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RUSH: Bill O\u2019Baxter was on Fox last night. Let\u2019s get it. Let me find the sound bite. I happened to hit it first one. Number 12. Grab sound bite number 12. This is common. There are a lot of people, particularly on Fox — commentators, the hosts, the guests — saying it. This seems to be a theme within the Republican Party and on Fox.<\/p>\n

O\u2019REILLY: The question is, “Did President Obama know about the regulations and the language in the report?” I don\u2019t believe he did because he didn\u2019t read it. He doesn\u2019t pay attention to details.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: “He didn\u2019t know. He didn\u2019t know what was going on. He had no idea about any of this, though. Well, let\u2019s not hold him accountable. He didn\u2019t know!” Now, to a certain extent, he doesn\u2019t care about the details; he cares about the chaos. Because every day of chaos is one day closer to what he really wants, which is single payer. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t know the details. I think it\u2019s he doesn\u2019t care.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Folks, I think he\u2019s so far ahead of the Republican Party, they don\u2019t know what\u2019s hitting them every day — and the reason they don\u2019t is because they fail to understand the ideology of the Democrat Party. The inside-the-Beltway thinking — I\u2019m convinced of this now more than I\u2019ve ever been. The inside-the-Beltway thinking has nothing to do with ideology. A liberal isn\u2019t a liberal. A Democrat\u2019s a Democrat.<\/p>\n

The Democrats and Republicans, they trade power now and then, and they take turns being in charge of the money. But they\u2019re missing who Obama is, as are most of the people in this country. You know, why is it…? If I can revisit something, why is it that on January 16, 2009, I can say with total confidence and without any doubt whatsoever, “I hope he fails”? Because I know who he is — and how do I, incidentally? ‘Cause I understand his ideology, and most of you do, too. <\/p>\n

The Tea Party is fully aware of the ideology of the Democrat Party and of Barack Obama. It\u2019s not just liberal; it\u2019s socialist Alinskyite. But the Republican Party doesn\u2019t know this, or doesn\u2019t care to know it, or doesn\u2019t want to know it, or doesn\u2019t want to fight on this basis. It\u2019s one of those possibilities, and therefore they\u2019re not even in the game, because it is the only thing driving Obama is his ideology. The Democrat Party today is nothing but ideology, and the only way they can be understood is to understand their ideology. <\/line><\/p>\n

The only way they can be defeated is to understand their ideology. If you do not understand their ideology, meaning their liberalism, meaning their devotion to Alinskism — if you don\u2019t understand that — you\u2019re never gonna be able to beat them. If they\u2019re just a bunch of incompetent Democrats, for example, you\u2019re never gonna beat \u2019em. Not if that\u2019s what you think they are. Not if they\u2019re just a bunch of well-intentioned, “Oh, God, look what they\u2019re doing!”<\/p>\n

You\u2019re never gonna beat \u2019em if you\u2019re not willing to admit to yourself who they are. You have to understand their ideology. This was my incredulity when I heard Dr. Krauthammer say that he didn\u2019t know who Obama was <\/a>for five weeks after he was inaugurated. That\u2019s stunning to me, because Krauthammer… Certainly, he used to be a lib. At least he worked with Walter Mondale. He\u2019s gotta know who these people are. Even when he had dinner with him, spent six hours with him? You\u2019ve got to know who he is!<\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to learn, even if every liberal has become practiced at hiding the ideology. So if you are not going to admit to yourself that X and X Democrat is a liberal because you don\u2019t even see it, then they\u2019ve already won. They\u2019ve already defeated you. By definition, a liberal is a radical leftist extremist today. By definition. They all are. There aren\u2019t any degrees here, and it\u2019s almost now accurate to say that that\u2019s true for every Democrat in Washington. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re all left-wing ideologues — and for people like you and me, folks, it\u2019s not hard to understand what this means. What we\u2019re up against is a Democrat Party led by Barack Obama which has a socialist vision for the country. They proceed on the basis or on the belief that America is bad. They proceed on the basis that America\u2019s founding was unjust and immoral, unfair — and, therefore, illegitimate. This is who they are, and if you are unwilling to admit this — and John McCain, for example, would never admit this about them. He\u2019ll never admit this about Harry Reid. He\u2019ll never admit this about Pelosi. <\/p>\n

