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The Turtle on Fire (for the Turtle!)
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 20, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/20/2019 1:30:45 PM PST by Kaslin

RUSH: Here is Mitch McConnell. I mentioned he had a great line about the accusation from Pelosi that she’s the one that has all the “leverage” now because she’s refusing to send the articles over to the Senate. This is last night on the Senate floor, two sound bites from the Turtle. Here’s the first one…

MCCONNELL: We remain at an impasse because my friend, the Democratic leader, continues to demand a new and different set of rules for President Trump. My colleague wants a special pretrial guarantee of certain witnesses whom the House Democrats themselves did not bother to pursue as they assemble their case.

RUSH: I’m here to tell you, she has… Well, I say, “She has no right.” She can demand all she wants. She has nothing to say about what happens in the Senate. Constitutionally, she’s got nothing to say. But you see, the Constitution’s limits don’t stop her. They’re not stopping her. They’re talking about respect for the rule of law, respect for constitutional duty, constitutional limitations.

They don’t have any. She is attempting to bully and use brute force with the rest of the Democrat Party to force the Turtle into conducting a further investigation with witnesses that she didn’t even bother to call. She didn’t bother to call them because the president wasn’t gonna let them come up and testify. He went to court to stop it. They want to impeach him for that, calling it “obstruction of Congress.”

So now she wants the Turtle to call these witnesses so the investigation can go on. The Turtle said, “We don’t investigate here. You do that! You bring us the case, and we’ll either dismiss it or we’ll sit in judgment of it, whatever. But you don’t get to tell us what to do. We’re the jury. The jury doesn’t do investigations.” Here’s sound bite number 2 from the Turtle. This is the one that has at great line in it.

MCCONNELL: House Democrats imply they are withholding the articles for some kind of “leverage” so they can dictate the Senate process to senators. I admit I’m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. Meanwhile, other House Democrats seem to be suggesting they’d prefer never to transmit the articles. Fine with me.

RUSH: (laughing) This is great. The Turtle’s on fire, for the Turtle. “I’m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want.” (laughing) We don’t want your stinking articles. We don’t want anything to do with this because it’s not legitimate. “Meanwhile, other Democrats seem to be suggesting they prefer never to transmit the articles.” And there are some of those.

And, folks, it all boils down to — I don’t know if there is anybody sane. The reasonable members of the left know that this is gonna lead to an acquittal which is the absolute last thing that they want. In an election year, for it to be recorded as a matter of constitutional congressional law that the president was found not guilty. “Doesn’t matter, Rush. They’d still be able to say he was impeached.” Nah. I’m telling you, the reason she’s not sending these articles over there is because she knows she doesn’t have a case.

Now, I just saw on CNN a Pencil Neck kind of guy named Brad Sherman. He’s also from California. Have you noticed, by the way, speaking of elitism and all, whenever the Democrat leadership gathers on TV, like when Schiff and Nadler and Pelosi and all the people on these committees gathered, do you know what? They’re all from either California or New York. None of them are from the middle of the country. They’re all California, New York. They’re all radical, coastal elites. The House leadership. And yet they tell us that their party is the home of diversity.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: mcconnell; transcript
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1 posted on 12/20/2019 1:30:45 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Pelosi has all the leverage... yeah.

That’s like a wife telling a man he can’t come home from a fishing trip until he promises to spend the next weekend at his mother-in-law’s house.

Or Hillary refusing to have sex with Bill until he endorses her book.

Pelosi the mafia daughter princess doesn’t understand how extortion actually works. LOL


2 posted on 12/20/2019 1:33:50 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kaslin

Say what you want about McConnell, but he clearly and *calmly* laid out how the Senate is going to operate moving forward. Unlike the DEM counterparts, including Pelosi, who are whining and making bold statements like wanting to hang the POTUS.


3 posted on 12/20/2019 1:34:15 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Kaslin

The target of the extortion is supposed to actually want what you are withholding.

We are lead by octogenarian liquor soggy morons.


4 posted on 12/20/2019 1:35:26 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Best laughs of the day, if not the week.


5 posted on 12/20/2019 1:38:03 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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6 posted on 12/20/2019 1:46:06 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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7 posted on 12/20/2019 1:46:42 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Kaslin
I admit I’m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. Meanwhile, other House Democrats seem to be suggesting they’d prefer never to transmit the articles. Fine with me.

That's right, Mitch. You just keep on confirming judges, and Nasti Pelousy can pound sand.

8 posted on 12/20/2019 1:47:24 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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9 posted on 12/20/2019 1:48:14 PM PST by powermill
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Me thought it was Mitch’s finest hour.


10 posted on 12/20/2019 1:50:01 PM PST by kimoajax (Rack-em, stack-em)
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11 posted on 12/20/2019 1:59:42 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I’d say his finest hour is his continuing confirmation of federal judges nominated by Trump


12 posted on 12/20/2019 2:00:34 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: grey_whiskers

Good one


13 posted on 12/20/2019 2:00:42 PM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Nice!


14 posted on 12/20/2019 2:04:09 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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15 posted on 12/20/2019 2:06:14 PM PST by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . .)
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16 posted on 12/20/2019 2:10:42 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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17 posted on 12/20/2019 2:13:08 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Kaslin
So, Nan forced her caucus to go on the record in a House vote for impeachment, just to do nothing about it?

She's supposed to be super smart, right? I would not be happy if I were one of those Trump district Dems.

18 posted on 12/20/2019 2:18:19 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Kaslin
I admit I’m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. Meanwhile, other House Democrats seem to be suggesting they’d prefer never to transmit the articles. Fine with me.

Well, I am not sure that is the approach I would have taken, but, well, there you are, Nancy.

19 posted on 12/20/2019 2:36:17 PM PST by AndyJackson
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I love it! I don’t care if they want a trial or not. Democrats are stuck with their turd impeachment - their shoddy work product. They think their own case stinks. Wow. Some “leverage.” 😆
20 posted on 12/20/2019 2:38:51 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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