{"id":241272,"date":"2017-07-19T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=241272"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:22:43","slug":"trump-calls-out-gop-senators-and-sells-the-replacement-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/19\/trump-calls-out-gop-senators-and-sells-the-replacement-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls Out GOP Senators and Sells the Replacement Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: President Trump gave a little speech before the luncheon that he had with GOP senators up at the White House, and this is so long overdue. Well, let me just stick with the facts here. Trump, in giving his speech to these Republicans at the White House lunch, laid out the horrors of Obamacare. You know, everybody talks about how it\u2019s imploding and everybody talks about how it\u2019s disintegrating and how premiums are rising and insurance companies are pulling out exchanges and the exchanges are dwindling away.<\/p>\n

But nobody details the actual horrors of this. So Trump\u2019s decided to do it. He detailed what\u2019s wrong with Obamacare. He then told these senators that they\u2019re close. He said they shouldn\u2019t leave town until they get this right. Repeal and replace. He said Obamacare is crashing the middle class and it is crushing the country, and any senator who is against even starting debate is saying they are for Obamacare. He took some time to also trash the Democrats who are obstructing things who have no ideas. This is piece de resistance.<\/p>\n

\"\"Because this doesn\u2019t happen is why I have evolved my theory that Republicans don\u2019t really want this to be repealed and don\u2019t really want Trump to win, and that is they never sell the plan. Does anybody know what these plans really contained? You don\u2019t, because the people behind them didn\u2019t even sell them. The lack of confidence here has been stunning. Trump says, “You people in the Republican Party need to get better at marketing your ideas and what you believe,” and he pointed out some things that the repeal and replace bill would have done.<\/p>\n

It would repeal the individual mandate. It would repeal two of the three different kinds of mandates there are. It would permit the sale of insurance across state lines. Premiums. Trump told these Republican senators that premiums will come down 60 to 70%. He said, “Nobody mentions that. Nobody talks about that,” and he said, “The reason it\u2019s gonna happen is because of more competition. If you permit the insurance companies to sell across state lines,” which they really don\u2019t want to do. The insurance companies…<\/p>\n

Snerdley couldn\u2019t believe it when I pointed this out yesterday<\/a>. They\u2019ve been one of the major obstacles to this. They love it! Everybody in monopolies, they love guaranteed markets with no competition. Trump reminded these people the bill that was up for grabs here would expand coverage, would expand options, would have protected preexisting conditions and would have allowed pretax-dollars to pay for insurance premiums. A bunch of senators applauded Trump\u2019s speech. Now, he can chastise them all day long for not doing the marketing. But some of the blame goes to him on that too.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, no, here\u2019s what I mean. I think there\u2019s an interesting parallel. You know, one of my oft-stated beliefs of one of the problems the Republican Congress encountered in 1995, they were elected for the first time, Republicans running the House for the first time in 40 years in the 1994 campaign. And in 1995 they assume office, and they made a fatal mistake. They assumed by virtue of them winning the House, that the country had overnight transitioned to majority conservative.<\/p>\n

And so they stopped teaching, and they stopped explaining why they were doing what they were doing. Which allowed the Democrats to savage them when they were balancing the budget. “Oh, you\u2019re doing it on the backs of the children. You\u2019re doing it on the backs of the poor. You\u2019re starving our children. You\u2019re starving our elderly.” And the Republicans, “No, no, no, no, we\u2019re just balancing the budget. This is fiscal responsibility.” They stopped teaching.<\/p>\n

\"\"In this Obama debate I think something similar has happened. Trump gave a speech today before lunch with senators in which he detailed some of the things wrong with Obamacare beyond what are in the news. “Well, the exchanges are failing, and the premiums are rising.” He detailed some of the horrors here that cannot go on. And then he extolled the virtues of the replacement plan, which nobody in the in the Senate has done.<\/p>\n

Why not? Well, there could be many reasons, but I think one of the many is that Republicans just assume that Obamacare\u2019s bad and has to go. There\u2019s no reason to tell anybody why it\u2019s bad because everybody knows. They just assume it. And because everybody knows how bad it is, they leave it to people to assume that the replacement\u2019s gonna be better. I think it\u2019s a communications problem. They have stopped, or they have not begun, to explain the virtues of their replacement at the same time they explain what\u2019s wrong with Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows Obamacare isn\u2019t working. Tell \u2019em why. But there\u2019s been too great an assumption, particularly on the part of Republican voters, “Well, they all know it stinks, they voted against it. They voted for us to get rid of it. They know how bad it is.” Never hurts to give details. But then when it comes to the replacement, if you\u2019ve got this great replacement bill, sell it. Sing its praises. Point out its virtues. Get people behind it.<\/p>\n

There are two ways you can do this. You can get people behind the replacement by telling people what\u2019s in it that they want to support, or you can say, “This Obamacare is so bad, we need you calling Washington and telling these senators that they\u2019d better not –” You know, focus on the positive. If there\u2019s virtue in the replacement bill sing its praise.<\/p>\n

Well, Trump did in his speech today. Nobody else is. They\u2019re all acting embarrassed of it. They\u2019re all acting like it\u2019s insufficient. They\u2019re all acting like they don\u2019t really believe in it. It\u2019s the craziest thing, given how they have campaigned so consistently on getting rid of it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Barry in Folsom, California. Great to have you with us. How you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n