1
00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,320
Speaker 1: Seven oh six here at fifty five k see de

2
00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,520
Speaker 1: Talk station. Always a special time here on the fifty

3
00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,479
Speaker 1: five Cars Morning Show because we get a dose to

4
00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,920
Speaker 1: the brilliance of Jack other and it's called The Big

5
00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,360
Speaker 1: Picture with Jack Avian And every Wednesday it's seven oh five,

6
00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,360
Speaker 1: it's seven oh six today the Price of Purity. Jack Athan,

7
00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,599
Speaker 1: welcome back to the fifty five KRS Morning Show. My friend.

8
00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:25,720
Speaker 1: Always look forward to this segment. I know a lot

9
00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,280
Speaker 1: of my listeners feel the same way.

10
00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,520
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me back now, and we're all pulling

11
00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,240
Speaker 2: for your upcoming cancer treatments. But you're getting better and better.

12
00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,240
Speaker 2: Amesley is now a ten year survivor and you've got

13
00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,760
Speaker 2: decades to come of waking up at two am.

14
00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,519
Speaker 1: That's very kind of you. Yeah, pray for me for

15
00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,120
Speaker 1: a cure for boredom tomorrow. Six hours with the drip.

16
00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,440
Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm happy that I've got the drip.

17
00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I've got doctors. I'm happy that I

18
00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,320
Speaker 1: can access medical care in this country. He was joking,

19
00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,200
Speaker 1: if I was in vent as well or a cube,

20
00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,800
Speaker 1: i'd be dead by now. But the idea sitting in

21
00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,200
Speaker 1: that room for six hours, he's just really got me

22
00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,480
Speaker 1: a little depressed. But you know what sucks to be you, Thomas,

23
00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,120
Speaker 1: and I'm not worthy of any pity. I'm just not

24
00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,440
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. I'm taking my laptop though, so

25
00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,280
Speaker 1: at least a bit of watch movies and maybe prepare

26
00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:16,640
Speaker 1: for the morning show for Friday.

27
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,760
Speaker 2: We're just happy to have you, thanks man. Let's talk

28
00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:28,000
Speaker 2: this week once again about conservatives whose unbending principles would

29
00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,759
Speaker 2: leave our country paralyzed. They follow in the footsteps, Well,

30
00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,880
Speaker 2: footsteps actually is not the way to put it, because

31
00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,840
Speaker 2: they don't get anywhere, and they stand right next to

32
00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,800
Speaker 2: an ancient Greek philosopher named Zeno, who famously proved that

33
00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,319
Speaker 2: we can never get anywhere because first you need to

34
00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,640
Speaker 2: go half the distance, and to go half the distance,

35
00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,360
Speaker 2: you first have to go one quarter of the distance,

36
00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,800
Speaker 2: and before that one eighth, one sixteenth, smaller and smaller distances,

37
00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:05,880
Speaker 2: until finally you're stuck standing still, paralyzed. In political terms,

38
00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,680
Speaker 2: if your country is paralyzed and there's an emergency, you're

39
00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,560
Speaker 2: unable to defend yourself. Now at the opposite extreme way

40
00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,120
Speaker 2: of thinking, the Greeks also had Alexander the Great, the

41
00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,360
Speaker 2: kid Conqueror, was confronted by a puzzle a hank of

42
00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,040
Speaker 2: rope tied into a knot. This so called Gordian knot

43
00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,080
Speaker 2: was so complicated it was prophesied that anybody who could

44
00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,560
Speaker 2: undo it would rule all the known world. Well, Alexander

45
00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,320
Speaker 2: had never been a boy scout, and it didn't know

46
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,600
Speaker 2: how to untie complicated knots. So instead he took out

47
00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,000
Speaker 2: his sword and cut the knot in two. Again, Alexander

48
00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,079
Speaker 2: conquered the know world known to him. The Gordian knot

49
00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,799
Speaker 2: today is our constitution. We don't want to cut it,

50
00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,760
Speaker 2: but we also don't want to be tied up in knots.

