{"id":8704,"date":"2014-08-05T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-05T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:29:27","slug":"why_the_regime_did_obamacare_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/05\/why_the_regime_did_obamacare_first\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Regime Did Obamacare First"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Scott in Plano, Texas, you\u2019re next. I\u2019m glad you waited. And welcome to the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos, and it\u2019s an honor to be talking to a national treasure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to expand on the amnesty story that you led off with. It is a fact that the majority were against it, but the majority were also against Obamacare, and of course Obamacare had to be passed by all kinds of dirty tricks and so forth in the middle of the night and last minute and so forth, and I kind of picture it as pushing two boulders up the hill. The Democrats know they couldn\u2019t get both of them up or they would have been 0-for-2, you know, if they tried both amnesty and Obamacare, they would have failed on both. And they almost failed on Obamacare. And I think there are a couple reasons. One is amnesty is not as socialist, and they were trying to lead off with their best card. Also, I think it was not as complex as Obamacare, and so it couldn\u2019t have been delayed. It would have gone into effect, it would have been a disaster, and he would not have gotten a second term. Those are some of the reasons why I think they chose not to do the amnesty in addition to the fact that most people were against it.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I think, if I heard everything you\u2019ve said, I would agree with most of it. However, I\u2019m not sure I caught everything, \u2019cause your phone connection wasn\u2019t the best. But, let me review. You think that they couldn\u2019t have done both in the first term, Obamacare and amnesty, \u2019cause that would have been too much; they would have lost twice.<\/p>\n

So they had to pick the one thing that was less…what, complex? ‘Cause everybody wants their health care. So even though a majority have never been for it, it was not as damaging to the Democrats to focus on that as amnesty. Well, the answer to, “Why did they do health care and not amnesty or why didn\u2019t they do both when Obama owned Congress the first two years?” is…<\/p>\n

The reason for health care… Again, the politics of this<\/a>, the domestic political fallout didn\u2019t matter. This was one of those things they were gonna ram through. As the caller said, they used tricks and late-night things and all kinds of lying like to Bart Stupak about abortion. I mean, they pulled out all of the unsavory stuff to get this done, and they didn\u2019t care about the political fallout. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, the reason for that is, in health care — government-run health care — you own your country. You now have full control over everybody in this country. It\u2019s worth whatever fallout. It\u2019s worth losing the House 2010 to get that. It is worth whatever political fallout there is. Now, it\u2019s not worth losing the White House in 2012, and that\u2019s why they did this in the first two years of Obama to give people time to recover from it and hopefully forget.<\/line><\/p>\n

You know, Obamacare was scheduled so that the goodies, the benefits would be the first thing that happened. The tax increases come later. So the pain of Obamacare comes later. Plus with all the waivers, they delayed it. As far as they were concerned, only the goodies were gonna happen. It didn\u2019t work out that way because it was incompetent to begin with. But with health care, that has been a dream of every person who has…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking world history. Every leader who has desired total control over his population, national health care has been the first thing or one of the top three things that a leader tries to get. Because once you get that, you have the ability to blackmail people and have them live any way you want them to live, eat what you want them to eat, drink what you want them to eat and not eat and not drink what you don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

Where they live, anything, you control because you\u2019re holding their health care over their head. You\u2019re holding their health insurance. You\u2019re holding their treatment over their head. You\u2019re holding whether or not you\u2019ll pay for treatment that they need over their head, even to the tune of how they vote. You have control over all that. That has been a dream of these leftists for 16 years, and here they were on the verge of it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to Obama and the first term agenda, there\u2019s one thing I want to disabuse you of right off the bat. Whatever they didn\u2019t do was not because they were too busy. Whatever they didn\u2019t do was not because they were distracted or not because they didn\u2019t have time or not because of this or that or the other thing. They didn\u2019t do amnesty in the first term when Obama had the Congress because they didn\u2019t want the blame for it. <\/p>\n

It was massively opposed. <\/line><\/p>\n

It has never been supported. <\/p>\n

It has always been massively opposed. They only want amnesty passed if they can have it blamed on the Republicans, which is what they are trying and have been trying to maneuver into happening. They want the Republicans being seen as doing it! That\u2019s why all of this talk about, “You guys are never gonna win another election if you don\u2019t do this because the Hispanics gonna hate your guts forever!”<\/p>\n

Do you want to know who really didn\u2019t care about the Hispanics? Obama. Obama didn\u2019t care about the Hispanics. If he\u2019d have cared about the Hispanics he would have given them what they wanted as he promised. And you know something else? He didn\u2019t care about the gays. It wasn\u2019t until they threatened to stop donating that all of a sudden he sends Biden out to say the Regime\u2019s changed its mind on gay marriage. <\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t care about anybody. He\u2019s not a cool, aloof character. He\u2019s a cold guy. He cares about him. He goes and speaks to Jorge Ramos and promises this? He doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t care about whether Obamacare works or not. He doesn\u2019t care about any of this. This has been my point all along. Now, if you threaten to withhold money, then he\u2019ll do what you want, but it doesn\u2019t mean he loves you. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do amnesty because there was no way he could blame the Republicans for it when he controlled Congress, and it\u2019s all about blaming the Republicans for it. Amnesty is all about making sure it\u2019s seen as a Republican achievement so that it wipes them out. No way was he gonna do amnesty and then try to get health care done. He would have never gotten health care done if he\u2019d have done amnesty first, folks, \u2019cause that was really opposed.<\/p>\n

