In the 1 pm Eastern hour on Friday, Rush Limbaugh shared a new soundbite from Chuck Todd on NBC's live impeachment coverage, complaining that the lesson of this failing Democrat ploy is that if you're popular enough, you can "essentially bulldoze the Constitution."

Replied Rush: "This is the sound of utter futility! The sound of total frustration!" Then he noted the media love to underline Trump's low approval numbers, but they are on the rise -- during impeachment. Earlier, Todd alluded to Republicans fearing their own party's voters.

CHUCK TODD: I think the thing that's uncomfortable here is the idea that if you can -- if you basically can harness enough support in the public you can bulldoze -- you can essentially bulldoze the Constitution. Perhaps. Or you can -- look, we are a democracy, that is what we are, we are a republic, we are a democratic republic, but that is -- I mean, we are essentially saying if you commit impeachable offenses you can get away with it if you are popular enough.



Perhaps that is the standard the framers thought they would have in mind, perhaps that's why they put politicians in charge of being the jurors, although we should remember the Framers had the Senate be the jurors back when they weren't directly elected by the people, they were appointments by state legislatures.

Todd complained that senators like Lamar Alexander and Marco Rubio are in the "rubric" of believing Trump did something inappropriate in his phone call to Ukraine, but it's not enough for the political "death penalty."

Limbaugh added Todd is complaining because "the media can't make you hate Donald Trump." He noted they were plotting from the beginning to get Trump ousted long before a re-election campaign could occur.