{"id":368376,"date":"2020-10-13T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=368376"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:27:09","slug":"incompetent-republicans-didnt-get-behind-trump-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/13\/incompetent-republicans-didnt-get-behind-trump-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Incompetent Republicans Didn\u2019t Get Behind Trump Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to remind people of something. Donald Trump was elected on election night in 2016. He\u2019s inaugurated in January of 2017. No, this is not about the coup or any of that. Well, it is in a away. Donald Trump hears the Republicans, who never expected him to win, and they\u2019re all excited. They\u2019re all a tizzy. I\u2019ll never forget, in the days after the election, the immediate days after the election, Paul Ryan was on television everywhere describing the greatness of Donald Trump. Oh, my God. We never expected to win this. One man has made this possible.<\/p>\n

Ryan never expected to be speaker. Ryan never expected the Republicans to win the House. It was the last thing any of these Republicans were planning on. And one of the important things about that is they weren\u2019t prepared to do the work of leadership. And Trump winning was, oh, no, God, we\u2019re gonna have to do this, meaning, lead, meaning run the House. Meaning, oh, my God, I thought we were gonna be in the minority, not gonna have to do anything, and they thought that their out would be they\u2019re in the minority, they can\u2019t stop the Democrats. That\u2019s what they thought.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then, after it settles in that Trump has won and that Ryan is speaker and that the Republicans run the committees, Trump really launches an agenda rapidly. He hits the floor running, folks. I\u2019ll never forget this. He hit the floor running. He was intent on showing the voters that their votes had been worth it. He wanted to get rid, for example, of Obamacare. He wanted to end it. And he began to try to implement policies that would do just that. He ran into a problem. He got no help from the Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n

Kathryn and I were invited to dinner with the president and Mick Mulvaney and Vice President Pence and some others in March. I think the date was March 21st, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, this date was the date of a very important vote on canceling, withdrawing Obamacare. And the vote didn\u2019t look like it was going Trump\u2019s way. Steve Bannon and one other guy who were acting as the congressional liaisons were bopping their head into the room every so often to report to the president on the progress up on the Hill.<\/p>\n

And I remember the president, “You tell them if they\u2019re not gonna push ahead with this, that I\u2019m through helping \u2019em any other way they need it.” I said, “I am privy to some big stuff going on here.” Anyway, the evening ends. Vice President Pence, his wife Karen walk us out. We get in the car, we head to the airport, come back home. And then I study, you know, the next month the Trump agenda\u2019s halted.<\/p>\n

Nothing is happening in the Trump agenda. And I\u2019m asking myself, why? Because the people that elected Trump are in euphoria. My God, we actually have a chance to repeal Obamacare<\/a>. That\u2019s what Trump\u2019s signature issue was. It was many things. It was building the wall, all of this stuff. And he wasn\u2019t getting any help. I finally found out why, folks. They believed the Russian collusion story, the Republicans did. They believed it. For a time that entire summer they believed that Trump had colluded. All they do is read the Washington Post and New York Times. They believed it. It infuriated me when I found out this was why they were not helping.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t want to help Trump pass anything that they thought wasn\u2019t gonna survive because he was gonna be frog-marched out of the White House as a criminal. Not all of them, don\u2019t misunderstand. Not all of them. There were enough Republicans and in leadership that believed Trump had actually colluded with the Russians and may have taken action to steal the election.<\/p>\n

You remember talking about this, Mr. Snerdley? This infuriated me. Trump\u2019s own party believing stuff. Well, anyway, the point is that\u2019s why repealing and replacing Obamacare didn\u2019t get done when we had the votes to do it. Because the Republicans didn\u2019t think Trump was gonna survive one of the most incompetent political calculations ever made in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Brian in Commerce, Georgia. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos, and mega prayers, my friend.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019m a former civics teacher. Not only is this an important election for obvious reasons, but it\u2019s also one because this is a full election cycle: President, Congress, Senate, state legislatures. But it only comes every 20 years when it\u2019s associated with a census year. And we need to realize that next year, there gonna be a lot of state legislators that are gonna be redrawing districts. Like here in Georgia, we\u2019re probably gonna pick up a district. New York\u2019s probably gonna lose a district. California hopefully loses five districts. You know, whatever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re gonna be redrawing those for the next 10 years. So even if people don\u2019t want to vote for a president per se or if they\u2019re in a swing state that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. This is a good point. This is an excellent, excellent point, folks. Even if you don\u2019t care to render an opinion on Plugs or the Bad Orange Man, there\u2019s a whole bunch of other reasons why you do need to get out there and vote Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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