{"id":233859,"date":"2017-05-17T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=233859"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:46:13","slug":"where-are-the-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/17\/where-are-the-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Republicans? They\u2019re Not Defending Your President"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Time to get started here on the phones. And, again, I really appreciate all of you waiting.\u00a0This is Mike in Brooklyn. Great to have you, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you, Rush? It\u2019s an honor to speak to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019m a longtime listener, first-time caller. I\u2019ve tried reaching you hundreds of times, but I\u2019m glad I finally got through. I\u2019m just wondering about, you know, all this talk about impeaching President Trump. You know, back when Obama was in office and he was doing all the criminal acts and stepping all over our Constitution (unintelligible) and the Republicans saying that, you know, we can\u2019t do nothing. They have the House or we don\u2019t have enough votes or blah, blah, blah. Well, now we have the House, we have the Senate, we have everything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is such an excellent question. This is why this program has the most intelligent listeners — and that\u2019s because of me — in the country. His question is why are we even talking about impeachment? The Republicans own the House of Representatives. If the Republicans hang together, is his point, there\u2019s no way that Trump could be impeached! Well, impeachment is the bringing of charges. He can be impeached, but they have to convict him. That would happen in the Senate.<\/p>\n

But before that, the House has to come up with articles of impeachment, they have to pass the House. Then the House assigns people that are called managers to take the case to the Senate where the trial would take place, and his question is how the hell can any of this be seriously discussed. Back during Obama, discussions of impeachment, you couldn\u2019t hear them because there was no way that the Democrats, especially the first term. Democrats ran the Senate. There was not gonna be any chance of a conviction.<\/p>\n

By the way, Andy McCarthy makes a great point about impeachment<\/a>. He\u2019s even written a book about it. Impeachment really is not a criminal proceeding. The American people have been conditioned to believe that, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors means what? Impeachment is a purely political process. And it can only succeed if there is the political will for it out there in the country. You can have all the misdemeanors and high crimes you want, but if the president\u2019s popular, you\u2019re not gonna succeed.<\/p>\n

\"\"Republicans tried it with Slick Willie. Slick Willie\u2019s approval numbers were 55-plus. I really believe that Lindsey Graham, who was a member of the House during the Clinton impeachment, was so embarrassed by it that that\u2019s when he began to wander off the conservative reservation. But now that Republicans have this vast majority in the House, how are we even talking about this? And that brings up — this is why old Mike here has had a brilliant question — this brings up a fundamental point about what is happening.<\/p>\n

And, Mike, I thank you again for providing for me the transition into this, which, when it\u2019s all over, it\u2019s gonna result in the host looking really good, which is the purpose of calls. Not to be complimentary, of course. Hang on. We\u2019ll get to this and I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m talking about right after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to our caller. This is such, such an important point here. With the Democrats and the media out there howling like wolves over investigation, why isn\u2019t it automatically considered impossible because Trump is a Republican, and the Republicans own the House, and there\u2019s no way we would think that the Republicans are ever gonna vote out articles of impeachment against one of their own? Especially with no evidence of anything yet. There\u2019s no crime. Nobody has a crime. Folks, if there had been a crime, you would know it.<\/p>\n

That would be all they\u2019re talking about. They\u2019re trying to make you think crimes occurred. They\u2019re trying to make you think obstruction has taken place here. I made the observation the other day: Where are the Republicans? They\u2019re making no effort to defend the president. The president, as I\u2019ve been maintaining, all he\u2019s got is you. You people that voted for him. And don\u2019t think for a moment that McCain is not behind a lot of this that\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

\"\"You know, McCain\u2019s had his nose out of joint (and it\u2019s understandable) ever since Trump said he didn\u2019t respect people that got caught. He didn\u2019t like generals and military… He didn\u2019t respect them… If you don\u2019t get caught by the enemy, Trump likes you more. I think McCain has been seething since day two of the Trump campaign. Don\u2019t forget, it was McCain that was intimately, directly involved in that fake Trump dossier, the golden showers dossier, remember that? Where Trump supposedly grabbed Melania.<\/p>\n

