Limbaugh: Boehner Ouster Is Just the Beginning
(Rush Limbaugh) – BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is at the Value
Voters Summit in Washington. It’s held every year toward the end of September.
Marco Rubio was speaking, and actually made the announcement to the crowd. This
is how it sounded… RUBIO: How can it be that we sent a Republican majority to
Congress and yet they’re still not able to stop our country from sliding in the
wrong direction? And we’ll see how things progress. Just a few minutes ago
Speaker Boehner announced that he will be resigning. AUDIENCE: (wild applause)
RUSH: Now, that (applause) went on and on and on and on and on. It was over the
top. And this is something that a number of people have been attempting to make
happen for months now going into years. And as is the usual case in the aftermath
of something like this, there are all kinds of stories, and they run the gamut
from who made it happen, who gets credit for it, who engineered it, why did it
happen, what does it mean going forward, and all of that.
The most important aspect this has, to me, is that whoever is
responsible for this is not through. They are actually now going to target
Mitch McConnell on the same basis. Now, from what I understand, Ted Cruz was
deeply involved in this. To tell a long story very short, Cruz became aware
very soon upon arriving at the Senate that he was gonna have a tough time
making a difference there because he was so outnumbered, because the leadership
was so entrenched. SPECIAL: If you’re as sick and tired of big government
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leadership in the Senate, just like the leadership in the House — we’ve been
through all the reasons (I mean, I could take the time and list them again) —
just was not gonna stop Obama. They weren’t even gonna try to make it look like
they were gonna stop Obama, except to people they were not telling the truth to
at election time: Us. They were apparently very willing to tell us that they
were gonna do everything they could to stop Obamacare, repeal Obamacare. You
know the drill. But never once did anything serious ever happen to derail,
stop, slow down any aspect of the Obama agenda. Now, the reasons for that are
also multifaceted, and we’ve been through all of them. But, folks, the big
reason for all of this is money. At the end of the day, it’s always about
money. It always has been about money in politics. It’s just more prevalent now
than ever. Do you know why we did the Iran deal, just for example? You know why
the Corker Bill exists as it does, why there’s never any serious effort to stop
Obama in making the Iran deal? Do you have any idea? It was money. There was a
news story, I think it was the UK Daily Mail. If not, it was something similar.
The Iranian national airline, such as it is, is falling apart. Their aircraft
are old and dilapidated, and because the sanctions have been in place, they’ve
been unable to buy new aircraft, replacement aircraft or parts to repair what they
have now. So basically their national airline is a joke. They in Iran, the
mullahs, have ordered a number of replacement aircraft, made by Boeing. Boeing
therefore wants the deal. But in order for the deal to happen $150 billion in
frozen Iranian assets needs to be unfrozen. Now, Boeing is a contributor to the
Republican Party. I wish I could remember what newspaper I read this in. Off
the top of my head, I think it’s the Daily Mail, but it might very easily could
be something else. But the bottom line was that Republican politicians, elected
officials basically had to please a very well-to-do donor or series of donors
that were going to be able to engage in new business with Iran if the sanctions
were lifted. If you look at the Corker Bill, all it was about was lifting the
sanctions by statute. Now, this is very important. The Corker Bill secured the
sanctions being lifted by statute. You know I was watching the last Republican
debate.
It was an exchange between Ted Cruz and I think it was Kasich.
They were having an argument on what you do if Iran cheats on the deal, and
Cruz was making it very clear that we were never gonna find out if Iran cheated
because they were in total control of the inspection process. And they are. If
we want to lodge a complaint, it’s 24 days before we can take action, and they
have to grant us permission to come in. But they, the Iranians, by virtue of
this deal, do their own inspection first. So it’s a joke. There is no
inspection process. There is no verification whatsoever. And Kasich was saying
to Cruz, “Look if they violate it, we just slap the sanctions back on!” And I’m
yelling at the TV, “No, we can’t ‘slap the sanctions back on’ ‘em. They have
been lifted by statute.” The sanctions have not been lifted temporarily, and they’ve
not been lifted per se as part of the deal. They have been lifted by virtue of
the Corker Bill which is a statutory law. The statutes have thus maintained
that the Iranians are gonna get their $150 billion whether they cheat or not.
So the Iranian nuclear deal, when it comes to the debate in Washington, never
really was about Iran and nuclear weapons. It was about money, economic news.
