Rush Transcripts...Jan. 9th 2020

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Trump Focuses on Results, Not Process

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: President Trump’s about to wrap up an impromptu press conference at the White House. He’s got some hard hat guys sanding behind him. It was an infrastructure type gathering. This has been… it’s so much fun to watch this. This guy, President Trump, he’s like me. He can take any question on any subject and just nail it. They can’t screw him up, they can’t confuse him, they can’t doublespeak him. He rams it down their throat.

The big news today, the Democrats — we’ve got the audio sound bites – the Democrats and the media are livid, are outraged that Trump continues to blame Obama for the Iran nuke deal and he continues to say that Obama deposited $150 billion, $1.8 billion in cash on the tarmac in Iraq. And the Drive-Bys, Andrea Mitchell, CNN (imitation), “He didn’t do it. He keeps bringing up Obama. Why does he keep bringing Obama up?”

And he brings this up again, and these hard hat guys standing behind him, whoever the guests are in the White House, they start laughing. They’re having the grandest time, just now concluding it to coincide with the beginning of this program. The president’s on schedule today. There was a period during this little presser where the president was talking about Iran and how there’s never gonna be, they’re not gonna get a nuclear weapon. He’s told ’em. There’s not gonna be a nuclear weapon and America’s never gonna be a socialist country.

And he said (paraphrasing), “Now, look. We gotta keep in mind in here, Iran could be waiting. They could be hoping that some of the Democrats win in 2020. They could be waiting for a weaker president, like Biden or maybe Fauxcahontas.” He said “Fauxcahontas” and these guys standing behind him looked at each other, jabbed them, and started laughing. And of course the media in the room is seething. The media in the room privately, quietly outraged that Trump continues to disrespect the people that they like, the Democrats. “Why does he call her Fauxcahontas?” they keep asking themselves.

Folks, it was great. It’s a joy to watch this stuff, because he has them in the palm of his hand. And they continue to live with this belief that they are circling Trump and that they’re getting closer to wiping him out and destroying him. And each time they adopt this attitude or think they’re getting close, he just shuts ’em down. And with these hard hat guys that were standing behind him who were the reason for the White House briefing today, the White House meeting, when you see these guys start laughing at the way the president’s communicating, you can see that they love him and that they’re just having the greatest time.

They’re happy to be there. And you know that this irritates the media even more. And irritating the media’s a big deal because that’s the same thing as irritating the Democrat Party.

Pressure is mounting on Pelosi within her own party to send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate. In fact, you hear what the Turtle said, Mr. Snerdley? The Turtle said this is a challenging time to create bipartisan agreement, but the Speaker has managed to do the impossible. She has created growing bipartisan unity in opposition to her own reckless games with impeachment because more and more Democrats are now throwing in the towel, essentially, and signaling that they want Pelosi to send the articles of impeachment over and get this show on the road because they understand nothing is going to come of this, and they understand the Turtle is not gonna change the rules to accommodate her or the Democrats.

The rules are gonna be the same as they’ve always been for impeachment in the Senate, specifically here the rules that were in place during the Clinton impeachment. But we now know, by the way, we now know why Pelosi is holding the articles –well, I mean, we know that. But I mean we have learned where she got the idea. You know where she got the idea? TIME magazine says she got the idea from watching John Dean on CNN.

Now, isn’t that choice. They’re always ripping Trump for watching cable news, for watching Fox News. And now we find out that Pelosi gets the idea for holding onto the articles from John Dean and an appearance he had on CNN.

The president was asked about Mike Lee. Mike Lee had an eruption after the briefing yesterday and thought it was outrageous. You know what the root of it is? I finally found out what it was. The secretary of defense in the briefing said, “You know, you guys, you really you shouldn’t spend any time debating this. We need to get moving on it.”

And Lee was outraged and livid over the fact that the secretary of defense, somebody in the defense department would come in and tell them not to debate things. It wasn’t so mad he’s upset at the policy or the procedures. It was what he was told by somebody from the Department of Defense.

Now, Trump was asked about it, and classic Trump, he said, “I got calls from senators saying it was the best presentation ever. It was the best presentation they’ve ever seen, the best presentation of any presentation.” Just like his phone call with the president of Ukraine was a perfect phone call. There’d never been a better phone call, never been a more perfect phone call. The presentation yesterday was perfect. It was the greatest, it was the best presentation that the Senate ever got. He had many senators, he said, call and tell him that.

