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<\/p>\nRUSH: You may not believe me on this, but don\u2019t doubt me. They\u2019re panicking big time on the left. They are panicking over Pelosi not sending the articles over to the Senate. One of her big witnesses in the Schiff committee has written a piece claiming, \u201cYou can\u2019t even say he\u2019s been impeached yet if you don\u2019t send those articles over there.\u201d And then there are two polls out today that finally reflect what we all know to be true.<\/p>\n
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, siree, wrapping up yet another barnstorming week of broadcast excellence here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Great to have you with us, as always, folks. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
One of the star witnesses during the Adam Schiff so-called committee hearing was Noah Feldman. Noah Feldman is a Harvard Law professor. He was made up and had his hair made to look like he was a 1930s or \u201940s film star. He is a rabid and arrogant elitist, who literally hates Donald Trump, just despises him, despises Trump so much he can\u2019t even tell you why. It\u2019s class related. It\u2019s institution related. I\u2019m sure there are some other personal reasons for it.<\/p>\n
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He was one of the three academics who showed up to offer their enlightened academic opinions of just what a rotten reprobate Donald Trump is. They attempted to explain how he had abused his power, how he had obstructed Congress. They were not persuasive at all. But they are rabid, Feldman, all these guys. And look, I\u2019m not comfortable calling people names, but I want to be descriptive. And if you don\u2019t remember who I\u2019m talking about, the guy\u2019s just very snobbish. He looks down his nose at most everybody who\u2019s not in his circle. And none of us are, in his view. So I think they\u2019re panicking.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got two polls out there. One\u2019s a CNN poll. The other is a YouGov poll. Trump is trouncing Democrats in both of these polls. CNN is having an on-air meltdown over it today. They can\u2019t figure out why. We\u2019ll try to help \u2019em understand. Now, the Feldman piece, \u201cTrump Isn\u2019t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate.\u201d His point is that, \u201cAccording to the Constitution, Impeachment is a Process, Not a Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not happy at all with Pelosi. See, these people think they\u2019ve made the case. They think they\u2019ve made the case that Trump should go, that a trial would be a slam dunk, that Trump would be convicted, he\u2019s gotta go. There\u2019s no other way to see it, in their view. And now he\u2019s all worried that Pelosi\u2019s blowing this by not sending the articles over.<\/p>\n
So all the leftist and Democrat analysts on TV today are trying to cover up for it by claiming, “No, Pelosi has leverage. Pelosi\u2019s got all the leverage.” Pelosi doesn\u2019t have any leverage. As Mitch McConnell said — I\u2019m gonna paraphrase, and this was a great line — McConnell said how in the world can she have leverage when she won\u2019t send us what we don\u2019t want? He doesn\u2019t want those articles. He\u2019d be very happy if she never sent them over, just declare a mistrial and be done with it.<\/p>\n
But she cannot dictate, for example, that Senate call new witnesses, that the Senate continue the investigation that the House didn\u2019t too. She can\u2019t demand any of that. And by withholding the articles claiming she has leverage, McConnell said, “Leverage? She\u2019s not gonna send us something that we don\u2019t want in the first place. How in the world has she got leverage?”<\/p>\n So this has got these people in panic. They\u2019re trying to cover-up up for this by saying, “No, no, this is Nancy outsmarting everybody,” the leftist commentators.<\/p>\n By the way, you know, it\u2019s fascinating. I purposely didn\u2019t watch much of the debate last night \u2019cause, frankly, I\u2019m worn out. I\u2019ve reached a point where I can\u2019t handle any more of their rhetoric. I can\u2019t handle any more of the perfunctory lying-through-their-teeth statements. Just my mental health, I couldn\u2019t put up with it.<\/p>\n But people send me their reactions to this stuff all the time, and it\u2019s amazing. I got a lot of reaction last night that Biden was an abject disaster. And yet I get up today and I read all the analysts like John Podhoretz thinks this was Biden\u2019s best ever, Biden owned it, Biden was wonderful, Biden finally was the Biden we think he is.