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RUSH: How many of you remember my issuing a warning that the next two years of the Obama administration are going to be unlike anything anybody imagines, that you haven\u2019t seen anything yet? And I tied it to Obama alone. He will do what he\u2019s going to do regardless, but when the Republicans announced that impeachment was off the table and that any constitutional mechanism at their disposal to stop him would not be used, “Katy, bar the door.” <\/p>\n

I have said it over and over again. I\u2019ve repeated it I don\u2019t know how many times. I have not offered specific examples because my mind doesn\u2019t work that way. I don\u2019t conjure up ways of denying people freedom. I don\u2019t sit around and examine what people do that I don\u2019t like and try to figure out ways to get them to stop it, unless we\u2019re talking about lawbreakers, of course. But I\u2019m a freedom, liberty, live and let live kind of guy. I might not approve of or like what people do, but have at it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>By the same token, I am not the kind of person that wants to enforce my wants, likes, desires, on everybody else. I have no desire that everybody like what I like. I have no desire everybody say what I want to hear said. I have no desire everybody stop whatever they\u2019re doing and listen to what I have to say. I have no desire that everybody agree. No, that\u2019s not true. I do wish everybody agreed, but I\u2019m not gonna sit around and force that on people. <\/p>\n

But people like Barack Obama are just the exact opposite. And people like Barack Obama and many of his minions in his administration and throughout the Democrat Party today, in academe, it\u2019s all about enforcing the way they think everybody ought to be on every<\/p>\n

This is from Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner<\/a>: “Obama to Ban Bullets by Executive Action, Threatens Top-Selling AR-15 Rifle.” It\u2019s a semiautomatic. He is going to ban “one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is putting the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela\u00c2\u2019s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.”<\/p>\n

Now, as the day began, here were the things that were occupying the media and therefore occupying everybody\u2019s attention. These are the things that are the focus of the news today. The FCC and its vote today on net neutrality<\/a>. There are a plethora of stories today about the upcoming Supreme Court case and Obamacare, about which we will have some very interesting details for you. The ongoing story of immigration. <\/p>\n

By the way, the latest news on immigration is the Regime is now banning the use of the term “illegal immigrant” and they are now to be called “Americans-in-waiting.” You hadn\u2019t heard that? Snerdley\u2019s face popped up like he hadn\u2019t heard. I have it right here. I\u2019m holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. In the Washington Times<\/a>: “The White House is now using the term ‘Americans-in-waiting\u2019 to describe the thousands of illegal immigrants waiting for green cards ‘as a result of our broken immigration system.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

Of course, our immigration system isn\u2019t broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it\u2019s just fine. It\u2019s just being ignored. <\/p>\n

“The White House used the new phrase Tuesday in an update on President Obama\u00c2\u2019s executive amnesty actions, titled ‘Taking Action to Unlock the Economic Contributions of Americans-in-Waiting.'” That is how Obama is characterizing executive action that grants amnesty to I think four and a half million Americans. He did a town hall on MSNBC last night. I haven\u2019t had a chance to go through the entire sound bite roster so I don\u2019t know what I\u2019ve got there. I\u2019m gonna have to do this at the break, see what I\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n

He was on MSNBC and I lifted the ban temporarily since the subject matter was Obama and not those lamebrain hosts they have on that network. And I think he was asked, I\u2019m not sure, I think he was asked why only four and a half million? Why don\u2019t you grant amnesty for all of them? He gave some convoluted answer to it. But it is a good question. If you\u2019re gonna grant amnesty to four and a half million, why not five, why not 10, why not 11, why not all 20? It\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s a matter of what he thinks he can get away with to start. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the White House is now changing the terms. Illegal immigrants are now called Americans-in-waiting. And that comes in the title of the executive action that Obama\u2019s gonna take, taking action to unlock the economic contributions of Americans-in-waiting. And you know who that\u2019s aimed at? Good old low-information voters out there who get their news from HBO, who get their news from E! Entertainment network, who get their news from TMZ, who get their news from Yahoo. <\/p>\n

So you call it taking action to unlock the economic contributions. Boy, we need economic contributions, right? We need economic growth. Taking action to unlock the economic contributions of Americans-in-waiting. Who could possibly oppose that, except those evil, mean Republicans who oppose everything that\u2019s good. That\u2019s how this is designed. This is how it is set up. <\/p>\n

