Posted on 07/18/2017 11:50:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: So Im sitting at home last night minding my own business, not bothering anybody. In fact, the only thing bothering anybody was the cat bothering me, mad at me that I was gone for three days. You can tell when the cat gets mad at you. Anyway, about the time the news broke that the Senate had failed at their repeal Obamacare vote, I started getting a slew of email messages from people that totally dumbfounded me.
I started getting email: This is great! This is great! Now theyre gonna vote to repeal it and have a two-year period of time to replace it. Thats gonna carry us through the 2018 midterms, and Obamacare premiums are gonna continue to skyrocket and people are gonna blame Obama and were gonna win everything again in 2018.
And I look at this, and I said, What planet are these people on? And then I start asking, What am I missing? Because I kept getting these emails. I must have gotten five of these emails from people. This is great, were finally gonna vote to repeal it and thats gonna take us through the 2018 election cycle with no Obamacare in place. And that means its gonna continue to implode and the Democrats gonna get the blame. And I was caught by one thing in every one of these emails that literally dumbfounded me.
I wrote em all back. I said, Would you please share with me the evidence that you have that theyre going to vote to repeal it? Why in the world do you think thats automatic? Well, they wrote back, its easy to repeal it when you dont have to couple it with a replacement bill. I said, Is there evidence for this? And then I started converting them. And I could see in succeeding emails that their optimism started fading. Which, look, I hate being the guy that does that, but I really was shocked that that was the original reaction people had to the bill failing in the Senate.
Now, I dont blame em for wanting to see the opportunity, and clearly there is an opportunity there. What I dont see and I addressed this yesterday the reason we are here, folks, the reason were talking about this is that it is abundantly clear, its just a matter of whether or not you wanted to admit it to yourself or not, it is abundantly clear that the career Republicans in Washington dont want to touch Obamacare. They dont want to repeal it. And they dont want to do tax reform. And they dont want to build a wall. They dont want to do any of the Trump agenda. The Democrats, the Republicans, it doesnt matter what the party divisions are, because were really not talking about that.
Were talking about the elite club known as the establishment. There just has never been look, I dont like doing See, I Told You Sos, because it sounds snarky and arrogant, and I dont ever want to come across that way, but how in the world has this not been seen for what it is? Since the moment Donald Trump was elected you could see that the establishment began to circle the wagons and there was no way this guy was gonna be allowed to triumph on anything. There was no way that this establishment was going to permit an outsider to come in and clean house and show how Washington can work and blow their cover for the last how many decades.
Now, dont misunderstand; Im not saying it cant be done. Im saying they werent going to help this along. They were not going to contribute. They were not gonna make this easy for Trump. It has never been about Trump unifying the Republican Party in order to beat the Democrats, and thats been the mistake. Thats not the fight here. The fight is not Republican versus Democrat. The fight is Donald Trump and his cadre and you, the Trump base, versus the Washington establishment. It has always been that and nothing more.
And, frankly, I think one of the problems has been that there arent enough people in the Trump White House who understand that thats the way the tables set. I think theres a lot of career people in there who think the fight is the traditional fight between parties, and taken on that basis, that all plays out, and thats not at all what has been going on here. Were in the midst of a silent coup. These people are trying to take this president out, and everybody understands that. So why, in that circumstance, do you think that the same people trying to destroy Donald Trump are gonna help him get rid of Obamacare, are gonna help him reform the tax code?
Theyre not. They are going to have to be defeated, not worked with. There isnt any cooperation. Folks, this is so abundantly clear, its frustrating. The Republicans in both the House and the Senate seven times passed legislation to repeal Obamacare, and on a number of those occasions, the bills were actually sent to Obama where he vetoed them. The point is, it was not difficult to get enough votes to pass that legislation, because they were safe. They knew that it would never happen.
So they were able to make these show votes to convince voters that they were really oriented toward this direction getting rid of Obamacare knowing all the while it would never happen, theyd never have to deal it cause O was never gonna sign it. Now, for the last six months they cant even agree to legislation that they have previously authored and passed seven times. Its not hard to see what is going on here.
You have to understand something: Everything in Washington from the Republicans the only exemption here is conservatives, genuine conservatives in Washington. And by that I dont mean everybody who claims to be a conservative. With the exemption of genuine conservatives in Washington, everything in that town is seen through the eyes of the left. And if you dont understand that, and youre in Washington, youre never going to be on the same battlefield that these people are on.
When people say, Well, the Republicans are afraid of to do X cause of what the medias gonna say about it, they are seeing the world through the eyes of the left. Theyre not seeing it through their own eyes using their own ideology and their own beliefs and principles. Theyre looking at everything through the eyes of the left.
