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July 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Rush Limbaugh Behind the Golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
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Rush Limbaugh Behind the Golden EIB microphone here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Open Line Friday means when we go to the phones, you can't talk about whatever.
It's a once-a-week opportunity where I, the benevolent dictator program, extend total, well, not total, but pretty wide and expansive free speech rights to the callers.
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Before we get back to the phones, I want to welcome back to the program Senator Ted Cruz from Texas and the Republican presidential candidate.
You did something today I don't think I've seen before.
This was a direct hit on your Senate leadership over a number of things, Senator.
What spawned this today?
And look, rather than me describe it for people, just tell everybody what you did and why you did it.
Well, Rush, it's great to be back with you.
Today, the Senate took up the Export-Import Bank, a classic example of cronyism and corporate welfare.
The leader of Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell, went to the floor and demonstrated that he had lied both to the American people and also to every Republican senator, including me.
Back when we were having the fight over Trade Promotion Authority, I asked Mitch McConnell directly if he had cut a deal to reauthorize this cronyism and corporate welfare in order to try to get the votes.
And he looked at me, he looked at all 54 Republican senators, and he said flat out, there is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal.
Now, this deal you're talking, Senator, you're talking about the Asian, the Pacific Trade deal the president wanted, is this, and the export-import banks part of that, right?
Reauthorized.
That's exactly right.
That's part of how Republican leadership got the votes for TPA is by promising to put taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of loan guarantees that go primarily to a handful of giant corporations.
And it's what I refer to as the Washington cartel.
It's career politicians in both parties who get in bed with lobbyists and special interests.
It's why we're bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
And what's striking, I mean, Rush, people are so frustrated because we keep winning elections, and then our leaders don't do a dern thing they said they were going to do.
So we were told if House of Representatives, things will be different.
2010, the people rose up.
We got a Republican majority.
And they haven't done much of anything.
Then we were told we just need a Republican majority in the Senate, retire Harry Reid.
2014, millions of Americans stood up to do that.
For six months, we've had a Republican majority.
What have they done?
They passed a trillion-dollar cromnibus plan filled with corporate pork and corporate welfare.
We funded Obamacare and President Obama's executive amnesty, and Republican leadership jammed through the confirmation of Loretta Lynch's Attorney General.
Every one of those is exactly the same as what Harry Reid would have done.
And it's why people are frustrated.
Why is it that Republican leadership authorities as Harry Reid and the Democrats?
And the answer is the lobbyists in special interests, the giant corporations that want big government and power, they give campaign contributions to both Republicans and Democrats.
And today, I called out the majority leader for looking 54 Republicans in the eye and telling a flat-out lie.
It was a very unfortunate day for the Senate.
It's not a good day when the majority leader is willing to lie to the members of the Senate.
Well, it's, I don't know, if I were you, well, you sound insulted.
I mean, here, after all, the majority leader is telling you, hey, hey, hey, you know what?
Export-import, not going to happen.
Guaranteed, not going to happen.
And furthermore, we're going to give you another repeal Obamacare vote.
Now, by now, everybody knows that's a joke, don't they?
It's complete fiction.
He wants a show vote on repealing Obamacare.
Now, of course, back in October 2013, when Mike Lee and I were leading the fight to defund Obamacare, then Mitch McConnell joined with Harry Reid in leading the fight to preserve Obamacare.
And so when it actually had teeth, leadership wasn't with us.
But they do want an empty show vote.
And, you know, Rush, as you know, a couple of weeks ago, I came out with a new book, A Time for Truth.
And the entire point of the book is to tell the truth about what is happening behind closed doors.
And in particular, how career politicians in both parties are not telling the truth to the American people.
And this was an example of that.
And unfortunately, it's why we see so many campaign conservatives that pretend to be conservative on the campaign trail, but they don't govern according to what they promised us on the campaign trail.
Let me ask you some questions that are born of my natural naivete.
I mean, my natural, well, no, it is.
It honestly is.
For example, I'm going to ask you a question that the answer to which is so obvious that I ought not to ask it.
But I'm going to ask, what in the world does Boeing or General Electric or any other Walmart, I don't care who, what in the world do they need with American taxpayer dollars?
What in the world?
Why would they even want it?
They have their own money.
They're doing quite well.
See, I know the answers to the question, but it still burns me.
I do not know.
