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Sept. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Are you welcome back?
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the programs 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Over the weekend, Andy McCarthy offered a what he calls a concrete plan to undermine Obama's Iran deal.
And it was a column designed to advise members of the Senate how they have at their grasp within their ability to stop this deal from happening.
And that it's easy.
It's an easy one because all the Republican-controlled Congress has to do if it really wants to derail the Iranian nuke deal is follow the law that they wrote and then Obama signed the Corker Law, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, sometimes known as Corker Cardin.
Now, I realize that many of you are probably scratching your heads.
Understandably so, because you've heard that the Corker deal basically made it impossible for Obama to lose because it reversed the treaty process.
In the case of treaties, the Senate has to come up with 67 votes to affirm to ratify a treaty.
And what the Corker Bill did was essentially say the Senate has to come up with 67 votes to stop it.
And it it may sound like it's six of a dozen and half dozen of another, six of one half dozen of another, but it's it actually made it much more difficult along the treaty lines to uh to stop it.
However, this new suggestion has nothing to do with the treaty clause since Obama refuses to be bound by that, since Obama refuses to call it a treaty and be treated as such, then the 67 vote thing obviously is moot.
And so the new idea is from uh McCarthy.
Even though it does not meet the Treaty Clause standards, the Corker Law does contain a useful ability.
The Corker Law can legitimately repeal the anti-nuclear sanctions against Iran because the sanctions are statutory, so you don't need a treaty to repeal them.
And if you nuke the sanctions, if you are able to repeal the sanctions with the Corker bill, then the Iranians pull out.
They're not going to want any part of it with if the sanctions don't get lifted, there's no reason for them to sign the deal.
Now, Andy's column explaining all this, you know, Andy is a former prosecutor and covers every imaginable detail and objection with an answer.
And I I haven't the uh the time here to delve into his entire piece, but you can see it at the National Review Online, and I'm sure Coco will link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Essentially, what it boils down to now, since the treaty aspect of this is vomitos, the only way to block Obama here now is for Congress to show that Obama has not complied with the condition he had, he had to satisfy in order to lift the sanctions.
And that condition was to disclose the entire deal to Congress by July 19th.
He did not do that.
That requirement was in the Corker Bill.
The entirety of the deal Had to be disclosed to Congress by July 19th.
And it wasn't.
I mean, it wasn't even close.
And even after everybody was told we had a deal, there were still a couple of side deals out there that we learned about.
That then the regime said, well, side deals, we've got nothing to do with that.
I mean, those things are negotiating.
We have nothing to do with that.
So the point is that the statutes, or the sanctions, rather, are statutory, meaning they are a matter of law.
You do not need to delve into any aspect of treaties, either ratifying them or not, in order to deal with the sanctions.
And if you can, if the Republicans in the Senate could force the sanctions to be maintained, in other words, not lifted, then there's no way the Iranians agree to this, because the Iranians want the sanctions lifted in addition to everything else.
And of course, with the Obama deal, they get the sanctions lifted.
But Obama has not complied with a condition he had to satisfy.
Now you might, well, doesn't make any sense.
It's not a big deal.
Okay, so we didn't tell everybody by July 19th.
Hey, it doesn't matter.
That's not the point.
The point is there's a way to stop it.
The Republicans have in the palm of their hand a way to stop this.
The question is as it has always been.
Do they really want to?
And this gets back to everything we've been discussing today, yesterday, day before.
It doesn't appear they want to do a thing to stop Obama.
Before they had the Senate to say, well, all we have is the House.
We can't stop anything.
We need the Senate.
So we gave them the Senate.
Well, we can't stop Obama.
We really need the White House.
So whatever they've asked for, they have been given by virtue of votes.
And it is obvious that they have no desire to stop Obama.
The only point of this piece here that McCarthy wrote is to point out there is a way.
They have it in the palm of their hand.
It's a matter of whether or not they will use it.
Now, if if they go ahead with this farce of voting for a resolution of disapproval, that's the part of the corker bill that is the is the joke.
If they go ahead with this voting for a resolution of disapproval, that's what Obama can easily veto and then eliminate the Corker bill, because the Republicans cannot override it because they don't have 67 votes for anything.
If they go that route, then Congress will be deemed to have forgiven Obama's failure to disclose the full agreement by date certain July 19th.
And if all of that happens, it means the sanctions will be deemed lifted.
Thank you.
Now, McCarthy admits that the point he's making here is independent of the idea that it should have been a treaty argument.
