The House Minority Leader Talks to Rush (Kevin McCarthy - "The Democrats are down.")

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 12/18/19 | El Rushbo

[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.”

[pepsi_junkie]

The problem with politicians that are (1) greedy as hell and (2) have figured out how to become multi-millionaires by exploiting their public office is that they just cannot bring themselves to walk away from the gravy train. Ever. She’ll stick around and continue to profit mightily off sweetheart deals steered to her husband’s company.

[ducttape45]

Pelosi is considering having the vote but then not send it to the Senate for trial.

WHAT!?!?!? She can't do that! Oh geez, the political mayhem that woman is causing is beyond description.

I hope the pundits are right and that the Rats will lose power again next year, and lose it big time, and if she was to be voted out of office it would be Karma.

[billyboy15]

By most accts about 100 MILLION people will have it explained to them by the president. That is approximately how many followers he has on social media.

It is a totally different world now.