{"id":260676,"date":"2018-01-16T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=260676"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:18:18","slug":"durbin-gives-up-the-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/16\/durbin-gives-up-the-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Durbin Gives Up the Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s Durbin this afternoon on Wolf Blitzer\u2019s CNN, Jake Tapper interviewing Dicky Durbin.<\/p>\n

\"\"DURBIN: Yesterday may be one of the most bizarre weeks I\u2019ve ever experienced in Washington. I\u2019ve been here a few hours. To be invited by the president on Tuesday to sit next to him, literally, at a meeting with 26 members of Congress and talk about immigration and hear the president say, “You send me a bill and I\u2019ll sign it, I\u2019ll take the political heat, now get down to work. You need a Cabinet Room, you can have a Cabinet Room. Let\u2019s get it done.” Then we call him two days later, Senator Graham and I, and say, “We\u2019ve done it. We met your criteria. We have a bipartisan bill. We\u2019re ready to go.” And then to be called into the president\u2019s office and find that we\u2019ve been sandbagged.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There it is. I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew. Did you hear this?<\/p>\n

DURBIN: General Kelly and Steve Miller, as I understand it, invited five other members of Congress who are not in favor of immigration reform, or are in a very harsh sense, and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was a good policy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He says, “I sat next to him literally and he said, ‘Send me a bill and I\u2019ll sign it, I\u2019ll take the political heat.'” I knew these guys, I knew this. So they put together their dream bill and — well, I\u2019m out of time here but I will explain this when we get back. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dicky Durbin gave up the ghost here in this sound bite. Basically, Jake Tapper was asking him (paraphrased exchange), “What\u2019s your reaction to Trump saying you\u2019re hurting DACA and the military?” So Durbin says, “You know what? To be invited by the president, sit next to him at a meeting, talk about immigration, hear the president say, ‘Send me a bill; I\u2019ll sign it. I\u2019ll take the political heat. Now get down to work,\u2019 and so we call him two days later and say, ‘We\u2019ve got a bill! We\u2019ve got a bipartisan bill! Senator Graham and I, we\u2019ve done it!'”<\/p>\n

\"\"I knew this is what it was. The thing that makes this so incredible is that Lindsey Graham wants a deal so much. He wants somehow his name to be on some bill called “comprehensive immigration reform.” He wants this so badly that I think he fell for what Trump was doing in that meeting. I told everybody, I had… Look, I don\u2019t mean to sound “I told… I told…” I\u2019m just recapping history here. When everybody was worried that Trump was about to cave on this, it was my opinion that that White House meeting had nothing to do with immigration.<\/p>\n

It was about refuting all of the claims in the Michael Wolff book that Trump\u2019s incapable, incompetent, senile and all that. I thought at some point these Democrats in that meeting were gonna figure out that they were just a bunch of props and Trump was using them. But apparently they bought it, and so Durbin and Lindsey put together this dream bill of theirs thinking that Trump\u2019s gonna sign anything. (laughing) “I\u2019ll sign anything!”<\/p>\n

You talk about…? (laughing) So they take it up there and they find out that Dick Durbin is livid when he finds out that there are people in the meeting who are anti-amnesty, that Trump has invited people who think what he thinks into the meeting. So Durbin thinks that he\u2019s been sandbagged! He said, “General Kelly, the chief of staff, and Steve Miller invited five other members who were not in favor of immigration reform, and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was good policy.”<\/p>\n

So are we to believe, Senator Durbin, that you literally thought you had been given permission to write a blank check and take it in there and it was gonna be signed? Is that really what you want us to believe? I think this is all back… You know why it\u2019s back? Because they believe what they think about Trump. They believe he\u2019s an idiot, they believe he\u2019s unqualified, they don\u2019t think he has a brain, they don\u2019t think he knows how Washington works.<\/p>\n

They think that they can outsmart him and outmaneuver him, especially after that meeting when they thought he was caving. And they get up there and they find out that, in their words, they\u2019ve been sandbagged or whatever. So Durbin gets so ticked off that he comes out of there talking about Trump using that word to describe the, what, African countries and so forth. And so the storm that erupted from that has happened. I\u2019m telling you, this is classic.<\/p>\n

This is a president who was elected to be a disrupter, disrupting. This is somebody draining the swamp, elected to drain the swamp. This is what pushing back against the establishment looks like. Imagine Durbin being offended that there were people that didn\u2019t agree with him in this meeting. What did he think actually was gonna be in that meeting? What was this meeting? He and Lindsey Graham get to present their bill and Trump — who said, “Bring it to me; I\u2019ll sign it. I\u2019ll take the heat” — was actually gonna sign off on it?<\/p>\n