{"id":245697,"date":"2017-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=245697"},"modified":"2017-08-30T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:19:46","slug":"republicans-are-not-gonna-be-able-to-hide-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/30\/republicans-are-not-gonna-be-able-to-hide-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Not Gonna Be Able to Hide in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Todd in Grand Island, New York. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. You\u2019re next, sir. How\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What an honor to speak to you. Thank you so much for everything you\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: For everything you do.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"CALLER: I had to get right to my point in reference to the 2018 elections. You made a point saying that if the Democrats win 3% of what Donald Trump — in the margin of 3% error if Donald Trump (unintelligible) and the Democrats win those seats, and also if they win the seats that Hillary would have won and we gave them all them (speaking too fast, unintelligible) they\u2019d still lose six seats total. I fear that even if this is prior to Trump running out stadiums and making rallies against the Republicans, I feel that the voters are not gonna vote for the existing Republicans which are rerunning for reelection, and we may lose those seats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We started talking about this yesterday, and I\u2019m glad you called, because you have served here as a reminder for me. I pledged to finish this discussion. The Republican Party, folks, is cracking up. It\u2019s amazing. It appears to be on purpose. Now, let\u2019s walk through this. You know the drill. The Republican Party — let\u2019s go back to the days — Obama gets elected in 2008, and Republicans and conservatives all over the country are in a deep depression or panic because they know we know what Obama\u2019s intentions are.<\/p>\n

We know that he\u2019s gonna nationalize health care. We know that he is going to weaken the United States militarily. We know because he said so, that he\u2019s going to transform America. We know that he believes America is not a place of exceptionalism, and we know that he doesn\u2019t think America is great. We know that he thinks America is guilty. We know that he believes that America needs to be cut down to size or to pay a price for all of these injustices, and we\u2019re seeing the outgrowth of that now.<\/p>\n

What do you think Antifa is? Antifa is Obama as violence, Obamaism as violence. Antifa is no different in terms of what their beliefs are than what Obama\u2019s beliefs are. Now have that may offend some of you, but I\u2019m telling you, be courageous and don\u2019t doubt me here. Where do you think these groups come from? Who do these groups vote for? It\u2019s Democrats that they vote for. This Antifa group is no Trump, no USA, no this, no that, these people are totally opposed.<\/p>\n

They believe the United States was guilty from the first days of our independence, founding, and what have you. They\u2019ve been taught this. They\u2019ve been taught this by the same people that probably taught Obama, that taught all these other Democrats and leftists and have taught people in the media. Anyway, in 2008 we knew that\u2019s what was in store for us. It was shocking, it was chilling, it was a wake-up call. And something else we were shocked by.<\/p>\n

We were shocked by how little time it took for it to appear that we had lost our country to people on the left. All during the Bush years, Republicans in power, the left was there, but with the election of Obama and his ascension to office, it looked like we\u2019d lost the country overnight. So here comes Obamacare, and everybody\u2019s worst fears are realized, and so the Tea Party springs into action organically. No leader; there\u2019s no charter; there\u2019s nobody who made this happen.<\/p>\n

It was a bubbling up effervescence of average, ordinary Americans, many of whom had never been involved in politics before. And they get busy. It scares the hell out of Democrats and Republicans. It scares the hell out of them because it\u2019s real citizens who are not the result of money or fundraising or donations. And they are active and engaged, many in their case for the first time in their lives. The Democrats are so panicked by it, they create an artificial response to it called Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n

The way the Republicans react to it, start lying to \u2019em. “Yes, we agree. Repeal and replace Obamacare. We\u2019re gonna stop this spending.” The Republicans said everything they needed to say to get the votes of the Tea Party and Republicans in 2010, and they did. And so the Republicans win back the House. And we immediately start hearing they\u2019re gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, they\u2019re gonna stop this spending, no more debt limit expansion, all of this!<\/p>\n

