{"id":8494,"date":"2014-08-28T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:31:27","slug":"democrat_amnesty_strategy_shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/28\/democrat_amnesty_strategy_shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Amnesty Strategy: Shutdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The Democrats have concocted a strategy to save the Senate, and that is to have Obama do his executive order on immigration and amnesty-ize five million of \u2019em, six million of \u2019em. Luis Gutierrez<\/a> is now backing off just a little bit on when Obama\u2019s gonna do this and just how extensively Obama\u2019s gonna do it. We have tape. He was on with Cavuto yesterday. He\u2019s backing off just a little. But the Democrats are urging Obama to do this, because they know, they hope that it will goad the Republicans into what? <\/p>\n

<\/a>Shutting down the government. That\u2019s the Democrat strategy. Shut down the government. Get the Republicans to shut down the government. That\u2019s what they tried with impeachment. They were trying to goad the Republicans into actually getting the ball moving on impeaching Obama. That didn\u2019t work. So now that\u2019s the strategy. <\/p>\n

I mean, Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, a Fox website story<\/a>: “Dems\u00c2\u2019 Last Ditch Hope: Force a shutdown to save the Senate — Can Democrats troll their way to survival in the coming midterm elections? It\u00c2\u2019s what Marc Ambinder calls ‘the last, best hope for Democrats\u2019 to save the Senate. The plan calls for broad executive action by President Obama to legalize illegal immigrants to goad Republicans into a similar fight as last year\u00c2\u2019s failed effort to strip funding from Obamacare. The next shutdown deadline comes on Sept. 30 and if the president drops his executive action on immigration on schedule (‘end of the summer\u2019) it would be just in time to chum the water ahead of votes on a short-term budget measure.”<\/p>\n

So the strategy here is to pollute the water with executive orders on amnesty and so tick off the Republicans that what they would do is prevent funding for whatever, shut down the government. Ambinder writes, and he\u2019s encouraging Obama here, “Go big on immigration. Wait for the GOP counter-reaction. Quietly pray for the government to get shut down. Use it like a cattle prod to wake voters up just before the midterms.”<\/p>\n

Now, what is really going on? You know they are never fully upfront with what they really hope, so what really is behind this? What\u2019s really behind this is to stand by and do nothing and let amnesty happen with no opposition. They\u2019ve got the Republican Party right where they want. Democrats have the Republicans scared to death of saying anything that might even be interpreted as critical of the first African-American president. They have got the Republicans believing that amnesty is the only thing they can do, agreeing with it, to save themselves demographically for their future desire to win the White House. <\/line><\/p>\n

So now they\u2019re trying to goad the Republicans into a government shutdown. They\u2019re trying to goad the Republicans into shutting down the government by preventing funding for Obama\u2019s amnesty. What they\u2019re really trying to do is pressure the Republicans into standing by and doing nothing and letting it all happen. ‘Cause, after all, what\u2019s the objective? For Obama, what\u2019s the objective? To get amnesty. To get amnesty done and to get as many illegals in this country with amnesty as he can. That\u2019s what he wants. Forget what the Democrat Party wants. This is not about what the Democrat Party wants. That\u2019s ancillary. It\u2019s what Obama wants. This is Obama\u2019s presidency. It\u2019s his agenda and it\u2019s his desires that are going to determine everything. <\/p>\n

If you have a little scale here and on one side of the scale is the Democrats holding the Senate and the other side is Obama getting amnesty, which do you think Obama cares about more? Getting amnesty. And if you also understand that the Democrats\u2019 number one effort, number one objective is to eliminate all opposition, not engage the opposition and defeat it in a debate or argument or win an election, it\u2019s to eliminate opposition. It\u2019s to obviate the need for an election. I mean, you can\u2019t wipe out elections, but make them pro forma. Democrats win, by having no opposition. <\/p>\n

So by publicly asking for the Republicans to shut down the government… (laughing) You never announce your marketing strategy. You never. You just execute it. Any business, any entity, any slick PR person — you have to admit, folks, I am one of those — any slick PR person knows you never ever. When you\u2019re trying to separate people from their money, for example, and sell \u2019em something, you deny it. You don\u2019t tell them what you\u2019re gonna do. You don\u2019t explain to John Q. Public how it is that you\u2019re going to separate him from his money. I mean, you don\u2019t reveal the strategy. And that\u2019s what the Democrats are doing here, supposedly. <\/line><\/p>\n

