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RUSH: You know, I have a whole show here of sound bites, and I could have done a whole show of sound bites today, but that would have meant none of me, and we can\u2019t have that. We can\u2019t have a Rush Limbaugh program and none of me. But some of these sound bites… Grab number 2. We did a montage here. This is the Drive-Bys all excited by Trump\u2019s “ultimatum” to pass the health care bill or he is moving on.<\/p>\n

\"\"BECKY QUICK: (music) President Trump issues an ultimatum to Congress…<\/p>\n

ROLAND MARTIN: (music) President Trump gives them an ultimatum…<\/p>\n

MARY BRUCE: (voice-over\/b-roll noise) Delivering an ultimatum to Republicans.<\/p>\n

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: The president issues this ultimatum.<\/p>\n

JOE KERNEN: He\u2019s now giving the House an ultimatum: Pass the bill or Obamacare stays.<\/p>\n

CECILIA VEGA: (outdoor noise) This is why he put this ultimatum down and laid it out there.<\/p>\n

MELISSA LEE: …ultimatum, essentially, that the president has given…<\/p>\n

JEFF ZELENY: …giving that ultimatum that now is the time to do this.<\/p>\n

ALISYN CAMEROTA: President Trump issuing an ultimatum to House Republicans…<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROSE: President Trump issued an ultimatum last night to House Republicans. … Why do you think an ultimatum will work now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That did happen. I\u2019m very convinced. (chuckling) In fact, it may even include tax reform in it. They\u2019re loaded for bear. Now, grab sound bite number one. This is last night on CNN. It\u2019s on a program called CNN Tonight. I guess that\u2019s supposed to mean something. I don\u2019t know who hosts it, but the guests are CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston, Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis, and senior political correspondent Nia-Malika Henderson, and they\u2019re having a panel discussion about the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, and get this exchange…<\/p>\n

PRESTON: Let\u2019s put aside that it\u2019s Donald Trump right now and he tends to go after his enemies. In Washington, it\u2019s all about blame. If it doesn\u2019t work out, who are we gonna blame, right?<\/p>\n

LEWIS: It\u2019s not just, “Who does Donald Trump blame?” Who does Breitbart blame?<\/p>\n

PRESENT? Mmf! Right!<\/p>\n

LEWIS: Who does Rush Limbaugh blame?<\/p>\n

HENDERSON: Paul Ryan! Paul Ryan! Paul Ryan!<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Who does Rush Limbaugh blame?” That\u2019s the story. Who am I going to blame if the bill goes down? And that Matt Lewis who said, “Who does Rush Limbaugh blame?” And the answer, Nia-Malika Henderson said, “Paul Ryan! Paul Ryan! Paul Ryan!” So… (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not gonna… I don\u2019t even know that it\u2019s gonna fail. The whole point is all these people are convinced it\u2019s gonna fail. They were convinced Hillary was gonna win. They were convinced Trump was gonna lose. They were so convinced that Hillary was gonna win and that Trump was gonna lose, they weren\u2019t even talking about collusion being the reason for it.<\/p>\n

The reason Trump was gonna lose is \u2019cause he\u2019s a bigot. The reason Trump was gonna lose is because he\u2019s a pig, because Trump is outrageous. He\u2019s mean-spirited. He\u2019s politically incorrect. He makes fun of people. There was no way he\u2019s gonna win. Hillary was gonna continue Obamaism, and that meant perfection and… They weren\u2019t even talking about collusion. They weren\u2019t even talking about it! The collusion they were talking about was the Russians hacking the DNC server (chuckling), which just illustrated how they screwed Bernie Sanders, not how the Russians helped Trump. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, we don\u2019t know it\u2019s gonna fail. (interruption) You mean if it does fail, who am I gonna blame? I\u2019m not gonna answer the question. I\u2019m not gonna answer a hypothetical. It\u2019s a hypothetical that it fails. Why should I participate in this bout of pessimism, defeatism, and negativism? I\u2019m sorry, I instinctively recoil from that stuff. Now, these guys revel in it. They revel in defeatism, pessimism, negativism. They channel it, they talk about it, they analyze it. Naturally, if this vote is at 3:30 or after, then that\u2019s gonna be after this program ends today.<\/p>\n

\"\"So for those wondering (chuckles) who I\u2019m gonna blame, they\u2019ll have to wait \u2019til Monday. I might hide a little blurb on my website to give some indication. We have this little section there called Just In From Rush<\/a>. Whenever I feel like throwing something out… I half the time forget that it\u2019s there. You know, we\u2019ve got this brand-new website design, and it\u2019s awesome. But I forget that we added this feature — and I\u2019m the one that demanded it! Sometimes I just forget it. And then I\u2019ll get caustic emails from subscribers.<\/p>\n

“What, nothing Just In lately, Rush? You\u2019re not thinking about things, huh?” I say, “Oh, my gosh, I haven\u2019t posted a Just In in a long time.” So I might throw out… (interruption) Well, depending on how it happens. How can I know who to blame here if we don\u2019t even know to blame anybody? We don\u2019t know it\u2019s gonna fail. Now, you\u2019re trying to suck me in to naming names here on a hypothetical that it fails. I don\u2019t know. You know, my gut, instinctive answer to things like that is to find the nearest Democrat, \u2019cause I think when you want to talk about failure and what…<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t, Rush!” I can hear you. “That\u2019s a cop-out, Rush. We\u2019re talking Republicans here. The Democrats are not a factor.” They are when you get to the Senate, and that has a lot to do with the way things are being done in the House. But you can never… Look, I get blue in the face. You can never forget how establishment Washington, establishment Capitol Hill wants Trump to fail. This is… It\u2019s not even personal in many ways, just self-preservation. Look, you\u2019ve spent your life trying to get into this elite club, and one of the reasons you want to get in is \u2019cause it\u2019s really, really special, and you\u2019re in it because not just everybody\u2019s qualified — oh no!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really special, and they do things that other people just can\u2019t do. They know things other people don\u2019t know. They know things other people are not allowed to know. They are really, really important people in the establishment. Well, the last thing they want is some neophyte flying in on a gold-plated airplane (laughing) taking over and showing everybody how, “Hey, it\u2019s not that complicated, and it\u2019s not that hard — and in fact, much of what\u2019s been going on here is a bunch of BS.” So they don\u2019t want… And I\u2019m not sure Trump is aware of this, folks.<\/p>\n

To be honest with you, I\u2019m not sure Trump really knows how much institutional opposition he has. Not political. But just institutional, in terms of him being the outsider. If you\u2019ve been running… Let me use this term loosely. If you\u2019ve been running a scam for decades, and you\u2019ve been getting away with it, and one of the ways you get away with it is you keep what you do and how you do it removed from public view… I mean, the things that really happen, the people that really make it happen, the things end up really happening, you don\u2019t see. You hear it discussed in traditional political terms, but the real power behind the scenes, you don\u2019t see it. And it all gets upset one day by somebody that has never spent a day in that system.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a scary, frightening thing.<\/p>\n

It blows up your entire universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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