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April 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, I have to test it.
Testing one, two, three.
Well, not too bad.
Sounds better to me this way than I do to myself.
Man, I thought I wasn't gonna make it here today, folks.
This just keeps getting worse.
It's amazing, it's the most looking I'm not a crybaby.
I'm not a whiner.
I just don't understand.
I've never had a cold like this.
I've never had a cold.
It took 10 days before it peaked.
I hope it's peaking.
It's worse today than it's been the past ten days.
Anyway.
Great to have you uh here on the Rush Limbaugh program, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, and the telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
The email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Man, oh man, we are just being swamped today.
It is an all-out regime and media swarm on Obamacare.
We are being pummeled.
We are being beat upside ahead.
We're being beat on top of the head.
They're hitting above the belt below the belt.
They're creaming us out there.
Because guess what?
They hit their seven million.
Overnight they got something like five million people to sign up.
They got they got their seven million.
The media is so excited.
And the Washington Post.
ABC News and Washington Post in the Pies de Resistance has a poll out that shows for the first time ever a plurality now favor and want and love and like Obamacare.
It is a miracle.
And it has all happened against all odds.
I mean, every bit of news prior to today was nobody happy, falling apart, premiums doubling, and copies and deductibles tripling, nobody being able to keep their policy, everybody unhappy, people deciding to choose to pay the penalty, a lot of people being canceled and no replacement policy, and we go from that in one overnight to everybody now.
Well, a plurality of people love Obamacare.
And we it's not a no, it's not an April Fool's joke.
Seven million people they got it.
And you know why it happened?
You know, Kathleen Sabilia says it was the between two ferns appearance that did it.
Obama appearing on that web TV show with Zach Zalakis is what is what turned the tide.
That they saw the bump from that internet talk show.
That's what made it all happen.
It's the most amazing thing.
Folks, we're being double-teamed, triple teamed, tag teamed.
It's just unbelievable.
How they have they have arrayed and aligned their forces, and they're just saying whatever needs to be said.
Doesn't matter what the facts are, the facts don't matter.
Lo and behold, a regime has hit its target of seven million Obamacare signups.
Let me ask you a question though.
Seriously, was there ever any doubt that they would reach this number?
Now see, this is where we get trapped, and we never learn because I guarantee some of you thought that they were no way they're gonna be able to get seven million by the deadline.
Not mathematically possible.
Based on the supposed factual news that we had yesterday, the day before that, last week, that it wasn't possible.
They had, I mean, what about all the news that they don't know who signed up?
What about all the news there is no back end on the website?
What about all the news that they can't figure out who's paid?
What about all the news that they can't that people have signed up don't know if they've been paid, or if they have paid, and don't know that their payments been recorded.
How about all of those news stories that were just as recently as last week, and in fact as recent as the weekend and Monday?
We couldn't tell how many people had signed up.
They didn't know how many people had paid.
They didn't know how many who had signed up or had visited were uninsured.
They didn't know any of that.
And then All of a sudden.
Yesterday, F. Chuck Todd comes out and says it's unrepeatable because they hit the six million number yesterday.
And then today and last night, the regime is out and they've hit their seven million Obamacare signup target.
And I guarantee you, a lot of people it's not possible.
You can't you can't tell me that this is real.
You can't just I and these people have been known to doctor the numbers.
Is there any doubt they were going to do this?
See, I think people are surprised.
I think even I think a lot of people on our side, I know a lot of people on our side thought this day was going to come and go, and it probably wouldn't even be any mention of Obamacare because it's so dismal.
Such a disaster.
They're so short of what they needed.
And remember, we've had unending news.
I mean, I don't want to repeat myself, but I just said I've recounted all of the most recent news.
No back end, we don't know how many people signed up, but not many people have paid, we don't know how many people uninsured, oh anything.
They said they had five million, but we didn't know how many of those were real.
And so people I think were expecting another day with no significant news on Obamacare.
