{"id":10179,"date":"2014-02-12T18:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-12T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:36:27","slug":"how_far_can_obama_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/12\/how_far_can_obama_go\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Can Obama Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: So what do we do? What do we do? I pride myself as one who will always have at least an answer — and, in many cases, I, your beloved host, will have THE answer. But on this, we have something that I certainly have not seen in my lifetime. I\u2019m fairly confident in saying, we haven\u2019t seen this ever. Our system is broken. It is severely broken. When a president can defy the law over and over and over again, without any of the other federal branches acting to stop it, it\u2019s unprecedented. <\/p>\n

Every time the president breaks a law, he\u2019s violating not just the law, but separation of powers. Every time the president violates the law, he\u2019s thumbing his nose at Congress. Now, admittedly, the House of Representatives (part of Congress) is run by Republicans, so I\u2019m sure he enjoys that, and I\u2019m sure in private — may not even be in private anymore — the Democrats are getting the biggest yuk in the world out of thumbing their nose at Boehner and the Republicans and doing all of this lawlessness, and nobody\u2019s stopping \u2019em. <\/line><\/p>\n

And then that idiot, Sheila Jackson Lee<\/a>, stands up and says that their job is now to write executive orders for Obama to sign. Not pass legislation, but to write executive orders — and that got a standing ovation, by the way, when Obama basically said that\u2019s what he\u2019s gonna do. If Congress doesn\u2019t do what he wants, he\u2019s gonna do it himself, and the Democrats gave him a standing ovation. The Democrats in the House who he was basically telling, “Screw you!” said, “Fine, give us more.” <\/p>\n

The party unity and the solidarity on the left is such that they don\u2019t care. They got their big dog in the White House, and if he wants to do what they want to do, they don\u2019t care. “Fine. Go to it, dude! We don\u2019t need the credit. We don\u2019t need to be involved. Just go do what we want to do and we\u2019ll be happy. To hell with this separation of powers stuff!” I can remember in my lifetime some of the most interesting, vicious battles in our government were fought over separation of powers. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just gonna tell you this” If we reverse this, if you put a Republican president behaving this way with a Democrat Congress, they wouldn\u2019t be afraid of any skin color he might have. They wouldn\u2019t be afraid of impeaching him. They would be on TV every day. They would cast this guy… I mean, if they could tar and feather Ken Starr as a sexual pervert, they\u2019ll stop at nothing to criminalize their opponents. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way that Tom Foley, Jim Wright, “Mr. Sam” Rayburn, Carl Albert, any of these old speakers of the House would put up with anything like this, and they shouldn\u2019t have. Separation of powers is crucial. Over here\u2019s the legislative branch, over here is the judicial branch, and they\u2019re not doing anything. They\u2019re not doing diddly-squat. The Supreme Court\u2019s silting over there watching everything they\u2019re doing being mocked and made fun of and laughed at, and they\u2019re just out giving speeches talking about how much worse it\u2019s gonna get. <\/p>\n

Scalia was in Hawaii the other day making a speech, and he said, “Hey, if you think that our government can\u2019t intern political prisoners again like they did the Japanese in World War II, you better think again, because it is gonna happen again.” So we\u2019ve got an associate justice of the Supreme Court<\/a> predicting this, not necessarily about Obama. He was speaking about the direction the country is going in general. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Hey, the idea that some administration\u2019s gonna target political prisoners and intern them? Hell, yes, it\u2019ll happen again. Don\u2019t fool yourself into thinking it won\u2019t.” The natural proclivity of people with power is to try to acquire more. That\u2019s, again, where the rule of law comes into play. But, folks, this is massively broken. You know, we sit here and we say, “Well, who\u2019s gonna stop it?” <\/p>\n

It really is up to the other branches of government to stand up when their power is being usurped, when they are, in essence, being violated. But nobody in Congress is. The Democrats in Congress love it. The Republicans in Congress are paralyzed. The Republicans in Congress must think that the American people are perfectly fine with Obama breaking the law or doing anything — and if anybody criticizes him, why, they\u2019re gonna be made to pay at the next election.<\/p>\n

I sit here, and I wonder if this mess… We\u2019re so broken. I wonder if winning another election fixes this. It has to help, but this is really dire circumstances because everybody is sitting there saying, “Well, why doesn\u2019t somebody do something?” and nobody that I know thinks they can do anything, and you don\u2019t see a popular uprising among the people. So it\u2019s just day in and day out, with every transgression, ignored.<\/p>\n

What if Obama decides, because of “income inequality,” that he wants to raise taxes on people that make $200,000 a year to 80%? “Come on, Rush, he\u2019d never do that?” Why? Who is gonna stop him? He can order the IRS to tell businesses they\u2019ll punish them if they say a word about him and his health care plan when they make staffing decisions. Everybody now knows the IRS was sicked on the Tea Party, and there hasn\u2019t been any punishment whatsoever.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been any retribution for that. So if you think Obama… I\u2019ll do a little Scalia on you. If you think Obama can\u2019t just call the IRS and say, “Okay, look, it\u2019s 80% on all income over 200 grand,” you\u2019re wrong — and I guarantee you, the mayor of New York would applaud. The mayor of New York would applaud; the Democrats in Congress would applaud. Nobody on the left or on the Democrat side would have any problem with this at all. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even sure that you\u2019d have any leftists in the media upset with this. I think it\u2019s so bad that Obama could, if he wanted to, say, “You know what? I\u2019m canceling freedom of the press and the First Amendment,” and they\u2019d probably applaud that. You think that may be a bit of a stretch, but the overwhelming idolatry that the supporters of Obama have is that way. He does not have majority support of the American people for any of this, but the majority of the American people don\u2019t appear to have any representation. <\/p>\n

