October 14, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/14)
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-GOV SHUTDOWN DAY 14 AND THE NUKE OPTION
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
It's the John Cobalt Show. Lou Penrose in for Cobalt
all this week. Thank you for tuning in. Good to
have you along with us. What a day, and it's
been like this since for the most part last night,
but it came in strong and it stayed strong throughout
Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and Orange County on its
way now to San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But the rain will continue.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Michael Monks is in the KFI newsroom. Michael, thanks for
jumping in. Everybody's got their eye on the same part
of Los Angeles, and that is the part that has
just a lot of dirt and now a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I mean that the big fear about a storm like
this rolling in is how unfortunately fresh those burned scars
are around the palisades, around the Eton Fire, but even
some of our older fires, people have been told to
monitor and to be careful. Some folks were evacuated, in
fact in Orange County, or order to evacuate in Orange
County because of this rain that came in and that
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earth is so fragile and so vulnerable that it could
produce mud slize. I think the good news right now
is that the brunt of the.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Rain appears to be just about over.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So if there haven't been any significant problems yet, perhaps
a sigh of relief, a cautious sigh of relief.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, like the heavy rain, right, the deluge, the stuff
that's dramatic.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You can hear it outside of the studio, like that's.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Kind of terrifying, especially if you are in an area
of concern. But as you see, it's still like sprinkling
out there, almost like spitting, and there's like a constant,
just annoying level of moisture falling.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Out of the sky and it's going to go on
through the evening. Oh, you're right, it is kind of
that annoying sprinkle right now. I can tell you here
in Burbank where the studio is, it was a mess
this morning. I mean coming out of the parking garage,
it was like stepping into the shower. So umbrellas were
absolutely necessary because it was an instant drench if you
were not protected. But right now, and in fact, I
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should applaud the meteorologist. So we got word that Hey,
the rain's going to move out at about one o'clock.
We'll here it is one o'clock, and yeah, it is
virtually stopped except for that occasional spit that we're dealing with,
and where the real aftermath is now as long as
your earth isn't moving and you're in a safe terrain,
the aftermath is certainly being felt on the freeways. That's
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really been the story all day long. The commute was
pretty awful and it's still a little bit bad out there,
although some of the worst problems we experienced this morning,
like the lanes closed on the northbound five and Sun
Valley and that was an absolute mess.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Most of that stuff is clearing up, but.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
There are still other problems around the freeways, and that's
where people are feeling the impacts of this weather right now.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, all three right lanes on the two Tanna closed
because of an accident there and just a lot of
skidding and a lot of And we see this in
October going into November, because it's now we're entering into
the wet season, so this is when the residue on
the road kicks up and all of a sudden, driving
on the freeways here in Los Angeles just become a
slick show.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, And it's really the first couple of range of
the season.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We always see that if we're lucky and we don't
have earth movement, then it's just a treacherous drive.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And the best thing you can do while it's raining,
if you can, is stay where you are.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, unless you're in the middle of a river,
like stay, be late to the appointment, be late for
your shopping appointment, because it's just not worth being out there,
no question about it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And I noticed that on my own commute here from
downtown Los Angeles to Burbank, it did feel a little
lighter out there, and for the cars that were on
the freeways, and this is my commune involves the one ten,
the five, and the one thirty four, it was light
lighter than usual, but people were moving slowly, so they
were heating your advice. They know what to do in
these situations. But not everyone was so lucky we had
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right now. I believe there's still a big rig that
had slammed into the center divider on the northbound fifteen
just south of Magnolia Avenue and River Sign, so that's
been a problem. But some of the other crashes. One
of these involved the spilling of a pool of chemicals
on the two ten freeway, and still.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, that's always a bad thing. The has Matt spills
are the worst because they take hours to clean up.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
The has Matt was there. We mentioned the situation on
the five that was a mess. So you check your traffic, you.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Listen to us.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We'll give you the traffic updates and I'll let you
know where the hotspots are. But this rain came hard
and fast. It started in the overnight hours for most
of us, and it just piled up so quickly. Downtown
LA saw just over one point two inches in a
twelve hour period, and that's a pretty good amount of rain.
Bell air more than two inches of rain over the
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past twelve hours or so, and that's a significant I mean,
there are places in the country that might hear us
talking lou and laugh at us, because you know, for.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Sure, our friends in Pennsylvania are just thinking against us.
But we're just the two inches of rain over twelve hours,
and you people shut down and go to stormwatch center
on KFI.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
But the folks in Pennsylvania aren't dealing with the aftermath
of wildfires they're not dealing with roadways, they're not designed
to carry this runoff. And so different geographies deal with
this type of weather differently. And you get this amount
of rain this quickly, you're going to have consequences in Hely,
more than three inches in the Supulvita Canyon area all
within the past twelve hours, more than an inch and
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a half in East Pasadena, Eagle Rock.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
These areas just a complete day loge.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now, you mentioned that you gave a shout out to
the media around just and you're right, they said it
would side around one and literally at the top of
the hour bell, the rain just seemed to turn off.
But the National Weather Service has the flash flood warning
and effect into the evening, and there were one hundred
homes in the Sunset area that were evacuated.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
When does that evacuation worker lifted.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, you got to keep an eye on that because
there are occasions where those are extended.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We saw that just this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We saw thunderstorm warnings extended for forty five minutes or
ninety minutes here and there. But it's also not out
of the realm of possibility that the National Weather Service
will rescind early. They tend to err on the side
of caution, and so you do get warnings even if
you feel like nothing is happening. They obviously pay very
close attention to the science and the forecast and don't
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send those out willy nilly. So that is something just
keep an eye on, and that is what we will do.
