Posted on 12/18/2019 3:43:16 PM PST by Libloather
RUSH: I thought today would be a good time to talk to the Republican leader in the House. The day of reckoning has come where the Democrats get to fulfill their three-year-old dream. Literally the day started out and yesterday the day started out - and pardon my French here - but the media was in pre-orgasmic mode. They were just ready to explode, they were so happy. Then the day came and they’re miserable today.
You can just see that they’re not even cutting away to commentary much because the feeling of gravity and seriousness and heart-stopping just isn’t there. It seems more routine political bickering than actual impeachment. And commentators on the left throughout cable news networks today have been very open about how unremarkable all of this seems.
Now, it is remarkable. There’s gonna be a blemish of impeachment on Donald Trump’s record, but it is not due to anything substantive. We have the Republican leader of the House, Kevin McCarthy, with us. So how would you assess the Republicans in the House performance throughout this period where you were denied opportunity to call witnesses, be present down in the basement and so forth, you really had some obstacles in your way. How would you describe the way you guys have held your ground during all this?
MCCARTHY: We’ve had every obstacle. They didn’t do anything of the standards we did for Bill Clinton or Nixon. They tried to ram everything, and I’ve never seen the Republicans more united. What you just said about the media, I was just on the floor a little earlier. The Democrats are down. Pelosi promised them that their numbers would be higher. They’re lower.
The president’s approval rating is at an all-time high. And you know what’s gonna happen at the end of this week? The Democratic conference is gonna be smaller, and the Republican conference is gonna be bigger. Instead of 19 seats to win the majority we’re only gonna need 18, all because of what they’ve done with impeachment.
RUSH: Why do you think - is this a Pelosi miscalculation? Because you’re right -
MCCARTHY: By far. By far.
RUSH: She really misread the public? She really misread these circumstances this badly?
MCCARTHY: Well, remember what she said in May - or in March of this year. She said it’s so divisive, impeachment, it has to be overwhelming, compelling, and bipartisan to move forward. Had she waited those 48 hours, she never planned that the president would release the transcripts. That was her fatal flaw. But she admitted last week she’s been working at this for two and a half years.
And when you think about this, Jerry Nadler, you run to become committee chairman, and judiciary is all about impeachment. You have to campaign within your own party. He put out campaign pieces that he’d be the best for impeachment. Those freshmen that gave him the majority uphold - put their hand on the Constitution and say they’ll uphold it. A few hours later that new freshman Tlaib, she says, “I’m gonna impeach the mother.”
Somber for a different reason?
They’ve got nothing except Hate Trump. That’s their only prominent issue.
I don't know about you but the "hate" basis for any campaign is a no-win all the way around.
they are down. Push them further down. Don’t lament the loss of comity or bipartisanship or whatever. Defeat them utterly. The person with the best instincts on how to do this is President Donald Trump himself. We just need people like McCarthy to be team players.
Pelosi is considering having the vote but then not send it to the Senate for trial. That won’t fly with the American people. Trump and the Republicans will rip them to shreds. However Pelosi knows that once its in the Senate ,Trump will counterattack viciously and mercilessly. He will expose the corruption and payoffs to Nancy’s son Paul. When this is over Pelosi is more likely to lose her office than Trump.
For later
Pelosi got rolled, by Schiff mainly and others who promised but could not deliver.
Her electoral future will be unaffected but after she loses that gavel again I wouldn’t be surprised if she resigned from Congress. Who’d want to die in the saddle after the horse is dead?
Schiff is dirty, the issue is being able to prove it. He is a shifty little bastard but hopefully there will be evidence that can grab him by his pencil neck and toss him in jail.
I sincerely hope Pelosi has a stroke over this. I really do.
Exactly. Step on their throats whenever possible..
I’m not one to try to improve on Rush, but he should have said: “The day of reckoning has come where the Democrats get to fulfill their three-year-old wet dream.
Maybe so. But the world won't be safe until the Party of HATE and EVIL has been flushed down the toilet of history and into oblivion, never to raise its ugly head again.
She’ll never resign. Besides, I’d like my final view of her to be one where she is crawling up to the Speaker’s podium, and dropping dead trying to get hold of the gavel one last time.
1-Trump won an election rigged against him.
2- #Orangemanbad
I clearly recall Rush having a call in from Speaker Ryan in January 2017. Rush was just so gushing and turned on by the nice HJ and happy ending Ryan gave him.....feeding the fat stooge a bunch of BS.
Was this phone call similar?
Loved every minute of the interview today.
“They don’t like me or you or your listeners.”... is a good rationale for their often odd political strategies. They would love to ruin the country so it would destroy all of us in the bargain.
Fun strategy for someone devious among us Deplorables would be to plant “An insider source said today...” or “A political assistant to a major Dem player said...” and follow this with “New breed in House privately laughing about Speaker Pelosi as well past her Use By Date” and “Old guard Dems consider the Squad to be light intellect types they can use but then disregard” and “Omar and Tlaib said AOC is a typical Hispanic or has no real concern for Muslims.”
We have to tolerate phony stories such as “Romney and Collins met with 8 Senators in secret strategy to undermine Senate trial for Trump” and “McConnell set to turn against Trump on impeachment.”
Pelosi is considering having the vote but then not send it to the Senate for trial. That won’t fly with the American people
Don’t bet on that. How many people will understand how outrages that actually is?
...final view of her to be one where she is crawling up to the Speaker’s podium, and dropping dead trying to get hold of the gavel one last time.
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But first, entertaining everyone with a complete senile word-salad babble-thon, complete with a clinical display of tardive dystonia.
Great interview. The whole thing is a good read. There are positive things going on in terms of retaking the majority that of course the media are not reporting.
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