{"id":278971,"date":"2018-07-10T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=278971"},"modified":"2018-07-10T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T01:54:29","slug":"kavanaugh-is-impeccable-but-leftists-will-go-to-the-mattresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/10\/kavanaugh-is-impeccable-but-leftists-will-go-to-the-mattresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh Is Impeccable, But Leftists Will Go to the Mattresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Okay. The Supreme Court choice is Brett Kavanaugh, 12 years on the D.C. Circuit for the court of appeals, which is a feeder circuit for the Supreme Court. On paper he\u2019s impeccable. On paper there is no just way to disqualify Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>The left, however, got in gear last night. Even before they knew the name, they started organizing protest marches, and they had protest papers and positions already out. They just had to fill out the name of the nominee; didn\u2019t matter who it was.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ca1IjCgPu-s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And some of the left\u2019s objections to Kavanaugh today, they\u2019re really weird. I mean, they\u2019re strange; they\u2019re laughable. And people are laughing at some of the things the left\u2019s saying. I had to catch myself because 25 years ago I was laughing at the things they said. Now all that stuff has happened. Much of that stuff that we were laughing at, &#8220;Nobody would ever buy this stuff.&#8221; A lot of people have.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s tempting to laugh at \u2019em, and I\u2019m going to, and it\u2019s tempting to mock them. But at the same time, you have to realize that there is a certain percentage of Americans buying into all of this and eating it all up. And the more extreme the Democrats go, you would think on the surface they\u2019d be killing their own goose.<\/p>\n<p>Now, much of it is fundraising. I\u2019m hesitant to make any predictions. On paper there\u2019s no way to stop this. I mean, McCain has come out and tweeted his support for Kavanaugh. That pretty much makes it automatic. The Democrats just don\u2019t have the votes right now to stop this, even without any defections from red state Democrats up for reelection. But of course the hearings haven\u2019t begun.<\/p>\n<p>And I want to focus in on what I\u2019ve learned I think is gonna be the primary focus of interest the Democrats make on Kavanaugh. And, you know, I\u2019m kicking myself for not telling you about this last week and yesterday, because I made a point not get into the navel-gazing game that I was seeing everybody else get into. You know, this speculation and the analysis based on this guess and then if that guess happens, what does that mean, if that guess doesn\u2019t happen, what does that mean. It was interminable. You couldn\u2019t find an end to it. I didn\u2019t want to join the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-002-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But one of the points I made to my brother when I was talking about the various choices available, and to some others, I said the one thing about Kavanaugh is this guy has a paper trail that is 12 years long. I pointed out there are 12 years of service, and he spent a lot of time in the Bush White House.<\/p>\n<p>He was staff secretary in the Bush White House. And I don\u2019t mean clerical. He dealt with the Bush administration, George W. Bush administration for five years. He dealt with everything going through the Oval Office paper-wise. He composed emails and was dealing with all of that paper. There are literally millions of pages of things written, not just court opinions that Kavanaugh has himself written or signed.<\/p>\n<p>And as many pages as there are, who knows how many opportunities for the Democrats to research and find something. And, remember, with Clarence Thomas, they literally made up the sexual harassment business with Anita Hill when it looked like Thomas was gonna be confirmed. That was a plan, for those of you that were not old enough or paying attention back then, that plan was hatched by the wife of Illinois senator Paul Simon.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, they totally ginned up this sexual harassment business on Thomas, and it totally took over the hearings, and it nearly derailed Thomas\u2019 nomination. And I remember I was wall-to-wall on that. From the moment it happened I was wall-to-wall on it and I didn\u2019t stop until it was beaten back. This was before Fox News. This was before widespread cable news, widespread talk radio. It was vicious, it was Bork-like. And it was made up.<\/p>\n<p>And I think that\u2019s where they\u2019re gonna zero in on Kavanaugh. I think the left is already trying to worry you Trump supporters by calling Kavanaugh, man, this guy is a swamp candidate, this guy is a perfect establishment candidate, look at who all likes him. And then they cite McCain, they cite Romney, they cite Karl Rove, they cite every one of the stamp dwellers that Trump ostensibly ran against the left is citing as people that love Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re trying to drive a wedge between you Trump supporters and this pick by trying to convince that you Trump has sold you out by picking a swamp dweller. I think that\u2019s where they\u2019re gonna go. They\u2019re also not gonna go directly at abortion. They\u2019re gonna go at Obamacare and health care and basically say that this guy wants to deny you access to affordable health care and &#8212; hint, hint &#8212; including abortion. