Thune Gives GOP Voters and Trump Middle Finger

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Broadcasting Coast to Coast and Border to Border from Memphis, Tennessee. Todd Starnes.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Show. Very happy to have you with us today. And well, do we have a lot of ground to cover, border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain. So we have some great guests coming up, our good buddy Caleb Park every Friday. Caleb drops by to share with us the good news happening across America. Also, we have an opportunity to do something very important for the families of our fallen heroes. Cindy Tatum with Reeds Across America will be joining us, and you'll be able to find out a way that you will be able to take part in that great program. And also, I'm curious about all of you folks and the English language. How many of you believe that English should be the official language of the United States of America? Well, we're going to be talking to someone from a group called Pro English, and they are pushing our lame duck Republicans, keyword lame, to do something about all of this. So we'll get into all of that coming up a little bit later on in the program. I want to start, though, with something that happened yesterday, and it's something that I believe is very important and something you need to know about. Now John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, went before the cameras earlier this week, and he was talking about how important it was to finally get the president's agenda across the finish line, how important it was to get the work that had been stalled across the finish line to the president's desk. And John Thune said they were going to be working around the clock to make that happen. That's what he told Bret Baier on Fox News. That's what he said at the press conferences coming from the US Capitol building. Well, John Thune lied to your face, ladies and gentlemen. He just, he gave you the middle finger and he also gave President Trump the middle finger. You say, Tom, what are you talking about? Well, yesterday, Senator Thune, majority leader Thune actually adjourned the US Senate. He adjourned the US Senate, ladies and gentlemen. That means that all of the Republican senators who just got back into town are being given a long weekend off.

No, I'm not making this up. This actually happened. Now, there's a lot to unravel here. And I'm going to do my very best in the time that we have to share with you what is really going on here. Because there is a full blown war against the conservative movement in the Republican Party. And it's really not the America First movement part of it. It's the entire conservative wing of the party. They are coming after all of us.

And that's the reason why the Senate adjourned. Now, a couple of things. First of all, people are saying, why didn't we go into recess? Why didn't the majority leader bring the Senate into recess? And there's a reason for that.

Number one, they're going to be back on Monday. So I think it has to be at least 10 days of being in recess. And then when the Senate is in recess, the president can make appointments, and the president could shove through just about every single one of his nominees, if not all of them, during a recessed Congress. And honestly, that would actually have been the better move here, is to declare recess because there's so many things that have to happen to get these nominees across the finish line. They're not going to have time. They're literally going to run out of time. And that's if, in fact, they were working, the Senate was working a 24-hour clock. But they're not even doing that. So there's just no time. So this would allow the president to accomplish his agenda. And I would be fine with that. I think all of you would be fine with that. But that's not what happened because John Thune adjourned the Senate. He did not declare a recess. And as a result of that, nothing's going to get done. President Trump is not allowed to make any recess appointments again. Now, look, this is a big old blank queue to Republican voters. That's what this is. But more importantly, it is a giant blank queue to President Trump. That's what John Thune is doing. This is not a good guy. I don't want you to hear, and because I've heard it, well, Todd, he's just a good Christian man from South Dakota, goes to church. I don't care. That is this is not this is not the behavior of a good and decent man. This is not the behavior of a man with integrity. It's simply not. Now, if John Thune was truly a good Christian man, he would have stood before, and again, I'm not sure his faith plays into this, other than the fact that he clearly has no moral compass. But if, in fact, John Thune was a Christian man, he should have stood before the cameras, and he should have said this. You know what, folks?