seventeen, he actually wrote the rule
(15:45):
that said the speaker, when we have the majority of
the House, the speaker should be chosen by the majority
of the majority party. The Democrats were going to keep
the Democrats from doing this. This was him in twosy seventeen.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
One of the things I don't want to be in
a situation, you know, a year from now, where a
member of the Republican Caucus comes in and says, guys,
guess what, I've got fifty five Democrats who have made
a deal with me to put me in the chair.
And by the way, you're gonna have to vote to
repeal sanctuary cities. You're gonna have to be against life.
You're gonna do these things if you want to be
on the team. You know, And I've got the other
twenty Republicans that are gonna vote with me. I'm gonna
(16:22):
say bye buck. They said, Hey, the Hides and Carcass
Committee I just formed. It's gonna be one member bigger
and have to deal with that. I think we should
take control of it as a caucus. I think it'll
be a unifying thing. I think it's a good thing.
I think the majority of Republicans will end up getting
behind this, and we'll find out December first. If two
thirds don't support this, it goes why.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
But if they do support it, then you're going to
march out of that room with one candidate.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
You're gonna put that person up for Speaker and there
are going to be no strays. Well, he's doing the
absolute obvious opposite of that today, and full of Republicans
are about to hand your party over to the Democrats.
(17:06):
Mind you, the majority of the supporters of the next speaker,
if it's Dustin Burroughs will have been the Democrat Party,
and they're trying very hard to keep this looking like
that's not what's going on. But they can't get enough
Republicans to do it. Out of eighty eight Republicans, they're
(17:28):
going to have a dozen or two.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
In the past, what they would do is once they
had the win, then a lot of Republicans would go
over and vote with them, so it would look like, oh,
it's a vast majority of Republicans. It is all a
sham in Lubbock. It's Dustin Burroughs. That's the one run
in this whole thing with his outside money from his
(17:51):
business interests. But I'll tell you who in this area
if you want to know who the people are. Lacey
Hall from Katie, Will met Calf from Conroe, Greg Vonnon
from League City, Sam Harlest from Spring. There's your traders there.
They are Lacy Hull, Will met Calf, Sam Harlest.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Very Frigame, Greg Vondy the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Many times in the United States, Senate John Cornyn has
been Mitch McConnell's man. What they will do on a
bill that you want, or let's say a bill that
you're opposing, that Democrats are pushing is they could prevent
(18:42):
using cloture that bill from ever being voted on. But
what the Republicans will do that are part of leadership
John Cornyn at Mitch mcconn's direction is they will vote
to end the cloture, which means bring the bill onto
the Senate floor, but you don't notice that vote. Then
(19:04):
once they get there, these same Republicans will vote against it,
and then it'll be a fifty to fifty tie. Kamala
Harris comes in more than any vice president in American history.
She has broken more ties to give the Democrats the win.
The way to beat that bill was to prevent it
from coming to a vote because you had the votes
(19:25):
to do that. But they know that that won't be covered.
You see, these are very procedural things that are done
behind the scenes. And that's what John Cornyn has done
again and again and again. And that's why there is
the divide between the grassroots who despise John Cornyn and
(19:47):
everybody else who says, why are we so mad at him?
It's very hard to understand what he does. It is
complicated by design. That is exactly what's going on. If
you want to know who one of the good guys is.
Steve Toath from the Woodlands, constitutional conservative. Poor bastard goes
(20:10):
up to Austin every session knowing he'll never be on
the inside track, in the same way that Ted Cruz
would never be in a leadership position in the Senate,
in the same way that they'll never let Donald Trump
in the inside circle. They don't want the people who
are willing the same reasons that they don't want Pete
(20:30):
hegg Set to be the Secretary of Defense or Cash
Mattel to to lead the FBI. It's the same mindset.
They do not want people who don't play ball with
the lobby, with the establishment, the Lindsey Grahams run things,
and that's the reality. Mitch Little was elected to the
(20:50):
State House this past election, and he has been involved
in all of this. He's a new state representative. Mitch,
your thoughts after what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, good mornings are welcome to the Texas House of Representatives.
Huh so, I really my first official act as a
representative elect was to participate in the House Republican Caucus.
We go in there and after two rounds of voting,
thirty one of my colleagues, many of whom have still
never spoken to me, literally never have haven't talked to me,
(21:27):
I haven't called, then't texted whatever. They stand up and
walk out of the meeting. So you just spoke coming
out of the break about process and procedure and how
important those things are. Well, they all the process and
procedure is important until it is since and it's it's
for the uniparty. And by the way, this term of
(21:50):
uniparty gets thrown around a lot in politics and you're like,
does it really exist? I have now seen it firsthand.
