{"id":220840,"date":"2017-02-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=220840"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:36:38","slug":"mcconnell-should-use-the-nuclear-option-for-gorsuch-to-set-up-for-the-next-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/09\/mcconnell-should-use-the-nuclear-option-for-gorsuch-to-set-up-for-the-next-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Flailing Democrats Can\u2019t Stop Gorsuch, But McConnell Should Use the Nuclear Option Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Moving to Judge Gorsuch. I have a question for you people, because I know that many of you are paying attention to the media out there. And you can\u2019t miss this. There are an increasing number of Democrats and liberals and leftists outside the Senate who are singing Judge Gorsuch\u2019s praises. The most recent is a woman from Harvard. She was in the Obama Department of Justice. She looks like Marie Harf with auburn hair. I like people having a picture, a mental picture of the people we\u2019re talking about.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7n1wVJ75x48\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nShe\u2019s now a law professor at Harvard, and she has been today singing the praises. She cut a 30-second video, in fact, and she was singing the praises of Gorsuch. Cannot do any better. He\u2019s fair-minded. He\u2019s a man who will follow the law. And there is a growing sentiment out there for Judge Gorsuch, and it is I think being helped by the fact that Senator Blumenthal exaggerated a bit what Gorsuch reportedly said about Trump\u2019s attack of Judge Robart. Judge Robart was referred to as &#8220;that so-called judge&#8221; by President Trump. Richard Blumenthal, who lied about having served with honor and valor in Vietnam, claims that when he was talking to Gorsuch, that Gorsuch said that it was abhorrent what Trump said and he was very troubled by it. And it\u2019s evolved now that that\u2019s not what Gorsuch said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-220878 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BlumenthalGorsuch-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BlumenthalGorsuch-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BlumenthalGorsuch.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Gorsuch did not say that he found what Trump said abhorrent. What happened is that Blumenthal characterized what he thought Trump\u2019s statement about Judge Robart was and that Gorsuch pretty much agreed with it. And others, Ben Sasse, Nebraska, have come out and said, yes, Gorsuch was of the frame of mind that he was troubled and alarmed by President Trump\u2019s attack on the judge, Judge Robart. And this is causing even more Democrats to warm up to the guy because all they can see is criticizing Trump. (laughing) So if he does that or is perceived to be doing that, then they\u2019re warming up to him even more.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that Judge Gorsuch is going to be confirmed because he doesn\u2019t change the balance of the court. And as we stated yesterday, Mitch McConnell is trying to get this done without having to invoke the nuclear option, meaning eliminate the requirement for 60 votes. But I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, this is not the fight that everybody thought it was going to be. The next one will be. The odds are that the next opening on the Supreme Court will happen when one of the four liberal judges just can\u2019t go on, for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p>When one of those four slots opens up, and if Trump nominates anybody even close to Gorsuch, then you\u2019re gonna see nuclear war. You\u2019re gonna see essentially the way it was with Clarence Thomas. You know, Bork preceded Thomas. Clarence Thomas was the last real &#8212; I mean, it was bad for Alito, but the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings was all-out judicial nuclear war, and that was because he was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall, black justice, tried-and-true leftist liberal Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats thought that seat was theirs forever. And George H. W. Bush puts Clarence Thomas in there. You all remember what happened, the Anita Hill allegations of sexual harassment and pubic hairs on Coke cans and all this. And Judge Thomas referred to it as a high-tech lynching because he was a conservative African-American who did not follow the proscriptions of affirmative action and the demands of the left. They tried to kill him, tried to kill his career, they tried to kill his reputation. They literally tried to destroy Clarence Thomas. They brought out everything they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-220866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gettyimages-633225212_wide-14c994a136d9656202135b42bc48feeb15b813cf-s900-c85-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gettyimages-633225212_wide-14c994a136d9656202135b42bc48feeb15b813cf-s900-c85-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gettyimages-633225212_wide-14c994a136d9656202135b42bc48feeb15b813cf-s900-c85-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gettyimages-633225212_wide-14c994a136d9656202135b42bc48feeb15b813cf-s900-c85.