RUSH: The frenzy, the panic, the out-of-controlism that the Democrat Party finds itself in, it\u2019s all self-recrimination. They brought all of this on themselves, and they know it, and they are fit to be tied. They may want to try to blame all of this on Donald Trump, but they can\u2019t. They have only got their own arrogance and their own presumptuous stupidity to blame for this.<\/p>\n
Because they thought two things. They thought they would never lose in 2016, and especially they thought they would never lose to Donald Trump. So they could play around with the filibuster and they could play around with the confirmation process, could do everything they wanted to do when they ran the show, because it was all gonna benefit them.<\/p>\n
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But then they lost the show. They lost the show, 2014, 2016, 2018, they lost the Senate. The Senate is the show when talking about all of this. And they lost it. And so all of those things they did to empower themselves in perpetuity then redounded to the Republicans. And it was they, the Republicans, that got to use those levers of power.<\/p>\n
They blew it three times, folks. After Obama\u2019s reelection in 2012, they lost the Senate three times, as I just said, 2014, 2016, 2018. Then Dingy Harry, Harry Reid, Democrat leader in the Senate, in 2013, he ditched the judicial filibuster, meaning no reason, no requirement to get to 60 votes before you can vote on confirmation. A simple 51-vote majority, \u2019cause they were thinking already of packing the court.<\/p>\n
In 2008 through 2024 they were dreaming of 16 years of Democrat presidencies, and they could steamroll appointments, pack the court, they could forever shape the Supreme Court into being something the Republicans would never, ever have any power over or control of ever again, except they lost the Senate. The next year, after Dingy Harry did this in 2014, they lost the Senate.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault. Now it\u2019s Mr. Orange Man\u2019s fault, ladies and gentlemen. Ginsburg, Justice Ginsburg. You know, she gambled, and it didn\u2019t pan out, sadly. Justice Ginsburg — and everybody\u2019s now saying this, including the Democrats — that when she was 81 or 82, she should have resigned when Obama had the Senate in 2013 and throughout the year 2014. That\u2019s the campaign year, the Democrats lost it so the new Senate impaneled, \u201915 is when it actually began Republican control.<\/p>\n
But you see, in their arrogance, in their condescending arrogance, they thought Hillary Clinton would win. They thought she was invincible. They thought she and they would both all outlast Trump, Mr. Orange Man. Now they\u2019re crazy. They\u2019re going crazy \u2019cause they know all of this. Mr. Snerdley, they know all of this. They know they did this to themselves.<\/p>\n
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So now they\u2019re coming along and trying to ignore that as far as the public opinion is concerned, and they\u2019re trying to make it look like the Republicans played all these conniving, screaming games and it\u2019s about time for the Republicans to fix what they broke. And the way the Republicans can do that is for Trump not to name a nominee and for Trump not to have a vote.<\/p>\n
Let me tell you what\u2019s gonna happen, folks. Trump\u2019s gonna name a replacement. And there\u2019s gonna be a vote. And you know what else? It is plain as day in the Constitution, there are two things here that are required. The president nominates a replacement; the Senate does it\u2019s advice and consent. Do you realize there\u2019s nothing about the Judiciary Committee conducting hearings? That\u2019s just something that evolved. That\u2019s not a requirement.<\/p>\n
If McConnell wants to, because you know, to hell with this, we don\u2019t have enough time. We\u2019re just gonna go straight to the vote. And he can do it. Whether he will or not, I don\u2019t know, but he should. Folks, this is it. This is it. Not all of it, but this is one of the “its” that Trump\u2019s election was all about, this is it, the shaping of the Supreme Court. And the Democrats know it. Donald Trump was elected in 2016. He had gone public with his Supreme Court nominee list. Trump is way out ahead.<\/p>\n
You know, Biden still won\u2019t do it, and until Biden does that, until Biden furnishes a list, there should be nobody taking anybody on the Democrat side seriously about delaying the naming of a replacement for Ruth Ginsburg. No way. Biden probably doesn\u2019t even have a list. It\u2019s whoever\u2019s running Biden that has the list. And they don\u2019t want to release it. But until they do, we can\u2019t have a serious discussion about this whole thing.<\/p>\n
