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Feb. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm here.
I'm just waiting, as usual, for the printer.
Spit something out.
And here we are, folks, greetings, and welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network.
And we come to you today from the Limboaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address Ilrushbo at EIBNet.com.
So what do we do?
What do we do?
I pride myself as one who will always have at least an answer.
And in many cases, I, your beloved host, will have the answer.
But on this, we have something that I certainly have not seen in my lifetime.
I I don't.
I'm fairly confident in saying we haven't seen this ever.
*sad music*
Our system is broken.
It is severely broken when a president can defy the law over and over and over again without any of the other federal branches acting to stop it.
Unprecedented.
Every time the president breaks a law, he's violating not just the law, but separation of powers.
Every time the president violates the law, he's thumbing his nose at Congress.
Now, admittedly, the House of Representatives, part of Congress is run by Republicans, so I'm sure he enjoys that.
And I'm sure in private, and maybe I may not even be in private anymore, that the Democrats are just getting the biggest yuck in the world out of thumbing their nose at Boehner and the Republicans and doing all of this lawlessness, and nobody's stopping them.
And then that idiot, Sheila Jackson Lee, stands up and says that their job is now to write executive orders for Obama to sign.
Not pass legislation, but to write executive orders.
So the Democrat, and that got a standing ovation, by the way, when Obama basically said that's what he's going to do.
If Congress won't do what he wants, he's going to do it himself.
And the Democrats gave him a standing obey.
The Democrats in the House, who he was basically saying, screw you.
They said, fine, give us more.
The party unity and the solidarity on the left is such that they don't care.
Thank you.
They got their big dog in the White House, and if he wants to do what they want to do, they don't care.
Fine.
Go to it, dude.
We don't need the credit.
We don't need to be involved.
Just go do what we want to do as uh we'll be to hell with this separation of power stuff.
I can remember in my lifetime, some of the most interesting, vicious battles in our government were fought over separation of powers.
And I'm just gonna tell you this.
If if we reverse this, if you put a Republican president behaving this way with a Democrat Congress, they wouldn't be afraid of any skin color he might have.
They wouldn't be afraid of everybody impeaching, they would be on TV every day, they'd be cast this guy's.
I mean, if if they could tar and feather Ken Starr as a sexual pervert, they'll stop at nothing to criminalize their opponents.
There's no way that that uh Tom Foley, Jim Wright, any of these uh Carl Alberni's old Mr. Sam Rayburn, old speakers of the house, would put up with anything like this, and they shouldn't have.
Separation of powers is crucial.
Over here's the legislative branch of the uh judicial branch, and they're not doing anything.
That's what he diddly squat.
Supreme Court's sitting over there watching everything they're doing being mocked and made fun of and laughed at, and they're just out giving speeches, talking about how much worse it's gonna get.
Scalia was in Hawaii the other day making a speech, and he said, hey, if you think that our government will not intern political prisoners again like they did the Japanese in World War II, you better think again because it is going to happen again.
So we've got an associate justice of the Supreme Court predicting, not necessarily about Obama.
This was, he was speaking about the direction the country's going in general.
Hey, the idea that some administration is going to target political prisoners and intern them, hell yes, it'll happen again.
Don't fool yourself into thinking it won't.
The natural proclivity of people with power is to try to acquire more.
That's again where the rule of law comes into play.
But folks, this is uh this is massively broken when you know we sit here and we say, well, who's going to stop it?
It really is up to the other branches of government to stand up when their power is being usurped, when they are in essence being violated, that nobody in Congress is.
The Democrats in Congress love it.
The Republicans in Congress are paralyzed.
The Republicans in Congress must think that the American people are perfectly fine with Obama breaking the law or doing anything.
And if anybody criticizes him, why, they're going to be made to pay at the next election.
I sit here, I wonder if this mess, that we're so broken, I wonder if winning another election fixes this.
Would have to help, but this is really dire consequences because just everybody's sitting there and saying, well, why doesn't somebody do something?
And nobody that I know thinks they can do anything.
And then you don't see a popular uprising among the people.
