{"id":9893,"date":"2014-03-14T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-14T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T16:20:50","slug":"the_gop_establishment_wants_to_run_on_fixing_not_repealing_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/14\/the_gop_establishment_wants_to_run_on_fixing_not_repealing_obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Establishment Wants to Run on Fixing — Not Repealing — Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve got so much stuff here today, folks, and I\u2019m trying to figure out which I want to do first. Here\u2019s Obama with deportations, and here\u2019s Obama with determining who gets overtime, all of this is a distraction. It\u2019s all a distraction from what\u2019s happening with the economy and with Obamacare. I guess this is the big deal to me. We have this massive electoral victory on Tuesday in Florida, Florida 13<\/a>. And I\u2019ll be damned if the Republican establishment is not doing its best in high gear to tell everybody, “Hey, don\u2019t think that Obamacare was the main factor here.” <\/p>\n

It is becoming clear to me — not that it needs to be any more clear — that the Republican establishment does not want to run against Obamacare. Karl Rove has a column today. Karl Rove is on TV this morning on Fox, but there are others in the Republican establishment saying, “Hey, hey! You know, it wasn\u2019t just about Obamacare,” and I\u2019ve heard other members in the Republican establishment say that David Jolly did not say repeal. <\/line><\/p>\n

These are Republicans saying this. <\/p>\n

In David Jolly\u2019s campaign, he didn\u2019t say “repeal” Obamacare. He said “fix” it. But the Republicans are taking this thing to, ” No, no, no, no! He said to fix it.” The Republican establishment obviously has a campaign game plan involving Obamacare, and it does not include repealing it, folks. The Republican establishment apparently doesn\u2019t want to campaign on repealing it. They want to campaign on fixing it. <\/p>\n

And why? Because I showed you the other day (and this is questionable), there are some polls that you can find that say a majority of Americans don\u2019t want it repealed. They want it fixed. Some people question the veracity of the polls. There\u2019s a National Journal article today<\/a> that basically confirms a point that I have been making, and that is offering to help Democrats fix Obamacare<\/a> is not gonna help you; it\u2019s gonna help the Democrats. <\/p>\n

If you come along as a Republican and offer “fixes” for this, that\u2019s not going to help you as the Republican. It\u2019s gonna help the Democrats. There\u2019s a National Journal piece that makes this point. So I gotta share that with you and analyze that as the program unfolds. But it\u2019s quite fascinating to watch. I mean, where the Republican establishment is, is no mystery to any of us. <\/p>\n

But the speed with which they have gotten into gear to try to rearrange the thinking, if you will, after an electoral victory on Tuesday, is amazing. Here you have a guy who won with his position on Obamacare — there\u2019s no question it was an anti-Obamacare vote — and the Republican establishment does not want us to see it that way. It was also a vote against Alex Sink. This woman tried everything. <\/p>\n

She tried amnesty; that didn\u2019t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She tried to peg this guy as a “global warming denier;” that didn\u2019t work. None of the Democrat focal points of their campaign worked, and yet here comes the Republican establishment, “You make a mistake if you think that election was about Obamacare.” They don\u2019t want to get rid of it. I am convinced they do not want to get rid of it. They want something they can “fix,” quote\/unquote. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, their fixes might sound free market, conservatively oriented, this kind of thing. But the Republican establishment does not want to be identified in any way with any thought of getting rid of Obamacare. That\u2019s the take-away. They just don\u2019t. Now, we also will assume that the Republican establishment wants to win elections. Some people are not convinced of that. <\/p>\n

Like some think the Senate leaders do not want to win, that they\u2019re happier in the minority. There\u2019s no challenge there, no real responsibility. They can\u2019t be held accountable for anything. As a loser, you don\u2019t have to put forth an agenda, don\u2019t have to try to get it passed. They can just sit there in the minority and basically try to stop whatever they can, but that\u2019s about it — and it\u2019s easier. <\/p>\n

Leading is tough. There are some who think that there are Republicans that really don\u2019t want to win \u2019cause it\u2019s harder. But the Republican establishment, they do want those committee chairmanships. They do want to be in charge of the money, and they don\u2019t want government getting any smaller. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I think the whole hook with Obamacare is about. We got a few sound bites about this, but my guess is that a lot of you, when you first heard today that the Republican establishment… You might have heard it from Karl Rove or you might have heard somebody else, \u2019cause it\u2019s not just Rove. There are a bunch of others warning you not to think that that election was about Obamacare.<\/p>\n

