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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites because the health care topic is obviously the one that\u2019s first and foremost front and center. Let\u2019s go first to Sunday. This is the House whip, Congressman Clyburn, James Clyburn, Democrat, South Carolina, former head of the Congressional Black Caucus. They\u2019re not a happy bunch these days, either.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CLYBURN: No, we don\u2019t have them as of this morning, but we\u2019ve been working this thing all weekend, we\u2019ll be working it going into the week. I\u2019m also very confident that we\u2019ll get this done. I have been talking to members for a long time on this, and they have the will to do it. They\u2019ve been looking to us to create a way to do it. I think we have gotten to a place where we do have a way to do it and I think the members are going to vote for this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Sunday. They don\u2019t have the votes. He doesn\u2019t even sound confident he\u2019s going to get the votes. Then he said in an interview with McClatchy newspapers, the House health care vote could be delayed until as late as Easter now. ‘Clyburn said it is possible that the House vote on healthcare reform could take place long past the vote Democratic leaders had hoped for this week. ‘The chances are good, but I wouldn\u2019t bet on it,\u2019 the third-ranking House Democrat said of whether a healthcare vote could be held by the April 4th holiday.\u2019 Then this next story, and I got this in an e-mail question: ‘Rush, I\u2019m confused, I don\u2019t understand. If they have the votes why would they need the Slaughter Rule?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, still shoring up support for legislation to overhaul the US health-care system, vowed that Democrats will be ready to pass the bill when the time comes. ‘When we bring the bill to the floor, we will have the votes.” They obviously don\u2019t have the votes. Stupak, by the way, says they\u2019re 16 votes short. But Stupak\u2019s been all over the board on this with his predictions. (interruption) About Stupak? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, he\u2019s a Democrat, I mean you gotta keep \u2019em at arm\u2019s length no matter what they say they\u2019re for or against, moderate, Blue Dog, lapdog, rabid dog, whatever they want to call themselves. But I happen to think he\u2019s right about this one. I think they are at about 200 votes. I\u2019m running a risk in telling you what I really think here, \u2019cause I don\u2019t want anybody to relax over this, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re close. I think the only reason they\u2019re talking the Slaughter Rule is because they\u2019re not close, and the Slaughter Rule is basically they\u2019re going to pass a bill which they haven\u2019t voted on, they\u2019re going to deem it. No question about it, it\u2019s unconstitutional. This is not how legislation becomes law. It\u2019s right there in the Constitution. I\u2019m sure that all of you who have been paying attention to this have heard this throughout the weekend and yesterday. What they\u2019re doing is totally unconstitutional. <\/p>\n

I believe that if Pelosi could pass the Senate bill, she\u2019d do that. She would do that. But they don\u2019t have the votes to pass the Senate bill and they\u2019re probably not going to get the votes to pass the Senate bill. So now they\u2019re doing… it\u2019s got a bunch of different names, self-executing rule, going to deem the Senate bill to have passed. What Slaughter is doing, she\u2019s head of the rules committee, and, by the way, the Republicans have done this, the Republicans have used self-executing things before, and the Democrats are saying, ‘Hey, well, wait a minute, you can\u2019t criticize this, why, why, the Republicans did this.\u2019 Yeah, they did it raising the debt limit, which is a perfunctory thing. I frankly don\u2019t think it should ever be used. I think the Constitution needs to always be upheld, but just because the Republicans did it doesn\u2019t give everyone else the right. Just because somebody breaks a law doesn\u2019t give everybody else the right to break the law with impunity. The Republicans never did anything like this with this scope, nationalizing, socializing two-and-a-half trillion dollars of the private sector economy in this country, one-sixth of it, they\u2019ve never done anything like that. <\/p>\n

