Posted on 01/29/2020 1:03:20 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Yesterday — toward the end of the day, last night — around 6 p.m., somehow the news leaked that Mitch McConnell said that he does not have the votes, as of now, to prevent witnesses.
It was right there on the Drudge Report, and every Drive-By news outlet ran with it.
But in truth, nothing had changed. All that the Turtle had said was he didn’t “have the votes yet.” The potential or prospective Jeff Flakes all want to decide at the last minute to garner maximum attention. There’s four of these Republicans, and they know the attention is on them, and they know everybody is gonna be watching, everybody is gonna be paying extra careful attention. They’re gonna milk it for all they can. We put together a montage of the Drive-By Media breathlessly anticipating the possibility that McConnell has lost control of the Senate.
ERIN BURNETT: Breaking news! Senator Mitch McConnell telling Republicans he doesn’t have the votes to stop witnesses from testifying!
DAVID MUIR: He does not have the votes right now to block witnesses.
MARY BRUCE: He does not have the votes to block witnesses.
PETER ALEXANDER: There are not four Republican votes.
BRET BAIER: He does not have the votes to block the calling of witnesses!
MARTHA MACCALLUM: McConnell told his GOP colleagues that they do not have the votes.
ARI MELBER: Mitch McConnell saying he doesn’t have the votes.
ANDERSON COOPER: He doesn’t have the votes.
LOU DOBBS: …confirmed he does not have the votes.
CHRIS HAYES: He does not have the votes to block impeachment witnesses!
CAROL LEE: They don’t have the votes!
RUSH: They are so excited. “McConnell doesn’t have the votes, and that means that four Republicans are turning tail, turning turncoat on Trump, and it’s all because of the Bolton leak!” “Well, since Bolton said what he said, reputedly…” By the way, do you know where Bolton is? At this very moment, do you know where Bolton is? I need to double-check this. I got a note that Bolton is in Qatar — Qatar, for those of you who don’t know. Q-a-t-a-r. What’s Bolton doing in Qatar?
I mean, why isn’t he standing by nearby the Capitol, ready to respond to the demand, the requests that he show up and give a deposition? Well, I’m joking. I mean, that won’t happen for days, if it happens at all. But still, he’s in Qatar, which… I don’t know. I find it somewhat interesting. Folks, I know McConnell a little bit. I’m not saying I talk to him frequently, but I’ve studied him enough, and I think that he’s one of these consummate Senate guy. He’s a consummate, consummate Senate guy. He knows it backwards and forwards.
He loves it, and he is expert at keeping his herd together, and I don’t think that he does… I don’t think he’s lost this vote yet. I think saying this is designed to create exactly what’s happened: A bunch of Democrats jumping out early, a bunch of media people thinking, “The issue’s been won! It’s over. McConnell has lost control,” because they live in this alternative universe anyway. I don’t think that we’re anywhere near the day where this final assessment could be made.
Here’s David Axelrod last night also on CNN about the possibility of witnesses in the impeachment trial…
AXELROD: I think there’s gonna be an enormous amount of pressure on those who are — who have not committed to voting against witnesses in the next 72 hours, and it’s gonna become a loyalty test for them with the president.
RUSH: Okay. So Drudge puts it out there that McConnell’s lost the Senate. He’s lost the Republican caucus. The Republican caucus has told McConnell to go pound sand. The Republicans want witnesses because the Republicans hate Trump, and the Republicans can’t wait to vote to get witnesses in there so they can make Trump look bad — because this is what the media and the Democrats desperately hope will happen.
But after a night to ponder this, this morning on “CNN Special Coverage,” they call it, the coanchor Wolf Blitzer speaking with the coanchor Jake Tapper about this…
BLITZER: You know, it’s interesting, uh, you know, Jake, uh, that probably at least two, maybe three Republicans will go ahead and vote for witnesses, but they gotta get to four. And Lamar Alexander, you know, I — I suspect he’s gonna go along in the end with his old friend, Mitch McConnell.
TAPPER: There is a — a — a… Look, we know this… Tribalism, party affiliation, partisan politics are very strong in this city.
RUSH: Really?
TAPPER: People vote against things that they feel because they need to stay loyal to the party.
RUSH: Really?
TAPPER: So there is a — adegree of self-preservation —
RUSH: Yes.
TAPPER: — in this decision.
RUSH: Really?
TAPPER: “Do I want Republicans at the country club, my friends —
RUSH: (chuckling)
TAPPER: — to think that I’m disloyal, to look at me the way that a lot of Republicans look at Jeff Flake?”
I think the Turtle is probably a good deal smarter than he’s given credit for.
Maybe McConnell will call for votes on the confirmation of about 17 federal judges the very next day after acquittal... When the communists are down licking their wounds and their heads are exploding, kick them repeatedly in the groin...
That's how they do us, and laugh while we're bleeding.
What really strikes me about this segment and this whole sordid impeachment affair is that the corrupt MSM is absolutely fixated on this. It is all they talk about, all the time. And the rest of the country just yawns and doesn’t much care about the hair-on-fire media.
As jaded as I am, I am still amazed at the huge disconnect here between the corrupt media’s interest and the rest of America’s complete lack thereof.
Whaaaat? Even Lou Dobbs fell for it?
JMO but I believe the turtle said he didn’t have the votes so that the democrats would have to sacrifice some of their own to vote no to make sure he did have the votes in order to keep Bidens out of it.....
When all along the turtle had enough votes.
It would trick the dems into a bipartisan exoneration.
Big difference in saying “I don’t have the votes” and “I won’t have the votes.”
bump to revisit
Dobbs is a moron. He never learns anything from his guests because he’s always mumbling and stumbling through his non-stop monologue. Hannity learned from Dobbs.
Especially by some Freepers
I thought the same thing. Martha Mcallum spouted the lib talking points too. Unbelievable.
Never watch that skank, she hangs too close to chrissy waldo, the guy that Trump said should be working at cnn {I loved it}.
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