#389 "We Need to Talk About Kevin (w/ former Rep. Justin Amash)

• Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight??

• Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do?

• And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want?

• Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy “isn’t that bright” and “will do whatever it takes to maintain power”

• Why the system is broken and how it got that way

• Congress is becoming more European

• Reminder: Amash created (and named) the Freedom Caucus

• Are you really putting yourself forward to be speaker?

• The whole system is broken. And all the other speaker options are reflections of this brokenness

• The NYT and “ultraconservatives”

• The Ukraine objection exception

• A qualified defense of the execrable Skip Bayless

• Idiots deciding who gets to speak