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RUSH: Look, I know that there\u2019s big immigration news out there, and I was right, Boehner was just shining us on<\/a>, folks, as we suspected earlier in the week. The GOP annual retreat is going on, and Mitch McConnell has basically told the House Republicans, “I don\u2019t care what you send over here on immigration, we probably are not gonna pass it.” And it\u2019s one of the things that we speculated on earlier in the week. <\/p>\n

<\/a>One of two things is gonna happen with the House immigration bill, and this is an immigration bill designed to deny Obama the money necessary to implement his amnesty executive orders. The bill\u2019s either gonna die in the Senate or they\u2019ll pass it and Obama will veto it, and they don\u2019t have enough votes to override it. And after the veto, or after the bill dies, I said that\u2019s where the real focus is, because then we\u2019ll know what the real intentions are. <\/p>\n

Well, I think we already know now, because at the retreat McConnell has pretty much said we\u2019re not gonna pass this. The donors to the Republican Party do not want any opposition to amnesty, however it happens, if Obama does it, the Republicans, they don\u2019t care. They just want an end to deportations and the normalization of the illegal immigrants who are here now.<\/p>\n

So all of the talk that we\u2019ve been hearing, tough talk, about Obama violating Constitution and Obama this and Obama that and we gotta stand up to it, how Obama himself doesn\u2019t have the power to do all this, it appears that that was just a little red meat for the Republican base to feast on for a while in an attempt to tide them over through the next hunger strike. <\/p>\n

But I have more details on that as the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s focus on the Republicans and this whole immigration thing and the Republican retreat. A short review. On Monday we had an AP story<\/a> that was really pummeling Boehner, because he was speaking in terms of red meat for conservatives. He was hammering Obama on violating the Constitution and violating immigration law, executive actions, all these kinds of things. <\/p>\n

AP was mad. They were criticizing Boehner for doing it. Boehner hung in nevertheless. They were trying to shame Boehner into talking out of it, and they were kind of giving him a little business for not reacting more strongly and defiantly dealing with these traitors who had voted against him in the Speaker\u2019s vote. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, we came to Wednesday, and Boehner did a stem-winder of a speech — well, for the Republicans it was a stem-winder of a speech on the floor of the House in which he just took it to Obama on all of his constitutional violations, and he quoted Obama claiming how he couldn\u2019t violate the Constitution and then gave examples of him doing just that. And there were conservative media that got kind of excited about it, and said, “Wow, okay, maybe we hold out hope. Maybe they see the light.” <\/p>\n

And I found a post at Conservative Review which said that they had already uncovered news that all of this was just for show, all of this stridency, all this beating up on Obama and all this Republican fist pounding saying they aren\u2019t gonna put up with these executive actions on amnesty, blah, blah, blah. That what was really going on was a behind-the-scenes plan to make executive amnesty, executive orders legal and make \u2019em all happen after either Obama vetoes the House bill or the Senate fails to pass it. <\/p>\n

Well, now we arrive to Friday. And let me just give you two stories to kick this off, one from TheHill.com; one from the AP. The Hill<\/a> headline is: “McConnell to House GOP: Don\u00c2\u2019t Expect Miracle on Immigration — Senate GOP leaders are using their joint retreat with the House to warn conservatives that they\u00c2\u2019re not going to be able to reverse President Obama\u00c2\u2019s executive orders on immigration.”<\/p>\n

Now, TheHill.com thus wants all of us to know that McConnell is giving up already, which, you know, what a surprise. But, it\u2019s okay. The Republican leadership, it says, need to save their ammo for the next fight. They can\u2019t stop him. They gotta save their ammo. This is always what we\u2019re told. Yeah, we don\u2019t have any ammo on this one, but we\u2019re gonna save our ammo and we\u2019re gonna build up our stock, and then next time, boy, we\u2019re gonna take it to them. How many times do we hear that during every continuing resolution debate, every spending debate. <\/p>\n

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told House lawmakers that he needs at least six Democrats to pass legislation approved by the House that funds the Homeland Security Department and repeals Obama\u00c2\u2019s actions deferring deportation for millions of illegal immigrants.”<\/p>\n

