Posted on 02/14/2018 4:56:38 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: What happened to the call from the woman who wanted me to explain what she thinks is being hypocritical? Where did she go? Did she just ? (interruption) She disappeared. There was a woman on the line, she was the next caller up and she knows who she is and she blew it. She hung up. Maybe her battery ran out or maybe something else happened. But she was going to ask me, How in the world can you on one hand be talking about how the Democrats are imploding as you have been and then tell us today that theyre winning all these local elections out there?
How do you reconcile your statements? How do we know what you say is true? How do we believe what side of whatever your mouth something comes out? Something like that. I dont She wasnt being mean, right? (interruption) She just wanted to (interruption) Well, both can be true! The Democrats can literally be imploding and not know it and on a whole bunch of different levels and still winning these local elections.
You know, local politics is arguably different and because the closer you get to where people live, the issues change, and things have a much greater level of importance. For example, the Trump dossier probably doesnt matter as much if youre voting on a project that involves local money and a new system to deal with people suffering in a county, and depending on how that issue plays out in a campaign
My point in all this is the Democrats are winning all these elections; theyre being very quiet about it. Theyre local elections. Some of them are for the House of Representatives, but very few. Most of them are state races and some of them even more local than that. But theyre winning them. And George Soros is funding them.
George Soros is working every day to undermine Republican opposition as well as promote liberal Democrat opposition, particularly in elections involving judges, district attorneys, the judicial system elections. Democrats want to maintain their grip on that because thats, in large measure, insurance for when they lose elections. For example, Trump won the presidency, and he issues these travel orders to ban terrorists and refugees coming in from various countries, seven countries.
What happened? They had no trouble finding a bunch of communist judges out there to issue a stay on Trumps order, claiming its unconstitutional, which means it has to be adjudicated. So they effectively get to shut down Trumps order. Thats why they dont want to ever lose control of the judiciary.
Of course, the higher you go, the more important you get. The Supreme Court is stacked with a bunch of liberals. It doesnt matter what Congress does. Every case of any importance will eventually get to the Supreme Court and theyll rule the liberal way on it. It doesnt matter what the voters have said. The best example of thats abortion. The American people have never, never weighed in, in a democratic fashion, on abortion. In the United Kingdom, they have.
Have you ever wondered why in the U.K. there are not knock-down, drag-out fights over abortion like there are here? I mean, its a controversial issue, but there it is a settled issue. Do you know why? Because in the U.K., it was actually voted on. It did not become law by virtue of one of their courts. Well, weve never had the actual democratic process play out when it comes to abortion or a number of other controversial issues like that.
The Supreme Court decides them and the people who lose end up looking at the rulings, and if they find a political bias, then it just prolongs the anger and the angst. This is what the Democrats seek. Now, at the same time, the Democrats are tone-deaf. Theres Mark Penn, who is the former Clinton pollster now at Harvard and runs a polling unit.
Grab sound bite No. 3. Yeah. Weve had sound bites of Chuck You Schumer all week. He was in Chicago on Monday. He was warning Democrats theyre missing the boat if theyre only gonna run on Trump hatred. They cannot win on Trump hatred alone. Now, he doesnt say that very much cause he doesnt want to tick off the people who are gonna vote strictly on the basis of hating Trump. But he knows they cant win the House or the White House without an agenda (chuckles) that they can honestly support.
And heres Mark Penn. This was yesterday afternoon on Fox with Dana Perino. She said, How will Democrats push back against attacks that are coming from Republicans that they didnt support tax reform? Republicans will say its clearly benefiting the middle class; the Democrats opposed it, and shes exactly right. The Democrats cannot point to one of their own fingerprints on this. So heres a great pollster with a history of working with Hillary and the Clintons, what are they gonna do? And heres the answer
PENN: In politics, once somethings done, its more off the table than on the table. So I think that the best strategy for Democrats is, Look, weve got these tax cuts. Theyre in place. They in many ways constrain the ability to secure Medicare and Social Security. But what do we do about health care, education, child care? Those are issues that you never hear Republicans talk about and that they can take straight to the middle class. Democrats win on on their issues, issues that matter to real people.
RUSH: So hes telling them, If you know whats good for you, stop bashing the tax cut. Its a loser. Its a good thing. You didnt support it, so forget it. It may as well not have happened. This is advice. His attitude is, It may as well not have happened. Its a nonstarter. You didnt have anything to do with it, so dont continue to trash it. Talk about what youre known for: giving money to people. Get back to Santa Claus! Get back to dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut health care!
Mr. Penn, if I may respectfully react here, theyve already destroyed that too. What do you mean, get back to health care? If theres something they think theyve fixed, its that, is it not? I mean, theyre proud as they can be of Obamacare. So maybe what he means is they need to keep attacking Republicans for trying to take away peoples health care. But the idea that they fixed it? (laughing) Dont make me laugh. Its an absolute mess.
And then whats the other one? Education. You know, hes looking for the greatest hits here. The Democrats dont have anything. This is the bottom line. Here we are in the midst of an economic revival and, by the way, the Democrats best friend right now is inflation, because that might choke it off. That might slow down the growth. That might cause the Fed to raise interest rates, which gonna slow borrowing, which will theoretically slow the expansion of the economy and it might bring back some pain.
The Democrats prosper when people are suffering. The Democrats, their party is made to exist when people are suffering pain. Thats their natural state. Thats where they shine, by promising an end to the suffering. Of course, none of their policies ever bring about prosperity or the end of suffering. They just prolong the agony while making people think its gonna come to an end. But it never does until Republicans get in office and fix things, which is whats happening now.