But if conditions change for the better, I'm sure they'll
lift that sooner.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Michael Monks, NICKAYFI Newsroom, thanks so much for giving us
an update. We'll check in with you again as we
hopefully begin the exit of this very intense day weather wise,
thunderstorm warning, severe stuts thunderstorm warnings. And you're right, the
National Weather Service has been breaking in to KFI all morning,
since seven o'clock this morning, and those beeps and buzzes
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and the automated voice, the Max Headroom voice from the
National Weather Service, it's always kind of a just a
somewhat alarming, especially the living side the areas that are
having these these burn scars, so we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Thanks Lly, good to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We'll talk with you again, as Michael Monks from the
KFI News Center. Look, we got a lot to get
to I want to keep on this storm because it's
still in the southern parts of Long Beach and in
Orange County and it will head into San Diego County
and flash flooding warnings are still in effect from the
National Weather Service, so we'll continue. And the constant drizzle
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is still water and water and volume is all it takes.
So while it's not torrential feeling, it's still volume, and
so we want to keep an eye on that. We've
we've we've we've had. We've had enough with natural disasters
in southern California for a little while. So we'd like
to get a pass on one and we're hoping that
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this will be the one that just passes us over
uh and everyone that has been evacuated can get back
into their home very very quickly. Well, we have a
lot to get of course, it's day fourteen of the shutdown.
Governor Gavin Newsom has finished signing and or vetoing all
the legislation that's on his desk. We'll tell you what
some of the changes are and some news that maybe
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this Prop fifty could have a backfire effect nationwide.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We'll get to all that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
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Speaker 6 (08:23):
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Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good to have you along with this as we keep
our eye on the storm as it does seem to
be following the meteorologist predictions.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And that is one o'clock and almost one o'clock on
the money.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The rain subsided, but traffic is still a nightmare out there,
so stay tuned to news to the traffic reports on KFI.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They'll be coming up here. We'll get you home. But
if you don't have to be on the road, don't
be on the road at all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So it is day fourteen of the federal government shutdown,
and we are still alive. It is day fourteen of
the federal government shutdown, and we still have health insurance.
You know what day of the federal government shutdown it
is because it's the same number as the day of
the month.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So today's October fourteenth, and it's shutdown day fourteen.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
The math remains the same, and that means the government
is still shut down. Republicans hope this week is an
inflection point on the government shutdown. They believe a combination
of miss paychecks and mass firings could force Democrats to
accept their position and reopen the government, So.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That would be interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We picked up another what wasn't a Democrat senator, It
was a non Republican senator. There are two independents, and
there is the Senator of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, who is
a Democrat. He has been with the Republicans all along,
and so we picked up him and one other independent senator.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That put us to fifty five.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So we need fifty five more votes to simply reopened
the government at September thirtieth funding levels.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So I see this a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I just was watching a clip from Jimmy Kimmel last night,
and a lot of Democrats are playing this game. They're saying,
how can you blame the Democrats for shutting down the
government when Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the
White House and they certainly know better. Kimmel, maybe not.
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But if you have that same curiosity, let me explain
it to you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's very simple.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You always hear about this sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You always hear that. People ask all the time. I
don't get it. This is a democracy. Fifty plus one.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know, majority rules, Why can't it just be fifty
one senators?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Why does it have to be sixty? And it's really simple,
it's arcane.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So there are four hundred and thirty five members of Congress,
thirty five members of the House of Representatives, and they're
a simple majority rules. So if all four hundred and
thirty five are seated, then two hundred and eighteen is
the magic number. You get the two hundred and eighteen
and it's passed. You don't have to worry about anything.
That's the House. The Senate a little different, and this
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rule goes back to nineteen seventeen. And in order the
Senate has an open debate forum and in order to
stop talking, stop debating, stop arguing, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We're going to stop now and just call the vote.
To win.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
To win, you need fifty plus one, but to stop arguing,
you need sixty. It's called cloture, not closure like you're
getting closure when you get over something. It's cloture cloture e.
And that's just the Senate rule. And that Senate rule
has been there for over one hundred years and it's
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designed to protect the minority in the Senate and to
be fair, Republicans have been in the minority in contemporary
American politics. The Senate has been in the minority way
more than they've been in the majority. So, frankly, Republicans
have benefited from the sixty vote threshold to achieve cloture
in order to move forward to have a vote. But
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there are a lot in the Republican Party now that
are saying, Look, Democrats tried to eliminate the sixty vote
threshold when Trump was in office in twenty and sixteen,
from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So they are willing to end tradition. Why shouldn't we
do it now?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
When Democrats take control of the Senate someday, and they
will someday, the assumption is they'll not hesitate to break
with tradition and eliminate the sixty vote threshold and shove
through whatever socialist thing they want to shove through.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So why are we waiting to be proven wrong? Proven right?
I guess it would be. And so that's the new fight.
Now should we go ahead?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And because a simple majority could change that rule, and
then a simple majority can reopen the government and then
Democrats will be left with nothing they'll have zero.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Cards in their hands. They'll have no cards at all.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here is a Republican Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia,
saying exactly that.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
So Democrats will blow through the fellow buster. They'll use
the nuclear option when they get control again.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Chuck Schumer already tried.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
It, and so I think that Republicans need to govern
and they should use the nuclear option and get rid
of that sixty vote rule.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So she is a part of a growing Republican chorus
to say, look, the time to be stately is over,
the time to be bipartisan is over.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We've turned a corner in this country.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And that's what this would mean, at least to senators
and really what it would mean to the folks that.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Watch these things for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The sixty vote threshold was more than just a rule
put in place to protect the minority party. It was
put into place to keep a sense of stateliness in
the United States Senate. It was designed this way on purpose.
