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RUSH: I probably am gonna be talking about all of this today in a little different way than what you\u2019re going to hear anywhere on cable news. The problem with anybody that\u2019s in the news business — and I don\u2019t care where they are — is that they get caught up in the narrative that\u2019s established for the day inside the Beltway, whoever establishes it. And they miss, in my opinion, the big picture. So now everybody is analyzing this on television within the political framework of: who does it help and who does it hurt? How can it help Obama? Did he save himself? Did he make it worse for himself? What about the Democrats? What should the Republicans do, which I\u2019m gonna comment on in a moment. <\/line><\/p>\n

And everybody, I think, is missing that this is already an abject failure. It can\u2019t be fixed. It has done irreparable damage, and in order to prevent any more, it just needs to be stripped and repealed. Now, I know Obama\u2019s not going to do that. I\u2019m not being unrealistic. But the pressure needs to be kept on Democrats not to find a way to make this acceptable to them, if we are to actually have a way of getting rid of this. It remains unconstitutional. I mean, even the Wall Street Journal headline: “Obama Will Allow.” Obama can\u2019t allow anything in this regard. <\/p>\n

Obama does not make the law. His oath of office is to uphold it, and he\u2019s in violation, folks. He is not upholding the law. He is changing it willy-nilly by waivers, any number of things, promising you can keep your plan and then not letting you and then reinstating the plan but no mention of what the premiums are gonna cost you. None of this is permissible under the Constitution. This is the kind of authoritarianism that our founders stridently feared and tried to do everything they could to prevent. And it\u2019s just an absolute disaster. <\/p>\n

People have been irreparably harmed by this. They\u2019ve lost their jobs because of this. Companies have laid people off to stay in compliance with this law. People have been laid off so that the company can stay in business because of the punitive damage this law inflicts on businesses. Insurance companies have pretty much seen their epitaph written for them, years out, but they have just been told that they\u2019re not gonna exist. So they\u2019re trying to maximize what they can before that day comes. People have been converted from full-time jobs to part-time jobs in order to comply with the law. Some people have been given waivers. <\/p>\n

The unions don\u2019t have to play ball with this. Self-insured people don\u2019t have to play ball with this. It isn\u2019t fair, it isn\u2019t equitable, and it isn\u2019t solving anything. All it is doing is making a real mess that is hurting real people. In every way this law touches people, it harms them. There are no benefits. If there were, the Drive-Bys would have a parade of people on TV day and night singing this law\u2019s praises and talking about how their lives were saved by the law or their kid\u2019s life was saved by the law or they got a kidney because of the law. That doesn\u2019t happen. Nobody has a success story here. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolute mess. It can\u2019t be fixed. And there lies the pitfall for the Republican Party. The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito. The Republican Party is afraid of itself; it\u2019s afraid of what it believes; it\u2019s afraid to speak up; it\u2019s afraid to oppose; it\u2019s afraid to do anything for fear of what\u2019s going to be said about it.<\/p>\n

You have very few Republicans with the actual courage to stand up and oppose this totalitarianism. And look what happens to \u2019em. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, thankfully they\u2019re undaunted by it, but the Republicans, because of this post-traumatic stress disorder, which is just the way I\u2019m characterizing it. I\u2019m trying to be illustrative here. But they clearly are in a state of shock. There\u2019s only one other alternative. The other alternative is they want the law to survive. That, of course, may be a reality. Some Republicans may be entrenched enough in the Washington establishment that they want the law to survive, that they want government to have this kind of role in people\u2019s lives and in society. Who knows. But I think for many of them they\u2019re just scared. <\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s an abject fear of standing up, particularly to Obama, but Democrats in general. I know there\u2019s fear of the media. Republicans have been full-fledged intimidated. So the pitfall for them, I think, is that they want to be seen participating in the fix for Obamacare because they think that there is political gain to be made there. They are under the impression — and the way I visualize this, or better to say illustrate this, the Democrats propose something, whatever it is. And the Republicans never say no. The Republicans are obsessed, “Well, we gotta have an alternative.” They\u2019re always on defense. They\u2019re always reacting. <\/p>\n