How many millions of you hit the roof? How many millions of you cursed out loud at the TV? How many of you know full well the vulnerabilities of the Democrats and how many of you know full well a majority of Americans don\u2019t want Obamacare and never have? Obamacare has never had majority support, certainly not in the days since it passed. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is what\u2019s crazy about this. In this campaign in Florida, Alex Sink, the Democrat, ran on “fixing” Obamacare. She couldn\u2019t run in favor of it. Nobody in the Democrat Party is. But she ran on the notion Obamacare just needs to be “fixed” because that\u2019s what the polling data says a majority of the American people want. <\/p>\n

David Jolly did not campaign on fixing Obamacare, as the establishment is saying. I\u2019ve got it right here in none other than the Washington Post. “Jolly\u2019s win in a Gulf Coast district just west of Tampa illustrated the political toxicity of the law known as Obamacare. Jolly favored repealing and replacing the law, which was a central focus of the campaign, while his Democratic opponent did not.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We got one sound bite on this, and it\u2019s from The Five last night on Fox. It\u2019s Bob Beckel and Dana Perino, who probably, you\u2019d have to say, she\u2019s the establishment representative in this sound bite.<\/p>\n

BECKEL: … to stick on just Obamacare, just Obamacare. Because you do that and you\u2019re not gonna get the kind of win you should have. One of the things we\u2019ve learned now is more polling data coming in from the Florida race is that very few people determined in exit polls that they voted because of Obamacare — and if it was that big a deal, it would have been a massive (loss).<\/p>\n

PERINO: But, Bob, that\u2019s why, um, Jolly didn\u2019t actually run on just Obamacare. Actually the Republicans have seen the same polling and they agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s fascinating, folks. It literally is. Here you\u2019ve got the Democrats who are on the verge of a massive landslide, wave loss that they are perfectly aware of. And, of course, the Democrats — knowing how malleable the Republicans are — are warning, “You guys, you better not run just on Obamacare! If that\u2019s all you do, why, you\u2019re not gonna have the kind of victory you should have,” as though they\u2019re interested in us winning. <\/p>\n

You listen to Bob Beckel, and he\u2019s actually trying to help us. Yes, he\u2019s trying to advise us on the kind of campaign to run so that we win the right way, and what is he saying? “You better not focus on Obamacare!” Well, of course he\u2019s gonna say that. Obamacare is an albatross. Obamacare is a cement swimsuit for these guys. So here comes the Republican establishment represented by Dana Perino saying (paraphrased), “Bob, I think that\u2019s right, yes.<\/p>\n

“Republicans have seen that same poll and, yes, we shouldn\u2019t run just on Obamacare.” Who said anybody was gonna run “just on Obamacare,” anyway? But the fact is that both parties are cautioning Republican candidates, “You better not focus on repealing Obamacare! You better focus on fixing it, and you better focus on something besides Obamacare. You can\u2019t just win by talking about Obamacare.” Both parties are telling Republican candidates this.<\/line><\/p>\n

It happens that it flies in the face of some of the most obvious logic that has ever been in politics. Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any politician has ever been saddled with. Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any political party has ever been saddled with. It is an absolute, utter, total failure and disaster. There isn\u2019t anybody recommending it. The Democrats can\u2019t even put together, with any credibility, a fake video of happy citizens touting the benefits of Obamacare. <\/p>\n

They know it wouldn\u2019t be credible. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how bad it is. <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t even come up with actors. Even the best liars in the world can\u2019t come up with a fake ad campaign with fake citizens touting how great their lives are now because of Obamacare, \u2019cause nobody would believe it — and in the middle of all this, we are being cautioned and warned, “Do not think you can win by simply opposing Obamacare!” Immediately after this guy did just that, they come out and tell us, “Don\u2019t think you can do it.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s really odd, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, here is this story, this is the National Journal<\/a>, and it\u2019s from today. “House Republicans Are Handing Vulnerable Democrats Obamacare Gifts.” This dovetails exactly with the point that I was making in the previous half hour. For some reason the Republican establishment is hell-bent on convincing Republicans that Obamacare and repealing it did not have anything to do with David Jolly\u2019s win. Now, before this National Journal story, let me remind you of something else. Even during the campaign, the Republican leadership, the establishment, was criticizing David Jolly. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Politico story from March the 7th<\/a>, a week ago, and that obviously is not even a full week before the election. “National GOP Turns on Florida Candidate.” What is this? On March the 7th the GOP, according to The Politico, turns on David Jolly? And here\u2019s from the article. “Their frustration had been mounting for weeks. But by late January national Republicans had had it with David Jolly, their candidate in Tuesday\u00c2\u2019s nationally watched Florida congressional special election.<\/p>\n

