The Washington Post headline on that one: “Trump Won\u2019t Allow You to Use iPads or Laptops on Certain Airlines<\/a>.” Let me just go through some of this. I mean, it\u2019s incredible. Hill Republicans say they\u2019re growing frustrated with Mattis. This is “Mad Dog” Mattis, and he is the defense secretary. And the reason they\u2019re mad is that this guy wants to hire Obama people as his assistants.<\/p>\n “His unconventional choices for top Pentagon posts and his reluctance to aggressively push for dramatic increases in the defense budget have rankled Republicans on Capitol Hill.”<\/p>\n This story is actually not new. I knew that Mattis had tried to hire a couple of Obama people, one of them a female, as a high-ranking aide. That had people flummoxed, but this story goes on to say that Mattis is a genius, that Mattis is great, Mattis is trying to moderate this insane, lunatic Trump, and thank God for Mattis. At least there is somebody in this administration who understands the threat posed by Trump. So that\u2019s what this story is.<\/p>\n “Schumer Calls for Delaying Gorsuch Vote Because of Trump-Russia Probe<\/a>.” Have you heard about this? The Democrats are trying to figure out how they want to lose the Gorsuch vote. There is a political strategy to losing the Gorsuch vote. And the Democrats are trying to figure out the best way to lose, \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna be able to mount the votes to stop the guy. You know, Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society, and Mitch McConnell have said, if this guy can\u2019t — by the way, these two quotes kind of crack me up in their own way.<\/p>\n “If Gorsuch can\u2019t be confirmed, then there isn\u2019t any judge nominated by a Republican president that can be confirmed.” These guys are just figuring this out? Are they just now figuring out that the objective going on here is stopping — you know, when I first saw the name Gorsuch nominated, if I may make a departure here, I started listening to people analyze Gorsuch in terms of what kind of a jurist is he, he\u2019s a great judge, he\u2019s this or that, and I said, “Do these guys not know what\u2019s going on? It doesn\u2019t matter. In fact, the better this guy is, the more pure he is, the greater threat he\u2019s gonna be.”<\/p>\n Why do the people on our side of the aisle still not get that everything is political and all of it is oriented toward resistance? The qualifications of these people don\u2019t matter. Their character doesn\u2019t matter. Look, I appreciate the sentiment. If, my gosh, this Gorsuch guy is so great, he\u2019s so perfect, that if we can\u2019t get him confirmed, there\u2019s not a single Republican nominee who could be. Welcome to the real world. That\u2019s the objective, to make sure not a single Republican ever is confirmed. To make sure that not a single Republican is ever elected president. And if that happens, to destroy him ASAP.<\/p>\n Those are the rules that we are playing by here. And somehow we\u2019ve got ourselves convinced that we can win the battle here and force the Democrat to support what we\u2019re doing by nominating quality people. This latest theory is being put up by Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren has weighed in on it. And it basically is this: “Well, since Comey said that there\u2019s an ongoing investigation of Trump colluding with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary, then we must delay the vote for Gorsuch. We can\u2019t confirm this guy.”<\/p>\n I know you\u2019re saying, “But, Rush! But, Rush! We have the votes. We have the…” Not in the Senate. We don\u2019t have 60 votes. “But, Rush, Rush, Rush! We have the nuclear option.” Yeah, but I don\u2019t see anybody\u2019s trigger finger getting very itchy on this. But it\u2019s clear that the resistance and the opposition here is not based on anything substantive. All of this is rooted in the belief and the effort every day to establish that Donald Trump is not a legitimate president, that he was elected due to fraud, cheating, collusion, what have you.<\/p>\n So, “Schumer Calls for Delaying Gorsuch Vote Because of Trump-Russian Probe.” How idiotic? No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s typical. It\u2019s exactly typical. It\u2019s exactly what you would expect the Democrats to do. And of course there are ways around it, but… Well, you just vote on the guy! You just confirm him, and you turn on a little offense and turn it right back on \u2019em and start asking them, “Okay, you know you\u2019re gonna lose here, Senator Schumer. How do you want to lose? Do you want to lose with 51 votes or do you want to lose with 60 votes?