{"id":295075,"date":"2018-12-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=295075"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:12:08","slug":"a-great-day-for-the-swamp-dems-get-everything-trump-gets-less-than-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/19\/a-great-day-for-the-swamp-dems-get-everything-trump-gets-less-than-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Day for the Swamp: Dems Get Everything, Trump Gets Less Than Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right. Will somebody explain something to me? Somebody explain to me how we have, apparently, for years and years and years been trying to get a criminal justice or prison reform bill, and it happened with bipartisan support, 87 votes in the Senate. Now it goes over to the House where it\u2019s gonna pass. It\u2019s not a big issue as far as the general public is concerned. Some special interests have made a big deal about it. It happens. It didn\u2019t take much effort to get it passed. It didn\u2019t take much debate whatsoever.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an important issue to some people, Jared Kushner and others. He\u2019s got a personal attachment to it. His father was unfairly imprisoned, he believes, and a lot of people that… I mean, it\u2019s not a worthless piece of legislation. How in the hell does this get passed with no controversy, no opposition, no problem? I mean, Washington came together to pass this thing in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile, $5 billion, a measly $5 billion — when compared to the size of the federal budget for border security — is an impossibility. Somebody needs to explain to me how this happened.<\/p>\n

I know you people are looking to me to explain it to you, and don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m being rhetorical here. I have an explanation for this. But it\u2019s just… It\u2019s the kind of thing that just rubs me raw, it sends people into orbit because something that substantial on somebody\u2019s primary watch list, some issue that it\u2019s not having a national clamor to get this done, an issue that primarily benefits 187,000 people and whoever their political sponsors are just sails through.<\/p>\n

The point is it can be done on something the American public is not even really aware of, not clamoring for, and doesn\u2019t know when it\u2019s happened. There\u2019s some news stories: “Senate Easily Passed Trump-Backed Criminal Justice Reform Bill.” There are 87 votes in the Senate for it, and yet things the American people have expressed for decades that they want, have voted over and over and over again to say that they want, have sent somebody to Washington from outside the political system to get done, and there\u2019s no hope.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a shining chance that this is gonna get done. And they gloat and they applaud and they celebrate in Washington over this. Some of this stuff is just so frustrating and maddening and defies any kind of common sense explanation. This is swamp behavior at its best. This is the greatest illustration of how much of a game all of this actually is. We\u2019re made to think that it\u2019s cutthroat and real. And, meanwhile, it\u2019s just all a game, how this stuff happens, in Congress, in the House, in the Senate in Washington.<\/p>\n

It looks like a lot of people\u2019s worst fears may be realized and that the president is getting ready to cave on getting any money for the wall in the current budget. In fact, TheHill.com — the Capitol Hill newspaper — is claiming, quote, “Trump\u2019s Concession Paves the Way for Lawmakers to Reach a Compromise and End This Congress,<\/a>” meaning the Republican-controlled Congress, “Without a Partial Government Shutdown.” That\u2019s been the objective, to end this Congress without a shutdown? That\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna define success?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not how we define success. It is apparently how inside-the-Beltway defines success, (impression) “Oh, look what we did. We avoided another government shutdown! The Republicans are bowing down. “Hosanna! Hosanna! We\u2019re saved again. We\u2019re not gonna get blamed for a government shutdown.” Meanwhile, the border remains wide open and the Democrats are gonna be controlling the House in just a few weeks. They\u2019re now gloating and telling the president, “You can\u2019t get any money from anywhere else in the budget.<\/p>\n

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“We\u2019re not gonna let you. We\u2019re gonna make sure that you can\u2019t build this wall. There isn\u2019t gonna be a wall. We don\u2019t want there to be a wall,” and apparently there\u2019s no way. Even though we can allocate whatever money we need for criminal justice reform or Planned Parenthood or whatever the hell else liberal clause is clamoring for your tax dollars, any amount of money, need even $1.6 billion. That\u2019s been pulled off in this deal to save a shutdown.<\/p>\n