So it's just day in and day out, and and with every transgression.
You know, what if Obama decides, because of income inequality, that he wants to raise taxes on people that make 200,000 a year to 80%.
Come on, Russia'd never do it.
Who was going to stop him?
He can order the IRS to tell businesses to punish them if they say a word about him and his health care plan when they make staffing decisions.
Everybody now knows the IRS was sicked on the Tea Party.
And there hasn't been any punishment whatsoever.
There hadn't been any retribution for that.
So if you think Obama, I'll do a little scalia on you.
If you think Obama just can't call the IRS, okay, look, it's 80% on all income over 200 grand.
And I guarantee the mayor of New York would applaud.
The mayor of New York would applaud the Democrats in Congress would applaud nobody on the left or on the Democrats, I would have any problem with this at all.
I'm not even sure that you'd have any leftists in the media upset with this.
I think it's so bad that Obama could, if he wanted to, you know what?
I'm canceling freedom of the press in the First Amendment.
And they'd probably applaud that.
You think that may be a bit of a stretch, but the uh the overwhelming Idolatry that the supporters of Obama have for the guy.
He does not have majority support the American people for any of this.
But the majority of the American people don't appear to have any representation.
And not just Republicans in Congress, but anywhere in the judicial branch, which the left increasingly owns, and elsewhere in the legislative branch.
If he's just going to continue to usurp their power and they're not going to do anything other than remain frozen in place and allow it to happen, what's to stop him?
Let me see if I could come up with something that you just nah, no, no, no, no.
Rush.
Never, never.
What if we get to 2016 Obama says, you know what?
I I like being prison.
I'm not, I'm not leaving.
I still have to implement Obamacare.
I've still got um I've got to fix the deficit.
I've got to still fix my job situation, get this economy going.
I'm not ready to leave yet.
I'm just uh we're we're gonna we're gonna delay the 2016 presidential election for a couple of years.
What happens then?
If we get three more years of this kind of stuff.
I mean, can you come up with the exercise here's come up with something that he would do that?
Somebody in official Washington, legislative branch, judicial branch, would stand up and say, no, you're not.
Brief time out, my friends, we'll be back.
I'm gonna get your phone calls in here as well.
So that is gonna be part of what comes next when we get back.
Don't go away.
Now, folks, I'm gonna go on on a limb here.
I fully expect the 2014 midterms to be a wave election like 2010.
I think the people of this country are gonna sweep Democrats out of office every chance they get, every opportunity they get.
And I think there's plenty of evidence for it right now.
You don't have Henry Waxman and these people retiring unless they know.
I mean, they're in the swan song portion of their lives anyway.
And Waxman, he doesn't want to be a member of a minority in the House of Representatives, where basically all they're doing is writing executive orders for Obama with Sheila Jackson Lee.
These people don't want to be in the minority.
It's no fun.
If a guy like Waxman's gonna quit, believe me, this is all he knows.
He doesn't play golf, he doesn't play shuffleboard, uses nasal spray, but that's about it.
There's nothing else.
If he's getting out, that's they've got polling data.
But here's the thing.
I I'm not trying to jinx anything.
I'm just I think this is setting up every bit as big as 2010, if not bigger.
The T party, the American people are livid by what's going on out here.
This is, I mean, nobody's nobody on our side is uninformed or unprepared or not aware of what's going on.
They're beside themselves.
They don't know what to do.
They can't believe that nobody's standing up opposing this.
They can't believe the people whose power is being stolen is not standing up and trying to get it back.
Judges, legislative branch, judicial branch.
So they're gonna do all they know to do, and they're gonna turn out and they're gonna vote in November.
And now, let's just say I'm right.
And you hear Obama saying I cannot leave the country in the hands of these Republicans.
If the Republicans win the Senate, hold on to the House with even bigger majority.
I can just hear Obama in two years.
I cannot leave the country in the hands of these people.
I just refuse to do it.
These are racists, sexists, bigots, homo, whatever.
They hate women.
They want to deny you your right to kill babies.
Uh abortion.
and I can't allow that to happen.
They don't want you to get your birth control pill.
