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Feb. 25, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Right here it is.
Not a surprise, but it's just, it's documented.
This is where.
Breitbart.com.
Mitch McConnell caves.
He walks around with the white flag sticking out of the beanie that he wears on his head.
That's not me.
That's what people on Capitol Hill are saying.
That's not me, folks.
Here's the full headline.
McConnell caves, but Harry Reid wants a full surrender from Boehner as well.
You would have thought that there wasn't an election last November.
And then you would have thought that the election that was last November was not won in a landslide by Republicans.
If you just landed here from Mars and were looking at politics in Washington, you would have assumed that maybe there isn't a Republican Party.
When in fact, the Republican Party won a landslide last November.
Well, you can't discern that from anything happening in Washington.
The Republicans are caving on amnesty.
They're caving on the whole Department of Homeland Security thing, which is a separate thing from amnesty in part.
And they're all ready to cave on net neutrality.
They're caving on everything.
And the excuse that we're given is, in an indirect way, well, this is what the donors want.
Then to a certain extent, that's true, but come on.
Is the donor class of the Republican Party actually attempting to achieve the erasure of the Republican Party?
Am I being a bit too extreme here, Mr. Snerdley?
It just doesn't appear that we have any opposition to the Democrat Party in Washington.
We get plenty of opposition Democrat Party out in the States and among some of our presidential contenders, but even some of those.
You ask yourself, why are they running as Republicans?
Don't have to name names.
Everybody knows who I'm talking about.
So let's just get to this.
Republican leadership in the Senate fully caving to the demands of Democrat lawmakers calling for a so-called clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill that leaves Obama's executive amnesty intact.
But the Democrats are still balking at the plan.
Even though the Republicans had totally cave, the Democrats are still saying, wait, nope, nope, nope, you're not caving enough.
Mitch McConnell said, I've indicated to the Democrat leader, that'd be Dingy Harry, that I would be happy to have his cooperation to advance consideration of a clean Department of Homeland Security bill that would carry us all the way through September 30th, the end of the fiscal year.
With Democratic cooperation on a position they have been advocating for the last two months, we could have that vote very quickly.
A Republican senator, unhappy with McConnell's plan, said this is a total victory for the Obama position.
The House hasn't passed it yet, so they might come up with something, but it's a grim prospect.
But then Dingy Harry, he now looking like a member of the Blues Brothers, balked at the offer, saying Democrats would continue to filibuster the bill until Boehner indicated that he was willing to also pass it through the House.
You see, the House already passed a bill that includes the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, except for three small areas of it that are needed to fund Obama's executive amnesty.
Those three small areas, the Republican bill does not fund.
It is the power of the purse.
It's the lone remaining weapon, apparently, the Republicans have to use to stop Obama.
Well, McConnell said he couldn't get that House bill through the Senate, couldn't get enough Democrat support for it.
And so instead, totally caved and gave the Democrats and the Senate what they want, a clean bill that has no carve-outs, no nothing.
It's just straight out full funding for the department, including whatever Obama wants to do on amnesty.
And Harry Reid says, not enough.
We still have that House bill out there.
You may think you've caved, but you haven't finished caving.
And you're not going to get a total cave, and you're not going to get our total love, and you're not going to get our total respect, Dingy Harry's saying, until Boehner caves.
This is incredible.
The people that lost the election, now they still have the White House.
I understand that.
But we have three separate co-equal branches here, and one of them is just caving.
The legislative branch is just caving.
And it's began that process long before today.
But Dingy Harry is out there saying, okay, fine, fine, fine.
The Senate, yeah, okay, we'll take it.
But we're not moving this.
We're not moving this until Boehner caves.
You're not going to get our love.
You're not going to get our respect because everybody knows it's what the Republicans want.
If Dingy Harry would, you know, if he wanted to get this done, he could simply say, look, I'll make you a promise.
I'll make sure the media doesn't rip you for three months in a row if you'll give me a clean bill out of the House.