It is about American corporations. And Boeing’s not the only one that want to
do business with Iran. And when Iran’s got $150 billion freed up that’s been
frozen, they can buy enough terrorism with that and have some left over to
revamp their airline. I’m gonna have to find out what… It was Bloomberg that
had this story. It was Bloomberg News that had the story that it was Boeing and
Airbus combined that wanted to make a deal with Iran on new aircraft for this
dilapidated Iranian airline. Now, all the while this debate’s raging, we’re
treated to story after story that the parameters of the debate center on
whether or not it makes sense that Iran permitted to get a nuclear weapon. It
was never what this was about. And all of us were incredulous about the Corker
Bill. Why even do it? If you’re the Senate and you oppose Obama and you oppose
Iran having nukes, just insist on the treaty clause, just insist on this being
a treaty. If you just do that, you solve the problem. Then you need two-thirds
of it Senate to ratify it, and it’s not automatic. But the Corker Bill went
into action and reversed the whole procedure for the treaty and basically
turned this into nothing more than a statutory elimination or lifting of the
sanctions. So all the while these elected officials are telling us they’re
gonna stop Obama and Obamacare and they’re gonna stop Obama on amnesty and
illegal immigration. That’s not what’s going on. What’s going on is that their
donors are demanding that they get this and that from the Republicans in term
of policy and votes. And that’s who the Republican officials in Washington,
elected officials are loyal to. So you can call that political system being
corrupted or what have you.
The point is, Ted Cruz was aware of all of this, and he decided
there was no way since he’s so vastly outnumbered in the Senate that what he
instead did was work with the conservative members in the House to strength
them, to focus them. Not that they needed it, but just to form some unity and
have a coordinated effort that was aimed at Boehner’s resignation, since Cruz
was not gonna be able to engineer a similar thing in the Senate because he was
basically a party of one.
So there’s any number
of people who you might… If you want to consider this in a doling-out-of-credit
sense, Cruz is right there at the top. But then, you could also say that Mitch
McConnell deserves a lot of credit, not because he wanted to get rid of
Boehner, but because of what he did, just because constantly bottling up
anything that would stop Obama, never taking on the Democrats, the fear of the
government shutdown. Even this morning I see some analysts on television, “The
worst thing that could happen is if there’s a government shutdown!”
It is what it is.
The Republicans just
have this irrational fear of a government shutdown that is gonna be the end of
them and their 2016 presidential aspirations, and you talk about blind? There’s
an entire presidential campaign being waged out there and a bunch of outsiders
who’ve never been in politics before are leading the whole process. The insider
experts, career politicians? You need a telescope to see ‘em, their poll numbers
are so low.
It’s very clear what
Republican voters and a lot of Americans want, and it’s exact opposite of what
has been happening. So it was a fait accompli at some point, and I think
Boehner holding on until Pope Francis’ visited, that was a big deal to Boehner,
check that one off of his bucket list. But he’s still got some time left, and
he’s insisting that he’s gonna make the most of it, just like Obama is with
whatever time left that he has.
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RUSH: You know,
it’s funny here, the New York Times has a story, you know, all this time
they’ve been telling us that Boehner was the reason there was gridlock,
right? So now the New York Times has a story worried about what Boehner
leaving is going to mean for gridlock. So they’re now admitting,
indirectly, but they’re admitting that Boehner was not responsible for the
gridlock. But that’s not totally true, either. But again, folks,
there’s nothing wrong with gridlock, especially now.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: The Washington
Times has a story here that the headline is, “Top GOP Official Seeks McConnell
Ouster as Senate Leader. ‘GOP Brand Is Being Damaged,’” and this is no less
than a Republican National Committee vice-chairman. He is the Louisiana
Republican chairman Roger Villere and he wrote in a Facebook post that
McConnell needs to resign.
“‘Mitch is a good and
honorable guy, but the base is leaving our party,’ Mr. Villere said in an
interview with The Washington Times. ‘I’m out in the field all the time and we
have all our elections this year for state offices, and it’s hurting us
tremendously with our elections,” ’cause the base is not showing up. He
said, “‘If we lose the battle, we will never win the presidency again in my
lifetime,’ said Mr. Villere, who is 66. ‘I’ve worked for 12 years as chairman
to build this party, and I just don’t want to see it all go down the drain
because they aren’t willing to fight for what we believe in. Our base is
demanding we do something or they’re going to leave us.’
“‘The GOP brand is
being damaged. We’re having to work from scratch to do all the groundwork we’ve
already done with elections of Republicans to Congress and in the state because
everybody is so furious at the leadership,’ Mr. Villere said,” and that’s
exactly right, and the leadership has always been aware of it, folks. The
leadership has been well aware of what the voters that elected them want.
They’ve been well aware they have not come through. And their attitude
is, “Tough toenails! You guys don’t understand the jobs we have.
“You don’t understand
what it takes to get things done here. You guys don’t understand that it
takes compromise. You guys don’t understand that you have to build
coalitions. You guys…” This is McConnell and Boehner talking to us.
“You guys don’t understand that we have to work with people on the other side
to get anything done.” No, no, no. That’s not what we don’t
understand. What we see is you doing exactly that, and getting snookered
every time you go in to battle with ‘em. You’re literally getting
snookered.
Other times, you’re
not even playing and being just ramrodded right over. You don’t need to
repeat the drill. You all get it. About this Mr. Villere, he is a
Republican National Committee co-chair. He’s the Louisiana chairman.
