A Great Day for the Swamp: Dems Get Everything, Trump Gets Less Than Nothing

RUSH: All right. Will somebody explain something to me? Somebody explain to me how we have, apparently, for years and years and years been trying to get a criminal justice or prison reform bill, and it happened with bipartisan support, 87 votes in the Senate. Now it goes over to the House where it’s gonna pass. It’s not a big issue as far as the general public is concerned. Some special interests have made a big deal about it. It happens. It didn’t take much effort to get it passed. It didn’t take much debate whatsoever.

It’s an important issue to some people, Jared Kushner and others. He’s got a personal attachment to it. His father was unfairly imprisoned, he believes, and a lot of people that… I mean, it’s not a worthless piece of legislation. How in the hell does this get passed with now controversy, no opposition, no problem? I mean, Washington came together to pass this thing in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile, $5 billion, a measly $5 billion — when compared to the size of the federal budget for border security — is an impossibility. Somebody needs to explain to me how this happened.

I know you people are looking to me to explain it to you, and don’t worry. I’m being rhetorical here. I have an explanation for this. But it’s just… It’s the kind of thing that just rubs me raw, it sends people into orbit because something that substantiate on somebody’s primary watch list, some issue that it’s not having a national clamor to get this done, an issue that primarily benefits 187,000 people and whoever their political sponsors are just sails through.

The point is it can be done on something the American public is not even really aware of, not clamoring for, and doesn’t know when it’s happened. There’s some news stories: “Senate Easily Passed Trump-Backed Criminal Justice Reform Bill.” There are 87 votes in the Senate for it, and yet things the American people have expressed for decades that they want, have voted over and over and over again to say that they want, have sent somebody to Washington from outside the political system to get done, and there’s no hope.

There’s not a shining chance that this is gonna get done. And they gloat and they applaud and they celebrate in Washington over this. Some of this stuff is just so frustrating and maddening and defies any kind of common sense explanation. This is swamp behavior at its best. This is the greatest illustration of how much of a game all of this actually is. We’re made to think that it’s cutthroat and real. And, meanwhile, it’s just all a game, how this stuff happens, in Congress, in the House, in the Senate in Washington.

It looks like a lot of people’s worst fears may be realized and that the president is getting ready to cave on getting any money for the wall in the current budget. In fact, TheHill.com — the Capitol Hill newspaper — is claiming, quote, “Trump’s Concession Paves the Way for Lawmakers to Reach a Compromise and End This Congress,” meaning the Republican-controlled Congress, “Without a Partial Government Shutdown.” That’s been the objective, to end this Congress without a shutdown? That’s how we’re gonna define success?

It’s not how we define success. It is apparently how inside-the-Beltway defines success, (impression) “Oh, look what we did. We avoided another government shutdown! The Republicans are bowing down. “Hosanna! Hosanna! We’re saved again. We’re not gonna get blamed for a government shutdown.” Meanwhile, the border remains wide open and the Democrats are gonna be controlling the House in just a few weeks. They’re now gloating and telling the president, “You can’t get any money from anywhere else in the budget.

“We’re not gonna let you. We’re gonna make sure that you can’t build this wall. There isn’t gonna be a wall. We don’t want there to be a wall,” and apparently there’s no way. Even though we can allocate whatever money we need for criminal justice reform or Planned Parenthood or whatever the hell else liberal clause is clamoring for your tax dollars, any amount of money, need even $1.6 billion. That’s been pulled off in this deal to save a shutdown.

Not a penny above and beyond what’s already allocated is gonna be spent on securing the border of this country which is wide open still. “But we’ve gotta compromise on no government shutdown, Mr. Limbaugh. It’s a good Christmas. It’s a great day for Washington.” This is textbook. It’s a textbook example of what the Drive-By Media calls compromise. Trump gets nothing and the Democrats get everything, including control of the House in a few short weeks.

In fact, I just alluded to this, Trump’s gonna get less than nothing because this compromise strips out the $1.6 billion for the wall that the Senate Appropriations Committee had already approved weeks ago. That’s gone too. Not only, is there not gonna be five billion, there isn’t gonna be $1.6 billion that was already allocated. So it’s an even better compromise in the minds of the Drive-By Media and the denizens of the swamp. Not a penny. Forget wall. Think border security.