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna make it the top tier thing. I think health care overall is where they\u2019re gonna go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5938259\/Dems-demand-access-millions-files-Kavanaugh-Schumer-vows-use-Ive-got.html\">Daily Mail Online has a story<\/a>: &#8220;Democrats demand access to potentially millions of files on Kavanaugh as Schumer vows to use &#8216;everything I\u2019ve got\u2019 to stop nomination.&#8221; Kavanaugh was George W. Bush\u2019s staff secretary, which deals with all of the paperwork that goes through the Oval Office. And they\u2019re gonna demand all of this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And you should remember that Elena Kagan had a similar email trail. The Republicans demanded all of her emails, or quite a lot of them, when she was nominated to sit on the court. And they\u2019re thinking, they\u2019re thinking with all of that paper that Kavanaugh &#8212; that had nothing to do with being a judge. That\u2019s staff secretary to Bush. That\u2019s policy, baby. We can get this guy where he lived on policy, baby. Who knows what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Their point is that the Federalist Society doesn\u2019t even know what that stuff entails because that had nothing to do with Kavanaugh being a judge. So I think that that\u2019s gonna be one of their primary areas. They can\u2019t stop this, but it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re gonna go to the mattresses trying to to raise money. They\u2019re gonna do everything they can to rip this country apart over this because the court is their last bastion of making sure that their worldview remains viable even after they lose elections.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m gonna take a break here a little earlier than usual because we have Vice President Pence who is gonna join us right after the break here for the remaining portion of the half hour, and we\u2019ll get some lowdown on what their intentions are, what the schedule for confirmation is.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I said go for this now, get it done, schedule these hearings. There\u2019s a New York Times op-ed by a leftist who voted for Obama and voted for Hillary. He taught Kavanaugh at Yale. He\u2019s got an idea. He\u2019s got a compromise idea. Every senator pledges, pledges, promises to vote for Kavanaugh in exchange for Kavanaugh having to answer any question he\u2019s asked at the hearings. Now, it doesn\u2019t take an idiot to see that that\u2019s a heck of a giant mistake.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There is a poll out today from Axios. It\u2019s an Axios\/SurveyMonkey poll. And the headline: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/poll-democrats-2018-midterms-senate-5eb4075f-4325-46aa-bda5-699b814d9dd7.html\">Brutal Poll, Democrats\u2019 Senate Dream Slips Away<\/a> &#8212; To win the Senate, Democrats need to keep all 10 seats they\u2019re defending in states that President Trump won in 2016 &#8211; plus pick up two more seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So they need to maintain 10 and pick up two.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The fact that this man is exactly what the framers of the Constitution had in mind for a Supreme Court justice will of course not stop the Democrats from their attempt here to destroy him and his family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-brett-kavanaugh-003-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>As I say, much of it is going to be for fundraising, because sitting here right now &#8212; and of course anything can change, but if this choice, if the Kavanaugh choice holds onto Susan Collins and Murkowski &#8212; again, I don\u2019t want to precharacterize anything, but on the surface as we sit here today, I think they\u2019re solid.<\/p>\n<p>They may make some noise about it between now and then and they may make some noise during the confirmation hearings about it, but I think when all is said and done and it\u2019s time to vote, Collins and Murkowski will be in there.<\/p>\n<p>McCain says he\u2019s all in, but whether he\u2019ll get back to Washington to vote, who knows. But Collins and Murkowski, with Pence &#8212; as I said yesterday, if the Republicans remain unified here, there\u2019s nothing the Democrats can do. There\u2019s not a thing they can do other than rip the heart and soul, again, out of the process, which I have no doubt that they will do.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So it comes down to the numbers. And right now there\u2019s nothing the Democrats can do. If the vote were held today, Kavanaugh would be confirmed. So are the Democrats gonna be able to turn some Republicans against Kavanaugh? Who knows. Highly, highly unlikely. But it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not going to try. They are loaded for bear.<\/p>\n<p>But I want to remind you of my prediction yesterday, and I stand by this, and I still believe it. This is another failure that hits them right between the eyes. It\u2019s one thing for Trump to win the election. That\u2019s been bad enough. It\u2019s another thing for every effort they have mounted to get rid of Trump to fail. Do you realize all the things they\u2019ve done to fix what went wrong in 2016\u2019s blown up in their faces. Trump is winning, he\u2019s succeeding, his agenda is being implemented, his poll numbers are creeping up, contentment, satisfaction in America on the rise. They\u2019re losing everywhere they turn.<\/p>\n<p>And it was well known Trump would get a judicial appointment or two for the Supreme Court, but now after last night, it has actually happened. Now it\u2019s reality, not just fear of the future, but now it\u2019s reality. And they are going to go batty again. And at some point down the road, folks, all of these leftist factions are gonna start blaming each other for all of this.