Limbaugh: GOP too timid on immigration

Rush Limbaugh slammed Republicans on Sunday for not pushing back hard enough on President Obama’s recent actions on immigration.

{mosads}The radio host, pointing to GOP victories in the last two midterm elections, said that Republicans should be taking a harder line, and shouldn’t be afraid of another showdown over a government shutdown.

“This is about two elections in which the people of this country are begging the Republican people to stop this man,” Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday,” insisting that November’s results showed that last year’s shutdown didn’t hurt the GOP.

“The essence of a poll is an election,” he said.

GOP lawmakers have coalesced around a plan that would fund most of the government through next September, with shorter-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Limbaugh said the GOP reaction suggested to him that establishment Republicans, some of whom back the sort of immigration reform the Senate passed last year, agree with Obama’s recent actions, calling out former Gov. Jeb Bush (R) of Florida and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by name.

“This is a trick,” he said. “The Republicans want what Obama wants on immigration.”