There is not proactive Republican policy anymore. They\u2019re always reacting, and I think it comes from the assumption, I really do believe that they believe they are a genuine minority, that most people in the country, not just the media and the Democrats, don\u2019t like them, think they\u2019re unhip, uncool, oddball extremist weirdos, and they don\u2019t like that, of course. But as the minority, they feel naturally defensive about things. So Obama proposes this massive health care plan, the media makes it look like everybody in America wants it, but the polling data has been clear on this. The American people, by majority after majority after majority, have never wanted it, have never liked Obamacare. There\u2019s not been a single poll since the early days of this that show a majority of people wanting it. <\/p>\n

The 2010 midterms were all about Obamacare. And massive numbers of America showing up to polls to vote against it and the debt that Obama was piling up, called the Tea Party. So there is this at the same that the Republicans have in this posture that they occupy that the Democrats propose something — in this case, Obama — who they think is universally loved. And they think he\u2019s universally respected because of his race and they feel it\u2019s not worth opposing him because of his race. So here\u2019s this plan, it\u2019s an absolute mess, it\u2019s a total failure, and the worst thing the Republicans could do right now is be working in a way that would help fix this. The Republican Party should not be seen as part owners of this. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think the Republican Party should do anything to salvage this. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything in it for them to be seen as working with the Democrats to make this work, nothing electorally, just like being for amnesty and immigration reform is not going to help them. But they believe it is, do they not? Why is that? Because I think they feel defensive, shell-shocked, PTSD, what have you. What the Republicans need to be doing is taking advantage of all this chaos. It\u2019s unconstitutional. What\u2019s happening here is not happening according to the law. The Republicans ought to be working to scrap this. They ought to be working to repeal this. That\u2019s what a majority of the American people want. <\/p>\n

I continue to sit here in amazement. As I said for many months now, you have this majority of the American people opposed to it, and it seems to me that that is a large number of Americans the Republican Party could connect with on a fundamental issue and become the champions of the people who oppose this. It seems to me — from outside the Beltway, of course — as made to order for a party that wants to come back to life. <\/line><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got an issue that a vast majority of people oppose, and now they really don\u2019t like it and are angry at it. They have been personally impacted. They\u2019ve lost their jobs, they\u2019ve lost income, they have lost their insurance. I mean, the opportunity to be the white knight and come in and save the day is not the Landrieu bill, which I\u2019m gonna get to in a minute. The Democrats think the white knight here is the Landrieu bill because the Landrieu bill would reinstate your policy forever, not just a year. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I think a lot of Democrats might end up rejecting what Obama proposed today and go with her bill, but I\u2019ll tell you about her bill in detail in a minute because it dovetails with Fred Upton\u2019s bill<\/a> that\u2019s gonna be voted on this Friday. Of course, what Obama did today might totally upend the Upton bill. But we\u2019ll see. Tomorrow is Friday, and there\u2019s a lot to try analyze here on the program today, plus get your calls in. Here\u2019s the point. <\/p>\n

The Republicans need to be pushing for total repeal, and they should settle for nothing that helps fix this. They must not; they should not. I can\u2019t understand even why they would want to be seen as being part of the fix, when this is causing the Democrat Party and Obama\u2019s precious relationship with the American people to unravel. The same people who just a month ago were saying, “Don\u2019t do anything, Ted! Don\u2019t do anything, Mike! Just stand aside. It\u2019s gonna implode,” they\u2019re now saying, “We could be watching the end of liberalism.” <\/p>\n

Dr. Krauthammer on Fox said, “We could be watching the end of liberalism here.” George Will thinks we could be watching… Well, if we are, then don\u2019t try to fix this! Don\u2019t try to be seen as big people. If you really believe that this signifies the end of liberalism… Now, what do they mean by that? What they mean by that is that the American people, after a hundred years — well, let\u2019s say 50.<\/p>\n

