Posted on 10/18/2019 3:12:01 PM PDT by Libloather
RUSH: Im getting some emails. Rush, you dont seem to be taking impeachment seriously enough. I think youre wrong. I think the House is gonna impeach Trump. Its gonna theyre gonna do it. I think theres gonna be a trial. Im really worried. Why arent you? Im getting a lot of emails that have that as a basic theme. Ill go through it again, but let me give you a very simple reason why I think they arent going to actually have an official vote and transfer all this to a trial in the Senate.
Thats why theyre not gonna do it. Theyre not gonna turn this over to the Senate - and not even because the Senate would acquit. Theyre not gonna give the politics of this away. They want to be able to talk about impeachment, and Pelosi and Schiff and the Democrats want to be seen as the people running it, in charge of it - the politics of it.
The minute they have a vote and hand this over to the Senate, the Senate is in control of impeachment, not the House. The Senate is run by Republicans. Theyre not gonna do that. Its real simple. They are not going to let go of their control of all the narratives attached to impeachment, and that would happen if they go to the Senate with it.
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RUSH: Now, Im gonna expand on this as I did yesterday. Basically Im just gonna remind you what I said yesterday. But do you foresee Pelosi and Schiff giving up control of the impeachment process, turning it over to the Republicans, to the Senate? Forget that the Senate is Republicans. Forget that. Do you see them giving up day-to-day control over the narrative of impeachment? I dont, and thats the main reason I think that theyre not gonna go through with this because I dont
Look, theyre not idiots. I dont care what, you know, the ebb of flow of things happen. If there actually ever was a trial in the Senate, they are not going to get 20 Republicans to vote to convict. They might get Romney and two or three others, but theyre not gonna get 20. That means Trumps acquitted. Thats the worst thing that could happen. Thats not their gambit. Their gambit is the Richard Nixon gambit. They forced Nixon out without ever having to impeach him. They did it in the media.
They were able to scare a bunch of Republicans in the Senate and shame a bunch of Republicans in the Senate into renouncing support for Nixon and then sending an emissary - it was Howard Baker - up to the White House to tell Nixon, Youd better quit because youve lost all support here on Capitol Hill. If they vote to impeach you, youre done. If you want to be the first president removed from office by impeachment, then hang tough.
Nixon resigned. Thats what they want to put out. They want this to go on all next year. They want to be able to have this thing go on and on and have it be a daily thing. And the minute they have a vote and the minute they go to trial, they turn control of it over to Mitch McConnell, who they hate - and I just dont see them doing that because, folks, this is purely politics. This is raw politics. This isnt about crimes.
Its not about criminal behavior, high criminal behavior, misdemeanor criminal behavior. It isnt about any of that. Its about trying to overcome and reverse the 2016 election. Thats all this has ever been; its what it remains today. Its not because they think Trump is an embarrassment thats endangering the country and hes just destroying it. Its not about that at all. Its about the fact that they couldnt beat him. Its about the fact that he won. Its about the fact that they havent been able to get rid of him yet.
Its all it is, and they need the media to be their echo chamber or vice-versa. The minute the focus of impeachment goes to the Senate, Pelosi and Schiff are just sideline cheerleaders. They are not going to give that up. Now, there are exceptions to everything. And if they found that Trump did in fact shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue last night and it was covered up - if they found something like that, outrageous - then, of course, bam! They would go full speed. But they dont have anything impeachable.
See, thats another thing that, when you get right down to it, they dont have anything impeachable. All they have is what they used during Nixon. And that is a daily opportunity to try to turn Republican support in the Senate away from Trump with public shaming; never-ending, relentless media narratives that cause Republicans to cave. Thats the model that they are following.
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RUSH: In fact, folks, Ill tell you something else. I may be going out on a limb here, but Im gonna say it anyway. If I have to walk it back, Ill walk it back. I actually think politically the Democrats have shoved the actual impeachment of Trump aside. When Pelosi said they werent gonna do a vote, thats what that meant to me. Look, when Pelosi cancels the vote and says theres not gonna be a vote, what does that mean? She doesnt want this to end! If they have a vote - and lets assume that theyve got enough votes to impeach. Okay, then that eventually - and the Turtle, Mitch McConnell, is out there saying if they do this, he wants this done by Thanksgiving.
Theyre not gonna turn control of this over to the Senate, folks. Theyre just not gonna let go of it. I cannot see it. Thats not the gambit. The game plan here has always been to force Trump to resign. I mean, they werent gonna impeach during the Mueller years. This has all been about trying to get Trump to resign. The next elections not til 2020. Lets put this in perspective. Trump wins on election night 2016. They immediately begin this coup! They start the silent coup. Trump-Russia collusion, eventually they get Mueller.
