{"id":268610,"date":"2018-03-22T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=268610"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:17:00","slug":"omnibus-bill-make-trump-voters-go-wobbly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/22\/omnibus-bill-make-trump-voters-go-wobbly\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus Bill Could Make Trump Voters Go Wobbly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We got this omnibus budget deal which voted on last night and this&#8230; I predict this is going to be the first phase of Trump voters beginning to go wobbly. This is the swamp on steroids. This was not supposed to be happening anymore, this kind of thing, this omnibus spending bill. A six-month spending bill here instead of two months. In six months, they\u2019re gonna have to do it again. They claim they\u2019re gonna do a real budget next.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s hardly any money for the wall in this thing. They did get rid of the tunneling that Schumer wanted for his deal. But it\u2019s the swamp on steroids. There\u2019s a reason Pelosi\u2019s happy &#8212; and don\u2019t buy this business that Pelosi\u2019s unhappy with it because of the DACA kids. The Democrats don\u2019t want a DACA kid solution right now \u2019cause they think they\u2019re gonna win the House in November and that\u2019s when they\u2019re gonna grant amnesty to everybody, the DACA kids notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 When I saw this omnibus thing pass last night the way it passed&#8230; Well, it didn\u2019t pass.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna pass tomorrow.\u00a0 When it was presented, it\u2019s 2,200 pages. It\u2019s the same thing, folks. It\u2019s 2,200 pages. Nobody\u2019s gonna read it all. Nobody\u2019s gonna have time to read it all. There isn\u2019t any significant spending cuts in it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a six-month deal. It\u2019s a kick the can down the road for six months instead of two months, and everybody involved is praising it. &#8220;This is the best we can get.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GOPCongressMOney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GOPCongressMOney.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GOPCongressMOney-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate so we have to do it this way,&#8221; blah, blah, blah, blah, nothing\u2019s changed.\u00a0 This is the swamp on steroids, and my fear&#8230; I always thought it would be immigration. My fear is that this could be the issue, the item that begins to cause Trump voters to go wobbly, \u2019cause this was not&#8230; Let me put it another way.\u00a0 This is the kind of thing that was going to stop &#8212; specifically under that umbrella, definition, &#8220;draining the swamp.&#8221; My sense is that this is going to cause a massive amount of anger and opposition.<\/p>\n<p>I want to start a little early here on the phones.\u00a0 We have Donna in St. Petersburg. You\u2019re first\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have you first on the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 Um, actually it\u2019s Jonna. J-o-n-n-a. That you for taking my call &#8212; and, Rush, you are exactly right. This omnibus&#8230; You know the song, Marvin Gaye, &#8220;It makes me wanna holler and throw up both my hands&#8221;? That\u2019s where I am with the party right now.\u00a0 They are so crooked. They\u2019re only in it for themselves. Nobody\u2019s looking out for the America public. They don\u2019t care anymore! I vote all the time. I get involved in my local elections.\u00a0 I always vote.\u00a0 I know that Trump needs help and I do not want abandon him.\u00a0 I love President Trump; I think he\u2019s doing a wonderful job. But I just feel like we have a bunch of Judases that are stabbing us in the back and I really can\u2019t take it anymore.\u00a0 It\u2019s like &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a minute.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 &#8212; government &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Hang on a minute.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I want you to listen to something and then I have a question for you.\u00a0 Grab sound bite 24.\u00a0 Yes, 24.\u00a0 Hell, wherever it&#8230; It\u2019s the Ryan sound bite.\u00a0 Do you have that handy? (interruption) Okay.\u00a0 Here. I want you to listen to Paul Ryan.\u00a0 This is sometime recently.<\/p>\n<p>RYAN:\u00a0 It was important for me to explain these things and on big bills that typically what I do with president, to walk him through, you know, the contours and the complexities of the legislation we pass.\u00a0 And, yes, he supports the bill. No two ways about it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So there you have it, Jonna.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 You know, we need to raise this font.\u00a0 I can barely read it. Especially by the time you put a red banner on this, I can\u2019t read what\u2019s on that monitor.\u00a0 Anyway, you heard Paul Ryan say right there that he walked Trump through it and Trump\u2019s cool with it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, see, Trump can veto the bill and if he doesn\u2019t veto it, I\u2019m gonna be upset with him. Because, like I said, these people, they go into office&#8230; They go into office as politicians; they come out as millionaires.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They are crooked.\u00a0 They\u2019re always doing these deals behind the closed doors.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care about the American public. \u00a0They asked for the presidency. We gave them the presidency, we gave them the Congress, and what do they do?\u00a0 More dirty deals.\u00a0 They\u2019re just as corrupt as they can be.\u00a0 If you have any honest politicians, you can count \u2019em on your hand, they\u2019re so few.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-EIB-Callers-MALE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-EIB-Callers-MALE.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-EIB-Callers-MALE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH:\u00a0 Hang on a minute.\u00a0 Hang on a minute.\u00a0 So you\u2019re not anger with Trump.