You think they'd do it?
If Harry Reid would call a House leadership, say, okay, look, we got McConnell.
Everybody knows what happened.
We got the bill we want here in the Senate.
Now we need you, Speaker Boehner.
And I know you're reluctant.
You've got your base out there and you've got the election and so forth.
But here's what I'll do.
I'll call everybody I know in the media because I run them anyway.
And I'll tell them to lay off you for three months.
You've never known what that's like.
You've never three months of no media trashing.
Would that be worth it to you to give me what I want over here in the Senate?
I can do it, Speaker Boehner.
I can call the media.
I run them.
I'll call a president.
I'll whoever's necessary to get the media to lay off you.
I'm not going to get them to lay off anybody else.
I can't do that, but I can get them to lay off you.
Now, they've got to pick up the slack somewhere, Mr. Boehner.
If the media lays off you, they've got to double down on somebody else.
Who do you want the media to hit while they're laying off you?
Is there somebody in the Republican primary field you don't like?
Because I get the media to take them out for you.
Just name it.
You do that, and I'll make sure you give me that bill.
Isn't this what the Republicans seem to want?
Love, respect from the media?
Yes, I know, folks.
It's comedy.
It's the stuff that wins awards when liberals do it.
But I'm telling you, this is what everybody thinks.
The Republicans are just craving media respect and media acceptance.
And so if Dingy Harry really wants his bill cleaned from the House, just promise Boehner that the media will lay off him for three months.
Maybe one month, maybe two months, whatever Dingy Harry thinks he can get.
Not forever.
He's never going to get the media to lay off Boehner forever, but I mean, he might be able to get him to lay off Boehner for a couple of months and instead go out and hit somebody else.
Like, if there's somebody in the House leadership, Boehner doesn't really like being there and wants to take out and have the media sent out after them.
Dingy Harry.
We'll see.
I mean, you never know what goes on behind closed doors.
But that's the bottom line.
The Democrats are running the show.
They're waiting here for a clean bill.
Now, here's the speaker.
We got two soundbites this morning on Capitol Hill.
There's a leadership press conference.
At a Q ⁇ A, reporters said to the Speaker, are you concerned that if you do bring up a clean bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, like McConnell says he's done in the Senate, that it'll be the end of your speakership?
I'm waiting for the Senate to act.
The House has done its job to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the president's overreach on immigration.
And we're waiting for the Senate to do their job.
Senate Democrats have stood in the way now for three weeks over a bill that should have been debated and passed.
So until the Senate does something, we're in a wait-and-see mode.
They keep asking him the same question, and he keeps repeating the same answer.
Another reporter, but you know the way your caucus feels, Mr. Speaker.
Are you concerned about a rebellion if you give him a clean bill?
If you give Harry Reid what he wants, and if you duplicate what McConnell's done, are you worried there's going to be a revolt among your wacko-freaky conservatives in the House to throw you overboard?
I'm waiting for the Senate to pass a bill.
I know our staff talk back and forth, but listen, Senator McConnell's got a big job to do.
So do I. Our staffs have been talking back and forth, but at the end of the day, the Senate has to act.
And I've made it pretty clear over the last couple of weeks.
We're waiting for the Senate to act.
I'm waiting for the Senate to pass a bill.
There's a lot.
I don't know what the Senate's capable of passing.
And until I see what they're going to pass, no decision's been made on the House side.
I'm waiting for the Senate to act.
The House has passed a bill to fund the department.
It's time for the Senate to do their job.
All right.
He's waiting for the Senate to act.
And that's good.
In and of itself, you put that inside some boundaries, and that's awesome.
Don't misunderstand me.
But the Senate has acted.
Well, I wouldn't call it acted.
They've caved.
There is action required to cave, and they did it.
But it's a second story.
The National Journal.
With the Homeland Security Department set to shut down on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday offered Senate Democrats everything they wanted, and then they asked for some more.