When the media reports stories and makes it sound like everybody in America agrees with their point, thats what I mean when I say everything is seen through the eyes of the left. The sad thing is that includes most not all most Republicans.
I want to take you back, just to illustrate this point, to December 16th. I could quote myself, I could read what I said, but I want you to actually hear me say it from all the way back in the middle of December, 2016.
RUSH ARCHIVE: President Trump has been running around, Were gonna repeal Obamacare. Were gonna replace it. The Republicans have said, Were gonna repeal and replace it. People believe that Trump is gonna do that, but thats only the beginning. Repealing it is one thing, but then theres that word replace, and thats where all of the potential danger resides. Repeal and replace. Now, as the free market advocate I am, what do you mean replace? Just get rid of this monstrosity.
RUSH: Just get rid of it. Thats what you voted for. You voted to get rid of it. There is nobody that voted for Donald Trump that also meant for the federal government to run one-fifth of the U.S. economy or sixth, depending on how you do your math.
The federal government cant even regulate the building of buildings! The federal government cant do anything! You would never hire them to do anything. You wouldnt hire them to build your house you wouldnt and yet here we are thinking the American people want the government to run their health care? There is no way. Liberal Democrats do cause theyre socialists, and they think its fairness and equality. And it is. Its everybodys equally miserable!
Its everybodys mired equally in failure! There isnt a single sentence, there isnt a single bit of evidence, there isnt a single example of socialism working anywhere in the world and by working, I mean meeting its promises. The people that elected Trump say, Get rid of it! But, folks, Ive got the sound bites coming up. The Republicans are saying, I I I dont want to get rid of it. Too many governors and too many people have come to enjoy and expect the benefits. The benefits! The benefits of Obamacare! The benefits. What are the benefits of Obamacare?
And then over here you have the CBO score which says if theres no Obamacare, 32 million Americans lose their health insurance. That means 32 million Americans die! Just a full-fledged bottle of crap is what this is. There arent gonna be 32 million Americans die if we repeal Obamacare. The American economy is gonna improve. The American free market which is where miracles happen is gonna come in and finally salvage health care and make it sensible and affordable and efficient, like the market always does. But we dont trust the market!
Yes, we trust the government, a government filled with people that never been in this kind of world or experience and dont know it. Obamas never had a single day of employment in the health care industry, yet he has all the answers. Obama maybe worked a week at a law firm where he considered himself to be a spy. Its so abundantly clear to me that Trump is not going to get any assistance on his agenda. Hes going to have to bludgeon (politically, of course) opposition into defeat.
This brings into focus the role of public opinion. I had another person send me a text today, as opposed to an email, and the question was, When will the public wake up? When will the public wake up and realize whats going on, and what will be the result? I had to write back, and I had to be honest. The public waking up wont matter. The GOP public in the counties that elected Trump already did wake up, and they caused Trump to win. But do you think theyre having any influence on the outcome of events?
The only thing the public right now has any influence over is the outcome of elections. Thats what they can get past the Russian influence. (Im just teasing. Im just stirring the excrement out there.) Im serious! The public, public opinion? Yep, when it comes to elections, that matters. But thats when it stops. You think these people in the establishment are paying a scant bit of attention to what the public thinks? Theyre not. They hold the public in contempt. In their view, the public doesnt know enough to know the right thing.
The public doesnt know enough to have good judgment. The public doesnt know anything, and theyre not unified, and the public doesnt have enough money to outspend the lobbyists and donors inside Washington who do have the money to influence the outcome of events. Yet all of this could be overcome. I know Im painting a picture here that sounds pessimistic, but the fact that Trump won the election proves this can be overcome. But you gotta know who the enemy is. You gotta know where to take the battle and fight (chuckles) and Im sorry, investing in the Republican leadership to carry your water? (laughing) Who ever thought that would work?
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RUSH: How do I know this? Because I play golf. I am fully familiar with the psychology of elite membership clubs, and Im telling you I understand exactly whats going on with the establishment here in Washington, D.C. Folks, you dont have to be an expert in it. This is just common sense. Understand something. Washington, D.C. is the wealthiest town in the world. More money is collected there, spent there, allocated there. More money than anywhere in the world. That makes it the most powerful city in the world.
The people that live there, the people that make their careers there have as their objective to get their hands on as much of that money your tax dollars and whatever the government earns selling arms and weapons and so forth and whatever else. The objective is to get as much of that money as they can for themselves and their clients. Its not to defend and protect the Constitution. Its not Civics 101. Its not about separation of powers. Its about pursuit of money. Its natural human emotion, behavior, tendencies. Membership in this club is very, very, very small, and its very, very controlled.
