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RUSH: The president is back defending health care in his statements about the court yesterday. This is the AP luncheon. Now, he launched on the court again today, is what happened here. The Associated Press luncheon during the American Society of News Editors convention. By the way, the CEO of AP stood up and just lauded Obama as one of the greatest human beings ever, one of the greatest presidents ever, one of the greatest quotes ever, one of the greatest guys ever. And there was a Q&A at the event. Obama spoke. He spoke about the economy. And during the Q&A, the moderator is the chairman of Associated Press, Dean Singleton, who said, “Mr. President, you said yesterday it would be unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by an elected Congress. Yet that\u2019s exactly what the court\u2019s done during its entire existence.<\/p>\n
Here is Obama\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Um, we have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on a[n] economic issue like health care that I think most people would clearly consider commerce. A law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner, right? So we\u2019re goin\u2019 back to the thirties, pre-New Deal. Um, and the point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it. But it\u2019s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress. And so the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this. Now, as I said, I — I expect the Supreme Court actually to recognize that and to abide by well-established precedents out there. I have enormous confidence that, in looking at this law, not only is it constitutional, but that the court is going to exercise its jurisprudence carefully because of the profound power that our Supreme Court has. As a consequence, we\u2019re not spending a whole bunch of time planning for contingencies.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, where to start? (sigh) See, now it involves “economics” so the court shouldn\u2019t overturn it. “Yeah, they\u2019ve overturned stuff, but never something on economics like this.” There is no “burden” in a Supreme Court case. This isn\u2019t a jury trial. There\u2019s no burden here! The burden was on the government to answer their questions. The burden was to show that it was constitutional. The burden is constitutionality. There\u2019s no burden here to make sure that people have health insurance. There\u2019s no burden to make sure that people have affordable health care. There\u2019s no burden on the part of the court to make sure that people with preexisting conditions get covered. You know what the scary thing is? How many Americans do you think think that is what the purpose of the court is?<\/p>\n
How many Americans do you think the purpose of court is to make sure here that the uninsured have insurance? That\u2019s the sad, shocking thing. I wonder if anybody in the AP audience fainted. Did anybody take off their underwear and throw their panties at Obama during his speech today? Somebody needs to tell him… I\u2019ll do it right now. He\u2019s a constitutional scholar, but he needs to be reminded that between 1789 and 2002, the Supreme Court declared 158 acts of Congress unconstitutional. One hundred and fifty-eight acts of the Constitution unconstitutional. The burden is on Congress to pass constitutional laws. This, again, is Obama threatening — not threatening — intimidating, warning, telling \u2019em what he expects. He\u2019s trying to ladle guilt on these guys, the justices, about what they\u2019re gonna be taking away from people. He goes back to the emotional campaign as the answer continued.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Stop the tape! Let me tell you what the human element is in Obamacare. The human element is telling a 100-year-old woman, “Sorry, here\u2019s the pain pill. You don\u2019t get the pacemaker. You\u2019re too old.” That\u2019s the human element in Obamacare. The human element in Obamacare is the death panels. The human element in Obamacare is the government, a bunch of bureaucrats that we\u2019ll never meet, deciding who gets treated and how extensively we get treated. And they\u2019ll make their decisions based on a bunch of factors that we\u2019ll have no control over. If you\u2019re 73 and you come in with a case of cancer, it\u2019s, “Well, we don\u2019t know if we should spend the money to treat a 73-year-old. We could better spend the money on a young person that\u2019s got something wrong with them.” That\u2019s the Obama death panels. There\u2019s your “human element,” Mr. President. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: I get letters every day from people who are affected by the health care law right now even though it\u2019s not fully implemented. Young people who are 24, 25 who say, you know what, I just got diagnosed with a tumor. First of all, I woulda not gone to get a checkup if I hadn\u2019t had health insurance. Second of all, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to afford to get it treated had I not been on my parents\u2019 plan. Thank you, and thank Congress for getting this done. I get letters from —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Come on.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: — folks who have just lost their job, their COBRA has run out, they\u2019re in the middle of treatment for colon cancer or breast cancer and they\u2019re worried when their COBRA runs out if they\u2019re still stick what are they gonna be able to do because they\u2019re not gonna be able to get health insurance.<\/p>\n
RUSH: None of this matters. None of this is relevant. None of this is germane. “Mr. Limbaugh, you\u2019re sounding very, very harsh. You say that none of this matters to the Supreme Court.” Mr. New Castrati, it may pain the individuals on the court, but it\u2019s not germane to what they are deciding. Individual circumstances, this is not the role of the Supreme Court. It\u2019s clear what\u2019s going on now. Clear as a bell. Obama ladling guilt on these people. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what you\u2019re going to be taking away: Look at these letters people are writing, thank you, Mr. President, for helping me get cured of cancer with a tumor that was discovered because of your health care bill. Give me a break. This is like the epitome of childish egoism and arrogance. So the court better do the right thing because people are writing Obama letters. If it hadn\u2019t been for Obama, these people would die, and you people on the court better remember it as you make up your mind on this, and that\u2019s the message.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: How many human elements have been killed by Roe v. Wade? What is that number? For a while there, wasn\u2019t it over a million human elements a year that were killed by Roe v. Wade since 1973? Yeah. That\u2019s right, the human element of abortion. And you know what I wouldn\u2019t be surprised by? Snerdley, do you remember the school lunch fiasco back in 1995? Folks, if you weren\u2019t with us then, if you are new to the program, the budget fight in 1995, the Democrats accused the Republicans of starving children by cutting the school lunch program. Now, there were no cuts in the school lunch program budget. There was a reduction in the rate of increase, but the aggregate spending in that budget for school lunches was going to go up, and it did go up.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>But because it didn\u2019t go up as much as was budgeted, I think it was budgeted to go up 10% and it went up 7%, because it didn\u2019t go up 10%, the Democrats ran around and called it a budget cut, a Draconian budget cut. They said that students are gonna starve. Republicans are starving children. And the media picked it up. And what happened was that schools all across the country assigned writing assignments to students demanding they send letters to Republican congressmen asking not to be starved because it was very hard to learn when you\u2019re hungry. Therefore, I won\u2019t be surprised if maybe today or tomorrow grade schools start assigning students to write letters to the Supreme Court begging them to save health care for people. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if that happens. <\/p>\n