{"id":227319,"date":"2017-03-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227319"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:38:46","slug":"washington-republicans-dont-want-to-repeal-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/29\/washington-republicans-dont-want-to-repeal-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Bill Is an Opportunity to Do It Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Holyoke, Colorado, with John. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. My pleasure to speak with you today.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, I got to listen to Governor Chris Christie on the number one morning show, Fox & Friends, and he reminded me that Obamacare took a year and a half for Obama to put into place without any Republicans. And I think nine weeks is way too soon for us to expect President Trump to get something through, and that just takes me back to what Aaron Rodgers once said. R-e-l-a-x, my fellow Trump fans. Let him get in there and take care of things, because I think with the new sheriff in town, the different factions of the Republican Party haven\u2019t figured out their pecking order yet, so I think we just need to relax and give him time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean the factions of the Republican Party haven\u2019t figured out the pecking order? What do you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we have the hard right, Jordans and those people, then we have the squishy Republicans, the RINOs —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the in-betweeners —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Wait a minute. Don\u2019t start using leftist terms to describe decent people. Jim Jordan is not hard right. I don\u2019t mean to be jumping down your chili here, but that\u2019s the way the Democrats talk about Jim Jordan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, I\u2019ll retract that, but like the caller yesterday said that the Democrats would rally around a baloney sandwich, and you said whether they wanted mayonnaise or mustard on it, and we as Republicans haven\u2019t figured that out yet. We need to rally around our leader when he\u2019s in control.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think the Republicans don\u2019t know that they have to do that? Don\u2019t misunderstand the tone in my voice. I\u2019m actually trying to extract information. Let me just cut to the chase here, because time is dwindling. I don\u2019t think the Republicans are confused about anything. I don\u2019t think the Republicans don\u2019t know how to repeal legislation. I don\u2019t think the Republicans have to learn any pecking order. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s about that at all.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, there\u2019s another thing. It really sounds good. “Well, you know, Rush, the health care laws in this country, why, it took 50 years for these things to be built out and implemented. You can\u2019t just strip this stuff all away inside of six months, six weeks.” Yes, you can. We\u2019re not talking about repealing 50 years\u2019 worth of stuff. We\u2019re talking about repealing Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Now, it may not be quite as easy as I think it is, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s this hard, either. I\u2019m sorry my friends. I know I\u2019m speaking about things I don\u2019t do. I don\u2019t do legislation. But how hard is it to say this law sucks, we\u2019ve been telling you for seven years we\u2019re gonna get rid of this law because it sucks. This law is damaging people, it\u2019s hurting people, it is not insuring people, it\u2019s not covering people, it\u2019s a disaster, and we gotta get rid of it, and today we\u2019re going to. What\u2019s so hard about that?<\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, you gotta have a replacement.” We got all kinds of replacements. We got what was in place before Obamacare happened. Revert back to it. There\u2019s any number of things. My point is I\u2019m not yet convinced that there is a party-wide desire to do it. That seems to be the missing ingredient here as I watched all this go down. That\u2019s just me, folks. It\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go to Gilbert, Arizona. Hey, David, you\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you on the one and only EIB Network. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m good, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling with a point that I want to put to all the Americans out there, including myself. We all need to get a backbone. All the people that are in the Armed Services are going overseas to fight for us, and now we\u2019re all sitting back here like a bunch of whiny babies because Trump hasn\u2019t turned this around in two months, when the left has screwed this country over for 30 years. We all need to get a backbone, stick to our guns, start expelling some of these senators who are just siphoning off of this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re gonna get the next chance to do that in 2018. We\u2019re gonna get rid of a bunch of them. You know, the thing about all this — and here I go. By the way, David, thanks for the call. He\u2019s reacting to some emails I had shared in the early segment of the program with some people, friends of mine, who are getting mad at me for not recognizing how much we\u2019re losing and that I am avoiding the truth, and that it\u2019s really desperate in Washington, and this all feels temporary there.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to redo the whole segment<\/a>, but the subject was how so many people are complaining to me about things and at the root of the complaint\u2019s the media and, for example, Democrats losing all these sits, guy says, “You gotta stop talking about that. We hear you and we get mad every time you do because they\u2019re not losing, dude. They\u2019re not losing.” But they are.<\/p>\n

I know politics is perception. Perception is reality. Perception is they\u2019re not losing \u2019cause the Democrats don\u2019t act like losers. The Republicans don\u2019t know how to act like winners. I get all that. But in the real world, the Democrats are losing when they\u2019re up for election. Now, they\u2019re not losing the campus. They\u2019re not losing Hollywood. I understand all that.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s reacting anyway. He\u2019s reacting to my explaining how so many people complain to me and whine about things. I think it\u2019s largely \u2019cause they think I can do something about it, since I have this, the Golden EIB Microphone. But the fact remains, the Democrats, as a political party, are in big and deep trouble. Now, you may not see manifestations of it.<\/p>\n

