{"id":297665,"date":"2019-01-25T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297665"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:59:01","slug":"temporary-shutdown-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/25\/temporary-shutdown-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Make of the Temporary Shutdown Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The media is blowing up now. There is a leak that a temporary shutdown agreement has been reached and will be announced by the president at 1 o\u2019clock today. Let\u2019s see, what are the…? (muttering) “Temporary… Temporarily reached … Government…” “Reopen Temporarily,” is what the headline is on Drudge. Why would that be? Why would there be a “temporary” reopening of the government? Doesn\u2019t say for how long.<\/p>\n

\"\"Maybe to pay people. Maybe to see if the Democrats will come to some agreement on paying all these people that are not being paid, because there have been bills. The Republicans have put forth proposal after proposal after proposal to pay people, to pay federal workers who have been furloughed and who have been laid off during the shutdown, and the Democrats have voted against those!<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve voted them all down! Everybody is blaming Trump and the Republicans for all of the starvation that\u2019s happening out there, unable to get medicine, unable… Whenever there\u2019s any kind of hardship, it always boils down to the people in pain have to choose between dog food and medicine. It never changes, no matter who the people are. And government workers, you know, they\u2019re not… You wouldn\u2019t consider them in poverty. They\u2019re not minimum wage workers.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: According to a member of the White House press corps five minutes ago, the president is expected to speak at the White House this afternoon on the shutdown. The Drive-By Media is saying there\u2019s lots of desire in the White House to end this episode, but it\u2019s unclear what the president will say. That basically comes from somebody named Josh Dawsey I thought was a Washington Post reporter that\u2019s always on CNN, but maybe CNN hired him.<\/p>\n

Anyway, they need two cameras for the guy, regardless. My guess is that this is… Folks, I don\u2019t think this is gonna be a cave. I just don\u2019t see this being a cave. I see the ongoing effort here to put the Democrats on the spot. If I had to guess, that\u2019s what this is. It\u2019s an ongoing effort to try to illustrate, “Look, we\u2019ve done everything. We\u2019ve offered legislation to pay the air traffic controllers and the Coast Guard and all these people. It\u2019s the Democrats that have voted it down.”<\/p>\n

So my guess is that there\u2019s gonna be some kind of a mechanism here that would, quote-unquote, “reopen” the government. What it really is gonna do is pay these people, but it\u2019s not gonna be permanent! If it\u2019s permanent, then, of course, it would constitute a fold.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are waiting on an announcement from the White House. President Trump is supposed to announce a proposal to end or deal with the government shutdown. And whenever it happens, we will drop everything and go there live and cover it as such. In the meantime, we continue here. (interruption) Well, I can guess. Yeah, I can speculate what this is gonna be. But why? Just sit here and sit tight. 800-282-2882 is the number if you want to be on Open Line Friday. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

I think the objective of it is gonna be to get people paid. You know… Look, it didn\u2019t help that Wilbur Ross went out there yesterday and said to federal workers, “Go get a loan. You can find something. Go get a loan, here.” Pelosi\u2019s out saying, “That that let-\u2019em-eat-cake attitude, we can\u2019t have that.” So, you know, everybody had to run and circle the wagons after Wilbur made that (sigh) ill-advised comment. “Well, hell, they can just get some loans to tide \u2019em over.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, they\u2019ll have some interest payments and so forth. But the idea that people can\u2019t get money…?” Now, in Wilbur Ross\u2019s world, getting money is easy. You can find anybody to loan you money. You can find a shoeshine guy to loan you a dime. You can find a bank to loan you whatever you need. Of course, debt and managing debt is for a lot of people the route to wealth — especially if you\u2019re on the side extending the debt. Hee-hee-hee. And receiving the interest payments on the back end. So I imagine that\u2019s where the pressure point\u2019s gonna be: Finding a way to make sure federal workers are paid.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019d be stunned if there is a concession on the substance. But I could be wrong.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Drive-By Media is assembled breathlessly outside the Rose Garden in the White House where the president is slated to emerge momentarily and announce… I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a deal that\u2019s been already made with Pelosi or if it is a proposal. But I\u2019m gathering here that whatever this is, it\u2019s either something that\u2019s been agreed to or it is the president proposing something, that it is going to include a little money for the wall to get started.<\/p>\n

