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Nov. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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President Obama's announcement of his immigration executive order tonight is apparently for Latino ears only.
Though the White House claims they sent out feelers to the major English speaking networks, they didn't bother sending an official request for coverage.
Instead, only Latino networks, Univision and Telemundo are airing the president's 10-minute announcement.
And of course, it's going to be streaming from Facebook or wherever you can find it streaming.
As the Washington Post notes, the president's 8 p.m. announcement comes at a particularly opportune time for reaching a captive audience of Hispanic TV viewers, the 15th annual Latin Grammys, which airs on Univision starting at 7 p.m.
Last year, 9.8 million viewers tuned into the award ceremony.
Univision is doing its part to make sure the president's message reaches its millions of viewers by temporarily postponing the Latin Grammys, allowing a 10-minute interruption for Obama's executive amnesty address.
Reports have it that illegal immigrants across the country are throwing watch parties in anticipation of the president's announcement of amnesty for around 5 million immigrants here illegally.
One Chicago Latino leader, Pastor Emma Lozano of the Aldeberto United Methodist Church, told the Washington Times she'll be watching the address alongside people currently facing deportation.
It is it is clear.
This is the president is making this announcement.
You know had dinner last night.
The president hosted dinner last night for Democrat leaders to brief them and tell them what's going on.
You know what he said?
He said, I know you guys are mad at me over the election, but look at what I've done for you.
I have just restocked exactly what you need, a permanent underclass.
I'm gonna tomorrow night, 8 o'clock, I'm gonna restock the Democrat Party with a bunch of permanent underclass voters.
Do you love me?
You love me?
Can I get a little love?
No.
Right.
Well, you didn't want me around the election today, right?
Well, I'm gonna be gone someday.
But I'm gonna give you five million voters tomorrow night.
That's probably what the meeting was about last night.
Probably what the dinner was about.
Jeff Sessions, Senator of Alabama, said that Obama is now the Emperor in the White House.
President Obama previously said he could not issue an executive amnesty because, quote, I'm the president, I'm not the emperor of the U.S. And by the way, Boehner has sent out a piece chronicling all of the times.
Obama has said on the record he doesn't have the power to do this.
Okay, I'm glad he did that, but but then what?
He's still going to do it, is my point.
You can send out all of these examples of Obama being a hypocrite and a liar, but it isn't going to change.
Tomorrow morning, the Constitution is still going to have been violated.
Well, now I know that nobody probably gonna be able to come over the way to stop him tonight, but I don't see a whole lot of evidence that there's a big desire to stop him anyway.
Uh at least up till now, you and I well know the Republican Party has been sort of afraid to go there and get this.
Right on time, right on time, the Washington Post has a poll today.
And you know what it says?
Sixty three percent of the American people now want the two parties to work together to make Washington work.
That's that's the Washington Post, post-election poll.
They claim that that's what 63% of Americans said this election means.
The two parties must now work together.
And I guarantee you that's the worst poll we could get as far as the Republican leadership is going to be concerned, because they're going to look at that poll and they're going to say, see, they want us to cooperate.
C, they don't want us to just stop Obama like Limbaugh.
They want us to work with Obama.
They want us to work with the Democrats.
Now, the poll in the Washington Post also says that the voters, these 63%, get this now.
63% say they want two parties to work together, but those people also say they want the Republican Party setting the agenda.
Yeah, I guess if you want to say that.
So the I guess the conclusion is that they want the Democrats to compromise with the Republicans.
I mean, if 63% want the parties working together and want the Republicans to set the agenda, that means the Democrats must be the ones who do the compromising, right?
No, no.
They want the two parties to work together to make Washington work.
They want the two parties to come together and work together to fix things, to get things done.
Whatever these cliches and the following.
It's a bogus poll.
Come on, every this is it it's it's designed to specifically blunt the notion that the election means stop Obama.
The Washington Post has a poll saying, no, no, that's not what the people want.
People want parties to work together, like we've always said.
And then they want the Republicans to set the agenda.
Well, if they want the Republicans to set the agenda, that means the Democrats have to be the ones doing the compromising.
