{"id":367119,"date":"2020-10-02T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=367119"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:57:14","slug":"republicans-must-confirm-barrett-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/02\/republicans-must-confirm-barrett-before-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans MUST Confirm Barrett Before the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Meanwhile, even before President Trump\u2019s COVID news<\/a>, Dianne Feinstein and every other Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee were demanding that Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearing be delayed. Just as we predicted. The minute I heard that they were gonna go ahead and allot weeks for hearings, folks, I got a bad feeling about this. We just do not learn, and it\u2019s not even that.<\/p>\n

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We, of course, learn. Lindsey Graham cannot possibly be ignorant about what the Democrats\u2019 intentions are here. We don\u2019t need to do any hearings. This whole thing has got to happen before the election! You know, this came up in the debate the other night, and Trump sort of mangled it, if you ask me. It\u2019s not this complicated. He was elected president in 2016 for four years.<\/p>\n

We have an opening in the Supreme Court that is occurring within those four years. The American people spoke. They elected Trump largely on the basis of his Supreme Court list of potential justices. He made it a big part of the campaign in 2016. To say that Trump is not entitled to make this pick because it\u2019s so close to an election is nothing more than a Democrat delay tactic.<\/p>\n

He, of course, is entirely entitled to make this pick, constitutionally. There\u2019s two things about it, and that\u2019s it. The president names the justice; the Senate has a role to play, advice and consent. The Republicans run Senate. If their advice is, “We\u2019ve got the votes to pass the nominee; we don\u2019t need to do any hearings,” then there\u2019s the consent, and we can be done with this.<\/p>\n

Now, no. Now we\u2019re gonna do hearings, and now we\u2019re gonna do this and that, and we may not even finish until October 22nd, and we gotta have this or that happen. Now there\u2019s even, “Mitch McConnell will not even guarantee there will be a vote before the election.” I said, “What the hell\u2019s going on?” “Well, he\u2019s in a tight battle in Kentucky.” So what? Man, this is big, this judicial nomination.<\/p>\n

\"\"This may not come our way again, this opportunity, because if this woman is not confirmed before the election, you can kiss it good-bye. She\u2019s not gonna be confirmed after the election. “What, Rush, even if Trump wins?” If Trump wins, they\u2019re gonna do everything they can. It depends on what happens in the Senate. But you don\u2019t want to take the chance.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got an opportunity here to get this woman confirmed, legally, politically, whatever way you want to analyze this. The legals and the constitutionality are all on our side. Now here come the Democrats demanding a delay. Even before Trump gets COVID-19, they\u2019re demanding a delay. The process, they say, is “too hurried to properly vet Amy Coney Barrett.” No, it\u2019s not!<\/p>\n

The woman has been vetted three years ago. They put her through the indignity of this three years ago for her nomination to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. All of this was so predictable. It was damned predictable this was gonna happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, at about 1:14 this afternoon, sometime in the 1 o\u2019clock hour today, Politico ran a story. The headline of the story: “McConnell Vows ‘Full Steam Ahead\u2019 on Barrett as Fears Rise of Virus Outbreak<\/a> —<\/p>\n

“Sen. Mike Lee, a key Republican on the Judiciary Committee, announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus.” So here\u2019s the guts of the story: “Lindsey Graham is scheduled to begin hearings for Barrett on Oct. 12,” ten days from now, “and is planning to hold a committee vote on the nomination on Oct. 22. In his statement, Lee said he planned to quarantine for 10 days and expected to be able to provide support for Barrett in the committee.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“‘I have spoken with Leader McConnell and Chairman Graham, and assured them I will be back to work in time to join my Judiciary Committee colleagues in advancing the Supreme Court nomination,\u2019 Lee said.” I\u2019m still looking for the part of this story where McConnell says it\u2019s “full steam ahead.” McConnell, appearing with appearing with Hugh Hewitt on the radio today, said “that he has yet to choose a date for the final floor vote, but that Democrats will be unable to delay Barrett\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n