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>And that\u2019s what\u2019s coming. They\u2019ll go back and forth on this whole nuclear op, \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna need the nuclear option. McConnell\u2019s gonna need it for the next judge, and he may as well trigger it now and establish precedent, because if he doesn\u2019t do it for Gorsuch, it\u2019s gonna be harder &#8212; (interruption) no, not in real life harder, but it\u2019s gonna be harder with the media pressure. &#8220;You didn\u2019t do it for Gorsuch, you can\u2019t just selectively decide when you\u2019re gonna do it.&#8221; That will put all kinds of pressure on him.<\/p>\n<p>I just think if they think they\u2019re going to need to nuke the nuclear option to get future nominees confirmed, just go ahead and do it for this and be done with it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Daily Caller has a story that the Trump administration is practically mailing Anthony Kennedy letters asking him to resign. Not doing that, but supposedly the Trump administration is trying to suggest to Justice Kennedy that it might be time to go, and they make the point they\u2019re not being subtle about it. They\u2019ve named a couple people who would be his potential replacements who clerked for him, which I guess is supposed to comfort Justice Kennedy that if he decides to retire, that somebody that he likes and respects is in line to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Snerdley asked what I think of this. This could be &#8212; you know, Kennedy goes either way. Supposedly you watch the Washington Post style section to figure out which way. But if Kennedy\u2019s slot comes up first before one of the libs, that confirmation battle might be not quite as heated as it would be for one of the libs.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s the headline in The Daily Caller: &#8220;Trump White House Sends Smoke Signals Urging Justice Kennedy To Resign.&#8221; I wonder if there are any hidden messages in there to Elizabeth Warren, Fauxcahontas, since they\u2019re smoke signals, and she is part Indian. I guess we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has quietly encouraged Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire in recent weeks, sending signals meant to coax him into leaving the bench. The signals have been delivered with the subtlety of a hand grenade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most clear indication came late Monday. The New York Times\u2019 Adam Liptak, citing administration sources, reports the White House has identified Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Raymond Kethledge of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as the frontrunners for the next appointment to the high court. Both men clerked for Kennedy early in their careers, and are widely respected as serious and sober jurists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m glad they\u2019re sober. I\u2019m really glad they\u2019re sober. At least they have that going for them. What the heck, sober? Does that mean they\u2019re just boring and dull and they sit around and drink coffee and are dead series even when they\u2019re watching MTV. By the way, where did it get started &#8212; I\u2019m serious here, folks. Where did it start that people cannot comment, cannot render opinion on judges? You know, Trump has weighed in on Judge Robart as a so-called judge, and they\u2019re having cows out there. They\u2019re going bonkers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020917_AA-Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020917_AA-Supreme-Court.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020917_AA-Supreme-Court-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Meanwhile, there was Obama in a State of the Union address bashing the Supreme Court, seated right in front of him, for their ruling on Citizens United. I remember justice Alito was sitting there shaking his head as Obama totally mischaracterized the ruling. And the left applauded that, as is understandable, Obama was going after the court that had gone after him and they just loved it and so forth. Nobody talked about the lack of decorum, and nobody talked about the breakdown of civility. But let Trump refer to Robart as a so-called judge and you would believe that the glue holding our society together has come apart.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, judges can be corrupt. The thing is, judges do make incorrect decisions. They\u2019re not above criticism. I understand the idea of an independent judiciary, but, folks, let\u2019s be honest about something. The judiciary has become politicized extensively, and it has been the case for years. And this is I think another one of the tricks of the left. You are not supposed to criticize the judiciary. You just can\u2019t. It\u2019s unseemly. It\u2019s a violation of the independence of the judiciary. It\u2019s seen as a very, very mean-spirited way of trying to bully or influence or whatever. Where did this come from? It\u2019s designed to get people to shut up. It\u2019s a leftist mechanism designed to get people to shut up and stop criticizing these leftist judges when they act like hacks instead of judges.