Pompeo Mows Down Pompous Senators

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Fundamentally erasing the last president’s fingerprints dittos to you. Rush, the president has assembled a fantastic team, much like your crew there at EIB, including Mike Pompeo. I watched the full three hours yesterday through a Fox feed on the internet, and, Rush, it was fantastic. This guy, he’s like Norm from Cheers.

He not only looks like Norm, he speaks in this calm, cool, collected kind of everyday man voice, and just one by one slapped down these neosocialists, whatever they are, Democrat socialists who are trying to box him in. They were trying to outsmart him and they were trying to have a game of wits with somebody and they forgot to bring their own.

RUSH: Yeah. They weren’t even on the same playing field. And of course, Pompeo is from Kansas. They think already that makes them smarter than he is. They’re from New Jersey, they’re from New York, … they think Pompeo is like an Archie Bunker type. Like you say, he’s an overweight guy walking in there, doesn’t speak particularly like you think he should. He just mowed ’em down. We’ve got the audio coming up. You’re right. He mowed them down. They set themselves up to be mowed down!

They didn’t know what to do! They really think that this guy and Trump are in bed with Putin! Now, first off we have a montage. When you listen to this, I want you to imagine what it would be like if every elected Republican and every member of the Trump administration defended the president the way Pompeo does here.

POMPEO: This is President Trump’s administration. Make no mistake who’s fully in charge of this and who is directing each of these activities. There’s a narrative that has developed that somehow President Trump is weak on Russia. I’m sorry, the president has a prerogative to choose who’s in meetings or not. What matters is what President Trump has directed us to do. I don’t need secondhand understandings of what President Trump is instructing his administration to do. You somehow disconnect the administration’s activities from the president’s actions. Every sanction that was put in place was signed off by the President of the United States. The president’s been unambiguously clear. The president called the ball over 200 times to sanction Russian entities. That’s pretty strong. Oh fear not, Senator. Fear not. This president runs this government.

… this is Bob Menendez, who barely didn’t go away to jail cavorting around with the donors, babes in foreign countries and so forth.

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