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RUSH: Government shutdown. We talked yesterday about Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, and his efforts to repeal or defund large parts of Obamacare as part of the continuing resolution. Folks, the Republican establishment — GOP, RNC — is not interested in this at all. Quite the contrary. I mean, we\u2019ve got Republican Party leaders actually advocating for the total implementation of Obamacare now, under the theory, “Look, it\u2019s law.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t stop it — and, if you shut down the government, the Republicans are gonna get blamed again just like 1995. It\u2019s a lose-lose Proposition. Just go ahead and let the law be implemented and watch it implode and kill the Democrats that way.” I don\u2019t intellectually understand it. A, the 1995 budget battle. There\u2019s a great story by Daniel Mitchell, National Review Online posted all the way back in February of 2011.<\/line><\/p>\n

It prints out to four or five pages on your printer, but it is a great detailed story of how the 1995 budget shutdown really did not hurt the Republican Party. It wasn\u2019t a deathblow. And, in fact, not only did it not really do that much damage to the party, it was a good thing for the country, the 1995 budget battle, and the aftermath. It\u2019s a fascinating piece. I\u2019ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com so you can get an advance read of it.<\/p>\n

“Why Republicans Can\u2019t Back Down.”<\/p>\n

This was written, again, back in 2011 about another continuing resolution fight all the way back then, when it was thought there might be a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The IRS employee union says, “We don\u2019t want Obamacare.” This is the most unpopular federal program ever, and the Republican Party is choosing not to align itself with a majority of the American people on it. It just boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here you have one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation ever. Every day another group comes out in opposition to it. Today it\u2019s the IRS employees union saying, “We don\u2019t want Obamacare.” A vast majority of Americans do not want Obamacare. The Republican Party has a golden opportunity to align themselves with the majority of the American people, not just Republicans, but independents.<\/p>\n

Every demographic is represented in this mass of people that don\u2019t want this. But the Republican Party has made the decision to side with Washington. “Well, you know, it\u2019s law now. We can\u2019t stop it.” Well, I\u2019m sorry, but the Defense of Marriage Act was the law, and Obama and the Democrats said, “You know what? We\u2019re not gonna defend it anymore. We\u2019re not gonna litigate it. We\u2019re not gonna enforce it,” and that was a Democrat law!<\/p>\n

Our immigration laws are the law, and they don\u2019t enforce those. If our current immigration law was simply enforced, we wouldn\u2019t need to be doing anything. There are all kinds of examples. Reagan\u2019s Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 was the law. Democrats had no problem overturning that once Rostenkowski got beaten up by a bunch of ladies in the Blue-Haired Bloody Mary Gang one afternoon. Where would Scott Walker be if he\u2019d been afraid of a government shutdown in Wisconsin?<\/p>\n

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

Well, I do understand it. That\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to stay focused on this Obamacare business, because it\u2019s because really illustrative. It\u2019s indicative of things, it\u2019s eye opening, and it\u2019s puzzling as well. You know what Obamacare is; it\u2019s the nationalization of one-sixth of the US economy. But it\u2019s far more than that. It essentially allows the federal government to dictate control over whatever aspect of life they want, because virtually every aspect of life is going to have ramifications on health care costs.<\/p>\n

So if, for example, the government decides that obesity is a leading cause of increased health costs, then they can, under this law, start mandating behaviors and diets and any number of things by you, if you are to get health care down the line for whatever ails you. They can dictate any behavior they want because all behavior will be linked to health care costs at some point in somebody\u2019s life. It is a breathtaking amassing of power.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, it destroys private sector businesses.<\/p>\n

What Obamacare is effectively doing is transforming the 40-hour workweek to a 30 hour workweek. Now, how does that help the middle class? Obama\u2019s out giving speeches, telling everybody that he\u2019s now focusing once again for the nineteenth time on jobs, and he\u2019s focusing on the economy, because all these scandals have just been nothing but distractions. “Phony distractions.” He\u2019s gonna focus once again.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna get this done, because “Washington” hasn\u2019t cared enough. Washington hasn\u2019t paid enough attention. Well, as this health care law is implemented, companies have been downsizing their staffs, or they have been converting full-time employees to part time so that they do not have to pay them health care benefits. At least the first couple or three years of the law. How\u2019s that helping the middle class?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already lost nine million jobs since Obama assumed office in January of 2009. Nine million jobs have just vanished! They no longer exist. They\u2019re not waiting to be filled because they don\u2019t exist any longer, which makes the unemployment rate of 7.6% a little misleading. If the same number of jobs were available today as when Obama took office, that 7.6% unemployment rate would be closer to 11%, even today, while they claim the economy is recovering and rebounding.<\/p>\n