51
00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,200
Speaker 2: Adopted by our founders ing time of divine right monarchs

52
00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:07,280
Speaker 2: and other autocratic rulers, the US Constitution, this miracle of

53
00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:14,920
Speaker 2: state craft, presents a framework for limited, decentralized, divided government. Still,

54
00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,480
Speaker 2: the founders never wanted the Constitution to paralyze us, so

55
00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,640
Speaker 2: Madison and the other framers included a way to amend it.

56
00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,640
Speaker 2: A constitutional amendment can be proposed by two thirds of

57
00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,320
Speaker 2: both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or an

58
00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,240
Speaker 2: amendment can be proposed by two thirds of the state legislatures.

59
00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,440
Speaker 2: Then the amendment must be ratified by three fords of

60
00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,800
Speaker 2: the state legislatures or by conventions held in three fourths

61
00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,440
Speaker 2: of the states. Easy pasy, right, No, This tough ratification

62
00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,040
Speaker 2: process explains why we have so few constitutional amendments, just

63
00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,480
Speaker 2: twenty seven and actually the first ten amendments, what we

64
00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,800
Speaker 2: call the Bill of Rights, they were adopted right. So

65
00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,839
Speaker 2: Congress and the states have since then ratified just seventeen

66
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,920
Speaker 2: constitutional amendments, all since our founding. And that's a good thing, Brian,

67
00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,600
Speaker 2: as you know, because making it so tough to amend

68
00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:20,039
Speaker 2: the Constitution has preserved our basic rights. For instance, millions

69
00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,480
Speaker 2: of leftists today would gladly scrap the right to bear arms,

70
00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,159
Speaker 2: especially after a school shooting. It took the Supreme Court

71
00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,479
Speaker 2: ruling just seventeen years ago in the Heller case to

72
00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,520
Speaker 2: finally affirm that under the Second Amendment, the right to

73
00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,960
Speaker 2: bear arms belongs to individuals, not just state militias. But

74
00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,119
Speaker 2: that Supreme Court vote was five to four. The Heller

75
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,840
Speaker 2: decision could be reversed any time if the Supreme Court

76
00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,520
Speaker 2: becomes more liberal, just as Roe v. Wade was reversed

77
00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,160
Speaker 2: when the Court became more pro life. This raises the

78
00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,760
Speaker 2: thorny issue of judicial interpreter. We like to think the

79
00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,040
Speaker 2: courts are impartial, just following the law, but sorry, your honors,

80
00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,600
Speaker 2: they are not. Ever since the eighteen oh three decision

81
00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,640
Speaker 2: Barbary versus Madison, we have accepted that laws, including the Constitution,

82
00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,000
Speaker 2: mean whatever a shifting bare majority of Supreme Court justices

83
00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,720
Speaker 2: say they mean. Still having to propose an amendments of

84
00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,080
Speaker 2: the Constitution and then having to get it ratified, and

85
00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,000
Speaker 2: then getting the US Supreme Court to agree on an interpretation.

86
00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,120
Speaker 2: All that makes the United States a comparatively stable republic

87
00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:43,320
Speaker 2: of laws, not whims, passions, and referendums. However, it also

88
00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,880
Speaker 2: means that America is not the most agual government. It's

89
00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,760
Speaker 2: often hard for us to take quick emergency action. As

90
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,520
Speaker 2: Zeno would say, we cannot get from point A to

91
00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,480
Speaker 2: point B even if we need to dodge a bullet,

92
00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,880
Speaker 2: even if Iranian new plans may have been weeks away

93
00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,520
Speaker 2: from being weaponized. Donald Trump's answer was to launch secret

94
00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:12,200
Speaker 2: lightning fast airstrikes without a congressional declaration of war or

95
00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,080
Speaker 2: even prior notice to Congress. This strike followed a long tradition.