And it's not, they call it crony capitalism, crony socialism.
It's neither.
It's cronyism.
And what's happening is these major corporations, which everybody thinks are big Republican conservatives, they're not doing anything in the best interest of the country anymore.
All of this is about personal enrichment, corporate enrichment, and now it's reached down to elected members of Congress in the House and Senate who somehow are being personally enriched after they retire because they vote for these kinds of things.
That is exactly right.
Anytime someone tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.
But what does Boeing need with money from the Export-Import Bank?
What the hell is the Export-Import Bank anyway, for people who don't know?
So the Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and it puts American taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in loan guarantees.
Most of these loan guarantees go to foreign companies, companies in China and Russia, and even in some instances doing business in Iran.
And they expose taxpayers and they enrich a handful of giant corporations.
Boeing is the single largest recipient.
Now, on an earnings call, just recently, the CEO of Boeing said, you know, without the Export-Import Bank, we'll be fine.
There's plenty of loans.
We can get credit in the private market.
But it's easier, it's cheaper to write campaign contributions to the Washington cartel and get them to raid the taxpayers.
That's easier and cheaper, and it's what's fundamentally corrupt about Washington, and it's both parties.
You know, right after Mitch McConnell did this, Harry Reid tweeted out a tweet celebrating Mitch McConnell for reauthorizing or leading the fight to reauthorize this corporate welfare and cronyism.
For one, all of the Democrats who rail against big business and who put on populist rhetoric, this shows at the end of the day, they're just interested in the same campaign contributions everyone else is.
And every Republican who says he or she believes in free market principles, at the end of the day, it is about power and money in Washington.
And the people who are getting left behind are working men and women.
Now, I will say one thing that is very encouraging, Rush, which is even though the Washington cartel is coming after me hard, all of the lobbyists are backing other candidates in this presidential race, out of 16 candidates for the Republican nomination, you know which candidate raised the most hard money out of all 16?
Let me see.
We did, and it was 175,000 contributions at Tedcruise.org, Tedcruise.org, where people came and said, we want someone to tell the truth and stand up to the bipartisan corruption of Washington.
Well, you said today that your staff, when you told them that you told your staff, you would not believe Harry Reid was lying to you.
Your staff tried to warn you that you were being lied to on the Pacific Trade Deal Export-Import Bank.
And you stood up, I mean, not Reid, McConnell, and you stood up for McConnell, to your staff, correct?
Well, that's exactly right.
When I came out of that lunch where Mitch said three times, there is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal, I offered them nothing.
I came back and sat down with my staff, and my staff all said, He's lying to you.
This isn't true.
And I said, Listen, guys, I don't know if that's true or not, but he looked me in the eyes.
He looked every Republican senator in the eyes.
I don't have a basis to assume he's lying.
I've got to take him at his word.
And so my vote hinged on that.
His behavior today demonstrates that unfortunately my staff was right.
And I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But his conduct today, you know, it's interesting.
There were a bunch of other amendments that I had introduced that other senators had introduced.
For example, an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
We've seen these shocking, horrible videos.
Mitch McConnell filled the amendment tree, which is the exact same procedural abuse of power Harry Reid used to do to defund Planned Parenthood.
An amendment to stop sanctuary cities.
That was another amendment.
Cut off federal funds to sanctuary cities.
Well, Mitch McConnell filled the amendment tree to prevent any vote on sanctuary cities.
The priority of leadership is what the lobbyists and giant corporations and special interests in Washington want.
It's why we're bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
Well, we can't take the ideology out of this, Senator, because when I was going to ask you about, I know you've got a flight to catch, so I'll be very quick here, but I know that I was going to ask you about McConnell blocking the vote on the Planned Parenthood Amendment, defunding them and sanctuary cities.
Now, you say that this is being done in fealty to lobbyists, K-Street, donors, and so forth.
But let's face it, what McConnell's doing is advocating for the leftist agenda, is he not?
I mean, the money may be the reason, but what's the end result of this?
At the end of the day, you think about who leadership listens to.
I was having a conversation with a few senators on the Senate floor last week, and they were saying, Has the divide between leadership and the grassroots ever been this wide?
And we were all agreeing it wasn't, and it's because leadership listens to K-Street and Wall Street.
It's the big money donors.
The actual grassroots conservatives who gave us a majority in both houses, they don't listen to at all.
