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RUSH: Julie in Riverside, California. I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re up first. Welcome to the program today. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Worked up, ticked off, but I\u2019m here, I\u2019m fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just like the rest of America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I called was because I had the opportunity this morning to read the opinion in the case on the amnesty, Judge Hanen\u2019s opinion. I\u2019m an attorney and I\u2019ve been practicing law for more than 30 years representing governmental agencies. And I wanted to say, first of all, that the opinion is extraordinarily well written. Judge Hanen does not get into the politics of any of this. He sticks strictly to the law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He uses Obama\u2019s own words on him, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He does indeed, and what a joy that was to see. But the bigger thing is that with the actual politics of it in Congress, I\u2019m very concerned that if Congress actually funds these activities that the president has enacted —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on a minute. Don\u2019t hang up here, Julie<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Back to Julie in Riverside, California. I\u2019m sorry to have to interrupt you like that. I knew you were getting into a groove, but we just simply ran into a hard break and I couldn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that\u2019s just fine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Pick up where you left off. You liked the judge\u2019s ruling. You thought it was very substantive. It wasn\u2019t political; it actually used some of Obama\u2019s own language and turned it back against him. So what do you think\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, one of the things I\u2019m concerned about is the idea of Congress funding the very activities that the court has put on hold, because what the court said is in order to prove that this is basically an amendment of the law, you have to show that the Congress opposes it, that there is opposition there. And if there is instead endorsement by funding, it seems to me that undermines the whole purpose of the preliminary injunction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that may be true. I don\u2019t think that… Congress is not even in session right now. They don\u2019t get back \u2019til the 23rd from the “ski vacation weekend break,” otherwise known as “President\u2019s Weekend.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Therefore they can\u2019t do anything \u2019til they get back on Monday. Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit may rule on this this afternoon. Or if not today, then prior to the 23rd on Monday when Congress gets back. But I still get your point. If Congress —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, the pressure is on. I don\u2019t know if you heard me say, but the pressure in Washington is on. The media is now saying to the Republicans, “Hey, look, the judge has done your work for you! You can throw away that House bill, and write a whole new Department of Homeland Security bill that totally funds it because the judge has taken care of it. You don\u2019t have to play around like this,” and the pressure is now on the Republicans to do just that.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and as I said, that was the motivation for my call is that that kind of pressure, in fact, is a means of getting endorsements, and therefore affecting the judicial outcome. But, of course, if they\u2019re not there to do it — and they can\u2019t do it until after there\u2019s a ruling — maybe that\u2019s something else. But I fully would expect it to go not only on a preliminary injunction. But ultimately, of course, it\u2019s gonna be ruled on by this judge on the merits and then go to appeal and probably to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Again, if you have congressional funding of the very activities that are in question during that time it seems to me that\u2019s congressional endorsement of the action.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are saying that would undercut the judge?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And his ruling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019d undercut the judge, who\u2019s gonna defer to Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As we\u2019d hope the president might (laughing), as a regular president would have. But ultimately, you know, these are legislative decisions, and if the legislature starts taking steps that support the action that\u2019s been taken, it seems to me that that\u2019s consent too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, according to that analysis you would be right. I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s gonna happen here before this is all adjudicated. The higher courts have often disqualified what\u2019s gone on in lower courts by claiming that the people that brought the action didn\u2019t have standing in the first place. This is one of the most favored ways a lazy court or a politically oriented court can defeat a case.<\/p>\n

“Oh, you don\u2019t have standing. You\u2019re not qualified to even bring this suit. I don\u2019t know how you got this far, but we\u2019re not taking the case \u2019cause you don\u2019t have any standing,” and they throw it out, which has happened, I think, in a couple of Obamacare cases. But I know that\u2019s not your point. That\u2019s just the next phase of this that\u2019s possible once the Fifth Circuit comes to, and the Supreme Court comes to the Fifth Circuit and decides what all\u2019s gone on.<\/p>\n

Because there\u2019s egos in all these courts, and the people on the higher courts want to be the final authority on these things. They don\u2019t want to have to sit there and affirm what happened in the lower court. That\u2019s not always the case, but in many cases, it is. My gut feeling on this is kind of tough, because, see, the blaring reality here is that inside the Washington Beltway, the Washington establishment wants amnesty — and they\u2019re going to get it one way or the other.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna stop \u2019til they get it.<\/p>\n