Not a penny above and beyond what\u2019s already allocated is gonna be spent on securing the border of this country which is wide open still. \u201cBut we\u2019ve gotta compromise on no government shutdown, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s a good Christmas. It\u2019s a great day for Washington.\u201d This is textbook. It\u2019s a textbook example of what the Drive-By Media calls compromise. Trump gets nothing and the Democrats get everything, including control of the House in a few short weeks.<\/p>\n

In fact, I just alluded to this, Trump\u2019s gonna get less than nothing because this compromise strips out the $1.6 billion for the wall that the Senate Appropriations Committee had already approved weeks ago. That\u2019s gone too. Not only, is there not gonna be five billion, there isn\u2019t gonna be $1.6 billion that was already allocated. So it\u2019s an even better compromise in the minds of the Drive-By Media and the denizens of the swamp. Not a penny. Forget wall. Think border security.<\/p>\n

I still maintain that a wall is symbolic. I know a lot of people believe that the wall was actually gonna be built, and I was one of the people hoping and supporting to be built, but even without the wall, there is still the need for border security. The wall was a representative of that. There isn\u2019t going to be a penny additional for that. Yet while we are in debt to the tune now $21 trillion we are spending money left and right on things that are in direct contravention to what the purpose of spending on the wall would be!<\/p>\n

Now, the stock market. The way this game is played, the stock market dive… TheHill.com and the Drive-By Media are even blaming the stock market\u2019s nosedive on Trump\u2019s threat to shut down the government, on Trump\u2019s wall, on trying to do something about immigration! Which is pure caca. What\u2019s driving down the stock market is the Federal Reserve promising to raise interest rates to slow down this out of control economy, which, if you read the news, is gonna be into recession in the next three weeks; so what in the hell are we doing raising interest rates?<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re doing is trying to bring down the Trump administration. What they\u2019re doing is trying to bring down the Trump administer. If they have to crash the market… Not crash it. If they have cause the market to go down, if they have to slow down the economy, it doesn\u2019t matter. If they have to do criminal justice reform and fund Planned Parenthood and all of this stuff and not spend an additional penny on border security, then that\u2019s what the hell is gonna be done.<\/p>\n

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Everything that happens, magically there\u2019s a left-wing response to it. At a federal court, any amount of progress whatsoever is met immediately with left-wing opposition. They stand up and say, “Nope, you can\u2019t do it,” and find a federal judge somewhere to say, “Nope, can\u2019t do that, not gonna do that.” Everything gets shut down. Everything gets stopped. Except what needs to be shut down and what needs to be stopped. So it\u2019s clear that the left, the Democrats, the Drive-By Media now turning to turn Trump\u2019s pledge on the wall into George H. W. Bush\u2019s “Read my lips: No new taxes.”<\/p>\n

This is exactly what the objective has been. Trump commits to a wall; it\u2019s part of his campaign 2016. We\u2019ve known from the get-go they were never gonna support a wall. Everybody that\u2019s in favor of a wall has known there wasn\u2019t gonna be any support for it. I mentioned yesterday there\u2019s not anybody in Washington outside of a couple members of Congress euphemistically. But I\u2019m talking about the entire Washington establishment, the swamp, they don\u2019t want the wall. They don\u2019t want any part of it. They don\u2019t want any limits on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Trump was elected to bulldoze through all of that. You want to add insult to injury? The United States has pledged $10.6 billion, twice as much as has been asked for for the wall. A $10.6 billion aid package (Are you ready for it?) to Central America and southern Mexico. And you know what the theory is? The theory is that if we provide aid money to these war-torn, poverty stricken areas we can build \u2019em up and their people won\u2019t want to leave.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been hearing that since 1992. That was the purpose of NAFTA. NAFTA was gonna build up all these Central American southern hemisphere hellholes. It was going to build \u2019em up, have roaring economies down there and their people wouldn\u2019t want to leave. How did that work out? How many times have we given whatever amount of money to all of these hellholes in Central and South America for the express purpose we\u2019re told of building up their economies so their people won\u2019t want to leave, and they just continue to leave in even larger numbers and now joining caravans of thousands.<\/p>\n

