Congress Bad, Liquor Good

This podcast is for those of us who feel like the state of our political ...

Published February 12, 2021

This podcast is for those of us who feel like the state of our political parties makes us want a drink, or at least some reliable recommendations about what we should be drinking. Jonah is joined by AEI colleague Kevin Kosar, who writes on how Congress is failing to do its job – not simply because of populism and polarization, but also because “its smaller numbers of staffers mean that Congress is literally shrinking while the institution is being asked to do more than ever.” They discuss how to fix the backwardness of this system, before moving on to a discussion of Kevin’s true passion (proven by his pedigree as one of the earliest bloggers on the subject): whiskey and other fine spirits.

Show Notes:

–Kevin Kosar – American Enterprise Institute

–Moving Congress into the 21st Century

–Congress Overwhelmed

–Show horses vs work horses

–Kevin on the true use of earmarks

–A Time to Build, by Yuval Levin

–Jonah’s love of the term “co-equal”

–What’s a pager?

–Sen. Lamar Alexander’s farewell speech

–Bill Barr’s civilized hearing

–Floor Charts, doing important work

–Whiskey: A Global History

–Alcoholreviews.com, continually operating since 1998

–Connemara peated Irish Whiskey

–White whiskey, or, uhm, moonshine

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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