Theyre not gonna permit just anybody that wants to to get in that club and join the pursuit of that money or determine how its spent or determine how its allocated, and thats exactly who Donald Trump is. Donald Trump would never be admitted to this group. Donald Trump If he applied for membership in the, quote, unquote, establishment, Trump would never be admitted, if there were such things as admissions and applications. And yet hes found himself in the most powerful position in it. This has been met with tremendous resentment, anger, fear, loathing, hatred.
Particularly when what Trump said on the campaign trail was a clear signal that his intention was to drain the place. Well, the people that have enjoyed exclusive membership in this elite club known as the establishment are just not gonna sit there and let some outsider come in and blow it all up, and thats what youve seen for the past seven or eight months. You have seen it, whether its Obama intelligence people embedded in the deep state, whether its Obama administration officials unmasking Trump people, whether its the media.
Whoever and everybody that has been involved in the undermining and the sabotaging of Donald Trump has been doing so on the basis of protecting the elite membership of the establishment in Washington, D.C. Membership includes media. Membership includes elected officials, but not all of them. Not every elected official is a member of the establishment. Some of them are conservatives, and theyre not permitted. They live there and they work there, but theyre not in the establishment. Everybody in the media is for the most part. There are a few exceptions there too. Think tank-ery, you name it.
The whole town is built around the existence of this establishment. Harvard and Yale are feeder colleges to educate future members of this establishment. Law schools and journalism schools ditto. The idea of an outsider particularly one that the elite considers a pig coming in here and winning and overturning it? There is just no way, folks. Theyre sure not gonna permit it. Republicans, Democrats, whatever. So while they put on a show of the argument being Republican versus Democrat, the president versus Democrats, thats not whats going on.
This is the elite membership of the establishment unifying to get rid of Donald Trump and make sure that nothing of his announced agenda happens. No wall, no tax reform, no immigration reform of substance, and certainly no repealing of Obamacare. Not all members of the establishment are equally powerful. There are those who run it. You dont know who they are. They dont seek office. Theyre not officeholders. They are the chess players, the puppeteers.
These are the people who assign roles. These are the people who determine how much money from the pile goes where, how much they get, and they then have the power (because of their ability to disburse the money), who gets it and therefore who remains loyal to the power and the elite club known as the establishment. Theyre all aligned and unified now to deny Donald Trump and if they can, to sabotage his presidency. They dont care about impeachment. Just paralyze him. This has been from day one.
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RUSH: I want to go to the audio sound bites. Mike Lee is one of the Republicans who announced you cant vote for the thing, along with three others. There are four senators now that are not gonna vote for it. That means its 48 for and 52 opposed. Mike Lee is one of them. He was on Fox this morning. The anchor Jon Scott said, Okay, its my understanding Trump was meeting with some of your fellow Republican senators in the White House having dinner trying to push forward with support for the Senate bill, and then you and Senator Jerry Moran came out with your opposition essentially blew up the chance for passage. Why do it? Why announce your opposition to this?
LEE: Ive been studying this bill which was first released to us on Thursday over the weekend. What I concluded over the weekend is this bill doesnt do enough to comply with the promise Republicans have been making for the last seven years. Every Republican whos campaigned for any federal office who has campaigned on the promise of repealing Obamacare. Obamacare has made health care affordable and inaccessible. Weve gotta undo it. Its what we promised for seven years. Now we have to do it. This bill didnt do that.
RUSH: This bill didnt repeal Obamacare and it didnt. It doesnt repeal Obamacare. At best, this bill would lower premiums somewhat for a certain period of time. But even that is not for certain. But there clearly is no repeal here, and Mike Lee doesnt want to put his name to it and be a hypocrite and have to go back home and explain why he spent all these years campaigning for repealing Obamacare and ultimately voted to maintain it. Jon Scott then said, Mitch McConnell has said hes gonna call for a vote that simply repeals Obamacare like the one that passed the Senate in 2015. Would you vote for that?
LEE: I will vote for any bill to repeal Obamacare. What we do matters, and this is what I have been calling for for months, is that I would love to be able to repeal Obamacare. We bring up a bill that does that and only that, lets see if we can get that passed. I think its an important step forward and then we can decide what comes next after thats passed. It would surprise me if we were not able to do that. That would be a sad reflection on our party given that its what we have campaigned on for the last seven years. And its what we ought to do first.
RUSH: Bingo! Why didnt they do it first and why cant they do it now? The answers here are not complicated. And hes right, the Republicans campaigned on it. You know, you would have to conclude some things here. Lets take some things that we know. The Republicans in the House and Senate have campaigned year in and year out since 2010 promising to repeal Obamacare. And from 2010 to 2017 they passed five, six, seven different repeal Obamacare bills, and they sent them up to the White House where they were vetoed.