“Over the past week, a half-dozen Washington Republicans have described Jolly\u00c2\u2019s campaign against Democrat Alex Sink as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capital and the poor optics of a just-divorced, 41-year-old candidate accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend 14 years his junior. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity.”<\/p>\n

So the Republican establishment was complaining to the Politico that this guy couldn\u2019t win, he was making all kinds of mistakes, and they didn\u2019t like what he was saying about Obamacare, and he ends up winning! So after he wins the establishment is back, and they\u2019re warning other Republicans, “You better not think you can win do,” and then they\u2019re mischaracterizing the guy\u2019s campaign. The guy did not campaign on fixing it, as was said today. He campaigned on repeal and replace. It was the Democrat Alex Sink who ran on fixing it, and she lost. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, Beckel\u2019s point is that, hey, if Obamacare were that big a deal, this guy\u2019d a won in a landslide. If you people are right, the people hate Obamacare, then Jolly would have one in a landslide, not by three points. There was a third-party candidate in this race, and the third-party candidate did not take any votes away from the Democrats. The third-party candidate, a Libertarian, took votes away from the Republican. If you take this guy out of the race, he did win in a landslide. The Democrat lost by a landslide, let\u2019s put it that way. Alex Sink lost in a landslide. <\/p>\n

Now, you can\u2019t say that Jolly won because he split the winning vote with some Libertarian guy that got six or seven percent of it. But this is just amazing. Jolly did not campaign on fixing it, as was said today; he campaigned on repealing it and replacing it. “Another week in Congress, another vote to change or stop Obamacare.” This is a National Journal. “While these Republican-backed measures — now up to more than 50 — are opportunities for Republicans to keep up their drumbeat against a law they believe has detrimental effects, they also have another curious outcome: They can help vulnerable Democrats facing tough reelection battles.”<\/p>\n

You read that right. The Republicans have an opportunity, quote, unquote. If they\u2019re not careful, they\u2019re going to help Democrats. “Take Rep. Joe Garcia, a Democrat representing a swing district in Florida. He is against a full repeal of Obamacare. But the wave of House votes in recent months from Republicans to alter the health care law, such as delaying the tax penalty for not purchasing insurance, have given Garcia the opportunity to provide a more nuanced voting record when it comes to the Affordable Care Act than simply supporting it.”<\/p>\n

The bottom line is this. When the Republicans campaign on fixing Obamacare, they\u2019re opening the door for Democrats not to be hurt by it. It is exactly what I feared and what I predicted earlier this week. When this race came in, the results came in, and it was clear that Jolly swept to victory on the basis of opposing Obamacare, I warned you and Mr. Snerdley, who didn\u2019t believe me at first. I said, “You\u2019re gonna have to keep a sharp eye because the Democrats are also gonna learn something from this. They\u2019re gonna learn that they might be able to stave off a loss by also running against Obamacare.” And some people said, “Well, how they gonna do that, throw Obama under the bus?” No. No. They don\u2019t have to throw Obama under the bus at all. <\/line><\/p>\n

All they have to do is say, “This is not what I voted for. This law\u2019s been changed 30 times since the one I voted for.” Any Senate Democrat running for reelection can say, “This is not what I voted for. I didn\u2019t vote for this. I didn\u2019t vote for the HealthCare.gov website the way it\u2019s working. This isn\u2019t what Obamacare was.” They don\u2019t have to say that Obama\u2019s the one changing it. They just have to point out, “Hey, don\u2019t hold that vote against me because this is not what I voted for. This law\u2019s been changed so many times that it\u2019s not like what I signed.” <\/p>\n