Some people making the argument should be a treaty.
We should treat this as a treaty and deal with it as a treaty, and Obama ought to have to ratify it as a treaty, Senate ought to have to get 67 votes for it.
There aren't 67 votes for this thing anywhere, whatever, no matter how you do it, uh, that that isn't gonna happen because the corker bill takes a treaty aspect out of this.
It just turns it upside down on purpose.
So the the overriding point here is there is a way to stop this, and simply say Obama did not meet the condition he had to satisfy in order to lift the sanctions.
And I if the sanctions stay in place, then you're gonna have one ticked off Ayatollah hominy.
You're gonna have one ticked off Rouani, and they're not gonna they're not gonna agree to this deal whatsoever, because the big part of this deal to them is getting the sanctions lifted and having their assets unfrozen.
That's what a hundred, 150 billion dollars immediately at their disposal that we hold.
And if anything happens to freeze that from if anything happens that keeps that money out of their hands and keeps sanctions on them, they're not going to agree to the rest of the deal.
And they oppose it.
They stop it.
Now the Republicans are obviously afraid of what's going to happen.
And I don't think that there is a blanket explanation for Republican behavior.
For example, Rush, why why why aren't they going to try to stop Obamacare?
Okay, there's an answer to that.
Well, Rush, why why aren't they going to try to stop the Iran deal?
Well, there's a separate answer to that.
It's not just that they're afraid of the media.
It's not just they're afraid of being called racists.
It's each issue presents a different set of fears.
Included in the list of fears could it could well be the fact that they just don't want the responsibility of having their fingerprints on this.
I've got a new name for them, the no fingerprints caucus.
Whether it if something doesn't go Obama's way, they don't want their fingerprints on it.
Because what they know is going to happen.
You know, everybody, Josh Ernest at the White House, the press secretary, Obama, John Kerry, they're all running around.
The Iranians are celebrating, they're popping champagne, and they're drinking to a secure new deal, and everybody's happy.
It's never been done before, and Obama's once again accomplished something no American president before him ever did.
And the Republicans say we're gonna be the ones display this party.
No way.
We don't want that on our shoulders.
We don't want the media ripping us.
We don't want Obama ribbing us.
We don't want the Iranians mad at us.
And it seems to be one of the primary influences governing their lack of opposition to anything.
Obama, it's it's almost as though they've just decided whatever he does, he's gonna do.
And we'll just wait till we get the White House and then we'll do what we're gonna do.
The other option you could say you could declare that the president hasn't fulfilled the terms of the of the Corker Bill.
The Senate could declare the Iran deal a treaty because that's what it is, as per the Constitution, have a vote immediately when it fails to get 67 votes, declare it null and void.
There's also that approach.
But the Corker Bill kind of stands the treaty process on its head upside down, which is why the other approach here has uh has been suggested.
But it's it's clear that McCarthy refers to this as the Republican Party surrender and then pretend fight.
He says the way to characterize what the Republicans do is they cave on everything, but then they act and pretend like they're fighting, and they act and pretend like they're mad, and they act and pretend like they're doing everything they can to stop it, but what but they just falling short.
Well, we need the Senate.
Well, we need the White House.
Well, we need a couple of more votes, or what is always an excuse.
But the first thing that always happens is surrender, and then the pretend that they're fighting for or against it, whichever the case may be.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, folks.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
You know, I know that every time I have like three days or more in a row off, I feel like I'm not where I should be.
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Here is uh Tom in Schomburg, Illinois, as we head back to the phones.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
Thanks for taking my call.
So there's nothing we can do about this Iranian deal?
Hey, here's the thought.
Why don't we just hire leaders that actually have a pair and don't bring it up for a vote?
Bury this thing in committee and let it rot.
When Obama starts crying about it, you're saying, well, you know, we're still revealing it.
You're gonna have to make some changes here to please our members right now, you know, still in the review process, So, you know, check back with us in 30 or 60 days.
Maybe we'll have some better news for you.
And that's the end of it.
My God, what's going on with our own?
No, wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Because there's there's it's not quite that slam dunk.
The reason is because the way Obama is characterized this.
He's characterized this as an executive agreement or whatever the term is, and he claims that he can make this deal, no matter what the Senate does.
It doesn't matter he'll means.
And by the same token, it's not binding.
So it's better to make the deal.
The next guy can come in and unmake the deal with his executive uh privilege.
