Posted on 12/19/2019 12:17:43 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Lets reiterate here. You know, try to make the complex understandable. Trump is being impeached for what?
It isnt about the Ukraine phone call. Its not about interfering in the election in 2020 and all of that. They cant let go of what they thought 2016 was gonna produce. They are still locked in on that. Theyre still focusing on it, still hoping that the allegation that Trumps 2016 election was illegitimate. And what has Trump done?
All Trump has done is ask questions. One of the questions was of the president of Ukraine. Trump is asking questions. Hes got investigations going, trying to find out what happened to him. Who did this to him? Who did this to his voters? Whos in the process of trying to disenfranchise his voters. Hes simply asking questions. Hes being impeached for trying to get answers.
The United States government and by that I mean the administrative state has literally lied to the people of this country for three years and counting now about Russia collusion. Theyve been trying to put Donald Trump in jail, not just reverse the election results. They have been trying to get Donald Trump in jail. Their problem is, he has been completely exonerated and vindicated by their own investigative body, the Mueller report.
This is basic human nature. So Trump is pursued, hes lied about, hes libeled, hes slandered for three years. Then he is completely exonerated and vindicated, so what does he do? He starts asking questions about what the hell happened? He starts asking questions. He wants answers about how in the hell this happened. And hes talking to the president of Ukraine, and hes asking him to help come up with some of these answers.
And now the same people that set Donald Trump up, the same people that lied about him and tried to put him in jail are now impeaching him for defending himself. Theyre the ones who behaved illegally. They are the ones who threatened the Constitution. They are the ones who have stood everything decent upside down.
Trump is simply asking questions about them, who they are, what they did. All hes doing is defending himself. Hes being impeached for defending himself, pure and simple. Because in todays Democrat world you are not permitted to defend yourself. You take the allegation and you deal with it.
Lets go to Mitch McConnell and the sound bites. Were gonna start here. This is in order at number 1. Pelosi was scorched today by the Turtle. It may not sound like it in every utterance because the Turtle is the Turtle, but he blew her up in this 30 minute speech on the Senate floor. Heres the first sample.
MCCONNELL: Speaker Pelosis House just gave in to a temptation that every other House in our history has managed to resist. They impeach a president whom they do not even allege has committed an actual crime known to our laws. Theyve impeached simply because they disagree with a presidential act and question the motive behind it. There were powerful reasons, Mr. President, why Congress after Congress for 230 years 230 years required presidential impeachment to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes, even though that was not a strict limitation. Powerful reasons why for 230 years no House, no House opened the Pandoras box of subjective political impeachments. That 230-year tradition died last night.
RUSH: He continued.
MCCONNELL: Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid, too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate. Mr. President, looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. They said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process, but now theyre content to sit on their hands.
Sen. Mitch McConnell slams Dem impeachment on Senate floor
RUSH: The next bite is one that resonated with me because I think in this bite I will be able to indicate, Ill be able to illustrate for you a prediction I made yesterday, that maybe not in our lifetimes, but at some point down the road the Democrats realizing the one thing in our political system they dont control, that stands in their way, is elections. And at some point, folks, its gonna happen.
Some Democrat somewhere, someday is gonna come along and suggest that elections are old-fashioned, outmoded, outdated and theyll have all kinds of reasons. Itll be because people are uneducated. People dont know what theyre talking about. The people are too stupid, or we cant trust them to do the right. It will be something along those lines, but its gonna be because Democrats keep losing, and in this bite, I might be able to extract Not evidence of that.
But its an indication that thats how the Democrats are thinking. Here is McConnell suggesting that hes not gonna let thirdhand testimony from unelected bureaucrats, i.e., Lieutenant Colonel Vindman O say can you see and Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill and whats his name, George Kent the bow-tie guy and Bill Taylor Hes not gonna let testimony from unelected, thirdhand bureaucrats determine who is and who isnt president.
MCCONNELL: President Trump is not the first president with a populist streak, not the first to make entrenched elites uncomfortable. Hes certainly not the first president to speak bluntly, to mistrust the administrative state, or to rankle unelected bureaucrats. None of these things none of them is unprecedented. Ill tell you what would be unprecedented. It will be an unprecedented constitutional crisis if the Senate literally hands the House of Representatives a new partisan vote of no confidence. It will be unprecedented if we agree that any future House that dislikes any future president can rush through an unfair inquiry, skip the legal system, and paralyze the Senate with a trial. It will be unprecedented if the Senate says secondhand and thirdhand testimony from unelected civil servants is enough to overturn the peoples vote.
RUSH: Let me take a brief time-out. Well come back and Ill explain some things about this bite when we get back.