\"\"Although Drudge says there isn\u2019t any money for the wall in it, and temporarily reopen the government with a down payment on wall money so that all of these government works can get paid. Now, remember the Republicans already offered legislation that would pay furloughed workers. They\u2019re all gonna get back pay. But because of the media sob stories of the pain and suffering and the choice between dog food or medicine (which is common in these stories after missing a paycheck), the pressure is on to see to it these people are paid.<\/p>\n

So here comes the president supposedly offering a temporary end to the shutdown, a temporary opening, reopening of the government so as to get the federal employees paid and get Coast Guard back to work, TSA up to full staff, ATC, all this. And then what? During this period of time, are there going to be negotiations? Democrats have said, “Reopen the government and then we\u2019ll talk!” Everybody knows they\u2019re not gonna talk. Everybody knows they are not going to, in negotiations, give Trump any money for a wall!<\/p>\n

Everybody should know that. But they have nevertheless said… The Democrats have all said from Pelosi to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “Open the government and then we can talk about it. That\u2019s all you gotta do, Mr. President! Open the government and we\u2019ll be happy to negotiate.” Except there have been numerous Republican proposals — and the media, by the way, is not reporting that. I think there are three different Republican proposals — two in the House, one in the Senate (might be vice-versa) — to actually pay furloughed government workers. Not reopen the government, but pay them.<\/p>\n

‘Cause they\u2019re gonna get back pay anyway. So it\u2019s just a matter of when you cut the check or make the deposit. The Democrats voted it down. The Democrats are the reason all this is happening. It was proposed in the Senate, and, of course, the Democrats had their own version, then of course six Republican senators had to join the Democrats and vote with their proposal led by Commandant Romney. Both Republican and Democrat ideas in the Senate failed. So the stalemate continues.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It has pretty much leaked out what\u2019s gonna go on here, and the Drive-Bys are characterizing this as a cave by the president. Of course, they would no matter what. If any action is taken by the president that results in the government reopening, they\u2019re gonna call it a Trump cave. So you need to prepare yourself for that. Now, the theory is… You got keep in mind the Republicans have offered all kinds of legislation to pay furloughed government workers. Democrats have opposed it!<\/p>\n

The Democrats do not want this government shutdown ended. They do not want it ended because they are getting away with Trump being blamed for it in the media. They do not want this to end. However, if it ends with Trump being the impetus for it… Let\u2019s say that the rumors of what this is are true and that the president\u2019s gonna propose a temporary three-week reopening of the government so that furloughed workers can be paid and then during that three-week period we\u2019re gonna negotiate with the Democrats — \u2019cause that\u2019s what they\u2019ve said.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have said, “Open the government and then we\u2019ll talk! If you want to chat about the wall, if you want talk about border security, open the government and then we\u2019ll talk.” So Trump comes along; opens the government. I\u2019m speaking hypothetically. I hope we find out before three o\u2019clock eastern. If the president comes along reopens the government and ends the shutdown on any kind of a temporary basis, does anybody think…? I just want to take your temperature here, folks.<\/p>\n

\"\"Does anybody think the Democrats are gonna start negotiating with Trump about the wall? No. In fact, it\u2019s gonna be worse than that. The Democrats are gonna drop all interest in the whole subject of border security. (impression) “Wall? What are you talking about, Mr. President? Wall? W-w-what do you mean, wall? We don\u2019t want a wall!” “Well, border security. We have a gigantic border security problem.” “No, we don\u2019t have a border security problem. We just need the Border Patrol and Customs and the ICE people do what they\u2019re supposed to do and we\u2019ll be fine.”<\/p>\n

So there are risks here in whatever you call it. If the objective is to pay these people, what I would do is announce more legislation to pay them. Keep the government closed. Announce legislation. Put them on the spot. Don\u2019t reopen it. Do not reopen it temporary, tertiary, secondary, whatever. Do not reopen it, because if you reopen it, that\u2019s done. And if you reopen it and say, “If you don\u2019t do what I want on this wall, I\u2019m shutting it down in two or three weeks again,” you better do it! (chuckles) You had better be prepared to shut it down again after the Super Bowl, after everybody\u2019s gotten to Atlanta,<\/a> watched the game, gotten out of there via Hartsfield International.<\/p>\n