Now, you can talk a good game about “giving” everybody health care. You can marshal some support. Let\u2019s also remember that while all this was going on, the Democrats are pushing Dodd-Frank through. That\u2019s just as big, and that\u2019s just as complex, and just as big a power grab in the financial industry as Obamacare is in the health industry. Don\u2019t think they were too busy. <\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t too busy. <\/p>\n

This is what they had dreamed of! <\/p>\n

Obama had total control of the House and the Senate, and he used that for Obamacare. Now the Republicans own the House and maybe they\u2019re gonna win the Senate, and that\u2019s when Obama… I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever gonna grant amnesty. The only way he\u2019s gonna grant blank amnesty to five or six million, or all 11 or 12 million or whatever, is if the Republicans get the blame for it. <\/p>\n

Since the Republicans are seen as the only ones who are political, he may not have that much trouble engineering that. And, of course, there are plenty of RINO Republicans ready to drink the Kool-Aid and do it, because they\u2019ve bought this nonsense that the only way they\u2019re ever gonna win the White House again is with the Hispanic vote, and the only way to get the Hispanic vote is to do amnesty. <\/p>\n

It is a death sentence, and Obama knows it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, at first, just to give you another example, a lot of people did not think Obamacare was political at all. No, no, no, it was just Obama wanting everybody to have health insurance. It was just Obama wanting everybody to have affordable health care. And it was the Republicans who were politicizing it just to deny the first black president a success story. And then it came to light that Obama had been lying to everybody about it, and then the waivers started, and finally the truth of Obamacare could no longer be denied. <\/p>\n

Now, in the case of Obamacare, it never did have majority support. At best, it was 50-50. But even the low-information crowd, at first, and the people that claimed they hate politics — next time, by the way, you encounter a young person, I don\u2019t care whether 15 or a Millennial that\u2019s 30 years old, the next time you encounter a person that overhears you in a conversation. “Does everything have to be politics? I don\u2019t care about politics. I wish people would stop arguing.” Look \u2019em in the eye and say, “You had better wake up and learn that everything that is happening in this country is political.” <\/p>\n

Just tell \u2019em. Just face them and tell them. “You can\u2019t run away from it. You might think you can, but you can\u2019t.” It\u2019s like my dad used to tell me and my friends on Friday night, “You boys think you\u2019re having fun, but you\u2019re not.” Well, you think you\u2019re escaping politics, you young twerps, but you\u2019re not. It\u2019s everywhere, and it\u2019s affecting you in ways that you don\u2019t even see because you\u2019re closed off to it, in your own mind. <\/p>\n

Anyway, greetings, and welcome back, folks, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. <\/p>\n

Also, by the way, one of the explanations — in fact, it is an explanation — the reason Obama did not do amnesty, immigration amnesty, the first two years when he had a Democrat Congress, it\u2019s the Limbaugh Theorem. The Limbaugh Theorem is what? The explanation for how Obama escapes accountability for things. The Limbaugh Theorem states that Obama is never seen governing. He\u2019s always seen campaigning. Obama is always seen opposed to what is going on, even the things that he has made happen. He campaigns apparently against his own policies. He relies on people not knowing what he\u2019s done. <\/p>\n

The Limbaugh Theorem explains how Obama escapes any blame. And so when it comes to amnesty, nobody wanted it, he wasn\u2019t gonna do it, he wasn\u2019t gonna do anything for which he could end up being held accountable. He wasn\u2019t gonna do it. The only way they\u2019re gonna do amnesty is if they can make the Republicans do it and have everybody see that the Republicans are to blame for it. Because there\u2019s so much opposition to it in the country. Nobody wants it. Poor Republicans, they\u2019re just believing all of this gobbledygook. <\/line><\/p>\n

By the way, who\u2019s telling them this? The Democrats and the media. “You know, you guys are never, ever gonna win again if you don\u2019t do something about the Hispanic vote. You\u2019re losing \u2019em, bud, you\u2019re losing the Hispanic vote. You better change your attitude on this immigration business. You better come out for amnesty right now.” Yeah, well, why didn\u2019t Obama do it when he had the chance and accept all these accolades? Why didn\u2019t he do it after promising? Why didn\u2019t he do it and get all this credit? Why didn\u2019t Obama do it and end forever the Republican Party\u2019s chances at winning the White House, hmm? Because he wouldn\u2019t have gotten the credit; he would have gotten the blame. And the Limbaugh Theorem says Obama never gets the blame, at least to the extent that he\u2019s able to control it. <\/p>\n

Now, one of the ways that might help the people who claim to not like politics, who claim that they\u2019re apolitical, don\u2019t want anything to do with it — and that\u2019s why they hate the Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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