So go back to health care, education, and child care. Yeah, the old three-legged Democrat school. Health care, education, child care. Booooooring! But, to certain people, it matters. The governments gonna help this, that I think agenda-wise the Democrats dont have much. Look at the last eight years of Obama who did all of this and whered it get us? Where we are? Zilch, zero, nada. Trump hatred is whats gonna continue to propel them. Heres more Schumer this morning on the Senate floor talking about negotiations on a DACA bill.
SCHUMER: President Trump has stood in the way of a bipartisan solution to DACA, a problem he created in the first place, and yet the president is in this dream world. He thinks, Oh, I can blame Democrats for the impasse. As I said, only in the 1984 world where up is down and black is white could this be true. Only in a 1984 world where up is down and black is white would the American public blame Democrats for this.
RUSH: Youd be surprised, Chuck, what the American people blame the Democrat Party for. I mean, its a long list. And all it took to demonstrate this was somebody from outside the system named Donald Trump, who convinced people that he really was gonna fix their country and make it great again and protect it from people like you and others in your party.
What this means, Trump is beating them on DACA, Schumer is in denial. Trump is beating them on taxes, theyre in denial. Trump is beating them on everything. I know you think, But, Rush, but, Rush, theyre winning these local elections. Yeah, these local elections got nothing to do with DACA. These local elections got nothing to do with federal Trump tax cuts. All politics is local. And I think one of the reasons the Democrats are winning these races is well, I dont know. Im not in these places where theyre happening.
I dont know if the Republican candidates are good or not. I dont know if the Republicans are even on the field. I dont know if theyre overconfident. All I know is that George Soros and other sources are just pounding money into these races. And it ought to be countered. Heres more. This is Schumer from the same speech on the Senate floor talking about tax cuts. You tell me this isnt denial. You tell me that this isnt total ignorance. I mean, hes divorced from reality here.
SCHUMER: Republicans made a conscious decision to give corporations and the wealthiest Americans the lions share of the tax cuts and promised it would trickle down to everyone else. Unfortunately, trickle-down never works, and its not whats happening now. Corporate America is doing whats best for corporate America. And working America
RUSH: This is absurd.
SCHUMER: is getting left behind. It goes to show you just who President Trump and Republicans were working for when they crafted their tax bill.
RUSH: Let me tell you, folks, this is (crosstalk)
SCHUMER: It gave corporations
RUSH: Im sorry, Chuck
SCHUMER: and the wealthiest Americans a huge tax cut and cut out (crosstalk)
RUSH: I cant tell whether hes finished or starting.
SCHUMER: everybody else.
RUSH: Is he finished yet? Thank you. This whole thing. Republicans made a conscious decision to give corporations and the wealthiest Americans the lions share of the tax cuts. Theres any number of ways to blow that to smithereens. Eighty percent of the American people got a tax cut. How many Americans are now getting a raise at the new lowered tax rate and bonuses and expansion of benefits?
And then this business, Unfortunately, trickle-down never works. Im telling you, theyre tone-deaf. They dont know what happened, and all they can do is try to characterize this the way they characterized the Reagan tax cuts. And what theyre saying is that only the rich got the tax cuts. And the Republicans think that the rich having more money will trickle down to you having more money, but thats not how it works, Chuck reminds us. Trickle-down never works, and its not whats happening now.
This is not a trickle-down tax cut. This is a direct, targeted tax cut for 80% of the American people. Everybody got a tax cut. Trickle-down is what the economy is. Its not a policy. Trickle-down is not related to taxes. If you own a store and a customer comes in and buys something, that is trickle-down. Somebody who had some money came in to your store and bought something from you. The money from that person trickled down to you. Its called commerce.
What the Democrats want you to think trickle-down is, is the rich get all this money and then theyll share it or give it away or whatever, theyll see to it that you get some of it. Of course, thats not how life works. So the rich, they dont run around handing people money, they never do, and so the Democrats can always say the rich are never gonna help anybody, which is crock. Because every time anybody spends money, its trickling down or up or sideways through the economy. Its called commerce.
These guys are stuck. Thirty, 40 years ago trying to portray a tax cut the way they portrayed the Reagan tax cuts, and the Reagan tax cuts worked, just as these are. But they spent eight years lying about the Reagan tax cuts, and they succeeded. Even though people lived through the eighties and benefited from that economic boom and tax cuts, by the time 1992 hit, Bill Clinton was able to win the White House by telling people we were in the worst economy than wed been in the last 50 years.
So the Democrats are simply replaying what they think has worked in the past. Theyre gonna portray this economy as the worst in the world come November, and certainly by 2020, and theyre gonna do it on the basis that the rich got most of the money and you didnt get any because the rich never trickle things down.
But thats gonna be up against reality. People are gonna have much more disposable income. Their wages are going up, their benefits packages are improving, and theyre getting bonuses. And thats gonna continue as well. This is why I say theyre imploding. The Democrats are not winning these local elections. George Soros is. And Im not trying to be cliched here. Im trying to be as accurate as I can in telling you why this is happening.
The Democrats, yeah, theyre getting the vote, but its not that their ideas are triumphing. Theyre buying these elections with massive advertising, whatever else can be done with all this money that George Soros is pouring into these various elections. Take Soros out of the picture and Im telling you the dynamic changes greatly. Theyd have to go out and find somebody else to give them the money because theyre not raising any.
The DNC is broke, folks. So its not a contradiction to say that the Democrats are winning these local races and imploding nationally. They are imploding nationally. They dont know what hit them yet. They still cant believe Trump is there. These people have been blinded with so much rage and hatred. Thats all they know now.
But by no means, dont misunderstand. Im not saying weve won anything here. Im just saying the opportunity to keep the momentum up is there. I mean, Im the guy, among many others, who said this is about much more than just one election. And it is.
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