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RUSH: This is Lee in Queens. Great to have you. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking the call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I keep hearing you talk about the next two years and what\u2019s going to happen, and my point is, it\u2019s not the next two years, because after amnesty, Rush, I think that\u2019s it. I think that this is the kind of government we\u2019re gonna have for the foreseeable future. And every single major issue we have, whether it\u2019s taxes, energy, jobs, health care, people\u2019s pensions, people\u2019s private property, I think everything\u2019s up for grabs because there\u2019s not gonna be anybody around to stop it anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is I guess my point. When I say the next two years, tell me, this will be helpful for me, tell me what you think I mean, that you\u2019re objecting to.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I think the focus is greater, if you look at it as the foreseeable future and not just as the end of Obama\u2019s presidency in the next two years, I think the bigger issue is after that. I think this is it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you think the linchpin for all this is amnesty. If this happens then all bets are off. That represents, if I\u2019m hearing what you\u2019re saying, a cultural tsunami from which we simply can\u2019t overcome. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I really do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I want to be wrong on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you\u2019re gonna spend the rest of your career being right about everything but unable to do anything about it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, here\u2019s the thing. I have said the same thing. The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass no matter where they get \u2019em. Your fear will be fully and ultimately realized when those people are finally given the right to vote, which is not going to take very long. <\/p>\n

Now, all I mean, when I talk about these next two years, is that what we\u2019ve had up \u2019til now in terms of Obama ignoring the Constitution is gonna pale in comparison to what he does the next two years. I had a guy — this may help me explain it better to you — I had dinner on Saturday night with an establishment news media type, and I get the usual question, “So what do you think of the Republican field in 2016, who do you think\u2019s the front-runner right now, who excites you?” <\/p>\n

And I said, “I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the story. I don\u2019t think the Republican presidential campaign is in any way, shape, manner, or form even understood yet because you have no idea what\u2019s coming these next two years. The Republican presidential campaign is going to be starkly different from what anybody thinks it\u2019s going to be today because you haven\u2019t seen anything yet in terms of what Obama does, policy-wise, violating, ignoring the Constitution, who knows what. Amnesty is just part of it.” <\/p>\n

This guy understood what I was talking about. He doesn\u2019t look at things like that. He\u2019s more of a traditionalist. “Okay, it\u2019s a presidential year, who are the Republican front-runners? Who do you think is the odds-on favorite?” And I said, “It\u2019s too soon to narrow any of that down because that campaign, the Republican presidential campaign, is gonna be predicated and based entirely on what Obama does these next two years. I don\u2019t think anybody has the slightest idea how bad it\u2019s gonna be. And they won\u2019t \u2019til they get there. Amnesty is the first step of many similar kind of things to follow.” <\/p>\n

I hope I\u2019m wrong, but the evidence is pretty clear. Obama told everybody he\u2019s got a wish to fundamentally transform this country. Now, if you know what that means — and I know you do, Lee — if you know what that means, he\u2019s got two years, the Republicans have told him that they\u2019re not gonna stop him, he\u2019s got two years to get even with 200 years of injustice, the way he looks at it, and he\u2019s gonna use \u2019em to the best of his ability.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. I think we\u2019re on the same page.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Exactly. And amnesty is just one of the things, amnesty and endless immigration is just one of the ways Obama is going to right the wrongs that have been part of this country since our founding. This country was founded on racism, he believes, founded on injustice and inequality, and it\u2019s time that this country found out the way most of the people in the world live. Our superpower is illegitimate because we\u2019ve stolen it from other nations around the world. We\u2019ve bullied, we\u2019ve conquered, we\u2019ve put people in jail that I don\u2019t deserve to be, blah, blah. All of these things, and it\u2019s his job to finally right all of these traditional injustices.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think — and I\u2019d love to be wrong about all this — but I don\u2019t think people have the slightest inkling yet. (interruption) Who\u2019s gonna go tooth and nail to stop him? They\u2019re not gonna stop him. When you take impeachment off the table, that\u2019s the only way to stop him. Separation of powers. I talked about last week. I don\u2019t mind repeating it. Separation of powers is one of the primarily safeguards built into the Constitution. Let me explain this a bit. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The Founders knew full well what they were dealing with. They knew full well what the natural inclinations of tyranny are. And they knew that this country was going to be attacked from the moment it was founded. They believed in what they were doing. They believed in what they were doing so much they pledged everything to make it happen, their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor. And when given the opportunity to withdraw and retract, they didn\u2019t. They hung in. <\/p>\n

During the Revolutionary War many of them saw their children kidnapped and killed as prisoners of war. They were blackmailed. “Recant this revolution and we\u2019ll release your kid.” They didn\u2019t. They were dead serious. Read the Federalist Papers. They were very proud. These were smart people. These were miraculously brilliant people. They knew exactly what they had done in creating this country. They knew exactly what they\u2019d done when they wrote the Constitution, and they knew, human nature being what it is, that it was gonna be under assault from the moment it was enacted, so they built safeguards into it. <\/p>\n

They built self-protective measures into it that they rooted in their understanding of human nature. And separation of powers is one of the first, and in their intentions, most powerful safeguards. What got me thinking about this was a call in the latter months of last year in discussing how Obama\u2019s breezing past the Constitution, ignoring it wantonly, purposely, and somebody called and said, “Well, what\u2019s stopped any leader before Obama from doing this? Why is he the first?” The caller said, “Is it the honor system? Have we just been lucky that we\u2019ve elected people who decided, because of their own morality and all that, to honor the Constitution?” <\/p>\n