<\/p>\n So now I\u2019m curious. Which is it? I had people sending me stuff saying Biden blew the Winston Churchill question, how old he is, didn\u2019t know that Winston Churchill was prime minister of the U.K., had to be reminded that Winston Churchill was not an American, the question had to deal with American presidents and their age. And I get up and I read all these analysts, “Oh, Biden.” There\u2019s three or four of them that Biden just mopped the floor with people last night.<\/p>\n I\u2019m kind of at a disadvantage \u2019cause I didn\u2019t see it. But it\u2019s fascinating to me the reactions that different people have. Obviously, the people think think Biden did well wanted him to do well and are literally hoping that somebody can beat Trump on that side, and they think Biden\u2019s probably only person who can and so that\u2019s why they think Biden — he didn\u2019t stumble. He acted like he knew where he was. I mean, the bar is very low for Plugs. All he\u2019s gotta do is act like he knows where he is and what time it is and it\u2019s an improvement over the last debate, right?<\/p>\n So, anyway, back to Noah Feldman<\/a>. “[A]n indefinite delay would pose a serious problem. Impeachment as contemplated by the Constitution does not consist merely of the vote by the House, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial. Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment.<\/p>\n “And the Senate must actually hold a trial. If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn\u2019t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn\u2019t truly impeached at all.” Let me tell you something. For Noah Feldman to write that, he is panicking. He doesn\u2019t want to write that! He doesn\u2019t want to have to consider that Trump is innocent of anything in his life.<\/p>\n The worst thing that could happen to Noah Feldman is exactly what\u2019s happened, for none of this to go forward from this point. I\u2019m telling you, Feldman writing these few sentences here had to be painful. Again: “If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn\u2019t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn\u2019t truly impeached…” That is the worst of any preliminary outcome! Now, the worst outcome\u2019s gonna be if he\u2019s acquitted.<\/p>\n Pelosi knows her articles are nothing. Pelosi knows her articles cannot get votes of acquittal. Pelosi knows she doesn\u2019t have a case. She knows Trump would be acquitted. She doesn\u2019t want that; so she\u2019s withholding the articles. But now her allies and her aides are panicking that this may be the wrong “strategical” move. Noah Feldman says, “That\u2019s because ‘impeachment\u2019 under the Constitution means the House sending its approved articles of to the Senate, with House managers standing up in the Senate and saying the president is impeached.<\/p>\n “As for the headlines we saw after the House vote saying, ‘TRUMP IMPEACHED,\u2019 those are a media shorthand, not a technically correct legal statement. So far, the House has voted to impeach (future tense) Trump. He isn\u2019t impeached (past tense) until the articles go to the Senate and the House members deliver the message.” Now, we had a call about this yesterday<\/a>. I have to admit that I was taken a little bit aback by this when I saw it.<\/p>\n We had a call yesterday asking me, “Hey, Rush, is Trump really impeached?”\u00a0 I said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.\u00a0 The House action is what it is.\u00a0 Impeachment is a two-part process.\u00a0 They voted to impeach him.\u00a0 That\u2019s done.”\u00a0 Well, it turns out the caller may have been on to something, if Feldman is right.\u00a0 Now some other people are chiming in and saying, “Yes, yep, this is absolutely true,” and some other people chiming in, “I said that first!” which is normal.<\/p>\n But it is clear that none of this is going the way they figured.\u00a0 None of it — literally none of it, folks. So keep in mind, Trump hasn\u2019t been impeached and won\u2019t be until Pelosi lets the managers go over there and present the case.\u00a0 Now, a companion story from Bloomberg: “Trump Lawyers Ask If Pelosi Delay Means He Isn\u2019t Impeached Yet.”\u00a0<\/a> Pull quote: “The White House legal theory, according to a person familiar with the legal review, is that if Trump has been officially impeached, the Senate should already have jurisdiction.<\/p>\n “Backers of the theory would argue that the clause of the U.S. Constitution that gives the Senate ‘the sole Power to try all Impeachments\u2019 indicates that the impeachment isn\u2019t formalized until the House reported the charges to the upper chamber.” So until the Senate has been notified and then is prepared to conduct a trial, the House vote — according to Noah Feldman and the White House lawyers — doesn\u2019t mean anything yet.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody\u2019s there, did it make a noise, did it make a sound?