Posted on 12/19/2018 3:25:59 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: All right. Will somebody explain something to me? Somebody explain to me how we have, apparently, for years and years and years been trying to get a criminal justice or prison reform bill, and it happened with bipartisan support, 87 votes in the Senate. Now it goes over to the House where its gonna pass. Its not a big issue as far as the general public is concerned. Some special interests have made a big deal about it. It happens. It didnt take much effort to get it passed. It didnt take much debate whatsoever.
Its an important issue to some people, Jared Kushner and others. Hes got a personal attachment to it. His father was unfairly imprisoned, he believes, and a lot of people that I mean, its not a worthless piece of legislation. How in the hell does this get passed with now controversy, no opposition, no problem? I mean, Washington came together to pass this thing in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile, $5 billion, a measly $5 billion when compared to the size of the federal budget for border security is an impossibility. Somebody needs to explain to me how this happened.
I know you people are looking to me to explain it to you, and dont worry. Im being rhetorical here. I have an explanation for this. But its just Its the kind of thing that just rubs me raw, it sends people into orbit because something that substantiate on somebodys primary watch list, some issue that its not having a national clamor to get this done, an issue that primarily benefits 187,000 people and whoever their political sponsors are just sails through.
The point is it can be done on something the American public is not even really aware of, not clamoring for, and doesnt know when its happened. Theres some news stories: Senate Easily Passed Trump-Backed Criminal Justice Reform Bill. There are 87 votes in the Senate for it, and yet things the American people have expressed for decades that they want, have voted over and over and over again to say that they want, have sent somebody to Washington from outside the political system to get done, and theres no hope.
Theres not a shining chance that this is gonna get done. And they gloat and they applaud and they celebrate in Washington over this. Some of this stuff is just so frustrating and maddening and defies any kind of common sense explanation. This is swamp behavior at its best. This is the greatest illustration of how much of a game all of this actually is. Were made to think that its cutthroat and real. And, meanwhile, its just all a game, how this stuff happens, in Congress, in the House, in the Senate in Washington.
It looks like a lot of peoples worst fears may be realized and that the president is getting ready to cave on getting any money for the wall in the current budget. In fact, TheHill.com the Capitol Hill newspaper is claiming, quote, Trumps Concession Paves the Way for Lawmakers to Reach a Compromise and End This Congress, meaning the Republican-controlled Congress, Without a Partial Government Shutdown. Thats been the objective, to end this Congress without a shutdown? Thats how were gonna define success?
Its not how we define success. It is apparently how inside-the-Beltway defines success, (impression) Oh, look what we did. We avoided another government shutdown! The Republicans are bowing down. Hosanna! Hosanna! Were saved again. Were not gonna get blamed for a government shutdown. Meanwhile, the border remains wide open and the Democrats are gonna be controlling the House in just a few weeks. Theyre now gloating and telling the president, You cant get any money from anywhere else in the budget.
Were not gonna let you. Were gonna make sure that you cant build this wall. There isnt gonna be a wall. We dont want there to be a wall, and apparently theres no way. Even though we can allocate whatever money we need for criminal justice reform or Planned Parenthood or whatever the hell else liberal clause is clamoring for your tax dollars, any amount of money, need even $1.6 billion. Thats been pulled off in this deal to save a shutdown.
Not a penny above and beyond whats already allocated is gonna be spent on securing the border of this country which is wide open still. But weve gotta compromise on no government shutdown, Mr. Limbaugh. Its a good Christmas. Its a great day for Washington. This is textbook. Its a textbook example of what the Drive-By Media calls compromise. Trump gets nothing and the Democrats get everything, including control of the House in a few short weeks.
In fact, I just alluded to this, Trumps gonna get less than nothing because this compromise strips out the $1.6 billion for the wall that the Senate Appropriations Committee had already approved weeks ago. Thats gone too. Not only, is there not gonna be five billion, there isnt gonna be $1.6 billion that was already allocated. So its an even better compromise in the minds of the Drive-By Media and the denizens of the swamp. Not a penny. Forget wall. Think border security.
I still maintain that a wall is symbolic. I know a lot of people believe that the wall was actually gonna be built, and I was one of the people hoping and supporting to be built, but even without the wall, there is still the need for border security. The wall was a representative of that. There isnt going to be a penny additional for that. Yet while we are in debt to the tune now $21 trillion we are spending money left and right on things that are in direct contravention to what the purpose of spending on the wall would be!