So McCain is worthless in terms of defeating them. That\u2019s why he wants to be the maverick to cross the aisle to work with them. He does not because he either can\u2019t or he doesn\u2019t want to see them for who they are. They do not like the way the country was founded. It\u2019s unfair. It\u2019s unjust. It\u2019s immoral, racist, capitalist. The unfairness is the capitalism. The unfairness is that there are rich people and poor people, and that\u2019s not right. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re also informed, animated, and motivated by what they think is the antidote to all of this, and that is redistribution of wealth. Everything culturally being morally relative. There are no absolutes. Nobody gets to say what\u2019s right or wrong. There are no cultural guardrails. Anything goes, and they are the champions of anything goes. So their antidote to the whole notion that America\u2019s unjust, immoral, unfair, racist, bigoted, sexist, capitalist and all that, is to take from the rich, take from anybody whose got more than anybody else, and redistribute the money, theoretically. They never actually succeed at that, but that\u2019s what they claim they want to do. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason, folks, that on the left people like Che Guevara are on T-shirts. There\u2019s a reason that people like actors, Sean Penn and so forth, love and idolize socialist dictators. There\u2019s a reason for it. That is the way they express their disagreement with the way the country is and the way it was founded. Now, this is what constitutes their ideology. This is the path Obama is on, and he has said so. It is what he means when he says he wants to fundamentally transform this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, within this universe, the details of things are irrelevant. The health care system is unfair for two reasons: A, the left doesn\u2019t run it, and, B, capitalists do. That alone makes it unfair. Add in that some people don\u2019t have insurance and other people do, that makes it unfair. It\u2019s gotta change. It\u2019s not acceptable. The fact that some people have better coverage than others, some people get treatment, some people don\u2019t, that is an indictment of the country and it informs them, motivates them, and it has to change with them in charge. And the first thing that has to change is to dismantle what exists, and whatever chaos results is okay because what\u2019s happening is the dismantling. <\/p>\n

So Sebelius can go up there and take every arrow thrown<\/a>. She can be the sponge that absorbs every bit of criticism. Doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s part of the plan of fundamentally transforming it. And that\u2019s why for the Republicans on this committee today, if there\u2019s no ideological understanding of what\u2019s going on, there will not be any ideological push-back and there will not be any ideological alternative for the American people. Not a health care alternative. Not the Republicans\u2019 own version of Obamacare, but an ideological push-back. <\/p>\n

Now, while they do all this, how does Obama come across? He comes across as a reasonable, soft-spoken, pragmatic kind of guy. He doesn\u2019t look like anything I\u2019ve described. He doesn\u2019t look like a wild-eyed radical that doesn\u2019t like this country. That\u2019s why having dinner with him and listening to him talk doesn\u2019t matter. You have to understand what he is by virtue of what his loyalties and devotions and ideological beliefs are. You have to be willing to admit that to yourself. We all do. And those who will not are, sadly, being employed unknowingly by Obama and his pals to help them advance what they want. <\/p>\n

All Obama cares about is that every day the general direction of the country is toward where he wants to go. The day-to-day minutia and the problems and the apparent failures of what he\u2019s trying to do, irrelevant. Because the chaos and the dismantling is the success. And when you\u2019re gonna start dismantling something as big as the health care system, of course it\u2019s gonna be a mess. These guys don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t really have an alternative and they don\u2019t care right now. <\/p>\n

All they care about is that it gets so bad that there is a clamor for the government to fix it by having a single payer system. Even if people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re asking for. It\u2019s messy where this is heading. But you cannot dismantle something this big and this intricate without there being chaos, and that\u2019s fine with them. If you\u2019re Obama and the Democrats, you just keep pounding on the traditions and institutions that made this country great. <\/line><\/p>\n

