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RUSH: Have you seen the story (Politico has it): “Senate GOP Ponders Ceding Power to President Obama”? Did you see that? Now, when you see that headline, and if you don\u2019t know anything about — if you have nothing to put that headline in context — that\u2019s gotta look weird. “Senate GOP Ponders Ceding Power to President Obama.” No, no, no, it\u2019s not surrender. What it is… Well, I\u2019ll tell you what it is after this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Clearly, if you see a headline: “Senate GOP Ponders Shifting Power to Obama,” and if that\u2019s all you read, you\u2019d be forgiven if you thought that it meant the Republicans are caving in, giving up, surrendering. “Go ahead, Barack, you do it!” But I have a different take. You know what I think this is? I think this is the result of the Republicans having heard my theorem<\/a>, and I\u2019m not talking to you from a standpoint of ego here. I think what this is is an effort to make all of this Obama\u2019s responsibility. I think this is an effort to shift the perception of who\u2019s responsible for this to Obama, because he is the one who chooses what gets cut in the sequester. <\/p>\n

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For four-and-a-half years, Obama has gotten away with no accountability. For four-plus years, the entire time of his presidency, he has gotten away with a perpetual campaign where he is not seen as having any relationship to what\u2019s actually happening in the country. His agenda, his policies, the American people, low-information voters do not associate the policies of this administration with the realities of life in this country. Obama has gotten away with portraying the Republicans, be it George Bush or Boehner, McConnell, whoever he wants to name, as the villains. They\u2019re the guys destroying everything. They\u2019re the guys responsible for you not having a job. The Republicans are why your house has no value. The Republicans are destroying the planet. The Republicans, they\u2019re doing it. Obama is valiantly fighting it. He creates that perception with the perpetual, never-ending campaign. <\/p>\n

This is the Limbaugh theorem. I think the Republicans have heard it \u2019cause here\u2019s the story. “Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.”<\/p>\n

What they want to do is basically cancel the sequester and then reinstitute it on March 8th with Obama, by virtue of legislation, in total control of it. Now, it\u2019s nothing more than a PR move, because Obama already is in charge of whatever spending cuts take place after the sequester. I\u2019m not making that up, and I\u2019m not offering it as criticism. It\u2019s just a fact. And it doesn\u2019t matter if the president were Rin Tin Tin. The way the law is written, when the sequester happens, it\u2019s the president — that\u2019s why there\u2019s such outrage over Obama releasing 30,000 criminals, illegal alien criminals. He doesn\u2019t have to do that. He doesn\u2019t have to lay off Border Patrol agents. He doesn\u2019t have to not deploy an aircraft carrier. He doesn\u2019t have to partially lay off or furlough 800,000 Pentagon employees. <\/p>\n

He can cut money wherever he wants to. He could cut money in areas that are duplicated, redundant, and would never be missed. There\u2019s so much waste and fraud in this budget you can\u2019t count it all. He could eliminate some of that. But no, even before the sequester has gone into effect, he\u2019s released thousands of jailed, imprisoned criminals. Folks, that\u2019s the kind of thing that Saddam Hussein did. Saddam Hussein did that exact thing on the eve of our invasion of Iraq. He just opened the doors to his jails and let every reprobate that he was holding loose. He created total panic and havoc in Baghdad and throughout the country. That\u2019s the kind of thing Obama\u2019s done here, and it\u2019s totally unnecessary. <\/p>\n

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So I think — and I could be wrong — but I think what\u2019s happening here is that the Senate Republicans want to officially, in a way that makes everybody aware: Obama is in charge of these cuts. Because right now, they are getting the blame for it. And I think they\u2019ve become aware of the Limbaugh theorem. Look at the Limbaugh theorem<\/a> as a scouting report. If you want to put this in a sports analogy, I\u2019m a scout. I\u2019ve gone out, I\u2019ve scouted the opposition. I\u2019ve filed my report with the Republicans. <\/p>\n

I said, “Here\u2019s what the guy\u2019s doing. He\u2019s making it look like everything happening is because of you. He\u2019s been president for five years, but the people do not associate his agenda and his policies with life in America. The unemployment has nothing to do with Obama\u2019s policies. Obama is seen as valiantly trying to create jobs. You are the guys destroying jobs. Now, with the sequester, you\u2019re the guys closing the Pentagon. You\u2019re the guys that are forcing him to release prisoners. You\u2019re the guys forcing him to go lax on border security.” <\/p>\n

I think what they\u2019re trying to do here — it\u2019ll never work, but it\u2019s the optics — I think they\u2019re trying, via legislation, to actually get people aware of what already is fact anyway, and that is whatever cuts made are Obama\u2019s and his alone.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, look, I know Obama is saying that he can\u2019t change the cuts by himself, but in fact he can. In reality, Obama\u2019s the only one who can change where the cuts take place, by virtue of the law. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, I\u2019m not kidding. Saddam Hussein released every criminal in his jails before the invasion of Iraq. Fidel Castro did it, too. What do you think the Mariel Boatlift was during the Jimmy Carter years? South Florida was flooded with a flotilla of the worst hardened criminals Castro had. I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s what Barack Obama is doing. It\u2019s ridiculous to even say it\u2019s unnecessary. It\u2019s like everything else. This is being done on purpose.<\/p>\n

This is action being taken not just against the Republicans. This is action being taken against the country. There are many areas, in a budget as big and expansive as the United States government budget, to cut. To say with a sequester that is requiring $44 billion of cuts, you\u2019ve gotta let 30,000 illegal aliens out of jail and you\u2019ve gotta furlough 800,000 civilian employees in the Pentagon and you can\u2019t deploy an aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf?<\/p>\n

“This is madness.”<\/p>\n

Bob Woodward is exactly right. “This is madness,” and you can define “madness” however you want. It is sheer madness to be doing this. It\u2019s petulant. It is childish. It is (sniveling), “I\u2019m not getting my way! I\u2019m gonna take my ball go home. Here! Here! Watch this,” and Obama\u2019s out trying to claim that he doesn\u2019t have any control over the cuts that he can make, but he does. In reality, Obama is the only one who can change where these cuts hit.<\/p>\n