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Now, we have people who have, on the right. We\u2019ve read it. That\u2019s why we know what\u2019s in it. Pelosi doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in it. Elena Kagan doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in it, and she was at the solicitor general\u2019s office for Obama before Verrilli working on the defense of this case both at the appellate level and at the Supreme Court. Chris Matthews: The thought that it\u2019s unconstitutional never occurred to me. It\u2019s like Juan Williams who heard Lord Monckton from the UK present the case against manmade global warming. Juan Williams: I never knew this existed. I didn\u2019t know anybody disagreed with it. Didn\u2019t know? Here\u2019s a guy working at Fox News who didn\u2019t know that there are people who disagree with the notion of manmade global warming. <\/p>\n
We were led to believe here that Nina Totenberg, who you\u2019ll hear in a second here, Chris Matthews, don\u2019t even know that there are people who oppose it because it\u2019s not constitutional. They were genuinely rocked off their core this week. This was no act. Jeffrey Toobin: “plane wreck”, “train wreck.” This was no sleight-of-hand. They, for the first time in their exalted existence, heard principled opposition to the constitutionality of this bill, which to them is no more than boatloads of money to the states so they can give health care to the poor. You can call \u2019em provincial. New Yorkers are highly provincial. One thing I learned when I moved there 1988, New York is the largest market, biggest market, biggest city, focus of everything, the center of everything. <\/p>\n
But even the New York Post, any newspaper in New York, the Oshkosh — oh, Marcia Clark. This is a great example. Marcia Clark, who tried the O.J. case, she spent five minutes on Long Island one day. That was the focal point of the story in the New York paper. She was a New Yorker trying O.J. That\u2019s how provincial they are. And liberals are the same way. They\u2019re just provincial. Their world is it. There is nothing else. And they\u2019re not even curious about what else there is. Yeah, you and I, we see this, and we can\u2019t believe it, because not only can we explain what we believe, we can explain what they believe. We know what animates them. We know what they believe, and that\u2019s why we can skunk \u2019em in any issue or idea or argument that comes down the pike. They have no clue. They are just as insulated as somebody in prison. <\/p>\n
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TOTENBERG: They should be biting their fingernails. The White House was right not to worry about it way back when. The entire legal community, except for I would say the really hardcore…<\/p>\n
TODD: Very minority of the legal community.<\/p>\n
TOTENBERG: Everybody, including conservatives, thought, oh, this case is a piece of cake.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All the so-called smart people, the entire legal community other than the hard-core types, which is 70% of the American people, by the way. The people she\u2019s talking about, the hard-core right wing, that\u2019s 70% of the American people. Nina Totenberg and her group are the ones in the very small minority. Oh, yeah, everybody, including conservatives thought this case is a piece of cake. To the extent that conservatives thought it was a piece of cake, not legally. If there were any conservatives who thought this thing was a piece of cake constitutionally it\u2019s because of the faith in the legal system we\u2019ve lost, not in the merits of the law. I should also add, there are a lot of conservative legal people, media people in Washington, New York, who want to impress people like Nina Totenberg, so they run around, “Oh, yeah, Obamacare, easy, slam dunk. See, I\u2019m as open-minded and smart as you are. Will you invite me to your next party?” Or whatever. <\/p>\n
But these are the ones totally out of touch. Peggy Noonan has a column today in which she sort of says, “You know, this guy is not the guy I thought he was,” meaning Obama. Not the guy I thought he was. Not so smooth operator. And there\u2019s one line in her column here: How did the constitutional law professor from the University of Chicago not notice that his centerpiece legislation was unconstitutional? She\u2019s very curious, asking that question, how does Obama not know? The answer is he doesn\u2019t care. The answer is it\u2019s okay if it\u2019s unconstitutional. He doesn\u2019t care. The Constitution is an obstacle to him. His surprise, if he is indeed surprised, is that the opposition here has a chance. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: How in the world could this be unconstitutional? All we\u2019re doing is throwing a boatload of money at the states and saying, “Here, use it for health care for poor people.” That\u2019s Justice Elena Kagan in oral arguments, US Supreme Court, telling us what\u2019s in the 2,700 pages of Obamacare. And here\u2019s more Nina Totenberg from MSNBC\u2019s Daily Rundown today with F. Chuck Todd. After Nina and F. Chuck agree that a very really hardcore minority of legal community even thought this thing was unconstitutional, F. Chuck says, “The question that a lot of folks that are watching this wonder is, how much politics is there on this court, Nina? Is it more political on this court than previous courts? Is it the same, we just see it more? Which is it, Nina?”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