Now, you might think that would never work. If the Republicans come along at the same time and say, “We don\u2019t want to get rid of it. All we want to do is fix it,” they are just falling into the Democrat trap. They are validating an incumbent Democrat\u2019s reelection campaign using Obamacare by joining the Democrat in saying, “Oh, yeah, we think we can fix it.” Sorry. I\u2019m sorry, Karl, I\u2019m sorry the rest of you establishment types, but the only way Obamacare is an electoral advantage for the Republicans is if they run against it, not if their primary objective in Obamacare is to fix it. <\/p>\n

I have to take a break. H.R., did I make myself clear in that? ‘Cause this is very important. What we\u2019re talking about here is the Republicans inadvertently reviving Democrat reelection hopes when in fact these Democrats ought to be sitting ducks because of their support for this law. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me grab a phone call. It\u2019s Open Line Friday and I always try to get in a phone call in the first hour. So I got a couple of Karl Rove sound bites I was gonna play, but let me first go to Bill in Clearwater, Florida. Hello, sir, and welcome to Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush? I appreciate what you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve lived in District 13 for 30 years. Obama carried this district twice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Jolly campaigned on smaller government, lower taxes, and repeal Obamacare. I believe the largest employer in Pinellas County is the health care industry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I believe that fixing Obamacare is a can of worms that we can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. You are so right. In fact, I never remember… I say I\u2019m always looking for the next day. Koko Jr. just sent me a section of my website from January 18th<\/a>, three years ago, warning conservatives to beware of future claims that Obamacare can be fixed. Three years ago! I gotta go back and read this and remind myself of what I said. But you are exactly right. Look at what he said that Jolly ran on: Smaller government, lower taxes. The Republican establishment… It\u2019s just mind-boggling. The Republican establishment does not want that to be the message.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: They don\u2019t want lower taxes, and they don\u2019t want smaller government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They obviously do not. They obviously do not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They want to increase their power.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah… Well, yeah. I know what you mean. They want government staying where it is, and they want to be in charge of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And their claim is… The Republican establishment really believes it. I\u2019ve talked to enough of them to know that they really believe, Bill, that the American people have voted and want a big government. They think that the call for a smaller government\u2019s a loser \u2019cause the American people want a big government. So their pitch is, “We can do it smarter, we Republicans. We can do it better. We can run this big government better and make it work for you better than these lousy Democrats.” But they don\u2019t believe in small government. They don\u2019t believe in lower taxes, in my mind.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One of the problems is, there\u2019s not enough difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I would have argued with you about that not long ago. Now? I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You remember all of those people that told us, “Just wait! Just wait! When Obamacare is implemented, we will all love it”? Remember Pelosi told us that? I think a lot of Democrats said, “Just wait until it\u2019s implemented in 2013, and we\u2019ll all love it.” Like Pelosi said, “We\u2019re gonna have to pass the bill to find out what\u2019s in it.” Remember? You would not… I\u2019m not gonna complain. <\/p>\n

I went back, and Koko Jr. sent me this thing from the website from three years ago, January 18, 2011, with the note, “This fixing national health care is exactly what you said would happen.” So I read this and I\u2019m thinking, “Okay, how does this dovetail?” It\u2019s a story, an AP story three years ago about the British prime minister trying to fix the British National Health System, by privatizing it. “UK Tries Back-Door Privatization of Health Care.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>‘Cause it\u2019s gotten so bad, it is so unwieldy, it just doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s expensive, long lines. So what\u2019s happened is, the people that can afford it have hired their own doctors and built their own hospitals, and they\u2019re opting out. This story is about the British attempt to fix their massive socialized medicine system by privatizing it. And my point three years ago is, this is exactly what\u2019s gonna become of us. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna destroy the greatest health care system in the world and we\u2019re gonna make it so bad that somewhere down the line fixing it is gonna be privatizing it or implementing conservative theory, market theory into it. It\u2019s very close to where we are. I have to tell you again. I want to move on. There are so many other things today that I want to get to, and your phone calls as well. But, folks, this is the most amazing thing. <\/p>\n

You know, to help me explain this in a different way to make the same point, let me go to the audio sound bites. Karl Rove was on Fox today with Bill Hemmer. Hemmer kind of hammered Rove, I thought, when I watched this. Hemmer said, “Look, from the Washington Post yesterday: What did the Republicans and Democrats learn this week? David Jolly\u2019s win was a big win for the GOP in a district the president carried twice in 2008, 2012. But, Karl, you are warning that Republicans can\u2019t afford to get overconfident here.”<\/p>\n

