{"id":36131,"date":"2010-08-13T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:40:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:27","slug":"beware_the_lame_duck_congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/13\/beware_the_lame_duck_congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Lame Duck Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Bill in Phoenix, Open Line Friday, you\u2019re next. Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I wanted to talk about the upcoming lame duck session of Congress and the very real threat that the Democrats will pass an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: As you know, Rush, the Democrats have 59 votes in the Senate and they need only one Republican senator to pass an amnesty bill, and we know that there are a number of Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who will support amnesty, and they\u2019re likely gonna vote for amnesty during this lame duck session in November or December.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, yeah, I know the thinking that McCain might, but McCain\u2019s running against all this now to get reelected. If McCain does a 180 on this and votes for amnesty in a lame duck, he better never go back to Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, he\u2019s 74 right now, Rush. If he gets reelected, he\u2019ll be in for six years, he\u2019ll be 80, it will be like having Arlen Specter in there, he\u2019s got nothing to lose, and after he gets past this Republican primary that he\u2019s in right now, what leverage does anyone have? I mean he tried two times in the past, we know that, he wants to put &#8212; I don\u2019t know who he\u2019s a going to cosponsor this amnesty bill with, be it McCain, Harry Reid or McCain whatever, but they\u2019re going to get this thing done.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Harry Reid is &#8212; well, it will be his swan\u2019s song if he does this. The thing about this, though, Bill, when you\u2019re talking amnesty, it\u2019s not so much what Congress does. Obama\u2019s already looking at it by executive fiat. We had the story a couple weeks ago. There\u2019s a memo circulating at the highest levels of government about how they can create the equivalent to amnesty with simply a bunch of executive orders or other federal decrees, presidential decrees. They\u2019re looking into it. They were caught. Who was it? It was what\u2019s-his-face from Iowa, Chuck Grassley heard about it and sent \u2019em a letter, said, &#8216;What the hell are you doing?\u2019 &#8216;Oh, we\u2019re just thinking here. You know, we\u2019re just sitting around theorizing, we\u2019re not really going to do this, we\u2019re just theorizing, not really going to do it.\u2019 They\u2019re planning it. I wouldn\u2019t wait for a lame duck session for this to happen. Obama\u2019s gonna need those people, he\u2019s gonna need these illegal alien votes come 2012. He\u2019s not going to wait for Congress to make that happen. He doesn\u2019t care. 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