TOTENBERG: — the court has become so much more conservative. The court has lost some credibility since Bush v. Gore.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
TOTENBERG: It used to have the approval or the respect when you did polls of people in both parties, and now increasingly it\u2019s Republicans who respect the court and Democrats who are having great reservations about it, and I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything — if a court is gonna take us in a dramatically different direction, it\u2019s representative of what we see in the rest of the country and you\u2019re gonna see people split on it the way they are about everything else.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Damn those Republicans. Damn those conservatives. Everything was fine \u2019til they came along. Everything was hunky-dory and then the conservatives came along and made it all hardcore and partisan. You know, there are very conservative people on this court, Ginsburg and Breyer and Kagan and Sotomayor. They\u2019re just normal, standard, middle-of-the-road people. There is nothing political about them. Then you\u2019ve got Scalia, and you\u2019ve got Thomas, you\u2019ve got Roberts and Alito. That Bush ruined the court. Now, here\u2019s Nina, I don\u2019t know that she intended to do this, but when she said here, “If the court\u2019s gonna take us in a dramatically different direction that\u2019s representative of what we see in the rest of the country,” meaning liberalism is losing in her mind, they\u2019re in trouble. Obama\u2019s in trouble. The polling data, this guy\u2019s not loved. There is no messianic feel for Obama like there was in 2008. They\u2019re very troubled by this. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: One more sound bite on this health care business and then we\u2019ll take a break. Juan Williams, aforementioned Juan Williams last night on Special Report, is on the All-Star Panel. The fill-in host of Shannon Bream. Bret Baier was not there. And Shannon Bream is talking to Juan Williams about the Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionality of health care reform. She said to Juan Williams, “The dust has settled. Now that the arguments are over, Juan, what\u2019s your take? What\u2019s gonna happen here?”<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: The consequence politically is what\u2019s being debated in Washington. Does this help President Obama\u2019s reelection campaign if the health care act is viewed as unconstitutional by the court or does it hurt Republicans? It\u2019s interesting it\u2019s viewed in negative terms, not helping anyone, really, because for the president he obviously would be viewed as having lost his signature piece of legislation during his time in office. And for the Republicans, the question would be, oh, so if Americans don\u2019t get a cure for the doughnut hole, if they don\u2019t get some kind of protection against being excluded as a result of pre-existing conditions, if you can\u2019t keep your children on your insurance \u2019til they\u2019re 26, what do you Republicans have in mind? So it\u2019s all in the negative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What he\u2019s saying is nobody wins if Obamacare gets thrown out. Nobody wins. I know Juan Williams. I\u2019ve been interviewed by Juan. I like Juan, but Juan, do you even care what the bill says? Here we are once again analyzing the political ramifications for Obama and for the Republicans. What about for the people? What about for the citizens of this country who are going to lose a significant amount of freedom? What about the Constitution? The very foundation of it will be forever altered. The Constitution limits what government can do. Pure and simple. That\u2019s what it does, and this one piece of legislation throws that out and opens the door for government control over every aspect of life. Does this not matter? <\/p>\n
This is not an independent, isolated political exercise. This is real life here. I am struck by how many in the pundit class, the exalted, elevated more than the rest of us, don\u2019t even get that, or they\u2019re uninterested in it. Or they don\u2019t see any use in talking about it. The political prism is all that matters. What about real life? What about the concept of liberty? What about the concept of the Constitution that limits government? This is how you lose it, with people caring, not knowing, even worse. People are incapable of seeing the big picture with this. And these, we are told, are the exalted ones. These are the ones smarter than we are. They\u2019re the ones that should be on TV analyzing. Not you or me. These are the analysts. These are cut above. I mean these are the guys that are gonna come up with things that you and I can\u2019t possibly think of. We\u2019re not smart enough. We\u2019re not in the game; we\u2019re not there; we don\u2019t know the people; we don\u2019t talk to \u2019em; so what we think, how can we know? And yet they\u2019re looking at a microscopic portion of this, missing what it\u2019s really about. I still am amazed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, because they\u2019re quite illustrative. Nina Totenberg, who is the Supreme Court reporter for National Public Radio, and she\u2019s another one of \u2019em. All the smart people, all of the big kids in the clique, all of the super-educated members of this clique and they never talk to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n