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RUSH: Now, folks, there\u2019s all kinds of news out there that has nothing to do with Supreme Court decisions last week<\/a>. There\u2019s plenty of it, and it involves electoral politics, Hillary Clinton, Algore, some other stuff out there as well. However, I do want to spend just a little bit of time here kind of… I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s closing the loop on everything. It\u2019s just that I\u2019ve had an entire weekend now to actually dig into this and figure out what actually happened and, as best I can, determine how and why it happened. <\/p>\n

These things are of interest to me, and I do not think that these battles, these arguments, these political fights are anywhere near over. I kind of get a little irritated when I read comments from others who seem to indicate that they are. It manifests itself in a whole bunch of different ways. Like there is ongoing brand-new pressure of an age-old topic. “You Republicans, do you realize the great benefit you\u2019ve been handed here?”<\/p>\n

Some Republicans are saying this as well. “Do you realize the golden opportunity this Supreme Court ruling gave you? Now you\u2019ve got this off the table! It\u2019s a done deal. So just get off of this social issues stuff. You just got to drop the social issues.” That pressure point has been ratcheted up again, and there is something concomitant with it. You may have had heard two or three Republican presidential candidates say, “Hey, you know, I fought the good fight like everybody else did.<\/p>\n

“But the court has spoken, and gay marriage is now the law of the land, and we must move on. We must drop it.” That is an out, I think. I think that\u2019s an excuse. That\u2019s an excuse for somebody who\u2019s really telling you they don\u2019t want the fight. And that\u2019s not what we need, folks. I\u2019m telling you, going into 2016 and beyond, we don\u2019t want and don\u2019t need people who are not willing to fight and stand up for what we believe in, stand up for the founding of this country. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s now the law of the land” is an out. <\/p>\n

Well, 20 minutes ago and 6,000 years ago, the opposite was the law of the land. Did the Democrats accept it? Did the gay activists accept it? No. They didn\u2019t accept “the law of the land.” They\u2019re not accepting anything that is the law of the land. They\u2019re not accepting very much that is traditional. They\u2019re not accepting very much that\u2019s institutional. There\u2019s an all-out assault and attack on everything, and specifically now religious liberty. Make no mistake about this. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll get into this in due course as the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

We telegraph that we just accept. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I told you the prominent Republican last week talking to me said, “You know, Rush, elections have consequences.” <\/p>\n

“What does that mean?” <\/p>\n

“Well, they won the election. They get to do what they want.” <\/p>\n

“When\u2019s the last time you ever heard a Democrat say ‘Ah, Republicans won. Elections have consequences. We\u2019re not gonna fight their court nominees\u2019?” <\/p>\n

This is not good. This is not healthy. It\u2019s a way out. And this whole “social issue” thing, here\u2019s the bottom line. Look, at the risk of incurring the wrath of people on the own side of the aisle here, the simple fact of the matter is the Republican Party is not going to win another presidential election if it has as part of its official platform and behavioral characteristic the open disavowing of its voters who care about quote\/unquote “social issues.” There\u2019s simply too many of them. <\/p>\n

If they abandon the party or sit home and don\u2019t vote, it\u2019s over. The Republicans aren\u2019t gonna win diddly-squat without them. They may not like hearing it. They may not like it, period. But it\u2019s the lay of the land and it\u2019s the fact of the matter. But the real key here — and this is a difference, I think in going on offense and staying on defense and being willing to stay on defense. Staying on defense, that\u2019s the easy road to take. Going on offense? Man, now, that\u2019s rolling up your shirt sleeves and that\u2019s gearing for battle and that\u2019s making a commitment, and that\u2019s hard. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the law of the land now. It\u2019s just the social issues we\u2019re getting. The fact of the matter is the entire time I do on this program is 26 years or so, 27, whatever it is… You know, we\u2019re coming up on an anniversary. It\u2019s gonna be 27, I think, on August 1st. Anyway, for the whole period of time what do we do? We get up every day and we see something that we cherish — either a person, an institution, a tradition, something — under assault, full frontal assault. So our posture each and every day, including social issues.<\/p>\n