But when you wipe nine million jobs away from the universe of jobs, then of course the percentage of people out of work is gonna be expressed is a much lower number. So jobs are being lost, full-time jobs are being converted to part-time jobs. None of this is helping people. None of this is helping people grow their lifestyles, get raises, or find jobs that pay more money. Just one of the reasons Obamacare should be repealed: It guts the 40-hour workweek.<\/p>\n

The 40-hour workweek is one of the defining characteristics of the American middle class. Obamacare defines full-time employment now as 30 hours per week, and it does that by law. If you work 30 hours a week, you gotta be covered. Over 30 hours, you have to be covered. Less, you don\u2019t. Guess what employers are doing? The president says he cares about the middle class, but his legacy is to take full-time work and turn it into part-time work.<\/p>\n

He says he\u2019s gonna “build the economy from the middle out” while he rips 25% of the hours and pay out of the middle class! How can this happen? Well, it can\u2019t. He thinks he\u2019s setting a floor with this? These people are so whacked out, he thinks he\u2019s setting a floor with this. He\u2019s setting a ceiling with the 30-hour workweek and the 50 employees a business has to have to abide by Obamacare. If they got 49, they don\u2019t.<\/line><\/p>\n

Every incentive in this bill is for employers to get rid of people, convert \u2019em to part-time, or fire them. That\u2019s the incentive, if the businesses are to stay open. Regarding that, I will not lose my place here. This is a great time to share with you a little story here from the UK Telegraph. There\u2019s some clown over there named Matthew Hancock, and he\u2019s in the government. He\u2019s in the British government.<\/p>\n

He is a cabinet minister of “Business and Skills.” He is the “business and skills minister,” and “Mr. Hancock, the business and skills minister, has said that companies have a ‘social duty\u2019 to employ young British workers rather than” just seek profit. He said “that employers should be prepared to invest in training British staff rather than simply looking for ‘pure profit.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Asked whether he believes that a company should train British workers ‘at the risk of a little bit of profit\u2019 rather that employing foreigners Mr. Hancock said: ‘Yes, yes I do.\u2019 He added: ‘I think that the Government has a responsibility too. We have a responsibility to support that training.'” Well, yeah, he\u2019s in the UK but how many people like this live and work in the Obama regime? The purpose of a business is to provide employment. The purpose of a business is to provide health care.<\/p>\n

The purpose of a business is to make charitable donations to the community. The purpose of a business is to create a wing for children at the local hospital. How\u2019s a business supposed to do this if it doesn\u2019t make a profit? So here you have in the UK the business and skills minister out there opining against profit, saying, “That\u2019s bad, if a company focuses on that. A company needs to focus on training workers!”<\/p>\n

No. The workers get trained before they get there.<\/p>\n

Sure there\u2019s some on-the-job training. It\u2019s called internships, or it\u2019s called entry-level minimum wage. But “at the business” is not where everybody learns how to do what they\u2019re doing. Some people that you hire have to already know — and, hopefully, some of them that you hire are the best that you can get. But this is liberal thinking at its best. “The purpose of a business is to hire people. The purpose of a business is to have jobs! The purpose of a business is to provide health care, and any business that seeks profit is to be suspected.”<\/p>\n

How else is it going to stay in business?<\/p>\n

How else is it going to continue to operate?<\/p>\n

How is it gonna keep the doors open?<\/p>\n

Why the Republican Party doesn\u2019t see all of this as an opportunity to advance itself in contrast, here you have Obamacare, which the vast majority of people — and it\u2019s growing — don\u2019t want it, oppose it. And even now labor unions, two major unions send Pelosi and Reid letters saying don\u2019t you dare implement, this is hurting our workforce. They went along with this for whatever stupid, dumb reasons, thinking that they were gonna be on the inside, and they find out that their union members are gonna get the shaft here when it comes to health care benefits and wages and everything else, because the incentive for every business is to let people go, fire them, or employ them for fewer hours, convert them to part time. That\u2019s the incentive in Obamacare.<\/p>\n

