Posted on 01/25/2020 11:11:50 AM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: We have this sham of an impeachment designed to do what? This is something that I have been giving considerable thought to, because none of this makes any sense if you look at it from the perimeters of conventional wisdom. By this I mean they’re never going to get a conviction. See, to me, this is, the overriding reality of this, that makes me question what the real motivations are. And then with what Round Mound of the Gavel did yesterday by accusing the very senators of being part of a cover-up.
They supposedly want to change their minds and vote with them to authorize new witnesses and new documents and all that? The Round Mound of the Gavel pretty much insured that isn’t gonna happen now. Susan Collins sent a note to the chief justice. “This is outrageous. Why did you let him say that? Why didn’t you stop him?” Nadler is accusing Republican senators of being part of cover-up if they don’t vote to authorize witnesses. Now, here’s Susan Collins and Murkowski and Cory Gardner and the rest of these four so-called recalcitrants that Schumer was appealing to yesterday.
Here they are sitting there, and, of course, they’re (sniveling) “wanting to be seen as independent and fair and they’re wanting to be seen as not in the back pocket of the Trump administration, want to be seen as doing justice and so forth — and if there’s a need for witnesses, they want to make sure they’re on the right side,” blah, blah, and Nadler comes along and insults them to the point that now they probably can’t vote for it. So what’s that?
Why in the world is the Round Mound of the Gavel sabotaging ostensibly his own effort? And then throw Schiff in this. Schiff has said some of the most stupefying, outrageous things, such as… I’m listening to Drive-By Media talk about how eloquent Schiff was, how persuasive Schiff was — how Schiff got in there, dug deep, got in and pulled the heartstrings — and made these Republican senators wake up. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Adam Schiff actually said yesterday that Donald Trump needs to be removed from office because he didn’t follow the talking points prepared for him by the likes of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O don’t you dare criticize hiiiim! (Snort!) Lieutenant Colonel Vindman said he prepared the talking points for Trump, and that Trump gets on the phone call and doesn’t use the talking points. Schiff says he’s gotta be thrown out of office for that! H’s gotta be removed because he didn’t follow the talking points. That means he went against U.S. policy.
Schiff, in a literally insane rant, claims that Trump failing to use the talking points put together by deep state civil servants attempting to undermine him and conflict with his foreign policy… And it is his that matters. He’s the president. He chooses foreign policy. Not Vindman, not Yovanovitch, not any of the others, not Fiona Hill. They don’t determine foreign policy. They can prepare talking points all them; Trump can chuck ’em any time he wants. Schiff said because Trump didn’t follow the talking points, that he is undermining American foreign policy.
He admits that Trump doesn’t have to follow the talking points, but the fact that he didn’t means that he’s undermining foreign policy. He is foreign policy, Schiff! And I’ll tell you something else that’s kind of got me worked up. I’m trying to figure out how this happens — oh, I know how it happens. You go back to the day where Schiff was chairing the House Intel Committee, some hearings, and makes up the transcript about Trump on the phone call with Zelensky.
He literally makes it up, says things like, “Trump got on the phone with Zelensky and said, ‘I want you to find some dirt on my 2020 opponent, Joe Biden. I want you to dig up some dirt on him. I want you to make it up if you have to, and I don’t want you getting back to me until you do — and I’m gonna tell you eight or nine times until you get it. You find some dirt on Biden! You dig up the dirt. You make it up, if you have to, and don’t get back to me ’til you do — and you’re not getting a dime from us until you do!'”
Schiff says that’s what’s in the transcript. He’s lying through his teeth! Every bodily orifice that Schiff has, he’s lying through — and the Republicans are sitting there and they’re not even reacting to it!I’m watching it here from the EIB Southern Command and I’m blowing a gasket asking, “Why aren’t the Republicans reacting to it?” Finally, a Republican constituent sent an email to a Republican member of the committee and said, “What the hell are you doing? The guy’s lying through his teeth!”
So a Republican member of the committee — I forget who it was — then finally called Schiff out on it 30 minutes later, and Schiff said (muttering), “Well, it was a parody. I was doing satire,” and yet Schiff gets a pass for this. Adam Schiff, in all of this, gets a pass! He still goes before the Senate in this trial with some kind of moral authority as though he is engaging in the truth. He wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him upside the head. He’s making up what the president said on the phone call with the transcript of the phone call there and available for anybody to see.
