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Anonymous ID: 83508c Jan. 10, 2020, 10:18 a.m. No.7773528   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Words to remember by Rush Limbaugh

 

Gallup Poll: Just 24% Say They’re Liberal

 

RUSH: One of the things that I have made a point of over and over, and I have for many, many moons, is that most of us feel like we are being governed against our will. Obama, the Democrats win, and they govern against the will of the people. It’s a sinking sensation. And I have made the point over and over again that liberalism is not the majority of thinking in this country, and it’s not even close. And yet it appears to be the dominate way of thinking.

 

So there’s a Gallup poll out here today filled with a couple of charts which even if I screenshotted these and put ’em on the Dittocam, they’d be so small you couldn’t follow ’em. I’m not a big chart guy. Like I’m not a big video guy. And the reason is, I can learn it much faster reading it than watching it. I can get the point of a video in 30 seconds instead of watching five minutes of it.

 

And the same thing looking at charts. I spend most of my time looking at charts trying to figure it out. Just tell me what they say and I’m gonna do that here. Here’s the bottom line. Gallup poll, latest: 24% of this country identifies as liberal. Twenty-four percent. Does that surprise you? Doesn’t it seem like they’re everywhere? Doesn’t it seem like they’re running the show? Doesn’t it seem like we are the minority? Doesn’t it seem like everywhere you turn there’s liberal dominance here, liberal dominance there?

Be it in the news, be it in movies, throughout pop culture, in church. It doesn’t matter where you go. Except, isn’t it interesting? At least… Well, speaking for myself, I never run into ’em. Throughout my career… Let me give you a little anecdote. Throughout my career… What am I? Well, in the Drive-By Media I am “controversial,” and I am “outspoken,” and I’m “extremist,” and I’m “mean-spirited,” you know, all these labels.

 

And over the course of my career, folks — I will be honest with you — there are people who have been reluctant to go anywhere in public with me because they have been afraid that I’m gonna be set upon by hecklers and mobs who intend to do me harm. And it never happens. It has yet to happen anywhere I’ve gone. I mean, I can’t give you specific examples. (I could. I’m not going to.) I could give you individual names of people who say, “Rush, are you sure we ought to go there? My God. That’s gonna be dangerous.”

 

I tell everybody, “No. The only people we’re gonna encounter are people who are huge fans, supporters. That’s all that ever happens,” and yet there is this… Eh, it’s not a fear. There’s a belief that any conservative is gonna be mobbed. Now, it’s because we do see that in political events. You can have a Sarah Palin go out, and an organized mob shows up — or Trump announces a travel ban and an organized, paid-for mob wearing vagina hats shows up all over the country.

 

But those are not organic. They’re bought and paid for. They’re made to look organic, and the media treats them as organic — as though they’re spontaneous and natural — but they’re not. By the same token, conservatives don’t do that. Conservatives or Republicans don’t organize and pay for protests. They just don’t do it. It’s not in our makeup. We’re not malcontents. We’re not running around thinking we’re grievanced all day long about things.

 

They do. The fact of the matter is, folks, we outnumber them nationwide. But, one of the two most influential areas determining public opinion? I would say that they are the media and education, and who owns those? The left. The Democrats. You throw in pop culture. Add pop culture to the day-to-day Drive-By Media, and you would be forgiven if your assumption was that we are vastly outnumbered and that we are a tiny minority and, as such, we are losing the country.

 

When in fact, in the Gallup poll, 24% of this country identifies itself as liberal — and the Gallup headline itself says it. According to the latest Gallup poll, even as America has become more liberal, it has remained a center-right nation — and I have been trying to pound this point home on issue after issue. We have never been even 50-50 on abortion. This country has always been center right, even on abortion. It is what…

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/01/09/gallup-poll-just-24-say-theyre-liberal/

Anonymous ID: 83508c Jan. 10, 2020, 10:57 a.m. No.7773841   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3863

McClain email makes it clear: Mike Madigan's time is up

 

After two years of revelations, it's obvious Madigan's closest associates felt that no one could hold them to account, however foul the deed. It's time for the Illinois House speaker to go, Greg Hinz writes.

He didn't know. That’s what Mike Madigan says. I actually believe him.

 

Had the Illinois House speaker known that long-time top ally Mike McClain would be stupid enough to put in writing a request to save a state job for a "loyal" worker who covered up a rape and ghost payrolling “and other matters,” Madigan would have trashed that email right away. After all, that's what non-tapped cell phones are for.

