{"id":235308,"date":"2017-05-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235308"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:13:34","slug":"the-republicans-are-roadblocking-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/30\/the-republicans-are-roadblocking-trump-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republicans Are Roadblocking Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I don\u2019t understand how people don\u2019t get that it\u2019s not just the Democrats in Washington that are roadblocking Trump. I mentioned it earlier.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mitch McConnell says he can\u2019t see a way to getting 50 votes for the House Obamacare repeal bill? Now, stop and think here, folks. Back when the only element that we had was the House of Representatives and Republican voters were constantly saying, “Why aren\u2019t you doing more to stop Obama? Why aren\u2019t you trying to do something to stop Obamacare?” The answer was always, “Well, all we\u2019ve got is the House. W-w-we can\u2019t get anything through the Senate because the Democrats own the Senate. Obama\u2019s in the White House! He\u2019ll veto anything if it did make it there.”<\/p>\n

So voters gave Republicans the Senate, and Mitch McConnell said, “Well, the first thing you have to know is it takes 60 votes to do anything in the Senate, and we don\u2019t have 60 votes. We only have 52.” And then he would add, “Plus, as long as Obama\u2019s still in the White House, all this is academic anyway. He\u2019s gonna veto whatever we pass.” So we gave the Republicans the White House and elected Trump. Now the latest story… There\u2019s a Wall Street Journal story<\/a>. You know, I had this sort of cram last night after getting back from being away two days.<\/p>\n

I saw a Wall Street Journal story about how the Republicans in the House, they just can\u2019t! It\u2019s just impossible. They\u2019re pulling their hair out. They don\u2019t know what to do. They just can\u2019t find a way to cut any taxes. Because every time they cut a tax over here, they have to find a way to make the money up over there, and they just can\u2019t. They\u2019re looking at all these various tax cuts proposals and they said, “I — I — I don\u2019t know how we\u2019re gonna pay for all this.”<\/p>\n

So the Republican Party, which is ostensibly the party of the president — and they owe their majority to him, particularly the Senate — are roadblocking Donald Trump more than the Democrats are, because the Democrats cannot. The Democrats don\u2019t have the votes in the House to stop Trump. The Democrats don\u2019t have the votes in the Senate to stop Trump, although there is the 60-vote cloture requirement. It\u2019s not the Democrats standing up and saying, “We are not gonna help. We\u2019re gonna stand in the way of any foolish tax cut you propose.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Republicans standing up and saying, “I just don\u2019t see how we\u2019re — there\u2019s no room here. I don\u2019t know how we\u2019re gonna lower rates when you have this exemption over here and you have this exemption there.” And I just read this stuff and I shake my head. They don\u2019t want to cut taxes. Either they don\u2019t want to cut taxes institutionally, they don\u2019t want to cut taxes economically, or they just don\u2019t want to do the heavy lifting. I don\u2019t know what it is. My guess is they don\u2019t want to help Trump.<\/p>\n

Now, you would think Trump figures this out, but he doesn\u2019t give any evidence of it. Like he tweeted something: “U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes immediately and get health care and tax cuts approved fast and easy. Democrats would do it no doubt.” He\u2019s talking about getting rid of the 60-vote requirement to shut off debate and just go to simple majority on every bill. Does he know that it\u2019s the Republicans that are the roadblock here? He has to know, and certainly if he\u2019s got people around him who know.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I could understand if he doesn\u2019t want to go public and start an internecine battle between the White House and the Republicans on Capitol Hill, you know, keep that for back channels and behind the scenes. The Wall Street Journal had a picture of the chairman of Ways and Means Committee and Paul Ryan standing there and all these guys and the headline: “Republicans Find Yet Another Way to Cut Taxes on the Rich.”<\/p>\n

They just don\u2019t see how they can do it. It\u2019s incredible. It really is incredible. Because, of course, there\u2019s a way. They just don\u2019t want to do it. I think it\u2019s all establishment, all the time anti-Trump, throw the media in there as well. But even in the middle of this I can tell you almost assuredly that Trump is not off his game. He\u2019s not despondent. He\u2019s not sitting there worried about why all these people hate him. He\u2019s not worried about all that. He\u2019s just head down and moving ahead full speed as he can, not reacting or responding to all this stuff in the media, except when he tweets.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another thing. Everybody\u2019s telling him to stop tweeting, and haven\u2019t you seen stories over the weekend of people succeeding. He had a monsoon of tweets yesterday and today. It doesn\u2019t look like he stopped tweeting to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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