What they mean… The people who are saying this could be the end of liberalism, what they mean is that the American people, the low-information voters, are finally going to see what a wreck big government liberalism and the Democrat Party are. If they\u2019re saying that, that\u2019s what they believe. The end of liberalism means that the people who vote for it, finally wake up and see what a disaster is and no longer do. If that\u2019s what you believe, then do not make one move to try to fix this. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t move in to try to be the white knight that helps save the policy that was canceled. That\u2019s the trap. Now Obama has proposed (impression) “Well, you know what? You want to keep your plan? All right, uh, for another year!” I can see Republicans wanting in on that action. I can see Republicans wanting to be seen as helping you keep your plan. Total mistake. If they believe this is the end of liberalism, then they had better stand aside and let it implode — like they told to us a month, six weeks it would do. <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s when they said to Cruz and Lee, “Don\u2019t do anything! Get out of the way. Don\u2019t try to repeal it. Don\u2019t try to defund it. You can\u2019t win that vote anyway. Don\u2019t try to delay it, you can\u2019t win. It\u2019s gonna implode.” Okay, why are the Republicans so desirous of helping fix it? Some Republicans. It isn\u2019t fixable, is the point. It\u2019s already broken beyond repair. It cannot be fixed because it cannot work, as Obama has promised, and as the Democrats have promised. It just can\u2019t — and we\u2019re living that truth. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because I\u2019m saying it that it doesn\u2019t work. Is it working now? Every day there\u2019s a new piecemeal Band-Aid fix for that problem or that problem, the website doesn\u2019t work? Where is the evidence that there\u2019s any foundational indication this works? There isn\u2019t. It can\u2019t. By design, it can\u2019t work. This is not the role of government. I think what Obama did today, this whole thing is ultimately pointless, except from the political standpoint of maybe saving his bacon.<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s not up, but his party\u2019s bacon. This is an affront to freedom-loving people, the damage that\u2019s been done to people. Obama keeps talking about the Democrats. “It\u2019s only 5%, just 15 million people.” I thought they loved everybody! I thought they\u2019re the ones that had compassion for everybody! But now, 5%, 15 million people? “Well, that\u2019s maybe the cost of doing business.” Really? These are real people. Real children. Real illnesses they get. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been led to believe by the Democrat Party one illness is the end of their life. Financial ruin is on the other side of one illness. I mean, what they\u2019ve done to people, the things they have told people… They\u2019re doing it to football. They\u2019re creating in football, “It\u2019s a death game.” More and more people now are not gonna let their kids play it. It\u2019s a death game. It\u2019s death! It\u2019s instant death. They\u2019re doing it all over again with practically everything in our culture. <\/p>\n

Everything is a crisis, everything is death, everything is vile sickness, unless you let them run your life. But they can\u2019t. Okay. At some point here, the alternative… I mean, that\u2019s why my mind with the Republicans is stay out of this. Don\u2019t fix it. It can\u2019t be. Don\u2019t have this desire of being seen as compromising and helping make it work. The American people don\u2019t want this. Bring yourselves back to life and come up with a solution that repeals this and leads people out of this muck here, gives them their lives back. On the other side, though, is the Democrats and what they want to do and how they react to this.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, is that not a right way to put this? Destabilizing the market. There\u2019s a graphic up on CNN right now. “America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans — Changing rules could destabilize the market, result in higher premiums.” It is gonna result in higher premiums. Your policy that\u2019s been canceled being reinstated is going to be result in higher premiums. Now, I know what you\u2019re saying. You say, “How? Why?” I\u2019m gonna explain to you before the program ends how that happens and why. <\/p>\n