I still maintain that a wall is symbolic. I know a lot of people believe that the wall was actually gonna be built, and I was one of the people hoping and supporting to be built, but even without the wall, there is still the need for border security. The wall was a representative of that. There isn’t going to be a penny additional for that. Yet while we are in debt to the tune now $21 trillion we are spending money left and right on things that are in direct contravention to what the purpose of spending on the wall would be!

Now, the stock market. The way this game is played, the stock market dive… TheHill.com and the Drive-By Media are even blaming the stock market’s nosedive on Trump’s threat to shut down the government, on Trump’s wall, on trying to do something about immigration! Which is pure caca. What’s driving down the stock market is the Federal Reserve promising to raise interest rates to slow down this out of control economy, which, if you read the news, is gonna be into recession in the next three weeks; so what in the hell are we doing raising interest rates?

What we’re doing is trying to bring down the Trump administration. What they’re doing is trying to bring down the Trump administer. If they have to crash the market… Not crash it. If they have cause the market to go down, if they have to slow down the economy, it doesn’t matter. If they have to do criminal justice reform and fund Planned Parenthood and all of this stuff and not spend an additional penny on border security, then that’s what the hell is gonna be done.

Everything that happens, magically there’s a left-wing response to it. At a federal court, any amount of progress whatsoever is met immediately with left-wing opposition. They stand up and say, “Nope, you can’t do it,” and find a federal judge somewhere to say, “Nope, can’t do that, not gonna do that.” Everything gets shut down. Everything gets stopped. Except what needs to be shut down and what needs to be stopped. So it’s clear that the left, the Democrats, the Drive-By Media now turning to turn Trump’s pledge on the wall into George H. W. Bush’s “Read my lips: No new taxes.”

This is exactly what the objective has been. Trump commits to a wall; it’s part of his campaign 2016. We’ve known from the get-go they were never gonna support a wall. Everybody that’s in favor of a wall has known there wasn’t gonna be any support for it. I mentioned yesterday there’s not anybody in Washington outside of a couple members of Congress euphemistically. But I’m talking about the entire Washington establishment, the swamp, they don’t want the wall. They don’t want any part of it. They don’t want any limits on illegal immigration.

That’s why Trump was elected to bulldoze through all of that. You want to add insult to injury? The United States has pledged $10.6 billion, twice as much as has been asked for for the wall. A $10.6 billion aid package (Are you ready for it?) to Central America and southern Mexico. And you know what the theory is? The theory is that if we provide aid money to these war-torn, poverty stricken areas we can build ’em up and their people won’t want to leave.

We’ve been hearing that since 1992. That was the purpose of NAFTA. NAFTA was gonna build up all these Central American southern hemisphere hellholes. It was going to build ’em up, have roaring economies down there and their people wouldn’t want to leave. How did that work out? How many times have we given whatever amount of money to all of these hellholes in Central and South America for the express purpose we’re told of building up their economies so their people won’t want to leave, and they just continue to leave in even larger numbers and now joining caravans of thousands.

Which, by the way, have not gotten in and the caravans are starting to disband, but the caravan crowd is now demanding reparations, $50,000 per participant to leave. The caravan has wrecked Tijuana, Mexico. They haven’t found a way to get in, but that’s just short of a miracle. The Associated Press has the story today. “U.S. Pledges $10.6 Billion Aid for Central America, Southern Mexico.” You heard that right.

“The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico. The U.S. aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.” Don’t make me laugh. We’re taking ’em one way or the other.

They either get across the border illegally, become wards of the state, or we pay them before they get here ostensibly to make sure they don’t come, and they come anyway! And we all know that the money spent on these governments in southern Mexico and Central America never reaches the people of these countries anyway. Otherwise, they might stay if their countries were expanding their economies and opportunity, if their economies were taking off, maybe they would stay. But the money never seeks to work!

It didn’t work with NAFTA! This doesn’t work! It never has. Giving money to people don’t have it doesn’t work! It doesn’t work in welfare. It doesn’t work in wealthy families who do nothing but give money away. When it isn’t earned, there is no pride in it, there’s no association, there’s no achievement related to it. All there is, you get a little bit and people start asking for more, they come to expect it, they start thinking you’ve got it all, I don’t have enough, I want more, and they keep asking and we keep giving! It’s human nature.