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RUSH: McConnell made the point that the Democrats over in the House requested extraordinary amounts of sensitive information from the Trump White House, exactly the kind of things over which presidents of both parties have asserted privilege in the past. It was predictable and appropriate for Trump to do this. Hes been impeached for it! This is what theyre calling obstruction of Congress. But its a never-ending quest for power that the branches fight with one another, that they have now criminalized in the form of impeachment.
McConnell made the point that none of what Trump has done here is unprecedented. In fact, its all happened before, and its common. Houses of Representatives have always wanted White House documents. Presidents have always said, Go pound sand. If you want em, we gotta go to court. The presidents gone to court claiming executive privilege. More often than not, the president prevails in court. This is exactly what the president did in these circumstances.
Theyre calling this obstruction of Congress because theyre desperate to get the word obstruction. They want to use the word cover-up. They think it went well during Watergate. He says, This is not a constitutional crisis. Were nowhere near a constitutional crisis because this is normal! None of this is unprecedented. The routine occurrence of separation of powers is nothing. What happened is what should have happened! Its what always happens.
Theres nothing here that Trump has done that constitutes anything unconstitutional or illegal or obstructive. I mean, McConnell was on fire. But I want to go back to his specifically mentioning, It would be unprecedented if the Senate says secondhand and thirdhand testimony from unelected civil servants is enough to overturn the peoples vote. That is exactly what this has been about since the entire-Russian meddling-and-Trump-collusion fiasco began.
It has been about reversing the election result, as you well know.
Now, I contend to you that a party brazenly and openly attempting to reverse election results is a party that is entirely capable down the road of canceling elections, period. Now, dont misunderstand me. Im not suggesting that this is Pelosis objective now. Im telling you, Ive studied the trend line of the American left and where its headed my entire life, and particularly the last 30-some-odd years of this program, and they have trended so far to the left now that they are openly socialist and trending communist.
They even use the word socialist in many of their factions proudly to describe themselves. But make no mistake. They dont like the results of this election, and theyre trying to reverse them and look how theyre doing it. Theyre bringing in so-called experts that are not elected to comment on the qualifications of the man who was elected, and theyre turning to these unelected bureaucrats that you never heard of before any of this happened, that you didnt know of. You had no idea what they do, how good they are at it or not.
And now all of a sudden, their testimony is sufficient to produce an article of impeachment suggesting that this president elected in an Electoral College near landslide is unfit. McConnells exactly right. The basis on which this impeachment process is attempting to overturn the election results is the fact that the existing Washington establishment claims this man is not qualified, this man is unfit. They are exactly trying to overturn a duly constituted election by lying about it, but falsely accusing people who won it and participated in it.
What are they trying to do? Theyre trying to deny the election result. Theyre trying to deny the choice and the will of the American people. Were not far from it. Were not far from the day and, believe me, theyre already thinking about it. I will as close to guarantee it as I can without having actually heard them talk about it. But I will wager you that they, among themselves, have had conversations about the problems they face just having to do elections.
That they resent having to go through this whole thing, this whole process of elections. If they could ever find a way to eliminate them, not They would replace them with something. I mean, theyd try to make it palatable to the American people. Its who they are. They are attempting to do it right now.
They have been for three years. Theyre not going to stop. This entire next year is going to be based and predicated on Trumps unqualified. Now theyve got the blemish: Impeachment. That will be part of the 2020 campaign. The last thing The one thing that Pelosi will not permit is Trump being acquitted. Ergo, there wont be a Senate trial unless, somehow, shes convinced theres gonna be a conviction.
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RUSH: One of the ways they could try to replace elections is do it with polls. Think of how they use exit polls today. Those involve elections, but the signs are all there.
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RUSH: One more Mitch McConnell sound bite. Its number 4. Now, this is a favorite topic of Senator McConnells. When I first met him and I dont remember when that was he gave me a lesson on what the purpose of the Senate is, as designed by the founders, and he touches on it in this bite.
MCCONNELL: The framers built the Senate to provide stability, to take the long view of our republic, to safeguard institutions from the momentary hysteria that sometimes consumes our politics, to keep partisan passions from literally boiling over. The Senate exists for moments like this. Theres only one outcome that is suited to the paucity of evidence, the failed inquiry, the slapdash case only one outcome suited to the fact that the accusations themselves are constitutionally incoherent. Constitutionally incoherent.
Only one outcome will preserve core precedents rather than smash them into bits in a fit of partisan rage because one party still cannot accept the American peoples choice in 2016. It could not be clearer which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created, and which outcome would betray it. The Senates duty is clear. When the time comes, we must fulfill it.
