![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012821-Rand-Paul-CSPAN.jpg\")
<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, folks, Rand Paul has been on fire this week, the senator from Kentucky, and Tuesday in Washington on the Senate floor, he made a really great speech on the unconstitutional sham second impeachment of Donald Trump. We have a couple sound bites. Here\u2019s number 1.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
PAUL: If we are about to try to impeach a president, where is the chief justice? If the accused is no longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him? Private citizens don\u2019t get impeached. Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office. Hyperpartisan Democrats are about to drag our great country down into the gutter of rancor and vitriol —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Already done that.<\/p>\n
PAUL: — the likes of which has never been seen in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They\u2019ve already done that.<\/p>\n
PAUL: The Democrats are wasting the nation\u2019s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office. It\u2019s almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump!<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
PAUL: Without him as their bogeyman, they might have to legislate and to actually convince Americans that their policy prescriptions are the right ones.<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, what are they doing? Biden has formed a panel to investigate packing the Supreme Court. They\u2019re gonna do that. They\u2019re already looking into creating a state out of Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Everything we warned you about to create Democrats in perpetuity is being done.<\/p>\n
So when Rand Paul says here that “they might have to legislate and to actually convince Americans that their policy prescriptions are the right ones”? They\u2019re never gonna have to do that. That\u2019s my… If I had to make a point, if I had to try to find a way to convince people of one thing, it\u2019s that the Democrats are never gonna have to convince you of anything. They\u2019re just going to do it.<\/p>\n
If you disagree with them having a 13-seat Supreme Court, too bad. They\u2019re just going to do it. They\u2019re gonna have the votes, and they\u2019re gonna do it. They\u2019re not gonna persuade you. This is what we\u2019re missing. This is not retail politics as it\u2019s always been. The Democrats aren\u2019t gonna have to persuade anybody. Once they get states in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. — they\u2019re gonna have to persuade people now because they\u2019ve only got 50 seats in the Senate power sharing with Mitch McConnell and so forth. But their long-term plan is to not need to persuade anybody.<\/p>\n
Do not doubt me. That is the core of their belief. That is the core of their agenda. To no longer have to persuade anybody, that they will have such vote power, such majority power, they won\u2019t have to persuade a damn fool of anything. Now, one other thing here that he said. John Roberts. Where\u2019s the chief justice? Well, this is an interesting point. John Roberts refuses to sit at the Trump trial. You aware of this?<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061820-Roberts-5.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
“Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 refusal to preside over former President Donald Trump\u2019s second impeachment trial is raising questions about whether he views the first-of-its-kind proceedings as constitutional. The Supreme Court has been declining to comment,” when asked by the media why the chief justice will not take part in this historic trial. Chuck Schumer said that the chief justice doesn\u2019t want to take part in it. “The Constitution says the chief justice presides for a sitting president.” Trump is not a sitting president.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m gonna tell you what I think\u2019s going on here. I think the chief is questioning the constitutionality of the Democrats\u2019 latest attempt here. Now, he would never say so in public because it would hurt his reputation in Georgetown.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s gonna happen, in Roberts\u2019 absence the trial will be presided over by Pat “Leaky” Leahy. You heard what happened to him, they swore him in and then something happened and they had to put him in an ambulance and move him up to the hospital, and then after a few short minutes, everything\u2019s fine here. Do we know any more than that? (interruption) We don\u2019t know why Leaky Leahy had to go to the hospital? Anyway, Rand Paul is making a big deal out of the fact that the chief justice won\u2019t even show up. Here\u2019s the next Rand Paul bite.<\/p>\n
PAUL: But what of Democrat words? What of Democrat incitement to violence? No Democrat will honestly ask whether Bernie Sanders incited the shooter that nearly killed Steve Scalise and volunteer coach. The shooter nearly pulled off a massacre. I was there. Because he fervently believed the false and inflammatory rhetoric spewed by Bernie and other Democrats.<\/p>\n
No Democrat will ask whether Maxine Waters incited violence when she literally told her supporters — and I quote — that if you see a member of the Trump administration at a restaurant, at a department store, at a gas station, or anyplace, you create a crowd, and you push back on them. Is that not incitement? Shame, shame on these angry, unhinged partisans who are putting forth this sham impeachment, deranged by their hatred of the former president.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s truly that. It is deranged hatred; there is no question about it. He\u2019s absolutely right about Bernie Sanders inciting that wacko to shoot up the baseball practice. But we\u2019re not allowed to say that. And Republicans go along with it. The Mitt Romneys of the world go along with, “Oh, yeah. We cannot engage in that kind of hate speech. No, no, no, in. We don\u2019t want to say that nice old Bernie had anything to do with it. Bernie had nothing to do with it.”<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Doctor-of-Democracy.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re hoping that the Democrats will extend to them the same favor, that the next time some Democrat blows away another Democrat, that they won\u2019t go out and start blaming Republicans for it. But of course that doesn\u2019t happen, does it? They always try to find a way to blame Sarah Palin or me or Fox News, take your pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Rand Paul has been on fire this week, the senator from Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":380424,"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":"\n