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Posted on 07/27/2015 12:04:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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RUSH: I've been thinking about this. We are all inundated by each other, every day, with e-mails, phone calls, texts, what have you, of utter incredulity over what's happened to the Republican Party. It's just too weird, folks. There just isn't any serious opposition to anything that the Democrat Party wants.
Remember Angelo Codevilla? He's back. He had that great place on the ruling class that I read in its entirety to you when he published it, and he then turned it into a book. He's back with his thoughts on Trump, and I found it at the Power Line blog post by Steven Hayward, and that's coming up later on the program today. It's just a brilliant, brilliant explanation of why what Trump is doing is working and what makes it stand out.
It's nothing, by the way, that you haven't thought of yourself. It's just the way Codevilla explains it that makes it really penetrating and right on the money. But the Republican Party's opposed nothing. You know, they're not even going through the motions. Mr. Snerdley, have you noticed? They're not even voicing phony opposition to Obama in order to placate the base. They're actively targeting their own base. This is just too weird! The one thing to concluded here, is, I don't believe that...
Name the names: McConnell, Boehner, members of their leadership. I just don't believe these guys overnight have become liberals. I don't think that explains it. I don't think overnight they've become moderates. There's something else that explains this, and that question is always, "Follow the money." I think that is where we would find the answer to this. We could speculate, you know, what does "follow the money" mean? Is there blackmail? Is there bribery going on or promises of financial wealth after retirement or whatever?
Except these guys don't retire and go home. They stay there. So I don't know. But it's just too weird. Not only is there no the Republican Party opposition -- and I'm talking about the establishment in Washington, not the presidential candidates right now. But just the establishment in Washington, you can't distinguish the difference between Republicans and Democrats there. They are all aligned. They are glued together.
But the difference now is, the Republican Party doesn't even go through the motions of trying to convince its votes that they're opposed to the Obama agenda. You look at the incident that happened with Ted Cruz on the Senate floor last Friday, openly calling out Mitch McConnell, and then McConnell taking his revenge on a Sunday session, which is totally predictable and understandable to me.
You know, Cruz on Friday goes on the floor of the Senate and calls McConnell a liar. McConnell later in the afternoon supposedly does a reversal on an amendment that would defund Planned Parenthood. He was originally not gonna permit that amendment, then late Friday afternoon he did a 180 and said he would, and some people credited that to Cruz's floor speech on the Senate on Friday, had a Sunday session, and McConnell just denied Cruz and his buddy Mike Lee.
I think they couldn't even get a roll call much less get started on any substantive debates, amendments. Republican senators, that's what happens you violate the decorum like this. You go against the leader the leader is gonna drop the hammer on you. So people are sending me e-mails, "How come Republicans didn't support Cruz?" and a lot of people are wondering, "Why didn't any other Republican senators stand up and support Cruz in this?" Well, why do you think they didn't?
I'll give you one reason off the top. It's not the only reason. One reason is he's a Republican presidential candidate, and I would venture to say that a lot of Republican senators are not gonna support him. They probably think that what he's doing is designed to enhance his campaign is or sell his book and they decided they're not gonna help him do that. No matter what he's talking about, no matter whether what he's talking about is good for the nation or not they're not gonna help him.
Because partisan politics rears its head and they either support Walker or they support Jeb or they support Rubio or they support somebody else. But they're not gonna support Cruz so there's no way they would mass and support him in the Senate. Plus, I don't think a bunch of them in there want to take on McConnell, either. Not that it's McConnell, but just don't want to take on the leadership. So Cruz was left to hang out and dry, and to a certain extent Mike Lee with him after what happened on the Sunday session.
But my point is that selling Cruz out on Sunday's understandable -- just standard, ordinary everyday standard operating procedure rules in the Senate, the way it behaves. But even if you want to throw that in the mix, this is all just too weird. There's not even any phony opposition. They're not even trying to motivate the base. They're not even trying to fool the base. I mean, they've had all these phony votes. For example, repeal Obamacare votes.
They're not even going through the motions of that 'cause they know that people see through it and that they don't mean it. They're not even trying. I don't care what the issue is. The big three: Amnesty, Obamacare, Iran. Nothing! Zilch! No opposition to anything. Now, can anybody say that immigration, as being policed or not policed by Obama is helping America? Can anybody? They don't even try to make the case that's happening. I mean, even the amnesty supporters do not do it on the basis that it's good for America.
They do it on the basis that it's "fair" for the immigrants. They do it on the basis of social justice and fairness motivations and reasons. But they don't do it it's improving the country. The Iran deal. Does anybody think this is actually good for the United States? Yet there's no opposition to it, no serious opposition. I mean, for Corker to stand up and accuse Kerry of being fleeced? (chuckles) Who got fleeced first? Corker did, in putting together the famous now Corker Bill.
Obamacare? Can anybody say that Obamacare is making health care better? Can anybody say that anything that Obama is doing is? Nobody even makes the case, other than Obama with some words now and then -- phony baloney plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roll -- that the country's better off than it has. They have to lie about employment numbers, they have to make things up. There's not even any fake opposition to Obama. I refuse to believe as I say that these guys have become moderates or liberals overnight in our party.
