RUSH: So the vote was 51-49. Manchin, Flake, and Collins all voting yes, but the final vote cannot happen by Senate rule before 4:42 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow. It has to be 30 hours after this vote was taken. Now, I want to say, I\u2019m not surprised by Murkowski who voted “no.” A lot of people are asking is the vote now not gonna change? I mean, if the cloture vote and we got the procedural vote 51-49.<\/p>\n
No, folks, because I\u2019m gonna tell you what\u2019s happening out there. I have been made privy to some of the comments, not just on social media, but to the offices that many Republican senators are getting. They are being deluged, their entire families are being threatened. Their grandchildren are being threatened. Their wives, their husbands, barmaids, everybody they know being threatened.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s enormous; it is never ending; the phones don\u2019t stop ringing; the threatening emails and tweets do not stop arriving; it is unhinged; it is vile, and it is evil. And it\u2019s not just Flake and Collins and Manchin. It\u2019s all the Republicans are hearing. It is one of the most disgusting things many of these people say they\u2019ve ever seen. In that regard, Jeff Flake and Susan Collins, I think they have to be credited for doing the right thing.<\/p>\n
They are both facing enormous pressures. Flake is getting pressure like you can\u2019t believe from not only members of the paid professional mob squad on the left, but other Democrats in the Senate and on the Judiciary Committee. I don\u2019t think as far as Flake is concerned, he voted today for Kavanaugh in a… It\u2019s not technically a vote for Kavanaugh. It\u2019s a vote to go to a final vote.<\/p>\n
And the rule of thumb always is that as these procedural votes go, so goes the final vote. But you can\u2019t make book on that simply because of the abject, real, frightening threats these people are getting. And I think the vote for Flake today was really hard. I\u2019ll tell you why. He went from being a “yes” vote to being harassed on the elevator to becoming a “yes” vote with the FBI investigation.<\/p>\n
He got what he wanted. They\u2019re still leaning on him. He\u2019s leaving the Senate. This is his final term. The easy thing to do here would be to vote against Kavanaugh and receive the praise of the mob and receive the praise of the Democrats, and he went ahead, and he voted in what many of us think is the right way. He did the right thing.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s gonna be attacked viciously. He is going to be accosted by the left all the way through the rest of today, tonight, and tomorrow. The same thing with Susan Collins, the senator from Maine. I can\u2019t describe for you… You might have an idea; you probably know. The things that are being said to these people, the threats that they are getting belie the notion that we live in a civilized society.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unhinged. Much of it is insane and deranged and is made up of the psychological disorders that I believe constitute now the mainstream of the Democrat Party. The protesters are paid. Their signs are all the identically manufactured, the same phrases all over them. And these people… I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve received threats and I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve been barraged by them, but if you have and if you believe them, they can unnerve you.<\/p>\n
Yet Flake and Collins did the right thing here. I only hope that they\u2019re able to maintain their positions. Now, Collins has announced that she\u2019s going to make a statement after 3 o\u2019clock today. And of course everybody\u2019s on pins and needles wondering what that\u2019s going to be. Now, the thinking on this goes that there\u2019s no way she would vote “yes” on the procedural vote this morning if her intention is to vote “no” down the road.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re gonna kill the nomination, do it now, not tomorrow. I don\u2019t think any of these theories or traditions can be hoisted up and used and relied on. I think we\u2019re in brand-new territory here for a number of reasons. I don\u2019t think you can say that just because Susan Collins voted “yes” this morning means a guarantee she\u2019s gonna see vote “yes” tomorrow. And then why make a statement at 3 o\u2019clock? Why make some…? Why 3 o\u2019clock? And why make some statement?<\/p>\n