But they never do it. It never happens. And we get excuses. “Well, we really want to, but we can\u2019t do anything until we have the Senate.” So, a few years later, Republican voters gave the Republican Party the Senate! And we thought now we\u2019ve got a way to stop Obama! But it turns out the Republicans said no. We don\u2019t have enough votes to stop Obama. We really can\u2019t repeal and replace Obamacare. We can\u2019t do anything about spending, and we can\u2019t cut taxes or any of this stuff until we have the White House. And the Republicans never expected to win the White House.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care what you were told, I\u2019m telling you that Republicans in the establishment, inside the Beltway, never thought — I don\u2019t care, Romney wasn\u2019t gonna win, whoever — Jeb Bush, they didn\u2019t think was gonna win, it was all about getting a nomination and establishing the order for the Republicans within the establishment. But nobody expected to beat Hillary. They were scared to death of her. There isn\u2019t a Republican in that town that thought they were gonna win the presidency. And they did. Trump did.<\/p>\n

\"\"And there were gulps and there was panic all through the Republican Party all over Washington, D.C. Oh, my God, the last thing they expected to happen happened. Now they\u2019ve gotta govern, now they\u2019ve gotta lead, no way, don\u2019t want to do that. They\u2019ve lost their reasons for not being able to do anything. Reince Priebus was on this program four days after the election, the first thing out of his mouth before I even asked him a question, “I know what you\u2019re gonna say, and you\u2019re right, we have no more excuses, no more excuses.”<\/p>\n

But yet they offered more excuses. You know what the new one is? We don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate so we really can\u2019t do anything. Now, folks, after seven or eight years of the Republican Party promising every election to do everything Republican voters expect and promising to do these things, Republicans didn\u2019t not promise, they did. They were gonna get rid of Obamacare, replace it, do something. They were gonna cut taxes, gonna stop this spending, and we were going to get control of the border.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, we were gonna put a stop to so much illegal immigration. And none of it, even with a Republican, Trump in the White House, none of it has happened. Now, this can\u2019t go on. The caller\u2019s point is who in the world is gonna vote for Republicans anymore after this? But if they don\u2019t, and if Trump ends up a lone Republican from 2019 through 2020 and the Democrats, say, have control of the House, which, by the way, isn\u2019t gonna happen. Whatever you think of the Republicans, the Democrats are in a much, much bigger mess when it comes to winning elections.<\/p>\n

And I know things can change and change on a dime. But the Democrats are not part of this discussion. It is an interesting question: What happens when the president of the United States is a Republican and the rest of his party is doing everything it can to undermine him and his agenda? What happens? What\u2019s in the minds of Republican members of the House and Senate? After two years of openly opposing Trump, openly thwarting. After seven years of promises and now the chance to do it all, the Republicans have a chance to do everything they said they were gonna do, they control Washington, electorally.<\/p>\n

“But, Rush, but, Rush, they don\u2019t have 60.” I know, I know, eight Democrats in the Senate can bottle it up. But they haven\u2019t gotten one thing done legislatively. Tax cuts. The Democrats can\u2019t stop them. Folks, they have an opportunity to do everything they have been promising to do, a once-in-a-career opportunity. They\u2019re never going to have this kind of power. And what are they doing? Nothing. In fact, it\u2019s worse than nothing. It appears to outsiders that they are part of the effort to thwart and stop Trump.<\/p>\n

Do they think this behavior is gonna be rewarded with reelection? Do they think that the American voters are gonna blame all of this on Trump and reelect Republicans and try to get rid of Trump? And what does Trump do when it comes time to run for reelection? Does he run as a Republican or does he say, “This party isn\u2019t gonna exist! This party is killing itself. This party\u2019s eating itself. This party\u2019s committing suicide. I\u2019m not gonna be a part of it.” There are a lot of questions here, the answers to which are open ended.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, the Republicans are not gonna be able to hide. You look at the GDP number out today, revised upward now to 3%. This is the growth of the U.S. economy in seven months. Obama never saw this in eight years. The unemployment numbers are moving in the right direction with real jobs being created. Obama never saw this in eight years, and we\u2019re seeing it in seven months. You want to talk about empathy. How about attitude?<\/p>\n

\"\"Look at the numbers of illegal immigrants not even trying to get into the country today simply because Trump and his administration have put the clamps down and are simply enforcing existing law. Here\u2019s Reuters: “The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its quickest pace in more than two years.” It\u2019s more than eight years, Reuters. I mean, the news on balance, economically and otherwise is far better day to day, attitudinally, than it was under seven years, eight years of Obama.<\/p>\n

