In the past year, as it became clear that the Supreme Court was poised to strike down the right to an abortion, a group of conservative Catholic bishops sought to exclude pro-choice American politicians from the central sacrament of the Church, the Holy Eucharist (i.e., Communion). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the chief object lesson after efforts to deny the president of the United States access to the Sacrament failed. On May 20, the archbishop of Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, publicly banned her from receiving Communion in any of the churches he supervises. Subsequently, three other bishops — in Santa Rosa, California, Arlington, Virginia, and Tyler, Texas — joined the ban, in case Pelosi thought going to Mass outside San Francisco would produce a different result.
GOP Congressman: Pelosi Prioritizes Abortion Over Tackling Inflation, Crime, Border Crisis
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday that the three things that the American people care about right now are inflation, crime, and the border, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is only focused on codifying Roe v. Wade through congressional statute.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pointed out that the Biden administration won’t allow drilling on federal lands, but the Democrats want abortion on federal lands.
“Yeah, that's a great point, and the Democrats are really scrambling, because they are getting pushed so hard and so far from their left side,” Kustoff told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,”
“They knew that this decision was likely coming because of the leak that came out unfortunately from one of the law clerks or the court clerk personnel, but they're going to try to either from an administrative standpoint dictate that these abortions be performed on federal lands within states,” the congressman said.
“Pelosi has already said that legislatively they're going to push as hard as they can to try to -- you will legalize abortion, ratify Roe V. Wade through statute, through codification and the fact of the matter is, listen, people are talking about it in my district, but the 3 things that people care about are inflation, crime and the border,” he said.
“And I bring all of that up, Maria, because if Pelosi really is searching for an answer, the fact of the matter is that in Pelosi's Washington the Democrats – none of us walk and chew gum very well at the same time together,” Kustoff said.
“Between now and the November election, we are in the House of Representatives legislating 23 days, 23 days between now and the election. So every day that she takes up trying to address how to try to, in her mind overturn what the Supreme Court has ruled in this Dobbs case, is a day we’re not addressing these other issues,” the congressman said.
As CNSNews.com reported, according to a new Gallup poll, 67 percent of Americans say they’re experiencing financial hardship due to high gas prices.
When asked what he can do about it, the congressman said, “So from an administrative standpoint when we look at what Biden says, when he talks about this gas tax relief the 18 cents, which doesn't do anything in real terms to help people, he looks -- when he addresses the nation on energy issues or likely any energy issues, he looks weak and feckless, and so there are no solutions.
“The easy thing to do is to reverse his policies that he put in place at the beginning of his administration, restarting the Keystone Pipeline, encouraging American producers to in fact want to produce. Instead of Biden going to the Saudis and begging them and Venezuelans to produce more oil, he ought to go to the Texans and the Alaskans in the north and all of the domestic producers and say, ‘I was wrong. Let's do what we did during the Trump years when we were energy independent. We want you to produce domestically,’” he said.
On the question of whether the United States is in a recession right now and whether inflation gets worse because hundreds of billions of dollars in COVID relief funds have yet to be appropriated in certain states, Kustoff said, “So to your point the more money that the federal government prints and flushes into the economy it has a detrimental effect in a recession. It feels like we are in a recession. It feels like we’re slowing down, and to your point, the attitude of people certainly in my district and across the country, they don't feel good about the economy.
“They don't feel good about the economy for what you said, for what they are paying for gases -- for gas and for groceries, and they open up their 401k statement, and it's really depressing. They tell me they looked at retiring. They’ll have to continue working, because they lost their savings. They’ve lost their investments,” he said.
Exclusive: Blake Masters Urges ‘Pro-Life, Pro-Family Culture’ in Post-Roe America
Arizona Republican Blake Masters is pushing for policies that encourage young Americans to get married and have children, he said during an interview on Breitbart News Sunday.
Masters, who is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona, expressed that in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, state lawmakers should shift their focus to creating what he views as a “pro-life, pro-family culture.”
