Rush Limbaugh: Watching Trump sign spending bill was like seeing him ‘go back up’ the escalator

Via The Washington Examiner

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said President Trump signing a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill into law on Friday made him feel like he was witnessing Trump “go back up” the escalator.

“I try to be a guy governed by my thoughts, but I’m not liking the way I’m feeling. I’m feeling like I just saw Donald Trump get on the escalator and go back up,” Limbaugh said on his radio show Friday, referring to the scene where Trump announced his candidacy for president in June 2015 at Trump Tower in New York City.

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While Limbaugh said he understood spending was necessary for the Trump administration’s infrastructure aspirations, he said he disliked how congressional Republicans capitulated to the Democrats’ demands because of a “stupid ass government shutdown fear.”

He added that many of the president’s immigration policy agenda items were “stripped away” from the final draft of the bill, warning it may be the “last piece of meaningful legislation” before the 2018 midterm elections.

“In addition to feeling like I just saw Donald Trump go back up the escalator, I’m not feeling like anything that happened today was game changing,” the radio host continued. “This seemed much the same as we have become accustomed to in watching Washington function. And it doesn’t feel right.”

Limbaugh was not the only right-wing commentator to criticize Trump for signing the spending instrument.

Conservative political pundit Ann Coulter skewered Trump in a series of tweets Friday, suggesting the president could face impeachment for not vetoing the proposal.

 

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CCRider
CCRider

Limbaugh is full of shit-just another gatekeeper. In the clips I heard he was pitching the line that this bill was intended to separate trump from his base. It’s meant to draw trump as a victim. Poor donnie was backed into a corner by those mean old swamp creatures-like the ones he put in his administration. Coulter is at least honest in her statements. When trump butt slams his base she doesn’t mince words about it. I hated her back when she was peddling her ass in support of the Iraq war so I’ll never really trust her but at least she’s come to her senses.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You need t read that article on the 24 biases then rethink your position.

CCRider
CCRider

Brilliant rebuttal. A homework assignment. Get relevant or get lost.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It wasn’t a rebuttal, it was advice.

Advice you obviously didn’t take.

CCRider
CCRider

Correct. What makes you think me or anyone else gives a shit about “Anonymous” advice? But if you can cobble together enough brain cells to actually refute my points please do grace us with it.

overthecliff
overthecliff

with a real name

Anonymous
Anonymous

And “overthecliff” is your real name?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Once someone looses the support of Limbaugh and Hannity, he’s lost.

Period.

Trump’s days are ending, may the end now come as rapidly and painlessly as possible for America. The last thing we need now is more irreconcilable division and divisive action from the White House.

Centurion44
Centurion44

I for one feel betrayed. The Donald said he would not sign it as presented, then he did the opposite, he sign it. The “swamp” swallowed The Donald. He is now what he said he detested. Shame, shame!

unit472/
unit472/

Look at the optics if Trump vetoed the bill. ” Bi partisan” bill passed by the ‘swamp’. Government shuts down, Trump takes entire blame as media goes into orgy of covering laid off government contractors, stalled medicaid and medicare coverage etc. The pressure would be overwhelming and, at some point, Trump would be forced to yield and sign the goddamned bill. That is reality!

The other reality is that things are getting hot in the world. Our military is short of pilots and operational airplanes. That has to be fixed and soon. Defunding Planned Parenthood has been on the agenda for decades as has restricting immigration but Limbaugh, Drudge, and Coulter have never even gotten close.

Trump is achieving things behind the scenes. Refugee numbers are way down, deportations going up. Planned parenthood is irrelevant given current US fertility rates and the more black women who get abortions the better if you are a race realist.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Maybe be better to take the entire blame than lose almost his entire support, the support that put him in office and the support that would continue to support him if he vetoed it.

