Posted on 08/03/2018 5:07:21 PM PDT by Libloather
RUSH: So, look at this headline from the Daily Beast. Its a left-wing publication. Headline: Trump: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh Want Government Shutdown Before Midterms During yet another long, rambling rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania that was ostensibly meant to bolster Republican Lou Barlettas attempt to unseat two-term Democratic Senator Bob Casey, President Donald Trump again brought up the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of border security. And he made it clear which advisers he was listening to as he publicly flirts with that idea.
THE PRESIDENT: We need more Republicans, but there are friends of mine. They say, President, you know And some are really tough guys, and they said, Sir, were better off if we wait until after. I say, Its better before! Lets do it before. Were better off. You know who thinks it should be before? Rush Limbaugh thinks it should be before, before the election.
AUDIENCE: (roaring cheers and applause)
THE PRESIDENT: You know who else? Sean Hannity. A lot of them. A lot of them.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
THE PRESIDENT: Great people.
RUSH: So Im getting notes last night. The president just mentioned you in the rally, but nobody said how. I forgot to turn it on. I didnt have it on. My attention was elsewhere last night. So I didnt know until I got the sound-bite roster today. I saw the story in The Daily Beast. So the president says that both me and Sean Hannity wanted to do the shutdown beforehand. Now, you know my thinking on this. Im tired.
Im wrung out being afraid of government shutdowns. Im tired of acting defensively with government shutdowns. You know the drill as well as I do. Whenever a government shutdown is discussed, whenever theres key legislation like raising the debt limit or cutting some government spending or doing anything that we believe in because we didnt do budgets for the longest time because we had continuing resolutions, the Democrats say, Well, well shut down the government!
The threat to shut down the government would send the Republican leadership into apoplexy, because theyre convinced that the Republicans always get blamed for it, that people love their government. They want their government open and operating and the Republicans are looked at as a bunch of uncaring, absolute mean-spirited extremists if the government shuts down. Except that is not borne out in elections following such shutdowns. Its an entire media narrative but it isnt actually true.
But the reason I think beforehand is because the issue that were talking about here is the wall, funding for the wall. It was No. 1 issue for Trump all during the primaries, and its the basis on which he won the Republican nomination, and it is the basis on which he won the presidency. Now, there are a lot of reasons Trump won. There are many reasons why a lot of people, a diverse group of people voted for Donald Trump.
But Im here to tell you that the issue that keeps Trumps people attached to him is illegal immigration and dealing with it, because people See, this is not hard to understand; this isnt complex. People know what is going to happen to our country by way of whats going to happen to our culture if it is overrun with people who will not learn to speak our language and who will not desire to assimilate and become part of this distinct American culture.
See, one of the problems is that you and I believe in American exceptionalism, and we believe in the uniqueness in America because of the uniqueness of our structure and constitution which limits government. We have a country where the freedom of the people is the paramount issue. The primary organizing reason for this country is individual liberty and freedom life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Those three things, unabridged by government action, have created the greatest country in the history of the world. Its not because the people who live here are any better than people anywhere else. Its not just because were born here we have better DNA, were smarter or brighter; its because we have fewer limits and shackles on our movements, on our creativity, on our ability to learn, our ability to follow our dreams and our passions.
We have an entire country where for over 200 years people have been able to do that, and weve had the greatness of humanity unleashed like nowhere else on the face of the earth. And thats why the United States is the United States. And thats why its the worlds lone superpower, both militarily and economically. This has resulted in a distinct American culture. The Constitution, the Declaration, our founding documents gave this country a distinct culture of which were all proud and wish to maintain because of its greatness, because of its guarantee of freedom and liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The United States has been around less than 300 years. Countries in Europe and elsewhere and Asia have been around thousands. We, in less than one-third the time theyve been around, run rings around them in every which way you can imagine, to the point now the world depends on our economy. People around the world who want to be free, who yearn to be free, depend upon the U.S. and they look to us for it.
But as everybody well knows, theres a rising percentage of our population that doesnt see America this way at all. It sees America as the home of oppression and racism and bigotry and mean-spiritedness and unfairness and income inequality. And those people are consumed with raw hatred and they are doing anything they can to destroy this distinct American culture, to wipe it out, to dilute it, and to recreate in its place some socialist utopia that does not, never has, and cannot exist.
So this uprising of the malcontent and the offended and the unhappy and the miserable is seeking to spread their misery and their unhappiness as far and wide throughout our culture as they can. Thats why theyre blaming the people who founded this country and who built this country as the problem in this country. Well, one of the fastest ways to dilute a culture one of the fastest ways to dilute the greatness and the uniqueness is to simply allow anybody in the world into this country to do whatever they wish under the premise that they deserve to be here because theyre only poor because we made them poor.
Everything now has become our fault. Every problem in the world is our fault, and because of that we owe the world to make sure our back pocket remains wide open for anybody who wants to dip their hand into it. Millions and millions and millions of Americans recognize exactly what open borders and amnesty and uncontrolled illegal immigration means and theyre hell-bent on stopping it.
