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RUSH: Now, to illustrate something, we\u2019ve all heard, ad infinitum (sobbing), ‘It\u2019s those damn Republicans! The Republicans are the party of ‘no.\u2019 That\u2019s why Obama can\u2019t get his monument! That\u2019s why Obama can\u2019t get health care, because the Republicans are the party of ‘no.” We heard Evan Bayh say, ‘I can\u2019t get along here, too much gridlock. There\u2019s no bipartisanship,\u2019 and I was pulling my hair out. You guys have all the votes! Up until Scott Brown came along, and that\u2019s just a month ago, you guys had 60 votes in the Senate and who knows what kind of a majority in the House! The Republicans couldn\u2019t stop diddly-squat. So the purpose of this little meeting tomorrow, this theater, is to shift the blame to the Republicans. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s all it is. That\u2019s all the effort is about. This is an easy call. But the dirty little secret is that Pelosi doesn\u2019t have the votes for a reconciled Senate version of health care. Eric Cantor is out there saying so. The Democrats, Pelosi and Obama, have asked too many of these guys to walk the plank for this, and a lot of them don\u2019t want to walk the plank because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth it. What\u2019s Obama done for them? Obama has done nothing but make their lives miserable. Their political lives are miserable. Here they thought they were going to enter the happiest time of their lives, supermajority control of the Senate, big time majority control of the House — and, look! <\/p>\n

This place is no different than a den of thieves and a pack of wild dogs. There\u2019s nobody on the Democrat side having any fun doing anything, and it\u2019s all Obama\u2019s fault. Yet he\u2019s asking them to fall on the sword, to take a bullet so he gets this health care thing passed. Well, they\u2019re not all on board. His problem remains the Democrats. Here\u2019s Bart Stupak. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to go to Obama\u2019s summit, I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to speak, but this was this morning on America\u2019s Newsroom. Bart Stupak with Bill Hemmer. He\u2019s a Democrat from Michigan and Bill Hemmer said, ‘As it stands now with all these moderate Democrats saying, ‘Hey, this is not the place we want to go right now,” meaning the health care bill, ‘could it even pass the House, do you think?\u2019<\/p>\n

STUPAK: Despite the abortion language, no, there\u2019s other problems with this bill. The president has tried to bridge the House and Senate bill. But at least to the House members I\u2019ve talked to — probably about 15 or 20 of them in the last 24 hours — they\u2019ve said there are other problems with this bill. Remember, the House rejected the idea of passing health insurance plans. We just totally rejected that idea. But yet that\u2019s part of the bill. Parts of the bill doesn\u2019t kick in until 2018. We\u2019re saying, ‘Well, why are we passing the bill now that\u2019s not going to kick in for another eight, nine years?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You just heard a Democrat, Bart Stupak, not to be confused with Joe Sestak. This is Bart Stupak from Michigan. Sestak is from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is run by ‘Fast Eddie\u2019 Rendell and Michigan is being destroyed by Jennifer Granholm. This is a Democrat, Bart Stupak (paraphrased), ‘Nope, not voting for it! I know fifteen or 20 others not voting for it and it\u2019s got to do with a lot more than just abortion. It kicks in for 2018? Why are we rushing to do this now?\u2019 They are beginning to realize it\u2019s all about Obama, and they\u2019re the ones that are gonna pay the price for it. He gets whatever credit there is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget, the Republicans can\u2019t stop anything. They\u2019re not going to get health care in the House because they don\u2019t have enough Democrats who are going to vote for it this time. They do not. Murtha is gone, Abercrombie is leaving. Remember they only had three votes more than they needed. They had 218, they needed 215. Murtha\u2019s gone, he\u2019s not been replaced, Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is retiring. Oh, yeah, Cao the Republican, he\u2019s not voting for it this time. He was the Republican that did in Louisiana. If you do the math right now it does not look like they\u2019ve got the votes. And Stupak\u2019s not going for it and he says there\u2019s a lot of guys not going for it along with him not just because of the abortion stuff but because they don\u2019t even know what they\u2019re doing yet, it\u2019s going to be implemented in 2018 and they don\u2019t understand the reason they got to do this — well, they do understand it. They have to fall on their sword for Obama. They\u2019re not going to say so publicly, it\u2019s all about giving Obama something to run for reelection, it\u2019s all about him and they\u2019re starting to resent this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

