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RUSH: I mentioned in the last hour a new Gallup poll out<\/a>: Majority now say universal health care is not the federal government\u2019s responsibility. This is a sunning reversal. And, by the way, this ABC poll that the Washington Post reports today that Obamas approval\u2019s at 42%<\/a> as well. It\u2019s not just that if the election were today, Romney would win, Obama\u2019s at 42%. I mean they are in panic, in the media, in the Drive-Bys, in the White House, and now this Gallup poll. You just don\u2019t see massive changes in a trend line like this. <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

Role of the federal government in ensuring Americans have coverage. “No” is at 56%; “yes” is at 42%. That is a 14-point swing, and just last year it was 54-44 that the — I take it back. I hate charts. I just despise charts. I just despise \u2019em. Hang on. Okay, you gotta go back to 2011 to find a majority of people thinking that universal health care is the government\u2019s responsibility. In 2011, that\u2019s after Obamacare has been signed into law, it was 50-46, role of the federal government is ensuring that Americans have health care. Fifty percent thought the federal government should, and 46 said it shouldn\u2019t. So in two years it has gone from 50-46 “yes,” government should run health care, to 56-42 “no.” <\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s happened? Well, in these two years Obamacare has begun to be implemented, and the American people don\u2019t want any part of it. I mean, this is a massive trend. If you go back to 2006, it was 69 to 28% that the government should run health care. Universal health care, government responsibility, “yes,” 69%, “no,” 28%. That\u2019s 2006. And then it narrowed, and it was in 2009 that it basically became tied at 47, 50-47 “no.” And then the last two years it just boomeranged the other way. You know, this is stunning. In seven years, we have gone from 69% who think that health care is the federal government\u2019s responsibility to 42% who think it is. But the real dramatic change in the trend line is the last two years, and that coincides with the rollout of Obamacare. Now there are people who are saying that this kind of experience could inflict irreparable harm to liberalism and the whole notion of Big Government and socialism.<\/p>\n

There are many people out there saying just back out of the way and let this happen, and it\u2019s gonna implode and so forth, and this would argue that there is some merit to that. And yesterday, they had a story about a bunch of Democrats abandoning Obamacare, Democrats up for reelection abandoning Obamacare, and the White House threatening them. The great Martha MacCallum on Fox today played that sound bite of me and then brought in Bob Beckel to react to it. This is the segment from yesterday\u2019s program<\/a> that she played for Beckel to reply to.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Democrats who are vulnerable in 2014 who are running away from it, and I think the Regime\u2019s scared of this, I really do. The message has gone out, you better not run away from us, \u2019cause it isn\u2019t just Obama. It isn\u2019t just Obamacare. It\u2019s your way of life. It\u2019s liberalism. It\u2019s Big Government. It\u2019s gonna go by the wayside if you people abandon us and let this thing go down the tubes.<\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: And the Regime is saying that, and the media is saying that, and all of these Obama donors. We\u2019ve even got a sound bite, Harvey Weinstein. Before I get to Beckel, let me find Weinstein. This is Friday night way back on Piers Morgan Live on CNN. This why nobody knew about this until today, \u2019cause it happened on CNN on Friday night. He\u2019s talking to Harvey Weinstein, a big-time movie producer. I mean, this guy and Clinton are inseparable buddies. For example, when Bush unveiled the portraits of Bill and Hillary at the ceremony in the White House, Weinstein was there in the front row. I mean, he\u2019s a big fundraiser, donor, cavorter, colingerer, he\u2019s just everywhere with these guys. And now that the Clintons are out he\u2019s moved in and he\u2019s sidling up to Obama. The guy is just a huge, huge lib Democrat, fundraiser and all that. <\/p>\n

So here he is on Piers Morgan on Friday night, they\u2019re talking about Obamacare and Obama\u2019s lie about if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Piers Morgan said, “You know, Harvey, it\u2019s that repeated footage of him, not just once, but dozens of times telling the American people you can keep the plan, keep your doctor, when it looks like now he knew all along that wasn\u2019t possible. It was just an outright falsehood, Harvey, and I can\u2019t remember him doing that so blatantly, and I certainly couldn\u2019t imagine Nelson Mandela ever doing it.” What the hell does Mandela have to do with this? Piers Morgan actually said to Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, “I can\u2019t imagine Nelson Mandela ever doing this.” Well, we\u2019re not gonna get into what Mandela did. I\u2019m not gonna go for the distraction. Here\u2019s what Weinstein said.<\/p>\n

WEINSTEIN: This is the only country in the world where we don\u2019t have health care. Countries embarrass us around the world. And this is the only country in the world where we don\u2019t have a gun law. I watched you, you know, talk about that, and, quite frankly, it\u2019s embarrassing. Obama\u2019s not embarrassing. The country\u2019s embarrassing.<\/line>