Theres only been one political candidate in many peoples lifetimes that has given anybody any hope whatsoever that he agrees with them on this and will do something to stop it, and thats Donald Trump. And they are not going to abandon Donald Trump. If Donald Trump engineers a government shutdown, they will support the government shutdown. As long as it leads to putting an end to the open, porous border. As long as it puts an end to people not legally coming to this country.
We love immigration. We love legal immigration. We love the merit-based system. We want greatness in America. We want people to want to be great. America makes people great. America is the place where the great have the greatest opportunity to realize their dreams. And thats the kind of people we want and that weve always wanted in. But this thing has become a debate where youre told, many people are told that we want to shut it all down.
We dont want anybody in here, particularly if theyre not like us. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the people that voted for Donald Trump know it. Hes got to get funding for the wall. Hes got to get support for securing the border, whether its a wall or whether its policy, expanded ICE, what have you. If a government shutdown is the only way to do that, then when do you do it?
Now, you put all this together with the conventional wisdom belief that the Democrats have already won the House. Oh, yes! Theres a massive blue wave coming, and theres nothing that the Republicans can do to stop it. Right? Well, lets go back to this story here in The Daily Beast. Headline: Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh Want Government Shutdown Before Midterms. These people are outraged.
This is a liberal publication; theyre outraged. They think this is stupid and dumb. Well, wait a minute, now. If a government shutdown would deliver everything that they want if they think a government shutdown is the fastest way to defeat Republicans and win the House then why arent they encouraging us? Why do they write a story mocking us? Why do they write a story making fun of us? Why do they write a story about how stupid we are?
Wouldnt they be better served to encourage, Hey, these guys In fact, it would make sense to write a story: We think theres a blue wave coming, but Limbaugh and Hannity have it figured out and if they can convince Trump to do this, were all be in trouble. Dont you think? Maybe theyre not capable of that kind of psychological trickery, because theyre so prone to knee-jerk reactions whenever they hear anybody they hate say something that frightens them.
But at any rate its an interesting question. If you wait to shut down government or make your big move on border security after the wall until after the midterms, and if you dont win, what leverage do you have to do it? So the question comes down: Would talking about shutting down government as leverage to get the money to build the wall and to secure the border, hurt Republican efforts to maintain control of the House or would it help?
Because whatever the polling says, one thing has to happen if the Republicans are going to hold the House: There has to be massive turnout of those who voted for Trump in 2016. How do you do that? Trumps not on the ballot. How do you get people that couldnt wait to vote for Trump to vote for House races and people they may not even know? And that answers easy.
You do what we did in 94. You nationalize the House races, and you run campaigns in all of these districts talking about how important Congressman X will be to the Trump agenda. Not how important Congressman X will be to getting the next old folks building built down by the hardware store. You nationalize everything. Every House race is nationalized. Its importance to the national agenda to whatever it is, immigration, tax cuts, finally getting rid of Obamacare.
Nationalizing these elections like happened in 94 is how you do it. Its the best chance you have of getting the turnout, because thats what its going to take. We have to accept that the Democrats are fired up. We have to behave on that basis. Even if theyre not, even if this is a lie, we have to believe that they are. When youre playing golf and youre in a tournament, you have to think your opponent is going to sink every putt.
You have to assume hes going to make it. You cant sit there and hope, Miss it, miss it. Its not the way to play the game. You have to assume theyre going to make it and be better. We have to assume theyre going to be energized. We have to assume they cant wait to show up, and we have to beat them on that basis. Turnout is the key to it, and Trump getting his base to show up government shutdown, wall, border funding. Thats what got him elected, thats what the thinking is here.
Shut it down until the wall is finished.
The Republicans have majorities in the House and Senate. There can be no shutdown without treasonous rats in the GOP siding with the Dems.
If the feds were working within their constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers as they should be, then one of the very few noticeable signs of federal government shutdown where domestic policy is concerned would be a slowdown in the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
In other words, consider that most federal domestic services are based on stolen state powers and state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added]. Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." me
Patriots need to elect a Congress in the 2018 midterm elections that will work with Pres. Trump to surrender state powers that the feds have stolen from the states back to the states.
Regarding the last two points in your reply #3, please see tag. It’s all there.
How many dollars of chuck n Nancy spending were called winning here.. No concern for wall funding then? This is just the usual Christmas kabuki. If he wanted a wall that badly, he would have not signed off on the chuck n Nancy liberal spendathon.
How swampy can you get? Yesterday’s chuck n Nancy deals got us no Wall.
Do you remember the last shutdown? In 2013, Ted Cruz filibustered Obamacare funding, and we had a shutdown.
The RINOs, Rovians, and the rest of the GOPe all warned that this would destroy the Republicans chances to take the Senate and they would probably lose the House.
So what happened? The Republicans made small gains in the House and won 9 seats to take the Senate.
Now, the Establishment types are out warning that the Republicans will lose Congress if there is a shutdown. My bet is that it ends up about like the last one.
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