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RUSH: Mitch McConnell has ruled out a government shutdown to block Obama immigration moves. Speaker Boehner said Thursday that Republicans could use a spending bill to block Obama\u2019s planned executive action to grant amnesty. Mitch McConnell ruled out a government shutdown over it, canceling the one major piece of leverage the GOP has in the fight. Let me tell you what this means, in the real world. <\/p>\n

All it means… That\u2019s not the right way to say it. What it means is that all Obama has to do is threaten a government shutdown, and apparently the Senate will cave on anything Obama wants. They can\u2019t shut down the government. Nope. They can\u2019t shut it down, because the people will hate them. The people that just elected them in droves will hate them. Yeah, because you know why? Because the people that just elected them want them to cooperate with the Democrats. <\/line><\/p>\n

The people that just elected them! This is what the Senate believes, that the people that just elected Republicans want them to work together with the Democrats. Boehner, to his credit, is out saying that they\u2019re going to do… He\u2019s saying that they\u2019re going to do everything they can to stop Obama\u2019s executive order on immigration. That is what they were elected to do. They were not elected to compromise. They were not elected to get along.<\/p>\n

I tell you, we talked yesterday about the old rules of politics and how they\u2019re out the door. Apparently the Senate has not modernized. The Senate still believes they were sent there to work together to compromise and to govern and work with the other side \u2019cause that\u2019s what the American people want, and Obama\u2019s gotta tack to the center. This is what losing elections mean and all that. “Pragmatism” is the new word being used to describe them. It\u2019s silly.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that a year ago, when we got to December, there was a so-called government shutdown. And I remember it vividly. The Democrats and the media were running around and they were tarring and feathering the Republicans. What an insensitive bunch of brutes. What a bunch of anti-poor people. What a bunch of anti-women. They shut the government down.<\/p>\n

The New York Times was running articles asking people to send in their hard-luck stories. “How has the government shutdown destroyed your life?” And Ted Cruz was getting blamed for it. Remember all that? Apparently it was so bad, the media coverage was so bad that Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans do not want to revisit, no way, no how. We\u2019re not gonna go there again. Look at how that hurt us. And that\u2019s when you stop and say, “Hurt you? Who just won in a landslide election?” If I\u2019m not mistaken it was the Republicans, those evil SOBs that shut down the government last December. They even called it the Ted Cruz shutdown. Remember this? <\/p>\n

The Republicans themselves were running around complaining and moaning about Ted Cruz, and the media was dumping all over Ted Cruz. The shutdown was horrible, and we\u2019re never gonna do that again. The media hates us. They\u2019re gonna destroy us. And yet, despite having shutdown the government — and it wasn\u2019t even a shutdown. That\u2019s another thing. How is refusing to fund Obama\u2019s unconstitutionality a shutdown of the government? What\u2019s worse? In the minds of the people who participated in this last election, what do you think is worse, Obama mocking the Constitution and transforming this country into something it was never intended to be, or the Republicans taking the money away from him so he can\u2019t do it? <\/p>\n

To listen to the Senate Republicans, you would think the people, “No, no, no, no. If it\u2019s a government shutdown or Obama transforming the country, let him transform the country. We do not want to suffer the humiliation and the media criticism ever again of shutting down the government.” Well, okay, fine. But if you\u2019re gonna tell everybody up front that you\u2019re not going to defund Obamacare bit by bit, if you\u2019re not gonna defund the areas of amnesty, immigration reform to stop him from doing it because people are gonna call that a government shutdown, then you\u2019re basically telling Obama he\u2019s got a free road, he\u2019s not gonna be stopped on anything. If they can call refusing to fund Obama\u2019s unconstitutional power grabs shutting down the government — it damn well needs to be shut down, if that\u2019s what it takes. <\/line><\/p>\n

The president of the United States is mocking the Constitution. In the process, he\u2019s transforming this country and changing it into something it was never intended to be and destroying a lot of hope and opportunity for Americans who live in this country, who were born in this country. This is outrageous. And if stopping that is called a government shutdown, then it seems to me that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s called for. But no, there\u2019s so much fear over what the media would say. Look at how bad it was last December. Right, people really remember.<\/p>\n