Anyway, the White House, when they heard Jeff Sessions calling him an emperor, the White House started laughing.
Josh Ernest and the Boy, that's great.
Well, we wear that with a badge of honor.
If they want to call us emperors, well, we'll be glad to wear that emperor thing as a badge.
I mean, it just smacked Deb right back in your face.
As far as they are concerned.
Now, you might have seen, you might see if you haven't looked yet.
There are a number of stories out there today.
Breitbart has one.
Uh GOP strategy to stop Obama's executive amnesty is emerging.
Uh according to Republican aides, the Republicans are formulating a plan that'll break up the omnibus budget into smaller parts.
So that way Congress could defund the parts of Homeland Security budget that are necessary to carry out Obama's executive amnesty.
So when Obama vetoes the package, it would just shut down the Department of Homeland Security and not the whole government.
is one of the plans the Republicans, it says here, are working on.
This budget would specifically exclude the Secret Service, the Transportation Safety, Security, whatever, the TSA, I never have to deal with them.
So what is it?
The Transportation Security Association or Safety, what is it?
Is it safe safety?
Okay.
Uh TSA and the Border Patrol.
The budget would specifically exclude Secret Service TSA and Border Patrol from having their money blocked.
So Obama couldn't run around and saying the government's been shut down.
Now there's still a problem with this that the article doesn't mention.
That is Obama could just shift the money he needs for the rest of his plan from another part of the budget.
Well, you of course it's illegal, but so's what he's gonna do tonight.
What do you mean it's illegal?
He can't do it.
What do you mean he can't do it?
What what when folks?
We realize the notion he can't do it is meaningless.
He can't do it.
But he did.
He can't do it, but he's gonna.
He can't do it, but he will.
It's going to happen.
Well, well, they they took impeachment off table.
So that would be impeachment would stop him.
I don't know if they've even got enough time to uh to do impeachment.
They're not gonna do it.
The presidential campaign season is on the upswing.
Now, let me go back to Daniel Hinneger's piece for a second, because it's not totally irrelevant.
I don't want anybody misunderstanding me.
It's not a fine point that I'm making either.
I think it's crucially important, by the way.
You just can't look at this anymore the way you looked at politics 20 or 30 years ago.
Back then, a party that lost elections was humbled by it and at least made a pretense of altering policy or at least publicly stated policy in order to stay on the good side of voters.
That's what's no longer happening.
Obama, here we are two weeks after a shellacking landslide Democrat lost, and what's the media filled with?
Obama's already recovered, and he may be more powerful now.
He may be in a better mood, he may be sitting prettier than he has in the last four years.
You can see these stories all over the place.
After a shellacking landslide defeat.
Because the will of the people, as expressed in the election, is irrelevant to them.
It has been for I don't know how long, at least all the way back to Clinton.
It's just intensified here with uh with Obama.
But but anyway, getting back to the Hinneger point, his column in the Wall Street Journal today is man, the Democrat Party's falling apart.
Their foundation is crumbling, they're just they're so out of touch, they're so opposed, they're becoming a bigger and bigger minority.
American people learning more and more about them every day, want no part of a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Right, but they keep corrupting things.
They their agenda keeps marching.
Well, there's a little little reported thing that I want to call your attention to that's in line with the Hinniger theory.
And that is an election in Oregon.
Now, Oregon is deep blue.
Would you not agree?
Oregon is as deep and far left as anywhere in America, maybe a close second to San Francisco, Seattle, but it's right in there with them.
And you know what happened on election day back in uh November, whatever, fourth, seventh, whatever it was.
The people of Oregon rejected drivers licenses for illegal aliens.
Now that does have meaning.
That does provide a springboard.
That does offer a foundation.
If the people of the state of Oregon do not think illegal should be granted driver's license and thus photo IDs and thus an open ticket to voter registration.
And that means they also don't think what Obama's gonna do tonight is we're granting them work permits either.
If in a deep blue state like Oregon that is the case, then we have, if the Republican governors are paying attention, we have a gold mine of an issue here based on what Obama's gonna do to advance our agenda and to stop theirs at the state level, since it's apparent that stopping Obama in Washington isn't on the agenda.
