{"id":7345,"date":"2015-01-14T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:10:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:10:44","slug":"the_john_boehner_chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/14\/the_john_boehner_chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Boehner Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We\u2019ve been chronicling the actions of John Boehner<\/a>, Speaker of the House, since Monday, and we first learned on Monday that there was a bill that the Republicans were working through the House. Remember, let\u2019s go back to December. Let\u2019s go back to the cromnibus, which is what they call the omnibus budget. Well, let\u2019s go back even farther than that just to set the table here. <\/p>\n

After the Republicans experienced their landslide victory in November, and for the Democrats it was a landslide defeat. I mean, it was deep. It comes on the heels of the 2010 landslide defeat for the Democrats, and it\u2019s deep, it\u2019s broad, it\u2019s widespread. It\u2019s not just federal seats, but state, local, you name it, the Democrats just took a beating. <\/p>\n

There still needs to be work done because the federal budget operating on a continuing resolution was to expire on December 11th, I believe it was, which meant that we needed another one of these emergency budget sessions to keep the government operating or there would be a shutdown. And that begot a massive routine, how-many-times-have-we-been-there debate, on the government shutdown. And Republicans all over Washington were saying, “We can\u2019t, oh, no, oh, my God, we can\u2019t have a government shutdown! Oh, my God, we\u2019ll get blamed for it. The Hispanics will hate us, the African-Americans, women, oh, my God, we can\u2019t have a government shutdown.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Others are saying, “Look, we can\u2019t keep doing the budget this way. You\u2019ve got an opportunity here now to do another continuing resolution just for two or three months, get you into the new year when the Republicans take control of the Senate as well, therefore own the legislative branch. And then do a budget, a real budget that would take us to the end of the fiscal year in September.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what happened. The Republicans, in what appeared to be a cave-in and buckle went ahead and crafted a budget deal for the remaining months of the fiscal year, which is \u2019til September 30th of this year. And many people thought they squandered an opportunity. That, in effect here, they\u2019ve got two years where they were gonna run the show and they just let the Democrats participate in writing the whole budget for the remaining year, which is essentially one of those two years. <\/p>\n

However, there was one element of the budget that was not part of the omnibus budget bill that runs through the end of this fiscal year, again, September 30th, and that was the Department of Homeland Security. And the reason for that was that the Republicans secretly planned to use the Department of Homeland Security budget as a means — they said they intended to do this — as a means of thwarting Obama\u2019s executive actions on immigration. <\/p>\n

Now, back when they were talking like this, back in December when the Republicans were explaining to their voters and constituents this is what they were doing, many voters and constituents, using intelligence guided by experience, “They\u2019re just slamming us again here. They\u2019re just telling us they\u2019re gonna take on Obama, but they\u2019re not gonna take on Obama. They\u2019re not gonna do it. They\u2019re just telling us this \u2019cause they know we won and we want to really deal with this and they don\u2019t want to deal with it. And they really favor amnesty so they\u2019re just telling us they\u2019re gonna do it.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that on Monday it appeared that Republicans had prepared legislation that indeed would defund two or three, maybe four departments within the Department of Homeland Security that would indeed defund them and would indeed imperil and make difficult Obama\u2019s plans for executive immigration, amnesty, by denying him the money for it. <\/p>\n

Well, this begot a much talked about — on this program — story from the Associated Press<\/a> in which they attempted to shame Boehner by falling prey to the influence of the kooks and the extremists in the Tea Party who are part of the new arrivals in the House having won election in November. And they were doing their best to shame Boehner, and, in terms of image and in the Drive-By Media, cast him as a coward, willing to go back on his word and now afraid of the conservatives and new arrivals by actually aligning with them. <\/p>\n

This led people to believe that Boehner really didn\u2019t mean it, that it was all part of a continuing effort to mollify angry conservative Republican voters who indeed want this kind of behavior. They want the Republicans to block Obama and his efforts at amnesty and everything else he\u2019s going to use executive actions or orders for. Well, Boehner responded to this by doubling down on it and letting it be known that this is exactly what they intended to do. <\/p>\n

Which takes us to last night and this story from the UK Daily Mail<\/a>. Do you know how often you hear me saying, “And the next story from the UK Daily Mail”? Do you know how much we\u2019re getting from this one source about news in America that doesn\u2019t show up in other places in America? It\u2019s been that way for quite a while. The UK Daily Mail, UK Independent, you name it, it\u2019s amazing. Now, the Drive-By Media in this country has this now. <\/line><\/p>\n

John Boehner\u2019s bartender plotted to kill him. This was the news last night. “Country club employee arrested for plan to poison wine after he blamed \u00c2\u2018mean\u00c2\u2019 Speaker for getting him fired. A former bartender at an Ohio country club patronized by House Speaker John Boehner has been charged with threatening to murder the 12-term congressman by poisoning his wine.<\/p>\n