By the way, let\u2019s say that every court rules against Obama. Well, as far as he\u2019s concerned, so what? He\u2019s already behaved in numerous ways the Constitution does not permit or allow. He\u2019s already engaged in behavior outside the Constitution. So if he gets a ruling here that ultimately he doesn\u2019t like, so what? Or as John F. Kerry would say, “So F-ing what?” (Well, he said, “Big F-ing deal;” it\u2019s the same thing here.)<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s clear. You know it and I know it: The inside-the-Beltway establishment wants this. They want amnesty. The question is: Is the Supreme Court part of that inside-the-Beltway establishment, and do they want Obamacare? I mean, experience guided by intelligence, what did the Supreme Court do the first opportunity they had with Obamacare? (chuckles) They rewrote it to make it constitutional.<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What are you…?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

See? (sigh) Okay, Snerdley, I love your optimism. I really do. Sometimes I share it.<\/p>\n

Snerdley said, “But isn\u2019t that part of the thinking, why the Supreme Court took this next Obamacare case on the subsidies is to make up for the mistake they made the first time around?” I don\u2019t know that that is how they look at it. Let me ask you this. Let\u2019s go to the National Football League. Do you think that the referees in the Super Bowl did or did not make calls against the Seattle Seahawks to make up for mistakes a previous officiating crew made in a prior game?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Well then why do you think the court does? Why do you…?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

But what does politics have to do with it? A court would correct something by saying, “Okay, we\u2019re gonna take this next case \u2019cause we know here we blew it the first time”? They didn\u2019t blow it; the chief did. The chief blew it. So you\u2019re saying the chief wants this second case on subsidies to make up for his glaring mistake the first time around?<\/line>Is that your hope or is that what you\u2019ve heard the “intelligenciata” inside the Beltway talking about?<\/line><\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

“Both.” Okay.<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not saying that the court isn\u2019t gone rule the right way on it. I\u2019m not sure the courts take cases on that basis. “You know what? We goofed up the first time; we better take this case so we can fix it.” I don\u2019t think these people\u2019s egos ever, ever allow them to think they goofed something up. Speaking of this (chuckling), have you seen the story coming out of Hollywood that it\u2019s maids and household staff ultimately are voting? There are 6,000 voting members of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Science.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a critic out there, Barry Norman, who just wrote a piece claiming that many of these Academy voters are elderly, and they don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t want to watch these movies. They let their maids or the butlers or whoever vote. They trust \u2019em. They make them watch them and then tell them what they thought of it, and that\u2019s how they vote. Now, admittedly, this is a critic writing about what goes on with the voters in the Academy.<\/p>\n

But it has cast a little bit of a pall over the whole thing, \u2019cause the Academy Awards are thought of as more important than any Supreme Court ruling, in many people\u2019s world, and to find out the voting might be corrupt? And then, of course, the jokes are going around, “Well, what? Do they send these movies over to the staff subtitled in Spanish?” So that joke is going around. “If the staff is gonna vote, can they even understand the dialogue?<\/line><\/p>\n

“Do they send subtitles in Spanish over for \u2019em on these screeners?” So, anyway, I know the only reason I thought of that is because the operative theory here, the court took the Obamacare case on subsidies as an student to make up for their mistake the first time around. We shall see. We shall see. But I guarantee you, if that\u2019s the reason they took it, we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n

Nobody is gonna ever say that. They are never, never gonna admit that they got it wrong the first time around! I mean, not publicly. It will never become part of the record. You might be able to get John Riggins to take a justice out and get her drunk and have her admit the truth. But I don\u2019t think, other than that, you\u2019re gonna find out anything super earth-shattering.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: RUSH: Roger in Fallbrook, California. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Listen, why is not this Homeland Security bill, since it\u2019s funding bill, subject to the reconciliation process, which would preclude any filibuster?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, why is it not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, why is it not being done that way? Is it just that the Republicans just won\u2019t do it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. That would be a strategy that they could employ, and they choose not to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but isn\u2019t that the whole purpose of reconciliation, is for budget bills?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s the only place it can be used, yeah, but it\u2019s not automatic. It\u2019s an option that they can use, and if they choose not to — it\u2019s not something that happens automatically.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. But they just don\u2019t want to do it, huh?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. In fact, that\u2019s how Obamacare got passed, reconciliation —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I remember that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was considered an end run.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, okay, I guess we just have to sit back and accept that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, look. I\u2019m not wanting to say this. I\u2019m trying to hold back here. Your question and a couple other calls today, what they point out is — I mean, you\u2019ve got a tool, I mentioned one, they could employ the filibuster or take the filibuster away like Harry Reid did. They\u2019re not doing any of that. What\u2019s the conclusion?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they just don\u2019t want to do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t want to fight it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that opens the question, why not? Well, we think we have the answer to that, too. I think they\u2019re afraid of the media still, and I think there may be a serious number of open borders people in the Senate, in the Republican Party, that want this. We know that\u2019s the case. We know that their donors want it. We know the Chamber of Commerce, everybody giving money to Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce and its affiliates wants amnesty. They want this bunch of people amnestied and they want \u2019em available for work, legally.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, then you\u2019re saying they couldn\u2019t even get 51 votes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they could. The purpose of withdrawing the filibuster would be to eliminate the importance of the Democrat votes. The Democrats are able to stop this by requiring 60 votes, and the Republicans don\u2019t have 60.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. But if they invoke the reconciliation process, they would only need 51.<\/p>\n