But it is rooted in the fact that there is another law over here called Obamacare that has mandates and requirements, that the insurance companies have spent three years getting in compliance with. They are at tremendous cost. They\u2019re going to have to charge things, to go back and reinstitute something that yesterday was illegal because the president\u2019s waived a wand to go in and reinstate something that\u2019s illegal, that was substandard, that they have been planning for three years to remove from their portfolio.<\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to have to raise the premium price in order to be able to provide that service, what they\u2019re guaranteeing in the policy. You will note that Obama didn\u2019t say — when he was waving his magic wand today and allowing you to keep your canceled plan, and allowing the insurance companies to reinstate it, you didn\u2019t hear him say — “At the same price you were paying,” did you? Then we haven\u2019t gotten to the Mary Landrieu plan. Mary Landrieu\u2019s one of 10 Senate Democrats who was joining with Obama. <\/p>\n

She said one night on Hardball back in 2009, “If you like the insurance that you have, you\u2019ll be able to keep it.” Kay Hagan, Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, 10 Democrat senators who joined with Obama as they were running, as they were supporting legislation. They were supporting Obamacare. They weren\u2019t running. They\u2019re up this year. Next year. They were promising everybody you get to keep your plan if you like it, and Obama did kind of share it with \u2019em today. <\/p>\n

“No, I wasn\u2019t the only one. I mean, there\u2019s some other people who did it, too.” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. So Obama does his presser — and by the way, I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t point this out again. That presser was announced for 11:35. At 11:40, John Boehner is conducting a little press gathering. Now, that doesn\u2019t happen unless there\u2019s coordination. Boehner\u2019s not gonna go out and upstage the president. I mean, that\u2019s just protocol. That would not happen. So Boehner\u2019s not gonna go do that unless it\u2019s already known that the president\u2019s not gonna be showing up at 11:35. <\/p>\n

Do you agree with me on that? Boehner\u2019s not gonna do that. Particularly this bunch of Republicans would never go out there and be accused of trying to upstage the Boy Wonder. That would never happen, and Pelosi did one before Boehner. So my point is they announced it at 11:35 but everybody knew it wasn\u2019t gonna be 11:35. He started at 12:05, and he spent two minutes on the hurricane in the Philippines, the typhoon, giving this program plenty of time to open up.<\/p>\n

You know, our theme is playing, and I\u2019m introing the show, while he\u2019s wrapping up the Philippines, and then he gets right into his health care portion, right as this program begins. (chuckling) I predicted it, too, today to a couple of people, and they said, “You sound like you got Obama in your head.” I said, “No, no, it\u2019s the other way around. I\u2019m living rent free in his.” He was forcing us to JIP this \u2019cause he knew that everybody in the media was salivating hear what he was gonna hear. <\/p>\n

And what did he do? <\/line><\/p>\n

Can I give you had you seen promise? Here\u2019s what he said. If you like your old plan, you can now try to get it back, if you can. I\u2019m gonna allow your old plan to be made available. So go for it, if you think you can get it — and you know what else he said? I\u2019ll have to check the sound bite transcript to be sure. But even while telling you you\u2019d get your old plan back, he still insulted the plan. “If you want your old plan back, you can get it, but it\u2019s not gonna be what we intended for you.” Something like that. <\/p>\n

Even though he\u2019s gone out there trying to do a mea culpa, he can\u2019t. It\u2019s just not in him. He\u2019s not capable of accountability. (interruption) End of liberalism? (interruption) Snerdley\u2019s still in there fuming how this supposed to be the end of liberalism. Well, that\u2019s what Dr. Krauthammer said, and then they had a parade of people on Fox who were being asked to agree with that, and everybody did. I know. <\/p>\n

But stop and think what it means, though. I mean, if this is “the end of liberalism,” what that means is this is causing low-information people that vote for Democrats to wake up and realize it\u2019s a mistake. This is ending the whole notion of the welfare state, that\u2019s what the end of liberalism means. Is that what people think today? I guarantee you… My point is, “If you do believe that — if you think that this has the potential of waking people up to the horrors of liberalism and voting Democrat — then the last thing you\u2019d want to do is help fix it.” <\/p>\n

You would want to let it go ahead.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d do everything you could to help this thing gets repealed. You would do everything you could to break this further, right? If you believe, if you want this to be the end of liberalism, the last thing you should be doing is trying to offer a fix. I\u2019m talking about Republicans now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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