They went to the Moscow hotel room that President Obama and Moochelle had used and that they hired prostitutes to come in there and urinate on the bed, and that report was written by a guy for a British independent contractor security agency. It was then presented to Trump as all lies, as an example of the kind of crap that\u2019s out there. “Mr. President, we want you to know what we\u2019re defending you against. We want you to know the kind of stuff that\u2019s out there.” McCain and others tried to pass this off as real. The media\u2019s been trying to pass it off as real.<\/p>\n

This is the thing that BuzzFeed published in toto, and there\u2019s no evidence for any of it. So where are the Republicans? The Republicans are part of the establishment that Trump took on. Mitch McConnell\u2019s been out there saying that he wants less drama so that Congress can get its work done. Meaning, Trump\u2019s gotta go, Trump\u2019s gotta shape up, Trump\u2019s gotta stop causing all this drama. But the drama\u2019s being produced by the media, and it\u2019s an onslaught. It\u2019s unhinged journalistic rage that will not end. It will not stop for five seconds.<\/p>\n

Make book: At 5:30 every day there\u2019s now a new bombshell. It\u2019s at 5:30, just in time for the evening news, but too late for the Trump team to mount any kind of defense before the evening news. There\u2019s gonna be one today at 5:30. No idea what it is. But that\u2019s the formula now: A Trump bombshell, a Trump blockbuster, Trump breaking news at five to 5:30… (interruption) Yep, Brian\u2019s already figured it out. He\u2019s sitting there nodding his head in agreement. Do you not think it\u2019s kind of a little bit ironic for any Republican in Congress to talk about getting work done when they have been doing nothing for seven, eight years?<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I know they didn\u2019t have the numbers to do a lot, but seriously: Where is the Trump agenda in legislative form? Where is it? My point is, he doesn\u2019t have a lot of help here. I know why. They don\u2019t like him much more than the Democrats do. Problem is, they wouldn\u2019t be in power without him. They wouldn\u2019t have their majorities without him. Well, the House might, but it wouldn\u2019t be nearly as big. The Senate clearly wouldn\u2019t. The Democrats wouldn\u2019t be as weak politically, electorally as they are without Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Some gratitude, you would think? And then got McCain out there.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s along with all those Never Trumpers. I could name names, but I don\u2019t want to give \u2019em any more recognition than they already have. They\u2019re all so-called conservatives. They\u2019re not conservative, but they think they define it, and they think they\u2019re the leaders of the conservative movement. But their balls are so tiny, they don\u2019t even need to wear jockstraps when they run out to jog. They still refuse to give Trump even a smidgen of support for the cause that they believe in because they think Trump\u2019s subverting conservatism. Trump didn\u2019t subvert conservatism. Trump just came in and filled a void.<\/p>\n

He happened to be overwhelmingly popular, which rubbed these people\u2019s nose out of joint. You think that doesn\u2019t bother McCain, either, Trump\u2019s popularity? So you got all these whiners who find Trump to be problematic. All these whiners who say Trump\u2019s short here and he\u2019s not smart enough there and he\u2019s causing us too much embarrassment over there and Trump\u2019s making us look like fools and Trump\u2019s just such a pig.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because of Trump we don\u2019t have Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s not because of McConnell. It\u2019s not because of McCain that we don\u2019t have Hillary. It\u2019s because of Trump that we\u2019ve got a great replacement for Scalia on the Supreme Court. McConnell does get some credit there for stonewalling Merrick Garland. I\u2019m not trying to shortchange anybody here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great question. This idea of impeachment ought to not even appear on the page. It ought to be so impossible because the Republicans ought not want to get anywhere near it, but all they\u2019ve gotta do is say Nixon and Watergate. That was as profoundly embarrassing for the Republicans as Goldwater\u2019s defeat in 1960 was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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