John Boehner was with Megyn Kelly on Fox this afternoon about Republicans going up to this health care summit tomorrow. This was the question, the first of two: ‘When I listen to you talk, I think to myself, all right, so nothing\u2019s going to get done, it sounds like nothing new will take place at tomorrow\u2019s summit, he\u2019ll say what he\u2019s been saying, you\u2019re going to say what you\u2019ve been saying?\u2019<\/p>\n

BOEHNER: I guess we\u2019re going to have to see. I can\u2019t predict what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow. I mean the president invited the Republicans and Democrats to come to the White House. I think Republicans need to go. I don\u2019t see any reason to allow the president to have a six-hour infomercial about his bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s theater, it\u2019s nothing more than theater. It\u2019s more talk. So the next question: ‘Well, one Democrat source came out today, predicted this would be a, quote, ‘career-ending vote\u2019 for those who vote ‘yes\u2019 in favor of the bill that winds up coming out of the House or Senate, a Democrat source said that anyone voting ‘yes\u2019 is ending their career. Do you agree?\u2019<\/p>\n

BOEHNER: I do. This is an issue far beyond any issue that I\u2019ve seen during my legislative career, an issue that all Americans understand and have some feelings about. And after everything I\u2019ve seen over the last six or seven months, the American people have been very loud and very aggressive about how bad this bill is, and the fact that we\u2019ve got all these entitlement programs that are going broke and here they are wanting to create a new entitlement program that\u2019s going to cost a trillion dollars right at the beginning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That we don\u2019t have. So that\u2019s John Boehner on Fox this afternoon. Bill, about this, in Beaumont, Texas. Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program. Bill, are you there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much. By the way, I wanted to tell you that you really had some great moves at the pageant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, the dancing at the pageant. Yes, I won the judges dance contest. Absolutely. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You did good. It\u2019s the perfect timing, I wanted to follow up with this thing that you just did from Boehner.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I get the feeling that everybody is just hoping that the Republicans — that here we go, the Republicans are going to a nice little party at the Blair House, da-da-da-da-da. I hope as a Republican, independent, as conservative, my more than wish, my demand of the Republican Party and the people that represent us in Washington is that they have been rehearsing, that they have been playing out the scenarios. I mean, these guys are pros at this. This is what they do for a living. They know what\u2019s going to happen, they know what Obama\u2019s gonna — you know, generally how his game plan is going to run.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you think Obama is going to do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know, but I think it\u2019s pretty clear what he\u2019s going to do. He\u2019s got a plan, he\u2019s going to say this is it, and he\u2019s going to try to start the negotiation with this thing that he\u2019s produced, this outline that he\u2019s produced. I hope they\u2019re Republican representatives have prepared their version of what they would like to see, and I hope they go in there and they are tough, they don\u2019t do what\u2019s politically correct, they do what\u2019s necessary to convey the position of the conservatives in this country. This is a very, very — it\u2019s just insanity that we\u2019re talking about adding the kind of money to our deficit that this bill will add, under any circumstances, be it for the good of 31 million people that aren\u2019t covered by health care or anything else. This country is going down the tube financially. This is the greatest country in the world, we\u2019ve got the greatest people, I just can\u2019t say enough positive things about the citizens of the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, here\u2019s what this is all about. And the answer can be found in what I just told you. Congressional approval is 10%. Obama wants to shift the blame for this not getting done to Congress. That\u2019s what this is about tomorrow. The Republicans and Democrats both know there\u2019s not going to be anything coming out of this summit tomorrow that\u2019s going to end up as a piece of legislation that a majority of Congress or the Senate will vote for. This is an attempt — Obama is going to say, ‘I listened to what the Republicans said, I put some things in there that they want, this is a fully bipartisan –‘ he\u2019s going to say it, he knows he\u2019s got an echo chamber to repeat it, Republicans are going to be on defense, ‘No, no, no, the things we wanted are not in there,\u2019 blah, blah, blah. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to handle it, but I know what the objective is, and the objective is to shift blame to them and take the heat off of the Democrats. The only problem with that is that a lot of Democrats like Stupak are out there saying they want no part of it anyway. So I think the whole thing is a joke, it\u2019s theater, this is where Obama thinks he shines, it\u2019s an attempt to raise his poll numbers. Six hours here, six hours of Obama in campaign mode? That\u2019s the way they\u2019re looking at this. The Republicans know what they\u2019re getting into. They\u2019re just like Democrats. How could they not know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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