96
00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,640
Speaker 2: As we discussed last week, we noted that only thirteen

97
00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,200
Speaker 2: years after the Constitution was adopted, Thomas Jefferson, on his

98
00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,640
Speaker 2: own deployed US Marines to the shores of Tripoli to

99
00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,280
Speaker 2: free Americans from barbary pirates in Libya. More recently, Democrat

100
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,360
Speaker 2: and Republican presidents have claimed the constitutional power as commander

101
00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,320
Speaker 2: in chief to fight without a congressional declaration of war

102
00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:57,800
Speaker 2: in I'm taking a big breath now, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Iran,

103
00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:04,560
Speaker 2: and now Venezuela. Each time presidents declared national emergencies. In response,

104
00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,920
Speaker 2: Congress has sometimes appropriated funds after the fact, or it's

105
00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,360
Speaker 2: attempted to place constraints on presidents, as with Vietnam the

106
00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:20,280
Speaker 2: War Powers Resolution. However, since nineteen seventy three, presidents have

107
00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:25,800
Speaker 2: argued that this resolution is primarily about notifying Congress before

108
00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,640
Speaker 2: or after the fact, and have claimed that under the

109
00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,560
Speaker 2: separation of powers, an Act of Congress cannot diminish a

110
00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:39,720
Speaker 2: president's own constitutional powers. So the debate continues. But folks,

111
00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,320
Speaker 2: the real problem is that in twenty twenty six, we

112
00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,800
Speaker 2: have no more debates. In the past. Many Republicans, however,

113
00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,800
Speaker 2: reluctantly supported Democrat presidents from Harry Truman and Korea to

114
00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,640
Speaker 2: Barack Obama and his five hundred and forty drone strikes

115
00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,440
Speaker 2: in seven countries. On the other hand, Richard Nixon fought

116
00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,640
Speaker 2: an undeclared war in Vietnam with help from Democrats like

117
00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,480
Speaker 2: Scoop Jackson and Ronald Reagan. He was able to gain

118
00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,160
Speaker 2: so much support a whole wing in Congress came to

119
00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:20,320
Speaker 2: be called Reagan Democrats. Today, this kind of bipartisanship is unthinkable.

120
00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:27,040
Speaker 2: That Democrats' chief campaign strategy is polarization chaos, Trump derangement

121
00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:33,520
Speaker 2: syndrome Exhibit A Minnesota. Today's Democrats have no agenda, and

122
00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,360
Speaker 2: when I say no, I mean no agenda they can

123
00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,040
Speaker 2: admit to. In their quest for power. They favor big

124
00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:45,880
Speaker 2: state socialism, corruption dependency, open borders to swell their base,

125
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:51,359
Speaker 2: and shipping jobs overseas to win support from multinational corporations.

126
00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,680
Speaker 2: On these issues, they will not compromise. So, given this

127
00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,520
Speaker 2: legislative paralysis, what we have to rely on now is

128
00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,040
Speaker 2: not our doing in front of a shifting majority on

129
00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,720
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Not with Democrats once again threatening like

130
00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,880
Speaker 2: FDR to expand and pack the High Court with Liberals.

131
00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,760
Speaker 2: If they win, we must win elections, however rigged they

132
00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,040
Speaker 2: may be. In blue states, we still do have congressional

133
00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,600
Speaker 2: elections every two years, including this year. Voters will have

134
00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:28,040
Speaker 2: the power to follow Trump's agenda or change the country's direction,

135
00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,560
Speaker 2: and this spring will also have the power to primary

136
00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,240
Speaker 2: incumbent lawmakers, including Republican members, who would stand in the

137
00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,760
Speaker 2: way of fellow Republicans getting things done because these mavericks

138
00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,200
Speaker 2: cannot persuade their own colleagues to see things their way,

139
00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,480
Speaker 2: and failing that, they refuse to compromise even to just

140
00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:56,000
Speaker 2: keep the government from shutting down. These gadflies proclaim their principles,

141
00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,280
Speaker 2: but in effect they vote for paralysis. To some up,

142
00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,920
Speaker 2: governing is a messy business. Lincoln ignored habeas corpus, Franklin

143
00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,760
Speaker 2: Roosevelt threw innocent American citizens of Japanese descent into internment cabs.

