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RUSH: The Talking Points Memo website is all excited. They\u2019re breathless out there. Thirty Democrats have now said that they will vote for the public option via reconciliation in the Senate bill. Have you noticed, by the way, that they\u2019re not using ‘reconciliation\u2019 anymore? They\u2019re talking about ‘simple majority vote,\u2019 as though some basic rule of fairness is being violated here. The Senate itself has a rule: 60 votes except for budgetary items, 60 votes, and the guys who wrote the bill are now saying that they\u2019re victims of something unfair and we just need to get back to ‘simple majority vote.\u2019 They don\u2019t like the word ‘reconciliation\u2019 because people don\u2019t understand that. ‘Simple majority? Why, that sounds infinitely fair. Who could be against a simple majority vote?\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like ‘lockbox\u2019 and ‘risky scheme.\u2019 They come up with all of these phrases. ‘Republicans want to starve kids with the school lunch cuts\u2019 (laughing) and that sort of stuff. You know, maybe what we ought to do here is have ‘simple majority votes\u2019 on abortion and amnesty for illegals. Let\u2019s just have ‘simple majority votes\u2019 on these things. Let\u2019s see how they like ‘simple majority votes\u2019 then. Let\u2019s take their little pet peeve issues and let\u2019s just have ‘simple majority\u2019 votes. In fact, let\u2019s just say you need to get 40% and you win. (laughing) Why make it so hard to win? Now, this is fascinating because Obama is all for reconciliation — I\u2019m sorry, ‘simple majority vote\u2019 — and all these Democrats are out there saying, ‘Yep, simple majority vote! Damn right. I\u2019ll be in there on the public option,\u2019 but then Kent Conrad (D-ND) appeared on Slay the Nation yesterday with the host Bob Schieffer, and Schieffer said, ‘If the leaders in the Senate do decide to try this by reconciliation, what\u2019s going to happen?\u2019<\/p>\n

CONRAD: On the question of reconciliation, I\u2019ve said all year as chairman of the Budget Committee, reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won\u2019t work. It won\u2019t work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation. It was designed for deficit reduction. So let\u2019s be clear.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What he\u2019s saying is right. The only things that reconciliation can be used for are budget items because the Constitution demands the Congress have a budget every year, that the country have a budget. It was Sheets Byrd who wrote the whole rule way back when. Sheets Byrd wrote the rule back in \u201974 exempting budgetary items from the 60 votes. So here\u2019s Congress: ‘It\u2019s not possible, can\u2019t be used,\u2019 and in fact, over the weekend (Saturday or Sunday, I forget) the New York Times had a story and they were really down in the dumps about the prospects of reconciliation, that it wouldn\u2019t work, that it couldn\u2019t be used. When I heard Conrad yesterday on Slay the Nation say what you just heard him say, I thought, ‘Oh, no wonder the New York Times is down.\u2019 So I\u2019m thinking, ‘Where we gonna go from here? What\u2019s really going on here?\u2019 Well, let me try to explain to you, folks. See, here you\u2019ve got Conrad saying, ‘It can\u2019t be used. I mean, it won\u2019t work. It was never designed for that kind of significant legislation. It won\u2019t work.\u2019<\/p>\n

Okay, so what do we have here? What\u2019s the equation? We have rules and we have Democrats. What could possibly go wrong? If you have rules and then you have Democrats, what it means is that the rules may as well not exist. So Conrad, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He may have forgotten what party he\u2019s a member of. (laughing) But if Obama wants this to happen, and happen that way, they\u2019ll find a way around the rules. That\u2019s what this is all about in the first place, is finding a way around the rules. In fact, ‘Obama To Announce Way Forward On Health Care Next Week… ‘probably closer to Wednesday.” His press spokesman, Baghdad Robert Gibbs, said, ‘The President will take into account what he heard yesterday,\u2019 at the health care summit, ‘and make an announcement next week about the way forward. .. [T]he widespread assumption on Capitol Hill is that Obama will address specific changes that he wants made to the Senate\u2019s version of the legislation … and that he will encourage Congress to pass those changes using reconciliation,\u2019 which you just heard Kent Conrad say cannot be done.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is not the first time that the Democrats have tried budget reconciliation to ram health care through. When was the last time they tried this, Snerdley? Remember when the last time they tried this was? Hillarycare. They did. They tried it with Hillarycare, and back then it was in 2001, Byrd made a statement about it. (Byrd impression) ‘In 1993, my owwwwwwwn Democratic leadership…\u2019 Sorry. It will take me \u2019til Tuesday to read this statement that way. He said, ‘In 1993, my own Democrat leadership…\u2019 Now, listen to this. ‘In 1993, my own Democratic leadership pleaded with me. How many of my friends on the Republican side today would stand as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar as I did on that occasion? The Democratic leadership pleaded with me at length to agree to support the idea that the Clinton health care bill should be included in that year\u2019s reconciliation package. They came to my office on the floor below. <\/p>\n

