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RUSH: Now, in addition, I haven\u2019t had a chance to listen to these, Mike Lee from Utah, Republican senator from Utah is the guy leading the defunding effort, and I spoke with him last week about his strategery. He was on Fox News Sunday yesterday with Chris Wallace. Chris Wallace said, “Five Senate Republicans who originally signed on to your effort, no government funding unless you stop funding Obamacare –” that\u2019s the continuing resolution the government shut down, he\u2019s says, “those five senators have now dropped out of your effort, and one of your Senate Republican colleagues is calling it ‘one of the dumbest ideas I\u2019ve ever heard.'”<\/p>\n

LEE: This is yet another instance of Washington versus everyone else. And we\u2019ve got to stop Washington from dividing the American people. We\u2019ve gotta stop Washington from hurting the American people. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. The fact is that Americans, by a margin of about two to one, believe this law will make their health care situation worse, not better. Only 12% support the individual mandate. Businesses don\u2019t like it. Individuals hate it. Union leaders say it will be bad for workers, and even the law\u2019s principal author in the Senate describes it as a train wreck. The law is bad. The law is certainly not ready to implement, and we shouldn\u2019t fund it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Chris Wallace then says, “But Republican leaders make this point: They say a funding bill, funding the government, is only gonna last for a year or even less, so even if you got what you wanted, you wouldn\u2019t kill Obamacare<\/a>, you\u2019d simply delay it for a year. And they also say that if we were to follow your logic and end up either with a government shutdown or if you tied it to an increase in the debt limit, that it\u2019s precisely the kind of action that you heard from Karl Rove that\u2019s gonna make it hard for Republicans to keep control of the House and have any chance of winning the Senate.”<\/p>\n

LEE: I understand that there are some in the Washington establishment, some from both political parties who aren\u2019t happen with me over this, and in this instance I\u2019m gonna take that as a compliment, an indication that I\u2019m doing something right. The fact is that we can delay this bill. Maybe we can\u2019t repeal it right now, but we can delay its funding, and if we can delay it, we can stop its consequences at least for now. And we have to do that. There were many of us who were elected specifically with this mandate in mind, that we\u2019ve gotta stop this law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Washington does not want it stopped, folks. Washington does not have a problem with Obamacare. It\u2019s government, after all, and they like government. They like process. I\u2019ll never forget an interview I saw with The Loser, my affectionate nickname for Michael Dukakis, the Democrat nominee in 1988. Somebody was asking him the usual question, “Why do you want to be president?” He was in his office in Brookline or wherever it is, his sleeves were rolled up, and he says (imitation), “I love process. I just love process. I just love the process.” I\u2019m saying, what is the world? <\/line><\/p>\n

He likes the process of government. He likes the deal-making. He likes the back-and-forth. He likes government being the center of the universe. He likes government being the center of everybody\u2019s universe. And of course people in Washington do. Washington is a government town. Everybody there — I used to think it was just liberals. But there are too many Republicans now peddling this capitulation as strategy and political victory, \u2019cause they don\u2019t have a problem with government. McCain\u2019s one of them. He doesn\u2019t have a problem with government. Loves it, in fact. And whatever government does is fine. He might have an incidental disagreement with a little thing here, over there, but in general, under the big umbrella government, it\u2019s all good. <\/p>\n

Most everybody in that town is the same way. By the way, folks, this is why Obama tries to make himself appear not to be part of that town. That\u2019s why he does the Limbaugh Theorem. He knows. It\u2019s why he\u2019s making it look like those people in Washington are out of control, they\u2019re doing this stuff and I\u2019m trying to stop \u2019em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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