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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I am required to do this so rarely that whenever I do do it, I always call great attention to it, precisely because it is such a rare occurrence. But I must say that I was wrong, and this is going to detract from my opinion audit. At present I am documented to be almost always right 99.5% of the time. But I rendered an opinion on this health care summit — that is the Republicans should not go — and I was wrong. I want to announce this, not only to the Republicans. (interruption) I don\u2019t think it\u2019s… (interruption) Well, Snerdley is saying, ‘There are still three hours to go here. This might be a little premature.\u2019 At this stage, I\u2019ll reserve the right to retract my announcement that I\u2019m wrong. I do want to make it at this stage of the game, halftime of the health care summit. I want to announce to the media: I was wrong. <\/p>\n

I want to announce to the Republicans that I was wrong. I want to announce to all of you in this audience that I was wrong when I advised the Republicans to skip this summit. (interruption) What\u2019s unseemly, for me to admit that I was wrong? I know. It\u2019s very difficult for people to deal with this. (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not a slave to my accuracy rating. I don\u2019t do things just to keep the rating up. You know, I\u2019m not concerned about polls. I just report what our opinion audit is. But the Republicans need to be commended here for having a pretty good strategery of going up there and ramming this down their throats and not rolling over and playing dead, not rolling over and talking about bipartisanship and not saying, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. President, we really want to work with you. We want to get along.\u2019 They are taking it to him. <\/p>\n

I mean, the president here has been slapped around the room — rhetorically, politically. The president and his team and the Democrats know it. I mean, when we\u2019re reduced here to Louise Slaughter! Isn\u2019t it cool how she can automatically turn on a Mississippi accent any time she wants even though she\u2019s from New York? When Louise Slaughter (who apparently forgets there\u2019s something called Medicaid out there that helps people with teeth, poor people), ‘Oh, can you believe there\u2019s a woman in my district who\u2019s wearing her dead sister teeth? Of course it\u2019s uncomfortable! And they don\u2019t fit. Do you ever believe something like this ever happened in America?\u2019 My friends, I was wrong. It is the Democrats, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Biden, who are coming off like the most unlikable, mean, petulant people that they are. The media can\u2019t cover for them in real time. This is on display for whoever it is that\u2019s watching this. <\/p>\n

I want to commend the Republicans for, at least up to now, sticking to the high arguments of this and making hash out of Obama and the Democrats. So let it be noted that on February 25th at 1:35 Eastern Time: I, Rush Limbaugh, acknowledged being wrong about the Republicans attending the summit. I thought they shouldn\u2019t go. And one of the reasons I thought they shouldn\u2019t go, if you recall, was the polling data. They\u2019re worried about being called the party of ‘no,\u2019 then we were happy to be the party of ‘no.\u2019 Fox News\/Opinion Dynamics on health care: 47% say start over; 23% say do nothing; 23% say pass the current bill. So if you add it up, 70-23 against the current bill. CNN\/Opinion Research: 48%, start over; 25%, don\u2019t do anything; and 25, pass the bill. So in the CNN poll, 73-25 against the current or a similar type bill. The American people do not want this in any way, shape, manner, or form. Now, along the lines of my acknowledging that I was wrong, last night on Campbell Brown\u2019s CNN, she had this little exchange with John Barrasso, Republican Senator from Wyoming.<\/p>\n

BROWN: You heard top Republicans like John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, all saying that this is a trap by the Obama administration. But given you\u2019ve had your cards on the table, the White House has had its cards on the table — for months, essentially — how can this be a trap?<\/p>\n

BARRASSO: Well, I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s an opportunity to compromise. The president said, ‘You know, please, make a good-faith effort,\u2019 and that\u2019s what I want to do. I was surprised last week when he said, ‘Well, I\u2019m going to come out with a bill,\u2019 and he did just three days before this summit, which is supposed to be to get the best ideas the Republicans had to offer and then get them incorporated into a bill. And then for Harry Reid yesterday to say, ‘Well, I\u2019m going to ram it through no matter what,\u2019 that makes me wonder if there\u2019s an agenda behind this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we now know that there is because of The Politico story today, an exclusive, that on Monday they\u2019re going to start the reconciliation process. The theme of the summit here is, ‘The American people are tired the process and just want the bill,\u2019 which they don\u2019t. So, it was a trap. It\u2019s still a trap! And the trap is, the Democrats admit it, put the face on gridlock. And they had that face to be mine, and Boehner\u2019s and the Republicans\u2019 up there. And it just isn\u2019t working out that way. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gail in Pahrump, Nevada, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s a great honor to speak to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I have heard and noticed today and through this whole week, Barack Obama says, ‘Okay, this is our benchmark. We\u2019re gonna start with my plan.\u2019 But what has happened is, he didn\u2019t count on the Republicans coming in and saying, ‘Okay, let\u2019s start with your plan. We don\u2019t like this, this, and this.\u2019 So what it is is he\u2019s just dumbfounded that they even know what they\u2019re talking about, that the benchmark that he set is exactly where they started from. He doesn\u2019t want them to talk about that. And I think they\u2019re coming out wonderful, because I agreed with you. I didn\u2019t want them to go. I\u2019m glad they did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am, too. I had to admit moments ago I was wrong.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I know. I put that down as one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Yes. Yes. <\/p>\n

CALLER: What they were ready to do is they wanted to discuss the differences, what they disagreed with. That\u2019s not what he wanted to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but it is. See, he\u2019s being caught in his own lie because he said let\u2019s come up and see where we can find common ground, and he said, but we\u2019re not starting over. The starting point, you\u2019re right, the baseline is my bill, but he doesn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in it compared to our guys, so that\u2019s a great analogy that you had there. The Republicans are doing exactly what Obama asked them to do and he can\u2019t keep up. And now his own network — folks, you may think it\u2019s a contract with the Olympics. Ha. For women\u2019s hockey? (laughing) His own network\u2019s bummed out of this thing. You gotta go to C-SPAN, even Fox gave up on it. Folks, it\u2019s so bad we turned our microphone off. We can\u2019t even JIP it. We join the crowd in pulling out of there. The only place you can watch this now is C-SPAN. Has CNN got it on? They ditched it, too? Well, that\u2019s a sure sign it\u2019s not going well for the Bamster, folks, sure, sure sign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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