Why does anybody debate Schiff’s version of the phone call as legitimate? Schiff makes up what he calls a parody, and now all of a sudden, the word “dirt” is somehow part of the transcript, when it isn’t! “Trump was trying to dig up dirt! Trump was trying to do this! Trump was trying to find this about Biden,” when it’s not part of the transcript. Andy McCarthy had a piece yesterday/last night, saying that because Schiff has done this, Schiff has now opened the door to calling the Bidens if there are witnesses called.
Because Schiff has totally mischaracterized what Trump asked Zelensky to do regarding Biden and his kid Hunter in the investigation. So since Schiff has put forth a fallacious, phony, lying version of that, the president’s team has a legal opportunity and requirement to correct that record — and that may be calling Schiff (which I still think they ought to do, make him the face of this), and call the Bidens. The Democrats are literally paranoid that that would happen.
Schumer and the rest of these guys in their public statements, press conferences, are doing everything they can to make it sound like, “Mentioning the Bidens in any of this is insane. It shows the president’s lost his mind.” This is all about the Bidens. It’s all about the investigations and what Biden was able to do as a member of the United States government to grease the skids for his family for years and years and years.
The reason all this is relevant is they’re trying to throw Donald Trump out of office for something that he didn’t do, for a scandal he wasn’t engaged in, for misconduct he did not enter into — and yet it is all over the place on the Democrat side, starting with Hillary and the Steele dossier. Now the FISA warrant totally make-up abuse on Carter Page, which now all these people are admitting to. Down to the Mueller report. On the let’s-go-get-Trump side of this, nobody has found anything. There’s no impeachable offense. There’s no crime.
So what’s really this all about? What are the Democrats doing? ‘Cause let’s go back to the reality they’re not gonna get a conviction — and especially now. I don’t care how persuasive anybody might think that some of these House managers’ cases have been. By the way, the TV ratings daily are plummeting. You’ve seen that, right? The top was 11 million. Twenty million’s what the first day of Kavanaugh got with Blasey Ford. This thing is 11 million, and they’re dropping every day. Reuters and CNN are wringing their hands, destroyed, distressed about this.
So they know they’re not gonna get a conviction (chuckles), and now they’re not gonna get four Republicans to vote to authorize witnesses if they ever were. But Nadler coming in and accusing essentially Susan Collins and Murkowski and Cory Gardner and whoever else they’re trying to get in there of “participating in the cover-up.” Nadler’s statements that he made yesterday as part of his press statement were so far out of bounds, they were so radical left that I said, “Wait a minute. This isn’t right. There’s something going on here that people are not seeing.”
If you circle back, it all goes back to the fact that they know they’re not going to get a conviction — and yet they’re doing this. So why? Well, look, there’s some obvious answers. They’re trying to dirty Trump up for the 2020 campaign, and there’s a theory that they’re trying to dirty up enough Republican senators that are vulnerable to maybe win the Senate to go along with the House so that they can shut Trump down even if he is reelected. I think there’s even more than that going on. Those two things are relevant; I’m not saying they’re not happening.
But I think there’s a… I mean, what kind of rhetoric did the Round Mound of the Gavel use yesterday? Who was that rhetoric intended for? The Democrat base! The lunatic fringe of the Democrat base. You put this together with some of the other news out there. Obama… According to Charles Gasparino at Fox News, Obama is getting so scared of Bernie that he’s considering a national statement urging Democrats not to vote for Bernie Sanders. That is an all-out assault on who, in addition to Crazy Bernie?
That is an all-out assault on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has become one of Bernie’s biggest advocates and is toying publicly with the idea of a third-party ’cause the Democrat Party isn’t left enough. Well, here comes the Round Mound of the Gavel yesterday and he starts uttering resistance-type lingo! He starts uttering language that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to hear and people that might be inclined to support her want to hear. You go to New York where all politics is local.
Is Nadler perhaps gonna be primaried by somebody chosen by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because he, Nadler, is not sufficiently resistant to, radical left-wing enough? Now, if Nadler is worried about a challenge, it would make perfect sense for him to do what he did yesterday. In other words, it could well be that part of the explanation for this is that some of these House managers — Nadler, Schiff — are actually doing all of this to keep their base together, not bust up Trump’s connection to his (’cause they can’t, and they know that by now). Now, in Schiff’s case, I honestly think that he needs professional help right along the lines with Antonio Brown.
I think they need to be seeing the same shrink, they need to get the same kind of mental health care, ’cause I think Schiff has lost it totally. There’s a great piece today by somebody at PJ Media, I think. If you’re a parent, have you got a kid who loves performing, loves doing things in the living room, and you can’t get ’em to stop and you have to act like, “Oh, that’s so cute, Little Johnny;” you have to encourage ’em ’cause you’re the parents? That’s Schiff.