Which, by the way, have not gotten in and the caravans are starting to disband, but the caravan crowd is now demanding reparations, $50,000 per participant to leave. The caravan has wrecked Tijuana, Mexico. They haven\u2019t found a way to get in, but that\u2019s just short of a miracle. The Associated Press has the story today. “U.S. Pledges $10.6 Billion Aid for Central America, Southern Mexico.<\/a>” You heard that right.<\/p>\n

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“The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico. The U.S. aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.” Don\u2019t make me laugh. We\u2019re taking \u2019em one way or the other.<\/p>\n

They either get across the border illegally, become wards of the state, or we pay them before they get here ostensibly to make sure they don\u2019t come, and they come anyway! And we all know that the money spent on these governments in southern Mexico and Central America never reaches the people of these countries anyway. Otherwise, they might stay if their countries were expanding their economies and opportunity, if their economies were taking off, maybe they would stay. But the money never seeks to work!<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t work with NAFTA! This doesn\u2019t work! It never has. Giving money to people don\u2019t have it doesn\u2019t work! It doesn\u2019t work in welfare. It doesn\u2019t work in wealthy families who do nothing but give money away. When it isn\u2019t earned, there is no pride in it, there\u2019s no association, there\u2019s no achievement related to it. All there is, you get a little bit and people start asking for more, they come to expect it, they start thinking you\u2019ve got it all, I don\u2019t have enough, I want more, and they keep asking and we keep giving! It\u2019s human nature.<\/p>\n

You give people things they haven\u2019t earned and they don\u2019t appreciate it. They don\u2019t thank you. They just expect more. Generosity is never understood. People don\u2019t take the time to be appreciative. They just continue the expectations. And then these people are fueled with further anger because while we are being generous with them they\u2019re told what rotgut schemers we are. We\u2019re told what we are. They\u2019re told what racists we are and what bigots we are. We give them all the money, we keep their countries afloat, and somehow we still end up being the bad guys.<\/p>\n

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The American media, the Democrat Party are happy to promulgate that message and blame it all on the Republicans! Now, bear in mind that this $10.6 billion in aid is more than twice as much as what President Trump wants for this year\u2019s funding for the wall. We\u2019re gonna have nothing to show for this $10.6 billion except a bunch of people being able to run around say, “Look how much we care. Look how compassionate we are. Look at what we\u2019re willing to do for border security.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re willing to give money to countries so their economies can shine so their people will not leave.” How many decades has this been a philosophy and a policy, and how many decades of failure do you need to know that it isn\u2019t gonna work? And so the objective really isn\u2019t to give $10.6 billion to these areas of Central America so that their people prosper. There\u2019s another reason for it. And the reason is selfish. “Look what they did. Look how much we care. We really care about poor people. We\u2019re giving money away.<\/p>\n

We believe in human rights and civil rights and so forth,” and their circumstances never improve and they still join migrant caravans and other modes of transportation to get here even after supposedly receiving money like this. Let me remind you in 2015, Obama gave $750 million to the so-called northern triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, $750 million. That money was supposed to improve security there, it was supposed to tackle gang violence, it was supposed to end poverty. You can\u2019t give money to poor people and have it end poverty!<\/p>\n

Have we not proven that in 200 years? Have we not proven that in however many years human beings have walked the earth? It\u2019s human nature. You cannot give money away and create prosperity. It just doesn\u2019t work! It has to be earned. It has to be real. It has to be associated with some kind of achievement and productivity. Otherwise it\u2019s just charity! And what charity has ever gotten enough money that it can say “mission accomplished, we\u2019re shutting down”? Not a single one of them!<\/p>\n

