{"id":7077,"date":"2015-02-16T19:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:40:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:40:27","slug":"democrats_want_a_second_chance_on_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/16\/democrats_want_a_second_chance_on_obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want a Second Chance on Obamacare!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s this AP story on the Democrats. “Democrats Seek Relief From Obamacare Penalties — The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama\u2019s health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.”<\/p>\n

A second chance? You\u2019re the ones that saddle them with this mess. This is the Limbaugh Theorem on display. Here we have congressional Democrats acting like they had nothing to do with this law, that their voters are a bunch of victims of something. And they need a second chance. They need a second chance, \u2019cause the official sign-up season is ended, and these people didn\u2019t know it, and now they\u2019re saddled with higher costs and penalties and fines that they didn\u2019t know that they were gonna be faced with, and the Democrat Party\u2019s outraged and wants to do something about it. These people deserve a second chance.<\/p>\n

This situation exists because the Democrat Party gave us this bill. The Democrat Party and the Democrat Party alone gave us Obamacare. There wasn\u2019t a single Republican vote for it.<\/p>\n

The three Democrats bellyaching are “Michigan\u2019s Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington,” Baghdad Jim, “and Lloyd Doggett of Texas. All worked to help steer Obama\u2019s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010. The lawmakers say they are concerned that many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it\u2019s already too late for them to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment ended Sunday.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, they did it! This is classic. These three Democrats, it even says here, they “worked to help steer Obama\u2019s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010.” But this story, they\u2019re allowed to portray themselves like they have no idea any of this was gonna happen, and now their constituents are bellyaching to \u2019em, and their constituents deserve a second chance. As though some other group of people saddled them with this.<\/line><\/p>\n

This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it\u2019s ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it, and the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, they can\u2019t blame the Republicans for this because there isn\u2019t a Republican fingerprint on Obamacare. The Republicans have done not one thing to support this. The Republicans, if they\u2019ve done anything, and it\u2019s been a while, but if they\u2019ve done anything, it\u2019s to try to stop it. So now these three Democrats are saying, government must do something, government must fix this mess. Government made this mess. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama made this mess.<\/p>\n

“The lawmakers say they are concerned that many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it\u2019s already too late for them to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment ended Sunday. That means they could wind up uninsured for another year, only to owe substantially higher fines in 2016. The fines are collected through the income tax system.” Yeah, and wait \u2019til people find out how that happens. You Democrats think your constituents are mad now, you wait until next year when half or more of their refund is taken and kept by the IRS to pay their fine. You are gonna have an open revolt on your hands. And then you\u2019re gonna bellyache and moan again and claim, “We gotta do something to fix it!” You broke it in the first place. It is your mess.<\/p>\n

You know, there\u2019s a part of me, just a small part of me, it\u2019s Democrat voters who made all this possible, make \u2019em pay the consequence. You elected these charlatans. You openly elected these people. You buy into the lies they tell about how mean, evil, and all that the Republicans are. The Democrat Party voters\u2019 best friend when it comes to Obamacare is any Republican he can find. And what does he probably think of any Republican you bring up? Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobe, only cares about the rich banks, when in fact that is the Democrat Party today. Racist, sexist, bigot and phobic about practically everything, and tightly aligned with the banks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called crony corporatism, crony socialism, whatever you want to call it. And now all these people who elected all these Democrats to make it fair and to make it affordable. Life, not just health care, but make life fair, and to get even with all those rich people. Now they\u2019re finding out that, oh, my God, it\u2019s gonna cost me now. These same members of Congress who made this possible, made this happen, are now bellyaching that their voters got the shaft by somebody, and they need a second chance.<\/p>\n

“This year is the first time ordinary Americans will experience the complicated interactions between the health care law and taxes. Based on congressional analysis, tax preparation giant H&R Block says roughly 4 million uninsured people will pay penalties.” And you know how that\u2019s gonna happen. Their tax refunds, if they are due any, that\u2019s where the money — it\u2019s in the law. If you get a tax refund and you haven\u2019t bought insurance, the fine will be held from your return, your refund.<\/p>\n

You wait \u2019til that happens. Most people know that their refund is gonna be. Let\u2019s say it\u2019s a grand. They\u2019ve already spent it before they got it. They\u2019ve bought a mew muffler, whatever it is, they\u2019ve spent it. And then all of a sudden that thousand-dollar refund becomes, say, 350 bucks, and they\u2019re gonna do told, “Yeah, well, that\u2019s the fine. It was in the law, it was in the law.”<\/p>\n