So, can you think of a single priority for a real live conservative that this Senate Republican majority has voted on?
It's all been what the lobbyists care about.
Yeah, I know.
It's distressing and it's dispiriting to a lot of people.
Then we wake up today and we see the Chamber of Commerce threatening unnamed Republicans or conservatives by claiming to take them out.
Chamber gearing up to take out GOP incumbents.
We all know that that means GOP considers Chamber of Commerce.
Everybody thinks they're a bunch of Republicans, Senator.
Well, it's interesting.
The local chambers of commerce, the small business people usually are, but the national chamber is just a giant lobbying arm for big government handouts to big business.
And so they are essentially promising to create the crony caucus.
Everyone who is in favor of corporate welfare.
You know, how is any conservative supposed to credibly take on welfare reform if we're not willing to stop shoveling billions of dollars to giant corporations?
We need to show some consistency here.
And it is people are understandably frustrated because you don't see people willing to take on the Washington cartel.
Well, they'll tell you their frustration.
It's the only way to break it.
They're frustrated because they see losing the country.
They see the country going down the drain, culturally, values, and they see all these corporate entities that they used to think held the same values apparently don't care while the country's circling the drain.
None of that matters to anybody in Washington.
That's the disconnect.
Right.
And we have seen before how to defeat the Washington cartel, which is in 1980.
The Reagan Revolution came from the American people.
Remember, Reagan, a lot of people forget he took on the Washington cartel.
He primaried Gerald Ford.
You want to tick off Republican leadership, come within an inch of defeating the incumbent Republican president, and the Reagan revolution came from the grassroots.
It's why the incredible outpouring of grassroots support of volunteers of 175,000 contributions at TedCruz.org is so encouraging because the only way we can break this, the only way we can get leaders to actually stand for conservative principles is if there's a grassroots tsunami.
And I believe 2016 is going to be an election like 1980, that we're going to win by painting in bold colors and not pale pastel.
Senator Ted Cruz, I know you've got a plan to catch, and I really appreciate your time here.
Again, it's probably happened.
I just have not seen such a direct allegation, a series of them, as you made against Mitch McConnell today.
And if I had more time, I'd ask you what kind of fallout you expect, but we'll find out soon.
It won't take long.
Well, I'll tell you, the reaction, it's been interesting, Rush.
The reaction from the grassroots is a lot of people saying thank you for standing up and speaking the truth.
And the reaction in Washington is teeth are bared and the knives are out and the cartel's coming after me.
It's a time for truth.
You know, the first chapter is entitled Mendacity, and it describes what happened behind closed doors in the Senate.
It describes how the Washington cartel tries to mislead the American people.
And what I endeavored to do today was exactly the same thing, which is just tell the truth about what's happening, which is what it's going to take to change the direction we're on.
Senator, thanks much, and best to you.
And we got to take a break, folks.
We'll do that and be back with much more after this.
And again, thanks.
That was Senator Ted Cruz from Texas.
Okay, we spent some time today on Ted Cruz, how he dealt with Code Pink yesterday, what he did today on the Senate floor, taking it straight to Republican leadership.
Yesterday, or maybe it was the day before yesterday, Carly Fiorina took Jake Tamper to school over on SEAL.
More properly stated, Carly Fiorina showed other Republicans how it's done when the media tries to pigeonhole them on issues, social issues like abortion.
She just showed everybody how to do it in much the same way that Trump is in the way he's dealing with the press and on immigration.
And we have those soundbites from Carly Ferrena, just a couple of them, coming up after the break here at the bottom of the hour.
Now, the AP is out with a story on what Ted Cruz did today on the floor of the Senate.
And the way they headline it, Cruz on Senate floor accuses GOP leader McConnell of lying.
And then the end of the AP story goes like this.
The Senate's historian Betty K. Coed said that it was not a specific breach of Senate rules to call another senator a liar, but pointed to rules cautioning against talking ill of other members or imputing unbecoming conduct or motives.
In more recent times, there's been very little of this type of behavior, she said.
So you can call somebody a liar, but you cannot impute.
You can directly call them a liar, but you can't imply it.
You better say it, apparently, is the rule.
But the point is, at the end of that story, in more recent times, there's been very little of this type of behavior.
See, the Senate was much more polite when Harry Reed and the Democrats were running the place.
Never mind how they used to freeze out Republicans from hearings and making and offering amendments and debating things, turning lights out on them or turning off their microphones.