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve about run out of time and energy blaming the Russians, pending what Mueller comes up with, and they still have a lot of hope and prayer invested in that. But at some point these failures are obvious, and it\u2019s driving them crazy, and they always have to blame somebody. It\u2019s never their fault. These factions are gonna start blaming themselves at some point, the feminists blaming the NAACP, the pro-choice blaming somebody. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s gonna manifest, but there\u2019s gonna be internecine warfare here on the left before all this is said and done, because they\u2019re gonna continue to fail.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re gonna fail, and it\u2019s gonna be hard to accept because the techniques they\u2019re gonna use are techniques they\u2019ve used to win in the past. And they\u2019re going to bomb out this time around. And in the process they\u2019re gonna done great damage to their electability in the midterm elections. They\u2019re gonna make the mistake of assuming a majority of Americans are with them in their opposition to Trump choosing Supreme Court judges.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re gonna assume that the country is with them, the media is gonna facilitate them believing that most of the country doesn\u2019t like Kavanaugh. They lie to themselves daily about this kind of thing. But even so, it\u2019s still going to get vicious and it\u2019s gonna disgust you. And it\u2019s gonna tick you off. But I think we\u2019ve reached a point where it ceased being productive for them and may in fact now begin to start taking a toll. I hope so. We\u2019ll be watching.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s get started on the phones. We have David here from Athens, Texas, who says he worked for Judge Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How are you, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How are you? You worked for judge when he was staff secretary in the George Bush White House?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, sir. I worked in the Bush White House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-279020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RushSupremeCourt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RushSupremeCourt2.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RushSupremeCourt2-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>RUSH: Would you explain to people what the staff secretary job is. People hear the word &#8220;secretary,&#8221; they think typing. That\u2019s not what this is. What is it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. So the staff secretary is in charge of essentially the process where all the documents that go to the president\u2019s desk &#8212; everything from a letter he signs to a photo he signs to, you know, the most significant memo he might sign or a speech that he gives. Everything that reaches the president\u2019s desk goes through the staff secretary. So the staff secretary makes sure it\u2019s been reviewed by all the right people, it\u2019s been footnoted, and everything is on the up and up before it reaches the president.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And what\u2019s done with it after the president does what he does with it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And then once the president is done with it, the staff secretary is then the conduit to the archives, essentially. So everything that eventually ends up in the record &#8212; unless there was a server in some sort of a basement. But something that went through the right process would go back through the staff secretary and get to the archives.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Does the staff secretary have any input opportunity on some documents? Does he do any writing, for example?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. I mean, he touches everything the president sees. So he naturally has input. I think he becomes a subject matter expert on, you know, what the president would say about a given topic \u2019cause he\u2019s seen everything, and I think that\u2019s what made Brett&#8230; I know him so I\u2019m saying &#8220;Brett.&#8221; Actually, that\u2019s what makes Judge Kavanaugh so successful in that job because he was so detail oriented, so process oriented, and he really just became a subject matter expert on what the president had said and would say about any give an issue. And in my opinion, that\u2019s what makes him such a good judge, because I think that same sort of filter of what would&#8230;? You know, instead of the president, &#8220;What would the Constitution say about a given issue? What is the precedent? You know, what is the case history?&#8221; You know, it\u2019s the same kind of process. I think that\u2019s why he\u2019s been so successful.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You liked working with him?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I love the man. As far as I can tell, everybody who\u2019s ever worked for him loves him, and I can say I know&#8230; You know, I\u2019m very conservative. I know a lot of listeners who are conservative are naturally skeptical of anyone who comes from D.C., but I can say, you know, this is a very, very good man.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s an argument. I\u2019ve heard a lot of people say, &#8220;Hey, this guy\u2019s a Bushie!&#8221; Folks, if you live in Washington and you want to climb the ladder there, the only Republican presidents you\u2019ve known have been Bush administrations. If you want to work in a Republican administration, you really haven\u2019t had much choice but than to work in a Bush-dominated one.