John Kasich\u2019s alluded to it<\/a>, and even this morning Mr. Newt alluded to it. Mr. Newt said… You know, now, Mr. Newt is a dyed-in-the-wool Washington tactician, politician, strategy maker and all that, and Mr. Newt said on Fox News today that Trump should not do tax reform next. Instead, make a call to Schumer, start working with the Democrats on the infrastructure bill, because Trump needs a win — Trump needs a legislative victory — and the Democrats will happily work with him on the infrastructure bill.<\/p>\nSo this is the kind of pressure that\u2019s gonna be applied to the Republicans. That\u2019s what Trump is doing. I don\u2019t know if Newt\u2019s doing that or not. But clearly there\u2019s a lot of anger — and deservedly so — for the House Republicans, the leadership and the various caucuses in there. But I think if Trump reaches out… I\u2019m not predicting this, but I think it\u2019s a very likely, very possible scenario. And if it ever does become something I predict is gonna happen, I\u2019ll let you know.<\/p>\n
But I think the Democrats are salivating at the opportunity to work with Trump. I think they\u2019re licking their chops. I think privately the Democrats can\u2019t believe the good fortune that has been dropped in their lap by what happened with this bill. Now, on the other side of it, had this bill passed, that was its own set of problems and challenges. It was not gonna be a panacea either way. But let\u2019s deal with it as the bill failed first, because it did. So I can see Democrats happily joining Trump to fix Obamacare.<\/p>\n
I can see the Democrats happily joining Trump to work with him on his trillion-dollar infrastructure thing. I do not see the Democrats working with Trump to help him on tax reform unless the rich somehow get soaked in it, and I do not see the Democrats joining Trump and helping him on the border and on the wall. Trump is going to need Republicans for that and tax reform. Now, when you get to the Senate and Trump working with the Senate, let\u2019s say on the infrastructure bill, or maybe anything at this point… You say, “But, Rush! But, Rush! The Republicans own the Senate.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, they do. But can you not see Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and John McCain and Lindsey Graham, at minimum, joining with the Democrats and supporting Trump on, say, an infrastructure bill? Can you not see minimum four Republicans joining the Democrats to give them a majority on an infrastructure bill? Obviously, the Democrats will not help Trump on everything. But on some certain initiatives, they would. Now, where does this leave the House Republicans? Well, first let\u2019s talk about something else.<\/p>\n
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What would happen to this insane, lunatic Democrat base if all of a sudden Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi start working with Trump? Remember, the Democrat base has lost its mind. The Democrat base is obsessed with “resistance.” To the Democrat base, Trump is Hitler, Trump is incompetent, Trump is this, Trump\u2019s got to be destroyed — and over here we still have this story with the intelligence, Russia collusion and the things the Democrats are trying to do there. And the Democrat base is fired up, and they want Trump impeached. They want Trump gone. They want…<\/p>\n
They\u2019re doing books and movies about Trump assassinations. They just want Trump gone. What happens if Schumer and Pelosi decide to join forces with Trump on a couple of things that Republicans don\u2019t believe in? And when I say “don\u2019t believe in,” I mean in an ideological sense, like trillion-dollar infrastructure program or any number of other things. Obamacare — repealing, replacing, expanding it, whatever it is. So that would be a problem that the Democrats would have, because they\u2019re not gonna be able to see Trump as a good guy all of a sudden.<\/p>\n
I think Washington\u2019s Democrats don\u2019t see Trump in any way the way the base does. They have stoked it. The Democrat leadership in the House and Senate has clearly, and the media, has stoked all this irrational hatred of Trump. But the Democrats themselves are not really there. Trump is somebody they have to deal with, and they\u2019ll happy portray him as out of his mind. They\u2019ll happy portray him as something that\u2019s got to go. But they do not actually think of him the way their base is. And they have created that; they\u2019re responsible for it.<\/p>\n
That would be a big problem for them if they decide to join forces with Trump. They would then have to explain to their base how they have won, how they have spun everything and they\u2019ve turned Trump into one of them. Now, in all of this scenario, if any of this happens, what are we left with?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re left here with the Republicans over in the House. And I know what you\u2019re saying, “Rush, it doesn\u2019t matter. If Trump gets together with the Democrats on infrastructure or anything else, that\u2019s only gonna give \u2019em the Senate. The Republicans still own the House by a huge majority and can stop anything Trump and the Democrats do.”<\/p>\n