‘Not only did Majority Leader George Mitchell and others of my colleagues attempt to persuade me to go along and not raise a point of order under the Byrd rule, which would require 60 votes to waive, President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliation\u2019s protection. He called me on the telephone. Here is the President of the United States calling this lowly former coal town boy and asking me…\u2019 Is this guy a blowhard or what? (laughing) ‘Here is the President of the United States calling this lowly former coal town boy and asking me to let his huge health bill come before the Senate on that fast track. I could not, in good conscience, however, look the other way and not make that point of order and allow what would clearly have been an abuse of congressional intent to occur. <\/p>\n

‘How many others would do that today on that side of the aisle, stand against their President[?]\u2019 Byrd asked. I don\u2019t even know if Byrd is going to stand against it this time. (interruption) Well, yeah. I think he remembers. I think he remembers. It\u2019s the Byrd rule. I think he remembers that he did this in opposing Clinton. The point is they tried it before. Now, everybody is saying it\u2019s kamikaze. Everybody is saying they are shooting themselves. Pelosi is forcing her people in the House to lose their jobs, and that\u2019s true. Now, in previous broadcasts I\u2019ve explained this, because they look at things differently than we do. I cannot, no matter how persuasive or talented, properly convey to you how badly they want this. They are willing to lose their majorities in order to get this — and looked at in that light, you have to take this very seriously. They\u2019re running around saying gonna use reconciliation and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) says, ‘Well, reconciliation won\u2019t work.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy, a good friend of mine, took my point, and was so inspired by it that he amplified it. He posted this Saturday morning early at The Corner at National Review Online. ‘I hear Republicans getting…\u2019 (interruption) Well, yes, he was inspired, Snerdley. He mentions me in the first paragraph. I know he was inspired, yes. He\u2019s a friend of mine. I can say that. I\u2019m not going to read the part where he credits me for this. I\u2019m just going to tell you. I\u2019m going to get to the meat of what he wrote. ‘I hear Republicans getting giddy over the fact that ‘reconciliation,\u2019 if it comes to that, is a huge political loser. That\u2019s the wrong way to look at it. The Democratic leadership has already internalized the inevitability of taking its political lumps. That makes reconciliation truly scary. <\/p>\n

‘Since the Dems know they will have to ram this monstrosity through, they figure it might as well be as monstrous as they can get wavering Democrats to go along with. Clipping the leadership\u2019s statist ambitions in order to peel off a few Republicans is not going to work. I\u2019m glad Republicans have held firm, but let\u2019s not be under any illusions about what that means. In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. <\/p>\n

‘This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you\u2019ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state. Consequently, the next six weeks, like the next ten months, are going to be worse than we think. We\u2019re wired to think that everyone plays by the usual rules of politics — i.e., if the tide starts to change, the side against whom it has turned modifies its positions in order to stay viable in the next election. But what will happen here will be the opposite. You have a party with the numbers to do anything it puts its mind to, led by movement Leftists who see their window of opportunity is closing. We seem to expect them to moderate because that\u2019s what everybody in their position does. But they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