ROVE: Republicans can take a good deal away from this election, but they better pay attention to the detail. It wasn\u2019t just about bashing Obamacare. Jolly very wisely he understood that that would only get him so far. It energized the Republicans, but to get the independents and the swing Democrats, he also emphasized that he was for replacing it. He said, “We need to use private market solutions to resolve these problems. People ought to be able to buy health insurance across state lines. We ought to be able to save more tax-free for out-of-pocket medical expenses. We ought to be able to have insurance that\u2019s portable.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, as far as it goes, that\u2019s right. Jolly did. But he also said repeal and replace. Nobody, nobody that I know of is talking about throwing Obamacare and then doing nothing. There\u2019s all kinds of stuff — if you just throw Obamacare away — that it has already damaged, is are gonna have to be recalibrated or what have you. Free market solutions is nothing new. We\u2019ve always had these ideas. It\u2019s just Obama and the Democrats, of course, are not interested in it. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the next continuation of Rove\u2019s comment…<\/p>\n

ROVE: By making the issue, “Were you in favor of this bad law that people didn\u2019t like or were you in favor of constructive, conservative changes?” he gained the advantage. The second thing he did is he put it in a broader frame, which is the president. Did you want to send somebody to be a check and a balance on the president or did you want send somebody up there who\u2019d vote for these kind of things routinely? He made it clear he was gonna go to Washington and make it work. In order to get Democrats and independents to vote for him, he had to say, “I\u2019m gonna do what I think is right for the country, and if that means I\u2019m supporting the president sometimes, fine. If it means that I\u2019m opposing the president, fine. I\u2019m gonna do what I think is right.”<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I don\u2019t know if Jolly ever actually said, “Hey, vote for me. I have to support Obama sometimes, I will.” I know it\u2019s a big wet dream for these Republican establishment types to talk about making Washington work, and bipartisanship. They just have orgasms over that whole premise. They also have orgasms, as you know, over getting the independents, winning the independents and Democrats. <\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t win if you don\u2019t do that!” I told you, I talked to an elected Republican last week who may run for president. He said to me, “Rush, Republicans can\u2019t win simply by turning out their base anymore. Democrats can; we can\u2019t.” I said, “Now, wait a minute. There were four million Republicans that did not vote in 2012 for Mitt Romney. They sat home. If they\u2019d have shown up, that\u2019s the base. We would have won. <\/p>\n

“What do you mean we can\u2019t win? What is this idea that it\u2019s always us, and we are the ones that always have to water down what we believe in order to attract Democrats? By the way, Romney won a majority of the independents, and he lost the election.” So here\u2019s the danger, and I\u2019ll repeat this one more time. Because this, to me, is really important. We\u2019ve got the Democrats on the ropes. This election in November could potentially be a massive landslide defeat for them. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying landslide win for the Republicans, because there isn\u2019t gonna be a singular Republican idea, nor is there going to be a Republican candidate that House elections are gonna be about. They\u2019re gonna nationalize these elections, and the elections will be on the basis of what that member of Congress will do, not in terms of things for the district, but nationally. And that\u2019s smart. But it\u2019s gonna be a referendum on Obama. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be a referendum on the Democrats. It\u2019s gonna be a referendum on Obamacare. Now, the Democrats, let\u2019s look at the Senate. Senate Democrats, there are some learned commentators who have already claimed the Senate is lost. Republicans have already won it. No, that\u2019s the wrong way to put it. The Democrats already lost it, \u2019cause the Republicans aren\u2019t doing anything, really.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just gonna sit there and capitalize on the anti-Obamacare sentiment that\u2019s out there, but that sentiment has to survive. We\u2019re only in March here. It\u2019s way too early to be sitting back and relying strictly on this opposition to Obamacare holding up. Who knows? It probably will. But here\u2019s thing. You\u2019ve got these Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare. They\u2019re running for reelection. And if the Republicans aren\u2019t careful, they\u2019re going to let these Democrats back in their races. <\/p>\n

If the Republicans suggest that fixing Obamacare is what needs to be done, then they are just rolling out the red carpet for these in-trouble Democrats to get back in and maybe win, because the Democrats in the Senate all voted for Obamacare, and that\u2019s what\u2019s hurting them. But if the come up and say, “You know what? This isn\u2019t what I voted for! Obamacare\u2019s changed so many times, I don\u2019t think you can hold me accountable for what\u2019s happened to it. <\/p>\n

