{"id":11132,"date":"2013-10-15T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-15T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:59:13","slug":"there_is_no_rush_hotline_to_washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/15\/there_is_no_rush_hotline_to_washington\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No Rush Hotline to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Raleigh, North Carolina. This is Donna. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much for everything you do. Rush, I have two questions. One, I was just wondering, don\u2019t you have a direct line to these guys, like Boehner and these guys, that you could call and tell him what you just told Zack. You know, to buck up, stand strong, hang in there, use your power, don\u2019t abuse the power, but use your power and just stay in there. You know, you\u2019re doing the right thing and just help to, I don\u2019t know, give \u2019em the moral support that they need, for some reason. And then secondly, I\u2019m just curious on Obamacare. I thought that was created for people that didn\u2019t have insurance that couldn\u2019t afford insurance. So if they couldn\u2019t afford it before, how are they supposed to afford it now when you just hear people say time and time again that it\u2019s more than what they\u2019re paying?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s why they are delaying aspects of the implementation so that people don\u2019t learn that. It was sold as two things. The first one you got right. It was sold as insurance for the 30 million that are not covered, and it was sold as cheaper premiums and wider access to actual health care for the middle class. The truth of the matter is that young, healthy, average income middle-age people\u2019s premiums are going to skyrocket because it is those people who are going to be paying the freight for the seasoned citizens and their health care who do not have the money to contribute or any of that. That\u2019s how it is to be paid for, by a healthy middle class with average earnings. Their premiums are going to skyrocket. That\u2019s why the implementation of this is being delayed, is to keep that from happening. There\u2019s some people, Donna, who are theorizing that these glitches at Obamacare at the website are not real<\/a>, that they\u2019re programmed in just to keep the truth from being realized by people until a little bit more time has gone by.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just surreal, what we\u2019re living in right now. And it\u2019s just so hard to believe that this is happening. It\u2019s like, how does this happen to us? It\u2019s the best country in the world. Obama\u2019s got the most prestigious job that there is, and it is just so abused and squandered and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a scary answer, how it happens. There are many different explanations for it, you know, how does Obama win? How do the Democrats win? One of the reasons is, this is not what people that voted for Obama expected. There are number of people that voted for Obama because they thought they were gonna end racism in America. A number of people voted for Obama because they would say about themselves that they weren\u2019t racist. But there were no policy reasons to vote for Obama. Obama was an “it,” whatever you want it to be, end bickering, end arguing, Obama\u2019s a great unifier, Obama this, that. It\u2019s been a giant sham, or scam, if you will. And it\u2019s continued to be. I mean, nobody even knows who the man is. He hadn\u2019t even been vetted like normal candidates are. And the racial component of all this cannot be ignored in explaining it. Obama\u2019s well aware of that, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s making these big grabs knowing that he\u2019s not gonna be criticized by people because they\u2019re afraid to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s a big painful lesson.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got a lot of people — look, 90 million Americans — I love to put it this way \u2019cause I think it\u2019s the proper perspective. Ninety million Americans are not working, Donna, but they\u2019re eating. What does that mean? That\u2019s over 10 New York Cities that are not working. But they\u2019re eating, which means somebody\u2019s buying their sustenance, and that somebody is somebody else, is the government. They are eating. They\u2019ve got their phones. They\u2019ve got their flat screens and some people are perfectly satisfied with that.<\/line><\/p>\n

Others think that that\u2019s their entitlement as an American, to have that provided for them. Because so many other people have more, it\u2019s only fair I should have a little given to me by people who\u2019ve got more than I do. But 90 million Americans not working, and they\u2019re all eating, and there\u2019s a lot of people in the country that vote for Santa Claus. There\u2019s a lot of reasons. There\u2019s a lot of explanations.<\/p>\n

Now, as to whether or not I have a direct line. You know, I guess it is a popular perception that I do. And I don\u2019t. I guess it\u2019s a popular perception that I can get anybody on the phone I want and give \u2019em what-for. Folks, in one sense it\u2019s not who I am. I don\u2019t even think about calling these people. I might be able to get through if I wanted to, but I think I\u2019m no different than the way they\u2019d react to anybody else. Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full and hang up. They hear what I say every day here on the radio. They know what I say when I say it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never even tried to pick up the phone for this purpose to call somebody and say, “What the hell are you doing? Let me tell you what you ought to be doing.” I\u2019ve had a few over the years ask, and that\u2019s all they do is ask, and I\u2019ve answered and I\u2019ve told them what they ought to do, and not since the mid-nineties has anybody ever acted on it. But see, folks, my ego doesn\u2019t say they need to do what I think they should do because I don\u2019t take it personally when they reject it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pittsburgh, this is Kim. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Glad that you waited. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Good to be here. Just want to let you know that I really appreciate all your thoughts today because they are so spot right on. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling because one of the thoughts I had for the Republicans as a strategy is to say, “Okay, you know what? Let\u2019s go ahead and let you fund the Affordable Care Act, but entirely as it\u2019s written. No waivers, no exemptions, no delays, no nothing.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, Kim. Seriously, it\u2019s already too late for that. There are already too many waivers, and too many exemptions. It\u2019s actually a good point. What\u2019s being implemented is not the law Obama signed. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, and he doesn\u2019t have the right to give any of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he did it. Who\u2019s stopping him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: But he doesn\u2019t have the money today for it unless it\u2019s funded. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, you want your continuing resolution, you want your money, you want this, okay, but Obamacare has to be funded exactly as written by the Congress, because only the Congress can make any changes, and if you want to go ahead and exempt Congress, you want to put a delay in for businesses, well, guess what? That comes through us. You come — you ask us, we\u2019re the ones that have to write that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You should call John Boehner\u2019s office with that idea.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can you get through to them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I\u2019m just yanking your chain. Everybody expects me to do that. No, the point is that there are plenty of ways to fight this that do not include being part of the “we can\u2019t win” chorus. There are plenty of ways to try to fight this, but any way you choose, you\u2019re going to have to ignore the media. It\u2019s fundamental. If you don\u2019t ignore the media and their reaction to what you\u2019re doing, they\u2019re gonna shut you down. It\u2019s the problem that we\u2019ve got now. Kim, I appreciate the call. I really appreciate your patience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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