But it can be done at the states.
And the Republicans cleaned up in the states in the election.
It's either 23 or 26 states in this country, the Republicans hold the governorship and the legislature.
Only five states in this country do the Democrats hold the governorship and the legislature.
And if Oregon, Oregon's an indication and there are other examples like Oregon, on the issue of uh illegal immigration, there is no popular groundswell for what Obama is going to do tonight.
Anyway, let me take a break and then we'll come back and we'll get started on your uh your phone calls.
So sit tight.
Much more excitement straight ahead.
Looky here.
Looky here, ladies and gentlemen, Jeffrey Tubin on CNN has just finished explaining that it is prosecutorial discretion that Obama will use to justify what he's doing tonight.
Ashley Banfield said, if the president's actions effectively nullify federal law, then they're unconstitutional.
But if they're merely channel enforcement resources to other areas, then it's within his discretion to do so, right?
Is the lay person's version of that?
If you're going 70 in a 55 zone, the policeman might pull you over, but if you go in 60, you might use that discretion and say, I'm gonna let you go.
I'm gonna go after the real speeders.
Think about it in a different context.
Colorado and Washington State have legalized marijuana.
Yes.
Marijuana is still illegal under federal law.
Yes.
But what the Obama administration has done has said effectively, we are gonna put Washington and Colorado on probation.
So we are not gonna prosecute marijuana cases, except in certain limited circumstances in those states to see how it goes.
Now, that's not overturning the federal prohibition on marijuana law.
It's an exercise of prosecutorial discretion saying we're not gonna bring those cases for the time being.
That's uh a similar thing to what's happening with immigration now.
That is a total distortion of what is happening tonight, and this is what infuriates me.
I maintain this guy knows better.
He is just being a good political foot soldier.
But when the Constitution is involved, this being a good foot soldier ought not count for it.
The Constitution ought to be inviolate.
It ought to be inviolate.
There ought to be respect and reverence enough for the Constitution everywhere that wherever it's violated, no matter what your politics, you call the violator on it.
But no, these people are distorting themselves into all kinds of pretzel-like shapes in order to say that what he's doing is legal.
Let me run through this again.
President Obama is claiming that he has prosecutorial authority, which he does, the executive branch does.
What he's saying is, you know what, I'm not going to prosecute illegal immigrants anymore.
I'm going to pick five million of them.
I'm not going to prosecute them anymore.
And I'm going to tell a border patrol and ICE, everybody stand down.
And then I'm going to give them work permits.
I'm not violating any law.
I'm not creating new law.
I'm just claiming that I'm not going to prosecute them.
He does not have the constitutional authority to do this.
He's claiming he's got the power to declare criminal acts lawful.
Just because you don't, in Ashley Banfield's example, okay, it's a you find somebody going 70 in a 55 mile an hour zone.
If you don't give them a ticket, it doesn't mean 70 miles in a 55 zone is legal.
But Obama is claiming that by not choosing to prosecute these five million, he's turning them into legal residents.
And he can't do that.
Only Congress can do that by another act of law.
There is a statute, Obama cannot change the statute just because this is a key point.
Just because he chooses not to prosecute these five million does not make them legal.
And it does not make what they've done legal.
And it does not open the floodgates for other Illegals to be proclaimed legal.
He simply doesn't have the authority, and I've maintained you that Tubin has to know this.
To declare that criminal acts are somehow lawful, that illegal aliens after tonight at 8 o'clock will not have a right to be here just because Obama's chosen not to prosecute them?
Not true, folks.
He does not have that authority.
He does not have that power, and no president before him has ever done this.
Reagan didn't do this.
Bush didn't do this.
Furthermore, what Obama's going to do tonight, those who engage in this unprosecuted activity, the illegal immigrants whose violations we're not going to prosecute, they're going to be rewarded.
They're going to be given benefits.
They're going to be relieved from deportation.
They're going to be given work benefits.
As if their illegal acts are some sort of valuable community service here.
This is wrong, multiplied two or three times.
This is an utter corruption, perversion of prosecutorial discretion.
