{"id":294704,"date":"2018-12-14T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294704"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:54:21","slug":"embarrassing-uncles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/14\/embarrassing-uncles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Embarrassing Uncles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A couple of senators gave their farewell speeches from the Senate last week. Claire McCaskill was one. Jeff Flake, Arizona, was another. You know, senators often use their final floor speech to praise the place. They praise the Senate as a great institution. They offer fond memories of their time there. McCaskill was having none of that and Jeff Flake kind of bombed out too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-241581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00-Rush-Morning-Update-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"137\">McCaskill used her farewell address to call the Senate dysfunctional. She knocked her colleagues as a bunch of cowards who live in \u201cfear\u201d of tough votes. She said the Senate isn\u2019t the \u201cworld\u2019s greatest deliberative body\u201d any more.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she closed with a quote that no family is complete unless they have an embarrassing uncle upstairs in the attic. She said, \u201cWe have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate.\u201d She added lots of embarrassing stuff happens there. Well, we have a lot of \u201cembarrassing Aunties\u201d or did, but now that she\u2019s gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Flake\u2019s speech? He thought it was going to be rousingly approved and appreciated. There was a smattering of applause because nobody cared, either way.<\/p>\n<p>Bye, both of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A couple of senators gave their farewell speeches from the Senate last week. Claire McCaskill was one. 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