144
00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,080
Speaker 2: I am not proposing that presidents become dictators. I am

145
00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:22,319
Speaker 2: arguing for principled compromise because our constitution is not a

146
00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 2: suicide fact. It's not a Zeno trap that keeps America

147
00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,880
Speaker 2: from moving from point A to point B. If Republican paralysis,

148
00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,880
Speaker 2: lets Democrats win in November, much less twenty twenty eight,

149
00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,760
Speaker 2: they will pack the court. They will try making Washington,

150
00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:43,559
Speaker 2: DC and Puerto Rico states, they will outlaw free speech,

151
00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,120
Speaker 2: and the Constitution will go the way of the Gordian

152
00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:52,800
Speaker 2: Knot each exercise of power by a president, Congress, and

153
00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,560
Speaker 2: even the Supreme Court has to be judged on its

154
00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,440
Speaker 2: own merits, ultimately at the ballot box, because for now, thankfully,

155
00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,480
Speaker 2: voters still had the final say if they show up

156
00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,720
Speaker 2: to say it. What do you say, brother?

157
00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,199
Speaker 1: I say, the latter part is a big challenge. I mean,

158
00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,199
Speaker 1: this is a common reoccurring theme here everywhere, certainly here

159
00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,520
Speaker 1: on the fifty five Casey Morning Show. These complex issues

160
00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,920
Speaker 1: in this gridlock, and these other issues behind which they

161
00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,880
Speaker 1: should be talking about and maybe compromising that it's all

162
00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,360
Speaker 1: lost in the American people generally speaking. And I don't

163
00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,600
Speaker 1: mean to paint with so large a brush. It includes everyone,

164
00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,439
Speaker 1: but so many people are not inclined to even pay

165
00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,960
Speaker 1: attention to politics. We're all victims of social media, getting

166
00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:38,160
Speaker 1: our political ideology from memes as opposed to thoughtful analysis.

167
00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,719
Speaker 1: Something like a meme can push people like to think,

168
00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,160
Speaker 1: oh my god, iceer a bunch of Nazi you know,

169
00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,240
Speaker 1: Gestapo thugs, when any measure of thoughtful analysis would reveal No,

170
00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,240
Speaker 1: they are enforcing federal law. Law that's on the books,

171
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,960
Speaker 1: and that was passed by Congress and enacted by a

172
00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,280
Speaker 1: prior president. That's the law they're enforcing. That was the

173
00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,520
Speaker 1: political process in place back when the laws wanted to

174
00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,559
Speaker 1: effect that they disagree with them. Currently, that's going to

175
00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,160
Speaker 1: require some political process and perhaps compromise by our elected

176
00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,800
Speaker 1: officials in Washington, d C. None of which is happening

177
00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,439
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, people who don't pay attention,

178
00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,320
Speaker 1: who prefer to be you know, I just I don't

179
00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,880
Speaker 1: pay attention to politics, they can easily be duped. But

180
00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,199
Speaker 1: going back to your prior you know, illustrations of compromise,

181
00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,320
Speaker 1: I think a Tip O'Neill. You know, I didn't like

182
00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,600
Speaker 1: Tip O'Neil at the time, but ultimately he did reach

183
00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,080
Speaker 1: across the island worked with Ronald Reagan to get some

184
00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:34,280
Speaker 1: stuff done to our collective economic recovery benefit. No one's

185
00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:39,160
Speaker 1: in the mood for working together because I think it's

186
00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,120
Speaker 1: a consequence of this radical leftward shift in the Democrat Party.

187
00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,600
Speaker 1: Democrats aren't just a party of you know, the little

188
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,600
Speaker 1: guy in fighting for big government programs anymore. Although they

189
00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,160
Speaker 1: still do that, they seem to be made up in

190
00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,480
Speaker 1: large part, at least the predominant wing of the party,

191
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,720
Speaker 1: or the loudest voice of people who do not wish

192
00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,800
Speaker 1: to continue the constitutional framework we live in. So this

193
00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,400
Speaker 1: concern of yours, legitimate as it is, over the eradication

194
00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,800
Speaker 1: disappearing constitution, that's a desired thing by many members of