What are they gonna do? They cant redo the election. There will not be a do-over. So theyre faced with Trump for four years unless what? Theyve always wanted to force a resignation. They werent in any position to do a formal impeachment during the Mueller two years or any time prior to it. And impeachment is, you know, short of illness or death, the only way to remove somebody from the presidency - and it was not even an option.
So the gambit has always been to create massive public opinion anti-Trump. Its always been to try to get Trump voters to abandon him. Its always been trying to give Republicans ammo, elected Republicans ammo to abandon Trump. That has been the objective of all of this. Thats why I have been blowing a gasket every day during these two years when I see certain Republicans falling for it. Its been the trick, its been the objective from the get-go.
Even if Republicans hate Trump, why give the Democrats any semblance of a victory here? The election happened. Republican voters chose Trump. You understand the Democrats wanting to sell out voters, but Republicans? Why in the world would they want to sell out their own voters? There are gonna be many elections long after Trump has served his term, so its been extremely frustrating. Its so obvious what this has always been.
Trump being forced out of office cannot happen unless elected Republicans join the Democrats and demand it. Thats the only way, and that has been the objective. Okay. So it failed! The coup and everything failed. Forcing Trump to resign failed. They even tried the 25th Amendment! You know, and then they were gonna wear a wire, Rosenstein was gonna wear a wire try to get the goods on Trump being unfit. They wanted the cabinet to come in!
They were doing everything they could to try to force Republicans, elected Republicans to abandon Trump. That was the only way ever they were gonna get rid of Trump before 2020. Well, were now one year out from 2020, and they have failed. Theyve tried everything, and now theyre continuing. Now theyre up to impeachment, and they got everybody believing that were on the verge of actually having articles of impeachment and then a trial and then a conviction.
But wait a minute. Theyre not gonna go there! Its never been about a trial in the Senate - unless, as I said, there is something that the whole country agrees is unacceptable. But there isnt anything like that. There isnt an impeachable offense here. I mean, look where weve come from. Weve come from Russia collusion. (Raspberry!) Now we got a phone call, a phone call to the president of Ukraine. Were gonna impeach for that? Come on, folks.
This has always been a grand illusion that Trump is unfit, that Trump is incompetent, that Trump is a danger, what have you. So now were one year out, and now all of that forcing Trump to resign, thats now in the rearview mirror! Now its about 2020! They know theyre not gonna force Trump out! They know theres not enough time for the Republicans to abandon Trump, to force him to resign before 2020. They may dream of it, but there isnt time for that. It isnt gonna happen.
Theyre gonna have to have an election. Theyre gonna have to win the next election. Now, youve heard some Democrats say, like Al Green, Hey, if we dont impeach the guy, hes gonna be reelected! What does that tell you? They know full well what theyre facing here. So theyre not going Pelosi and Schiff and the rest of that gaggle are not going to lose control. Theyre not gonna give up control of the political issue. The Democrats are running for the White House in 2020 on impeachment, on Trumps unfitness, on Trump should be impeached.
But theyre not gonna pull the trigger on that. That is their 2020 campaign issue. This is why so many Democrats are saying, Oh, what are we doing here? Theyve stopped talking about issues that actual people vote on, and their whole all-in move here is, Trumps unfit, Trumps unqualified, Trump is a mistake, Trump is Well, thats been what theyve been trying for the last three years, and what has had got em? Well, it gets them a news narrative every day, but it hasnt gotten rid of Trump.
Trumps still out there having a ball. Trumps still out there doing his rallies. People show up at the rallies. They love the rallies. Theyre having a great time. They have not turned Trump into a whimpering mental case hiding in the corners of dark rooms of the White House residence. None of thats going on. But Im just telling you the minute they have a vote (Snort!) Theyre not going to. Pelosi said theyre not gonna do a vote. Thats all you need to know, that theyre not serious about it. It is nothing more than
See, when you have the media on your side or when the media is your leader? (chuckles) Why, that changes everything. Then you can do whatever you want and call it whatever you want. So theyre running their 2020 campaign to defeat Trump, and theyre calling it impeachment. Theyve named their campaign impeachment, but there isnt an actual impeachment going on. Wait a minute, Rush. Wait a minute. Theyre calling witnesses.
Yeah, theyre calling witnesses in the basement behind closed and theyre not letting anybody read the transcripts! Theyre not Folks, this is all I keep trying overusing the word illusion, but having the media helps. Whatever they do, they can call it, We are impeaching the president. We have an impeachment inquiry. We are issuing subpoenas and letters. But no, not really, and I cannot emphasize enough that actually having a vote and presenting articles of impeachment - drawing up the cases and then the House managers assigned to go conduct the trial in the Senate - guess what?
That puts the entire Democrat reelection or election campaign in the hands of the Senate. They are not going to do that. If Im right, six months from now, the Democrat campaign will still be focused on impeaching Trump. Well, wait a minute, Rush. Everybody will know six months out theyre not gonna impeach Trump. Theyre gonna call it that. No matter what they do, thats what theyre gonna call it. That word, they think, holds magic. That word, impeachment, theyre hoping it will scare Republicans at some point into abandoning Trump.
