{"id":327171,"date":"2019-10-31T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=327171"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:20:45","slug":"how-to-respond-to-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/31\/how-to-respond-to-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We have the official vote in the House that happened about a half hour ago to formalize the inquiry. There still aren\u2019t any articles of impeachment, and the Republicans have their way of dealing with this. Been studying it and watching it.<\/p>\n

The thing that you have to keep in mind, folks, and flashbacks are relevant in one sense. Both Pelosi and Adam Schiff, within the past nine months, both vociferously said that they didn\u2019t want to do impeachment. Now, I didn\u2019t believe them when they said it. It doesn\u2019t matter what I believe. They said it. I think they said it to set everybody up. I think they\u2019re trying to set the table, \u201cNo, no, no, we don\u2019t want to impeach, we have no desire to impeach.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve wanted to impeach since Trump was elected. They\u2019ve wanted to get rid of him and that\u2019s all this is since election night of 2016. You could say the reason why this is important, they won the House because of the Mueller witch hunt, folks. They won the House. A bunch of Republicans retired in fear or because they were gonna lose their committee chairmanships. Fifty-five Republicans retired in 2018 because they bought into the notion to one degree or another that all hell was gonna break loose, and they didn\u2019t want to be in the minority, and so they had a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n

But you have to say that the Democrats won the House based on this whole manufactured nothing that was the Mueller investigation. And they\u2019re trying to do it again with this Ukraine thing. Now they\u2019re trying to win the presidency, all of it aimed at getting rid of Donald Trump with yet another hoax or witch hunt or what have you.<\/p>\n

\"\"So the argument has now settled on how should the Republicans deal with this? Should they deal with it by criticizing the process? Should they deal with it on the substance? Should it be a combination of both? ‘Cause they\u2019re gonna have to deal with it. You can\u2019t beat this back by telling everybody what a nerd and an idiot and a dishonest guy Schiff is. It isn\u2019t gonna work. You can\u2019t beat this back by trying to tell everybody that Nancy Pelosi\u2019s mean and is a partisan.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Washington. The Democrats don\u2019t like us. They don\u2019t want us around. They won the House of Representatives. They get to determine what an impeachable offense is. If they want to impeach Trump for eating a ham sandwich on a Jewish holiday, they can do it. And it\u2019s silly to try to beat it back on that basis. It can be part of the recipe, but it shouldn\u2019t be the entire focus. I think too many people lose sight of what this is.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a danger in suggesting that we need to respond on substance because responding on substance thereby validates their premise. It validates their allegations. But you have to do it to some extent. I\u2019ll give you an example. I\u2019ll give you an example of how to respond to this. Mike Pompeo did it last. He was on the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s Trump supposedly in trouble for? Well, because he called the president of Ukraine, and the story is that he threatened to withhold aid unless the president of Ukraine dug up dirt on Biden and his kid. Forget, that\u2019s not what happened on the call, but that\u2019s what the story is and that\u2019s what the media narrative is, and that\u2019s what most people are gonna hear.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what happened on the phone call, and the bottom line is that no aid was denied. Ukraine got its aid, and there still has not been a Ukrainian investigation of Biden and his kid! So if that\u2019s what Trump wanted, there could not have been a quid pro quo because Trump hasn\u2019t gotten what he asked for. But Ukraine has. Ukraine got their money. Ukraine got their aid. Far as I know, they haven\u2019t dug up any dirt on Biden and his kid.<\/p>\n

Well, now, when did Ukraine not get its money? Well, the answer to that\u2019s Barack Hussein Obama. You remember the United States has had a mutual defense treaty with Ukraine. One of the things that we did during the Obama years, we demanded Ukraine and Crimea — they\u2019re kind of lumped in together — disarm. In exchange for that, we would defend them if Trump and the Russians ever attacked \u2019em. I\u2019m being snarky, of course. I shouldn\u2019t play around with this. People are gonna misunderstand. Trump had nothing to do attacking, okay? I\u2019m just making a mockery of their allegation that Trump\u2019s aligned with Russia.<\/p>\n

So the Obama administration denied all aid to Ukraine! Yet Trump is on the verge of being impeached for having a so-called quid pro quo, but they got their aid. They got the military aid, they got the deals that we had made with \u2019em. They were honored. Who denied Ukraine aid? Barack Hussein Obama! All that Obama\u2019s administration gave Ukraine was meals ready to eat, MREs, and a bunch of blankets and pillows. I mean, Obama didn\u2019t even send \u2019em doctors and nurses and clean water.<\/p>\n