195
00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,959
Speaker 1: the left. We're going to rise like phoenix from the

196
00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,960
Speaker 1: ashes once we get rid of that pesky constitution and

197
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,600
Speaker 1: there's stupid protection of rights, individual rights like the right

198
00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,480
Speaker 1: to keep them bare arms. Once that's eradicated, we're going

199
00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,160
Speaker 1: to have something new here that is a level that

200
00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,920
Speaker 1: this country I don't think has ever seen before. Yes,

201
00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,760
Speaker 1: there were always fringe elements screaming for that kind of

202
00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,000
Speaker 1: thing back in the day. But you know, even going

203
00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,920
Speaker 1: back to the turn of the century in nineteen hundreds,

204
00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,679
Speaker 1: we had a lot of socialists and communists running around,

205
00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,200
Speaker 1: a lot of bomb throwers. We had, you know, back

206
00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,719
Speaker 1: in the sixties, the Symbian Litleanese Limionese army and the

207
00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,040
Speaker 1: weather underground, you know, planning bombs in the Senate. You know, bathroom,

208
00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,880
Speaker 1: I mean big things like that, But they were such

209
00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 1: a minority. The social media has caused these minority groups

210
00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,400
Speaker 1: that hate America to look like they're much stronger than

211
00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,320
Speaker 1: they are, or they become a lot stronger. So any

212
00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,400
Speaker 1: compromise by that winging the Democratic Party is going to

213
00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,760
Speaker 1: be a betrayal of what they ultimately run, which is

214
00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,280
Speaker 1: the downfall of America.

215
00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:16,480
Speaker 2: Jack. Yeah, the primary process may ultimately bring us a

216
00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,400
Speaker 2: Democrat nominee who, like Joe Biden, pretends to be a moderate,

217
00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,280
Speaker 2: but the Democrat Party has presently constituted has no future.

218
00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,800
Speaker 2: What I'm talking about right now, because this is what

219
00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,760
Speaker 2: we're facing during our primary season is maverick Republicans. And

220
00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,120
Speaker 2: you might say, well, there's just a few of them. Well,

221
00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,880
Speaker 2: we don't have much of a margin to give up

222
00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,920
Speaker 2: a few votes. And I can't blame these mavericks. Ideological

223
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,000
Speaker 2: purity makes life easy. The Constitution gives Congress the right

224
00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,960
Speaker 2: to declare war. That's it. Well it's not it. As

225
00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,120
Speaker 2: we've been trying to show, problems cannot be reduced to

226
00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,840
Speaker 2: a formula. As every lawyer, judge, and congressman knows, the

227
00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,120
Speaker 2: is the saying we learned in law school, hard cases

228
00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 2: make bad bad facts, yeah, and bad executive orders. Sometimes

229
00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,120
Speaker 2: that saying does not mean we can stick our heads

230
00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,240
Speaker 2: in the sand and ignore the hard cases. It means

231
00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,840
Speaker 2: in the real world, the world of Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR

232
00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,320
Speaker 2: and Trump, if you're going to be not an academic

233
00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,600
Speaker 2: but what Teddy Roosevelt called the man in the arena,

234
00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,600
Speaker 2: you have to balance black letter law with life and

235
00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:34,280
Speaker 2: remain as principled as possible given circumstances. Then in America

236
00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,640
Speaker 2: you have to face the voters, and we voters have

237
00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:38,640
Speaker 2: to turn out.

238
00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,480
Speaker 1: Have to turn out, and hopefully we turn out informed.

239
00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,920
Speaker 1: Jack added in The Big Picture every Wednesday at seven

240
00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,480
Speaker 1: o five beginning. Love your commentary, Jack, and I and

241
00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,680
Speaker 1: my listeners love it as well. Share the link with

242
00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,280
Speaker 1: your friends. Podcast up at fifty five Cares dot Com.

243
00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,880
Speaker 1: Jack until next week, Best of health and love to

244
00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,720
Speaker 1: your better half, and you appreciate your willingness to talk

245
00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,760
Speaker 1: with us every week. It's all