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckles) That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You can\u2019t hold that against somebody.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-Kavanaugh-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-Kavanaugh-Trump.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071018-Kavanaugh-Trump-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: And, you know, President Bush was strong on a lot of conservative things. I know Brett Kavanaugh is a very conservative. You know, the guy is a strong constitutional guy. And, you know, just because he grew up inside the Beltway doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not a conservative. You know, he\u2019s very strong. We should be very, very fortunate and blessed that he\u2019s on our side.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What did you do&#8230;? We\u2019ve got 30 seconds. What was what did you do for him? What was your job in the staff secretary\u2019s office?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My title was assistant staff secretary. So I helped Brett and I was kind of one of his right-hands, helping him.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Where was the office? Is it over the &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s in the basement of the West Wing so his is right at the bottom of the stairway, then there\u2019s a haul that leads down to where The Situation Room is. That\u2019s where we had at anyway.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You were right at the thick of it. You\u2019re not over at the Old Executive Office Building. You\u2019re right there.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct. He\u2019s just a phenomenal guy. He\u2019s gonna be an amazing justice. I\u2019m happy for my kids that he\u2019ll be on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s a great way to look at it. This is David from Athens, Texas, who worked with Kavanaugh in the staff secretary office the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I just started talking about this next story when <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/07\/10\/the-vice-president-calls-to-talk-high-court-pick\/\">Vice President Pence came on the line<\/a>. It\u2019s an Axios\/SurveyMonkey poll that apparently is very, very bad for the Democrat dream of taking control of the Senate. We\u2019ll have details on this when we get back. And I want to delve further into what the Democrats are hoping to uncover by exposing all the documents that Brett Kavanaugh dealt with as the White House staff secretary for George W. Bush. So hang on.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, it\u2019s an interesting observation. Here is the thing that the Democrats will never get about people like Brett Kavanaugh. To people like Antonin Scalia or the people like Neil Gorsuch or Clarence Thomas. They will never, ever understand this. And what it is is that they have no reason to fear Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ScaliaSupremeCourts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ScaliaSupremeCourts.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ScaliaSupremeCourts-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>Brett Kavanaugh is not in politics. Clarence Thomas is not in politics. Scalia was not in politics. But the left considers the judiciary to be just another branch of politics and, in fact, an infallible branch. That\u2019s how the left looks at the judiciary, as the last line of defense and the final authority in politics, because that\u2019s what they have made it. They have bastardized courts; they have bastardized the law and turned it into a branch of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Kavanaugh is going to interpret the Constitution without a political filter, as did Scalia, as does Justice Thomas, as does Neil Gorsuch. This is what they cannot understand. In truth, they should be wildly grateful for the fact that Kavanaugh\u2019s politics are not going to be a factor here. But they can\u2019t imagine anyone doing that, since they never would.<\/p>\n<p>They would never put their politics aside. In fact, when it comes to politics, the left has litmus tests. And if their nominees do not pass these litmus tests, there\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna get any court appointment &#8212; U.S. District Court judge, appellate court judge, Supreme Court justice, not gonna happen unless they check off the right political boxes. And I\u2019m dead serious.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve got nothing to fear from Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s politics, because that\u2019s not what he does. Kavanaugh is a strict &#8212; the word is constructionist, meaning he believes in the original intent and the way the Constitution was constructed and written. All the talk about his politics, especially this guy, this is what makes him a great judge. All the talk about his politics is moot!<\/p>\n<p>And all of the left\u2019s objections are gonna be with the Constitution, previous rulings, black letter of the law, not with his politics, which will not even ever enter into it. Well, that\u2019s what they should go into. And if they looked at his jurisprudence, there\u2019s no way to disqualify the guy. If you look at this man as a judge of the law, purely as a judge of the law, a man able to see the law rather than politics, there\u2019s no reason to disqualify.<\/p>\n<p>The left is not gonna look at him that way. The left is gonna attempt to destroy him on the basis of his politics, which are not even a factor here. But they utilize projection. And so since they have politicized everything, they assume we do too. But we have not corrupted the courts. Well, you know, I can\u2019t say we haven\u2019t. I mean, lifetime of history, we\u2019ve had some bad actors, no question. But as a matter of principle, we\u2019re not about corrupting the court.