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RUSH: Here\u2019s Rick, Fort Myers, Florida. Great to have you with us on the phone today, sir. How you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. You know the phone thing, I\u2019m sure that your phone\u2019s better than the Obama phone, but, anyway, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no comparison.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah. You know, anyway, I would put yours on the wall under a frame, you know, up in the living room. But, anyway, isn\u2019t sexual harassment a type of intimidation? So if sexual harassment —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s exactly what it is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. So if sexual harassment is a type of intimidation, that means that the left has been holding the women down breaking through the glass ceiling, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No question about it. Wait a minute. Hold it a minute now. It kind of works in the opposite way as far as the women are concerned. The women think they have to shut up if they\u2019re gonna have a chance at advancement.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And one more thing, you know, Chuck Todd — F. Chuck Todd you call him — a few months ago said that Hillary had the thumb on the scales when she was running for office against Bernie. So they already knew. I mean, the press already knew that they\u2019re in for Hillary, and so the thing is I think we need to scrutinize about them is, “What\u00a0did they know and when did they know it” about all these things? You know, they need to be held accountable for this stuff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Democrats are not interested in holding them accountable. It\u2019s their deal. The Democrats didn\u2019t even want the FBI to examine their server. The whole point of all this has been to cover up the rigging of that primary. In politics, the Democrat Party can do what they want to do, and it\u2019s so-called nobody else\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

Where it becomes other people\u2019s business is you inform the American people and Democrat voters that their primary was rigged, and then they supposedly are supposed to take care of it with their votes and their donations the next time around. When did they know and when did they know it, I mean, it\u2019s been widely known what Hillary Clinton was doing with Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz in terms of rigging that primary. Anyway, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

T.J. in Athens, Georgia, you\u2019re next. Great to have you, sir. How you doing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a pleasure to talk with you, Rush, and I want to wish you and your staff a very Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, T.J., I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said something the other day about Elizabeth Warren and the CFPD.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: The consumer organization. And looking back — I am so sick of the Clintons, I just can\u2019t say it. Since she did the Stand by Your Man interview on CBS years ago, it\u2019s just, how do they get away with this? And I was connecting the dots given your comment about Warren, since she was showing up on the campaign trail last year with Clinton so many times, and I think, if they are laundering money to the liberal causes, they really expected her to win. And what was really bothering me is that I think the connection or the dot connection was she\u2019s going to win automatically, and they\u2019ll just funnel all that money through that CFPD. And I just wanted to run that by you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they\u2019ve already been doing that. That was the whole reason the thing was set up. What we\u2019re talking about here is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It was an offshoot of Dodd-Frank. Dodd-Frank was a piece of legislation that came out of the financial crisis in 2008 designed, as they said, to protect consumers from, once again, predatory lenders and banks, and blah, and the banks had only become predatory lenders \u2019cause the government demanded that they loan money to people that couldn\u2019t pay it back. That\u2019s the subprime mortgage crisis.<\/p>\n

As an adjunct to Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but there\u2019s a twist. It was set up as an autonomous agency and it was signed into law by Obama which is how it passed the unconstitutionality of it. It was signed into law by Obama. It is not funded by appropriation from Congress, which is what makes it unconstitutional. It is funded from the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n

In addition, it has its own leader, its own president or head — I forget what the title is, executive director, whatever this case the most recent was Richard Cordray. And what this actually was, it had a twofold real purpose. The stated public purpose was that this agency was going to safeguard the little guy. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was gonna make sure that predatory lenders didn\u2019t screw you, didn\u2019t take advantage of you, didn\u2019t overcharge you interest rates, didn\u2019t deny you loans, you know, all of this stuff.<\/p>\n

It was typical caca from the Democrat Party. What it really was: a pass-through. It was a way to get money to left-wing special interest causes. The way it did it was via fines. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had the authority to fine lending institutions, financial institutions for improper behavior. And so let\u2019s make something up. Let\u2019s say they want to fine Wells Fargo because Wells Fargo did something that they disapprove of and they fine Wells Fargo a million dollars. Wells Fargo will pay it rather than fight it. It\u2019s part of the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n

Remember, the CFPD is not accountable to Congress, it\u2019s not funded with taxpayer money. It\u2019s funded through the Federal Reserve. So it\u2019s, therefore, independent. They took that million dollars, for example, and would give it out to Planned Parenthood or would give half of it to a global warming special interest or a climate change special interest, or what you have you, a union. And this happened with all the fines that were levied. It was the purpose. It was the unstated purpose. It was a funding mechanism for left-wing special interest causes.<\/p>\n

\"\"In addition to that, it served as a money laundering pass-through because some of these fines, as they were collected and run through the CPFB, then ended up in places other than left-wing special interest causes, and the money had to be cleaned, and it had to appear to be legitimate when it was redirected.<\/p>\n

So the controversy now is Cordray, current executive director, is leaving. And according to Pocahontas, the president doesn\u2019t have any authority in naming his successor. He does. Richard Cordray, a nobody, a chump change employee, does not have, because of something called the Federal Succession Act, he does not have the constitutional authority to name his successor. Only the president does, because even though this thing was set up as an independent agency, it\u2019s still in the executive branch.<\/p>\n

And so the fight now is Cordray wanted to name his deputy, Leandra English. And the reason is they want to make sure this thing operates as it has been even though Trump is president. They want to be able to fine lending institutions and take that money and give it to left-wing special interest causes, or even individuals. Well, when Cordray announced he\u2019s leaving, Trump moves in and says (imitating Trump), “Sorry, I\u2019m putting Mick Mulvaney over there. You don\u2019t have the right to name your successor. I\u2019m putting Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget in there,” and he\u2019s in there, and it went to court.<\/p>\n

The libs tried to take this to court, and the judge told Cordray, “You don\u2019t have the right to name your successor. You don\u2019t have the constitutional right. You have no authority whatsoever. You\u2019re a chump change employee.” The libs and Pocahontas set this thing up, what they thought would be acting in perpetuity unaccountable to anybody. And the idea was that even if a Republican was elected president, he wouldn\u2019t be able to touch it.<\/p>\n

Well, Trump said, “Really? You don\u2019t think I can touch it? Watch this.” And Mick Mulvaney is now in charge. And the reason they are bleeding like stuck bigs is because Mulvaney is gonna find out exactly everything that\u2019s been going on there and is gonna expose it. And the thing that was set up ostensibly to protect consumers and the little guy from these horrible, mean financial corporations, the American people are gonna learn that the Democrat Party was using this as an adjunct personal piggy bank, a way to get private sector money funneled to left-wing special interest causes. That was not taxpayer money. It came from the Federal Reserve, but it\u2019s the fine money.<\/p>\n

This is a classic example of the left\u2019s real intent for wanting control of government. It has nothing to do with protecting consumers. It has nothing to do with making sure the little guy\u2019s protected. It\u2019s all about the left being able to reach out and put their hands on somebody else\u2019s money with the power to fine them and then take that money and essentially give it to themselves, give it to their own operatives advancing their agenda.<\/p>\n

I have to take a break. Ponder that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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