 

But that's about the only thing that Madigan is saying now that I believe.

 

The McClain email, first reported by WBEZ, caps a full two years of revelations about political clout, high-powered lobbying, sexual harassment and passing the buck on the speaker’s watch. If he didn't know, he should have known.

 

I still have doubts that federal prosecutors are ever going to catch the wily Southwest Side lawyer, though clearly they're trying. And, sadly, it is clear that fellow House Democrats and Gov. J.B Pritzker don't have the fortitude to demand a needed change in leadership.

 

But that doesn't mean voters can't reach some conclusions about a guy who just won't change the way he and his associates do business.

Lots has gone down lately. But one of the first signs of real trouble came almost two years ago, when Madigan abruptly fired Kevin Quinn, the brother of Ald. Marty Quinn, of Madigan's home 13th Ward. Numerous emails from Quinn to a female coworker who refused to date him were enough to prompt action—at least before the woman could go public with her own story.

 

There was more coming, and everyone knew it. So one member of Madigan’s caucus, North Side Rep. Kelly Cassidy, called for a full investigation. Shortly after, then-Madigan Chief of Staff Tim Mapes called the Cook County Sheriff’s Office inquiring about her second job there. Cassidy took it as a warning, and resigned from the sheriff’s post. Madigan put out a statement denying any appearance that he had fired a warning shot.

Four months later, on June 6, 2018, Madigan fired Mapes, saying, “It is clear the (House) culture needs to change and we need to ensure all issues are dealt with quickly and appropriately.” Like perhaps the public statement of one ranking female House Democratic staffer, who said that when she asked Mapes to protect a female colleague who was being hit on by a state representative, Mapes replied, "Are you reporting the situation because you were upset the representative isn’t paying attention to you?"

 

Fast forward to this year. Federal agents raided McClain’s and Kevin Quinn’s home, and subpoenaed Commonwealth Edison for records of its lobbying. The Chicago Tribune reported that among things, the feds are examining why McClain and other Edison lobbyists wrote Quinn $10,000 checks shortly after he supposedly was removed from Madigan’s political operation. Others reported that former City Club President Jay Doherty may have served as a conduit for distributing $3.1 million in Edison lobbying fees to dozens of friends and associates of McClain and/or Madigan who did little work for that money. The state’s legislative inspector general reported that both Kevin Quinn and Mapes failed to cooperate with a probe into what had occurred.

More: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/mcclain-email-makes-it-clear-mike-madigans-time

Anonymous ID: 83508c Jan. 10, 2020, 11 a.m. No.7773863   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7773841

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Fast forward to this year. Federal agents raided McClain’s and Kevin Quinn’s home, and subpoenaed Commonwealth Edison for records of its lobbying. The Chicago Tribune reported that among things, the feds are examining why McClain and other Edison lobbyists wrote Quinn $10,000 checks shortly after he supposedly was removed from Madigan’s political operation. Others reported that former City Club President Jay Doherty may have served as a conduit for distributing $3.1 million in Edison lobbying fees to dozens of friends and associates of McClain and/or Madigan who did little work for that money. The state’s legislative inspector general reported that both Kevin Quinn and Mapes failed to cooperate with a probe into what had occurred.

 

Now, the latest, the email in which McClain had the temerity, the utter gall, the swaggering arrogance to say that his friend ought to keep a state job because he "kept his mouth shut" about "ghost workers, the rape in Champaign and other matters."

 

That's "extremely serious and troubling," said Madigan in a statement. "I had no knowledge of the incident referenced."

 

So will Madigan convene a committee to probe all of this, an idea proposed by House Republicans? Nope. Because of the "sensitivity" of the matter, it should be handled not by lawmakers in public but by "the appropriate authorities," Madigan declared.

 

In other words, let's hush it all up until the inspector general or someone does a report a few months down the road, after any elections. Kinda like President Donald Trump saying that top aides will testify before the GOP-controlled Senate, not the Democratic House, isn't it?

 

The best summary came when WBEZ caught up with McClain outside a Chicago restaurant and he confirmed that federal agents want him to flip on Madigan. Asked if it would be hard to betray Madigan, McClain responded, “It would be hard to betray myself.”

 

One in the same. Mike and Mike. Two peas in a pod. I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

That's the point, folks. I don’t know exactly what Mike Madigan knew and when he knew it. But there was no one closer to him than McClain and Mapes, and we now know how they acted.

 

Sleep with dogs and you get fleas. Shame on you, Mr. Speaker. It's time to go.