Now, Mike Lee and Rand Paul want information that’s hard to get. But they were — especially Mike Lee was not happy over this. Again, I gather it’s because of what he was told. His interpretation was, you guys just ought to rubber stamp this and let us get on with it, and that’s what he was upset about. There may be some specifics of the policy as well that he was upset about. But the presentation, look at the results.

You know, Trump has always lived in a results-oriented world, not a process world. You know, this is one of the big problems that Washington people have in dealing with Trump. He’s not a process guy. You know, at the end of a long day where nothing gets done but the process went down smoothly, Trump doesn’t go home thinking, “Man, we had a great day today.” He goes home thinking, “This was a botch of a day. We didn’t get anything done.”

And bureaucracies are not, by definition, results oriented. It is not an exaggeration to say that many bureaucracies do not want solutions. Solutions mean that there’s no longer any need for process. And bureaucrats love to do things to sustain the reasons for their own existence. The worst thing, in some respects, for bureaucrats is a solution to problems.

Trump is a results-oriented person. He’s not process — and that, I think, is one of the big disconnects. Process is an art form. Process, in Washington, is an art form. It’s where nothing gets done but everybody is fooled into believing that progress is being made, that there are things being accomplished. Process is where people get to show off their brains. They get to show off their knowledge. Process is where people get to show off the awareness of the intricacies of how a bureaucracy operates.

Trump doesn’t care about any of that. Trump is purely results-oriented. If there aren’t any results, then you haven’t finished anything and you haven’t done anything. So in Trump’s world, there’s a gigantic result here. We gotta rid of Soleimani. We threw Iran off balance big time. We have asserted our primacy. We have tightened sanctions even further. We have done more to bring Iran to heel than Obama ever did, and Obama was a pure process guy.

So Trump is looking at what he’s done here as a major, major achievement, a great result. And he’s up against people complaining about how he did it, about the process. You know, it’s within the confines of the process that we are treated to such terms as bipartisanship and fairness and cooperation and working with the other side. All that’s fine and dandy with Trump if you get to a result, if you get to a solution, if you accomplish something, if you achieve something, if you advance your own objectives.

The objectives for bureaucrats and process-oriented people does not include results — and do not doubt me on this. It is a major stumbling point. Too much progress… Let me explain it this way. Washington has — and they’re not alone. Many bureaucracies — local government, corporations, you name it — love to get accolades while not doing much. Make it look like they’re all working hard. Make it look like progress is being made, but there aren’t really any results.

There’s cleverness and there is gamesmanship and there’s advantage and disadvantage, but actual results, not much, because Washington has for the longest time gotten away with the belief that getting results is really hard, really hard. “It requires bipartisanship. It requires a lot of sacrifice. It requires a lot of hard work. ” The American people have gotten used to the snail’s pace of whatever objectives government or Washington has.

Trump is not of that world.

If you decide that you need to do something like raise taxes, you do it. If you decide you need to reform health care, you do it. And it remains one of the greatest areas of disconnect that exists. And Trump is gonna continue to win these things because he’s going to always… If you’ve got results to show, if you’ve got achievements to herald, if you have progress that you can demonstrate, you’re always going to triumph over people who don’t get anything done and who are upset by things getting done.

Trump talked about all of the people walking around without arms and legs because of Soleimani, because of the Iranians, because of their IEDs, because of their acts of terror against the United States. He talks about going over to Walter Reed, seeing these brave people, and he doesn’t understand. Why in the world does anybody want to defend Soleimani? Why does anybody want to take up the case for Soleimani after witnessing what the man has done, both individually and as a representative of the Iranian government?

Then Trump made the point that Iran got really bad when all that money flowed in. He keeps pounding the fact that the Iran deal was a bad deal, that it’s expiring, that Iran will never have a nuke on his watch. He once again blames Obama. That just… He does this on purpose. He knows how to tweak ’em. He knows how to irritate ’em. He knows how to launch them into the stratosphere of anger and rage.

He makes the point, “Look, Iran’s not a wealthy country now. We’re gonna see what happens. They’re gonna be a different country. Sanctions are hurting them, and it’s gonna be up to them to fix it.” Meanwhile, you have people like John Kerry — who’s got ties to Iran — running around running around ripping into Trump! Trump is the bad guy. Trump is the problem.

They’re all now trying to deny that Obama did what he did, that Obama delivered them cash. One of the ways they’re trying to deny it is, “Hey, we didn’t give them any money. We owed them that.” No, we didn’t! We didn’t owe Iran any money. We froze some assets. Part of the sanctions. We didn’t owe them anything. Obama delivering $150 billion to Iran was not us paying them back for money of theirs that we had taken. Trump continues to make this point.

