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My exact question to Grok was this:

Based on Rush Limbaugh’s style and content create a Rush Limbaugh opening monologue in which he describes the Continuing Resolution fight in the House and Senate cumulating in Chuck Schumer folding and voting closure on the GOP resolution

Here is what it produced:

Alright, folks, here we go—Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through the chaos of Washington, D.C., coming at you with all the bombast and brilliance you’ve come to expect. Talent on loan from God, right here, ready to break down the latest circus in the swamp. And oh, what a spectacle we’ve got today—the Continuing Resolution fight in the House and Senate, a knockdown, drag-out brawl that ended with none other than Chuck Schumer, the grand poobah of the Democrat Party, folding like a cheap lawn chair on a windy day. That’s right, folks, Schumer waved the white flag, voting for cloture on the GOP resolution, and I’ve got the details to prove it. Buckle up, because this is gonna be a wild ride.

Picture this: it’s March 2025, and the government’s on the brink of another shutdown—same old song and dance, right? The House Republicans, led by that stalwart Mike Johnson, ram through a six-month Continuing Resolution—217 to 213, a squeaker of a vote, with just one lonely Democrat crossing the aisle. This isn’t some namby-pamby “clean CR” the liberals love to prattle about; no, this is a red-meat, partisan beast—boosting defense spending, slashing non-defense fluff, and giving the left a collective case of the vapors. Over in the Senate, the GOP’s got the majority, but they need 60 votes to break a filibuster, and with Rand Paul playing his usual libertarian contrarian card, they’re short. Enter the Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, who’s been strutting around like he’s got all the leverage in the world. “Oh, we’re unified!” he crows on March 12th. “Republicans don’t have the votes! We want a clean CR through April 11th!” Yeah, right, Chuck—sounds like a man who’s ready to dig in and fight to the bitter end.

But here’s where it gets good, folks. The clock’s ticking—Friday, March 14th, midnight deadline looming—and the pressure’s mounting. Schumer’s caucus is a mess: you’ve got the hard-left whiners like Tim Kaine and Jeff Merkley screaming about a 30-day stopgap, while others like John Fetterman—God bless him—are saying, “Just pass the dang thing and quit the theater!” Meanwhile, the GOP’s holding firm—John Thune’s out there telling Schumer to fish or cut bait, and Trump’s looming over it all, ready to blame the Dems if the government shuts down. Schumer’s got a choice: stick to his guns and risk a shutdown that’ll make Democrats look like the bad guys, or swallow his pride and give the Republicans a win. And what does he do? On March 13th, he takes to the Senate floor with a speech so full of hand-wringing it could’ve been a soap opera script. “Oh, this bill’s terrible! It’s partisan! It’s a poison pill! But a shutdown would give Trump too much power, and that’s worse!” Cue the violins, folks—Chuck Schumer, the tough-talking New Yorker, caves like a house of cards in a hurricane.

That’s right—he votes for cloture, opening the door for enough Democrats to join the GOP and push this thing over the finish line. The man who swore he’d block it, who said the Republicans didn’t have the votes, who tried to guilt-trip America into thinking a shutdown was the end of the world—he blinked. And why? Because deep down, Schumer knows the game’s changed. The Republicans have the House, the Senate, and the White House, and Trump’s got the bully pulpit. Schumer’s little tantrum about a “clean CR” was just noise—hot air from a guy who’s spent years pretending he’s some master strategist, when really, he’s just a pawn in the bigger chess match. The GOP resolution’s headed for passage, folks, and Schumer’s out there eating crow while the conservatives chalk up a win.

Now, let’s step back and look at this with the clarity only your old pal Rush can provide. This isn’t just about funding the government—this is about power, pure and simple. The Democrats wanted to flex, to show they could still call the shots even as the minority. But when push came to shove, Schumer realized a shutdown would’ve handed Trump a golden opportunity to paint them as the obstructionists, the party of chaos. So he folded, proving once again that when the going gets tough, the liberals get going—straight to the exit. Meanwhile, the GOP’s playing hardball, and they’re winning. This Continuing Resolution isn’t perfect—Rand Paul’s right to hate the spending—but it’s a signal: the Republicans are in charge, and they’re not afraid to shove it in the Democrats’ faces.

So there you have it, folks—the Continuing Resolution rumble, culminating in Chuck Schumer’s surrender. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, isn’t it? The left’s sanctimonious bluster crumbling under the weight of reality. Stick with me, because we’ve got plenty more to unpack—three hours of undeniable truth, right here on the EIB Network. Let’s roll!

