From Rush's podcast today

From the first hour of today's Rush Limbaugh Show. "The Democratic Party has lost their entire moral foundation! This is what happens when you become consumed with hatred. It destroys you. Hatred can never make you happy.

I am inundated with so much love and support...more than I ever knew!"

Trump calls at 9 a.m. Tuesday on the day Rush is due to meet with doctors to set up the treatment schedule. Rush and his wife have traveled to another city to a motel when the call comes in. "Rush, what's your doctor's name? I want to call him to reschedule you. I need you down here today." So, Rush and Kathyrn discuss what to do. All they had was casual clothes. Kathyrn insisted, "You can't not do this (invitation by the president)!" Trump did not tell him he would be given the medal of freedom Tuesday night...Rush thought it was going to happen in a couple of weeks.

To Donald Trump, Rush said, "There simply is nothing you can't do! There is not a single obstacle that can't be dealt with! It was what he wanted, not for him, but for me. He wasn't going to let me talk myself out of it." They kept their noon appointment with a doctor. A couple hours later they returned to their hotel room where Kathryn had arranged to have several retailers bring some clothes for them both to try on.

"The Democrats and the deep state have no idea what they are up against in Donald Trump. They and Mitt Romney pander. Donald Trump does what he thinks is right. In his world, there is no "can't.
President Trump explained the Presidential Medal of Freedom to me and Kathryn in the White House. I just wasn't sure I deserved it. I am a radio talk show host!

A wave of warmth swept over me sitting there in the House of Representatives."

"A new low!"

The final Pelosi denouement

Dov Fischer writes in Spectator,

Iowa is a very small state. The reason it matters so dearly in presidential politics is that its people represent an important cross-section of middle America — some farmers, some G-d-fearing Christians, some university students, some blue-collar workers who may not have finished high school, some factory workers. Iowans matter, even if their state is small. For many months, therefore, prospective presidential candidates pour millions of dollars into campaigning in Iowa, ahead of the caucuses. They endure countless fairs and eat so much barbecue that the taste becomes less delectable even for those who live on pork and smoked beef. They wake early each morning to meet at coffee shops in cold weather, fielding the same questions. They go to countless public school auditoriums to answer the same questions. And they keep pouring millions into the effort — not only media advertising but assembling teams and campaign staffs throughout the state. It is brutal — but it all matters because the Iowa caucus results can destroy the weakest campaigns immediately (as they did to the faltering efforts of Booker, Harris, Castro, Robert O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the others who saw their polls at zero, even as they sank their millions into breaking through at Iowa).

...And then the Don Lemon Lummoxes blew it. Who ever heard of not being able to report the vote? Even Broward County in Florida, the prior world center of moronic electoral management, always has been able to get out vote counts. Sure, they take too much time, and they had all those chads. But who in America ever heard of a day going by without a clue? The impact and result is that the entirety of the 2020 Iowa caucuses ended up being utterly meaningless. If they ever do get the vote reported, America will have moved on … to the State of the Union … to the Impeachment acquittal … to New Hampshire.

So it was not the Russians, not the Ukrainians, not Carter Page, not Donald Trump. It was the Democrat Party itself that sabotaged the 2020 elections. And now we, too, move on …

The real drama came from two sources. First, the president and his team put together one tear-jerker of a show. First they tell you about the little Black girl who dreams of getting a decent education outside Philadelphia’s failed Democrat-run public schools. You feel so much for her, but you wonder where this is going. Then you meet her tearing-up Black mother who desperately wants this for her daughter. And then — wow! — Trump picks the gift behind Curtain Three, and the kid gets the education of her dreams. Then they highlight the Boy of Color (Black? Hispanic?) from Arizona who dreams one day of being in the space program or the new U.S. Space Force. OK — cute, sweet. But where is this going? And then they shift over to the boy’s 100-year-old great-grandfather, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Air fighters. And all you can say as you start tearing up is, “Wow!”

And then Rush Limbaugh. A polarizing figure? But he bravely has made public that he is fighting a terrible disease, refusing to wilt, promising to be on air as long as he can, whenever he can in between treatments. And we all nod with gratitude to this great man. But then — wow! — he is being conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom … and — wow! — right now, right in the middle of the SOTU. We all watched, teary-eyed, as Rush teared up. We all teared up. Next — the mom and kids who have not seen their husband and dad through four tours of duty in a place like Afghanistan. And then — wow! — the guy shows up and kisses the family. And everyone tears up. And the brother of the guy murdered by an illegal alien whom Sanctuary State California protected from ICE apprehension. And the parents of Kayla Mueller learning that the military dedicated the excision of ISIS rapist and terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in their daughter’s memory. They tear up — and so do we. And the wife and children whose husband and father never will return because Qassem Soleimani organized the IED roadside bombings in Iraq — until Trump gave the order to eliminate Soleimani from Earth. So much drama. So much tearing up.