It is it's blatant.
He doesn't have the constitutional or legal authority to do this.
And these legal leftist analysts on cable TV, stretching and bending themselves into these weird shapes in order to justify this should be ashamed.
I maintain that they know exactly what's going on here and they're politicizing it.
you Let me, if if Jeffrey Tubin were being honest, let me tell you what his analogy would be.
You just heard Jeffrey Tubin on CNN say, oh, this is no different than you know, a tipper suspension of the marijuana laws in uh Carolina, uh, Colorado and uh Washington.
And we're gonna see how it goes, and uh we'll make a decision later on.
See how it goes.
No, no, no.
What Obama is doing in this example Tubin gives is not prosecutorial discretion.
Not you know, deciding not to stop busting people for announcer marijuana.
No, no.
The correct analogy would be Obama would give them a permit to buy some.
That's the correct analogy.
And Tubin has got this all right.
Here's the but the bottom line of this is, folks.
Why in the world did Obama run around for the past whatever it was, year and a half or two years claiming he didn't have the authority to do this?
Why did he run around saying he wasn't an emperor?
He's the one that did it, nobody put words in his mouth.
He knows that what he's doing is illegal tonight.
He knows he doesn't have the authority to do it, and so does Tubin.
And to cite the marijuana laws, if if if Obama was gonna do in Colorado and Washington what he is doing with illegal immigrants, it wouldn't be ignore people that smoke dope.
It would be give them some.
That's the correct analogy.
Obama is gonna be bestowing benefits tonight.
He is going to claim that he's taking illegal aliens and converting them to legal simply by choosing not to prosecute them.
And that's not how it works, and he doesn't have the authority to do that.
Only Congress can change legal status like that with another enactment of law or an amendment to law or whatever.
He cannot just unilaterally do this, and he knows it.
And so does everybody on every one of his supporters from Josh Ernest to Tubin, whoever it is out there that's that that comporting themselves into these weird pretzel-like shapes in order to justify this, they know as well.
Prosecutors cannot write the laws.
Okay, you've got a prosecutor, let's say uh, I don't know.
Pick up pick a law in your local county that somebody gets prosecuted for, and all of a prosecutor says, you know what?
I don't have time, I don't have the trouble, and I can't do it.
We're not gonna prosecute this case.
That does not mean the law has been rewritten so that what action is being ignored has all of a sudden become legal.
Prosecutors cannot write the law.
And just because they choose which ones to prosecute or not prosecute doesn't mean they're rewriting the law, and it doesn't mean that they have the ability to proclaim that something is illegal is now legal.
He simply doesn't have this authority.
There's no way you can stretch this, you can bend it, you can shape it, you can massage it, you can do whatever you want.
You can have all of your political buddies line up and give it their best intellectual shot, and at the end of all that, it's still illegal, unconstitutional, and not permitted.
There is no halfway.
There's no, well, it might be there is none of that, folks.
This is cut and dried.
He's violating the oath that he took.
He swore to defend and protect the Constitution, the laws, that's out the window.
And he knows it.
Why run around for two years and claim he to every Hispanic audience that was giving him the business about it?
Well, you know what?
Hey, uh, we have our laws, and I I'm not an emperor.
I I can't write my own law.
Well, he's gonna write his own law tonight.
He's just gonna go to anybody who doesn't c doesn't like it.
But this this is marijuana example, I'm telling you.
The analogy, if it were to be complete, Obama, if he were going to do with marijuana and busts and the law, what he's doing with illegals, it would not be he's just going to ignore people that smoke dope.
He would give them some tonight in violation of the law.
Anyway, I bet let me get started on the phones, because if I don't, I'm just gonna keep going here because the brain firing on all synapses.
So we'll start in uh in Prescott, Arizona.
This is uh Charlene.
Charlene, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Glad to be here.
Thank you very much.
Okay, I am plugged in and I got ya.
I know exactly what you're saying.
If you don't respect the Constitution you swore to uphold, and if you don't care a fig about the welfare of the people you are supposed to represent, and if you don't care how the people vote and what they want, and if you already have our future planned out as the third world nation, then you are Obama.
