{"id":12387,"date":"2013-05-17T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:28:26","slug":"it_s_bigger_than_obama_we_re_witnessing_what_happens_when_liberalism_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/05\/17\/it_s_bigger_than_obama_we_re_witnessing_what_happens_when_liberalism_rules\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Bigger Than Obama — We\u2019re Witnessing What Happens When Liberalism Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I am getting the sense that there is an effervescing rage in the country over what is happening. If you\u2019re watching these hearings today, if you are listening to the media, I hate to say, “I told you so,” but the media is circling the wagons around the regime. It was just yesterday and the day before that people eagerly called here and were sending me e-mails, thinking this was it. “The media is finally going to turn on Obama!” I said, “It\u2019s never going to happen, not for real,” and they are already circling the wagons. <\/p>\n

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One of the big memes, themes in the media today is, “Will the Republicans overplay handling the scandals? Will the Republicans overdo it,” and how could the Republicans overdo it? “Well, they could overdo it by focusing on Obama, because the public loves Obama. The people that voted for Obama love Obama. They don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s done anything wrong! So if the Republicans start focusing on Obama, then Obama will be stronger!” This is what the Drive-Bys are saying. <\/p>\n

There may be, by the way, something to that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it\u2019s becoming more and more clear, more and more obvious that President Obama is using the full weight — has used, in fact, the full weight — and resources of the federal government to literally block the political participation of millions of American citizens. Every day we are treated to new discoveries, new evidence. The latest is: Conservative Hispanic groups were targeted by the IRS, groups that wanted to found tax-exempt organizations. <\/p>\n

We have also learned that the woman who was in charge of this has been promoted. She received a total of $103,000 in bonuses. She is now running the Obamacare division of the IRS. The woman in charge of denying conservative groups tax-exempt status! This is a fear that many people had. In fact, it is Obamacare, ladies and gentlemen… If you want to really go back to the origins of this, it\u2019s Obamacare that gave birth to the Tea Party. Not the passage, but Obama\u2019s first expression of desire, and then the two years of debate.<\/line><\/p>\n

People in this country realized what that would mean if the government took over health care and nationalized one-sixth of the US economy. In addition to everything else Obama was doing, people realized what it would mean to the future, what it would mean for their kids\u2019 and their grandkids\u2019 future, what it would mean to the shrinking private sector, the shrinking opportunity to earn prosperity in the private sector. And it mobilized people. <\/p>\n

It gave birth to the Tea Party. The Tea Party became educated and informed. Here\u2019s how they compete. They learned what it was necessary to do to compete and raise money. They learned that 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s are tax-exempt charitable organizations just like the Democrats have. We now learn that the IRS tried to deny as many of those applications as possible, and the woman in charge of that was promoted and has now been placed over the Obamacare division of the IRS.<\/p>\n

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People, since the first days of discussion of Obamacare, have asked what turn out now to be very intelligent questions. “What if I didn\u2019t vote for Obama? What if I\u2019m not a Democrat? What\u2019s that gonna mean for me when I get in line for health care when the government runs it?” Well, here\u2019s a pretty good indication of what it could mean. You might be moved to the back of the line, while Democrat voters, Obama donors get moved to the front of the line.<\/p>\n

The government will be running health care. Essentially, the government will be your gateway to access. They can grant it or deny it. This is what happens when liberals end up in charge of government: Big government, out-of-control government, tyrannical government, if you want to say that. But it just expands, and the government ends up populated with people who are there to use the power and the full force of government against citizens. This is what has happened and what will get worse. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s become clear now, more and more clear, that Obama used the full weight and resources of the federal government to block the political participation of millions of Americans. There is no media outrage over this. Again, the media is focused on, “Gee, can Obama survive this? Gee, how will the Republicans screw up investigating this?” This is the kind of stuff that happens in banana republics and totalitarian regimes. You know, Americans have always said, “It can\u2019t happen here.” <\/p>\n

A member of Congress during the hearings of these IRS people this morning even asked, “Is this still America?” It\u2019s not some bitter clinger, desperately trying to hold onto his guns while he goes to church. It\u2019s not some bitter clinger asking, “Is this still America?” It\u2019s a Republican member of Congress. During the hearings said to an IRS employee and to the audience watching, “Is this still America?” It is happening here. <\/p>\n

Everywhere you look in the Drive-By Media, you see the media doing everything they can to downplay the scandal. CNN, for instance, has covered everything under the sun. They have been dragged kicking and screaming to the IRS scandal. They\u2019ve covered it some but they\u2019re not wall-to-wall with it. They\u2019re doing it as an afterthought. The news media have become the information launderers for Obama, which is exactly what the media\u2019s role is when it is in bed with leaders of the regime. <\/p>\n

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They launder news and information so that nothing harmful to the regime gets out. Where were the whistleblowers? Is the culture of corruption so pervasive at the IRS that so many people felt they could get away with these illegal activities? Do you realize how easy it must have been for these IRS employees to go to work each and every day? They never worried about what they were doing. They just lowered the hammer on all these conservative groups and they never once worried that anybody would rat \u2019em out.<\/p>\n

“NBC\u2019s Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election.” Duh! So inside the IRS, nobody was worried about whistleblowers. There was nobody in there doing this nefarious activity that was worried about anybody blowing the whistle on them. There weren\u2019t any whistleblowers. <\/p>\n

Was the oppressive work being done at the IRS so encouraged that no one had the guts to come forward to report what was going on? Or were the people at the IRS threatened and coerced to keep silent just like the whistleblowers at the State Department were told in the case of Benghazi? About that, Bob Woodward is saying, “Hey, don\u2019t call Benghazi a scandal. It\u2019s worse than a scandal!”<\/p>\n