{"id":332250,"date":"2019-12-20T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=332250"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:48:08","slug":"the-turtle-on-fire-for-the-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/20\/the-turtle-on-fire-for-the-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turtle on Fire (for the Turtle!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here is Mitch McConnell.&nbsp; I mentioned he had a great line about the accusation from Pelosi that she\u2019s the one that has all the &#8220;leverage&#8221; now because she\u2019s refusing to send the articles over to the Senate.&nbsp; This is last night on the Senate floor, two sound bites from the Turtle.&nbsp; Here\u2019s the first one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MCCONNELL:&nbsp; We remain at an impasse because my friend, the Democratic leader, continues to demand a new and different set of rules for President Trump.&nbsp; My colleague wants a special pretrial guarantee of certain witnesses whom the House Democrats themselves did not bother to pursue as they assemble their case.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I\u2019m here to tell you, she has&#8230; Well, I say, &#8220;She has no right.&#8221;&nbsp; She can demand all she wants.&nbsp; She has nothing to say about what happens in the Senate.&nbsp; Constitutionally, she\u2019s got nothing to say.&nbsp; But you see, the Constitution\u2019s limits don\u2019t stop her.&nbsp; They\u2019re not stopping her.&nbsp; They\u2019re talking about respect for the rule of law, respect for constitutional duty, constitutional limitations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-McConnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-McConnell.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-122019-McConnell-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t have any.&nbsp; She is attempting to bully and use brute force with the rest of the Democrat Party to force the Turtle into conducting a further investigation with witnesses that she didn\u2019t even bother to call.&nbsp; She didn\u2019t bother to call them because the president wasn\u2019t gonna let them come up and testify.&nbsp; He went to court to stop it.&nbsp; They want to impeach him for that, calling it &#8220;obstruction of Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now she wants the Turtle to call these witnesses so the investigation can go on.&nbsp; The Turtle said, &#8220;We don\u2019t investigate here.&nbsp; You do that!&nbsp; You bring us the case, and we\u2019ll either dismiss it or we\u2019ll sit in judgment of it, whatever.&nbsp; But you don\u2019t get to tell us what to do. We\u2019re the jury.&nbsp; The jury doesn\u2019t do investigations.&#8221;&nbsp; Here\u2019s sound bite number 2 from the Turtle.&nbsp; This is the one that has at great line in it.<\/p>\n<p>MCCONNELL:&nbsp; House Democrats imply they are withholding the articles for some kind of &#8220;leverage&#8221; so they can dictate the Senate process to senators.&nbsp; I admit I\u2019m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want.&nbsp; Meanwhile, other House Democrats seem to be suggesting they\u2019d prefer never to transmit the articles.&nbsp; Fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) This is great. The Turtle\u2019s on fire, for the Turtle. \u201cI\u2019m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want.\u201d (laughing) We don\u2019t want your stinking articles. We don\u2019t want anything to do with this because it\u2019s not legitimate. \u201cMeanwhile, other Democrats seem to be suggesting they prefer never to transmit the articles.\u201d And there are some of those.<\/p>\n<p>And, folks, it all boils down to &#8212; I don\u2019t know if there is anybody sane. The reasonable members of the left know that this is gonna lead to an acquittal which is the absolute last thing that they want. In an election year, for it to be recorded as a matter of constitutional congressional law that the president was found not guilty. &#8220;Doesn\u2019t matter, Rush. They\u2019d still be able to say he was impeached.&#8221; Nah. I\u2019m telling you, the reason she\u2019s not sending these articles over there is because she knows she doesn\u2019t have a case.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I just saw on CNN a Pencil Neck kind of guy named Brad Sherman. He\u2019s also from California. Have you noticed, by the way, speaking of elitism and all, whenever the Democrat leadership gathers on TV, like when Schiff and Nadler and Pelosi and all the people on these committees gathered, do you know what? They\u2019re all from either California or New York. None of them are from the middle of the country. They\u2019re all California, New York. They\u2019re all radical, coastal elites. The House leadership. And yet they tell us that their party is the home of diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: He had a great line about the accusation from Pelosi that she&#039;s the one that has all the &quot;leverage&quot; now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":332259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Turtle on Fire (for the Turtle!) - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/20\/the-turtle-on-fire-for-the-turtle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Turtle on Fire (for the Turtle!) - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: He had a great line about the accusation from Pelosi that she&#039;s the one that has all the &quot;leverage&quot; 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