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RUSH: To the audio sound bites we go. State-Controlled Media advising the White House, ‘Tell the Democrats to pass health care or they\u2019ll lose.\u2019 This is the mantra of the day. ‘Look, you\u2019re gonna get hammered anyway, you may as well pass this thing.\u2019 That\u2019s the message coming out of the White House. Democrat pundits are all advising their pal Rahm Emanuel to tell Democrats they\u2019ll lose if they don\u2019t pass it.<\/p>\n

BEGALA: Democrats had better decide whether they\u2019re more likely to lose their seat, will they lose their job if they don\u2019t pass health insurance reform or are they more likely to lose their job if they do?<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: If you don\u2019t do this, you will lose. He\u2019s gotta threaten them with that.<\/p>\n

MADDOW: Health care must be passed. Unless the Democrats want to commit suicide, they\u2019re going to have to pass something.<\/p>\n

DEAN: We gotta be tougher. Democrats haven\u2019t been tough enough.<\/p>\n

TODD: Failure would make it even worse in November.<\/p>\n

MADDOW: This is the time to hit the gas if you don\u2019t want to be thought of as failures.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: This is Vegas, Baby, double down. They\u2019re going to go for this nuclear option. They\u2019re going to say, ‘This is it. We\u2019re doing everything.\u2019 And you bet they are going to the wire, Baby.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s last night when the emotions were fresh and raw after the shock and awe and the surprise of Scott Brown\u2019s victory. These pundits are literally advising them to just take a full-fledged dive off the cliff. When you got Jim Webb and Claire McCaskill and Barney Frank and Bill Delahunt, ‘We need to stop what we\u2019re doing right now,\u2019 but they\u2019re just urging them, urging them to just go commit suicide. And of course we hope that they do. Anthony Weiner in New York last night, CNN, he\u2019s not buying it. He doesn\u2019t like this. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

WEINER: They\u2019re talking as if like what our deal and what our negotiations are at the White House. Yeah, if then the last line is pigs fly out of my ass or something like that. (laughter) You know, I mean it\u2019s just — it\u2019s just we\u2019ve gotta recognize we\u2019re in an entirely different scenario. When you have large numbers of citizens in the United States of America who believe this is going in the wrong direction, there\u2019s a limit to which you can keep saying that, ‘Okay, they just don\u2019t get it. If we just pass a bill, they\u2019ll get it.\u2019 No. I mean, I think that — that we should maybe internalize it that we\u2019re not doing things entirely correctly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s not buying what the pundits are saying. He says, ‘Yeah, this is going to help us like pigs flying out of my ass.\u2019 He actually said that on CNN. And Lawrence O\u2019Donnell last night on PMSNBC was asked this question: ‘How is this going to end? How is it going to end?\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Every scenario people come up with, I can sit here and tell you why it won\u2019t work. But I don\u2019t know, maybe this is the time they land the plane on the Hudson. I just have never seen anyone — any process that could get beyond what\u2019s happening tonight. Losing that 60th vote, as far as every maneuver I know, loses you the bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Loses you the bill. I guarantee you, it\u2019s easy for these pundits to tell these elected Democrats, ‘Hey, yeah, you better pass it, you better pass it, you\u2019re in deep trouble if you don\u2019t.\u2019 But the people whose jobs require being elected are looking at this in an entirely different way, folks. They\u2019re looking at maybe if we don\u2019t sign this we\u2019re safer. If the American people don\u2019t want it and you pass it anyway, where does that leave you with the American people? Hmm?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to know what the conventional wisdom is in Washington, DC, you listen to one guy. There is one go-to guy for the conventional wisdom, if you want to know what everybody is really thinking in Washington, whether they\u2019re saying it or not, you go to David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen. He is the personification of Washington conventional wisdom. And last night on CNN\u2019s coverage of the Massachusetts massacre, Wolf Blitzer spoke with David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen. And Wolf Blitzer said, ‘We\u2019ve talked before about how it\u2019s taken them so long, the Democrats, without any Republicans to try to get some health care reform passed. The longer and longer it went on, the more difficult it would become.\u2019 <\/p>\n