So I think this is all Jiu-Jitsu. But it\u2019s all based on the fact that they are confident that the Republicans won\u2019t shut gown the government. They\u2019re confident the Republicans are scared to death to. Here, grab a sound bite. Josh Earnest, this is the White House press briefing yesterday, and the CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta asked the question.<\/p>\n

He said, “Republicans, in recent days, have talked about the prospect of continuing resolution vote in the fall being used as leverage to block the president from taking executive action on amnesty. That, of course, raises the prospect of a government shutdown. Do you think a government shutdown might happen this fall?”<\/p>\n

EARNEST: It certainly was a shame when Republicans engaged in a strategy to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Act, and there were bad consequences for that government shutdown. It certainly did have a negative impact on our economy. And we would hope that Republicans wouldn\u2019t do the same thing again, to shut down the government over a common-sense, bipartisan effort to try to mitigate at least some of the worst problems that are caused by our broken immigration system. It would be a real shame if Republicans were to engage in an effort to shut down the government over a common-sense solution like that, but they\u2019ve done it before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. A common-sense solution. Pretend the Constitution doesn\u2019t exist. Common sense, bipartisan solution. There is no bipartisan solution. If there were any bipartisanship going on, he wouldn\u2019t need an executive order. If there were any bipartisanship or agreement going on, he wouldn\u2019t need executive action. So there is no bipartisanship, and this is not a common-sense resolution. This is bald-faced power grab. This is statism. Folks, it is clear, and so many people have been saying this for so long, and it still doesn\u2019t resonate. The Constitution is an obstacle to these people. <\/p>\n

We had a caller that I thought had a very fascinating question. The question was born of a natural, not naivete, but a civics 101 belief in our system. We were discussing the fact that the Democrats look at the Constitution as an obstacle, that it is something that they wish weren\u2019t there and that they treat it as something that can be swept aside whenever they want to. Like Obama on this UN business, on this climate change stuff. You know what he\u2019s saying? “Well, I\u2019ve got to do this. I\u2019ve got a dysfunctional Congress.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Wait a minute. You can\u2019t do it without Congress. That\u2019s the way it was set up. This government was set up for gridlock by design. The Founders didn\u2019t want an all-powerful government being able to dictate things. They set up roadblocks and obstacles everywhere to all three branches from being able to project power. But Obama, a dysfunctional Congress in his view gives him the right to ignore the Constitution, because he has no reverence for it, no respect for it, it\u2019s an obstacle. And that\u2019s what this view from the press secretary indicates as well. <\/p>\n

“We got a common-sense solution here, grant amnesty, Congress won\u2019t help, but we gotta do it anyway.” This caller said, “Well, how have we made it this far, then? Is Obama the first president to really?” And I said, “In sense, yes.” She said, “Has it been the honor system?” And I knew what she meant. Well, yeah, the honor system, respect for the rule of law as the glue that binds all of this together and makes it work, understanding the way the republic is set up, understanding and respecting how it functions. <\/p>\n

Well, this bunch doesn\u2019t respect it. They understand it, and they don\u2019t like it. And so the honor system is out the window. In the honor system, if you\u2019re president and you want something and the Congress doesn\u2019t give it to you, you accept the loss and you find ways to get them on your side to get what you want. And it works the other way around, too. If people in Congress want something and the president doesn\u2019t, they work together. What happened to compromise, walking across the aisle and all this stuff? You know, it\u2019s always a one-way street. <\/p>\n

The Democrats never have to cross the aisle. If the Democrats don\u2019t get what they want, then the problem is the Republicans and the Constitution and we gotta sweep it out of the way. So I think, just to sum up, I think what\u2019s happening here is that the president and the Democrats and the media are basically attempting to intimidate the Republicans into doing nothing after Obama grants amnesty so that it happens as smooth as it can be. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t disagree, the way they look at things, the Democrats. If the Republicans did shut down the government, I have no doubt the Democrats would love that. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what their objective is. Even if it is, it still has the same end result: Obama gets amnesty, and the American people do not blame him for it. But in the midst of all this, Democrats running for the Senate are still asking him to wait until after the election. And now we\u2019ve learned that Democrats today are also waiting, they\u2019re asking Obama to wait to do anything on his stupid United Nations climate change treaty. Well, it\u2019s not gonna be a treaty. Obama is just gonna enact it, but they are asking him to wait \u2019til after the elections on that, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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