<\/p>\n If the House votes for impeachment but don\u2019t take the case to the Senate, is there an impeachment?\u00a0 Apparently, the answer\u2019s “no.”\u00a0 So Trump has not been impeached yet, and he won\u2019t be. Pelosi is now saying she isn\u2019t gonna deliver anything over this \u2019til January 7th because she sent the House home.\u00a0 There will be no votes on anything until they get back next year, January 7th.\u00a0 Now, in the midst of all of this, polling data.<\/p>\n In other words, this is not a poll of, “Who are you gonna vote for? Who do you think…?”\u00a0 This is a poll of, “Who do you think\u2019s gonna win?\u00a0 What are the odds such-and-such will beat somebody else?”\u00a0 They call this an “electability” poll, and it\u2019s the second one like it in two days — and YouGov is not an outlier bunch.\u00a0 They are widely accepted by the Drive-By Media as mainstream. So\u2019s The Economist.\u00a0 So, again, 46% in this poll say that Biden would lose to Trump, 46% to 40%, a six-point edge for Trump.<\/p>\n That Trump would beat Crazy Bernie 57% to 31%. That Trump would beat Elizabeth Warren 57% to 27% (that\u2019s 30 points) and that Trump would trounce Mayor Pete 59 to 18%.\u00a0 Now, look at those margins.\u00a0 Now, let\u2019s stop and look at this for a second.\u00a0 Does this sound sensible?\u00a0 These margins, when you hear them or if you read the piece yourself, does this sound reasonable, believable, or does it sound like, “Whoa! This is so unlike any other poll I\u2019ve seen out there, I don\u2019t know if I should believe this.”<\/p>\n See, to me, this is the first poll to come along that makes any sense whatsoever. The Democrats are not making a case to the majority of this country to reelect them or elect them.\u00a0 They\u2019re not even close to it.\u00a0 The amount of pro-Trump energy out there is expanding, and it\u2019s growing, and even the polls that the mainstream media cite show this, that Trump is gaining support during impeachment; the Democrats are losing it.\u00a0 This makes total sense.<\/p>\n ENTEN: (excitedly) Back in October, Biden was up by 10! So his lead has been cut in half!\u00a0 Bernie Sanders is up by nine — his lead has been cut more than in half — and Warren was up eight, and now she\u2019s only up one! And Buttigieg was up six, and now he is down one! This is massive movement towards the president of the United States, at least in our poll at this particular point.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 They are in horror over in CNN Land, because their poll is showing massive swing toward Trump in head-to-head polls with Democrats.\u00a0 Here\u2019s part two of the sound bite…<\/p>\n ENTEN: … 76% of the country say we have good economic conditions!\u00a0 Just 22% say we have poor!\u00a0 That is, in fact, the best numbers that we\u2019ve had since the beginning of not just this past decade, but the last decade!\u00a0 So take a look at his favorability rating.\u00a0 Now his favorable rating, 46%.\u00a0 The president is becoming more popular, in part, I believe, because of the strong — what people view as a strong — economy.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 So here\u2019s the bottom line: At the moment, registered voters don\u2019t think any of the Democrat frontrunners are gonna beat Donald Trump.\u00a0 This according to the YouGov\/Economist poll.\u00a0 The CNN poll is trending the same direction.\u00a0 Now, there are reasons I think this poll — this electability poll showing Trump winning by such wide margins — is true, and I can\u2019t make the case during the closing segments of this segment.\u00a0 But we will when I get back.\u00a0 Look at the debate last night. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s a classic illustration of what\u2019s wrong with the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not just that, because she articulated things that they always say.\u00a0 They do not adjust for relevant circumstances in America at any time.\u00a0 They just continue to paint this country as dark and doomed.\u00a0 It is the way they have always sought to relate to a majority of Americans and get them on their side, to portray America as dark and gloomy and dismal and most people have no hope, most people have no prayer — most people, the deck is stacked against \u2019em.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the stupidest thing in the world to say during this particular time with economic unemployment at a historic low of 3.5%, African-American unemployment at an historic low.\u00a0 The other positives look at it: African-American employment and Hispanic employment at all-time highs. Stock market through the roof.