\u00a0 You think he could veto it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 I think that he can veto it, and I think that he needs to veto it because they\u2019re not even giving him the funds for the wall.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 He\u2019s not gonna veto it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, if he\u2019s not gonna veto it then I\u2019m not gonna vote in the midterm elections for more crooked politicians. They get in there and they stab us in the back and I\u2019ve had enough of it &#8212; and I vote all the time! And this really is heartbreaking to me that we can\u2019t turn this around.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Hang&#8230; Hang on.\u00a0 Look &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Let me say another thing, Rush. I feel like &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I understand all that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But nothing\u2019s new here! This is the way these guys have been operating since as long as I\u2019ve been doing the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing new here.\u00a0 What was gonna make it &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute.\u00a0 What was gonna make it new was Trump!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, then that\u2019s what I\u2019m saying.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t veto it then he\u2019s gonna lose a lot of people &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Rush-Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Rush-Capitol.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Rush-Capitol-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH:\u00a0 You can\u2019t veto it!\u00a0 It\u2019s got all kinds of stuff he wants in it. It\u2019s got defense spending increases. It\u2019s got, you know, a little pittance in there for&#8230;? What is it? Barbed wire for his wall.\u00a0 He can\u2019t veto this.\u00a0 I just saw Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. He was on TV (everybody\u2019s on TV these days) and he was on TV explaining, &#8220;Well, you know, if the president had line-item veto, but he doesn\u2019t have the line-item veto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(chuckles) Line-item veto?\u00a0 And then we heard, &#8220;Yeah, we need 60 votes to do anything. We need 60 votes in the Senate if we\u2019re gonna do a genuine, appropriation-type budget, and we just don\u2019t have \u2019em.&#8221; \u00a0How many years have we heard this excuse?\u00a0 &#8220;We don\u2019t have the Senate.\u00a0 We have the House but we don\u2019t have the Senate.&#8221; So we gave \u2019em the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got the Senate but we don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate.&#8221; Then they said, &#8220;We don\u2019t have the White House.&#8221; So we gave \u2019em all of that!\u00a0 Hey, we\u2019ve been here; we\u2019ve done this.\u00a0 \u00a0I maintain to you that you expected this kind of thing to change because the only thing new in Washington is Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Let me move on.\u00a0 Who\u2019s next?\u00a0 Give me a green&#8230; That would be Craig in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Hi, Craig.\u00a0 Welcome.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 Yeah, we\u2019re disgusted out here.\u00a0 It\u2019s unbelievable that we have to hear this again. \u00a0You know, &#8220;Why vote Republican?&#8221; just like you have said before &#8212; and if Trump signs this, we\u2019re definitely going wobbly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got that fear.\u00a0 What is it about it that bothers you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, you know, you were just saying that there\u2019s money there for the wall.\u00a0 There really isn\u2019t money there for the wall.\u00a0 It\u2019s only $1.7 billion, I heard.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 It\u2019s not even that.\u00a0 It\u2019s $624 million.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah? You know, and then military spending? They want an equal amount for social programs?\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 This is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Look &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Is that these &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Pelosi &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 &#8212; (garbled) Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Pelosi and Schumer are doing back flips.\u00a0 They are happy as they can be, because this is massive spending.\u00a0 I mean, there is no&#8230; There isn\u2019t even an attempt to fool us into thinking that there is some restraint here.\u00a0 They\u2019re not even trying to make it look like there is any spending restraint.\u00a0 We\u2019re back to, &#8220;Well, we don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate, and so this is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We &#8212; we gotta kick this down the road. We need more Republicans elected in the Senate and we gotta do this and that and so forth.&#8221;\u00a0 Let me audio sound bites.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna starts here with Louie Gohmert.\u00a0 He is our buddy from Texas.\u00a0 He was on Shannon Bream last night the Fox News Channel.\u00a0 Her question: &#8220;You should be busy right now.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got a 2,223-page spending bill to read.\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna vote on it in a couple days.\u00a0 How does this work, Congressman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrUBRP1VYsk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:\u00a0 This is really tragic, a massive spending bill &#8212; and the truth is, the House did our job.<\/p>\n<p>BREAM: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT: We passed 12 appropriations bills, we had a budget, and the Senate didn\u2019t do their job.\u00a0 And it doesn\u2019t appear they\u2019re ever going to until, No. 1, we get rid of the cloture, the 60-vote requirement.<\/p>\n<p>BREAM:\u00a0 The president says he\u2019s ready for it to go.<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:\u00a0 Yeah, President Trump\u2019s doing great on that &#8212; and, by the way, the Constitution only requires a majority.