Now, if that happens, if theyre successful in forcing Republicans to abandon Trump, then they think that will give them the 2020 election. But thats where the focus is now. Two years ago, the focus was on Trump resigning - and if they could make that happen now, they still will. Dont misunderstand. But time is running out on them. And, by the way, all of this, every bit of this is gonna change when they have a nominee, and we dont know when thats gonna be.
But its probably gonna be before their convention. Its whenever one of those Looney Tunes wins enough delegates in the primaries to be the de facto nominee. Thats when everything changes because that person then becomes the de facto head of the party, not Pelosi. And so that persons gonna have a decision to make. Okay. Do we want to continue to go after Trump on the basis that hes unfit and we should impeachment him that or that or the other, or are they gonna go back to issues like health care for all, tax increases for all, whatever theyre gonna do?
What were looking at here - and I know it doesnt look like this at all. But when I look out over the landscape the last three years, I see one Democrat failure after another. I literally see them as a bunch of Wile E. Coyotes either blowing up themselves up or running off the cliff. And I say that because their objective has been forcing Donald Trump to resign, to getting him out of the White House in Washington, and they have failed.
And they may have succeeded in slowing down the implementation of his presidential agenda, but they havent stopped it. Weve got an economic set of circumstances they cant argue against - unemployment, wages up, unemployment down. They dont have any issues to run on. Now theyre even Now, if you didnt know better, the Democrats are for war. They want troops deployed all over the world! (Snort!) When did that happen?
Trumps got them taking positions simply because they hate him that are positions theyve never taken before. Its gotta have some of their serious supporters scratching their heads out there. Do we really want to vote for somebody that wants to send troops all over the world here? This is not what we thought we were about. So all I am saying is that I think this impeachment thing is actually a gigantic failure.
And I was gonna say here before even the show open that Im going out on the limb. I really think, despite the language and despite the news narratives and coverage, I think theyve given up on actual impeachment - meaning a vote and a trial (Snort!) - for the very simple reason theyre not going to give control of the, quote, unquote, story. The last thing they want is impeachment in the Senate, in the hands of the Turtle, in the hands of Mitch McConnell.
And the last thing they want is an acquittal in the Senate. And they need to find
If theyre gonna do this and get a conviction in the Senate, they need 20 Republicans to vote with the Democrats to get rid of a Republican president, whom they have failed to be able to get rid of for three years ago. Now, there may be a couple of Mitt Romneys over there, but there arent 20 of them.
Thanks for posting this; Kaslin usually does...a lot of nervous nellies here at Freep lately on this.
Won’t happen...remember Bones on Star Trek, “come on, use logic!”
Rush says they want to have impeachment and not hane it too!! I think he’s right!
Democrats appear to be illogical, Jim.
Agree. Dog’s not going to give up this bone. It’s something for them to yap about for another entire year.
‘Course, they could always impeach him again on some other charge, while the Senate is considering the first impeachment. And they’re crazy enough to do it.
Look, theyre not idiots. I dont care what, you know, the ebb of flow of things happen. If there actually ever was a trial in the Senate, they are not going to get 20 Republicans to vote to convict. They might get Romney and two or three others, but theyre not gonna get 20. That means Trumps acquitted. Thats the worst thing that could happen. Thats not their gambit. Their gambit is the Richard Nixon gambit. They forced Nixon out without ever having to impeach him. They did it in the media.
At least their heirs and assigns will get a nice payday.
That's why I don't think they will do it. They will either not take up a vote or they will let the committees vote and then let the articles fail on the floor of the house with some dems voting no so it won't go to trial.
That's my theory
I don’t think they really want to do it. If they do it then it would be a propaganda loss for them. What they really want is to beat Trump in 2020, and then declare that his policies of “racism, homophobia, nativism, and economic protectionism” were soundly rejected by the people and are never to return. The GOP establishment would love it too because they they can go back to nominating Romney and say “we have to return to our values”. Impeachment is a last resort and they just want to run interference for as long as possible.
plus..by using this ‘UKRAINE” angle, the dems are trying to gum up the Barr investigation into 2016..by conflating it with a so called “abuse of power”..trying to turn the GUILIANI-BARR investigation into a crime.
I got plenty o nuttin. And nuttin got plenty o me.
Look at it this way:
The dems have pulled the pin on a grenade
There’sb no putting the pin back
They’re holding the grenade and spoon
They’re not going to throw it
Now, how long due you think the public is going to be happy with the dems running around with a live grenade?
Til Christmas? Easter? Fourth of July Election day?
They can’t put the pin back and they can’t throw it.
This isn’t going to go well for the dems. The squad pushed Pelosi into this and she wasn’t happy about it. Notice that we’re not hearing much from the squad lately?
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