“But fallout from the pandemic is largely out of his control.” Ohhhh, see? “‘Our biggest enemy, obviously, is … the coronavirus, keeping everybody healthy and well and in place to do our job,\u2019 he said. [The Turtle] said that portions of Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearings are likely to be conducted remotely … he was not yet sure whether senators who met with Barrett and the White House officials had contracted the virus.”<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m still looking for part of the story, “McConnell vows ‘full steam ahead,'” but don\u2019t see it in the story. “I have spoken with Leader…” (muttering) Well, I\u2019ll trust your word for it, \u2019cause the headline says he “vows ‘full steam ahead.'” I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t see any evidence of “full steam ahead.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Paul in Elmont, Michigan. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s actually Belmont near Grand Rapids and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry. It says “Elmont” up there. My bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand. I\u2019m reacting to something you said in the last hour regarding whether Amy Barrett would actually — her confirmation vote would — come up before the election or not. Specifically, I think what you said was McConnell couldn\u2019t promise that it would because he\u2019s in a tight race, and I understand tight races and the importance of his winning reelection. But what I would say is if you try to equate the importance of his reelection with the importance of getting ACB confirmed and on the Supreme Court, there\u2019s just no comparison, and it\u2019s one of the most asinine things I think I\u2019ve heard in a long time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re running two things together. Let me… I heard somewhere this morning doing show prep… Either somebody on Fox was saying it or I read it somewhere, and it was my first red flag that went up. It was that Senator McConnell was suggesting that there may not be a vote on Judge Barrett before the election — and that\u2019s the first I\u2019d heard of that.<\/p>\n

I said, “What the name of Sam Hill! What am I missing?” and I didn\u2019t hear any more than that. Then later, I had heard when I was running this by some other people, “Did you hear this?” somebody said, “Yeah, he\u2019s got a tight race going on in Kentucky.” So I then mentioned that.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s why there\u2019s not gonna be a vote on her. That\u2019s what somebody said to me. I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t make that clear. And then The Politico came out with a story in the 1 o\u2019clock hour which said the exact opposite of all this, that McConnell is prepared to move ahead with the vote. So here\u2019s the problem for me.<\/p>\n

The problem is that when I heard — and I wish I could remember. I got too much stimuli here. I got too much coming at me at one time, and sometimes if I don\u2019t stop and make a note of who I heard say something or where I\u2019m reading it, then all I\u2019ve got is my memory of what I heard. I heard somebody say… It was either me or it might have been videotape of McConnell himself saying, “We may not get to a vote here before the election.”<\/p>\n

\"\"It might have been a story on the whole idea of getting things done before the election, and I just stopped what I was doing and red flag went up, \u2019cause I can totally believe that (sigh) about Republicans, and I wish I didn\u2019t. But The Politico piece that came out, and I\u2019ve now put it at the bottom of the Stack here. (shuffling papers) Politico piece came out the 1 o\u2019clock hour and I think I might have just stumbled across it here.<\/p>\n

“McConnell Vows ‘Full Steam Ahead\u2019 on Barrett as Fears Rise of Virus Outbreak.” So apparently what I heard earlier this morning bothered a lot of people, and it caused the Turtle to go out there and clarify what\u2019s going on. But I\u2019m telling you: There doesn\u2019t seem to be a sense of urgency about this; I don\u2019t care what these people are saying. I don\u2019t think there needs to be hearings.<\/p>\n

The woman was vetted three years ago. She\u2019s already put up with Dianne Feinstein insulting her Catholicism. This is a train wreck waiting to happen. We have proven that we don\u2019t know how to stop these train wrecks when they start. Kavanaugh was on the verge of being confirmed, and then here comes Blasey Ford\u2019s letter that Dianne Feinstein just miraculously was able to produce — and it stopped everything.<\/p>\n

They started workin\u2019 on Jeff Flake, a Republican senator, to stop and get another FBI investigation. Then here came every one of the damn lies about Kavanaugh running rape trains and spiking the punch and all this stuff, and not a shred of it was true. We had to go through two to three weeks of it, and the idea that Democrats are not gonna do it again is ludicrous.<\/p>\n

We run the Senate!<\/p>\n

We control the Senate!<\/p>\n

We have the votes to get this judge confirmed!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to sound hysteria here. But it just ticks me off when history starts repeating itself when it\u2019s so unnecessary. We have the votes to get her confirmed. We don\u2019t need to do hearings. If we\u2019re gonna do hearings, we do \u2019em for two days. But I tell you, if you open the door to hearings, then the Democrats are coming along and they\u2019re already asking for delay.<\/p>\n

Not enough time.<\/p>\n

Not enough time.<\/p>\n

Dianne Feinstein says not enough time.<\/p>\n

What an absolute crock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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