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RUSH: Now, we opened yesterday talking about Syria, and I\u2019m not gonna spend much more time on it. I do want to share with you a fascinating quote. To me, this is really fascinating. It\u2019s not surprising, but to have it said is momentous. I didn\u2019t see this on TV. I didn\u2019t have the TV on last night. I was reading John Fund today at National Review Online<\/a>, and the title of his piece is, “The World Turned Upside Down, Indeed.” His point here is about Obama and the Democrats ignoring Congress, in whatever they do with Syria. <\/p>\n

Of course, it points out the obvious hypocrisy. <\/p>\n

Back in 2002 and 2003, the Democrats were demanding that Bush go through Congress, demanding that Bush go through the United Nations, demanding that there be a coalition.<\/p>\n

(interruption) Oh; is that right? Obama is expected to speak at three o\u2019clock, is that right? (interruption) Well, what a strange coincidence. Holy cow! Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at three o\u2019clock this afternoon. What happens at three o\u2019clock, folks? This program ends. Somebody\u2019s not speaking at three o\u2019clock, and that would be me. Unbelievable. I thought that Obama would like kick off at one o\u2019clock or something like that. But, no, Obama\u2019s at three o\u2019clock. <\/p>\n

How about that, folks? <\/p>\n

Many people wonder what it\u2019s like to be me. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

Anyway, John Fund at National Review writes about all the hypocrisy going on. Of course, everybody says, “There\u2019s no hypocrisy. Don\u2019t worry about that. That was then; this is now. Obama didn\u2019t know what he was doing, didn\u2019t know the way of the world back then. But now he does, Rush! Now he\u2019s learned. Now it\u2019s serious. When he was criticizing Bush, Obama didn\u2019t know how the world worked.<\/p>\n

“He didn\u2019t know the Middle East was a bunch of bad guys. He didn\u2019t know that Al-Qaeda was a bunch of bad guys. He didn\u2019t know all these various actors, groups, countries and their hatred for the US. You don\u2019t understand it, Rush.” Right. Okay. Fund says he appeared last night with Lou Dobbs, Fox Business Network. Also on the show was Mary Anne Marsh. Mary Anne Marsh is from Boston. She\u2019s “a Democratic consultant whose clients have included the late Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, our current secretary of state.”<\/p>\n

She showed up, as every Democrat on every cable TV show does, “Armed with the latest Democratic talking points, she dismissed any need for Obama to consult with what she dismissed as ‘a special Congress.\u2019 Here\u2019s her full quote: “There is a special Congress that we\u00c2\u2019re dealing with right now that has the lowest popularity rating in history and Republicans who overwhelmingly would oppose taking any action. The president of the United States cannot be handcuffed by the same Republicans that are holding the rest of the country hostage on every other issue. That is wrong.”<\/p>\n

So what she was saying is (translated), “Well, the reason Obama doesn\u2019t go to Congress is because the Republicans run it, and the Republicans are illegitimate. The Republicans, nobody should have to deal with them.<\/line><\/p>\n

I mean this is the same bunch of Republicans that are holding the rest of the country hostage on every other issue, like Obamacare. I mean, why should the president have to deal with Congress?<\/p>\n

“The Constitution doesn\u2019t matter. The Republicans have become so illegitimate that the president of the United States and the Democrat Party are almost required to ignore them because they\u2019re Republicans. But the Republicans running the House of Representatives, the Republicans controlling it delegitimizes the Congress. The Republicans dominating the House of Representatives means that the House of Representatives is not legit. It\u2019s unjust.”<\/p>\n

What this means is that the attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans (it\u2019s really simplistic here), they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they\u2019re so bigoted, they\u2019re just such reprobates that we can\u2019t afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what\u2019s happening. Now, I tell you why this is a big deal to me. I know it\u2019s a talking point, but they believe this stuff, and the Republicans in Congress had better wake up and understand.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Republican leadership is doing everything it can to forge friendships with these people. The Republican leadership is doing everything it can to agree with the Democrats on everything the Democrats want, and look what it\u2019s getting them! This is some of the most profound disrespect I have ever seen. This is worse than the way the Republicans were treated and viewed when Bob Michel <\/a>was the House Republican leader in the wilderness years, the 40 years that the Democrats controlled the House prior to 1994. <\/p>\n

She said, “There is a special Congress that we\u00c2\u2019re dealing with right now that has the lowest popularity rating in history and Republicans who overwhelmingly would oppose taking any action.” We should we go to them? The Republicans disagree with us! Why should we go to them? We\u2019re gonna do what we want to do! We don\u2019t want to deal with people that can stop us. The Constitution doesn\u2019t matter, Lou. We want to do what we want to do! We\u2019re gonna do what we\u2019re gonna do, and the Republicans would stop us. <\/p>\n

Well, why are we gonna put up with it with them!<\/p>\n

And then unstated is: What are they gonna do about it? <\/p>\n

And the answer is: Come out even more so in favor of amnesty.<\/p>\n

So every effort the Republicans make to be liked, every effort they make to be supportive of what the Democrats want, they\u2019re looked at as insects. They\u2019re no different than an anthill to be avoided when you\u2019re walking down the sidewalk. In fact, it\u2019s not an anthill. It\u2019s a pile of dog manure. The Democrats are walking down the street, there\u2019s a pile of dog manure, and it\u2019s the Republicans. Why do we want to go through that? We\u2019ll just sidestep it to get where we\u2019re going!<\/p>\n

Come on, Lou. She says, “There is a special Congress that we\u00c2\u2019re dealing with right now that has the lowest popularity rating in history and Republicans who overwhelmingly would oppose,” what we want to do. “The president of the United States cannot be handcuffed by the same Republicans that are holding the rest of the country hostage on every other issue,” and she says it with impunity. She says it on Fox without any fear that the audience is gonna understand and reject it. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s basically saying: “When we want to do what we want to do, there may as well not be a Congress. We don\u2019t have to deal with \u2019em.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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