Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Rob Adkerson, longtime chief of staff to Congressman Barry Loudermilk and now a candidate for Loudermilk's open Georgia congressional seat. Rob spent more than 11 and a half years inside Capitol Hill watching Washington up close, and on this episode he says exactly how the bureaucracy actually works, who really blocks reform, and why grassroots conservatives are running out of patience.
Rob walks Jenny Beth through the investigation he helped lead alongside Congressman Loudermilk into the Pelosi and Cheney J6 committee, the work that disproved key parts of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, and why the chairman recently referred her to the Department of Justice. He explains how the daycare fraud in Minnesota and the hospice fraud in California started as small paragraphs in appropriations bills, and why bureaucrats, not voters, are the ones writing most of the laws. Rob lays out the Merit Act, his bill to stop the federal government from paying employees for two years after they have been fired, and why he supports the Fair Tax and the talking filibuster.
He also makes the case that ending the 47-year Iran standoff may end up being President Trump's most enduring foreign policy legacy, and why he believes the Tea Party movement helped till the soil for the 2016 election that sent Trump to the White House.
Learn more about Rob: VoteRobAdkerson.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
00:00 — Cold open
01:31 — Welcome and guest introduction
02:04 — Why Rob resigned to run for Congress
02:26 — Tea Party origins and getting active
03:43 — Small business and the Dodd-Frank fight
06:32 — First principles and the Constitution
07:08 — The 17th and 16th Amendments explained
09:00 — Faith, family, freedom and the 3:12 AM calling
12:20 — The Sham J6 Committee and Cassidy Hutchinson
14:49 — Daycare fraud, hospice fraud, and appropriations
16:26 — Reagan and making the wind blow on Congress
20:21 — Founders rolling in their graves
22:58 — Real oversight and the Article One Project
24:39 — The streamlined steam engine analogy
27:53 — The Merit Act and the federal workforce
32:41 — Tax cuts vs spending cuts and the Fair Tax
35:40 — The talking filibuster
38:39 — A national debt eclipsing 100 percent of GDP
41:18 — Trump's biggest accomplishments
42:36 — Iran and the 47-year standoff
46:13 — China as the new Soviet Union
47:57 — Why younger Americans need to understand communism
51:36 — How to actually communicate with constituents
57:02 — Logging constituent phone calls
59:55 — Favorite founder: George Washington
01:00:39 — Where to learn more about Rob
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