Not bad, not bad at all.

Updated: Added Rush Cartoon

I remember the day I left the republican party.

The tea party was on the rise and went to cover the MA GOP convention that was going to pick the new chair. It was an exciting time as GOP voters were finally excited and had actually fielded candidates statewide in practically every race. At the time Scott Brown had indicated his choice and implied that if said choice was made rather than the tea party candidate for who many activists who had showed for the vote, that he would run for a rematch against Elizabeth Warren who had edged him for the US Senate seat he had won by upset in 2010.

After a rather, shall we say...interesting vote with an even more interesting count of said vote (a count worthy of Democrats these days) Senator Brown’s hand picked candidate was put in office. Once and within 24 hours Brown announced he was not running and abandoned the state for New Hampshire where shock and surprise a candidate who would win in MA by being weak on abortion & guns proved he could not win in NH.

More importantly all those activist who had been excited about the GOP and had turned up and seeing how …interesting… the vote and the count had been decided to walk away from the GOP as well. I went to the City Hall in Fitchburg and officially changed my registration to unenrolled the next day and since then there has never been a real threat to any Democrat running for national office in the state.

This is the type of GOP I am used to seeing, the GOP playing “the stupid party” and never failing to fail to take advantage of a situation.

Apparently not anymore.

For all the shade thrown at Speaker Mike Johnson he’s managed, thanks in a large part to Donald Trump’s efforts to help, to keep the GOP caucus intact with a whisper of a majority to the point where he is managing wins on things like the Continuing Resolution usually by one or two votes and thus keeping the Democrats on the defensive.

Thus we all got to enjoy the spectacle of Chuck Schumer on one day defiantly opposing the House CR and threatening to shut down the government

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, proclaiming that Republicans don’t have the 60 votes needed to keep the government open past Friday. But President Donald Trump and senior White House officials are increasingly confident Schumer will release enough centrists to put up the votes for passage, according to multiple White House officials I spoke to over the past 24 hours.

and then 24 hours later after a bunch of Dems made videos opposing the CR and after 50 house dems put out identical messages and tweets attacking the CR…folded like a wet blanket.

Schumer threw in the towel last night and vented on MSNBC, blaming those “bastard” Republicans over forcing him to vote to keep the government open. That slip of the tongue was not intended, but the Democratic leader is stewing over this defeat. In less than 36 hours, the Democrats caved

I must say I’m not sick of all the winning but it’s going to take some time for me to get used to the idea that the GOP isn’t the “stupid party” anymore.

I wish Rush Limbaugh had lived to see it.

Looks like he means it.

Union Soldier on the arrival of General Grant to the Army

One of the things I wrote about Donald Trump after his first term is that we hadn’t seen a president like him in terms of keeping promises since James Knox Polk.

And while we’ve seen a few changes, driven by experience and the help that Elon Musk has made possible, this trait of doing what he says is still evident as the University of Maine has discovered.

An email forwarded to the University of Maine that appears to have originated from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directs the Department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System.”

Maine Pols are not happy:

In a statement, Maine Senator Angus King said the funding pause will impact Maine’s economy.

“The abrupt, unprecedented decision to cancel millions of dollars in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for the University of Maine will have dramatic impacts on Maine’s current and future workforce, agricultural research, supply chain resiliency, and small businesses across the state,” he said.

Abrupt? Unprecedented? Leftists must be redefining words again. It’s been weeks since Donald Trump VERY publicly informed the governor of Maine that this was coming if universities in the state continued to defy his executive order on men in woman’s sports, furthermore there is a very long history of various presidents using the stick of threatening federal funds if they don’t comply with either law of EO’s

And the ACLU (which has become rather selective on what rights they defend are screaming this is an assault on free speech.

“Now what we’re seeing is the federal government trying to coerce schools to teach a certain way or to not teach certain topics. That’s inconsistent not only with freedom of expression but also with this broader idea of academic freedom,” Heiden said.

This would be news to Hillsdale College which happily teaches what it wants without a dime of federal funding. There is nothing stopping UMaine from doing without federal funds and loading their women’s teams with all the men they want.

But for now their reaction is having the same effect as the execution of Admiral Byng did on the British Navy. They are discovering in Maine that Trump, like General Grant, means it.