November 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Liz explains how the Senate’s decision last night to reopen the government could benefit Americans going forward. Meanwhile, as Zohran Mamdani’s administration takes shape, questions arise about whether this shift could spell significant losses for Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Marximoni's back on seventeen wor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well Liz Peak the brilliant column. This also has a
great website, lizpeak dot com. All kinds of great stories
and new stuff every day lizpeak dot com. You get
a column there also at Fox News and The Hill,
Liz Peak. How you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm delighted that the government is going to be up
and running, hopefully within days.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh I'm not. I keep it closed. We don't need
these people back there. Clearly it was a I will
say cave in a concession on the part of Democrats,
and Schumer said I will oppose it. But obviously he
gave the wink in the nod for eight people to
jump ship. Right.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I don't know if he did.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think the Schumer has kind of lost his way, honestly.
And look he is getting blasted again for allowing this
vote to take place and for conceding for actually for
winning nothing. That's the thing, mark, is that what did
(01:06):
the Democrats get from all this? What did they get
from endangering air travelers in America and throwing hundreds of
thousands of government employees off their payrolls, and for causing
snap beneficiaries to have a heart attack because they weren't
going to get any snap payments.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The answer is they got nothing zero.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They're not going to get an automatic extension of the
Obamacare subsidies that they were supposedly fighting for. They're not
going to get a rollback of the reforms to Medicaid
that they're so opposed to. They lost, and I think, honestly,
for Schumer, this is a catastrophe. Look, their party is
already eating their own. This is just giving them more
(01:47):
defeast on.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But correct me if I'm wrong. Nobody's ever gotten anything
out of a shutdown. These shutdown caucuses like, oh for fourteen,
aren't they?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Haha?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, I haven't gone back and looked at all
the ones.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know. I mean, I sort of tend to
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I can't really remember a time when either Republicans or
Democrats won any big points from shutting the government down. Now,
when the GOP does it, which they did in the
Tea Party era because they wanted less spending. Of course,
when you have the entire media world with very few
exceptions on your side, as Democrats always do, you end
(02:27):
up being the people. Then obviously the GOP looks like
they're responsible and they're blamed for everything that goes wrong,
so it's probably not surprising that they don't end up
winning very much in this case. It really has been
pretty astonishing to watch. I mean, I tweeted out something
or exed out something yesterday, a paragraph from Axios saying,
(02:49):
it's hard to blame the Democrats. It's hard for Republicans
to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when after all,
they control all three branches of government. It's like the
author never heard to the filibuster. They don't know how
it works. I mean, really, Mark, you got to say,
that's pretty damn dishonest. And that is sort of the
tone that the left wing media, meaning all the media
(03:11):
except for you and me, has been treating this as
you know, it's all the Democrats are the good guys.
The Republicans are like Keem Jeffries is out there every
two minutes going President Trump and the Republicans are trying
to starve the American people and that's why they won't
reopen the I mean, really, it's pretty appalling. You look
at his look at his Twitter feed or ex feed.
(03:34):
That's exactly what he's been saying.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, but you know, people have to just accept the
fact axios and Political Politico are as corrupt as those
the networks are. They're just awful.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, they're just dishonest.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know about corrupt, they're dishonest, and it's just
a shame, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, at some point.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I get so tired of Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal
and all the usual suspects, Corey Booker, etc.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Gavin Newsom just playing life, lying about stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They do it all the time, and I don't know
about you, I just sort of I just think that's wrong.
And I really think it's kind of astonishing that more
Americans don't rebel against that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hey, if we had honest media, wouldn't they ask a Democrat,
if it's the Affordable Care Act, if it's so affordable,
why would you need a subsidy to pay for it?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mean, when it is pretty ironic, you take a
step back. If this thing all came down to the
extension of kind of emergency premium subsidies so that people
can afford Obamacare, what does that say about Obamacare? What
it says is that it's a failed program. It never worked.
The minute that the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate,
(04:45):
you knew it was a catastrophe because the whole concept
of Obamacare was that you were going to have millions
and millions, tens of millions of Americans enrolled, including young,
healthy Americans, and you would insist on their enrolling even
if they didn't want to, because you had this individual mandate,
(05:06):
and they were going to carry the costs basically of
the older, sicker Americans who really had to have health
insurance and also signed up for Obamacare. When those young
when that young cohort, the young healthy cohort, heard that
they no longer had to buy Obamacare because the Supreme
Court says it's against our constitution to make somebody buy something.
(05:29):
Then the program was done, but the Democrats never admitted it.
But now, excuse me, now they are faced with the
reality that it doesn't work without that individual mandate.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's a perfect explanation of the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And of course it's true.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Of course we should have actual media that reports all
that explains all that, but they don't. So the mom
Danni administration is forming. It looks like a lot of
people from the Deblasio administration, so that's not I mean,
it's bad, but we got through eight years at de Blasio.
