{"id":7112,"date":"2015-02-11T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-11T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:24:48","slug":"the_gonadless_senate_gop_does_it_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/11\/the_gonadless_senate_gop_does_it_again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gonadless Senate GOP Does It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: From Breitbart<\/a>. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate: “Department of Homeland Security Funding Stuck in the Senate, Up to the House.” Now, if you\u2019ve been following what\u2019s going on with this, you see that headline, then you know that the Republicans are all set to squander it again. <\/p>\n

With the version of a bill passed in the House, Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill — and, remember, now, let\u2019s go back to the cromnibus bill back in December, this totally unnecessary Republican agreement with the Democrats to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year. Giving up their power to shape the budget for the next nine months, they went ahead and gave the Democrats everything they wanted except one thing. They withheld funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Republicans did. <\/p>\n

Now, the reason that they withheld funding for DHS, they told us, was they were gonna make a stand on Obama\u2019s executive amnesty. They were going to eliminate Obama\u2019s ability to do it by denying him the money to implement it. That\u2019s what they told us, and they wanted applause and they wanted kudos and they wanted appreciation from us. But a number of us were suspicious of this, because we had become aware of negotiations between Republicans and the White House to go ahead and make executive amnesty a reality, after going through all of this, this supposed defunding simply as a show to placate us. <\/line><\/p>\n

So what happened is the House passes a bill that does not authorize funding for the Department of Homeland Security in this budget that is now in place for the next nine months. But that bill has to pass the Senate, and if it does pass the Senate, then Obama doesn\u2019t have the money to implement his executive amnesty, and Mitch McConnell is saying, “Well, we\u2019re kinda stuck here. We\u2019re not gonna be able to pass this bill here in the Senate because the Democrats are continuing to — well, they\u2019re filibustering the thing and they\u2019re obstructing it, and we\u2019re just not gonna be able to get it done.”<\/p>\n

And so McConnell has sent word to Boehner that it\u2019s up to you, you bud, you gotta come up with a new version of this bill that the Democrats will support, and there is no such thing. There\u2019s no such thing as a bill that the Democrats are gonna support that does not fund the Department of Homeland Security. McConnell told reporters yesterday, “I think it\u00c2\u2019s clear we can\u00c2\u2019t go forward in the Senate, unless you all have heard something I haven\u00c2\u2019t and so the next move obviously is up to the House. We\u00c2\u2019ve had a week on it. We\u00c2\u2019ve had three cloture votes, all of which have not succeeded. It\u00c2\u2019s clear we can\u00c2\u2019t get on the bill. We can\u00c2\u2019t offer amendments to the bill and I think it\u00c2\u2019d be pretty safe to say we\u00c2\u2019re stuck because of Democratic obstruction on the Senate side.”<\/p>\n

Now, how many weeks did the Senate Democrats spend ramming through Obamacare illegally via budget reconciliation? So how come the Republicans give up so quickly? Why don\u2019t they just use budget reconciliation in this case? I mean, they tell us that they\u2019re serious about opposing Obama\u2019s executive amnesty, but they\u2019re not. See, that\u2019s what it all comes down to. This is the sad thing. I hate saying it, too. They want to stop Obama\u2019s executive amnesty, so that\u2019s why they\u2019re not gonna really work on this. <\/p>\n

Another piece, Power Line<\/a>, the headline is: “Are Senate Republicans Hanging the House Out to Dry? — The House of Representatives has passed legislation that fully funds the Department of Homeland Security, except that it withholds funding to implement President Obama\u00c2\u2019s illegal and unconstitutional immigration fiats. Republican leadership in the Senate has tried to bring the House measure up for a vote three times, but each time the Democrats have filibustered it. The department is funded, I believe, through February 27. At that point the money begins to run out.<\/p>\n

“The Republicans hold the cards here. It is close to inconceivable that the Democrats would shut down the Department of Homeland Security by continuing to filibuster the department\u00c2\u2019s appropriation. Yet, if this account in the National Journal is correct, Senate Republicans may be preparing to fold a winning hand.” That\u2019s what the previous headline is. “McConnell: DHS Funding Stuck In the Senate, Up To The House.” Even the National Journal, which they\u2019re probably in tears, too, over Jon Stewart leaving, even they say the Republicans have a winning hand that they\u2019re about to squander. The House came up with a good plan. That it\u2019s up to the Senate Republicans to stick to it. <\/line><\/p>\n

You want to know what\u2019s really happened here? This is gonna make you sick. You want to know what\u2019s really happened here on the Senate side? I\u2019ll tell you exactly what\u2019s happened here. And Ted Cruz, you can find a video by Ted Cruz, and he spells this all out. It was recorded this past weekend, and he says that the cromnibus bill, this lame-duck session thing signed in December, set all of this up. <\/p>\n

Here was the idea. The idea was that rather than risk a wider government shutdown over Obama\u2019s amnesty, Republicans would focus on the Department of Homeland Security funding, and they would risk a limited shutdown of that department and that department only if Obama and the Democrats refused to scale back his amnesty intentions. But when it came down to the final counting, the Republicans were never really willing to shut down DHS, either, and they made no secret of the fact. <\/p>\n

The Republicans were bluffing, and they admitted they were bluffing! It\u2019s no different than when the Republicans told Obama and the media and everybody else that there would never be any be any impeachment hearings. Well, that\u2019s just a signal to Obama that the Republicans aren\u2019t gonna stop him. They did the same thing here. All along they have led everybody to believe that they\u2019re willing to shut down DHS, not the whole government, but they\u2019re willing to shut down the Department of Homeland Security in order to stop Obama\u2019s executive amnesty. But then they let it be known that they wouldn\u2019t shut down Department of Homeland Security. So the Democrats have no reason to support the Republican bill. <\/p>\n