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give you another way the Democrats play this game. They\u2019ll go get a celebrity who has a very visible disability and they\u2019ll have this celebrity do a political commercial endorsing a candidate or an idea, a ballot initiative, and you don\u2019t dare, you don\u2019t dare criticize the celebrity because he\u2019s disabled. And if you do that, you are just a heathen, you are a reprobate. And they do this on purpose. They put people in the political arena that they think are immune and hands off. You can\u2019t comment on what they say or what they do, and I throw that out.<\/p>\n<p>If they\u2019re gonna enter the political arena, then they\u2019re fair game. But Republicans generally in the past have cowered away from this. And this is the way it is for judges. Look, I understand tradition and all that where the judiciary is concerned and the independence of the judiciary, but they are a coequal branch of government, and there apparently are some rules that apply to them that the other two branches don\u2019t get. Such as people aren\u2019t allowed to express opinions about them, even though they make mistakes, even though they make bad moves, even though they are corrupt in many cases, even though they are political operatives first and judges second.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, they already have the protection of illusion. You have a political hack who\u2019s named as a judge, and he gets to rule as a judge when he\u2019s acting as a hack. He already gets that cover. And you can\u2019t comment on it, and you can\u2019t criticize it. But let George H. W. Bush nominate a sitting appeals court justice or judge like Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, all bets are off, you can destroy him. You can go out and rip him a new one. You can do everything you can to stop him in his tracks.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody\u2019s supposed to be talking about Judge Robart here. And I know it\u2019s a fraternity, judges and the people in the judicial system and so forth, and I do know they have their own decorum, sense of decorum and so forth. But the idea that they\u2019re immune to criticism and above it, I think if they want to make law, they should run for office. But that\u2019s not how the left does it. The left uses political hacks disguised as judges as insurance for when they lose elections. It\u2019s actually, in a political sense, it\u2019s pretty smart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-220552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kenndy.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kenndy.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kenndy-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Anyway, on the justice Kennedy business, it mentions here in the Daily Caller story that even Judge Gorsuch clerked for Kennedy. And the whole story is that Trump administration is trying to telegraph to Kennedy, &#8220;It\u2019s okay to leave.&#8221; Kennedy\u2019s 83. It\u2019s okay to leave because we gotcha covered. Whoever we\u2019re gonna put in there is a clone. Somebody you know, somebody you like, somebody that worked for you, somebody you respect. And I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s any truth to this. I mean, this is the Daily Caller interpreting this as the Trump administration trying to send the signal to Kennedy to resign or retire.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if Kennedy went first, does that change the confirmation strategy? For example, if one of the four libs, if one of them happens to retire or something else happens and their seat becomes open and Trump nominates a Gorsuch-like person or a Brett Kavanaugh, it\u2019s gonna be, as I say, nuclear war. But would it be if it were Kennedy? Would it be as intense? &#8216;Cause Kennedy\u2019s not thought of as a liberal seat. And the libs think they own those four seats. They are their seats in perpetuity. They are entitled to those four seats.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s seat is known as one that goes with the flow. He\u2019s not known to vote strictly with either side. So there may be something to the strategy here that the actual way to get a conservative majority on the court would be to not wait for one of the libs to leave but rather to replace Justice Kennedy here in the wake of replacing Justice Scalia. No inside knowledge on this, just sharing with you all that floating out there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites with Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut. This was last night on Capitol Hill. He held a press conference to talk about his meeting with the Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>BLUMENTHAL: My strong hope is that he will be more vehement publicly. He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump about the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the problem with that. It was Blumenthal talking to Gorsuch who referred to the president\u2019s comments as abhorrent. That word was not used by Gorsuch, and disheartening. These are characterizations that others have made in Gorsuch\u2019s presence that he either signals his agreement by not opposing it or whatever, but Gorsuch is not running around the Senate ripping into Trump, is the point. The media wants you to think that Gorsuch is.