{"id":317518,"date":"2019-07-31T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317518"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:04:24","slug":"my-analysis-of-the-democrat-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/31\/my-analysis-of-the-democrat-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"My On-the-Spot Analysis of the Democrat Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, before getting smack-dab into my debate analysis, I have to share with you a couple of stories. CNN is being roasted. They televised the debate. CNN is getting creamed last night and today for their coverage — and, by the way, it was bad. Can somebody explain to me…? I\u2019m serious. It\u2019s gonna sound like I\u2019m being typically, naturally funny. How can you put on a stage somebody moderating a debate of candidates for president who once asked if the Malaysian missing airliner was swallowed by a black hole?<\/p>\n

\"\"Do you realize how far that signals the self-reputation, the self-esteem of media executives has plummeted? I\u2019m talking here about Don Lemon. He was one of the moderators last night. This is a guy who actually asked a former transportation secretary\/expert (whose last name was Schiavo) if it\u2019s possible that Malaysian 377 or whatever it is was swallowed up by a black hole. Now, how does that happen? You want to think of Walter Cronkite rolling over in his grave or Eric Sevareid or whatever?<\/p>\n

I mean, gee whiz. But there it was, front and center. Now, the criticism that CNN is coming under fire for is legitimate. They made the debate about them. They made sure that they enforced a one-minute limit on everybody. People are tuning in to hear these candidates, and the only thing you heard was CNN moderator shouting at \u2019em, “Times up! Time\u2019s up, Senator! Senator, we\u2019re moving on! Time\u2019s up, Senator!”<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. If that\u2019s what you\u2019re gonna format this thing to be, it\u2019s gonna guarantee to fail! You give these blowhards one minute each and then you limit how much they can react to one another? And then when some of those reactions do happen, CNN, you step in and stop it, \u2019cause it looks like somebody might say something mean. And it wasn\u2019t just me. A Bloomberg opinion piece here<\/a>: “Ten of the Democrats debated on Tuesday night. But the debate was dominated by Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Don Lemon…<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not just that the time allocations” meaning one minute per answer “were harsh. (The candidates were constantly being cut off, sometimes after being given all of 15 seconds to make their points.) And not just that the time allocation seemed somewhat arbitrary. No, it was the questioning that really fell short — very, very short. The CNN moderators, again and again, [asked] the very worst types of questions. One style that Tapper used repeatedly early on was interrupting to insist that the candidates stick to a portion of a topic that he found interesting…”<\/p>\n

He asked a question; if they don\u2019t stick to your question, you stop \u2019em. It was clear that CNN here either was trying to protect these people… You could have many different explanations of this. CNN knew these people were bombing out… Folks, I\u2019m telling you, this this this this crew last night was so far radical left that it had to scare the bejeezus out of a whole bunch of people and Democrats. I don\u2019t know why… Where do they…?<\/p>\n

\"\"This stuff didn\u2019t start last night. The radical extremism has been this party for 2-1\/2 years. What\u2019d they think, it was all gonna disappear and get reined in on the debate stage? And then here\u2019s a piece from TheHill.com<\/a>: “CNN faced backlash for its first primary debate … with members of the media comparing its production to a sporting event or movie trailer and others lamenting the time spent to kick off the event. …<\/p>\n

“[T]he event started on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. with an introduction video, a commercial break and opening statements. The first question to one of the ten candidates was not asked until 8:23…” You know, that\u2019s exactly how NFL telecasts go these days, or golf. You tune in at 3 o\u2019clock to watch the final round and you\u2019ll see the first shot 15 minutes later, after obligatory video of Tiger Woods waking up. Then the obligatory individual of how Tiger Woods is feeling.<\/p>\n

Then obligatory video of Tiger Woods on the range. Then the obligatory recognition that Tiger didn\u2019t even make the cut. Then they do a personal interest story on who the leader might happen to be — and maybe, in 15 minutes, they\u2019ll take you to the golf course. And that\u2019s what this thing was last night.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Audio sound bite number 5. This is part of the ongoing effort today to try to make as many Americans think that the Democrats are not socialists, they\u2019re not radical leftists, they\u2019re all just a bunch of moderate, down-the-center middle-of-the-roaders. It happened on C-SPAN today, Washington Journal. The host is Greta Brawner.<\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019m very embarrassed to admit that I don\u2019t know any of the people on C-SPAN. I used to know \u2019em all. I used to know Brian Lamb. I knew Susan Swain. Brian Lamb. I don\u2019t know any of them anymore. And the hostette of this one was Greta Brawner, and she was taking calls from viewers about the Democrat debate last night, and it was time for Pat from West Virginia.<\/p>\n