You keep pounding \u2019em. You keep destroying \u2019em. You keep attacking \u2019em. You keep blaming them. You have the media in your pocket helping you along. You\u2019ve got a low-information voter base that has been made to believe that every capitalist entity is out to harm them. My example in the last hour. In the real world, anybody who knows anything, it\u2019s preposterous to say the insurance companies like losing customers. It\u2019s absolutely preposterous. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t make money losing customers. They don\u2019t make money canceling policies. They don\u2019t make money hurting people. They do not make money getting rid of people. They do not make money canceling policies. And yet, the low-information people in this country believe this is how the insurance companies succeed, by canceling people, by hurting people, because that\u2019s what capitalism does, that\u2019s what the Republicans do. And if there\u2019s not gonna be the ideological push-back on any of this — this is why, folks, in just a small way here, this is why the idea of this book I\u2019ve written intrigued me. Some inroad to young skulls full of mush that puts in front of them the truth of the greatness of the founding of this country. To battle back, fight back against this incessant, never ending assault on this country, which is what Barack Obama is doing. <\/p>\n

My God, taking over the health care system? Destroying the private sector economy the way he has? The fact that there\u2019s no outrage about any of this is a testament to how successful they have been in poisoning the minds of low-information voters and creating a level of ignorance the country\u2019s probably not seen in the modern era. In an era where there\u2019s so much education in this country, for there to be so much ignorance is stunning to me. So much indoctrination, stunning. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Joe in St. Louis as we get started on the phones. Great to have you, sir, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I\u2019d like to thank Mr. Snerdley for letting me do this, and I apologize if I get a little tongue-tied. I\u2019ve never been on such a grand stage with a powerful personality. I go back to Nancy Pelosi saying at the very beginning we gotta pass this bill to see what\u2019s in it to fix it. Obviously it\u2019s a Democratic sandbox and they\u2019re not gonna let us play. They\u2019re not gonna let us repeal and get rid of this awful thing. So why don\u2019t the Republicans start trying to fix it, start trying to send bills across that actually do something, \u2019cause obviously the Democrats aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand your premise. The premise is, if repeal is not a valid thing, or if delay is not a valid thing, well, let\u2019s get in their sandbox and pepper \u2019em with legislation. I\u2019m gonna turn the Republican argument back on \u2019em. Well, we don\u2019t have the votes in the Senate to win anything, so why try? I mean, that\u2019s what they told Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jeff in Columbus, Ohio. Jeff, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s good to be here, and your comment on capitalism, what a great segue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Insurance companies have for years laid out and have offered thousands and thousands of benefit plan options in response to their customers. I mean, they\u2019ve done a good job in responding to their customers. And over the last month, it\u2019s been pretty widely discussed, and including you, that one of the biggest reasons for the cancellations — I\u2019m sorry — transitions in coverage is because some of the individuals who have had high deductible programs, the deductible\u2019s been too high, or it hasn\u2019t included essential health benefits and therefore have been declined. But there\u2019s another reason that really hasn\u2019t been discussed much, and all of these benefit options, even if they fully include all ten of the essential health care benefits, if they fall in between cracks, in other words, if they don\u2019t strictly comply with the actuarial standards for being a platinum plan or a gold plan or a silver plan, but if they fall in between, they\u2019re not a qualified plan and can no longer be offered, at least in the exchange, for both individuals and small groups.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I need to ask you a question. Isn\u2019t that somewhat by design? Isn\u2019t it rather easy for them not to qualify now because of Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sure. And the main reason for that was to make plans more, quote, unquote, comparable among carriers. But nonetheless, in work that I\u2019ve done, that potentially up to 50% of the benefit plan options that insurers have historically offered can\u2019t be offered anymore because they don\u2019t meet the technical qualifications and definitions of a qualified health plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting. And so people are losing choice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely they\u2019re losing choice. So if you\u2019re an employer who had a really good plan, and let\u2019s say it fell between silver and gold, you know, insurers are having to say now, “Sorry, I can\u2019t offer you that plan anymore because it\u2019s not a qualified health plan.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it\u2019s not a qualified health plan because of a bunch of federal bureaucrats writing rules about an industry they do not understand?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s how your plan gets thrown out, folks. I\u2019m telling you, it is by design. And that\u2019s how you lose your grandfathered status. You know, once somebody who knows what\u2019s going on explains it to you, it makes total sense. A lot of people get lost in how complicated all the details and minutia are, but once it\u2019s explained ideologically — there\u2019s that word again — it\u2019s understandable. Thank you very much, Jeff. I appreciate it. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You people know this, but I\u2019m glad the story\u2019s out there. Glenn Beck\u2019s website TheBlaze.com has a piece here called, “The Psychology Behind Leftist Lies” by Dr. Gary Casselman, who earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. I\u2019ll read you some excerpts of this piece. “Liberals comprise only about 20% of the voting public,” and that\u2019s true. In polls where people are asked to identify themselves as conservative, liberal, moderate, independent, wishy-washy, afraid to say, whatever, 20% say they\u2019re liberal.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Almost 40% say they are conservative. Not Republican or Democrat, but liberal versus conservative. “So,” Dr. Casselman says, “So, how has the left been so successful in swaying the majority of voters to believe what they feed them, when most often what the left says is not supported by the facts and what they do actually does harm to their voting constituents? Well, in mine and Tim Daughtry\u2019s recent book, Waking the Sleeping Giant: How Mainstream Americans Can Beat Liberals At Their Own Game<\/a>, we discuss the issue of the misinformed and the uninformed voter typically voting for Democrats. <\/p>\n