\u00a0 That was a &#8220;super&#8221; imposition by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s go back and look at history again because Congressman Gohmert is right; this filibuster thing is a Senate rule; the Senate can make whatever rules it wants, as long as the rules pass. And the filibuster rule is relatively new. The filibuster originally required a real filibuster. You had to get up there and talk and you couldn\u2019t leave. And you couldn\u2019t have somebody else talk for you. You had to wear some diapers, you had to do something.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do a filibuster, you had to literally stay there and talk. A filibuster today means everything stops unless you can get 60 votes to keep going. Cloture. So on this, for example, this omnibus, whenever you see that word, folks, just think of a trash can. No! In fact, think of a Christmas tree with anything you want gift wrapped underneath it. That\u2019s what omnibus means.<\/p>\n<p>For all intents and purpose, think of a giant Christmas tree and whatever any of these guys want, they can put underneath that tree. And at 2200 pages, nobody\u2019s gonna know what all of these Christmas presents are until they actually get implemented, and even at that, many of them are never gonna be known. So you need 60 votes. They say they\u2019re debating the bill, which they\u2019re not even gonna do.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s say they were debating the bill, you would need 60 votes to stop the debate and then go on to the vote, which, for all intents and purposes, means in the Senate you need 60 votes to pass anything. The pressure has been on McConnell to get rid of this. The nuclear option on budgeting, get rid of this filibuster. And McConnell will not do it. And he\u2019s not the only one that wouldn\u2019t do it, but he\u2019s the most recent Senate leader who will not do it. So the Republicans have 52, and those 52 don\u2019t hang together. So at the very best they would need eight Democrats to join them. That\u2019s not gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Congressman Gohmert here made a very important point that is going to be lost in all this. You know, we\u2019ve had a lot of committee chairmen on the Republican side announce that they are resigning. And this has been portrayed by the Drive-By Media as the Republicans knowing that they\u2019re going to lose in November. That these committee chairmen are very wise, and they see what\u2019s coming, and they\u2019re not gonna want to hang around there as the minority.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not why they\u2019re resigning. They are resigning because they are term limited. Chairmanships have a limit. And so once the chairmanship is over by virtue of term limits, these guys just don\u2019t want to go back to being a regular plebe, just a standard, ordinary member of the House. Once you\u2019ve had a committee chairmanship, I mean, that\u2019s the elite of the elite. You don\u2019t want to go back to being some invisible back bencher that nobody ever hears from. So they resign, or retire, and then try to capitalize on their years of public service in the private sector where they next go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032218-Swamp-Omnibus-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032218-Swamp-Omnibus-Tree.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032218-Swamp-Omnibus-Tree-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, Gohmert pointed out that they did, they went through the appropriations process. They had 12 appropriations bills. This is the way the budget used to happen. Before Obama came along and before they blew up the budget process in exchange for these continuing resolutions, the committee chairmen on appropriations in the House and Senate were very powerful people. But the Appropriations Committee chairman the past five or six years hasn\u2019t amounted to anything because they haven\u2019t been appropriating anything.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been doing continuing resolutions or omnibus like this. The budget process requires there are 12 appropriations bills in the House, according to budget law and budget requirements. And all of these different 12 areas of appropriation have to do with 12 different areas of the budget. And what Gohmert said is we did that. We actually followed the budget process in the House, but they are not in the Senate. It\u2019s also fashionable for members of the House to dump on the Senate. And it\u2019s largely true, but it still is something that has been happening.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, we have not had, this country has not had a traditional, constitutional, legal budget since Obama assumed office, for all intents and purposes. We\u2019ve been doing continuing resolutions of a couple months here. How many times a year do we have this phony government shutdown debate? People are fed up with that, too, and we got another one, Friday night midnight if this thing\u2019s not done, oh, no, government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t it shut down yesterday in the snowstorm? It usually always does, but it didn\u2019t yesterday \u2019cause they got this one coming up if they want it. No, it means that government shutdowns are purely political and they\u2019re not even gonna talk about it unless there\u2019s some political advantage to. So they went through the appropriations process, they appropriated the money for all these 12 different areas. None of that\u2019s happening in the Senate, and it\u2019s all gonna end up in this omnibus bill.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s $1.3 trillion, and Paul Ryan was on TV today saying, &#8220;Don\u2019t sweat it. It\u2019s only six months! It\u2019s only six months! This is not etching everything in this thing in stone! It\u2019s only six months!&#8221; $1.3 trillion. &#8220;It\u2019s only six months.&#8221; That used to be more than the entire annual budget. But we\u2019re supposed to go, &#8220;Oh, okay. Oh. It\u2019s only six months? Fine.