And the other one who tore up as the speech ended — Nancy Pelosi tore up the text of that magnificent bipartisan speech that described a booming American economy, lowest-ever unemployment numbers, unprecedented advances in the economy and marketplace for Blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, and the handicapped. Pelosi tore up the text that spoke of the girl who wanted an education, the Black great-grandfather Tuskegee Airman who had fought in three wars, the widows who had lost their husbands fighting for freedom, the permanent federal funding for historically Black colleges. Watching Pelosi meticulously tear up that speech, in several portions because she lacks the arm strength to tear up more than a few pages at a time, brought home how great this week is for President Trump. On Monday, the Democrats sabotage the integrity of the American presidential electoral process, even as Gallup reports highest-ever approval ratings for Trump. On Tuesday, the amazing “Wow!” SOTU speech. On Wednesday, the Senate acquits Trump, throws out the Pelosi Stillborn Impeachment, and perhaps even a Joe Manchin or a Doug Jones defies Schumer and votes with the Republicans. What a week!

Especially significantly, as Pelosi tore up that wonderful speech that tortured her for 90 minutes, she also permanently put the lie to the canard that Donald Trump is not “presidential enough.” What she did was caught on video and never can be escaped: the smallness and pettiness of a very hate-filled, very tired, very defeated San Francisco matron who cannot stand being beaten by someone she deems below her but who actually is many times smarter than she is, many times more likeable than she is — and who, for all his ridiculous nonsense sometimes, is many times more dignified and “presidential” than she ever was or ever can be. For all of America, it was a moment to see what happens when a fairly beaten politician is so consumed by hate that she can do no more than bristle, steam, and tear papers in a hissy fit. At least the speech’s white pages went with her outfit.

On a night of so much tearing up, that final Pelosi denouement was enough for Trump supporters to tear up with tears of joy.

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"the great American comeback."

JJ Sefton writes in the Ace of Spades blog,

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only..."
Good morning kids. Wednesday and if ever something captured the essence of Charles Dickens' opening verse from A Tale of Two Cities, it had to have been last night's State of the Union address. The speech itself, its pitch-perfect content, tone and uplifting message were by any sane, reasonable accounting a grand slam homerun, yet another amongst at least a half-dozen for this President. What he has achieved for this nation's citizens in just his first three years in office by any unbiased accounting must rank him among the greatest chief executives in our history. And he still has a year left and more than likely four after that.

From touting tax cuts, regulatory reform, and trade realignment with China and the gutting of NAFTA that created and will continue to fuel the greatest economic boom in 100 years, foreign policy and military victories over Iran and the recognition of Venezuela's long-suffering people (Juan Guaido was in the audience) to the long suffering people historically on the lowest rung of the economic ladder who will at last have real opportunities to elevate themselves to the best of their G-d given abilities, the sanctity of life at every stage of development and the sanctity of our G-d given right to defend ourselves enshrined in the Second Amendment, the speech and all it stands for really is "the great American comeback."

But on the other side of the aisle, and in point of fact on the other side of the universe, divorced from any sense of reality and unmoored from even the most basic notions of comity, decency and propriety stand the words and deeds of the Democrat Party and the American Left. The immaturity, pettiness and venomous hatred that are so utterly divorced from reason were an absolute embarrassment. How the so-called party of inclusiveness, openness, tolerance and diversity can sit on its hands when a young, black schoolgirl and her mother are spotlighted, or when the great economic news for women, blacks, Latinos and Asians are celebrated is revelatory if not damning. I imagine it will not be lost on the aforementioned who saw it.

The Left, and far too many RINOs, flunkies, cucks and con artists allegedly on our side, do not necessarily hate this President for who he is. They hate him for what he has done; that is exposed the decades-long sham that is big government via his policies and programs that have done more to actually help more people in more ways in a shorter period of time than they ever hoped they could do. That is, if it was their intent to help people in the first place, and it was not. But let's be clear, the President is merely the embodiment of who and what they really hate: America, it's heritage, culture and most of all its citizenry. They hate us for who we are and because we refuse to knuckle under and be lorded over by them. For that, we must be destroyed.

Honestly, what can I possibly write about Nancy Pelosi making a spectacle of herself by refusing to introduce the President in the traditional manner and then by ripping up the copy of his speech at the end? If she thinks in her febrile, botulinum-addled walnut-sized reptilian brain that her performance is some sort of courageous act of defiance that will rally Americans to her side, she's really gone off the deep end. Same goes for the wearing of white, yet again, by the female (on paper) members of the Democrat Party. Those are metaphorical funeral shrouds for your party, gals. Inshalla.

Along with the surprise reuniting of a soldier and his wife, and the 100-year-old veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen saluting our Commander-in-Chief, the recognition of Rush Limbaugh and the awarding of the Medal of Freedom are beyond words in terms of raw emotion. Who he is, what he has accomplished in terms of the fight for the future of this nation made last night all the more poignant. It also brought into focus the duality that we find ourselves in. We are a nation divided, and as the reactions from the Democrat Party, the agitprop Leftist media and the hardcore institutional left that has infected almost every institution and walk of life, irreparably so.

I cannot imagine the President does not recognize this very real state of our union. With all the great news and surely more to come over the next five years, we will surely have more of the same and worse from the Left. And what lies beyond January 20th, 2025? An Oval Office without Trump and quite possibly an America without Limbaugh is just too frightening a prospect for me to consider.

But for now, let us revel in the moment, steel ourselves for the challenges ahead and go from victory to victory. G-d bless Trump, G-d bless Limbaugh and G-d bless America.

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