<\/p>\n “Do you want to lose next week or are you gonna lose next month? How are you gonna lose? You tell me, Senator Schumer, \u2019cause you\u2019re gonna lose. You make up your mind how you want to lose, but Gorsuch is being confirmed.” That\u2019s just one of the stories. (shuffling papers) I\u2019ll keep going here. (muttering) “Third Day…” (shuffling papers) Let\u2019s see. I\u2019m sorry, folks, these pages stick together. The best laid plans of mice and men. Three pages… “MSNBC\u2019s Matthews Slams ‘Mr. Nice Guy\u2019 Gorsuch: ‘It\u2019s Not His Turn<\/a>.'” Yeah, because it\u2019s Merrick Garland\u2019s turn. It should have been Merrick Garland; Gorsuch ought not even have been nominated. Garland should have been confirmed.<\/p>\n Have you ever heard of period-proof panties? (interruption) You haven\u2019t? (interruption) It\u2019s a great Millennial invention. Apparently they really work, according to the story, but the CEO… The woman that founded it is a lousy CEO, and she runs around feeling up other female employees, and there\u2019s no human resources department to complain to. So now they\u2019ve gone to the New York board or city department of, you know, disadvantaged workers or whatever and they\u2019re getting ready to move the babe out. And it\u2019s just a bunch of Millennials.<\/p>\n There\u2019s another story… This one also has nothing to do with Trump. There\u2019s another story about what\u2019s really causing the snowflake phenomenon on college campus. Tell me if you think this holds any merit. It\u2019s that essentially what\u2019s happened is that a young bunch of Baby Boomer kids and grandkids were farmed out to day care as soon as their parents could get rid of them. Age one, age two, they send \u2019em to day care, and these kids… It became such a formative experience that when they get to college, they want college to be another version of day care, with protection and safety and no feelings hurt.<\/p>\n Just like kids are treated when they\u2019re four, five in kindergarten, this is how they want to be treated in college, because of the impact of day care on them. Day care was another great liberal invention, which was designed to separate kids from their parents under the premise that the government could do a better job of inoculating or propagandizing young kids than their parents could. It\u2019s an interesting theory, worth exploring. And you want to hear more about the period-proof underwear? I\u2019ll put that aside.<\/p>\n In Maryland… This is unbelievable. In Maryland, we have the rape of a Rockville High School student by two undocumented immigrants<\/a>, and now the State of Maryland is taking a vote on whether they should become a sanctuary state! It defies… We\u2019re gonna take a vote on how we are openly going to break and flout the law, and again this is because of Trump, because Trump is making everybody scared. Everybody\u2019s afraid they\u2019re gonna be deported. We need to provide a safe haven for anybody who\u2019s afraid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n “GOP Governors Battling Trump\u2019s Budget in Private<\/a>.” Now, this story\u2019s in TheHill.com and it\u2019s all about how Republican governors (sigh) think that Trump\u2019s off his rocker, it\u2019s dangerous, and they\u2019ve gotta find some way… They are meeting in private to find ways to subvert Trump\u2019s budget because it\u2019s frightening. The dangers posed to this country by Donald Trump are requiring all of these secret meetings to find ways to subvert what Trump wants to do without Trump knowing about it. Wall Street Journal lead editorial: “A President\u2019s Credibility<\/a> — Trump\u2019s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.<\/p>\n “If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We\u2019re not sure,” here at the Wall Street Journal, “which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods. The latest example is Mr. Trump\u2019s refusal to back off his Saturday morning tweet of three weeks ago that he had ‘found out that [Barack] Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory\u2019 on Election Day.”<\/p>\n This has got \u2019em so bugged they can\u2019t see straight in the Drive-Bys, that Trump made that allegation about Obama and won\u2019t apologize and won\u2019t pull it back. They think Trump is insane. Folks, I don\u2019t know this — I really don\u2019t — because I don\u2019t live in Washington, and I seldom go there. But I would be stunned if there weren\u2019t regularly scheduled, very private meetings in deep, dark crevices of underground Washington where various people and groups are trying to plot what they can do to overturn this, to fix this, to get rid of Trump. I think they are so discombobulated, I think they are so panicked.<\/p>\n They were gonna continue to do well. The deconstruction of the United States was going to continue. We were gonna sign onto all this global warming stuff. The United Nations was gonna take on an ever more important role. The United States as a superpower was going to be reducing in strength, dwindling down and so forth. Then this comes along, and here comes talk of a wall and not letting immigrants in and unsettling talk about sanctuary cities, creating an America just opposite of this agenda.