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RUSH: So Obama keeps saying, ‘After a century of trying we now have\u2019 health insurance? What? Maybe the Democrats tried. Maybe they invoked Teddy Roosevelt — who if he was around today would surely wonder about a new massive spending bill — but what Obama is really saying, my dear friends, is, ‘We statists try to force this on the people for a hundred years and we finally did it — against your will!\u2019 That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying, because that\u2019s who he\u2019s been waging war against. If they have a victory the victory is against us! No question. Here\u2019s how I ended the program yesterday, talking to a caller who was very frustrated about all of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: And you\u2019re really distressed because there may not be that there\u2019s a pro-life church, anymore. The left is taking over every institution. They have to be stopped, and it\u2019s about time, maybe… You know, I\u2019m not trying to be Pollyannaish and look at the bright side of this (because I don\u2019t, frankly, see many) but one of them is: Don\u2019t doubt me anymore! It\u2019s out in front of your eyes! Believe what you see, believe what you hear. It is real! The Catholic Church has a bunch of leftists in it who would just as soon destroy the church and remake it, as the government has liberals in it who want to remake our government and destroy the Constitution. Liberals are liberals. They do not value institutions until they run them and remake them in their own way, and nothing is sacred. Not the Catholic Church, not the Methodist Church. Nothing! Zilch, zero, nada. I shouldn\u2019t have to say this, especially after this weekend. The real challenge — and it\u2019s hard; I know it\u2019s hard — is you can\u2019t believe that we\u2019ve elected people to run this country who don\u2019t like it. Well, we did, but not on purpose. They were fooled, lied to, defrauded, everything else. So it\u2019s out there right in the open for everyone to see and take note of. They don\u2019t deserve to win another election ever. The country cannot withstand them winning another major election. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you just heard Stacy from the insurance industry in Atlanta who called here and said that her assessment, along with many of her colleagues, is that her industry has two on three years left. We\u2019ve been warning of this for a number of months, that these premium increases are on purpose because what Obama and all these Democrats want is single payer — and the single payer is the government. No insurance companies at all, no insurance companies. Single payer! We\u2019ve played you the sound bites of Obama saying so. Now, he knows — they\u2019re smart enough to know — that if they actually came out and said, ‘By January 1st of 2011, we\u2019re just going to eliminate insurance companies,\u2019 they\u2019re never going to get away with that. They have to do it in a way that nobody would believe that\u2019s the end result. Nobody will believe it.<\/line><\/line>Just like you can\u2019t believe we\u2019ve elected somebody doesn\u2019t like the Constitution, doesn\u2019t like the country, it\u2019s hard to believe we\u2019ve elected somebody really wants to put an entire industry out of business. It just doesn\u2019t jive with what people think of their own country. But if she\u2019s right when she said to us that the major premium increases that we all know are coming are not going to hit until January — because that\u2019s when group policies renew) and that the increases are going to be 300% to handle all of the new demands that government, via Obamacare, is putting on the insurance companies — here\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen. The minute those policy renewals hit, and the 300% increase hits instead of the $2500 premium reduction that Obama promised, Obama will take to the airwaves.<\/line><\/p>\n

(impression) ‘We came up the best comprehensive insurance reform plan ever, and we tried to fix this. But these are most greedy people ever! These people, why, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this in my life. These people have done everything they can to take advantage of this wonderful plan that we put forth. They have so much greed, so much greed! They have no care for anybody else.\u2019 He\u2019ll just act shocked. That\u2019s when they dump all over the — when you\u2019re just as mad at them. Taking advantage, they think, of what you don\u2019t know: That Obama\u2019s health care plan caused this. They\u2019re banks on the fact that the State-Controlled Media will not tell you anything about this. They\u2019re banking on the fact that the people that do tell you about this are going to be able to be characterized as kooks and alarmists and scaremongers, so that when these massive premium increases hit, Obama — and it\u2019s not just going to be Obama. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be Pelosi. It\u2019s going to be Reid. He\u2019s going to have all these people running around saying, ‘I can\u2019t believe these insurance companies. After we put together the most comprehensive reform to reduce premiums, to cover everybody and to fix all these problems, this greed! We have never seen this,\u2019 and then they\u2019ll make the move to get rid of them, \u2019cause what they want is no insurance industry anyway, private insurance industry. They want single payer, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s George in Hartford, Connecticut, glad you called. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush. There\u2019s one word for the Republicans, and that\u2019s ownership. They have to, between now and November, make sure the Democrats own this health care bill. There wasn\u2019t one Republican in the House that voted for it and now they\u2019re using reconciliation in the Senate. So every day, you don\u2019t need to be negative and no, all\u2019s you need to know is they own this bill, it\u2019s their name on it, they\u2019re the ones that came up with this crappy bill and they have to make sure that every single day that\u2019s what they talk about. In the reelection campaign, when they\u2019re talking and they\u2019re debating these Democrats, they have to be firm that you own it, you created it, and you\u2019re responsible for it. And if the Republicans do that, Rush, I really feel that we\u2019ll be successful in 2010.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we understandably have a lot of people who agree with that, and I don\u2019t disagree with it, but what if, as we just learned from The Politico, that none of the really bad stuff that anybody would not want to lay claim for owning really kicks in immediately?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And that\u2019s probably by design, and I mean everything\u2019s calculated with this administration. But they have to say your insurance rates will go up in 2011, they will in just a short month-and-a-half —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Actually, I think they have been. The Republicans have been pretty good, they\u2019ve held firm in the House and the Senate. There\u2019s not a whole lot the Republicans could have done beyond what they did and they\u2019ve been pretty good at educating people about what\u2019s in the bill. People know insurance premiums are coming up. The polling data on the bill wouldn\u2019t be as bad for the Democrats as it is if the Republicans weren\u2019t doing something right. A CNN poll, 59% don\u2019t want the bill. Forty-six percent disapprove of Obama. Well, this is happening for a host of reasons, but not because the Republicans are being silent. The Republicans are, I think on this, I gotta say we\u2019ve been pretty proud of them, especially the Republicans in the House. Republicans in the House deserve some kudos here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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