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RUSH: Here\u2019s another sign, ladies and gentlemen, that I think they\u2019re getting desperate on the Democrat side. Obama went out today to a construction company. The M. Luis Construction Company. He was in Rockville, Maryland. And in this speech this morning, Barack Obama warned seniors that their Social Security checks might not be forthcoming if this keeps up. He spent much of his speech this morning warning that while the ongoing government shut down was damaging, failure to raise the debt ceiling by an October 17th deadline would be even worse. <\/p>\n

The president said, “In a government shutdown, Social Security checks still go out on time. In an economic shutdown, if we don\u00c2\u2019t raise the debt ceiling, they don\u00c2\u2019t go out on time. In a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. In an economic shutdown, they don\u00c2\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

Now, to veteran observers of the Washington scene, and I count myself among them, this was entirely predictable. Only a matter of time before Obama threw the Social Security card if things were not going his way. In the past two days, the president of the United States, I think in an unprecedented way<\/a>, has attempted to frighten the stock market and talk it down, and for a while it was under 15,000 and down 180. He did scare the stock market tremendously. <\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s the old trump card, it\u2019s the oldest card in the book. This is threatening the seasoned citizens with losing their Social Security checks. Here\u2019s why the Democrats have a problem with all of this. At the root of all of this is the implementation of Obamacare. Don\u2019t forget now, the vast majority of the American people oppose it, do not want it. The reporting on Obamacare\u2019s been pretty up front, all the waivers, all the freebies, all the exemptions, all the subsidies that members of Congress get. <\/p>\n

I mean, these things have added up, there\u2019s been a cumulative impact. People of the country know that friends of Obama and members of Congress are getting special deals that they can\u2019t. This is known. In addition to people not supporting Obamacare, there have been numerous pundits for years warning Americans it was gonna be a boondoggle. Distinguished Americans like me have been warning Americans that Obamacare was a disaster waiting to happen. That the federal government isn\u2019t competent and has no business running something this massive, no matter how much they care, no matter how much compassion they pretend to have, no matter their good intentions. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, guess what? Distinguished Americans like me are being borne out by real life. People living real lives are going to sign up at these exchanges, and they\u2019re encountering an absolute nightmare. It isn\u2019t being reported. The AP is talking about how good the demand is. Oh, yeah, AP says, why, this is a great sign. It shows how much interest there is. Which is journalistic malpractice. This is not a question of interest. People have to do this as a matter of law. If they don\u2019t, the IRS, we now learn, can literally take the fine right from their bank accounts. Did you know that? That\u2019s the news today. <\/line><\/p>\n

If they can get your fine from your refund, they\u2019ll do that, but if they can\u2019t, if you\u2019re not owed a refund or whatever, they can go to your bank account and get the fine. I kid you not. Now, in all of this, I\u2019m just telling you, the Republicans are not being blamed. The Republicans didn\u2019t ever support any of this. The Republicans are the ones warning about it. So there are a lot of reality checks taking place out there, and of course you\u2019re not gonna see the inside-the-Beltway media tell you about this. The reporting on this is gonna be nonexistent. <\/p>\n

Now Obama\u2019s out there demanding the debt ceiling be raised or else seasoned citizens aren\u2019t gonna get their checks. I think this is a sign of desperation. This is October 3rd. We still got two weeks until this October 17th deadline. You got Chuck Schumer and a number of other Democrats that can\u2019t stop talking about Ted Cruz. Well, I know they\u2019re trying to destroy Ted Cruz, but again, this is a win for Ted Cruz. Now, if you\u2019re inside the Beltway, you might not think so. If you\u2019re in the Republican Party, you might be tempted to blame Cruz \u2019cause you don\u2019t like all this negative press. But the negative press is coming from places that have audiences of 100,000. CNN. In the daytime Fox\u2019s audience is a million people. Folks, we\u2019re not really talking mass appeal here. <\/p>\n

I always tried to caution people not — and it\u2019s very hard, I have to fight this, it\u2019s not even a temptation, it\u2019s a vacuum, it sucks you in. You have to fight daily and consciously to avoid being sucked into the template every day that is so-called news. You know, what is the news of the day? The news of the day is whatever the Democrat Party thinks they have to do to get their agenda advanced. That\u2019s all it is. That means you gotta rip Republicans to shreds. It means you gotta lie about how great Obama is. You have to lie about what Obamacare is, whatever it is, that\u2019s what the news is. There isn\u2019t any news. The news is what\u2019s happening outside of Washington, and they\u2019re not talking about that \u2019cause they don\u2019t live anywhere but Washington. That\u2019s all that matters. <\/p>\n

News media, folks, do things for two reasons: either to advance the agenda or to talk to themselves. They do stories for each other or to advance the agenda. But they\u2019re not trying to meet the expectations of an audience, per se. They don\u2019t really care. I\u2019m just telling you to keep a sharp eye here. Obama already threatening seasoned citizens with the loss of Social Security checks. Now, I want to warn you, there\u2019s gonna be plenty of evidence that I\u2019m wrong. If you continue to watch this inside-the-Beltway news all day and don\u2019t do anything else, you\u2019re gonna see, there will be some Republicans and some so-called conservatives stand up, “We cannot allow ourselves to be blamed for Social Security checks being held up. We must tell Cruz to back off. We must get rid of Ted Cruz.” <\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna hear Republicans continue to say this. Linguini-spined Republicans inside the Beltway go on TV and say we\u2019ve gotta cave, we\u2019re being irreparably harmed and damaged by this. It would be a terrible error if that actually happened, but you\u2019re gonna hear it, and you\u2019re gonna have to actively fight to reject it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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