What I'm saying is our leaders got a national landslide victory from us.
They were scared to death to vote against Cromney bus.
They were scared to death to vote against Obama's illegal amnesty plan, and now they're scared to death of this.
What where did we get these guys?
Can I ask you a question?
Yes, sir.
I'm serious.
I'm serious.
I'd like to know why do you what are they afraid of in all candor now?
Forget forget cliches and stuff.
What do you I mean, you've you've said it three or four times that they're afraid.
What is it you think they're afraid of?
They're a scar they're scared to death of the media, they're scared to death of being called racist, they're scared to death of being called homophobes, this, that, or the other thing.
They are just scared to death to do anything.
I firmly believe that our lay leaders came out of the womb with their hands firmly wrapped around their ankles.
They can they cannot stand up for themselves.
They will not represent us, and it's an absolute joke when our when my congressman votes for Cromney Bus and then gets on a radio show and says, Well, you know, sometimes not all votes are easy.
Sometimes you get good choice in the past, sometimes you get a bad choice in one that's even worse.
And they cry about what they do to us.
It's just sickening, and it's it's no wonder Trump is is is is pounding everybody else.
Because I I'm telling you, Rush, the people that I know, even the people I go to church with that were very, very conservative, they're they're not going to vote for another moderate.
They will go out and vote against any Republican.
Hey, they've demonstrated that they sat home 2012, four million of them didn't vote, going you.
So it's not hard to imagine they might vote for Hillary just to they're really ticked off.
I I have a little bit different theory, not that it matters to anything because the end result's the same.
I'm reading these guys.
I'm reading what they're saying.
If you listen to these Republican listen, some of these Republican candidates.
Even now they're out there saying, like, Governor Christie, Governor Christie, one of his big, one of his big close the deal lines is something along the lines of I can work with them.
I will welcome their ideas.
If their ideas are any good, I will show them that I want to work with a weakened govern.
Well, I think that is the stumbling block.
I think they're afraid that if they oppose Obama, they're afraid of the gridlock charge or government shutdown charge, or the fact they can't govern, they won't cooperate, they're not bipartisan.
And and the reason they're afraid of that is because they're under the impression that Obama has 100% approval.
They're under the impression Obama is loved by 100% of the people.
They're under the impression that Obama is protected by 100% of the people and the media.
They have no idea how unpopular Obama is.
They have they really don't.
They're in a bubble.
They're in the beltway bubble and they don't know.
They're also under the impression that they can win without their base.
How stupid are these people?
Um that's an interesting point, too, because they really, really want to do that.
Oh, they the happiest you could make a Republican establishment.
Well, let's be a nominee who got it despite being opposed by the base.
That would be orgasmic nirvana to them.
Excuse me, but didn't they just give Jeb Bush a hundred million dollars to go out and win this thing?
And where is he?
Uh close to last place.
Well, he hasn't he hasn't begun spending uh all of it yet.
That's that's the the the Jeb Bush and the money is a multi-tiered uh explanation.
But really what this points I'll tell you what this points up, uh despite everything else that we've talked about here.
Uh, Tom, what it what it points up is that the Republican political class is not listening to its constituencies, not its voters.
It's listening to its donors.
The donor class, as it's now being called, is really running the Republican Party.
And it is uh access to money while campaigning, and the control of money in office that is a large determining factor in the policies that the party chooses to support and uh and oppose.
Remember, I don't know if it's recently two, three, four years ago, a couple elections ago, the the real objective from the establishment point, when a whole bunch of Tea Party Senate candidates were nominated and they got all ticked off about it because they were afraid they're gonna not gonna get their committee chairmanships.
It wasn't about being able to have power to implement ideas.
They wanted the committee chairmanships, they wanted the control of the money.
They see how the Democrats use it, they want their turn at it.
Buying love, buying support, buying loyalty, whatever.
And it is the uh the money and the people that donate it that really are pulling the strings here at this point, back in just a second.
The saga continues.
I just I just had a rush, you're missing the upside of the refugees flooding Europe.
At least they're gonna be people that believe in God.
You know, I like people that can see the upside of everything.
So Europe's Europe is being flooded.
Ah, here I am.
Come on.
How does this happen?
I'm tangled up in a cord here on a chair.
Oh, well, if it rips my head out, so be it.
I love guys that can look optimistically.
Here's Europe being flooded.
Hey, rush, rush, rush is an upside.
All these new arrivals at least believe in God.
