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Oct. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, your bulwark.
Happy to be here.
And as usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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You know, I don't know if this stuff does any good, but I want to go back.
I want to read what Harry Reid said to you in 2006 about the debt limit, which is what's just happened here.
We've just had a total cave by the Republican Party, and they've totally agreed now to reopen the government, give Obama a trillion dollars in effect of new debt, the debt limit raised, a trillion dollars.
They got nothing for it.
I mean, literally nothing.
At two weeks, and they got nothing for this.
Now, contrary to conventional wisdom, I don't think that all of this ultimately means I have to be very careful here how I say this because it can be misconceptions.
In fact, I'm going to reserve it for later.
I was going to say something about the Republican Party future.
I'm going to reserve it for later because I just, I don't buy the Washington conventional wisdom.
I never have, and I'm not going to start now.
And things are never, ever as bad.
I mean, they are bad for the Republican Party today, but they only have themselves to blame for this, except they don't, no, they're blaming Ted Cruz and the Tea Party and conservatives and conservatism.
And meanwhile, the Democrats are all celebrating and dingy Harry just had a little press conference out there in which he I don't have it in front of me anymore, so I don't know what number.
Would you play the dingy Harry soundbite we just played right before the hour ended?
Let me know when you've got it.
Here it is.
I want you to, because remember all the acrimony.
Now I'm going to get back to the, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to do the Daily Cause Guy coming up.
I'm going to do the Adrian Peterson Philmushing thing coming up.
And I'm going to do, I'm going to finish the Obama's a victim.
Yes.
And I'm going to get your phone calls in.
And I'm going to play Dershowitz talking about how Ted Cruz was one of the brightest and most principled law students he's ever had.
I'm going to get all of this.
But at the same time, events happen, and we react to them in a flash moment.
And Harry Reid just went to the microphones.
And now that the deal is done, now the Republicans have caved, for the next couple of hours, it's going to be like this.
I thank the Republican leader for his diligent efforts to reach this important agreement.
Republican leaders' cooperation was essential to reach an accord that could pass both chambers of Congress and also be signed by President Obama.
This is not a time for pointing fingers of blame.
Right.
This is a time of reconciliation.
I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of this great capital to pass this remarkable agreement.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And what that is, just to reiterate, he just tried to hammer the last nail into Mitch McConnell's reelection coffin in 2014 in Kentucky.
He just credited Mitch McConnell for this.
It wouldn't have happened without Mitch McConnell.
My Republican leader colleague.
He's just none of the.
Harry Reid knows how much you hate this.
He knows how much we hate this.
That's why he's happy.
Obama's happy.
Now, Harry Reid might go two hours today with a little cooperative.
Obama won't be able to help himself.
And they're throwing parties at the White House and all that right now.
But I just, I want to take you back to what Reed said in 2006.
Again, I don't think there's any value in this in terms of persuading people.
I mean, nobody's going to hear me read this.
Oh, Reed said debt.
Well, I don't like him today.
It's just interesting to know.
When Bush was in the White House and the Republicans wanted to raise the debt limit for the same reasons the Democrats have been giving, well, we got to pay off our bills.
My God, we're the U.S.
We can't default.
I mean, we're the leaders of the free world.
We can't do anything.
We've got to pay off our debts.
And the Democrats, Obama was one of them.
Dingy Harry said, if my Republican friends believe in increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, then they should be upfront about it.
They should explain why they think more debt's good for the economy.
How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their voters that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for the economy?
How can they do that?
How can they explain that they think it's fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes?
And that's what it'll have to be.
Why is it right to increase our nation's dependence on foreign creditors?
And then he said, most Americans know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing.
After all, I repeat, the baby boomers are about to retire.
Under the circumstances, any credible economist would tell you that we should be reducing debt, not increasing it.
Democrats won't be supporting this debt ceiling increase, which will weaken our economy.
That's seven years ago.
Today, they are throwing a party over raising the debt limit by a trillion dollars, almost at $964,000, $14 trillion, a billion dollars short.
We rounded up to trillion dollars.
So today, there is no debt problem.
It's perfectly fine to go in more debt.
And it's not a problem of the baby boomers.
And it's not a problem of the American people.
And we can go to our voters and we can tell them this is crucially important.
We have to do this to maintain the full faith and credit of the United States.
We've got to go into further debt.
Yeah, this is blatant hypocrisy, but it's more than hypocrisy.