And all of this effort the Republicans are putting in to thwart Trump. And it\u2019s not just to thwart Trump. I mean, as we\u2019ve discussed, it\u2019s the establishment circling the wagons and really protecting itself against an outsider. They simply can\u2019t allow an outsider to succeed. But they\u2019re not gonna be able to stop. Because whether they know it or not, the establishment doesn\u2019t control the behavior of 99% of the population. They want to. They want to be able to control it. But they don\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s gonna be a conundrum, a multifaceted dilemma for these Republicans as to what to do. But it does portend interesting questions for Trump. I mean, he\u2019s sitting up there and he\u2019s not an idiot. He can see that the Republican Party is his primary obstacle. He knows this. It\u2019s not the Democrats. The Democrats are doing what they would be expected to do. The Democrats are expected to try to stop Trump. The Democrats are expected to do whatever they can.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unexpected is for them to be joined by Republicans. So what does he do? Does he remain a Republican? Does he go independent? Does he come up with the Trump Party? And then what happens to disaffected Republicans who might want to also leave the party? Who knows what\u2019s gonna happen. But there are some things going on that we haven\u2019t seen in our lifetimes politically. Open-ended questions.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Have you seen the preelection polling down in Arizona? Jeff Flake is being swamped by his primary challenger, Kelli Ward. She has a 25-point lead. Still a year to go in this election, but it\u2019s a harbinger, a big time harbinger.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RUSH: That\u2019s one of the reasons why the Drive-Bys are so focused on separating Trump supporters from Trump. That is their objective. That\u2019s one of their many. I mean, their real objective is to get Trump out of office any way possible. If they could get him out of office by forcing him to quit in frustration, impeachment, what have you, they\u2019d do it. But short of that, they\u2019re doing everything they can, and they have been since get to go, to try to convince Trump voters that they made a mistake. That Trump is an embarrassment. That Trump lied to them, that Trump\u2019s whatever.<\/p>\n

Because if they can do that, or if they can make Republicans think that Trump voters are going soft and abandoning him, the Republicans will be encouraged to continue to stop Trump. The Republicans have rolled their dice. They\u2019re not going to help the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s some overlap with Trump\u2019s agenda and these Republicans, and one of those areas of overlap is tax cuts, tax reform. This is a signature and identity issue with the Republican Party. And if the Republicans, if Trump comes up — and he\u2019s going to Springfield today to introduce the plan, and if it contains elements of tax reform, tax cut policy that the Republican Party has always supported, they\u2019re gonna be hard-pressed to not join this.<\/p>\n

The challenge for the Republicans is they\u2019ve got a lot of masters here: you, voters; they have their donors, which is the biggest master; and then they\u2019ve got Trump supporters. Say Trump, in this case, comes out with a tax reform proposal that a majority of Republicans in Congress like, it\u2019s gonna be a real dilemma for \u2019em. Because the last thing they want is for — believe me on this. And not all. I mean, you\u2019ve got the Freedom Caucus in there in the House, you\u2019ve got some conservative members there. But not all Republicans. And you\u2019ve got some conservatives in the Senate. But for the most part, the party itself — not the RNC — but the party itself really doesn\u2019t want Trump to succeed.<\/p>\n

Now, I know that sounds strange, but it isn\u2019t when you realize that everybody is part of the establishment, and that membership comes first. And then your party affiliation is second. And if Trump — I think should have done this first. I think Trump should have done tax reform first and forced the Republicans to support him. Health care. I know, they made some tactical decisions and employed some various strategies, didn\u2019t work out, and it\u2019s too late to go back and redo it. The point is, with tax policy here, tax reform or tax cuts, the Republicans are gonna be hard-pressed to not help.<\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t put it past \u2019em to not join the effort. I mean, that has been the basic operation up to now. They\u2019ve just gone through the motions. They haven\u2019t really been serious about repealing Obamacare. You can\u2019t tell me they have. And they\u2019re not serious about getting in check with spending. And immigration, you know damn well that the Republicans want to go along with the Democrats for amnesty if they had their druthers.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to tax policy, signature Republican issue, particularly on the tax cuts for corporate side, you know, the corporate tax rate and the middle class tax cut, if Trump comes along and proposes something strong, the Republicans are gonna be hard-pressed not to join that. And if they don\u2019t, they\u2019re creating more problems for themselves than they can possibly imagine. They\u2019re just literally throwing away a signature issue, an issue that has defined them and set them apart from the Democrats.<\/p>\n

