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RUSH: Jacksonville, Florida, and this is James. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Two reasons why it\u2019s critical for America that we go through the impeachment process. First reason is, the IRS profiling of conservatives and Christians was intentional voter suppression, and that\u2019s a constitutional legacy for our kids. It\u2019s something we inherited, and it\u2019s something we owe to our children. But, Rush, the second most important reason is, Obama left two SEALs to die in the dirt in Benghazi. And they were sitting there for six hours. There was military that was ready, willing, and able to rescue them, and they didn\u2019t. And, Rush, if we don\u2019t at least go through this process for America of impeachment, we\u2019re really leaving them to die in the dirt also.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me play devil\u2019s advocate with you for a moment, because I understand what you\u2019re saying. We have got to take action that alerts and advises the American people what\u2019s gone on, and we must plant the flag. You\u2019re essentially asking us to plant the flag and say, “This who we are, this what we stand for, and this what America is,” right?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On the other side of this, I want your thoughts on this. I\u2019ll just ask. On the other side of this, out there we have low-information voters. We have white voters laden with guilt who support Obama and will never not support him simply because he\u2019s the first African-American president. In the process, the Democrats see all of this, and they label the Republicans as all these horrible, rotten names, mean-spirited. They can\u2019t win in the arena of ideas so they gotta go out and try to get rid of our poor great young president. What do you think the political ramifications for opposition politicians to Obama and the Democrat Party would be if this were to happen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I would defer to our leadership, the Republican leadership, as to whether they do it, you know, whether this is before or after the reaction, but, Rush, we can\u2019t go quietly into the night here. I mean, what happened to our guys in Benghazi has gotta be answered and to put up with the response of, “What difference does it make?” It makes a huge difference. And, you know, Rush? We may not win this fight. It may be that the House impeaches him and he gets off in the Senate, which is what happened with President Clinton, but we got to go through the process. It\u2019s more about us as Americans than it is about Obama. We\u2019ve got to go through this process.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, without saying yes or no, up or down, pro or con, I just want to tell you that in terms of a wild guess as to whether or not this would happen, the Republicans think that they are still paying the price for impeaching Clinton. They think they are still paying a political price. And if you want to understand, for example, why — Lindsey Graham, do you remember him? He was one of the House managers who presented one of the cases against Clinton in the trial, in the Senate. And look what\u2019s happened to him as a result? He has done everything he can to erase everybody\u2019s memory of that. <\/p>\n

The Republicans think that the budget battle of \u201995 and the impeachment of Clinton, because they — now, in fairness, all of the optics in the impeachment of Clinton, the whole thing was misplayed, and the people, the low-information crowd, the voters literally thought that the Republicans sought to impeach Clinton \u2019cause he had sex with Lewinsky, and that\u2019s not what it was about. It was about a sitting president lying under oath during grand jury testimony. Arguably the nation\u2019s number one law enforcement official. The president of the United States lying under oath, he was disbarred. He was sanctioned for this. But the impeachment was thought to be because he was getting Lewinskyed in the Oval Office. And there aren\u2019t too many Americans who think they should lose their jobs for that, so why should Clinton? <\/line><\/p>\n

Any impeachment that occurs is gonna have to be correctly stated. It\u2019s an interesting thought. I know what you\u2019re saying. We gotta plant the flag. America and what it stands for and what we\u2019re devoted to has got to be stated, particularly in these times. We can\u2019t just —<\/p>\n

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No. I know what he\u2019s saying. Look, we can\u2019t just not do this or not do that \u2019cause the low-information voters aren\u2019t gonna understand it. We can\u2019t do this or can\u2019t do that because of political ramifications. There are certain things that triumph or that rise above politics. That\u2019s what the caller is saying. But remember, he also deferred to the leadership when it comes time to the rubber hitting the road, “Well, leave it up to the leadership to figure out how to do it.” Well, it ain\u2019t happening if you\u2019re doing that. They didn\u2019t call witnesses. They weren\u2019t serious about it at all during the Clinton impeachment. They went through the process for the exact purpose the caller is suggesting, by the way.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned Liz Sidoti, the AP political editor. “With Big Promises Often Come Big Failures.” This is a piece on Obama and the trouble that he\u2019s in. For AP, it is a hard-hitting Obama column. “If he can\u2019t convince the American people that they can trust him, he could end up damaging the legacy he has worked so hard to control and shape — and be remembered, even by those who once supported him, as the very opposite of the different type of leader he promised to be.” That\u2019s a pull quote from the Liz Sidoti piece. But just to show you how out of touch she is, she also wrote this paragraph.<\/p>\n