“It’s a tremendous victory, you know, millions of Americans’ prayers have been answered, and a tremendous victory for life. … Now the fight goes to the state legislatures and governors across the country,” Masters said. “We just have to continue to create a pro-life, pro-family culture in this country again.”
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Masters, who served as president of billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s eponymous foundation before pursuing political office, has made encouraging the making and maintaining of families a critical element of his Senate campaign.
“The family is the bedrock institution,” Masters said. “The family is so important, and, of course, strong families in the aggregate make a strong nation. You cannot have a strong nation if the family isn’t doing well, if families are unable to form or struggling, and I think too few policymakers, both Republicans and Democrats, frankly, they fail to even talk about this, to acknowledge that the health of the American family, the middle class — Are young people economically prosperous enough to get married and have children? Too few people even worry about this, right? It’s all about GDP or it’s all about wage growth. You know, those things are important, absolutely, but let’s not be so abstract and economic about it. How are families doing?”
Masters is in a tight primary race, taking place August 2, but has built momentum in his campaign through a recent endorsement from former President Donald Trump and polls showing him with an edge over the other Republican contenders.
Should Masters win, he will face Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), one of the most vulnerable Democrat incumbents in this year’s midterms. Masters has zeroed in on Kelly’s vote to preserve abortion access “up until the moment of birth” of a child and the broader Democrat Party push to “dissolve the bonds between parents and children,” particularly in grade schools.
“Unfortunately, the American family is under assault,” Masters said. “I think the left, you know, look at what they’re doing in the schools. They’re trying to dissolve the bonds between parents and children. They’re trying to confuse children about their sexuality and all of this kind of really horrible stuff, but we’ve got to return to this basic question, like, how is the family doing? And we need to support America First economic policy that actually strengthens families, not weakens them. And I think this great Supreme Court decision in Dobbs is of a piece with that, and that’s just really, really exciting.”
Masters, a venture capitalist and author, has a slate of ideas to support his pro-family stance and his vision that Americans could one day “raise a family on a single income.”
The Arizona Republican is, for example, disapproving of America’s generous visa system, which he believes needs to be scaled back. Masters condemns the Biden administration’s lack of border control — resulting in continuous surges of illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. — because of its harmful impact on Americans’ wages. America must also “reindustrialize,” Masters says, to become less dependent on foreign countries for goods such as antibiotics or computer chips.
“Decades of globalization, decades of inflation, kind of made [the single-income family] impossible,” Masters observed.
Continuing on to his policy ideas, Masters said, “One is restrict immigration, especially illegal immigration. Open borders and just a flood of migrants coming here, it really does depress the wages for working-class Americans. It makes it harder for working-class people to work hard and save and get ahead and get into the middle class, and that’s a problem. We need to overhaul our visa systems to make sure that we’re not just kind of importing people en masse from foreign countries to come and do the jobs that Americans are fully capable of doing. … It’s a problem in this country if we can’t make basic things that we need, right, if we can’t make antibiotics, if we can’t make computer chips, right? We need to reindustrialize and make this stuff here in America. Again, that’s both a economic imperative. It’s a national security imperative. But, man, it’s also just, again, good for those families that would now have high-skill, high-wage jobs. … There really is a path back to America being a strong, healthy middle-class country again.”
Write to Ashley Oliver at aoliver@breitbart.com. Follow her on Twitter at @asholiver.
Pelosi got so MAD when he asked that question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JoVbiIx72Y
WHAT DID NANCY PELOSI DO FOR HER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MELTDOWN SAN FRANCISCO? - NADA! - BUT SHE SURE RAKED IN THE MONEY BEING A FAILURE
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-did-nancy-pelosi-do-for-her.html
San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g
Americans are exhausted of this Nancy Pelosi saga: GOP lawmaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5TrgN-0Yk
Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpvvHethg0
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan
Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican
ROME — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attended Mass in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis Wednesday, and received Holy Communion not from the pope himself but from another priest assisting at the Mass.
