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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Tim in Houston. It\u2019s great to have you, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited. I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Is Rand Paul and all of his running buddies over there naive enough to think that if they go against this declaration, that a Democratic president in the future wouldn\u2019t do it regardless of what he did? I mean, nothing… You know, when gun control comes up, climate change, they\u2019re gonna say, “This is so dire, this is so important, it precludes anything a Republican did,” and they\u2019re just gonna do it regardless.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I think Senator Paul here is basically a man of principle, and on this I think he sees a freebie. He can take a stand on this for his constituents and be on the right side of it and know that his vote\u2019s not gonna affect anything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, to believe that you\u2019re setting a precedent so a Democrat president won\u2019t do it is very naive thinking on my part.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know what I don\u2019t like about that thinking — I know what you\u2019re talking about. (impression) “Well, we can\u2019t do the nuclear option \u2019cause what happens if a Democrat gets…?” Well, ask Harry Reid about that. Harry Reid triggered the nuclear option and guess what? It did come back to bite the Democrats in the rear end. They did it anyway! We\u2019ve got to get rid… You know what we expect? Let me tell you exactly what we expect. This is the Never Trumpers, this is the RINOs, and I think this has to do in large part — not totally, but, in large part — with upbringing.<\/p>\n
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There is an element in American culture that says good behavior and proper manners and comportment will always redound to your benefit down the road. So the theory is that if you demonstrate that you are honorable and of good manners, that you will be rewarded down the road by people who will recognize your decency and your goodness. Well, that may work in church, and it may work with certain elements, but it doesn\u2019t work in politics where you have nothing but vipers who are willing to take advantage of anything they see as weakness.<\/p>\n
So the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers have always believed that if we lose with honor, that eventually we will win because people will see that we are the ones with virtue and that we will be supported and our ideas will be supported in time, because the voters will see that we are the ones with virtue. Well, the Never Trumpers\u2019 magazines are closing down, the Never Trumpers\u2019 websites have gone broke, the Never Trumpers are now forming new websites that will go broke, all the while believing that they have virtue that will be rewarded somewhere down the road.<\/p>\n
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The way it\u2019s looking, they may have to get to the Pearly Gates before that virtue is recognized — and many of them don\u2019t believe in the Pearly Gates, so they\u2019re really up between a rock and a hard place. The way that manifests itself here is, “Okay. We have a genuine crisis at the border. We have an illegal immigration crisis, and we have a political opposition that doesn\u2019t want to stop it. We have a president who does want to stop it, but we hate the president because he embarrasses us. So we\u2019re not gonna help the president.<\/p>\n
“And we hope somewhere down the road the people that hate the president are gonna reward us for being virtuous in also hating the president, and that we will somehow benefit.” That\u2019s their thinking. It\u2019s a defensive way of thinking, and it\u2019s incorporated here. “If we stand fast…” I\u2019ll tell you, the best way to illustrate how this manifests itself is Supreme Court picks. The Democrats, when they are in the presidency, nominate these radical left-wing lunatics as judges. And look at the confirmation rates. It\u2019s 88, 92 votes to confirm, because the Republicans say, “Well, they won!<\/p>\n
“The Constitution says the president gets his judges. We will be virtuous. We will show the American people that we are people of honor. We understand the president\u2019s party won and the president gets his judges,” and they think that the American people are then going to reward them the next time their party is the president, that the Democrats are gonna behave the same way when a Republican president nominates his judges. Except it never happens, does it? Take your pick. Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor? They skate through.<\/p>\n
They end up with 75 to 82 to 92 votes, and then you get Kavanaugh, and you see what happen to Kavanaugh. And then you get what they tried to do to Gorsuch. Well, they kind of took it easy on Gorsuch because there was nothing much to do. It wasn\u2019t changing the balance of power on the court. But you saw what they tried to do to Alito and so forth. It never works out! There is never a repayment for the virtue.<\/p>\n
