Posted on 06/19/2017 12:26:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: They had better get this talk of impeachment under control. This has gotta stop. They cannot be afraid to mention the word. No need to be timid here. This needs to be knocked out of the park. There isn’t anything impeachable that has happened. It is outrageous that five months in this has become the narrative.
This was eminently predictable. And I’ll tell you what, I’m starting to see, in a lot of places all over the media, criticism of the elected Republicans in Congress and consultants and strategists sitting on their hands and not saying or doing anything. This is a criticism that many have observed for many, many moons now, but it’s gaining steam, and a lot of people are getting fatigued and — well, not fatigued. They’re getting energized by this. This has got to change.
There are a number of things that have to change. We need to start going on offense and acting like the winners that we are. Well, some of us have already been doing that. I’m saying others need to join the circus with that attitude.
More on this impeachment and investigation stuff as the program unfolds. I’ll just tell you this. I mean, the narrative out there is that Trump’s under investigation and that the independent counsel, Robert Mueller, is really going to town and he’s collecting evidence and it’s just a matter of time Trump is gonna be impeached. That’s the narrative that everybody’s trying to establish. Even old Pencil Neck, Adam Schiff’s back on TV (paraphrasing), “Well, we still don’t have any evidence. We don’t have any evidence of collusion, but I think there might be obstruction.”
There isn’t any obstruction. A president cannot be tried for obstruction of justice, not in a civil-criminal situation. Maybe impeachment, but we don’t even have that here. These thresholds have not been reached. But while that’s the narrative, some sneaky little thing happened on Fox I haven’t seen too many people talking about, and it happened today.
It was this morning. It was after ten o’clock. Fox News reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has made no final decision on Trump or if Comey’s firing is even worthy of being investigated. Fox News is citing one of their legal sources, unnamed. That kind of cuts against the grain of the media narrative that’s out there, that Mueller is already uncovered a bunch of stuff, he’s lining up a bunch of anti-Never Trumpers, got a bunch of Hillary and other Democrats — which is true, by the way, he does.
And of course he’s had the way paved for him by everybody agreeing that there’s no greater, no more impeccable relationship, image in Washington than that of Robert Mueller. He is Mr. Perfect. He’s got it down pat on ethics. He is unassailable when it comes to his character, when it comes to his integrity. And so when you set it up that way, whatever he comes up with cannot be challenged.
But Fox News says that he has made no final decision on Trump. I assume that means whether Trump is a subject to be investigated or if even the Comey fire is worthy — it’s not. Everything Trump’s done has been constitutional. You know, Alan Dershowitz is about pulling his hair out on TV over this claiming that the left and everybody is trying to criticize, impeach, hound out of office a president who’s done nothing but exercise constitutional authority. He can fire Comey. There’s no impeachment that’s touched by that. There’s no crime. There’s no high crime or misdemeanor in firing the FBI — and there wouldn’t be if he fired Mueller.
Now, the political price, that’s a whole other thing, but to have potential impeachment articles written up because of firing the FBI director? All of this is patently absurd. As I say, more detail on this as the program unfolds.
The president is continuing to do his job. He met today with the president of Panama in the White House. Wouldn’t it be great if at the end of the meeting Trump announced we got the Panama Canal back? (laughing) It’s a pipe dream, obviously wouldn’t happen, but wouldn’t that be funny? If in the midst of all this Trump announced that he has retaken the Panama Canal and that president of Panama willingly gave it back because it is rightfully ours.
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RUSH: By the way, not just Fox News reporting that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has made no final decision on Trump or if the Comey firing is worthy of investigation. Pierre Thomas at ABC News, the senior justice correspondent there, says, “Now my sources are telling me that he’s begun some preliminary planning. He plans to talk to some people in the administration, but Mueller has not made that momentous decision to go for a full-scale investigation.” He said this yesterday on This Week.
So we have two instances here also in the Drive-Bys — well, Fox News, arguably, depending on when you hear it could be considered Drive-By Media. I mean, I hate to say it, but in certain places Fox News does have people that would qualify. Anyway, two different places, Fox News and ABC saying that Mueller hasn’t decided anything, that Trump is not officially under investigation yet and may not be. Mueller has made no final decision. He’s still gathering information.