And I tell you, it's unique what happened today.
It's not unprecedented, but it's really rare to have this kind of intra-party, dirty laundry aired on the floor.
Now, the Export-Import Bank, this thing is a dinosaur.
It's Jurassic Park.
It's left over from the New Deal.
It was to help us get it out of the Depression.
And it's like a tax that never goes away.
Back in a second.
So a great defensive lineman and 3-4 outside linebacker Charles Haley of the San Francisco Fortniters and the Dallas Cowboys goes into the Hall of Fame.
Next week.
No, it's not.
It's two weeks.
August the 8th, I think, is the induction day.
Anyway, anyway, that's not the big news.
Charles Haley has five Super Bowl rings.
He said he's not going to be wearing all five when he's inducted, but that's not the big news.
Charles Haley was diagnosed in 2002 as being bipolar.
And he's decided, since he's been diagnosed and he's on an even keel now, he has decided that he is going to try to mentor young players in the National Football League because he doesn't like what he sees.
He does not like, and he in May spoke to the San Francisco Fortiner rookie class about his success and about the troubles he had.
I mean, one of the just, look, this is a trivial bit of information.
This should have been bipolar.
Sometimes with the Cowboys in meetings, Haley would show up nude.
He just wouldn't get dressed.
He'd come from the locker room and show up in the meeting room nude and do the meeting, and then go back and get dressed, go out and practice.
I mean, he was his own man.
I mean, he was a character.
But now that he's been diagnosed and is on an even keel, he told these rookies at the San Francisco Fortiners.
He said, I know they probably got mad at me, but I said, why don't you all act like the white guys?
You never see them in the paper getting high.
You never see them in the paper hitting people.
Why don't you act like the white guys?
He said, they all looked at me like I was crazy.
And he said, I'll admit, I did it for the shock value of it.
The hardest thing is these guys, they have an attention span of a five-year-old.
He's talking about 19, 20, 21-year-old rookies in the NFL, 22 years old.
He said, I'm not the most gentle and kind person to sit there and deal with that crap.
I'm a little more confrontational.
I think I got my point across.
Meaning, these are kids.
They don't know what they're talking about yet.
They haven't lived long enough, and I'm going to sit there and justify their excuses.
They're the ones that have to grow up and start acting right.
Now, what do you think?
This just happened in May, and we're just now hearing about it.
Charles is African-American, if you don't know, who tells these San Francisco Fortiner rookies to start acting like white guys.
You never see them getting high.
You never see them hitting people.
That's a reference to all of the spouse abuse, wife abuse.
And Haley himself, he admits that his own off-the-fetal behavior was not exemplary.
But he said, you got to have people that stand for something on your team.
And until you're able to lead yourself, you've got to do that.
So I just, I wonder why we haven't heard about this.
It happened back in May.
We haven't heard about it because he's African-American himself.
That wouldn't matter.
I mean, they don't have any problem calling blacks sellouts.
I mean, the Congressional Black Caucasians, the NAALCP, if they think somebody's selling out the cause, they'll point it out.
I mean, tell it.
Can you imagine him?
Tell Trayvon Martin.
Sorry, Trayvon Martin.
You know, if you're just acting like a white guy, this might not have happened to you.
Can you imagine?
Well, now it's the same thing.
That's what he did.
And I'm not judging it.
It's not for me to judge, my friends.
I'm a good liberal when it comes to this kind of stuff.
I'm just asking, why didn't this make news?
Until a couple of weeks before Haley goes into the National Football League Hall of Fame.
Anyway, Carly Fi Arena.
You know, there are a lot of Republicans.
There's some Trump, Carly Fi Arena, Ted Cruz are showing how it's done here.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, let me mention this quickly before we get back to Fi Arena.
Ted Cruz did mention that Mitch McConnell is blocking a vote to defund Planned Parenthood even after all these videos have surfaced, even after it has become widely known what's going on with taxpayer money.
And this story is in thehill.com.
Several Republican senators are accusing Mitch McConnell of blocking a vote to defund Planned Parenthood during the debate on the highway funding bill.
It's the same thing Cruz was mad about.
They're blocking amendments on all kinds of things.
Export, import, bank, defunding Planned Parenthood.
Sanctuary cities is being blocked.
An amendment to defund and deal with sanctuary cities is being blocked.