So House members are re elected every two years, so
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they are most they're closest to the voter. They have
to go in front of the voter every two years. Frankly,
every eighteen months, if you think about it. So they
really need to represent the voters, and they need to
reflect the voters, and or they will suffer the wrath
of the voters. The president's elected every four years and
only serve two terms. The Senate is voted, is elected
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every six years, so they are the least sensitive to
what's going on in the hearts of the voters.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
They don't have to be. They don't have to face
the voters for another five and a half years.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And that's by design so that majorities in the House
don't force things to happen. In the United States, the
founding fathers wanted to create a system that was so
gummy that that that majorities couldn't force things to happen.
And it's often referred to as the Senate is the
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saucer that cools the coffee in the coffee cup. So
they've always wanted the Senate to be the place where
everybody calms down. We're all gentlemen here. You know, we
don't have a gavel. Notice, they don't have a gavel.
We don't bang hammers here. Everybody relax, everybody quiet down,
Let's talk about this, let's sort this out.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Let's figure let's respect the minority opinion and the debate.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Those crazy people down at the House of Representatives, they're
just worried about their reelection, so they get a little
extreme h and the president's up for reelection or he's not.
We're here for a while now. We don't have to
worry about such things. And that's the way it was designed.
So it would be significantly changing something if we decided
to do away with the sixty vote threshold to move
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forward on a vote. And I have my thoughts on
which way we should go, and I'll share them next
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Lou Penrose Info co belt This week in early season
early season store, the setting a delude jerrain throughout southern California,
and the National Weather Service has issued a flood flash
flood warning and we will continue to stay on top
of it, but for right now, it seems that the
biggest problem are on our roadways, So stay tuned to
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KFI for the latest and traffic information. So it's day
fourteen of the federal government shutdown. There is no movement
on either side at this point. Senators need five Democrat
senators to get to sixty, and the sixty is when
you can stop debate and call the question as it's
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called in Roberts rules of order, which means you can
go to a vote, and then the vote can be
just fifty plus one. Actually you could just be fifty
to fifty because the Vice president breaks the time. But
Republicans have fifty three senators. They picked up a Democrat
from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, and today picked up an independent,
so we're at fifty five. But still five is a
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big number in the United States Senate on the Democrat side.
So there is talk of changing the rules, ending this
sixty vote threshold thing. And this is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.
She's in the House, so she's not a senator, she
can't vote on it, but she's calling upon the Senate
Republican leader John Thune to stop being respectful, effectively saying,
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you know, I get it. You want to be you know,
stately and the orderly and leader ship and bipartisan and
let's all get along and try and find common ground.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Those days are long gone.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
He's made the excuse that he has to preserve the filibuster,
which is the sixty vote rule in the Senate, because
he wants to be able to continue bipartisanship with Democrats.
My argument back against sad Matt is that bipartisanship has
been proven to be dead. Democrats and Republicans couldn't be
further divided. We have a one time opportunity here controlling
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the White House, the House, and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, so I think she's half right. I think she
is absolutely right that bipartisanship is dead and there's no
need to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
However, I don't think you have to change the rules.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like certainly it is true that if Democrats get controlled,
they'll change the rules and be unabashed about it. They
don't care about bipartisanship and we know that. But we
don't have to change the rules. It's better to keep
it in your back pocket. We're winning anyway, and I
just I don't like to change the rules of the game.
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That's why I'm against Prop. Fifty, and that's why I'm
opposed to what they're doing in Texas and what other
states are doing Republican and Democrat to get even with California.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
In Prompt fifty. You don't have to change the rules.
You can just win the argument. Right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Ronald Reagan used to say all the time, good policy
is good politics.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You win the argument and then you win the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
That was the magic of Reagan Republicans back in the eighties,
and frankly, that is the magic of President Trump today.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The reason Trump won all.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Seven battleground states and the popular vote to defeat to
defeat Kamala Harris wasn't because of any trick.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He won the argument and then he won the vote.
And that is for me. That's the blueprint for Republican success.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It always has been, and it's the blueprint for Republican
success here in California.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Win the argument. It should be pretty easy to win
the argument. But go directly to the voters.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Stop holding press conferences, stop with the rallies, stop with
the campaigns.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Just go directly to the voter with very simple questions.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Wouldn't it be better if we produced our own energy
domestically instead of buying it by the barrel from countries
that don't like us very much?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right? Simple questions?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Should government workers have higher salaries than private sector workers.
Should government workers have better pensions than private sector workers?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Are you better off than you were?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Like these simple questions that every normal person can understand
and relate to.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And if you win the argument, you'll win the vote.
You don't have to change the rules.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But now it looks like the whole redistricting thing that started,
well it started in Texas, to be fair, but the
reaction to it in California might be backfiring on Democrats.
Apparently a lot of states are saying, all right, if
this passes in California, then we're gonna do it in
our state, and then our state and then our state.
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And they're just more places where you can go and
find Republican votes than Democrat votes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Here is the analysis on CNN. Democrats, you tak California, Maryland.
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If you offset California and Texas, everything left over.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is an advantage to the Republicans. Yeah, that's a real problem.
If they go through all.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
This work and change the law in California and then
set it up where they draw congressional districts that are
so gerrymandered on purpose, too cheat to Democrats a better
chance of taking over the House of Representatives, and that
triggers into action other states doing the exact same thing.
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In Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, and New Hampshire. You'll pick
up more Republican seats than California, will pick up Democrat
seats Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Net it zeros out the.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Pick up in California and you actually have a loss
and Democrats will have a net loss going into the
twenty twenty six midterm election, and then all gloves are off.