So while everybody\u2019s looking at that and everybody\u2019s looking at the FCC vote today on net neutrality, which there\u2019s no such thing, and the Supreme Court case, as I said, on Obamacare, not to mention ISIS. We now know who Islamic John is<\/a>. He\u2019s a well-to-do Brit. Somebody needs to tell Obama and Marie Harf. His name\u2019s Mohammed something or other. He\u2019s a well-to-do Brit. He\u2019s not poor. He\u2019s not unemployed. We found out who he is. And now there\u2019s another subject that has, shall we say, floated up as part of the flotsam, and that is Hillary Clinton and foreign money. <\/p>\n

I find it very fascinating, ladies and gentlemen, that it\u2019s the Washington Post and left-wing news organizations that are raising these ethical questions about Mrs. Clinton and money, i.e., massive, huge donations to the Clinton Foundation. It\u2019s called the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, by the way. Do you know why they call it the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation<\/a>? To make it look like they\u2019re your neighbors. “Yeah, I gave to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Foundation.” Not the Clinton Foundation, not the this or that, not the bimbo eruptions foundation, but the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Foundation. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the left, but there are places like the Washington Post beginning to question whether or not she\u2019s going to have some ethical problems down the road in a future campaign, given that she sold all those bribes. Ahem. Excuse me. That she solicited all that money donated to her and her husband\u2019s foundation while she was secretary of state. <\/p>\n

So those are the five big things out there. And then sneaking up on us, as promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on America<\/a>. The first target, the top selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semiautomatic with a ban on one of the most used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. <\/line><\/p>\n

I remember all of these years during the debate on gun control, I would find myself at a fashionable Fifth Avenue New York City dinner party with elite RINOs as the host and hostess. And they would come up to me, almost in a berating way, and demand that I explain why I could be so opposed to something so civilized as gun control. And I would say, “Well, you know, right across the street there is Central Park. Now, if you can promise me that your gun control is gonna take the guns out of the criminals\u2019 hands who are over in the park, then you may be able to interest me. But all you\u2019re gonna do is take guns away from law-abiding people who do not use them to commit crimes in the first place. How can you not see this?” <\/p>\n

But, see, gun control and the specifics of it, like immigration, it\u2019s not really about the substance when it comes to RINO Republicans supporting it. It is about appearing sophisticated. It\u2019s about appearing superiorly educated, and it\u2019s about qualifying for admittance in the club of elites. You have to be for gun control, whether you understand it or not. You have to be for raising the minimum wage even if you understand it or not. And you have to be pro-choice, otherwise you can\u2019t possibly be sophisticated. And you\u2019ll never be invited to the right parties, cocktail or otherwise, in Manhattan or Washington or LA or San Francisco or what have you. <\/p>\n

When it comes to understanding the nuts and bolts of the details of any policy, the elites haven\u2019t the slightest idea. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve done this, too. In every gun control debate, somebody, some smart aleck will pop up and say the truth. The guns not killing anybody. The person pulling the trigger is. And then somebody will say, you know if you people were really serious, you\u2019d ban bullets, a gun\u2019s worthless without bullets. And here we are. Here we are. Isn\u2019t it much easier to ban the production, the manufacture, and the sale of bullets than guns? <\/p>\n

I mean, here\u2019s Obama (imitating Obama), “Hey, I\u2019m not going after your gun. Not me. I believe in the Second Amendment. But I read the Second Amendment, I don\u2019t see anything in there about ammo. It says you can have all the guns you want, but it doesn\u2019t say that about ammo.” So here we go, folks. It\u2019s started. It has started, and I don\u2019t want to sit here and do a nah-nah-nah-nah, but I just knew these next two years, Republicans in Washington, nobody has slightest idea. I had a e-mail back and forth with Brent Bozell today. He\u2019s gonna make a speech. His CPAC speech is tomorrow and he was giving me a little preview of what he was gonna say. Part of it is that he doesn\u2019t think enough conservatives, even now, actually understand who the opposition is. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not McGovern Democrats. They\u2019re not your dad\u2019s Democrat Party or your grandfather. This is a bunch of fascists out there and a bunch of Stalinists, and all the young conservatives on our side haven\u2019t the slightest idea. They think it\u2019s just the standard, ordinary disagreement period, left and right, conservative and liberal. You go on Fox and you articulate your conservative point of view, and that constitutes doing battle, and it doesn\u2019t. Going on television and appearing smart about your beliefs doesn\u2019t mean anything when it comes to actually defeating these people. That takes a whole other commitment and level of involvement, and that\u2019s gonna be the focus of his speech. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I wrote back, and I said, “I agree with you totally.” I don\u2019t think a lot of people on our side, even now after six years of Obama, I don\u2019t think — Mitch McConnell clearly doesn\u2019t get it. I don\u2019t think the elected Republicans, I don\u2019t think the Republican establishment has the slightest idea. Jeb Bush doesn\u2019t get it. These people do not understand what we\u2019re up against, and they never will. They\u2019re not gonna see it the way we do. So when you come along and you take impeachment off the table, and you\u2019re telling this guy whatever he does, you\u2019re not gonna stop him because of whatever reason. You\u2019re not gonna stop him because you don\u2019t want to be called a racist. You\u2019re not gonna stop him because it\u2019ll irritate the independents if you criticize, whatever convoluted, sissified excuses you can give me for not stopping him. What do you think he\u2019s gonna do? <\/p>\n