But in the midst of all this, look at the positioning.

Trump has all these people defending Iran, defending Soleimani — or at least taking their side versus Trump. It’s masterful, folks. These guys, these people — there are women in the group — are standing behind Trump and they’re laughing. They’re laughing as he tries to irritate the media. He knows how to do it. They’re laughing when he’s funny. It was just a great sight. To me, it cemented the bond that Trump has with the people of this country that voted for him — and even more now — and the disconnect that the media, the Democrats and the left are experiencing with the majority of people in the country.

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RUSH: By the way, the press event today at the White House that I just characterized for you is on the deregulation that would allow construction projects to happen faster. It was exactly about that which I was making the point. Trump is a results-oriented guy. This was an event, was a press event on the deregulations the administration wants to do that would allow construction to happen faster. There was not one question on that, by the way.

Not a surprise, but nevertheless, I wanted to pass it on, that the Drive-By Media did not ask one question about it. And, of course, the people there that were assembled standing behind and next to the president would be the beneficiaries of this. It’s a plan to get rid of all kinds of red tape that raises the cost and lowers the speed and the pace at which projects get done, which would also reduce the opportunities for payoffs and graft and so forth.

The longer you string a project out, the more people you involve in it, the more hands can dip into the payment pool, so to speak. This is a classic event. This is a classic thing. I think one of the reasons Trump decided to bring the press in on this… I don’t think he expected to get any questions about it, but I think he wanted people to know that this thing was taking place. Because this is another example, another instance of the Trump agenda which is actually aimed at making things better in the country.

Trump has long said that he wants to ramp up and really improve, rebuild America’s infrastructure. It’s one of the first things that he talked about after he was inaugurated. It was a big part of his campaign. In fact, it would be so expensive he originally proposed a public-private partnership to get it done where there be public money, government money, and private sector money pooled together to bring it up and make it happen at a more rapid pace than it otherwise would.

It kind of languished, but this is the kind of thing. This is what average, ordinary Americans complain about. How many of you have had a remodeling project or any kind of a construction project? It never shows up on time. No matter what they tell you, it never comes in on time, and it never comes in on budget. It’s gotten to the point now if you’re building a house or you’re adding a room or whatever?

Whatever they tell you, add a couple of months and add a couple of thousand dollars so that you won’t be disappointed when that happens. This is the kind of thing that, on a grand scale — building highways, remodeling airports or highway systems, this kind of thing — speed is of the essence — and, of course, getting it done right. So this is right in the wheelhouse. The Democrats are running around talking about spending all this money on health care, treating everybody as victims.

Once again, here’s Donald Trump — results oriented — wanting to be able to tick off successes after successes, achievements after achievements, and he’s up against a bunch of process people. Now, if both parties are engaged in process as part of a campaign and trying to win the day on who’s the better at process, then you’ve got a dull, boring campaign. But when you’ve got somebody demonstrably able to get results up against process people, the process people don’t have a prayer, and that’s what they know.

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Trump’s Benghazi or No Imminent Threat?

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: I am your guiding light in times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, despair, depression, and PTSD for Ilhan Omar. Did you hear that? Ilhan Omar said Trump is giving her PTSD. What an insult. She’s sitting in relative comfort in a congressional office talking about PTSD while we have active and former military people literally suffering from it, and she’s out saying (sobbing), “Oh, I have PTSD. The president is making me so nervous!”

Do you remember…? I want to take back New Year’s Eve. I don’t know how many people were paying attention during the break. On New Year’s Eve, everybody’s planning what to do or what not to do. On New Year’s Eve, there was… We put together a montage of media people claiming that the attack that turns out to be launched by Iran on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, in Iraq, was gonna be “Trump’s Benghazi.”

Do you remember that? Well, if you don’t remember it, I want you to listen to the montage we put together. It was just a week ago. Trump was gonna do nothing about the attack on the embassy. He was gonna have his very own Benghazi. Now, before I play the montage, I thought there was nothing to Benghazi. Didn’t Hillary Clinton say, “What difference does it make?” Didn’t everybody in the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media say to all of us making a big deal about Benghazi, “Come on!

“Nothing happened. You can’t blame Obama. You can’t blame Hillary for that,” while we were trying to demonstrate that Benghazi happened because there was no concern in Washington for what was going on in Benghazi, in Libya. Our ambassador was killed. There was a planned terror attack, and earlier that day the United States embassy in Cairo had sent out an apology for something that hadn’t happened yet. Obama… It was another one of his apologies.