‘They will put their heads down and go for as much transformation as they can get, figuring that once they get it, it will never be rolled back. The only question is whether there are enough Democrats who are conventional politicians and who care about being reelected, such that they will deny the leadership the numbers it needs. But I don\u2019t think we should take much heart in this possibility. Those Democrats may well come to think they are going to lose anyway — that\u2019s why so many of them are abandoning ship now. If that\u2019s the case, their incentive will be to vote with the leadership. At the end of the summit debacle, President Obama put the best face on a bad day by indicating that he intended to push ahead with socialized medicine and face the electoral consequences (‘that\u2019s what elections are for,\u2019 he concluded). He\u2019s right about that. <\/line> <\/line>‘For Republicans, it won\u2019t be enough to fight this thing, then deride it if Democrats pull it off, and finally coast to a very likely electoral victory in November. The question is: What are you going to do to roll this back? What is your plan to undo this\u2019 once they get it done? ‘I think our side is analyzing this all wrong: Today\u2019s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that.\u2019 So getting giddy over this now and how they\u2019re committing suicide, is the wrong way to look at this. Because if it does lead to these mass defeats and the Republicans do claim power again, the focus has to be on rolling this back and stopping it, depending on how they get it done. <\/line> <\/line> Irwin Stelzer at the Weekly Standard had a post recently: ‘Americans overwhelmingly say that their main concern is jobs, and that they are satisfied with their current health care arrangements. In response, an allegedly chastened President Obama pivoted, and says his primary concern from now on will be job creation, which will take priority over his controversial plan to radically change the nation\u2019s health care system. Yet, last week he backed a $15 billion job-creation bill, which passed the Senate, and a $1 trillion health care bill. Since the federal balance sheet is already under huge pressure, this set of priorities tells us that the Obama administration intends to concentrate available resources on transforming the economy — a long-term, permanent restructuring of the health care and energy sectors that was planned long before the failure of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial mess Obama inherited.\u2019 Indeed they have wanted this since FDR. They have dreamed of this, and they have never been closer, and that\u2019s why they will do anything to get it done. Remember, ladies and gentlemen: On one side you have rules, on the other side you have Democrats, which means you don\u2019t have any rules.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lisa — or Lissa, I guess it is — in St. Louis. Thank you for holding, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you. Listen, even if Obama and Pelosi get some filet mignon and grind it up and then try to cut it into the dog food, people still aren\u2019t going to choak it down. This country isn\u2019t going to be… You can\u2019t lead it from the position where they are standing, from the spot on the line where they\u2019re standing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Wait, now. You\u2019re right, but they\u2019re not trying to lead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. They\u2019re trying to push, ram.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are trying to control. This is not about leadership. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is about power and control.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right. The other reason I was calling is to say, you know, you\u2019re talking about Congress and how, you know, they can\u2019t win. These people are screwed no matter how they try. They are going to lose. I really believe no matter what happens with health care, the Democrats are going to lose — and, Rush, I\u2019m worried about them. Where are they going to find another job?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s no problem. That\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled) pizza is hiring.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many of them have already been promised judgeships? How many of them have been promised ambassadorships?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell, how many of them have been promised ships?<\/p>\n

CALLER: So, they\u2019re going to be government employees.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re going to work for the federal government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they could become lobbyists and get rich.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They could do good work for the —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They can\u2019t be civics instructors because they don\u2019t even know the Constitution, according to that one study you talked about earlier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All that makes \u2019em imminently more hirable and more qualified.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Then you\u2019re not worried about them finding work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Except to the extent that you like serving in Congress because of the element in power you feel or you have doing that, I don\u2019t think that. In some cases, depending on who they are, they\u2019ll be taken care of. Some of them may have already been told how.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re just not sure. Anyway, Lissa, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I explained this to you once before, and it is an expansion on Andy McCarthy\u2019s expansion of something I said originally. He said, ‘It\u2019s not time to get giddy here over the problems that they face. They are willing to lose and lose big to get this done because they are confident the Republicans won\u2019t have the guts to roll it back.\u2019<\/p>\n

Look at what happened when Bush tried to reform Social Security. Social Security, as you know, has become ‘the third rail.\u2019 Here\u2019s why it is important. If they get it done, the objective and the campaign theme has to be: ‘Roll it back.\u2019 Roll it back. Do you remember all the people on Social Security, getting Social Security benefits of one kind or another, in all those years where the Democrats said, ‘The Republicans want to take away your Social Security. The Republicans want to kick you out of your house.\u2019 It worked for a whole lot of election cycles. It was only in the early to mid-nineties when it started bombing out because after so many years of these predictions, it never happened. Nobody ever took their house away. Nobody ever tried to cut Social Security. It was all a lie — and when the New Media was born (led, of course, by me) this option and reality was presented to people. <\/p>\n

But if they get health care done, everybody\u2019s going to be on government health care under their plan at some point. If it\u2019s ten years down the road or five, whatever it is, that\u2019s the objective. Everybody\u2019s going to be on government health care. If we don\u2019t roll it back then we\u2019re stuck with it, and any attempt to roll it back after it gets settled in, any attempt to roll it back after more and more Americans are being insured by the government, will lead to charges of: ‘Those Republicans fought giving you health care! They want to take your health care benefits away! They want to take your health care,\u2019 and it will work. This cannot be allowed to stand even if they get it done. So it\u2019s not enough just to take comfort and even enjoyment in what will no doubt be a disastrous election for them. If they get this done before November, then a serious plot to undo it has got to become the focus, and they are banking on the fact that the Republicans don\u2019t have the guts to do that. We\u2019ll see. Nobody knows. Because we don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to get it and we don\u2019t know what the results of that are definitely going to be, so you don\u2019t want to count your eggs before the chickens hatch, or whatever that is. I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donna in Hanford, California. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program. I have about a minute, max.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Thank you. This is my theory as to why Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Kerry, all these people supported Obama. It\u2019s not because what their mouths were saying, that he was this brilliant, brilliant statesman. It\u2019s because he\u2019s exactly the opposite. They knew he was incompetent. They knew, they think. The analogy I used is that he couldn\u2019t find his way out of a bathroom stall with the door open, and in his own words, he had to be told how to vote. So…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, maybe. But I also think they supported him because he could win.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. That, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The reasons they thought he could win were purely ‘surface,\u2019 shall I say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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