In fact, I have the details in my numerous stacks of stuff here today, but the first time that Republicans tried this, Louise Slaughter sued them and Pelosi sued them and Henry Waxman sued the Republicans for using this self-executed — basically what Slaughter is trying to do now. The bad news is they lost. An appellate court upheld what the Republicans did. But they didn\u2019t endorse it, they just upheld it. And again it was on the basis, ‘Ah, you know, this is a perfunctory thing,\u2019 the country has to raise the debt limit every now and then and this is a fast way of getting it done. Democrats said, ‘Well, why are you complaining at us?\u2019 Republicans have never, ever tried to do anything like this. I really believe Pelosi, to get back to this train of thought, would love to be able to pass the Senate bill and not have to go the Slaughter Rule route. But she will. The Democrats may be suicidal, and they may be willing to lose a lot of people, but Pelosi doesn\u2019t want to get hurt, and Reid doesn\u2019t want to get hurt. They\u2019re happy to sacrifice other members of the Senate, primarily of the House. But they don\u2019t want to suffer. They don\u2019t want any bad hits to their reputation from inside their own camps. <\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t be a bit surprised if they\u2019re going back and forth on the Slaughter Rule simply as a way to make it look like the Senate Democrats and Obama failed to get this done. Because what will happen, if the Slaughter Rule is used, they will deem the Senate bill passed, but it will not have passed, so the president really can\u2019t sign it, even though it\u2019s deemed to have passed. So they\u2019ll add the Slaughter Rule to it, which adds all these changes, the term reconciliation being used, and then those changes — one thing nobody has been talking about, and it finally hit me last night, the one thing nobody\u2019s been talking about, what does Reid think of this? What do all these senators think of this? The House is here making unilateral changes to their bill, what did they think of it? Nobody\u2019s asking Democrat senators, what do you think about taking out the Cornhusker Kickback or what do you think about putting in the public option and what do you think about the abortion rules and then having it paid for by taxpayers? Nobody\u2019s asking them that. <\/p>\n

Well, those things eventually have to go to the Senate, they have to eventually debate \u2019em and approve \u2019em and we could have a reverse situation here theoretically. Before this all said and done, it could be the Senate that has to now deal with whatever the House has done and what if they don\u2019t? What if they don\u2019t pass it? Then who gets the blame? Reid! Then it\u2019s on Reid\u2019s head that the thing didn\u2019t happen. And then it\u2019s on Obama\u2019s head, but it\u2019s not Pelosi, \u2019cause Pelosi can say, ‘Hey, I did whatever it took to get this passed.\u2019 There is so much intrigue going on with this and it\u2019s all based around the fact they don\u2019t have the votes. Now, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re close, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re five short, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re four short. These whip counts, who can possibly know? My instincts, I trust \u2019em. I very seldom doubt my own instincts. I mean, folks, even when I think I\u2019m wrong I\u2019m usually right. That\u2019s how right on, spot on my instincts are. And the way this is all playing out, how many endgame stories have we had in the last year? ‘Democrats down to the endgame on –‘ for a full year! They haven\u2019t had the votes for a full year. There\u2019s nothing that\u2019s happened this year to make it any more palatable to support this thing. It\u2019s only gotten worse. <\/p>\n

The White House even has a pollster out there who is lying about the support for the bill increasing since Obama\u2019s State of the Union show. And what he\u2019s doing is saying, ‘Look at this individual part of the bill, people like that, that individual part.\u2019 He\u2019s taking little parcels of it, asking poll questions about it, but when people are asked about the whole comprehensive bill, they reject it by a majority poll number each and every time, and the number is getting bigger. The number of people in the country who oppose this is getting bigger. There\u2019s nothing that has happened to inspire anybody to have any more confidence this thing is going to pass in the last six weeks, the last two months, yet you turn on the television and all you see is we\u2019re going to get this done, we\u2019re really close, we\u2019re only five votes down, Obama is delaying his trip. It\u2019s only a vacation trip, no big deal. <\/p>\n

Now, Clyburn is out there saying we may not get this done by Easter, which means if he can\u2019t get the votes in the House done, either Slaughter rule or whatever, which is unconstitutional and ought to cause, if it happens, peaceful outrage like we have never seen before, peaceful, but this news every day, ‘Oh, yeah, we\u2019re really close, we\u2019re really close,\u2019 it\u2019s all designed to dispirit us. It\u2019s all designed to dispirit opposition and dispirit members who are going to vote ‘no.\u2019 It\u2019s all designed to create a false sense of momentum toward passage. And I don\u2019t see it. I know Pelosi\u2019s trying to buy votes, and I know all these things are going on, and I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s dead, please don\u2019t misunderstand, and I\u2019m not saying stand down, I\u2019m not saying relax on this. This is a time to stay as intense in your opposition to this as ever before. <\/p>\n