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Not a single charity has ever said, “Thank you, we\u2019ve got plenty more than we need. We\u2019re shutting. Mission accomplished.” There\u2019s never an end. You can call it charity. You can call it welfare. You call it foreign aid. You can call it foreign policy. You can call it whatever it is. But it will not solve what it\u2019s attempted to solve. And until people who are trying to get into this country legally and illegally are willing to come here and become part of the American landscape and culture and join the rest of us in doing what\u2019s necessary to maintain America\u2019s relevance and economic growth rather than become sponges, they shouldn\u2019t get in.<\/p>\n

But because we have a political party which needs a-never-ending supply of that kind of person, incapable of work and unwilling to, incapable of learning English and not caring to, that\u2019s the future of America if the Democrat Party ends up dominate and running it, because that\u2019s the kind of voters that they need to continue to win. Let\u2019s be honest. The world is filled with people who qualify as permanent underclass. And the Democrat Party appears more than willing to have as many of \u2019em as they can get into our country.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Associated Press says that this money doesn\u2019t require congressional approval. I\u2019m talking about the $10.6 billion going down is to Central America. It doesn\u2019t need congressional approval. Unlike Trump\u2019s signature to protect, stem illegal immigration, that somehow needs his signature. The $5 billion for the wall, he needs to sign a deal for that. But we can somehow transfer $10.6 billion to southern Mexico and Central America, and it doesn\u2019t require congressional approval.<\/p>\n

Also it\u2019s gonna be procured from some other existing part of the budget, and yet Trump cannot do that. You can\u2019t go get from his own executive branch $5 billion laying around unused in some stupid budget area and use it to build the wall, but the Congress can somehow reallocate $10.6 billion without Trump needing to sign anything to send foreign aid or with of down to Central America and southern Mexico?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: There\u2019s something about this that doesn\u2019t connect, folks. This is so out of character for Donald Trump. I don\u2019t know… (sigh) It can\u2019t be that he thinks everybody is so busy with Christmas they\u2019re not gonna notice that the wall funding… Folks, it\u2019s not just dying here. The Democrats are doing a death dance over it. It\u2019s not just dying. It\u2019s gone forever! They are pronouncing this DOA.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re puffing up and bragging and getting all arrogant about this, that it\u2019s over forever \u2019cause once they get control of the House, Trump is done getting anything done and all that\u2019s gonna happen is he\u2019s gonna be investigated. Now, meanwhile, this $10.8 billion (I\u2019m not kidding, $10.8 billion) in aid, in welfare, in charity to southern Mexico and Central America? After Obama gave similar amounts of money during his eight years — all for the express purpose of building these places up so that they have economies down there where people will not have to leave to come here.<\/p>\n

It never happens, and that $10.6 billion doesn\u2019t have to be part of this budget deal. Why that money\u2019s just gonna be found somewhere. It doesn\u2019t need Trump\u2019s signature, which means Trump can\u2019t stop it. But $5 billion — a paltry $5 billion — compared to a federal budget that\u2019s approaching $3 trillion, can\u2019t be found anywhere. Chuck and Nancy are out there saying that Trump is not gonna be allowed to go get it from any other cabinet department or anywhere else in the executive branch. They\u2019re gonna make sure he can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just out of character for Trump to be appearing to cave on this. I can\u2019t believe that that\u2019s what is happening and that he thinks it\u2019s not gonna be noticed. But I tell you, the back-and-forth, the juxtaposition of $10.8 billion — and we\u2019re just hearing about this today! Oh, by the way, America, $10.8 billion,” and everybody is celebrating and acting like this is some kind of grand thing that we\u2019re doing. “Oh, by the way, while we\u2019re punting on $5 billion for the wall and telling all of you to support to essentially go to hell, you know what we\u2019re doing?<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re sending $10.8 billion in aid down to Central America and southern Mexico — and guess what? It doesn\u2019t have to be allocated! It doesn\u2019t to have to be appropriated. It doesn\u2019t have to be part of this budget deal. Whether the government shuts down or not, we\u2019re gonna send the money down there.” Really? Whether the government shuts down or not, that money is gone, and the Republicans… Trump\u2019s not alone in this! The Republicans can\u2019t find a way to get a measly $5 billion for the wall in a $5 trillion budget?<\/p>\n

