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Episode #1064: Colonel Vodka
First Broadcast: 9/21/26
On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, Congressman Thomas Massie, a lame duck Republican representing the 4th District of Kentucky, introduced a resolution in the House to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on eight different counts of "high crimea and misdemeanors," covering acts ranging from the launch of the illegal war against Iran, to defying Congress's orders to stop the war, to bombing a school in Iran and killing at least 200 civilians in that bombing during that war, to killing hundreds of people extrajudiciously (or, what most people would call "murdering people") by bombing dozens of boats in the Carribean and elsewhere, to killing survivors of these bombings instead of rescuing them, to increasing the likelihood of more civilians being killed and more troops being fired upon in the future, to attempting to suppress the free speech of civilians, to kidnapping the leader of a foreign country--this resolution has everything! The very next day, on Wednesday, September 16, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House for the next month and a half, postponing all possible votes on this resolution until after the midterm elections in November. Coincidence? Will a majority of Congress vote in favor of impeaching Hegseth when the vote eventually happens? Why do some Republicans only feel free to do the right thing when their political careers are over? Will we finally get meaningful oversight of the Executive branch if a Democratic majority wins both houses of Congress this year? Will the midterms be as big a blowout as I'm hoping they will? We'll all find out in less than 50 days, won't we?
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last updated September 20, 2026
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