{"id":5803,"date":"2015-07-24T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-24T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:24:49","slug":"cruz_calls_mcconnell_a_liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/07\/24\/cruz_calls_mcconnell_a_liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Calls McConnell a Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: It\u2019s Open Line Friday, folks. That\u2019s another element that we want to squeeze into today\u2019s programming content, that is, phone calls from you, and on Friday pretty much whatever you wish to talk about is fine. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re also gonna add another element to the program today, which we very rarely do, and that is we\u2019re going to have a guest. Yes indeed. The guest is going to be on the phone. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas went to the floor of the United States Senate today and called Mitch McConnell a liar numerous times. He called Mitch McConnell a liar, accused him of lying, gave examples of it. I watched it on C-SPAN2, and I\u2019ve gotta talk to him about this. We got the audio sound bites of it to roll for you here in just a second. It\u2019s about the Export-Import Bank. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s another phony — I don\u2019t know how dumb they think we are. It\u2019s another phony repeal Obamacare vote that McConnell has offered the Republican senators in exchange for a vote to continue the Export-Import. Folks, if we can\u2019t cut the Export-Import Bank, you know, there\u2019s a term out there, crony capitalism — crony socialism. It\u2019s neither of the two. This is just cronyism, it\u2019s just pure cronyism. The Export-Import Bank is corporate welfare. And I\u2019m gonna tell you, it used to be that that was a term exclusively used by the left. And whenever we heard that term used we always rejected it. This is some years ago now, but it\u2019s accurate. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason the federal government needs to be funneling taxpayer dollars to corporations, and it\u2019s not just with the Export-Import Bank. That\u2019s just one vehicle for doing it, and what it has led to is the interests of the American people and the interests of voters being subordinated to financial interests and their power, which is lobbyists and donors and what have you. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Ted Cruz went to the floor of the Senate today and called everybody out on it. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. He said there\u2019s no difference in McConnell and Harry Reid. No difference in Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. Stop and think about that. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ted Cruz this morning on the floor of the United States Senate. This is a debate on the highway bill, actually, highway mass transit spending. But what this is really about is the Export-Import Bank and its reauthorization and the Export-Import Bank is simply cronyism. It is the United States Congress funneling taxpayer dollars to corporate — Boeing is one of the big recipients, by the way, of money from the Export-Import Bank. And most of these corporations have a healthy bottom line; they don\u2019t need it. <\/p>\n