Just to put $5 billion in perspective, it is less than what the government spends on food stamps each and every month. That\u2019s $5.9 billion! Not to mention the untold billions that illegal aliens cost us every year! That $5 billion is a rounding error, if that, in the federal budget! Meanwhile, we have this criminal justice reform bill that passed seemingly without any debate. There was one senator who had opposition to it. His name was Tom Cotton, and he was pretty much buried. He had some support but not much. They got 87 votes in the Senate for this. It just sails through.<\/p>\n

\"\"The American people don\u2019t even know it\u2019s happening, and to the extent that they do, they don\u2019t care. It\u2019s not at the top of the anybody\u2019s list except some people in Washington where it was apparently at the top of the list. They\u2019re out there celebrating this. It\u2019s gonna affect 187,000 plus some change people in prison. It\u2019s gonna let \u2019em out early. It\u2019s gonna give \u2019em house arrest. Some of it\u2019s legit. I mean, there\u2019s some people in prison that shouldn\u2019t be. Sentencing was excessive. I\u2019m not suggesting it\u2019s not necessary.<\/p>\n

But mind-boggling there\u2019s something like this that nobody cares about (maybe that\u2019s the answer) sails right through. We all know why. Prison reform is… Both parties are looking at the opportunity to tell minorities how much they care, how sensitive we are. “Look at what we\u2019ve done! Everybody thinks the vast majority of the prison population is minority, and so look what we\u2019re doing! We are being compassionate. We are being understanding, and we are not racist, and we understand that we have an unfair judicial system.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, just ask Michael Flynn. Yeah, just ask James Comey. Just ask McCabe. Unfair legal system? We\u2019ve got a two-tiered judicial system! Hillary Clinton and Democrats innocent and not even charged. Republicans? Guilty for breathing — and if there\u2019s a charge, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Meanwhile, over here, $5 billion, a rounding error in the federal budget, is enough for the Democrats to say, “Shut down the government. We\u2019re not gonna let this happen.” ‘Cause it isn\u2019t about the $5 billion. It\u2019s about choking off the continuing supply of prospective Democrat voters, a permanent underclass.<\/p>\n

For that reason — since it\u2019s not about the $5 billion and since it\u2019s not about the budget and it doesn\u2019t bust the budget and it doesn\u2019t do anything — I think the president ought to veto this. This is why he got elected. This is why people stick with him. This is why his support base has not abandoned him during this full-frontal effort of the Democrats and the media to destroy him. They\u2019ve hung with him because of this. This issue predated Trump.<\/p>\n

The American people have been telling Washington for 25 years they don\u2019t want this, and the American people have continued to triumph. Washington continues to try to thwart the will of the people on this. Finally, the people elected somebody who actually said he meant what he was talking about regarding this, and they have stuck with him. The president should veto this thing, tell \u2019em he\u2019s not signing it and leave for Mar-a-Lago today. He\u2019s not supposed to leave until the 21st. Somebody in the White House tell him I\u2019ll meet him on the first tee tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Savannah, Georgia, next. This is Larry. I\u2019m glad you called, sir.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Yes, sir. Thank you. I\u2019ve been praying while on hold so I don\u2019t sound too stupid, but I\u2019m not nervous. I\u2019m just shaking with rage, Rush. I appreciate everything Trump\u2019s done, but I\u2019ve had it. You wanted to know when people were gonna start peeling away from him? It\u2019s not so much that I\u2019m peeling away from him. I\u2019m peeling away from the Republican Party. They\u2019re cowards. They\u2019ve been spineless the whole time he\u2019s been in office. They could be on TV just as loud as the Democrats — and I don\u2019t blame him, you know? He\u2019s done his best. I appreciate everything the man has done. I still love him, but I can\u2019t take it no more. I — I just… I don\u2019t know what to say. Ever since Sessions recused himself, I got a bad feeling right then. But I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I know your frustration. Everything Trump does is met with some liberal Democrat… He cannot hear me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I can, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everything Trump does, some liberal judge stands up and stops him. Every move forward, there\u2019s always somebody on the left, somehow, some way can stop it, can shut it down. I understand your frustration here, and the thing that you said that really resonates is that Trump, no matter what is happening here, is still all alone. He\u2019s got no help from the Republican Party on this. When it comes to government shutdowns, they cower in fear like I\u2019ve never seen cowards fear.<\/p>\n