The Leftists, both Republican and Democrat, aren’t going to support and vote for him anyway so why worry about it?

unit472/
unit472/

Tempest in a teapot. Trump has to focus on the big picture and, right now, that means getting North Korea to denuclearize. Pulling that off would be an incredible geopolitical achievement for Trump and would make him a candidate for the first REAL Nobel Peace Prize!

My guess is the phone call to Putin and the trade war threats with China are part of this effort. North Korea has to see it has nowhere left to turn. That it is totally isolated so it either gives up its nuclear weapons or the regime is strangled.

In the scheme of things this years fiscal deficit isn’t a make or break issue but Trump has to have a major policy victory to take into the midterms and pave the way for 2020. This would be it!

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Nobel Prize? Trump could cure cancer and heart disease and the leftists wouldn’t give him any credit…

gilberts
gilberts

Who wants that prize, anyway? It’s just a way for leftists to jerk each other off. I would love to see someone win one and then throw it in the trash, since any homo can win one just for having a pulse. Just look at President Evil, who won his for peace before he even did anything, then went off to blow up half the middle east and toppled a few leaders.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Trump’s Base would have been energized…who cares about the rest? Trump is sacrificing the people who voted for him for people who hate him.

prusmc
prusmc

The shortage of pilots in the military is a clear and present danger. It only takes about two years in the training pipeline to have a rookie in the cockpit. This legislation is what will solve this deficiency by May.

JC
JC

Your auto-correct messed you up. It typed “race realist” when you clearly meant “racist.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

What is Q saying now?

BB

But still no Fucking Wall to stop America from becoming South America ,Understand Units479

Anonymous
Anonymous

The way some reports have it, it denies anything resembling an actual wall and only repairs some existing fencing and calls for some bollard fence to be installed to protect a national wildlife preserve.

That effectively kills a wall.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

No, Trump could order the Wall built tomorrow by the Army Corps of Engineers, but he seems too chicken to do it…

Uncola

When in transition, it’s okay to not have all the answers. Trying to steer a Fourth Turning is like lassoing the wind or reversing an ocean’s tide. Best to batten down your hatches and adjust your sails.

These things I know: People are known by their actions, not by their words; and time reveals everything.

If Rush Limbaugh was a threat to the New World Order they would have found child porn on his computer by now; or he would be holed up in some foreign embassy like Assange; or on the run like Snowden.

I often wonder if Rush isn’t a tool to keep the faux left / right dichotomy in play. He never fails to divert his high-powered acumen ever-so-slightly away from the truth behind what he labels as conspiracy. The Deep State to him is the “administrative state”, or the “establishment”.

Limbaugh never mentions the round table groups or the secret societies as referenced by JFK. This makes Rush either naive, or controlled (allowed?) opposition and at the whim of True Power.

The same goes with Trump.

Our president is either who he professes to be, or he is not. You either trust him, or you don’t.

It could be he is playing the power game the best he can and prioritizing actualities that we can’t see for purposes we don’t know; or he’s puppet, or imbecilic sell-out.

Time reveals all things.

The Inspector General’s report is coming out soon. In my opinion, what happens after that will be very revealing.

Until then, however, know these things: Tyranny wants you controlled or dead; it is, in fact, knocking on your front door and it really, really, really wants your guns.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Limbaugh may be one thing or may be another, but whatever he is he is highly influential on the Right side of the aisle and the way it thinks.

Uncola

By design? I would sure think he’s a lot more blackmailable then Chief Justice John Roberts and Paul Ryan, combined. Anyone who’s been married five times likely has some dirt on them. Or not.

But don’t get me wrong, I like Rush. If not for him, a lot of folks on the right might have rioted in the streets by now. Oh, wait…

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Rush isn’t perfect, but he’s still a positive for the alt-right and the country.

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

I don’t usually identify this type of error, but I thought this was funny (har, har):

“…or on the lamb like Snowden.”

lam, not lamb the baby sheep

Uncola

Good catch, Kokoda. Perhaps that was a Freudian slip; me thinking of Snowden as a pure, snow white lamb sacrificed upon the altar of the Fourth Amendment. ?

