{"id":11287,"date":"2013-09-26T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:45:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-26T19:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:45:01","slug":"the_house_gop_proposes_plan_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/26\/the_house_gop_proposes_plan_b\/","title":{"rendered":"The House GOP Proposes Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Dennis in Fresno. Thanks for the call, sir. Great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Honor to speak with you. A 13-year student, still listening and learning. Rush, I wanted to hear your thoughts on something that kind of came to my mind after all of this stuff happening with the Republican Party, and it is that is it likely that the Republicans don\u2019t want to get rid of Obamacare because they know when they get in power, they\u2019re gonna have absolute control over this country, or at least some form of that Obamacare?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. I honestly don\u2019t think that that\u2019s — I haven\u2019t gone that far off the deep end yet. Not to say that you have. I\u2019m talking about the idea that there\u2019s that kind of conspiratorial thinking. I just think that it\u2019s too hard. It\u2019s too hard. It\u2019s too risky to fight this. I think the assumption is it\u2019s done, it\u2019s the law of the land, they can\u2019t do it, so why make themselves enemies trying? And in this they don\u2019t understand the long game. They don\u2019t understand planting the flag and letting people know who they are and what they stand for. <\/line><\/p>\n

The idea that the success or failure of this effort resides only in successfully defunding Obamacare is incorrect. There\u2019s a long game here. The Republican Party\u2019s got to establish its identity. It\u2019s got to let people know who it is and what it stands for. It\u2019s got to push back. It\u2019s got to say what it doesn\u2019t support. And by not taking every opportunity to do that, they\u2019re doing great damage for their chances down the line. The odds are defunding this thing is gonna be difficult to do. Everybody knows this, but there\u2019s a whole lot to gain in trying. I just don\u2019t think that they want to try. <\/p>\n

I think the idea of failing and what the media\u2019s gonna say about them and so forth, they think that\u2019s gonna do them more harm than just letting this thing go and letting it collapse and letting it fall on its face and then be there to pick up the pieces. I really don\u2019t think that they secretly like it and hope it becomes the law of the land so that they have the power to administer it when their day comes, if it does, when they\u2019re ever back in the White House. Because I still don\u2019t think that\u2019s who Republicans are. I think it\u2019s something entirely different than that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would think that they would argue Obamacare not in terms of what it\u2019s gonna cost people, \u2019cause people can\u2019t really relate to that. They know that Santa Claus will help them in any case, but coming point by point, here\u2019s what we\u2019re proposing would be a better way to handle this whole health care debacle in this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there is that in the House side. The House does have an alternative health care plan. They do. They presented it. You may not have heard it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019ve heard it, but I haven\u2019t heard them really touting it strongly, you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they would tell you that they have and they don\u2019t get covered. And there\u2019s a element of truth in that. Obama and the Democrats believe their press. They think they\u2019re greater than anything. And the Republicans believe the Democrat press, too. The Republicans believe that Obama and the Democrats are greater than anything and that they can\u2019t battle \u2019em. I don\u2019t think they think there\u2019s anything they can do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the GOP has a Plan B that they are pushing today, and the New York Times has it with two different headlines. <\/p>\n

The first headline for this story: “Raising Fiscal Stakes, GOP Sets Terms to Lift Debt Limit.” The same story posted later, different headline: “House GOP Leaders List Conditions for Raising Debt Ceiling.” Now, what this is, I\u2019ll give you a couple of paragraphs: “House Republican leaders shifted the budget battle on Thursday to a potentially more consequential fight over raising the government\u2019s borrowing limit, rolling out conditions for a debt-ceiling increase that they pulled from three years of frustrated efforts to roll back regulations and undo President Obama\u2019s first-term achievements. …<\/line><\/p>\n

“They include a one-year delay of the president\u2019s health care law, fast-track authority to overhaul the tax code, construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, offshore oil and gas production, more permitting of energy exploration on federal lands, a rollback of regulations on coal ash, blocking new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on greenhouse gas production…” There are a lot of conditions here that they have put forth in agreeing to lift the debt limit, including a one-year delay of Obamacare.<\/p>\n

So instead of defunding Obamacare, they are willing to settle, in addition to another story, for ending the medical device tax and delaying the individual mandate. The employer mandate got a waiver for one year, and so the Republicans are saying, “Well, okay. Then let\u2019s delay the individual mandate for a year, to make it fair.” They\u2019re trying to fix it. This is the compromise. <\/p>\n

The employer mandate\u2019s been delayed for a year so the Republicans are saying, “Well, look, we\u2019ll give you the debt limit increase if you get rid of the personal mandate, individual mandate.” All that\u2019s doing is tinkering with it. That\u2019s not defunding it. That\u2019s not rolling it back or stopping it. All of the top Democrats want to do away with the medical device tax anyway. Reid, Dingy Harry, just called it “stupid” a half hour ago. <\/p>\n

Delaying the individual mandate will just put the real pain off (laughing) until after the 2014 midterms, which the Democrats want, too! I mean the Republicans ought to, in a strategic sense, the way I look at it, want the individual mandate! If they\u2019re looking for this thing to collapse, and they want people to realize that it\u2019s bad… If they think this will discredit the entitlement state, discredit liberalism, why offer to delay one of the things that might do that, in their thinking? <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t profess to understand this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not in their business. <\/p>\n

There may be something here that I don\u2019t understand. But as I look at these two proposals, they offer to go along with lifting the debt limit for a one-year delay of Obamacare, and then they\u2019ve offered… (interruption) Well, I would be tempted to take it, too, if I was a Democrat, to delay the individual mandate for a year, thereby limiting the amount of pain felt by the voters, until after the 2014 midterms? I don\u2019t know. You all can figure this out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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