Yeah. And what does that do? Imagine the media, imagine the pictures. Here you have Trump and Schumer and the Democrats and whoever eagerly talking about fixing the roads and the bridges and the schools and all that. And Trump and the Democrats working together, say, on the VA to fix that or whatever. And over here, who is seen as stopping it? Who is seen in that scenario as opposing it?<\/p>\n
Well, who\u2019s always portrayed as stopping things? Who\u2019s always portrayed as opposing? Who is always portrayed as being against progress? There they sit, the Republicans in the House of Representatives. Trump can be portrayed by the Democrats as having grown, as having learned in office, that he\u2019s seen, even though he is a Republican, and that he tried. Look what they did to him on health care, the Democrats will say. And the media, if they decide they want to throw in with Trump, it won\u2019t be hard to characterize this as Trump having grown massively, as Trump having really learned quickly how Washington really works.<\/p>\n
And over here, as the lone opponents, will be the Republicans and all of their caucuses in the House. None of this we would even be discussing if that bill had not been pulled for a vote on Friday. And this scenario is exactly why there is so much blame going around. It\u2019s why so many people are spending so much time trying to focus the blame on Ryan, on Trump — and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard all of the theories.<\/p>\n
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Ryan, the Republicans, don\u2019t know how to lead, they didn\u2019t even want to lead. They didn\u2019t even think they were gonna win. They didn\u2019t want to be in this position. The Republicans are happier in second place being the brakes on an operation. They\u2019re happy to oppose, but they don\u2019t want the pressure of leading, and therefore they don\u2019t know how. Here they have all of these votes as a majority in the House, even have a majority in the Senate, can\u2019t get anything done. They don\u2019t want to get it done.<\/p>\n
Theory number two: Republicans in the House are no different than Democrats in Washington. They\u2019re all of the establishment. They all don\u2019t like Trump. They\u2019re all angry Trump won and so the first order of business here is to sabotage Trump and make sure Trump doesn\u2019t accomplish anything. There\u2019s that theory.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the theory that it\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault. That Trump didn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in the bill. That Trump didn\u2019t even take the time to learn it. That Trump didn\u2019t even try to sell the bill based on what it really is. That Trump tried to sell it by bringing people up and saying, “I\u2019m Donald Trump. I do the art of deals, and therefore you will support it.” That Trump didn\u2019t know what was in it. That he dispatched his aides to go up there and get it. That all Trump wanted was a win, he didn\u2019t care what was in it. If anything in it was bad, fix it in phase 2, fix it in phase 3.<\/p>\n
He needed a win right off the bat, dispatched his ace legislative team to go up to Capitol Hill and tell \u2019em what\u2019s for and to tell \u2019em if they don\u2019t do what\u2019s right the ultimatum that Trump\u2019s gonna really blame them and hold \u2019em responsible. There\u2019s all kinds of theories. Everybody\u2019s got their own theory as to whose to blame and who\u2019s responsible for this, because it is a big deal.<\/p>\n
The Republican Party wins the House — I should more properly state, maintains the House and grows their majority there. The Republican Party wins the Senate. The Democrats lose over a thousand seats in elections since 2010. The Republicans win the White House with an outsider who claims he wants to go in and drain the swamp, and with all of this momentum and with all of this inertia, (raspberry). The first legislative effort falls flat on its face, and there\u2019s embarrassment everywhere.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s trying to affix blame. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s trying to say that everybody else, but not them, is responsible for this. Now, what are the upsides of all this? Well, the upsides of all this is the bill stunk. The bill was absolutely rotten. The bill was not the bill that was passed in 2015 and sent up to Obama that Obama vetoed. The Republicans got together, House and Senate, and they passed a repeal and replace bill. And this bill was designed for the campaign. It was designed to get Obama\u2019s veto, which it did. It was designed to illustrate what they were gonna do if they were elected. And it had all the ingredients in it that were not in this bill.<\/p>\n
So the question is, between 2015, early 2016, when Obama vetoed it, and now, what happened? Why did they change the bill, and then who changed the bill? And no matter who you talk to, the answer to that question is, the House leadership changed the bill. And by changing the bill, what did they do? Let me tell you what was taken out of the bill in 2015, House and Senate voted on it, sent up to the White House, Obama vetoed it. All the Obama regulations that were taken out this bill put back in.<\/p>\n