\"\"PAT: Hunter S. Thompson said it best, he coined the term “fear and loathing.” Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have been very deft in getting the message out, “socialism, fear, free stuff, communism” whenever we all know that\u2019s not really the case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, but it is, Pat. This is the thing. You know, Pat, all we do is quote Democrats here. That\u2019s all we do. And then we put it into context for people. We just quote them. We don\u2019t do fake news where Democrats are concerned, my man. We actually listen to what they say, as you\u2019re gonna hear with the audio sound bites coming up, and we tell people what it means.<\/p>\n

Pat, we ran the numbers. Every Democrat program proposed last night, if enacted, would cost $200 trillion, and it\u2019s all gonna be free! Every bit of it is going to be free! The country thinks Democrats are socialist \u2019cause of me and Trump? They think the Democrats want to offer \u2019em free stuff because of me and Trump? No. Because the Democrats do!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more quick one before we hit the break. Donna Brazile was on Fox & Friends today, and Brian Kilmeade said, “When you heard \u2019em talk about race last night, the Democrat debate, they agreed on one thing, that Donald Trump is a racist. Did that surprise you, Donna Brazile?”<\/p>\n

BRAZILE: First of all, if you ask me, I didn\u2019t think they talked enough about race, especial given all of the conversation we\u2019ve had emanating from the president\u2019s tweets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They didn\u2019t talk enough about race. If you had watched it, your conclusion would be that\u2019s all they talked about. It\u2019s the only thing they talked about. Race and how it relates to everything. Race and health care. Race and immigration. Race and everything. And every one of them, again — you know, once Crazy Bernie said it (imitating Sanders), “Donald Trump is a racist. He\u2019s a sexist. He\u2019s a bigot.” And the facial expression, he forgot something. “And a homophobe!” He threw that in. “A homophobe!”<\/p>\n

So there you go. There\u2019s the cliche: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, and then they all chimed in. They all had to go on the record as yep, racist. And she thinks they didn\u2019t talk about it enough. I hope they keep up. I mean, Trump was such a big winner again last night that it\u2019d be hard to calculate by how much.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now let me give you some on-the-spot debate analysis with audio sound bite backup, and your phone calls are gonna be thrown in here as part of the mix as well. I just made some notes as this thing was happening last night.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t there for the entire thing. But I made a commitment to you people, I made a commitment to watch this, to watch enough of it to get a general flavor. And in no chronological order and really here nothing other than as unbiased a series of observations as I can make.<\/p>\n

This group of people on that stage last night, to me, were singularly unimpressive. They were offering impossible, unworkable ideas. They seemed filled with histrionics. Most of them, not all, most of them seemed just very close to out-of-control anger and frustration. Bernie Sanders was ticked off, he was mad about American health care. And I just kept saying, “Well, I guess Obamacare wasn\u2019t all it was promised.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Do these Democrats even realize they\u2019re out there ripping the American health care system to shreds — and I know why. They\u2019re thinking that the current occupant of the White House is gonna get the blame. Somehow Trump\u2019s not gonna get credit for the economy, but he\u2019s gonna get all the blame. Everything people are upset about, Trump\u2019s gonna be held responsible.<\/p>\n

Do these people not realize everybody knows about Obamacare because Obama\u2019s name was all over it all the time. We had the Obama exchanges. We had the Obamacare this, got Obama phones, we had the Obama Marts in Baltimore. So here\u2019s Bernie letting everybody know how angry he is at the U.S. health care system not realizing that Obamacare must not have been all it was promised. Democrat plan.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Democrat sponsored and signed health care that Bernie Sanders is mad at. And then he\u2019s saying things like tens of millions of people lose their health care every year. Now, we\u2019re not supposed to take the Democrats verbatim. But stop and think of that. Tens of millions. Not 10 million, which would be unsupportable if that\u2019s what he had said. Tens of millions are losing their health care every year.<\/p>\n