“According to federal prosecutors, the failed assassination plot was hatched by 44-year-old Michael Hoyt last fall –” this is in October “– after he was fired from the Wetherington Country Club. Investigators say Hoyt, known at the country club as \u00c2\u2018Bartender Mike,\u00c2\u2019 blamed Congressman Boehner for his termination in mid-October. When questioned by the authorities, Hoyt reportedly said evil voices coming from his car speakers and his radio at home told him the House speaker was the devil.”<\/p>\n

Wow. I thought Air America was off the air. <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s out there saying that Boehner is the devil? He\u2019s also blaming Boehner for Ebola. Or that\u2019s what he heard. He heard that Boehner was responsible for Ebola. “In his rantings to police, the 44-year-old failed mixologist –” i.e., bartender “– also allegedly blamed the Ohio Republican for spreading Ebola and said he had been planning to shoot Boehner with his Beretta .380 automatic. According to a criminal complaint from October, Hoyt told an officer ‘he was Jesus Christ and that he was going to kill Boehner because Boehner was mean to him at the country club and because Boehner is responsible for Ebola.'”<\/p>\n

Now, this goes back to October. Who in the world was beating up on Boehner back in October? Who was it? This guy\u2019s hearing voices, but I mean you go back to October, take a look at the Drive-By Media and some of the efforts to intimidate Boehner that had been launched on the left side of the aisle in the Drive-By Media and elsewhere, who knows what this guy heard. He\u2019s clearly a nut case. He\u2019s clearly got some screws loose. The synapses are not firing in a coordinated way in the guy\u2019s brain. Clearly a Looney Toon. But nevertheless he had these designs. <\/line><\/p>\n

“In the course of the investigation, police uncovered that Michael Hoyt sent a rambling email to Boehner\u00c2\u2019s wife of nearly 42 years, Debbie, to complain about her husband a day before he called the authorities. In his appeal to Mrs. Boehner, Hoyt said he wanted her husband and another person, an Ohio doctor, to hand-deliver his termination report to him, or have him transported to a \u00c2\u2018secure location\u00c2\u2019 so the three of them could have ‘an honest conversation,'” about why the bartender got canned. <\/p>\n

“‘If I had any intention of hurting Mr. Boehner, I could have poisoned his wine at Wetherington many, many times,\u2019 Hoyt reportedly wrote to Debbie Boehner. He added a cryptic note saying they can ‘work together and succeed or\u00c2\u2026.. fail miserably.'”<\/p>\n

Now, again, notice that this came to a head back in October, which was during the height of the Democrat attacks on Boehner, right before the midterm elections. And also this guy, just to remind you, just to repeat now, this guy claimed that Boehner was responsible for Ebola, which, look, my memory is what it is. The Democrats tried to claim this about the House Republicans. <\/p>\n

For example, Democrats claimed the Republicans cut funding for research for the Ebola vaccine and the National Institutes for Health and the CDC in general. Remember that? Yeah, the Democrats blaming the Republicans for cutting all the research funding, blaming Republicans for hitting the National Institutes for Health or cutting them funds, CDC, and specifying that it was the Republicans. <\/p>\n

And they always do this. Republicans are poisoning the water. Republicans want your kids to get sick and die. I mean, it\u2019s silly. And they were out there blaming the Republicans for the spread of Ebola right about the time this guy is getting mad at Boehner for spreading Ebola. You do remember that now, El Snerdbo? Absolutely right. Will those Democrats now be blamed for inspiring this lunatic? You remember when one of the shooting incidents took place in Colorado, what\u2019s the first thing Brian Ross did, ABC? Tried to pin it on the Tea Party. <\/p>\n

The name of the shooter was announced, and the first thing Brian Ross did, investigative reporter for ABC News, was run to the nearest Tea Party roster to see if he could find the guy\u2019s name on it. There was no indication anybody in the Tea Party had anything to do with it. So will we see a similar pursuit in the Drive-By Media trying to find whoever it was this guy Hoyt was inspired by in the Democrat Party? <\/p>\n

Now, after all of that, we get to today. And Boehner — I haven\u2019t heard it yet — but Boehner gave a speech on the floor of the House and apparently just lashed out at Obama over immigration and a number of other things in a way, apparently, that all of us have been hoping Boehner would do for years. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, again, I have to say this with a caveat because I haven\u2019t heard it. All I have here is a published Drive-By Media report, and this is what it says. “‘Enough is enough!\u2019: Boehner fills House chamber with high drama as he lashes out against Obama in high-stakes immigration battle — and throws his own words back in his face. House speaker mocks Obama for going outside the US Constitution after teaching constitutional law.<\/p>\n

President ‘has ignored the people, ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements.\u2019 Republicans aim to use Homeland Security funding bill to kill Obama\u2019s plan to mainstream 5 million or more illegal immigrants.”<\/p>\n

So the story we have in the AP on Monday is now played out in full force, in full display on the floor of the House today, two days later. Should also note the White House has promised to veto the Republican bill, and most Democrats will support him. This is gonna be a pretty big showdown, possibly a Department of Homeland Security shutdown as well. <\/p>\n