Now, folks, I understand. As I myself so adroitly pointed out, people like this do not convene for a few days or months and then announce, “Sorry, you know what? We didn’t find anything here. There really is nothing to investigate.” They just don’t do that. When you get prosecutors involved, prosecutors have one objective, and that’s to get guilty pleas or verdicts.
One way or the other, the prosecutor’s job is to send somebody to jail or to have some other kind of major penalty incurred. I can’t recall a special counsel, independent prosecutor, ever announcing, “Sorry. We’ve unturned every stone. We’ve done everything. We can’t find a crime. We can’t find any guilty party. So nothing to see here.” Never happens. Never seen it.
Yes, and when will the Repubs in Congress fight back??? These pansies are a big part of the problem.
The President needs to give a Glengary Glen Ross/Alec Baldwin-type speech ending with firing Mueller and his motley Democrat/Left gang.
Got that right. They didn’t go after obama’s fraudulent BC which proves they are a bunch of pansies. THEY control congress so the fact that this shit is happening shows their ineptness and disregard for the wishes of THE PEOPLE.
They are fighting back.
Against those who elected Trump and denied them the opportunity to throw the election to Hillary with a Jeb Bush nomination.
I don’t understand how people continue to make the erroneous assumption that the GOP is on our side.
It’s not.
“We need to start going on offense and acting like the winners that we are.”
Rush sums it up.
I wonder if Rush or his staff read some responses from Freepers here about the do nothing congress not defending Trump. Anyone know if he peruses FR?
There was an article about the increasing use of barnyard language, but let us use the right word here. People are getting pissed off by this.
The swamp is doing what the swamp does, spending everyone's money and swilling their own self-lauditory rhetoric while wasting everyone's time not getting on with what they were elected to get on with - and I mean the Republicans.
That’s because the Established Republicans are just as against Pres. Trump as the Democrats are. Only the Democrats are more honest about their intentions.
Well they tried dropping his integrity on the red-staters from 50,000 ft without a parachute and it looks like his reputation just went splat like all the other bloated on their own self-praise swamp-dwellers.
They don't need to fight. They only need to pass a resolution, each house for itself that that house will do-nothing. Hold no hearings, take up no impeachment proceedings, provide no funds for special counsels. They can't even bring themselves to do what they do best, resolve to do nothing.
The bar is pretty low for impeachment. But I don’t believe Trump has done anything yet that meets impeachment levels.
Well, I would suggest that if their plans went awry they would have lived with a Jeb Bush presidency.
Imagine if we had a political party that represented us?
It’s time for Trump to blame the Republican Congress for this entire mess.
He should be running ads in all their districts.
Rush Limbaugh has made references to FR years ago. Most ‘name’ conservatives have at least lurked here over the years. Signal to noise ratio is lower now. I know there are still a few Congressional staffers who at least lurk here.
I’m not afraid of Trump getting impeached.
I’m afraid of what happens when the Democrats and media fail to deliver on the promise.
Idiot leftist snowflake millenials are getting all excited about it, having no idea how the process works. When Trump is never impeached (It’s really next-to-impossible to remove a president, especially with these kinds of flimsy allegations)...or when he wins reelection...they’re going to lose it.
Angry riots and violence could take over the streets. The Dems don’t know what a dangerous fuse they’re lighting.
I’m not afraid of Trump getting impeached.
I’m afraid of what happens when the Democrats and media fail to deliver on the promise.
Idiot leftist snowflake millenials are getting all excited about it, having no idea how the process works. When Trump is never impeached (It’s really next-to-impossible to remove a president, especially with these kinds of flimsy allegations)...or when he wins reelection...they’re going to lose it.
Angry riots and violence could take over the streets. The Dems don’t know what a dangerous fuse they’re lighting.
They tried to overturn W’s election with hanging chads. This is just this year’s hanging chad.
No chance of that happening at all ever.
He’s even more of a loser than Hillary Clinton, who is the world’s foremost professional loser.
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