Limbaugh says he can't conceive why the GOP would focus on immigration over ACA. Limbaugh: GOP to 'commit suicide'

Rush Limbaugh on Friday blasted the Republican Party for its willingness “to commit suicide” by taking on immigration, saying the Republican leadership is “hellbent on ramrodding through this amnesty plan.”

Instead of focusing on the problem of Obamacare, the Republican Party is making the “frustrating and inconceivable” decision to push for immigration reform, the conservative radio host told his listeners.


“We ought not be granting citizenship to people who don’t love the country,” he said. “We ought not be granting citizenship to people who don’t understand the history of this country. … But we do, in the interest of fairness and multiculturalism and being nonjudgmental and all this. But the real reason we do is because the people granting citizenship to people like this share that opinion this is no place special. And that’s what’s so damn frustrating and inconceivable about the Republican Party wanting to open the country up to this kind of immigration. It just doesn’t make any sense. It’s the end of the Republican Party. It’s the end of the country as we know it.”

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At the Republican House leadership’s annual policy retreat this week, the move to focus on immigration is just one more thing that shows the Republican Party is “acting scared to death” of President Barack Obama, Limbaugh said.

“We’ve shifted at our retreat — which is a good name for what’s happening here, retreat — to amnesty. And advancing amnesty doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

And the most frustrating thing, Limbaugh added, is that “these guys on our side are acting like they believe Obama’s approval numbers are still in the eighties.”

“Well, they may never have been the eighties, but they think his approval numbers are sky-high,” he said. “They’re still acting afraid of it. They’re acting scared to death. Do they not know that majorities of Americans oppose practically everything Obama has done and wants to do now?”

For Republicans, taking the focus of Obamacare and transferring it to amnesty gives the impression “they think Obama is still loved and adored by everybody and they’ve gotta tiptoe around any opposition,” Limbaugh said.

“Why are the Republicans willing to commit suicide? Because that’s what it is,” he said.