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RUSH: I want to try to make some sense out of what\u2019s going on here at the Supreme Court \u2019cause there\u2019s so much of this punditry. The predictions are just all over the ballpark. I keep falling back to one crystal-clear reality to me. Even yesterday I found myself getting caught up in this whole game. The whole game. Look at what we\u2019re doing here. I know a number of you people agree with me here. I\u2019ve talked to a number of you, and, my friends, we\u2019re losing this country. I mean, it\u2019s dangling over the precipice here, and yet we\u2019re all succumbing — and it\u2019s hard not to. Don\u2019t misunderstand. This is not a criticism. We\u2019re all succumbing to playing the standard game every day in talking about it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an AP story today. I found it in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but you know what the total number of people without health insurance is? When you factor the fact that everybody gets treated at the emergency room by law anyway, the number of Americans out of a population just north of 300 million is 15 million people. We\u2019re doing all of this for 15 million people, and those 15 million people are young or wealthy and have chosen not to buy health insurance. And we\u2019re doing all of this! If we\u2019re not careful, we are going to lose this country. We are going to shred the Constitution in ways that it can\u2019t be put back together.<\/p>\n
And that is the objective of today\u2019s leftist movement and its members of the Democrat Party. That\u2019s the objective is to shred this Constitution, get rid of it once and for all. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was over in Egypt telling people putting together a constitution there (paraphrasing): “Don\u2019t look at ours! There aren\u2019t enough human rights concerns in there. Not enough. There\u2019s not enough provisions in our constitution for what government can do, \u2019cause government\u2019s all good, government\u2019s all powerful, government\u2019s all benevolent, and there nothing in the US Constitution for you.” So we have this legislative debacle — this monstrosity, this worthless piece of legislation — that is going to rip the fiber out of this country.<\/p>\n
All for 15 million people who have chosen not to have health insurance! Not because the country\u2019s unjust and unfair and has millions of people who are dying to get medical treatment but can\u2019t. That\u2019s such a crock. If you need medical treatment this country, you get it even if you can\u2019t afford it. You go to the emergency room or a walk-in clinic or what have you. And then furthermore, everybody\u2019s trying to prove how smart they are by predicting what Anthony Kennedy\u2019s gonna do. One guy! This whole case hinges on what one guy does, and then after this one guy votes… And the reason I say that one guy is because a lot of people think John Roberts gonna go with the fact that it\u2019s constitutional based on what he said yesterday. <\/p>\n
And a lot of people think Kennedy is gonna vote against it. A lot of other people think Kennedy\u2019s gonna vote for it, \u2019cause Kennedy signaled he\u2019d go either way on it yesterday at the beginning of the oral arguments. That\u2019s when the left was panicking, calling it a train wreck. At the end of the proceedings yesterday. “Wait a minute there. Kennedy, he could flip here. Kennedy said some things that…” I just find it ridiculous we\u2019re caught up in it this way, and it\u2019s… (long sigh) I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s also a little disconcerting to me that so many people are caught up in it and enjoy being caught up, as though it\u2019s nothing more than an intellectual exercise. And when it\u2019s all over, what\u2019s at stake here is who can say, “I was right and I predicted it!”<\/p>\n
Or when it\u2019s wrong, “You blew it! You didn\u2019t know what you were talking about! You weren\u2019t as smart as I am.” In the meantime what are we talking about here? We\u2019re talking about the country going in a direction that you and I never envisioned it going. Something else that struck me. I made a note to myself yesterday. I sent it to some friends of mine. Something I didn\u2019t expect to happen is happening. This case — as it\u2019s being discussed and argued according to this template and narrative that I just described — is providing an opportunity to illustrate the genuine intellectual vacancy, corruption, and immorality of liberalism in general. <\/p>\n
This case — because of the punditry, and because of all the commentariat both on the air and in blogs and in print — is demonstrating the abject ignorance and stupidity of people on the left. Some of the questions asked by Justice Sotomayor yesterday are mind-boggling. “Why can\u2019t we just let Congress decide this?” They did! That\u2019s what this is all about, Madam Justice. What do you mean, “Why can\u2019t we let Congress decide?” They did! What do you think you\u2019re doing? Ginsburg (paraphrased) “Our constitution is not worth anything anymore. Emerging nations don\u2019t need to look to the US Constitution. No, no, no. It\u2019s defective.” <\/p>\n
Elena Kagan? (sigh) I\u2019m gonna rein myself in here. I really don\u2019t want to make any of this personal. These people… She hasn\u2019t lived in the real world (other than when they were students). They don\u2019t have any relatability to people outside of academia, which is where the utopians are. Academia is where the utopian statists are, the theoreticians, the people that sit around and look outside the academy and think, “Oh, how dumb those people are! How backwards! What a bunch of hicks and hayseeds.” And they sit around and talk to each other and theorize how if they were in power, how they\u2019d make everything fair and everything just and everything proper and all of this gobbledygook that never worked anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Then they go home and put on their Che Guevara T-shirts and say, “Oh, my God, what\u2019s happening to the country?” I just marvel all of these legal minds on the left — be they network experts, law professors, or whatever — who, up until yesterday, apparently never even considered the possibility that the individual mandate in the commerce clause is unconstitutional. They never even considered it! And now when they hear oral arguments that (for the first time, apparently) hit them upside the head that it might be unconstitutional. They are literally flabbergasted! Not surprised because they\u2019re disappointed. They are genuinely shocked. They haven\u2019t considered this! They\u2019re stymied. <\/p>\n