They don't want you screwing every uh they don't want you uh making love with people you don't know.
I can't I can't permit this.
I'm just saying it's not a c conjure up here a circumstance uh kind of like the minimum wage.
Well, let's make it 35 an hour.
Fine.
How about 40?
All right.
Now we're talking about fifty bucks.
Now wait a minute, that's too much.
I'm trying to get to that point where somebody will say, nah, he'd never do that.
You think that's it.
You don't you don't think he'd he'd suspend the 2016 election?
You don't okay, fine.
Pensacola, Florida.
Let's go to the phones.
Mike, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you very much, sir.
And with all sincerity, let me tell you what an honor it is to speak with you.
I appreciate that.
I I really do.
Thank you.
Um and this is difficult for me to say because this is just not the way that I think.
But I really believe that it is time for peaceful civil disobedience.
We need some businesses like that that have courage, like like Hobby Lobby that will stand up and say, We will not abide by your edict.
You don't have the authority to tell us to do this.
Yeah.
Let me see, it's easy for you.
Yeah.
I'm not don't please don't I'm I'm no I'm not being critical.
It's easy for you to say, Hey, Hobby Levi, stand up and take 'em on for me.
Hey.
Stand up and take it's easy for people to ask other people to do their bidding.
Um, but let's they as far as I'm hobby lobby did.
Yes.
They did, and look what's happened.
The Tea Party.
Look what happened to the Tea Party.
We've had a popular uprising.
It's called a Tea Party, and look what happened.
They got crushed by the IRS.
Yeah.
It's gonna have to be somebody that's willing to to go all the way to court with it and take the fight, you know, right back to Obama.
He's like the school the schoolyard bully until enough people stand up to him and face him down.
I mean, our Republicans in in Washington should be doing that.
They should every one of them be on the council steps in mass saying we will not stand for this.
Well, but for some reason they ought.
You know, I mean I got my devil's advocate uh cap on.
Uh a couple of Republicans did that.
Uh one was named Ted Cruz, actually three.
One was named Sarah Palin, one was named Ted Cruz, and the other one was named Mike Lee.
And what happened to them?
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you the dirty little secret is, and it's not a secret to you, I know, but there's too many Republicans.
They kind of like the idea of Obamacare.
They really kind of like the idea that maybe that power will be theirs one day, too.
Well, there is that aspect.
Uh that it's not so much liking Obamacare as liking the concept of a big government that they someday might be in charge of.
Um anyway, I appreciate the call.
Uh Mike, thanks much.
Where are we headed next?
Uh the what's that?
Cheshire, Connecticut.
This is John.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Running my own little rush room here since 2009.
Um wise friend of mine told me when I was younger, it's a very rare person that can take independent and separate events and draw a conclusion.
And taking this, you know, with what you were talking about, our pundits, quote, you know, our guys that are right on about 70 to 80 percent of the time, I would say, it seems like, but every once in a while they go into that that deep abyss.
Um couple weeks ago, I'm listening to um O'Reilly and Crowdhammer, and uh they brought up the issue of the NSA, and they're talking about it in such a way that it's all about national security.
I've never seen Crowdhammer so passionate as he is about Snowden being a dirtbag.
And the whole thing revolved around the national security aspect of it, not connecting into the fact that the NSA may be being used for something along the lines of what they're doing with the IRS or some of the other lawless things are taking place.
And you know, something within this regime has happened every day for the past five years.
Is it's been something.
I remember you saying a few years ago, it's always something.
Every single day.
It is.
Every day we wake up and there's something else.
Yeah.
And for these guys not to be able to draw that conclusion that, you know, they they look at everything as an independent thing and try to analyze it.
Look, it they don't want to be confused with right wingers.
Right, right.
You don't want to be labeled a right winger or, you know, which is a good thing.
Well, because that is an exchange.
Well, yeah, you don't want to be a right winger equals extremist.
And uh you don't want to be thought of as one of those.
Um, yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying.
I I hear you.
I do.
It's a good point, actually.
We will be back.
And here we go.
This is from Reuters, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's the headline.