“Rush Limbaugh often refers to this voting segment as the ‘low information\u2019 voter. It is from this set of voters that the left is able to draw the additional 30-35% of the votes that they need to win elections, taking our country down the path of socialism,” and I have to tell you, these guys are right on the money. There is only 20% hard-core liberals self-identified, but they do own the low-information crowd made up of pop culture warriors and all of that. So his question is: “How do they do this?”<\/p>\n

How do they get these low-information voters? “How do they do this?” Two words are the answer: “They lie. For example, Democrats have convinced the nation that people are poor because they have been treated unfairly and are victims of greedy capitalists. To address this purported social injustice, President Obama\u2019s approach is to ‘re-distribute\u2019 the nation\u2019s wealth. President Johnson pushed through ‘The War on Poverty\u2019 as part of his ‘Great Society\u2019 platform to rectify, supposedly, the ‘social injustice\u2019 committed by those ‘evil capitalists.\u2019 <\/p>\n

“The fact is that poverty levels in the United States since The War on Poverty was implemented are unchanged in 50 years — despite the re-distribution of literally trillions of dollars. Since President Obama\u2019s first inauguration, poor people are notably poorer now than when he took office in 2009, only five years ago! Household median income, since President Obama took office, is down $3,000. Since 2009 the poverty rate has risen from 14.3% to nearly 17% in 2013. <\/p>\n

“Additionally, 20% of the nation\u2019s children live in poverty. And the blunt force to the face of Obamacare hasn\u2019t even hit yet. As has been said for years: ‘If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it is free!\u2019 … The misinformed believe [the lies from the left about Republicans] because it is consistent with the lies they have always been told and already believe. The continuous stream of lies from the left make them feel even more threatened and even angrier,” because the lies from the left about Republicans are designed to be threatening.” <\/p>\n

Republicans won\u2019t negotiate with us on the debt ceiling, threatening the country with the fault of catastrophic economic collapse! Republicans want to kill you! Republicans do this and that! Republicans hate people, Republicans don\u2019t like women, Republican war and all this stuff. “They lie. … Currently, the left is blaming Republicans for the government shutdown, painting Republicans as uncaring, greedy, hateful and corrupt.<\/p>\n

