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Nov. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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And not only that, Obama cannot give them work permits.
Obama cannot hand out benefits to these people.
Only that is appropriating money.
Only the Congress can appropriate money.
Only the Congress can write law that appropriates benefits in time.
The president just can't start handing things out like this like he's gonna do it.
Now this this action tonight, it it does bring the governors into the equation, but I don't know quite how that's going to work out yet.
Only time will tell.
Uh Governor Perry Texas going to sue him.
Well, how long is that gonna take?
But the governors are going to be brought into this somehow.
This is not just going to happen in a vacuum.
Our previous caller was on to something.
It's just we're gonna have to wait and see how it all shakes out.
Because this is uncharted territory.
We've never had a ceremony where the Constitution was violated.
We've never had a primetime address with a nation tuning in with a bunch of people throwing a party where the Constitution gets clipped.
And so this is this is uh in a way, parts of this are unprecedented.
And this assertion of prosecutorial discretion.
Uh you can't, he's rewriting federal law, and he doesn't have the authority to do that.
This isn't prosecutorial discretion.
I mean, they're using it, and they've got Tubin out there on CNN trying to back them up, but that's not even what they're doing.
Because he's rewriting law here.
Even he admits that.
Executive amnesty, executive action, executive order.
He's writing law.
In addition to not enforcing it, he's right.
He doesn't have the authority.
And he has said it himself.
Obama has repeatedly, a year ago, over and over, when he said he wasn't an emperor.
He has no power in this matter, let alone any kind of discretion in legislating.
And by the way, you know, I I I asked just before the break, is anybody asking why he's doing this?
And there are a number of different answers to that.
Well, I mean, one straight up answer is that he says he's acting because Congress won't pass a law that he demands.
Well, tough toenails, Mr. President.
That happens all the time.
Just because Congress doesn't give you what you want doesn't mean you have the power to go make it happen.
It's called separation of powers.
The Constitution's being corrupted and perverted and stood on site, it's upside down on its head tonight.
And everybody throwing a party over it.
Even well, not people on our side throwing a party, but everybody's all hopped up and excited to watch and see this.
It just it this offends my sensibilities like I can't begin to describe to you.
Now, the why is he doing that?
Well, of course, uh some might say concerned with his legacy.
I frankly, I think legacy is the last thing on his mind here.
I don't think that's where Obama's ego goes.
I'm I I know he's got a big ego and all that.
I folks, this okay, so we've got let's take 12 million twenty, whatever the number is.
What is the pressing need to do this?
There is no need to do this.
This is all politics.
The inspiration, motivation, demand, desire, whatever it is propelling this is all politics.
It's not compassion, it's not concern for human being, it's none of that.
That's not why this is happening.
It's not because the immigration law is broken, it isn't.
It's just not being enforced.
The immigration law in the book is fine.
It's actually quite good.
You're not allowed to be here illegally, and if you're found, you'll be deported.
It's just not being enforced.
And because it's not being enforced, Obama's running around saying it's broken.
And that he wants Congress to give him a new law, and they won't, so he's gonna write his own.
He can't.
This is how fragile our system is, the honor system.
Adherence, Respect for the Constitution.
If that's not if that's not present, if you elect a president that does not have that respect or reverence for it, then it isn't any good.
It's just a piece of paper.
It may be hundreds of years old, but it's just a piece of paper.
And it in this case, it's a meaningless piece of paper to our current president.
And if it doesn't mean anything, then it can't get in his way.
This is not precarious.
Well, what if how many 42 previous presidents?
44, 43, whatever it is.
What if any one of them at any point in our history, you know what?
This constitution, this is this is bollocks, and just threw it away, created his own government.
Well, you're shaking your head.
They hit...
Sigh.
Snerdley's saying it would never happen like that.
The press would stir them up, somebody throw them out.
It's happening, is my point.
And the press is not stirred up.
The press is supporting it.
The press is doing everything they can to make this happen.
The press is encouraging this.
The press is providing cover for this.
The press is not defending and protecting the Constitution, even though they are specifically spelled out in it.
The press has become totally compliant and slavish to the emperor.
But there's another reason why.
Okay, the why do this?
What is what is the practical result of this?
Well, we have you have he does this, you're gonna have more foreign workers that are all of a sudden flooding the job market.
You're gonna have six million, five and have six million people after tonight, legally quote unquote, flooding the job market.
That number is greater than the number of jobs that have been created in this country since 2009, since Obama took office.
This is going to overwhelm the country's abilities.
It's going to overwhelm the free market economy, the free enterprise economy.
It is going to overwhelm the welfare system.
It's going to put pressure like we've never seen.
This is going to totally break down any semblance of order.
This is a this is a direct attack on the structure and foundation of this country, is what this is.