The House bill would defund the small areas of Homeland Security Obama needs to pay for his amnesty. The House bill, take the money away to do it. McConnell\u2019s basically saying, “No, no, no. We don\u2019t have the votes here. We control the Senate, but we don\u2019t have the votes, so don\u2019t expect any miracles.” Since it would take 60 Senate votes to send the bill to Obama\u2019s desk, and McConnell only has 54 Republican votes. I don\u2019t understand this. It takes 60 votes for a veto-proof bill, but they don\u2019t need 60 votes to pass a bill. See, this is… (interruption) They need cloture on this? Okay. So they would need 60 votes for cloture. For some reason I thought — all right. So he\u2019s saying he can\u2019t even get cloture. He can\u2019t even get to a final vote. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway. Now, the AP story on this: “Not exactly brimming with confidence, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he\u00c2\u2019s going to try to push a House-passed bill to overturn President Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s immigration policies through the Senate. But neither McConnell nor other members of his leadership — and not even senior House Republicans — predict success for the plan that undoes Obama\u00c2\u2019s moves and exposes hundreds of thousands of younger immigrants to deportation. ‘Good question,\u2019 Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Thursday when asked about the bill\u00c2\u2019s prospects in the Senate. ‘It\u00c2\u2019s a process,\u2019 added Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., equally noncommittal on the subject as Republicans held a joint retreat.<\/p>\n

“‘We\u00c2\u2019re going to try to pass it. That\u00c2\u2019ll be our first choice,\u2019 McConnell told reporters at a news conference at the homey Hershey Lodge. ‘If we\u00c2\u2019re unable to do that, we\u00c2\u2019ll let you know what comes next.\u2019 … ‘It\u00c2\u2019s very difficult to craft language in a way that takes aim at the overreach by the president with his executive authority and yet doesn\u00c2\u2019t impede DHS\u00c2\u2019s enforcement of the law,\u2019 said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.”<\/p>\n

So what they\u2019re saying is, “Hey, look, you know, we would love to do this, but we need the Department of Homeland Security to function. We can\u2019t veto funding for the Department of Homeland Security, especially not now with militant Islamist terrorists all over the place.” But the legislation doesn\u2019t defund Homeland Security. It defunds just a small part of it necessary for Obama to implement amnesty. It does not defund Homeland Security. <\/p>\n

So what we are left with here, they\u2019re trying, oh, my gosh, are they trying, so hard, just a can\u2019t get there, damn it, no matter. We keep winning elections, just can\u2019t get there. They can\u2019t get 60 votes, they can\u2019t shut down debate in the Senate, they can\u2019t move on to a final vote. And then, from Breitbart News — oops. Break time. There\u2019s one more. There\u2019s a member of the House, Jeff Denham, who doesn\u2019t want any part of it. He just wants to go ahead and make this amnesty permanent, get it done, and have the Republicans stand behind it.<\/p>\n

And he says, by the way, that the party is quietly crafting a broad immigration bill behind the scenes anyway. And he says (paraphrasing), “Have you seen Obama\u2019s numbers on this? Are you sane? We have to go along. The only way we can survive is to support amnesty. Have you seen Obama\u2019s numbers on this?” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I guess I, and probably a lot of you, just come from an old school. Okay, here\u2019s McConnell, he\u2019s in the Senate, we got something serious. We have a president violating the Constitution. He\u2019s gonna grant amnesty, outside the Constitution, to five million, 11 million illegal immigrants. Republicans just won the Senate. They have 54 members, 54 votes. They\u2019re six votes shy of what they need. You mean to tell me that McConnell can\u2019t go on TV and shame six Democrats into joining them? What we\u2019re talking about here is defending the Constitution, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n

Are there not six Democrats that could not be appealed to on the basis of defending and protecting the Constitution, the oath they take? Why don\u2019t you at least make the effort? Are they afraid they might convince six, afraid they might win? Is it in the bag the Republicans want amnesty anyway and all this is just for show? Okay, so you need 60 votes. Change the rules like Harry Reid did. Eliminate cloture on this one. Just say all we need\u2019s 54 or 53 votes to pass it. Play the game like Harry Reid did. He changed the rules whenever he needed the rules to be changed or to get what he wanted. If you don\u2019t want to change the rules, if they don\u2019t want to monkey with it like that, what\u2019s wrong with going on TV and making an appeal to six Democrats. <\/line><\/p>\n

Are there not six Democrats who want to vote and defend the Constitution of the United States? That would be a great message. Not one Democrat in the US Senate willing to defend the Constitution. What a great message for a future campaign. And then on this stupid business of the defunding Homeland Security, this bill does not defund Homeland Security. It defunds three small parts of it that Obama needs to pay money to have these illegals amnestified, whatever you want to call it. <\/p>\n

If there were to be a veto of the bill, it would be Obama who would be defunding Homeland Security, not the Republicans. The Republicans are not defunding at all. Not even willing to fight for that. Make Obama veto it. Put the onus on him. It tells me that all this is for show, and as we\u2019ve always suspected, the Republicans are all-in on amnesty anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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