RUSH: The Democrats caved. They\u2019ve now caved twice on this whole DACA government shutdown over the budget business. Oh, yeah, it\u2019s the second time. Schumer… You heard me yesterday.<\/p>\n
Schumer got all huffy and puffy, you know, after his house was protested. His apartment in Brooklyn. A bunch of leftists showed up, and now they think Chuck\u2019s gotta go. There is a movement on the left to get rid of Chuck Schumer as the leader of the Democrats in the Senate because he\u2019s a wuss, because he let Trump outsmart him. So Schumer in response to this said, “Okay. I\u2019m removing all funding of the wall from the next negotiations! I\u2019m taking it down.”<\/p>\n
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(clapping) “Yay! Chuck getting a spine again.” But there has been further movement on this. The further movement is that the Democrats have taken all talk of the DACA kids and the DREAMers off the table for the next round of budget talks in, now, 2-1\/2 weeks to prevent a government shutdown. So not only did Schumer remove the $25 billion he was gonna offer Trump for the wall, they\u2019re removing all of their demands for the DREAMers. It\u2019s a total backtrack.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So you don\u2019t believe me on this? I can understand. If you haven\u2019t heard it yourself and you hear me say that the Democrats have even pulled their demands for the DREAMers off the table for the next round of budget negotiations, you might think, “I haven\u2019t heard that. That\u2019s crazy.” Well, my source for this is Politico, and The Politico says that the DREAMers are no longer part of any negotiations on the budget at all. Schumer and Dick Durbin have totally caved.<\/p>\n
They have decided to split negotiations on DACA and immigration away from the budget talks. Why? Because they got creamed, folks! They got creamed, they got rolled, and everybody knows it. Schumer got destroyed in that deal! Trump refused to talk to him over the weekend. Schumer\u2019s not used to Republicans not chatting. He\u2019s not used to Republicans not caving. So they\u2019ve pulled it.<\/p>\n
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I suspect what this means is that a deal involving the DREAMers and DACA has already been made. I know it\u2019s hard to believe. I know it\u2019s hard to grasp, maybe to get your arms around it, but the Democrats really are irrelevant here. It just doesn\u2019t appear so because the media reports on the Democrats as though they still run the show and that they\u2019re still really preferred by a majority of Americans. I mean, that\u2019s the narrative.<\/p>\n
“Trump\u2019s a charlatan. Trump\u2019s a cheater. Trump colluded. Trump this and that. Americans hate Trump!” I mean, you know drill, and so that\u2019s what you see if you expose yourself to mainstream media at all. But on the ground, in the real world, the Democrats had everything they wanted stricken, handed to \u2019em in a hat, and they had to walk away with their tail between their legs. They got nothing, and now they have decided that they can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Graham and Durbin\u2019s decided they can\u2019t win what they want or even a portion of it with Trump and the Republicans if they continue to couple their demands on the DREAMers and the DACA kids with the budget. Now, there is a caveat. The House Democrats may not go along with this. The House Democrats are probably going to be very livid that Schumer and Durbin have made this decision. But again, according to the Politico, Schumer and Durbin have totally removed anything about DACA from the upcoming president negotiations.<\/p>\n
You remember the deal that kept the government running was a three-week deal. It\u2019s coming up again in 2-1\/2 weeks (let\u2019s just say two weeks) and the Democrats have decided to take whatever their demands are for DACA and the DREAMers off the table and just do the budget. But the House Democrats have not agreed to that, and the budget deal must, of course, be passed in both houses.<\/p>\n
So there could be a strategy here with Schumer trying in a certain way to look like a certain image, present a certain image, and let the Democrats in the House take the heat. We\u2019ll see. But it still doesn\u2019t deny that the Democrat leadership in the Senate has decided they cannot get anything they want in a budget deal with Trump regarding DREAMers and DACA and amnesty.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: To the phones we go back to, Greg in Sloatsburg, New York. I\u2019m glad you waited, Greg. It\u2019s your turn here. Make your big showbiz break worth it. How you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor. I want to ask you a question. There\u2019s something I don\u2019t understand I hope you can explain. “Why is it that the Democratic leadership is negotiating from such an idiotic position of asking for everything that they want and not conceding anything?” Like Dianne Feinstein at the White House saying, “Why don\u2019t you give us a clean DACA bill?”