Even the National Journal.
Let me read this as it actually is written.
With the Homeland Security Department set to shut down on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday offered Senate Democrats everything they wanted.
And then, as with mice and cookies, they asked for some more.
So the media knows the game.
The Democrats lay out what it's going to take to get a deal.
Mitch McConnell caves, and Harry was, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
We haven't even gotten close yet.
This isn't a cave.
We still got Boehner over there acting out.
You got to do something about Boehner or else.
Isn't that the mainstream media love it when Republicans cave and then the Democrats demand even more cave?
Caving the media, I mean, they're playing with them, folks.
They're just toying with them.
McCondo told reporters on Tuesday that after two months of begging, he would finally agree to give Democrats a clean vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of the fiscal year.
The funding, based on an agreement between Democrat and Republican appropriators last year, would come with no strings attached.
So just to be clear, McConnell is completely throwing in the towel, even though the House could still try to come up with another bill that would defund Obama's illegal executive amnesty.
And you heard Boehner Boehner sounds like he's more than willing to keep holding out here.
Even they could do a short continuing resolution that fully funds DHS, but McConnell has just cut everybody off at the knees.
If they're not, am I missing something here?
Is there some deep, dark secret maneuvering and strategy going on that not even I have recognized here?
McConnell's not running a rope-a-dope here.
Anyway, who didn't see this coming?
You know, even yesterday when we had some news on the program yesterday that even I said the news portended good results, but it was about the House and it was about the Democrats falling out.
Yesterday, the story was the Democrats in the Senate were not happy.
They were falling out.
I said, aha.
And then today, a total cave.
And even yesterday, after I mentioned the Democrats that led by Joe Manchin, there were eight of them yesterday that didn't want any part of this.
Even then mentioned it still, we know where this is going because we know what the Republican donors want.
That's what everybody has to remember.
The Republican, they call it the donor class now.
You have the elite class, the political class, the donor class, the hayseed class, the talk radio class.
The donor class, the big money guys, Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street Journal editorial page, Jeb Bush, they want this.
So it's not unexpected.
It's nevertheless just as frustrating, but it's not unexpected.
The House could still try to come up with another bill to fund Obama's illegal executive action.
The only real question is, what did that election mean in November?
What did it mean?
I had a guy send me a note the other day.
He said, you know what, Rush, I'm starting to ask, why vote for Republicans?
They're just the middleman now.
Just cut them out.
Just vote straight Democrat ticket and get what we want right off the bat instead of going through the motions here.
I courted it.
I kind of understood what he meant.
It was a flippant, sarcastic comment.
Anyway, Jeff Sessions, one quick bite here before we hit the break.
Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.
And I'm not trying to be disrespectful of other Republicans in the Senate, but he has spoken up loudly and consistently, fearlessly, about the lawlessness of this regime.
And he continues to be the only one that does.
There may be other Republican senators in there who agree with him to a degree or another, but they haven't been nearly as upfront and present as Sessions.
And this is a portion of a speech that he made on the floor.
We have two sound bites of the Senate yesterday afternoon.
There are some, even on the Republican side, they say, oh, gosh, you know, the president will blame us even if it's not our fault.
And we might as well cave in and give him what he wants.
But what he wants is something he can't be given.
What he wants is Congress to capitulate and erode its powers and responsibility.
He wants Congress to violate its duty to fund something that is illegal and contrary to Congress's wishes.
And this is a key element of this, too.
This next bite, he issues a warning.
And I'm telling you, this is something the Republicans in the Senate are trying to hide behind.
We've been hearing it said that, well, we can fully fund Homeland Security without any restrictions, allowing the president to do this because the courts stopped it.
We don't know what the courts are going to do.
And this Congress has its duty.
And this Congress has a duty to fund only things that it believes are appropriate and lawful.
And so Congress shouldn't fund it on that basis, period.
What he's saying is Republicans, hey, this Texas judge, hey, hey, we put the skids on it.