If that were true, I\u2019m saying to myself, could Barack Obama be impeached retroactively? I mean, that really is bad. Tens of millions of people losing health care after the Democrats give us Obamacare. The more so-called moderate Democrats on stage last night, they were telling the country that it\u2019s insane to take away private health insurance from 160 million Americans.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what Bernie wants to do. They all want to take away private health care. They want to take employer-based health care away and replace it with government-run health care. And everybody with a brain in the Democrat Party knows this is a nonstarter.<\/p>\n

You want to turn people against…? People like their health care through their employer. They like it the way it is. They\u2019re used to it. They\u2019ve adapted to it now. They live with it each and every day. They\u2019ve made it work. They\u2019ve got complaints about it, yeah. But to be told they\u2019ve got to get rid of it and then sign up to this massive, government-run system that Obama tried and that everybody on that stage is mad at? It was suicidal, what these people were talking about last night.<\/p>\n

Look what the Democrats did. They passed Obamacare, they promised utopia — and, as usual, we get hell. We get misery, we get “infestation,” we get “vermin.” We get absolute misery and unhappiness. We get an endless parade of victims of whatever policies the Democrats implement. Now they\u2019re back to promising utopia again! Obama promised utopia with Obamacare! It\u2019s not working. So here they\u2019re back trying to double down on it for some reason. The only things that find utopia when the Democrats are in charge are rats and flies.<\/p>\n

\"\"You\u2019d have to say that rats and flies and vermin are having their own utopia because they\u2019re running free all over Democrat-run cities, are they not? It\u2019s gotta be utopia for the rats and the vermin and the maggots. But it\u2019s not utopia for the people the Democrats are promising all of this utopian stuff to. And as I watched, I was continually reminded of how angry these people are — literally enraged, poisoned with it. I think it\u2019s their hatred over any number of things.<\/p>\n

A, they\u2019re never happy to begin with anyway even when they\u2019re winning. They\u2019re not constitutionally capable of being happy because they live in a hellhole of a country, don\u2019t you know? We live in a racist, Jim Crow country. They live in a country that\u2019s unfair, and it\u2019s not right. It\u2019s mean-spirited, it\u2019s racist, and it\u2019s extreme. They\u2019re not happy even in the best of times — and these are not the best of times for them. They are enraged constantly.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m watching this thing asking “How can this sell?” and then I have to stop myself. Because as I\u2019m looking at this, I see varying degrees of lunacy, folks, varying degrees of delusion and you name it. And then I have to stop myself and realize that there are way many more Americans than we want to acknowledge that agree with this stuff. And then you stop laughing and it gets scary. And while they\u2019re this angry, they are not likable. Now they\u2019re fighting each other. They\u2019ve got zero credibility on health care.<\/p>\n

Can you believe it, health care is the number one issue? None of \u2019em have any credibility on it. Every one of \u2019em has a plan. I\u2019m struck by how all of these people have a plan. “I\u2019ve got a plan for that. I\u2019ve got a plan for that. My — my plan.” You don\u2019t have a plan! These people don\u2019t have a plan for anything. They\u2019ve never run anything. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. None of them are health care experts. None of them are anything but lawyers. They haven\u2019t done anything.<\/p>\n

Most of them have been in government their whole lives like Obama, and yet they\u2019ve all got a plan. And the plan involves nothing but spending money and giving things away to people. They don\u2019t have a plan, and they do not trust the American people to make the best of circumstances. They don\u2019t trust the American people, in their own existence, to end up creating and maintaining a great country. No. The leftist Democrats think that\u2019s not possible. That can only happen with top-to-bottom control from command-and-control economics to you name it.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have a plan. Obamacare is a disaster. Medicare for all is a disaster. Look at VA health care. Who wants more of that? It\u2019s not a model of excellence! It\u2019s a nightmare! Canadian and U.K. health care systems are nightmares: Long wait times like they have there are not what Americans want. I mean, for crying out loud, folks, they\u2019re telling us they\u2019ve got plans for health care to make everybody well, keep everybody from getting sick.<\/p>\n