Now, I try to keep my ego out of this as much as I can, but I\u2019m telling you, when I see somebody\u2019s gonna make a statement at 3 o\u2019clock, first thing I realize is I\u2019m not gonna be here to comment on it. And I wonder if I\u2019m the only one that notices that or if the person making the statement might. It\u2019s a curious thing. It could just well be that she wants a lot of attention for what she is going to say. But as of right now, they\u2019ve both been… (interruption)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sucking up, Snerdley. Snerdley\u2019s accusing me of sucking up. I\u2019m not. I know the kind of threats these people are getting. Susan Collins… In fact, I\u2019ll tell you this. Susan Collins has been assured by people that if she votes “no,” she can forget ever be reelected to the Senate from Maine by the Republican Party there. She\u2019s also being told that if she votes “yes,” that all kinds of horrible, despicable things are gonna happen.<\/p>\n
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Flake is being told this. They all are. But Collins and Flake and Murkowski… Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin on the Democrat side. Joe Manchin voted “yes.” He\u2019s a Democrat, West Virginia. He\u2019s getting a load of it as well. So it could well come down… You know, there\u2019s Senator Daines\u2019 daughter in Montana? His daughter is scheduled to get married tomorrow. And he says, “You know what? I\u2019m going to the wedding. This only happens once. I\u2019m going to the wedding.”<\/p>\n
Donald Trump, Jr., said, “I\u2019ve got total faith, Daines is the greatest guy. If they need his vote, he\u2019ll be there.” Well, they\u2019re gonna needs his vote. So they got a plane standing by. They\u2019re gonna maybe… Somebody said, “Why don\u2019t you do the wedding in the Senate anteroom and have the reception in statutary, statutory, statuary, whatever it is, hall?”<\/p>\n
But he will get there; he will vote.<\/p>\n
And it could well be that they\u2019re gonna have to Vice President Pence up there for final passage to make this happen. I hope it doesn\u2019t eventuate that way. But there are a lot of people here that are doing the right thing and acting courageously, and because of that they are in the line of fire, euphemistically speaking that the left has set up for everybody. Collins and Flake have both tried to be accommodating and reasonable; the other side is not. They\u2019re vicious and they\u2019re vile; they are despicable; they are mean.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s the same thing happening to Senator Flake.<\/p>\n
So take a brief time-out. We\u2019ll continue here, your phone calls as well. It\u2019s Open Line Friday, which means that you can talk about pretty much anything you want. There are other things happening, as is the case each and every day, other things outside the primary news event of the day, which of course is the Senate vote on Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, folks, don\u2019t misunderstand me here. I know… (interruption) Mr. Snerdley…. Mr. Snerdley is worried about Susan Collins. He\u2019s saying, “Why call and announce? Why make an announcement 3 o\u2019clock? You voted ‘yes\u2019 to continue the process. You voted ‘yes\u2019 on the procedural vote. There can be only one reason to call a 3 o\u2019clock announcement, to say you\u2019re gonna vote ‘no.\u2019 After suggesting the process should go forward, you want to shut down the process.”<\/p>\n
I realize a lot of people think that that\u2019s what\u2019s in store here. And, course, I\u2019m hearing… I knew this was gonna happen. I\u2019m hearing from droves of you who say the proof is the timing, that she\u2019s gonna do this after this program ends. It means that, \u201cRush, it can\u2019t be anything you\u2019re gonna like.” I\u2019m getting emails that say… (interruption) You think that\u2019s right, too? (interruption)<\/p>\n
Snerdley says absolutely. He thinks that\u2019s right as well. Well, we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m not going to withdraw my acknowledgment that I think she did the right thing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Snerdley just found a link that Lisa Murkowski has not made her final decision yet. Uhh, that\u2019s not what we were told earlier today. We were told her decision was final and that she had said, “Kavanaugh\u2019s just not the man at this time for the Supreme Court.” That\u2019s a quote. Well, I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers… By the way, coming up on the Dittocam in the next segment, the monologue next hour: A couple of pictures of Dianne Feinstein with Murkowski up against a wall.<\/p>\n
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Feinstein\u2019s got her hand above her head up against the wall, and it looks like Feinstein… It looks like the alien and what\u2019s her name, Courtney…? What was the actress in the Alien movies? (interruption) Sigourney Weaver. It looks like Feinstein\u2019s the alien and Murkowski is Sigourney Weaver, and that big weapon is about to pop out of Feinstein\u2019s mouth and obliterate Murkowski. We\u2019ll have that. In fact… Nope. We\u2019ll save it<\/a> \u2019cause I don\u2019t have much-time here.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alien.png\")
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