My colleagues in the Texas House, in the Republican Caucus
who walked out, and they're all thirty one of them.
They have gone and talked to Jean Wu before they've
talked to me. Jean Wu being the new chairman of
(22:12):
the Texas House Democrat Caucus. They would rather talk to
him for purposes of gaining power than they would talk
to me. They would rather disenfranchise the voters of my
district and collude with the Democrats to obtain the gavel,
then they would espouse Republican values. The uniparty is alive
(22:36):
and well in tech firsthand.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
And explain why that is because you came to my
attention as somebody that had been identified to me as
one of the star lawyers for Ken Paxton when the
House impeached him and Senate to the Senate. But for
people who don't understand why they there is a unit party,
(23:01):
which means Republicans who get up there and will keep
company with Democrats because the goal is never what they
campaigned on. The goal is the lobby, the establishment, the
big government, the packs. But explain that to folks who
don't understand that, because you had a pretty good sense
going in. But even you, I'll tell you, when I
(23:22):
first went into government and I realized what goes on
once you get down there and the campaigns are over,
it kind of depressed me, to be honest with.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You, Yeah, I had that moment on Saturday, I went
I confessing to you. I had a moment after these
fellows walked out where I said, I have made a mistake.
This is going to be a total waste of my time.
And then some this switch flipped in my mind to
(23:52):
this thing where somebody get up and walk out of
a meeting rather than stay and invest in Republican leadership.
This thing has to change at any cost. So you
asked about the existence of the UNI Party, how I
know it's real. Let me give you the perfect example
of this from Saturday. So, my Republican colleagues, after it
(24:17):
becoming clear that David Cook was going to at some
point win the vote, or at least Dustin Burrows could
not obtain the nomination through the House Republican Caucus process,
my Republican colleagues can get up and walk out of
the meeting with no consequence to them. Under the bylaws.
We cannot censure them, we cannot find them, we cannot
(24:38):
expel them. But if I, as a sitting House member
and Republican in the Texas House, if I think that
an incumbent is not as good as a primary challenger,
I cannot campaign for or assist that primary challenger because
I will risk censure or an expulsion from the Republican Caucus.
(25:00):
There are more consequences for me and ensuring that my
colleagues are going to be the most conservative, high fidelity
Republicans I can get, then there are for them for
walking out of the meeting and going to talk to
Democrats for purposes of obtaining power.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Mitche that's messed up. It is very messed up. Hold on.
It reminds when I got elected to city council.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I was.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
And I noticed that we had some bad city councilmen,
and yet the lobbyists were still giving them money. The
first time I ever heard the term friendly incumbent rule,
and that is that the political action committees will always
give to the incumbent unless they go out of it.
That's how you know the lobby is protecting itself.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Say to it, dude. The Michael Berry shows.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Os around and rounds rist to put his moments up
down and pain ump show that parts of course ends
fencers Faith.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Who used to meet you.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Those views in Christ said natures.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That representative Mitch Little is our guest. Mitch, do you
know why Snoopy quit his job?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Tell me he was tired of working for peanuts. So
it's your first session as a state representative. You go out,
You beat an incumbent.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Didn't you, Yeah, I beat an incumbent.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Fifteen incumbents were defeated over exactly this behavior that we're
talking about. And people will say to me, Michael, I
don't understand why are they doing this? Why don't they
just do what they campaigned on. And I explain, you
go to Austin, you make seventy two hundred dollars a
(27:15):
year with your per diem, it's about fifteen thousand dollars
a year. That used to be the numbers. You can
tell me if that's wrong. You go up there, you're
one out of one hundred and fifty. The average person
sees themselves going to Austin, Texas to be a state rep.
To do the right thing, and come home like the
volunteer choa president or the volunteer coach because no one
(27:36):
else would coach the team. And then you get the
guy who gets up there who wants to wield power.
And that power source is not the people are doing
the right thing. That's not where they derive their sense.