And then everybody, I'm telling folks, the media is as happy as I've seen them in a year.
They are just beside they can't contain themselves.
All over, no matter where you look.
They're just thrilled, they're excited.
The Obamacare number has been reached.
No matter how much they had to cook the books.
You know, and HR just mentioned this to me in the IFB, but I'm reminded of the way the unemployment rate went down to the number it needed to before Obama got re-elected.
Remember, they had to get an unemployment rate when a president had never been elected with an unemployment rate higher than seven and a half or seven point eight percent.
And I told you a year out that by hook or by crook, the unemployment number was going to be below eight percent going into the November 2012 election.
Lo and behold, it was.
It's like magic.
Almost like magic.
These things always work out for Obama.
Especially when his team is the one producing the numbers.
Isn't it amazing how this works?
They have literally come from the gutter all the way to universal love and support.
And they did it in one day.
The ABC News, Washington Post poll.
The actual Obamacare sign-ups now reaching 7 million.
And I've got audio soundbites.
These people are gloating like crazy.
You're going to love that.
I wonder if that magic number of 7 million wasn't derived from the fact that 5 to 6 million would lose their health insurance because of Obamacare.
So they had to have a figure.
They had to have a number that would top that six million policies being canceled.
So voila, there has to be seven million signups in order to cancel out the six million have been canceled.
In order to make it look like there's a net gain.
In other words, because remember it was six million policies canceled, and they're talking about they're gonna have seven million signups.
So they had to come up with a number that would wipe out the cancellations.
And voila, they did.
They just announced it today.
And the media, of course, without any question whatsoever, starts trumpeting it.
Just like the way the cost of Obamacare had to come in under the cost of the Iraq War, had to come in at 900 billion dollars.
You remember how they did that?
Way back then.
But here's the thing.
Does anybody believe these are real numbers?
Ah, you don't.
You don't.
But what if this ABC News Washington Post poll is real?
It could be an outlier, or it could be the beginning of a trend.
Right now, 49 to 48 approve Obamacare.
It's a plurality.
4948 like it.
First time it's been a majority ever.
Just Last week, folks, just last week, no matter where you looked, it was 41, 65, it was uh 44, 55, there were nowhere close to even 5050 liking Obamacare.
Now, out of the blue, an ABC News Washington poll, post poll 49, 48, a plurality, love, like, can't wait for it, all excited about Obamacare.
Did they fudge it, or is it the beginning of a trend?
Is it real?
What is real?
And then, of course, we ask these questions.
We have to ask them of the various groups that make up Americans.
To you and me, these numbers are obviously not believable.
They're obviously cooked.
There's no question.
But to the low information crowd that believes that anything comes from government is gospel.
The real numbers are now the subject of Obama's version of don't ask, don't tell.
We're not supposed to don't, we're not supposed to ask, and we're not supposed to tell.
There's the numbers are what they are, and we're supposed to live with it.
But I think these enrollment numbers are about as real as the regime's unemployment number.
Meaning it's totally made up.
Or their latest growth projections in the economy.
That's made up.
And just like those numbers, the number of signups.
You wait.
This is going to be quietly revised down again and again over the coming weeks and months when people stop paying attention.
But for this day, excuse me, folks, I'm sorry.
April 1st, the deadline, March 31st.
They got what they wanted.
And all they had to do was go out and say it.
And I want to remind you, two weeks ago, two weeks ago, we were told there had been five million signups.
So there have been two million signups this last two weeks.
Depending on where you looked, there were four million.
But apparently, just in the last week, three to four days, we've had just, I mean, people have been making mad dash to healthcare.gov, the AP walking on air.
Health law signups on track to hit 7 million, beating expectations.
Ricardo Alonso Zaldebar and Josh Letterman.
Beating expectations.
President Obama's health care overhaul was on track to sign up more than 7 million Americans for health insurance on deadline day Monday.