They're just flat out liars.
They are nothing more than purely partisan political beasts.
And that's fine, but the Republicans don't play in that arena.
The Republicans do not speak up.
The Republicans do not criticize.
They don't push back against any of this because they've been tricked into believing people will hate them if they do.
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious, verbal attacks known in politics.
And they get praised for it.
And Bill Clinton gives speeches about how conflict is good for politics.
And meanwhile, the Republicans and their consultants and their big money people run around.
You better shut up.
You better not criticize Obama.
You better sign on to amnesty and sign on to all this other stuff.
It's just, it's absolutely ridiculous.
These Democrats are pure partisans.
There's not an ounce of principle in them, as the Dingy Harry quote proves.
And Obama said much the same thing when he voted against raising the debt limit in 2006.
It was nothing but politics.
It was nothing.
It was all about pushing back against Bush, denying Bush anything that would help him or the country or the Republican Party because that's not their game.
Their game is power.
Do whatever they have to to get it.
Doesn't matter.
So now Harry Reid is happy.
And Obama, the Democrats are happy we're adding a trillion dollars because we have to.
And it's not a problem.
It's not a problem for the baby boomers.
Not a problem for the entitlement structure.
It's not a problem for anything.
We've got to pay off our bills now.
And by the way, Obama says now it's not even new debt.
And he says that with a straight face.
And the drive-by media applauds.
They don't even question it.
You imagine if George Bush is saying, well, we're not adding debt here.
We're just, we're just, we got to pay our bills.
You think that would fly with these people?
No way.
So let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here is, I've got three of them here.
This is on CNN, and they ended up carrying Ted Cruz's little mini press conference, which went on at the same time that Dingy Harry and Mitch McConnell were doing their kumbaya announcement of a great deal.
And you'll hear Cruz and his remarks here, and then the anchor Wolf Blitzer gets mad that they're covering Cruz.
Or he's a little puzzled by it.
Here it is.
The deal that has been cut provides no relief to all the young people coming out of school who can't find a job because of Obamacare.
It provides no relief to all the single parents who have been forced into part-time work, struggling to feed their kids on 29 hours a week.
It provides no relief to all the hardworking families who are facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums.
And it provides no relief to all the seniors, to all the people with disabilities who are right now getting in the mail notifications from their health insurance companies that they're losing their health insurance because of Obamacare.
All right, let's leave Ted Cruz.
He's obviously opposed to this deal.
Let's go back to Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader on the Senate floor.
He supports it.
Here, Wolf.
Did you hear that?
It was funny.
Why did we leave?
What do we do with Cruz?
Why are we covering Cruz?
Let's go to Cruz.
He opposed this deal.
We celebrate the deal.
We love the deal.
We at CNN love debt.
We love losing.
We love going into more debt.
We want to talk to the losers.
We want to hear the, well, the winners in their mind.
Now, why did CNN go to Cruz?
CNN went to Cruz.
Some producer went to Cruz because he is obviously a real leader.
They went to Cruz because he is the most interesting person talking about this today, even to people on the left.
He's the most interesting people talking about this in Washington because everybody knows, everybody knows in their minds and hearts that he's right in what he's saying.
Ted Cruz is compelling.
Cruz versus Dingy Harry and McConnell.
Anyway, Wolf didn't like it, so he steered CNN back to Dingy Harry.
And so after they finished it, they went back to Cruz after satisfying Wolf.
It is my understanding from leadership is likely to occur today.
I have no objections to the timing of this vote.
And the reason is simple.
There's nothing to be gained from delaying this vote one day or two days.
The outcome will be the same.
Every senator, every member of the House is going to have to make a decision where he or she stands.
But there's no benefit.
I've never had any intention of delaying the timing of this vote.
And he continued.
15,000 UPS employees got a notification in the mail that they were losing spousal coverage, that their husbands and wives were all losing the health insurance that they wanted and they liked.
That is happening all over the country.
It's wrong.
And the focus, in my view, should not be on the politics of Washington.
The politics of Washington, at the end of the day, doesn't matter.
What the focus should be is on making Washington, D.C. listen to the American people and respond to the very real harms that Obamacare is causing to millions of people.
Amen.
And he, did you notice, even here in the midst of this so-called shocking and embarrassing defeat, Cruz is undeterred and unflappable.
