RUSH: I wonder what happened out there, folks. I wonder what happened. Trump has canceled — I’m sorry. Wrong word. Trump has postponed the health care plan until after the 2020 election. Happened last night. Trump postponed his plans to make Republicans into the party of great health care. Look. I understand this.

Greetings. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. 800-282-2882, and email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us

Let me tell you what I think happened. I haven’t spoken to anybody. Well, I mean, I haven’t spoken to anybody in the White House or anybody associated with any of the presidential strategery on this in quite a while. But remember it seemed out of the blue the president started talking about reviving health care again, getting rid of Obamacare, just a week or so ago, after suffering mightily from doing so in the 2018 midterms.

Everybody is scratching their head, “What’s going on?” And I was among those scratching my head saying, “What’s going on?” Because the border situation is getting worse by the day. That’s the issue Trump got elected on. It’s the issue he campaigned on. And out of the blue it seems like it vanished from the top of the priority list and was replaced by Obamacare.

Now, I think the president has a lot of people around him who have, shall we say, mutual interests. They want what’s best for the president, and they want what’s best according to what they think. And if any of those people, if any of those advisers happen to be of the traditional Republican, Washington mind-set, they’re gonna be defensive. They are going to preoccupied with what is said about them, primarily in the Drive-By Media.

There is also a desire on the part — I think this is genuine on the part of the president. It’d be great — he even said this in his recent revival — to push a total abolition of Obamacare, that he wants the Republican Party to be the party that’s associated with great health care for everybody. That would be a massive transformation.

You know, Obamacare, it’s got his name in it, and it’s health care for everybody, and a lot of dummkopfs think it was free. And so trying to wrest that mantle away from the Democrats would be an admirable thing if Republicans could be associated with health care, but not single payer. Not Medicare for all. So they have to come up with a program, and they hadn’t.

And that is a tangible issue. Health care. Everybody needs it, everybody uses it, everybody’s focused on it, everybody’s worried about it. So if you can be the guy that solves it and removes the worry and the threat and comes through with a plan that enables people to access health care with as little pain as possible, then you stand to benefit greatly.

On the other hand, the issue at the border involves what? Well, it’s not as tangle as health care, in terms of perception. If you live in Pennsylvania, if you live in Wisconsin, Illinois, if you live anywhere but in a border state, you hear about it, you see pictures about it, and you may be impacted by the arrival of criminal elements of the illegal immigration so-called community. But it really isn’t as tangible to you as it is to people that live in border states. And it certainly isn’t as tangible as something like health care is.

You can reach out and touch it, is what I mean by tangible. And it impacts everybody on a personal level, much more than illegal immigration is perceived to. I think illegal immigration has a far greater deleterious effect on our society and culture at large than anybody is willing to admit or discuss openly. So I think it’s even much more tangible than health care is, but the perception is not that.

In addition, who is it that is illegally crossing the border? They are people of color. They are brown people, they are black people, they are Latinos and you run the gamut. And so it lends itself for instant demagoguery. The president is opposed to immigration because he’s a racist. And I think there’s some advisers in the president’s circle who have this sensitivity, that any opposition to illegal immigration can easily be tagged as racist or bigoted or separating children from their mothers, it’s so horrible. And all you need is one picture of each allegation to make the point.

So I think there’s a lot of advisers around the president who are telling him that the biggest “oomph” possible policy-wide would be to come up with something that fixes health care, that makes it known to everybody the Republicans did it because it affects virtually everybody, stand to gain one heck of a lot. I think this is some of the advice that he’s getting. I don’t want to name names because I don’t know for sure. So I don’t want to sit here and speculate.

But the odds are that if the advisors I’m talking about do indeed come from the swamp in Washington, this is what I think happened. And then somebody realized, “Wait a minute, whatever we come up with on health care isn’t gonna see the light of day because the Democrats run the House. There isn’t anything gonna change. No Democrat is gonna vote for any health care proposal that in any way gives the Republicans the identity of a solution, that helps the Republicans make the issue their own.”

So somebody realized that it’s a nonstarter even maybe as a campaign issue. But certainly nothing more than a campaign issue because there just simply aren’t the votes for it because the Democrats run the House. So the president now says that he is going to postpone his plans to make Republicans the party of great health care until after the 2020 elections. He said the vote will be taken right after the election when the Republicans hold the Senate and win back the House. “It will be truly great health care that will work for America.”

See, it was just last week that the president was trying to move this forward, seemingly out of the blue with his singular identity and push on the immigration issue seemingly taking a backseat or even an invisible seat.