But the bottom line is this is it. We need this seat in the hands of a conservative, and it needs to happen as soon as possible. It is now a relevant part of the election. I told you, I told you things are gonna shape the election that haven\u2019t even happened yet, told you this last week before Ruth Ginsburg passed away. Do not doubt me. And the Democrats know the position that they are in.<\/p>\n
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Now, they\u2019re out there, they\u2019re threatening things. But the problem is they\u2019ve been threatening this for years, so it\u2019s no longer a threat. It\u2019s kind of like your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner that won\u2019t show up and you send him up to the third floor attic for the rest of the day. They say that if they win everything in 2020, if they win the White House and if they capture the Senate and then hold on to the House, they\u2019re gonna end the Senate filibuster for everything, which means that legislation will just be rubber — they\u2019re threatening everybody. They are promising, slash, threatening to pack the court, 15 to 16 new total, 15 to 16.<\/p>\n
There are nine there now, but add six. That would put \u2019em at 15. Make \u2019em all commie bastard leftists, and they\u2019re gonna do this, they say, ASAP. Look, I\u2019ve been the one telling you this is what they\u2019re gonna do. Have you ever wondered how I knew it? Aside from my brilliant political and analytical skills, they\u2019ve been telling everybody they\u2019re trying to do this. They\u2019ve been trying to scare everybody and they\u2019ve been using it as a way to hype their own base.<\/p>\n
And then they are gonna ditch the Electoral College by, you know, voter compact — They want to get rid of the Electoral College. And they — By the way, if they run everything, they can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Congress set up the court system. Congress long ago did. Congress has control over it, according to the Constitution. So, no, we call it packing the court, but they can do it if they want, and if they control everything, the Republicans are not gonna have the votes to stop them, folks, which is the key.<\/p>\n
Oh, and then the statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. That would give them four brand-new Senate seats, and they would all four be commie bastard leftists. Oh, and then for good measure, they would add 16-year-old voting. They\u2019re doing that in California. And felon voting.<\/p>\n
I mean, folks, they\u2019re gonna have to scrape the proverbial bottom of the barrel to get close to having a voting majority because as things stand, the Democrat Party, the radical left are nowhere near being a majority in this country. It\u2019s one of the greatest scams that the media has succeeded in running, making it look like you and I and people on our side are outnumbered. We are not, and it\u2019s not even close yet, but it\u2019s dangerously trending.<\/p>\n
These guys, the Democrats, they\u2019re socialist revolutionaries. They want to change the rules to stay in power permanently. And they will if they win the White House and if they win the Senate. I think Trump should name his replacement. I don\u2019t know who it\u2019s gonna be. He could screw everybody up here — not screw everybody. He could confound everybody by naming a white male. Can you imagine? I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna be — (laughing) Oh, but if he did that… (laughing)<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know who it\u2019s gonna be, but let\u2019s say that it is an Hispanic female from Florida — and there is one available — I want to see the Democrats for two weeks, for four weeks, I want to see them trash an Hispanic female. I want to see them Kavanaugh an Hispanic female. I want to watch them do this. I want to watch them try to get away with it. (interruption) You don\u2019t think they will? (interruption)<\/p>\n
They would do it like they did Miguel Estrada, absolutely, like they did Clarence Thomas, like they do any other conservative minority, they would get on \u2019em for being traitors, failures, phonies, bought and paid for by the white establishment. Oh. There\u2019s no question that they would do it. (interruption) Yeah, that\u2019s probably right. They\u2019d call her the second “white Hispanic.” The first “white Hispanic” was George Zimmerman. The first “white Hispanic,” guy that caused Trayvon Martin to be deceased. The New York Times, the first “white Hispanic.” She would be the second “white Hispanic,” is how they would do it.<\/p>\n
