{"id":10194,"date":"2014-02-11T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:14:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-11T18:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:14:17","slug":"obamacare_can_t_work_what_a_surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/11\/obamacare_can_t_work_what_a_surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Can\u2019t Work? What a Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Well, well, well, well. Look. I know that Obama has done another — in fact, we mentioned yesterday he was gonna do it, this three-year extension on the employer mandate, three years. Folks, this plan is never gonna work. It is impossible to implement. That is what this means. It really isn\u2019t complicated at all. The only reason Obama\u2019s doing this is to make sure this law does not harm him and his party politically, period, that\u2019s it. It is proof positive this thing is a disaster, it is an albatross, it isn\u2019t going to do what everybody supporting it promised it would do. It is not going to guarantee the uninsured have insurance. It isn\u2019t gonna lower costs. It isn\u2019t gonna promote jobs. It isn\u2019t gonna lower the deficit. <\/p>\n

It is nothing more than an albatross around the neck of the whole country. And the very fact that it cannot be implemented, period, it won\u2019t work if it\u2019s implemented. It will harm the political prospects of the Democrat Party if it\u2019s fully implemented. That\u2019s all you need to know about it and that means it isn\u2019t going to work. If this thing were the panacea it was promoted to be, they couldn\u2019t wait to implement this thing front to back, top to bottom, side to side, as quickly as possible because everybody would love it then and everybody would vote for Democrats and we\u2019d be finished. <\/line><\/p>\n

But instead they\u2019re having to delay the implementation, which means delay the effect, which means delay the impact — and no, the bloom is off the rose. All across the political spectrum in Washington, everywhere, they all know now — and this is where (big sigh) I start getting frustrated if I start thinking about this. They\u2019re all now finally realizing — Republicans, Democrats, media, whatever — this is all political, and that\u2019s all it has ever been from the get-go. I guess we\u2019ll take it whenever we can get it. But this really doesn\u2019t need any analysis.<\/p>\n

Ron Fournier,<\/a> who tweeted recently that he thinks my head\u2019s about to explode which each new post that he puts out, Ron Fournier\u2019s latest is (paraphrasing), “I\u2019m tired, I can\u2019t defend it anymore, I just can\u2019t.” I\u2019ve got the story, we\u2019ll get to it in a minute. But he\u2019s actually wringing his hands and crying, “Oh, I want it to work so bad, because I want the uninsured to be insured. I just want it to work so bad, but obviously it isn\u2019t gonna work.” It can\u2019t work and everybody should have known this before it was voted on. It\u2019s not possible for this to work. It has never been possible. It was never going to work. And with each election the Regime itself has confirmed that by delaying it, by preventing it, by making sure that it doesn\u2019t get implemented, by making sure that it doesn\u2019t happen. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now they\u2019re delaying the thing until after Obama\u2019s gone, although what evidence do we have that Obama\u2019s leaving? “Well, Rush, I mean the Constitution says…” Yeah? And the Constitution also says he can\u2019t do what he\u2019s doing here. The text of Obamacare specifically prohibits what Obama is doing. But very few people are even talking about that. They\u2019re just saying what I said. “Well, the implications here are that clearly it doesn\u2019t work and Obama\u2019s merely making political maneuvers.” He\u2019s making illegal maneuvers! This is not legal. This isn\u2019t permitted. That\u2019s a ho-hummer to most people. That train left the station last year. I don\u2019t know if the train ever got to the station, actually. <\/p>\n

So when you make jokes about Obama having to leave office in 2016, why? If he can willy-nilly change the Constitution, and he said to this French socialist guy (paraphrasing), “The great thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.” He said that up at Monticello. At least he knew where he was. Gore didn\u2019t even know where he was when he went to Monticello. Remember that? Algore is in there, some foreign dignitary, Algore and Clinton are in there and they\u2019re taking a tour of Monticello, and Gore\u2019s trying to act smart and everything, and he points to a bust, a figurine bust up on a shelf, and asks the curator very intelligently (imitating Gore), “And who is that?” <\/p>\n