&#8221; Six months from now is when? April, May, June, July &#8212; October! Right before the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What I was gonna say is that this probably now is the last major bit of, quote, unquote, legislation before the midterms. The Democrats aren\u2019t gonna be motivated to do anything that fixes anything. I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, we\u2019ve been here before. You know, Ronald Reagan never had 60 votes in the Senate. You know what he did? He vetoed this stuff. He vetoed it. He let the government shut down. Just they didn\u2019t make a big political deal of it back then.<\/p>\n<p>The government shutdown, those things are frequent, they\u2019ve always been frequent, but Reagan vetoed this stuff. This was a major, major plank. This was a major leg of Reagan\u2019s stool. The issues on which he defined his the presidency. Rebuilding the military, reviving the economy, tax cuts, including this getting a handle on spending. But Reagan did veto garbage like this. It\u2019s the only way to influence the process. When you don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate, that\u2019s the only thing Trump can do.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jim Jordan. He\u2019s a member of the Freedom Caucus in the house from Ohio on Fox &amp; Friends today. Brian Kilmeade said, &#8220;You said that this may be the worst bill Republican leadership has ever let come to the floor. Well, they\u2019re doing it not because they want to do it, but because they have to compromise with Democrats who have a totally different feeling about spending than you do, Congressman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-268643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-22-at-2.23.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-22-at-2.23.35-PM.png 840w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-22-at-2.23.35-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-22-at-2.23.35-PM-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>JORDAN: The American people didn\u2019t elect Democrats to control the United States Congress. They elected Republicans. I don\u2019t think we told the voters when we were running for the job when they gave us the privilege to come here and serve that we\u2019re gonna continue to fund Planned Parenthood, and we were gonna restrict Second Amendment liberties, let some bureaucrats take away your Second Amendment rights, not a court of law. I don\u2019t think they said were gonna fund this gateway, earmark, boondoggle project and not fund the border wall? I mean, the one thing we don\u2019t fund is the one issue we all campaigned on, the border security wall, and that is not in the legislation. So it can\u2019t get any worse than this bill.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Amen! He\u2019s exactly right, including his original point. &#8220;But, you know, you have to compromise with the Democrats, and the Democrats have a different view of government.&#8221; And he said, &#8220;Well, fine. But the American people didn\u2019t elect them to run the United States Congress. We do in the House, and it\u2019s not even close!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s exactly right, and people know it. It\u2019s not just the total spending. That\u2019s bad enough. It is where this spending goes! And it is as though there was not an election in 2016, and that\u2019s why people are livid. You know, the amount of spending &#8212; but where this is headed, given the fact Republicans run the place, is what has people fit to be tied today.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. The House has voted and has passed the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus\/Christmas tree spending bill. The Senate will next vote. By the way, I made an understandable error. I said that we have 52 votes in the Senate, but we don\u2019t because we lost Alabama. So we\u2019re at 51 votes in the Senate. So we would need nine votes to get to 60 to be able to change any of this in the Senate, and that isn\u2019t gonna happen. So this thing is gonna pass \u2019cause they don\u2019t want the government shut down, and imagine you\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look at this from the Republican standpoint. How many times have we blown up at \u2019em and been mad over however many recent years you want to calculate, and look what happened. They still end up winning last year and they\u2019re in control of the House. Now, I know you\u2019re shaking your head in there. &#8220;It\u2019s \u2019cause of Trump. There\u2019s the only reason they won big is because of Trump.&#8221; I\u2019m fully acknowledging that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GOPAudience-Hands-GOP-Logo-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GOPAudience-Hands-GOP-Logo-Gold.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GOPAudience-Hands-GOP-Logo-Gold-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>But these guys, they think they won on their own. I mean, their egos are such. My point is that they seldom&#8230; I mean, they get yelled at, and they get faxed and they get emailed and they get tweetered and they get Facebooked and they get everything. But they still don\u2019t change because they still end up getting sent back. Incumbents win at a 90% return rate, pretty much. I mean, it changes marginally from election to election, but that\u2019s a long-term average on this kind of stuff. So where are the Never Trumpers on this?<\/p>\n<p>Never Trumpers have been opposing this kind of stuff for I don\u2019t know how long. The Never Trumpers, they pride themselves on being budget and deficit hawks. So what are they gonna do? Are they gonna applaud this because they\u2019ll look at it as a sign that Trump has no influence, that Trump isn\u2019t really making any difference? &#8220;When you get right down to it,&#8221; they\u2019ll say, &#8220;Trump isn\u2019t making any difference.&#8221; So they might be happy about it. So even they will end up being made to look hypocritical, depending on how they play this.