{"id":8946,"date":"2014-07-09T18:40:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:40:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-09T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:40:42","slug":"deranged_dingy_harry_vows_to_overturn_hobby_lobby_ruling_decided_by_five_white_men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/09\/deranged_dingy_harry_vows_to_overturn_hobby_lobby_ruling_decided_by_five_white_men\/","title":{"rendered":"Deranged Dingy Harry Vows to Overturn Hobby Lobby Ruling Decided by “Five White Men”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Dingy Harry and the Hobby Lobby<\/a>. Now, yesterday, I actually think — let me go out on a limb here. Well, actually it\u2019s not much of a limb. I think it needs to be seriously considered that Harry Reid is losing it, that he\u2019s not all there. This obsession he has with the Koch brothers alone should give everybody serious concern. He must mention these guys 250 times a week on the Senate floor. And they don\u2019t sponsor legislation. They contribute, they donate to causes. But he\u2019s obsessed with these two men. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s blamed the Koch brothers for climate change, for global warming. He tries to attach the Koch brothers to virtually everything that he thinks is wrong. The Hobby Lobby decision<\/a> also sent him off on a tirade that was practically incomprehensible, and yesterday in talking about it, Harry Reid actually said, “And we gotta do something about this Hobby Lobby legislation.” But it wasn\u2019t legislation; it was a Supreme Court decision. <\/p>\n

Now, I want to clear something up, because I\u2019ve had a lot of people e-mail me in reaction to what Dingy Harry said. The Congress can of course theoretically overturn a Supreme Court decision if the decision is involving legislation. Now, if the Supreme Court has a decision that is constitutional, there\u2019s nothing that Congress can do to override that without amending the Constitution. The Hobby Lobby case<\/a> was not a constitutional case. That was a case about a statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which we have discussed at great length here on this program. <\/line><\/p>\n

So the Senate, if they want, can go back and try to pass legislation that would require and start the process all over again. They can do that and Dingy Harry is promising to do it. Story here, there\u2019s a YouTube video and so forth: “Senate Democrats said they plan to unveil legislation in the coming weeks in response to the Supreme Court\u00c2\u2019s controversial ruling in the Hobby Lobby contraception case. ‘This Hobby Lobby decision is outrageous, and we\u00c2\u2019re going to do something about it,\u2019 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. ‘People are going to have to walk down here and vote, and if they vote with the five men on the Supreme Court, I think it\u00c2\u2019s — they\u00c2\u2019re going to have — be treated unfavorably come November with the elections.\u2019 Reid said the Senate needed to do something to ‘ensure that women\u00c2\u2019s lives are not determined by virtue of five white men.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, I think it is a serious thing to consider that he may be unbalanced, but that is a side issue. Where does a member of Congress get off threatening the justices of the Supreme Court, which is what he did yesterday. Now, Obama did the same thing. When he was worried that the Supreme Court might strike down Obamacare, he issued threats, and of course he insulted the Supreme Court during a State of the Union speech, ever since the Citizens United ruling. The left has become unhinged because of that ruling. <\/p>\n

But I want to credit ABC News here, because they picked up something that I wouldn\u2019t expect modern media to get. Harry Reid said, “The Senate needs to do something to ensure that women\u2019s lives are not determined by virtue of five white men.” ABC correctly points out here that Harry Reid\u2019s reference to five white men is incorrect. It was four white men and one African-American man. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I knew immediately when Dingy Harry said five white men he was off the reservation and wrong. But I didn\u2019t think ABC would pick up on it, but they did, I gotta give \u2019em credit. I mean, obviously you can\u2019t get anything past the reporters at ABC News. Oh. Oh. Speaking of that, and we\u2019ve got the sound bite coming up. After we on this program chastised ABC News for ignoring the story that their White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, uncovered at the White House press briefing with Josh Earnest, they ran that back-and-forth a day later. <\/p>\n

You remember Jonathan Karl had statistics from the LA Times that differed greatly with what the administration was saying about the numbers and circumstances of these undocumented kids. And Jonathan Karl, “Doesn\u2019t this LA Times story prove that you have been providing disinformation?” That tete-a-tete happened, but ABC News did not run it, and that\u2019s the kind of stuff that really happened to Sharyl Attkisson at CBS when she was reporting on Benghazi. <\/p>\n