\"\"And so Pompeo was asked, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t the Obama administration send Ukraine the money that was promised?\u201d He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe because of Hunter Biden.\u201d Wait. Wait. Maybe because of Hunter Biden?<\/a> What? So I\u2019m guessing Pompeo didn\u2019t want to go on the record with the “why” but the fact of the matter is if you go with this on substance, there isn\u2019t any. Trump didn\u2019t withhold any aid. And Trump has not gotten whatever these whistleblowers were so upset about. As far as I know there hasn\u2019t been any information from Ukraine to Trump on Biden and his kid.<\/p>\n

Yet Ukraine has got its money. Obama didn\u2019t give Ukraine aid as contractually agreed to. Pompeo said, “Well, I\u2019m guessing it might be because of Hunter Biden.” Hunter Biden? So you know what that means? What Pompeo\u2019s saying without saying it is that any aid from the United States to Ukraine, some of it would have ended up with Hunter Biden and that company Burisma. For some reason, Obama didn\u2019t want to go there because he didn\u2019t want to red flag it. So there wasn\u2019t any aid sent, which means that the Bidens were in on the back end of any aid.<\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s the substance — and on the substance, there\u2019s nothing impeachable here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And as long as there remains a reluctance to defend Trump, the longer this thing is gonna go on.  And, you know, there are starting to be cracks in the dike.  I\u2019m reading things where people are saying, “Well, you know what?  Republicans are gonna have to make up their minds whether they\u2019re gonna fish or cut bait.”  They\u2019re already…<\/p>\n

People are suggesting that Republicans better make plans for the future and arrive at a theoretical point in the future where they abandon Trump.  This is some of the advice that\u2019s coming now, because one of the popular bits of conventional wisdom is: The reason why Pelosi and Schiff, who they said months ago were not in favor of impeachment, now are… Pelosi didn\u2019t want to vote for impeachment because of the new members of her caucus that were elected in Trump districts.  She didn\u2019t want to put them at risk.<\/p>\n

\"\"She didn\u2019t want to put her House majority at risk. So she didn\u2019t want to go for impeachment.  Now all of that\u2019s out the window.  So something has changed to make Pelosi go ahead and do this today, and it\u2019s one of two things — and maybe there are other options. It\u2019s either she\u2019s lost control to the mad demands of her fringe base, or they think they have something else. Remember, we never know everything.  So it\u2019s entirely possible that Schiff and Pelosi have what they think is another bombshell that\u2019s gonna destroy Trump just waiting for the right time for them to announce it or unload it.<\/p>\n

And that the fact that they think they have this has given them confidence to go ahead and call for the official inquiry vote today, because they now no longer fear losing elections in Trump districts.  Now, I think that is something that Pelosi and her leadership are trying to push with the media.  I think all of this continues to be an illusion.  There isn\u2019t an impeachable offense as people would think of it.  Now, again, the Democrats who run the House can say anything is an impeachable offense.  They can go for this for any reason they want.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not exaggerating.  “High crimes and misdemeanors” is a wide-open, waiting-to-be-defined claim by any House in any year.  This is a total House of Representatives move, as an institution.  So the Republicans in the House have decided that one of the ways to beat this back is to complain that they\u2019re not being treated fairly, that they\u2019re not being allowed in the committee hearings, that they\u2019re not being allowed to ask questions, and that Schiff is telling witnesses not to answer various questions — which nobody\u2019s seeing.<\/p>\n

Nobody is seeing that happen.  Nobody is seeing this unfairness of Adam Schiff.  What they are seeing is Republicans complain about it.  I don\u2019t know about you, folks, but how do you respond to whining?  Does it compel you?  Does it infuriate you?  Does it make you want to join forces with whoever it is that\u2019s whining?  Or is your reaction, “Grow up!”  Because after all, elections have consequences.  This is what happens when you elect Democrats.  This ought to be the message.  Why is it so hard to defend Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to defend Donald Trump because, in the process, we\u2019re defending ourselves. We\u2019re defending ourselves. We\u2019re defending everybody that voted for him because that\u2019s who\u2019s really under attack.  Trump is a transient figure.  He\u2019s only gonna be here, maximum, eight years.  People that voted for him are gonna go on and on and on and hopefully grow and grow and grow.  The attack on Donald Trump… He\u2019s a surrogate for their hatred for us. And our unwillingness — not mine, of course.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the people I\u2019m referring to, their unwillingness to defend Trump is the same as being unable to defend their voters.  Steve Scalise was responding. “He said this is Soviet-style…” He had a poster out there when he was speaking on the floor of the House: “Soviet-style tactics.”  You know, I know how rotten the Soviet Union was, and that didn\u2019t play with me — and I\u2019m thinking of the polls: 30% of Millennials want communism.<\/p>\n

