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Tim Burgett claims that Mitch McConnell is blocking the SAVE Act, and suggests it’s partly out of meanness because McConnell doesn’t like Trump, who helped him in the last race. He asserts Trump’s support for McConnell’s victory was extensive and says loyalty is valued in this game, yet McConnell apparently lacks it. Burgett questions whether the obstruction is coming from McConnell himself or a staff member, arguing that McConnell is increasingly like Joe Biden in his last years, with diminished cognizant level.
He recounts an incident from a conference meeting where he asked a committee chair how much money was in the bill, and the chair responded, “I don’t know.” When Burgett pressed, he insisted, “No. No. How much money is in this dadgum bill?” Burgett notes that the chair’s staffers reacted to the question, and ultimately reveals that for over six weeks the chair never showed up and nobody knew where she was, while her staff kept running the office. He describes the chair as being in a retirement village for people in cognizant decline, using that harsh characterization to illustrate what he sees as dysfunction in Washington.
Burgett argues that staffers are too close to lobbyists and too influential, effectively running the government, and that this needs to stop. He says he’s called it out to leadership, but they do nothing about it, and asserts that this is why the SAVE Act has stalled: Mitch McConnell, and he claims, a staffer running his show rather than McConnell himself.
He concludes that the state is pitiful, urging listeners to contact their leadership and tell them this cannot continue. He closes by thanking everyone for sending him there.