Now, the stock market. The way this game is played, the stock market dive TheHill.com and the Drive-By Media are even blaming the stock markets nosedive on Trumps threat to shut down the government, on Trumps wall, on trying to do something about immigration! Which is pure caca. Whats driving down the stock market is the Federal Reserve promising to raise interest rates to slow down this out of control economy, which, if you read the news, is gonna be into recession in the next three weeks; so what in the hell are we doing raising interest rates?
What were doing is trying to bring down the Trump administration. What theyre doing is trying to bring down the Trump administer. If they have to crash the market Not crash it. If they have cause the market to go down, if they have to slow down the economy, it doesnt matter. If they have to do criminal justice reform and fund Planned Parenthood and all of this stuff and not spend an additional penny on border security, then thats what the hell is gonna be done.
Everything that happens, magically theres a left-wing response to it. At a federal court, any amount of progress whatsoever is met immediately with left-wing opposition. They stand up and say, Nope, you cant do it, and find a federal judge somewhere to say, Nope, cant do that, not gonna do that. Everything gets shut down. Everything gets stopped. Except what needs to be shut down and what needs to be stopped. So its clear that the left, the Democrats, the Drive-By Media now turning to turn Trumps pledge on the wall into George H. W. Bushs Read my lips: No new taxes.
This is exactly what the objective has been. Trump commits to a wall; its part of his campaign 2016. Weve known from the get-go they were never gonna support a wall. Everybody thats in favor of a wall has known there wasnt gonna be any support for it. I mentioned yesterday theres not anybody in Washington outside of a couple members of Congress euphemistically. But Im talking about the entire Washington establishment, the swamp, they dont want the wall. They dont want any part of it. They dont want any limits on illegal immigration.
Thats why Trump was elected to bulldoze through all of that. You want to add insult to injury? The United States has pledged $10.6 billion, twice as much as has been asked for for the wall. A $10.6 billion aid package (Are you ready for it?) to Central America and southern Mexico. And you know what the theory is? The theory is that if we provide aid money to these war-torn, poverty stricken areas we can build em up and their people wont want to leave.
Weve been hearing that since 1992. That was the purpose of NAFTA. NAFTA was gonna build up all these Central American southern hemisphere hellholes. It was going to build em up, have roaring economies down there and their people wouldnt want to leave. How did that work out? How many times have we given whatever amount of money to all of these hellholes in Central and South America for the express purpose were told of building up their economies so their people wont want to leave, and they just continue to leave in even larger numbers and now joining caravans of thousands.
Which, by the way, have not gotten in and the caravans are starting to disband, but the caravan crowd is now demanding reparations, $50,000 per participant to leave. The caravan has wrecked Tijuana, Mexico. They havent found a way to get in, but thats just short of a miracle. The Associated Press has the story today. U.S. Pledges $10.6 Billion Aid for Central America, Southern Mexico. You heard that right.
The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico. The U.S. aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate. Dont make me laugh. Were taking em one way or the other.
They either get across the border illegally, become wards of the state, or we pay them before they get here ostensibly to make sure they dont come, and they come anyway! And we all know that the money spent on these governments in southern Mexico and Central America never reaches the people of these countries anyway. Otherwise, they might stay if their countries were expanding their economies and opportunity, if their economies were taking off, maybe they would stay. But the money never seeks to work!
It didnt work with NAFTA! This doesnt work! It never has. Giving money to people dont have it doesnt work! It doesnt work in welfare. It doesnt work in wealthy families who do nothing but give money away. When it isnt earned, there is no pride in it, theres no association, theres no achievement related to it. All there is, you get a little bit and people start asking for more, they come to expect it, they start thinking youve got it all, I dont have enough, I want more, and they keep asking and we keep giving! Its human nature.
You give people things they havent earned and they dont appreciate it. They dont thank you. They just expect more. Generosity is never understood. People dont take the time to be appreciative. They just continue the expectations. And then these people are fueled with further anger because while we are being generous with them theyre told what rotgut schemers we are. Were told what we are. Theyre told what racists we are and what bigots we are. We give them all the money, we keep their countries afloat, and somehow we still end up being the bad guys.
