{"id":10924,"date":"2013-11-07T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:58:22","slug":"obamacare_a_national_joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/07\/obamacare_a_national_joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare: A National Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/53937\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH:  The Country Music Awards are America.  Obamacare is a national joke.  Last night on ABC, the cohost Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley at the outset of the show talking about Obamacare.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_83443\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CarriePaisely.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  Hey, do you have that Obamacare?<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  Obamacare? What\u2019s that? (laughter starts) What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  Oh, it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  It\u2019s great?<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  It\u2019s great!<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  Well, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  I started signing up last Thursday and I\u00c2\u2019m almost done. (laughter) Let\u2019s go to the website and get you signed up.<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  Oh, okay.<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  Let\u2019s see. This can\u2019t be too hard, right?<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  Why\u00c2\u2019s it spinning?<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  Oh, it does that.<\/p>\n<p>PAISLEY:  Okay. Why\u2019s it smoking? (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>UNDERWOOD:  Um, I don\u2019t &#8212; maybe &#8211; maybe we should restart it? <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH:  I\u2019ll tell you, the whole place, wherever this was, it was in Nashville, wherever the arena was, I mean, everybody was on their feet applauding this routine.  They were laughing themselves silly.  All it took was, &#8220;Hey, do you have that Obamacare?&#8221;  &#8220;Obamacare?  What\u2019s that?&#8221;  And the audience erupted.  You heard it.  &#8220;Oh, it\u2019s great.  Yeah, well, I started signing up last Thursday. I\u2019m almost done.&#8221; <\/line><BR\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRP8Do-IyRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/line><\/p>\n<p>When you log onto a website and there is an error, you usually get a page that says &#8220;error 404.&#8221;  More people know what that means now than ever before, thanks to Obamacare.  More people have found the error 404 page and know what it means now than ever before thanks to Obamacare.  And then after that setup they break into song. They take a parody of a George Strait tune. <\/p>\n<p>(singing song)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah!  Right on.  There you have it, that\u2019s Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood at the CMA awards last night.  I mean, it was fabulous.  And what this means is, Obama and Obamacare have become a joke.  You just mention the word, and people start laughing.  This will not sit well at the Regime.  &#8220;Over six people served.  I\u2019m gonna wind up with hemorrhoids if I sit hear \u2019til dawn.  Cataracts and dementia, oh, this is getting on my last nerve.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you, at the Regime, this is not acceptable.  I mean, you can criticize \u2019em up to a point, but you do not laugh.  You do not laugh at the Regime.  That\u2019s when they target you for the dungeons.  You do not laugh at the Regime.  This was huge.  They\u2019re laughing at the Regime.  They\u2019re laughing at Obama, and they\u2019re laughing at a Democrat wet dream.  National health care, making a joke of it.  Jay Leno last night on The Tonight Show during the monologue.<\/p>\n<p>LENO :  President Obama saw gravity today.  Not the film, his poll numbers.  Not good.  Latest polls show President Obama approval rating down to 39%.  And Toronto Mayor Rob Ford\u2019s approval rating went up to 49%.  How does this make Obama feel, huh?  Better off smoking crack than passing Obamacare.  Would have been up 10 points.  Would have been 10 points higher. (laughter and applause)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right on.  Right on.  Meanwhile, and Leno\u2019s numbers are up, and nobody else\u2019s are.  And then this lie, this lie that Obama has told, &#8220;Keep your doctor, keep your plan,&#8221; it\u2019s now part of pop culture reality.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>LENO:  Have you noticed the president backtracking a little bit on this whole deal?  Like at a fundraiser earlier this week President Obama said, no, no, what he promised was that you could keep your health care plan IF it hasn\u2019t changed since the law had passed.  You know he\u2019s such a good speaker, he almost believed it himself.  And then his pants caught fire.  That\u2019s when I knew, when the pants caught fire. (laughter and applause)<\/line><BR\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/123912\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, now, in the face of all of this, the Democrats have trotted out crisis manager extraordinaire, Lanny Davis, and he was on Fox today, Fox &amp; Friends, Brian Kilmeade said, &#8220;Do you believe the president is handling this right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DAVIS:  In the world of crisis management, facts that are in front of your face have to be admitted to.  President Obama and all Democrats should say, &#8220;We support this act, which I do. We messed up in explaining it. We oversimplified. We should have told people, &#8216;You might have to change plans to increase your coverage and that\u2019s going to cost you more.'&#8221;  That was a mistake.  We need to fix it.  It wasn\u2019t explained well.  Now we just have to acknowledge that, which is crisis management rule 101, and fix it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Problem with that, Mr. Davis, is that he\u2019s going to have to admit that he lied.  That\u2019s right.  We have the &#8220;poof.&#8221;  Lanny\u2019s famous for saying, &#8220;Where\u2019s the &#8216;poof\u2019?&#8221; During the Lewinsky scandal he was a crisis manager for Clinton.  He kept saying on TV, &#8220;Where\u2019s the &#8216;poof\u2019?  You gotta have &#8216;poof\u2019, and facts.&#8221;  And so we\u2019ve got the &#8220;poof&#8221; Obama lied.  So Lanny wants Obama to go out and admit he lied. He wants to go out and tell people, &#8220;You\u2019re gonna not keep your plan. You can\u2019t keep your doctor. It\u2019s gonna cost you more.&#8221;  That\u2019s the fix?  Oh, gosh.  Would you love to see Obama do that?  (imitating Obama) &#8220;I goofed up explaining this to you.  Uhhh, it\u2019s gonna cost you more, and you can\u2019t keep it, and screw you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Do you realize how desperate things really are at the White House?  Lanny Davis suggesting Obama tell the truth?  My gosh, folks.  That\u2019s desperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The Country Music Awards are America. Obamacare is a national joke. Last night on ABC, the cohost Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley at the outset of the show talking about Obamacare. UNDERWOOD: Hey, do you have that Obamacare? PAISLEY: Obamacare? What\u2019s that? (laughter starts) What\u2019s that? UNDERWOOD: Oh, it\u2019s great. PAISLEY: It\u2019s great? 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