He continues unleashing on Obamacare, which we are going to continue to do today, continue to do today, because the news continues to be more devastating.
This rollout is absolutely, it is an utter disaster.
And Obama's base is in the process of learning this.
The Democrat Party and their buds in the media have lied to the American people about Obamacare.
They have purposely kept from them the truth about it.
And they are going to learn the truth simply by living their lives and doing what the law requires them to do.
They're going to learn the truth about it from the actual interaction with it, not from hearing somebody tell them about it that they might not believe.
They're going to encounter the truth by actually coming into contact with it.
It's already starting to happen.
And there's going to be a price to pay for this for Obama and his buddies and the Democrats.
I don't pretend to know what the price is, but there's going to be a price.
They have totally misled people.
They've totally lied.
They didn't vet this bill like they didn't vet Obama.
They have purposely lied.
People in the media purposely have misled people about what this health care reform bill is.
They have been told it's free or it's cheap, $2,500 off your premium, that the insured, uninsured are going to be covered, and that everybody's going to get treatment.
And none of that is true for anywhere near a majority of the people.
Okay, I'm going to take a break.
Here's what's coming.
I'm going to finish because it's important.
I think, for me anyway, this ongoing quest to understand how it is Obama gets away with this.
And the help of Dr. Keith Abloh here in Obama is establishing the fact that he is a victim.
Chip on his shoulder.
He is a victim of this country.
But there's something crucial in being a victim.
It's not, in and of itself, remarkable, but when you have achieved victim status, you're untouchable.
The only thing permitted for victims is sympathy.
You can't criticize a victim.
And he's sought and has achieved he's achieved this victim status.
He's almost taken up residence in it, and he's insulated from any form of criticism.
The Daily Cause story on the little Obama that discovered the truth about Obamacare, what happened to him when he wrote about it, and other things.
All promised, all will happen, plus your phone calls.
Okay, back to the phone.
But we haven't gone to the phone, so we're going to start now.
And I'm just trying to mix it all together here, folks.
You don't see what happens here.
I mean, during the program, during commercial breaks, I got stuff coming in here flying.
It interrupts everything I have in order ready to go because it's all new.
So it takes precedence over what I've got planned.
And so I'm not teasing you and not getting this stuff on purpose just to hold you there.
It's just stuff comes in that takes preference.
I mean, I could tell everybody, just shut down when the show starts, but then stuff would happen and I wouldn't know about it.
So it's a balancing act here.
I want to get to the phones, get started because people have been on hold a long time and I really appreciate that.
We're going to start in Moorcroft, Wisconsin with Dan.
Thank you, sir.
Greetings.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hey, Rush Megadittos from Wyoming.
I was going to say, I'd never heard of a Moorcroft, Wisconsin.
No, actually, I'm in Wyoming.
Okay.
Are you, Dan?
Yes, I am.
Okay.
Yep.
And I want to give you Dittos from Wyoming.
And the reason I called, I'd like to have you talk a little bit about the relationship on funding bills between the House and the Senate, because I'm incensed that the House passed CR after CR to keep things going outside of Obamacare, of course.
And Harry Reid unilaterally just made the decision that the Senate wouldn't even take those up.
And now the big magic deal we've all been waiting for is coming from the Senate and is going to be rammed down the throat of the House.
And my understanding is...
That's by arrangement.
You're thinking that this is happening in a not constitutional way.
It was agreed because Boehner couldn't get his guys to go first on this deal.
Boehner could not get enough conservatives.
The Senate had to go first, the Democrats go first, and quote-unquote take the bullet, and then the House follows.
But that was by arrangement.
Now, that might make you even angrier.
Yeah, it does.
Again, the thing that's so irritating out here in flyover country is that irregardless of the impact this is having on middle America, they are just hell-bent on putting this bill through.
And one of my friends said to me the other day, he said, well, perhaps the path through this for the Republicans is to go ahead and fund everything, fund Obamacare to the hilt, but put some teeth in it, that we are going to fund Obamacare as it was passed with absolutely no delays, no exemptions, no special cases, a full-scale implementation across the board.
That means the Senate would not get an exemption.
That means that big business would not get an exemption.
That means everybody would go under this right now.
But see, you're nailing a lot of things here.
In the first place, one thing I want to acknowledge that you said I didn't want to sweep it away because one of the most underreported aspects of this, underreported stories over the last five years is precisely, your instincts are right on the money, how Obama and the Democrats have literally taken away the power of the purse from the House.
Now, how has that happened?
It can only happen if it's allowed to.
Why is it allowed to?
Because the House is paralyzed against criticizing Obama.
They're just paralyzed into opposing Obama.
And it goes back to the Limbaugh theorem.
It's the racial component.
It goes to the fact that Obama has taken up full residence in this country as a victim of this country.
We've actually elected a president of the United States who considers himself to be a victim of America.
Dr. Keith Ablow is exactly right.
Without a budget, the House has practically no power, Dan.
And the Democrats have not presented a budget in four years.
We've had to use continuing resolutions.
That has the effect of taking the power of the purse away from the House because that's where all budgets and spending items are to originate.
But without a budget, nothing flows.
Everything's done piecemeal.
It's been on purpose.
The Democrats can hide their policy intentions from people.
Dan from Wyoming was really onto something.
And this is not to comment on the Vitter.
You know, this is, let me comment on it.
The Vitter bill, David Vitter, the senator, had a bill that everybody in Congress would live under Obamacare.
No subsidies, no exemptions, no delays, no waivers.
Every House member, every Senate member has to go to an exchange to get insurance like everybody else does.
And I think the Vitter bill did not include staff, not sure, but it did include every member of the House and a member of the Senate.
And there were some who wanted that to be in whatever cave-in legislation there was, such as this thing that was signed today.
Okay, going to raise the debt limit a trillion, and we're going to reopen the government and all this sort of stuff.
But we're also going to pay Republicans could have thrown that in.
There's some people who are blaming Heritage and Freedom Works for caving on that.
The truth of the matter is that Boehner can launch that as a standalone anytime he wants in the House.
They can do that anytime.
And they ought to do it every day.
They ought to make the Democrats vote that down.
This is what I mean about forcing the issue and opposing them and making them illustrate who they are.
So if the Democrats want to make sure that they're exempted from Obamacare, then make them show it.
Make them demonstrate it.
Make them oppose a piece of legislation that would require them to go to exchanges like we're all going to have to do.
Now, the Republicans in the House and the Senate did not want to attach Vitter to this cave-in bill.
And some think that that's because the Freedom Works and the Heritage Action Group advised them not to.
The point of that is real simple.
All the Freedom Works people want and Heritage Action, they want Congress to focus on defunding, delaying Obamacare for us, for the American people, to hell with these people in Congress.
Their vision is much larger.
In addition to gotcha points, which is what the Vitter Bill is, the people at Freedom Works and Heritage, the Tea Party groups, are acting on behalf of the American people.
If members of Congress are going to get their delay and waiver, why shouldn't you?
Why shouldn't we instead make a move legislatively that delays the individual mandate for a year, as well as do the Vitter thing?
That's the only point they were making.
It's fine and dandy if you're going to throw the Vitter thing in, but you don't have to throw it into this continuing resolution bill.
You can throw that up anytime.
You can throw it up every day or as often as legislatively permissible.
I think it's classic.
I think it's something that you could score a lot of points with.
Make the Democrats vote against them having to use Obamacare.
By the way, has Obama gone to an exchange yet?
Has Obama gone to the website and signed up?
Well, now, don't laugh.
It's his damn bill.
Shouldn't he be the first one in line?
Shouldn't he be the first one showing how wonderful it is, showing how easy it is, showing how wonderful the system works?
He's not going to go anywhere near it, folks.
Healthcare bill named after him that he proudly accepts, and he's not going to be anywhere near it.
So why should we?
Members of Congress, they're going to get their exemption.
And the only thing Freedom Works and these other people were advocating was, well, then let's make sure the American people get a waiver too.
That was their only point.
The Cruz-Lee faction, that was their point.
I don't know what you believe based on the reporting, but I'm here to tell you that these Tea Party groups have been working with you in mind, all of us in mind, the American people, and protecting you, and providing you an out like everybody else is getting.
The unions are getting theirs.
Some businesses have gotten their waivers.
Various friends at Congress have gotten theirs, but you haven't.
And not even these little lunatic Obama-based members are getting any relief from it.
So that was the point they were making about that.
But the point here again that Dan from Wyoming brought up is he'd understand why is the Senate doing this first?
They don't have this power.
This stuff has to come from the House.
Now, this is a prior arrangement because Boehner couldn't get the House to go first on this.
So the Senate Democrats take the lead on this with the help of McConnell, and theoretically they take the bullet.
