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<\/p>\nRUSH: There is a development… I don\u2019t know what I think about this. I have my gut reaction to it, and then I backed off and I started thinking about it. It\u2019s a tweet from Senator Susan Collins. Susan Collins is from Maine. She is buddy-buddy with Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. They\u2019re two Republican senators who are constantly thought to be on the bubble, and whenever there is a judicial nominee for any position, but especially the Supreme Court…<\/p>\n
It is said that if there is any, the slightest indication that that nominee might not be thinking the right way on abortion, then Susan Collins and Murkowski will vote with Democrats to kill the nomination. And because of this, the Democrats are constantly applying pressure to both of them. And they have been working overtime to try to pressure Susan Collins to commit to voting against Kavanaugh because of their claims that he would reverse Roe v. Wade and all that paranoia that the Democrats have.<\/p>\n
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And she resisted. So the next thing they did is they created a GoFundMe campaign for a phantom candidate to oppose her in the Senate campaign for Maine. That GoFundMe campaign or however they funded it reached a million dollars. They were trying to blackmail her. They were telling her, “If you will commit to voting against Kavanaugh, then we\u2019ll pull this money out of the race against you and we will not assist the candidate who opposes you.” She didn\u2019t buck to that. So when that failed, they sent her — and I\u2019m not making this up.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry I have to tell you, but they sent her a-three-foot cardboard cutout of male genitalia in another attempt to — I don\u2019t know what — bully her or offend her, and she said, “This is it. I\u2019ve had enough of this. I\u2019ve enough of these anti-Kavanaugh tactics.” So that\u2019s Susan Collins, and she has been, as I say, target for much bullying and manipulation by the left. So she sent a tweet out a little over an hour ago. Her tweet says, I\u2019m writing to the Chairman [and ranking member] of Judiciary [Committee]…” That would be Grassley and Feinstein.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m writing to the Chairman & RM of Judiciary Cmte respectfully recommending that at Monday\u2019s hearing, counsel for Prof. Ford be allocated time to question Judge Kavanaugh & counsel for the Judge be granted equal time to question Prof. Ford, followed by questions from Senators.” My first reaction when I saw that was, “Why don\u2019t we just cash in the chips now and say the country as we knew it is over?” We\u2019re now officially the Jerry Springer Show in the United States Senate, or take your pick.<\/p>\n
Whatever daytime soap opera fare that people watch. Are we serious about this, that lawyers for Professor Ford be allowed time to question Kavanaugh, and that his lawyers be allowed time to question her? By the way, she\u2019s still has not responded to the invitation to show up to this thing on Monday. I think they ought to bag this and just do the vote on Thursday. To hell with it! Just bag it and do it. But they won\u2019t because they\u2019re afraid of losing it now. But that doesn\u2019t matter. The committee vote doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
Mitch McConnell can schedule a full Senate vote on this nominee without the committee voting. It\u2019s just Senate protocol that the Judiciary Committee has a vote and then that\u2019s supposed to inform the rest of the Senate that it\u2019s okay to vote for the guy or that they shouldn\u2019t. I mean that\u2019s how silly it is. The Judiciary Committee vote is not gonna determine how people in the general population of the Senate vote. We\u2019re actually…?<\/p>\n
Because somebody sent Dianne Feinstein a letter, we\u2019re gonna have a circus on Monday, and Code Pink and every leftist protest group is gonna be in there. If you remember the embarrassment that happened during the confirmation hearings for four days… Kavanaugh\u2019s parents with their heads in their hands. In a moment that any other time in American history would be one of the proudest, most glorious days for an American family, that one of their children had succeeded and achieved in life to the point of being nominated to be an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
It was turned into… “Circus” is not even the right way to describe what they did, with the Democrats\u2019 acquiescence and letting it happen, I am certain. What should have been a moment of great pride and overwhelming love and excitement was turned into a despicable, embarrassing spectacle that was beneath all of the decency this country is known for. And it was by design. If they allow that to happen during confirmation hearings, can you imagine what this thing on Monday would become? So lawyers interrogate her; then other lawyers interrogate him.<\/p>\n
This man is a nominee to be on the United States Supreme Court! An allegation that her lawyers say she doesn\u2019t even have to prove? And then after all that, blowhard senators get their turn asking questions? Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin? Susan Collins then tweeted, “Such an approach would provide more continuity, elicit the most information & allow an in-depth examination of the allegations.” (sigh) That is just… Folks, whatever it is, it is a gigantic come-down.<\/p>\n
