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RUSH: Look, I ran into something over the weekend that I want to run by you very soon here after we get through with this segment and at the start the next segment. Everybody\u2019s trying to figure out, “Why in the world are the Republicans acting suicidal with this amnesty business?” Everybody. It doesn\u2019t make sense no matter how you slice it, unless the Republicans are trying to damage themselves. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the only way it makes sense. The only way a Republican push for amnesty and immediate citizenship and all that makes any sense is if, for example, they don\u2019t like the Tea Party<\/a> base and they\u2019re gonna do anything they can to anger them and get rid of them. So I ran across a theory that\u2019s being bandied about out there, and I\u2019m gonna run it by you, just to show you how wacko this is getting. <\/p>\n

One of the theories to explain what the Republicans are doing is they are nervous at the possibility, nervous at the prospect of winning the midterms in November in landslide. They don\u2019t want to win that big. There\u2019s too much pressure involved winning that big. So they\u2019re doing amnesty to anger a lot of their own voters to stay home so that they win narrowly and do not have a huge mandate.<\/p>\n

And, at the same time, they are trying to win an election without the Tea Party<\/a> to demonstrate that it can be done. That is a theory I ran into. Now, part of that theory makes some sense, but I have never heard that — and I don\u2019t know how you would do it in politics, in an election, structuring things so that you barely win it. I don\u2019t know how you would go about doing that. There are too many variables. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ll telling you, we\u2019ll get your phone calls in but I just wanted to tease you with the theory that I have run into explaining why the GOP leadership is pushing immigration reform, is because they don\u2019t want to win in a landslide. Apparently, the polling data is so bad for the Democrats in the midterms, and I think that\u2019s true, that the Republicans (so goes this theory) are afraid to win too big. I\u2019m gonna explain the theory to you.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me just get to this theory here. I\u2019ve teased you enough with this. Let me explain to you what this is. I\u2019m gonna give you the theory. There are many sources for this. I first came across this sometime during the day on Saturday. I\u2019m doing a little show prep, because I figure once Sunday and the Super Bowl<\/a> comes around, I\u2019m not gonna be doing any show prep. <\/p>\n

So I was getting some stuff done on Saturday, and I ran across, in a blog, a reference to some other blogger who thinks that the Republicans are doing what they\u2019re doing with immigration because they really don\u2019t want to win, or they don\u2019t want to win in a landslide. But the blogger that made that reference had no details. So I said, “What is this?” And I had to hunt it down.<\/p>\n

I had to start using search algorithms, and I came across a piece at RealClearPolitics by a young man named Sean Trende<\/a>, or pronounced Trende. It\u2019s the word “trend” with an E on the end. I\u2019ve not heard it pronounced so I don\u2019t know how he pronounces it. It\u2019s Trende or Trende or Trende. I hope I\u2019ve gotten it right in one of those attempts. He has a very, very lengthy piece at RealClearPolitics on this.<\/p>\n

Point five here is: “Republicans are afraid of winning.” I read this, and it dovetails with a couple\/maybe three other places. Here, in a nutshell, is the thinking — and the thinking, by the way, derives from people who can\u2019t make head nor tails of the Republican strategy. They think it makes so little sense that there\u2019s got to be some conspiratorial reason. There has to be some hidden reason that we wouldn\u2019t figure out immediately to explain this because it doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n

When, in fact, the simplest and most easily understood explanation is probably the reason. But since that\u2019s so unacceptable, people have had to search and come up with theories to explain this. And again, it\u2019s: Why are the Republicans committing suicide? Why are they advancing an issue that otherwise is dead? Why are they advancing an issue that the base of their party opposes virulently? <\/line><\/p>\n

Why are they advancing an issue that only 3% of the population deems important right now, given everything else going on? This is “amnesty” or “pathway to citizenship” or “comprehensive immigration reform.” Why are they doing it? The simple answer is that moneyed Republican donors, as epitomized by the Chamber of Commerce, are demanding it, and money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics.<\/p>\n