<\/p>\n<p>I want to replay Jim Jordan again because the ensuing sound bites react to him somewhat. He was on Fox &amp; Friends today talking to Brian Kilmeade, who said, &#8220;Congressman Jordan, you said that this may be the worst bill Republican leadership has ever let come to the floor. Well, they\u2019re doing it not because they want to do it, but because they have to compromise with the Democrats, who have a totally different feeling about spending than you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(chuckle) They have to compromise? They have to compromise with the Democrats? The Republicans can stop the Democrats in their tracks. The Democrats don\u2019t have the votes in the House to stop this! Anyway, here\u2019s how Jim Jordan reacted to the premise, &#8220;Hey, the Republicans aren\u2019t doing this \u2019cause they want to. They\u2019re not doing this \u2019cause they like it. They\u2019re doing it \u2019cause they have to. They have to compromise with the Democrats,&#8221; and Jordan is livid. (paraphrased)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you mean? We won! What the hell are we doing compromising with the losers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: The American people didn\u2019t elect Democrats to control the United States Congress. They elected Republicans. I don\u2019t think we told the voters when we were running for the job when they gave us the privilege to come here and serve that we\u2019re gonna continue to fund Planned Parenthood, we were gonna restrict Second Amendment liberties; let some bureaucrats take away your Second Amendment rights, not a court of law. I don\u2019t think they said were gonna fund this Gateway, earmark, boondoggle project and not fund the border wall? I mean, the one thing we don\u2019t fund is the one issue we all campaigned on, the border security wall, and that is not in the legislation. So it can\u2019t get any worse than this bill.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here is Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan was also on Fox &amp; Friends after Jordan, and Kilmeade said to him, &#8220;You believe Jim Jordan\u2019s wrong, that this is not the worst bill ever. Why is Jim Jordan wrong, Mr. Speaker?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RYAN: He is wrong. Look, Jim\u2019s never voted for one of these bills ever. I don\u2019t expect him to do it anytime near future. This doesn\u2019t fund Gateway, and it does fund the wall. So let me just step back for a second. You know how long the funding this bill lasts? Six months. This is not a 10-year bill. Six months. And so what we did in this bill is we funded, in the next six months, exactly the budget request the administration asked us for the border.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ohhhhh! It\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault! I forgot that. You know, I knew there was something important here, folks, that I was forgetting. This is exactly what the president wanted. (laughing) When Obamacare reform and repeal, whatever, bombed? &#8220;Hey, this is just what the president wanted!&#8221; Trump\u2019s up there saying, &#8220;No, what I want is for Mueller to make tracks out of town. What do you mean, this is what I wanted?&#8221; Now, Gateway&#8230; You need to know what Gateway is, \u2019cause Speaker Ryan says, &#8220;This doesn\u2019t fund Gateway, and it does fund the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gateway is Chuck Schumer\u2019s little tunnel project in New York, and it does get some funding. It gets it indirectly. But Schumer\u2019s happy. Pelosi is happy. Schumer\u2019s out there saying this this this is absolutely wonderful. This is the end of austerity! The era of austerity is over! Schumer saw&#8230; Era of austerity? We haven\u2019t had any austerity. You know what they think austerity is, was?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GOPTRAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GOPTRAP.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GOPTRAP-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>The sequester spending caps. (laughing) That\u2019s what they think austerity is, when there were caps on the rate of increase in spending. Up next is Ryan again. Ainsley Earhardt this time. &#8220;Didn\u2019t put the president say he\u2019s not going to just start to build a wall, he said he wants all the funding in place and then he\u2019ll build the entire thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RYAN: We want to get it going right now. We don\u2019t want to wait until we can get a multiyear bill passed. Here\u2019s the problem with this process, which I hate as well. The Senate has a filibuster, and the reason we\u2019re coming up against a deadline of the government stopping its funding tomorrow is because of the Senate filibuster. We fund government one year at a time. That\u2019s how the budget process works. So we\u2019re gonna fund the wall one year at a time &#8212; in this case, for the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So this is what the president wanted, and even if it wasn\u2019t, the Senate has a filibuster, and there\u2019s nothing we can do. Now, there\u2019s some truth to this. I don\u2019t want to be sounding completely snarky here, but all of this is known going in &#8212; and I know what you all are hearing, \u2019cause I hear it too. &#8220;Hey, we\u2019re just victims! We\u2019re just victims of the way this place runs,&#8221; as though they don\u2019t run it. Almost like the Limbaugh Theorem attached to members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The Limbaugh Theorem actually applied to Obama and how Obama escaped any accountability for his own policies by being able to pretend he was still an outsider trying to reform a corrupt system, as though he wasn\u2019t president. It was the Limbaugh Theorem noticing that. These guys are practically the same thing. &#8220;Hey, they have a filibuster over there in the Senate. We did what we\u2019re supposed to do, but&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next is Kevin Brady. Kevin Brady is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. This is the big, gigantic appropriations outfit in the House. I mean, there is an Appropriations Committee and a chairman. But Ways and Means is where every spending bill in this nation originates. The Ways and Means Committee&#8230; This country cannot spend a dollar, a budgetary dollar without it being appropriated and authorized by the Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Now, regulators can spend all kinds of money from their budgets, but still the House theoretically approves all that. He was on CNBC today, and he was asked, &#8220;Should we be satisfied? Should we be happy about the way we\u2019re gonna fund the government again this time around?