I just changed it to “run”. I don’t scrutinize my comments the way I do my essays. Thanks

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

I had considered writing that you must have gone to the same school as Martin Armstrong (humor), but people can be very touchy, easily offended, even when it is obvious that it was not intended. You are not in his category of butchering the English language/writing.

I also consider Armstrong to be very, very intelligent.

Uncola

Nice of you to say. However, I tend to view myself like Popeye umpiring a baseball game:

I y’am what I y’am and I calls ’em likes I sees ’em

Jake
Jake

Autocorrect should be outlawed.

Stubb
Stubb

I no, rite? I here you.

Peaceout
Peaceout

Once again shit is fucked up and bullshit!

Liars Anonymous
Liars Anonymous

And here you thought the party was over.

unit472/
unit472/

A ‘Wall’ is more symbolic than a real impediment to illegal immigration. Fact is, if you want to empty the US of immigrants the quickest most effective way to do that is have a depression. No work, no immigrants. Short of that visa and employment enforcement will do more than a ‘wall’ that would take years to build and Trump is doing that.

With the Fed withdrawing billions each month in liquidity via QT and hiking interest rates it maybe only the fiscal deficit is keeping the economy going. A government shutdown could set off the same sort of economic implosion that took the GOP down in 2008. Might happen anyway but no point in inviting it.

gilberts
gilberts

Just cut the freebies, no pubic school for criminal illegal alien non-taxpayers, no E-room services for non-shitizens, and 100% no employment for illegals and the problem solves itself. You can speed up their removal by declaring them up for grabs with the cops. Let the cops keep any illegal-owned property, bank accounts, etc they can find and the land rush is on. And let’s use the fedgov to slow down payments via Western Union and whatever other cash transfer businesses there are, a’ la Cyprus a few years ago, due to some Swift issue or temporary hold while regulations are checked or other bureaucratic red tape and enjoy watching the cockroaches scatter.

Not Sure

Trump, either you love him or hate him. But I would offer this one distinction; remember he is the president and not the king. Before he was elected we had a uniparty. The budget passed by the house and the senate, demonstrated that the uniparty is alive and well.
As I eat my lunch, behind me is CNN playing their day long celebration of “March for our lives.” Hogg is now spewing his shite and the audience is slurping it up.
Gentlemen, the fight is not over, stop the whining and prepare for another battle. If you feed CNN with your “I’m giving up,” the momentum of the Trump presidency will surely recede. Then Hillary and Obama will pick up where the they left off.
If Trump is lost, tell me who is in the wings to continue the war against the globalists?

gilberts
gilberts

Yeah, cuz’ CNN cares what we say.

Not Sure

Should have said “ladies and gentlemen,” my bad.

overthecliff
overthecliff

We would have plenty of money for the military if they were withdrawn to American soil.

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s absolutely correct.

We need to get of both NATO and the UN.

gilberts
gilberts

you mean deployed to American soil from their permanent posts overseas.

Mark
Mark

Pull the troops out of Korea and put them on the border with Mexico.

NtroP
NtroP

Great idea, but I think our troops in Afghanistan would do a better job on the Mexican border, with their recent drug-lord experience.
Or maybe not, as they may just protect and encourage the Meskin drug lords. Shit! What do we do?

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

And pull all our troops out of Europe

gilberts
gilberts

I remember when 2006 election happened, Limbaugh said he was done carrying water for the repubes. After a day, or two, he was carrying his usual two buckets and even had another one balanced on his head.

He’s suffering from Battered Spouse syndrome, like the rest of us habitual repube voters, and this time he says it’s too much, but Monday, after the bruises heal, he’ll be waiting with pot roast and a glass of wine for Lyin’ (looks like Eddie Munster) Paul Ryan and Bitch McConnel to come home, praying he isn’t abused again like he was Friday.
I know what I’m talking about- we Battered Voter Syndrome sufferers can smell our own…

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