{"id":226908,"date":"2017-03-27T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=226908"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:27:39","slug":"spicer-trumps-serious-about-working-with-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/27\/spicer-trumps-serious-about-working-with-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"If Democrats Work with Trump It Will Be to Advance Their Agenda, Not His"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. I want to go back to the first half hour of the program today where I announced to you a possible scenario involving the president working with Democrats, since he can\u2019t get anything done with Republicans. If you missed it, I may recap it. It\u2019s not something I\u2019m predicting yet. It\u2019s a likely scenario. It\u2019s possible that it could happen on a few issues.<\/p>\n

The point is, Sean Spicer at the press briefing was just asked about it, and he said of Trump, “The president is very serious about working with Democrats, if that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take.” Now, stop and think of that for a second here, folks. Who are we talking about? We\u2019re talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We\u2019re talking about the people that are trying to impeach him.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we\u2019re dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform. I can\u2019t see the Democrats working with Trump on tax reform unless the rich get soaked.<\/p>\n

\"\"The thing about this that should be worrisome is that if this alliance happens, if they\u2019re not bluffing, if they\u2019re serious, and if my scenario gets close, it\u2019s not gonna be the Democrats adopting Trump\u2019s agenda. It\u2019s gonna be the other way around. Depending on what all Trump can do with The Art of the Deal and persuasion to bring \u2019em around.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Jane in Oakton, Virginia. I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, Rush, I\u2019m fine. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is such an honor. I can only say I\u2019ve been listening to you for 25 years, and one year during Lent I tried to give up listening to you for Lent, and it didn\u2019t work out too good for me, so I am so thrilled to talk to you. I\u2019ve only known you to be wrong one time, Rush, in all these years, and that was about Hillary and running for the Senate, but when you mentioned earlier that you thought that the Democrats would even — if Trump reaches out to them like he suggested he was going to and the Democrats, you suggested that they might work with him, I don\u2019t see any way that they would ever do anything at all to try to facilitate Donald Trump\u2019s agenda in any way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t say that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, right now I just listen to you, and I guess you didn\u2019t say that, but earlier today I did think that you had said that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, I did say that. I did not say that the Democrats would help Trump with his agenda. I said they might work with him, but it\u2019ll only be to advance theirs. Not his.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, okay. See? Okay. Well, only one time have I ever known you to be wrong. I misheard you. I thought that you suggested that they might work with him to —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: No. You know what? In your favor, I can understand the way I explained it, I could understand how you might have thought that I meant that Trump would turn to the Democrats with his agenda and seek some assistance. I can totally understand how you got that impression. My point all along was that Trump\u2019s been telegraphing it. From Reuters: “White House looks past conservatives on tax reform to Democrats,” and so forth, and some other things, even the Obamacare repeal and replace. Nobody wants what\u2019s currently in place to remain, so there\u2019s gonna have to be something done on it at some point.<\/p>\n

But my point, the danger on this is twofold. It\u2019s not just that the president gives up on the Republicans, but if he goes to the Democrats, it\u2019s not gonna be because they cave and help him advance his agenda. Their base would abandon them. This lunatic fringe base would switch from assassinating Trump to assassinating Schumer and Pelosi. Can\u2019t have that. But the bottom line of it, if any of that happens, forget which, if any of that happens, guess who\u2019s left alone out there as the obstructors? That would be the Republicans in the House. I can see how this could be set up if that were what somebody wanted to happen. It\u2019s a real possibility. But I didn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gonna help him with his agenda.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right. I just think they will oppose him. Anything that Trump has agreed with the conservative movement with, I think obviously they will do anything at all to undermine and to thwart that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, true. Granted. But tell me where the conservatism is in a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, gosh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t think Chuck Schumer would be chomping at the bit to get his fingers in on that? The president calls him, “Hey, Chuck, I got a trillion dollars I want to allocate to roads and bridges. Can I get your help?” And Schumer\u2019d say, “My God, you picked the issue right out of our back pocket. Of course we\u2019ll help you accomplish what we have always wanted, infrastructure reform.” There\u2019s nothing conservative about that, a government growing by a trillion dollars?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Oh. I\u2019m sorry. The whole thing went out for a second. I thought that I had lost you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, no. You will never, never lose me, Jane.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No matter what happens to your phone connection, I will always be here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush Limbaugh, I will love you \u2019til the day I die.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it\u2019s both ways, I guarantee. Jane, thank you so much. I appreciate it. I was thinking about how I portrayed this likely or possible scenario. The point I wanted to make when I thought I did, maybe I didn\u2019t lead early enough with it, is that should this cross-pollination happen, folks, it\u2019s so easy to see after this debacle on Friday, Republicans can\u2019t get anything done, Trump\u2019s still not through his first hundred days, wants to get things done.<\/p>\n

If the Republicans can\u2019t find a way, where\u2019s he gonna go? It\u2019s easy to see how he would join the Democrats, for a host of reasons, not the least of which would be teaching the Republicans a lesson or what have you. But that\u2019s the great — well, there\u2019s more than one great danger in it. The real problem with it is, it\u2019s not gonna be Trump\u2019s agenda that the Democrats help or assist with, or he\u2019s not gonna get it. It\u2019s gonna have to be something that they can say they\u2019ve always wanted to be a part of anyway, like infrastructure spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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