{"id":246346,"date":"2017-09-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=246346"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:39:21","slug":"mcconnell-and-ryan-are-just-fine-with-trumps-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/07\/mcconnell-and-ryan-are-just-fine-with-trumps-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell and Ryan Are Just Fine with Trump\u2019s Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Two theories about the McConnell-Ryan reaction. Some people are hoping that the Republican leadership, congressional leadership, McConnell-Ryan reaction to Trump doing a deal with Democrats will be to wake \u2019em up, shake \u2019em up, and make \u2019em realize, “Oh, my God! This guy\u2019s serious! Okay. We gotta help him with his agenda or we\u2019re gonna be left out in the cold.” Some people hope that\u2019s the reaction. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna be their reaction, folks. I think that they are, on balance, okay with it.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think they\u2019re perfectly fine with Trump doing a deal with the Democrats. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re mad that they have to take multiple votes on the debt ceiling and all that because it exposes \u2019em more, and it brings the government shutdown threat to the fore in three more months. But let\u2019s be honest about something. When it comes to policy… Let\u2019s look at immigration. When it comes to immigration, McConnell and Ryan are closer to Pelosi and Schumer than they are to Trump.<\/p>\n

You think Ryan and McConnell want a wall? You think Ryan and McConnell want to build a wall? You think Ryan and McConnell want DACA to be repealed? There\u2019s no way! Ryan and McConnell are much closer on this issue to Schumer — “Chuck and Nancy.” In that sense I think they\u2019re sitting around… I think these guys actually get a little tingle of thrill that Washington is working. “Look, our president did a deal with the Democrats, and we have just shown that Washington can work and that governance can happen.”<\/p>\n

And, lo and behold, Ryan had a weekly press conference today, and he was cheering the bipartisanship. (clap, clap). Even in the throes of all of these hurricanes and the damage and the potential damage, it was wonderful to see that deal. It\u2019s a wonderful example of bipartisanship. So I don\u2019t know about my theory number one, because I think inside-the-Beltway Republican leadership, their hearts just… You know, they just start aflutter at the whole idea that, “Look, ma, we\u2019re governing! Isn\u2019t it cool! Yes! We\u2019re getting things done!<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah. This is why we came. This is why we came.” (interruption) No, it\u2019s not their agenda, but that\u2019s not why they\u2019re there. What is the Republican agenda? They won. They\u2019ve been winning elections since 2010. What is the agenda? Stop Trump is the agenda. But even before Trump. (interruption) Stopping Obama was supposedly the agenda, but… (interruption) Stop the Tea Party, stop the Tea Party, stop the conservatives. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know about “stop Rush.” Maybe. I don\u2019t know. (sigh) But here\u2019s another thing too.<\/p>\n

If elected Republicans think that Trump doing a debt ceiling deal with the Democrats is gonna drive voters back to Republicans, let me ask you this. I\u2019ll use Ryan and McConnell just to help people understand what I\u2019m talking about. I don\u2019t mean them specifically, but Republican leadership Ryan-McConnell, do you think as Trump does a deal…? They know that their voters are not happy with \u2019em. All right? They know this. They can read the polling data. They don\u2019t care. They aremore concerned if the Chamber is unhappy with them.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Chamber\u2019s not, the Chamber likes \u2019em. So they\u2019re not concerned what their voters think. But to the extent that they are, if Trump doing a deal with the Democrats, do you think they might think, “Well, this is gonna anger… This gonna send these Republican voters right back to us.” You think they\u2019re thinking that? I hope they\u2019re not, because that\u2019s not how it\u2019s gonna work. Voters might hate that Trump is working with the Democrat on the debt ceiling and overall spending and DACA, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re gonna all of the find comfort with Republicans who couldn\u2019t find a way to repeal Obamacare.<\/p>\n

The Republicans have a strategy, and it\u2019s basically passivity. You know, Ben Shapiro at The Daily Wire, that is his website, and he wrote a piece for the Conservative Review, and it is quite brilliant. Headline: “If Republicans Don\u2019t Make a Move, They Deserve to Lose<\/a> — Republicans in power have an unfortunate tendency to conserve their political capital rather than invest it. That\u2019s unfortunate because political capital doesn\u2019t accrue when you save it.” It\u2019s not like investing money where it hopefully grows. Political capital “degrades.”<\/p>\n