We'll get through this, all right, won't.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We We'll get through it, but it's going to be
a pretty unpleasant time. And I think probably the X
factor in all of this is the anti semitism. You know,
I'm look, progressives are going to fail because their policies
are bad.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Eventually we'll get rid of this guy. But it's the
cozing up to.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
People like the unindicted co conspirator in the World Trade
Center bombings that really makes me anxious.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, but again, we got through eight years of the Blasio.
Well what does it mean. What does it mean for
the Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now, but he wasn't like a Muslim friendly with terrorists, right,
that's a pretty new thing for New York City mayor.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, he was pretty bad member honeymoon in Cuba. He
was seen with the cop killing a terrorist down there
in chesh Myers's true. Yeah, so that is true. Well,
what does this mean for the midterms? If macdonne takes
over by you know, fall of next year, it's a
mess in New York that will affect the midterms, won't it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, I think that the more that he comes up
with really crackpot ideas and tries to implement them and
they fail. Yes, the Republicans you use that as an example,
But by the way, I'm sorry the having this coffee attack.
We're already seeing Democratic Socialists attack and now challenging Hakeem Jeffries.
(07:33):
My guess is AOC is going to primary Chuck Schumer.
There's going to be an awful lot of moderate traditional
Democrats under the gun as we approach the midterms. Is
that going to be good for them or for us?
I don't think it's very good for Democrats, and you
really do sort of see this civil war taking place
in their party. An awful lot of money is going
(07:57):
to be spent, I think protecting incumbents in the Democratic
Party like Schumer, who you know, is not popular. But
I think most funders are going to say, well, you know,
I really don't want AOC as my senator. So I
think they've got big problems going into the midterms. And yeah,
Ma'm Donnie is the face of that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, imagine if John F. Kennedy came back to life
and looked at his party and said, what the hell
did you do to my Democratic Party? Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He would not recognize that mark. He would not recognize it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Really, well, everybody check out Liz Peak's columns at The
Hill or Fox News, but go to her website. There's
always a lot of great stories and analysis. Lizpeak dot com,
lizpeak dot com, Liz Peak, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Have a great day, all right, take care and yeah, well,
Michael Goodwin should be back with us next week. Miranda
Devine will be with us in the in the next hour.
Lots to talk about. Don't forget Buck Sexton, Klay Travis.
It's an excellent show every day at twelve noon. Then
at three o'clock you got the most listened to radio
show in the world. Sean Hannity, that's a three. He's
(09:03):
a lot of big guests today. One of them will
be me somewhere between three and five on The Sean
Hannity Show. And then may you don't forget Jimmy Faylea
every night at nine, nine to midnight. Excellent show right
here on seven ten Woor
Marximoni's back on seventeen wor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well Liz Peak the brilliant column. This also has a
great website, lizpeak dot com. All kinds of great stories
and new stuff every day lizpeak dot com. You get
a column there also at Fox News and The Hill,
Liz Peak. How you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm delighted that the government is going to be up
and running, hopefully within days.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh I'm not. I keep it closed. We don't need
these people back there. Clearly it was a I will
say cave in a concession on the part of Democrats,
and Schumer said I will oppose it. But obviously he
gave the wink in the nod for eight people to
jump ship. Right.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I don't know if he did.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think the Schumer has kind of lost his way, honestly.
And look he is getting blasted again for allowing this
vote to take place and for conceding for actually for
winning nothing. That's the thing, mark, is that what did
(01:06):
the Democrats get from all this? What did they get
from endangering air travelers in America and throwing hundreds of
thousands of government employees off their payrolls, and for causing
snap beneficiaries to have a heart attack because they weren't
going to get any snap payments.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The answer is they got nothing zero.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They're not going to get an automatic extension of the
Obamacare subsidies that they were supposedly fighting for. They're not
going to get a rollback of the reforms to Medicaid
that they're so opposed to. They lost, and I think, honestly,
for Schumer, this is a catastrophe. Look, their party is
already eating their own. This is just giving them more
(01:47):
defeast on.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But correct me if I'm wrong. Nobody's ever gotten anything
out of a shutdown. These shutdown caucuses like, oh for fourteen,
aren't they?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Haha?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, I haven't gone back and looked at all
the ones.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know. I mean, I sort of tend to
agree with that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I can't really remember a time when either Republicans or
Democrats won any big points from shutting the government down. Now,
when the GOP does it, which they did in the
Tea Party era because they wanted less spending. Of course,
when you have the entire media world with very few
exceptions on your side, as Democrats always do, you end
(02:27):
up being the people. Then obviously the GOP looks like
they're responsible and they're blamed for everything that goes wrong,
so it's probably not surprising that they don't end up
winning very much in this case. It really has been
pretty astonishing to watch. I mean, I tweeted out something
or exed out something yesterday, a paragraph from Axios saying,
(02:49):
it's hard to blame the Democrats. It's hard for Republicans
to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when after all,
they control all three branches of government. It's like the
author never heard to the filibuster. They don't know how
it works. I mean, really, Mark, you got to say,
that's pretty damn dishonest. And that is sort of the
tone that the left wing media, meaning all the media
(03:11):
except for you and me, has been treating this as
you know, it's all the Democrats are the good guys.