“According to Democrats, Republicans don\u2019t care about children, veterans, seniors, African Americans and the poor. They spew forth lie after lie about how Republicans want to push granny off the cliff, cut social security, school lunches, veteran\u2019s benefits, welfare, etc., indeed wanting to keep the disenfranchised, well, disenfranchised. One cannot listen to the news for more than a minute to see this reflected in the thinking of Republican politicians. <\/p>\n

“On Oct. 7, 2013 on the Kelly File on Fox News, Senator Ted Cruz said that the Veteran\u2019s Administration was closed in the recent government shut down even though the House Republicans had put forth a bill to the senate to fund the agency. But, he goes on to say, Senator Harry Reid won\u2019t bring the bill to the floor. Senator Cruz\u2019s analysis: ‘This just doesn\u2019t make any sense!\u2019 Logically, he is right, it makes no sense. But from a psychological, limbic perspective, it makes perfect sense.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Really, I\u2019m just glad to see this, because you know this. We\u2019ve talked about it a lot, but it\u2019s what we\u2019re up against, is lies. In your personal life when you\u2019re up against a liar, pathological liar, you\u2019re frustrated. What do you do, how do you deal with this, particularly if the liar has persuaded other people, and the lies are about you or your family or whatever. <\/p>\n

This is why I say, this is why I keep harping on the fact, I really do believe the solution to all of this lies in ideological education, because there is a truth in the midst of all the lies, and it is that liberals lie. Liberalism is a lie, liberals lie, wherever they are. And if you know that about liberals because you understand the ideology, can you imagine how far ahead of the game we\u2019d be or how much damage we\u2019d have been able to prevent if people simply knew the truth about liberals? <\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s why I was able to say “I hope he fails,” \u2019cause I knew what was in store. It\u2019s not because I have any great powers to predict the future. I just know liberals. Like every square inch of my glorious naked body, I know liberals. And somehow, you know, the truth is a great counter, but what is it Churchill said, “A lie is halfway around the world before the truth even starts to catch up,” or something like that. But you have to first understand the ideology, you have to acknowledge it. The Republicans are not there. They don\u2019t look at the Democrats that way. McCain couldn\u2019t possibly, while in the same breath, praising Hillary Clinton for crying out loud. And for what purpose? <\/p>\n

So again, it\u2019s just another reason, folks, why the prospect of a book for young people on the founding and the who the people were and what was involved, just to counter these lies. Because the lies the left are telling are demeaning the country, impugning the country. It\u2019s rooted in that. What propels Obama is his belief this country\u2019s unjust, immoral, unfair, racist, sexist, bigoted, that\u2019s got to be countered, and it\u2019s got to be countered starting at young ages. Young people have got to be educated to understand and to question the propaganda they\u2019re hearing. <\/line>\"original\"<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

My gosh, kids are being propagandized at school, being propagandized in movies, television shows, everywhere. They\u2019re being propagandized in the media. There\u2019s got to be some push-back to it, and that\u2019s why, among many other things, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims <\/a>was written and why I have such high hopes for it and maybe more, you never know. But it\u2019s just, to me, so simple. I get e-mails, “When did you learn about liberals? Why are you so confident?” I\u2019m so confident, I\u2019ve got a lifetime of observing them, for crying out loud. FDR, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, for crying out loud, the evidence is right in front of everybody\u2019s face, plus they tell you now and then, like Obama has. He lies about it, too, but he\u2019s let the cat out of the bag a number of times about who he really is and what he really wants to do with the country. That\u2019s what “transform it” means. <\/p>\n

How did I figure it out? My dad, Mr. Buckley. But just reading, observing, and just having, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s courage, but whatever it takes to admit it and deal with it. The biggest problem — well, it\u2019s hard to codify one biggest problem, but we\u2019re in a circumstance now where the opposition party doesn\u2019t even think in this regard, doesn\u2019t even look at the ideology of the opponent. I think it\u2019s part of inside the Beltway establishment thinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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