“Nobody told us!” That\u2019s probably right. And, by the way, AP, no sympathy for you. The AP\u2019s writing about this as though, oh, look at how something is so unfortunate here. These poor voters, why, for the first time they\u2019ll be saddled with the first law\u2019s interactions with the law and tax. You knew this while it was being debated. The AP had the ability to tell voters the truth about this before it was voted on.<\/p>\n

The entire Drive-By Media knew. Well, that maybe is an exaggeration. I don\u2019t know how many of \u2019em actually read the health care law. But enough of them knew, enough to be able to tell voters that this law was gonna cost them much more money, that this law was not gonna reduce their costs at all. That was known. Anybody that ran around saying that was called a fearmonger or a liar, or worse, and now all of a sudden everything we\u2019ve said about this bill every month or so, we\u2019re validated again.<\/line><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a companion story to this, folks. This is in the UK Daily Mail: “Health and Human Services extends Obamacare deadline for some enrollees after computer glitch and long waits kept them from signing up over the weekend. The last day to sign up for Obamacare was Feb. 1, but as many as half a million Americans may have been unable to complete their applications. On Saturday an IRS function that verifies income was out of service, and over the weekend callers faced longer than normal wait times. Affected applicants will now have until Feb. 22 to sign up before they are assessed a fee of $325 or 2% of their income – whichever is greater.”<\/p>\n

There is a ceiling on that at some point, but it\u2019s much more than these people — out of their league. So these three members of Congress were able to get a one-week extension, yeah, Sander Levin, big Baghdad Jim McDermott, Lloyd Doggett of Texas, concerned that many of their constituents didn\u2019t find out in time. Yeah, there was a glitch in the law there. Yeah, yeah, there was a glitch, we didn\u2019t realize. Maybe they didn\u2019t know, either. Hell, nobody read this thing. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if these clowns didn\u2019t know what was in it. Actually, I don\u2019t. I\u2019m not gonna let \u2019em get by with that. They knew exactly what was in it.<\/p>\n

They knew exactly what Obamacare was gonna do. They might not know the details, but they new exactly what this was: government taking over health care. They knew exactly what they were doing. They knew it was gonna cost people more money. They knew and anybody they told the opposite they were lying to. They knew this was not gonna make health care cheaper for people that buy it. People that get it free that\u2019s a whole different ball of wax. But even the subsidy thing is all messed up now.<\/p>\n

They knew it, the media and everybody, this was so unnecessary, this need not have happened. See, this is just the ancillary little problems you deal with when you\u2019re taking over a country. “Ah, it\u2019s okay, get some angry constituents for a couple of months, maybe a couple years, we\u2019ll deal with it. But taking over the country, transforming the country and making it into what we want it to be, it\u2019s worth a few people being upset now and then. We\u2019ll deal with it.” And that\u2019s exactly what is going on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: In fact, I think it\u2019s safe to say, if my memory on this is right, that Obama, in a speech or two, actually assured the American people that they would have an additional $2,500 every year, disposable income, after Obamacare was implemented. Because their premiums are gonna come down. He said the average premium would be $2,500 less. That means $2,500 more disposable income every American\u2019s gonna have. Well, what the hell happened to that? Well, the thing about that was, it was never true. It was a lie from the get-go. Just as was, “You like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. You like your plan, you can keep your plan.”<\/p>\n

Everybody has known this is coming. Everybody has known that the vast majority of the American people have no idea what\u2019s in this plan. They are laboring under misconception upon misconception. Chief among them is it\u2019s gonna cost me less. In fact, it might even be free. The concept of a fine or a penalty, the Fourth Amendment battle over this, the government requiring you to buy a product escaped \u2019em. They didn\u2019t have any idea what that\u2019s about. So now this is all happening and they\u2019re not prepared for it. “What do you mean, if I don\u2019t have insurance by February 1st I gotta pay a fine?”<\/p>\n

So members of Congress come along and act like they didn\u2019t know it, either. They wrote the law. They voted for the law. They debated it. They did it. And yet they come along and act like they had no idea this was in there, and they\u2019re gonna get to the bottom of it, they\u2019re gonna find out who\u2019s screwing their constituents. They had no idea it was there, which is a bunch of BS. It\u2019s what these Democrats do every time, every damn time. It\u2019s the Limbaugh Theorem. Make victims out of everybody, out of stuff you do to \u2019em, and then when it happens, blame the Republicans for it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: In fact, I think it\u2019s safe to say, if my memory on this is right, that Obama, in a speech or two, actually assured the American people that they would have an additional $2,500 every year, disposable income, after Obamacare was implemented. Because their premiums are gonna come down. He said the average premium would be $2,500 less. That means $2,500 more disposable income every American\u2019s gonna have. Well, what the hell happened to that? Well, the thing about that was, it was never true. It was a lie from the get-go. Just as was, “You like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. You like your plan, you can keep your plan.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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