The American media, the Democrat Party are happy to promulgate that message and blame it all on the Republicans! Now, bear in mind that this $10.6 billion in aid is more than twice as much as what President Trump wants for this years funding for the wall. Were gonna have nothing to show for this $10.6 billion except a bunch of people being able to run around say, Look how much we care. Look how compassionate we are. Look at what were willing to do for border security.
Were willing to give money to countries so their economies can shine so their people will not leave. How many decades has this been a philosophy and a policy, and how many decades of failure do you need to know that it isnt gonna work? And so the objective really isnt to give $10.6 billion to these areas of Central America so that their people prosper. Theres another reason for it. And the reason is selfish. Look what they did. Look how much we care. We really care about poor people. Were giving money away.
We believe in human rights and civil rights and so forth, and their circumstances never improve and they still join migrant caravans and other modes of transportation to get here even after supposedly receiving money like this. Let me remind you in 2015, Obama gave $750 million to the so-called northern triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, $750 million. That money was supposed to improve security there, it was supposed to tackle gang violence, it was supposed to end poverty. You cant give money to poor people and have it end poverty!
Have we not proven that in 200 years? Have we not proven that in however many years human beings have walked the earth? Its human nature. You cannot give money away and create prosperity. It just doesnt work! It has to be earned. It has to be real. It has to be associated with some kind of achievement and productivity. Otherwise its just charity! And what charity has ever gotten enough money that it can say mission accomplished, were shutting down? Not a single one of them!
Not a single charity has ever said, Thank you, weve got plenty more than we need. Were shutting. Mission accomplished. Theres never an end. You can call it charity. You can call it welfare. You call it foreign aid. You can call it foreign policy. You can call it whatever it is. But it will not solve what its attempted to solve. And until people who are trying to get into this country legally and illegally are willing to come here and become part of the American landscape and culture and join the rest of us in doing whats necessary to maintain Americas relevance and economic growth rather than become sponges, they shouldnt get in.
But because we have a political party which needs a-never-ending supply of that kind of person, incapable of work and unwilling to, incapable of learning English and not caring to, thats the future of America if the Democrat Party ends up dominate and running it, because thats the kind of voters that they need to continue to win. Lets be honest. The world is filled with people who qualify as permanent underclass. And the Democrat Party appears more than willing to have as many of em as they can get into our country.
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RUSH: The Associated Press says that this money doesnt require congressional approval. Im talking about the $10.6 billion going down is to Central America. It doesnt need congressional approval. Unlike Trumps signature to protect, stem illegal immigration, that somehow needs his signature. The $5 billion for the wall, he needs to sign a deal for that. But we can somehow transfer $10.6 billion to southern Mexico and Central America, and it doesnt require congressional approval.
Also its gonna be procured from some other existing part of the budget, and yet Trump cannot do that. You cant go get from his own executive branch $5 billion laying around unused in some stupid budget area and use it to build the wall, but the Congress can somehow reallocate $10.6 billion without Trump needing to sign anything to send foreign aid or with of down to Central America and southern Mexico?
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RUSH: Theres something about this that doesnt connect, folks. This is so out of character for Donald Trump. I dont know (sigh) It cant be that he thinks everybody is so busy with Christmas theyre not gonna notice that the wall funding Folks, its not just dying here. The Democrats are doing a death dance over it. Its not just dying. Its gone forever! They are pronouncing this DOA.
Theyre puffing up and bragging and getting all arrogant about this, that its over forever cause once they get control of the House, Trump is done getting anything done and all thats gonna happen is hes gonna be investigated. Now, meanwhile, this $10.8 billion (Im not kidding, $10.8 billion) in aid, in welfare, in charity to southern Mexico and Central America? After Obama gave similar amounts of money during his eight years all for the express purpose of building these places up so that they have economies down there where people will not have to leave to come here.
It never happens, and that $10.6 billion doesnt have to be part of this budget deal. Why that moneys just gonna be found somewhere. It doesnt need Trumps signature, which means Trump cant stop it. But $5 billion a paltry $5 billion compared to a federal budget thats approaching $3 trillion, cant be found anywhere. Chuck and Nancy are out there saying that Trump is not gonna be allowed to go get it from any other cabinet department or anywhere else in the executive branch. Theyre gonna make sure he cant do it.