A Republican budget amendment that would hamstring Obama passed 237 to 190. Now, here\u2019s this is Dave Martosko writing, once again, UK Daily Mail<\/a>. “John Boehner created the first live-action high drama on the House floor Wednesday, staking out a no-compromise position on blocking Barack Obama\u2019s sweeping immigration plan and reading aloud 22 examples of the president\u2019s past claims that he lacked the authority to put it into action. … Angering Democrats, the House speaker spoke during a floor debate to defend an amendment to the Homeland Security Department\u2019s budget bill that would forbid the cabinet agency from spending any money to implement it.”<\/p>\n

So here we are two days left, the story hits on Monday from AP, and it looks like they\u2019re following through on it. And let\u2019s not forget that even before the AP story on Monday — Snerdley, you\u2019ll back me up on this — before this all happened, the Republican leadership, after the vote — remember the vote on the Speaker where they came up one vote short of the veto? We had stories that Boehner was out there getting even and he was cutting the traitors out and eliminating their committee assignments and this sort of thing. And then Boehner denied that and said (paraphrasing), “No, I got no problem with it.” And all of that fell by the wayside, and it looked like Boehner had aligned himself with conservatives. It looked like it, which is what begot that AP story on Monday. <\/p>\n

It says here that “Boehner openly mocked Obama for what he said was an effort to evade the U.S. Constitution, throwing in his face his past claims that he wasn\u2019t a ‘king\u2019 or an \u2019emperor.'” We gotta take a brief time-out, but that\u2019s where we are today, and I hope we\u2019ll have some sound bites of this floor speech before this program expires today so we can judge it rather than just reading it about it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Now, folks, there\u2019s always a caveat when we\u2019re talking about the Republican leadership here. It\u2019s time for a caveat — and, again, this is intelligence guided by experience plus some reporting from one of these new websites that I have been trumpeting here, Conservative Review. Now, here we go: Boehner\u2019s House speech today, a floor speech rattling the rafters. I mean, he\u2019s pounding Obama, just ripping Obama…<\/p>\n

Well, not quite the way you or I would, but much more so than anybody in the Republican leadership has dared rip Obama, ever. Boehner even cited the 22 times Obama said he couldn\u2019t ignore or create his own immigration law despite doing it. Well, let\u2019s play the string out, because here is what I have discovered, ladies and gentlemen, as I\u2019ve walked all the way through this. <\/p>\n

Boehner\u2019s talking tough. <\/p>\n

Boehner is going to move legislation that would defund the elements of Homeland Security which would implement Obama\u2019s amnesty, which means it would be shut off. However, that has to go to the Senate. Yeah, the Republicans run the Senate, but the Chamber of Commerce runs the Republicans. The Wall Street Journal runs the Chamber of Commerce, or vice-versa. So who knows if this even comes out of the Senate. Who knows?<\/line><\/p>\n

There may even be a bill that dies in the Senate and Boehner and the House Republicans do what they\u2019re doing today just for the purposes of demonstrating their toughness and their resolve, and they\u2019re going after Obama, and it\u2019s meant to satisfy you. It\u2019s meant to get you all fired up and thinking, “My God, they\u2019ve finally seen the light! They\u2019re finally going after Obama. They\u2019re finally doing what we elected \u2019em to do.”<\/p>\n

But all along the bill is gonna die in the Senate. <\/p>\n

If it doesn\u2019t die in the Senate, if somehow gets through there, we know what\u2019s gonna happen next: Obama\u2019s gonna veto it. What comes after that? Do they try to override the veto? Apparently not. Conservative Review has the story. Details coming up after the next break. Here\u2019s the headline: “Boehner Prepares to Pay Obama\u2019s Amnesty Extortion<\/a>.” Just sit tight. Apparently this story claims that Boehner is preparing for the time after Obama vetoes this, or the Senate blocks it, and it\u2019s gonna make it happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So let\u2019s review. We\u2019ve got Boehner on the floor of the House this morning raising hell about Obama, pointing out Obama\u2019s contradictions, pointing out that Obama himself has said 22 times, different occasions, that he himself could not ignore the Constitution. He could not create his own immigration law. <\/p>\n

Essentially Boehner\u2019s on the floor of the House this morning ripping into Obama the way we\u2019ve always wished Republicans would do daily, as a matter of course. And it is noticeable. It\u2019s so different from the normal way Republicans in Washington deal with Obama that it is front-page news at the UK Daily Mail and a number of places. And it\u2019s got people all excited. Maybe Boehner\u2019s finally listening. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a caveat here, folks. Let me go through the process again. The House is gonna pass this bill, and this bill is going to defund certain elements of Homeland Security Obama needs to fully implement his amnesty program for these five million illegals. Without the money, he can\u2019t do it. The House is gonna pass the bill to defund those departments in Homeland Security. That bill has to go to the Senate. The Senate could bottle it up, could die in the Senate. We don\u2019t know yet what we\u2019re dealing with there. We think we do, but we\u2019re not sure. <\/p>\n