<\/p>\n That alone is enough to cause these people to be in abject panic. Now you add to it the stuff they think Trump is doing that is genuinely insane, like refusing to apologize for claiming Obama was wiretapping him and other similar things. They are… I think if there\u2019s any insanity in Washington, either clinical or just conversational insanity, it\u2019s not Trump. It\u2019s everybody else there. And, man, are they unified! Like I say, it doesn\u2019t matter. Turn on a TV network, go to a website and read any so-called mainstream media website, and it is never ending. The personal assaults, the policy assaults on Trump.<\/p>\n These are the people who\u2019ve lost whatever claim to power they thought they had.<\/p>\n These are the people, to me, who are dangerous.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/00BlueRush-Take.jpg\")
Now, there are some things in the news, some conflicting stories in the news — by the way, I must say, folks, I have never seen the media like this. I thought I had seen full-fledged, undisguised, raw media bias before, but I have never seen anything like this. I have a Stack<\/a> in here of at least 50 pages, and every story, I don\u2019t care what it is, every story savages Donald Trump in some way regarding the story. If it\u2019s health care, if it\u2019s this, the terror incident in the U.K., if it happens to be this so-called ban of electronic devices on flights coming into the U.S.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/000000000News-Overview-1.jpg\")
Well, why not? I mean, if he\u2019s been nominated by a duly elected president and if he\u2019s gone through the confirmation process and if nobody\u2019s found anything wrong with him, why not confirm him? Answer: Cause he\u2019s not legitimate because Trump isn\u2019t legitimate, and if this investigation shows anything that would warrant action against Trump, then these people want to say that Gorsuch should not be voted on until Trump is cleared. Well, do you realize when that\u2019s gonna happen? Do you realize how long this investigation could go on? The Democrats are in no hurry for this Trump-Russia investigation to end, because if they get their way, they\u2019ll use it to stop anything.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/00-DriveByRobots.jpg\")
Politico: “Susan Rice: White House\u2019s False Statements Could Put the U.S. in Danger<\/a>.” How in the hell…? This is a woman that went on television five different shows on a Sunday and lied about Benghazi, and she\u2019s sufficing as a source for the Drive-By Media claiming that this “White House\u2019s False Statements” are “Put[ting] the U.S. in Danger.” This one has nothing to do with Trump: “She Created ‘Period-Proof Underwear\u2019 to Empower Women. Now She\u2019s Accused of Sexual Harassment<\/a>.” Do you care about the details of that story? (interruption) Do you want to know about that one?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpDRIVE-BY-Trump.jpg\")
“Trump, GOP Leaders Lack Votes to Pass Obamacare Repeal.<\/a>” “Americans Worry, Cheer as Congress Moves to Upend the Affordable Care Act<\/a>.” “Trump, GOP Struggle to Find Health Care Votes.<\/a>” “House Obamacare Repeal DOA in the Senate<\/a>.” Every headline! “Trump\u2019s Penchant for Vengeance Casts Shadow on Health Care Vote<\/a>.” It just never ends. “Republicans Face Catch-22 on Whether to Back Trumpcare: Face the Wrath of Trump or Face the Wrath of the Koch Brothers<\/a>.” The Koch brothers are back (laughing), and they\u2019re competitors to Trump, and Republicans are scared to death. They don\u2019t know who to be afraid of more: Trump, the voters, or the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/650-031017-Rush-is-ON-Fire.jpg\")
And remember, now, most of the Washington establishment is hard-core leftists. And they, I think… I think they really believe that Donald Trump is mentally unbalanced. I think they really believe that Donald Trump is insane. I think… This is in addition to whatever else they fear over having lost the election and an outsider coming in and effectively taking control of what they have run for 50 years. That\u2019s bad enough, just having lost the election, which they thought was gonna be a landslide win and that life was gonna continue as it was.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-006.jpg\")
I can hear you out there saying, “Rush! Rush, you shouldn\u2019t sound…” I\u2019m not… Folks, don\u2019t misunderstand me now. None of this opposition surprises me. I\u2019m the one who expected this, and I\u2019m not expecting any of this to turn into love and admiration and support for Trump. What has me concerned is not the insanity of Donald Trump. What has me concerned is the insanity of everybody else and what they might do, \u2019cause they\u2019re the ones… The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the CNN, these are the people that are out of sorts. These are the people that have lost. These are the people who\u2019ve had their world crumble.<\/p>\n