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RUSH: This is Juan Williams, our old buddy Juan Williams on Fox News last night on the panel at Special Report. They\u2019re talking about Sebelius\u2019 testimony before Congress yesterday. This is what Juan Williams said.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: I thought today was pure theater. I thought it was a big stage show with Republicans attacking Sebelius. Meanwhile, Democrats trying to rescue their partner in the ring by giving her a recess and launching into speeches of their own in defense of Obamacare. All this is in the weeds. What do I care about how things are put into computers and, you know, who\u2019s to blame, who\u2019s not to blame.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just a website. Juan Williams, he doesn\u2019t care. “What do I care about inputting data into a website? That doesn\u2019t matter.” Let me tell you how it does matter. If Kathleen Sebelius — and she\u2019s the Health and Human Services secretary, and the Obamacare law, if you read the text, has that phrase in it, “as the secretary shall determine” many, many times. I mean, it\u2019s clear that the secretary of Health and Human Services has a lot of autonomy to just arbitrarily do whatever he or she wants to do in writing regulations and administering Obamacare. And if Health and Human Services, Sebelius or whoever, if they — Juan, this is why the website matters — if they can\u2019t even launch a website, how in the hell can they possibly be competent to oversee one-sixth of the economy? <\/p>\n

You can sit there and you can try to diminish this by saying, “Well, it\u2019s just a website.” No, no, no, no. It\u2019s far more than that. They have no competence in administering this law. There is nobody in this regime that has the experience. We\u2019re not even talking about intelligence or instinct. They don\u2019t even have the experience to do this. What does Kathleen Sebelius know about health care except that she\u2019s pro-choice, pro-abortion? That\u2019s the extent of her knowledge. Nobody in this regime has the slightest idea, and the fact that they can\u2019t even launch a website with $680 million? Give me half a million, I\u2019ll get a website up and running. I\u2019ve done it twice. We didn\u2019t spend $600 million on TwoIfByTea.com or RushLimbaugh.com. Nobody does. <\/p>\n

These people had three years, $600 plus million and they can\u2019t even launch a website. So the reaction, “Well, it\u2019s just a website. That doesn\u2019t mean anything.” It means everything. If they can\u2019t even do that — and they didn\u2019t have to do it. You know, they went out and they hired Valerie Jarrett cronies and they hired Michelle Obama cronies, who had no idea. This is typical of the way the left does things. They just give these contracts to their buddies, spread the wealth. It\u2019s a money-laundering scheme, essentially. They\u2019re given the money just like the Solyndra guys are given the money to run a green energy solar firm. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, goes bankrupt, doesn\u2019t matter, they\u2019ve got the money. Some of it comes back in campaign contributions. They\u2019ve washed the money.<\/line><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s got more money than he had before the whole thing started, never mind that Obamacare doesn\u2019t work. He doesn\u2019t care about the details of it not working. The only thing he cares about is making sure it\u2019s not repealed or defunded. That\u2019s all he cares about. He doesn\u2019t care if Kathleen Sebelius knows what she\u2019s doing. He doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t know enough to know whether she knows what she\u2019s doing. Nobody in that regime, Valerie Jarrett doesn\u2019t know enough to know whether Sebelius is qualified. Nobody does. And the fact they can\u2019t get a website up and running is illustration enough, for me, that they don\u2019t know how to do and shouldn\u2019t be allowed to do anything else. <\/p>\n

It would be like if a contractor doesn\u2019t know how to build a door, why would you let him build the building? These clowns can\u2019t even build a doorway to their system. Why in the hell do we think they can build a system? Well, because to these people, the website\u2019s just the entry point, that doesn\u2019t matter, we can fix that. Yeah, well, most contractors can build a door, too. But how about a building that doesn\u2019t crumble, implode on people. This is such a nightmare. It\u2019s an embarrassment. All of this stuff, what would it have taken for any Republican to point this stuff out yesterday? It\u2019s just another gloriously missed opportunity. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Sebelius, in her proud incompetence, going on and on and on about the “good” things of Obamacare like not denying anybody with previous conditions, or kids being able to stay on their parents\u2019 policies \u2019til they\u2019re 26. Every Republican shoulda stood up and said, “Yeah, and that\u2019s why nobody can afford it! Yeah, that\u2019s why costs are skyrocketing. It\u2019s because you\u2019re putting stupid things like that in it which can\u2019t be paid for, which are not affordable.” <\/line><\/p>\n

But the biggest thing… You know, I love basics in terms of persuading people, informing them, educating \u2019em. Why did we do this? Why are we redoing health care? Well, because we had (depending on the day) 15 million, 30 million, 43 million uninsured. That was considered immoral. “In one of the wealthiest nations on earth, that there are that many uninsured people that don\u2019t have health care, that\u2019s just unacceptable.” Okay, fine. <\/p>\n

Then why write a 2,700-page mess with hundreds of thousands more pages of regulations just to provide insurance for 15, 30, 43 million people? Do you realize how much less it would cost just to subsidize insurance for people that couldn\u2019t afford it without doing all of this other stuff? That then leads to the reason why all this other stuff is really being done, and it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with health care. It has to do with making government more powerful and giving government more reach into everybody\u2019s life. <\/line><\/p>\n

It has to do with shrinking the economy by one-sixth of its size. Republicans are worried that they don\u2019t have an alternative. “Well, Mr. Limbaugh, we just can\u2019t stand up there and start beating up on Obamacare! We gotta have an alternative.” No, you don\u2019t. But if you want an alternative, how about let\u2019s just do a plan that ensures 15 million people that don\u2019t have it and be done with it? I guarantee you it\u2019d be a lot less expensive, and it would be a lot less disruptive.<\/p>\n

And then, when you tell people they get to keep their plan, they\u2019d be able to keep their plan! And when you tell people they get to keep their doctor if they like their doctor, they get to keep their doctor. Why in hell are people\u2019s premiums and deductibles doubling and tripling, when all we really set out to do ostensibly was insure 15 to 20 or 30 million people that didn\u2019t have it? Now, what does it take to present that as an alternative? I\u2019m getting worn out here, folks. I\u2019m sure you are, too.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, one more little piece of news here, folks. The reason that we did Obamacare was to cover whatever the number — 15, 30, 43 million — of uninsured. That was one of the selling points from the regime. “It\u2019s a moral thing, don\u2019t you know. It\u2019s just immoral, unacceptable that in a country this wealthy the mean-spirited, the rich should see to it that there\u2019s so many people without insurance!” Okay, fine. So a couple of weeks ago (you may remember this), the Associated Press in random act of journalism, found a memo.<\/p>\n

It was a Health and Human Services department memo that predicted that, at best, only 3.3 million uninsured would sign up for Obamacare by the end of the enrollment period, and that memo was written before the glitches on the website. So even Sebelius and her staff, after doing all of this for 15, 20, whatever the number of uninsured was, said in their own internal memo that AP found that only 3.3 million uninsured would sign up at the end of the enrollment period, by the end of it, before the glitches. So it wasn\u2019t even gonna succeed in that so-called moral component. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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