Hello.
I'm oh what?
Obama.
Barack Hussein.
Oh, Obama.
I thought you said Obomo, and I'm Obama.
No, no, I didn't say that.
This is what Obama is doing to us.
I share your indignation.
I share your anger.
Uh he's running a three-ring circus, and he's gonna do exactly what he wants unless we somehow find a way to stop him.
Yeah, I okay.
I know exactly what you mean.
He's is when you said third world, and then I thought you're pronounced, I thought you were giving it a like a Congolese pronunciation.
That's why I got confused here.
Um, like doing a version of Idi Amin Dada.
Idi Amin Obama.
Well, I don't know.
That's like my my mind got sidetracked there.
Um, but I'm glad that you get it.
Uh, because I'm it I still, folks, this all of this is surreal to me.
We're counting down the hours and minutes to where in front of our very eyes, the Constitution is gonna be blown full of holes.
And on TV there's excitement about it.
And it's like a it's like a carnival atmosphere.
And we're gonna do it with a ceremony.
We're not just gonna blow holes in the Constitution, we're gonna have a ceremony about it.
We're gonna have watch parties, we're gonna do a celebration.
You know, on the official White House web page, let me find this.
On the official White House web page, people are posting Facebook posts or tweets or whatever.
Uh don't tell me I didn't save this somewhere.
Sometimes I think the printer doesn't print things that I order it to print, but it's there are things being posted on the White House page announcing this thing tonight.
There are tweets or Facebook posts or whatever.
Take this, Whitey.
And there are pictures of people flipping us off with the middle finger on the White House page.
On the White House webpage.
It's about time you got yours, Whitey.
You're welcome.
I mean, there's ceremony about this.
There's a there's a celebration taking place with this.
Now I understand their people don't like this country, and I understand their people don't like the Constitution, and I understand them celebrating.
I mean, intellectually, I understand it, but I uh I I don't get why.
There doesn't seem to be anything other than intellectual reasoned uh opposition to this.
Rather than real roll up the sleeve stop this kind of opposition.
We got all the intellect on our side we need.
We have all the eggheads we need, we got all the brains, we got all the people can tell us that what's happening here is illegal.
Where are the people on our side that stands where's the John Wayne?
Where's somebody that stands up and says no more?
Not happening here.
Where do people still we're gonna do something about this?
I can name a couple.
But then they get shot down.
Like Ted Cruz, you name it, they get shot down, blamed for shutting down the government or what have you.
Anyway, uh uh Charlene, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I could swear I printed that thing out.
Let me go find it here.
Um I've just told you what it was, but but I I want to have it in front of me.
Sit tight, my friends.
More phone calls are coming up right after this.
Don't go away.
The top story at the Drudge Report right now, and it's from the Daily Caller.
He's linking the Daily Caller.
Obama's amnesty will add as many foreign workers as new jobs have been created since 2009.
Let me repeat that.
Obama's executive amnesty tonight, talking about four and a half, five million people will add as many, because they're all going to get work permits.
And again, he doesn't have the authority to do this.
This is there's nothing about this that is constitutional.
Nothing.
He's going to ignore the law for five million people, and by ignoring the law, he's going to claim that they're now legal.
And they're not.
They're still illegal.
Just because he's choosing not to go after them doesn't make them legal, but he's going to claim they're legal.
And then he's going to give them work permits.
And in the process, tonight.
Barack Obama will add as many foreign workers as new jobs have been created in this country since 2009.
Here you go from the article.
President Obama's unilateral amnesty will quickly add as many foreign workers to the nation's legal labor force as the total number of new jobs created by his economy since 2009.
The five million work permits will add to Obama's prior giveaways, which have provided work permits to almost a million foreigners since 2009.
The U.S. economy has added only six million jobs since that time, according to the International Monetary Fund.
So with his signature alone, he is going to add more foreign workers to the work rolls than jobs his policies have created.
Now the story I was referencing before the break, it's not the White House web page, it's the White House Facebook page.
I found the story buried in my stack.
It's from top right news.
