{"id":296670,"date":"2019-01-15T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296670"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:04:04","slug":"dont-cave-on-the-shutdown-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/15\/dont-cave-on-the-shutdown-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Cave on the Shutdown, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What\u2019s that? (interruption) Shutdown? Yeah, next hour I\u2019ll get to the Shutdown Stack<\/a>. I\u2019ve got all kinds of stuff. In fact, there\u2019s a great piece here from The Daily Caller written by an unnamed senior Trump official. The headline: “I\u2019m a Senior Trump Official, and I Hope a Long Shutdown Smokes Out the Resistance.” I don\u2019t know who this is, but the person says he\u2019s being hurt by this in a number of ways financially.<\/p>\n

\"\"But he hopes Trump doesn\u2019t cave. He hopes this thing goes on and on and on and on and on and a whole bunch of people get smoked out. He says there are just too many career leftists; there are too many saboteurs. He said in this piece, you\u2019d be amazed… I wouldn\u2019t, but he says you would be amazed at the number of people still in the Trump administration actively working on a daily basis to undermine Trump and his agenda.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t be surprised by that at all. This guy says he hopes Trump doesn\u2019t cave. The best thing that\u2019s happening here is for people to see how much redundancy there is in the federal government, and despite this shutdown going on and on and on that life goes on. There are a couple little disruptions here, disappointments there amplified by the media. But he thinks it\u2019s a golden opportunity, and I have always thought this.<\/p>\n

Trump is assuring everybody he\u2019s not gonna cave on this, and I hope he doesn\u2019t. I think the long-term prospects of this are totally up. I think a lot of people are afraid of it. The Republicans, traditionally, are afraid of being blamed pour shutdowns. The Never Trumper conservatives are apoplectic here over the fact that government\u2019s being interrupted and so forth. I think it\u2019s a great, great, great opportunity. There are so… We don\u2019t get opportunities like this one presents, and I just… I hope he sticks to it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This piece that I referenced. (shuffling papers) I\u2019ll betcha I put it at the bottom of the Stack. Yeah, “I\u2019m a Senior Trump Official, and I Hope a Long Shutdown Smokes Out the Resistance — President Trump can end this abuse. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them.”<\/p>\n

\"\"This is somebody close to the Trump administration talking about the impact of the shutdown. A bunch of saboteurs have been furloughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has created more jobs in the private sector than the furloughed federal workforce. Now that we are shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, but we are finally working on the president\u2019s agenda. … This is a chance to effect real change, and his leverage grows stronger every day the shutdown lasts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article makes reference to the number of people actually in the Trump administration that are still trying to undermine Trump and the agenda and that the shutdown is doing a great service in getting rid of furloughing a bunch of them. It\u2019s an advocacy piece to keep the shutdown going.<\/p>\n

He says all this \u201cis more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good. On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don\u2019t feel like doing what they are told, they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

If they don\u2019t feel like showing up, they don\u2019t. \u201cWhy would they? We can\u2019t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position \u2014 some do this in the same position for more than a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long answer. But do any of you see any evidence that anybody that Trump would name AG is gonna go in there and start the investigation to the people that really need to be investigated? Starting with Obama, starting with Hillary, starting with Brennan, starting with Clapper, starting with Fusion GPS, including all of these people in the FBI that worked to undermine Trump\u2019s campaign and undermine Trump\u2019s transition, they continue to try to undermine his presidency.<\/p>\n

\"\"And I\u2019m telling you, if you could watch this, every Democrat question can be boiled down to this essence: Are you gonna make sure that Robert Mueller gets rid of Trump? Are you gonna stand in the way of Robert Mueller getting rid of Trump? Are you gonna do what you can to suppress Mueller\u2019s results that would get rid of Trump or are you gonna let Mueller release them? Are you gonna release these investigatory details to the public so everybody knows why we have to get rid of Trump?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not adding “to get rid of Trump.” But that\u2019s what they\u2019re asking. They are convinced that Mueller is gonna have the goods on Trump and he\u2019s gonna go. And so they\u2019re paranoid that this guy\u2019s gonna shut down the investigation or let Trump fire Mueller. So every question is basically, are you gonna stand aside and let Mueller do his job and get rid of Trump?<\/p>\n

And Barr is saying, “Yes, yes. Of course. Absolutely within the rules and the context of the guidelines, absolutely, Senator.” That\u2019s what all the Democrats are asking. Because despite what we all know, they\u2019re convinced that Mueller\u2019s got the goods. And they\u2019re convinced Mueller\u2019s not gonna stop until he gets the goods. Anyway, I wish I had a different answer for you, but I don\u2019t. And I\u2019d love to be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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