<\/p>\n<p>You know what they really want you to believe? They want you to think that Gorsuch is close to pulling himself out of this \u2019cause he\u2019s so, so, so disappointed in Trump. That\u2019s what they want you to think. They want you to think that Judge Gorsuch is so embarrassed, so embarrassed by this bumbling bull in a china shop that he doesn\u2019t even want to be associated with this president, and he\u2019s on the verge of pulling his own nomination from the Supreme Court. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to convince you. And that\u2019s not by any stretch what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing they want you to believe is that after Blumenthal and a couple of others mischaracterizing the way Gorsuch is speaking, they want you to believe &#8212; I\u2019ve even seen it speculated &#8212; will Trump pull the Gorsuch nomination himself because Gorsuch is not being loyal? Will Trump actually call Gorsuch and say I\u2019m gonna pull your nomination. I don\u2019t want some reprobate like you on the court that can\u2019t be loyal to me. They want people to believe that might happen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way that\u2019s gonna happen, folks. All of this is a reaction to the Democrats and their continual losing. They are unhinged and don\u2019t know what to do about it. They have no power. So they\u2019ve got one or two things they can do. They can lie and try to make it look like they have the power, or they can lie and misstate and mischaracterize, and make it appear that even people on Trump\u2019s teams are embarrassed by him and don\u2019t really want to be part of it. And that\u2019s what this is really all about, and none of it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-220896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump-300x148.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Trump.png 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Gorsuch is not gonna pull his own nomination. Trump\u2019s not gonna pull it. And Gorsuch is not running around openly criticizing Trump in this way as they want you to believe. And in the case of Blumenthal, this is a guy, he still got elected because doing this kind of stuff is a resume enhancement. He lied openly to the people of this country in North Carolina about his valiant service in Vietnam. He never served in Vietnam. He lied about specifics and having courage and great valor and so forth. March 2nd, 2008, in Norwalk, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>BLUMENTHAL: We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam, and you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whenever we call it, Afghanistan or Iraq, we owe our military men and women unconditional support.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He did not serve in Vietnam and it didn\u2019t take long for this to be exposed. He wasn\u2019t bothered by it. He did the usual political apology, &#8220;That\u2019s not who I am. That guy that went out there and said that, that\u2019s not who I am, and if anybody was offended by it and if any members of the military were insulted, I humbly apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief montage of Drive-By freakout about these non-comments from Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>BLITZER: The president\u2019s own Supreme Court nominee takes a different view, calling his comments about the judiciary &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROBIN ROBERTS: Judge Neil Gorsuch, who\u2019s calling the president\u2019s harsh words about the courts, quote, &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PETE WILLIAMS: The president\u2019s comments were, quote, &#8220;disheartening&#8221; and &#8220;demoralizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: Judge Neil Gorsuch called the president\u2019s attack on the judiciary &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS HAYES: Calling the president\u2019s comments about the judge, quote, &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CECILIA VEGA: Gorsuch described President Trump\u2019s recent criticism of judges as, quote, &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTINE ROMANS: Judge Neil Gorsuch using the words &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;disheartening&#8221; to characterize the president\u2019s recent attacks on the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He did not use the words abhorrent comments. He was speaking in generalities after such things were said by senators. They\u2019re trying to make it look like Gorsuch is having second thoughts, he\u2019s embarrassed to be any part of Trump administration. They\u2019re flailing, folks.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This Blumenthal guy from Connecticut, I\u2019m telling you, is a snake. Gorsuch didn\u2019t say hardly anything Blumenthal wants you to think that he said and the media then jumps on and says. They just continue to lose. Trump now meeting with some Democrat senators on the Gorsuch nomination. Wait \u2019til that picture gets out. 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