You give people things they haven’t earned and they don’t appreciate it. They don’t thank you. They just expect more. Generosity is never understood. People don’t take the time to be appreciative. They just continue the expectations. And then these people are fueled with further anger because while we are being generous with them they’re told what rotgut schemers we are. We’re told what we are. They’re told what racists we are and what bigots we are. We give them all the money, we keep their countries afloat, and somehow we still end up being the bad guys.

The American media, the Democrat Party are happy to promulgate that message and blame it all on the Republicans! Now, bear in mind that this $10.6 billion in aid is more than twice as much as what President Trump wants for this year’s funding for the wall. We’re gonna have nothing to show for this $10.6 billion except a bunch of people being able to run around say, “Look how much we care. Look how compassionate we are. Look at what we’re willing to do for border security.

“We’re willing to give money to countries so their economies can shine so their people will not leave.” How many decades has this been a philosophy and a policy, and how many decades of failure do you need to know that it isn’t gonna work? And so the objective really isn’t to give $10.6 billion to these areas of Central America so that their people prosper. There’s another reason for it. And the reason is selfish. “Look what they did. Look how much we care. We really care about poor people. We’re giving money away.

We believe in human rights and civil rights and so forth,” and their circumstances never improve and they still join migrant caravans and other modes of transportation to get here even after supposedly receiving money like this. Let me remind you in 2015, Obama gave $750 million to the so-called northern triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, $750 million. That money was supposed to improve security there, it was supposed to tackle gang violence, it was supposed to end poverty. You can’t give money to poor people and have it end poverty!

Have we not proven that in 200 years? Have we not proven that in however many years human beings have walked the earth? It’s human nature. You cannot give money away and create prosperity. It just doesn’t work! It has to be earned. It has to be real. It has to be associated with some kind of achievement and productivity. Otherwise it’s just charity! And what charity has ever gotten enough money that it can say “mission accomplished, we’re shutting down”? Not a single one of them!

Not a single charity has ever said, “Thank you, we’ve got plenty more than we need. We’re shutting. Mission accomplished.” There’s never an end. You can call it charity. You can call it welfare. You call it foreign aid. You can call it foreign policy. You can call it whatever it is. But it will not solve what it’s attempted to solve. And until people who are trying to get into this country legally and illegally are willing to come here and become part of the American landscape and culture and join the rest of us in doing what’s necessary to maintain America’s relevance and economic growth rather than become sponges, they shouldn’t get in.

But because we have a political party which needs a-never-ending supply of that kind of person, incapable of work and unwilling to, incapable of learning English and not caring to, that’s the future of America if the Democrat Party ends up dominate and running it, because that’s the kind of voters that they need to continue to win. Let’s be honest. The world is filled with people who qualify as permanent underclass. And the Democrat Party appears more than willing to have as many of ’em as they can get into our country.

RUSH: The Associated Press says that this money doesn’t require congressional approval. I’m talking about the $10.6 billion going down is to Central America. It doesn’t need congressional approval. Unlike Trump’s signature to protect, stem illegal immigration, that somehow needs his signature. The $5 billion for the wall, he needs to sign a deal for that. But we can somehow transfer $10.6 billion to southern Mexico and Central America, and it doesn’t require congressional approval.

Also it’s gonna be procured from some other existing part of the budget, and yet Trump cannot do that. You can’t go get from his own executive branch $5 billion laying around unused in some stupid budget area and use it to build the wall, but the Congress can somehow reallocate $10.6 billion without Trump needing to sign anything to send foreign aid or with of down to Central America and southern Mexico?

RUSH: There’s something about this that doesn’t connect, folks. This is so out of character for Donald Trump. I don’t know… (sigh) It can’t be that he thinks everybody is so busy with Christmas they’re not gonna notice that the wall funding… Folks, it’s not just dying here. The Democrats are doing a death dance over it. It’s not just dying. It’s gone forever! They are pronouncing this DOA.