And in exchange, the Republicans are being told, well, you can vote to repeal Obamacare again as though that's somehow going to mollify people and vote to defund Obamacare.
Been there, done that the last how many years?
It's insulting.
It's like saying to a dog, here, take this bone.
The meat's off the bone.
Here, you can have what's rest, what's left.
There are a lot of amendments the American people are focused on, planned parenthood, all that.
And McConnell doesn't want to have any votes on them.
Something the American people actually focus on.
So, yeah, he did say that.
He mentioned it toward the end of the interview.
Some people said, did he say anything about it?
Yes, he did.
So there you have it.
Now, Carly Fiorina was on with CNN on Tuesday night, the lead with Jake Taffer, setting this up.
I want to go back and repeat, air something I said on April 7th of this year.
Think of it as advice for the Republican presidential candidates.
The ultimate reality is that every Republican in the primary has a common enemy, and it's Hillary Clinton.
All 14, 15, or 16 of them simply make it an objective to begin the campaign against Hillary Clinton during the Republican primary and not wait until after the primary.
I think the sooner these candidates on the Republican side get in gear and start running against the Democrat Party, even in the primaries, and running against Hillary, the greater opportunity they're going to have to explain themselves in the process.
The greater opportunity they're going to have to attract interest in themselves.
The greater opportunity they're going to have to define themselves is by also defining and drawing the contrast with the differences they have with Hillary Clinton and everybody in the Democrat Party.
To me, it's a no-brainer.
That was back in April.
And the reason for the advice, I was saying, don't start beating yourselves up because the way these heavily populated Republican primaries work is they end up producing a moderate rhino nominee because all the conservatives end up whacking each other out of the race.
That's what happened in primaries.
They start attacking each other, split their conservative money, turn donations, split the conservative votes in all these primaries.
Don't do that.
Start your focus of attack on Hillary Clinton.
She's the enemy.
The Democratic Party is the opponent.
You know she's going to be the nominee.
Hit her.
Start now.
It's a great way to explain who you are, in fact, by contrasting yours.
This is my advice.
And one person either took the advice or instinctively knew to do it on her own, and that's Carly Fiorina, who, by the way, she's just, I think, kicking butt all over the country, folks.
She is every stop, never gets off message.
She handles the media with a plum and skill, and it's obvious she enjoys doing it.
And she's schooling people.
She's showing how it's done.
Latest example, Tuesday night, CNN, the lead with Jake Tapper.
He just wants to get her in the corner on abortion on rape and incest and all the usual things they try to nail Republicans on.
He said, one of your opponents, Governor Scott Walker, signed a law in Wisconsin this week, which would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of a pregnancy.
On Twitter, Hillary Clinton said, Governor Walker signed dangerous abortion restrictions in the law in Wisconsin without exceptions for rape or incest.
Hillary called this extreme and unacceptable.
Walker retweeted her and called her out of touch with most Americans.
Ms. Fiorina, what is your position on this legislation, which does not allow exceptions for rape?
See how this works?
So she's asking Carly, he's asked Carly Fear, what do you think about abortion law without exception to rape or incest?
It's a standard option.
It's right in the Democrat media manual.
How to entrap a Republican.
Ask about rape or incest.
So here's what she said.
This is the first of two soundbites.
Let's talk about what extreme is.
It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.
That's Hillary Clinton's position.
It's Hillary Clinton's position that a 13-year-old girl needs her mother's permission to go to a tanning salon or get a tattoo, but not to get an abortion.
It's Hillary Clinton's position that women should not be permitted to look at an ultrasound before an abortion, and yet people who are trying to harvest body parts can use ultrasound to make sure that those body parts are preserved so they can be sold.
That, Jake, is extreme.
And that, folks, is nuking the premise of the question, which is always the question Republicans get, and answering with what you want to say, which was Hillary Clinton's the extremist.
Hillary Clinton's the one that's dangerous.
Hillary Clinton's the one that believes in a baby isn't a baby until the mother decides to leave the hospital with it.
Hillary Clinton's the one who thinks that a mother should have the right to tell her kids she can't get a tattoo, but not to not get an abortion.
That's extreme, Jake.
Tapper said, just to clarify, just to clarify, you think there should be a provision for rape or incest?
She didn't say a word about it.
Not once.
He's not even responding to her answer.