I mean, at that point, why not remove the sixty
vote threshold to pass anything in the Senate. I mean,
everyone's cheating, and then that's what it is to be
fair to Republicans in Texas, to Democrats here in California,
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you're cheating. You're creating conditions for political purposes, not for
fair representation, on purpose to get even with Donald Trump
because you don't like the outcome of the twenty twenty
four election.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's what it is. I mean, I think at.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The very base level, you have to be honest about
what you're trying to do. It's Trump derangement syndrome in politics.
But wouldn't that be amazing if it turned out to
completely backfire and Republicans pick up seats and a bunch
of states lose Democrat members of Congress as a reaction
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Speaker 5 (23:43):
Speaking of simple majorities.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
A Democrat won that special election at Arizona in a
landslide a few weeks ago, but the grinder lover, Mike
Johnson won't swear her in.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Right because you call him a grinder lover. That's my point.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Why why do we have to be bipartisan? Why we
have to swear her in? Why can't we play hardball?
You're calling the Speaker of the House a grinder lover,
and you're wondering why he won't be kind to the
opposition party. Do you think if the shoe was on
the other foot and Hakim Jeffries was Speaker of the
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House and a Republican one in a special election, and
that Republican vote.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Was going to.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Change the narrative in the House on some unpopular or
red herring of an issue like the Epstein list. You
think the Democrat would allow that Republican to be sworn
in and grab the narrative away. I know what you're
trying to accomplish, and we know what she's trying to accomplish,
and we're not letting her accomplish it because the majority matters.
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It's interesting to me how much Democrats don't like being
in the minority. You see it with Senator Alex Padia.
That's why he's spending so much time in California. You
talking about Prop fifty. I am certain that he's warming
up to jump in to the governor's race because he
doesn't like Washington because he's not in the majority. He's inconsequential,
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and Democrats are not, especially California Democrats.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
They don't like not being in the majority.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
They frankly have no experience being in the minority, and
they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And certainly Senator Perdilla doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
He's still running ads on television about how he got
tackled by the Secret Service Protection of the Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christinoman and how that somehow shaped him
into wanting to fight for people and it's unbecoming and
he's always crying about it. And I just think that
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his star hasn't really moved. It was never really rising
in DC. He was not destined to be anything big.
He didn't earn the Senate seat and he's in the
minority and he didn't like it. So same here with
this congresswoman from the Colorado River area of Arizona. She
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isn't like not getting her way. But you know what,
too bad, so sad when we come back. So gas
prices are falling nationwide, and it really is amazing to me.
In politics, it's better to be lucky than good. And
Gavin Newsom is lucky. He is absolutely lucky. He imposes
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gas taxes at a time when Californians can least afford
an increase in their fuel costs at the pump. It
is unpopular, it's unpopular, and it's tripartisan unpopular. Republicans, Democrats,
and independents. A majority of all three, when asked do
not want to pay Newsom's gas tax increase. He had
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the opportunity to suspen he had the opportunity to hold
off on it. It would have been good politics, and
frankly it would have been good policy because the most
regressive thing in California is the price of gas. The
people that make the least is impacted the most. Right,
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It's just annoying if you have a good salary. But
if you are in one of these businesses that drive
around a truck all day, if you are a landscape
guy or the pool cleaning guy or the cleaning people,
or people that just driving trucks all day, right, and
you don't have an ev or alexis, then when gas
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is four forty nine, four sixty nine, four eighty nine,
five twenty nine, that really hurts you when it doesn't
have to be that price. And Newism did it anyway,
and it immediately raised the price of the pump, hurting
people and regressive in its pain. And at the same time,
in Trump gets elected and embarks upon a domestic petroleum
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exploration campaign opens up and war in Alaska. Remember that
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We fought about that for years.
Oh my goodness, can't do that. The elks and the
polar bears, and it would be an environmental disaster. And
in a day President Trump opened it up and has
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given out more leases for domestic exploration for everything, petroleum, coal, fracking.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I mean everything. So we're doing it all. We're doing
exactly what we want.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And he has promised in delivering everything that he said,
and that is we are going to domestically produce power
and energy and tell the Saudis to leave the barrels
of oil on the dock, sell it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
To somebody else.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And it takes a little bit of time to scale
that up to the needs that we have here in
the United States, but it's well worth the time and
the investment. So while Newsom was jacking up the price
of the pump through gas taxes, Trump was lowering the
cost of petroleum on the market. And now the price
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is down and so Newsom's tax increases are effectively absorbed
by the lowering of the prices across the board.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It is absolutely amazing that Newsom actually benef like he'll
benefit politically. He'll go out there and say that the
gas prices in California at the lowest level they've been
since I took office and take a bow as.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
If he caused it by raising your gas tax. But
he'll take credit for it. No question about it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And the reality is that it is one hundred percent
this new administration's work that caused the actual price of
the gasoline to go down, and the gasoline has gone
down so much that you don't even notice that you're
being screwed by a gas tax. So we will talk
when we get back about how that's how long that's
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going to stay into effect. Alex Stone from ABC News
will be with us to give us the latest numbers,
But just to give you an idea if you're driving
around and you need to get gas, the average price
of the lowest gas price in the United States right
now is in Oklahoma two dollars and fifty seven cents
a gallon. Two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Can you imagine if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Gas was two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon
here in California? Now the average price in California is
coming down too. Today it's at four dollars and sixty
six cents. So you didn't even notice that you got
screwed by Sacramento in the form of attax. But you
can thank President Trump and domestic energy policy. Lou Penrose,
(30:57):
if of John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:05):