These donors are saying, “If you want our money — and further, if you want a high-paying job with my trade association when your career is over in Congress — then you\u2019ll give me this.” That\u2019s the simple explanation. They\u2019re simply responding to the money people. But that\u2019s not good enough for some. “It\u2019s got to be more. It can\u2019t be that. They wouldn\u2019t be willing to commit suicide.” <\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re not. The people who are gonna score with high-paying jobs after doing this are not committing suicide. They are, in effect, greasing the skids. The party ends up having suicide committed for it, but because the simple and most logical explanation doesn\u2019t fly, theories have been concocted to explain it. So here it is, the grandchild to 2010 big, Republican landslide win, brought on by who? The Tea Party.<\/p>\n

In 2010, the Tea Party comes to life outta nowhere. Nobody saw it when it was happening; nobody knew what it was. When it was growing, nobody knew how to define it because there wasn\u2019t a single leader. There wasn\u2019t a headquarters. There wasn\u2019t a policy statement, position paper, anything like that. It was just mom and pop showing up at town halls, and they were upset about Obama. <\/p>\n

They were upset about all of the spending, the stimulus bill and everything. They were upset about the rising level of debt, and what that meant for them and their kids and grandkids. They saw an unresponsive political class in Washington. They didn\u2019t see an opposition party in the Republican Party. They didn\u2019t see anybody trying to stop Obama. They saw a party paralyzed by media criticism. <\/p>\n

They saw a party paralyzed by the president\u2019s race. So they, for the first time in their lives, got involved in organizational politics — and, as a result, the Republicans picked up 50-some-odd seats when they weren\u2019t even trying to. A lot of those new seats were held by people from this new so-called Tea Party, and they were real conservative Republicans — and the Republican leadership, the Republican establishment was not happy, it turns out. <\/p>\n

I mean, they liked winning, htey liked getting the House back, but they didn\u2019t like the fact that the reason for it was the Tea Party. And the 2010 midterms, if you go back and look, happened not because the Republicans put forth any ideas. I mean, there wasn\u2019t a Contract with America people could vote for. There wasn\u2019t a single person on the ballot people could vote for. That was strictly an anti-status quo election. <\/p>\n

It was people voting. I mean, they were rising up in opposition to Barack. They were rising up in righteous anger to the Democrat Party. I should have seen then… Well, I did, but I should have put two and two together a lot faster. Here you have brand-new people in politics, never before involved in organizational. Yeah, they voted, but they hadn\u2019t participated in get-out-the-vote; they had not participated in voter-registration drives. <\/line><\/p>\n

They hadn\u2019t done anything but vote. <\/p>\n

Now, all of a sudden, they\u2019re organized. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a massive new bunch of people, and they exist solely because of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

It would seem to me an automatic match-up for these people with the Republican Party. And, therefore, it would make sense to me if the Republican Party began outreach to \u2019em. Try to bring \u2019em into the fold, make \u2019em Republicans. That didn\u2019t happen. In fact, just the opposite happened. As the Democrats mounted their criticism and began calling them “teabaggers,” the Republicans themselves expressed suspicion and consternation and anger with these people for one reason or another. <\/p>\n

So they remained isolated, even though they were the sole reason there was any pushback against Barack Obama. Well, the theory begins with the notion the Republicans do not want that happening again, because the Republicans are trying to get rid of the Tea Party influence within the party<\/a>, because the Tea Party doesn\u2019t understand the role of government in politics or in people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n

The Republican establishment right now happens to believe that the game is over in terms of Big Government being involved in people\u2019s lives. Some very astute — well, not astute. Some intellectual Republican theorists, commentators, writers, journalists really believe that the debate over big and small government is over and that Big Government has won. And they believe that the vast majority of the American people want a Big Government. Therefore, the Republican establishment believes that their future success is tied to convincing Americans who want an active, involved government, that they are better at running such a government than the Democrats are. <\/p>\n

But at no point and at no time are Republicans to talk about limiting government or reducing it because, standard operating procedure today, Republican establishment, Democrat establishment is that you and the low-information crowd and whoever else, Americans have accepted and want an actively involved Big Government in their lives. The Tea Party is devoted to the exact opposite premise. And therefore, the Tea Party is a problem. And so, therefore, are conservatives a problem, because conservatives and the Tea Party, to the extent that they differ, are now the old-fashioned fuddy-duddies, out of touch and out of tune with the mainstream of America. <\/line><\/p>\n