He\u2019s got two years left to transform this country and he feels totally at home acting like a king. These are gonna be the two happiest years of his presidency. These next two years, it\u2019s, “Katy, bar the door.” You can\u2019t even imagine the kind of stuff that\u2019s gonna come down the pike. And nobody\u2019s gonna stop him. The Republicans have said it isn\u2019t gonna happen. There are constitutional mechanisms but they\u2019re not going to be used. Oh, he can\u2019t wait these next two years. This is every liberal Democrat, every socialist\u2019s best dream. These next two years, whatever they want to do, they\u2019re just gonna do it by dictate. Executive action, executive order, what have you. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We got two years left to fix this country, two years left to correct all the mistakes made from the days of our founding. Two years left to get guns out of everybody\u2019s hands. Two years left to take the guns and stuff away from the bitter clingers. And let your imagine run wild. We\u2019re just in the second month of what will be the next 24 months. This is just month two and look at what\u2019s happening already. As I say, he\u2019s taking control of the Internet today with the FCC vote, without constitutional authority to do so. <\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be tied up in court. There will obviously be people hurt by this who will go to court and sue. Might result in some new telecommunications law. Could end up being positive in certain ways, but still, the power grab is what to notice here. Supreme Court and Obamacare, that\u2019s over the subsidies. Executive action immigration, don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna stop at five million. He\u2019s gonna do it all. Islamic terrorism, Iran\u2019s gonna get the nuke. And Hillary Clinton and foreign money. And now banning bullets to the AR-15.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you remember — I certainly do — do you remember when a number of people some years back began hoarding bullets? Gun owners and gun rights groups began hoarding ammunition and suggesting that people hoard ammunition because they said Obama and the Democrat Party were going to make a move to ban it at some point. And remember how every Drive-By news organization laughed at them and mocked them and made fun of them as paranoid, racist, right-wing kooks? I do. I remember all of that, and now here we are. <\/p>\n

If you are just tuning in, President Obama is issuing executive actions to impose gun control on the nation by banning bullets to the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, one of the most used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. And don\u2019t think, “Well, they\u2019re not banning all bullets, Rush.” See, this is where you lose it. If you say, “Well, it\u2019s not every bullet, Rush.” It\u2019s the first. It\u2019s the beginning. You don\u2019t think all bullets except those held by the military and the cops are the objective? This is how we end up losing these. “Well, it\u2019s just one bullet, Rush. Come one. It\u2019s not worth having an attack over.” And this is how things just slowly trickle away. Spring of 2013 was when the hoarding of ammo began and the left started mocking those who did it.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the hoarding of ammunition actually was begun by the government, and that is what triggered and even panicked ordinary, everyday citizens. The government, ATF, any number of agencies began hoarding ammunition. That triggered some people to start hoarding ammo themselves. The thought was, “Look, the government\u2019s trying to corner the market on this stuff! The government\u2019s trying to buy it all so there isn\u2019t any for us.” <\/p>\n

When people started leveling that allegation, here came, right on cue, the New York Times and the Washington Post — and, you name it, every other news organization –that proclaimed them kooks and hayseeds and paranoids, tin hats, all of this stuff, tinfoil hats, just impugning these people left and right. “How do you dare think that! We\u2019re just preparing. We have to have a certain stock of ammunition for our agencies to be able to defend America,” blah blah blah blah blah.<\/p>\n

Yet they were buying ammunition they didn\u2019t need, they were buying more ammo than they ever had, and that sent red flags up all over the country, and people started hoarding ammunition themselves. It was that and the endless attempts to use shooting tragedies to push for even more gun control laws that made people run out and start thinking, “Something\u2019s up here. We got a guy who openly…” I mean, people on the right who get this guy get it. They understand that he means what he says. <\/p>\n