Of course Rubio's statement was a dog-whistle.

Google 'Obama controls weather'. This has been a right wing chew toy for many months now. And comments about 'controlling the weather' are usually paired with something about Obama also being unable to hold back the tides.

The numbskulls who make up the 'conservative' base have been having a lot of fun pretending that their context-free paraphrases of things Obama and Pelosi have said in speeches were real quotes. This is third-rate AM talkshow fodder. But it's pretty widespread.

What's interesting is that Rubio is willing to give this kind stuff prime-time attention. This is the kind of nonsense that usually stays down in the muck: the stuff respectable a politician would be ashamed to associate with. But that's not Rubio, apparently.