They’re apologizing for some video that some nameless guy had made that they were claiming was responsible for all the unrest at the time in the Middle East. Remember this? So we’re apologizing for a video that nobody had ever seen. That video was then used as an excuse to justify what happened at Benghazi. But in the aftermath, they told us, “You guys are upset about nothing. There’s nothing to see in Benghazi. Now all of a sudden, the Drive-Bys on New Year’s Eve were saying after our embassy in Iraq was hit, “This is gonna be Trump’s Benghazi!”

Isn’t that a tantamount admission that Benghazi was indeed a bad thing, a misstep, an absence of leadership? Isn’t it an admission that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were justly criticized for their lack of action? If you’re going to run around and say, “This is gonna be Trump’s Benghazi,” what you’re saying is, “Trump’s not gonna do anything.

“He’s not gonna avenge this. He’s not gonna make anybody pay for what they did,” and then he did, and now they’re saying, “There was no reason to do this.” These people are psychotic. They’re pathological. Here is the first, the montage that we put together. NBC, CNN, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, all kinds of bureaucrat experts talking about how the attack on the embassy in Iraq was gonna be Trump’s Benghazi.

KATY TUR: There’s a lot of people out there who are looking at this and they’re thinking this has echoes of Benghazi…

ABBY PHILIP: …the Benghazi attack, which Republicans really pilloried the Obama administration for for many years…

AARON DAVID MILLER: …the echoes here of 1979 in Tehran and even Benghazi.

JAMES STAVRIDIS: … all the way back to Tehran and the Iranian hostage crisis. Benghazi.

DAVID ROHDE: …Benghazi…

SAMANTHA VINOGRAD: …Benghazi…

BRETT BRUEN: …especially after Benghazi.

GEOFF BENNETT: …the deadly 2012 raid on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi.

RUSH: Right. So they were comparing the hit on the Iraqi embassy — our embassy in Baghdad — to Benghazi. But again, I have to ask, why? If Benghazi was no big deal, if we were wrong to rip into Obama and Hillary for it, then what could possibly be bad about this? So then Trump retaliated. He took out Soleimani. He made it clear that he was gonna continue to take out anybody that had anything to do with killing Americans in Iran. Now all of a sudden after the attack on the embassy in Baghdad was Benghazi, now suddenly there’s no evidence of an imminent threat. There was no reason for Trump to take any action.

GERRY CONNOLLY: There was not a scintilla of evidence presented to justify the so-called imminent threat.

LEON PANETTA: There’s no clear evidence of an imminent threat.

GLORIA BORGER: You can’t have two stories! You can’t say that something was imminent when it was not.

CHRIS MURPHY: There was no evidence of an, uhhh, imminent and specific threat.

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: …transparently lying about an imminent threat.

RON WYDEN: This administration has not made the case that there was an imminent threat.

CORY BOOKER: They did not, ehhh, show us that they were dealing with an imminent threat. I saw no evidence of that whatsoever.

RUSH: So the Saudi oil field is hit and shut down, and then our embassy in Baghdad is hit, and they start talking about — oh, they’re so excited, so excited — “It’s gonna be Trump’s Benghazi! Yeah, payback!” Just like this is gonna be payback for Clinton’s impeachment, this was gonna be payback for Benghazi. Trump was going to get the same treatment. Then, of course, Trump wipes out the people that were responsible for taking the action, kills them, sends Iran into a tailspin.

All of a sudden, there was no reason to do it. There wasn’t any imminent threat. No imminent threat after the oil field was hit, no imminent threat after the embassy was hit. “Yeah, there was no reason to take out the terrorist. There was no reason to take out this guy. There was no imminent threat. This wasn’t justified!” Yet just a week prior, it was all gonna be Trump’s Benghazi. They thought Trump wouldn’t do anything.

You know why?

Because they listened to Trump say (paraphrased), “We gotta get out of these hotbeds. We gotta get our military home. We got no vested interests over there. We’re wasting time, we’re wasting money, we’re wasting people.” So they think Trump isn’t gonna do anything. They still don’t understand. Donald Trump is gonna defend America and Americans whenever they are attacked. It isn’t complicated, and he’s not gonna get bogged down in a bunch of process-related negotiations to do it.

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Did Iran Shoot Down the Ukrainian Plane?

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: U.S. intelligence officials — I always have an asterisk in my mind when I say that now. U.S. intelligence, I mean, you talk about the Clapper and Brennan chapter of it, these are the people that tried to run this coup against Trump, but this is a different bunch here. U.S. intelligence believes that Iran accidentally shot down that Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 with a Russian-made surface — do you know where Iran gets its missile tech?

