Posted on 09/02/2015 12:32:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Is anybody surprised? You should not be surprised that Obama got the votes that he wanted. And I'm gonna maintain to you right now that that was always in the cards once Chuck Schumer decided to vote against it.
Sorry if this sounds like an attack on Senator Schumer. I don't doubt that his opposition to this is principled, in part. But when I saw that Schumer was gonna vote against it and the story came, gonna be three or four to follow him along, it told me everything I needed to know. It meant that his vote "no" was safe, that it was gonna pass, his "no" vote was not gonna harm Obama. And I didn't doubt that this gonna pass anyway because of the Corker Bill. The Corker Bill made it impossible for this thing not to pass.
Yes. Republican Senator Bob Corker, Tennessee, totally reversing the ratification process for treaties.
And the simple explanation for what that means is, the president has to get... And I know it's not a treaty, but it is. I mean, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck; it's a duck! It's a treaty. But Obama didn't want to call it a treaty because he didn't want to have to go through the constitutional requirements for ratification, which essentially two-thirds of the Senate must vote for it. Well, the Corker Bill! The Corker Bill said, "No, no!
"You know what? We're gonna suspend that! We're gonna change it, and what we need is, we need to get two-thirds of the Senate to vote 'no' in order to stop it, with a couple other ancillary requirements." It wasn't gonna happen. And if you're still puzzled over this, if you really thought that there was a chance that the Senate was going to vote "no" on this -- and I'm not trying to be a know-it-all cynic -- I remind you of what Mitch McConnell recently said about defunding Planned Parenthood, all right?
Now, let's go back to 2010. Republican voters are angry that the Republicans in Congress are not doing more to stop Obamacare. Now, back in 2010 there really wasn't much they could do. They didn't vote for it. There was not a single Republican vote for it, but they weren't speaking out against it forcefully. They weren't trying to create any allies on the Democrats to vote against it. Of course, in Obama's first term, Democrat loyalty and all that. The Republicans said, "Look, all we have here is the House.
"We can't stop the president with just the House. We need the Senate. You need to give us control of the Senate. We need to control the chairmanships and the committees, and once you give us the Senate we'll be able to do things." Okay. The 2014 midterms come around and we vote, and we give the Republicans the Senate. And now they are still paralyzed and can't do anything, and now Mitch McConnell and Boehner say, "Well, we don't have the White House.
"You know, we... we... we can't do anything here because Obama's gonna stop everything we do. I mean, there's nothing we can do." So in 2010, "You need to give us the Senate and then you're gonna see some action." In 2014 they got the Senate. "Sorry, can't do anything!" The most recent illustration: Planned Parenthood defunding. Mitch McConnell said, "Sorry. I just don't have the votes here. We're gonna need a Republican in the White House for this. We don't have it; can't get it done."
They don't want to, folks, for whatever reason. What a golden opportunity! I mean, just in the politics of this, what a golden opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood during the Obama administration. Make President Obama take action to maintain funding for all that we have learned that goes on in there! What has happened to the...? I'm sounding like a broken record along with everybody else. What in the world has even happened to the political instincts of the opposition party?
Even if you don't have the votes, you don't think, to override a veto, make him veto it! Defund Planned Parenthood! Everybody in the world needs to find out what's happening in that place. These videos have reached an audience, but they haven't reached a wide enough audience 'cause the Drive-Bys are ignoring it. Okay, so the Republicans in the Senate and the House pick up the movement to defund Planned Parenthood; this creates its own story. People say, "Why? Why?"
FULL FOOTAGE: Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest Dr. Katharine Sheehan
"Take a look these videos, Average American. Low-information voter, take a look at this!" Get the videos out, and you broaden the base of understanding and knowledge. And then you get people all fit to be tied over what's happening in these clinics, those that will be fit to be tied anyway. Not everybody would be; liberals being liberals. But the point is in the world of politics, even when you can't win you can, because you can turn this around on the Democrats and make this president veto efforts to defund this.