And it's all being disguised as compassion for the downtrodden and the homeless and the hungry and the thirsty and the abandoned and the separated and what have you.
And others say no, it's it's it's it's it's restitution for criminal acts committed by this country long ago.
It's simply getting even.
There's all kinds of reasons for doing this.
But those that would fall under the label of common sense, you can't find any.
It's just mind-boggling here to absorb all this.
And it's classic.
Create a crisis out of nothing.
And then build it and build it and build it and build it.
And then get to the point where you've got to do something immediately or else.
Like the financial crisis.
If we don't do these bailouts in 24 hours, the world financial system is going to collapse.
And two weeks later, they were telling us the same thing.
You've got 24 hours to do tarp or else it's the curtains for the world economy.
Two weeks later, they were still telling us we had 24 hours.
No, this is this is part of Obama's sworn objective to transform this country into something that it was not founded to be.
And the sad thing is you've got political partisans on both sides who claim that it'll benefit them.
Chamber of Commerce, hey man, there's some cheap labor here to clip the hedges.
And on the left, my God, look at all the brand new underclass registered Democrats we're going to have in a few years.
Okay.
I don't know.
It's an abject disaster.
But again, you know, I'm being redundant.
Let me let me uh let me take a quick time out here.
We got some sound bites.
You've got to hear some sound bites.
Uh that we've got I haven't gotten to any of them yet.
Do you know that I have been dragged into this Cosby thing?
You want to hear that?
Grab grab soundbite uh what do they guess the last one?
Well, it's it's 23.
Nope.
It's uh is uh twenty-four.
This is on NPR yesterday.
Here and now is the name of the program.
And the guest was the New York Times media correspondent Bill Carter, and talking about uh sexual allegations against Bill Cosby.
And this guy inserts me in this story.
We haven't said a word about the only thing I've said about the Cosby story is to comment on how CNN is licking its chops over this.
Don Lemon licking more than his chops over this.
And asking guests to lick even more than his chops over this.
But that's about it.
But I haven't commented one way or the other on Cosby.
And yet, this is what Bill Carter, the the the host here is Jeremy Hobson, and uh he asks Bill Carter, the TV guy at New York Times.
So what are we hearing from Cosby's fans?
There's a very odd thing that's going on between conservatives and liberals in this thing.
Cosby all of a sudden became something of a darling of some conservatives because he was speaking out against uh some black culture that they felt was you know uh bad for families and things like that.
And and uh and he got support from like Rush Limbaugh of that.
So he's been getting some weird support in the conservative community, but I have not really seen it.
Stop the tape.
I don't know of any support Bill Cosby is getting in these latest allegations of rape from anybody, much less in the conservative community.
Do you?
I no, I don't watch enough cable TV.
There may be some cook pots out there, but I do not know one person.
Exactly everybody's running as fast as they can from this story because they don't know anything about it, and they're probably my God, if they can go after Cosby, who's but but we haven't said a word about now they lump me in here as somebody supporting him.
I remember maybe ten years ago when Cosby was in Indianapolis or something, and he did make a speech in which he suggested that black families might want to think about staying together.
And of course, we did comment on it and approve of it, but that's years ago.
And by the way, when Cosby was told of that, he wasn't happy.
Cosby is not a fan of mine for whatever reason, even now.
But this is this is incredible.
This is how these people do this.
NPR, you know, the brain dead people listen to that stuff.
They think they're the smartest people in the country, and they're basically just a bunch of sponges running around, and they soak all this stuff up, and now they're out there thinking that I'm on the radio here supporting Cosby in these allegations.
Why?
Because the Republican war and women, and that would make total sense to them.
And that's how this perverse and filth gets spread by these irresponsible in the media.
Back after this.
Let me go to line three here.
I hope she's still there.
This is uh Patty in Longview, Texas.
Are you there, Patty?
Testing one.
Patty, are you there?
Yes.
Well, I'm glad you waited.
Thank you for your patience.
Hello, and welcome to the program.
Well, thank you for taking my call.
What an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that very much.
I do have a question that no one can explain to me.
I'll bet I will Bet you that you can answer it yourself if you had to.
No, I really cannot.
I've been ragging my brain for six years.
Okay.
Well, have at it.
What's a question?
Okay.
I truly do not understand how and why does this one individual trump an entire nation?
Is his race or half being half black really that much of a powerful tool to be able to manipulate and subvert an entire country?
I really don't understand how he can get away with everything.
Just because of the way his DNA.
Well, uh I understand your question, but the question is not entirely properly framed.
But let but let me deal with it as you ask it.
What she basically wants to know, why in the world is it that an entire country, an entire Congress, an entire Senate, or at least half of it, why is it that an entire country is scared to inaction by one man who happens to be president?
Why is everybody so paralyzed and unable or unwilling to stand up and oppose him and try to stop what he's doing?