You’d be wrong if you think Russia. They get some, but they get a lot from the North Koreans. The Iranians have all kinds of deals and relations with the Norks. Anyway, 176 people died, 63 Canadian nationals. What did they think they were shooting down, if this was shot down by accident?

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Are You Getting Tired of Losing Yet, Democrats?

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: You remember during the campaign, Trump asked people…? Well, he didn’t ask. He told people that if they vote for him, they’re gonna someday become tired of winning, that we were gonna be winning so much that we were gonna call him and say, “Mr. President, slow down. We can’t handle all this winning. You gotta lose a couple just to keep people honest.” Remember that?

I have a question for the Democrats. When are you people gonna get tired of losing? (laughing) Do you even realize that you are losing and you are losing magnificently and you are losing in ways that you don’t even see? (interruption) What do I mean? Well, look what happened to Trump’s improval numbers — approval numbers — during impeachment. By the way, we could call them “improval” numbers because that’s exactly what happened.

During the impeachment, Trump’s approval rating shot up six points on average. The impeachment hearings were so absurd. (laughing) Pelosi won’t even send the articles to the Senate, and senators — the Democrats — are demanding more witnesses because Pelosi didn’t make a case. But at the end of all of this, I don’t care what you say about it, and I don’t care what you do process-wise. if she sends them over there, there’s going to be an acquittal.

I maintain to you that that is the last thing that she or any of the Democrats want. So she’s said today… She had her press conference. She flew back from San Francisco for a press conference. She’s wearing Baltimore Ravens purple today, by the way, because she’s from Baltimore. Her husband is from San Francisco. His name is Paul, Paul Pelosi. He’s wearing red today for the 49ers and she’s wearing purple for the Ravens. He said they’re gonna be having a big family reunion and all that.

At any rate, with an acquittal as the no-doubt result of this, what will she do? There’s a school of thought that says even though she says that she’s gonna send them over, that she won’t. Now, let’s go to… Let’s start audio sound bite number 1. This is from her press conference today. I’m screwing up the broadcast engineer. I told him we were gonna start with Trump, but I’ve changed my mind on the fly here. See, this is…

Folks, this is another reason why I don’t like TV. I couldn’t do what I just did if it was on TV. If I was on TV, I would have to start with what was on the sheet that everybody had. I would have to start there. I have just decided on the fly here to broom that and start with something else. Television, you can’t do it without going to a commercial break and causing people various stages of panic because you’re changing the order.

Here’s Pelosi on Capitol Hill this morning, her weekly press briefing talking about the articles of impeachment…

PELOSI: In terms of impeachment, you all keep asking me the same question; I keep giving you the same answer. As I said right from the start, we need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too much to ask? You probably heard one way or another some of them have suggested they might want to “dismiss.” Dismiss equals cover-up. Dismiss equals admission.

RUSH: Well, then if that… Miss Pelosi, I realize I’m not as smart as you are, but if you have two options — you send ’em over there and you get an acquittal or the Senate dismisses and you get a chance to run around and say, “That’s an admission of guilt. These partisan Republicans don’t even want the trial. They’ve dismissed the charges. Trump’s guilty” — which of those two options is the better? Certainly not acquittal! She’s just made the case for advocating that the Senate dismiss the charges.

Her own language: “Dismiss equals cover-up. Dismiss equals admission.” She should be pushing for a dismissal because the alternative is an acquittal, and an acquittal does not help her. It does not help the Democrats in the 2020 presidential campaign. It doesn’t help any of those candidates. It doesn’t help the media. After all of this — after three years of Trump colluding with Russia and now colluding with Ukraine and having mean ideas about Hunter Biden — acquitted, not guilty?

That’s the last thing they want. She should be pushing the Turtle to dismiss the charges based on what she just said here. “Dismiss equals admission.” There’s your solution, Madam Speaker! There is your answer. She should be pushing for a dismissal of charges and then run around and say, “The Senate knows Trump’s guilty, and that’s why they dismissed the charges ’cause they don’t have the guts to do a trial.”

When the truth is, there’s nothing to try because she doesn’t have a case, and her articles of impeachment do not present a case. This is why she’s not gonna send ’em over, but she just made the case… I’m sorry to be redundant here. She just made the case for advocating that the charges be dismissed because, in her view, that’s a tantamount admission of guilt. A reporter said, “Madam Speaker, are you planning to hold the articles indefinitely?”