So goes the thinking. Which, again, has bought the notion that Americans, by large majorities, want an active, Big Government with a strong executive, but doing it smartly and wisely and with the proper respect on limits. That is how they\u2019re trying to differentiate themselves from the Democrats. So now if you come forward to 2014, the polling data is such — I mean, when Henry “Nostrilitis” Waxman announces his retirement, when Pelosi alludes to it and then has to call it back, which she did last week. “No, you misunderstood me. I\u2019m gonna be here,” she said. <\/p>\n

George Miller, another congressman from California who has been there since before the Sandinista days. George Miller was the Sandinistas\u2019 liaison in Congress. George Miller was the liaison for communists in Nicaragua — well, wherever he could find them. George Miller is resigning, and a bunch of Democrats who do not want to be in the House if they\u2019re not running it or retiring. So it tells us that the Democrats\u2019 own polling data is such that it\u2019s lost in 2014. The House, the Democrats don\u2019t have a prayer getting it back. In fact, the same polling data shows that the Republicans could win the Senate. <\/p>\n

But let\u2019s stick with the House because the theory is that it\u2019s so bad for the Democrats that the Republicans are again going to win by default simply because they\u2019re not the Democrats, because they didn\u2019t have anything to do with Obamacare, because they hold no responsibility for anything that\u2019s happened, because they just haven\u2019t. I mean, there\u2019s no way you can put Republican fingerprints on anything because the media has spent the last five or six years bashing the Republicans for not helping, for not doing anything constructive, and not helping the president. There\u2019s no way you can turn around now on a dime and do a 180 and blame any of this on the Republicans. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s tried to get their fingerprints on stuff with tricks, on debt ceiling increases and so forth, but there aren\u2019t any. Until you get to amnesty. And then that\u2019s being set up that if that happens, that\u2019s gonna be only the Republican\u2019s fingerprints. The only owners of it will be the Republicans. Now, theory holds that the Republicans were not happy with what happened in 2010 because of who made that majority possible, who made that landslide possible, and they don\u2019t want to go through it again. They\u2019re trying — you know this is true — Republican leadership is trying to get rid of Tea Party influence in the House, trying to get rid of conservative influence, trying to get rid of anybody who believes government should be limited. They\u2019re trying to get rid of anybody who believes the role of government should be rolled back. <\/line><\/p>\n

So reading now from Mr. Trende: “In the course of my musings on Twitter, AmishDude suggested that the real motive here is that the GOP leadership is actually concerned about the implications of a landslide. Of all the suggestions put out there, this seems to make the most sense, and synthesizes the above theories reasonably well while addressing most of my pushbacks on them. The idea is twofold. First, a landslide would present as much of a problem as it does an opportunity for those who might want to revisit the issue in 2015.”<\/p>\n

Oh, that\u2019s another thing. If there is a landslide for the Republicans brought on by the Tea Party in 2014, it\u2019s not good for people like Christie and others who want the Republican nomination in 2016. If the Tea Party delivers another landslide, then the Republican establishment is in deeper trouble when it comes to time to nominate their presidential candidate because the Tea Party is going to demand one of them, a conservative, limited government, roll it back. <\/p>\n

