{"id":4169,"date":"2016-02-17T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-17T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:46:10","slug":"what_you_talkin_bout_tillis_republicans_begin_to_fold_on_scalia_s_replacement_after_just_two_days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/17\/what_you_talkin_bout_tillis_republicans_begin_to_fold_on_scalia_s_replacement_after_just_two_days\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Talkin\u2019 ‘Bout, Tillis? Republicans Begin to Fold on Scalia\u2019s Replacement After Just Two Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: You know, the situation Obama out there blasting the Republicans for threatening to block his Supreme Court nominee? He says it goes against the Constitution. I can\u2019t go through a day without just blowing up and at the same time laughing at it. You talk about hypocrisy, the hypocrisy of Obama, Chuck Schumer, all these guys on Supreme Court nominees? It\u2019s blatant, in your face. They know it\u2019s not gonna come back and bite them. <\/line>They know the hypocrisy charge, even if it sticks, is never gonna harm them. But with Obama saying opposing his nominee goes against the Constitution — which, of course, it doesn\u2019t. But the real question is: Why should Obama be so concerned about what the Constitution says about appointing someone to the Supreme Court when he doesn\u2019t want whoever he appoints to follow the Constitution anyway? <\/line><\/p>\n

He is gonna find somebody who\u2019s gonna rewrite the Constitution. That\u2019s his criteria. He\u2019s gonna find somebody who will make law from the bench, like John Roberts has been doing, not somebody who\u2019s gonna interpret the Constitution. So what does he care what the Constitution says? As far as that is concerned, he doesn\u2019t care what the Constitution says anyway when it comes to things that he wants. Ever heard of executive orders? Executive actions? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I remember. It was shortly after we learned of the death of Justice Scalia, it didn\u2019t take but minutes for the politics of his replacement discussion to get going. And Mitch McConnell put out this statement, said that the president should not make an appointment and should not have the right, opportunity, whatever, in a lame duck year like this. And I had a lot of people on Saturday, “See what Mitch did, man, that was great, Mitch came out there, Mitch really hammered them.” On the golf course Sunday, a friend, “Did you see what Mitch did, Mitch really hammered them.” I said, “Wait a minute, Mitch didn\u2019t hammer anybody. Mitch said ‘should.\u2019 He didn\u2019t say ‘would not\u2019; he said ‘should not.\u2019 There\u2019s wiggle room there.”<\/p>\n

“No, no, Rush, you\u2019re –” both my friends on Saturday and Sunday on the golf course, “You\u2019re misinterpreting this. I\u2019m not reading it the way you are, Rush.” You see, folks, in my world I\u2019m never right. In my personal world I am never right. It\u2019s a badge of honor to show me to be wrong. My life is a perpetual never ending competition. My personal life. I\u2019m telling these guys, “You are replacing your intelligence with hope. You hope that Mitch is gonna hammer \u2019em. You hope the Republicans are gonna hang in there. But what is the experience we\u2019ve got over the last seven years?” Well, it didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n

We now have Chuck Grassley (paraphrased), “Whoa, I\u2019m rethinking this. Maybe we will conduct hearings.” And then Mel Tillis… (Nope, I take it back. That\u2019s the country singer.) Thom Tillis, North Carolina. (paraphrased) “Oh, I think we don\u2019t want to look like obstructionists.” And there it is, folks! There it is! (paraphrased) “We don\u2019t want to look like obstructionists.” That\u2019s translated: “We have to cross the aisle on this. We have to show the people we can help make Washington work.<\/line><\/p>\n

“It will harm us if we are the agents of gridlock, and the government is not working.” So when Tillis said, “We can\u2019t appear to be obstructionist,” that means this firm, “There\u2019s no way” lasted about a day. And now we\u2019re to the possibility of hearings. And now it\u2019s all, “If Obama nominates a moderate…” Even Obama said he\u2019s not gonna nominate a moderate! Somebody in the Drive-Bys went and asked Obama, “The Republicans say they might be willing to work with you if you no time a moderate.”<\/p>\n

“Moderate?” He laughed. “I don\u2019t know what that means! I\u2019m gonna nominate somebody qualified.” Translation: “I\u2019m gonna find the nearest socialist I can and I\u2019m gonna ram it down their throats. Get your popcorn ready. Moderate? Are you kidding me? I don\u2019t do moderate!” But here are the Republicans. So I just… I tried to warn everybody not to confuse your hope with what you think you heard. I even got into an argument with Snerdley! He thinks that Mitch McConnell…<\/line><\/p>\n

