Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS How many trillions until it starts adding up to real money? That is Trey’s lead question this week when discussing Biden’s American Families Plan with Ken. The pair discuss the plan, Biden’s speech to a joint session of Congress, and reconciliation. Next the pair…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS It’s Mike and Jay this week discussing the Chauvin verdict, the future of policing, and the propriety of elected officials opining on what a jury ought to do. Then Happy Earth Day! Biden promises to cut lots of emissions or something . . ….
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay are joined by special guest Mark Marsolais, a veteran of the Houston Police Department who went on to earn his PhD in criminal justice and who now teaches at the college level. They discuss incidents in Brooklyn Center, Windsor, and Chicago…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Reconciliation is back! Trey and Ken talk about the recent Senate parliamentarian ruling on a third budget reconciliation and what it means for Biden’s infrastructure bill. Then Trey and Ken argue over progressive taxes and SALT, before agreeing on Biden’s recent gun control legislation….
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Infrastructurepalooza! Mike and Jay talk about what’s in the bill (lots), what’s left out (not much), and how the procedure is guiding the substance of the bill. Then Mike and Jay board the midnight train to Georgia to talk election bill specifics, Biden’s “hyperbole”…
Mike and Jay open the episode with a discussion of the mass shooting in Boulder Colorado. Is the same script of “outrage, resistance, inaction” going to play out after this tragedy that we’ve seen so many times before? They also reexamine their discussion of the Georgia mass shooting from last week. Did they downplay the…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay open the episode with a discussion of the mass shooting in Boulder Colorado. Is the same script of “outrage, resistance, inaction” going to play out after this tragedy that we’ve seen so many times before? They also reexamine their discussion of…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay talk about the mess at the border, where good intentions create bad incentives. Then the Georgia shootings. Are they part of a larger trend of intolerance and violence toward Asians? Should this be viewed through the prism of race? And can…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week Trey is joined by Ken and the pair start with the Supreme Court case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewiski. Here the pair discuss the standards the Supreme Court uses to determine if a case ought to be heard and Ken argues the Supreme…
Mike and Trey open the show with a look at final negotiations over the latest COVID relief legislation, in which centrist Senate Democrats – Joe Manchin in particular – forced significant revisions to the House-passed measure. Next, they discuss H.R. 1, the “For The People Act”, which would be the largest federal intervention in election…