Government officials told the AP.
But it gets even worse.
Can we go to the Los Angeles Times?
The joyous Los Angeles Times, here is the headline from the LA Times.
Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people.
At least nine and a half million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started, according to surveys and reports.
Now, this is the LA Times spin on a RAND study that nobody else has seen.
Yeah, the RAND group, they're a think tank out there on the left coast.
And they've got this study that nobody apparently other than the LA Times has seen.
So you need to take this grain of salt.
Since it's clear that the LA Times is going out of its way to confuse their own low information readers into thinking that all of these nine and a half million newly insured are buying insurance through the exchanges.
But if you read this story, even by the LA Times own admission, only about two million previously uninsured people have actually signed up.
If you read the story, you find out that only two million previously uninsured people have signed up, and yet the headline, 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started.
The headline just a lie.
Headline is just totally fabricated and made up.
So that is that.
There's much more to say, obviously.
We got the audio sound bites.
My my one question, the ABC, Washington Post poll.
Democrat by the way, the way it gets there is that support among Democrats for Obamacare has surged.
And there is enough Democrat support now to give Obamacare a 49 to 48 plurality.
In November in the same poll, it was 4057 who didn't like it.
Now it's 49, 48 who do.
And what's happening here is the media and the regime are trying to rescue Obamacare.
Can I tell you the truth?
I'll do that.
The truth is this law is a disaster.
There's nothing's changed about that.
It's an absolute bottomless pit.
It has made most everything involving health care worse.
It is going to end up limiting choice.
It's nothing more than a very exaggerated transfer of wealth of income.
It is not about health care.
What has happened here?
It is in such dismal state, such a dismal state that ABC News and the Washington Post got together to do their poll, and they're trying to rescue Obama and Obamacare.
This is all about the November elections, and they're doing everything they can.
Everybody else in the drive-by's doing everything they can to bail Obama out and bail Obamacare out.
Because if it is so popular, if it is so popular, if people now can't wait to use Obamacare, if they can't wait to sign up, and if after they sign up, they're so happy.
Then why has Obama continued to move all of the most devastating aspects of the law until after the election?
That's not mentioned in the poll, by the way.
So what you just have to compare and contrast reality with what the media is saying.
And if it's so wonderful, and if there's so much love for it, and if the support for Obamacare is growing left and right, why does the regime have to keep delaying the full implementation?
Why do they have to keep moving all the most devastating aspects of the law until after the midterm election?
Hmm.
And I asked earlier, what if the poll's accurate?
What if it's right?
What if we're again here uh what if we've been sandbagged?
And what if all these stories the past week, two weeks, the past month have all been made up.
They're capable of that too.
What if we've been sandbagged?
What if it's not nearly as bad as has been reported?
Maybe they reported it's bad on purpose so they can have this grand slam home run report today.
Or, if that's not it, what if it's an outlier?
What if the poll is the beginning of a trend that will show increasing support for Obamacare?
And I have to stumble back on the reality once again that it is not accurate.
I don't believe any of this for a minute.
Because again, if it was so great, Obama wouldn't be delaying the big parts of it until after the election.
But here's the downside, folks.
Oops, I gotta take a break, and I need to take a little bit more than 30 seconds to make this point.
And it's a crucial point to be made.
It's about the way the Republicans are going to react to this.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
I'm holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, an AP story from four days ago.
All right, of March 28th, the headline, Support for Obamacare at Lowest Point Yet.
Public support for Obama's health care law languishing at its lowest level since passage.
According to a new poll, the AP, GFK survey, finds that 26% of Americans support Obamacare, even fewer.
13% expect it to be further implemented with minor changes or is passed.
Oh no, I'm sorry.
38% think it'll be completely repealed.
A narrow majority thinks it's going to be implemented, but 26% of Americans supported it.
Four days ago.
AP.
Four days four days ago.
In four days, then you go to the AP or the Washington Post ABC poll, and it's 49, 48, love Obamacare.