For some reason it reminds me I got a whole lot of really good sound bites in here.
I got haven't even gotten to those yet.
So focused has today's program been.
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Yeah, you know, I haven't focused a lot on Biden.
I'm not sure what this Biden thing is.
I really don't know what this is yet.
Well, I don't know if it's real.
With the Democrat Party, I don't know when we're being scammed and when the odds are we're being scammed most of the time.
I I don't know if this Biden thing is for real or if it is to distract people.
Well, Hillary gets her act together.
I don't know if it really is true that Obama is trying to take Hillary out for all of the obvious reasons that he'll get along.
What I know is that Hillary has had now her third coming out, her third introduction.
Washington Post, after a wilting summer, Clinton hopes for a fall rebound.
She's already introduced herself three times.
She's already kicked off her campaign three times.
Or coming up on the fourth time now.
Now we've got the inspectors general who have turned over a couple of emails to the CIA, and the CIA has confirmed that she was trafficking in classified secret information.
Now we got Biden marching with the Union Boys, and Trump gets all excited about it.
And another poll showing that Biden's already pulled ahead of uh Bernie Sanders in uh in one poll.
But even if it's Biden, uh it's it's stunning to me.
This is all they've got.
Hillary.
I don't know.
I still don't see it being anybody else Hillary but Hillary.
But I wouldn't, I would not mind if it weren't.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just in the long game here, I don't.
Because I don't see an Obama surfacing in this campaign, like happened last time.
Anyway, time will tell.
Grab soundbite number eight.
To show you where the real action is in the presidential campaign.
We go to TMZ last night, the TMZ network.
Harvey Levin, who is the host, the executive producer, the owner, and the leading debt holder of the network.
Co-host uh Charlie Le Boudier, the producer Evan Rosenblum, an unidentified producer, had this little exchange about Tom Brady.
You know why?
There was a picture taken of Tom Brady's locker at Gillette Stadium.
You know what was in that locker?
Make America Great Cap.
A red Make America Great Cap.
It was a Trump Make America Great Cap, and it was in Tom Brady's locker at Gillette Stadium.
And that was the real news last night and today.
You would think this means that he's a supporter, right?
This is gonna help put Donald Trump over the top because if Tom Brady is signing off on Trump, you can win Massachusetts, all of New England.
You guys are underestimating how polarizing the Patriots are the New Hampshire primary company.
You said that exact same thing about Donald Trump when he was polarizing, and look what's happening in the polls.
By the way, Donald Trump has invested a lot of years into Tom Brady.
They've been friends for a long time, and even when Tom was at his lowest and it was popular for people to dump on Tom Brady and say you're a cheater.
Trump held strong.
He says he's innocent.
I believe in him.
And look how that paid off with an endorsement from Tom Brady.
It's huge.
Brady does a weekly contractual appearance on a radio station in Boston.
Once a week, usually it's Monday or Tuesday following Sunday's games.
He was asked about this today.
I've known him since 2002 where I judged one of his beauty pageant.
So I've known him for a long time.
He always used the call and different types of motivational speeches at different times.
Now that he's running for president, he sent me a hat.
Am I gonna vote for him?
That's a good question.
He's a good friend, and we've had a lot of time on the golf course together over the years.
I mean, it's pretty amazing what he's been able to accomplish as an entrepreneur, and then you know, as really as a television star in and now running for political office.
He's obviously appealing to a lot of people.
And so the TMZ gang thinks that he's wearing a Brady cap or a Trump cap, and he's got to this locker that that means if Brady endorses Trump that Trump's gonna win Massachusetts.
And maybe all of New England.
Now, last Thursday at Trump Tower, Trump had a press conference and was asked about Brady.
We were gibing it, so we heard it, but here it is, repeat it.
Tom Brady is a very good friend of mine.
He's a great guy.
Uh, for those of you that don't know him, he's a very honorable guy and an honest guy, and a truly great athlete.
He is really a very good friend of mine, and I just spoke to him a little while ago.
He's so thrilled and so happy.
Tom Brady, I think what they've done is terrible.
And he's been exonerated as I understand it, because I just heard about it.
Uh, but I'm very happy for Tom.
Look, I don't want to prick the balloon here, but he wasn't exonerated.
I mean, I I'm not realize not gonna make any friends here, but the judge who ruled in the case simply said that the commissioner did not have this all-encompassing power to suspend Brady, given that there was so little evidence implicating him in the league's own report, the Wells report.