So there's something else going on to explain this. And, by the way, I don't believe it's just one thing. A lot of people think, "Well, it's because Republican Party wants to finally get rid of the conservatives, get rid of its base." I don't doubt that, but I don't think that's the singular explanation for this total lack of opposition. 'Cause none of what's happening right now anybody makes the case is helping America. Are sanctuary cities helping America? Is any of this good for the country?
Is any of this good for the people of this c, is any of it, is any of what's happening in America today good for, anybody in the elected political class running around and claiming, "Hey, slow down, you guys, you Americans! Take stock. We're doing better than ever! We're sitting tight! We're looking at a great future." Nobody's telling us that. Everybody's telling us how we have to manage the decline, lower expectations, this is the new normal, and there's no opposition to it? It's too weird.
And just five or six years ago there was opposition to it. I mean, for example, in 2010 there was not one Republican vote for invoke. So five years ago there was opposition. I just refuse to believe that, in the last five years, our guys have all turned to mush. Well, I take that back. They have turned to mush. I refuse to believe that they have undergone ideological transplants and have all become liberals or moderates. 'Cause none of it makes any sense. So that has created a giant void, and who is filling it but Trump.
Trump is filling the void, which is a partial explanation for why Trump is Trump is experiencing such overwhelming support. Because the people of this country are understandably fed up. They're fed up with all. There's no opposition to the gay marriage agenda, and we have to listen to a Supreme Court justice tell us that if we oppose it, we're bigots or whatever. The Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy in his opinion.
There's no opposition to this? Admit it, folks: What has you bamboozled, what has you frustrated is you don't see any opposition to any of it at a level of power that could do something about stopping it. There's plenty of opposition in your neighborhood, plenty of opposition in your town, plenty of opposition in your family, plenty of opposition in your friends, but there's none where it counts. There's a giant void -- and here comes Trump.
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Bought and paid for whores.
Liberalism Rush. Duh.
1. Uncontrollable lust for absolute power
2. They’re being blackmailed.
Or, any combination of 1 & 2
Maybe something so big is coming that they just don’t care? /tinfoil
Yep.. reset coming this sept! weee!! /semisarc.
With the conservative ascendence they need donations more than ever to fight for their re-election. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As long as the US can promise the toil of it’s children and grandchildren for loans this will continue.
Communists.
ANSWER: Lobbyists, wealthy donors, and first and foremost BLACKMAIL BY ODUNGO AND HIS NSA TREASURE TROVE OF ALL CONGRESSMAN’S E-MAILS, PHONE CALLS AND INTERNET ACTIVITY.
I’ve seen phony opposition. Like McConnell splitting out the “defund amnesty” portions from the DHS funding bill, planning to send it to Obama separately (like he’d sign it), talking tough, then giving Obama everything he wanted anyway.
I’ve heard tough talk from Boehner, only to have him cave.
People remember the tough talk and not the cave.
One thing Rush didn’t cover- maybe elections don’t matter anymore and the pubbies don’t have to try to stay in power, all they need to do is appease the true vote-counters.
Or, maybe there’s something else at work here: A continued Divine plan to ensure that conservatives are disenfranchised, so that liberals will continue hold power and continue to destroy the American economy. Economic ruin is one of the Lord’s judgments for a society committed to sin, if I understand the pattern expressed in Revelation 8-9. So are internal turmoil, injustice, wars.... Suffering can lead to repentance by some. By eagerly embracing things the Creator has expressly said are an abomination to Him- murder of innocents/”Molech worship” (infanticide), rampant divorce, homosexuality, to name a few— this society certainly deserves it. But who knows?
Suicide of Western Civilization.
C'mon Rush! You're smarter than that! They've been mush for a long, long time. In 2010 they were 100% mush, the difference is that they were in the minority and couldn't be expected to stop obama and reid. So they could do their dishonest playhouse 90 and act the outraged patriot and all that flat out BS. It was all an act...and now that they've got the majority the mush rises to the surface.
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of the GOP.
I think what he says about Trump is already understood by everyone here. They can’t buy Trump. They can’t control him. They can’t stop him either. They took their best racism shot and missed. HE WENT UP. Then they rallied around “song bird” McCain. Trump went up. Now after those and many other streotypes — all have failed.
Their new stategy is to force “details and policies” and hope they can exploit those. I have real news for them— they will force nothing on Trump.
Bush has raised $109 million in “pay for play” extortion? Trumps Boeing 757 cost that much with sales tax!!! Trump doesn’t do “pay for play”.
I guarantee that Trump can match bush on the number of policies and details bush babbles out.
But one policy has helped us make up our minds more than any other. We want the Mexican border sealed shut!! No MAS!!
6 months or so after that is confirmed we will make a rational effort to illiminate the criminals and terrorist and set up a pathway to WORK but never VOTE.
I don’t think for a minute they’re being blackmailed.
I think they’re true believers.
What’s happening in September?
Your #4, precisely so, and quite possibly both blackmail and bribery, in combination with lust for power.
it’s the lure of easy money it has a very strong appeal
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