It's the John Cobalt Show. Lou Penrose in for Cobalt
all this week. Thank you for tuning in. Good to
have you along with us. What a day, and it's
been like this since for the most part last night,
but it came in strong and it stayed strong throughout
Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and Orange County on its
way now to San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But the rain will continue.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Michael Monks is in the KFI newsroom. Michael, thanks for
jumping in. Everybody's got their eye on the same part
of Los Angeles, and that is the part that has
just a lot of dirt and now a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I mean that the big fear about a storm like
this rolling in is how unfortunately fresh those burned scars
are around the palisades, around the Eton Fire, but even
some of our older fires, people have been told to
monitor and to be careful. Some folks were evacuated, in
fact in Orange County, or order to evacuate in Orange
County because of this rain that came in and that
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earth is so fragile and so vulnerable that it could
produce mud slize. I think the good news right now
is that the brunt of the.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Rain appears to be just about over.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So if there haven't been any significant problems yet, perhaps
a sigh of relief, a cautious sigh of relief.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, like the heavy rain, right, the deluge, the stuff
that's dramatic.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You can hear it outside of the studio, like that's.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Kind of terrifying, especially if you are in an area
of concern. But as you see, it's still like sprinkling
out there, almost like spitting, and there's like a constant,
just annoying level of moisture falling.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Out of the sky and it's going to go on
through the evening. Oh, you're right, it is kind of
that annoying sprinkle right now. I can tell you here
in Burbank where the studio is, it was a mess
this morning. I mean coming out of the parking garage,
it was like stepping into the shower. So umbrellas were
absolutely necessary because it was an instant drench if you
were not protected. But right now, and in fact, I
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should applaud the meteorologist. So we got word that Hey,
the rain's going to move out at about one o'clock.
We'll here it is one o'clock, and yeah, it is
virtually stopped except for that occasional spit that we're dealing with,
and where the real aftermath is now as long as
your earth isn't moving and you're in a safe terrain,
the aftermath is certainly being felt on the freeways. That's
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really been the story all day long. The commute was
pretty awful and it's still a little bit bad out there,
although some of the worst problems we experienced this morning,
like the lanes closed on the northbound five and Sun
Valley and that was an absolute mess.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Most of that stuff is clearing up, but.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
There are still other problems around the freeways, and that's
where people are feeling the impacts of this weather right now.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, all three right lanes on the two Tanna closed
because of an accident there and just a lot of
skidding and a lot of And we see this in
October going into November, because it's now we're entering into
the wet season, so this is when the residue on
the road kicks up and all of a sudden, driving
on the freeways here in Los Angeles just become a
slick show.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, And it's really the first couple of range of
the season.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We always see that if we're lucky and we don't
have earth movement, then it's just a treacherous drive.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And the best thing you can do while it's raining,
if you can, is stay where you are.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, unless you're in the middle of a river,
like stay, be late to the appointment, be late for
your shopping appointment, because it's just not worth being out there,
no question about it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And I noticed that on my own commute here from
downtown Los Angeles to Burbank, it did feel a little
lighter out there, and for the cars that were on
the freeways, and this is my commune involves the one ten,
the five, and the one thirty four, it was light
lighter than usual, but people were moving slowly, so they
were heating your advice. They know what to do in
these situations. But not everyone was so lucky we had
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right now. I believe there's still a big rig that
had slammed into the center divider on the northbound fifteen
just south of Magnolia Avenue and River Sign, so that's
been a problem. But some of the other crashes. One
of these involved the spilling of a pool of chemicals
on the two ten freeway, and still.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, that's always a bad thing. The has Matt spills
are the worst because they take hours to clean up.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
The has Matt was there. We mentioned the situation on
the five that was a mess. So you check your traffic, you.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Listen to us.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We'll give you the traffic updates and I'll let you
know where the hotspots are. But this rain came hard
and fast. It started in the overnight hours for most
of us, and it just piled up so quickly. Downtown
LA saw just over one point two inches in a
twelve hour period, and that's a pretty good amount of rain.
Bell air more than two inches of rain over the
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past twelve hours or so, and that's a significant I mean,
there are places in the country that might hear us
talking lou and laugh at us, because you know, for.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Sure, our friends in Pennsylvania are just thinking against us.
But we're just the two inches of rain over twelve hours,
and you people shut down and go to stormwatch center
on KFI.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
But the folks in Pennsylvania aren't dealing with the aftermath
of wildfires they're not dealing with roadways, they're not designed
to carry this runoff. And so different geographies deal with
this type of weather differently. And you get this amount
of rain this quickly, you're going to have consequences in Hely,
more than three inches in the Supulvita Canyon area all
within the past twelve hours, more than an inch and
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a half in East Pasadena, Eagle Rock.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
These areas just a complete day loge.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now, you mentioned that you gave a shout out to
the media around just and you're right, they said it
would side around one and literally at the top of
the hour bell, the rain just seemed to turn off.
But the National Weather Service has the flash flood warning
and effect into the evening, and there were one hundred
homes in the Sunset area that were evacuated.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
When does that evacuation worker lifted.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, you got to keep an eye on that because
there are occasions where those are extended.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We saw that just this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We saw thunderstorm warnings extended for forty five minutes or
ninety minutes here and there. But it's also not out
of the realm of possibility that the National Weather Service
will rescind early. They tend to err on the side
of caution, and so you do get warnings even if
you feel like nothing is happening. They obviously pay very
close attention to the science and the forecast and don't
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send those out willy nilly. So that is something just
keep an eye on, and that is what we will do.
