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RUSH: President Obama today is taking action that a majority of Americans disagree with. He\u2019s going down a road a majority of people disagree with. He knows it. The question is, why? Why is Barack Obama literally trying to push people to snap? Why is he doing this? It\u2019s as though in some way he\u2019s attacking the very sanity of people in this country. Why is he doing this? Why is he deliberately making people so upset? What is driving him? Anybody got any ideas? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been watching the children-as-human-shields show<\/a> that is now going on at the White House. Boy, these guys are somber. Biden was very somber. You would have thought that eulogies… (imitating Biden) “I\u2019ve worked with this guy 27 hours a day, President Barack Obama.” (clapping) Yeah! Kids cheer and the president starts out reading some letters from the kids. Gotta do what the kids want. Gotta answer all their letters to Santa Claus. Gotta do everything they want. It\u2019s stunning. You look at the what\u2019s happening in the country. <\/p>\n

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By the way… I\u2019ve got the 23 executive orders here. There are 23 executive actions. I have them here. I got the PDFs earlier this morning. They were embargoed until the president started speaking, and a summary of these 23 as well. It\u2019s called the Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions. You go through this, and there isn\u2019t one of them that would have stopped what happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Not one of these would have stopped this. You couple what the president\u2019s talking about today with Governor Cuomo and what he did in New York. Governor Cuomo has now told therapists that they gotta be on the lookout for strange behavior, and they gotta analyze potentially dangerous behavior. If they think somebody might use a gun in a dangerous way, they gotta report that person. And this has been ramrodded through. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a story here about how the Democrats think — and this is what I mean when I ask, “Why is Obama doing this?” There\u2019s nowhere near popular support for this. Nowhere near it. The actions of the American people indicate that. You don\u2019t need me to tell you. And yet he is continually doing things, deliberately making people upset, deliberately driving people batty, attacking people\u2019s sanity. They are scratching their heads, “Why is he doing this? Why is the president doing this? Why is the president so against us? Why is the president blaming us?” <\/p>\n

People are asking this, and they are taking action, because the question they\u2019re asking perplexes them. They don\u2019t understand this. They\u2019re running out and buying guns. They don\u2019t know what to do. And the NRA\u2019s got this ad that the left is just fit to be tied over. The NRA doesn\u2019t back down like the Republican Party does. The NRA doesn\u2019t back down at the first sign of criticism like most Republican and conservative institutions do. And I think they\u2019re surprised. I think the regime thought the NRA would back down. Instead the NRA\u2019s got an ad where they talk about the hypocrisy of Obama making sure that his kids are protected by armed guards everywhere they go, but that your kids can\u2019t be. <\/p>\n