GERGEN: We\u2019re probably seeing the obituary written tonight for universal access on health care, and it\u2019s been a dream of Democrats now for, you know, 70-plus years. This vote is going to be a vote heard around the world because it\u2019s going to have enormous implications. I think health care is very unlikely to pass in its current form. Cap and trade on energy and environment, I think that now has — it\u2019s extremely difficult to get that done in this Congress. Immigration reform I think is probably dead this year. Regulatory reform is going to be very watered down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, he just said that the entire Obama agenda — well, not the entire Obama agenda, he\u2019s going to nationalize banks, he has nationalized Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, he\u2019s nationalized car companies. And he\u2019s nationalized the school loan program. If you want a student loan you gotta go to the government to get it now, where there\u2019s no competition, by the way, for interest rates. Ahem. But David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen in crisis. I mean these are the four biggies. Health care reform, done. Immigration reform, done. Cap and trade, done. Regulatory reform, done. That\u2019s David ‘Rodham\u2019 Gergen. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Vic in Binghamton, New York. Nice to have you on the program. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. Very much of a pleasure to finally get through and talk to you, a longtime listener. Mega dittos. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re doing real well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling to I guess join in the passion on the theme for today, which is after watching the victory speech last night, hesitantly turning to MSNBC to watch — I\u2019m still astonished by the spin. I know you\u2019ve touched on it today but it\u2019s just absolutely astonishing to me. I can\u2019t figure out if these folks are just plain in denial or if there\u2019s a deeper, more heinous deal in the works. I mean it\u2019s unbelievable, they couldn\u2019t even admit to the very platform he ran on. The folks in America, you know, myself —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me jump in and help out. You are trying to accomplish the impossible. You are applying rational thought to entirely irrational behavior and thought. There\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to understand this. There\u2019s no way a reasonable person will understand anything on MSNBC.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can appreciate that. I mean basically —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s fun to try to analyze it. It\u2019s fun to try to figure it out. It\u2019s fun to come up with all the possibilities but you\u2019ll never know for sure unless you join the ranks of the irrational.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Which I\u2019m not going to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Because it will all make sense to you if you do that. Do you think doctors understand insane people or are they just trying to treat them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just trying to treat them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a little bit of an understanding but, yeah, I understand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Anybody insane been cured?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I don\u2019t believe so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doesn\u2019t happen. (laughing) So I mean it\u2019s an exercise in futility if you\u2019re trying to be serious about it. Make it an entertainment project, tune in to laugh. If you\u2019re going to tune in and watch this stuff and get all hot and bothered and lathered up, big mistake.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I appreciate that. But it still astonishes me. I mean the folks who voted for the current administration and then they see the folks turn on them like you\u2019ve talked so diligently about, ‘We\u2019re going to reach across the aisle and have this on C-SPAN and have everyone involved,\u2019 and then they go lock themselves in the back room like cockroaches in the dark, it\u2019s been just pathetic and I think folks like myself are just furious about this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, one thing you\u2019ve gotta understand. I can help out a little here. If you\u2019re gonna watch these people at MSNBC, and to a slightly, ever so slightly lesser extent at CNN, particularly on their analyst stuff, you\u2019ve gotta understand one thing. They are more oriented, they\u2019re more animated, they are more focused on defeating and criticizing, impugning conservatives than they are advancing their own agenda. They really are. They will pass a rotten piece of legislation just to keep us from stopping it more than they think it\u2019s good. That\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing all these pundits say, ‘You gotta pass the bill!\u2019 What\u2019s unsaid is, ‘We can\u2019t let them win. You gotta pass this bill. It\u2019s going to be worse for you if you don\u2019t. You gotta pass this bill!\u2019 What that means is, ‘We can\u2019t let the Republicans, we can\u2019t let the conservatives win! Not when we have these majorities.\u2019 That\u2019s what animates them. Look we\u2019re a bigger enemy to these people than Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But yet they turn on Republicans and say we don\u2019t have, you know, free market solutions for some of the same problems, which are presented all the time on this program and Hannity. It\u2019s unbelievable to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look at Chile. Have you seen what\u2019s happened in Chile? They have had a huge turn to the right. We may all be moving there someday, folks, instead of New Zealand. I\u2019ll find the story here in the stack. This is from the Investor\u2019s Business Daily: ‘Chile\u2019s Shift To Right Is A Bellwether — There\u2019s nothing like success to breed a taste for it. Chile\u2019s dramatic shift from left to right in Sunday\u2019s election is that of an already prospering country preparing to soar. Word of this will spread far in the region. … Instead of blaming the gringos and waging class warfare in Che T-shirts, they balanced their budget and respected private property. Instead of squandering a $19 billion state windfall from soaring copper prices, they managed it. They continued Pinochet\u2019s free-market privatization of pensions without reflexively opposing its origins, and signed free trade pacts with any nation that asked. Result: poverty cut by two thirds from 45% to 15%, and per capita income up from $1,400 in 1986 to $15,000 in 2009. This built a tax base for Concertacion to do what it valued: expand social services.\u2019 So I mean Chile is rebounding, and they are doing so by moving right. The evidence is all over the place, including in this country. They don\u2019t want see it because they want the power of statism. They want the power of control over people\u2019s lives. Believe me they\u2019re not interested in a roaring economy. If they were they wouldn\u2019t be doing what they\u2019re doing to the slush funds. It\u2019s just simple.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it\u2019s amazing. Hey, can I add one more quick point?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually, I just wanted to say as an individual, first Republican, legitimate, that has inspired me. I mean this gentleman is the first one that has ran that was not ashamed, he was unapologetic about his belief system. I mean most of the folks we\u2019ve had in our leadership position have either, as you\u2019ve mentioned many times, tried to kind of walk the middle line or reach across the aisle or what have you. This man finally, he came out and said, yes, I support, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. He was not afraid to say what he believed and he learned how to articulate it in a persuasive, confident way. He wasn\u2019t worried about what the people in the salons of Georgetown and on the Upper West Side would think of him. He wasn\u2019t worried what they would think of him in the Back Bay. He just, ‘Here\u2019s who I am,\u2019 with no embarrassment or self-consciousness about it at all. There are so many lessons to learn here, so many lessons, lessons that are taught daily on this program. Thanks for the call out there. I appreciate it, Vic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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