{"id":5479,"date":"2015-09-02T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-02T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:13:00","slug":"no_surprise_obama_gets_iran_votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/09\/02\/no_surprise_obama_gets_iran_votes\/","title":{"rendered":"No Surprise: Obama Gets Iran Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Is anybody surprised? You should not be surprised that Obama got the votes that he wanted. And I\u2019m gonna maintain to you right now that that was always in the cards once Chuck Schumer decided to vote against it. <\/p>\n

Sorry if this sounds like an attack on Senator Schumer. I don\u2019t doubt that his opposition to this is principled, in part. But when I saw that Schumer was gonna vote against it and the story came, gonna be three or four to follow him along, it told me everything I needed to know. It meant that his vote “no” was safe, that it was gonna pass, his “no” vote was not gonna harm Obama. And I didn\u2019t doubt that this gonna pass anyway because of the Corker Bill. The Corker Bill made it impossible for this thing not to pass. <\/line>Yes. Republican Senator Bob Corker, Tennessee, totally reversing the ratification process for treaties. <\/line><\/p>\n

And the simple explanation for what that means is, the president has to get… And I know it\u2019s not a treaty, but it is. I mean, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck; it\u2019s a duck! It\u2019s a treaty. But Obama didn\u2019t want to call it a treaty because he didn\u2019t want to have to go through the constitutional requirements for ratification, which essentially two-thirds of the Senate must vote for it. Well, the Corker Bill! The Corker Bill said, “No, no!<\/p>\n

“You know what? We\u2019re gonna suspend that! We\u2019re gonna change it, and what we need is, we need to get two-thirds of the Senate to vote ‘no\u2019 in order to stop it, with a couple other ancillary requirements.” It wasn\u2019t gonna happen. And if you\u2019re still puzzled over this, if you really thought that there was a chance that the Senate was going to vote “no” on this — and I\u2019m not trying to be a know-it-all cynic — I remind you of what Mitch McConnell recently said about defunding Planned Parenthood, all right? <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s go back to 2010. Republican voters are angry that the Republicans in Congress are not doing more to stop Obamacare. Now, back in 2010 there really wasn\u2019t much they could do. They didn\u2019t vote for it. There was not a single Republican vote for it, but they weren\u2019t speaking out against it forcefully. They weren\u2019t trying to create any allies on the Democrats to vote against it. Of course, in Obama\u2019s first term, Democrat loyalty and all that. The Republicans said, “Look, all we have here is the House. <\/p>\n

“We can\u2019t stop the president with just the House. We need the Senate. You need to give us control of the Senate. We need to control the chairmanships and the committees, and once you give us the Senate we\u2019ll be able to do things.” Okay. The 2014 midterms come around and we vote, and we give the Republicans the Senate. And now they are still paralyzed and can\u2019t do anything, and now Mitch McConnell and Boehner say, “Well, we don\u2019t have the White House. <\/line><\/p>\n

“You know, we… we… we can\u2019t do anything here because Obama\u2019s gonna stop everything we do. I mean, there\u2019s nothing we can do.” So in 2010, “You need to give us the Senate and then you\u2019re gonna see some action.” In 2014 they got the Senate. “Sorry, can\u2019t do anything!” The most recent illustration: Planned Parenthood defunding. Mitch McConnell said, “Sorry. I just don\u2019t have the votes here. We\u2019re gonna need a Republican in the White House for this. We don\u2019t have it; can\u2019t get it done.” <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to, folks, for whatever reason. What a golden opportunity! I mean, just in the politics of this, what a golden opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood during the Obama administration. Make President Obama take action to maintain funding for all that we have learned that goes on in there! What has happened to the…? I\u2019m sounding like a broken record along with everybody else. What in the world has even happened to the political instincts of the opposition party? <\/p>\n

Even if you don\u2019t have the votes, you don\u2019t think, to override a veto, make him veto it! Defund Planned Parenthood! Everybody in the world needs to find out what\u2019s happening in that place. These videos have reached an audience<\/a>, but they haven\u2019t reached a wide enough audience \u2019cause the Drive-Bys are ignoring it. Okay, so the Republicans in the Senate and the House pick up the movement to defund Planned Parenthood; this creates its own story. People say, “Why? Why?” <\/p>\n