Is that pretty much it?
That yes, yes.
And and I just I don't understand.
Is it because he's half black?
He's also half- Well, it depends on who you're talking about in terms of being scared.
There's a there's a bunch of different answers to this question.
But the first thing I should point out is that he's not alone, Patty.
It's not just Obama that people would stand up.
He's got the support of all of practically every union in this country.
He's got the support of practically every college and professor.
He has the support of practically every school and teacher, there are exceptions.
He's got the support of Hollywood.
He has the support of the entire media.
And therefore, it's not just that people are afraid of Obama.
They're they're afraid of the entire apparatus that supports him and defends him and launches into character assassination and personal destruction, if anybody gets serious about stopping him and doing what he's doing.
On the racial side, you've explained that's exactly why elected Republicans are afraid of him.
They are a it's not they're afraid of him, they're paralyzed because of his race.
And the the left, and this was easy to spot before he was even immaculated.
The left in the media accuse any critic of being oriented by racism, motivated by racism.
Therefore, there is no legitimate criticism of Obama.
It's all racist.
It's all white people who just can't stand this uppity guy that got elected.
And that's what they say.
They don't know how to defend against it.
They don't think that there is any defense to it, so their their chosen course is to stay silent in most cases.
But if I may, then what happens is if that woman from Massachusetts decides to run, then she's gonna have something that we can no longer you know, encounter I mean, we cannot um be against her because of whatever reason.
You mean uh be able to do whatever and then the country will look like Cuba.
Are you talking about Elizabeth Fokan?
Yes, yes.
The supposedly Indian natives.
Yeah, it's got the high cheekbones of uh sitting bullshit.
I'm five feet tall, by the way.
Anyway.
So uh yeah, but they would do the same thing.
Any criticism of, say, the first Hispanic president, say racism or what have you.
Uh woman sexism.
Uh but I I think it I think it your question is really good because it goes deeper uh than that.
And there's so many answers to this question.
Some people don't want to rock the boat because they don't want to call it, they don't want the IRS sitting on them.
Some people don't want some powerful government agency coming and freezing their assets.
I mean, peep what what has happened in this country is that people have become more and more fearful of a federal government that they think is opposed to them rather than supports them.
And that is a direct result of the empowerment of liberalism.
I mean, you've you've got people, then there's a natural fear of the media.
This one's the one that frustrates me the most.
There's a fear of the media and what they will say about you.
But there are people who are literally they see what happened to Catherine Engelbrecht at True the Vote and all of these uh Tea Party groups that tried to simply register as tax-free fundraising organization.
IRS descended on them and refused to grant them their uh exemption and then made it look like they were engaged in criminal activity.
Nobody can compete with the federal government when it comes to money and power, and people don't even want to rile them up.
People don't even want to end up on their radar, and the best way to not end up on the Federal Government's radar is to shut up.
Yeah, but then our elected representatives like Congressmen and Senators should stand um and back whatever citizen voicing their opinion like that women, they should be right.
Well, no, see they think they they think that we want them to work with Obama so that it won't get as bad so fast.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, this kind of this this kind of uh is an answer.
We just had a question from a caller.
Why is everybody so afraid of one guy?
Why is everybody so paralyzed and scared of one guy in this country?
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a tweet.
Not sent to my Twitter, so I had to have this thing sent to me.
There is a journalist or reporter or used to work at National Review, he may still work at National Review Online.
I don't know.
His name is Robert Costa.
Robert Costa, C O S T A. And he uh has a a tweet here.
Are you ready for this?
This guy's a conservative.
The tweet isn't about him, but he posted it.
Well, he's I guess conservative national review.
Yeah.
GOP leaders hope to contain outrage in the ranks over Obama's immigration moves.
And I think this there's a link here to the Washington Post that may be a Washington Post story.
But we got this being tweeted out here by conservatives.
So the story here apparently is that within the ranks of the GOP leadership, they are very worried that Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions and who knows who else might get a little too mad tonight, and they don't want that to happen.
They at the leadership apparently fear that the Republicans acting angry tonight will turn people off to the Republicans because apparently they believe that the public doesn't want to see anger and controversy and discord,
that they want everybody to get along, and so they are hoping to be able to contain the reaction in their own ranks.
It is, it's a costus, it's Costa's coding a uh a Washington Post story.
Republican leaders hope to contain outrage in the ranks.
For Republicans, the roiling debate over the president's decision is not only a fight with a White House, but a test of whether they can contain some of the unhelpful passions among their swelling majorities.
The task is keeping on message and away from the controversial.
And sometimes...
Wait a minute, just keep scrolling.
Sometimes offensive comments that have traditionally hindered attempts to bolster support for the party among Hispanics.
There we have it.
There we have the Republican leadership is quaking in its boots.