I guess a lot of people went to the polls on Tuesday, November 4th, and I guess even a lot more people would have voted Republican than did if it wouldn\u2019t have been for the shutdown. Why, they might have gained control of the whole the Senate if they hadn\u2019t shut down the government, right? No, it does tick me off. I don\u2019t get this use of terms anyway. Okay, so Obama wants to do some unconstitutional things on Obamacare and amnesty. The only recourse the Congress has is the power of the purse to pass legislation that does not grant him the money to do it. And then all of a sudden, that\u2019s called shutting down the government? <\/p>\n

So destroying the Constitution or shutting down the government, we\u2019re gonna put those two things on the scales, and we\u2019re gonna figure that the American people would rather have the Constitution destroyed and transformed, instead of the government shutdown? They might even call them racists, too. That would be really, really bad. Racists shutting down the government. Oh, yeah, we can\u2019t have that. We can\u2019t put up with that. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. So they\u2019ve taken impeachment off the table, and they\u2019ve taken this so-called government shutdown — why can\u2019t they just stand up and say it\u2019s not shutting down the government, it\u2019s saving the government. It\u2019s protecting this country as the way it was founded. Why can\u2019t somebody stand up and say what\u2019s really going on here? <\/p>\n

All right, let\u2019s hit the audio sound bites. We\u2019ll get to your phone calls. I wanted to get that in. Immigration I think is every bit as important as Obamacare stuff is. As I said yesterday, the thing about amnesty, it\u2019s not reversible. Obamacare, elements of it, still are. But once you announce that illegals are all of a sudden able to permanently stay here, I don\u2019t know how you reverse that. All this is is a Democrat voter registration drive, and the Republicans on their side, too, don\u2019t forget, Chamber of Commerce is lurking out there wanting all kinds of cheap labor. I wanted to get that mentioned lest any of you thought that it had escaped my notice today. Believe me, it hasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s John in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you. I just went through voting for all this to stop, and I thought it was just incredible that the people rose up and said, “Hey, you know what? This has got to stop.” But all\u2019s we\u2019re doing is finding out that it\u2019s gonna be circumvented and our voice doesn\u2019t really mean anything. Now that I hear that the Republicans are scared, it just kind of really hurts me.<\/p>\n

Because there were so many guys in landing craft, in Tarawa, in Omaha, at Normandy beaches and things that were going in scared. The only reason why they did it was for a piece of paper and for the guy on the left and the guy on the right of them, and they knew they had a job to do. That goes for Fredericksburg in the Civil War, going up Marye\u2019s Heights, or holding on to Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and at Wake Island holding out.<\/p>\n

Yes, and even for two guys who tried to help an ambassador at Benghazi.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re asking our representatives to stop this, and they don\u2019t have the guts to do it. Maybe they should go out on The Mall and take a look at those Marines holding that flag up on Suribachi and think about how many didn\u2019t make it to raise that flag and what it meant to all the rest of them to see that flag raised on Suribachi. We want this stopped, because sooner or later somebody\u2019s gonna come up with the idea to cross the Rubicon and go to rally point to stop it with other brave men.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I hear your frustration. Let me jump in here and explain this to those of you who just might be tuning in. My guess here is John is a little ticked off. There\u2019s a story in the Washington Times<\/a> today: “House Speaker John A. Boehner said Thursday that Republicans could use a spending bill to block President Obama\u00c2\u2019s planned executive action to grant work permits to illegal immigrants,” or amnesty, or blanket pardons.<\/line><\/p>\n

“[B]ut his Senate counterpart ruled out a government shutdown over it, canceling the one major piece of leverage the GOP has in the fight. ‘We\u2019ll not be shutting the government down or threatening to default on the national debt,\u2019 Sen. Mitch McConnell, the incoming majority leader, told reporters after meeting with his GOP colleagues, flatly ruling out an all-or-nothing showdown over Mr. Obama\u2019s plans.”<\/p>\n

Now, look, when you strip everything away, what that means is that all Obama has to do — or all the media even has to do — is threaten a government shutdown, and it looks like the Senate will not go any further. I must remind you, again: The Republicans, according to the media, shut down the government last December. Ted Cruz got raked over the coals for it, by Republicans!<\/p>\n

