{"id":10884,"date":"2013-11-12T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:23:07","slug":"no_reprieve_for_the_obamacare_dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/12\/no_reprieve_for_the_obamacare_dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"No Reprieve for the Obamacare Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, these senators that went up to the White House and asked Obama for a delay in the individual mandate.<\/p>\n

Remember the little trick we played on Friday, you know, just to see what would happen with the establishment when I agree — \u2019cause they (weeks ago, months ago) said, “We don\u2019t need to do anything, Senator Cruz! We don\u2019t need to defund this. We don\u2019t need to delay it. It\u2019s gonna implode on its own. We\u2019ll just sit around hear and watch it.” Okay, it started to implode here, and so I guess the Republicans are just gonna sit by and let it implode. <\/p>\n

Then I saw Jonah Goldberg yesterday on TV<\/a>. “No, no, no, no! The Republicans can\u2019t just sit by and let it implode because it\u2019s gonna hurt people.” Obama hurts people. Everything in this regime hurts people. That is the point. Even the beneficiaries of Obama\u2019s largesse. I mean, even when Obama plays Santa Claus, he\u2019s hurting people. He\u2019s denying them their dignity. He\u2019s denying them their humanity. <\/p>\n

So for the argument, “Well, we\u2019ve gotta do something to help people here. The Republicans can\u2019t be seen as standing idly by while people get hurt,” it\u2019s Obama inflicting the pain, and it\u2019s not just with Obamacare. So the argument sounds good, I\u2019ll admit. “Well, no, Rush. You say that we just ought to sit by here and not let them delay the mandate, let Obama live with the pain that he\u2019s caused.” “But that\u2019s gonna hurt people.” <\/line><\/p>\n

The whole Obama administration has hurt people! Where\u2019s that argument been for five years? Obama\u2019s economic policies, Obama\u2019s foreign policy, they hurt. That\u2019s the net result of the Obama presidency: People have been hurt. Did you see what the number in the labor force? They\u2019re now 91.5 million people not working. Just six months ago it was 90 million. There are 91.5 Americans are not working! Now, it is my contention that those people are being hurt. <\/line><\/p>\n

They may have food stamps, they may have their cell phones and their flat screens and they may be driving around in automobiles and so forth, on welfare, but they\u2019re being harmed by this. Families are being torn apart. People\u2019s dignity is being stripped from them even though they may not know it. People are being converted into serfs and wards of the state. The whole point of this administration is that it has hurt people, and it\u2019s hurt the country, and it\u2019s not just Obama\u2019s lie — it\u2019s a big one, of course, is, “You get to keep your plan.<\/p>\n

Delaying the individual mandate. These senators, these Democrats, I\u2019ve got no sympathy for \u2019em, is my point here. So now you\u2019ve got these 12, 13, 14, whatever it is, Democrat senators. They went to the White House, “Please, please delay the individual mandate for our reelection!” You know, any one of these senators could have prevented this mess if they woulda just voted “no” on Obamacare from the get-go. <\/p>\n

So they want to have it both ways. These Democrat senators want to be on record as having voted for Obamacare — supporting their president, supporting universal health coverage, insuring the uninsured — and then when the real world hits and we find out that nobody gets to be satisfied (very few get to keep their plans, if any), now these Democrats want a delay in the results, the consequences of their votes. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re called the Obamacare Dozen, and I\u2019ll tell you… Here they are. Mark Begich, Alaska; Mark Pryor, Arkansas; Mark Udall Colorado; Mary Landrieu, Louisiana; Al Franken, Minnesota; Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire; Tom Udall, New Mexico; Kay Hagan, North Carolina; Jeff Merkley, Oregon; Tim Johnson, South Dakota; Mark Warner, Virginia; Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia. If they woulda just voted “no,” we wouldn\u2019t be here. But they didn\u2019t. <\/line><\/p>\n

They could have prevented this, and I think this is an important point as the Republicans seek to regain the Senate, which seems to be the main thing that the GOP donor and consultant class wants to do is to regain the Senate. Okay, well, here\u2019s an argument for you. Now, these Democrats who voted for this mess, votes have consequences. Elections and votes have consequences, and now they want to be protected from their actions. <\/p>\n

They want to be granted a reprieve. That needs to be hammered home: All they had to do to prevent this was vote against this. That\u2019s all they had to do. All they had to do was join the Republicans. Maybe don\u2019t even say that, if that\u2019s too incendiary, but it\u2019s true. The story\u2019s from the Wall Street Journal, and here\u2019s a pull quote: “The Obamacare Dozen are receiving an overdue education in the damaging consequences of the bill they supported, all of which were predicted by critics in 2010,” and that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Every aspect of this has been predicted. There are a lot of us not surprised by any of this. “Any one of these senators,” says the journal, “could have prevented the current madness by voting no. And now the president they empowered to govern from the ideological left has rejected even their … if the problems get worse. These senators deserve to be held accountable at the ballot box,” and what is Obamacare? <\/p>\n

As I said, as far as he\u2019s concerned, everything\u2019s right on schedule. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not up for reelection again. <\/p>\n

The consequences all this to him are practically nonexistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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