But if conditions change for the better, I'm sure they'll
lift that sooner.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Michael Monks, NICKAYFI Newsroom, thanks so much for giving us
an update. We'll check in with you again as we
hopefully begin the exit of this very intense day weather wise,
thunderstorm warning, severe stuts thunderstorm warnings. And you're right, the
National Weather Service has been breaking in to KFI all morning,
since seven o'clock this morning, and those beeps and buzzes
(06:53):
and the automated voice, the Max Headroom voice from the
National Weather Service, it's always kind of a just a
somewhat alarming, especially the living side the areas that are
having these these burn scars, so we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Thanks Lly, good to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We'll talk with you again, as Michael Monks from the
KFI News Center. Look, we got a lot to get
to I want to keep on this storm because it's
still in the southern parts of Long Beach and in
Orange County and it will head into San Diego County
and flash flooding warnings are still in effect from the
National Weather Service, so we'll continue. And the constant drizzle
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is still water and water and volume is all it takes.
So while it's not torrential feeling, it's still volume, and
so we want to keep an eye on that. We've
we've we've we've had. We've had enough with natural disasters
in southern California for a little while. So we'd like
to get a pass on one and we're hoping that
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this will be the one that just passes us over
uh and everyone that has been evacuated can get back
into their home very very quickly. Well, we have a
lot to get of course, it's day fourteen of the shutdown.
Governor Gavin Newsom has finished signing and or vetoing all
the legislation that's on his desk. We'll tell you what
some of the changes are and some news that maybe
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this Prop fifty could have a backfire effect nationwide.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We'll get to all that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Jam Pack Show to John Cobelt Show Louke Penrose sitting
in for Cobelt.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good to have you along with this as we keep
our eye on the storm as it does seem to
be following the meteorologist predictions.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And that is one o'clock and almost one o'clock on
the money.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The rain subsided, but traffic is still a nightmare out there,
so stay tuned to news to the traffic reports on KFI.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They'll be coming up here. We'll get you home. But
if you don't have to be on the road, don't
be on the road at all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So it is day fourteen of the federal government shutdown,
and we are still alive. It is day fourteen of
the federal government shutdown, and we still have health insurance.
You know what day of the federal government shutdown it
is because it's the same number as the day of
the month.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So today's October fourteenth, and it's shutdown day fourteen.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
The math remains the same, and that means the government
is still shut down. Republicans hope this week is an
inflection point on the government shutdown. They believe a combination
of miss paychecks and mass firings could force Democrats to
accept their position and reopen the government, So.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That would be interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We picked up another what wasn't a Democrat senator, It
was a non Republican senator. There are two independents, and
there is the Senator of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, who is
a Democrat. He has been with the Republicans all along,
and so we picked up him and one other independent senator.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That put us to fifty five.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So we need fifty five more votes to simply reopened
the government at September thirtieth funding levels.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So I see this a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I just was watching a clip from Jimmy Kimmel last night,
and a lot of Democrats are playing this game. They're saying,
how can you blame the Democrats for shutting down the
government when Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the
White House and they certainly know better. Kimmel, maybe not.
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But if you have that same curiosity, let me explain
it to you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's very simple.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You always hear about this sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You always hear that. People ask all the time. I
don't get it. This is a democracy. Fifty plus one.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know, majority rules, Why can't it just be fifty
one senators?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Why does it have to be sixty? And it's really simple,
it's arcane.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So there are four hundred and thirty five members of Congress,
thirty five members of the House of Representatives, and they're
a simple majority rules. So if all four hundred and
thirty five are seated, then two hundred and eighteen is
the magic number. You get the two hundred and eighteen
and it's passed. You don't have to worry about anything.
That's the House. The Senate a little different, and this
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rule goes back to nineteen seventeen. And in order the
Senate has an open debate forum and in order to
stop talking, stop debating, stop arguing, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We're going to stop now and just call the vote.
To win.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
To win, you need fifty plus one, but to stop arguing,
you need sixty. It's called cloture, not closure like you're
getting closure when you get over something. It's cloture cloture e.
And that's just the Senate rule. And that Senate rule
has been there for over one hundred years and it's
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designed to protect the minority in the Senate and to
be fair, Republicans have been in the minority in contemporary
American politics. The Senate has been in the minority way
more than they've been in the majority. So, frankly, Republicans
have benefited from the sixty vote threshold to achieve cloture
in order to move forward to have a vote. But
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there are a lot in the Republican Party now that
are saying, Look, Democrats tried to eliminate the sixty vote
threshold when Trump was in office in twenty and sixteen,
from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So they are willing to end tradition. Why shouldn't we
do it now?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
When Democrats take control of the Senate someday, and they
will someday, the assumption is they'll not hesitate to break
with tradition and eliminate the sixty vote threshold and shove
through whatever socialist thing they want to shove through.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So why are we waiting to be proven wrong? Proven right?
I guess it would be. And so that's the new fight.
Now should we go ahead?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And because a simple majority could change that rule, and
then a simple majority can reopen the government and then
Democrats will be left with nothing they'll have zero.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Cards in their hands. They'll have no cards at all.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here is a Republican Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia,
saying exactly that.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
So Democrats will blow through the fellow buster. They'll use
the nuclear option when they get control again.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Chuck Schumer already tried.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
It, and so I think that Republicans need to govern
and they should use the nuclear option and get rid
of that sixty vote rule.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So she is a part of a growing Republican chorus
to say, look, the time to be stately is over,
the time to be bipartisan is over.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We've turned a corner in this country.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And that's what this would mean, at least to senators
and really what it would mean to the folks that.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Watch these things for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The sixty vote threshold was more than just a rule
put in place to protect the minority party. It was
put into place to keep a sense of stateliness in
the United States Senate. It was designed this way on purpose.