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BRADY: I think &#8220;satisfied&#8221; is the right answer, and here\u2019s why. Look, we really do have a crisis in our military readiness. Um, it\u2019s undeniable. And I know back home I run into families who are on their seventh or eighth deployment. You know, they\u2019re cannibalizing one helicopter to get the Black Hawk ready for just a little pilot training. Uh, we got a serious problem. So the main reason to support this bill, in my view, is to rebuild our military in a serious way.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And that will be the justification from the White House for signing it. Now, we\u2019ve got a call that I think wants to reference this. Yeah, let\u2019s grab Mark in Davenport, Iowa. You want to weigh in on this, sir?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m not ready to dump Trump. And my suggestion is that we take a page out of the Obama playbook where Obama blamed Bush for everything, particularly with the economy. And for Trump and the Republicans to say &#8212; I think I just heard you play a recording of that, that we need to do this, rebuild the military because of what Obama did to it. We need to fix immigration. We have to have immigration reform because of what Obama did. We need to improve our infrastructure because of Obama. And I don\u2019t look at it as compromise.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You don\u2019t. So you are &#8212; I just want to make sure I understand. You\u2019re not at all going wobbly where Trump is concerned, and in fact the spending bill doesn\u2019t really concern you that much if they would position it the right way and say, &#8220;Hey, look, we had to do this to fix the mess that Obama left us with two years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly. And spending in the budget\u2019s a whole different problem on its own, you know, you gotta pick your battles so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; I think, you know, Trump needs the spending to get this stuff done and I\u2019m still with him on it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. I\u2019ll try it. I\u2019ll try the rest of the program. I\u2019ll see how it flies. I\u2019ll dump it all on Obama and see how people react to it. Damn, Obama. We wouldn\u2019t be in this mess if it weren\u2019t for him. I\u2019ll see if I can sell that. Thank you for that. It\u2019s just gonna be an experiment out there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. I was dead serious. I can\u2019t wait to hear from the Never Trumpers on this. I want to know, are the Never Trumpers gonna be attacking McConnell? Are the Never Trumpers gonna be attacking Ryan? Where\u2019s Flake? Where\u2019s McCain? They\u2019re out there every day opposing everything Trump does. Trump\u2019s fingerprints are gonna be on this \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna sign it. Where are the Never Trumpers? Because the Never Trumpers, if Trump weren\u2019t in the picture, would be leading the charge against this from their intellectual houses of ivory. (interruption) You don\u2019t think that\u2019s right? So where are they? Where are the Never Trumpers?<\/p>\n<p>Teresa in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Great to have you on the program. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good morning. I mean good afternoon, sir.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrumpRush-With-Flag-RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrumpRush-With-Flag-RUSH.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrumpRush-With-Flag-RUSH-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>RUSH: That\u2019s right. It\u2019s morning somewhere, and somebody\u2019s drinking somewhere, too, so it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) Not me. Sir, I just have a comment because I\u2019m angry, I\u2019m really angry. I am not a Never Trumper. I am a Trumper. But I\u2019m a wobbly Trumper. And I\u2019m asking Mr. Trump. Please, don\u2019t do this. Don\u2019t cave in and veto this now. And you were mentioning, you know, the 90% rendition rate of the people who are already in the Congress and everything. Well, now it\u2019s the time for all of us here to choose very carefully in the primaries who are we going to send. Okay? And we gotta go to the town meetings, and we gotta put them on the spot. We gotta take them to the fire. We gotta put them on notice, man. And warn them that if they don\u2019t do what we, the people, have been asking and voting them into office for years and years and years &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But look, our guys, there\u2019s nothing they can do. Look at the mess Obama left \u2019em with.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Don\u2019t give me that. Like you said, we have a majority in the Congress. We have a majority of 51. Why did we lose the one? Why have we been losing? Have you &#8212; I don\u2019t know if you saw &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Have you ever noticed, the Democrats never seem to need 60 votes for anything.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly. Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They get it done on 48, 49, seems like, whatever they want, they need 48 or 49. Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, doesn\u2019t matter. We need 60, and if we had 60, we\u2019d probably need 62.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And if we needed 62, oh, well, you know, because there\u2019s &#8212; no, we need a sure majority. I am tired of this. I am sick and tired of this. And we also &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I hear ya! If this is what winning is, I hear you, folks, top to bottom, front to back.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This budget debacle. You know something that has&#8230;? (snorts) Speaking of Obama, there\u2019s an Obama program that was introduced in Obama\u2019s Porkulus bill. Remember his first so-called stimulus bill, which was March of 2009 &#8212; and we talked about it recently. It\u2019s a program called TIGER. Does that ring any bells? Does anybody know what I was referring to when talking about TIGER? That\u2019s an acronym. It stands for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-267433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-031318-Obama-Lying-to-America.