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RUSH: Let me cut to the chase on something here regarding Obama yesterday and reinstating your canceled plan, \u2019cause I\u2019ll tell you, you can find whatever you want to find. You can find the insurance companies saying they can\u2019t do it. You\u2019ll find media people arguing amongst themselves about whether or not Obama\u2019s got the legal authority to do this, and that\u2019s really what I want to focus on here because people have been confused. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been getting e-mail all day, “Rush, why would Obama veto the Upton bill if it basically says exactly what he said yesterday?” What did Obama say yesterday? And, by the way, I don\u2019t believe for a moment that the bumbling, incoherent, “Gee, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on around here” president we got yesterday was anything but an act. That was a total act yesterday. This guy is not disengaged. (Obama impression) “You know, I didn\u2019t know about the website.” One week into it, he said he still didn\u2019t know how bad it was, that nobody had told him. Yet he\u2019s the smartest guy in the room. And he tried to turn his ignorance into a sign of his brilliance when he said (Obama impression), “I think I\u2019m pretty smart. I\u2019m smart enough to know not to go out there and tell you this thing\u2019s working if it isn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t know.” <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

So we\u2019re supposed to believe that he didn\u2019t know. This guy knows everything! This is The Messiah, yet he doesn\u2019t know anything. And I think it\u2019s just more Limbaugh Theorem stuff. I think it\u2019s more of his effort to distance himself from the day-to-day. You know what the guy does, make a pronouncement here, make a pronouncement there, and then move on and when he makes a pronouncement he expects things to happen, and he thinks everybody thinks it\u2019s gonna happen when he makes the pronouncement. And then this didn\u2019t work, so he goes out and acts like he didn\u2019t know anything about it, is told about it later on, and now he\u2019s working real hard to get it fixed and he\u2019s sorry it happened to you but he\u2019s not sorry it happened to you. He\u2019s sorry for the way you feel about it but he\u2019s really not sorry it happened and he\u2019s gonna make sure that whatever happens happens next. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got sound bites here from the Drive-Bys all worried he seemed incoherent and rambling and the Regime is falling apart. Folks, make no mistake. They haven\u2019t changed at the Regime what their objective here is. In fact, I saw a piece, I don\u2019t want to mention the guy\u2019s name because it\u2019s not about that. It really isn\u2019t. But I guess I\u2019ll share a little frustration. For how many years have I been telling you, and you know it because you\u2019ve heard it and you\u2019re smart enough to figure it out yourself. Ever since even before this thing was officially proposed and then passed in Congress, signed into law, one of the fundamental parts of Obamacare, one of the things that had to happen for Obamacare to happen is the private sector insurance market had to be wiped out. <\/p>\n

This has been, for me, a fundamental point understood from the get-go, understood by virtue of whose proposing the law: Obama. Liberal, socialist, communist, collectivist, redistributionist, whatever, he wants the government to run health care. That means there can\u2019t be any private sector alternatives, because when it gets down to the end of the day, the government\u2019s gonna have sole control, that\u2019s what he wants. And for that to happen, there can\u2019t be an existing insurance market. So there\u2019s a bunch of places today celebrating renowned think tank scholars for just figuring this out. And I just sit here and marvel at what need not have happened if otherwise smart people would have just spoken up three years ago instead of waiting until now. <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, all of us that have been trying to warn everybody, I mean, even McCain, even after yesterday coming out and suggesting this thing needs to be repealed, he\u2019s still going after Ted Cruz. And Ted Cruz is the guy that was right on this. Ted Cruz is saying, “You know, you guys, everybody\u2019s missing the point if you still get focused on the insurance company \u2019cause the next thing you\u2019re gonna lose is your doctor, because, A, your doctor\u2019s gonna quit or, B, your doctor\u2019s gonna be reassigned or, C, there aren\u2019t gonna be very many doctors left.” That\u2019s the next thing to happen here. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s just sad to me that we\u2019re here. None of this need to have happened, and there are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who this guy was and who should have been saying “I hope this guy fails” right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along. I know I\u2019m crying over spilt milk and it doesn\u2019t accomplish anything, but it is frustrating. All of the Johnny-come-latelies here.<\/p>\n

Now the argument is raging over whether Obama can legally do what he did. Well, now, they were as smart. They might not have had the compunction or the guts to say it early on \u2019cause you gotta look like we all want the president to succeed, and particularly the first black president. Black was irrelevant to me. The president of the United States is a pretty important position and it\u2019s the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin. Anyway, been there, said that, done that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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