RUSH: True.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you\u2019re saying they probably won\u2019t even get that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s up for grabs. I don\u2019t really know. Mitch McConnell would know, and his whip would know if there are 51 votes for it. See, right now, when they know it\u2019s not going to pass, there are a whole bunch of Republicans that could vote for it for appearance sake, if they know it isn\u2019t gonna pass, but if reconciliation is used, you only need 51 votes, why, that puts pressure on people to maybe vote honestly, and that might turn them into “no” votes. We just don\u2019t know. What we do know is that the options available don\u2019t seem to be interesting to them. Draw your own conclusion.<\/p>\n

BREAK TANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, budget reconciliation pretty much a moot point anyway once the Republicans decided to go ahead and fund the government all the way through next September, when they did that with the Democrats last December. Made it harder to do reconciliation.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Debbie in Naples, Florida, great to have you on the EIB Network, the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m smug over here in Naples, too. Beautiful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I was just there last week.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a beautiful town. I like where you live, too. Anyway, I have a question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m hoping you can answer this \u2019cause I\u2019m usually pretty good at figuring things out. I\u2019ve been a student of yours for many, many years, but this one eludes me. Why would the Chamber of Commerce, and in their capacity as representing businesses, be interested in legalizing all the illegals that are here and then subjecting all these businesses to having to comply with all the laws that apply to legal workers? It makes no sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it does, from —<\/p>\n

CALLER: How?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — their standpoint. The Chamber of Commerce, what is the Chamber of Commerce? It\u2019s just a representative of member businesses. So it\u2019s not an ad hoc, independent group. It\u2019s a group of people who represent businesses, businessmen, businesswomen, business owners. It\u2019s all about cheap labor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But isn\u2019t it going to become more expensive when they\u2019re required to pay workers\u2019 compensation, comply with overtime and wage laws, pay for health insurance, Social Security tax and all of the other things that go along with employing people legally?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, because you\u2019re basing that on they get \u2019em really cheap now but when they become citizens or green cards —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — they\u2019re gonna cost even more.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not that many are being hired right now, and certainly most of them who are are in the dark, and they\u2019re being paid under the table. What isn\u2019t gonna change is that they\u2019re going to remain low skill, and they\u2019re going to remain poorly educated, so even if they are legalized, get amnesty, they aren\u2019t going to command huge wages, because their abilities aren\u2019t there. These are people to fill grunt work that these businesses claim many Americans won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, so can I ask you another question?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure, fire away. I got about one minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, following up on that then, wouldn\u2019t at that point, because there have been studies done that show that low skill jobs don\u2019t pay as much as simply getting things from the government. What incentive would there be for those people then to stay in these low skill, low paying jobs when they can just go on the government dole —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s what many of us happen to believe is gonna be the end result.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So how is this in the interest of business that the Chamber —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re smart. Don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that the Chamber of Commerce is populated by smart people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I can see they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, people labor under the misconception that all of these special interest groups are populated by really brilliant, smarter-than-the-rest-of-us people. And they\u2019re not. One thing they\u2019re missing, they have no ideology, so they wouldn\u2019t understand what you just said. That hasn\u2019t computed with them yet. Those are good questions, and I\u2019m glad you called, Debbie. Really appreciate it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You might want to try to make the case that the Chamber of Commerce has been taken over by the left. It\u2019s not the total explanation, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there have been some inroads there, like any other number of institutions the left has corrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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