I said, “Well, you\u2019d like to think that, but no.” There are many safeguards built in to protect the Constitution and to make sure that it is something that remains in force. The way separation of powers is designed to work and rooted in human nature is, the Founders understood that human beings, particularly human beings who seek leadership positions in the world of politics, want power. That\u2019s why they divvied it up. It\u2019s why there is no king. You\u2019ve got the judicial branch — the judges, the courts, the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

You have the legislative branch, which is the House and the Senate. And you have the executive branch, which is the president and all the cabinet offices. I imagine some of you listening today are hearing this for the first time, given how woeful our education is on this. The Founders believed that the legislative branch, because of human nature, would be trying to secure as much power away from the president and his branch as they could. And by vice-versa, the founders believed that presidents would be doing everything they could to steal power from the legislative branch.<\/p>\n

Their belief was that people steeped in, invested in, desirous of power, would go to any length to hold on to theirs and thereby preserve the separation of powers and prevent any one branch from becoming essentially dictatorial. They believed that the president would do everything he could to keep Congress from overrunning him and vice-versa, that Congress would do everything it could to stop some president from taking over their power. <\/p>\n

Well, what\u2019s happened here in the last six years is that the Democrat Party, particularly those in the House of Representatives, as exemplified by these idiots, Barbara Lee and Sheila Jackson Lee, and any number of others who said, “Our job is to write executive orders for the president.” These are the kind of people the Founders feared. Democrats in the House and Senate have been more than willing to surrender their power to Barack Obama in the name of the cause. And the cause is liberalism. The cause is statism. The cause is power, party power. <\/line><\/p>\n

So the president has been allowed to usurp all of this congressional power because Congress has not fought to protect their own. The Democrats didn\u2019t care. It\u2019s all the Democrats saying, “Obama\u2019s Democrat, we\u2019re Democrat, if he\u2019s got the power, we\u2019ve got the power, we don\u2019t care where it is.” The Republicans — this is why everybody\u2019s so upset. The Republicans didn\u2019t really fight to preserve their power in the House because they didn\u2019t want to be called racists by the media. <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t want to be criticized as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and so this natural safeguard, separation of powers, is itself under assault right now. Then the judges that the Democrats have put in office are themselves people who think they should have and do have the power to write law from their courtrooms. Now, add to that something that was never provided for in the Constitution, and that\u2019s all of these regulatory agencies out there that are in the executive branch, such things as the Fish and Wildlife and the EPA. <\/p>\n

These people are writing regulations left and right, 14, 15,000 a year that are becoming, effectively, law in this country without going through the process of becoming law. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the greatest violations of the separation of powers ever. There\u2019s no oversight over these regulators. The regulators at EPA, if they want to be in charge of regulating CO2 because they believe it destroys the climate, then, by God, they\u2019re gonna be in charge of it. And if they want to fine you for exhaling or if they want to fine you for using more than your share, there\u2019s nothing to stop them from doing it. Congress hasn\u2019t even played a role in any of this, and yet none of this is technically constitutional. Everything coming out of these regulatory agencies — not everything — but the vast majority of it, in real terms, is not constitutional. <\/p>\n

But if the people who are having power taken from them do not stand up and defend it and try to secure their own power and make sure that it isn\u2019t stolen, then the separation of powers kind of drifts away, loses some of its unique strength or power itself. And so it\u2019s now left to other safeguards, and other safeguards, if you read the Federalist Papers, it\u2019s why Madison spent so damn much time talking about the importance of character in the chief executive, character in elected leaders, morality and character, all the things that are laughed at today by people that are uninformed and all this stuff in the pop culture. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s why so many people are concerned. The safeguards have worked for over 200 years to protect and defend the Constitution and keep it from being basically used as toilet paper, and now it\u2019s under assault and there doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody standing up and defending it. That\u2019s what really upsets so many people when you get down to it. It upsets the Tea Party. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, there\u2019s one other thing here. In addition to the separation of powers, I think you\u2019re gonna laugh at this, but one of the most powerful things that keeps presidents in check is the fear of impeachment. Do not doubt me. The fear of being impeached, even after Clinton — doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s not really the fear, but the idea that people don\u2019t want to be impeached, what it does to the legacy, the image and all that. It\u2019s the only way, when you get right down to it, the only legal way to stop a president who\u2019s running amok. It\u2019s the only legal mechanism built in, impeachment. <\/p>\n

Separation of powers, in and of itself, is not enough. It\u2019s just a safeguard. But impeachment was established and built in as a legal remedy to a runaway chief executive. Now, the case for impeachment is not legal, except at the very end of it. In order for there to even be the first steps taken to impeach, the political will must exist in the country. If you haven\u2019t done that, if you\u2019re the opposing party and you do think that impeachment\u2019s warranted, if you haven\u2019t established the political will to do it, don\u2019t waste your time. Because while it is a legal remedy, it\u2019s a political procedure when it kicks off. <\/line><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s moot anyway, because the Republicans, in an effort to show how cooperative they can be and non-confrontational and how they want to really work with the president and get things done, announced a long time ago that impeachment is off the table, it will never happen. But if you tell John Gotti that you are going to stop chasing the mob, what do you think John Gotti is going to do? Or take Willie Sutton, I don\u2019t care, use any analogy you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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