They’re puffing up and bragging and getting all arrogant about this, that it’s over forever ’cause once they get control of the House, Trump is done getting anything done and all that’s gonna happen is he’s gonna be investigated. Now, meanwhile, this $10.8 billion (I’m not kidding, $10.8 billion) in aid, in welfare, in charity to southern Mexico and Central America? After Obama gave similar amounts of money during his eight years — all for the express purpose of building these places up so that they have economies down there where people will not have to leave to come here.

It never happens, and that $10.6 billion doesn’t have to be part of this budget deal. Why that money’s just gonna be found somewhere. It doesn’t need Trump’s signature, which means Trump can’t stop it. But $5 billion — a paltry $5 billion — compared to a federal budget that’s approaching $3 trillion, can’t be found anywhere. Chuck and Nancy are out there saying that Trump is not gonna be allowed to go get it from any other cabinet department or anywhere else in the executive branch. They’re gonna make sure he can’t do it.

It’s just out of character for Trump to be appearing to cave on this. I can’t believe that that’s what is happening and that he thinks it’s not gonna be noticed. But I tell you, the back-and-forth, the juxtaposition of $10.8 billion — and we’re just hearing about this today! Oh, by the way, America, $10.8 billion,” and everybody is celebrating and acting like this is some kind of grand thing that we’re doing. “Oh, by the way, while we’re punting on $5 billion for the wall and telling all of you to support to essentially go to hell, you know what we’re doing?

“We’re sending $10.8 billion in aid down to Central America and southern Mexico — and guess what? It doesn’t have to be allocated! It doesn’t to have to be appropriated. It doesn’t have to be part of this budget deal. Whether the government shuts down or not, we’re gonna send the money down there.” Really? Whether the government shuts down or not, that money is gone, and the Republicans… Trump’s not alone in this! The Republicans can’t find a way to get a measly $5 billion for the wall in a $5 trillion budget?

Just to put $5 billion in perspective, it is less than what the government spends on food stamps each and every month. That’s $5.9 billion! Not to mention the untold billions that illegal aliens cost us every year! That $5 billion is a rounding error, if that, in the federal budget! Meanwhile, we have this criminal justice reform bill that passed seemingly without any debate. There was one senator who had opposition to it. His name was Tom Cotton, and he was pretty much buried. He had some support but not much. They got 87 votes in the Senate for this. It just sails through.

The American people don’t even know it’s happening, and to the extent that they do, they don’t care. It’s not at the top of the anybody’s list except some people in Washington where it was apparently at the top of the list. They’re out there celebrating this. It’s gonna affect 187,000 plus some change people in prison. It’s gonna let ’em out early. It’s gonna give ’em house arrest. Some of it’s legit. I mean, there’s some people in prison that shouldn’t be. Sentencing was excessive. I’m not suggesting it’s not necessary.

But mind-boggling there’s something like this that nobody cares about (maybe that’s the answer) sails right through. We all know why. Prison reform is… Both parties are looking at the opportunity to tell minorities how much they care, how sensitive we are. “Look at what we’ve done! Everybody thinks the vast majority of the prison population is minority, and so look what we’re doing! We are being compassionate. We are being understanding, and we are not racist, and we understand that we have an unfair judicial system.”

Yeah, just ask Michael Flynn. Yeah, just ask James Comey. Just ask McCabe. Unfair legal system? We’ve got a two-tiered judicial system! Hillary Clinton and Democrats innocent and not even charged. Republicans? Guilty for breathing — and if there’s a charge, that’s it.

RUSH: Meanwhile, over here, $5 billion, a rounding error in the federal budget, is enough for the Democrats to say, “Shut down the government. We’re not gonna let this happen.” ‘Cause it isn’t about the $5 billion. It’s about choking off the continuing supply of prospective Democrat voters, a permanent underclass.

For that reason — since it’s not about the $5 billion and since it’s not about the budget and it doesn’t bust the budget and it doesn’t do anything — I think the president ought to veto this. This is why he got elected. This is why people stick with him. This is why his support base has not abandoned him during this full-frontal effort of the Democrats and the media to destroy him. They’ve hung with him because of this. This issue predated Trump.

