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I was reading a blog post today at Power Line, Steven Hayward, who has written some books on Reagan. We\u2019ve interviewed Steven Hayward here at the program for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read newsletter in American politics. I was going through this and, you know, one of the themes that we\u2019ve had this week is what is real, who is really smart, who is really engaged, who is it we are really up against. This has been an eye-opening week for so many people. The idea that liberal elites are smarter and run rings around other people intellectually was exposed as an abject fraud this week. The idea that they\u2019re open-minded, the idea that they\u2019re even aware of competing points of views, that was blown up as well. The level of arrogance that they possess is such that there are no opposing ideas except when they are confronted with them. <\/p>\n
Just this week Jeff Toobin was on Charlie Rose predicting a slam dunk for constitutionality. And all it took was 90 minutes of oral arguments and he\u2019s in a full abject panic as though he had never heard any of these objections to Obamacare and he\u2019s then scaring Wolf Blitzer to death. Poor Wolf I think had to take a day off one day this week to deal with his shock over the fact that this thing has some problems. Toobin was out there talking to Wolf Blitzer one day, and Wolf carried his shock and dismay into the night. The next day Toobin was put on with Don Lemon and Wolf wasn\u2019t anywhere to be found, so he might be wearing a little white jacket somewhere here until he gets his equilibrium back.<\/p>\n It\u2019s eye-opening. I really want to be serious about this. They\u2019re a bunch of overhyped know-nothings who do not have an expansive view of the world. They\u2019re in a prison that\u2019s created by their own conceit. They\u2019re in a prison that\u2019s the result of their own arrogance and they live in a place where there is no reality. And that\u2019s what hit them right between the eyes this week. They were confronted with reality, which they regularly, purposely avoid. They have instead constructed in their minds this socialist utopian idyllic dreamland, fantasyland that doesn\u2019t exist, can\u2019t exist, won\u2019t ever exist. And when they are confronted with the reality of anything up against their own constructs, it is the equivalent to you and I of being surprised by a bear in our backyard. It\u2019s the last thing you expect to happen. <\/p>\n Now, let me go through some of Hayward\u2019s piece here to try to be illustrative of what I\u2019m talking about. “The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Month for the Left.” I\u2019m not gonna read the whole thing. I\u2019m gonna take excerpts here. “It is typical for politically engaged people to note the weaknesses and defects of their own side…” No, that\u2019s what\u2019s remarkable; they don\u2019t. There are no weaknesses. There are no defects, until they\u2019re confronted with them. They do not conceive them. (Continuing reading excerpt) “…while overestimating the strength and prowess of their opponents.” That\u2019s us. That\u2019s what we have always done, and hopefully no more. There\u2019s no reason to ever feel inferior to these people. There\u2019s no reason to grant them superior or elite status in any way. <\/p>\n The point I made yesterday, this Verrilli<\/a>. They\u2019re dumping on this guy. The libs are dumping on this guy, the solicitor general who argued for the government, they\u2019re dumping on this guy left and right. He is from Columbia University Law Review. That equals, in their world, Einstein. Just like Obama was at Harvard law review, this guy is Columbia University Law Review. That\u2019s Einstein. That\u2019s Mensa. That\u2019s as smart as you can be, and we see that he\u2019s not anywhere near as smart as you can be. They\u2019re dumping on him for a very simple reason. <\/p>\n And they know. They count on Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan — who ought to have recused herself. That\u2019s another thing we discussed<\/a>. She shouldn\u2019t even be there because she helped put together the arguments that were made yesterday and this week by Verrilli. She shouldn\u2019t be there. In an ethical, sane world, she shouldn\u2019t even be there. So you have 2,700 pages, and Scalia says, “You expect us, the Court to go through these 2,700 pages?” Well, folks, here\u2019s the reality: Somebody\u2019s gonna have to. If it ever is fully implemented, somebody\u2019s going to have to go through those 2,700 pages. Every time you go to the doctor, somebody\u2019s gonna have to consult those 2,700 pages.<\/p>\n And you know who it isn\u2019t gonna be? It isn\u2019t gonna be your doctor and it isn\u2019t gonna be your insurance company. It\u2019s gonna be people like those who argued for the government at the Supreme Court. Incompetence on parade. Nameless bureaucrats who thrive on power over average people. They\u2019re the ones that are gonna be going through those 2,700 pages if this is declared fully constitutional. Somebody\u2019s gonna have to go through them. It\u2019s an outrage. It\u2019s a boondoggle. It is an absolute disaster. “Kennedy expressed surprising skepticism that the court was competent to make health policy.” He said, “I don\u2019t understand your position.” He was talking to Edwin Kneedler, who is the deputy solicitor general.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t understand your position. Are you saying we have the expertise here on the Court to decide which provisions should stay in and which should be thrown out in the mandate\u2019s overturned? It seems to me,” Kennedy said, “it could be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power to keep the rest of the law intact than strike the whole thing. I just don\u2019t accept your premise.” He\u2019s saying: You mean we have the expertise to decide which provisions in these 2,700 pages should stay in and which to be thrown out if we get rid of mandate? It seems to me that it can be argued that\u2019s a more extreme exercise of judicial power than just getting rid of the whole thing.<\/p>\n Somebody\u2019s going to be going through them, and Scalia said (paraphrased quotes), “I don\u2019t want to do it, and I\u2019m not gonna let you make my clerks do it.” And Kennedy said, “I\u2019m not taking that much power away from the Congress.” And the regime lawyers are shocked, because they can\u2019t believe that government officials, judges, would reject this kind of opportunity to wield power. Because to them that\u2019s what this is all about, the immense power in those 2,700 pages, and here we had judges say: “I don\u2019t want that power.”<\/p>\n And they\u2019re shocked! Somebody\u2019s gonna have to if this thing survives. Somebody is gonna be going through those 2,700 pages — and it isn\u2019t gonna be you.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t going to be your doctor.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not gonna be your nurse.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not gonna be anybody responsible for your treatment.<\/p>\n It\u2019s gonna be a bureaucrat deciding whether or not you are worth it.<\/p>\n Some utopia!<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, wants to raise taxes on Big Oil<\/a>, and he wants to use the money for his failed green energy buddies. That\u2019s coming up. But I want to go back to this Steven Hayward piece: “The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Month for the Left — First came the Sandra Fluke controversy. What looked like a well-staged triumph for the Left because of a rare overreach by Rush Limbaugh resulted instead in a ferocious blowback against Bill Maher, Louis C.K.,” and he goes on and on to describe that. “Second, Obama is in full retreat and panic mode over gasoline prices, and energy generally. …<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRealvilleSupremeCourt.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>And he\u2019s right! Stop and think what the regime asked them to do. It\u2019s quite telling. They wanted the Supreme Court to go through this thing page by page and rubberstamp it. Separation of powers, anyone? But these justices <\/a>realize that\u2019s not their job. They\u2019re not the experts here. And the point is that if this thing is fully implemented, not one expert will be going through those 2,700 pages. Bureaucrats will. The Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Some nameless, faceless bureaucrat — not your doctor, not your nurse, not your surgeon, not even your evil insurance company — is gonna be going through those 2,700 pages.<\/p>\n