Our posture each and every day is defense. We haven\u2019t had the chance to move the ball forward. We\u2019re defending an all-out assault on everything, I mean everything we hold dear. We haven\u2019t had a chance to actually move the ball forward. Well, we have. We just haven\u2019t availed ourselves of the opportunity. We have had the White House for eight years in this decade, but the fact of the matter is that the social issues are in play because the Democrats put them there, not us. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Michael in Tallahassee, Florida, it\u2019s great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network, and thank you for calling. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Conservatives should emulate the Supreme Court<\/a> and conservatives should use the same method of reading the Supreme Court ruling<\/a> as the Supreme Court uses to reading the Constitution or laws. So the Supreme Court adds things to laws or the Constitution or deletes things that they don\u2019t like. So why can\u2019t conservatives say that they hail the Supreme Court rulings because the Supreme Court struck down subsidies for people in states that don\u2019t have exchanges, or the Supreme Court upheld traditional marriage and denied gay marriage being legal. So why can\u2019t we do that \u2019cause words don\u2019t mean anything anymore?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I get your point, and I want to make your point the following way. I want to explain. My friend Andy McCarthy had a piece Saturday morning that ran on the Web at National Review Online. If I may paraphrase, his point was that the Supreme Court has abandoned law as a manner of rendering its decisions, and it has become essentially a political branch of government. And he makes the very good point. In all of these Supreme Court cases…<\/p>\n

In every damn one of them — I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s gay marriage or if it\u2019s the Affordable Care Act, or if it\u2019s anything — there is never, ever any doubt whatsoever how the four liberal justices are going to vote. You have Breyer, you have Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg, you have Sotomayor, and you have Elena Kagan. You\u2019ve got three women and Breyer in there. That block, there is never any doubt: They are there to advance the Democrat Party agenda. They are there to advance the leftist agenda. <\/p>\n

There is never, ever any question in the media or anywhere else about how they\u2019re gonna come down on any issue. But on the other side, you can\u2019t guarantee where Scalia and Thomas and Alito and Roberts are gonna fall, nor Kennedy. Kennedy and Roberts I think go back and forth, happily being the perceived as swing votes. But in the case-of-all five of those justices, they\u2019re worked on by the media every case that matters. They either have puff pieces written about them or they have scathing, critical pieces written about \u2019em. <\/p>\n

The other four are ignored.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question what they\u2019re gonna do. <\/p>\n

Given that, this court\u2019s not even a court. It\u2019s just a branch office — half of it\u2019s a branch office — of the Democrat Party. And so the question then becomes: “How do we deal with and react to and treat these decisions on high from this place?” Because they have purposefully and willingly assumed this lofty position where they\u2019re going to decide political questions, not legal. And believe me, that is one of the reasons so many people who study this and follow it are really worried, angry, upset, what have you. <\/p>\n

Because we\u2019re not getting the law out of these people. We\u2019re getting politics. As designed, by the way, by the left. This is exactly… They\u2019ve corrupted as much of the judiciary as they can by putting fellow traveler politicians on courts as judges. Well, they were judges to begin with, but they\u2019re political hacks first and judges second. And they\u2019re all over the federal bench — both at the district level and the appellate level — and they end up on the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

So this was a political question. This case should have been rejected. A Supreme Court that deals with constitutionality and the law would look at this and say, “This is not a question for us. This a question for the American people. Marriage has always been the purview of the states. We\u2019re not gonna supersede that! It\u2019s not our job to take that over. We have no business deciding this.” That\u2019s the legal analysis of this. <\/p>\n

But that would not sit well with the Democrat Party and the leftists, because the court is supposed to be a branch of the Democrat Party where the stamp of finality is to be placed on political issues. That\u2019s why I\u2019ll tell you something. When I hear Republicans say, “Well, okay, that ends that because that\u2019s now the law of the land.” No, it\u2019s not! It was the political decision of the time made by the court. It\u2019s not the law of the land. I mean, it is the law of the land, but the correct reaction to something like that is, if you\u2019re running for president:<\/p>\n