These people can\u2019t remove garbage from the cities they run. They don\u2019t even try anymore. They just build tent cities. They build tent cities in places they call skid row, and they tell people to go live there, “and we\u2019ll do our best to take care of you,” while blaming the Republicans for it! These people are gonna fix the planet! They\u2019re gonna save the planet! Climate change, all that? They\u2019re gonna save us from all this horrible pollution? They can\u2019t even empty the garbage right in their own cities!<\/p>\n

They cannot keep human excrement off the streets, and they\u2019re gonna take over health care? It\u2019s like the environment. They\u2019re gonna clean the planet, save the planet, and we can\u2019t even trust them with hygiene in their own cities. Now they come along and they want to give free health care to illegals — it\u2019s insanity — and they want American citizens to pay for this! And they think somehow this is gonna get them elected to the presidency! This thing was a disaster for them last night!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care who you\u2019re listening to that may be saying otherwise. It was an unmitigated disaster. When Marianne Williamson is judged to have won the debate — and many people think she did. She won the Drudge poll, and I\u2019ve got a story right here (this is from PJ Media): “Debate Recap: Dems Should Go for a Williamson\/Delaney Ticket if They Want to Win.” I\u2019m telling you, folks, if Marianne Williamson made the best showing in the debate last night, you\u2019re looking at a party in deep doo-doo.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s squeeze another call in. Time is tight, but we can squeeze it in there. This is Keith in Palm Bay, Florida. Keith, I\u2019m glad you waited. I appreciate your patience, and hello.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I don\u2019t know if Jake Tapper wrote his own questions but the first few were just hilarious. He went down the line to the top candidates and he did the same thing to each of them. He started with Bernie, laid out a few things from his Medicare-for-all plan. And at very end, he asked them, “What do you think about Congressman Delaney calling your plan ‘crazy\u2019 and ‘political suicide?'” I mean, the jaw dropping and faces were priceless, and it really the set the tone for the night pitting them against each other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think Jack Tapper was talented and artful in doing that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do. I think it really set off the whole night. They were biting at each other, especially at the beginning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So, Candidate A would say something loony, and then Tapper would ask the next candidate, “What do you think about what Candidate A just said about your stupid, ridiculous plan,” something like that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. What they did was they interviewed them for a couple days and they asked \u2019em about other people\u2019s plans, and then he put them together into his questions. The first three or four of them, Pocahontas and everything, he\u2019d lay out a few things from their plan and say, “Well, what do you think about so-and-so saying this about your plan?” and it was hilarious.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, “hilarious” does not mean… (chuckling) Was it effective for…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it set the tone (crosstalk) —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Wait. Effective for who?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, to get them to go after each other and really have a debate. I mean, they were the — the — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. But did any of them look good in the process here, or is the thing that you noted that Jack Tapper did a good thing, but it wasn\u2019t good for the candidates, it was good for you as a viewer?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalk) Ryan and Delaney really set off, you know, solutions and not taking away union… They really made Bernie look silly, and Bernie was (crosstalk) —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s coming up. Tim Ryan and Delaney were both essentially saying (sputtering), “You guys… You can\u2019t win doing this! We — we — we — we can\u2019t do this!” and Elizabeth Warren got livid at Delaney at one point. I forget what the subject matter was. Well, Keith, I\u2019m glad you called with that observation.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, the last caller talked about John Delaney. He\u2019s a… (chuckling) This is so classic. He\u2019s a former member of Congress. I\u2019m not even sure who he is, and I\u2019m embarrassed to tell you that. I normally would have found out who he is. I\u2019ve only seen him two or three times on these debates. But since I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna go anywhere, I have put my resources elsewhere. I think he\u2019s former member of Congress. But! Last night he was accused of being a rich guy. So he was asked that since he\u2019s so rich if he thinks the rich ought to be paying more in taxes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, his net worth, they said, is $65 million. That is Bill Gates… That\u2019s Kennedy family walking-around money, okay? But to these guys… (interruption) That\u2019s right. He\u2019s a former congressman from Maryland, John Delaney. Yeah, at any rate, of course, the obligatory, “Oh, yeah, yeah! We rich, we aren\u2019t paying enough. Hell no! You\u2019re absolutely right. No way we\u2019re not paying enough.” I keep asking him via the TV, “So when did you write your last check to the Treasury to make up for what you don\u2019t think you\u2019re paying your fair share of?”<\/p>\n

