{"id":252208,"date":"2017-10-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252208"},"modified":"2017-10-26T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:21:08","slug":"jeff-flakes-exit-is-what-draining-the-swamp-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/25\/jeff-flakes-exit-is-what-draining-the-swamp-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Flake\u2019s Exit Is What Draining the Swamp Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, I was just watching CNN during the break, and they think they\u2019re on to something. Trump at his presser — which is what it was. It was an impromptu presser. He was out there for 15 minutes on the lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One<\/a>. I think he\u2019s headed to Texas. Anyway, the infobabe at CNN, Brooke Baldwin, was a little sad because Trump was happy. In their world, Trump ought to be falling apart. In their world, they should have Trump in the padded room now wearing the straitjacket, medicated so that he\u2019s just sitting there slobbering.<\/p>\n

\"\"They think they\u2019ve pretty much destroyed Trump and worn him out. So he shows up, and he\u2019s having the greatest time and he\u2019s smiling and he\u2019s laughing — and poor Brooke is just having trouble with it. And the thing that he said that had her the most shaken was when he said, “Yeah, the Republican Party\u2019s got a lot of unity right now,” and she has two guests discussing how stupid Trump is for thinking that there\u2019s unity in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

“What with McCain and Jeff Flake doing what they\u2019re doing, how…?” Let me explain this. The real definition for Republican unity is not what goes on up there on Capitol Hill. When you look at how many Republican votes did Trump get, it\u2019s 90% of Republicans voted for Trump. Ninety percent voted for McCain. Ninety percent voted for George W. Bush. Ninety-three percent voted for Romney. There is unity among Republican voters. The unity among Republican voters is what\u2019s forcing a bunch of swamp denizens to leave!<\/p>\n

The reason Flake is leaving is \u2019cause he can\u2019t win reelection. Jeff Flake is barely polling double digits in Arizona, as an incumbent. So he\u2019s trying to blame that on Trump. Poor Jeff Flake cannot win reelection. So he decides that he\u2019s had enough, he can\u2019t any longer subject himself to the kind of just debasement to politics that his part is now supporting. He just cannot any longer stand idly by and let this kind of terror and horror happen, and so he\u2019s leaving.<\/p>\n

What that means is: He can\u2019t win reelection. So he goes to the floor of the Senate with “a fiery speech” blaming Trump. The Drive-Bys love it \u2019cause to them that\u2019s Republican disunity. I see it as Republican unity. I see it as Trump doing what he said he was gonna do. He\u2019s draining the swamp. And I\u2019ll tell you this: The more Flakes the better. This is what draining the swamp looks like, folks. It was never gonna be pretty! You think draining the swamp is simply getting rid of the deep state embeds? It\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s getting rid of a bunch of RINOs.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go through Flake\u2019s voting record, shall we? Jeff Flake presents himself as this dyed-in-the-wool conservative, does he not? He campaigns as a conservative just like the vaunted Senator McCain does. But something happens, like it does to practically all of these people. After the campaign and win reelection, they then show up in the swamp and promptly forget those things they said. A guy named Jason Johnson, who worked on the Ted Cruz campaign (or maybe in Cruz\u2019s office) put together a little list here in response to Flake\u2019s pathetic floor speech yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jason Johnson says, “1) Tempting to comment on Flake\u2019s floor speech. Instead, offering context on his view of ‘governing\u2019 by highlighting a few of his votes,” because his speech yesterday was all about how he can\u2019t stand aside anymore. He can\u2019t stand silent anymore. He simply cannot allow any of this to go on! So he\u2019s gonna quit. He can\u2019t, in good conscience, let somebody so unfit and so barbaric and so whatever he thinks Trump is to sit there.<\/p>\n

“2) Jeff Flake was one of 10 Republican senators who voted to confirm Loretta Lynch for attorney general. 3) Flake voted to fund President Obama\u2019s unconstitutional executive amnesty. 4) Flake voted against Sen. Mike Lee\u2019s Fist Amendment Defense Act. 5) Flake voted for Obama\u2019s $1.1 trillion Cromnibus 2015 spending bill. 6) Flake voted to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. 7) Flake voted for S.2114 which increased Russia\u2019s power at the International Monetary Fund. 8) Flake voted for a CLEAN debt limit suspension (2014).<\/p>\n

“9) Flake was one of 11 Republican senators who voted to confirm Janet Yellen. 10) Flake voted for the Ryan-Murray budget which lifted spending caps & raised fees (taxes) in exchange for promises of future spending cuts,” which, of coruse, never happened. “11) Flake voted for the Gang of 8 amnesty bill,” and yet when he\u2019s campaigning out there in Arizona, he doesn\u2019t campaign for amnesty, does he? 12) Flake voted for the post-Newtown gun grab. 13) Flake voted AGAINST The Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 (S.1292). …<\/p>\n

“15) Flake preferred John Kasich over Cruz or Trump in the 2016 GOP Primary. 16) There\u2019s more, but why bother. He has the right to say what he said but these votes and more” are why he is leaving the Senate. The people of Arizona know! You know, there\u2019s a great story here. Let me see… I have a great, great story, and it actually runs at CNN. It is a column by Mark Bauerlein, who is “a professor of English at Emory University, senior editor of the journal First Things and author of ‘The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; or, Don\u2019t Trust Anyone Under 30.'”<\/p>\n