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Franken’s Fall: How It All Began (Ep. 130)

December 6, 2017 00:48:39

This special episode of The More Perfect Union podcast talks with KABC radio host Doug McIntyre, who first broke the Al Franken sexual misconduct scandal. Doug explains his role in breaking the story and the humorously strange path of how it came to light, a path that included SNL producer Lorne Michaels, the late comic Garry Shandling, Matt Drudge, and Roger Stone. Doug also talks about sanctuary cities, the Kate Steinle murder after the acquittal of the illegal immigrant who shot her, and his take on the Trump-Russia investigation and tax reform.

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I Guess I’m the Last Supply-Sider

December 5, 2017

by D.J. McGuire

There was a time when supply-side economics was a serious challenger to the Keynesian failures of the 1970s, and a necessary corrective to the assertion that Aggregate Demand was all that governments could change through policy. One of the supply-siders I admired as a graduate student was Stephen Moore.

Today, Moore revealed that the current GOP tax deform has nothing to do with supply-side economics – or any economic theory, for that matter – but rather for political retribution (Bloomberg).

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The Devine Mystery of Net Neutrality(Ep. 128)

November 27, 2017 00:47:45

Episode 128 of The More Perfect Union podcast covers the mystery of what ‘net neutrality’ means, the latest in the ongoing GOP tax reform debate, the looming battle over the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, more charges of sexual harrassment in Washington, D.C., and who should be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

Kiss of Death for Al? (Ep. 127)

November 19, 2017 01:00:16

Episode 127 of The More Perfect Union podcast looks at the latest sex scandal involving Sen. Al Franken, infamous D.C. sex scandals of the past, and which senators might help kiss the tax bill goodbye.

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Stopping Future Harvey Weinsteins (Ep. 122)

October 16, 2017 00:57:43

Segments include:

  • Harvey Weinstein and the sexual secrets of Hollywood
  • What the Trump administration got wrong (yet again) this week
  • What the DOJ got right about transgender rights
  • Whether it helps or hurts girls to join the Boy Scouts of America
  • One cohost’s insights into how transgender issues have affected his family

Trump’s Trade War, Part II

October 7, 2017

by D.J. McGuire

The Trump Administration’s efforts to “renegotiate” the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have now created so many hackles that the Chamber of Commerce stepped in.

That Trump is willing to risk a trade war to feed his lust for protectionism is not news (he’s already set off Canada and the United Kingdom), but when the Chamber of Commerce sounds the alarm about a Republican president, we’re in big trouble.

The Price Is Wrong (Ep. 120)

October 2, 2017 00:52:00

Episode 120 of “The More Perfect Union” podcast covers Trump’s various feuds with the Mayor of San Juan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Price, Rex Tillerson, Kim “Little Rocket Man” Jong-un, Cuba, China, Canada, Boeing, the estate tax, John Kasich, Bob Corker, and even Alec Baldwin. And that was one of his good  weeks!

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Trump vs. the NFL (Ep. 119)

September 25, 2017 00:45:40

Episode 119 of “The More Perfect Union” podcast has some of the gang taking a knee to protest President Trump’s attack on the NFL, and then laughing through the pain at his week of bad news from Kim “Rocket Man” Jong-un, John “Maverick Man” McCain, Jared “Email Man” Kushner, and Don “Secret Agent Man” Trump, Jr.

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Don and Clinton and Chuck and Nancy (Ep. 118)

September 18, 2017 00:56:53

Episode 118 of “The More Perfect Union” podcast looks at Ted Cruz’s Twitter porn escapade, Hillary’s new book, Chuck and Nancy’s new political bedfellow, Trump’s pivot to the left, and some idle speculation about 2020 primary challenges from the right, from the left, and from the past.

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Will the Democrats Continue to Go the Wrong Way on Economics?

September 16, 2017

by D.J. McGuire

The events of this week in Washington do not bode well for the Democratic Party. The combination of Democratic senators openly endorsing government monopoly health insurance and the Republican president making a move toward immigration reform, however small, puts the GOP in a better position to hold the Free Marketeers in 2018 and 2020.

Trump’s Strongest Talking Point on DACA Dismantling Is Dishonest

September 7, 2017

by D.J. McGuire

The Trump Administration has used a couple lines of argument in defense of their decision to wind down Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that allows many children brought into the United States without authorization to remain here and build a life for themselves. The most robust argument Trump and his defenders have is their insistence that Congress via legislation, and not the president via executive order, should have created DACA. However, their other assertion – that DACA beneficiaries have taken jobs that should have gone to native-born American – undermines the Congress-should-act argument by proving it dishonest.

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Testing the Sanders’ Revolution

August 23, 2017

by Kevin Kelton

With the September release of Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, there will undoubtably be a renewed dust-up over whether she or Bernie Sanders should’ve been the 2016 Democratic standard bearer. But it’s over a year since the Democrats settled on a presidential candidate, and it’s time we put that primary campaign on the shelf. We have a common enemy now: alt-President Donald Trump and his alt version of America. To win that Herculean battle, liberal-progressive Democrats cannot waste time and breath fighting against anything but that.

The question now is, was Bernie Sanders’ promise of a political “revolution” real or all talk. The test will come November 6, 2018.

The midterms.

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