These clowns all come out and say, “Oh, yeah, I think the rich could pay more. The rich need to pay more.” Elizabeth Warren says, “We don\u2019t need to do it Delaney\u2019s way. We need to do it my way. I have a plan.” She said, “We\u2019re gonna tax the 1% of the 1%. We\u2019re gonna tax… If you make $50 million, fine. We\u2019re gonna leave you alone. But we\u2019re gonna tax every dollar you make above $50 million at 2? — and 2? is nothing! We could go to the Moon for 2?. We could go to the Mars. We could wipe out homelessness. We could wipe out sickness for 2?,” she was saying.<\/p>\n

Now, Delaney was telling her your plan won\u2019t work. He said, if you guys do Medicare for All, if you get rid of private health insurance — Delaney said — thousands of hospitals are gonna shut down tomorrow. In a Medicare-for-All system, hospitals are just gonna shut down. Paying 80%? Doctors will have to be government employees working for what Democrats think they should be paid, and that\u2019s not why they went to med school, folks, to become government employees. They\u2019re not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

They will shut down and they will quit, and then who\u2019s gonna be our doctors? Joycelyn Elders? Who is gonna end up being our doctors? The system is gonna chase away the best and the brightest if Elizabeth Warren gets her way, if any of them got their way on Medicare for All. The government paying everybody including employees in the health care system? You can wave good-bye to \u2019em! Fauxcahontas was asked a question. “Senator Warren, would you decriminalize border crossings?” and Warren said, “The point is not decriminalization.”<\/p>\n

‘Cause Kamala Harris says, “We should decriminalize crossing the border.” Even though the law is very clear that it\u2019s illegal to cross the border, decriminalize it. She said, “The point is not decriminalize.” Anyway, Delaney said, “Let me tell you the best way to raise taxes on the rich — and I am a rich guy,” he said, “so I know. What you do is you raise the capital gains tax. It is obscene that rich people who make their money investing get such a small tax rate compared to people who are working for their money.”<\/p>\n

Now, there are people who do nothing but play the stock market, that\u2019s how they earn their money. They sit there and they trade stocks, and they try to trade in a way that makes \u2019em a lot of money. And on capital gains, appreciated stocks — stock that you buy and it gains wealth or gains value and money — the capital gains rate is 15%, 18%. I forget what it is. He wants to raise that \u2019cause (impression), “It just isn\u2019t fair! It\u2019s not fair that people who don\u2019t work should have a little rate where people who are working pay more.”<\/p>\n

Lowering the capital gains rate is what results in unforeseen amounts of money pouring into the country\u2019s Treasury. No matter how you slice it, these people want to start raising taxes. They get into guilt trips about having money and being rich and agreeing that they\u2019re not paying enough in taxes. It becomes tiresome. It\u2019s just worn out. Nothing new. Nothing but guilt over having been successful and a promise to get rid of the success, get rid of the wealth, a promise to make the rich “pay their fair share.” You talk about a tired, worn-out cliche that the rich aren\u2019t paying their fair share when the top 1% is paying almost 50% of the entire tax burden now?<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites just to give this some actual Democrat flavor. Here is a montage — and a lot of places have incorporated montages. We started this whole business of montages with the gravitas montage when George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney to be his veep. Now they all go out there and they do these montages, but nobody\u2019s montages are better than ours. We still have the best montages because we were the original montagists or montagers, and here is our classic montage.<\/p>\n

\"\"I told you they\u2019d be focused on race, race, race, race, and listen to this…<\/p>\n

KLOBUCHAR: I have had it with the racist attacks!<\/p>\n

WILLIAMSON: … institutionalized hatred, collectivized hatred, and white nationalism.<\/p>\n

BUTTIGIEG: Systemic racism has touched every part of American life!<\/p>\n

WARREN: The president is advancing environmental racism, economic racism (slams podium), criminal justice racism, health care racism.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: We have got to take on Trumps racism! What Trump is doing through his racism and his xenophobia is demonizing a group of people!<\/p>\n

O\u2019ROURKE: The very foundation of this country, the wealth that we have built, was literally on the backs of those who were kidnapped and brought here by force!<\/p>\n

CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n

O\u2019ROURKE: The legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression is alive and well in every aspect of the economy and in the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was that dingbat, Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke, otherwise known as Beto. (impression) “The very foundation of this country, the wealth that we\u2019ve built was literally on the backs of the…” Somebody else kept… Marianne Williamson. She ran the numbers on if every descendant of a slave had been given 40 acres and a mule. She actually ran the numbers on what that would be in today\u2019s dollars, and $500 billion won\u2019t even come close to covering what we owe in reparations.<\/p>\n

I mean, these people were just… It\u2019s scary. They\u2019re nuts. They\u2019re lunatics, and yet every time you heard the audience applause, you stop short and you realize that there are way too many people agree with this stuff. And you know what the biggest…? This will shock you. Well, it may not. You may have figured this out. Do you know what the biggest group…? That\u2019s not the right way to say it. Do you know the largest demographic group of extreme socialist liberalism is?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not African-Americans. It\u2019s not the feminazis. It\u2019s not Hispanics. You know who it is? Wealthy white liberals. Wealthy white liberals make up the largest percentage of extreme, radical left-wing socialism in the Democrat Party. Now, stop and think of that for a moment. Rich white liberals. Now, there\u2019s an obvious explanation for it, but I wonder if you know what it is. I mean, you would think that it would be people who think they\u2019ve suffered nothing but grievance since they were born.<\/p>\n

Wealthy white liberals have no grievances. The grievances they have, they\u2019ve had to make up. The grievances they have are over (sobbing) “the guilt they feel over what a rotten country this is, and it\u2019s not being fixed and it\u2019s horrible,” and they feel horrible about it. But the truth is, the reason why wealthy (and I mean uber-wealthy white liberals) are the largest group… It\u2019s close. There\u2019s other groups close to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

But the reason the largest group of extreme, radical liberalism is wealthy white liberals is because it\u2019s a strategy. It\u2019s a way to keep everybody from demanding their money. It\u2019s an insurance policy. It is a way of making sure that whoever these livid, angry leftists are, they don\u2019t attack them. So they lead the charge in what a rotgut place this country is. They lead the league in criticizing America for all of its injustice and unfairness, and they do this to keep the hordes away — and I\u2019m sure some of them are so far gone that they believe it as well.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you are on hold on the phone, I want you to be patient. I appreciate the patience, but I have to get to these next sound bites because they\u2019re right attached to that which I was just speaking about.<\/p>\n

John Delaney, former member of Congress from Maryland, you could say that he\u2019s telling the Democrats that if they follow through on their Medicare for All plan they\u2019re gonna destroy hospitals and it just won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

And this is after about 40 minutes, folks, 40 minutes of lunacy and irrationality arguing about Medicare for All, Delaney outed the entire Democrat Party, claiming, you people don\u2019t care about health care. You just want government control over the private sector. He actually — hear, you listen and see if that\u2019s not how you conclude.<\/p>\n

DELANEY: I\u2019ve been going around rural America and I asked rural hospital administrators one question: If all your bills were paid at the Medicare rate last year, what would happen? And they all looked at me and say, “We would close.” But the question is why do we have to be so extreme? Why can\u2019t we just give everyone health care as a right and allow them to have choice?<\/p>\n

BASH: Thank you, Congressman.<\/p>\n

DELANEY: I\u2019m starting to think this is not about health care.<\/p>\n

BASH: Thank you, Congressman.<\/p>\n

DELANEY: This is an anti-private sector strategy.<\/p>\n

BASH: Thank you, Congressman. We\u2019re gonna move on. We\u2019re gonna move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See what happened? They shut him down. Did you see that, Snerdley? Did you hear that? Let me point out what happened. They were speaking over him and he kept making the point. The question is, why do we have to be so extreme? He\u2019s asking everybody on that stage and CNN, “Why do we have to be so extreme, have to close everything down put government in charge of it? Why can\u2019t we just say everybody gets health care and let \u2019em choose how they get it?”<\/p>\n

“Thank you, Congressman, thank you, thank you, thank you, Congressman, shut up, Congressman, thank you.” And Delaney kept going. He said, “I\u2019m starting to think that this is not about health care.”<\/p>\n

“Thank you, Congressman. Thank you. Thank you. You can shut up now, Congressman.”<\/p>\n