“Elect me so I can put people on this court are gonna go back to judging the law and not imposing their own personal political views on us.” That\u2019s the answer. Somebody comes along and says, “Well, you know, this is the law of the land! I think we\u2019ve just gotta move on.” Do you ever hear the left say, when they lose a decision, “Well, that\u2019s the law of the land”? When they lose a decision, they start attacking everybody! <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying emulate them in the way they go about personally destroying people. The point is, when it comes their political agenda, anything and everything goes. And if we\u2019re not on even the same playing field, it\u2019s all academic. Let me give you… Grab audio sound bite number one. I have a little montage here from Friday and Saturday of people on… Let\u2019s see. I guess this is basically people on Fox, various programs on Fox, analyzing the Supreme Court decision here.<\/p>\n

CHRIS WALLACE: While conservatives clearly lost in both cases, some people are arguing they\u2019re in fact in better shape politically going forward.<\/line><\/p>\n

CHARLES LANE: You know who should be happy about this? Republicans?<\/p>\n

KATHLEEN PARKER: A gift to the GOP. Both of these things. Take the pressure off.<\/p>\n

NEWT GINGRICH: The Obamacare decision was probably a great boon to Republicans.<\/p>\n

PEGGY NOONAN: We know where public opinion is and where it is going. So are Republicans going to go off chasing a rabbit they\u2019ll never be able to catch?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you think the meaning of all that is? We\u2019re told we won! How did we win? How do we win? “Because we\u2019ve lost another couple of issues, but they\u2019re ‘taken off the table.\u2019 We don\u2019t have to embarrass ourselves fighting for \u2019em anymore, so we\u2019ve won.” Don\u2019t you like that? We\u2019re in the midst of losing big time and here come these learned analysts telling us, “No, no, no! You\u2019re winning.” How are we winning? “Because you\u2019re not gonna embarrass yourself anymore trying to go after issues that nobody likes. “<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to believe. <\/p>\n

Pardon me, but I opt out of that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, folks, it was Peggy Noonan in this sound bite that I played who said, “We know where public opinion is and where it is going. So are Republicans going to go off chasing a rabbit they\u2019ll never be able to catch?” She was talking about gay marriage there because everybody knows polling on health care… There\u2019s never been a majority in favor of Obamacare; there isn\u2019t now. By the way, Paul Ryan.. I better get to this other stuff out there. Paul Ryan is out there saying that Obamacare is gonna collapse of its own weight or some such thing. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna implode on itself \u2019cause it cannot possibly sustain itself, but Peggy Noonan\u2019s quote from what… These people, it\u2019s the same old thing. You got a controversial issue. “Oh, no! We\u2019ll only lose! Just thank God for the court taking it off the table. We don\u2019t have to argue.” These are all Republicans who think social issues are killing them. But what it represents, folks, is a lack of motivation to fight for what they believe in, if they believe it. That\u2019s all these quotes really mean. “It\u2019s a gift to the Republican Party. Now the issues are gone! You don\u2019t have to embarrass me anymore by having idiots in our party make cases out of these issues.” <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me give you another example before we move on to the other news of the day out there. I put the other news of the day in a Stack where I can find… Yes! It\u2019s an example about how the court is purely political, and particularly the four justices on the left. And, by the way, look, I probably shouldn\u2019t say this, which (chuckling) is the recipe why I say it. Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, these are the four justices. The first two are political appointments. I mean, they are there for the assured liberal vote. <\/p>\n

The left engages in litmus tests when they come up to nominating judges and they only care about one thing: “Is this person a reliable vote on our politics?” That\u2019s it. Now, they will mask that and disguise that during confirmation hearings and all that, and they\u2019ll go through the motions of making it look like the jurist is eminently qualified, has the perfect judicial temperament (and all that rotgut). But the bottom line is you\u2019ve got these four — Breyer, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan — and they are rubber stamps of the Democrat Party agenda. <\/p>\n