It is the political action committees and their very narrow
interest and they got big checks and they've got a
(27:58):
credit card to the steakhouse and the strip clubs and
the booze, and that's where the parties are, and that's
where you feel important, and that's how you rise to
the ranks. How wrong am I on that?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh, you're not wrong at all. In fact, your song
coming out of the break was very appropriate. I mean,
I've met the devil. The devil is the guy who
you know, you meet for the first time and he's
very nicely dressed and he's got a beautiful family. Ask
you how you are and how your kids are doing,
and you turn around, he knifes you and your values
in the back. And we have those people in the
(28:33):
Texas House. I've met them, and this is There's one Michael,
I think you saw in primary season. There's one variable
they cannot control for. And the variable that is at
its most effective now this year twenty twenty four is
the strength of the grassroots and their voice. They cannot
(28:55):
control that variable, and when the grassroots are aggressively going
after or the UNI Party, they really have no answer
for it. When they hit the polls, when they go
to their club meetings, when they pound them on social media.
They have no way to control for that variable. We
need to energize them against what's going on right now.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
It's very frustrating because the average person who's showing up
at the lumber mill or the construction site, or wearing
a badge or as a firefighter or whatever, stay at
home moms, they don't have the time or energy or
access to a lot of this information. And you've got
(29:38):
to be a real insider and spend a lot of
time to understand how these deals are being cut, that
are meant that are meant to muddy the water. Because
what they're doing is they are teaming with the Democrats
because they couldn't win among their Republican colleagues. And when
the average person understands that, then we'll and Greg Bonnan
(30:02):
and Sam Harless and Lacyhull and Jeff Leech. I mean,
these folks ought to be ashamed of themselves. And if
people fully understood what these people are up to, if
they fully understood and grasped what was going on, I
have to think those people would be so embarrassed to
have to leave the state.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, there's to put this on the bottom shelf for
people who listen to you every day and may not
be super engaged in this. There was one big miscalculation
Saturday by Team Burrows and you may have seen it
on their faces in their press conference. You can find
that picture online. Is everybody looked very somber. They had
(30:45):
a miscalculation. The miscalculation was they thought they would have
more Republicans on their list than Democrats. The problem is
there were some of the Republicans on their list that
weren't supposed to be on there and didn't give them
permission to put their name on Burrow's list. So now
Burrough's list has more Democrats than Republicans, and that was
(31:07):
the miscalculation. You can go find his list right now online.
There are more Democrats on his list than Republicans. And
none of the people in that room, none of the
people who got up and walked out of the House
Republican Caucus, thought they were going to be in that position.
They thought it would be a Republican majority subset of
(31:28):
people supporting Burroughs, and they miscalculated. So now they're caught
with their pants down. No one wants to be on
a list with more Democrats than Republicans and deal with
the primary consequences of that, Michael.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, and they've seen this year what those primary consequences
look like, because you're going to have the big political
action committees writing you checks. Drunk day did but for
the sitting Speaker of the House to get his ass
whipped in Jasper Jefferson and Orange County in his first
round of his own parties primary, and I'm from there.
(32:05):
I'm farm Orange County where he was trounced, and for
an upstart candidate to beat him in the first round
and to get to just short of fifty percent, causing
a runoff in the primary, and then they have to
have thirteen hundred Democrats vote to keep you as a
state rep. And then you can't be the speaker. If
(32:25):
drunk Dade had it all to do over again, of course,
if he wasn't a puppet of the establishment, it never
would have been there in the first place. But it's embarrassing,
it's humiliating. Can't hold his head up in Beaumont, Orange
or Jasper County. It's embarrassing. And what they're witnessing is
and I think this is the Trump phenomenon all over again,
and it actually preceeds Trump. It goes back to the
(32:46):
Tea Party. Is that the average voter has said, I
don't trust the Republican establishment any more than I do
the Democrats, the John Cornins, the Mitch McConnell's, the John Bahners,
the Paul Ryans, and the Jeb Bushes. And we have
had enough. You know what bothers me, Mitch is that
how much energy we're having to waste within our own
(33:09):
party purging these bastards who are snakes behind the scenes,
because we ought to be able to use this time
for accomplishment and we're not. Mitch Little looking forward to
having you as a state representative and reporting back.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Thank you, brother, Thank God for that, Thanks for your show,
and thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
By the way. By the way, our friend Martha Golden
is back in the hospital. Can you please call check
on her. She's got an infection.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
My understanding is I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'll do that right now.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yes, I know you love an adore our sweet ninety
two year old Martha Golden. I just got another update
on her. Will Metcalf, Lacy Hull, Greg Bonnin, Sam Harless.
They are committed to the Democrat side. You know what
to do, Mono Dialla, who my understanding was, has now
(34:02):
flipped to David Cook, which has decide that is majority Republican.
Good for you, Mono, do the right thing. That's all
I ask
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