PELOSI: I’ll send them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon. You know, he said, “If you don’t send them over, I’m gonna pass a Mexico-U.S.-Canada (snickers) trade agreement. Okay. Uh, but, uh, we want to see what they’re willing to do and the manner in which they will do it. But we will not let them say, “Oh, this is just like Clinton. Fair is fair.” It’s not. Documents, documentation, witnesses, facts, truth. That’s what they’re afraid of.

RUSH: We’re not afraid of anything. You don’t have a case! The very idea that you are demanding new witnesses in the Senate means you don’t have a case, and the Turtle is right. The Turtle said, “You present us the case, and we’ll try it. We don’t do investigations. We don’t do your job. We’re not gonna look for things underneath rocks that you couldn’t find. We’re not gonna turn this place into a spectacle like you made your place.

“We’re not gonna do it. You present us the case and we’ll try it.” She won’t present the case! She will not present the articles. This talk about, “Well, I — I need to see the arena.” Well (snort), go down the hallway and go to the doors leading to the Senate chamber and look in. There’s the arena. She’s been to the Senate. She knows what’s in there. She knows what the “arena” is.

What she means by this is (impression), “I need to know what the rules are gonna be. I need to know whether they’re gonna call witnesses.” She is trying to run the Senate, and unless she gets what she wants, she’s not gonna present the articles. She’s not gonna present them because she doesn’t want an acquittal. Here’s Da Nang Dick, Dick Blumenthal. He is a Democrat senator from Connecticut. He spoke to reporters yesterday.

BLUMENTHAL: I think we are reaching the point where the articles of impeachment should be sent, and we should have votes on whether witnesses will be called.

RUSH: You’re gonna lose those votes. All it takes is 51 votes. The Turtle’s gonna set the rules. The rules are gonna be set by the Republican majority. You’re not gonna get any new witnesses. If there are witnesses, call the House committees back into session and call ’em! So where does she get the idea to hold onto the articles? Because this is unprecedented. You know, the legal scholars are now debating whether or not Trump actually has been impeached.

If she doesn’t present the articles, then has he really been impeached?

Yeah, the House had a vote, but there are no articles of impeachment.

The next phase of the process hasn’t happened because she’s not making them available. Well, TIME Magazine is reporting that Pelosi got this crackpot idea of holding onto the articles and not sending them to the Senate by watching John Dean on CNN. Here it was, December 5th, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. John Dean is the former Nixon White House counsel, and Don Lemon said to John Dean, “Can you explain why you’re saying Nancy Pelosi may not send the articles of impeachment to the Senate?” This is December 5th, folks.

DEAN: There is a big push to get this done quickly. Well, I think Nancy Pelosi has some real leverage in this. She doesn’t have to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. What happens, Don, after there’s a vote on the articles, they adopt a resolution where they select managers, and then they decide when they’re gonna send the managers over to the Senate. So there’s a flexibility in the process where she could say, “Listen, let’s just hold these articles here until the Senate gets its act together.” And that could last right through the campaign.

RUSH: And there you have it. John Dean advocating on December 5th, hold on to these things throughout the campaign. It’s the only way she’s got leverage. She doesn’t have leverage on the substance of the case. The articles of impeachment do not contain any criminal activity or any impeachable offense. Do not doubt me on this, folks. I mean, if they did, I’d tell you. I’ve no desire to be wrong here.

I’ve no desire to lie to you or to misrepresent things to you. I don’t want you to be wrong after listening to this program. There’s not an impeachable offense in any of these articles. John Dean is effectively admitting that by suggesting that her leverage is to hold on to these until she gets what she wants in the Senate. There’s only one thing she wants in the Senate, and that is a conviction. And there’s no way.

So why hold on to them? Well, I’ll give you one answer to that. Why hold on ’em, this Iranian action. They were gonna try to fold this in. Schiff, Pencil Neck, even talking about reopening investigations into this, thinking there might be an impeachable offense here. There’s not. But that’s not to say that there won’t be events happening between now and through the rest summer, into the fall, the campaign. If Trump does something they think’s impeachable, then call the House committees back into session, fold whatever those so-called offenses are into this.

That’s what he’s saying her leverage is. Her leverage is to hold off and hope that Trump does some other stuff they could say is impeachable, fold it in, and then present ’em. Ain’t gonna work, though, because her fellow Democrats are beginning to panic and they’re beginning to get mad. They don’t see how she wins this. They don’t see how they win it. And she does have some explaining to.

Remember they rushed this process because Trump’s behavior was so threatening, we had to do this fast, we had to ramrod this thing through there because Trump is so outrageous. Trump poses an existential threat to America. We’ve got to get this done. Okay. They got it done. They ran fast. And now what? Nothing. So they’re worried about being seen as hypocrites.

