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RUSH: Congressman Darrell Issa from California. Congressman, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

ISSA: Rush, thanks for the opportunity to clarify what a half hour of an interview turns into when it turns into one bullet line by an author.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you what it says. The whole story is about you guys wanting to shut down government and how that won\u2019t work. It\u2019s all about how Republicans really, in private, realize they\u2019re going to have to compromise with Obama and you get quoted: ‘It\u2019s pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise to advance their agenda that way. They want us to come together with the administration after we agree to disagree.\u2019 That\u2019s what they quote you as saying.<\/p>\n

ISSA: Well, certainly to me, we\u2019re going to have to fund our military, we\u2019re going to have to make sure that we have an active role in overseeing this president in so many ways that he has, up until now, just ignored. He\u2019s told his own party, don\u2019t look, and he\u2019s told my party that we have no right to see. So it\u2019s going to be acrimonious, there\u2019s no question, but it\u2019s also going to be an opportunity to get this country in the right direction again. You know, when we ran the table, having the House, the Senate, the White House, we still didn\u2019t achieve our Republican principles to a level that I\u2019m satisfied with, and I don\u2019t expect this president to be a born-again Republican, but I certainly would like him to recognize that he\u2019s been running us into ruin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, do you expect him to do that? Do you expect the president to come to you and say, ‘Okay, you know, you guys won and I lost and I guess the American people are rejecting me. I guess I\u2019m going to have to work with you.\u2019 Do you expect him to do that?<\/p>\n

ISSA: No. I expect him to take a little while to figure out that the Presidential Records Act means they can no longer use Google to do politicking inside the White House in violation of the law. They can no longer ignore the Hatch Act violations they\u2019ve been doing. They can no longer do Sestak, Romanoff type deals with federal taxpayers\u2019 dollars. I expect those changes to happen. And, you know, there will be a certain degree of gridlock as the president adjusts to the fact that he has been one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times. He has ignored the very laws that he said were so vital when he was a senator. And, you know, he\u2019s going to have to come back a different direction. Now, at the end of the day John Boehner is going to have to figure out how we have a budget and appropriations. In my case, I head the committee that\u2019s all about making sure that the administration obeys the law, that waste, fraud, and abuse not be tolerated, which obviously is not the case now, but that\u2019s the change that\u2019s going to happen from my position. I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain to you why people were calling your office all upset. The people that are going to secure the Republican victory look at Barack Obama as somebody who\u2019s destroying their country. Not somebody to be compromised with, somebody who needs to be stopped. They know that you\u2019re not going to have the ability to get him to agree with your legislation. You\u2019re not going to be able to override his vetoes. But the idea that you\u2019re gonna end up working with him is anathema. People want this man stopped. That\u2019s why this profound turnout is going to happen. The idea that, you know, work with him on a budget, we want him defeated, and nobody expects him to move in your direction. We expect him to try to get around you with executive orders, to try to ignore you to further his agenda, however he has to, to continue doing what he\u2019s doing to the country and that\u2019s basically restructuring it and destroying the private sector, destroying the job-creating sector, and people are gonna elect you in droves and record numbers to stop that.<\/p>\n

