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RUSH: Boy, it\u2019s going to be one of these days. I can just tell it\u2019s going to be one of these days. I was buried, I was buried in show prep and I got an e-mail. It\u2019s an e-mail I get every day ten minutes before the program. I said, “What? It\u2019s ten minutes before the — holy.” So I\u2019ve been scrambling for the last 15 minutes. And here we are, ready and revved and ready to go. So much making no sense. I\u2019m sometimes questioning whether I\u2019m sane. <\/p>\n

Telephone number is 800-282-2882. If you want to be on the program, the e-mail address ElRushbo@EIBnet.com. <\/p>\n

I kid you not, nothing is making sense. Israeli, Hamas, nothing. I\u2019m talking about the conventional wisdom coming out of Washington. Nothing makes sense. It\u2019s all ass backwards. What the House Republicans are doing vis-a-vis suing Obama and impeachment, it\u2019s all wrong. It doesn\u2019t make any sense. Nothing makes any sense. And if nothing makes any sense, maybe I\u2019m the one that\u2019s losing my marbles, except I know that\u2019s not true. <\/line><\/p>\n

The Republicans are hell-bent on their immigration bill. They\u2019re hell-bent. The Chamber of Commerce, somebody, has got them just scared to death. They are hell-bent on passing a bill that will never see the light of day in the Senate. Obama will never sign it. And they know it. And you know why they want to do it? It\u2019s so indicative of the post-traumatic stress disorder that they are in. It is so indicative of the absolute shock and fear and totally defensive position that they feel and therefore are in. <\/p>\n

They want to pass an immigration bill that grants amnesty and all that knowing it\u2019s not going to pass so they\u2019ll get the credit for doing it. And of course the credit, from whom? Nobody\u2019s going to give them any credit for it. A, the Hispanics are never going to know about it because the media is never going to report it. The media is going to report it for exactly what it is, an attempt to bribe a bunch of people. It\u2019s not going to get them what they think it\u2019s going to get them. <\/p>\n

This whole issue, somebody\u2019s got to them. I know who it is. Chamber of Commerce and the people that believe in big corporatist liaisons with government and so forth. But it doesn\u2019t make any sense. There\u2019s no reason on the face of the earth why these people should be in such defensive postures, so scared, so afraid, with a president so on the ropes. But they are, and apparently there\u2019s no changing it. There\u2019s no words anybody can say to them. There\u2019s no action that can take place. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, back to all of this business here, the Republicans and their immigration bill — and they\u2019ve got another bill, their suing-Obama bill. That could be a disaster if it ever got anywhere, you know why? Are you in favor of that bill? Are you in favor of suing Obama? (interruption) In the first place, the so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court have already ruled that Congress cannot sue Obama for not enforcing the law. It would be a waste of time. <\/p>\n

But what are they suing him for? <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re suing him for not enforcing the law. What is the law that he hasn\u2019t enforced? Well, the big one\u2019s Obamacare. So it could be said that the Republicans are suing so that Obama will fully implement Obamacare. Is that what we want? I mean, if you\u2019re going to sue a guy for not enforcing the law, and the big thing is Obamacare, and you want him (as a result of your lawsuit) to be forced to enforce the law, then I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019ve thought about this. <\/p>\n

The result could well be that their (snort) lawsuit could force the (chuckles) full implementation of Obamacare. (interruption) Well, no. The lawsuit? It\u2019s about all the executive actions, executive order. It could well be that they may not have thought this through. You\u2019re asking me, “Is the real purpose of this, that?” You\u2019re thinking once again they\u2019re just trying to do this for show, to send a message, to say, “Hey! Hey, we\u2019re tough on Obama. Hey, we\u2019re going to hold him accountable. He\u2019s not going to get away with anything. Look, we\u2019re going to sue the guy,” and just let it end with that?<\/p>\n

Again, just like the immigration bill.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t going to succeed, but they can send a message with it and be loved in return. So you\u2019re thinking that the lawsuit bill is the same thing. It\u2019s to send a message to the Tea Party — “Hey, we hear you! Hey, we\u2019re going after the guy. Look at this! We\u2019re suing the guy!” — knowing it isn\u2019t going to go anywhere, but get some love back. Well, I\u2019ll tell you: Motivations matter, and in this case, they\u2019re the wrong ones. That\u2019s as it appears from here sitting on the sidelines. I must always have the caveat that I don\u2019t do their job, so I don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have a story here in the Washington Post<\/a> that dovetails with this. “Immigration is Now President Obama\u2019s Worst Issue — Immigration has emerged as perhaps President Obama\u2019s worst issue — definitely for today, and maybe of his entire presidency — when it comes to public perception. A new poll from AP-GfK shows more than two-thirds of Americans…” The real number is 68%. The way to say this is: Almost 70% “disapprove of Obama\u2019s handling of the immigration issue in general. Just 31% approve — down from 38% two months ago.”<\/p>\n

