Rush: Republicans in Washington Don’t Want the Wall

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Republicans in Washington Don’t Want the Wall

Mar 1, 2019




RUSH: Republicans are pressuring President Trump to back down on the border emergency. “Senate Republicans are offering a choice to President Donald Trump: Withdraw your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.” Senator Lamar Alexander urged the president to withdraw his national emergency declaration. Let’s go to the top of the audio sound bites. I want to play something I said for you to you back on December 18th.

RUSH ARCHIVE: There isn’t a single person in that town that wants this wall. No, I take it back. Some House Freedom Caucus members are hell-bent on getting it. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows are insistent on getting the wall built. Outside of those two and Trump and maybe some stragglers in the House, nobody in that town wants this wall. Now, don’t misunderstand my telling you that. I’m just trying to give you an idea of the obstacle this is. There isn’t anybody in that town that wants this. Trump is all alone in this.

RUSH: Yesterday Senate floor in Washington, Senator Lamar Alexander, Tennessee.

ALEXANDER: I support what the president wants to do on border security, but I do not support the way he has been advised to do it. There has never been an instance where a president of the United States has asked for funding, Congress has refused it, and the president has then used the National Emergency Act to justify spending the money anyway. After an American revolution against a king, our founders chose not to create a chief executive who could tax the people and spend their money any way he chose. The Constitution gave that responsibility exclusively to a Congress elected by the people

RUSH: Well, the money’s been appropriated. He’s not printing the money. He’s not going to Deutsche Bank or wherever to get $150 billion in cash to give the Iranians like Obama did. He’s getting the money from elsewhere in the federal budget. But that’s not the point. The point is Senate Republicans, they don’t want this, nobody in that town wants a wall. Everybody in that town wants amnesty. And I just am reminding you what President Trump is up against here.

Let’s go to CNN this morning. John Brennan asked climate change correspondent Bill Weir about his report of a lawsuit against the border wall in Texas. The guy says, “Yeah, this is a really interesting legal debate.” Listen to this.

WEIR: It is. Plaintiff number one in Texas to try to stop the border wall construction are a bunch of butterflies and the people who love them. It’s an incredible metaphor about how, you know, a little slice of natural heaven is standing in between this proposed plan. But it’s not just butterflies. Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch pads at Boca Chica beach, where he wants to send rockets to Mars, that could be impacted by this. So Congress is deciding whether that emergency order to build this wall will hold. So it’s rockets and butterflies.

RUSH: Plaintiff number one in Texas to stop the border wall, bunch of butterflies and the people who love them.

 https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/03/01/republicans-in-washington-dont-want-the-wall/

[Bigun]

How long have I been telling everyone here willing to listen the exact same thing?

Two years at least!

[corbe]

   If Rush was an honest fellow he'd admit that he too doesn't want the wall, he is also in the pocket of the Chamber. IMHO.

[andy58-in-nh]

How long have I been telling everyone here willing to listen the exact same thing?

Two years at least!

Same here. The Democrats want cheap votes and the GOP wants cheap labor. The result is the same: open borders and all of the social pathologies that flow from that condition, except for the gated community denizens of the Deep State.   

[Bigun]

Same here. The Democrats want cheap votes and the GOP wants cheap labor. The result is the same: open borders and all of the social pathologies that flow from that condition, except for the gated community denizens of the Deep State.

    until I can find some good single malt!

[Bigun]

   If Rush was an honest fellow he'd admit that he too doesn't want the wall, he is also in the pocket of the Chamber. IMHO.

Rush is a private citizen. he holds on elective office what-so-ever.  The 535 princes and princesses who populate the Congress can't say that!  See the difference?

[240B]

How long have I been telling everyone here willing to listen the exact same thing?

Two years at least!

The difference is that Trump is calling their bluff. Trump is forcing the Pubs to show their cards on the table. That is one of the reasons they hate him so much. You're supposed to "pretend" to be a Conservative. You're not supposed to actually believe what you tell the little people and the masses.

That is the problem. Trump actually believes what he says, and wants to actually keep his promises. This is a huge No-No in D.C.
Talk is fine. Talk is one thing, but actually doing it is verboten.

[corbe]

   Sure, @Bigun I understand the point you're making.  I feel also that Rush holds a very powerful position in shaping the narrative in the GOP, just as Fox&Friends does and they are all devoid of the Character required to solve this problem.  They are good at selling soap and Apples and nothing more. 

[corbe]

The difference is that Trump is calling their bluff. Trump is forcing the Pubs to show their cards on the table. That is one of the reasons they hate him so much. You're supposed to "pretend" to be a Conservative. You're not supposed to actually believe what you tell the little people and the masses.

That is the problem. Trump actually believes what he says, and wants to actually keep his promises. This is a huge No-No in D.C.
Talk is fine. Talk is one thing, but actually doing it is verboten.

   I disagree @240B he'd lose most of his base if it didn't appear that he was doing SOMETHING, this whole charade is geared toward his re election in 2020. 
   Exhibit A: His companies have flaunted Immigrant Labor Laws for years. 

[Bigun]

   Sure, @Bigun I understand the point you're making.  I feel also that Rush holds a very powerful position in shaping the narrative in the GOP, just as Fox&Friends does and they are all devoid of the Character required to solve this problem.  They are good at selling soap and Apples and nothing more.

You are free to not watch or listen to them but you cannot afford to ignore the asshats in Washington!  Personally, I like the fact that Rush has managed to gain a position that allows him to speak for millions of otherwise voiceless people in this country. 

[Bigun]

The difference is that Trump is calling their bluff. Trump is forcing the Pubs to show their cards on the table. That is one of the reasons they hate him so much. You're supposed to "pretend" to be a Conservative. You're not supposed to actually believe what you tell the little people and the masses.

That is the problem. Trump actually believes what he says, and wants to actually keep his promises. This is a huge No-No in D.C.
Talk is fine. Talk is one thing, but actually doing it is verboten.

 @240B  Say and do whatever you have to do to stay in office and then right back to business as usual is the way of the world in Washington!   and Austin, and just about every other state capital as well.

[dfwgator]

Cheap Labor Ãœber Alles.

[240B]

In my opinion, one of the biggest shocks to Trump was how tightly interwoven the policies of Democrats and Republicans are. Trump, like most of us, assumed that the Republicans 'want' to do the right thing, but the Democrats are blocking them. None of us understood how ingrained and deep the mono-Party really is before Trump.

Trump is not allowing the Republicans to hide under the skirt of Democrats anymore. He is saying plainly, 'I am here and I am ready. Give me a bill.' But the mono-Party will never do that. That was never the plan. Hillary was supposed to win giving the Pubs cover for the next few years. Trump screwed up the status-quo. He is blowing their cover. And in D.C., that is an unforgivable sin.

So the next time McConnell/Ryan says, 'I am for the wall.' which to my knowledge neither has ever said, their credibility is zero. If you are 'for' this, and you are 'for' that, then why did you sit on your hands for two years quietly waiting for the Democrats to come back, when you could have done anything you wanted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-party_state