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The subsidies, not all of them, but a vast majority of the subsidies in Obamacare were removed in the 2015 bill. They were put back in the bill that was voted down last Friday. And the Medicaid expansion in the 2015 bill, it was removed. And in this bill, it was added back in. And what we got as a result of that was a continuation of Obamacare. The 2015 bill effectively removed much of Obamacare. The House leadership put that stuff back in.<\/p>\n
Now, did they do it because Trump said to do it? Did they do it \u2019cause Trump wanted it? Did Trump even know? Did Trump not care who was responsible? We still can\u2019t get the final answer. In addition to that, what also was taken out — well, it wasn\u2019t actually taken out in the 2015 bill, but what has now remained in the bill that was voted down was fewer insurance companies, not more. There was not gonna be any removal of the limit on selling insurance across state lines.<\/p>\n
So there are a whole lot of unanswered questions here. There\u2019s a lot of curiosity and a lot of suspicion about this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think the Democrats are really feeling their oats over this, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they filibuster Gorsuch. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they do anything as a result of this vote.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to health care for a minute, and I want to back up that potentially negative scenario \u2019cause, folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something: If this negative scenario — and, again, I just want to remind you, I\u2019m not predicting it. But you look down the road, you can see things. I understand the school of thought which is it\u2019s no big deal. It\u2019s not a big deal. I mean, health care\u2019s a complicated thing, and this really did chew off a big bite. It was really, really unlikely. And then the fact that there was gonna have to be phase 2 and phase 3, just not a big deal.<\/p>\n
It is a big deal, and it\u2019s a big deal for a host of reasons. Donald Trump told his voters that there were gonna be winning so much they were gonna get tired of it. He said, “You\u2019re gonna be calling Mr. President, could you lose a couple here and there? We\u2019re winning so much, I\u2019m getting tired of winning.” Trump said politicians are stupid, the leaders are stupid, they do dumb things, stupid things, need to get in there and do things right, need to go in there and drain the swamp. People elected Trump because they expected this exact kind of thing to not happen.<\/p>\n
They expected that Trump was gonna go in and shake these guys in Washington by the shoulder and say, “You\u2019ve gotta stop doing these dumb things. We\u2019re gonna take these things one at a time and we\u2019re gonna fix them. Didn\u2019t happen here, if that\u2019s really what was intended. How deep do you want to go with this, folks? How deep do you want me to go in coming up with various theories?<\/p>\n
Try this. There is a theory here that the Machiavellian Steve Bannon wanted this to fail and wanted it to fail to actually help Trump in two ways: A, You blame it on Ryan. Make sure everybody realizes that Paul Ryan is who\u2019s standing in Trump\u2019s way. Create movement and inertia to get rid of Ryan, because Bannon doesn\u2019t like him anyway, according to news accounts and reports even before the election, during the campaign. And so the loss here has a long-game aspect to it. This bill never had a chance of passing, it never had a chance, goes the theory, because the bill was horrible. The bill was Obamacare. It left too much of Obamacare intact. It had to go down to defeat.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s another aspect. Not only do you blame Ryan, you get to blame the conservatives. You throw most of the blame on the Freedom Caucus, Mark Meadows and his gang, as the usual culprits. The conservatives are always the ones standing in the way. See? They\u2019re the ones that wouldn\u2019t move. They\u2019re the ones that denied the new president. They\u2019re the ones that stood in the way of Trump winning, they\u2019re the ones, they\u2019re the ones. Trump is not ideological. And there is a war on conservatives in Washington every day. There has been a war on conservatives every day for the last 50 years.<\/p>\n
So it just depends on how deeply you want to take this. But I\u2019d rather try to say focused on the reality of this, and the reality is the bill failed. Now, you can juice that up by getting into the theories of why, who\u2019s to blame, could Trump have stopped this? I mean, the people over at Vox — let me find this one little passage here to explain how the people at Vox were reporting this. They basically said that here you have Donald Trump, a president who doesn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in the bill, had no idea what was in it.<\/p>\n
Here it is. “Donald Trump promised to be a different kind –” now, Vox is a Millennial, left-wing news outfit, and their game is that they don\u2019t report the news; they explain it. That\u2019s how they allow their opinion to be inserted into the news. And so Ezra Klein, who used to be at the Washington Post, said,<\/p>\n