So theyve done it. They campaigned saying they were gonna do it, and they did it. Now when they run the show, they cant do it. For some reason now, Well, we cant take the benefits away from the governors and some people, no, we cant its too entrenched and entitled, we cant do it. Its been the law of the land for too many years. We just cant take it away. What do they thinks gonna happen to them when its reelection time? What are they thinking?
In the real world, they would be scared to death to be such hypocrites. To openly pass legislation that repeals it, knowing it isnt gonna happen, and in the campaign promising to do it for real if they get control of the House and Senate. Then they dont, and they then go out for reelection, what do they expect is going to happen? Do they think the publics gonna forget? Do they think voters are not gonna mind? Do they think voters are gonna understand why they couldnt do it?
My point, something matters more to them than what theyre going to face during reelection. They are willing to incur the wrath of the voters by failing to repeal it after promising to do so. They would rather incur the wrath of voters than to face whatever else it is that greets them if they do it. Theyre afraid to do it. Theyre afraid to repeal it. Why? Afraid of what? Who are they afraid of? What in the world has them more frightened than facing you on the reelection campaign trail? You answer that question, we answer that question, and we will know a lot more than we know now.
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At this point I hate these damn Republicans as much as I hate the Democrats.
If they loose the House and Senate I will leave this damn party never to return.
They are unfit.
The GOP; Inability becomes Unwillingness. Which is revealed to be complicity.
Truly worthless people.
“Who are they afraid of?”
Probably the message that said that if repeal occurs, they and their children will be killed.
Of course. President Trump has dared to oppose the Corrupt Ruling Establishment. They will do ANYTHING to protect their privileges! Even murder! Even the destruction of the United States. NOTHING is beneath them!
The same thing happened to me too.
Trump did not run on repeal only.
His position was repeal and replace.
I have said since forever, let Obamacare implode on its own (which it WILL DO). In fact, it will implode faster if all its provisions are enacted, some haven’t even been activated yet.
Republicans and Trump were STUPID to get in the way of this and will own it now. Now it will be widely accepted that they killed Obamacare instead of that it killed itself. Now is an huge uphill PR battle to convince people that this was a DEMOCRAT bill that is failing.
Thanks Republicans and Trump.
And save your wrath against me. I support Trump but I call it as I see it and this was a HUGE mistake.
Agree.
The oligarch/UniParty Reps McTurtle and Ryan couldn’t make it any more obvious that they are AGAINST President Trump and want nothing more than to see him fail.
They are sabotaging him at every turn.
I think at this point we need to be preparing for the economic collapse of the U.S. The question is, is it going to be violent or not? And who is going to move in to take over? My guess is it will be China, given its creditor status.
I already quit the GOP last year when they support Trump after he won the primaries fair and square.
I don’t see how I can ever vote for a Republican again, at least not at the national level.
They are are worse than Dems. At least we know Dems are corrupt slime. The GOP lies to us for years and then pulls this crap.
Maybe I will continue to vote for the odd GOP at the state or local level, and for President if it’s someone like Trump.
But other than that I am done with the GOP. They are blood sucking maggots.
Boring. really boring. I'm really tired of rants. Particularly the one-liners.
I turned Rush off and listened to Alex Jones. Now that is desperation. I promise never to do it again but I just couldn't take Rush today.
I already quit the GOP last year when they support Trump after he won the primaries fair and square.
I don’t see how I can ever vote for a Republican again, at least not at the national level.
They are worse than Dems. At least we know Dems are corrupt slime. The GOP lied to us for years and then pulled this crap.
Maybe I will continue to vote for the odd GOP candidate at the state or local level, and for President if it’s someone like Trump.
But other than that I am done with the GOP. They are blood sucking maggots.
Rush said those currently opposing repeal and/or replace are more afraid of ‘something’ then they are of facing re-election.
I would hazard a guess that they are afflicted by the same ‘forces’ that caused CJ Roberts to pretzel his decision on Obamacare.
The US Chamber of Commerce, Consultants, and Donors. The voters come in dead last to these guys.
Those who will not challenge the mantra that those who fail in society are "victims" of those who succeed; the mantra that those who succeed do so as a result of special privilege; indeed, the whole Jacobin, Marxist, Fabian & Nazi, lunacy; those who will not challenge that outright, will never have the will to step into the breach with Donald Trump, to restore an America that was once the envy of the world.
If the present crowd in Washington will not stand with the President? We will have to find Americans of better mettle. We dare not surrender hope.
Draining the swamp was never going to be easy. I was hoping the impasse with the GOPe would not come so quickly, but it was always coming. Trump is going to have to begin to show his cards as we approach the coming midterms by supporting non-establishment candidates in the GOP primaries.
Midge loves him some moderates....
49 of 52 Republicans voted REPEAL.
Vote more Republican. Time will get Repeal.
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