<\/p>\n<p>The left is about corrupting pretty much everything they can that has to do with the Constitution, which is why I made the point of telling Vice President Pence a little less than an hour ago that the left is really not protesting upset with Kavanaugh; they are upset with the Constitution here. Their beef is with the Constitution, Kavanaugh as a stricter interpreter of it poses a great threat to them, because liberalism requires the Constitution be bendable, shapeable, flakeable, formable to accommodate whatever policy positions they have of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Go back to the phones. This is Robert in Greenville, South Carolina. Glad you waited. And welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Hey. Thanks, Rush. I, like you, am very rarely wrong. It\u2019s a rare event that I am, and I\u2019m telling you I\u2019m hoping this is one of those times because I\u2019m not quite as comfortable with the pick of Kavanaugh as you and some other folks like the vice president are. Because if what I\u2019ve heard reported is accurate &#8212; and of course we all know how that works &#8212; back when he was being mulled over and talked about, I saw a couple excerpts and it seems like I read an article or two on Fox or Breitbart or whatever to where he during one of his confirmation hearings made the statement that &#8212; and again I\u2019m paraphrasing because I didn\u2019t write the copious notes I probably should have &#8212; but I got the sense that he was of the opinion that his opinion, his judicial opinion can change.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t know. The Constitution, not is I living, breathing document as a lot of people like to think it is, and that just gave me an uneasy feeling about, you know, what his propensities may be if once he\u2019s seated will he become like Souter and other guys who get more emotional. And I hope I\u2019m wrong. I\u2019d love to be wrong. This is one of the times. But do you not have any concerns about that at all, or everything you\u2019ve heard just so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-277360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062118-Rush-Constitution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062118-Rush-Constitution.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062118-Rush-Constitution-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Well, look. I\u2019ve got concerns about every nominee based on the history. I mean, Reagan appointed a couple people that disappointed him. Eisenhower got totally snookered with a couple of appointments. Earl Warren being one. It\u2019s always a roll of the dice. Kavanaugh, I think, was just expressing the truth. Nobody knows what\u2019s gonna happen with them and their thoughts in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I think what you probably heard was an answer in a hearing designed to swat away a question. The thing with Kavanaugh is that there is one heck of a huge record. The number of pages that contain written analysis and opinion from Kavanaugh is a million. I mean, he has 12 years on the D.C. circuit court. That is a record that has much more weight than an answer or two in a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember that there have been a couple of Democrats just in the, I think with Gorsuch, Democrats who, after a couple of Gorsuch opinions in a couple of cases &#8212; I don\u2019t remember specifically which ones &#8212; accused him of lying to them during hearings because of a vote on a particular case, a number of justices have had that said about them over the years.<\/p>\n<p>You never know. I think they give themselves latitude \u2019cause they have no idea the kind of cases that they\u2019re gonna hear in the future. You know, Scalia was famous for saying that there were a number of cases that he just found personally distasteful, that he nevertheless had to vote a certain way because of the law.<\/p>\n<p>And I think Kavanaugh is just giving himself the flexibility of being able to follow through on things like that. With a record such as the one he has, pretty solid determining who he is and how he views the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Marcia in Fredericksburg, Virginia, I\u2019m glad you waited. We\u2019re gonna squeeze you here at the end. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Unlike Neil Gorsuch, I don\u2019t get the same easy feeling about Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why not?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, a lot of the connections and some of the&#8230; You know, there are certain things that just bring a sense of disgust and disdain in me, and when I hear certain words like &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; and &#8220;Bush,&#8221; that\u2019s something I don\u2019t want to hear &#8212; and even Elena Kagan. I don\u2019t want to hear that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ah. Ah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Associations are driving me&#8230; I mean, I just&#8230; I think Trump base is a bit demoralized this morning.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Interesting. I hear you on the Elena Kagan stuff. Kavanaugh mentioned this last night as a way of suggesting that he\u2019s broad-based and that he has support from everywhere. You heard that as, &#8220;We don\u2019t want the support of the left! If the left likes a guy, it\u2019s a problem.&#8221; I hear you. I understand where you\u2019re coming from. 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