So House members are re elected every two years, so
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they are most they're closest to the voter. They have
to go in front of the voter every two years. Frankly,
every eighteen months, if you think about it. So they
really need to represent the voters, and they need to
reflect the voters, and or they will suffer the wrath
of the voters. The president's elected every four years and
only serve two terms. The Senate is voted, is elected
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every six years, so they are the least sensitive to
what's going on in the hearts of the voters.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
They don't have to be. They don't have to face
the voters for another five and a half years.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And that's by design so that majorities in the House
don't force things to happen. In the United States, the
founding fathers wanted to create a system that was so
gummy that that that majorities couldn't force things to happen.
And it's often referred to as the Senate is the
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saucer that cools the coffee in the coffee cup. So
they've always wanted the Senate to be the place where
everybody calms down. We're all gentlemen here. You know, we
don't have a gavel. Notice, they don't have a gavel.
We don't bang hammers here. Everybody relax, everybody quiet down,
Let's talk about this, let's sort this out.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Let's figure let's respect the minority opinion and the debate.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Those crazy people down at the House of Representatives, they're
just worried about their reelection, so they get a little
extreme h and the president's up for reelection or he's not.
We're here for a while now. We don't have to
worry about such things. And that's the way it was designed.
So it would be significantly changing something if we decided
to do away with the sixty vote threshold to move
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forward on a vote. And I have my thoughts on
which way we should go, and I'll share them next
lou Penrose Info John Coblt on the John Coblt Show.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Lou Penrose Info co belt This week in early season
early season store, the setting a delude jerrain throughout southern California,
and the National Weather Service has issued a flood flash
flood warning and we will continue to stay on top
of it, but for right now, it seems that the
biggest problem are on our roadways, So stay tuned to
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KFI for the latest and traffic information. So it's day
fourteen of the federal government shutdown. There is no movement
on either side at this point. Senators need five Democrat
senators to get to sixty, and the sixty is when
you can stop debate and call the question as it's
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called in Roberts rules of order, which means you can
go to a vote, and then the vote can be
just fifty plus one. Actually you could just be fifty
to fifty because the Vice president breaks the time. But
Republicans have fifty three senators. They picked up a Democrat
from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, and today picked up an independent,
so we're at fifty five. But still five is a
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big number in the United States Senate on the Democrat side.
So there is talk of changing the rules, ending this
sixty vote threshold thing. And this is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.
She's in the House, so she's not a senator, she
can't vote on it, but she's calling upon the Senate
Republican leader John Thune to stop being respectful, effectively saying,
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you know, I get it. You want to be you know,
stately and the orderly and leader ship and bipartisan and
let's all get along and try and find common ground.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Those days are long gone.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
He's made the excuse that he has to preserve the filibuster,
which is the sixty vote rule in the Senate, because
he wants to be able to continue bipartisanship with Democrats.
My argument back against sad Matt is that bipartisanship has
been proven to be dead. Democrats and Republicans couldn't be
further divided. We have a one time opportunity here controlling
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the White House, the House, and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, so I think she's half right. I think she
is absolutely right that bipartisanship is dead and there's no
need to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
However, I don't think you have to change the rules.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like certainly it is true that if Democrats get controlled,
they'll change the rules and be unabashed about it. They
don't care about bipartisanship and we know that. But we
don't have to change the rules. It's better to keep
it in your back pocket. We're winning anyway, and I
just I don't like to change the rules of the game.
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That's why I'm against Prop. Fifty, and that's why I'm
opposed to what they're doing in Texas and what other
states are doing Republican and Democrat to get even with California.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
In Prompt fifty. You don't have to change the rules.
You can just win the argument. Right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Ronald Reagan used to say all the time, good policy
is good politics.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You win the argument and then you win the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
That was the magic of Reagan Republicans back in the eighties,
and frankly, that is the magic of President Trump today.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The reason Trump won all.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Seven battleground states and the popular vote to defeat to
defeat Kamala Harris wasn't because of any trick.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He won the argument and then he won the vote.
And that is for me. That's the blueprint for Republican success.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It always has been, and it's the blueprint for Republican
success here in California.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Win the argument. It should be pretty easy to win
the argument. But go directly to the voters.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Stop holding press conferences, stop with the rallies, stop with
the campaigns.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Just go directly to the voter with very simple questions.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Wouldn't it be better if we produced our own energy
domestically instead of buying it by the barrel from countries
that don't like us very much?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right? Simple questions?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Should government workers have higher salaries than private sector workers.
Should government workers have better pensions than private sector workers?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Are you better off than you were?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Like these simple questions that every normal person can understand
and relate to.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And if you win the argument, you'll win the vote.
You don't have to change the rules.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But now it looks like the whole redistricting thing that started,
well it started in Texas, to be fair, but the
reaction to it in California might be backfiring on Democrats.
Apparently a lot of states are saying, all right, if
this passes in California, then we're gonna do it in
our state, and then our state and then our state.
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And they're just more places where you can go and
find Republican votes than Democrat votes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Here is the analysis on CNN. Democrats, you tak California, Maryland.
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If you offset California and Texas, everything left over.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is an advantage to the Republicans. Yeah, that's a real problem.
If they go through all.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
This work and change the law in California and then
set it up where they draw congressional districts that are
so gerrymandered on purpose, too cheat to Democrats a better
chance of taking over the House of Representatives, and that
triggers into action other states doing the exact same thing.
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In Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, and New Hampshire. You'll pick
up more Republican seats than California, will pick up Democrat
seats Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Net it zeros out the.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Pick up in California and you actually have a loss
and Democrats will have a net loss going into the
twenty twenty six midterm election, and then all gloves are off.
