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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, evidence that what I said yesterday is actually the case<\/a>. I think the Democrats are losing this. And isn\u2019t it true out there that Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul were caught on an open mic actually discussing amongst themselves that they\u2019re winning, that we are winning? This is Wednesday night in Paducah, Kentucky, on WPSD-TV, Channel 6, the NBC affiliate, at least it was when I was growing up. They posted video of an exchange between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul that was recorded while McConnell was waiting to do an interview with the station, WPSD-TV, Channel 6, and here is a portion of what that it sounded like.<\/p>\n

PAUL: Do you have a second?<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: I\u2019m all wired up here.<\/p>\n

PAUL: I just did CNN. I just go over and over again, “We\u2019re willing to compromise. We\u2019re willing to negotiate.” I don\u2019t think they poll tested “we won\u2019t negotiate.” I think it\u2019s awful for them to say that over and over again.<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: Yeah, I do, too. And I just came back from a two-hour meeting with them, and that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly.<\/p>\n

PAUL: I think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that, and now we\u2019re willing to compromise on this, I think — well, I know we don\u2019t want to be here, but we\u2019re gonna win this, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “We\u2019re gonna win this, I think. We\u2019re gonna win this.” You know Obama canceled the Asia trip? I want to know who in the White House had the brains on that, \u2019cause that was a smart move. I mean, if he goes over there and starts negotiating with all those people, the ChiComs and whoever else he was gonna meet with, and refuses to negotiate with the Republicans… I mean, don\u2019t forget this is a guy that was elected because he was gonna end all of this, folks. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, I know it\u2019s hard for you to believe. If you just look at the media every day it\u2019s hard to believe. You look at the media and think the Republicans are just getting hammered and hammered, my gosh, just relentless, but I\u2019m telling you, Dingy Harry apologized for his nasty tone on the Senate floor. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delivered a striking mea culpa on the Senate floor Friday as he opened the chamber, saying he and his colleagues have simply gotten too personal and nasty in their floor debates.”<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think he apologized for not caring about the lives of kids with cancer, but I\u2019m telling you, you don\u2019t see these people ever apologizing for their language or their tone. I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s coming back to bite \u2019em. And don\u2019t forget, folks, it\u2019s crucially important. Barack Obama was elected because he was gonna end all of this. No matter who was to blame for the bickering, Obama was a new kind of politician. Obama was gonna end it. Obama was gonna bring unity and comity and universal respect and get rid of all the old politics and bring on the new politics and everybody just gets along. Remember? And it\u2019s gotten worse than many people can remember it ever being, given their ages. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Obama, he\u2019s ready to fly off over to Asia for another confab, but he says (paraphrasing), “I can\u2019t go. It\u2019s just too important for me to stay. We\u2019ve got the shutdown. We\u2019ve got the debt limit coming.” This isn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s cancelled an Asia trip. He cancelled an Asia trip to hang in while Obamacare was being voted on and for another reason. The Asians may be getting a complex \u2019cause he bugs out on \u2019em so much. But somebody at the White House had some brains because if he\u2019da gone ahead with this trip and had been seen negotiating with those guys, the ChiComs and whoever else he was gonna meet, but refuses to sit down and talk to the Republicans who he\u2019s characterizing in very disparaging terms it would not have looked good, and the optics are what these people care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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