There’s also something else involved in this health care business and that is even among Republicans in the Senate, they just didn’t seem to have the desire to move forward on this. Democrats ran on improving the health care system in 2018, and they won. I think ultimately that something singularly bothersome hasn’t changed, and that is the defensive mentality that exists among Republicans in Washington. Never Trumpers outside of Washington, wherever they are, but certainly those inside the Beltway.

And the defensiveness stems from being afraid of media allegations which then become Democrat Party allegations, and those allegations always revolve around it’s racist, it’s bigoted, or it’s sexist or it’s homophobic or what have you. And so policy wizards seek to come up with ways to avoid those allegations, and that’s why I think they singled in on health care because everybody would benefit and everybody would think the Republican Party is wonderful and very cool if they fixed it.

So now the president is going to pivot back to immigration and not a moment too soon. It remains the singular most important number one issue. And the Democrats are scared to death of the president focusing on it. His threat last week to close the border has them going bonkers, alleging that it will kill the American economy, destroy whatever economic momentum we’ve got. Except they’re out there saying that there isn’t all that great an economy, Trump’s lying, he’s making it up.

But then when it comes time to disparage shutting down the border for a while, all of a sudden the economy’s doing well enough that the Democrats can run around and talk about the damage that will occur if Trump does this. But it’s patently obvious why the Democrats don’t want the border shut. It’s patently obvious why they want this continuing invasion, this flow of people into the country. I think what’s misunderstood about this issue is the amount of support for getting a handle on this and stopping it that there is all across all spectrums of our population.

I believe that if Trump does this right, if he did it right, that 50% of Hispanics would support him. And I think 75% of the public would. And I think the Democrats know this. And I think they’re scared to death of it. They don’t want anything to happen to give the president that kind of confidence.

When you compare health care to solving the border issue, which of the two is more complicated, do you think? You might think that’s a tough question. I frankly think that health care is much more complicated to solve, comprehensive health care reform is much more complicated to solve than simply making a decision to enforce the law tto fix immigration! All we gotta do is enforce the law! To fix illegal immigration, it’s just a matter of getting tough and enforcing the law, listening to the Border Patrol people, listening to ICE.

Meanwhile, Luis Gutierrez is out there saying we need to be building welcoming centers all over the country, not just at the border. Welcoming centers all over the country. Of course, Luis Gutierrez, Democrat, Illinois, member of the House, thinks that, because that’s exactly how they want to be seen greeting these people. There is a simple violation of law taking place here, and nobody seems to address that aspect of what’s going on.

But to those of us who think immigration is the singular problem we face, the fix is not that complicated. Enforce the law! “It’s so hard, Rush, because you would have to tell people ‘no.’” Well, for crying out loud, we tell ’em they can’t rob banks every day. We tell people they can’t kill each other every day. We tell people all kinds of things every day that might hurt their feelings or might disappoint them or might deny them things.

“Yeah, but this is different. These are people that are suffering and they’re fleeing war-torn poverty and we just can’t say ‘no.’” For the benefit of the world we better say “no” because if we cease being who we are, the world has no place to turn to, which in fact might be an objective of some of the anti-American hating leftists around the world.

But health care is so complicated to sell, by the way, the Democrats could ruin Trump as they did in the midterms, especially if the program you have is not fully formed and one that you can’t present as an alternative to what you’re getting rid of.

With court rulings increasingly in favor of ending Obamacare, odd to see the effort at an overhaul or replacement put on hold. Without Congressional support, guess this is harder. It hits home though as we lost our insurance when it jumped to $1,897 a month last year. Not good.

And, yes, immigration a higher priority. Hopefully it becomes more action than talk. Now that Trump has drawn a clear line in the sand, saying that Mexico must stop all illegal traffic or he closes the border this week, maybe time for action. Five days to watch.

If I’d have one piece of advice for Trump, don’t make the mistake of handling problems serial.
Find people you trust and delegate.

With serial thinking, all the left needs to do is keep changing the target.
Which is exactly what they have been doing.

We have more to lose as far as elections from not addressing health care than we do regarding immigration.

If the President and Republicans do not have a GREAT plan in place, and soon, then the border is merely an issue until the Democrats win in 2020, and take the Senate.

I’m not saying ‘immigration isn’t an issue’, nor am I saying that there is any strictly constitutional basis for healthcare as a ‘right’. I *am* saying that if we don’t come up with a REALLY good plan, one where any working or retired Citizen can get whatever they need without danger of bankruptcy, we will lose, we will lose BIG and then the border will not be an issue.