We're safe.
They're just scared to death of a shutdown.
They just scared to death.
That's what Harry Reid, if he really wants Boehner, call him.
Say, I'll make sure you don't get blamed for any shutdown for like a month.
How's that?
Is that good?
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AP, highly skilled immigrant spouses can soon work in the United States.
Have you heard what Jeb Bush has said about all this?
His speech at the 92nd Street Why.
And it really is, it's incredible.
Of immigrants, he said they're more entrepreneurial.
They set up more business.
They buy more homes.
They're more family-oriented.
They work in jobs that in many cases are jobs that have gone unfulfilled.
I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational immigrants.
He thinks that the influx of illegal immigrants via amnesty will raise the national mood and make everybody much happier and more content.
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This is from the AP, a cheering associated press.
It's actually a story from yesterday when Naha Maha John's husband got a job transfer from New Delhi to New Jersey.
She was excited to come along.
But the thrill faded when the television reporter realized there was no way she could get a job in the U.S. because immigration rules barred her from working.
Over six years, she became deeply frustrated.
This is Neha Mahajan.
Well, that rule changed on Tuesday when the Obama regime announced a visa rule revision that will let they just announced it.
They just announced it.
You know what's going to happen with this net neutrality business?
I said yesterday, net neutrality is as honest a name for that as the Affordable Care Act was for Obamacare.
This cronyism that is part and parcel of all of this executive action, it's actually worse than just what you think on the surface.
It's bad enough that the president's bypassing Congress and just making law out of his desires.
I mean, we would all love that power, and he's just implementing it, and there's nobody trying to stop him except us.
And what are we labeled?
Kooks, crackpots, extremists, or what have you.
But it's more than that.
After he establishes these rules, what comes next are the waivers for his friends, the exemptions for his friends, and his friends happen to be the donors.
Not exclusively the donors, but largely the donors.
How many Obamacare waivers were there?
For years, they still are granted.
Oh, yeah, you're exempt.
Yeah, we're going to have a massive tax increase, but you are exempt.
I proclaim it.
The same kind of thing is going to happen with net neutrality.
And I'm getting ahead of myself on this subject today.
It is its own self-contained topic, per se, today.
But I'm going to go ahead and jump the gun here just a little bit because the Republicans are caving on that, too.
They're ceding all of this power.
It's just mind-boggling.
It's as though they actually do believe this tripe that any criticism of Obama is seen as racist or sexist bigot, unseemly, and they're just not going to go there.
They don't want to be called that.
I still can't believe that after all these years, but apparently it's still an animating feature of Republican Party thinking.
Well, net neutrality is going to end up hurting a lot of enterprises, and they're going to sue.
So it's going to take some time for it to be fully implemented, just like Obamacare was.
It's not going to be an overnight thing.
So they're going to have people petitioning for redress, lawsuits.
But Obama is also going to be handing out waivers at the same time.
He's going to be, let's say that you are a young millennial, and for some reason, you have a visceral hatred for Comcast.
So you support net neutrality because you think that with net neutrality, Comcast is going to be stopped from screwing little people like you.
So you applaud it.
You men, you suck it to them.
You men, they hate the little guy.
You men, they overcharge and they throttle my speech.
You give it to them.
So net neutrality comes along and media dutifully reports that among the telecoms to be harmed by this is Comcast.
Yeah, yeah.
And then all of a sudden, Obama grants them a waiver, an exemption.
They are huge donors.
Comcast is NBC.
They are huge donors to Obama.
They are huge bundlers.
I'm talking about the Comcast execs who now run NBC.
What are you going to do then when they're exempted like so many people were from the ravages of Obamacare?
It's going to be everything but the solution all of these people think that it's going to be.
But my point here is: look at this sentence.
That changed on Tuesday when the regime announced a visa rule revision that'll let spouses of some highly skilled immigrants apply for work in the U.S. starting this year.
