{"id":227505,"date":"2017-03-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227505"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T20:50:33","slug":"after-years-of-gop-promises-obamacare-is-still-the-law-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/30\/after-years-of-gop-promises-obamacare-is-still-the-law-of-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of GOP Promises, Obamacare Is Still the Law of the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This health care bill — let me find this Philip Klein piece folks. I don\u2019t even want to paraphrase this. I want to read this thing to you. Headline: “GOP Cave on Obamacare Repeal is the Biggest Broken Promise in Political History.”<\/a> Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner. “I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to scapegoat Freedom Caucusers here. They are being blamed for making the naive mistake of assuming that Republicans wanted to do what they were promising to do for seven years.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I told Snerdley this morning, you know what, you can really set all this aside and look at the lay of the land, and we\u2019ve been hearing for seven years, repeal and replace Obamacare. There have been any number of bills the Republicans have passed, sent up to Obama. Some of them got there and he vetoed. But after all of this huffing and puffing and after all of this back-and-forth, after all this negotiating we still have Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Look, it\u2019s easy to say after the fact, and I think I\u2019ve said this before the fact, I think I\u2019ve said it. I\u2019ve had my doubts the Republicans ever really wanted to get rid of this. It\u2019s an entitlement. They don\u2019t like taking an entitlement. It\u2019s Santa Claus. You don\u2019t want to cancel Christmas. That\u2019s how they look at this stuff in many ways.<\/p>\n

\"\"But Klein\u2019s point here is it\u2019s clear to him that the Republicans at large didn\u2019t want this, and to be blaming the Freedom Caucus for it is a cop-out \u2019cause he hasn\u2019t seen any other Republicans really, really trying to get this done. He said this bill was an embarrassment. This bill expanded certain things in Obamacare, it clearly didn\u2019t repeal anything. They\u2019ve had seven years to plan for this day. They\u2019ve raised money on this whole possibility here. They have made promise after promise after promise, and Philip Klein thinks<\/a> this is the biggest broken promise in political history.<\/p>\n

“House conservatives, if they could be blamed for anything, it\u2019s for having the audacity to urge leadership to actually honor seven years of pledges to voters to repeal Obamacare.” What he\u2019s saying is the only people that really took this seriously is the Freedom Caucus. In other words, the Freedom Caucus says, “Oh, you want to repeal and replace Obamacare? Okay, good. Well, here\u2019s what we support. Here\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna do it,” and they did. And it turned out to be nothing like what they thought it was gonna be because it didn\u2019t repeal anything, and it didn\u2019t replace anything.<\/p>\n

It left intact a lot of Obamacare and relied on the Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price, to start taking things out of it, which they said could get put back in the next time a Democrat wins. Let\u2019s put this in the bill to take these Obama regulations out. House leadership said no, can\u2019t do it. So his point is the only mistake the Freedom Caucus made was taking seriously the claims from other Republicans they wanted to get rid of it. In Klein\u2019s view he hasn\u2019t seen any real evidence they really want to get rid of it. They want a legislative win, but he thinks they\u2019re getting a raw deal.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPTS<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I know. I need to point out that Philip Klein — who I\u2019m quoting here from the Washington Examiner — is a Never Trumper emeritus. He\u2019s a former Never Trumper, he\u2019s a current Never Trumper, he\u2019s a never-ending Never Trumper. He\u2019s a Never Trumper forever. He\u2019s a proud and happy Never Trumper. So get that out there. But he\u2019s still defending the Freedom Caucus here.<\/p>\n

And just to represent, he thinks that if they need to be blamed for anything, it\u2019s for having the audacity to believe the Republican leadership actually wanted to repeal Obamacare, so they came up with ways to do it. Now, we\u2019re talking about Mark Meadows and our buddy Louie Gohmert, and it is Klein\u2019s opinion here that the leadership didn\u2019t really want to get rid of this. They didn\u2019t want to tackle it. They didn\u2019t want to get their arms and hands dirty. They just wanted to go through the motions.<\/p>\n

He said, “What\u2019s so utterly disgraceful is not just that Republicans failed so miserably, but that they barely tried, raising questions about whether they ever actually wanted to repeal Obamacare in the first place.” Here\u2019s the bottom line, from Philip Klein, Never Trumper forever. The Republicans didn\u2019t want to repeal Obamacare that badly. Sure, if the Supreme Court had done their job for them, then they would accept it. They\u2019d be okay with Obamacare going away. But as you know, John Roberts saved it.<\/p>\n

When push came to shove, they weren\u2019t willing to put in the elbow grease. “Failing to get the votes on one particular bill is one thing. But failing and then walking away on seven years of promises is a pathetic abdication of duty. The Republican Party is a party without a purpose.” Now, admittedly, he\u2019s ticked off \u2019cause they nominated Trump and he\u2019s a Never Trumper. But this isn\u2019t really about Trump. I mean, I would love to see the guy unload on Trump\u2019s role in this.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s defending the Freedom Caucus here against an unfair assault when all they did was actually believe that everybody meant get rid of this. That\u2019s what they did! And that\u2019s what was rejected. And now they\u2019re being threatened: Better get on board the next time or else I\u2019m going to the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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