{"id":241071,"date":"2017-07-18T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=241071"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:13:14","slug":"what-the-president-must-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/18\/what-the-president-must-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshal Your Base, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, here\u2019s what the president needs to realize. I say this with all humility, by the way. Don\u2019t misunderstand. The president needs to realize that his base is still with him. They are with him as much as they ever have been. In fact, it\u2019s actions like this in the House and Senate that make them even angrier, because it doesn\u2019t make common sense. Most people don\u2019t see the world as I just described it; they see it as Republicans and Democrats, and they think right now the Republicans don\u2019t have a lot of gonads.<\/p>\n

\"\"They don\u2019t think the Republicans have a lot of desire. But that\u2019s as far as it goes. Maybe they understand that Republicans don\u2019t totally support Trump. They wish somebody else had won the nomination. And they think maybe the Republicans are afraid of the media. Whatever, it\u2019s got them angry \u2019cause they don\u2019t understand it (even though they do). The Republican Party owns everything, the House and the Senate. I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s only 52 votes in the Senate. So what? Since when is 52 votes not enough? When does that become a convenient excuse?<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what it is. “Well, we don\u2019t have 60,” and if they had 60 they\u2019d claim they really don\u2019t; it\u2019s really 58, because the desire to do this isn\u2019t there. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. People voted for this because the people that now don\u2019t have the desire to do it assured everybody they were gonna do it during the campaign, and they did do it when they didn\u2019t have the power to make it happen. When they were up against Obama in the White House, they passed repeal legislation every year. They sent it up there; he vetoed it. They can do it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve demonstrated they can do it. They\u2019ve demonstrated they can come together and do it. They\u2019ve demonstrated — the moderates, the women, Latinos, whatever the makeup of the Republican caucus is — they can come together and do it, except when it might actually matter. So the president and his team need to realize his base is still with him. I don\u2019t know if Trump\u2019s discouraged by this stuff or not. I mean, you look at his tweets, and he presents the image of an optimistic, never-giving-up fighter and so forth, which he is. I mean, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n

But to me, there has been way too much reliance on traditional party politics to get this done, and that was never gonna get done because the Republicans don\u2019t want to get it done. They don\u2019t. Everybody sees things through the eyes of the left. All they see is (sobbing) “the grief they\u2019re gonna get for taking away benefits from people.” They don\u2019t see all the people who can\u2019t afford it anymore. They don\u2019t see all the people who literally can\u2019t even afford to use the policies they buy because of the high deductibles. They instead only see the criticism they\u2019re gonna get from the media that they\u2019re killing people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to fight back on this stuff, instead of cowering in the corner and trying to not generate the criticism. Who in the world…? If somebody simply fights back and says, “Are you serious? Our policies are gonna kill people? Let\u2019s look at who\u2019s dying now, if you want to go that route.” There\u2019s any number of ways — if you really want to do this — to fight back on all this stuff, and I think the Democrats are making it easy. The charge that the Republican Party wants to murder people to come is one of the easiest things in the world to rebut and make embarrassing rejoinders out of, embarrassing to the Democrats and the media making the allegation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Plus, it\u2019s predictable. Everybody knows what the Democrats and the media are gonna say, and they gonna say it no matter what the Republicans do. They\u2019re gonna mock \u2019em and make fun of \u2019em and rip \u2019em and destroy \u2019em and criticize \u2019em no matter what they do. It\u2019s been the case for 30 or more years. It\u2019s more, many more than 30 years. But when you see everything through the eyes of the left, when you see everything through the eyes of the media, the way that President Trump is gonna have to make this happen is marshal his army of base supporters.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019ve gotta take the army that you have,” Rumsfeld said. If you\u2019re Rumsfeld, you have to find a way to frighten or intimidate or manipulate or whatever, \u2019cause that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here. I have no doubt Trump\u2019s a patriot, believes in America, wants it to be great again, knows that Obamacare subtracting greatly from that. It has to go. It has to go. No matter what governors will be upset if they lose the benefits. It\u2019s destroying health care! It\u2019s destroying budgets. It\u2019s destroying the whole concept of insurance because the government is running it.<\/p>\n

The greatest insult of all is that when it implodes, then the only recourse is for government to take over all of it with single payer. The government: An institution that demonstrates daily how it cannot compete with the free market in terms of cost, efficiency, timing, you name it. The government excels at bureaucracy and blocking things and roadblocks, all kinds of things. But it doesn\u2019t excel in actually achieving things. Certainly not like it was once able to do, say all the way back in the Great Depression. But even then, it was government relying on the private sector to make things happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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