Posted on 11/06/2019 12:58:01 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Audio sound bite number 4, just to show you. Cookie had this on the sound bite roster that she sent to me. I always get a rough copy of it a half hour before the program. Audio sound bite number 4. What did I just tell you? Democrats have dropped this quid pro quo angle, and they have replaced that now with the president having committed extortion and bribery. And we put together a montage to illustrate that from yesterday, last night, and this morning.
GLENN KIRSCHNER: Take the term quid pro quo, ball it up and throw it in the trash, and let’s call this what it is, it’s bribery.
WOLF BLITZER: Does this amount to extortion?
ERIC SWALWELL: The president was leading an extortion scheme.
LEON PANETTA: The clear definition of bribery.
EUGENE ROBINSON: They know extortion when they see it.
ARI MELBER: There was a bribery plot.
JILL WINE-BANKS: There was definitely extortion.
DANA BASH: Whether or not there really was a bribery.
ALI VELSHI: It’s bribery.
GERRY CONNOLLY: It’s pretty clear that there was an explicit extortion.
OHN GARAMENDI: We keep using the word quid pro quo, but the accurate word here is bribery and extortion.
RUSH: Isn’t it amazing how these things happen, these montages? They get a fax, somebody gets the walking orders or the marching orders and they go out and they all start speaking on cue. So now it’s not a quid pro quo. Now, you know what’s interesting about this to me? There have been a lot of people, and I should say people on our side, who have said, “You know what the president needs to do? The president just needs to acknowledge there was a quid pro quo and say it’s not impeachable. It’s the only way to deal with this!”
That’s what some people are saying. I, of course, reject it ’cause it accepts the premise, which I don’t do. I refuse to accept any premise the media launches with, I refuse to accept it until I’ve looked at it. There’s no knee-jerk reaction from me to believe anything they do because intelligence guided by experience is don’t believe ’em.
So when our people, some of our people, say, “You know what?” Somebody even said, “You know what the answer to this is? The president should just apologize.” A Never Trumper said that. “If the president would just apologize, he could end this.” Right. So people on our side saying the president’s got to acknowledge quid pro quo, then say it’s not impeachable because we do quid pro quos in foreign policy all the time. We withhold aid for all kinds of reasons. We tie the issuance of foreign aid to all kinds of conditions, which is true, and it’s a quid pro quo.
But quid pro quo in this scenario does not mean anything but crime. That’s why they want the president to agree to it. They want him to agree that he might have committed a crime, but it’s not an impeachable crime. In my view that would be a very grave mistake because I don’t think you give these people anything, because giving them anything is not the way to get them to go away. They don’t go away. You can’t give ’em enough. They’re never happy.
Totally agree with ’em on something and they’re a still not happy and want more. They’re never happy no matter what is the bottom line. Why anybody wants to hang with these people I’ll never know. They’re never happy, they never laugh, they never smile. I can’t understand what it is that’s attractive about these people, but obviously something is. The deranged must be drawn to other deranged people. There must be some invisible bond there that we can’t see.
So now, all of a sudden…? By the way, why has quid pro quo gone away? Why are they gonna broom that, do you think? ‘Cause transcript was released, folks, and there isn’t a quid pro quo in it! That’s why, and that’s why Vindman is not gonna be one of the first witnesses, because that was his angle. (impression) “I was so disturbed by that call. I was so distressed. The president was demanding a quid pro quo.” Well, they’re not going the quid pro quo route anymore.
So they’re not gonna call Vindman. The fact that they’re not calling him among the first two is all the evidence you need that the quid pro quo thing has been abandoned. But it’s been replaced, as you just heard, by “bribery” and “extortion.” And, by the way, “bribery” is a keyword because it actually appears in the impeachment clause in the Constitution. “High crimes and misdemeanors, bribery,” blah, blah, blah. So they’re gonna say here (sniveling), “It’s worse than a quid pro quo.
“The president was bribing! He was bribing the president of Ukraine. ‘You better dig up dirt, you’d better make it up on Biden and his stupid kid or I’m not gonna give you money.'” He was bribing him, is what they’re gonna try to say.
Almost funny.
Try try again.
Democrats are trying to manufacture a crime, They failed with the quid pro quo angle, so now they’re moving on to bribery!
They’re panicking and getting desperate because nobody’s buying impeachment.
Presidents have the authority and responsibility to conducts investigations of corruption; they also have authority and responsibility to provide monetary aid that has been approved by Congress.
So, the conversation really comes down to two leaders discussing the ways they are going to do their jobs.
Have the dems been able to delete the video of Biden squeezing the Ukrainians for $1B?
So, they decided to go after Joe Biden now, since he admitted on video to extortion and bribery...
this is getting more desperate everyday. They were on the 50-yard line throwing a Hail Mary, now they’re on their own 20 throwing a Hail Mary. I hope hope hope they’re going for bribery and extortion. Get the popcorn.
Beat me by a minute!!!!
"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."
If they get away with this unconstitutional charade this Republic is done for as it would legitimize the removal of any president they don’t like. It would also discourage any Republican (except for maybe Pierre Delecto) who might want to run for president.
A total travesty that undermines the entire concept of self government.
And the allegation of the day is....?
The marketing arm strikes again. Quid pro quo is a definite non-starter with the majority of normies. No doubt they market tested and bribery and extortion rated 1-2 so I expect these words will be the new “This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy” among MSM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
“Show me the man and I will find you a crime.”
democrats have been laundering money from the Ukrine ???
and they do not want this investigated...it was not only Biden...
So that dragging sound that I heard outside last night was desperate Democrats moving the goal posts again. /sarc
Don’t they always?
Impeachment is the utter failure to honor the wishes of the electorate.
The electorate is placed in a perpetual state of siege, subject to capricious and unreasonable oversight by their overlords.
The “party of the people” is a joke. They have trans-mongrified into a cabal of elected supremacists.
They parade around in royal robes, cloaked in legislative privilege, a harsh dictat imposing great burdens on a peace-loving people.
Elected by promising to solve problems, this Congress is devoid of solutions for the American people.
Rather, it chooses to wield its power to discredit and trash democracy.
So they just keep hunting and pecking around in that dark star chamber in the basement of the capitol trying to come up with something, anything they can nail Trump with that will sound credible to the American public.
I'm sure SchifftyEyes, if he hasn't already done so, will change obstruction of justice, when the WH tells witnesses to not come forward to testify if called.
I heard Alan Dershowitz on the radio that there is no such thing as obstruction of justice with congress. Obstruction of congress is not a crime he said.
The longer this joke goes on, the more likely the punch line will fall flat with the American voter audience.
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