Seventy percent of Millennials think socialism\u2019s okay. So you throw a poster at \u2019em saying “Soviet style” and you may get some supporting the movement, because Soviet style may not be that bad a deal to some of these young people.  But who knows what Soviet style is? We had the… It took us 30 years to educate people on what Soviet style was, and it still took the Berlin Wall falling to defeat them.  Their own implosion is what defeated them, not our persuasive rhetoric.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Everybody knows who the whistleblower is. Everybody\u2019s known in Washington for a long time. Here\u2019s a quote from Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst, national security adviser to Trump. “Everybody knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is.”<\/p>\n

Nobody revealed it. Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations came along and revealed the guy\u2019s name<\/a>. Now everything in the world is known about him. So as soon as we find out who the guy is all of a sudden Pelosi pulls the trigger on her vote. The theory is that this may be the high-water mark, this may be peak impeachment, in their view.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s also possible that they\u2019re holding something else. I\u2019ve learned from watching these people that you never know. In fact, this is a truism about all of politics. You never know everything. Whoever\u2019s involved in reporting news or making news, you never know everything. Somebody\u2019s always holding something back. Like the October Surprise has become a predictable feature of presidential campaigns. But it is undeniable that Pelosi and Schiff have both protested vociferously that they were not in favor of impeachment, they didn\u2019t want to do it.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t believe a thing any of these people ever say. And I could never work in network news and be an on camera analyst \u2019cause I refuse to fall into any of these premises, because I don\u2019t think the narratives or the premises is — this is about something very simple. It is not complicated at all. We have a bunch of people who don\u2019t like the way 63 million people voted! They don\u2019t like the result and they want to reverse it.<\/p>\n

Now, the reasons for that, that\u2019s where it gets interesting and can appear to be complicated and be a little bit of a tough sell, but aside from all that, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. It isn\u2019t any more complicated than that and anybody paying attention ought to be able to see right through what this is.<\/p>\n

You have a three-year, two-year investigation on whether Trump colluded with Russia when he never did, when there was never any evidence. And the big coup de grace was gonna be the Mueller report. It comes up a dud. And so right after it comes up a dud, guess what? We got a phone call! It isn\u2019t complicated what\u2019s happening here. The way to deal with this I don\u2019t think is complicated, either.<\/p>\n

But when you have people immersed in it, by definition, close to it — and remember we talked yesterday and we\u2019ve talked often, how do you deal with criticism, how do you respond to it? And there\u2019s as many different theories as there are people who have them. And one of the theories is you gotta respond to every allegation. You can\u2019t let one allegation stick.<\/p>\n

Well, by responding, you establish the premise. You acknowledge it. You legitimize it by choosing to respond to it. And that has always been problematic for me, because getting the premise on the table is 90% of the battle for the people who are trying to aggressively accomplish something. So if the premise is Donald Trump\u2019s unqualified because Donald Trump\u2019s corrupt or whatever else, the minute you start defending those particular allegations, then that\u2019s on the table.<\/p>\n

\"\"My preference is to not even accept the premise and start challenging the honesty and the veracity of the people making the charge. Who the hell do they think they are? Where does it say in the Constitution that if Washington\u2019s establishment doesn\u2019t like the results of a presidential election, they get to do whatever they want to do to overturn them?<\/p>\n

The normal procedure, you wait \u2019til the next election, you throw the guy out if you don\u2019t like him. They\u2019re not doing that. They have been trying to get rid of Donald Trump under false, lying premises since election night. And they\u2019re using a coordinated effort by invisible people that most Americans still do not even know. John Brennan, James Clapper, we all know them because they\u2019re on the news all the time, and we watch it, we\u2019re wonks.<\/p>\n