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Easy - this is more of the obstruct, attack, and resist efforts.
They are also trying to invalidate a 2016 election and interfere in the 2020 election not only for President, but down the ticket.
The real question is how will the American people reward or punish them in November.....
The real question is how will the American people reward or punish them in November.....
The American people rewarded them in 2018 by giving them the House and almost giving them the Senate. So, why change strategies?
Democrats are doing it because they can, not because they have a valid reason. If they can force a vote through the House through sheer numbers, they can make up whatever reason they want. And they are. It could be because Trump doesn’t comb his hair the way they do, or he drinks Pepsi instead of Coke. But they chose the talking points of a phone call as an excuse instead.
It's the only way to assure fair elections ya know?
Trump voters stayed the hell home for some Gid forsaken reason during midterms to let Trump’s job nearly impossible. It disgusts me to no end. They gave the house away.
So Rush is saying Nadler used language like AOC would use to avoid getting challenged in a primary, even though Nadler knew it would prejudice the Senate against calling for witnesses.
And prejudicing the Senate against calling witnesses is okay anyway, since they won’t get a conviction and they don’t want Biden, or Schiff or the whistleblower called.
That makes sense.
Trump represents the monkey wrench in the gears of a presumed final phase of a fascist-feudalist Wall St./City of London globalist oligarch police state takeover of the world. Combine Hitler and Stalin and put them in a corner office at Goldman Sachs and you got the picture. BANKS, BANKERS, BANKING.
The GOP picked up 2 seats in the Senate, so stop rewriting history! That is not ‘almost giving them the Senate’
As for the House, losing it was due to 35 GOP members quitting.
They are performing no different then the Labor Party in Britain, ignoring reality. The results will be the same in 2020, complete sweep by the GOP, just like the Tories did to the Labor Party.
I know we LOST the house BUT we also LOST the RINOS the house is now united and though we lost and it is painful sometimes the pain is worth it!!!!
The second thing is to stop the Senate from doing what they were doing very well. What were they doing that was so important that it had to be stopped? They were confirming federal judges by the cart load. Say what you will about McConnell, and I have probably said it too, he has done very well in getting the judges through.
That is a big thing. That is the future. While I do not like it the fact is that the federal judges run this country. They boss the President, Congress and we the People around like peasants.
Did you pass a prop in your state that the liberals did not like? Just find a friendly federal judge in an entirely different area of the country and get it struck down.
Did the President do something that was totally in his power that you did not like? Get a low level federal judge to over rule him.
Did Congress "pass" something that is not in their power? Well just get five judges to ignore the illegality and presto, law of the land.
So that is their goal no more sane judges and the House having an excuse for not doing their job.
I can not see any other real reason for this.
That's why a whole bucket full of GOP @ssholes retired before the 2018 elections. The two-year period when the Republican Party controlled the White House and both houses of Congress exposed them all as total frauds ... because once they were in a position to actually pass bills and have them signed into law, they weren't even willing to pass legislation that they had been promising for years.
It's worth noting that President Trump attracts large numbers of Democrats and independents to his rallies. Many of these people love Trump but despise their Republican representatives in Congress. Can you blame them?
They are exposing themselves for who they are and their evil intentions.
Have some hope..... the economy was just starting to gather real steam then, the Mueller investigation and Russian collusion were alive and well, and our foreign policy was much less clear.
Trump has had a masterful performance since the 2018 election with trade deals, foreign policy, and improving life for all Americans.
He is far stronger going into the 2020 election and if the left makes the election a “referendum” on Trump, we might be very happy the following morning. It will be difficult, but it is certainly possible.
Yes I blame them.
I hate the GOP largely too, but to say it would be just as hard is insane.
Ballot Harvesting/cheating gave the Democrats many house seats.
They are stalling indictments which will bring the entire party down.
Don’t blame the voters OUR side did not do a good enough job at getting the vote out AND they let the vote HARVESTING go unchallenged why in the HELL did we not harvest votes!!! I BLAME the RNC!!!
I agree with your points and think that 2020 House races are definitely part of it all. The Dems are filling time without doing anything legislatively themselves, and wasting the Senate’s time so can’t accomplish much either.
Trump can veto any radical bills that make it past the Senate. Pushing their legislative agenda would force Dems on record for infanticide, gun bans/confiscation, accelerated wealth confiscation and redistribution, killing whole industries like energy and housing, unrestricted immigration, student debt write-offs, reparations, etc. House Dems get elected by pretending they aren’t zealots on these issues; they don’t want to go into the next election cycle defending radical votes, so ... LOOK TRUMP SQUIRREL!
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