They just fold like crazy at the very thought, at the very intimation of a government shutdown. And when it comes to the idea of a wall or border security, they\u2019re lip service. There\u2019s never anything actually done to shore it up. And the interview that I did with him — I played it last hour — back on August 1st, I was talking there about how hard this is and that people don\u2019t know, and he does not make excuses, by the way.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I know. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re afraid of, but I\u2019ve got one crummy idea left. We never protest anything. The damn liberals protest every little old thing. I would love to see a massive — and I mean a massive — millions of people go to Washington this spring with just one thing: Pass immigration reform and build a wall. I mean, shut that damn city down with so many people, they would have to cover it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I hate to remind you of this, but there have been these things. Not about immigration per se, but there were. During the Obama presidency, I think the second term, there were at least two of these where 25,000 or 30,000 people showed up. I don\u2019t remember what the reasons were. I think Glenn Beck did one, and a lot of people showed up.<\/p>\n

The media just covers it and makes fun of it, and they find people in the crowd that they think are hayseeds and hicks, and they go talk to them and so forth. They\u2019re not threatened by it, they\u2019re not intimidated, because the media doesn\u2019t treat those people as genuine Americans. They\u2019re screwball right-wingers and so forth. Look, I understand your frustration on it. It\u2019s just my whole life it\u2019s not been what conservatives are known for, protesting.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Kathy in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. Merry Christmas. Navy flight crew dittos to you. I\u2019ve been a listener since 1988, so I can say, “Thank you for your hard work.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is bucket list Merry Christmas. I think Trump is brilliant. We\u2019ve handed him the worst group of you RINOs on the planet. He could not fight this battle right now \u2019cause Pelosi was right. “You don\u2019t have the votes. Your RINOs aren\u2019t helping you,” and he\u2019s right. If they put this off \u2019til February, it\u2019s to Schumer and Pelosi and Trump in the room, and our RINOs… He got Ryan to quit. He got 45 RINOs to walk away. He has to drain our swamp before he can drain the Democrat media swamp.<\/p>\n

\"\"He was given… John McCain was my skipper. Look at that thumbs down. Killed it! He promised for eight years, Ryan has promised us for eight years, and they\u2019re gone — and I think he\u2019s brilliant. I know he\u2019s gonna take heat, but how many times have we been told, “Trump is done. This is it! We\u2019re gonna leave,” and he has gotten rid of all these RINOs, and we\u2019re looking at \u2019em different. I hate my senator, Rubio — and, you know, that isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s wall. That\u2019s our wall, and every time they beat Trump they hit 64 million Americans in the face. Because the media are such liars, no one gets that. But they pound us in the face every time they lay a finger on Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to something you said at the beginning. I might have misunderstood you — and if I did, it\u2019s my fault, not yours. Did you say something that it\u2019s smart to wait until Pelosi and Schumer are in charge? ‘Cause Schumer won\u2019t be. He\u2019s in the Senate. But what did you say about waiting \u2019til next year about Pelosi and Schumer and it was smart to do? Is there a what you said?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, our RINOs are Democrats. So he was fighting our own party, and you can\u2019t beat \u2019em up like you\u2019re gonna be able to beat Pelosi and Schumer up. I mean, it was a no-win. Forty of them didn\u2019t even bother to come back. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in pensions we\u2019re paying them, and they didn\u2019t even show up for the vote. So we have Democrat lites on RINOs or Democrat lites.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, speaking of that, do you know why so many Republicans were said not to be there this time, at this time of year? Because since they\u2019ve been defeated, they\u2019ve lost their housing. They don\u2019t have any place to live and many of them were sleeping in anywhere offices and they\u2019ve lost their offices! So they had no choice but than to go home. This is what the media said. And we\u2019re talking about a lot of Republicans, not just the 45 who retired. Look, I understand — and your thinking on this is good. It\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n