Here’s the fact. The fact is that every one of these Democrats — and I don’t care if you look at ’em in the House, if you look at ’em in the Senate — every one of them knows, and very few of them will ever admit this, every one of them knows they don’t have a case. Every one of them knows there is not an impeachable offense in either of these two articles. Every one of them, the people that voted for them, the people that conducted witness interrogations during the hearings, they know there’s nothing.

This is a PR move. It’s an attempt to create an asterisk next to Trump during the campaign. They wanted the vote that would allow them to say he’s been impeached. They want that to be a black mark on his reelection, but they can’t follow – (interruption) There’s that video again Snerdley. Ah, you missed it. Keep recycling that cheap SD Iranian video of their missile launch. So they don’t have an impeachable offense. This is a PR move that is backfiring, which is why I’m asking of the Democrats: Are you getting tired of losing yet?

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RUSH: Da Nang Dick has walked it back. Da Nang Dick, Blumenthal yesterday, saying, “Hey, we need to get on with this, present the articles.” Today is singing a different tune.

BLUMENTHAL: What I’ve heard from my Democratic colleagues is not only a sense of urgency about impeachment, but a trust in the judgement of the Speaker. And I think she will make the right decisions at the right time.

RUSH: All right. So he last night says, “We gotta move on with this. What are we doing? Send those articles over.” Today he trusts in the judgment of the Speaker, saying that she will make the right decision. So what the hell happened here? Does she have her own testicle lockbox like Hillary has? It has to be something. I mean, these people are even scared of her over in the Senate.

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Disgusting American Media Makes Hero Out of Monster Soleimani

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: We have Jack in… Ah, ah, ah. What happened to line 5? (interruption) Well, okay. Then never mind, then. We had a guy up there from Houston who said he was born… I’ll just tell people what he was gonna say because it transitions into a point that I want to make. He was born in Iran.

He said he fled, and what he sees on TV is disgusting, this glorification of Soleimani. Trump did an amazing thing taking him out, that he’s literally despised, and all of this stuff you see on TV with these millions of people showing up to the funeral? They’re told that they’ve gotta be there or else. Exactly as I told you. Now, the reason I wanted to take that call is because Lara Logan has been on TV. You know, she was at CBS for a while, 60 Minutes, and I think — I think — she’s now an analyst, commentator, contributor, whatever, at Fox News.

Whether she is or isn’t, she was on Fox News recently, and she said that an Iraqi who lives in the United States, in San Diego — Iraqis living in the United States — said every one of them is voting for Trump in the next election because he killed Soleimani. You know, folks, we don’t live in that region, and in this country, we don’t have any idea what life is like for people in Iran. Too many Americans think that life there is just like it is here; the only difference is where it is. It’s a totalitarian state, a religious totalitarian state.

There isn’t any freedom of movement or freedom of thought. They are in dire economic circumstances because of sanctions. They rely almost completely on oil for their economy. We have become energy independent. We never bought Iranian oil, but we certainly don’t need to now anyway. But this guy, Soleimani, was hated and despised and feared! He was the agent of death for the Iranian government. He wasn’t admired. He wasn’t held up and hoisted up on great mantles.

In countries like that, people are scared to death of their leaders, and he was number two! So Lara Logan says an Iraqi living here said to her that the Iraqi community in San Diego — he said the entire country — every one of them is voting for Trump in the next election because he took out Soleimani. This guy was wreaking havoc in Iraq. He was killed in Iraq. He is an Iranian terrorist. He is an Iranian government official. What’s he doing in Iraq? They were turning Iraq into essentially a satellite state.

That was the objective, and they were along the way in getting it done. So this guy’s no hero. He’s no martyr. They’re not… The Iraqis who have fled, the Iranians who have fled who live in this country know full well. They didn’t shed any tears over Trump taking the guy out, contrary to what the media wants you to believe. The media, NBC is inviting Americans to participate in the funeral for Soleimani — televising the funeral and asking us to join in the mourning for the guy!

I’m not exaggerating that.

This has served to further enrage Iraqis and Iranians who live in the United States.

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Gallup Poll: Just 24% Say They’re Liberal

Jan 9, 2020



RUSH: One of the things that I have made a point of over and over, and I have for many, many moons, is that most of us feel like we are being governed against our will. Obama, the Democrats win, and they govern against the will of the people. It’s a sinking sensation. And I have made the point over and over again that liberalism is not the majority of thinking in this country, and it’s not even close. And yet it appears to be the dominate way of thinking.

