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RUSH: This is Jan Crawford. She\u2019s at CBS News. She was on television this morning, CBS This Morning, reporting about the reaction to Obama\u2019s remarks that the court, Supreme Court, should not overturn the health care reform law.<\/p>\n

CRAWFORD: The president appears to be laying the groundwork to take on the court if it strikes down that law. For the second straight day President Obama gave his take on what the Supreme Court should do: uphold his signature domestic achievement. Monday he seemed to suggest the court didn\u2019t even have the power to strike down the law. On Obama\u2019s comments, Republicans pounced.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: What is this, the court must understand? That is a threat.<\/line><\/p>\n

CRAWFORD: It went beyond talk radio. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell released a statement saying the president lacked fundamental respect for the separation of powers. Yesterday afternoon the judges struck back. A federal appeals court in Houston issued an order to the Justice Department to explain whether the president really meant the court had no power to strike down the law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s the key, and I just saw Attorney General Holder on television, (paraphrasing) “Of course we\u2019re gonna respond. Of course it will be an appropriate response. And of course we understand Marbury v. Madison. Of course we understand the court\u2019s final say-so on whether laws are constitutional. But we must remember that the court has always practiced deference,” said Holder. The court\u2019s always been deferential. So he\u2019s trying to have it both ways. “Oh, yeah, we understand the court strikes down laws of Congress. They better not strike this one down.” But, again, at the risk of being redundant, Obama knows that there\u2019s judicial review<\/a>. He knows that the court does this. He\u2019s not ignorant or stupid or uneducated. What he did yesterday had nothing to do with the court, not purposely. <\/line><\/p>\n

The unintended consequence is that he has shown a profound disrespect for the court, and he is relegating them to a status in his mind of being inconsequential. They\u2019re simply there to rubber stamp him. And if they don\u2019t rubber stamp him, they are in the crosshairs, and that\u2019s his message to \u2019em. They had better rubber stamp his health care bill, and if they don\u2019t, then they\u2019re targets. And the way they\u2019re targets is he\u2019s telling the American people, “Those guys, those judges, they\u2019re taking away your health care. They are the ones that are gonna make it so that you have financial ruin if you get sick. They are taking away what I gave you.” Ladies and gentlemen, it is so beneath the dignity of the ofice of the presidency. It\u2019s just striking, it really is. It defies description. <\/p>\n

I must be honest with you here. We\u2019ve faced this countless times before during the Clinton years with the Democrat Party and the people at the highest levels of their leadership showing total disregard and disrespect for traditions, ethics, just being polite, manners, showing respect. And I don\u2019t know about anybody else, but I\u2019ve always struggled with how to react to it and how to explain it to people in a way that is persuasive. I guess I\u2019ve always struggled with the way to explain to people to pierce the partisanship. ‘Cause I don\u2019t need to persuade you. You all know how atrocious this is. You know how shameful, how embarrassing this is. But his audience doesn\u2019t, the people he\u2019s speaking to you. <\/p>\n

You\u2019d like to be able to get to them. I\u2019d like to be able to shake their shoulders, “Wake up and understand what\u2019s happening here.” I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever successfully been able to do that, not consistently. I know that converts happen. But I\u2019m into my 24th year hosting this program, and I am still struggling, as I think a lot of conservatives, slash, Republicans are, with the best way to react. See, the problem is I live in Realville. I have a profound respect for the intelligence of my audience. I can\u2019t relate to what Obama\u2019s doing. I wouldn\u2019t lie to you to try to advance my own fortunes. I couldn\u2019t. My conscience wouldn\u2019t permit it, number one. Number two, it\u2019s not who I am. I could not do what he\u2019s doing. And as such, I can\u2019t relate to it. I can understand it, but I can\u2019t relate to it. And we\u2019re up against people who don\u2019t care if he\u2019s lying. <\/p>\n

All they care about is the food stamp check. Am I gonna keep my health care? Will abortion still be legal? That\u2019s all. And he\u2019s counting on that. He\u2019s counting on his audience to be dumb. He has no problem disrespecting them or the vast majority of the American people. I\u2019ll give you a reminder, an example, to illustrate what I\u2019m talking about here. Shortly after Obama was immaculated, there was an incident in Detroit where the federal government was giving away vouchers for cheap rentals, I think is what it was. It doesn\u2019t really matter for the purposes of this story. And what happened was that wherever people were told to go in Detroit they were flooded with people. Cookie, we don\u2019t need the sound bites from the archives. Don\u2019t go get \u2019em. I\u2019m not gonna spend that much time on it. All these people showed up and our affiliate in Detroit, WJR, sent a reporter out to talk to the people.<\/p>\n

“Why are you here?” <\/p>\n

And their answers, to me, as an American citizen, were depressing. And if I had been president, I would have been ashamed. I would have been really bothered that people voted for me based on this. But this is exactly what he wants. These people showed up, and they said, “I\u2019m here to get my free place to live.” <\/p>\n

“Well, who\u2019s going to pay for it?” <\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t care.” <\/p>\n

“Well, no, really, where\u2019s the money coming from?”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s coming from Obama\u2019s stash.” <\/p>\n

“Well, where\u2019d Obama get it?” <\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t care. He\u2019s got it, and that\u2019s why we love Obama. He\u2019s giving it to us.” <\/line><\/p>\n

I would have cringed. If I had been president and people showed up and thought that\u2019s what my presidency meant, I would have cringed. I would have flown to Detroit, and I woulda had a meeting, and I would have done a speech, and I woulda said, “Let me tell you what this country is all about and how you prosper in it.” Instead, Obama exploits that ignorance; exploits that stupidity. And I don\u2019t mean stupidity in a pejorative sense. I\u2019m just trying to be descriptive. But he exploits people who have nothing and whose only hope of getting something, they think, is if a president gives it to \u2019em. I can\u2019t relate to that. I understand it. He\u2019s a welfare state guy. He\u2019s a redistribution of wealth guy. He wants people to love him because he wants them to think that he\u2019s the only reason they\u2019ve got anything. And we\u2019ve gotta peel off some of those people somehow. <\/p>\n

Everybody talks about the independents. To heck with them. Well, not “to heck;” we\u2019re gonna have to peel off some of the ignorant here. We\u2019re gonna have to. I don\u2019t know what percent… (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know, because I\u2019m not ignorant, and I don\u2019t know how to relate to \u2019em. But I do know that it\u2019s possible for the ignorant to learn. It happens every day in this country. It\u2019s possible for the ignorant to become educated. It can happen. So this is the problem I have here is to try to refute what the president\u2019s saying in a way that\u2019s persuasive to people and they just don\u2019t hear it as criticism, because then they chalk that up as, “That\u2019s just usual. You\u2019re just criticizing Obama \u2019cause you don\u2019t like him.”<\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m criticizing him because I seriously, sincerely in the depths of my heart believe that this man is harming the foundations of this country. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about the fact that he does not like this country as founded. Anyway, that\u2019s just a little personal struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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