Kennedy, it is thought, can be made into one with a puff piece profile in either the New York Times or Washington Post a couple\/three weeks prior to a decision. That\u2019s what they think in the media. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s true or not. That\u2019s what the media thinks, and therefore that\u2019s how they act. I\u2019ll give you another example, a perfect example of how political these judges on the Supreme Court are. Remember the DOMA case, the Defense of Marriage Act? That was titled, “US v. Windsor.” <\/p>\n

It was just two years ago. I doubt that people remember this, which is why I, El Rushbo, am going to remind you. The very same five justices — Kennedy (who, again, wrote the opinion), joined by Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. All the same people, the same group of five, wrote that, quote, “Regulation of domestic relations, including marriage, is an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the states,” close quote. <\/line><\/p>\n

So, when the left\u2019s agenda is to invalidate a federal law protecting marriage, these five say, “You can\u2019t do that! It\u2019s a state issue.” Remember, they ruled DOMA unconstitutional. They struck it. DOMA is the Defense of Marriage Act, and it was the way supporters of traditional marriage — and I resent that we have to put “traditional” in front of the word in order to have people know what we\u2019re talking about. Marriage used to be marriage. Just like water is water, and just like paper\u2019s paper. Marriage was what it is.<\/p>\n

But now we have traditional marriage, heterosexual marriage, gay marriage. It needs all these qualifiers because it\u2019s been obliterated. Anyway, DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act, was a way that the forces for traditional marriage sought to defend it. So the Feds came along and Democrats came along; they want to obliterate it. They wanted to tear down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. Obama hated it, by the way. A bunch of leftists hated it.<\/p>\n

In fact, even before this happened, if you\u2019ll recall, Obama, with great fanfare, announced that his Regime was going to stop defending it in court. The United States Department of Justice was no longer even going to defend DOMA cases. So when the left wanted to get rid of — when they wanted to invalidate — a federal law that protected marriage, these same five judges unified and said that the law was invalid because marriage “has always been a virtually exclusive province of the states.” <\/p>\n

Now when the left\u2019s agenda is to invalidate state laws protecting marriage which two years ago they said are exclusively the province of the state, the same five say, “You can\u2019t do that! This is a federal issue.” That, my friends, is not law. The law answers that question one way or the other, but not both. Only in politics can you take completely inconsistent positions if that\u2019s what it takes to promote your agenda. <\/p>\n

So the route to gay marriage first required getting rid of the Defense of Marriage Act. The same five judges came along and claimed that it was unconstitutional because marriage is exclusively the province of the states, and there was never any legitimacy to the Defense of Marriage Act, and they struck it down. That was Act One. Here comes the gay marriage case, and they strike down their own reasoning from two years ago. Two years ago they say, “Marriage? The states virtually control it!” <\/p>\n

Friday they said, “The states have nothing to do with it; we do. And we find that marriage can be any two people seeking happiness. In fact, love. Oh, yes!” Kennedy actually wrote that love\u2019s a right or some such thing close to it. Now, that\u2019s politics is how that happens. That\u2019s not the law. I mean, if the states… If the Supreme Court, the final arbiter of law, says that the states are the exclusive province of marriage, and then two years come along and forget they said that and take over the whole concept of marriage for the purposes of redefining it, that\u2019s not the law, folks. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s silly to analyze it as law. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s another mistake some of our wizards of smart make. We have a lot of smart people, and they really like being smart, and they really like showing how smart they are. As such, they easily are taken off track because they don\u2019t like to intermingle the two, law and political. They want to remain pure. Doesn\u2019t matter. The left already did that long ago. So the left is now claiming essentially with this decision that their politics has become law. And of course, by the same token, ours isn\u2019t law. Ours is criminal. <\/p>\n

The same bunch of people are trying to criminalize conservative policy and belief. And that\u2019s been going on awhile, too. The law is supposed to be principled. The law is supposed to be consistent. But politics is not. Politics is rough and ready and it doesn\u2019t have to be principled at all. We want it to be. We wish it was. But it doesn\u2019t have to be. The law is an entirely different thing, and it\u2019s in the process (like everything the left touches) of being totally corrupted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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