{"id":10152,"date":"2014-02-14T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-14T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:44:34","slug":"it_s_obama_s_lawlessness_that_matters_not_his_motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/14\/it_s_obama_s_lawlessness_that_matters_not_his_motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Obama\u2019s Lawlessness That Matters, Not His Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to now go to the audio sound bites. This morning on Fox, Martha MacCallum played an audio sound bite of me, your beloved host. It was from, it could have been yesterday or the day before — I talked about it both days — as I watched it, I actually looked like I was beside myself talking about, “What do we do?” We\u2019ve never encountered this kind of lawlessness before<\/a>. We\u2019ve never encountered a president who just makes the law up as he goes, and specifically for his own political benefit, ignoring Congress, ignoring the Constitution. Nobody knows what to do. I mean, we haven\u2019t been confronted with this. I mean, there are people, like Levin has his idea of the Article V Convention with the state legislatures convening a constitutional convention.<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great idea, but that\u2019s not gonna stop Obama next week from doing what he\u2019s doing. It\u2019s a great long-term solution, but I\u2019m looking at it in the context of how do you stop this? This guy\u2019s got three years here and he\u2019s openly taunting everybody. He\u2019s making the law up as he goes, whatever he wants it to be is what it is. The Democrats in Congress are in total support. Our Constitution doesn\u2019t matter. Anyway, they play this sound bite then they bring in Juan Williams to respond to it. And Martha MacCallum said, “So, Juan, what do you think of that?”<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: I can\u2019t even understand why Mr. Limbaugh\u2019s so upset, because when I look at the actual numbers, you see that President Obama has used an executive order to go around the Congress, I think it\u2019s less than half of the time of Bill Clinton, and just over half of the time of President George W. Bush. So it just doesn\u2019t make sense to me, I mean, unless you\u2019re trying to demonize President Obama and say he\u2019s lawless<\/a> and he\u2019s a bad guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How lame was that? Seriously. Juan, you know as well as anybody that nobody here is talking about executive orders. He\u2019s not using an executive order to change Obamacare every day. He wakes up and he decides he\u2019s going to delay the employer mandate for businesses up to 99 employees, between 50 and 99, for three years. He didn\u2019t even use an executive order. He just stood up and announced it. He may not even have announced it. They issued a statement, send Carney out there, whoever, to say it. He can\u2019t do it. The law is the law. He is fundamentally ignoring and altering the text of the law, and for the express benefit of himself and his party politically.<\/p>\n

I still have to tell you something about that. I hope I express this right. I think the motivation for Obama doing it, I\u2019m not that interested in it. It is the actual commission of the act that just floors me. I have never, in my life, had a president do what Obama\u2019s doing, repeatedly. Simply delay a portion of a law, or change a portion of a law, or add something to the law. Never seen it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen executive orders, but I\u2019ve never seen what Obama\u2019s doing. Now, the other half of it is the motivation, and this is what kind of surprises me. The inside-the-Beltway intelligentsia seems to be more upset at the motivation than the actual commission of the act. To me, the president arbitrarily delaying portions of a law is all I need to know it\u2019s not right. And it\u2019s not only not right, it\u2019s seriously wrong. It\u2019s institutionally threatening. I mean, it\u2019s really serious.<\/p>\n

The inside-the-Beltway crowd, though, seems to think that the reason Obama\u2019s doing is what makes it bad, and the reason he\u2019s doing it is to help himself politically. And I\u2019ve heard a number of the commentariat inside the Beltway say, “You know, that just isn\u2019t fair. You can\u2019t go changing a law to help yourself politically.” And I\u2019ve heard other intelligentsia members, “You know, when you put it like that, I totally agree with you.” Ron Fournier saw nothing wrong with what Obama was doing until Dr. Krauthammer pointed out to him, “But wait a minute, he\u2019s only doing this to help himself politically. If he wanted to help himself politically he should have to change policy or whatever and change the minds of the voters, but you can\u2019t just –” And Fournier, “You know what, when you put it that way, I agree with you.”<\/line><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m sitting here scratching my head, \u2019cause it sounds kind of sophomoric to me. What do you mean, it isn\u2019t fair to change the law to help yourself politically? Why does the motivation even matter? We have a president who\u2019s acting as though the Constitution doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s king. He\u2019s playing dictator. Now, granted the motivation\u2019s not good. I\u2019m not trying to diminish the motivation. I think the motivation adds to it, but if Obama were delaying the mandate for three years but not trying to help himself politically, would it be okay then? No. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not looking a gift horse in the mouth. I will take the inside-the-Beltway commentariat\u2019s opposition to this. The motivation is this little area of side interest to me.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, Juan Williams, in trying to defend this, “Well, look at the executive orders. I mean, Bush signed more.” This is not about executive orders, and they know. This is about the substance of what Obama is doing, and that\u2019s one of the lamest attempts at defending what Obama is doing and then to say it just doesn\u2019t make any sense unless you\u2019re trying to demonize Obama and say he\u2019s lawless, that he\u2019s a bad guy. I don\u2019t know why else you would say this, \u2019cause he\u2019s not doing any more executive orders than anybody else. This is not about executive orders. When\u2019s the last executive order Obama issued to change Obamacare? And how many waivers? There were 2,500 waivers.<\/p>\n