\u00a0 Most people\u2019s 401(k)s or other instruments are invested in the stock market are they\u2019re doing well because of it. And here come the Democrats continuing to portray this country as a nation in decline where most people have no chance, no prayer, because of evil Republicans — and it\u2019s just not selling, thankfully.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 So this is funny.\u00a0 CNN found an “impeachment law scholar” at Tulane.\u00a0 An impeachment law scholar!\u00a0 Something that\u2019s only happened four times, there is an impeachment law scholar at Tulane.\u00a0 Anyway, they went and found this guy — his name is Ross Garber — to talk them all off the ledge.\u00a0 This guy\u2019s saying (paraphrased), “Well, Professor Feldman may not be right.\u00a0 It may not be correct to say that Trump has not been impeached until a trial starts, until the articles are delivered over there,” because, believe me, folks, when Noah Feldman published that piece…<\/p>\n He wrote a column at Bloomberg News saying, hey, he doesn\u2019t like the fact that Pelosi is not sending the articles over to the Senate.\u00a0 He writes a piece saying that this means that Trump has not been impeached yet; Trump can run around and say, “I haven\u2019t been impeached.”\u00a0 Noah Feldman is panicking, thinks Pelosi is engaging in a bad strategy here.\u00a0 Feldman thinks that because he\u2019s one of the witnesses, Trump is going down, because he testified Trump is guilty.<\/p>\n So the Drive-By Media today has been very, very alarmed at this — “Oh, my God!” — because they\u2019ve been reporting all day long that Trump has been impeached, all day yesterday, all last night, and Feldman comes along.\u00a0 So they went and found a guy to say (impression), “No, it doesn\u2019t quite mean that.\u00a0 Uh, Professor Feldman is correct that the Senate is now in total charge, but it may not necessarily mean so.”\u00a0 They\u2019re all breathing big sighs of relief, \u2019cause they desperately need to be able to say that Trump has been impeached because it\u2019s all about the blemish.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all about the asterisk.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all about the black mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: You may not believe me on this, but don't doubt me. 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<\/a>She has no leverage because she has nothing to say about how the Senate conducts its business in this. She could hold out for what she claims is a fair trial, but a fair trial is something always afforded the accused, not the accusers. But it\u2019s not her purview anyway. Once the House voted the articles, the only thing left is for those articles to be presented to the Senate, then the House is done, other than the trial where the House managers would present the case.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-Pelsoi.jpg\")
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<\/a>Washington Examiner, Paul Bedard<\/a>:\u00a0 “President Trump is starting to run away with the 2020 election.\u00a0 In the second poll in two days to show his advantage, the latest YouGov\/Economist ‘electability\u2019 survey found the president leading the top tier of Democratic challengers from six points to 41 points among registered voters, even amid” the he\u2019s-not-impeached-yet period. “In the survey, 40% said that … Biden would ‘probably beat Donald Trump.\u2019 But 46% said Biden would ‘probably lose to Donald Trump.\u2019 Against [Crazy Bernie], the margin favored Trump 57%-31%.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-CNN-Grab-Polling.jpg\")
Can Mayor Pete, really…? Living an illusion that Mayor Pete\u2019s gonna be elected president?\u00a0 There\u2019s no way that\u2019s gonna happen, and there\u2019s no way Elizabeth Warren\u2019s gonna be elected president.\u00a0 It\u2019s nothing but media mythology to believe that these kinds of things are as close as they are.\u00a0 Now, let\u2019s go to CNN.\u00a0 Audio sound bite number 5.\u00a0 The same thing is happening in a CNN poll.\u00a0 This this morning on CNN New Day, and this is the senior politics writer, Harry Enten.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-CNN-Grab-Polling-2.jpg\")
RUSH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 That\u2019s only part of it.\u00a0 “The president is becoming stronger” because people are reacting horribly negatively to what your pals in the Democrat Party are doing, Mr. Enten.\u00a0 So after he mentioned all this, little Alisyn Camerota said, “Gee, can you explain this?\u00a0 Why is this happening?”\u00a0 They\u2019re clueless.\u00a0 They live in a world where every day they are destroying Donald Trump, and they think since Pelosi impeached him that he\u2019s just about dead now. It\u2019s just a matter of time.\u00a0 They have thought this for three years.\u00a0 It backfires on them each and every time.<\/p>\n