But the real reason this happens is an underreported story on the fact that the House does have the power of the purse.
And one of the great underreported stories is how the Democrats have taken that away.
Obama and the Democrats have literally usurped that power from the House.
And they did it by not presenting a budget for four straight years.
That is that simple.
By refusing to present a budget to even consider the budget that was produced in the House, like the Ryan budget, they never even considered it.
That left as the only alternative to fund the government continuing resolutions, which, as you know, go for a month here, three months there, six months there.
And budget negotiations are essential for the checks and balances.
This is why it's a constitutional requirement to have one.
And this is why the Democrats have sought to avoid it.
It's because that's where legitimate checks and balances take place in our system, is during budget negotiations.
Without the power of the purse in the House, when Obama has that, he may as well be a king.
When he and his party have nothing but continuing resolutions, that is what reduces the Republicans to looking like kids that won't get off your front lawn.
Because the only option that they have to affect spending is to make piecemeal proposals every time a continuing resolution, or in this case, a debt limit increase comes up.
And the optics of that are not good.
It makes them look like spoiled brats who just always want their way.
Media helps that perception get spread.
But this has all been by design.
The Democrats have purposely not presented a budget for four years, A, to hide their legislative and policy agenda.
I don't want you to know what their plans are.
The budget would spell that out.
The budget would tell us how much they want to spend on what.
So they've kept that from anybody knowing.
And it does piecemeal continuing resolution.
And with every continuing resolution, what do we have?
Somehow, the media comes up with another threat to shut down the government.
So it's made to look like every three months or so, these damn Republicans want to shut down the government.
Damn them.
Damn these stupid, we hate government, hate Washington, these stupid, every three months.
And that's the program.
It was set in motion by the policy decision not to present a budget.
The only way the Democrats can get away with this is if the Republicans don't oppose it.
The Republicans ought to be screaming to high hell.
Well, low hell.
That ought to be high heaven.
They ought to be screaming until they got no voice about this.
They ought to be telling the American people what's going on.
The American people ought to know the reason the Democrats don't present a budget.
The American people ought to know.
Now, the Republicans will tell you, well, they won't cover what we say.
But yes, they're covering Ted Cruz every damn day.
Ted Cruz gets coverage anytime he wants it.
Why is that?
They hate Ted Cruz.
They despise Ted Cruz.
And yet Ted Cruz has gotten his message out.
Now, Ted Cruz proves two things.
You can go over the media and get the American people, or you can use the media and get the American people.
So I don't buy this argument.
Well, they won't cover what we say.
Yeah, if you call a dull, boring press conference, sit there and whine and moan like Ryan did in the vice presidential debate, nobody's going to notice you.
I mean, you sit there and get lamb-basted by plugs Biden and you don't react to it.
Geez.
This is what's been going on here for five years.
And you could at least stand up and shout in opposition to this.
And the Constitution here is being used as toilet paper.
In a sense, and I know that's all of this combined is part and parcel.
What has so many of you upset?
Me too.
I just, I can't, I can't explain.
I cannot pound it or reiterate it enough that there is a reason why the Republicans don't oppose.
They have been spooked into not doing it.
A, the precious independents don't like it, and they go running back to Democrats.
And B, Obama's race.
And any criticism would be called racism.
And I just want to go there.
So let Obama have what he wants, try to limit the damage later.
We'll get rid of the Tea Party.
And we'll come back stronger than ever as moderate Republicans, show the American people we're reasonable, and maybe by 2040, we'll be winning again.
We've got pledges from our donors to keep us flush with money until then, so we're cool.
That must be what's going on.
Nothing else makes any sense.
And now I got to take a resistance.
I intended to take a phone call when that last segment started.
This segment, I intended to take a phone call.
This is what happens.
I mean, greatest intentions, just kaput.
Yeah, I know it's worth it, but still, people have been holding there a long time.
And I still got to get to Mushnik and Adrian Peterson as Daily Cause guy.
I got to finish Keith Abloh and Obama being a victim.
I feel like I'm falling behind here.
I'm going to get it all in.
I promise.
Sit tight.
Coming right back.
Ha.
How are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
Okay, Dan in Northern Michigan.
If we go back to the phones, greetings, sir, and welcome.
Welcome, Rush.
I just have to forego the polite amenities.
I am just so mad today that it just is beside myself with what these people are doing to us in Washington, the Republican Party.