Illegal aliens and their supporters are declaring victory on the White House's Facebook page over Obama's impending amnesty executive order.
But more than simply whooping it up over our dear leader's latest seizure of power, they are specifically calling out white people.
Now remember, this is the official White House Facebook page.
And right under Obama's announcement of the order, he's had a big announcement on Facebook.
There are a lot of people think that he he gave this to uh to to Facebook.
Ernest was asked about this, this the press secretary.
Was Obama's Facebook announcement a thank you to Zuckerberg for leading the effort?
Oh no, of course not.
But in anyway, right under the announcement on Facebook.
I don't know if these are still there.
They might have been removed by by now.
But here's a here's a Facebook post from somebody named Mirna Solderzano.
F all you white people.
Another one, L O L, all the white people complaining.
Javier Laredo, all that white people are very racist.
If they want the president to send back to Mexico what is belonged to Mexico, I'm agree with them.
Return to Texas, Los Angeles, Arizona, along with us, all of you are raced by KKK.
Typical Obama voter there.
It doesn't make sense.
Mohammed C say.
So all you white people who hate immigrants can move the F back to small Europe now.
This is on the White House Facebook page.
That was Mohammed Sissy.
Stephen Lazo, stupid white people always talking excrement.
These are screen grabs.
And the same thing is happening over on Twitter, the White House Twitter account.
Thank you.
This is what's uh by the way, do you remember there was a story at the uh uh I don't know how long ago.
I really need to expand on this too, because this is a fundamental point.
So Washington Times Obamacare Facebook page comments, mostly from small group of supporters.
But do you know that 70% of White House Facebook accounts are fake?
You you're you're remember that 70, maybe more of these all the massive Facebook likes, Facebook friends, whatever you call them.
Fake.
Made up.
Now, I we at the Rush Limbaugh program have personal experience with this.
But let me get back to the phones quickly.
This is this is Ron in Mercer, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh just because the president's decided to break the law, uh, doesn't mean we have to.
I mean, are there any Republican governors out there with a cojones to say we're not going to join you in breaking the law or just plain refuse to break the law with them?
I mean, but it said some federal rallies down here to to uh lock up governors and mayors and school boards or whoever would be involved in implementing this, that then he really would be faced with some prosecutorial discretion.
Uh you know, who who am I going to put in jail?
Well, except the governors don't control the border patrol, and the governors don't control ice.
Well, yeah, I guess they'd have to break the law then, too, wouldn't they?
Uh who?
The governors.
No, how the governor's breaking the law.
You're losing me here.
Well, no, no, no, no.
Look, if you have enough uh people who are not going to help the um uh the president to break the law, somebody has to implement what he's talking about.
I mean, children have to go to school, uh, parents uh need work, they they're given these work supposed work permits that are legal, that are illegal.
Why do we have to follow something that is not legal?
He's basically telling us go break the law.
Can't we just refuse to?
Uh what like so Obama, I mean to walk Obama is going tonight, claim it five million illegals are now here legally because he's choosing not to call them illegal.
So now they're legal, and he's gonna give them work permits.
Okay, so what does the governor do from that point?
Well, I'm not sure exactly what the uh the governor could do except resist whatever role he has in implementing uh people who are working in his state who are uh who are illegal and doing it illegally.
Uh I I don't know, somebody has to uh to not only issue cards, but uh uh to abide by whatever pr permits or cards that are um uh that they're presenting to to work or to uh uh go to a hospital or anything like that.
And if it's illegal, why why would you be breaking the law of law?
Well, but see that that's the pri in the case of the hospital, the emergency room, federal law is they've got to treat whoever walks in there.
Um in in that example.
Schools, uh the school lunch program gives the feds control over what's at what happens at schools.
If they refuse to honor kids from illegal families, then they get money pulled and so forth.
The feds have got you know their their tentacles are are everywhere.
Anyway, I've got it, I've got to take a brief time out.
My friends sit tight, much more straight ahead after this.
You know, there's another part of this that to me is crucial.
And it is this is anybody stopping and really asking themselves why Obama is doing this?
Now you may think the answer to that question is simple, and to you it might be.
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