That a long process, Trump\u2019s gotta get rid of the opposition to him in his own party first, and he\u2019s succeeding in doing it. But everything has consequences, Kathy. The consequence of getting rid of the RINOs is that Pelosi now runs the House of Representatives, and so now there\u2019s gonna be nothing but total paralysis in the House of Representatives. It\u2019s gonna be not guilty but investigations. The New York state attorney general just announced that she is going to investigate every aspect of Donald Trump\u2019s life, every aspect.<\/p>\n

\"\"They succeeded. They succeeded in getting the Trump Family Foundation shut down. Meanwhile, the Clinton Family Foundation is up and running, still doing pay-to-play. There was so much illegally about the Clinton Foundation and not one effort to pursue it, not one serious effort to investigate it. The Trump Family Foundation with assets of $1.3 million after having given away 19 or 20 million, they\u2019re basically shutting it down. The Trump family says, “Well, that\u2019s okay because it lost our primary focus. We\u2019ve branched out into other ways of doing foundation work.”<\/p>\n

But, I mean, they target it and shut it down. This new attorney general replacing Schneiderman has basically announced that her job from now for the next two years is nothing but vetting every day of Donald Trump\u2019s life, going back 20 years, 30 years, however long it takes. We\u2019re talking here about $5 billion — and, Kathy, while I appreciate your thinking that Trump\u2019s gotta drain the swamp, time is running out here. You can\u2019t say for four years, “Well, I gotta do this and this and this and this and this before I can accomplish this.”<\/p>\n

At some point, people\u2019s patience gonna wear out, and I don\u2019t know how many Trump supporters are looking at this precisely the way you are, meaning Trump\u2019s got to drain the Republican swamp before he drains the entire swamp. He doesn\u2019t have limitless time to do this. He has been able to achieve other things in his agenda. He\u2019s had remarkable success given all of the efforts to stop him. But this? This wall? Like I told you yesterday, there\u2019s nobody in that town that\u2019s for it. Look, there are two or three Republicans in the Freedom Caucus like Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows. I don\u2019t mean to leave them out.<\/p>\n

But when talk about the entirety of the Washington establishment, there is nobody that wants that wall, and there isn\u2019t anybody that wants border security. They\u2019re all talking about it, but they don\u2019t want to go there. They don\u2019t want to actually do anything on it. There isn\u2019t time to drain the swamp! We\u2019re talking $5 billion. We\u2019re not talking about trying to get $1.5 trillion to build a state-of-the-art wall from border to border, coast to coast. It\u2019s $5 billion, while at the same time $10.6 billion is being sent to southern Mexico and some beleaguered nations in Central America.<\/p>\n

\"\"I guess I could be easily misunderstood on this. I\u2019m not throwing Trump overboard and I\u2019m not abandoning anything here, but I\u2019m asking questions. I mean, it\u2019s been widely known for I don\u2019t know how long that government shutdowns are how Democrats paralyze Republicans into not doing what they have been elected to do and what they promised to do during campaigns. Let me go to the audio sound bites and kind of demonstrate this. Up first from this morning on Capitol Hill is Mitch McConnell, audio sound bite No. 3.<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: It seems like political spite for the president may be winning out over sensible policy. Even sensible policies that are more modest — more modest — than border security allocations which many Democrats themselves have supported in the very recent past. But faced with this intransigence, with Democrats\u2019 failure to take our borders seriously, Republicans will continue to fulfill our duty to govern. That\u2019s why we\u2019ll soon take up a simple measure that will continue government funding into February so we can continue this vital debate until the new Congress has convened.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So it\u2019s a simple question: How many times do we watch the same movie? (impression) “We\u2019ll get \u2019em after Christmas. Republicans are gonna do our duty! We\u2019re gonna keep the government open. Nobody should have any fear that your precious government will cease operations and that you have to die. Don\u2019t worry! Your Republicans will keep your government open — and we\u2019re gonna get \u2019em in the spring. We\u2019re gonna get \u2019em after the Fourth of July. We\u2019ll get \u2019em! We\u2019ll get \u2019em right after the next election.”<\/p>\n