Neha Mahajan said, Why this rule has come as a big, big relief to me?
Why, I can finally dream of being myself.
This was during a press call organized by immigration reform activists.
Isn't that wonderful?
Now there will be foreigners to do the dirty work that Americans just refuse to do, like reporting on TV in the snow.
It has been against the law for spouses to work without going through the process of getting the permits and so forth.
But yesterday, the regime just announced making it so.
The regime announced a visa rule revision.
That's all they had to do, just make it themselves.
Didn't have to go to anybody.
Didn't have to debate it anywhere.
Didn't have to get votes on it.
It didn't have to pass.
It just happened because somebody at the regime demanded that it happened.
And with this revision, spouses of some, not all, you see, it's selective.
It's whoever the regime wants to benefit.
Spouses of some highly skilled immigrants will be able now to apply for work visas in the U.S.
It's a beautiful thing.
But the rules and regulations for everybody else are just selectively applied and selectively enforced at the whim of our dear leader and people in his regime.
You see, employers can hire foreign workers under the H-1B visas after proving there are no qualified candidates available in the U.S. Each year, about 85,000 are issued, mostly in tech firms.
Until now, their spouses have been issued a different H-4 visa that made them ineligible to get a social security number.
They simply couldn't legally earn any money.
But now all that's changed with just a wave of the magic wand by the regime.
Mark Crikorian had a post at National Review Online a couple of days ago.
And I've been sitting on this for a while, waiting for what I thought was an opportune time to bring it up.
It starts out addressing the Giuliani allegation that Obama doesn't love America.
And Krikorian makes the point, as I have, by the way.
You know, people, I have made the point on this program that Obama doesn't like America as founded.
There's always going to be an America.
I have never believed, nor have I ever told you that I think they're going to wipe America off the map and start over.
There's always going to be an America.
Just Obama doesn't like it the way it was founded.
He thinks it needs to be changed.
And he doesn't love America the way it was founded.
But he will love it if he can change it and make it the way he wants.
And the root of Obama, or the way to understand Obama's problems with America, his grievances, if you will, are all rooted in multiculturalism.
If you know anything about multiculturalism or the multiculturalism curriculum, then you are well aware of Obama's problems with this country.
I've mentioned them to you, and they are addressed here in Krikorian's own way and in his own words.
And he refers to Obama as a post-American.
We have post-racist, we have post-modern, we have post-he calls him a post-American.
He likes country.
He just doesn't love it.
He compares it to, yeah, yeah, you like New York, but you don't like some of the suburbs, or you like the suburbs, but you don't like the city, but you love it all.
I mean, you just want to change it.
And he's making a distinction here that he wants people to understand, Krikorian does, that Obama's grievances with the country have to do with the way it was founded.
And they're all rooted in the way minorities have been treated since the founding of the country.
I mean, there's no mystery to people who understand this, and I do, and I've tried to convey it to you.
It's not a question of being too complicated to understand.
It just takes courage to believe this.
Some people don't want to believe these kinds of things.
So they search for other explanations for Obama's behavior.
But it's not complicated.
The reason why Obama is flooding this nation with people of color, why there is a de facto erasure of the southern border, is not, per se, rooted in Obama's desire to destroy the country.
He thinks we're just making amends for past transgressions.
Obama is one of these guys who actually, you've heard Sharpton and other civil rights people run around saying that the wealth of America was built on the blood of slaves and minorities.
Obama happens to believe that.
And he believes we haven't gotten anywhere near making amends for that.
And we have become a superpower, but we're not justified.
We're illegitimate in this role because it's unjust the way we've done it.
So many people have been excluded.
People in Obama's view who actually were responsible for making it happen.
And so this is simply not Obama trying to destroy the country, but to remake it, transform it the way it should have been in the first place with the people who actually, I mean, it's typical liberalism.
These people believe what they say.
And if you have the courage to believe that they mean it, it's perfectly understandable what all is going on here.
And he lumps Jeb Bush in.