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-031318-Obama-Lying-to-America.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-031318-Obama-Lying-to-America-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, and that was in Obama\u2019s stimulus bill. TIGER. It\u2019s a supplementary discretionary grant program included in the Porkulus bill. One of the noteworthy TIGER projects (Do any of you remember?) was the bridge. The pedestrian bridge at Florida International University which collapsed was funded by Obama\u2019s TIGER program. Well, the TIGER program got an increase in spending in this massive omnibus Christmas tree spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019re saying. &#8220;Mr. Limbaugh, be very careful. Just because there was an item in the budget for that bridge is not the reason the bridge collapsed.&#8221; That bridge was under construction for five years. Planning, construction. A pedestrian bridge. We built the Empire State Building in the same span of time! This is a pedestrian bridge! Last I heard, somebody used an incorrect bolt, incorrect size of bolt that couldn\u2019t carry the load and it\u2019s one of the reasons that it collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>So the TIGER program, something that Obama put in his Porkulus bill, gets a bump! &#8220;Are you saying it should have been eliminated?&#8221; My friends, that\u2019s not the point. The point is nothing gets eliminated. Nothing gets cut back. Ever. But this we\u2019ve kind of come to expect. I mean, the idea that there\u2019s going to be budgetary restraint? It remains a pipe dream. The national debt\u2019s now $21 trillion. There\u2019s no end in sight to it. That\u2019s bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>It is where this money is being allocated with the Republicans having won the election. That is &#8212; as much as anything &#8212; what has people fit to be tied. And, look. I hope I\u2019m wrong, but I\u2019m just&#8230; I think this said at the top of the program, I think this is something that could cause some Trump voters to go wobbly. I thought that it would actually require doing nothing on immigration or the wall that would cause Trump voters to go wobbly. But this is so egregious.<\/p>\n<p>And it is not at all representative of the thinking on the side of the party that won. But let me repeat this, \u2019cause I firmly believe it, and I think it\u2019s relevant. This kind of spending&#8230; You listen to Chuck You Schumer &#8212; and, hell, a lot of other government officials talk about how wonderful it is, how great it is, how much compassion is behind it and how much growth portends. I think it\u2019s the exact opposite. I think we\u2019re destroying people.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s particularly the people that vote Democrat. They in general are never happy. Many of them are not even content. It\u2019s the opposite. They are constantly enraged. They are angry. They are filled with hate. They\u2019re being poisoned by it. And as Democrat voters, they have allowed themselves to become victims, to be portrayed as victims, which &#8212; among many other things &#8212; eliminates any personal responsibility for themselves. They have a built-in excuse for not even trying to succeed, \u2019cause the Democrat has told them the deck is so stacked against them that they can\u2019t succeed.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re any kind of a minority &#8212; if you\u2019re a female, if you\u2019re Latino, if you\u2019re African-American, if you\u2019re gay, if you\u2019re transgender &#8212; this country is such a racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic place. You don\u2019t have a prayer of succeeding, \u2019cause these powerful forces are lined up against you, willing to discriminate against you and willing to put you in jail! So these people that buy hook, line, and sinker what the Democrat Party sells are never, ever gonna get even close to realizing their potential, much less maximizing it or experiencing it.<\/p>\n<p>You know, on a personal level, if I had no sense of achievement every day of my life &#8212; if I didn\u2019t know what success was &#8212; I probably wouldn\u2019t have very much self-esteem. I don\u2019t know that I would like myself very much. And I think that is a classic profile of your average Democrat voter, of this era. It may not be true if you go back 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>But today, the way the Democrats have positioned themselves and marshaled their forces, the average Democrat voter today is looking for the Democrats and the government to get even with all these invisible people holding \u2019em back. &#8216;Cause as victims, they can\u2019t do it themselves. They do not know what self-reliance is. They do not know what it feels like to achieve something, to accomplish something.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030818-Democrat-Party.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030818-Democrat-Party.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030818-Democrat-Party-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>They\u2019re never gonna know, \u2019cause they don\u2019t think they can. They have a built-in excuse. The Democrats have told them the deck is so stacked against \u2019em \u2019cause America is essentially an unfair and discriminatory place. Well, you compound that with every day these people live it\u2019s reinforced that they\u2019re nobodies and that they not gonna find a chance. And all around them they see other people succeeding. They see other people laughing, smiling, enjoying life.<\/p>\n<p>They see people enjoying the fruits of their labors, and they\u2019re not &#8212; and that makes them angrier, even, because that shouldn\u2019t be happening. The Democrats ought to be dealing with those people. Those people need to be punished! This was one of the big motivational techniques of labor bosses of old, continually portraying labor union membership as a bunch of discriminated against, no-the-chance-unless-the-union\u2019s-looking-out-for-you, group of people.