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RUSH: Karl Rove last night. He was on with Greta after I was. She asked him a question: “The fact that the Democrat Party won that seat, New York-26, and it was seen as a statement about the Ryan budget, shows how complicated it is, politically difficult.”<\/p>\n

ROVE: Rush Limbaugh hit it. The woman who won that congressional race, the Democrat who won it got 1% more than Barack Obama received when he lost the district in 2000. The only reason the Democrats won this thing, the only reason they had a serious candidate in this race was there was a rich third-party candidate who had previously run three times as a Democrat who ran as a Tea Partier in this election and spent $3 million of his own money trashing the Republican. Without that the Democrats would not have a chance. Democrats misread this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely. Absolutely. I\u2019m not gonna play the bite. I\u2019m not gonna waste time. I got Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, who thinks that New York-26 means that the 2012 election is already over, that if the Republicans can\u2019t hold onto Jack Kemp\u2019s seat, it\u2019s all academic from here on out, it\u2019s over. And furthermore that Paul Ryan is responsible for killing the Republican Party by daring to bring up Medicare and talking about reforming it. Now, he was on, Ryan was, with Bret Baier on the Fox News Special Report last night. Bret Baier said, “Here\u2019s what Governor Pawlenty said today about your Medicare plan. Pawlenty said, ‘I\u2019ve got my own plan. If I can\u2019t have that and the bill came to my desk, and I had to choose between signing or not Congressman Ryan\u2019s plan, of course I\u2019d sign Congressman Ryan\u2019s.'” Baier says, “That\u2019s not exactly an endorsement. Are you surprised overall that more candidates have not been more supportive or leading the charge on your plan?”<\/p>\n

RYAN: What matters to me is not that we get an endorsement on every little detail we put out there. What matters to me is that leaders step up and offer solutions to our country\u2019s problems and I really do believe if you want to be the president of the United States, you should put up ideas on how to solve this country\u2019s massive fiscal and economic problems. The current president isn\u2019t doing that. Our nominee should do that. And so I\u2019m excited that they\u2019re bringing their ideas to the table, offering their solutions, and that\u2019s exactly the kind of debate we ought to be having in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So they tried to get Ryan and Pawlenty going at it. Ryan wouldn\u2019t take the bait. So now they\u2019re focusing on Pawlenty because I did say, “It\u2019s time for somebody to stand up here, the Ryan Medicare plan is under assault, it\u2019s time for somebody to step up and start defending Ryan\u2019s plan.” Right now there are only two Medicare plans on the table. There are two. In the first one, Medicare goes broke in 13 years. The second plan, Medicare is slightly tweaked to make it more competitive so that it can survive. The media and the rest of the Democrat Party called the second plan radical and crazy and completely unacceptable. The plan that caused Medicare to go broke in 13 years, the media supports. That\u2019s Obamacare. Ryan is crazy nuts all and saves the plan. That\u2019s where we are. But here\u2019s Pawlenty. He was at the Cato Institute on Wednesday night, Q&A, an audience member said, “I want to know your reaction to the Ryan plan in light of the outcome of the New York special election.”<\/p>\n

PAWLENTY: Our Medicare plan, which we\u2019ll have out shortly in not-too-distant future will have some differences. We\u2019ll be speaking about payment reform and paying providers, not just for volume but for quality and results as part of their compensation. We\u2019ll be offering a variety of choices to people where they can choose to stay in the current program or select from other options.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, here\u2019s Pawlenty, he\u2019s at Cato, okay, do you like the Ryan plan? Will you support it, New York-26, we might havelost that election \u2019cause of Ryan, what do you think? So Pawlenty has to walk a tightrope here. He\u2019s running for president. He\u2019s got to have his own ideas, part and parcel of the objective here. But you can\u2019t diss Ryan, either. I understand Pawlenty here. It wouldn\u2019t serve him to say, “No, I don\u2019t support the Ryan plan.” It wouldn\u2019t serve it at all. That\u2019s what they want. They want dissension on the Republican side. They want to create circular firing squads on our side. So here\u2019s what he said about the Ryan plan and whether or not he would sign it.<\/p>\n

PAWLENTY: If I can\u2019t have my own plan, as president I\u2019ll have my own plan. If I can\u2019t have that and the bill came to my desk and I had to choose between signing or not Congressman Ryan\u2019s plan, of course I\u2019d sign it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Does that satisfy you? Now, to me, intellectually it makes total sense. Here\u2019s a guy running for president, Ryan isn\u2019t. Ryan\u2019s plan, everybody\u2019s talking about. They ask the presidential candidate, “Will you support Ryan\u2019s plan?” “Well, I\u2019m running for president. I gotta have my own. People are gonna expect me to have my own plan. Now, if I\u2019m elected president and I can\u2019t get my own plan, if Ryan\u2019s plan is what comes up here, I\u2019ll sign it. That doesn\u2019t bother me.” And then there\u2019s another question from a TV host this morning on Fox & Friends, “You say if it came to your desk and your plan wasn\u2019t there, you would sign this, but yours is a little different. What\u2019s different?”<\/p>\n

PAWLENTY: It is. Well, Congressman Ryan, I give him credit for his leadership. Where\u2019s President Obama on this? Where\u2019s President Obama\u2019s Medicare plan? And the answer is, he doesn\u2019t have one. So at least Congressman Ryan\u2019s exerting the leadership to tackle one of the big challenges facing this country, the out-of-control debt and deficit. We\u2019ve got an absent president on this issue. So I give him credit for that. I\u2019ll have my own plan. It will have some differences from Congressman Ryan\u2019s. But I applaud him for his leadership.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so they wouldn\u2019t let him off the hook here. Well, what are your differences?<\/p>\n

PAWLENTY: We\u2019re gonna address Social Security, for one. I\u2019ve been traveling the country, so we\u2019re in Iowa talking about the need to phase out ethanol subsidies. We were down in Florida to talk about the need to reform Social Security to seniors and others, and we\u2019ll also be addressing Medicare like he did, but we\u2019ll be offering some options rather than having it be more of a one-size-fits-all system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was on the air with us on Monday<\/a>, he\u2019s opposed to ethanol subsidies, which he told that to people in Iowa. He says he\u2019ll come down here to Florida and tell the seasoned citizens we gotta reform Social Security. So finally he said, Social Security reform is going to be part of his Medicare reform. Now, Obama does have a Medicare plan, one thing I would correct Governor Pawlenty on. Obama does have a Medicare plan. It\u2019s called Obamacare, and it kills Medicare, it goes broke in 13 years and then we won\u2019t have to worry about it anymore.<\/p>\n

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