From The Politico. They gave an op-ed space here to Michael Needham of Heritage
Action for America. He’s the CEO. “Boehner Betrayed His Party – Why
the Speaker’s resignation is great news for conservatives,” and there’s three
interesting pull quotes here. “He ignored the hopes and dreams of those
Republican voters who delivered the GOP control of the House in 2010 and the
Senate in 2014 and instead pushed the agenda of Washington’s ruling class.”
Yep, no mistake there.
“Here’s the reality:
In the past, politicians could afford to tell their constituents one thing and
do something else entirely in office,” which happens, by the way. What
they’re doing is nothing new. What is new about it? Politicians
lying is nothing new. Promising and not deliver is nothing new. What’s
different about it this time? What do you think’s different about it, Mr.
Snerdley? (interruption) Well, that. They did put up the
pretense. They made it look like they were opposing. What’s
different now is they can’t hide. There is simply too much news.
There is too much
tech. There is too much access. They can’t hide behind what goes on
behind closed doors, for example. It’s all known. They can’t hide
behind any other barrier. Everything they’re doing is right out in the open.
And it’s not being reported by the Drive-By Media. The Drive-By Media is
doing everything they can to shelter these guys and protect ‘em because it
helps the Democrats to have Boehner and McConnell be doing what they’re
doing. So this is all being ferreted out by other members of Congress.
The conservative
caucus, for example, or others who are able to get the news out on their own
without having to go through a network. So they don’t have any
secrets. Everything they’re doing has been exposed. They can’t rely
on, “You don’t know how it works up here,” because now everybody does.
Everybody now knows how it works. Do you realize what a monumental thing
this is? Seriously now, folks. Stop and think of it. Do you realize what a
pronounced…? Who was that I was…? Was that Bill Clinton I was just looking at?
(interruption) Tell me that was on… (interruption) That wasn’t Clinton on Fox?
(interruption) Whew! I was gonna say, “He looked like 95 years
old.”
I said, “Oh, what
happened.” (interruption)
That was a NASA
guy? Oh, they’re telling us about the flowing waters on Mars? Yeah,
you watch, that’s gonna be Martian… (interruption) Five. Oh,
wow. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, cool. My prediction has come true
even before the program ends today. If you’re on line five out there (and
you know who you are), hang on. If you’re in Wichita, hang on.
Don’t hang up the phone. (interruption) What is profound? Do you realize
how profound it is that practically every Republican voter now knows what has
been a secret in Washington for a long time, and that is in Washington there
really aren’t Republicans and Democrats? There’s majority and minority.
But they’re all of the
same insider or ruling class or whatever you call it elite mind-set.
Their agendas are identical. And it is profound that the lid has been
totally blown off of that. For the longest time Republican voters
actually believed that Republican elected officials were genuinely an
opposition party and were pushing back and wanted to push back and opposed and
disagreed with what the Democrats were doing, and the realization that’s not
the case. That’s why this explosion’s taken place. Republican
voters simply aren’t gonna put up with it. I don’t care what the issue,
amnesty, Obamacare, Keystone pipeline, you have a Democrat president as radical
as Obama is for seven years and gets everything he wants. Sorry, you can’t fool
people. You can’t convince them.
McConnell, his
fallback excuse is, “First is, we need the Senate.” Then we get the Senate and
the fallback is, “We don’t have the White House. There’s still nothing we can
do. Everything we do is gonna be vetoed.” And so that has led to we’re
not even gonna fight and you don’t understand, we can’t fight. You want
us to fight, but that would be a losing proposition. That would result in the
government being shut down. We can’t have that.
They used to be able
to get away with it, is the point. They don’t any longer. And I
believe all these stories about McConnell being next. People are serious
about this. This is the country we’re talking about here.
From Gerald Seib in
the Wall Street Journal: “Boehner’s Exit Leaves GOP Establishment
Shaking – Tea-party forces increase power and further loosen Republican
establishment’s grip.” Now, I’m not sure the establishment’s actually
shaking, but this is a start. I don’t know how long ago it was I said — I
mean, it’s a long time now. It would happen when people would call here
and advance the notion that we had to go third party.
And that’s been going
on for most of the 27 years, and each time somebody would call I’d say nope,
nope, nope, what we need to do is take over the Republican Party. Third
party is not gonna get anybody anywhere. Third party isn’t gonna win.
Third party isn’t gonna have any members of Congress in the Senate. It
may now be happening. First step, but it may now be happening.
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Comments
Rush is
aware that we have had a one-party system for some time. The difference between Republican and
Democrat voters is that Republicans support the US Constitution (as written)
and Democrats either don’t or they don’t even think about it. You can see how “Republican” your elected
Reps are by looking at their score on Conservative Review Scorecard. You will find about 20% of Republicans
actually vote for compliance with the Constitution and 80% don’t. These are the Republicans who need to be
replaced. In some cases, they come from
Democrat leaning districts where the voters already know that these RINOs are
actually Democrats running as Republicans.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader