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RUSH: Jim in Radcliff, Kentucky. Thank you, sir, for calling. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey. Thanks a lot, Rush. How you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m actually, all things considered, pretty lousy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling) I\u2019m sorry to hear that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just kidding! I\u2019m just kidding! I\u2019m actually pretty good today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Hey, I was wondering. You know, with the Obamacare, the Democrats are wanting us to go down and sign up for this. How are people gonna get down there and sign up, if can\u2019t get down to get the IDs to vote?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The answer to that is the Democrats don\u2019t want you to have one. The answer to that is, the Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn\u2019t shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want it. I mean, they\u2019re gonna force Obamacare on everyone.<\/p>\n

My question about all this… I mean, the photo ID answer is easy. They want to be able to have people vote multiple times, particularly in certain precincts\/neighborhoods. But this Obamacare… I may be in one of my dense places today, but here we have something that\u2019s the law of the land. It\u2019s been signed into law. It is being implemented as we speak. It fully implements sometime next year. So why do little kids in the public school system in Los Angeles have to be told about it so they can go home and sell their parents on it? <\/p>\n

Why does it still have to be sold? <\/p>\n

Why is Obama running ads to familiarize people with Obamacare? <\/p>\n

Well, now, the answer has nothing to do with Obamacare — other than the kids. There\u2019s I think the overall answer to the question is it\u2019s more of Obama image building. They know the polling data on Obamacare is very negative. Depending on the poll you look at, we\u2019re down to only 35% of the people like it. So that\u2019s 65% oppose it, and Obama wants to be loved. Like Clinton, he wants to be loved; he wants to be appreciated. He\u2019s got this thing out there about him with his name on it that people hate. <\/p>\n

So it could well be nothing more than, “We\u2019re gonna spread propaganda on this to try to correct public opinion on it.” My real question is: Why do they care? It\u2019s law of the land and there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. I mean, we can try to defund it or repeal parts of it, but as far as they\u2019re concerned, it\u2019s been signed into law. It\u2019s being implemented. The exchanges are being set up, and the exchanges are Democrat Party front groups. <\/p>\n

So maybe I\u2019m just too thick to see something, but why? What\u2019s the point now in propagandizing it? (interruption) Okay. So you think it\u2019s Mount Rushmore, huh? He wants to be on Mount Rushmore? (interruption) It\u2019s Washington, Lincoln, Obama? You think Washington, Obama, Lincoln? (interruption) Maybe it\u2019s Obama, Washington, and nobody else. Are you serious? You really think it\u2019s all about establishing Obama\u2019s the greatest president ever? <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the kids? <\/p>\n

(interruption) Ah, okay. Okay. That\u2019s why the kids? (interruption) Carry the legacy through the younger generations on? I think there\u2019s a political reason to it. I think 2014 is crucial to them. Winning the House. They lost the 2010 midterms because of Obamacare, and I think that\u2019s what it really is. I think it\u2019s all part of this full-court press to win the House in 2014. And they know that Obamacare\u2019s hated, and they know that in 2010, it essentially created the Tea Party. <\/p>\n

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They know that the Tea Party turned out and voted. The media doesn\u2019t write about this, and they really didn\u2019t talk about it much when it happened. But the Democrat Party, folks, took a down-ballot shellacking in 2010. They lost, all total across this country close to a thousand seats –in the House of Representatives, in local statehouses, in town councils, mayors, dogcatchers. As far down the local level as you want to go, they got shellacked. <\/p>\n

I think that they\u2019re afraid that the same thing could happen in 2014 with the same attitudes about Obamacare. Remember, the 2010 turnout is much different than a presidential turnout. The 2010 turnout didn\u2019t have Obama on the ballot, so the Obama acolytes had no reason to show up. In 2012, there was all the reason in the world for the Obama acolytes to show up. In 2014, there won\u2019t be any reason for Obama sycophants to show up. <\/p>\n

So I think, in addition to the Mount Rushmore aspects and creating in the minds of young people “Obama\u2019s the greatest ever,” I think in practical political terms, it isn\u2019t even about Obamacare. It\u2019s not about making people love it. It\u2019s about ridding the negativity attached to it so it doesn\u2019t hurt \u2019em in 2014. I think that\u2019s why they\u2019re still fundraising for it; they\u2019re still treating it as a campaign issue because it is. There\u2019s another election coming up, and believe me: They\u2019re salivating.<\/p>\n

If they win the House in 2014, then there\u2019s no such thing as an Obama lame duck. The last two years aren\u2019t gonna be lame duck. In fact, the last two years of Obama might overshadow presidential race because of what Obama will be able to do: Utterly, totally transform this country in ways that will be so shocking that it might overshadow a presidential race. Now, the presidential race obviously would be attached to that massive transformation so it\u2019d be tough to overshadow it.<\/p>\n

But at least if they win the House in 2014, there isn\u2019t gonna be any lame duck BS. He\u2019s not gonna be lame or duck on anything. If he wins the House in 2014, he\u2019s gonna have more power than he\u2019s had at any time, including the first two years when he had the House and Senate. Because he did have another election or two to be concerned about. But if he wins the House in 2014, he\u2019s got two years to realize every fantasy and dream about finally “fixing” what is fundamentally wrong and morally wrong about this country in his mind since the day it was founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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