{"id":334061,"date":"2020-01-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=334061"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:11:48","slug":"drive-bys-cling-to-gop-cracks-and-copious-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/01\/22\/drive-bys-cling-to-gop-cracks-and-copious-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Cling to GOP “Cracks” and “Copious Notes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Yesterday I made a point that the Democrats and the media are gonna try to find enough Republicans and turn \u2019em into Jeff Flakes<\/a>. In fact, let\u2019s start the audio sound bites. To review this, grab audio sound bite number 1. We\u2019ll do 1, 2, and 3. We got some examples of the media trying to do this, and then the piece de resistance is the acknowledgment that they failed. So, here is how I characterized this yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: The Drive-By Media is all ecstatic because they think McConnell has already caved by giving an additional day to present cases, two days was the original, 12 hours a day, 24 hours total. He\u2019s now moved it to three. Many liberal journalists, \u201cSee? He\u2019s beginning to cave. He knows that he\u2019s about to lose four Republicans.\u201d … The media wants you to think McConnell is caving and that four Republican recalcitrants are maybe gonna win the day and Schumer may end up running the trial. Don\u2019t fall for any of that. It\u2019s the usual attempt to dispirit you, depress you, and all of that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this next bite, this is exactly, exactly as I predicted as yesterday\u2019s show ended. The Drive-Bys tried to portray a minor rule change made by McConnell as a crack. You know, McConnell gave them an additional day, three days instead of \u2013 he gave them 24 hours over two days. So, it\u2019d be two 12-hour days to present their case. McConnell, “Okay. Okay. We\u2019ll give you three days.” They try to portray that as a major, major crack.<\/p>\n

LESTER HOLT: Do you read that as — as potential cracks?<\/p>\n

RYAN GOODMAN: We\u2019ve seen cracks emerge that we wouldn\u2019t have anticipated just 24 hours ago.<\/p>\n

MAGGIE HABERMAN: I agree that there are some cracks here.<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: You see those cracks?<\/p>\n

KASIE HUNT: … crack the door open…<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: That\u2019s a crack! That\u2019s a crack!<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: Mitch McConnell may not have a control over this.<\/p>\n

ANDREW MCCABE: Republicans pushed back on McConnell\u2019s resolution. That is the first small, but first crack in the Republican wall that the Democrats have seen since this entire thing began.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know who that last voice is? Andrew McCabe, fired from the FBI for lying. He ran the coup along with Brennan and whoever else from the U.K., MI5. Andrew McCabe is on CNN engaging in partisan political analysis. “Republicans pushed back on McConnell\u2019s resolution. This the first small crack, the first crack in the Republican wall.” This is the guy at the FBI that ran the show. It\u2019s obvious.<\/p>\n

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How\u2019s the guy even on TV? He\u2019s on TV because CNN and the media are all-in as left-wing Democrat activists. So there\u2019s Andrew McCabe all excited, all happy that he thinks the Republicans caved. The Drive-Bys were hyperventilating over the potential that there\u2019s a bunch of Jeff Flakes out there. Here\u2019s a montage from yesterday and last night.<\/p>\n

DAVID MUIR: The senators that we have been watching very closely in recent weeks, the moderates, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, all taking copious notes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! Taking copious notes. \u201cOh, my God. Folks, they\u2019re taking copious notes. They\u2019re about to cave. They\u2019re writing things down. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We may have found some Flakes here. They\u2019re taking notes.\u201d They were so excited. Resume tape.<\/p>\n

CHIP REID: …some of them are busily taking notes.<\/p>\n

PETER ALEXANDER: …many of them taking extensive notes.<\/p>\n

DANA BASH: Cory Gardner who is probably up for the toughest re-election bid this year taking copious notes, same with Susan Collins and others.<\/p>\n

LISA DESJARDINS: Some senators are taking copious notes. Those are some of the swing senators, including Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Can you spell “desperation”? So they\u2019re out there, they\u2019re taking copious notes. Every Drive-By comment, copious notes. Not writing down notes. Not making notes. Not feverishly composing. Copious. And this was to signal another sign that there was a break in the unity on the Republican side because four Republicans were taking notes. Can you spell desperation? So how did it all end? Well, this morning Chuck You Schumer held a press conference on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: On four separate votes every Senate Republican voted against requesting relevant documents for the trial.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. What?<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: On three other votes, every Senate Republican voted \u2013<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: — against calling relevant witnesses before the Senate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: McConnell was forced to tweak his organizing resolution before it was even offered with modifications scrawled in the margins after several Senate Republicans agreed with Democratic objections. The fact McConnell had to change his resolution showed that Republicans can make this trial more fair if they want to.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: See, there we go. It\u2019s unfair to begin with because the Republicans were involved. It\u2019s up to the Republicans to give Democrats what they want. That\u2019s how you define fairness. But after all of the hoping and the heavy breathing and the panting by the Drive-By Media that there was a crack, that the Republicans had found four Jeff Flakes, they were taking copious notes. When it all ended up, Schumer announced on four separate votes every Senate Republican voted against what the Democrats wanted.<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t a crack, was there? They didn\u2019t find any Flakes. But what about the copious notes? What about all of the fairness? So Schumer\u2019s reduced to saying here that McConnell adding a day to the presentation of the evidence shows that Republicans can be fair if they want to.<\/p>\n

You know what the truth of this is? I mean on the ground. The truth of this is that people that tried to watch more than an hour of this were being challenged by severe boredom. People that were inclined to watch this are sufficiently informed to have heard all of this before.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll tell you, rather than the media and the Democrats finding four Jeff Flakes, the truth of the matter is that Romney and the other three, they\u2019re beginning to sense the Democrats are blowing it. I think some of these Republicans are open to it. I think they\u2019re open to hoping the Democrats got something here. But I think after yesterday, Romney and these other three are sensing the Democrats are blowing it.<\/p>\n

How can you not sense they\u2019re blowing it? Nadler and Schiff alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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