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You know, I mentioned that the Judiciary Committee does not have to do its thing. It\u2019s become a tradition, but it\u2019s not a requirement. And since Trump has already driven them crazy, I mean, long before today, they are crazy, then why not just blow up another tradition? Because, I\u2019ll tell you, that\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna maintain the ones that matter. It is the very traditions and institutions that define this country that the left has in its crosshairs. They have to be defeated. This Supreme Court seat has to be confirmed, it has to be named and confirmed before the election.<\/p>\n
All this talk about waiting \u2019til after the election, Donald Trump was elected in 2016 on the very basis of the fact that he had a list of names, and people were able to judge those names and his candidacy as a result. The 2020 election has nothing to do with this Supreme Court seat, folks. It has nothing to do with it. Don\u2019t fall for this idea that, “This is so close to the election. We need to wait. We need to wait for the election so that the right president gets to make –” No, no, no. We\u2019ve already voted on the president that gets to make this pick, and Donald Trump is he.<\/p>\n
The 2016 election is what this nomination is about. Not the 2020 election, both in terms of timeline, legalities, and common sense, the 2020 election has nothing to do with this Supreme Court opening. I want the Judiciary Committee — I think it\u2019d be great if it were skipped. We don\u2019t need to open that up for whatever length of time so that whoever this nominee is can be Kavanaughed or Borked or Thomased. Because that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna be, especially when it\u2019s not even required.<\/p>\n
In addition, there are people on the Judiciary Committee who need to be out campaigning in October, not trying to deflect leftist attempts to distort the nominee\u2019s junior high school yearbook. And when the vote count is assured, Mitch McConnell needs to take it straight to the floor of the Senate and have the vote. And you know Murkowski and Collins and Romney, you three, you need to look at this a different way. You were elected, your voters presumed that you\u2019re gonna be there at times like this. Don\u2019t tell me your voters don\u2019t also support Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
You people, Romney, Murkowski, Collins, you are on the cusp of misreading your own voters about this. But when the vote count is assured, go straight to the floor for a vote. You know why? That protects senators from being all-out attacked by the Democrat mobs. It stops a whole bunch of that. We don\u2019t want to give Kamala Harris the opportunity to grandstand in that committee as a vice presidential running mate of Plugs.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s another thing too. Trump has said that he is going to wait until after Justice Ginsburg has been buried — which is gonna be at Arlington National Cemetery — before naming the nominee. A lot of people on our side, I heard from \u2019em today, started panicking. There are people that are afraid if Trump doesn\u2019t name the nominee today, that it\u2019s all gonna get destroyed and it\u2019s gonna get lost, that we\u2019re gonna lose the momentum, that we\u2019re gonna lose what we\u2019ve got going for us right now.<\/p>\n
And I don\u2019t subscribe to that theory. The theory on the part of those who are a little worried about this is that the Democrats can delay and delay and delay the actual burial of Justice Ginsburg until after the election if they want, which they can\u2019t. There\u2019s a whole host of reasons why.<\/p>\n
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Now, Trump has said today, even despite the announcement that she\u2019s gonna be buried in Arlington National, Trump said today he\u2019s gonna name his pick Friday or Saturday, regardless which side of the grass Justice Ginsburg is on. And I think the president knows what he\u2019s doing here. In fact, there\u2019s a quote I saw the president said, “We got all the time in the world.” And the way he\u2019s looking at this, the more time — nobody\u2019s thinking of delaying this beyond the election. Don\u2019t panic over that. The more time there is here, the more time there is for the left to go bonkers on this. There\u2019s more time for the left to go literally crazy and try to affect or impact whether Trump names anybody or not or whether there\u2019s a vote or not.<\/p>\n
But then there\u2019s another thing. The longer that Trump can keep this whole thing as a lead item, that\u2019s less time that COVID-19 can spend occupying lead news story status and you can\u2019t rule that out. But I think Trump\u2019s thinking is the more time there is here, the greater the opportunity the Democrats and the left are gonna make abject, total fools of themselves.<\/p>\n
