Posted on 05/14/2019 12:21:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay. I’ll play devil’s advocate. I keep hearing from people in the email, “I’m not buying it, Rush. I’m not buying it. I’m not buying this resume business. We’re being set up.” I can’t tell you the number of emails I am getting. They’re not spam. You know, they’re not seminar emails. There are people who are telling me, “You better be very careful. They have appointed this guy who’s Mr. Impeccable so when he comes back and says, ‘There was nothing that went wrong here, that everything was aboveboard,’ nobody can question it, Rush.
“So you better just wait. We’re talking…” I’m not predicting anything here. All I’m doing is telling you that I think there are some people in Washington to whom this whole thing is way above and beyond what is tolerable. And they’re not gonna put up with it. I think Barr’s one of these. I think his acknowledgment, under oath, that he thinks the Trump campaign was spied on… There are people that know what went on here.
The question is always gonna come down is: Will they actually want to follow through and do anything about it or (as time passes and passions slip away, passions evaporate) will the temptation be just to kind of let it fade away. Let the fact that there was never any collusion, let the fact there was a totally politicized, weaponized political operation… Just let it all fade away. The path of least resistance is to just do nothing. It’s always a danger.
You know, in professional sports… Let’s just use baseball, for example. There isn’t a person alive out there, I think, who will confirm this. But I used to work for a professional baseball team. I got to know some umpires. I was a fan when I first started like everybody would be. So I asked these guys. I’d talk to ’em before the game, and I’d ask ’em about the job, about the game, history of the game, controversial calls.
In discussing bang-bang plays like at first base on the tail end of a double play or a close play at the plate, there’s a philosophy. It’s not just in baseball. It’s not just professional sports. But the philosophy is that calling somebody out on a bang-bang play instead of calling them safe has the least impact on the end result. It’s not that it’s a conscious thing that umpires or referees and other sports think of when bang-bang plays happen.
It’s just that when there’s no way of knowing for sure, even with replay… Of course, replay takes the doubt out of a lot. But it also confuses much. But there just… The least effective, the least impact is to go ahead and say the guy was out or that the touchdown was no good or that the pass was incomplete or whatever. It’s much less disruptive than to say the guy was safe. If you don’t know. If it’s a bang-bang play. Well, here in Washington politics, it could be the same.
We have what has happened here. We know it’s an outrage. We know it is one of the greatest political scandals ever in the history of the country, but now it’s over. Although it isn’t. And there might be some people who say, “You know, let it lie. It’s over with. We got the report. Trump’s innocent. Trump didn’t do anything. If we proceed on this and if we start investigating these people and some of them go to jail, it’s gonna have such a bad impact on the country and such a negative impact on the perception of justice.”
I think it’d be just the opposite. But I do know that that philosophy exists, to let it go. It’s all part of the defining deviance down. It’s just easier. It’s just easier to call what used to be criminal “normal” than to go after the bad guys. We define deviancy down throughout the country. Homelessness is tolerated. People pooping on the streets of San Francisco is now tolerated. It’s just easier than doing something about it — and I’m not saying that’s right.
I’m saying it’s tantamount to the degree of laziness that has overtaken much of public enforcement of public morals and law. “It’s just easier just to not hassle. It’s just so much hassle to try to enforce this stuff. You know, let’s just up the budget and clean the poor up every day instead of fighting it, ’cause we’re never gonna stop it.” It’s the same thing here, and I hope that does not overtake this. I hope the rage that got this investigation started maintains itself as they learn more details as they go.
Only continued pressure from President Trump will keep this from being a big disappointment.
Without his continuous call for action this would have already been swept under the rug.
Best president ever!
Yes, disappointment.
Until coup members are hauled away in handcuffs, the coup is still on. “The best President ever” would be focused on that and stop letting Darth Vader run his foreign policy.
Too bad the Kentucky Derby Stewards didn't have this in mind. Horse racing is in enough trouble already and now since the Derby we've got all sorts of imagined racing disasters being discussed thanks to an incident where the supposedly fouled horse's jockey didn't even claim foul.
ML/NJ
Whiners gonna whine...
It’s NOT all over and won’t be over until the Democrats are all out of office and/or in jail. So long as they can yell they will push it as if Mueller had turned up proof positive that Trump is a Russian spy and probably was an old college roommate of Vladimir Putin.
FBI investigations of organized crime figures can run for years, even decades. Mueller took 2 years to release his findings. Ken Starr took 4 years to investigate Slick Willy, and the thrust of that investigation revolved around Vince Foster and Whitewater and segued into whether he lied about rogering Monica Lewinsky. Same old perjury trap that Mueller tried to spring on Trump and did spring on Trump’s associates when he couldn’t find anything on Russian collusion. Bottom line is that if there’s anything prosecutable on the guys who went after Trump, it will take a while to emerge, as the people assigned by the responsible US attorney dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
However, given the possibility that a Dem might win in 2020, speed is of the essence. Ken Starr could not be impeded by Slick Willy because he was a Special Prosecutor. A US Attorney serves at the pleasure of the principal resident of the White House.
Sometimes the cries for blood are too loud and too insistent to ignore.
Sometimes the cries for blood are too loud and too insistent to ignore.
they can indict someone for false statements in a day...complaint is boiler plate..do it then follow up with more serious charges..they are probably waiting to file a a 10 count indictment against some of these players...US Attornys do have to be ready to go to trial in case a speedy trial is requested...I imagine a smaller right now indictment might get some to talk, raid their houses search warrant their stuff, show of power, ...kinda like what Mueller tried...take a page from his playbook.
they can indict someone for false statements in a day...complaint is boiler plate..do it then follow up with more serious charges..they are probably waiting to file a a 10 count indictment against some of these players...US Attornys do have to be ready to go to trial in case a speedy trial is requested...I imagine a smaller right now indictment might get some to talk, raid their houses search warrant their stuff, show of power, ...kinda like what Mueller tried...take a page from his playbook.
I’m going to do the crazy thing.
I’m going to wait and see what happens. Trump is the victim and the person with the most power to do something about it, if he thinks that is a good idea.
We might have to be thankful to God for the obvious malefactors sneaking off into the sunset and the remainder being a mixture of feigned obedience and new believers and old believers.
If we don’t let vengeance be the Lord’s, we will find ourselves faced with our own historical shortcomings in an unmerciful way. There are far too few of the “old guard” left to expect anything better out of a “We The People” country. God has the lever of politics left when the lever of law is too weak, as it is today.
Trump is being watched over by God, and evil plots against him are failing, one after another.
It is a time for the fear of... not hell, but heaven.
been disappointed for 27 months re hillary obama and the coup attempt
I doubt that anyone but President Trump is running our foreign policy.
He has advisers who have differing opinions from his but I don’t doubt for a moment that he’s the one in control.
Just Like Larry Kudlow was strongly opposed to tariffs of any sort, and look where we are now.
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