RUSH: Now, the way he described it to me when I first met him is he said, Rush, I want you token of the Senate as a cup and saucer. Over in the House and all through the country rabid partisanship is the name of the game. Imagine that rabid partisanship is coffee that is poured into the cup, and that partisanship sometimes boils over. It gets so rancorous and it gets so mean and it gets so heated; it just boils over, and where does it end up? It ends up in the saucer and, Rush, the Senate is the saucer.
The saucer is where what was in that cup boils over and ends up cooling down. It doesnt get consumed. It sits there in the saucer and it just sort of cools down and sits there and that, Rush, is the role of the Senate: To slow everything down, to take the partisanship out of it. Thats what hes talking about here. And he, in this case, has accurately described Pelosi and the House Democrats and what they have done. But I just have to comment because this was one of the best floor speeches in regards to this kind of partisanship in Washington that Ive heard him give.
I mean, he referred to it as the most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history. He ripped Pelosi for delaying all this, said the Democrats are afraid to transmit shoddy articles. What it is, just to refresh your memory or if you missed the first hour What all of this is, is Pelosi knows shes not gonna get a conviction in the Senate so not gonna send em over there. This is, again, the thing about this that had everybody puzzled.
All of these official commentators, official analysts on cable TV and in the newspapers and the blogs and the websites asked, Why is she doing this? Its gonna lead to an acquittal. Its the exact opposite of what she wants. Not if she doesnt send the articles over. If there isnt a trial, there cant be an acquittal. And what shes basically saying is shes not going to assign any House managers, any prosecutors until she gets an idea of the arena.
What she means by that, shes not gonna send them over there until she can be assured that theyre gonna convict and remove Trump from office. Otherwise theyre not gonna be sent over. Which makes total, perfect sense. They want the blemish. They dont want the news stories, Donald Trump impeached in December of 2019 and acquitted in January of 2020.
They dont want that. They dont want anything other than Donald Trump impeached in December 19th and removed from office in January 2020. Thats what they want. If they dont get that, shes not gonna send em over there. The absolute worst thing that could happen is for this reprobate, in their minds, this existential threat to the country, this guy that colluded and stole the election has to be thrown out, to have all of this be thrown at him, and he ends up being acquitted in an election year? Aint no way. Aint gonna happen.
And her out is going to be claiming the Republicans are unfair because theyre partisan. Theyre racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, whatever else she wants to throw into the pile as her justification for not moving forward. (imitating Pelosi) It wont be a fair trial. Ive heard Senator McConnell already say that hes going to acquit. I cant do this. I cant conduct this if its not going to be a fair trial. Well, there hasnt been anything about this from the get-go thats been fair. But thats her out.
Pelosi wants power.
Garbage, it’s all slight of hand BS. Its a means of control, if Trump steps out of line with what the senate and house wants, or exposes the money laundering of US taxpayer funds in Ukraine they will pull out impeachment like a sword. Now that it is sitting in limbo between the house and the senate, they could remove Trump in a mater of days at any time.
it’s all moot- President Trump said something about Debbie Dingle’s deceased husband- so now the left really got him good- new votes to come for impeachment investigations0- this time they really got him=- no really-
Impeachers are probably having caviar and champagne. “No controlling legal authority”. They live to MPeach another day. The republic is their playtoy.
BUMP!
Pelosi is insane and thinks she is next in line. Their fantasy is removing Trump,then Pence and installing Pelosi and Clinton.
LOL, and the conspiracy pearl clutchers take a giant step forward.
So the R’s and the D’s set this up so they could have a sort of “impeachment on demand”...right?
And McConnell’s speech was nothing but a feint...right?
And you are one of the only folks who picked up on it!!
WOW!! You’re special!!
Nancy wants to delay this until after the 2020
election .
She want campaign on flipping the senate in 2020 to impeach Trump .
Its a fund raising tactic.
Gop has twice as many open seats in 2020.
Mitch needs to kill it now.
The “deep stater” seditionists and traitors are needing great and swift justice. All should be arrested, have a speedy trial, and if/when found guilty receive maximum sentence. These anti-Free-America losers deserve no less. No quarter. As to those who support them, they must be shunned, ridiculed 24/7 and never hired into a business. I find these anti-civil-society and anti-rule-of-law degenerates to be repulsive and unworthy of living in this great country.
Maybe Mitch is playing her then reel her in?
Correct on all sarcastic accounts.
Lets hope.
They’re lying about that, too. Trump DID NOT say that Dingle IS IN HELL. Trump was describing how Dingle’s two-faced widow faked gratitude for Trump honoring her late husband, and how he’s LOOKING DOWN, smiling on it all.... And then Trump shrugged and quickly said, “Maybe he’s looking UP, who knows...? Of course, a lying democRAT instantly twisted what Trump said, left out the maybe, and lied about what Trump said. You cannot be a democRAT in good standing with the Party unless you’re a freewheeling liar!
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