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<\/p>\nRUSH: The judge\u2019s ruling on Obamacare. I have to assume that got discussed here yesterday. (interruption) You don\u2019t know? (interruption) Oh, that\u2019s right. None of you were here for the guest host. (interruption) The guest host came from the igloo, yesterday. (interruption) Okay, that\u2019s right. You know what I don\u2019t get? (interruption) He did not discuss it? Okay. I have just been told that it was not discussed.<\/p>\n
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This is so simple to me, and the fact that it\u2019s so simple and yet what is so simple and obvious is being ignored, is all that you need to know about this. What happened was that a federal judge in Texas ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional ever since the Tax Cut Act of last year or this past year was signed into law because it did away with the mandate. It did away with the personal mandate requiring people to buy health insurance.<\/p>\n
Once that\u2019s gone, that is the foundational pillar of Obamacare.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no funding mechanism for it once that\u2019s gone, and once that\u2019s gone the whole thing is unconstitutional, and the judge said there\u2019s no two ways about this. Obamacare is ununconstitutional. The mandate is what kept it constitutional, and the mandate being kept in it is what Judge Roberts did, or Justice Roberts. The chief justice actually rewrote the law to make it constitutional \u2019cause I didn\u2019t want to be the guy to strike down serious legislation of the first African-American president. Ain\u2019t no way that was gonna happen.<\/p>\n
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So Roberts rewrote it in such a way that the mandate was called a tax, meaning the federal government has the power to tax, the federal government does not have the power to make you or me buy anything. But they do have the power to tax. So Roberts rewrites it, essentially, and calls the mandate a tax. The judge says the tax is gone; tax reform took away the mandate. This law is unconstitutional. Now everybody\u2019s having a cow over it, including Republicans. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What are we gonna do? Oh, my God.”<\/p>\n
This is the greatest illustration they\u2019re not even serious about this!<\/p>\n
Health care, I mean.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Rather than seeing this judge\u2019s ruling as an opportunity, what does all of Washington do? Panic! They panic. They thought they had taken care of health care, swept it under the rug. “Who cares how it works? Who cares how much it costs? We did it.” Now a judge has come along and told \u2019em, “Nope, it\u2019s unconstitutional.” My question is, what do people not understand about unconstitutional? If it\u2019s unconstitutional — and this is gonna be tested all the way back up to Supreme Court, and Justice Roberts is gonna have his chance at it again, and we kind of can predict what\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n
But my point still survives. If it\u2019s unconstitutional, it\u2019s unconstitutional! That ought to mean what it means, and it ought to mean, “Okay, it\u2019s gone. We\u2019ve got to redo it and do it right and let\u2019s do it right for a change!” Nope. Nope. There\u2019s panic. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What are we gonna do? Who\u2019s gonna get blamed for this? Oh, my God.” Democrats and Republicans both don\u2019t want to touch this. It\u2019s too hot a potato. The Democrats are happy for the chaos.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re happy for the Republicans not wanting to be aggressive and go out and grab this thing and fix this finally, rather than leave it as something attached to Obama. And the fact that it\u2019s unconstitutional ought to be all anybody needs to hear. When it comes to everything else, unconstitutional is final. But with this? “No, no, we have to find a way to make it work. Oh, no, we have to find a way to really not change it and make it constitutional.” It\u2019s kind of like, what do people not understand about illegal immigration?<\/p>\n
What is so hard to understand about illegal immigration and wanting to uphold the rule of law? How does that back racism, bigotry, anti-people of color? How does it become any of that? It becomes all of that because of silly politics. “Illegal immigration” is all anybody ought to know and hear about it. But yet all of California, much of Arizona says, “Screw that! We\u2019re gonna have sanctuary cities! We\u2019re gonna enshrine the unconstitutionality and we\u2019re gonna enshrine the illegality of it and (raspberry) you!” There ought to be a serious political price paid for people who willingly spit on the Constitution and the law like this!<\/p>\n
Sarah Sanders has clarified her comments on the wall and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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