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RUSH: This morning Orrin Hatch did something that we haven\u2019t seen Republicans have the courage to do in I don\u2019t know how long. The Republicans are getting fed up with Democrat delays on the nominations of Tom Price, Health and Human Services, and Mnuchin as the Treasury secretary. So the way they were doing this was by not showing up at the hearings.<\/p>\n
The rules are such that if Democrats aren\u2019t there, the hearings can\u2019t go on. There have to be a certain number there, and they were saying they weren\u2019t showing up because these people were lying to them; the nominees were not telling them the truth. They were not gonna waste their time showing up and listen to these people continue to tell \u2019em lies. So Orrin Hatch invoked a rule saying, “Okay, you don\u2019t want to show up? We\u2019re gonna have the vote anyway. Screw you.” And they did!<\/p>\n
The Republicans voted and confirmed Tom Price and Mnuchin with not a single Democrat present in the committee, and it\u2019s done. It\u2019s just that simple. And all the Democrats can do is scream like stuck pigs, and all the media can do is run around and talk about how unfair, anti-democratic the Republicans were and Orrin Hatch is. These people were going to be confirmed anyway. The Democrats are just bollixing things up because they want to make it hard for the Trump administration to function.<\/p>\n
So the Republicans said, “Enough is enough,” went ahead, and had the vote. The committee vote on Jeff Sessions took place right before the program started today. Tom… What\u2019s his name? Al Franken made an absolute fool of himself when it was his turn to speak. He got into minutia of previous testimony in the hearings. Grassley tried to shut it down and then figured out politically it would make more sense to let Franken drone on. So he let Franken drone on about things that anybody was watching wouldn\u2019t have the slightest idea about.<\/p>\n
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He just looked like a maniac (a measured maniac, but nevertheless a maniac), spoilsport, everything else. So after Franken finishes — he was reading, which is boring to listen to anyway, from his own typed manuscript — Grassley called for a vote. The vote took all of two minutes, and the committee confirmed Sessions with a recommendation. That means the full Senate will vote on Sessions hopefully this afternoon and maybe tomorrow. So action took place up on Capitol Hill on three different nominations before the program started.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Detroit with Gina.\u00a0 Gina, how you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019m great.\u00a0 Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.\u00a0 Listen, my question is: Do you feel that the Democrats are making their jobs any less valuable by not showing up to work and that the Republicans are still getting the job done?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 You are obviously referring to the Orrin Hatch committee where he went ahead and authorized the vote —<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 — for both Tom Price and Mnuchin precisely because the Democrats refused to show up, and so he said (paraphrased), “To hell with it. If you\u2019re not gonna show up, we\u2019re gonna do the vote anyway. We don\u2019t need you here. We\u2019re gonna do it. We\u2019re not gonna fall for your delaying tactics any longer.”<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 I feel if we didn\u2019t show up for work, what would happen?\u00a0 We would be fired.\u00a0 So let\u2019s drain the swamp even further and get rid of \u2019em all.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 (laughing) Wish it was that easy!\u00a0 (laughing)\u00a0 “Hey, you didn\u2019t show up for the hearing. You\u2019re gone!”\u00a0 I would love that.\u00a0 But you\u2019re asking me if I think that by not showing up, that they are going to harm themselves or damage themselves?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 You don\u2019t think that their constituents are gonna think next time around, “You\u2019re not even showing up to work”?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Their constituents are gonna applaud them for trying to stop them.\u00a0 That\u2019s what they were trying to do by not showing up.\u00a0 They were continuing to delay the hearings.\u00a0 They were claiming that it was a waste of time to listen to these nominees; they\u2019re lying to us!\u00a0 And so they had submitted additional questionnaires for the nominees to fill out. They were waiting on those to be delivered.<\/p>\n
No, no, no.\u00a0 Democrats are not gonna suffer for this kind of thing.\u00a0 This is, Gina, precisely why I say the objective is gonna have to be to continue to beat them — and politically beat them — because we can\u2019t rely on the fact that they\u2019re… Well, you know, we do have the election last year.\u00a0 That\u2019s still the wild card about public opinion and how it has shifted, and they didn\u2019t do themselves any favors; let\u2019s just put it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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