Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 188
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Playbook: “We continue to hear chatter about a discharge petition or some other parliamentary maneuver that would sidestep the speaker’s control of the floor and set up a bipartisan CR vote.”
“As embarrassing as it would be to McCarthy, some of his allies argue, it would at least spare him from being blamed by Gaetz & Co. for jamming the CR through the House.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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