![]() ![]() ![]() Jackie Sharp convinced a group of resistant Democrats that, despite their opposition to the entitlement-age-raising amendment, they needed to vote for that omnibus package because if they didn’t, thousands of people, as represented by reams of paper, would lose welfare benefits or go on furlough. ![]() Claire compromised the truth about her rape, but that compromise empowered another woman, Private Megan Hennessey, to come forward - again, on live TV, with what appeared to be zero fact-checking - to confess that she, too, had been raped by Dalton McGinnis, a confession that could potentially end McGinnis’s legacy of abusing women. That kind of compromise was everywhere in this episode. What do presidents and members of Congress always say when they have to soften their principles a bit to get things done on the Hill? Oh yes, that politics is about “compromise,” which is really a diplomatic way of saying that they had to do something distasteful in exchange for a greater good. Nothing is off limits if it gets them closer to their political goals: not using a woman’s Alzheimer’s disease to procure backing of an omnibus bill, not getting a borderline late-term abortion when a child gets in the way of one’s career goals, and not announcing on TV that you had an abortion after being raped, even though, technically, you didn’t. What we learned from that sitdown with Ashleigh Banfield - aside from the fact that, in the House of Cards version of Washington, journalists permit and encourage potentially slanderous statements during live interviews - is that Frank and Claire Underwood have been operating from the same ambitious, truth-manipulating playbook for years. We got suspicious powder on Capitol Hill a lockdown that forced Frank to be stuck in a room with Donald Blythe, the congressman he screwed over on education reform way back in the early hours of season one the continued entrapment of Lucas Goodwin and, of course, that Claire Underwood interview. So much addictive craziness was packed into this one episode that it naturally increased one’s appetite for more. If you had been consuming the new season of House of Cards at a moderate and reasonable rate, episode four may have been the one that threw you into binge mode. ![]()
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