At any rate, all this notwithstanding, her tweet probably will send the Democrats into orbit with rage, \u2019cause they were counting on flipping her. They were counting on her saying before this even began that she\u2019s had enough. “This is the last straw! I can\u2019t support the guy. Look at what\u2019s being said. I can\u2019t possibly…” That\u2019s what they were hoping Collins would say. Now she wants to see a circus. Kavanaugh\u2019s lawyer… He\u2019s hired a lawyer; I should tell you this. Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s hired Beth Wilkinson. Does the name ring a bell?<\/p>\n Does anybody know who Beth Wilkinson is? A, she\u2019s the wife of David Gregory of CNN\/NBC. B, she represented Hillary Clinton staffers during the FBI investigation into Clinton\u2019s private server. Those staffers were Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, Heather Samuelson, and Philippe Reines. She\u2019s also said to be a stellar lawyer, and apparently one of her specialties is defamation — attacking and defending defamation accusations — which is exactly what this is.<\/p>\n This is an up-front attempt to defame and destroy Brett Kavanaugh. I was just saying yesterday, “We opposed some of the nominees the Democrats put forward. When is the last time you remember anybody on our side trying to literally destroy the life and career and reputation of a political opponent, any more so than they already had?” I mean, with Bill Clinton there was evidence. He did it. Nothing was made up.<\/p>\n And all those people defending Bill Clinton saying it doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s just sex– Hillary Clinton and all these other people responsible for trashing these women that came forward — are now the same people claiming that Kavanaugh is scum and that this woman (who\u2019s never said a word about any of this for 36 years) is eminently believable.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now back to Doug in Chicago. So let me read… You\u2019re still there, right?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right on. Let me read her tweet. This is what Doug thinks is genius. Susan Collins says, “I\u2019m writing to the Chairman & [ranking member] of Judiciary [Committee] respectfully recommending that at Monday\u2019s hearing, counsel for” the woman, lawyers for the woman, “be allocated time to question Judge Kavanaugh & [lawyers] for the Judge be granted equal time to question [the accuser], followed by questions from Senators.” Now, as you point out, there are no female Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee. So what do you think is a stroke of genius about this?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I think that you let those attorneys go back and forth, and then all the Republicans can come back and play off of points that the female attorney had already raised. In theory… I mean, I think I heard that Arlen Specter told Anita Hill that she had perjured herself. There\u2019s no way any man on that committee could do that in this environment. But this attorney can, and I believe that she is taking the teeth out of the Democrats and the women —<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about Kavanaugh\u2019s lawyer!<\/p>\n CALLER: — and will prevent them from doing a Spartacus moment.<\/p>\n RUSH: I see. You\u2019re talking about Kavanaugh\u2019s lawyer, Beth Wilkinson. You\u2019re saying that she can do what no male senator can do today that Specter did with Anita Hill.<\/p>\n CALLER: And she can serve up points, so all the senator do are following up on a point that she raised. It\u2019s not their bigot, the misogynism. It\u2019s a point that she made to another female. I just don\u2019t see how they can sit there and say, “These men, these old Grumpy Old Men,” when the point has been raised by a female attorney in the course of the conversation.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: I think she\u2019s probably more of a litigant attorney than the woman\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: So I think Kavanaugh does great and —<\/p>\n CALLER: I think it\u2019s a disgrace, and it makes the original hearings look passive, and I think it was a ploy. I think it\u2019s a ploy; it\u2019s gonna backfire. I think it\u2019s absolutely wrong. I just think it\u2019s disgraceful. I\u2019m like you, it just bothers me to some extent. You know, that\u2019s one thing about being conservative. We\u2019re not gonna go out on the streets and wear black masks and backpacks and start throwing things at people or yelling out obscenities. It just seems so un-American that a guy of this reputation. And the fact that it came at the last minute?<\/p>\n RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, there are so many ways —<\/p>\n RUSH: One letter! One letter can do this! (Snort!) I keep going back to this because I\u2019m truly incredulous. I realize in matters like this I still sometimes come across as na\u00efve, and I don\u2019t care. I really don\u2019t. The idea that these people run around and broadcast proudly the idea that the accuser doesn\u2019t have to prove anything, that the accuser doesn\u2019t have to corroborate? You realize what all of this means? You realize how easy it is now to derail anything the United States Senate is doing?<\/p>\n A letter to Dianne Feinstein, or pick your senator, and we can bring everything to a screeching halt in utter defiance of common sense and utter decency and turn this into an absolutely… If there isn\u2019t a backlash against the Democrats on all this, then I\u2019m gonna be wondering, “Where is justice?” This, to me, is just so beyond the pale. I loathe this. I detest these people. These people are just despicable. And listen to A.B. Stoddard! “You think that a left-wing activist would actually want to ruin her life by doing this?”<\/p>\n Ruin her life!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-091818-Collins-Tweet.jpg\")
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RUSH: Okay. I got you. But beyond the… Let me just ask you a question. You obviously think that what Collins is tweeted here sets up a very advantageous circumstance for Republican senators on the committee which, otherwise, they\u2019d be hampered. What do you think of the whole concept here of this spectacle on Monday where you have the accuser…? You\u2019ve got Judge Kavanaugh about whom nobody has ever said anything like this, and here he is on defense. By definition, he\u2019s on defense with lawyers running around in there plus all these senators on this committee. What is your overall opinion of the whole spectacle that it would be?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, I understand. I just don\u2019t think Democrat senators are gonna allow what you just described to happen.<\/p>\n