The “but there’s nothing in the Constitution about healthcare” argument matters only to even a few on FR, and to almost no one else. There’s nothing in the Constitution about the war on drugs, the space program, EMP attacks on our infrastructure or any other of a number of issues that affect us.

We are handing the Democrats 2020 all in order to satisfy a microscopic percentage of even the most conservative part of the party.

Thank you.

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To me, immigration is not a big priority...because I live in Florida and we get good immigrants, at the moment, mostly Venezuelans fleeing Marxism. But they come in legally.

I’d rather see Obamacare ended, because it has negatively impacted my family members who are not wealthy but are not the privileged class on welfare. Or, except for one, not SEIU union affiliate members, who seem still to be able to get huge benefits.

However, the border is seriously becoming an emergency. This could be fixed if the Dems would help, but they seem to think they’re gaining brownie points with the Dem base if they oppose everything, regardless of how much it would benefit either their constituency or the “migrants” themselves.

Postponed h’care & re-focused on immigration?

G-R-E-A-T. He *should* be focused on that which the govt has a Const. authorized role.

Now, if only it’s get the F* OUT of h’care and actually DO it’s job vs. immigration, I’d be a happier camper.

I agree that he needs to have a response. Many middle class and lower middle class people in the US have been seriously harmed by Obamacare. They want to know what the GOP is going to do.

As I said above, I think immigration is important, but at the same time, I don’t think it’s been approached the right way, since a lot of our worst immigrants have been legal (the 9/11 killers were all legal, but several had overstayed their visas). This current wave has got to be presented as sponsored by foreign governments, which it is. Cuba, the Communist LatAm countries which are essentially just catspaws for Cuba and the Communitsts, Russia and China (emphasis on the latter) are behind this.

Trump offered money to Honduras, which has a new and theoretically conservative government, and Honduras offered relocation and jobs to anybody who wouldn’t emigrate.. This had no effect because the amount of money being poured into Honduras to get poor, ignorant people into the “migrant train” to be used as cannon fodder (metaphorically speaking) way exceeds everything else.

Go after the funders: China, Russia, some Arab states (Islam is growing in LatAm) and of course, Cuba, which is the conduit for it all.

The favorite country of Bergoglio, which adds another layer of difficulty.

Federal issues are dealt with through Congressional bills.

A few people with safe seats need to do some typing work.

No sane American can doubt the need to prevent invading hordes of aliens from taking over almost all lower-skilled work in the USA.

No sane Americann can doubt the need for lower health insurance premiums for the tens of millions uncovered in the face of likely future need.

It is insane to expect a person that hasn’t been treated by a doctor for twenty years to pay the same insurance premiums as a person who annually receives $20,000 or more of care.

I have to disagree with you. Healthcare is a red herring, a distraction. We will lose EVERYTHING if we do not deal with this invasion. I wish someone clever could take that photo posted above and photoshop all those young men heading into this country into military uniforms. These young men are the army of the left and when there are enough of them, they will take this country over.

We need tax caps placed in the Constitution to protect the American middle class.

An income tax cap amendment, a property tax cap amendment and an inheritance tax exemption amendment at the very least.

We may not be able to cut taxes, but we can certain cap taxation.

The 1% can protect themselves by fleeing and claiming asylum from the persecution of Democratic scoundrels.

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion”

US Constitution, Article IV, Section 4

Protection against invasion is the fundamental purpose of the federal government.

A Constitutional provision can be enforced by court order - treaties and statutes be damned.

The President needs to file suit against the Congress for ample wall and detention facility money, border staffing and refugee convention denunciation.

If Congress can petition a court for the tapes of a President, the President can go to court too.

These are separate issues, and Trump has got to call out the “sponsoring” countries, namely China, Russia and Iran ... and invoke the Monroe Doctrine.

Don’t attack the poor people being encouraged to make a run for the border. Trump has offered these countries money to relocate and employ these people within the borders of their countries, and I know that Honduras was actually very grateful for it...but the power of the Marxist/Muslim alliance has swamped everything.

In the meantime, domestically, people in the US who are not on welfare are concerned about healthcare, and if the GOP could offer a good policy I think it would help.

Wrong.

I actually consider immigration to be *more* important, as it is destroying our country and will destroy it completely.

I *am* saying that healthcare is a more potent issue for 2020. It matters more deeply to more people. And lose the WH in 2020 and just what do you think will happen to *any* chance to reign in untrammeled immigration.

Focus and priorities. IMHO Healthcare can do more damage to us than immigration can do to the Democrats.

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