“He was dead serious! This is different, Rush. It\u2019s the Supreme Court.”<\/line><\/p>\n

“Different? What\u2019s different about it?” I asked him the question: “What does Mitch McConnell want more than anything in the world?”<\/p>\n

And Snerdley got it. “He wants to stay majority leader.” That\u2019s true, and whatever has to happen to make that happen, bank on it. I can run through a scenario where they conduct hearings and an Obama nominee gets confirmed before the election. I can run through the scenario. You want me to run through the scenario before the program ends? I can go… (interruption) Yeah, part of you wants me to do it; the other part of you doesn\u2019t want to hear it, right? (interruption) All right. ‘Cause you\u2019re… (interruption) All right. So we\u2019ve got that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Robert in Mount Laguna, California. It\u2019s great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. Admittedly I\u2019m a Trumpster, but I made an observation that I think I\u2019ve seen a variant of the Limbaugh Theorem play out on the Republican side. And very specifically, George W. Bush spoke in South Carolina, and he mentioned that he could sense all the anger in the Republican Party and in the people who are gonna be voting in the primaries. And then he said, which was really curious \u2019cause it makes no sense, Jeb would be the best person to fix it, when in fact he and the mainstream people are the cause of all the anger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now wait a second. I\u2019m angry, and most of my anger is not at W. Most of my anger is at the Republican establishment. I\u2019ve got some, but the last seven years my anger\u2019s at the Republican Party serving now and Obama. But your point is you think it\u2019s kind of strange for W. to say, acknowledge there\u2019s Republican anger out there and only Jeb can fix it, when in your belief, the reason for the anger is W. himself.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, Rush, mine is similar to yours. W. is just the spokesman, so I\u2019m just saying, yes, we are angry at the Republican establishment for not fighting back on issues like immigration —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the only reason we\u2019re here, folks. I hate to interrupt you. It\u2019s the only reason all this is going on. I hate to tell you. This isn\u2019t deep, and it isn\u2019t complicated. The only reason we\u2019re here, as we are, is because there hasn\u2019t been any push-back to what the Democrat Party and Barack Obama have been doing the last seven years and arguably you could say the last 10. There was no push-back when they were out totally destroying George W. Bush and the administration on Iraq.<\/p>\n

I mean, here you have the very people that voted for the Iraq war, they voted for it, every damn one of these Democrats except for Bernie, they voted for it. They get away with being portrayed as people that were always opposed to it, both morally and politically, and they demanded a second vote back in 2002 so they could go on record being in favor of it because public polling showed overwhelming support for the use of force in Iraq. And then these guys come along long ago after the fact when everything crumbles that they helped make crumble. They were actively seeking the defeat of this country along with the Drive-By Media, which is fine; that\u2019s who they are. There was no push-back even then from the Republican administration.<\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, this pent-up frustration at the Republican Party not being on the field, much less in the game, goes back long before seven years ago and it is deep-seated and it is deep-rooted. There\u2019s a lot of anger to go around, but the focus of it is the Republican Party basically ceased operations as a stopgap, as an opposition party.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, they ask for money all that time, and they campaigned promising that they would stop, or try to, and then nothing happened. This rage and anger goes back a long time. And if the Republican Party had done its job, we wouldn\u2019t even be here now. I mean, we\u2019d be here, but the whole flavor and structure of this campaign would be entirely different than it is.<\/p>\n

We really don\u2019t need to complicate things that are simple, and this one is pretty simple. And I think the illustration of it, here we have yet again, it\u2019s playing out exactly as it has, in specific these past seven years. So here comes the death of a Supreme Court justice. It\u2019s crucial the makeup of the Supreme Court. It\u2019s crucial.<\/p>\n

I mean, if there is ever a moment to contrast who we are with who they are, if there\u2019s ever a moment to stop what the left is attempting to do, it is right here and right now, and so the Republicans came out and they said all the right things, and it took two days, two days max for a couple of Republicans to stand up, “Wait a minute. I think maybe we can\u2019t be seen as obstructionists and so forth.” It looks like the whole pattern is about to repeat itself. And the outcome of that, I mean, you fill in the blanks, you add two and two yourself, \u2019cause I\u2019m here to tell you what the outcome of that\u2019s gonna be. And you don\u2019t want to hear it, a lot of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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