{"id":399063,"date":"2021-05-24T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=399063"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:38:36","slug":"monday-musings-bipartisanship-means-gop-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/24\/monday-musings-bipartisanship-means-gop-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings: Bipartisanship Means GOP Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: Rush had a way of explaining things that made it easy to understand. And that\u2019s the key to being a good talk show host. He had a way — that way — of making us think. And that\u2019s why we plan to revisit some of those think pieces he always had, those thoughtful little monologues he had, and we\u2019ll call it our Monday Musings segment. Now, bipartisanship has been all the rage, all the buzzword around town, especially when the Democrats are in the majority. So, here\u2019s Rush from 2006 talking about what it really means.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: These people are running around talking about the “new realism, the new realism.” It\u2019s bureaucrat-speak. It\u2019s nothing but elitist hogwash. Realism, pragmatism, consensus, bipartisanship. It\u2019s all bunk. In the first place, there\u2019s nothing wrong with partisanship. Bipartisanship means somebody had to cave and guess who caved? It was our side that caved on this. But this notion of talking to our enemies. The West and the United Nations, we\u2019ve been talking to Iran for what, now, on their nuclear program, three years? If it\u2019s three years, it\u2019s six. I mean, how long have we been talking to them? And the result is what? They are three years closer to nukes. We\u2019re gonna talk to \u2019em next month, they\u2019re gonna be a month closer to nukes. We\u2019re gonna talk to \u2019em another six years, they\u2019re gonna be six years closer to nukes. Oh, yeah. But we can do this in a bipartisan fashion, we can make everybody feel better, and we can make people think that we\u2019re gonna get along with these people \u2019cause we can go talk to them.<\/p>\n

\"\"Let me share with you the words of Bill Bennett writing at National Review Online about the Iraq Surrender Group. He says, “I\u2019ve heard again and again at the press conference and on subsequent interviews variants of ‘this is how a commission should work in Washington,\u2019 ‘this has been great bi-partisanship,\u2019 ‘it\u2019s too bad we can\u2019t operate this way more,\u2019 ‘if any message is to be sent it\u2019s the message that five Republicans and five Democrats of goodwill sat down since March and put together a remarkable document.” Those are some of the things being said about this embarrassment and abomination of a report. As Uncle Bob\u2019s brother, Bill says, “This is the triumph of the therapeutic, where bipartisanship — a little hug across the aisle — has become a higher value than justice. The crisis of the house divided has been inverted; we now longer are worried about the crisis, but the House, the moral, the good, and the just take a backseat to collegiality. Does history really give a hoot about bipartisanship? Who cares whether they are getting along?”<\/p>\n

Show me the book in the library, Great Bipartisanship in American History. Show me where does it happen? “The task is to do the right thing. Especially in a war. But when relativism is the highest value, agreement becomes the highest goal regardless of right or wrong, and woe to those who disagree. They\u2019ll be sent whence they came, the outer reaches of extremism. This is the tyranny of the best people, today\u2019s equivalent of the Cliveden set. One reporter asked if the president would accept this edict, exhibiting a total lack of understanding of how the Constitution is set up.” Mr. Bennett concludes, “In all my time in Washington, I have never seen such smugness, arrogance, or such insufferable moral superiority, self-congratulatory, full of itself, horrible.”<\/p>\n

You know, bipartisanship simply means Republicans cave on their core principals and agree with Democrats. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s praising the stupid report, \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing in this about winning, there\u2019s nothing in this about victory, there isn\u2019t anything in this about moving forward in a positive way. This-is-cut-and-run surrender without the words. This is what they\u2019re having orgasms over, folks, this to them — I\u2019m telling you — maybe this is the way you people in Rio Linda will understand this. This report and everything that came to be out of it and how it got put together is better than sex. I telling you, these people are just going nuts over this. Because it harks back to a better time when wise men are — I tell you who they\u2019re talking about. Averell Harriman, Cyrus Vance, Theodore Sorensen, Robert McNamara, all these others were advising brilliant Democrat presidents, the wise men, and you see Bill Bennett is right. This is not even about the policy.<\/p>\n

\"\"This is about national unity, this is about reaching across the aisle for a few hugs, maybe a little smack here or there, and it\u2019s therapy. These people just engaged in therapy. They basically had a nine-month 12-step program here for how to make themselves feel better during times of crisis resulting from partisanship. It just — it\u2019s frustrating. That\u2019s as far as I should go here within the bounds of language that doesn\u2019t get to the profane.<\/p>\n

JASON: You know, Rush is really on to something there. I\u2019ve gone through three campaigns in five years, three federal campaigns, two for the House, one for the Senate, I served in Congress, and, and I can tell you two fundamental facts, that, one, there is no interest in compromising on the part of the Democrats, two, there\u2019s a distinction between compromise and cave. And what happens is the political campaign consulting swamp — and I know I\u2019m offending people, but you\u2019ll just have to forgive me — thinks you can get a hundred percent of the vote. After all, they get judged by wins and losses, not by whether you change the country for the better.<\/p>\n

All they care about is if my candidate wins. And if they think you can get a hundred percent of the vote — not kidding — they don\u2019t want you to offend anybody. And the only way not to offend anybody is to not take a stand, to not compromise but to cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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