That there might be too much anger, and that the Hispanics will see it, and that the Republicans will never get the Hispanic oh no.
So once again, there is not supposed to be any controversy.
And the controversy is not Obama.
Oh no, Obama isn't contributing a shred to the controversy here.
No, no.
The Republican leadership is worried about its own members creating controversy by disagreeing with Obama too loudly, which would take the party off message, which is we love you Hispanics.
I told you yesterday, Sturdley, that the thing that was going to tick the Republicans off the most about what Obama's doing tonight is that they're not in on it.
And that they're not getting any credit for it.
You know that.
Holy smokes of all the things.
Now, it's the Washington Post, so we've got we've got to hold out the possibility that they're totally either making it up or exaggerating it.
Oh it sounds like it could be credible.
It's it it feels like exactly something a Republican consultant would advise a candidate.
Yep.
It sounds exactly like something a Republican consultant would say.
Now look, don't get mad here.
The Hispanics are gonna see it, they're not gonna like it.
It's gonna destroy every effort we're making of building a bridge.
The Hispanic community.
Don't get mad at Obama.
Remember, you were elected to come here and work with Obama.
Oh, no.
Oh, they would me probably.
I mean, if they could if they could, yeah.
Shut me up to it.
So we get a caller saying, why are they so afraid of one guy?
Here's here's I told you there are many answers to it.
And here's the uh the latest one.
I knew that.
I knew that Robert Costa is no longer at National Review.
He left the conservative National Review to go to the mainstream Washington Post.
It might be his story.
I don't know.
I just have the tweet.
That's all I've got.
I didn't hit the link because I'm busy.
All I needed was the tweet.
And the tweet is the Republican leadership is really, really worried tonight, not about what Obama's gonna do.
The Republican leadership is worried about the reaction Republicans in Congress might have.
And it might get too mad and might be too critical.
And that would be too controversial.
And it is his story.
Okay, it's Costus, Bob.
It's not Bob Costas, it's Bob Costa.
No relation.
Robert Costa.
One's Greek, one's Italian.
I don't know.
They could be both.
It doesn't matter.
It's just not the sports guy.
It's his story.
And it's his story that the Republican leadership is very, very trying to reign in the reaction of the Republican rank and file.
Well, you heard it.
Here's uh here's his Patty in Biloxi, Mississippi.
I'm glad you waited.
Your turn on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, thank you, Rush.
Um, I want to kind of go back.
You said the very beginning of the show that people have to change their perspective.
And I think the perspective that needs to be changed is about the GOP leadership.
Because look at they had an opportunity here, and especially this last election, to they had a huge amount of candidates where they could have filled these spots with Ted Cruz's and Trey Gowdies and Mike Leeds, but what did they do?
What animated them?
It animated them to come out with guns blazing against you know Tea Party type candidates.
And they who did they back?
They backed the establishment.
An opportunity to get people who were gonna stop amnesty and uh and uphold immigration laws to uh rein in spending to uh stop the economy crushing climate action instead of sitting people on the green couch with Nancy Pelosi.
But they didn't do that.
No, you're right.
They lined up be behind the exciting, charismatic, energetic fad Cochrane.
Exact yeah, exactly.
And that's the thing is that you know by putting Mitch McConnell out there with his monotone, you know, bare minimum amount of outrage, they get to have their cake and ate it too.
They get to pretend that they oppose Obama's action all the while enjoying their payoff to the Chamber of Commerce with cheap labor.
Oh, that's that's that's that's true.
That's that's indisputable.
That's that's exactly right.
You've nailed it.
You don't want any flamethrowers in there, no troublemakers.
I s sense anger, yes.
I I told you that's why this election, this victory, I'm telling you, there it I I sensed there's a whole lot of unsettledness out there.
There's not this this victory is nothing like that 94 victory was.
Uh, there's a lot of people are still guarded about this and what and what it means.
I mean Thad Cochrane for cotton crying out loud, I mean if it weren't for his varicose veins, a guy'd be totally colorless.
Does he even well anyway?
Does he know he won?
Uh maybe not till January when they swear it in there.
Well, my friends, uh, I I I I didn't get to Uber uh today.
And I I also you know I end this program, you don't know this.
I end this program with guilt every day, because I leave so much on the table.
I mean, I only got to one sound bite today, and I was loaded with them, and I didn't get to enough phone calls today.
So I'll go I'm gonna leave here thinking, damn it, I didn't have the right balance in the program today.
So I gotta fix it tomorrow.
It's open line Friday to I gotta do Uber tomorrow.
Some of these sound bites involved me, and they were quite funny, and I didn't get enough time to spend on this Wall Street Journal poll on the meaning of the election.
Uh uh it runs counter to my theory, and that's I'm sure that's why they did the poll.
So at least you know some of what's coming tomorrow.
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