It was unclear whether the priest knew who Mrs. Pelosi was or that she has been banned from receiving Communion in her home archdiocese of San Francisco for her aggressive promotion of abortion, which the Catholic Church considers to be murder.
At a reception Tuesday evening at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Pelosi said she was visiting Rome in a private capacity as part of a family vacation.
In 2021, Pelosi praised Pope Francis’ “immense moral clarity,” but carefully avoided any mention of abortion, which Francis has described as “murder” and a “scourge,” likening it to hiring a paid assassin to take out a child. A “just society recognizes the primacy of the right to life from conception to natural death,” he has asserted.
In January 2015, Pelosi said that she knew “more about having babies than the pope,” insisting that a woman has “the right” to an abortion.
In her acceptance speech for abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s highest honor — the Margaret Sanger Award — Pelosi, who identifies as a Catholic, went still further, calling pro-lifers (like the pope) “dumb,” “closed-minded,” and “oblivious.”
In a 2015 interview, Pope Francis underscored the paradox of modern secular societies that go to great lengths to protect children from harm, and yet defend a so-called “right” to abortion.
“Curiously,” he said, these countries with very strict laws regarding the protection of minors, who even punish fathers or mothers who spank their children, “have laws allowing them to kill their children before they are born.”
“Those are the contradictions we live with now,” he said.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last Friday, returning the issue of abortion to the states, Mrs. Pelosi called the court’s ruling the cumulation of a “dark, extreme” effort led by the Republican party.
“Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party, their super majority and Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers,” Pelosi said. “With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their radical crusade to criminalize health freedom.”
The U.S. Catholic bishops, on the other hand, registered their “joy” over the court’s decision, praising the ruling for overturning an “unjust law” that had resulted in “the deaths of tens of millions of preborn children, generations that were denied the right to even be born.”
For his part, Catholic League president Bill Donohue also lauded the decision as a victory for democracy and a victory for life.
“It is a credit to the Catholic Church that it led the discussion on the morality of abortion for all these years,” Dr. Donohue noted in his June 24 essay. “This ruling makes us proud to be Catholic.”
Polling Shows Dobbs Decision Won’t Help Democrats in November
A new memo from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) showed the Supreme Court’s recent opinion overturning Roe v. Wade after ruling on the Dobbs case would not help the Democrats win over the support of voters in the November election, as they hoped.
Instead, the memo indicated November would be a “referendum on how Biden and his Democrat allies in the states have destroyed our economy” as the percentage of battleground general election voters worry more economy than abortion as a top issue.
As the poll was taken on Saturday morning, in the peak time after the Dobbs ruling, the RSLC feels confident there has been no change from their January survey. “The results affirm that state Republicans remain on offense this year, as they will continue to run campaigns focused on serving as the counterweight to President Biden’s failing economic policies,” the memo stated.
The polling found Biden’s job approval is also underwater, with 41 percent favorable and 57 percent unfavorable. And only 23 percent of likely voters think the country is on the right track, compared to 74 percent who believe it is on the wrong track.
It is just the latest in a long series of public rejections for the president.
Additionally, on the generic ballot, Republican state legislative candidates slightly lead Democrats, 47 percent to 45 percent. In fact, among those surveyed, 48 percent said they would prefer a Republican candidate who would act as a check and balance Biden and his policies versus 44 percent who would prefer having a Democrat who supports the president and his policies.
While abortion is an issue the respondents seemed to care about, it was nowhere close to being a topline issue for voters. Not even close, even after the Dobbs ruling. Instead, over half of the respondents cared about the economy as an issue.