I have been a registered Republican for years.
My entire family is Democrats.
And after today, there's no need for me to continue on being a Republican because we have nobody to follow.
We have no leaders.
We have a team out here trying to find somebody to be behind.
And every time we think that there's someone there, they cave.
And it's discouraging.
I mean, I just, I know a lot of people are in the same mindset as I am, and we are so disgusted that, Rush, who do we follow?
Who is our leader?
Who are we supposed to mask behind?
You know, if we can't play the game, then get the hell off the field because it's almost like the Democrats are out on the field with the refs, who is the media, and we're on the sidelines talking to the cheerleaders trying to figure out how to play the game.
And it's really a disgrace to what we're trying to do.
We are becoming one party, so why not be a Democrat?
At least they're loyal.
Their message is convoluted.
It's really not remote for the public.
Let me answer.
Let me just be silent.
Let me answer your question.
I'm not trying to be a shill here.
But what we learned in this is that there are people willing to try to lead.
There are people willing to take the arrows.
We do have pioneers.
There are people.
I'll mention the names.
Ted Cruz is at the top of the list.
Mike Lee, these people were out taking every shot the media had.
They were taking every shot the Republican Party had.
They were taking every shot that Sarah Palin got.
And they were unflappable, and they persevered.
And they were doing it on your behalf.
There are even some Republicans, even some conservative Republicans.
There was a battle between the delay Obamacare group and the Defund Obamacare group.
And they're both groups of conservatives, activists.
The delay group, I mean, I would hear from both of them because everybody wants me to promote their point of view.
So I hear from these people.
And you wouldn't believe it.
The delay people were sending me caustic notes saying, this is Ted Cruz.
I can't believe you're falling for it.
He's using everybody.
This doesn't have a chance.
There's no way we're going to defund Obamacare.
This is an objective that can't possibly happen.
It's a waste of time.
He's just using you to fundraise.
If I thought that was the case, I wouldn't have given Ted Cruz two looks.
These internecine battles are going on all over the place.
And believe me, the battle for money is huge, sadly, but it is.
Money is the mother's milk of everything.
And it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
It just is.
Now, I noticed that when Ted Cruz sent his various email blasts out to people, he didn't ask for money.
He asked for people, sign a petition, and you go there to sign a petition.
There was not a place to give money that I saw.
I don't deny that everybody in politics fundraises and so forth.
But I'm just telling you this to illustrate that even within the conservative universe, there's the Tea Party conservatives.
Then you've got people who think they're mainstream O-line Reaganites, who really aren't, but they think they are.
And then you've got moderate conservatives typified by what is most of the conservative media, sadly.
And then you've got the establishment Republicans, which are rhinos and liberals and moderates.
But you did see people that were able to get news coverage, were able to get their message out.
They took every shot that was sent their way, and they remained unflappable.
And I think this is going to be a payoff.
I spent a lot of time talking about this yesterday.
I think the people who fought for the American people in this and never gave up, no matter the odds, they're going to be rewarded in future years.
They're going to have a future.
The people who bailed, the people who, well, this is a waste of time.
You can't even achieve this.
Defund Obamacare?
That's not going to happen.
Why are we even doing?
There was a classic two or three great reasons for doing it.
It's called teaching.
It's called making the point.
It's called caring about what happens to the American people.
Whatever happened to that, by the way?
I mean, here the Democrats seem to own this notion that only they care.
I know for a fact that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and these guys are doing what they're because they care about the impact this is going to have on the American people and therefore the country.
They're being dead set honest on this.
And so there are many valid reasons to pursue this.
But the defund people, they didn't like it because it couldn't be achieved.
There's always the you can't do it crowd.
There's always that's an impossible objective.
There's always, you know, you got to know your limitations.
You got to know when to quit.
And they did and all of that.
But it's not the landscape is not forlorn out there, Dan.
There's a lot to glom onto here.
And I think maybe you might see it realize itself sooner than you think.
Okay, I have shut down every source of input I have because I'm not going to be interrupted.
I'm not going to have anything takes.
I'm going to finish Keith Ablow and Obama's a victim.
It fascinates me.
And this daily cause little guy upset at Obamacare and the Adrian Peterson Phil Mushnik controversy that I, well, I guess I ended up teasing yesterday.
Plus, I've got some soundbites I want to get in there and some of your phone calls to boot.
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