{"id":294448,"date":"2018-12-12T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294448"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:44:15","slug":"the-swamp-doesnt-get-what-trump-did-with-chuck-and-nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/12\/the-swamp-doesnt-get-what-trump-did-with-chuck-and-nancy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swamp Doesn\u2019t Get What Trump Did with Chuck and Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So the Drive-By Media and others continue to debate the Oval Office meeting yesterday between Chuck and Nancy. They\u2019re becoming a couple. Chuck and Nancy went to the Oval Office, Chuck and Nancy did this, Chuck and Nancy over there, Chuck and Nancy here. And of course the Drive-Bys think that Chuck and Nancy just hit a grand-slam home run. And many of the Never Trumpers think that Trump just made the biggest mistake in the world by claiming that he would own a shutdown if it ever happened.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd that one example I think serves to illustrate one of the things that we are all up against here and have been for I don\u2019t know how long. The Republican Party and the so-called conservative movement in Washington thinks exactly and identically the way the people who run that town think. And that would be the Democrats, the media, the American left. And one of the tenets of official Washington, one of the inviolate beliefs is that if there\u2019s a government shutdown, the Republicans are gonna get the blame, no matter what.<\/p>\n

And so you never want a government shutdown, because the Republicans are gonna get the blame. So what happens? Well, you never shut down the government, which means Democrats win every budget fight. Because the Republicans have made a calculation. “We would really get creamed if the government shuts down. We would get blamed for not caring about the poor and the downtrodden and the thirsty. And so we\u2019ll fix this budget stuff, we\u2019ll kick the can down the road and we\u2019ll get \u2018em at the next budget fight.”<\/p>\n

And the same thing happens, threatened shut down, the Republicans shudder in fear, “Ah, ah, shut down, oh, no, no, no, no, no, we don\u2019t want any part.” And Democrats win every budget battle. And that leads to groupthink that says government shutdown equals death for Republicans, therefor never, ever shut down the government. No matter what else happens, don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

So Donald Trump, who\u2019s not a citizen of the swamp, he\u2019s not a denizen of the swamp, understands that there are crucially important things that are happening that are threatening our country in a lot of ways. One of them is illegal immigration. It\u2019s got to stop. He has promised a number of things to try to stop it. Among them, building a wall.<\/p>\n

So they have the meeting yet the Oval Office yesterday and Trump says, “You know what? The American people are with me on this. We\u2019ve gotta stop this. I was elected because of this. We\u2019ve gotta get a handle on it. We\u2019re gonna build a wall. If you shut down the government, I\u2019ll gladly own it.” And the Republicans, \u201cOh, my God.\u201d Get \u2019em the vapors.<\/p>\n

And so the Washington intelligentsia thinks that Trump stepped in it. They think that Trump committed the biggest faux pas that is possible for a Republican to commit, and in their world this is why Donald Trump is just flat-out stupid. You never, ever advocate for a shutdown and you never, as a Republican, claim that you\u2019ll take the blame for it or own it. And that is what you\u2019ll hear from any and every Republican inside the Beltway that lives in Washington.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m just telling you that way of thinking equals perpetual, never ending budget fight defeat. It\u2019s what it has always meant. We now have a president willing to stand up to it to try to win these budget battles for the good of the people of this country and at the same time accomplish something that\u2019s necessary, and that\u2019s stop massive illegal immigration. And if it takes a government shutdown to do it, then that\u2019s what Trump is gonna do, it\u2019s what he was elected to do.<\/p>\n

I told you he\u2019s got nothing to lose here! He has now the Democrats running the House — I would suggest to you Trump does well. Look, when he was running for the Republican nomination, he had 16 opponents. He vanquished them all. He had the media; he vanquished them. Now he\u2019s up against the Democrats and constantly the media. I think Trump is gonna shine in these next two years. At least he has the potential to based on his track record. These are circumstances where he does shine.<\/p>\n

And he continues to take advantage of a really great opportunity, and that is to continue to demonstrate that he is not of Washington, that he is not of the swamp, that he is a different breed, which is what people perennially say they want election after election. Somebody that\u2019s not an ingrained insider.<\/p>\n