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RUSH: Doug Schoen last night on Hannity on the Fox News Channel, he\u2019s a Democrat pollster, and they\u2019re talking about deem-and-pass, the Slaughter rule. And Hannity said, ‘Is Obama really going to try to sell that?\u2019<\/p>\n

SCHOEN: If you combine reconciliation with deem-and-pass and basically play a con game with the American people for unpopular legislation, the reaction will be cataclysmic and unambiguous in the fall. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Blue Dogs, we\u2019ve been trying to warn you guys for the past year about your fate if you go along with this. Here\u2019s a Democrat pollster. This guy was in Bill Clinton\u2019s camp and he\u2019s saying if you Democrats do this it will be a cataclysmic event for the party. Unambiguous, no two ways about it, you are cooked, a landslide of historic proportions sweeping Democrats out of town. More Democrats than Obama will be able to have decent jobs for. Gloria Borger last night on CNN, The Situation Room — remember, now, the Cartoon Network has more audience than CNN, which is why we\u2019re playing this for you. Wolf Blitzer said to Gloria, ‘Why would Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues even take that chance, the Slaughter solution, deem-and-pass, what would be the gain for them?\u2019<\/p>\n

BORGER: Clearly they don\u2019t have the votes yet and they want to win, and there is some thought that they don\u2019t care if they win on a technicality or if they win by casting one vote for essentially two bills. It makes the Democrats look, shall we say, a tad desperate or a tad arrogant, and I think this is a larger problem for them because people have been paying attention to the process of health care, and the American public knows Democrats are trolling for votes, and they\u2019re going to look at this and say, gee, isn\u2019t this a little underhanded?<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t have the votes. They look desperate. They lost two more ‘yes\u2019 votes today, Stephen Lynch in Massachusetts and Mr. Arcuri from New York. They were gonna vote ‘yes\u2019; they voted ‘no.\u2019 They changed their votes. Now we\u2019re hearing all this great news about the CBO number, oh, yip yip yip yip yip yip yahoo. The fact of the matter is now everybody is dumping on them on their side on the Slaughter solution and they\u2019ve lost a couple of more supporters today, and last night on PBS Charlie Rose, he spoke with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell, a Democrat political analyst about health care reform. And Rose said, ‘So you\u2019re eagerly waiting here for an announcement from the CBO, is that right?\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: They are telling you you\u2019re waiting for CBO because what you\u2019re really waiting for is a large bloc of undecided voters in the House who aren\u2019t there yet, and you can\u2019t get your CBO estimate until you have all your votes lined up \u2019cause you\u2019re going to make deals to get those votes. My opinion is they don\u2019t have the votes; that\u2019s why they don\u2019t have CBO.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He may be right, they still don\u2019t have CBO. They have an estimate. They have an estimate because they don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to cost to pay these guys off or to bribe them and they don\u2019t even have the reconciliation bill. The news is out that they\u2019re going to vote on Sunday, but would Obama cancel his trip if they\u2019re actually going to vote on Sunday? I mean Air Force One doesn\u2019t leave \u2019til he gets on it. It doesn\u2019t seem to me that they have the votes. Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16th. This is huge. This is huge. This is Obamacare before it\u2019s passed, a snapshot of what\u2019s going to be going on all over the country. We don\u2019t have the money for this. More Lawrence O\u2019Donnell last night on the Charlie Rose Show. After he said, ‘I don\u2019t think they have the votes,\u2019 he added this.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: It\u2019s the same thing as Clinton and health care. The loss happened at a worse time on the calendar. It happened in September before November elections. They had no time to recover from it. Here, if you had a loss in April of this thing, there\u2019s a lot that can happen in our world between now and then, including things that can happen in Afghanistan and Iraq and on airplanes that change everything about our dialogue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, is he saying if Democrats lose it won\u2019t be as bad as \u201994 because we might have a terrorist attack? Is that what he said? Why does he think a terrorist attack will help Democrats? Oh. Because we\u2019ll rally behind the guy who isn\u2019t doing anything to stop terrorist attacks. Yeah. So we\u2019ll rally behind Obama because he wants to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in a New York courtroom, or we\u2019ll rally behind Obama because of the Fort Hood shooting, or we\u2019ll rally behind Obama — really? Now, do you think they\u2019re not desperate? A terrorist attack could save Obama when they vote for this? My friends, do not think for a moment that what\u2019s happening in America this week around health care reform and the Democrats\u2019 willingness to ignore constitutional rights of Americans is not being discussed at Hillsdale College. I love this place, a school in Michigan that I have referenced, the place that turns out thousands of excellent undergrads, all suited to take on the world with a variety of degrees, but they all have one additional thing in common. They can argue the merits of the Constitution better than most. <\/p>\n