And if they throw that away because they decide “Whatever we do, we can\u2019t let Trump succeed \u2019cause he\u2019s an outsider. We can\u2019t have an outsider come in here and show that an outsider can do it better than we can,” it\u2019s gonna be very interesting to see.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So, again, there\u2019s gonna be some overlap here. Trump is going to propose some things that the Republican Party stands for. This is tough to say because it\u2019s not universally true of all of them. But there are some of them, folks, that are just like Democrats who do not want Trump to succeed no matter what.<\/p>\n

So the balancing act, he proposes something that\u2019s a signature issue of theirs. What do they do? It\u2019ll be interesting to see. I think they can do both. I think they can sound enthusiastic, they can say, “Wow, this is great. We\u2019re all for this,” and then stall the effort in Congress. Now, they gotta be careful about that, \u2019cause they run Congress. So if they start taking all these recesses. “Well, you know, we gotta go back home and campaign. There\u2019s an election year next year. We got the Halloween recess. We\u2019ve got the Yom Kippur recess. We got the Thanksgiving recess, the Christmas recess. Not many working days.” If they try that, not going to fly.<\/p>\n

\"\"And they better be paying attention to what\u2019s going on in Arizona. Jeff Flake, who wrote this op-ed basically trashing Trump, has an opponent, Kelli Ward. This is the woman that ran against McCain and came up a little bit short. Jeff Flake has just 21% of support from Arizona Republicans for reelection against Dr. Kelli Ward. She\u2019s coming in at 47%. This is a poll from JMC Analytics. It was a survey of 500 Arizona Republican voters. When you\u2019re down 25 points, this is characterized as being an almost irreparable shape.<\/p>\n

So Trump has his rally in Arizona, where, what, 19,000 people, some inside, some outside, and there was a headline out there, “Flake Tries to Make Nice with Trump.” That was in The Politico. And we know why. ‘Cause he\u2019s in dire straits here running up against Dr. Ward. Probably has seen these poll numbers.<\/p>\n

And here is a pull quote: “That an incumbent U.S. Senator like Flake could be polling as low as 21 percent in his own primary, while a challenger like Ward has pulled 26 points ahead of him at 47 percent, is almost unthinkable with nearly a full year to go until the August 2018 primary. … When asked if Flake should be renominated in 2018, an astounding 66 percent said that someone else should represent the Republican Party on the Senate ticket.”<\/p>\n

Flake thought that he was endearing himself. Flake\u2019s one of these guys that believes the media presentation of Trump and his voters. Flake thinks \u2019cause the media hates Trump that everybody else hates Trump so all he\u2019s gotta do is get on the anti-Trump bandwagon and write that op-ed and he\u2019s gonna be celebrated and hoisted up and applauded, and it\u2019s just the exact opposite. And you know the rest of the Republican Party is watching.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Cohn and Tillerson are a different matter entirely from Mattis. It\u2019s problematic, folks. I mean, these are key members of the administration, and if they are going to be in open, what would you say, disagreement or defiance, then it\u2019s… I don\u2019t know if it approaches crisis status, but it\u2019s something that\u2019s gonna have to be resolved inside the White House. And it\u2019s all based… We\u2019ve got these stories. What Trump said at Charlottesville as it appeared in the media was made up, was totally made up<\/a>!<\/p>\n

And here you have two members of his administration reacting to what the media reported Trump said rather than what the president himself actually did say. Everybody in that town reacts to the media. The media\u2019s got everybody scared to death. So if the media\u2019s jumping all over Trump for being a racist and a sexist and all this, then these guys clearly don\u2019t want to be thought of as that. So they\u2019re gonna do what they can to distance themselves from Trump if the media is saying this. It doesn\u2019t matter whether Trump said it or not.<\/p>\n

Now, you would think that these guys would be more inclined to go to bat for the president against a lying media. But they may not even know, or didn\u2019t know at the time that that\u2019s what had happened. Who knows! I gotta tell you: I am shocked and stunned every day when I learn that people who I think know more than I do about things are so uninformed about the media and its tactics and it\u2019s day-to-day operation. It shouldn\u2019t surprise me. I think people that interact with them every day ought to know far more than I do how they act and what they do.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re all part of the same club, so that speaks a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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