{"id":6976,"date":"2015-02-26T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-26T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:36:24","slug":"could_mcconnell_and_boehner_really_outfox_the_democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/26\/could_mcconnell_and_boehner_really_outfox_the_democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Could McConnell and Boehner Really Outfox the Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Okay, the continuing agony, angst, and anxiety over the Department of Homeland Security funding bill in the House and the Senate. The National Journal has a story<\/a> today that the Democrats are worried about an ambush, that Mitch McConnell has really hoodwinked \u2019em and really, really tricked \u2019em out there. And here is the thing in a nutshell. The Democrats are clearly paranoid here, are afraid that if they pass a clean Department of Homeland Security bill in the Senate, which is what Dingy Harry is demanding, and what McConnell signaled that he\u2019s gonna do. I mean, McConnell yesterday announced that they\u2019re caving, they\u2019re gonna pass a clean bill. And remember, that\u2019s when Harry Reid said (imitating Reid), “Not good enough, not good enough. Boehner has to do the same thing. We\u2019re not talking, we\u2019re not voting, and we\u2019re not doing anything until Boehner comes back with the same thing.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>Boehner so far is holding firm, and he sounds like that he is ready to let the deadline go by tomorrow and certain elements of DHS shut down because the Democrats won\u2019t fund it. He looks like he\u2019s ready to do that, but there\u2019s still 24 hours left to cave. And we have to remember who we\u2019re talking about here. But it just adds to all of the anxiety on the Democrat side. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s two reasons why the Democrats want a clean bill<\/a>. We discussed one of them yesterday, is for future court rulings on this. Courts love to cite the will of the people by virtue of congressional votes as a way of getting themselves out of the jam of having to decide a case. So if both the House and the Senate pass a clean funding bill, in other words, underwrite a whole department all the way through the end of the fiscal year, then the court can say we got no case here. I mean, if this is the will of Congress then that\u2019s the will of Congress and we\u2019re out. That\u2019s one reason the Democrats want it. But here\u2019s another. They\u2019re paranoid. <\/p>\n

Now, this is a case of projection. The Democrats are paranoid \u2019cause this is the kind of stuff they do, and therefore they are aware this kind of stuff could be done to them, except they are forgetting the Republicans don\u2019t do this kind of stuff. What is this kind of stuff? It\u2019s very simple. Democrats are afraid that if they pass a clean DHS bill, that they won\u2019t be able to prevent the House from adding amendments. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re scared to death of Boehner saying, “Okay, okay, send me your bill.” They\u2019re afraid to death that Boehner will, quote, unquote, cave and ask for the Senate bill, which fully funds the department, to be sent back to the House. Because when that happens, the Republicans, members of Congress can add amendments to it, and once that begins, once amendments are added to the House version of the Senate bill, the Democrats can no longer filibuster. <\/p>\n

The adding of amendments makes it no longer a clean bill, and that means no filibuster is — well, it used to mean no filibuster. The rules don\u2019t matter anymore. Nobody\u2019s obeying the law. Nobody\u2019s obeying the rules. So I have to say under all of this, under some advisement and with some acknowledgement that the law, the rules say they can\u2019t filibuster, there\u2019s nothing stopping them from doing it, but that is the rule. Once amendments begin being added to the House bill, the Democrats can no longer filibuster. So all it would take for an amended bill to pass the Senate would be 51 votes, not 60. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So the Democrats are afraid that McConnell\u2019s cave and clean bill get sent up to Boehner, and then the House Republicans add the amendments to it that defund Obama\u2019s executive action. That bill would then have to be sent back to the Senate, because the Senate would have to also agree with what the House did to the bill in changing it, amending it, but that bill couldn\u2019t filibuster when it came back, and therefore they wouldn\u2019t need 60 votes to pass it, only need 51. <\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s brilliant political maneuvering, and the Democrats are deathly afraid that that\u2019s what McConnell has set up. And I think it\u2019s just a case of projection. This is the kind of stuff the Democrats do, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re worried about it being turned around and used against them. But we have to ask ourselves, would Senate Republicans, led by McConnell, play that kind of hardball? There no evidence of it, but we don\u2019t really know. <\/p>\n

This is a story in the National Journal<\/a>, and here\u2019s a little pull quote from it. “Asked about worries over extraneous amendments Wednesday, Reid told reporters, ‘Senator McConnell wouldn\u2019t do that. We\u2019re beyond that now.'” And the sad fact is that Dingy Harry\u2019s assessment is probably correct. You know, in the past we had Yellow Dog Democrats and Blue Dog Democrats. Now we just got Whip Dog Republicans. And while it is a beautiful plan, oh, wouldn\u2019t this be delectable? Trick \u2019em into passing this clean bill and then send it to the House where the amendments are added that defund Obama\u2019s executive amnesty, then send it back to the Senate where it only would take 51 votes, which the Republicans have? Oh, that would be so juicy. <\/p>\n

We just don\u2019t have any recent evidence of the Republicans operating that way. And clearly Dingy Harry is not worried. He said, “No, Senator McConnell wouldn\u2019t do that. We\u2019re beyond that now.” And then the Washington Post. They\u2019re all happy, they\u2019re cheering about this. “The Senate voted Wednesday to move ahead with a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Democratic leaders dropped an earlier pledge to block it unless they get assurances from House Republican leaders that it would pass their chamber. The bill advanced on a procedural vote by a 98-2 margin. The only dissenters were Republican Sens. James Inhofe (Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (Ala.)”<\/p>\n

When I see, I say, “Why even bother with elections?” We got a two-party system here, it seems to be about as honest as the WWE. 98-2? 98-2? And the Republicans run the place? And it\u2019s 98-2? Now, this is just a procedural vote. It\u2019s important to keep that in mind. The bill advanced on a procedural vote by a 98-2 margin. But it would be funny if McConnell changed the cloture rules and removed the filibuster option from the bill. He could do that by sending it up to Boehner and letting the House amend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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