But if this doesn\u2019t happen by the time the Easter Passover break happens, of course these members of the House are going to go home and they\u2019re going to get an earful from their constituents, and that\u2019s one thing that everybody\u2019s worried about in getting this done. It\u2019s gotten to the point now where this is not even about health care reform, it\u2019s not about doctors and nurses and clean water, it\u2019s not about insurance. It\u2019s about saving the Obama presidency. That\u2019s what\u2019s driving this, the absolute wrong reason, the wrong inspiration, the wrong motivation for doing this. It\u2019s all about saving Obama. Destroying the country, one-sixth of the country, it\u2019s not worth saving Obama\u2019s presidency. Obama\u2019s presidency is an abject failure and deserves to continue failing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this Clyburn business, James Clyburn coming out in McClatchy said, ‘We may not get enough votes here to get this passed by Easter.\u2019 This is the first real public sign of weakness by the Democrats in this. As I say, normally what we see each and every day is, ‘Oh, yeah!\u2019 Like Pelosi last Friday with that Botox smile. You know what? I would love to know… Never mind. Never mind. I was going to say ‘what pharmaceutical she\u2019s on,\u2019 but I withdraw it. She\u2019s up there smiling big time on Friday. (doing impression) ‘It\u2019s going to be so wonderful, and it\u2019s going to be so exciting. A week from now, the president will be here, this historic vote for national health care, what will happen next week. We\u2019re so excited and, the president delaying his trip,\u2019 as though it\u2019s a fait accompli. Why not do it now? Why make him delay? What\u2019s the magic? What are you going to find between now and Saturday? Whose votes are you going to change? <\/p>\n

Taking Kucinich up for a spin in Air Force One and you go to him under pressure in front of his constituents there in Cleveland is going to make a difference? The guys like Kucinich are not the problem. The problem is the 17 people that voted ‘yes\u2019 last time who are thinking of voting ‘no\u2019 this time \u2019cause everything\u2019s different in their district. There\u2019s some polling data I saw in Wall Street Journal on Sunday night. I mean, some of these Democrat districts it\u2019s hopeless, and some of these people voted ‘yes\u2019 the first time around and might be voting ‘no.\u2019 This Clyburn coming out here and saying, ‘Weeeell, health care vote could push past the Easter holiday, could be delayed,\u2019 that\u2019s the first real public sign of weakness. The first deviation from this, ‘Oh, yeah! Everything\u2019s cool. We\u2019re out on track. We\u2019re going to have the votes. We\u2019re so close, we\u2019re so excited,\u2019 and you have all these three robots — Axelrod, Gibbs, somebody else from the White House — all on the Sunday shows flooding the zone. ‘Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It\u2019s easy. We\u2019re going to have these votes.\u2019 They don\u2019t have the votes now.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites. This is Obama putting the screws to Dennis Kucinich.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Your own congressman, who is tireless on behalf of workin\u2019 people, Dennis Kucinich. <\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

SCREAMING MAN: VOTE YES!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Come-ah (snickers) Did you hear that, Dennis? Go and say that again.<\/p>\n

SCREAMING MAN: VOTE YES!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, big 200 crowd of people there, ‘Vote yes!\u2019 to Kucinich in there. How do you buy off Dennis Kucinich? Would somebody explain that? He\u2019s got an extremely dishy wife. His wife\u2019s a millionaire. How do you buy the guy off? You gotta put the public option in there to buy this guy off. You gotta make it even worse. (interruption) What? (interruption) I know he… (interruption) Well, he\u2019s… (interruption) No. He said ‘no\u2019 last week, and now he\u2019s saying he\u2019s undecided. I can explain that to you. Well, not very many people get to fly on Air Force One and the people that do very seldom are brought into the presidential cabin and wined and dined — or, in this case, chewed out. You know, Dennis Kucinich, at the end of the day, is a nonentity, as is every member of Congress compared — individually compared — to the president. So you bring them into the Oval Office or Air Force One where you\u2019re flying him back to his district and he gets to get off the airplane with you.<\/line><\/a>This is presidential power; this is how it\u2019s used. It can be used to say, ‘Dennis, you\u2019re really important. I need you. I need you.\u2019 Everybody wants to be needed. Everybody at the end of the day wants to say, ‘I\u2019m the man, I\u2019m the guy that helped the president get this done.\u2019 (interruption) Well, he\u2019s a true believer. Yeah, Kucinich is a true believer, and I\u2019m by no means predicting how it\u2019s going to go. I\u2019m just asking you what they could do to pressure the guy. I mean, they can\u2019t buy him off. His wife\u2019s got a zillion dollars, so it\u2019s easy for him to go out and be a socialist. You know, he married up. By the way, here\u2019s the latest news from the House. Boehner ‘today announced that House Republicans intend to force a vote on a resolution requiring an actual up-or-down House vote on the Senate health care bill.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