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, let me tell you. You know, this actually is a multifaceted answer. But the umbrella answer, the broad answer to your question — which is I think is, “Why do the Democrats offer these outlandish things that they know Trump is not gonna accept?” Is that basically what you\u2019re asking?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Because they think Trump is stupid!<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chucking)<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no. I know it sounds like something to laugh at. “No, it can\u2019t possibly be.” You have to ask yourself: What media does Dianne Feinstein watch and read? Dick Durbin, ditto? What do they…? What is their source for news and knowledge every day? I guarantee you it\u2019s the New York Times, Washington Post. Maybe DiFi reads the San Francisco Chronicle. (Six of one, half dozen the other.) They watch CNN, and what do they see? They see Donald Trump reported upon as a blithering idiot, as a thief, as somebody who doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n
His staff has to run the show for him \u2019cause he\u2019s not even aware. I mean, the news on Trump is, “He doesn\u2019t even know what legislation says. He doesn\u2019t care. He can\u2019t read! He didn\u2019t really even want to be there.” I mean, if that\u2019s what they see every day… If that kind of news about Trump is what they see, and especially if they walk in — even before they watch any news. If their own personal bias is that Trump is a buffoon and then they see it confirmed on TV, then that\u2019s what they think he is. I will guarantee you that in that meeting, there were a lot of Democrats shocked and stunned.<\/p>\n
They believed the Wolff book, I\u2019m sure. They believed they were walking in there ready to see somebody slobbering and drooling with Alzheimer\u2019s, maybe even Parkinson\u2019s, and certainly dementia. They believe this stuff in their news media. They expected to encounter somebody that wouldn\u2019t remember what he had said five minutes ago, and they thought they were gonna go in there and slam-dunk the guy. They think Trump has to be shielded and protected because otherwise he\u2019ll do damage to what he wants and believes in because he\u2019s so stupid and dumb.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the umbrella answer.<\/p>\n
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Now, the more nuanced answer: In any negotiation, ask for more than you expect to get. Give yourself room to give away things. Give yourself some room to compromise. It\u2019s called “going in with throwaways.” You have to go in with some things you\u2019re willing to throw away so that you can appear to be compromising and being flexible. So it could be… I mean, giving her the benefit of the doubt, it could be that that\u2019s what she was doing. But, see, I don\u2019t think Dianne Feinstein is the Wizard of Smart that everybody in the media thinks.<\/p>\n
I think Trump, in a street sense, outsmarts everybody in that room. In addition to everybody in that room not having street smarts, they think they are 20 times smarter than Trump. The arrogance factor and the braggadocio quotient in that room among the Democrats was probably off the charts. So that would be my two-pronged answer to why they thought they could get away with it. I also think that Lindsey Graham is a factor. Remember, Lindsey Graham had partnered with Durbin on basically the DACA deal and the wall and no funding.<\/p>\n
Durbin and Lindsey Graham, after that open meeting that was televised, thought that they were being summoned by Trump to finish a deal that had been proposed in that meeting. And they were shocked and stunned when they got there to find that there were Republicans also in the meeting who opposed what they were gonna do. And I think Graham and Durbin thought that they were going to have basically a meeting with Trump where he agreed to what they wanted. And, of course, when they saw Republicans…<\/p>\n
When they saw Stephen Miller in there, it was like showing Dracula the cross. It ruined their day. And we should hope Stephen Miller is in every one of these meetings going forward, by the way. So there are a lot of factors here. Arrogance, maybe, is one. Stupidity. Ignorance. There could be a whole lot of things to explain why the Democrats would expect Trump to go with that — and don\u2019t forget, I must honestly remind you that Trump told these people, “I can\u2019t do this without you people in this room!<\/p>\n
“You send me whatever you can, and I\u2019ll sign it. I will take the heat.”<\/p>\n
You know, at that point saliva started drooling down their mouths. And then when they did that, Trump said, “I never said I was gonna sign this!” “You said you\u2019d sign anything!” “I never said I\u2019d sign this.” It\u2019s a classic negotiating ploy. Which is what this was. But they went in thinking Trump\u2019s an idiot. I think they went in thinking they could roll Trump. I think, actually, that they couldn\u2019t believe the cameras weren\u2019t kicked out. There\u2019s a lot of factors in that little meetings and session that I think probably had a role in the way individuals behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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