So the theory is the Republicans will do anything to limit the power and influence of the Tea Party, including championing an issue that\u2019s designed to make them so mad, they don\u2019t vote in 2014. And that the Republicans\u2019 position is so strong that they can still win the midterms while ticking off the Tea Party. The best of all worlds would be if the Republicans hold the House, minus Tea Party votes, by passing amnesty. They get their money from the Chamber. They get to say they\u2019ve run out and bridged the gap to the Hispanics, and they get their high paying jobs with the Chamber and its companies and related businesses when they retire, and the Tea Party has no influence in the win and therefore no influence when we get to 2016 and presidential nominee time. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I haven\u2019t finished in this theory business, and I\u2019m not gonna be able to in this segment, and I\u2019m gonna start taking phone calls before I wrap up the theory presentation, just because I don\u2019t want to lose the calls. They\u2019re good and people have been waiting for a long time and I\u2019ve gotta get it in. So just sit tight. There\u2019s not that much more to go on this. I mean, you basically heard everything except what I think of it. And one of the two glaring things wrong with it, who in the world ever plans to run a prevent offense? <\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of anybody trying to win a squeaker in politics? There\u2019s simply too much that cannot be accounted for. “Yeah, we want to win, but we don\u2019t want to win by 10 or 12 percent; we only want to win by two or three percent.” How do you do that? The second thing, you really gonna bank on the fact that polling data now shows you a landslide win and you\u2019re going to start implementing a policy that you know is going to cut the rug out of your support by 20 or 30%? You really gonna do that kind of thing? I don\u2019t know anybody who ever plans to win a political contest by a squeaker.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me just wrap up this theory bit \u2019cause it\u2019s not my theory, but a lot of people hold it because they\u2019re unable to look at what is probably the simple logical explanation and reject it because it\u2019s too simple and too logical. And the simple, logical explanation for why the Republicans are pushing amnesty is because their moneyed donors want it. <\/p>\n

Pop quiz. Mr. Snerdley, who said, “Money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics”? Who authored that phrase? It was Jesse Unruh in California. He was some head honcho. He was a honcho, not a governor. Willie Brown pronounced his name “Un-rah.” But he came up with it. Money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics, and there it is. The Chamber of Commerce, who may, in fact, have been infiltrated and taken over by the left, \u2019cause this is very un-Chamber-like. But we want it, we want it now, we\u2019re paying for it, here are the donations and you\u2019re not getting the money if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

And then, as Ann Coulter said, who is more likely to hire John Boehner at 400 grand a year when he leaves the Speakership, you or somebody at the Chamber of Commerce who\u2019s satisfied with amnesty? It\u2019s a question that she raised in trying to explain, \u2019cause it\u2019s party suicide, not to mention what it\u2019s gonna do to the country. If you want to find out what it\u2019s gonna do to the county, look at California. If you want to find out what it\u2019s gonna do to the Republican Party, look at California. <\/p>\n

There is no reason to do amnesty. You\u2019re not gonna get the Hispanic vote with it; the Democrats own that. The polling data shows these people do not believe in smaller government. There\u2019s no reason to do it, and yet they\u2019re hell-bent on it. So there must be something we don\u2019t know. And in servicing that, has arisen the theory, well, the Republicans really don\u2019t want to win in a landslide. They don\u2019t want the Tea Party to have any role in the 2014 victory where they might pick up the Senate and hold the House. <\/line><\/p>\n

So that theory is being bandied about out there and it\u2019s got some support. Now, my problem — (interruption) — well, yeah, but it makes sense that they would want to limit Tea Party influence. It makes sense they weren\u2019t happy with what happened in 2010. They didn\u2019t like the fact the Tea Party won, because it is established, folks. I wasn\u2019t trying to irritate or make you mad. I mean, fact of the matter is, at the Republican establishment level, party level, consultant level, in many Republican so-called conservative media level, it is now accepted that the people of this country want a Big Government, and therefore, the idea of a limited smaller government is a guaranteed loser.<\/p>\n

This is what the Republican establishment thinks, and this is one of the many reasons they want to get rid of the conservative influence in the party, because the conservative influence, of course, is defined by the limited role of government as defined in our founding. And that\u2019s not where the Republican establishment is now. Some of the gurus in the Republican Party firmly believe that the American people want an active executive, very engaged, like Obama, except smarter, with more respect for the private sector, and that\u2019s us, they say. We Republicans, we know how to do Big Government smarter, in less obtrusive ways, so here comes the Tea Party and conservatives say, “No, no, no, no. It\u2019s limited government, smaller government, get it out of our lives, and so they\u2019ve gotta go.” <\/p>\n