The Republicans are like Keem Jeffries is out there every
two minutes going President Trump and the Republicans are trying
to starve the American people and that's why they won't
reopen the I mean, really, it's pretty appalling. You look
at his look at his Twitter feed or ex feed.
(03:34):
That's exactly what he's been saying.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, but you know, people have to just accept the
fact axios and Political Politico are as corrupt as those
the networks are. They're just awful.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, they're just dishonest.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know about corrupt, they're dishonest, and it's just
a shame, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, at some point.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I get so tired of Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal
and all the usual suspects, Corey Booker, etc.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Gavin Newsom just playing life, lying about stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They do it all the time, and I don't know
about you, I just sort of I just think that's wrong.
And I really think it's kind of astonishing that more
Americans don't rebel against that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hey, if we had honest media, wouldn't they ask a Democrat,
if it's the Affordable Care Act, if it's so affordable,
why would you need a subsidy to pay for it?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mean, when it is pretty ironic, you take a
step back. If this thing all came down to the
extension of kind of emergency premium subsidies so that people
can afford Obamacare, what does that say about Obamacare? What
it says is that it's a failed program. It never worked.
The minute that the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate,
(04:45):
you knew it was a catastrophe because the whole concept
of Obamacare was that you were going to have millions
and millions, tens of millions of Americans enrolled, including young,
healthy Americans, and you would insist on their enrolling even
if they didn't want to, because you had this individual mandate,
(05:06):
and they were going to carry the costs basically of
the older, sicker Americans who really had to have health
insurance and also signed up for Obamacare. When those young
when that young cohort, the young healthy cohort, heard that
they no longer had to buy Obamacare because the Supreme
Court says it's against our constitution to make somebody buy something.
(05:29):
Then the program was done, but the Democrats never admitted it.
But now, excuse me, now they are faced with the
reality that it doesn't work without that individual mandate.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's a perfect explanation of the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And of course it's true.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Of course we should have actual media that reports all
that explains all that, but they don't. So the mom
Danni administration is forming. It looks like a lot of
people from the Deblasio administration, so that's not I mean,
it's bad, but we got through eight years at de Blasio.
We'll get through this, all right, won't.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We We'll get through it, but it's going to be
a pretty unpleasant time. And I think probably the X
factor in all of this is the anti semitism. You know,
I'm look, progressives are going to fail because their policies
are bad.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Eventually we'll get rid of this guy. But it's the
cozing up to.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
People like the unindicted co conspirator in the World Trade
Center bombings that really makes me anxious.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, but again, we got through eight years of the Blasio.
Well what does it mean. What does it mean for
the Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now, but he wasn't like a Muslim friendly with terrorists, right,
that's a pretty new thing for New York City mayor.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, he was pretty bad member honeymoon in Cuba. He
was seen with the cop killing a terrorist down there
in chesh Myers's true. Yeah, so that is true. Well,
what does this mean for the midterms? If macdonne takes
over by you know, fall of next year, it's a
mess in New York that will affect the midterms, won't it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, I think that the more that he comes up
with really crackpot ideas and tries to implement them and
they fail. Yes, the Republicans you use that as an example,
But by the way, I'm sorry the having this coffee attack.
We're already seeing Democratic Socialists attack and now challenging Hakeem Jeffries.
(07:33):
My guess is AOC is going to primary Chuck Schumer.
There's going to be an awful lot of moderate traditional
Democrats under the gun as we approach the midterms. Is
that going to be good for them or for us?
I don't think it's very good for Democrats, and you
really do sort of see this civil war taking place
in their party. An awful lot of money is going
(07:57):
to be spent, I think protecting incumbents in the Democratic
Party like Schumer, who you know, is not popular. But
I think most funders are going to say, well, you know,
I really don't want AOC as my senator. So I
think they've got big problems going into the midterms. And yeah,
Ma'm Donnie is the face of that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, imagine if John F. Kennedy came back to life
and looked at his party and said, what the hell
did you do to my Democratic Party? Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He would not recognize that mark. He would not recognize it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Really, well, everybody check out Liz Peak's columns at The
Hill or Fox News, but go to her website. There's
always a lot of great stories and analysis. Lizpeak dot com,
lizpeak dot com, Liz Peak, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Have a great day, all right, take care and yeah, well,
Michael Goodwin should be back with us next week. Miranda
Devine will be with us in the in the next hour.
Lots to talk about. Don't forget Buck Sexton, Klay Travis.
It's an excellent show every day at twelve noon. Then
at three o'clock you got the most listened to radio
show in the world. Sean Hannity, that's a three. He's
(09:03):
a lot of big guests today. One of them will
be me somewhere between three and five on The Sean
Hannity Show. And then may you don't forget Jimmy Faylea
every night at nine, nine to midnight. Excellent show right
here on seven ten Woor
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