Remember, there was a there's an election in Florida.
A man by the name of David Jolly, Republican happened to win that election running against Obamacare in a district that Obama had won twice.
The woman Alex Link, or Lynx, whatever name was, she sink, right.
Whatever, she had run on the idea that Obamacare was cool, it just needed to be fixed.
She lost.
Even with a third party candidate.
Just four days ago, the AP reported support for Obamacare at 26% lowest ever since it was signed into law.
I think we've got to go to a break, do we not?
There's my clock wrong.
Yeah.
Checking the uh email during the break, answering a question, yeah, I'm gonna get to the counterpillar thing, and I'll be able to explain to you exactly why Caterpillar is undergoing an inquisition today.
And I just have to turn back the hands of time.
The archives, a grew of your forgotten favorites of this program back in 2009, and you'll remember exactly what happened and how the CEO of Caterpillar embarrassed Obama, and so now it's time to get even.
And Caterpillar is on Capitol Hill today trying to explain why they're not paying high enough taxes.
But all of that coming up.
Here is the sad reality.
Once again, you and I find ourselves as the owners of truth.
When it comes to the status and the condition, if you will, of Obamacare.
You and I own the truth.
We know it's a disaster.
The problem is that on television, all day today, they got their seven million signups.
It's hunky dory.
There's a new poll, it's all over ABC TV that we've turned a corner now.
Majority of Americans love and support Obamacare.
And whatever's on TV is what people believe.
You could make people believe a non-existent war was occurring on TV if you had B roll.
That doesn't matter.
Truth, once again, when dealing with the left doesn't matter.
The low information voters, if we go up to them and say, no, folks, you're being hoodwinked again.
There's not massive support for Obamacare.
It's not improving anybody's health care.
It's costing everybody.
No, no, I saw on TV that it got their seven million signups and it were turning the corner, and I saw a bunch of people interviewed that like it.
It's got going well.
I saw it on TV.
And that's the objective.
Now, here's the bottom line how did you react when you first heard these poll numbers today?
When you first heard, if you did, maybe I was the first to inform you.
How did you feel when you when you when you uh learned that there's this poll out there?
ABC News, Washington Post that shows for the first time ever, a plurality favor Obamacare.
And how did you feel?
What was your reaction when you were first made aware today that they had hit the magic number of seven million?
Were you a little deflated?
That reason I ask is that more than likely is going to be the reaction of the inside the beltway GOP.
They are going to be shaken by this.
They're going to throw up their hands in defeat and futility, and there's no reason to fight this.
We got skunked again or whatever.
But when you don't stand for anything, and you're basically in a position where you're hoping, or you are praying, or you are desperately wishing that there be a miraculous turnaround in your fortunes, You are always going to end up being shaken when you hear news that is counter to your wishes or counter to your desires.
If you don't stand for anything.
If you don't stand for anything, you're going to be easily cowed.
And my guess is that when the inside the beltway Republicans and the RNC and the Republican leadership heard the seven million number, they were kind of paralyzed and shaken.
Oh no.
And then when they saw the ABC Washington Post poll 4948, first time plurality favor Obamacare.
Oh no.
Oh, well, I guess there's nothing we can do about it now.
Well, I guess we just have to bat down the hatches and go with it.
Ted Cruz was right.
And they still hate him because he was right.
None of this news today is accurate.
If it was accurate, if the news about Obamacare was so great, Obama wouldn't be delaying the big parts of this until after the next two elections.
If it was so great.
It isn't great.
Nothing's changed, folks.
Other than a big PR propaganda push.
It's on television.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, I'll show you what I mean.
Here is a montage from NBC and CNN and ABC and local CBS, Washington Post, you name it.
All kinds of reporters, they're just excited.
The regime has released a number and the drive-by's are running with it.
We don't know how they got the number, by the way.
They haven't told us that.