How hard is that to oppose? How hard is that to contrast as a Republican Party, come out against all that? Why would you take such a universally unpopular piece of legislation of the opposition party and sign on to it? Forget conservative versus liberal for a minute. The Republican Party is still the Republican Party. Theoretically they still want to beat the Democrats. Where is that? Where is the push-back? The Republicans have a built-in, automatic way to align themselves with people of all demographics, of all age-groups, all institutions, all races, religions, creeds, ages, you name it, because they all make up the group of people that oppose it.<\/p>\n

And this is not a passive opposition. This is visceral. The people that oppose this bill actively oppose it. There\u2019s no ho-hum, “Yeah, I don\u2019t care, but I don\u2019t really like that.” I mean it is an active, committed opposition to this piece of legislation. And the Republican thinking at the highest levels is, “It\u2019s the law of the land. We can\u2019t stop it. Go ahead and let it be implemented, and it\u2019ll implode.” Well, no other entitlement has. This is the same kind of thinking that I remember hearing back in 1992. “Rush, go ahead and let Clinton win. Let those Democrats win, Rush. And the people will see how bad these Democrats are. They\u2019ll see what damage they do and that will be the end of them.” Well, it hasn\u2019t worked yet.<\/p>\n

So let Obamacare fully implement, and it\u2019ll implode, and we\u2019ll be there to pick up the pieces. Well, you better get your opposition to it stated front and center. You Republicans better let people know that you oppose this, otherwise if you come across as liking this, helping this, supporting this, and it does implode, you\u2019re not gonna be around to pick up the pieces. You\u2019re gonna get blamed, by your own voters. It\u2019s what I don\u2019t understand. The holy grail should be the end of Obamacare.<\/p>\n

You want to turn more part-time work into full-time work? End Obamacare. You want to increase your take-home pay? End Obamacare. You want your health care costs to get cheaper? End Obamacare. You want to increase jobs and grow the US economy? End Obamacare. Slogan after slogan after slogan writes themselves. None of this is a negative. I mean, it\u2019s a positive. It\u2019s the best thing anybody could do to get the economy going, stop Obamacare.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just got a note from a great guy, Louie Gohmert, member of Congress from Texas, and Louie said, “As always, you\u2019re right.” But then there was a “but.” And Louie said, “Obamacare will implode. Socialism always implodes.” Which is true. How long did it take the Soviet Union to implode? 60, 70 years. It will. Socialism never has worked. It will always implode, but Obamacare\u2019s not gonna implode next year. It\u2019s not gonna implode in time for the 2016 presidential election. It\u2019s designed to actually look kind of cool the first couple, three years.<\/line><\/p>\n

Fines are cheaper than health insurance policies. It\u2019s gonna be onerous. It\u2019s not gonna convert itself from an anti- to a supported position overnight. It\u2019s gonna implode, but you gotta run out of other people\u2019s money first. I mean, to sit around and wait for implosion as a policy? Ah.<\/p>\n

Bob in Long Beach. Great to have you on the program. Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I hear you talking and I hear a lot of people talking about defunding Obamacare, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna work because Obama has the bank. He has the Treasury department. He has the collection agency. He has the checkbook, and he has the money. Whether or not the House appropriates the money or not, he\u2019s gonna get it wherever he damn well pleases and he\u2019s gonna fund it. The whole idea of defunding it\u2019s a joke to me. You\u2019re assuming he\u2019s gonna play by the rules. Big mistake, in my opinion. He\u2019s got all the money in the world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Republicans playing by the rules is a big mistake, you said?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, assuming that Obama will play by the rules.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, assuming Obama\u2019s gonna play by the rules.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a big mistake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s got the bank. He\u2019s got the bank.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I get it. I get it. So, the Republicans, they repeal the funding and (imitating Obama), “I don\u2019t care, I\u2019ll get Ben Bernanke to write me a check.” Sadly, folks, the man has a point.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, it would not be automatically easy for Obama to just spend money that had been repealed, not the amounts that we\u2019re talking about. I know he doesn\u2019t care what the law is, but it wouldn\u2019t just be a snap of his fingers. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re afraid of, by the way, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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