{"id":33442,"date":"2009-09-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:55:28","slug":"this_is_why_senator_mccain_lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/09\/10\/this_is_why_senator_mccain_lost\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why Senator McCain Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I have been asked if we got sound bites of McCain this morning on the Today Show. Let me quickly look here at it sound bite roster. I don\u2019t believe so. Let\u2019s see. We don\u2019t have any McCain. What did McCain say on the Today Show? What did he say? Hmm? Hmm? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. He threw Palin under the bus? Well, that\u2019s because Obama gave him a big compliment last night. McCain was out there giving a thumbs up. <\/p>\n<p>Marty in Virginia Beach, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. One of the things that I thought was the most important thing that Obama said last night that we should pay attention to, is he said, &#8216;We\u2019ll make sure you have the health care you need.\u2019 He did not say you want. And who\u2019s determining what we need? The government?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, of course. That\u2019s a good catch on your part, but what he wants people to take from that is, &#8216;Well, we all need health care, we all need it, I\u2019m going to make sure you get it. It\u2019s a need, it\u2019s a right, and I\u2019m going to make sure you get it. And, by the way, I\u2019m going to make sure you get more health care than you got now. I\u2019m going to make sure you got better insurance that you\u2019ve got now. We\u2019re going to make sure that you got greater coverage and you have more coverage, more treatment, anything you want and it\u2019s going to cost you less. It\u2019s going to cost you less.\u2019 (interruption) McCain said that Obama wasn\u2019t lying? This was on the Today Show today? And they asked McCain if he thought Obama was lying? Remember we had audio sound bites of the McCain town hall where the audience was &#8212; (doing McCain impression) &#8216;He\u2019s a great president, he\u2019s a fine man.\u2019 &#8216;No, boo!\u2019 &#8216;My friends, my friends, now, calm down.\u2019 That\u2019s just inside-the-Beltway decorum. That\u2019s why McCain lost. Really no surprise there. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So Cookie went back. We got the audio sound bite from Senator McCain today on the Today Show. He was with Matt Lauer, and the first question from Matt Lauer: &#8216;The outburst came as part of the speech where President Obama talking about illegal immigrants, and he said, &#8216;The reforms I\u2019m proposing would not apply to those who were here illegally.\u2019 That\u2019s when Joe Wilson said, &#8216;You lie.\u2019 So do the reforms that President Obama is proposing cover illegal immigrants or do they not?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>MCCAIN: They do not. Everything that I\u2019ve seen they do not, and it changes the number of uninsured in America down to about 30 million instead of the 47 or so that they talked about before. They do not as far as I can see, nor should they.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is just&#8230; (laughs) Senator McCain, we are in a fight to save this country, and all you can say about the change in the number from 47 million to 30 million is, &#8216;Okay, they\u2019ve taken out the illegals\u2019? (doing McCain impression) &#8216;That\u2019s what that means, Limbaugh! That means they\u2019re not gonna be insuring legals, (grumbling). You see? You hear me? So 47 is gonna become 30!\u2019 On a dime! On a dime, 47 million uninsured becomes 30 million uninsured last night. If somebody wants to trust the running of one-sixth of the economy to these people who just make it up? Are we now to assume that the government\u2019s official tally of illegal aliens is 17 million? Is that what this means? If this keeps up, in two months, there won\u2019t be anybody insured! If in one speech you can lop off 17 million&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Now, the census bureau says 43 in their latest numbers. But Levin in his book Liberty and Tyranny broke all this down. The numbers are so totally distorted. But Senator McCain, the bill in the House legalizes health care for illegal aliens! Boehner went on TV today and read the amendments and pointed out that Republicans offered two amendments to the House bill expressly prohibiting illegal aliens from being covered, and they were defeated. (McCain impression) &#8216;No, it does not. Everything I see, the &#8212; the &#8212; it changes the numbers! As far as I can see, nor should they.\u2019 He thinks all illegal aliens should be given Mideast anyway so what\u2019s the big deal? Next question from Matt Lauer: &#8216;Fact or fiction: Does the president\u2019s plan create anything resembling what is a so-called &#8216;death panel\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>MCCAIN: No, but there is a $500 billion, quote, &#8216;savings\u2019 in Medicare that is called for, which has seniors concerned, and in other countries when they cut back on spending on health care and health care is rationed, then similar things have happened. Americans are concerned about that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So he partially throws Sarah Palin under the bus there which was&#8230; You know, he\u2019s just a useful idiot. They bring him in to do exactly what he did, and that has undercut everything that the Republican opponents, conservative opponents of Obama and health care are saying. He just falls right in line with it. But this is why Senator McCain lost. Here is, by the way, the number, the part of the speech last night where the president just out of the blue, said this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. In just a two-year period, one-in-every-three Americans goes without health care coverage at some point &#8212; and every day, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Fourteen thousand? That must be because of the people losing their jobs because of you. Fourteen thousand a day? Another number just picked out of the thin air. Who? How do we know this? The only way we can know whether this number is accurate is to count the number of losing their jobs \u2019cause they are losing their health care unless they go the COBRA route. You know, 47 million became 30 million last night &#8212; and from this we\u2019re supposed to conclude that the illegals are not going to be covered. This is sleight of hand. Let\u2019s go back, July 22nd of this year.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA JULY 22, 2009: This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don\u2019t have any health insurance at all. Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick or lose their job or change their job.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s &#8216;not just about the 47 million Americans who don\u2019t have any health insurance.\u2019 That was in July.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA SEPTEMBER 9, 2009: There are no more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. In just a two-year period one-in-every-three Americans goes without health care coverage at some point &#8212; and every day 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, it seems to me this is a huge improvement, we haven\u2019t done anything. If on July 22nd there were 47 million uninsured &#8212; and last night, September the 9th, we\u2019re down to 30 million uninsured &#8212; we don\u2019t need to do anything! We\u2019re going in the right detection here. All of a sudden 17 million got health insurance and we haven\u2019t done one aspect of Obama\u2019s plan yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have been asked if we got sound bites of McCain this morning on the Today Show. Let me quickly look here at it sound bite roster. I don\u2019t believe so. Let\u2019s see. We don\u2019t have any McCain. What did McCain say on the Today Show? What did he say? Hmm? Hmm? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. 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