“If the controversies drag on, morale across America could end up taking a huge hit, just when the mood seems to be improving along with an economic uptick. Or, Americans could end up buying Obama\u2019s arguments that safety sometimes trumps privacy, that his administration is taking action on the IRS, and that he\u2019s doing the best he can to forge bipartisan compromise when Republicans are obstructing progress.”<\/p>\n

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I mean, how outta touch do you have to be to write that? America\u2019s morale could end up taking a huge hit? That happened about four years ago. The morale has not had an uptick yet. There isn\u2019t any real economic uptick. There\u2019s not an economic uptick that everybody senses and feels and thinks, “You know, we\u2019re coming out of this.” That\u2019s not happening. And then they might end up buying Obama\u2019s arguments that he\u2019s taking action on the IRS. He\u2019s gonna get to the bottom of this, as though he\u2019s got nothing to do with it, Limbaugh Theorem, right there. <\/p>\n

And then she writes, “Obama has waning opportunities to turn it around. He\u2019s halfway through his fifth year, and with midterm elections next fall, there\u2019s no time to waste.” <\/line>See, I think all this is a misapplied focus. And, granted, his acolytes in the media, they\u2019re worried, \u2019cause they\u2019re looking at this through the prism of conventional wisdom, because they know that were it any other president he would have been in deep doo-doo long ago. They know that it is so bad, that he is living in their world of conventional wisdom on borrowed time. And so they\u2019re actually wondering how in the world he has managed to skate by with all this damage to the economy.<\/line><\/p>\n

None of his agenda is supported by a majority of the American people. So Liz here is obviously unaware of the — not the existence of the Limbaugh Theorem. She\u2019s unaware of the actual theorem itself. She\u2019s unaware of why Obama\u2019s untouched. But, again, I\u2019m gonna sound like a broken record here, but I think the focus, at least for us folks, needs to be not on Obama. I share this stuff with you only because I think it\u2019s fun and it\u2019s interesting to see the media starting to get worried. But Obama, at this point, is not the focus. Wherever you would say Obama, say liberals or Democrats or whatever, because it\u2019s one and the same. <\/p>\n

And going forward, you know, the object here of persuading Americans, it\u2019s not gonna happen. You\u2019re not gonna talk people against Obama. Too many factors that stand in the way of that. But you can persuade people that Democrats are a problem. You can persuade people that liberalism isn\u2019t good for them. You can persuade people to vote against the Democrat Party. You can persuade people to vote against individual Democrats, or the Democrat Party at large. But there\u2019s no point in trying to get people to disavow their support for Obama right now. That isn\u2019t gonna happen. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Diane in Austin, Texas, I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I really appreciate it. I appreciate you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just wanted to put in my two cents about the impeachment thing. I think it\u2019s the worst thing we could do as conservatives, to even talk about it. I think we just got to get off the Obama thing because it\u2019s got to be the worst thing we can do. Let\u2019s just get on to the Democrats, let\u2019s just get on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I agree. She\u2019s reacting, folks — Diane, thanks very much. We had a caller in the first hour who thinks for the sake of the country, we have to state who we are. We have to plant the flag and tell everybody who we are, what we stand for, and what we will not tolerate. And for that reason we need to begin impeachment proceedings against Obama, and that\u2019s what Diane\u2019s reacting to. Politically it would be disaster because it isn\u2019t gonna happen, ain\u2019t gonna go anywhere. It doesn\u2019t have a chance, and Obama, folks, as much as you don\u2019t want to hear it, he should not be the focus, at least in terms of persuading people. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s got to be the Democrat Party and the ideology, liberalism, socialism, because all of this that\u2019s happening can be tied directly to a political party. Obama needs allies for this to happen, and he\u2019s got them. This is what happens, and you can point it out city by city where liberals have run the place unchecked. You see literal ghost towns. You see bulldozed Third World type locations, and this is linked to a particular political party, and that I think is where attention needs to be focused. I agree with you, Diane. I\u2019m glad you called. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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