“Ted Cruz is evil! Ted Cruz is doing this! Ted Cruz is an embarrassment! Ted Cruz is killing us.”<\/p>\n

But the last thing I saw was the Republicans won a landslide election, even after so-called shutting down the government. What I don\u2019t understand — and I understand the Republicans all too well. I understand that they are total prisoners to what they think or fear the media might say about them, and some Republicans really believe that the meaning of this election was they were sent to compromise and get government working again. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t buy that they were sent there to stop Obama.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they say. Some of them don\u2019t think the country\u2019s in crisis, John, like you do and like most of us do. They just think politics-as-usual is going on here. They\u2019re governed by the old rules and rules of procedure, and they don\u2019t see what\u2019s going on. And the third thing, they think shutting down the government they\u2019re gonna get raked over the coals, they\u2019re gonna ruin their presidential chances in 2016, and they\u2019re gonna destroy everything they might try to do because the people of this country don\u2019t want their precious government shut down. <\/p>\n

What I don\u2019t understand is, how is it shutting down the government when you defund a little piece of Obamacare? How is it shutting down the government to not give Obama whatever money he needs to implement his amnesty? (interruption) Well, Obama will play hardball with them how? (interruption) “Well, they\u2019re gonna shut down the government. This is the first stage. I know they want to shut down the government.” <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not a government shutdown. (interruption) Well, Obama wouldn\u2019t say that, but the media would. “Oh, by the way, the president is black and the Republicans are racists.” So the political calculation is that they can\u2019t win doing any of this. (interruption) No, I don\u2019t recall the Democrats ever publicly removing weapons from their arsenal. I don\u2019t recall it ever happening. <\/p>\n

But this I think just illustrates — maybe it\u2019s not fear. I mean, I use the word “fear.” I assume that these Republicans are afraid of what the media\u2019s gonna say about them. Or their consultants are afraid and they tell the candidates and the senators that they ought to be afraid. But it\u2019s clear that they don\u2019t want that said about them. They don\u2019t want it said that they shut down the government, even though it was last December and they won anyway. So I remain perplexed about it. <\/p>\n

Now, Boehner is out saying, we\u2019ve got it on audiotape, it\u2019s coming up here, Boehner is out saying that they are going to do whatever it takes to stop Obama\u2019s amnesty or Obamacare, maybe both, or what have you. But the Senate, Senate leaders are not talking that way. In fact, many of them are out saying publicly that they think the election results are a signal from the American people that they want Washington to work again, and that means compromising with Obama. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m getting blue in the face explaining all this. <\/p>\n

You call here, and you express your anger, and I feel it and understand it, but beyond that, I don\u2019t know what to do. I don\u2019t know what to tell you to make you feel any better about it because your anger is justified. But the thing that we can always hold back or hold in reserve here is that so far all this is is just words. Nothing\u2019s really happened yet. Now, it may not be a great indication of what is going to happen, but still, it hasn\u2019t happened yet. And that always means there\u2019s hope. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s June in St. Simons Island. Great to have you on the EIB Network, June. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. This is exciting. I have to say, I can\u2019t imagine where this country would be without your insight and your courage. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Sometimes —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question. With all these people coming across the border, we hear that the Middle Easterners are coming as well and learning Spanish and getting in. I\u2019m wondering if you think Obama\u2019s amnesty will apply to those Middle Easterners coming across.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, by all means. It\u2019s gonna apply to everybody. It\u2019s gonna apply to Central Americans that are not from Mexico. Damn right it will be! They\u2019re all potential Democrat voters. They\u2019re not gonna cherry-pick these people and say, “Only if you are not from Mexico are we gonna let you come out of the shadows.” I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna have the ability to do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was wondering. Yep. Well, I guess we better brace ourselves for that part of it as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, whether they do amnesty or not, the bottom line is they\u2019re not securing the border. So even if they do their blanket pardon here, that\u2019s not gonna stop it. That\u2019s only gonna increase the flow across the border, which Obama and everybody on his side supporting this also knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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