Everybody at Hillsdale fully understands what is happening with the Slaughter solution, how unconstitutional it is, and they understand why, and every one of those students can tell you in a way that leaves no doubt. Hillsdale requires their students to attend classes to better understand the Constitution and our rights. ‘Require\u2019 may be too strong a word because these kids want to be there, they want to take these classes, they want to learn from some of the brightest and most articulate professors. They want to be challenged. They want to prove that they know what they know. They want to prove that they\u2019ve learned it. These kids, these students as Hillsdale do not fear criticism. They welcome it. They welcome critics because it\u2019s an opportunity to teach what they\u2019ve learned. Now, the debate in this country over the heart and soul of America is in full swing. Hillsdale is one place where the message of what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong is consistent \u2019cause when a student decides to attend this college they do so knowing that there\u2019s not a dime of government assistance, no GI bill access, nothing from the government. Hillsdale teaches their students from day one not to be government dependent and they don\u2019t want their curriculum to be guided or conditional on anything from the government. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a way you can see what goes on there, a way you can get involved. They have a monthly digest called Imprimis that captures speeches from some brilliant thinkers. Some of the brightest people in the world go to Hillsdale and speak. I have done so, of course. Imprimis is free with no strings attached. It\u2019s read by 1.7 million people every month, and you can get it rush4hillsdale.com, or if you\u2019re in the car you can use the phone, 1-866-HILLSDALE. You gotta wonder just how much fun of professors are having as they dissect the constitutional antics of Obama and Pelosi this week. You know what kind of crap your kids are learning. You know what kind of garbage your students are being exposed to, your own kids. The kids at Hillsdale, these professors this week are just ecstatic over the opportunity that\u2019s been presented them. They not only to teach how the Constitution works, but what happens when a bunch of leftists try to subordinate it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Here\u2019s Charlie Cook yesterday on MSNBC. Andrea Mitchell says, ‘What strategy should the Democrats use to try to prevent the Republicans from taking over the Congress?\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

COOK: Whatever you\u2019re going to do on health care, get it out of the way as soon as possible, get back to a focus on economy and jobs. There\u2019s a limit to probably what government can actually do to affect the trajectory of the economy, but they have to be seen as focused on the economy like a laser beam, in the words of Clinton in 2002.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why it\u2019s not going back to the Senate. If they deem the Senate bill passed and vote on this reconciliation thing, and in their words, voting on two bills at once and who says they can\u2019t do that, ahem, then the Senate bill\u2019s passed, folks, in their world, and it goes to Obama, he signs it, and that\u2019s the end of it, you\u2019re not going to hear one more word about health care for the rest of the year. Focus on jobs. So Conrad can say, ‘Well, I don\u2019t think this can work.\u2019 Even better. Even better for Pelosi. She doesn\u2019t have to mess with the Senate on it. So the Senate\u2019s going to have to sit there and accept — if I\u2019m reading this right, journalists can\u2019t write anymore. I really don\u2019t know what Conrad is saying here. Is he saying that this can\u2019t happen? Try it one more time. ‘It is unlikely the Senate will be able to pass –‘ they\u2019re never going to have a chance to ‘– a health care reconciliation bill unchanged from what the House passes,\u2019 meaning they\u2019re gonna want to amend it. And then it has to go back to the House, but they\u2019re never going to see it, it\u2019s never going to get sent there, is the point, never going to get sent there. <\/p>\n

Anyway, so they are working on this big rally again on Saturday, had one in December prior to the Senate voting on their health care bill. They had one earlier this week, and they\u2019re trying to round up another one with just tons and tons and boatloads and busloads of people showing up to in person express their opposition and displeasure to this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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