This is a technique they\u2019re going to try to stop the Democrats from using the Slaughter Rule. ‘If passed by the House, the resolution would prevent Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from implementing the ‘Slaughter Solution,\u2019 the scheme by which Democratic leaders are seeking to pass the Senate [bill].\u2019 The statement says: ”This week, House Republicans intend to force a vote on a measure that would give the American people an up-or-down vote on the Senate health care bill,” without all this Slaughter stuff, ‘Boehner said.\u2019 Now, I have no idea how the vote on that would come out. You know, I think what they\u2019re trying to do is say, ‘Let\u2019s force a vote. Let\u2019s make the Democrats go on record that they are willing to break and violate the Constitution. Let\u2019s get the Democrats on record saying, ‘Yep,\u2019 they intend to be lawless and they will use lawlessness.\u2019<\/p>\n

What are the odds that Boehner is able to get this vote? Pretty slim. Pelosi would have to call for it, have to agree to it. But at least it\u2019s not a bad countermeasure.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Washington Post today: ‘We understand the administration\u2019s sense of urgency on health-care reform.\u2019 I don\u2019t know that they do. The sense of urgency is not health care reform. It\u2019s not insurance premiums, it\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s saving Obama\u2019s face. The urgency is about saving Obama\u2019s presidency. But then the post editorial continues: ‘But what is intended as a final sprint threatens to turn into something unseemly and, more important, contrary to Democrats\u2019 promises of transparency and time for deliberation.\u2019 Well, big deal. Do they still believe at the Washington Post that transparency and proper time for deliberation is a factor here? ‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday that she is leaning toward a parliamentary maneuver under which the House would vote on a package of changes to the Senate-approved reform bill, and the underlying Senate bill would then be ‘deemed\u2019 to have passed, even though the House had never voted on it. That may help some House members dodge a politically difficult decision, but it strikes us as a dodgy way to reform the health-care system.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s exactly right. <\/p>\n

Here we are, look at the tricks, the unconstitutionality, the lawlessness that the Democrat Party is having to resort to in order force something down our throats that nobody wants. This is not just a little bit of debt raising, this is one-sixth of the US economy. This is more than unseemly. It is unconstitutional. It\u2019s more than dodgy. It is lawlessness. It is perhaps the greatest assault on the Constitution in our lifetimes. The Constitution is probably more specific about how a bill becomes a bill than it is about anything else in the Constitution. It spells it out from beginning to end with no ambiguity. A president cannot sign a bill until it has been passed by both houses, and this will not do that. Even the Slaughter Solution, will not do that. This is more than dodgy, this is more than unseemly. It\u2019s illegal! It is un-American, it is unconstitutional, and it is lawless. And it deserves no patience or tolerance whatsoever.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So we have the House Democrats literally ripping up the Constitution, writing the longest suicide note in history, and calling it ‘self-executing.\u2019 (laughing) We have all that going on, and the media\u2019s constitutional scholars are talking about the politics of the wife of a Supreme Court justice. It\u2019s amazing stuff. <\/p>\n

By the way, the top four Democrat leaders all disagree on where they are in the votes. Bloomberg: ‘Pelosi Says Dems to Have Votes for Health Bill.\u2019 The Hill: ‘Hoyer Shoots Down Larson\u2019s Vote Count, Clyburn\u2019s Timeline.\u2019 The Hill: ‘Clyburn Says Health Vote Could Push Past Easter Holiday.\u2019 Politico: ‘Larson Says Dems Have the Votes.\u2019 The Hill: ‘Hoyer Shoots Down Larson\u2019s Vote Count,\u2019 says they don\u2019t have the votes, and shoots down ‘Clyburn\u2019s Timeline\u2019 of Easter. Folks, they\u2019re turning into the Keystone Cops. They\u2019re a dangerous bunch of Keystone Cops. But people are starting to laugh at them now. The Alinsky Rule for Radicals of ‘ridicule\u2019 is being turned on the House Democrats. It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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