And not just Republicans in Congress, but anywhere, in the judicial branch, which the left increasingly owns, and elsewhere in the legislative branch. If he\u2019s just gonna continue to usurp their power and they\u2019re not going to do anything other than remain frozen in place and allow it to happen, what\u2019s to stop him. Let me see if I could come up with something that would make you say, “No, no, no, no, Rush. Never, never.” <\/p>\n

What if we get to 2016 and Obama says, “You know what? I like being president. I\u2019m not leaving. I still have to implement Obamacare. I\u2019ve still got to fix the deficit. I\u2019ve gotta still fix my job situation and get this economy going. I\u2019m not ready to leave yet. We\u2019re gonna delay the 2016 presidential election for a couple years.” What happens then, if we get three more years of this kind of stuff? the exercise here is come up with something that he would do that somebody in official Washington — legislative branch, judicial branch — would stand up and say, “No, you\u2019re not.”<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb here. I fully expect the 2014 midterms to be a wave election like 2010. I think the people of this country are gonna sweep Democrats out of office every chance they get, every opportunity they get — and I think there\u2019s plenty of evidence for it right now. You don\u2019t have Henry Waxman and these people retiring unless they know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re in the swan\u2019s song portion of their lives anyway. Waxman, he doesn\u2019t want to be a member of a minority in the House of Representatives where basically all they\u2019re doing is writing executive orders for Obama with Sheila Jackson Lee. These people don\u2019t want to be in the minority. It\u2019s no fun. If a guy like Waxman\u2019s gonna quit… Believe me, this is all he knows. He doesn\u2019t play golf. He doesn\u2019t play shuffleboard. He uses nasal spray, but that\u2019s about it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing else. If he\u2019s getting out, they\u2019ve got polling data. But here\u2019s the thing — and I\u2019m not trying to jinx anything. I think this is setting up every bit as big as 2010, if not bigger. The Tea Party, the American people are livid by what\u2019s going on how they are. I mean, nobody on our side is uninformed or unprepared or not aware of what\u2019s going on. They\u2019re beside themselves. They don\u2019t know what to do. <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t believe that nobody\u2019s standing up opposing this. They can\u2019t believe the people whose power is being stolen are not standing up and trying to get it back. Judges, legislative branch, judicial branch. So they\u2019re gonna do all they know how to do, and they\u2019re gonna turn out and they\u2019re gonna vote in November. Now, let\u2019s just say I\u2019m right. You hear Obama saying, “I cannot leave the country in the hands of these Republicans, if the Republicans win the Senate and hold on to the House with even bigger majority.”<\/p>\n

I can just hear Obama in two years, “I cannot leave the country in the hands of these people. I just refuse to do it! These are racists, sexists, biggest, homophobes, whatever. They hate women. They want to deny you your right to kill your baby — abortion — and I can\u2019t allow that to happen. They don\u2019t want you to get your birth control pills. They don\u2019t want you screwing… They don\u2019t want you making love with people you don\u2019t know. <\/line><\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t permit this.” I\u2019m just saying, conjure up here a circumstance. It\u2019s kind of like the minimum wage. “Let\u2019s make it $35.” “Fine. How about $40?” “All right, now we\u2019re talking.” “How about 50 bucks?” “No, wait. That\u2019s too much.” I\u2019m trying to get to the point where somebody would say, “Nah, he\u2019ll never do that.” (interruption) You think that\u2019s it? You don\u2019t think he\u2019d suspend the 2016 election? You don\u2019t? (interruption) Okay. Fine. <\/p>\n

Pensacola, Florida. Let\u2019s go to the phones. Mike, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much, sir — and with all sincerity, let me tell you what an honor it is to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. I really do. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this is difficult for me to say, because this is just not the way that I think, but I really believe that it is time for peaceful civil disobedience. We need some businesses that have courage like Hobby Lobby that will stand up and say, “We will not abide by your edict. You don\u2019t have the authority to tell us to do this.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. See, it\u2019s easy for you to say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Please, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not being critical. It\u2019s easy for you to say, “Hey, Hobby Lobby, stand up and take \u2019em on for me! Hey, stand up!” It\u2019s easy for people to ask other people to do their bidding. But as far as I\u2019m concerned, Hobby Lobby did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They did, and look what\u2019s happening. The Tea Party? Look what happened to the Tea Party. We\u2019ve had a popular uprising, it\u2019s called the Tea Party, and look what happened. They got crushed by the IRS.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s gonna have to be somebody that\u2019s willing to go all the way to court with it and take the fight right back to Obama. He\u2019s like the schoolyard bully, until enough people stand up to him and face him down. Our Republicans in Washington should be doing it. They should, every one of them, be on the Capitol steps en masse saying, “We will not stand for this.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: For some reason, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I have my devil\u2019s advocate cap on. A couple of Republicans did that — actually, three. One was named Sarah Palin, one was named Ted Cruz, and the other one was named Mike Lee. And what happened to them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you. The dirty little secret is — and it\u2019s not a secret to you, I know. There\u2019s too many Republicans who kind of like the idea of Obamacare. They really kind of like the idea maybe that power will be theirs one day, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there is that aspect, not so much liking Obamacare as liking the concept of a Big Government that they someday might be in charge of. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Mike. Thanks much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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