The point of this post is he lumps Jeb Bush right in with Obama with this same worldview.
That America is not this shining city on a hill place, that it's flawed.
It's deeply flawed.
It has been exclusionary.
It has been discriminatory in all of this.
Anyway, I got to take a break here as I seem to run up against time constraints frequently.
We do.
We'll be back, though, and continue.
After this, don't go away.
No, no, no.
I checked the email.
Rush, are you saying you understand these?
No, no.
I'm telling you, I understand the motivation why Obama is doing what he's doing.
There's a chip on his shoulder.
Always said it.
And what Kekorian's post is attempting to do here is say that Jeb Bush is for different reasons just like Obama in his thinking that America needs to be improved and perfected, that there are deep ingrained problems with it.
I believe, you know, both these guys are like me.
They're baby boomers.
You know what?
I think the baby boomers are the most spoiled, self-obsessed generation that we have produced in the modern era.
We've had to invent our traumas.
We've had to sit around.
Life was made so easy for us by the hard work of our parents and grandparents.
And I know this is controversial.
Stress is stress, whether it's manufactured or real, it's all real.
It has the same impact on people.
We've had to invent our traumas.
We had to invent HDD, HADDD.
We had to invent PTSD, all these kinds of things.
We've had to invent all these things that tell ourselves that we have struggled to.
And we've had all this time to be introspective and self-absorbed.
And I just, I think people end up being self-centered and do not, anytime you think you know more than anybody else and you become so self-obsessed, governed by your emotion, I think these people have literally forgotten how great this country is, if they ever really appreciated it in the first place.
I'm not sure they appreciate the country.
I don't think they really do understand why this country is as great as it is and how it got there.
You can't possibly understand that if you look at this country as nothing more than a series of grievances that need to be addressed.
You can't see greatness at the same time you see that.
Now, the reason I spend so much time on motivation and understanding, I'm just trying to inform as many people as possible here, as you well know.
I want to get more on this, of course.
There's more to it, but I've got to get some phones because people have been patiently waiting.
I'm going to start at Long Beach, California.
Hi, Cynthia.
Glad to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure.
Been listening for decades.
I was thinking about the plans for Congress to cave, and I was considering whether or not they're doing this to keep from having to do anything.
I mean this in terms of justiciability within the court.
If the case coming out of Texas moves on, and of course it will, to the appeal, if Congress passes a clean bill funding the DHS, then the court would probably need to stand by in what is sometimes called a zone one.
Eric Holders brought it up before, wherein the people's house and the president are speaking in a single voice.
And so the court would really have to remove the first question, which is whether or not the states have standing, which would be no.
And that would be part of bicameralism.
And it just seems to me like this prevents the Republicans really from having to take a stand either way and say, oh, well, the court's spoken.
That the states just simply don't have standards.
I'm not sure I fully understand your point.
The last thing you said is true.
The Republicans, it appears, are indeed seeking refuge behind this court ruling.
If I could give you an analogy, the tie goes to the runner.
In a situation where Congress has passed a clean bill and the president is acting to fund DHS as well in order to fund what his executive action, or, you know, as far as he's calling it one, the tie goes to the president.
If Congress has passed it and the president has passed it, when the court sees it, it would become really a separation of power.
No, wait, wait, wait, wait.
We're way off the president doesn't pass anything.
But the judge's ruling was not on any of these.
The judge's ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the case.
The judge's ruling had to do with the fact that Obama had unilaterally acted here without engaging in a required public comment period where people could register their objection.
This judge's ruling has nothing to do with whether Obama has the authority to do this or not.
Anyway, I don't mean to be rude.
I need to explain more of this to you because your thinking otherwise is good strategically, but I've got to take a break because I'm out of time again.
No, no, the caller was right in terms of the politics, why the Democrats want a clean bill.
But that has nothing to do with the judge in Texas and his stay.
So I will explain.
I don't know where the time is going.
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