Remember when that thing first came out, remember I found a paragraph at the end of it?
On page whatever it was, and I quoted it to you, and the and the Wells report it said self said itself said that there's nothing in here that conclusively proves Brady knew.
I said, Well, what's the rest of this matter then?
If they couldn't conclude that Brady was directly involved in the deflation of the footballs, then what's the rest of this report have to do?
The judge focused in on that and said the commissioner did not have the authority, but did not exonerate Brady, did not say Brady, because that wasn't what was being reviewed in court.
I don't mean to be a nitpicker here, but that's the actual.
Here is uh Terry in Valdasta, Georgia, Rush Limbaugh, great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
It's I want to tell you it's an absolute privilege and honor to have the opportunity to communicate with you because I listen to your program as often as I can, and I wish more people would listen to you because you explain things um putting them out for everybody to understand, and yet people don't listen.
I mean, the immigration crisis, if we can step back to that, that you were talking about earlier in Europe.
Yes, there are genuine refugees seeking help and safety, but that's been going on for years before that.
When I I served two four-year terms as a politician in London, and I was also elected the deputy mayor in my London constituency.
We had up to and still do, up to 38 different languages spoken in the schools.
Uh, brochures and leaflets produced by council throughout England, Wales, and Scotland are done in up to 38 different languages to accommodate all those coming in from other countries.
We go back to the old saying, if you go to a country, learn its language, respect its way of life, and honor its history.
But they don't.
This is the freedom of Europe.
Uh the councils produce all the leaflets and documents in their languages.
Now, uh on We have share a law being implemented In Luton and London and Birmingham.
You can't walk down certain streets without Muslim fanatics attacking you, saying it's their territory, share a law.
If you stay there, you will get assaulted, beaten up, or stabbed to death.
I was in the parade for Remembrance Sunday a few years ago on the armistice, which you call Veterans Day.
When we finished the parade, the television cameras came up to me.
Did you hear about the Muslims screaming death to the British soldiers, uh baby killers, and they were burning the honorable red poppies that we used to honor the war dead.
They were burning them in the streets.
It's just crazy over there.
Um you've got it all to come.
It's going to be worse.
There are 4,000 refugee asylum seekers in Calais smuggling themselves onto trucks and trains.
Right.
There are a few genuine families there.
But you look at the pictures, they're all young men trying for the better life.
They get cash handouts in England and have to find them accommodation.
If there's no homes, they put them up in four-star hotels.
It's nuts.
Just to uh over the weekend, down in Hungary, Red Cross food packages and water was a little bit more than a little bit.
Terry, let me ask you, gentlemen, ask you a question.
Why are, in your opinion, why are British leaders allowing this to happen?
We have our own theories here in America, but why are they 38 different languages?
Everything you discussed that's happening, why are they permitting it?
Because this is the this is you uh controlled by the European Commission, by the by the state laws coming out of the European Union.
This is why the British public are rising up ready to vote us out of the European Union.
I mean, you're controlled by what they say and what we're saying.
Yeah, but why doesn't look then why does the European Union want this to happen?
What's in it for anybody?
Well, that's that's the freedom, that's what the European Union and they took down the borders, now they're regretting it.
Look what's happened recently around Bulgaria.
They're putting up razor wire to keep them out.
They're putting the borders back.
Yeah, and the pr, you know, the proof of what he's saying is that they're they're they're you guys to enter here, you've got to go to Italy or Greece.
You've got to go on a water border.
And then, okay, fine, but we're not staying there.
We're still gonna head to London.
We're still gonna head up to Sweden.
We're not we're not gonna put up a we don't want to go to Greece, they're broke.
Okay.
Terry, I I really appreciate your nice complimentary uh remarks at the opening of your call.
I thank you uh very much.
Thirty-eight different languages in the UK.
Uh and you heard him, it's all in the context of well, we stand for freedom here and uh.
I can't help but think there's there's just a bunch of leftists, and no matter where you go, they're all the same, and they're imbued with guilt and anger.
Their own prosperity, their unfair who knows what it is.
It's it's impossible to make sense of it because it defies common sense.
It does not make any common sense.
That's why people don't understand liberalism for what it is.
Because it just defies common sense.
Anyway, again, I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
We will be back in 21 hours, revved and ready to do it all again.
Whatever happens between now and then, don't sweat it.
We'll know.
I will know.
And as an added bonus, I will tell you what to think about it.
Relax.
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