So there’s a Gallup poll out here today filled with a couple of charts which even if I screenshotted these and put ’em on the Dittocam, they’d be so small you couldn’t follow ’em. I’m not a big chart guy. Like I’m not a big video guy. And the reason is, I can learn it much faster reading it than watching it. I can get the point of a video in 30 seconds instead of watching five minutes of it.

And the same thing looking at charts. I spend most of my time looking at charts trying to figure it out. Just tell me what they say and I’m gonna do that here. Here’s the bottom line. Gallup poll, latest: 24% of this country identifies as liberal. Twenty-four percent. Does that surprise you? Doesn’t it seem like they’re everywhere? Doesn’t it seem like they’re running the show? Doesn’t it seem like we are the minority? Doesn’t it seem like everywhere you turn there’s liberal dominance here, liberal dominance there?

Be it in the news, be it in movies, throughout pop culture, in church. It doesn’t matter where you go. Except, isn’t it interesting? At least… Well, speaking for myself, I never run into ’em. Throughout my career… Let me give you a little anecdote. Throughout my career… What am I? Well, in the Drive-By Media I am “controversial,” and I am “outspoken,” and I’m “extremist,” and I’m “mean-spirited,” you know, all these labels.

And over the course of my career, folks — I will be honest with you — there are people who have been reluctant to go anywhere in public with me because they have been afraid that I’m gonna be set upon by hecklers and mobs who intend to do me harm. And it never happens. It has yet to happen anywhere I’ve gone. I mean, I can’t give you specific examples. (I could. I’m not going to.) I could give you individual names of people who say, “Rush, are you sure we ought to go there? My God. That’s gonna be dangerous.”

I tell everybody, “No. The only people we’re gonna encounter are people who are huge fans, supporters. That’s all that ever happens,” and yet there is this… Eh, it’s not a fear. There’s a belief that any conservative is gonna be mobbed. Now, it’s because we do see that in political events. You can have a Sarah Palin go out, and an organized mob shows up — or Trump announces a travel ban and an organized, paid-for mob wearing vagina hats shows up all over the country.

But those are not organic. They’re bought and paid for. They’re made to look organic, and the media treats them as organic — as though they’re spontaneous and natural — but they’re not. By the same token, conservatives don’t do that. Conservatives or Republicans don’t organize and pay for protests. They just don’t do it. It’s not in our makeup. We’re not malcontents. We’re not running around thinking we’re grievanced all day long about things.

They do. The fact of the matter is, folks, we outnumber them nationwide. But, one of the two most influential areas determining public opinion? I would say that they are the media and education, and who owns those? The left. The Democrats. You throw in pop culture. Add pop culture to the day-to-day Drive-By Media, and you would be forgiven if your assumption was that we are vastly outnumbered and that we are a tiny minority and, as such, we are losing the country.

When in fact, in the Gallup poll, 24% of this country identifies itself as liberal — and the Gallup headline itself says it. According to the latest Gallup poll, even as America has become more liberal, it has remained a center-right nation — and I have been trying to pound this point home on issue after issue. We have never been even 50-50 on abortion. This country has always been center right, even on abortion. It is what…

One of the most frustrating things has been to run into Republicans telling me, “You gotta get ’em to stop talking about abortion. We’re never gonna win. We gotta drop it.” “Wrong! We lose.” “You gotta do something about the Christians, Rush.” I can’t tell you the number of people who have asked me, “You’ve gotta do something about the Christians.” “What do you mean, ‘do something about the Christians’?” “Get ’em to shut up!” “Why?”

“They’re killing us, Rush!” “Twenty-four million evangelical voters are killing us? You try to win elections without ’em,” I say, “You can’t do it.” But everybody falls prey to the media. Everybody buys the notion that if they’re a Republican or conservative, they’re in this distinct, tiny minority. It isn’t true. Even this headline’s a little misleading. “Yes, America Has Become More Liberal.” Who says? It has remained a center-right nation. The election of Donald Trump is some evidence of that.

I mean, Trump is not an ideological conservative and did not run as one.

But there’s no question he’s not a leftist.

If anybody is center right or right center, it would be Trump. “n 2019, the ideological balance of the country remained center-right, with 37% of Americans, on average, identifying as conservative during the year, 35% as moderate and 24% as liberal.” Liberals are the smallest of the three, twenty-four freaking percent — and I’ll tell you something else. This percentage of moderates? There are more conservatives than liberals in that group. They’re just people afraid to say they are for the very reasons that we are discussing here.