(sigh) We\u2019re all just speculating here. I know, I know. You\u2019re all shouting, “What about the national emergency?” I\u2019m sure that\u2019s somewhere on the president\u2019s checklist. I just don\u2019t know where and I don\u2019t know when. But just to review that briefly while we patiently wait for the president to emerge from the Oval Office and descend the short steps to the Rose Garden, once you declare a national emergency you\u2019re effectively ending this because there\u2019s gonna be a judge somewhere that will issue a stay of execution on the presidential declaration of emergency. Even though there is legislation, the National Emergencies Act of 2006, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

The president was totally within his bounds on the travel ban, and they still went and they found some left-wing, progressive judge to issue a stay. They\u2019ll do that here, and then the whole thing grinds to a screeching halt, folks, and there isn\u2019t any money being spent to build the wall, unless the president wants to defy the court. You tell me whether that would happen. But then not only does the emergency get stopped — and the building of the wall, the allocation of funds cease — by virtue of court order, but then guess what the subject becomes?<\/p>\n

The subject changes from illegal immigration and the wall and border security and the fact that we\u2019re being overrun to, “Once again, President Trump shut down the government as he intended to act outside the bounds of his legal authority.” And the left and media be doing cartwheels and cheers over the fact that the court, finally, reined in this out of control guy “who\u2019s so unpopular, you can\u2019t even get Congress to agree with him on reopening the government.” I can see all of this now.<\/p>\n

\"\"I can envision and hear all of it now. While we wait — and it\u2019s got to be momentarily — there are other things here in the Stack of Stuff that have nothing to do with the FBI raid of Roger Stone\u2019s house with 29 agents, 19 vehicles. Heavily armed, body armor for a guy who\u2019s asleep. They didn\u2019t put up any barricades to keep the media at bay. They let the media get practically as close to the front door as they wanted to get. So the whole thing was planned and staged.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, the president is preparing the language, the draft of the implementation of a national emergency, and they have identified $7 billion that they have found elsewhere in the government to build the wall. So, I mean, it\u2019s on the table, and they\u2019re thinking about it, obviously. Somebody just strode to the microphone there at the podium, maybe giving the 90 seconds or two-minute warning so that the Drive-Bys can tell their head-shot people to wrap it up here and get ready for the president to show up.<\/p>\n

Oh, there\u2019s a fascinating piece here that I ran across about Pelosi and the State of the Union and why she really is not permitting it, and we addressed this last week, that these freshmen on the Democrat side are gonna make a spectacle of this. They may come in with banners. They may wear outlandish clothing. They may start chanting and protesting during the State of the Union. The story is that Pelosi is fully aware of how out of control these young Millennial members of Congress are, and she does not want that spectacle. This is the theory, that it\u2019s not Pelosi denying the president his constitutional requirement to do the State of the Union.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that she doesn\u2019t want her own party looking bad by disrupting the ceremony, because it does have a tradition of reverence, politeness. There are never active protests. I mean, the closest we got to it was when a Republican congressman shouted to Obama, “You lie!” When Obama lied about Obamacare. Joe something, I think was his name. But that was one of the biggest breaches of protocol ever. That guy was besmirched and impugned for the rest of his career. But there may be something to it. I think the young Millennial bunch would go nuts.<\/p>\n

All right. Here comes the president wearing the overcoat. He\u2019s now approaching the podium. He just left the doors of the Oval Office — and, again, our microphones are there and so let\u2019s JIP it…<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much my fellow Americans. I\u2019m very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: As everyone knows, I have a very powerful alternative, but I didn\u2019t want to use it at this time. Hopefully, it will be unnecessary. I want to thank all of the incredible federal workers and their amazing families who have shown such extraordinary devotion in the face of this recent hardship. You are fantastic people. You are incredible patriots. Many of you have suffered far greater than anyone but your families would know or understand, and not only did you not complain, but in many cases you encouraged me to keep going because you care so much about our country and about its border security.<\/p>\n

Again, I thank you. All Americans, I thank you.<\/p>\n