Do you think, for example, it helps them to be out there promising to pack the Supreme Court? Do you think it helps them to be claiming that what they\u2019re gonna do is grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia so they get four brand-new Democrat senators for life? Think that helps them? ‘Cause they\u2019re out there threatening to do it. And the threat, by the way, has been met with snoozes and crickets because how many times can you make the threat before it loses its impact? And they\u2019ve made the threat so many times, and everybody\u2019s aware this is what they\u2019re gonna do now. So there\u2019s no shock value to it. There\u2019s no surprise in it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, you know another thing, folks. You know that from here to the election the Democrats have a series of these bombshells. Every two or three days, there\u2019s something new. The past four years it has been at least every week, sometimes every day, but they\u2019ve had something new every week. We\u2019ve been talking about it. You know that they\u2019ve got a list. They\u2019ve got a whole series of these bombshells that they had lined up, that they were gonna drop every other day up until the election.<\/p>\n
You have to ask what the press is gonna do with all of those. Those bombshells are just gonna accumulate, they not gonna be dropped? Because the press is saying, we\u2019ve got to stay focused on make sure Trump does not name this replacement, make sure there\u2019s not a vote. Here, you watch. COVID, masks, they could theoretically become nonissues real quickly, too, as all of this overwhelms everything.<\/p>\n
This is the last thing the Democrats thought, the last thing the Democrats ever counted on happening. That\u2019s why I say the events that shape elections largely have yet to happen, especially when you\u2019re a month out. Way too much can still happen, and in this situation, they weren\u2019t ready at all. And you can see it. They\u2019re panicking every which way from Sunday.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Harry Reid dumped the Senate rule for 60 votes to close debate to fill judicial vacancies. Harry Reid ended the filibuster for judicial nominees, which is why we even have a discussable issue here. Harry Reid made it possible for Donald Trump or any Republican president to appoint justices with a simple majority. And we talked about this earlier. Harry Reid did this because he thought the Democrats were going to win and keep the Senate interminably in the future.<\/p>\n
Except they lost the Senate 2014, 2016, 2018, which was the last election, thereby Republicans run the Senate means Trump can pick anybody, and they only need a simple majority, which, as I said earlier, if Murkowski and Collins decide to abstain — you know, they can vote “present” and express their disagreement with the process but not vote against the nominee. If they did that — and it\u2019s likely, or possible — then all the Republicans would need was 48 votes in the Senate to confirm, not 51.<\/p>\n
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So Harry Reid — we\u2019re talking about political competence here, right? And the theory is that it\u2019s the Democrats, the Democrats are the ones we need to entrust our country to because they\u2019re the ones that have the political know-how and the political wherewithal. These are the people who are best capable of representing Americans. They understand the political system. Right. So here\u2019s Harry Reid blowing it for the Democrats forever.<\/p>\n
Then Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She should have retired when Obama was president, thereby allowing him to pick somebody that\u2019s gonna be on that court another 30 to 40 years. But she didn\u2019t. She didn\u2019t have any idea that Donald Trump was gonna win. Nobody did. It was not possible. So now Trump won, he gets to pick her replacement.<\/p>\n
And then the third thing, the Democrats have nominated somebody with dementia. And that would be Joe Biden. So Harry Reid blowing it, Ruth Bader Ginsburg making the wrong bet, the Democrats have nominated a guy with dementia. Now the Democrats are — what else? — they are rioting, they are looting, they are burning down their own, and our, cities, cities in states and cities they control.<\/p>\n
Democrats sigh that if the Republicans follow the Constitution they\u2019re gonna burn down the country. I\u2019ve got the tweets. The Democrats are tweeting they\u2019re gonna burn it all down. They are not going to save anything.<\/p>\n
Now, obviously we have to allow for some fevered emotional overreaction here. But they\u2019re already demonstrating that they are more than capable of burning down businesses and other people\u2019s property. So it\u2019s not an idle threat. The Democrat Party is a destructive, hateful, selfish political party, and they do not deserve to be anywhere near the levers of power as currently constituted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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