{"id":9713,"date":"2014-04-02T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-02T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:24:15","slug":"beneath_the_dignity_of_the_office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/04\/02\/beneath_the_dignity_of_the_office\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Dignity of the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the Obama sound bites. I think this kind of behavior (I really do, folks) should be beneath the dignity of the office of the president<\/a>. But that just doesn\u2019t apply to this president or to this regime. Here in this bite from the Rose Garden yesterday, is President Obama, essentially… Well, in the next bite he pretty much agrees with Harry Reid. Everybody that\u2019s criticizing Obamacare is lying about it.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the first bite, number three. This is the pep rally and the way it began.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million Americans have now signed up<\/a> for private —<\/p>\n

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

OBAMA: — insurance plans through these marketplaces — 7.1! … No, the Affordable Care Act hasn\u2019t completely fixed our long-broken health care system. But this law has made our health care system a lot better. <\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (silence)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: A lot better!<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (smattering of applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, he had to say it twice to cue these dunderheads, \u2019cause even they know that\u2019s not true. Nothing\u2019s better about this. So he had to say it twice to get them to applaud at the right time and the right space. But I think this whole thing is a disgrace because celebrating — it\u2019s mandatory. This is the law. Like I said in our last hour, are we gonna do this on April 15th, have a big pep rally and talk about how many people love the changes we made in the income tax system? <\/line><\/p>\n

(impersonating Obama) “Look at how many people are paying their taxes today, all because of me, all right, let\u2019s have a big party.” Bogus. It\u2019s mandatory, 7.1, they can\u2019t even document the number, and even if it is true, 7.1 is nothing when the law requires everybody. But I think as I said earlier, this is beneath the dignity of the office. This is Obama joining Dingy Harry in essentially calling all the people with these Obamacare horror stories a liar.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I gotta admit, I don\u2019t get it. Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance? Why are they so mad about the idea of folks having health insurance? Many of the tall tales that have been told about this law have been debunked. There are still no death panels. (laughter) Armageddon has not arrived.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But there are death panels! There already are decisions being made who gets treated and who doesn\u2019t. “I gotta admit I don\u2019t get it. Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance?” Mr. President, you\u2019re the only guy that\u2019s canceling people\u2019s health insurance. You\u2019re the only guy making that happen. Not me. There\u2019s not one Republican who\u2019s taken anybody\u2019s health insurance away from \u2019em. There\u2019s not one Republican nor one conservative who wants to take anybody\u2019s health insurance away from \u2019em. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s not one conservative or Republican who wants this health care system to worsen. You\u2019re the only guy making all that happen, Mr. President. You, you alone with your party, you are the one seeing to it that people are losing their health insurance. You are the one that lied to them 23, 24 times over three years that if they like their plan they could keep it, that if they like their doctor they could keep it. Millions of Americans have lost their health insurance finding out they couldn\u2019t keep their plan or their doctor, as you promised them they could. <\/line><\/p>\n

Nobody is taking anybody\u2019s health insurance away from anybody except you, sir. There is nobody in the opposition to Barack Obama who is mad about people getting health insurance or treatment. There is nobody upset about anybody getting insurance or getting treatment. What people are upset about is you are breaking a system under the guise of reforming it. You are putting it under your control, and you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re not qualified to run this system. You\u2019re not qualified to run health care. You\u2019re not qualified to run health insurance. You\u2019re not qualified to run a hospital or a whole series of them or anything of the sort. You\u2019re not qualified to run an HMO. You\u2019ve never done anything like it. You\u2019ve not even paid for your own health care ever before. You don\u2019t know anything about this. People don\u2019t like being lied to for three straight years. People don\u2019t like seeing their policies canceled. They don\u2019t like seeing their premiums doubled and their deductibles tripled. They don\u2019t like seeing their prescription costs skyrocket when they\u2019re told the opposite. <\/p>\n

It was you, Mr. President, that promised everybody that the average health care premium\u2019s gonna come down $2,500 a year. Nobody\u2019s seeing that. Nobody is working hard for people not to have health insurance. What people are trying to accomplish, what we seek to achieve is the preservation of the greatest health care system the world has ever devised. You, Mr. President, have it in your crosshairs, and you are trying to destroy it under the guise you know better how to fix it. We\u2019re not trying to work hard for people not to have health insurance. We\u2019re not mad about people having health insurance. Maybe some of us get mad at having to pay for other people\u2019s health insurance, involuntarily. <\/p>\n