So if Rand Paul thinks that standing firm against this use of executive power will somehow mean that the Democrats do not use that similar power the next time they\u2019re in the White House, it is just sophistry. The Democrats aren\u2019t gonna care. The Democrats are not gonna sit there and say, “You know what? We better not declare this national emergency, because remember when the Democrats joined us in opposing Trump? We owe them.” (Snort!) It is just a frustrating, defensive posture, and it relies on something that just doesn\u2019t exist. It used to!<\/p>\n
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Folks, it\u2019s part of what we lost.<\/p>\n
There used to be these rewards for virtuous citizenship.<\/p>\n
Not anymore.<\/p>\n
It just doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s David in Boca Raton in Florida. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. Hey, Rush. I don\u2019t think that Rand Paul is naive enough to think that if he votes against the emergency declaration that the Democrats won\u2019t use it. The Democrats were already thinking about how to use it the next time they get into power. I think that Rand Paul just likes to be seen as the voice of reason, and it\u2019s no skin off his back to vote against it right now because it\u2019s gonna pass anyway. Not just that, but I think —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s right. So he can appear to be man of principle with his constituency there in Kentucky.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right, and I think that it will make Trump look even stronger because rather than the Senate just going along with him, he gets to override the veto. You know, he gets to veto the thing and they can\u2019t override it. So he\u2019ll win and people will think, “Hey, look, you know, Trump\u2019s really standing up for us.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, yeah. Trump, I don\u2019t think, has any danger of losing his base on any of this. That would be, you know, icing on the cake. “Look, Trump is really…” I don\u2019t think people believe that Trump is defecting or even thinking of defecting on the whole issue of immigration. The larger point here is, to me, the Republicans in the Senate anyway, and what they think they\u2019re doing. Folks, I can\u2019t emphasize enough. You\u2019ve got Mitt Romney in there, and you know that Mitt Romney is a Never Trumper. He doesn\u2019t like Trump. <\/p>\n
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I just saw there\u2019s a little session in the Oval Office moments ago. They had the videotape. A recently rescued or released prisoner from somewhere in the Middle East is being recognized and feted in the Oval Office, and Mitt Romney\u2019s sitting in there along with Lindsey Graham and some other people. And the press, by the way, was asking Trump, “What do you think of the new satellite photos that show the Norks are developing a new nuclear installation?” I don\u2019t know what Trump said to that. <\/p>\n
But I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you that that\u2019s one of the reasons Trump walked out of the negotiations over there. That\u2019s all it would have taken, for them to learn that the Norks are going back on everything and are in fact building a brand-new nuclear installation. Why in the hell hang on? This is clear indication that North Korea was never on the up-and-up about any of this. So there was no reason to stay, no reason to go through any of the motions on it. But anyway, about the Republicans and this. (Sigh) <\/p>\n
You get back to losing with honor. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the best that I can describe what seems to be the prevalent Republican attitude, that if they behave with what they consider to be honor, what they consider to be virtue, that because of long traditions and mores and morality in America, they are ultimately going to be rewarded for their virtue and for their honor. “Honor and virtue” usually is translated as the Democrats getting what they want; Republicans saying, “Well, what the Democrats want is reasonable, and we\u2019re not gonna stand in the way of it.” <\/p>\n
And it oftentimes also becomes opposing their own president. Somehow there seems to be honor — or the seeking of media approval or something along those lines. It\u2019s just… It\u2019s the frustrating thing. Trump is doing what he can, I think, to have as much unity in his party behind his actions for a host of reasons, not the least of which is to have a wall of opposition to any impeachment conviction in the Senate. So there\u2019s a lot of moving parts to explain all of this. But there\u2019s no question there\u2019s an emergency. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s no question there\u2019s a crisis. There\u2019s no question that we have an invasion going on. Do you realize all of this is still over a measly $2.5 billion to $3 billion dollars? When you stop and think what all of this is really all about, it\u2019s senseless. In a federal budget of $4 trillion, people are taking a stand on all this for $2.5 billion? It\u2019s the power of whoever these donors are that want open borders. Both parties who want amnesty. It is abundantly clear that they are the ones pulling the strings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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