I mean, at that point, why not remove the sixty
vote threshold to pass anything in the Senate. I mean,
everyone's cheating, and then that's what it is to be
fair to Republicans in Texas, to Democrats here in California,
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you're cheating. You're creating conditions for political purposes, not for
fair representation, on purpose to get even with Donald Trump
because you don't like the outcome of the twenty twenty
four election.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's what it is. I mean, I think at.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The very base level, you have to be honest about
what you're trying to do. It's Trump derangement syndrome in politics.
But wouldn't that be amazing if it turned out to
completely backfire and Republicans pick up seats and a bunch
of states lose Democrat members of Congress as a reaction
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to what California is doing. On Prop fifty The John
coblt Show, lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt this week.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Louke Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John coblt Show.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Speaking of simple majorities.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
A Democrat won that special election at Arizona in a
landslide a few weeks ago, but the grinder lover, Mike
Johnson won't swear her in.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Right because you call him a grinder lover. That's my point.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Why why do we have to be bipartisan? Why we
have to swear her in? Why can't we play hardball?
You're calling the Speaker of the House a grinder lover,
and you're wondering why he won't be kind to the
opposition party. Do you think if the shoe was on
the other foot and Hakim Jeffries was Speaker of the
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House and a Republican one in a special election, and
that Republican vote.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Was going to.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Change the narrative in the House on some unpopular or
red herring of an issue like the Epstein list. You
think the Democrat would allow that Republican to be sworn
in and grab the narrative away. I know what you're
trying to accomplish, and we know what she's trying to accomplish,
and we're not letting her accomplish it because the majority matters.
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It's interesting to me how much Democrats don't like being
in the minority. You see it with Senator Alex Padia.
That's why he's spending so much time in California. You
talking about Prop fifty. I am certain that he's warming
up to jump in to the governor's race because he
doesn't like Washington because he's not in the majority. He's inconsequential,
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and Democrats are not, especially California Democrats.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
They don't like not being in the majority.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
They frankly have no experience being in the minority, and
they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And certainly Senator Perdilla doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
He's still running ads on television about how he got
tackled by the Secret Service Protection of the Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christinoman and how that somehow shaped him
into wanting to fight for people and it's unbecoming and
he's always crying about it. And I just think that
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his star hasn't really moved. It was never really rising
in DC. He was not destined to be anything big.
He didn't earn the Senate seat and he's in the
minority and he didn't like it. So same here with
this congresswoman from the Colorado River area of Arizona. She
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isn't like not getting her way. But you know what,
too bad, so sad when we come back. So gas
prices are falling nationwide, and it really is amazing to me.
In politics, it's better to be lucky than good. And
Gavin Newsom is lucky. He is absolutely lucky. He imposes
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gas taxes at a time when Californians can least afford
an increase in their fuel costs at the pump. It
is unpopular, it's unpopular, and it's tripartisan unpopular. Republicans, Democrats,
and independents. A majority of all three, when asked do
not want to pay Newsom's gas tax increase. He had
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the opportunity to suspen he had the opportunity to hold
off on it. It would have been good politics, and
frankly it would have been good policy because the most
regressive thing in California is the price of gas. The
people that make the least is impacted the most. Right,
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It's just annoying if you have a good salary. But
if you are in one of these businesses that drive
around a truck all day, if you are a landscape
guy or the pool cleaning guy or the cleaning people,
or people that just driving trucks all day, right, and
you don't have an ev or alexis, then when gas
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is four forty nine, four sixty nine, four eighty nine,
five twenty nine, that really hurts you when it doesn't
have to be that price. And Newism did it anyway,
and it immediately raised the price of the pump, hurting
people and regressive in its pain. And at the same time,
in Trump gets elected and embarks upon a domestic petroleum
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exploration campaign opens up and war in Alaska. Remember that
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We fought about that for years.
Oh my goodness, can't do that. The elks and the
polar bears, and it would be an environmental disaster. And
in a day President Trump opened it up and has
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given out more leases for domestic exploration for everything, petroleum, coal, fracking.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I mean everything. So we're doing it all. We're doing
exactly what we want.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And he has promised in delivering everything that he said,
and that is we are going to domestically produce power
and energy and tell the Saudis to leave the barrels
of oil on the dock, sell it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
To somebody else.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And it takes a little bit of time to scale
that up to the needs that we have here in
the United States, but it's well worth the time and
the investment. So while Newsom was jacking up the price
of the pump through gas taxes, Trump was lowering the
cost of petroleum on the market. And now the price
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is down and so Newsom's tax increases are effectively absorbed
by the lowering of the prices across the board.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It is absolutely amazing that Newsom actually benef like he'll
benefit politically. He'll go out there and say that the
gas prices in California at the lowest level they've been
since I took office and take a bow as.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
If he caused it by raising your gas tax. But
he'll take credit for it. No question about it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And the reality is that it is one hundred percent
this new administration's work that caused the actual price of
the gasoline to go down, and the gasoline has gone
down so much that you don't even notice that you're
being screwed by a gas tax. So we will talk
when we get back about how that's how long that's
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going to stay into effect. Alex Stone from ABC News
will be with us to give us the latest numbers,
But just to give you an idea if you're driving
around and you need to get gas, the average price
of the lowest gas price in the United States right
now is in Oklahoma two dollars and fifty seven cents
a gallon. Two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Can you imagine if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Gas was two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon
here in California? Now the average price in California is
coming down too. Today it's at four dollars and sixty
six cents. So you didn't even notice that you got
screwed by Sacramento in the form of attax. But you
can thank President Trump and domestic energy policy. Lou Penrose,
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