Health care mandate delay may be illegal, but challenges are unlikely, say experts.
And what's happened in Reuters has found experts to say exactly what they want to report.
Which is that suing over Obama's delays of the employer mandate is futile.
Yeah, it's illegal, but it's a waste of time to do anything about it.
They want to discourage anybody from even thinking about trying such a thing.
Now we we've got we've got articles now warning about the futility of suing over something the left wanted to sue about, no matter how ludicrous the lawsuit.
This isn't this is a an this they're pulling out all the stuff.
This is why I say no matter what Obama does, they are going to have he's gonna have this massive support because remember, these are not journalists, these are fellow traveler leftists.
And the experts claim here that uh no standing to sue because no one has been damaged by these delays.
You've got to prove that you have been damaged.
You if you get in order to have standing to sue the president, you have got to show unalterable proof that you have been damaged by what he's done.
Well, what about Congress?
Their legislation has been rewritten.
Their power has been usurped extra constitutionally.
What about the businesses that have wasted money trying to meet these deadlines, and then all of a sudden the deadlines are moved?
How many businesses are sitting there for the last three years making plans based on what the law says?
Because they're trying to stay in business, they're trying to keep as many people employed as they can.
They're trying to satisfy their customers, do everything they can, they've got this law out there they're trying to comply with, and then in the middle of nothing, Obama comes along and changes it.
Now, what happens to all the plans that they've made?
How much money have they spent and now wasted in order to be in compliance when now they don't have to be in compliance for another three years?
And what about businesses and individuals who are being discriminated against by not being granted a similar delay?
How come only certain businesses get this waiver and not others?
The certain businesses that are getting the waiver have a much bigger advantage over smaller businesses that have not been granted the waiver.
So here you have some businesses who are told, you know what, you do not have to provide insurance for your employers, employees, but some of the other businesses still do it.
There's all kinds of grounds out there.
But Reuters.
Reuters went out there and found a bunch of experts to claim you don't have a prayer.
Yep, what he's doing's illegal, but you can't stop it.
That's the sum total of the Reuters story.
Now, despite Reuters' claims that it's unlikely anybody would sue, there are two lawsuits that have already been brought.
Now, one of the cases has been dismissed by a federal judge in Florida.
It's being appealed.
It's just.
And here, listen to Jeffrey Tupin.
This is on CNN last night situation room Wolf Blitzer.
And they're talking about Obama's latest delay, the implementation of the employer mandate.
And Blitzer says, you've studied this, Jeffrey.
You're a brilliant guy.
You are our legal consultant.
You are legal reporter.
You are a lawyer.
You're the you're the son of Marlene Sanders, a famous journalist for NBC.
So you're a brilliant guy.
And you've studied this.
The Republicans say this is not really constitutional.
Either he implements it or he doesn't implement it.
What about that, Jeffrey?
As you recall, as the Supreme Court held, Obamacare is fundamentally a tax.
It has tax provisions.
And there is a provision of law that predates Obamacare that says the Secretary of the Treasury, who supervises the Internal Revenue Service can delay, can effectively administer any new provision of tax law.
And that is what the Obama administration is putting there.
They are trusting in that piece of legislation, which they point out is not new, has applied to all new tax laws for many years, and that's why they say this is justifiable.
So see, we're gonna go to the end of the world to justify what Obama's doing.
We'll find the thinnest thread that we can, and we will glom onto it to defend Obama.
What what Tubin is basically saying here is that John Roberts, because of his ruling on Obamacare, the Supreme Court, essentially gave Obama dictatorial powers when it comes to taxes and Obamacare.
Andy McCarthy last night on a Kelly file on Fox News.
She said lawmakers are saying that Obama's gone too far here.
For example, delaying this employer mandate till 2016.
Because there's a provision in Obamacare that specifically says Section 1513 of the law that says penalties on employer shall apply to months beginning after December 31st, 2013.
What allows him to cross out 2013 and make it 2016?
He doesn't have any authority to do that because it's a constitutional law.
We may think it's a bad law, but there's no question that it's a constitutional law.
