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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites because I promised. April 25th, 2005, at the National Press Club, Senator Obama spoke about changing the filibuster rule.<\/line><\/line>OBAMA 2005: A change in the Senate rules that really, uh, I think would change the character of the Senate, uh, forever. [snip] Uhhh, and what I worry about would be th-th-that you essentially still have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian, uhhh, absolute power on either side, and that\u2019s just not what the Founders intended.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Then he cared about what the Founders intended. He doesn\u2019t care a whit what the founders intended now. This was about, just to review, the ‘nuclear option\u2019 on judicial appointments. The Republicans controlled the Senate and the House. And remember the battle cry back then was, ‘Remember the rights of the minority! Remember the rights of the minority! It\u2019s not right. We shouldn\u2019t have one party running every branch is bad.\u2019 They were whining and moaning. They have the exact situation now and everybody everything they said back then about filibuster rule is no longer operative. Let\u2019s go back, November 2, 2004, election night, CBS TV, Obama said this about passing legislation in the Senate.<\/p>\n

OBAMA 2004: My understanding of the Senate is is that you need 60 votes to get something significant to happen, which means that Democrats and have to ask the question: Do we have the will to move an American agenda forward, not a Democratic or Republican agenda forward?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what he\u2019s saying here is that if you\u2019re going to have a massive agenda move you gotta get 60 votes in the Senate. You have to have a supermajority here to make it legitimate. He was all for it back then. July 12th, 2006, at the Center for American Progress Convention…<\/p>\n

OBAMA 2006: Those big-ticket items, fixing our health care system. You know, one of the arguments that sometimes I get with, uhh, my fellow progressives and — and some of these have — have flashed up in the blog communities on occasion — is this notion that we should function sort of like Karl Rove, where we — we identify our core base, we throw \u2019em red meat, we get a 50-plus-one, uhhh, victory. See, Karl Rove doesn\u2019t need a broad consensus because he doesn\u2019t believe in government. If we want to transform the country, though, that requires a — a sizeable majority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So once again here is Obama as a Senator wailing, whining, and moaning about how the Republicans were trying to get things done with 51 votes, and if you\u2019re gonna transform the country, you need 60. You can\u2019t just trash the Senate rules. This is from 2007, Obama in Chicago at the Change to Win Convention.<\/p>\n

OBAMA 2007: The bottom line is is that our health care plans are similar. The question, once again, is: Who can get it done? Who can build a movement for change? This is an area where we\u2019re going to have to have a 60% majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We\u2019re going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk that is not just a 50-plus-one majority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Obama. Now, this is just three years ago in the early, early days of his potential campaign. ‘We\u2019re going to have to get a 60% majority.\u2019 He wasn\u2019t saying he wanted that. He was saying it was necessary, that it was necessary. Well, of course now, none of this matters. All of this is nothing new, either. It\u2019s just more blatant, pure hypocrisy which these people do and commit daily, multiple times each day. October 9th, 2007, Concord, New Hampshire, the Concord Monitor editorial board interviewed Obama.<\/p>\n

OBAMA 2007: You gotta break out of what I call the sort of 50-plus-one pattern of presidential politics. Maybe you eke out a victory with 50-plus-one but you can\u2019t govern. You know, you get Air Force One and a lot of nice perks as president but you can\u2019t — you can\u2019t deliver on health — we\u2019re not going to pass universal health care with a — with a 50-plus-one strategy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there you go. Numerous times, Barack Obama saying, ‘It\u2019s not right, 51%, a 51-vote majority? No. We\u2019re going to be transformative. We\u2019re going to need a supermajority.\u2019 Now, all this is in the context of wailing, whining, and moaning at the Republicans by saying, ‘Well, they may have these majorities but they\u2019re not strong enough to do everything that they want to do. Bush doesn\u2019t have this kind of power. He shouldn\u2019t be allowed to get away with this. He doesn\u2019t have that kind of power.\u2019 Well, guess what? Obama had it. Obama had his 60 votes in the Senate, and he still couldn\u2019t get this done. He\u2019s got 59 votes in the Senate. He still can\u2019t get this done. Unless he blows up the very rules he was suggesting should never, ever be violated five years ago, four years ago, three years ago, and even two years ago.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I really want to apologize, ladies and gentlemen, for playing Obama\u2019s words. I feel horrible about that and I sincerely apologize to all of you for playing Obama\u2019s words. They were never intended to be taken seriously back in 2005, ‘6, ‘7, ‘8, they were only meant to sound serious. Nothing that Obama says is meant to be taken seriously. I really apologize for playing this. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, from the Congressional Record, December 20th, 2005, then Senator Barack Obama: ‘Under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate. Reconciliation is therefore the wrong place for policy changes. In short, the reconciliation process appears to have lost its proper meaning: A vehicle designed for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked.\u2019 Barack Obama talking about what he\u2019s going to do to pass his health care bill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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