The American people have been telling Washington for 25 years they don’t want this, and the American people have continued to triumph. Washington continues to try to thwart the will of the people on this. Finally, the people elected somebody who actually said he meant what he was talking about regarding this, and they have stuck with him. The president should veto this thing, tell ’em he’s not signing it and leave for Mar-a-Lago today. He’s not supposed to leave until the 21st. Somebody in the White House tell him I’ll meet him on the first tee tomorrow.

I thought that DJT was a masterful deal maker? Sure is hard to understand how. He promised that HRC would be investigated and locked up if she was found guilty. Investigation hasn't happened. He promised that the southern border would be sealed with a wall to prevent illegals from coming here. hasn't happened. Economy is supposedly booming yet market investments are going down the toilet. He lets the Congress go home without completing its work. When they come back in January the Demonrats have control of the House.

How about this:

If 5B is not appropriated for the security of the southern border, no one goes home. And by the way, the prison reform bill that y'all just passed, it won't get my signature until the border wall is paid for.

The POTUS should do what's right, even if means that he is a one term president.

So she can sell books

You haven’t figured her schtick out yet?

She says whatever to sell her books

She’s the National Enquirer of political book authors, every four months she has a new one out.

Shapiro, always been a never Trumper piece of garbage.

Maulkin? Another attention you know what.

Was Cruz going to build the wall or was he going to lick the butt of Chamber of Commerce crowd that he usually does?

Same with Jebby, Rubio, Rand Paul, Graham, Kasich etc

Trump had the right ideas, unfortunately, being president is not like being CEO, where you just tell people what you want them to do. President Trump has zero legal and political experience. Something the deep state knows and takes advantage of 24/7. Hard to get anything done when half of your own party hates your guts.

This is Trump vs. the Uniparty which consists of the Democrats and GOPee

I really don’t give a crap what Ben Shapiro or Ann Coulter thinks, I am voting Trump 2020 even as a write in.

President Trump has been allover the map politically, the man IS NOT a ideologue. I think he looks at things with a common sense solution which is 99% of what conservatism is.

If you have millions of people entering the country illegally to kill or harm Americans, take their jobs and get on welfare/public assistance, the common sense solution is build a wall (or barrier) and increase border security. Right? That makes sense, its logical. Its how a business man would solve that problem.

When Industry is leaving in droves, and have high unemployment, the solution is to lower taxes on industry, put in place trade tariffs, break or renegotiate trade deals and remove industry hurting regulations. That isn’t how ideologues would have solved this problem, this how a common sense business man would solve that problem.

He is excelling in ares where he doesn’t NEED congress. Unfortunately the areas where he needs congress, he is failing in. Planned Parenthood? Seriously? It was a republican congress, both houses we had, that INCREASED funding to Planned Parenthood, so the Democrats won’t say bad things about them. Bunch of cowards

Voter ID is getting done in many states, the problem with voting isn’t voter ID, it is the mail in/absenttee and after election voting that we don’t have control over, Democrats 2018 run is just the trial run for what they are going to do in 2020.

Immigration, yes he can do more here, for some reason President Trump doesn’t get his full presidential authority here, he needs to just do what he needs to do and tell the judiciary to go pound sand. But I have a feeling he believes these Judges can throw him in jail and that is why he doesn’t challenge him. Remember, he is NOT a politician nor a lawyer.

2nd Amendment, banning bump stocks is dumb, but I believe it will be overturned. I don’t think the 2A is going away, we did maintain the Supreme Court

Judicial appointments, I have been pleased with this. 2 Supreme Court picks already, maybe more, I hope so.

Held the senate and gained two seats, I believe we could have gained more, but it could have been worse. The dems spent two years focused on the house, they did it, hook or by crook.

Prosecuting the crimes of the previous administration, well that is hard when the previous administration is INVESTIGATING you for winning the election. Anything President Trump does will be met with “obstruction” charges, these district court judges have done everything they can to weaken the power of the presidency. Experts have said that the president can’t obstruct justice because he is the chief executive. But I don’t think President Trump understands this or is not being advised that way.

I will vote for President Trump in 2020 either on the ballot or as a write in. I will never vote for a Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Kasich, Jebby, or whomever. I am done with professional snakes like them. And certainly will never vote for dumbocRAT

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