When the respondents were asked which issues were most important, 56 percent said either the high cost of living/inflation, the economy in general, or unemployment/jobs in comparison. In comparison, only eight percent said abortion. Even crime polled one percent higher than abortion:
- High cost of living/inflation: 37%
- Economy in general: 16%
- Crime/Violence: 9%
- Abortion: 8%
- Environment/Climate Change: 7%
- Guns: 7%
- Immigration: 6%
- Voting Rights: 5%
- Unemployment/jobs: 3%
- Education: 3%
For independent voters, 60 percent said they care about inflation, the economy in general, and jobs as their top concerns. Additionally, only 21 percent said abortion is the absolute most crucial issue to them.
Overall, only 30 percent of the respondents said a candidate’s position on abortion is the absolute most crucial issue to them, compared to 65 percent who said there are other issues that they consider to be a higher priority when choosing who to support in November’s election.
Additionally, less than 40 percent of the respondents said they wanted to prioritize abortion to the extent that they would be unwilling to vote for a candidate whose views do not align with theirs on the issue.
Forty-nine percent of likely voters said they would be willing to vote for a candidate who has a different view from them on abortion so long as they agree with them on most other issues, compared to 37 percent who said they were unwilling to compromise on abortion.
The RSLC’s memo explained that one reason the economy is the most pressing issue for voters ahead of the fall, even in light of the Dobbs ruling, is due to personal finances worsening since January.
Fifty-one percent of the respondents said their personal finances are worse off than they were a year ago, compared to only 13 percent who said they are better off. The majority saying their personal finances are worse off is a 16 percent increase from the RSLC’s January memo. A slightly higher amount of independent respondents (56 percent) said they are also worse off.
Moving into the November election, the likely voters appear to trust state Republicans more than state Democrats when it comes to the economy:
- State Republicans lead 53 percent to 38 percent on trust to handle the economy in general – up from 50 percent to 38 percent in January.
- State Republicans lead 51 percent to 39 percent on trust to handle the high cost of living/inflation – up from 49 percent to 39 percent in January.
- State Republicans lead 50 percent to 39 percent on trust to handle unemployment/jobs – up from 49 percent to 40 percent in January.
As the country is going through skyrocketing inflation, which just saw a 41-year high, 58 percent of the respondents said they supported the Republican position on cutting government spending, reducing taxes, and encouraging small businesses.
This is compared to the 31 percent who supported the Democrat positions of increasing government spending, taxing the wealthy, and imposing more regulations on corporations.
With this, 62 percent of independent respondents had sided with the Republicans’ positions while only 31 percent sided with the Democrats’ position.
The RSLC memo noted:
This data is another reminder that what you see on Twitter and in the press doesn’t necessarily capture reality when it comes to voter behavior. A little more than four months from Election Day, the political environment is still a disaster for state Democrats, state Republicans have a commanding lead on what is far and away the most important issue to voters, and the issues state Democrats are trying to exploit to distract from Biden’s failing economy are not going to be salient enough to save them come November [Emphasis added].
Even with empirical evidence displaying the contrary, we shouldn’t expect to see an end to the Democrat- corporate media joint campaign to make abortion the “game changer” of the 2022 midterms. The media didn’t learn their lesson when they said abortion would hurt Republicans in 2020 after the Amy Coney Barrett nomination and we net-gained two state legislative chambers, or when Democrats made abortion the centerpiece of their campaigns in Virginia in 2021 only to suffer a string of embarrassing defeats and lose the House of Delegates — we shouldn’t expect them to agree with us this time around either [Emphasis added].
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The polling makes clear that we will have a big November if we continue to stay laser-focused on making this election a referendum on the disastrous economic policies of Joe Biden and his state Democrat allies. While Democrats have given us the worst inflation since the Carter years and record-high gas prices, voters across the country support our policies to get the economy back on track [Emphasis added].
Cygnal conducted the RSLC’s poll between June 25 and 26, the two days following the Dobbs decision.
The questions were asked to 2007 likely general election voters in battleground states such as Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
There was also a margin of error of plus or minus 2.19 percent.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
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