{"id":14517,"date":"2023-01-09T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2023-01-09T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:21:23","slug":"mccarthys-concessions-as-new-congress-begins-with-attacks-on-democracy-law-enforcement-bradcast-192023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy&#8217;s Concessions as New Congress Begins With Attacks on Democracy, Law Enforcement: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/9\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_KevinMCarthy-IWinSpeakerVictory_010923.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s our first call-in show of the new year on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, but we&#8217;ve got a lot of news to get to as well first. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Among the bevy of stuff covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thousands in <b>California<\/b> face <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-flooding-Montecito-evacuation-order-7c151eeaf3f567a125d74245173327f1?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_01\">mandatory evacuations<\/a> due to flooding and possible mudslides, with emergency declarations by the state&#8217;s Governor and President Biden for more than a dozen counties. Some 8 inches of rain drenched some areas over the past 12 hours. A line of repeated deluges are expected to slam the otherwise drought-stricken state over the next week or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the weekend, thousands stormed government buildings in <b>Brazil<\/b> in a January 6, MAGA-style insurrection in support of former President <b>Jair Bolsonaro<\/b> who recently lost his election to former Brazilian President, <b>Luiz In\u00c3\u00a1cio Lula da Silva<\/b> (known simply as &#8220;Lula&#8221; by his countrymen). Bolsonaro has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/01\/09\/jair-bolsonaro-florida\/\">taken refuge<\/a> near <b>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/b> Mar-a-Lago in <b>Florida<\/b>, as nearly 1,500 of his supporters were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/10\/1500-arrests-brazil-riots-bolsonaro\">rounded up and arrested<\/a> after Sunday&#8217;s attempted coup. Democratic leadership in the White House and Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Victorshi2020\/status\/1612228275899895809\">condemned<\/a> the attempt to undermine the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil. Republican leadership had yet to say a word as of airtime today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of Republican &#8220;leadership&#8221;, GOP Rep. <b>Kevin McCarthy<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/how-kevin-mccarthy-got-votes-speaker-haunt-rcna64720\">gave away the store<\/a> to his farther right wing late on Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-us-republican-party-0938c7358f41c83759246f8949ac7c15\">finally win<\/a> the House Speakership after an embarrassing 15 rounds of voting. But at what cost? We discuss a number of his concessions, what they are likely to mean for McCarthy and his party, and for the rest of us going forward, with nation&#8217;s debt ceiling and much more hanging in the balance. McCarthy&#8217;s late night victory on Friday, January 6th 2023 (and into the early Saturday morning hours) came two years to the day after the Trump-incited insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also came on the evening after Republicans failed to turn out for the second-year anniversary memorial, recognition event on the Capitol steps for 140 law enforcement officials who were injured or died during and after the Republican riot. During McCarthy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/speakai.co\/republican-kevin-mccarthys-house-speaker-acceptance-speech\/\">acceptance speech<\/a> as Speaker, he also vowed to defund federal law enforcement. His GOP colleagues cheered in response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As the 118th Congress finally got under way on Monday, Republicans are expected to use their very slim majority to investigate <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s family and the so-called &#8220;weaponization of the federal government&#8221; against <b>Twitter<\/b> and other social media outlets&#8230;ironically enough, from during the time that Trump controlled the FBI. As explained on today&#8217;s show today briefly (and I suspect we&#8217;ll have to offer more details in the weeks and months ahead), claims being made by the liars on the Right (and a few misled and\/or confused folks on the Left, sadly) that &#8220;Twitter was paid to practice censorship by the government and  ban people the government did not like,&#8221; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2022\/12\/20\/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying-twitter-to-censor\/\">evidence-free nonsense<\/a>. But you&#8217;ll be hearing a lot of those false claims, as based on the so-called &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/did-fbi-pay-twitter-censor-content-elon-musk-claims-what-we-know-1769048\">misleadingly cite<\/a> as evidence. That, even though the files in question, at least to date, reveal nothing of the sort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Relatedly, at least one of the far-right Freedom Caucus Members, its chair, Rep. <b>Scott Perry<\/b> (R-PA), hopes to sit on a new Congressional Committee to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-house-republican-probed-over-jan-6-attack-may-now-investigate-fbi-2023-01-08\/\">investigate the federal investigators<\/a> probing Donald Trump&#8217;s many crimes related to his attempt to steal the 2020 Presidential election and his theft of classified White House documents. That, even though Perry has had his phone confiscated as evidence by the FBI and faces potential criminal charges for his role in the J6 insurrection. He sees no conflict of interest in sitting on that Congressional panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In <b>Michigan<\/b> on Friday, Attorney General <b>Dana Nessel<\/b>, tired of waiting for the Feds to act, has announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/politics\/2023\/01\/06\/michigan-ag-pledges-to-pursue-case-against-trump-electors\/\">reopen her own investigation<\/a> into the fake electors plot in her state after referring the matter to the U.S. Dept. of Justice one year ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And in <b>Georgia<\/b>, the Special Grand Jury convened by Fulton County District Attorney <b>Fani Willis<\/b> has now <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-georgia-donald-trump-juries-united-states-government-fc08d39209ce3be768d933f96a434abf\">wrapped up its work<\/a>. According to a state judge, they have delivered their report on who, if anyone, should be indicted in the broad conspiracy led by <b>Donald Trump<\/b> and many of his top supporters to strong-arm state officials into overturning the election he lost there in 2020.  Special Grand Juries in the state may not issue not issue indictments. So Willis must now decide if she wishes to seek indictments from a regular grand jury, and the judge overseeing the matter must decide if the Special Grand Jury&#8217;s report should be publicly released, as they have requested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, <b>callers<\/b> ring in on all of the above and more for the first time since the turn of the new year!&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-FloodingCA-BrazilCoup-McCarthyWin-ElectorsMI-SpecialGrandJuryGA_Callers_010923.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our first call-in show of the new year on today&#8217;s BradCast, but we&#8217;ve got a lot of news to get to as well first. 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