{"id":8746,"date":"2014-07-31T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-31T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:24:03","slug":"the_democrat_impeachment_talk_a_thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/31\/the_democrat_impeachment_talk_a_thon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat Impeachment Talk-A-Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Up next is impeachment and the same thing is going to happen with this, except it already has. The Republicans haven\u2019t pulled any immigration articles because there aren\u2019t any. And the Republicans have announced that there won\u2019t be any. The Republicans have gone to every rooftop they can find, and, by the way, on every rooftop they haven\u2019t been able to find anybody in the media. And they\u2019ve been shouting into the wind for everybody to hear: “We\u2019re not going to impeach the president! We are not going to impeach Obama, do you hear us?” <\/p>\n

And yet, if you turn on the television, what you will see is Republicans want to impeach Obama. And if you listen to the president you\u2019ll hear him say (imitating Obama), “They keep suing me. You know what, they gotta stop the hatin\u2019. Why won\u2019t they work with me instead of trying to impeach me?” The president wants to be impeached. He believes it\u2019s a political winner for him. The Democrats obviously do because they\u2019re the ones talking about it. The Democrats are talking about impeachment much, much more than the Republicans are. And you know who has established that to be true? None other than a quasi God to Democrats and leftists. That\u2019s our good old buddy, Nate Silver. <\/p>\n

Nate Silver took his statistical analyst talents to ESPN. That\u2019s where his FiveThirtyEight blog<\/a> is now. He has run the numbers and he has concluded that, on the whole, the Democrats are spending a lot more time talking about impeachment than Republicans are. “Consider, for example, the Sunlight Foundation\u00c2\u2019s Capitol Words database, which tracks words spoken in the House and Senate. So far in July, there have been 10 mentions of the term ‘impeachment\u2019 in Congress and four others of the term ‘impeach.\u2019 Eleven of the 14 mentions have been made by Democratic rather than Republican members of Congress, however.”<\/line><\/p>\n

On Cable news. “The scoreboard so far in July: Fox News has 95 mentions of impeachment, and MSNBC 448.” MSNBC is the impeachment network. “That works out to about 2.7 mentions per hour of original programming on MSNBC, or once every 22 minutes. MSNBC hasn\u00c2\u2019t become quite as obsessed with impeachment as CNN was with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but it may be getting there. Impeachment mentions on MSNBC increased sixfold from May to July. Overall, since Jan. 1, MSNBC has mentioned impeachment 905 times to Fox News\u00c2\u2019s 213.”<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t quite tell the whole tale because most of the 213 times on Fox have been denials. Most of the mentions on MSNBC are presented as they really want to; they are thinking about it; they might actually do it; they\u2019re really getting close to doing it; they really want to do it. <\/p>\n

“Some of the impeachment discussion from Democratic politicians and liberal commentators has a kind of a Br\u00c2\u2019er Rabbit quality. ‘Only please, Br\u00c2\u2019er Republicans, don\u00c2\u2019t impeach President Obama!'” As they beg him to quite do that. In case there\u2019s still any doubt as to who is driving this impeachment nonsense, it is the Democrats. And with that let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We will start with Nancy Pelosi on the House floor. <\/p>\n

PELOSI: If you don\u2019t want to hear people that use the word impeachment, as your people have done, then tell them impeachment is off the table. That\u2019s what I had to do. That\u2019s what this Speaker should do.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: He already had. Boehner had already said impeachment is off the table. Every Republican in Congress said it\u2019s off the table<\/a>, and yet Pelosi goes to the floor of the House and says, “That\u2019s what I had to do.” Except she didn\u2019t. They did impeach Bush. I asked Snerdley yesterday, “You remember that, right?” And he didn\u2019t until his jogged memory actually got into gear. It\u2019s that distant a memory, but the Democrats did impeach George W. Bush. They never got to the trial. But they did impeach him. Boehner has already said impeachment\u2019s off the table, and it didn\u2019t work, did it? Look at all the mentions on PMSNBC and CNN and on the House floor by the Democrats. “We are not going to impeach Obama,” is being drowned out by all the talk from the Democrats that the Republicans want to impeach Obama. <\/p>\n

