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RUSH: It\u2019s required.<\/p>\nRUSH: John in Salt Lake City, you are next. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thanks for bringing me aboard again, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m sitting here looking at that McConnell rushing, you know, Swampcare 2.0 back to the CBO and trying to get the numbers and I\u2019m sitting here scratching my head because the CBO numbers, well, they\u2019ve never been predictive. You know, every time the real-life numbers come in, everybody\u2019s like surprised and they\u2019re never what they expected, and yet they keep running to the CBO like their numbers are a settled accounting, so to speak.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s required.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, but I\u2019m just starting to wonder if the people at the IPCC aren\u2019t working over at the CBO.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I mean, it\u2019s like climate science for accounting.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, here\u2019s the flaw with the CBO, among many. There are many flaws. The CBO could only deal with data it is given. So people that write legislation oftentimes write it to get past the CBO for one reason or another in either a disguise or end run around or whatever. But the problem with the CBO is they cannot and do not — they don\u2019t even try — figure or predict the costs based on what the legislation will cause in terms of the way people live. For example, if the CBO sees a bill that\u2019s going to cut taxes by 10%, the CBO will automatically conclude the government is down 10% in total revenue.<\/p>\n
A 10% tax cut in the CBO world means the government law schools 10% of its annual income, budget, tax rate, whatever. Well, that\u2019s farcical. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game. Life isn\u2019t a zero-sum game, and tax increases or tax rate cuts affect the way people live and earn income and pay taxes. There\u2019s nothing static about them. But that\u2019s the only way they can score it. So it\u2019s never accurate. That\u2019s what you were leading up to. The CBO\u2019s numbers are never accurate. But that doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s Washington. It doesn\u2019t have to be accurate. That\u2019s not what Washington\u2019s about.<\/p>\n
The CBO is part of an intricate web that has been woven that is designed to be an obstacle to Republican ideas and greased lightning for Democrat ideas, while everybody claims it\u2019s nonpartisan. But that\u2019s not possible. It simply isn\u2019t nonpartisan, and it can\u2019t be. Now, McConnell resubmitting this? He may be doing exactly what I theorized, which many of you continue to pooh-pooh, claiming he\u2019s not that strategic, he\u2019s not that smart, he doesn\u2019t have the ability to take what they did… They have to furnish their math.<\/p>\n
CBO has to tell you how they arrived at their conclusions. So my theory is McConnell is looking at this and rewriting a new health care bill designed to pass the CBO. Other learned commentators have acknowledged this is possible. Many people think McConnell is not nearly… “He doesn\u2019t even care enough about it to get this intricate.” We shall see. What\u2019s problem with most legislation today — and I would even include Trump in this. This health care bill, folks, you know what the objective is now? To get a bill passed.<\/p>\n
“Getting a bill passed” means, “We have done it! We\u2019ve done something. We\u2019ve repealed Obamacare,” even though it won\u2019t be a repeal Obamacare. It\u2019s gonna be a new health care bill that tinkers around the edges. It\u2019s not gonna repeal and replace anything and it\u2019s not gonna replace anything, but they\u2019re gonna say that it does, and they\u2019ll be signing ceremonies and bands and little otters will be released back to their native habitat. It be a giant, giant party. Nothing is really changing because the Republicans don\u2019t really want to repeal it. That\u2019s a problem with too much legislation today. It\u2019s become an end unto itself.<\/p>\n
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“Just get the bill passed,” and we\u2019ll take care of the PR later. Just get the bill passed!”<\/p>\n
Before I go to the break, I\u2019ve gotta get this in. Grab sound bite 13. We keep adding to this montage, and I want to show you the latest edition. I want you to hear it, \u2019cause now it\u2019s out there that Trump is gonna get journalists killed, right? Trump is gonna make it possible that people in war-torn areas are gonna fire on journalists because Trump is making it look like it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n
Trump is endangering journalists. Calling journalists the enemy of the American people, it\u2019s bad, it\u2019s gonna promote violence and all this. Yet it\u2019s actually Republicans being shot, and Trump is a piker! Trump is not suggested that anything the Democrats do is gonna kill people. Trump is not suggesting what the media is doing is gonna kill people. But listen to Democrats talking about the Republican health care bill.<\/p>\n
BERNIE SANDERS: (echo) The truth is that if this legislation were to pass thousands of our fellow Americans will die.<\/p>\n
NANCY PELOSI: We do know that many more people, millions, uh, hundreds of thousands of people will die.<\/p>\n
AL FRANKEN: 2,000 people will die.<\/p>\n
JOHN HICKENLOOPER: Over 100,000 deaths over the next ten years.<\/p>\n
JACKIE SPEIER: (rotunda noise) You will not get that health care and you will likely die.<\/p>\n
JARED POLIS: Go bankrupt or die.<\/p>\n
SHEILA JACKSON LEE: The chronically ill will suffer and many will die.<\/p>\n
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RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: (echo) The Republican plan would cost lives; it would kill people.<\/p>\n
TOM UDALL: (echo) Make no mistake: This bill will cost lives.<\/p>\n
JEANNE SHAHEEN: (echo) …would cost who knows how many lives.<\/p>\n
EARL BLUMENAUER: An extra 24,000 people a year die.<\/p>\n
ZEKE EMANUEL: It\u2019s kind of like a neutron bomb. It kills all the people.<\/p>\n
ELIZABETH WARREN: (echo) If the Republican bill passes, people will die. Let\u2019s not mince words: People will die.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The second-to-last voice — “It\u2019s kind of like a neutron bomb. It kills all the people” — was Zeke Emanuel. That was Rahm Emanuel\u2019s brother. That\u2019s the guy that worked on Obamacare. Now, you start talking… This is a lot of Democrats accusing the Republicans of murder, and where is the complaint? Where is the media complaining about the lack of civility? “How dare they speak this way? Kill people?” No. The media is carrying the message. The media is formulating the message, and this is the kind of stuff that ends up with Republicans being shot at! And here\u2019s Trump being raked over the coals for a bunch of words. There\u2019s just a very, very big missing sense of proportion in all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: This is a lot of Democrats accusing the Republicans of murder, and where is the complaint? Where is the media complaining about the lack of civility? "How dare they speak this way? Kill people?" No. The media is carrying the message. The media is formulating the message, and this is the kind of stuff that ends up with Republicans being shot at! And here's Trump being raked over the coals for a bunch of words. There's just a very, very big missing sense of proportion in all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n