This guy, Tom Perez, he was Obama\u2019s labor secretary. This guy is one of the most mean, vicious partisans out there. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever been elected to anything, it doesn\u2019t matter, he was Obama\u2019s labor secretary. He\u2019s the new chairman of the Democrat Party National Committee, and he just fired everybody. He is cleaning house in there. You don\u2019t do this if your machine is running at full speed with no bumps in the road. And they have lost all of these elections.<\/p>\n

Tom Perez, Vicious Partisan<\/p><\/div>\n

Who is going to be the big presidential candidate for the Democrats? If you had to pick somebody right now, who\u2019s on their bench? There isn\u2019t anybody. Now, Biden\u2019s running around, “If I\u2019d a been the nominee, I\u2019d a won, I\u2019d a beat Trump,” in a direct insult and slap at Hillary. The Clintons are grooming Chelsea to run for something, senator from New York, to keep that dynasty as it is, is going.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m under no illusions here, but I think his point about people needing to get a spine and stick with it, that Trump\u2019s only been at it two months,is true. It\u2019s just I think the root of this, if there is one, and the attitudinal route, tell me if any part of this is accurate where you are concerned. The euphoria on election night and the immediate aftermath was so great because it was so surprising, so unexpected. I mean, some of you I\u2019m sure thought Trump was gonna win. I did.<\/p>\n

But when it actually happened and when you saw the flat-footedness of the Democrats and you saw Hillary hide for a day. She was so devastated she couldn\u2019t come out and concede. When you saw all of this, when you saw the total disorientation of the Democrats after this, you were feeling good. And Trump, during the transition, was kicking ass. And Trump was having meetings at Trump Tower and at Mar-a-Lago and Trump owned the news cycle.<\/p>\n

The Democrats were just getting up to speed on this collusion story between Trump and the Russians. They had to go into action quick on that because the day of the election and every day prior they thought they were gonna win. There wasn\u2019t any collusion with Trump and the Russians. They were gonna have a big celebration. So they had to manufacture a reason for their loss. And I\u2019ve had a couple people tell me that they\u2019re shocked that Trump doesn\u2019t have more support in Washington now. They\u2019re surprised that there is so much rancor and partisanship in the country.<\/p>\n

There is a belief that after Trump won, if Trump won, and after he won, that some people would come together, realize the election\u2019s over and that there wouldn\u2019t be this much rancor, there wouldn\u2019t be this much partisanship. And so that has turned into disappointment from what was an excited euphoria. And then of course the daily assault and effort here to take Trump out, to eventually get him out of office and so forth has led people to some degree of frustration. I don\u2019t know if that fits you.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime, while all of this is going on, all this perception-creating is happening, Trump is actually achieving quite a lot. He has actually already fulfilled a whole bunch of campaign promises. The economy is doing great. Jobs, real jobs are being created. American companies are announcing they\u2019re gonna reopen factories here. The coal industry is coming back to life because of what Trump did today. And for his part, you know, Trump seems aware. He tweets about the failing New York Times and how the media\u2019s being unfair and all that.<\/p>\n

But as far as Trump is concerned, he just gets up every day and goes to work and is trying to keep making his promises and advancing his agenda and so forth. And there just isn\u2019t any acknowledgment of it in places I guess people want to see it. But the Democrat are continuing to lose. You know, McConnell came out the other day and said, guaranteed that Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed on April 7th. Do you realize the Democrats in the Senate might have trouble blocking him?<\/p>\n

Everybody assumes that McConnell is going to have to do the nuclear option in order to get Gorsuch confirmed because everybody assumes that the Democrats are gonna be full-fledged united behind, there already some breaks in that armor. Joe Manchin is one, and there might be a couple of others who are gonna end up voting for Gorsuch. It has to be the case because McConnell is not the kind of guy to go out making guarantees like this unless he\u2019s relatively certain that they\u2019re gonna happen.<\/p>\n

Then the health care fiasco happened. I understand how that could deflate a lot of people. That was a fiasco. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be as bad as I originally thought last Friday, but I thought that had the potential to derail everything. I don\u2019t think I was as forthcoming with you as I could have been, because I don\u2019t want to complain. I\u2019m not gonna join that chorus. I\u2019m just gonna bide my time and wait. But my instinctive reaction was this is not good. This is gonna embolden the Democrats. This is gonna invigorate \u2019em. It\u2019s gonna create renewed energy, and they\u2019re gonna ratchet up opposition even more.<\/p>\n

And now I\u2019m thinking, not that bad. It is an opportunity to make it better, and I\u2019ll tell you, the arguments in that law, everybody acknowledged that it was not optimum, everybody acknowledged that it was very wanting in number of places, but the prevailing opinion seemed to be you gotta do it, half a loaf better than none, you gotta at least get something done because it\u2019s gonna change when it gets to the Senate, you gotta get something on paper, get something done so progress can start.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m actually of the mind that the thing failing is gonna end up being the best thing that could have happened. And not because of what I\u2019m hearing today, although what we\u2019re hearing today is optimistic; Trump\u2019s running around talking (paraphrasing), “We\u2019re gonna come back to it. Don\u2019t worry about it, gang. We\u2019re gonna get it done, we\u2019re gonna get it done right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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