There's no question that the president believes it's a constitutional law.
If it's constitutional, he has to faithfully execute it the way it's written.
He doesn't have authority to change the terms.
Oh, wait a minute.
Jeff Tubin says he does, and Reuters says, well, even if he doesn't, we can't stop him.
You can sue all day, but you're not going to win, Reuters says.
Yeah, it's illegal.
We know it's illegal, and we love the fact you're upset by it.
But you can't stop it.
And Tubin says it's not even illegal.
The Secretary of the Treasury runs the IRS and the IRS can do whatever they want when it comes to Obamacare because of what John Roberts said.
Andy McCarthy says he can't do it.
Nellett Meghan Kelly says, well, as far as impeaching the president, there doesn't seem to be any political appetite for that.
So what are they to do?
On Capitol Hill, they're talking about more legal action against him.
The two tracks are not mutually exclusive.
They don't have to just defund Obamacare.
They can start slashing the the President's budget on all kinds of things to try to bring him to the point where he faithfully executes the laws.
As far as the the case for impeaching the president is concerned, I do think the lesson of the Clinton impeachment is it doesn't matter how many high crimes and misdemeanors you have, and not faithfully executing the laws would qualify.
What matters is is there a will in the American public to remove the president?
If there's not, it doesn't even make sense to start going down that road.
But the case still has to be made.
Now that's an important point.
You gotta make the case.
You've got to stand up.
You have to proclaim what's right and wrong.
You have to draw your line in the sand.
Even if you're gonna bend over and grab the ankles, you've got to draw the line in the sand.
Now let me folks, I gotta be very careful here.
I have some emails.
Rush, rush, rush.
How come you haven't commented on uh Boehner and the debt ceiling?
Folks, please, please.
Did anybody expect anything different?
I have this phrase that I use and am guided by intelligence guided by experience.
Some people reverse it's experience guided by intelligence.
Either way.
Somebody show me in the past three years where there's been a serious fight with Obama on the debt limit.
And the one time that there might have you might even consider it serious, what happened?
Government was shut down, and uh who got blamed and who got scared and who got there was there was no reason to expect anything other than a clean de plus.
It was the same old strategy we've been hearing every time one of these budget things come either the debt limit, be it the debt ceiling, be it uh uh continuing resolution.
Whatever it is, the strategy of the day is look, look, look, we can't win this.
Let Obama have this, and we'll kick ass six months from now on the whatever comes up next.
And that's what's happening here.
Look at we can't stop this.
It's just uh we're not gonna stop.
We can't have another government shutdown.
We can't let crew as ruin it again for us.
We can't do that.
So let's just let's just get this off the table.
Let them raise a dead limit what the hell's gonna happen anyway, and we will kick butt on Obamacare from Natalie election.
And that's exactly what uh what happened.
And there it wasn't gonna, it wasn't gonna be anything other than that.
Brief time out, El Rush Ball serving humanity, executing a sign host duties flawlessly back after this.
And I just glanced up and I saw CNN.
I said, Whoa, that would Woody Allen's up on CNN, what's Woody Allen doing?
And it's not Woody Allen, it's Professor Dershowitz.
Must be the classes.
Uh Professor Dershowitz obviously got out of Boston.
He's down in Miami.
Uh, in the uh in the sun and the fun.
82 degrees.
Here's how it works.
From the politico, White House celebrates House debt vote.
This is, ladies and gentlemen, it's a textbook example of how the House Republicans are rewarded by the Democrats and the media for compromising, also known as caving.
The White House hailed the House of Representatives' vote to increase the debt ceiling as a positive step and called on Congress the next raise the minimum wage.
And while they're at it, to pass amnesty for illegals.
Ton's vote's a positive step moving away from the political brinksmanship that's a needless drag on our economy, said Jake Carney.
The spokes kid called on Congress to enact Obama's economic agenda of increasing a minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and renewing long-term unemployment insurance benefits.
See, nothing's ever enough.
The Republicans, so desperate for praise from the media sector, and they got it.
Hey, Republicans, wait a go, wait a, wait a compromise on it.