<\/p>\n<p>Look how angry they were all the time. So it\u2019s&#8230; Democrats, what they consider success for themselves politically is doing a tremendous amount of damage to everyday, ordinary, average Americans who have been convinced they haven\u2019t a chance, and so what\u2019s the point of even trying? Quickly, Frank in Munster, Indiana. I\u2019m glad you waited. You next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I can\u2019t believe I got on, Rush. It\u2019s really something.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: We got&#8230; President Trump, he\u2019s got to veto this omnibus bill. This is just total insanity. But we could help drain the swamp, especially here in Indiana. Two of our congressmen want to be able to run against Senator Joe Donnelly in the fall. Todd Rokita and [Luke] Messer, where are you? Todd Rokita especially. Congressman Rokita, you claim to be the No. 2 guy on the Budget Committee. Now, you would think he would be able to make some noise. He wants to run for Senate. Where are you, Todd? If you\u2019re not for us, you\u2019re against us. And maybe as the swamp water is draining down, we could see the muck on the bottom of the swamp and there it is. It\u2019s time to keep draining the swamp. Let\u2019s shovel the muck out. Let\u2019s get somebody new.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait. What do you expect these guys to do?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Make some noise, get some backbone, stand up. If I could see some congressmen or Senators &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Come on, look at the mess Obama left these guys in. You know, they &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Come on. Let\u2019s get some backbone. What are we paying you to do? What are we paying you to do? Let\u2019s get some backbone. Let\u2019s go and get something done. You want to become Senator, you want to move out of the Congress, House of Representatives, you want to move in for the Senate? Well, show us some backbone. Show us that you deserve to be there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Intelligence-Guided.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Intelligence-Guided.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Intelligence-Guided-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: Frank, if I had to say anything, my guess is &#8212; and please don\u2019t misunderstand me. I\u2019m saying this only from the benefit of intelligence guided by years and years of experience. Frank, do you mind me asking, how old are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sixty-nine.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So we\u2019re pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, we\u2019re pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Frank, look how often we\u2019ve seen this! And these guys continue to get reelected. You know, you\u2019re giving a shout-out to your two local guys. You really think, even if they were listening now and heard you, do you think they\u2019re gonna be scared?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, probably not. And the thing is, I\u2019m in a little red blob, I\u2019m in a little red island let\u2019s say in the middle of a blue sea here in northwestern Indiana. I\u2019m the hometown where Todd Rokita grew up. Then he moved out to the Fourth District, real safe red area, he got elected, he\u2019s very safe over there. But, Todd, you need to run statewide. You need everybody, not just your friends down in &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What I\u2019m saying to you, I don\u2019t think old Todd is worried. I don\u2019t think these guys are worried. They keep getting reelected. It\u2019s like they think everybody\u2019s worried about Facebook right now and Russia colluding.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sandy in Laurel, Montana. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, madam.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I am not wobbly. I think we need to have the staying power no matter what happens in the legislature. It took a long time to drain &#8212; or it will take a long time to drain the swamp, and we\u2019re rewarding the Democrats if we don\u2019t stay in and vote for more Republicans. We just started.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And so you would counsel patience and a little restraint here?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-225951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-001.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-001-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>RUSH: You\u2019re afraid that some of this could end up being very harmful to Trump by causing some Republicans to just step out and not vote, period, that worries you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. It worries me. And look at the hell that Trump and his family have gone through. We haven\u2019t gone through anything like that. We need to stick with him and keep working on it. It will take a while to drain the swamp.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I have to say, that\u2019s a way of looking at this. It\u2019s just Trump\u2019s second year. This may not be a battle to plant the flag on, to climb up the hill. This is Congress doing what it does. Trump is still winding his way through the murk and the mess of the executive branch. He\u2019s got Mueller yipping at his heels.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s got all that other stuff going on. He\u2019s got leaks in his own White House National Security Council staff. And this is something that Trump will have to get to a little later. This is the Congress. This is the legislature. Trump doesn\u2019t have anything to do with this. Only thing he can do is veto it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure that she represents a sincere body of thought out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Think of a giant Christmas tree and whatever any of these guys want, they can put underneath that tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":268639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Omnibus Bill Could Make Trump Voters Go Wobbly - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/03\/22\/omnibus-bill-make-trump-voters-go-wobbly\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Omnibus Bill Could Make Trump Voters Go Wobbly - 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