The whole thing is an out-and-out joke, folks. The House passed an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security bill that not only would have blocked Obama\u2019s mega-amnesty, but also the smaller DREAMer amnesty that he imposed in 2012. So what they promised, they promised to use the power of the purse to stop Obama\u2019s executive overreach, and then they also vowed to show American voters looking at 2016 that the Republicans would never shut down the government. They\u2019re hell-bent, as you know, the Republicans, because of polling data and whatever, they want people to know that no matter what, if there\u2019s ever a government shutdown, it isn\u2019t them, they\u2019re not doing it. <\/line><\/p>\n

So the House passes a bill that would defund the Department of Homeland Security and deny Obama the money to implement executive amnesty. The Senate from day one agreed to go along with it. And then when it came time to actually go along with it, the Senate Republicans said, “Sorry, we can\u2019t get the bill past the Democrats.” Because they had telegraphed to the Democrats that they really weren\u2019t gonna shut down the Department of Homeland Security because they had said, “We don\u2019t ever want to be accused of shutting down the government.” <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to go into the 2016 presidential campaign year with any government shutdown in anybody\u2019s recent memory. So just like with Obamacare, there\u2019s no real Republican effort to stop Obama\u2019s executive amnesty. And I want you to remember, back in December when they started debating this stupid budget bill, it was a mistake to go ahead and let the Democrats essentially authorize a budget for the balance of this fiscal year, because that gave the Democrats the power to spend the money as they wanted it spent for the next nine months, even though the Republicans are gonna be controlling Congress for those nine months, the Republicans trying to mollify us, “Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019re not gonna fund the Department of Homeland Security. We\u2019re gonna hold out money so Obama can\u2019t do his amnesty.” <\/p>\n

So now February as arrived when it\u2019s time to withhold money from DHS, and the Senate Republicans are saying, “Sorry, we can\u2019t do it.” And that\u2019s where we are. The conservative media, conservative blogosphere pulling their hair out trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Why are the Senate Republicans so gonadless? Sadly, it was predictable. But, anyway, that\u2019s it. If you\u2019ve heard about it, you\u2019ve been seeing little bits and pieces about it, that\u2019s what the bottom line is. <\/p>\n

As it stands now, there is not gonna be — \u2019cause the Senate is saying Boehner, it\u2019s up to you to come up with a new bill that the Democrats over here will support. And Boehner is saying, “Sorry, we\u2019ve already done the bill. It\u2019s your turn.” The House Republicans, say what you want about \u2019em, but they are miffed that the Senate Republicans have not done one thing to help \u2019em in the past couple years. And the Senate Republicans\u2019 excuse has been Harry Reid wouldn\u2019t let us do anything. But now they run the Senate. They can\u2019t hide behind Harry Reid now, but they\u2019re hiding behind something.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Jake, Salt Lake City, you\u2019re next, sir. I am glad you waited. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Dittos from sunny Salt Lake City. Thrilled to speak with you. By the way, before I get to my point, I love your commentary from the first hour. I found myself thinking, if I\u2019m a liberal or even a low-information voter listening to your points, I\u2019d find myself shaking my head, like, how can you argue with that? Why is this making so much sense? And people like Olivia, it illustrates a point. But, anyway, my point is, I\u2019m so frustrated with the Republicans because it seems like we\u2019ve given them such a mandate, we the American people, in the midterm elections, and they\u2019re just so afraid. <\/p>\n

I know this is a point we\u2019ve talked about before, you brought up before, but in light of your earlier commentary, I wanted to bring it up. Because it feels to me like they are afraid to move forward full steam for they might lose the low-information voter who might be thinking, you know, to come over to the other side, but then again, I\u2019m so frustrated because they have the will of the American people. It\u2019s right here in front of them, and yet they\u2019re afraid to use it \u2019cause they got their eye on the election, and they don\u2019t want to scare people away. You know what I mean?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. The only thing I would tell you is, I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s fear of the low-information voter per se. That\u2019s where it ends. The fear is of the media. Let\u2019s say they had proceeded here. Let\u2019s say the Senate had gone ahead and let\u2019s say McConnell had really tried as hard as he can to get the House bill that would have defunded Obama\u2019s executive amnesty and Homeland Security passed in the Senate. I mean, really, really tried. Let\u2019s say they\u2019d done it. They are deathly afraid that the media is gonna write of them as racists, anti-Hispanic, you name it. And that they\u2019re gonna be tarred and feathered once again with not liking people of color and only supporting the rich and only caring about the rich and all that, and I don\u2019t know what else it is. Well, I do. <\/p>\n

The other possibility is that the people donating money to them don\u2019t want this. The donor class carries much more weight than voters at the moment. I mean, it\u2019s just what it is. The donor class, meaning the Chamber and others raising money who want amnesty to happen. The money talks. And it\u2019s in direct conflict with the election results last November. <\/p>\n

So I think it\u2019s a two-pronged effort. The problem is that when they campaign and get those votes, and in this last election in November it was an anti-Obama vote, this makes it even worse. This election did not have a Republican mandate per se, other than stop Obama and the Democrat Party, stop the Democrat Party, stop Obama, that\u2019s what this election and that\u2019s what the one in 2010 meant. And the Republicans purposely did not run with a national agenda or issue platform so they could say that they don\u2019t have an issue mandate, which they think would imprison them. But the mandate they do have is one they\u2019re ignoring, and that is stop Obama. There\u2019s any number of reasons for it, as we\u2019ve discussed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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