Rush Limbaugh: If the Republican establishment is gonna leak and if they want to get some news out, I have discovered The Politico is where they go. So that's where I went, and, lo and behold, I found a story. It says here, "Republicans Outfox Democrats on Climate Votes." I said, "Really? When's the last time this happened? When's the last time the Republicans outfoxed the Democrats on anything?" So of course, I was intrigued. Here's what it says: "The GOP accepts the notion of climate change -- but not the way Democrats wanted them to. Senate Republicans head-faked Democrats on climate change Wednesday, agreeing in a floor vote that the planet's climate was changing, but blocking language that would have blamed human activity.
"In a complicated maneuver that was the first politically perilous test for Senate Republicans, the new majority party split up the votes that Democrats had hoped would force the GOP into an awkward roll call on whether they believed in the science behind climate change -- just hours after President Barack Obama slammed Republicans in his State of the Union address for dodging the issue. "But Republicans made an eleventh-hour change in strategy on two Democratic attempts to divide them -- with Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, their most vocal denier of humans' effect on the climate, joining a leading liberal in a symbolic vote on whether global warming is 'real and not a hoax.'
"'There is archeological evidence of that, there's Biblical evidence of' the climate changing, Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works panel, said on the floor before signing onto a proposal from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that stopped short of linking climate change to human activities, such as burning of fuels like coal and oil." So apparently, the Democrats tried to run a scheme on Republicans to get them to agree with the premise that global warming is man-made and that there needs to be government action to stop it.
The Republicans said, "Yeah, we'll agree with you that the climate's changing," and then they stopped there. But when I read the original report, it didn't have this clarification in it. So I wonder how many average, ordinary, everyday consumers of news think the Republicans have changed their mind on global warming and now bought into it? Because the news that it was not that, that it was the Republicans agreeing, "Ah, the climate's changing," which it is. I mean, you'd be a fool to disagree with that. It's always changing.
GOP Explainer: Climate Change and Amnesty
January 22, 2015
GOP Explainer Climate Change and Amnesty - The Rush Limbaugh Show