“This is not what I voted for. What I voted for would have worked, but this is not what I voted for, and I agree with my Republican opponent that what we need to do here is fix it”? Well, you have just let a Democrat destined to lose back in the race. They\u2019re gonna have to be really careful about this, the Republicans. If they make a big, big deal out of leaving it intact and fixing it, then, sorry, there\u2019s no reason to get rid of Democrats. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just giving you the real world. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re gonna leave it intact, leave the guys intact that did it and let them fix it. It\u2019s such a trap, this whole fix it versus repeal it. It\u2019s such a trap, and I\u2019m talking about winning elections. And then this idea that we\u2019ve somehow gotta go out do this? We can\u2019t win unless we get independents and Democrats and that that\u2019s what Jolly did, and how he did it was by talking a little bit like a Democrat? This is very, very puzzling. It\u2019s troubling, upsetting, and it seems like we\u2019re getting ready to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as they say.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I don\u2019t have time to search everything when I\u2019m doing this program, and you would not believe the things I have coming at me every moment of this program, but I\u2019ve tried. I have gone back and I looked at a YouTube ad, I\u2019ve read some things, and I cannot find any evidence of David Jolly ever talking about fixing Obamacare. You know why? It can\u2019t be! Obamacare cannot be fixed! It is so bad, they can\u2019t even implement it! I\u2019m sorry to yell. I start yelling when I feel like I somehow am not getting through, or when what I\u2019m up against is so ridiculously unsensible that I feel I gotta raise my voice to get through. <\/line><\/p>\n

Obamacare cannot be fixed, folks. It is such a disaster, it\u2019s destroying people\u2019s lives. I talked about this at the end of the program yesterday. We had a guy call and he can\u2019t afford his premiums, he\u2019s working. The people that, God bless \u2019em, make up this country, make this country work. The people who are working, they\u2019re the ones getting the shaft every moment they get up and look around. They\u2019re being blamed. They\u2019re being targeted. Meanwhile, a growing number of people aren\u2019t working and somehow they get all the sympathy. They get the victim status. They get all the benefits. <\/p>\n

This thing is so bad, they\u2019re having to delay every fundamental aspect of it, because if they don\u2019t it is so bad there might not be a Democrat Party if it were fully implemented. It\u2019s that bad. There is no fixing it. This cannot be fixed. There\u2019s no repair kit. Hell, you can\u2019t even find an honest owner\u2019s manual for this piece of malarkey. But I\u2019ve looked at Jolly. I can\u2019t find any evidence of him ever talking about fixing Obamacare. In his ads and in his debates, campaign appearances, he promises to repeal Obamacare, period. <\/p>\n

Now, he was on Scarborough today. So he goes on MSNBC, “Oh, yeah, I\u2019ll be willing to work with the president,” but then he said “on reducing the size of government.” He said he wasn\u2019t gonna compromise his core beliefs, but of course he said he\u2019d work with the president. Hell, you gotta say that, I guess. He talked about smaller government. He talked about tax cuts. This woman was for amnesty. This woman tried to tag him as a global warming denier. Everything the Democrats threw at him didn\u2019t work, and this idea that he won because he wasn\u2019t strident and didn\u2019t want to totally repeal Obamacare?<\/p>\n

You know, it really is problematic the way the Republican establishment is trying to mischaracterize this victory and why it happened. It\u2019s like there is no Republican Party. This is a slam dunk here, what happened. The Democrats are worried sick about it. That\u2019s why guys like Bob Beckel and everybody is running around cautioning the Republicans, “Don\u2019t try to win these elections just running against Obama,” as though they really want us to win. They\u2019re really trying to help us? <\/p>\n

So when some Democrat strategist warns us not to take the wrong message from this win, what\u2019s the wrong message? Well, the wrong message is that you can win by running against Obamacare. What they\u2019re telling us is, Obamacare is the end of us, and we would really hope that you guys are so stupid that we can talk you out of running against it. Which is what they\u2019re trying to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve got so much stuff here today, folks, and I\u2019m trying to figure out which I want to do first. Here\u2019s Obama with deportations, and here\u2019s Obama with determining who gets overtime, all of this is a distraction. It\u2019s all a distraction from what\u2019s happening with the economy and with Obamacare. 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