{"id":7726,"date":"2014-11-20T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-20T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:12:26","slug":"why_is_obama_doing_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/20\/why_is_obama_doing_this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Obama Doing This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: And not only that, Obama cannot give them work permits. Obama cannot hand out benefits to these people. That is appropriating money. Only the Congress can appropriate money. Only the Congress can write law that appropriates benefits. The president just can\u2019t start handing out things like this. He can\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n

Now, this action tonight, it does bring the governors into the equation, but I don\u2019t know quite how that\u2019s gonna work out yet. Only time will tell. Governor Perry, Texas, is gonna sue him. Well, how long is that gonna take? I mean, but the governors are gonna be brought into this somehow. This is not just gonna happen in a vacuum. Our previous caller was on to something. It\u2019s just we\u2019re gonna have to wait and see how it all shakes out. ‘Cause this is uncharted territory. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve never had a ceremony where the Constitution was violated. We\u2019ve never had a primetime address with a nation tuning in with a bunch of people throwing a party where the Constitution gets clipped. In a way, parts of this are unprecedented. And this assertion of prosecutorial discretion, he\u2019s rewriting federal law and he doesn\u2019t have the authority to do that. <\/line><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t prosecutorial discretion. I mean, they\u2019re using it, and they\u2019ve got Toobin out there on CNN<\/a> trying to back him up. But that\u2019s not even what they\u2019re doing. Because he\u2019s rewriting law here. Even he admits that. Executive amnesty, executive action, executive order, he\u2019s writing law. In addition to not enforcing it, he\u2019s writing law. He doesn\u2019t have the authority. He has said it himself, Obama has, repeatedly, a year ago, over and over, when he said he wasn\u2019t an emperor. He has no power in this matter, let alone any kind of discretion in legislating. <\/p>\n

By the way, I asked just before the break, is anybody asking why he\u2019s doing this? There are a number of different answers to that. I mean, one straight-up answer is that he says he\u2019s acting because Congress won\u2019t pass a law that he demands. Well, tough toenails, Mr. President. That happens all the time. Just because Congress doesn\u2019t give you what you want doesn\u2019t mean you have the power to go make it happen. It\u2019s called separation of powers. <\/p>\n

The Constitution\u2019s being corrupted and perverted and stood upside down on its head tonight, and everybody is throwing a party. Well, people on our side are not throwing a party, but everybody\u2019s all hopped up and excited to watch. This offends my sensibilities like I can\u2019t begin to even describe to you. <\/p>\n

Now the “why is he doing it?” Well, of course some might say he\u2019s concerned with his legacy. Frankly, I think legacy is the last thing on his mind here. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s where Obama\u2019s ego goes. I know he\u2019s got a big ego and all that. Folks, let\u2019s take 12 million, 20, whatever the number is. What is the pressing need to do this? There is no need to do this. This is all politics. The inspiration, motivation, demand, desire, whatever it is propelling this is all politics. It\u2019s not compassion. It\u2019s not concern for human beings. It\u2019s none of that. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not why this is happening. It\u2019s not because the immigration law is broken. It isn\u2019t. It\u2019s just not being enforced. The immigration law on the book is fine. It\u2019s actually quite good. You\u2019re not allowed to be here illegally. And if you\u2019re found you\u2019ll be deported. It\u2019s just not being enforced, and because it\u2019s not being enforced, Obama\u2019s running around saying it\u2019s broken and he wants Congress to give him a new law, and they won\u2019t so he\u2019s gonna write his own. He can\u2019t. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is how fragile our system is, the honor system. Adherence, respect for the Constitution, if that\u2019s not present, if you elect a president that does not have that respect or reverence for it, then it isn\u2019t any good. It\u2019s just a piece of paper. It may be hundreds of years old, but it\u2019s just a piece of paper, and in this case it\u2019s a meaningless piece of paper to our current president. And if it doesn\u2019t mean anything, then it can\u2019t get in his way. <\/p>\n

This is how precarious — well, what if, we have how many, 43 previous presidents? What if any one of them at any point in our history, “You know what? This Constitution, this is bollocks” and just threw it away and created his own government? You\u2019re shaking your head. (interruption) Snerdley is saying it would never happen like that. The press would stir it up, somebody would throw \u2019em out. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s happening is my point. And the press is not stirred up. The press is supporting it. The press is doing everything they can to make this happen. The press is encouraging this. The press is providing cover for this. The press is not defending and protecting the Constitution, even though they are specifically spelled out in it. The press has become totally compliant and slavish to the emperor. But there\u2019s another reason why. Why do this? What is the practical result of this? <\/p>\n

After he does this, you\u2019re gonna have more foreign workers that are all of a sudden flooding the job market. You\u2019re gonna have 5.5, six million people after tonight legally, quote, unquote, flooding the job market. That number is greater than the number of jobs that have been created in this country since 2009, since Obama took office. This is going to overwhelm the country\u2019s abilities. It\u2019s going to overwhelm the free market economy, the free enterprise economy. It is going to overwhelm the welfare system. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to put pressure like we\u2019ve never seen. This is going to totally break down any semblance of order. This is a direct attack on the structure and foundation of this country, is what this is. And it\u2019s all being disguised as compassion for the downtrodden and the homeless and the hungry and the thirsty and the abandoned and the separated and what have you. And others say, “No, it\u2019s restitution for criminal acts committed by this country long ago. It\u2019s simply getting even.” There\u2019s all kinds of reasons for doing this. But those that would fall under the label of common sense, you can\u2019t find any. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just mind-boggling here to absorb all this. And it\u2019s classic. Create a crisis out of nothing, and then build it and build it and build it and build it. And then get to the point where we gotta do something immediately or else, like the financial crisis. “If we don\u2019t do these bailouts in 24 hours, the world financial system\u2019s gonna collapse.” And two weeks later they were telling us the same thing. “You got 24 hours to do TARP or else it\u2019s curtains for the world economy.” Two weeks later they were still telling us we had 24 hours. <\/p>\n

This is part of Obama\u2019s sworn objective to transform this country into something that it was not founded to be. And the sad thing is, you\u2019ve got political partisans on both sides who claim that it\u2019ll benefit them. Chamber of Commerce, “Hey, man, we\u2019ll get some cheap labor here to clip the hedges.” And on the left, “My God, look at all the brand-new underclass registered Democrats we\u2019re gonna have in a few years.” I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s an abject disaster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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