“This is an anti-private sector strategy.” That\u2019s what Delaney was saying as they were talking over him trying to shut him down. The totality of his statement was, “Why do you have to be so extreme? Why can\u2019t we just give everybody health care, say it\u2019s a right, allow them to have a choice?” And Dana Bash shuts him down. Delaney says, “I\u2019m starting to think that this isn\u2019t about health care, that this is a private sector, anti-private sector strategy.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, thank you, Congressman. Thank you. Thank you. That\u2019s good, shut up now. We\u2019re gonna move on.” And this is why, by the way, CNN is being roasted! So here\u2019s somebody thinking differently, articulating differently, and what happens?<\/p>\n

\"\"CNN shuts the guy down because, let\u2019s be honest, nobody thinks John Delaney\u2019s gonna be the nominee. Nobody thinks he has a prayer. And so there\u2019s no way we\u2019re gonna let him gum up the works by criticizing what the Democrat agenda is, is government everything for everybody. We\u2019re not gonna let this guy come in here and blow the whistle on us. That\u2019s exactly what happened here. Here up next was Fauxcahontas scolding Delaney. Why are you even running for president?<\/p>\n

WARREN: I don\u2019t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can\u2019t do and shouldn\u2019t fight for. (cheers)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Delaney made the mistake of challenging the basic premise of the Democrat Party, which is take over life for everybody. Make no mistake. And he\u2019s sitting there like, I don\u2019t know this guy, he\u2019s a Democrat, he may not know what has become of this party. He\u2019s in Maryland. That\u2019s close to Washington. I\u2019m telling you, those people are disconnected from you and me, folks.<\/p>\n

So Delaney is sitting there listening to all this. He listened to it in the first debate and he hears them say that they want to take over all of health care. He\u2019s asked people that work at hospitals what will happen if that happens, and they said, “We will close down.” He says, “Why do we have to be so extreme?” The dirty word. This is why the media\u2019s working overtime today to say that this kind of stuff did not happen last. Oh, no, no, the moderates, this is a moderate party last night. You saw it.<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not. Delaney shows up saying, “Why do you want to do this? This is so extreme. I\u2019m beginning to think this isn\u2019t even about health care. It\u2019s about anti-private sector.” Elizabeth Warren: “I don\u2019t understand why anybody would go through all the trouble of running to talk about what we can\u2019t do and shouldn\u2019t fight for.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to save your bacon, whether he knows it or not, Fauxcahontas. He\u2019s trying to save your bacon. You guys are throwing it all away! You\u2019ve got these impossible, irrational proposals that if they ever were implemented would destroy everything.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Delaney could have asked Fauxcahontas, “Why go through all the trouble to run if you\u2019re gonna say and do things that are gonna keep us from winning?” That should have been his retort.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, back to the audio sound bites. We just finished the John Delaney telling the Democrat Party, “You\u2019re committing suicide. You people… If you do this, you\u2019re not even talking about health care,” he said. You\u2019re just engaging here in an anti-private sector strategy. Tim Ryan was next up, audio sound bite number 13. He\u2019s a congressman from Ohio. Jake Tapper said to him, “Congressman Ryan, you\u2019re from your Ohio, a state that voted twice for Obama and then went to Trump in 2016. Please respond to Senator Sanders advocating for Medicare for All.”<\/p>\n

RYAN: I would just say Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls too. So take a snapshot in the polls today and apply it 16 months from now, whenever it is? I don\u2019t think is accurate. Now, in this discussion already tonight we\u2019ve talked about taking private health insurance away from union members in the industrial Midwest, we\u2019ve talked about decriminalizing the border, and we\u2019ve talked about giving free health care to undocumented workers when so many Americans are struggling to pay for their health care! I, quite frankly, don\u2019t think that that is a — an agenda that we can move forward on and win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh! Uh-oh! You can see the smoke signals starting to rise from Fauxcahontas. I mean, this can\u2019t be allowed. They shut Delaney down when he was making this point. Crazy Bernie was next up to respond. Jake Tapper: Crazy Bernie, “can you guarantee that those union members that Ryan was just talking about will be as good as the benefits that their representatives, union reps fought hard to negotiate under your plan?”<\/p>\n