You think the people at risk of losing their homes in California give a rat\u2019s rear end about John Brennan today, for example?<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Now, folks, there\u2019s another reason why Pelosi and Schiff may have done their big reversal and gone ahead and started their official inquiry today.  We mentioned this a couple times earlier in the week.  I think Barr and Durham and the investigation they\u2019re conducting has got everybody on the Pelosi side as worried as they can be, and I think this is an effort to discredit that.  It\u2019s an effort to slow that down.  Remember, we\u2019re in a race.  Barr and Durham are in a race against these people — and can you just now see it?<\/p>\n

So Pelosi officializes her inquiry here, and they have a vote, and let\u2019s just say that in the next week or two Barr and Durham announce some things that they\u2019re getting close to making arrests or what have you. I mean, take your pick of whatever it might be.  And then what is Pelosi\u2019s response?  “They\u2019re only trying to stop our impeachment investigation! The president and the attorney general are working in tandem in a partisan purpose to discredit our legitimate impeachment inquiry.”<\/p>\n

That probably is as big a factor as anything else in the timing of this, \u2019cause make no mistake about it.  If just one of these people — take your pick: McCabe, Strzok Smirk. If just one of these people flips, if just one of them flips in an interview or having been indicted, that starts a whole house of cards.  In other words, these people are gonna have to ask themselves (James Baker at the FBI, McCabe, Strzok Smirk, Page), “Do I want to go to jail for James Comey?  Do I want to go to jail for John Brennan?”<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t doubt me.  The people on the Pelosi side of this are scared to death of this investigation, and I think what Barr is doing has sped up their process and now makes them appear to be contradicting their previous statements that they were only gonna do this if it was bipartisan.  By the way, no Republicans joined Pelosi\u2019s vote today.  Two Democrats did not vote with her.  So it\u2019s a party-line vote, but the only defections were from the Democrat side, not the Republican side.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Dave in Gurnee, Illinois.  Welcome, sir.  I\u2019m really glad you waited.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yeah, Rush. With all the talk of a Democrat impeachment process — and people making comparisons to Watergate back in 1972-73 — there\u2019s one glaring similarity that I haven\u2019t heard anybody make, and that is there\u2019s talk that the Democrats want to eliminate representation for Donald Trump.  Now, this was proposed back in Watergate by one Hillary Clinton who was working for Jerry Zeifman, who was the chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at the time.  And it\u2019s one of the reasons that he terminated her.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH:  Yeah, she was thrown off the Watergate legal team because — you\u2019re right — she wanted to deny Nixon legal representation.  Now, I just saw Pencil Neck.  He just went out and had a press conference. He said (summarized), “All this is crazy.  We\u2019re allowing Republicans to come in.  We\u2019re letting \u2019em ask questions.  What you don\u2019t know is that most of the Republicans we\u2019re letting come in are not even showing up.”  So Schiff\u2019s out there telling an entirely different story. But here\u2019s the point: He doesn\u2019t have to let anybody ask questions right now.<\/p>\n

This is not an official impeachment inquiry.  Even with this vote, nothing has really changed, folks.  This does not authorize anybody to start writing articles of impeachment.  That will be done by Nadler and his crew, and that won\u2019t happen (if it happens) until December.  This vote is purely symbolic.  It\u2019s designed to make people think the Democrats are moving closer.  If you listen carefully to people like Steny Hoyer and even Pelosi herself, they will concede that this vote today doesn\u2019t change anything.  It doesn\u2019t give any more weight to what they\u2019re already doing or have done.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t move them any closer to impeachment because nothing has changed after this. Schiff is still gonna be running his committee the way he runs it.  All they\u2019ve done is commit the rules that Schiff is using to paper.  But look, this is my point.  I don\u2019t want to hear the whining and complaining about the way Republicans are being treated.  They lost the election, and the Democrats are who they are.  It should have been expected.  Things like this happen when Democrats win.  Things like this happen when Democrats run cities with no balance or no check!<\/p>\n

Schiff can make up whatever rules he wants.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not until they have the actual articles of impeachment and a trial in the Senate that it is mandatory that the president\u2019s legal team gets to participate.  All of this is a sham.  To go after this on the unfairness of it is to complain about losing an election!  So I… (sigh) That doesn\u2019t move the ball for me, complaining about the way Schiff\u2019s operating.  As I said in the opening comment of the program, I\u2019ve never had anybody whine to me and it made me want to pick up their cause and start supporting them.  I\u2019m offended by the whining more than anything else \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t ever really accomplish anything.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Something to chew on, folks.  Every bit of testimony before Schiff\u2019s committee has been what?  Opinion.  Opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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