{"id":10150,"date":"2014-02-14T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-14T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:00:13","slug":"what_elected_officials_beg_me_not_to_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/14\/what_elected_officials_beg_me_not_to_say\/","title":{"rendered":"What Elected Officials Beg Me Not to Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: John in Miami. You\u2019re next, Open Line Friday, great to have you. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Seventy-two degree-clear blue sky dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Same here, man. Same here. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So while I was on hold, I developed a name for the theory that I have, and it\u2019s the “What are you gonna do about it?” theory that the administration has, and it goes something like this. The obvious answer that I see to a tyrannical dictator running the country and changing the laws, is the courts. That would seem to be… It would seem to me that every company that didn\u2019t get special dispensation by the administration would then have standing to challenge the favors that are being granted to everybody else.<\/p>\n

<\/a>In other words, the companies under a hundred. So why, then, aren\u2019t people pursuing action against illegal activity? I think the answer is easy. Companies that have a hundred people or more are run by not reckless managers who have better things to do than pick a fight with the government, who will then audit them, inspect them, what have you. So that\u2019s the “What are you gonna do about it?” theory. How did I do?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if I understand you correctly, one of the problems with going to court, if you\u2019re one of these businesses that you would say has standing, that\u2019s being irreparably harmed or harmed greatly by what Obama is doing… I guess my answer is the biggest reason they don\u2019t is they\u2019re afraid. It\u2019s fear. Everybody\u2019s afraid of this guy. Everybody. The Republicans inside the Beltway are petrified. They\u2019re petrified of Obama. They\u2019re petrified of the media.<\/p>\n

Way too many people, if you asked me, are afraid of the media and afraid of Obama, and the fear of Obama is racial. They\u2019re just scared to death of being called racists, and that may sound simplistic, but I beg you to not discount it. You\u2019ll never have any of \u2019em admit it, by the way. They won\u2019t even go so far as to admit it. But it\u2019s abject fear of being called a racist, and then there\u2019s the real fear of suing. Even if you are granted standing, you can\u2019t compete with the money the Department of Justice has in defending the president.<\/p>\n

You just can\u2019t. They will take your company and bury it. So the prevailing attitude becomes one of survival. Let\u2019s try to weather this and let\u2019s hope other aspects of our system deal with this. Let\u2019s hope the political system deals with it, or maybe other areas or the judiciary. Maybe the state legislatures will at some point get serious with an Article V constitutional convention. But it\u2019s fear, and Obama\u2019s well aware of the paralysis that people have and he takes advantage of it fully.<\/p>\n