One year from now, we\u2019ll be right back here with another end of the bill emergency funding measure and only the Democrats are gonna be running the Ways and Means Committee and they\u2019re gonna be throwing everything in the sink into it and the Republicans are gonna say, “Well, we lost the election. There\u2019s not much we can do to stop \u2019em. We can\u2019t have a government shutdown,” and over in the Senate where the Republicans run it, “We\u2019re gonna do our duty!<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna keep government open and voting, and we fulfill our commitment to do our duty. We will take up a measure to fund the government — your government that you love and adore and need — for the next few weeks. So we can continue this vital debate where we cave every time in the new Congress.” How many times gonna watch the movie? How many times are we gonna pay for the ticket to watch the movie? Here\u2019s Chuck You Schumer this morning at one of his press conferences also up on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

\"\"SCHUMER: Let me be very clear. The administration cannot reprogram funds appropriated by Congress for the full wall without our assent. To do so would violate Congress\u2019 Article 1 powers. They cannot do it on their own, and the House and Senate will not approve a wall from reprogrammed funds or anything else. It won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (impression) “Except if we want to send $10 billion down to Central America, southern Mexico, and if we find that money somewhere in the executive branch… Oh, wait. We don\u2019t have to allocate that, it\u2019s already been acted like, but we can do what we\u2019re telling Trump he can\u2019t do — and by God, we\u2019re gonna do it. We\u2019re gonna send that money there so they build up their economies so they don\u2019t have to come here in the first place. ” Chris Van Hollen. He\u2019s now a Democrat senator, used to be one of Pelosi\u2019s No. 1 lieutenants in the House of Representatives. He was on with Neil Cavuto last night on the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n

Cavuto said, “You know, he might look at a number of other things, including maybe reallocating money from defense department to the wall construction project. Would you be against that?”<\/p>\n

HOLLEN: The president does not have this unlimited authority just to, uh, use the defense department about that as a slush fund, uh, for the Department of Homeland Security and the wall. So, uh, that\u2019s not gonna work. Uh, we\u2019ve had bipartisan agreements down here on Capitol Hill on the most effective way, uh, to achieve border security, and, uh, I hope that the president will listen to, uh, what a bipartisan group of members of Congress, uh, has come up with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and what\u2019s that? What is this bipartisan group and what have they come up with? Zilch, zero, nada. So now here are the Democrats telling Trump what he can\u2019t do. He\u2019s got his Department of Justice telling him what you can\u2019t do. He\u2019s got the FBI out there mocking him and telling him what he can\u2019t do. He\u2019s got Chuck You Schumer telling him what you can\u2019t do and he\u2019s got Mitch McConnell telling everybody what he won\u2019t do!<\/p>\n

(impression) “Because we do our duty keep the government that you know and love and need up and running.” And here\u2019s a Republican. Grab No. 7, John Thune. He\u2019s from South Dakota. He was on with Cavuto last night. Question: “Are you of the mind-set that reallocating money from another department like the defense department is a wise strategy,” money to build the wall, “or would that be rejected out of hand?” Republican senator here.<\/p>\n

THUNE: I\u2019m not a big fan of moving money. I think Defense ought to be building airplanes and ships and all the things that we need to do to defend the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. John Thune, Republican senator, South Dakota.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Let\u2019s stick with the audio sound bites and get back to your phone calls here in just a second. Grab No. 8. This is Mr. Newt today on Fox & Friends with Steve Doocy who said “Mr. Speaker, it looks like the Democrats are gonna win on this. There will be no money for the president and his wall this time.”<\/p>\n