Theory: Don't Sweat the "Small" Stuff

Rush Limbaugh ^ | June 16, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

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Theory: Don't Sweat the "Small" Stuff

June 16, 2003

The Associated Press: "When Democrats tried to mount an attack against Medicare prescription drug legislation on Wednesday, prominent liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts stayed away and (Tom Daschle) conceded he might wind up voting for the bill.... Democrats grappled with an issue that has long leaned their way but now offers political gain to President Bush and Republicans in Congress." A GOP pollster expects Bush's signing of the bill to be "a transformational event."

Of course Ted Kennedy is staying away; this is his bill just as the education bill was his bill! I hate to tell you this, folks, but this prescription drug plan is a Democrat plan for the biggest jump in government spending in 40 years. Yet because Bush will get political credit for it, Karl Rove tells us not to sweat the small stuff. Is that all that matters? What's the big stuff if this is small stuff? Supreme Court nominees? Once you get that bulletproof majority you're going for, job #1 will be keeping it and getting your guys reelected.

No one is ever going to roll this stuff back! This is what The BIG Theory is: passing Democrat agenda items in part or whole to strip the other party of their issues. My question is: "Where does this lead?" Where does passing the biggest Medicare expansion since the early 60s take the nation? Is saddling our young people with this giant spending program worth it just to stop Democrats from saying we hate Medicare programs? Sure, it's worth it if you're running for office - but you're buying votes with the money of future generations!

The dirty little secret is the Democrats won't stop bashing Republicans on this anyway. A line buried in this AP story says, "Even before the outlines of the legislation were disclosed, Daschle began work on a strategy to criticize Republicans on the Medicare issue." This proves what I've always told you people: the left is going to attack us no matter what we do. They say the same thing and make the same charges on every issue. They're a party of broken records. So do the right thing - for seniors and everybody - by not making the people slaves to the government.

On EIB Tomorrow...

"How Kennedy can come back and shaft Bush on this Medicare drug benefit."

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ping you don't want to miss this one.........

[MonroeDNA]

I heard Rush on this today; very few are more fond of him and agree with him, than I.

I sincerely hope that when the details emerge, Medicare will still be uncompetitive, and will continue to shrivel on the vine.

I am a big fan of competition. Perhaps more and more Doctors will still continue to opt out of Medicare, like they are all doing now?

Perhaps Seniors will then get sick of not finding a Doctor, and sick of the waiting lines, and opt out?

Perhaps the market will decide, and Medicare (Like the Post Office), will die on its own?

Maybe I am being too optimistic, but the first Harvard MBA President is in office, and I owuldn't want to play high stakes poker with him.

Just my humble guess.

[jagrmeister]

Rush has a point. We THOUGHT that when we passed educational reform two years ago (which not only added funds but created the first standard of accountibility for public schooling in history), the GOP would "steal" the educational issue from Democrats. Yet today, polls show that people give the education issue to Democrats by about 15 points. Not much has changed. I feel what we should be doing with Medicare is modifying it into private retirement accounts- similar to Bush's plan for Social Security. There comes a time for bold change and it's now. These entitlements are draining the Treasury and are simply unsustainable.

[Uncle Bill]

"No one is ever going to roll this stuff back! This is what The BIG Theory is: passing Democrat agenda items in part or whole to strip the other party of their issues. My question is: "Where does this lead?" Where does passing the biggest Medicare expansion since the early 60s take the nation? Is saddling our young people with this giant spending program worth it just to stop Democrats from saying we hate Medicare programs? Sure, it's worth it if you're running for office - but you're buying votes with the money of future generations!"

"So do the right thing - for seniors and everybody - by not making the people slaves to the government."

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Vote Bush, promoting and signing more socialist legislation faster than any other President in U.S. history.

[DoctorMichael]

"............The dirty little secret is the Democrats won't stop bashing Republicans on this anyway. A line buried in this AP story says, 'Even before the outlines of the legislation were disclosed, Daschle began work on a strategy to criticize Republicans on the Medicare issue.'..........

.........the left is going to attack us no matter what we do.........."

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Karl Rove tells us not to sweat the small stuff. Is that all that matters?

What's the big stuff if this is small stuff? Supreme Court nominees?

Once you get that bulletproof majority you're going for, job #1 will be keeping it and getting your guys reelected.

No one is ever going to roll this stuff back! This is what The BIG Theory is: passing Democrat agenda items in part or whole to strip the other party of their issues. My question is: "Where does this lead?" Where does passing the biggest Medicare expansion since the early 60s take the nation? Is saddling our young people with this giant spending program worth it just to stop Democrats from saying we hate Medicare programs?

Sure, it's worth it if you're running for office -

but you're buying votes with the money of future generations!

Rush Limbaugh truth about what we are up against.

[RLK]

Republicans can beat Democrats by being more like Democrats than the Democrats are. So...where does this leave the country? Answer: in the hands of Democrats or hyperDemocrats. The difference is a matter of personalities.