Put the Democrat Party firmly in everybody's mind on the side of infanticide.
Republicans don't want to do it.
They don't want to get anywhere near it.
A good point. He stood by and watched it go through but the tactic worked with his gullible constituents.
Are you sure your not nick-picking Rush?
Rush... ....”Is anybody surprised? You should not be surprised that Obama got the votes that he wanted. And I’m gonna maintain to you right now that that was always in the cards once Chuck Schumer decided to vote against it”....
Republicans have not stopped one single thing that mattered to the people that we put them there to stop....so no this was no surprise....they’re traitors to the good people of this nation and have jumped the American ship for the Globalist Ship and the positions and wealth they will gain by staying the course they have chosen to follow......Americans do not matter and we know this all too well.
History will remember him as a traitor.
Rush clearly understood why Schumer voted no, but he added that qualifier because...?
(On second thought, maybe his vocal tone appropriately conveyed sarcasm. I’m just reading the transcript.)
All McConnell needs to do is go nuclear as his predecessor did. End game
Obviously, there was no War On Women involved here, so “nobody cares”...
The real treason was when these fools gave 0bama a blank check at the outset of “negotiations.”
I’ve re-read Article 2 Section 2 regarding the Treaty making power of the Executive, and unfortunately it does not clearly specify the process to be “Negotiate the Treaty, then we’ll approve it or not.” That is, of course, the sound policy. But the wording is vague enough to authorize a Corker abomination of “You go ahead and make a Treaty with Iran.” And as such I think our worthless Supreme Court would let this pass the test of constitutionality.
I’m totally disgusted by the corruption and incompetence endemic in our government.
Rush is right. MAKE Obama veto things...let him (and the Quislings who vote against Veto overrides) own their garbage 100%!
[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...
It's vague. The best policy is "Go negotiate a Treaty, then we'll decide whether it's worth it or not." But the clause can be read to permit a Corker abomination of "Go negotiate a Treaty with Iran."
I strongly suspect our worthless Supreme Court would find this process Constitutional because of the vagueness of the clause. Just because it's stupid to give a Marxist/Muslim a blank check in the Treaty-making process doesn't make it unconstitutional.
Dear God!!! Please come quick!
Liberals own this including thier POS leader Obama plus the GOP establishment that refuse to fight so they too are very much an accomplice.
MAY THEY ALL ROT IN HELL!
I’m totally disgusted by the corruption and incompetence endemic in our government.
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You’re not alone. Many of your countrymen share your view. And we are going to see this reflected in 2016.
God actually may be coming quickly, considering the acceleration of world events....Obama just threw gasoline on the fire. He’s a tool.
That's funny. Did you know that Barak is the name of Muhammed's donkey? (I'm thinking you did.)
They already have Christian blood on their hands for arming and continuing to arm ISIS(Syrian rebels).
They are all a political abomination. I feel nothing but revulsion toward our political leadership including republicans.
If he didn’t get enough Dem votes I’m sure Bendover would have voted for it.
-— What would be a surprise would be if the Republicans ever did anything to stop Obama. -—
And by “anything” you mean “ANYTHING”
I think I’m gonna puke. I guess Shumer got permission to vote no. A true portrait in courage
I guess Zippy doesn’t think the missiles can reach Hawaii
“There aren’t two sides anymore, just one, the Northeast Liberal) establishment.”
The dirty secret of American history is the northeastern establishment has controlled the banking industry, and therefore the government, since the administration of John Quincy Adams with the exception of the 8 years of Andrew Jackson. The Civil War was about economic domination of the South, not slavery.
End the Federal Reserve, return to the US Treasury issuing money backed by gold, and break up the northeastern banking cartel so financial capital is disbursed across the country instead of being controlled and exported by a few “too big to fail” Wall Street banks. You’ll see an economic renaissance in America. The current concentration of capital and wealth in the northeast favors globalism, open borders, and the end of the republic.
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