{"id":18870,"date":"2011-07-20T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:46","slug":"barack_h_w_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/07\/20\/barack_h_w_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack H.W. Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Joe Klein at TIME Magazine: &#8220;What Happened to All the Moderate Republicans?&#8221; And he praises this wunderkind writer at the Washington Post Ezra Klein. And why aren\u2019t there moderate Republicans anymore? This is sort of a takeoff on Pelosi the other day saying why can\u2019t we get back to the day when elections didn\u2019t matter that much? There wasn\u2019t any difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. It didn\u2019t really matter who won. What she really meant by that, why can\u2019t we get back to the days when Republicans were steady losers and they didn\u2019t care? And they point out that Obama, Joe Klein says Obama\u2019s really a moderate Republican from the 1990s. If you look at Obama\u2019s policies he\u2019s exactly like George W. Bush in the early 1990s. It says here that the &#8220;individual mandate universal health care plan was originally a Republican idea (the first version I saw in the early 1990s was Stuart Butler\u2019s Heritage Foundation plan).&#8221; This is what they claim here at TIME Magazine. Obama favored that. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignright\"\/>&#8220;Obama favored a cap-and-trade plan to limit carbon emissions; the first Bush Administration passed a (very successful) cap-and-trade plan for acid rain emissions.&#8221; So they\u2019re going on and on, there\u2019s no difference, those old Republicans in the nineties were good old moderate Republicans. What they were were RINOs. And of course Klein and his buddies would like to revisit those days. But then you get to the meat and potatoes of the piece. &#8220;How did the Republicans go so far astray? Why did it work, from time to time, electorally? Why weren\u2019t the Democrats more effective in stopping them? Why didn\u2019t the society\u2019s major conservative economic stakeholders (outside the uber-reactionary Oil Patch) renounce the sideshow and demand a more reasonable brand of conservatism?&#8221; like we had from Bush 41 in the early nineties Republicans. &#8220;Two words immediately come to mind: Fox News. And two more words: Rush Limbaugh.&#8221; So the piece here at TIME Magazine by Joe Klein is all about how basically Roger Ailes and I have destroyed the Republican Party, the grand old days of moderate Republicans like Bush 41, the RINOs. And, gee, why can\u2019t we revisit, why can\u2019t we go back to those good old days? What happened to all the moderate Republicans? Joe, let me tell you something. The objective here is to make them an extinct species, and we are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, the TIME Magazine article cites the Heritage Foundation as supporting an individual mandate. <a href=\"http:\/\/askheritage.org\/rush\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a> (and I know these people) have been begging the news media to quit lying about them and mandatory health insurance for I don\u2019t know how long. This is one of those that\u2019s in the NexisLexis database and they can\u2019t get it out of there, but the Heritage Foundation, they\u2019ve never signed onto this unconstitutional individual mandate. It\u2019s never been part of the Heritage Foundation health care solution, but it continues to be included in smear pieces.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Joe Klein at TIME Magazine: &#8220;What Happened to All the Moderate Republicans?&#8221; And he praises this wunderkind writer at the Washington Post Ezra Klein. And why aren\u2019t there moderate Republicans anymore? 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