The bottom is falling out of Obama on immigration, and the Washington Post says here, “We tried to find an issue on which Obama has earned such poor marks, at any point in his presidency. And even on what was long his worst issue, the economy, his disapproval rating rarely peaked over 60%,” but it is 68% on immigration. Now stop and think for a moment. The bottom is falling out. <\/p>\n

\"large\"Obama is nose-diving everywhere you look in the polling data, and for them to report this has got to be worse than what they\u2019re reporting. Gallup has him at 39% approval. It\u2019s gotta be lower than that. It just does. Common sense says it has to be lower than that. Now they admit that 68% totally disapprove of Obama\u2019s handling of immigration and number two is the economy, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to hang his legacy on? <\/line><\/p>\n

And here come the Republicans. In the midst of all, with the president of the United States getting a 68% disapproval on immigration, here comes the House leadership trying to pass an immigration bill that mirrors what Obama wants to do! What in the name of Sam Hill is going on? Well, we know what\u2019s going on. The Chamber of Commerce is going on, number one. <\/p>\n

Number two, the Republican consultant class and the moderate wing, the RINOs, have convinced everybody that the only way the Republicans can ever win again is with Hispanic voters, and they have further convinced them that the only way they can get Hispanic voters is to basically get rid of the border. “The only way to get Hispanic votes is to make it look like you\u2019re not opposed to any Hispanic migrating to the country — no matter when, no matter how. <\/p>\n

“Any opposition to that and the Hispanics are going to run right back to the Democrats and you\u2019re never going to get a single Hispanic vote!” That must be what they believe, and if they believe that, they\u2019ve got to be… Somebody has to be telling them that, people they trust (i.e., their consultants; i.e., their big donors). But this is one of these things, like I said at the top of the program, that makes me feel like I\u2019m the one going nuts here. <\/p>\n

Nothing makes any sense. We have reality on the ground over here, and we have what\u2019s happening over in Washington over here. What\u2019s happening in Washington is totally ass backwards from what\u2019s happening with reality, and this is the kind of thing that leads people to start providing really wacko answers to their suspicions, because this is so out of whack. <\/p>\n

This makes so little sense, either common or political, that the only natural reaction you can have is, “What in the name of Sam Hill is really going on?” The sitting president, somebody supposedly unassailably popular, somebody messianic when he assumed office, somebody they dare not criticize because everybody will hate their guts if they do, is plummeting in the public opinion poll. <\/p>\n

His immigration reform ideas are at 68 percent disapproval, no doubt flavored largely by this massive assault currently by children at the southern border. Almost 70 percent, and here come the Republicans hell-bent on passing something that people think is amnesty so they can get credit for it, even if it doesn\u2019t pass. Why, when you have these numbers — I\u2019ve been asking this, by the way, since the early days of Obamacare. <\/p>\n

\"original\"You realize Obamacare has never had majority support in a public opinion poll. It has had within the Democrat Party, but the American public at large, it has never had majority support. It\u2019s always been opposed by a majority of people. I\u2019ve never understood why the Republicans, especially after the 2010 midterms, the emergence of the Tea Party, why didn\u2019t the Republicans try to forge an alliance with all those people who crossed the political spectrum. <\/line><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Tea Party types and conservatives that opposed Obamacare. It was all demographics. You could find every demographic represented in those that opposed Obamacare. Why didn\u2019t the Republicans in 2010 try to forge an alliance with a majority body of thought? And I\u2019m asking the question again. Sixty-eight, almost 70 percent disapprove of two things. They disapprove of what Obama wants to do with immigration, and they disagree with what he is doing. <\/p>\n

Why not stand for the opposite then? Why not contrast yourselves and try and form an alliance with all of these people who oppose it, rather than getting on board the Obama train? And I think we know the answer to that, too. They have been — well, there are multiple answers to it. But right in the mix is, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s hatred or dislike, but they just don\u2019t want to have anything to do with their conservative base. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to be identified with it. They don\u2019t want to appear to be aligning or associating with it. And that leads me to think they don\u2019t really want to win with it. It\u2019s the most convoluted thing. Except it wouldn\u2019t be if somebody told us what was really going on, even though we think we know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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