ISSA: Well, and we\u2019re going to stop it. First we stop Nancy Pelosi from being Speaker, which allows us to say nothing shall come to the House floor unless in fact it has Republican principles behind it, but even more so, you hit the nail on the head, this president\u2019s gonna try to use executive orders, he\u2019s gonna extend past it. My committee\u2019s number one responsibility is to make sure that the administration obeys its laws. Government oversight is going to be vigorous, I\u2019m gonna increase the number of committees, and we\u2019re go — subcommittees, and we\u2019re going to make sure that this administration starts playing by the rules. We\u2019re also gonna take on some of the things that have probably legitimately been dragging on since the last administration. You know, when we went after Sestak, we had people from the Bush administration tell us, ‘Well, that\u2019s always happened.\u2019 Well, it\u2019s not going to happen on my watch when we get the majority. It\u2019s gotta stop. American taxpayer dollars — and I realize there\u2019s nondiscretionary problems, but the discretionary dollars are being used to corrupt America\u2019s basic direction and values. So that is what we\u2019re going to do. There\u2019s going to be no compromise on moving to Republican principles. There\u2019s certainly going to be no compromise on how the House is run. We\u2019ve had four years of Nancy Pelosi having only closed rules and no debate, and John Boehner has promised open debate. But I\u2019ll tell you —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, congressman, congressman, the people don\u2019t care about how the House runs. They don\u2019t care about open debate. They care about stopping Obama and the Democrats! They care about saving the country! They don\u2019t care if Obama goes to jail! They don\u2019t care if Axelrod goes to jail. They want them stopped. They want them to have no power. They\u2019re not saying, ‘Let\u2019s talk about how to do it in a way where we both get what we want.\u2019 They want Obama stopped. They want to save their country. They don\u2019t care what Boehner is going to do with the rules of the House. They don\u2019t care how they\u2019re gonna get even with Pelosi. They don\u2019t care that Pelosi isn\u2019t going to be there. It\u2019s Obama and the Democrats in toto stopped. It\u2019s not more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

ISSA: And, Rush, we will stop them. We haven\u2019t had the power to stop them. But we will stop them. And the fact is we\u2019ve gotta be different than we were the last time. When I led the charge against TARP I was threatened six ways from Sunday because it was the Bush administration that wanted that large amount of walking-around money —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

ISSA: — based on things they said they were going to do they didn\u2019t do. So it\u2019s not just stopping Obama, which is critical. It\u2019s stopping a Washington that in some cases was wrong-minded before Obama got there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay.<\/p>\n

ISSA: So we\u2019ve got a bigger job than that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. You could phrase it a bunch of different ways, but it\u2019s very fundamental and simple. What the American people see the Democrats doing and, in fact, all of the ruling class of Washington doing is taking away their opportunity for fiscal responsibility, economic prosperity, and turning that over to the government. They want that stopped and that\u2019s what they think electing Republicans will accomplish. I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify this. Sadly out of time. Congressman Darrell Issa, California. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks again to Congressman Issa for calling to explain or clarify this point about compromise. Let me try to explain this a different way \u2019cause it was very telling when Congressman Issa said, (paraphrasing) ‘Oh, no, we\u2019re gonna change the way things are done. Boehner is going to open up the House. We\u2019re going to have the right rules in the House. Whereas Pelosi hasn\u2019t allowed debate to shut us out, we\u2019re gonna allow –‘ we don\u2019t want debate. We wouldn\u2019t mind if we shut the Democrats out like they\u2019ve shut us out. We\u2019re going to have to stop \u2019em. This is serious. We\u2019re talking about the United States of America, not Washington, the political process, and how things happen there. We\u2019re talking about the country. We\u2019d be fine if there wasn\u2019t any debate. We win, you lose, we\u2019re changing things. That\u2019s the debate. It\u2019s over with. We got nothing to debate you with. You\u2019re wrong, pure and simple. I don\u2019t want to hear how you only want to destroy the country in ten years instead of 25. I don\u2019t want to hear this. We will have won. <\/p>\n

The Tea Party sees that the government is metastasizing. They see that it\u2019s gonna kill the country. They want it stopped and then reversed. They don\u2019t want to hear about ways to slow down and rules changes and all this kind of stuff. It\u2019s really not all that complicated: stop \u2019em. I know a lot of people say, ‘We can\u2019t stop \u2019em, Rush.\u2019 Elected Republicans will say, ‘We\u2019re not going to have the power because Obama will be able to override our veto.\u2019 We all understand that. But you have to start trying. This is about 2012 and beyond. This is about validating why you were elected in the first place. The effort has got to be made to stop this. We are not and don\u2019t want to become a socialist country. Keep educating, keep explaining why you won, let us know you know why you won, and how you\u2019re gonna keep doing things to secure victory in 2012 and 2014, 2016, and beyond, because that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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