Trey & Ken start the show with a big question facing the House Democrats and the Democratic primary field: to impeach or not to impeach? Ken suggests that impeachment should begin and ongoing house committees ought to transition to that role. Trey thinks impeachment is, effectively, a dead portion of the Constitution and has no hope of contemporary use.
The conversation leads the hosts to talking about the political strategies that President Trump has employed in the aftermath of the Mueller report, specifically stonewalling Congress. This leads Trey and Ken to discuss the wider relationship between the President and Congress. Trey, using prominent political science research, suggests that Presidential power has long grown and that Congress has no desire to truly check the Presidency, even if a particular Congress may give lip service to checking a particular President. Ken believes that Congress has maintained powerful oversight and can use that power over Trump.
Next Trey and Ken turn to recently missed IRS deadline. The Treasury Secretary continues to push back the date of releasing Trump’s tax returns and both hosts agree that the Trump administration is hoping to run out the clock.
Finally, Trey and Ken talk Joe Biden entering the 2020 primary contest and the larger implications this has on the 2020 field. Ken thinks Biden will have a harder time explaining his long record to a more progressive Democratic Party. Trey thinks Biden’s centrism offers the possibility of a real challenge to Trump.
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Looking Back at 2021, Predicting Forward to 2022
Meadows Contempt, Jan 6 Revelations, Texas Lawsuit, Newsom, Russian Threats, Omicron
Texas Abortion Law, Debt Ceiling, Ukraine, Olympic Boycott, Racial Gerrymandering, The Future
Shutdown Averted, The Supreme Court & Abortion, Amazon & Unions, Mike’s Privilege
Omicron Variant, Oil Reserve Release, Arbery Verdict, Biden’s Fed Nominations, Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge”
Rittenhouse, Bannon, Representative Paul Gosar
Federal Courts Block OSHA Vaccine Mandate and Trump Document Release, Worsening Inflation & Build Back Better
Infrastructure Passes With Build Back Better Delayed, Republican Electoral Gains
Trump's Opinion, DOJ Memo, Virginia Gubernatorial Race
Supreme Court Stay, Supreme Court Commission, Biden on Taiwan, Manchin's (Lack of) Spending
Eric Posner on How Antitrust Failed Workers
Texas Abortion Law, Jobs & Inflation, The Nobel Price & Minimum Wage Increases
Debt Agreement, Facebook Whistleblower, Abortion Injunction
Government Funding & Debt Ceiling, Biden’s Big Bills, Presidential Approval
Values, Cancel Culture, and The Politics Guys; COVID Vaccines; Immigration
COVID, AUKUS, Freedom to Vote, Peril
Biden Vaccine Mandates, DOJ Sues Texas over Abortion Law, 9/11 - 20 Years Later
Abortion Ruling, Texas Voting Law, Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Vaccine Mandates, The House Narcissist Caucus, Eviction Moratorium
Afghanistan, COVID
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