Its just out of character for Trump to be appearing to cave on this. I cant believe that thats what is happening and that he thinks its not gonna be noticed. But I tell you, the back-and-forth, the juxtaposition of $10.8 billion and were just hearing about this today! Oh, by the way, America, $10.8 billion, and everybody is celebrating and acting like this is some kind of grand thing that were doing. Oh, by the way, while were punting on $5 billion for the wall and telling all of you to support to essentially go to hell, you know what were doing?
Were sending $10.8 billion in aid down to Central America and southern Mexico and guess what? It doesnt have to be allocated! It doesnt to have to be appropriated. It doesnt have to be part of this budget deal. Whether the government shuts down or not, were gonna send the money down there. Really? Whether the government shuts down or not, that money is gone, and the Republicans Trumps not alone in this! The Republicans cant find a way to get a measly $5 billion for the wall in a $5 trillion budget?
Just to put $5 billion in perspective, it is less than what the government spends on food stamps each and every month. Thats $5.9 billion! Not to mention the untold billions that illegal aliens cost us every year! That $5 billion is a rounding error, if that, in the federal budget! Meanwhile, we have this criminal justice reform bill that passed seemingly without any debate. There was one senator who had opposition to it. His name was Tom Cotton, and he was pretty much buried. He had some support but not much. They got 87 votes in the Senate for this. It just sails through.
The American people dont even know its happening, and to the extent that they do, they dont care. Its not at the top of the anybodys list except some people in Washington where it was apparently at the top of the list. Theyre out there celebrating this. Its gonna affect 187,000 plus some change people in prison. Its gonna let em out early. Its gonna give em house arrest. Some of its legit. I mean, theres some people in prison that shouldnt be. Sentencing was excessive. Im not suggesting its not necessary.
But mind-boggling theres something like this that nobody cares about (maybe thats the answer) sails right through. We all know why. Prison reform is Both parties are looking at the opportunity to tell minorities how much they care, how sensitive we are. Look at what weve done! Everybody thinks the vast majority of the prison population is minority, and so look what were doing! We are being compassionate. We are being understanding, and we are not racist, and we understand that we have an unfair judicial system.
Yeah, just ask Michael Flynn. Yeah, just ask James Comey. Just ask McCabe. Unfair legal system? Weve got a two-tiered judicial system! Hillary Clinton and Democrats innocent and not even charged. Republicans? Guilty for breathing and if theres a charge, thats it.
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RUSH: Meanwhile, over here, $5 billion, a rounding error in the federal budget, is enough for the Democrats to say, Shut down the government. Were not gonna let this happen. Cause it isnt about the $5 billion. Its about choking off the continuing supply of prospective Democrat voters, a permanent underclass.
For that reason since its not about the $5 billion and since its not about the budget and it doesnt bust the budget and it doesnt do anything I think the president ought to veto this. This is why he got elected. This is why people stick with him. This is why his support base has not abandoned him during this full-frontal effort of the Democrats and the media to destroy him. Theyve hung with him because of this. This issue predated Trump.
The American people have been telling Washington for 25 years they dont want this, and the American people have continued to triumph. Washington continues to try to thwart the will of the people on this. Finally, the people elected somebody who actually said he meant what he was talking about regarding this, and they have stuck with him. The president should veto this thing, tell em hes not signing it and leave for Mar-a-Lago today. Hes not supposed to leave until the 21st. Somebody in the White House tell him Ill meet him on the first tee tomorrow.
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Weep for America, maybe God will see our tears and drive His enemies, these Godless humanists before the whirlwind and scatter them to utter oblivion.
My belief is God wants this country to pay a price for its deeds.
Maybe someday Rush will get it. Sadly that day isnt today.
L
Obviously, there are those who think that something that Mr. Trump might fail to get done in his first term will ruin his chances for some Republican votes in the next election. That’s not very sensible thinking unless you’re already a Democrat. Makes no sense at all to vote for some sorry loser that the Dems put up instead of Donald Trump. I guess if the American people would do something like that, then a Dem president is what they would deserve, but for myself I want something better. Rush is right.
That’s sound Biblical thinking Gods people are not strangers to pain.
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