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RUSH: I have the Elena Kagan sound bite. I know that I have total, 100% credibility with you. When I tell you something, you know it\u2019s true. But I want you to hear it. This was Wednesday at the Supreme Court during the third day of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law. This is the most junior justice, Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general for Obama, who openly cheered the passage of Obamacare <\/a>when it went through the House. And she then worked on its defense at the Supreme Court. She should have ethically recused herself<\/a>. But she didn\u2019t. And here is her opinion, in the form of a question to one of the lawyers, doesn\u2019t matter who. She\u2019s talking about the commerce clause and coercion. She doesn\u2019t understand the argument that forcing people to buy health insurance violates the commerce clause. <\/p>\n

This is a woman who taught law at Harvard. She was the dean of Harvard Law. Which means she\u2019s smarter than anybody else. She\u2019s smarter than the dean of law at Columbia and she\u2019s smarter than the dean at Stanford. She\u2019s just as smart as the dean over there at Oxford. There\u2019s nobody smarter. When you\u2019re the dean of Harvard Law, you\u2019re it. And she has no clue. She cannot conceive, she has no concept of the notion that the federal government cannot force citizens to buy anything. By the same token, the government can\u2019t force you not to buy anything. Works both ways. So the lawyers are talking about this using the term coercion, coerce people. This compulsory contract, which is an oxymoron. And she\u2019s frustrated. She doesn\u2019t understand why people don\u2019t understand this. She doesn\u2019t understand why people think this is unconstitutional. It\u2019s a mystery to her. You mean we can\u2019t give people health care? I don\u2019t understand. Here\u2019s how she said it.<\/line><\/p>\n

KAGAN: Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercion? In other words, the federal government is here saying: We\u2019re giving you a boatload of money. There are no matching funds requirement. There are no extraneous conditions attached to it. It\u2019s just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people\u2019s health care. It doesn\u2019t sound coercive to me, I have to tell you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am sitting here, if you\u2019re not watching on Dittocam you can\u2019t see me with my mouth all the way open, in stunned disbelief. Folks, this is why all week I have been urging you: Don\u2019t think they\u2019re smarter than you are. Don\u2019t fall for that. Don\u2019t grant them that. These are some of the most uninformed, ill-informed, arrogant, conceited people you will ever encounter. I\u2019m not even gonna assume she knows what she\u2019s talking about. What it could be is that the federal government is passing the burden of Medicaid to the states. In Obamacare they are off-loading some of the costs to the states. They\u2019re demanding that states pick up Medicaid costs, and she is of the belief that the states are gonna get the money that the federal government currently spends on Medicaid, but they aren\u2019t. The states aren\u2019t going to be able to afford this. And unlike the federal government, they can\u2019t go print money. <\/p>\n

They have to balance their budgets at the state. It\u2019s very difficult for them to even borrow. They do, they sell bonds and so forth, but it\u2019s not nearly as easy to deficit spend in the states as it is at the federal government. And Obamacare takes the money in Medicare and shifts it to the states so that they can show on paper that the overall cost on the federal side is not nearly as high as it really is. And to her, this is a boatload of money, what could possibly be wrong? A big gift from the federal government. Obamacare is just a big gift. We\u2019re giving this money, and there aren\u2019t any strings attached to it. Boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people\u2019s health care. That doesn\u2019t sound coercive. What it sounds is clueless. I mean totally, genuinely clueless. And this woman\u2019s a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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