Now, while you're at it, how about extending unemployment benefits and raising a minimum wage?
And as an added bonus, if we really want us to love you, why don't you pass amnesty?
I mean, that that's it's all here.
Right.
Uh surprised the headline isn't Republicans buck limbaugh, comma, raise debt ceiling.
Well, uh speak of the devil, I uh there is, did I throw it on the bottom of the stack?
There is, yeah, they're close to it.
The AP bedrock GOP principle dropped in debt ceiling vote.
It's by our old buddy Jim Coonan.
It was once the backbone of the House Republican majority, the hardline stand that brought Obama to the negotiating table and yielded more than two trillion dollars in deficit rules.
When the hell did that happen?
When was there two trillion dollars in deficit rules?
What was I doing when that happened?
I missed that.
Must have happened here because it says it here.
It says right here in the AP.
Let me read that again.
It was once the backbone of the House Republican majority, the hardline stand that brought Obama to the negotiating table and yielded more than two trillion dollars in deficit reduction.
On Tuesday, the backbone abruptly vanished.
The victim of Republican disunity and a president determined not to bargain again.
During the summer budget negotiations of 2011, John Boehner had insisted that any increase in the nation's borrowing limit be matched dollar for dollar with spending cuts.
It became the Boehner rule.
A mantra of fiscal discipline.
And well, it didn't always live up to itself, but still was something that looked good on paper.
But now they waved bye-bye.
And the headline, Bedrock, GOP principle dropped in dead ceiling vote.
Bedrock, GOP principle dropped.
And by the way, the AP says, as you get to read this story, they said it's very smart.
That by doing this, Boehner has placed the burden of extending the Treasury's borrowing authority all on the Democrats.
Right, right.
As though the media is ever going to blame all of this on the Democrats.
*laughs*
This is so the Republicans are probably sitting around saying, boy, we really they think we cave, but we threw them a curveball and they struck out.
Now all of this debt stuff is on them.
Every new diamond debt, it's all on them because we let them have it.
I wonder if somebody in the Republican caucus said, wait a minute.
Do you really think the media is gonna blame them for the debt?
Or are they gonna blame us again?
And then we get to this White House celebrates house debt vote.
So bedrock GOP principle dropped in debt ceiling vote, White House celebrates.
White House celebrates.
Nothing's ever enough.
And it says now they want amnesty, now they want unemployment extensions.
And the and the Washington Post headline on Den Limit, Harry Reed credits Boehner for doing the right thing.
And then Dingy Harry suggested that Republicans should next hold a similar vote on immigration reform.
See?
Never stops.
They always want more.
It's never enough.
But but Dingy Harry did find some some collegiality here.
But it only went so far.
Boehner has said that he's going to pass a clean vote.
If they do that, I'm confident that we'll move over here as quickly as it can here in the Senate.
But I put nothing past the Tea Party-driven Republican House to sabotage.
It's also predictable.
It's all just every syllable of this is totally predictable.
Grab uh, does this make sense here?
Oh.
Nah, this to be out of context.
I've I've got the Secretary of Labor.
Uh is no, let's play it.
Grab somebody 26, because we have talked about they want to extend the minimum wage.
This is the Secretary of Labor.
This, this is Obama's labor sector.
They've been running things for five years.
Keep that in mind as you listen.
I was in New Jersey earlier this week, or last week in Jersey City, listening to baggage workers who are working at Newark Airport talking about how they're making choices between food and health care.
How a guy's son just turned 16, and he had to look him in the eye and say, I can't afford to buy a birthday present because I got to buy food for us.
These are stories that we hear all across the country.
Why didn't Obamacare fix this?
Why hasn't Obama fixed this?
You guys, five years of Obama policies, and they're out there.
This is the Limbaugh theorem.
The labor secretary, these poor TSA workers and the baggage handlers at Newark.
Oh My God.
Son, I can't afford to buy you a birthday present.
Frankly, you're such a rotten kid.
You don't deserve one anyway, but I can't because I have to buy food for us.
Mac and cheese.
That's it.
Tonight.
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