He's just trying to pigeonhole her on this gotcha, rape and incest.
And here's how she answered the second comeback.
I would really be delighted if for once the media would ask Hillary Clinton about the extremism of her position.
It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.
My position is very clear.
It's been clear and consistent ever since I ran for the Senate in 2010.
Yes, I support exceptions, but the majority of the American people now believe that abortion for any reason at all to be paid for by taxpayers after five months is an abomination.
And this videotape, whether you're a pro-choice woman or a pro-life woman, this videotape is depraved.
Okay, so who ends up looking glad when this is all over?
Hillary Clinton.
Exactly the objective.
Exactly the reason I gave my advice.
And I'm not saying she took my advice.
I don't think she did.
I think she instinctively is this good.
Carly Fiorina, and we will be back.
Don't go away.
And welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday, El Rushbo.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And we go to Zach in Salem, West Virginia.
I'm glad you waited, Zach.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
How you doing, Rush?
I'd just like to say thank you to Ted Cruz for letting us know what's going on with the Senate and everything and how they're lying to us and stuff.
And I hope that him and Donald Trump continue to take out the trash up there in Washington.
Excuse me.
Well, you know, a lot of people, when they hear about what Cruz did today, are going to appreciate.
But I'm going to make a prediction to you.
And this is, by the way, not a very difficult prediction to make.
I mean, you could make it yourself if you thought about it.
I would say by the time we get to, oh, let's say what, special report with Brett Bayer tonight on Fox, that there will be either have been already or will be an effort made to suggest to Senator Cruz it would be wise for him to apologize to Senator McConnell.
This kind of intra-party squabble is not good.
It's not productive.
Especially when we're on the verge here, it is said, of winning the White House.
This is not good.
And right in the mix of all this will be the drive-by media, the ruling class media.
My timeline is the only thing about this I don't know.
I'm relatively certain that at some point, somewhere, somehow, somebody will get the ball rolling that Cruz needs to apologize.
This is just not done, and this is not helpful to United Republican front as we head to the all-important presidential year of 2016.
Scott in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Raspberry 2FIT, Megadidos.
Well, you like that flavor, eh?
It's my thing.
With sugar, I might add.
Rush, I grew up Catholic, and the sanctity of human life has always been ingrained in me.
And it troubles me that the pontiff has been talking about climate change so much, but where is he on the Planned Parenthood debacle?
Hmm.
Now, that's an interesting question, Scott.
Global warming is, of course, a global thing, and this Planned Parenthood is obviously just a silly domestic social dispute here in the United States.
Is the Pope really expected to get involved in these kind of fringe social arguments in the world's lone superpower?
I would think that he is the voice of the Catholic Church.
He's also the vicar of Christ, and he should be standing out there from the mountaintops, from the top of Rome, saying how wrong this is.
Well, I don't have a direct line to the Vatican.
It's a good question.
I hadn't even expected the Pope to speak up on it.
I don't know why.
I guess I'm not surprised that he hasn't.
Scott, so you've been a Catholic since forever.
I mean, in your experience, are Catholics waiting for the Pope to speak up on this?
Is something they're hoping to hear?
I believe so, Rush, because our Archbishop here in St. Augustine, Florida, just about 30 miles south of us, was very strong during the last election.
He wrote to the Catholic parishes saying that we should stand for Catholic values.
And so I would hope he would speak out.
And he's been very vocal on climate change.
I believe he should equally be as vocal on this issue because it's very important.
Well, you're right about climate change.
I mean, They are putting all the marbles in that.
I mean, big, big, big confab at the Vatican later this year on that.
I mean, even well-known climatologist Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, is going to attend this.
And so is the governor of California, Jerry Brown, who I don't know if you heard this.
I mentioned it yesterday.
Jerry Brown, in an effort to get people's attention, she's trying to get a $68 billion high-speed rail system built from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.
Nobody wants it.
Nobody needs it.
They've got plenty of other uses for $68 billion in California.
So in an effort to get people's attention on this, Governor Moonbeam said, hey, folks, if you don't yet understand what I'm talking about, we're talking about extinction here.
We are talking about extinction of the human race.
Meanwhile, folks, the latest expedition to Antarctica to study global warming has been delayed because of an unexpected amount of new ice in Antarctica, preventing the expedition from getting where they need to go.
Inspector General, four, so far, four Hillary Clinton emails contain classified information.
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