Paul Ryan

I mean, there are people maybe we'll hear from.

Paul Ryan sometime in the next few days.

There are people champing at the bit to take the reins back, and that's what you're seeing right now on the Republican side.

No, for Democrats, it felt like a presidential election, right? I'm not sure if I want to cite Silver Bulletin traffic numbers or podcast views.

And even maybe some of them who left the party or so that they could come back and think, I have a chance of winning the presidential nomination in two years.

So even someone who I would support, like a Paul Ryan, you can imagine coming back, even an Adam Kinzinger coming back to that.

There's at least there's a possibility that they could have some reason to think.

they might be able to win.

Although some of these older politicians were around during the 80s, so they were at least exposed to it.

And this is why the better people, this is the sad thing, is that Trump drove out the better people in the Republican Party.

So Paul Ryan understands these kind of issues and was completely driven out.

I think even somebody who I don't particularly like, but like Mitt Romney, understands these issues better than what's left in the Republican Party.

You Mitch McConnell...

Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney Republicans, you are the problem.

Whether we won or whether we lost last week, you are the problem.

You're the worst people to be aligned with.

just

want to say, though, Paul from

Seattle, Yeah, Paul from Seattle was on with us.

And one of the things that he suggested, because, you know, there is a line that leadership does have to walk and they they can't necessarily be these huge firebrands.

But maybe what about having, you know, spokespeople for each chamber that can actually do that? And then and I thought that was an interesting solution to it.

I had an idea about the leadership in Congress.

I know you've been talking about this morning that.

Do you remember Paul Ryan? Yes.

And I just think that There's a lot of overlapping circles with MAGA and America First.

You know, the Paul Ryan types are going to be super excited if we all start shooting at each other.

You know, because they're just sitting there.

They're just, you know, running the clock out here on Trump.

He literally stood up when he was president of the United States, and he did one of his State of the Union addresses, right? And I'll never forget, he had Biden on this side, and he had...

The Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan.

Yeah, my first political

crush.

He had Paul Ryan on this side.

Don't worry, I'm happily married.

But he had Paul Ryan on this side, and he was lecturing Congress and saying that politicians should not pick their voters, that gerrymandering is wrong, we should end this.

Wait a second.

Did he say, I'm fixing to Paul Ryan this car on his ass?

I got you.

I got you.

Well, one quick follow-up there before you move over to Eric.

Has there been... a senior member of the legislative body other than since really since Paul Ryan left that takes that seriously?

No.

And and on the Republican side, on the Republican side, it's set because of the president has said, don't do that.

Kaleka criticized Barack Obama, who visited the sites of other mass shootings but not the temple.

As a member of the Democratic Party, Kaleka ran for the United States House of Representatives in Wisconsin's first congressional district in the 2014 election, challenging incumbent Paul Ryan.

He faced Rob Zerban, who lost to Ryan in the 2012 and the 2014 elections in the Democratic primary.

On August 12, 2014, Kaleka lost to Zerban, getting 22% of the vote.