Sheila Jackson Lee yesterday afternoon, also on the House floor. <\/p>\n

LEE: President Bush pushed this nation into a war. It had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because as an executive he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this woman is an order of fries short of a Happy Meal. She co-sponsored the impeachment. She has forgotten that she co-sponsored Dennis Kucinich\u2019s articles of impeachment against George Bush. Here\u2019s Dennis Kucinich from June 10th, 2008, Washington, DC on the House floor.<\/p>\n

KUCINICH: I rise to a question of the privileges of the House and offer the impeachment resolution noticed last evening.<\/p>\n

CLERK: Resolved that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be sent to the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They did it. They are denying they did it. Sheila Jackson Lee was a co-sponsor of Kucinich\u2019s articles of impeachment and just yesterday, grab sound bite number two again, I want you to hear it again. You just heard Kucinich make sure everybody knew that his articles of impeachment had been exhibited to the Senate. They were submitted, sent to the Senate. Sheila Jackson Lee co-sponsored those articles just six years ago. <\/p>\n

LEE: President Bush pushed this nation into a war. It had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because as an executive he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She obviously forgot, which is entirely possible. It could be a legitimate excuse with her. She could just have forgotten. Remember, she thinks there are flags placed by astronauts on Mars. Back to Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, this is this morning on Capitol Hill at her weekly press briefing. A reporter said: “You mentioned in your opening remarks, madam, that the leadership,” meaning the Republican leadership, “should take impeachment off the table, but aren\u2019t the Democrats guilty of the same base rallying politics that you\u2019re accusing Republicans of doing?”<\/p>\n

REPORTER: You\u2019re raising money off of this talk when the speaker continues to say —<\/p>\n

PELOSI: I want to tell you something. That money coming in is practically spontaneous. People are very upset. I\u2019m sorry to interrupt you, but every stipulation you\u2019re making I don\u2019t agree to. The fact is why do you create a lawsuit? Because you want to find somebody culpable of something. So if that\u2019s not their point and it has not a path to impeachment, all they have to do to say to their people and to ours, because they\u2019ve activated our base, all they have to do is say to their people, “It\u2019s off the table.” I had to say that with a great deal of courage, I might add, about the war in Iraq. <\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: But she didn\u2019t! She was right there with Kucinich and his articles of impeachment. She didn\u2019t say “no” to it, and so it didn\u2019t take “a great deal of courage” for her to say no to impeaching Bush because she didn\u2019t. So now she accuses the Republicans of fundraising and once again demands to take it off the table, and they already had. That\u2019s how this works. <\/p>\n

They had already taken it off the table. This is no different than Republicans want to starve kids, back in 1995. John Lewis — a great, great lion of the civil rights movement — also yesterday on the House floor, in Washington, got all fired up here. He\u2019s just ready to roll, and his point here was that the Republicans have never, ever supported this president. <\/p>\n

LEWIS: House Republicans spend all of their time and energies fighting this president. Why? From his first day in office, the Republicans in the House, in this House, has (sic) never supported this president. Every olive branch he extended was broken! But today, Mr. Speaker, we have reached a low, a very low point. This resolution to sue the president just goes a little too far. It is a shaaaame and a disgrace that we are here debating the suing of the president. The American people deserve better. We can do better! We can do much better!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, we can do better. This is the same guy said, “They\u2019re coming for our children!” They\u2019re coming for our whatever. Remember that? He was talking about the school lunch program. The Republicans were going to starve kids. We can do so much better, Congressman Lewis. Here is Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz, who still runs the Democrat Party, also yesterday on the House floor.<\/p>\n

BLABBERMOUTH: It\u2019s unconscionable that when the do-nothing Republican Congress finally decided to do something (snickers), it\u2019s suing the president for doing his job when they refuse to do theirs! I wish I could say that this was politics at its worst, but I\u2019ve heard too many in the Republican majority raise the specter of impeachment not to know better. I urge opposition to this time- and taxpayer-wasting resolution and urge Republicans in the majority to join Democrats and address the serious challenges facing our nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I literally can\u2019t stomach any more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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