So any election where the Republicans win, if those limited government people have a role in the win, yeah, you could see the Republicans don\u2019t want that to happen. That makes sense. But this is essentially the prevent offense, where, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, we want to win but we\u2019re not gonna run up the score.” The problem is an election is not a game where you know how it\u2019s going in the middle of it and can make adjustments. And it\u2019s certainly not something that you can forecast in February or March and make policy based on, yeah, we know we\u2019re gonna win, but not by too much. And then, thirdly, I don\u2019t know anybody in politics who ever really plans to win a squeaker. <\/p>\n

The natural inclination in politics, win as big as you can. That\u2019s where you get your mandate. There\u2019s too much that can\u2019t be accounted for, and even if you could pull it off, where would they be? If they pulled this off, if they win getting amnesty, they\u2019re done. The same level of anger that\u2019s directed at them now will exist. In fact, it\u2019ll be worse. The day-to-day life of a Republican will be worse if they win while guaranteeing the Tea Party has no role in it. And I know they\u2019ve gotta be thinking about that. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ll tell you what I could believe, put it over here on a little island. I could believe, because I\u2019ve seen this — you know the old Pascal. It\u2019s easier to believe that something that has been can be again, than it is to believe that something has never been will be. Well, I have seen entities not care about winning. I\u2019ve seen it in sports teams. I have seen it in certain politicians. Some don\u2019t want to win. And I could believe that some of the Republicans don\u2019t care about winning. I don\u2019t believe they want to win small. I just think there\u2019s some that are indifferent about winning \u2019cause it\u2019s harder. When you win, you\u2019ve got pressure. When you win, you have to be aggressive and do things. When you win, the people that voted for you expect you to carry out the mandate. And that\u2019s hard. <\/p>\n

“The media\u2019s gonna criticize us and they\u2019re gonna call us bigots and racists and, oh, man, we don\u2019t want that.” <\/p>\n

I wonder if the Broncos last night were trying to win, but not by too much. That makes no sense, right? It\u2019s like, yeah, the Seahawks, they wanted to win, but they didn\u2019t want to trounce them that bad. It just doesn\u2019t make any sense, does it? So why would it make sense in politics? But somebody not wanting to win is an entire — for some of them, it\u2019s comfortable. You go back to the old Bob Michel days. They were comfortable in the minority. There was no pressure. They could never be blamed for anything that went wrong. It was a safety net, in a way, and it was a low-pressure existence, and they didn\u2019t have to do any work. They didn\u2019t even go to half the meetings \u2019cause the Democrats wouldn\u2019t let \u2019em in, and that was okay, too. Back when we had 135 members in the 435-seat House. That\u2019s just recently as 1987, \u201988. <\/p>\n

So you can certainly see where some RINO Republican types would be saying “Yeah, okay, we\u2019re gonna do some things that are gonna tick off the base, might cause us to lose, but so what. The media might love us then. The media might love us if we bleed all over the Tea Party. The media might actually love us if we kick the Tea Party around.” And believe me, they want to be loved by the media. Oh, folks, do not doubt that for a moment. Oh, could I give you some lessons in this, just with news events that happened over the weekend that had nothing to do with politics. Just do not doubt me. They would love to be loved by the media. They would love to be able to go, for example, to the White House Correspondents Dinner and be heroes, or be popular at the White House, rather than, “Oh, no, here come the Republicans,” and everybody starts making jokes about \u2019em. They love to be loved by the media. <\/p>\n

So if they can secure a defeat by killing the Tea Party off, they might be heroes. Any number of possibilities for believing that, but I don\u2019t think anybody ever plans to win — but not by too much. So I don\u2019t think there\u2019s some diabolical plan here. I just think it\u2019s run-of-the-mill indifference by people who are worn out. They\u2019re tired of being ripped and criticized. They just are, and they want to get some praise from the people ripping \u2019em to shreds. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care about being ripped by the Tea Party \u2019cause they don\u2019t particularly like the Tea Party anyway. They would love to be loved by the media. (Donna Summer: Love to Love You, Baby.) Well, John Boehner and the media, “Love to have you love me, Baby.” Don\u2019t doubt me on this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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