“Donald Trump promised to be a different kind of president. He was a populist fighting on behalf of the ‘forgotten man,\u2019 taking on the GOP establishment, draining the Washington swamp, protecting Medicaid from cuts, vowing to cover everyone with health care and make the government pay for it. He was a pragmatic businessman who was going to make Washington work for you, the little guy, not the ideologues and special interests.<\/p>\n
“Instead, Trump has become a pitchman for Paul Ryan and his agenda. He\u2019s spent the past week fighting for a health care bill he didn\u2019t campaign on, didn\u2019t draft, doesn\u2019t understand, doesn\u2019t like to talk about, and can\u2019t defend. Rather than forcing the Republican establishment to come around to his principles, he\u2019s come around to theirs — with disastrous results.”<\/p>\n
This is intended as a theory of how Ryan played Trump. Now, this is not the health care bill Trump campaigned on, by the way, the specifics of this bill. The bill that Trump campaigned on, if there is such a thing, is the one that was passed in 2015 and sent up to Obama, who vetoed it. This is an entirely different beast. They threw things back in this bill from 2015, the House leadership did. Trump did not write this, there\u2019s no question, but he did praise Paul Ryan to the hilt, and he joined right with Paul Ryan on this thing.<\/p>\n
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When he was selling the bill, he was not selling the bill, when he had these congressmen up to the White House. He was not getting into the bill and telling them what was good about the bill and why they needed to support it. He was selling it on the basis that he wanted it, that the party needed it, we need this win, it was almost a win one for the Gipper kind of thing. The Republicans with all their different factions said to heck with that, the bill is bad. The conservative caucus didn\u2019t like it in any way, shape, manner, or form. The Tuesday Group didn\u2019t like it \u2019cause it was too conservative. The conservatives didn\u2019t like it \u2019cause it was too moderate, and the one thing missing in it was Trump.<\/p>\n
He was trying to unify all these people with the power of personality and power of persuasion. And so now the gaming and the scheming begins. Here\u2019s where I think the Democrats are, folks. I think the Democrats are feeling their oats like they can\u2019t believe. The psychological graph here: You go to election night; they think they\u2019re gonna win in a landslide. Then they don\u2019t. And the bottom has fallen out. And they can\u2019t believe it. It is hell on earth. It\u2019s one thing to lose when you expect to lose. You prepare yourself for it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s another thing to lose when you lose by a landslide that you thought you were gonna win in a landslide. So they had to scramble the decks. They had to reorient and redo everything. And they had to go from a massive, upbeat, optimistic, “We\u2019re gonna finally take over America and make it a socialist empire!” They had to go from that to nothing but total resistance, realizing they didn\u2019t have the numbers to stop anything, on top of having lost a thousand seats. Now where are they? The first attempt to get rid of their baby — national health care, Obamacare — blows up.<\/p>\n
And it blows up not because of anything they did. It blows up because their opponents don\u2019t know how to win. I\u2019m thinking the Democrats have to be feeling their oats right now, don\u2019t you? I\u2019m thinking the Democrats are on cloud nine. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they filibuster Gorsuch. They just announced they\u2019re gonna delay the committee vote on Gorsuch for a week. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the Democrats today are thinking they can stop everything now, that Trump is not gonna get anything, that they can stop his tax reform, they can stop the infrastructure, they can stop anything they want, or they can choose to join Trump on whatever he wants.<\/p>\n
In the process, they can join Trump on whatever is appealing to them and do further damage to the Republicans left out in the cold as nothing more than the illustration of who the real opposition is in Washington. They can\u2019t believe their good luck here. I\u2019m guaranteeing you. So they\u2019re now plotting how to capitalize on all this. Now, where are the opportunities here for Trump and the Republicans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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However, I am the mayor of Realville — and, as such, I accept reality. And I deal with it. I immerse myself in it. I don\u2019t try to pretend it isn\u2019t what it is. And there\u2019s some hard, cold realities that we face here as a result of this vote. Whichever way it goes, whatever happens, this event on Friday was huge. It was big. Don\u2019t listen to people who try to tell you, “Eh, it\u2019s not that big a deal, Rush. I mean, Obamacare — health care in general — is complicated, Rush. You can\u2019t just strip it aside and put it back together inside of 90 days, 60 days here like they were trying.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/KasichConfetti.jpg\")
Trump\u2019s alluded to it,