{"id":259016,"date":"2017-12-22T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=259016"},"modified":"2018-01-04T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:31:52","slug":"rush-prediction-republicans-will-hold-house-and-senate-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/22\/rush-prediction-republicans-will-hold-house-and-senate-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Prediction: Republicans Will Hold House and Senate in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “Rand Paul Calls for Investigation of Obama Officials Colluding Against Trump: \u2018Worse than Watergate!<\/a>\u2019” This happened yesterday. Rand Paul “on Thursday called for an investigation about ‘high ranking Obama government officials\u2019 who might have worked together to stop the election of President Trump. Time to investigate high-ranking Obama government officials who might have colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"“Paul\u2019s call adds a high-profile voice to the chorus of Republicans who are calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Obama officials tried to stop Trump\u2019s election…'” I mean… (sigh) You know, this is what frustrates me. Everything, call for an investigation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you\u2019ve gotta do an investigation here, investigation there, and these things don\u2019t happen in less than a year or 18 months, if that. ‘Cause in my mind there\u2019s no doubt this happened! No doubt the exact opposite of what is being investigated now is what happened.<\/p>\n

If there was any collusion, it was between Hillary and the Democrats and the DOJ and the FBI with a tinge of Russia thrown in with the Trump dossier, and this doesn\u2019t take any detective work. They have as much as admitted this in books written about the Clinton campaign, the Trump dossier and how that was commissioned. And the fact that all of these deep state people have been lying and making up these quotes for a full year about Russian collusion with no evidence whatsoever. There\u2019s no doubt in any of our minds what\u2019s really been going on here.<\/p>\n

The thing that\u2019s most perplexing to me… Look, I don\u2019t want to be redundant here as I covered this in the previous hour. The thing that\u2019s been the most perplexing to me is so many people that I used to think were on my side have believed all along that Trump did collude or that there was a good chance he did. And you know why? Because even though these people claim to be conservatives, they just have a blanket acceptance of government institutions and whatever they say and do, and I don\u2019t understand how there is no questioning of it or suspicion.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of it is rooted in Trump hatred. I know a lot of it\u2019s rooted in Never Trump, and just despite… Max Boot. Do you know who Max Boot is<\/a>? Does Max Boot ring a bell to you? (interruption) Okay, who is he? (interruption) Well, yeah, he\u2019s a columnist — former columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He\u2019s part of the editorial board for a long time. He\u2019s now an independent columnist. I think the syndicate, maybe the LA Times syndicate. But he served as a foreign policy adviser for three different presidential administrations, and he just tweeted this morning or yesterday that he wants the Republicans to lose the House in 2018.<\/p>\n

He can\u2019t handle this. He can\u2019t handle this bogus president winning things like the tax cut. He\u2019s insulted and offended that it\u2019s Trump that is accomplishing these things. What did I tell you earlier this week? That among these Never Trumpers — some of these arrogant, intellectual, think tank type Never Trumpers — it\u2019s not that they disagree with what Trump\u2019s doing. Their problem is they don\u2019t think he\u2019s the one to be doing it, because he\u2019s not smart enough, and he\u2019s not sophisticated enough, and he doesn\u2019t really know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t understand what he\u2019s doing, and they don\u2019t like putting what their agenda is — which of course has been arrived at by deeply intellectual pursuit. They don\u2019t like their agenda being in the hands of some barbarous pig. So here\u2019s yet another one. Max Boot! This guy used to send me emails of his stuff — “Hey, you might want to read this; you might find it interesting” — and now he\u2019s tweeting that he actually hopes the Republicans lose the House in 2018! He can\u2019t stand it.<\/p>\n

He can\u2019t stand what\u2019s happening to the Republican Party. With what Trump\u2019s doing to the Republican Party and these things, he can\u2019t put his name to it. He doesn\u2019t want any part of this. Can you imagine? Now, I realize… Wait a minute. I can go back as far back as 1992. I remember some of you people calling here thinking it would be wise to let Clinton win so the rest of the country could see what a bunch of bad actors the Democrats are. But you didn\u2019t want to lose because you didn\u2019t want your ideas to lose. You didn\u2019t want Clinton to win.<\/p>\n

You were hoping to expose the defects of the Democrat Party for ultimate, down-the-road victory. This is not that. This is actually seeking for the Republican Party\u2019s defeat and the triumph of the Democrat Party, all because it\u2019s Trump. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Susan Page. She was on CBS This Morning. She\u2019s still with USA Today. She was talking to Norah O\u2019Donnell. We\u2019re up sound bite number 3. Question: “As we look toward the midterm elections, we\u2019re hearing now even the Republican National Committee is warning Trump White House there could be a bloodbath in the 2018 elections in part driven by women voters.”<\/p>\n

PAGE: So it\u2019s interesting, you know, I think Democrats are increasingly optimistic they will win control of the House, and Republicans are increasingly pessimistic. Some of that is driven by this new activism, engagement by women voters. We\u2019ve seen that in the elections that we\u2019ve had in the past year in — New Jersey and in Alabama and in Virginia. And also engagement of women not only as voters, but as candidates. In terms of policy, he\u2019s had a huge impact. In terms of appointments to the federal courts, repealing regulations, this new tax bill. President Trump can count things he has succeeded in doing that he said he was going to do. But politically he is on a very perilous path, and that goes to the midterm elections and to this Russia investigation.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: All right, now, how many of you believe that? Just off the top of your heads. You listen to this and the premise of this is, “It doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s happened! Trump knows and the Republicans know they\u2019re in for a butt kicking in 2018. It could be a bloodbath. And you know what\u2019s driving it? Women voters. Women are angry. Women are fit to be tied,” and we\u2019re to believe that they\u2019re really mad at Trump, that women voters really hate Trump. And those voters are gonna drive the midterm elections, and throw Trump out of office in 2020 and the Republicans out of the House and Senate in 2018.<\/p>\n

And of course there\u2019s this gratuitous mention at the end, “[P]olitically, he\u2019s on a very perilous path, and that goes to the midterm elections and this Russia investigation.” So to Susan Page, everyone in Washington is convinced the Democrats are gonna win back Congress. Weren\u2019t these all the same people who thought Hillary was gonna win the presidency? Weren\u2019t these the same people who believed all the polling data that said that Hillary was gonna win the presidency? They are. They\u2019re repeating the mistakes they made during the 2016 campaign. Well, the campaign, yeah, \u201916 and \u201917.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re repeating almost verbatim the same mistakes. They\u2019ve already got Trump beaten. I told you earlier this week: They think they\u2019ve won the House back, and they\u2019re gonna be campaigning on two things. They\u2019re gonna be campaigning on this tax bill. They think they can really make points by criticizing the Republicans for letting you keep more of your money. The Democrats think there\u2019s some election to be won by promising to take your money back and giving it to Washington so that we can repay what the government has been heisted. And then Trump hatred. That\u2019s the other element.<\/p>\n

They think everybody hates Trump like they do. I\u2019m gonna go on record December 22, 2017: Based on all that is known now, the Republican Party is not gonna lose control of the House, they\u2019re not gonna lose control of the Senate — and, in fact, the Democrats may lose even more seats in the Senate. They\u2019re getting so far ahead of themselves that they\u2019re out walking a plank, and they have no idea how thin and precariously balanced it is. Here\u2019s John Dickerson. This is also on CBS This Morning. This is a guy who hosts Face the Nation. Anthony Mason is the co-host here saying, “Tax cuts are the big achievement going into the New Year. How well has the GOP and the president positioned themselves for the midterm elections at this point?”<\/p>\n