Political capital, in this case, is winning an election, controlling the House, having a majority in the Senate. That is political capital. And if you don\u2019t spend it, if you don\u2019t invest it, if you don\u2019t use your newfound power, it simply evaporates; it degrades. What\u2019s the point? It doesn\u2019t grow because nobody becomes afraid of you because you\u2019re not using your power. On the other hand, “Democrats understand that political capital must be used…” But the Democrats understand something else. Look at the Democrats and Obamacare. This is a great illustration.<\/p>\n

The Democrats made an investment in Obamacare that cost them the House and the Senate and the presidency. A lot of people think, “Boy, what a dumb move. Those stupid liberals! Those simple-minded, tunnel-visioned liberals. Look what they did! They pass Obamacare, and — and — and — and — and they\u2019ve lost the House and the Senate and the White House.” Well, yeah. But to them it was worth it. You know why? What was Obamacare? Obamacare is eventually gonna become single payer, because the Republicans are not gonna repeal it.<\/p>\n

The Democrats invested in Obamacare at the expense of losing the presidency and the House and the Senate. Their return on this is the creation of the belief in the minds of the public that only the government can fix things, only the government can run things — which is what the Democrats believe. So even when they lose the House and even when they lose the Senate and when they lose the presidency, their agenda gets advanced because they spend their political capital. That\u2019s the theory. They also wisely rolled the dice and believe the Republicans would not repeal it, because it\u2019s an entitlement.<\/p>\n

And entitlements never get repealed. So the Democrats, they roll the dice. They were willing to lose. They didn\u2019t want to lose. Don\u2019t misunderstand. They weren\u2019t trying to lose the House and Senate or the White House, but they were willing to in exchange for this huge leap forward in their agenda. The Republicans simply don\u2019t do anything like this. The Republicans, whether they win or lose are not trying to advance an agenda. That\u2019s why Trump was the nominee, and that\u2019s why Trump was elected president.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Republican Party used to be the opposition to the Democrats, and it used to be the small government, small taxes, individual liberty party. That\u2019s what it was known for. Even before you began talking about conservatism, that\u2019s what the party was known for. It\u2019s been a long time. But now they aren\u2019t even known or thought of as being in favor of those things. So they have this power, they have this political capital; they are not spending it. Same thing with DACA. Same thing.<\/p>\n

Obama implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program knowing that a Republican president could get rid of it with the stroke of a pen. But he knew because he would follow the Republicans. He knows that half the Republican Party agrees with him on amnesty anyway. He knew that the Republicans would not want to, with the stroke of a pen, get rid of DACA \u2019cause they wouldn\u2019t want to be responsible for packing up a bunch of kids and sending \u2019em home. So they did it anyway. There\u2019s just two examples, Obamacare and DACA, where the liberal left advances its agenda and they\u2019re willing to lose elections to do it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s spending their capital. The Republicans are a party of passivity and reactionaries. And if you look at it in this light and you put everything else in the mix that Trump\u2019s had a deal with these past six months, making a deal with Pelosi and Schumer. A key to understand, he\u2019s not an ideologue. He doesn\u2019t see them like you and I do. He\u2019s fed up with no action, fed up being stymied by his own party, who\u2019s only in power because of him.<\/p>\n

And they won\u2019t work with him on his agenda. And as I say, if they just would for three months, none of this need to be happening, none of it if they\u2019d just gotten together on Obamacare, repeal and replace, get serious about tax reform, and start building a wall, three things, then I don\u2019t care what capital the Democrats had to spend, it wouldn\u2019t have mattered. They would be out of power for the next generation.<\/p>\n

But none of that\u2019s happened and it doesn\u2019t look like any of that\u2019s gonna happen. And if you add to that that the Republicans might be pretty tickled pink here that Washington\u2019s working with this deal, Trump and Pelosi, Chuck and Nancy. Well, if this makes them satisfied, if this gives them a little tingle of excitement, Washington\u2019s working, look at us, Ma, we\u2019re governing. It\u2019s working. Isn\u2019t it fun? Bipartisanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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