We don't know how they got to seven million.
They haven't announced that.
We don't know if people have paid any.
We don't know if the seven million have actually paid for insurance, or if there's something we don't know anything about these seven million.
We don't know how many were put on Medicare and how many signed up for Obamacare.
We don't know anything.
All we're being told is seven million people have gone to healthcare.gov.
We don't know anything.
And yet the Obama media is in full rejoice mode.
The administration is on track to sign up seven million people through last night's midnight deadline.
And the Obamacare magic seven million.
Seven million was this magic number.
Seven million signups.
Sign-ups could reach an early goal of seven million.
It does appear the surge is on track to top seven million.
Now you've got these seven million.
They have seven million.
Enrollment of seven million.
Far more than they thought would have even been possible.
The final sign-up figures will be over seven million when all the numbers are added up.
More than seven million.
That is an incredibly high number.
It's party time.
See, that's how it works.
It's on TV now, so it's done.
And no matter what you and I know to be the truth.
The fact is that now the truth is on TV, it was on TV.
People say they saw it on TV, seven million was reached.
It's seven million people.
Everybody, no matter where they looked, everybody in the media said it was seven million.
You're saying they're all lying to me, Mr. Limbaugh?
Yeah, I am, but you're not going to believe that.
Now you can be sure, you can be sure that this is the drive-by media's marching order for today.
You can be certain that this was the marching order that has occurred today.
7 million is it.
Go out and tout it.
Here's Senator Dick Turbin.
And I may say this is close to what I predicted they would do.
What I said was that they would acknowledge that there are problems, but that uh little changes here and there can fix this right up.
And all we've got to do, I just want to make a little change, you know, here and a little change there.
It's not uh, of course, didn't roll out exactly as we thought.
We're learning as we go, but it's better than the free market.
Here is Dick Turbin this morning on the Senate floor.
We passed the Affordable Care Act, and not a single Republican, not one, Not a single Republican would join us in that effort.
We rejected the free enterprise approach to health care.
The bill we passed isn't perfect.
Changes will have to be made.
I've said that from the start.
We're not going back to those old days.
I can just guarantee them the American people will never return to their idea of health insurance because it was fundamentally unfair, it was too expensive, and a lot of Americans didn't have a fighting chance to ever have health insurance once in their lives.
They did.
That's the that's the dirty little secret here is that they did.
Most Americans who had it, who wanted it, had it.
They're just making this stuff up as they go.
They had created the impression that it was unfair.
It was unequal.
And for anybody to logically or str or try to honestly claim that what is happening now is an improvement over what was absurd.
But that's what Turbin is saying.
We rejected the free enterprise.
Oh, of course we the free enterprise capitalism.
Well, that's unfair.
We can't rely on that.
It doesn't work for anybody except the one percent in the Cork brothers.
Not one Republican voted for it.
Now they're trying to turn that into a big negative because they've got this poll that shows a majority of people now like Obamacare.
Last night on Al Jazeera America's news.
The anchored John Siegenthaler interviewed former Senator Puff Dashel.
Sieganthalder said, Are you concerned that Republicans are going to try to dismantle Obamacare?
They've, I think, voted now almost 60 times to repeal the law.
They're not going to get it done.
By 2016, I think you're going to have probably over 20 million people in the exchanges.
And that simply will be an impossibility within the next couple of years.
By 26, so two years we're going to go seven million to twenty million.
And once you get there, it's not going to be possible to repeal it.
Ron Fournier and Dr. Kabout Hama agree.
As you will hear when we come back, that it cannot be repealed.
Don't go away.
I know silly me.
I'm beating a dead horse here, but you know me, folks, I'm a stickler for the truth.
So I've been digging deep here, trying to find out where this seven million number came from.
Who sourced it?
And how did they arrive at the figure of seven million signups?
Well, the AP story, the joyous AP story on this, says that they got it from two anonymous White House sources.
And that apparently is all it takes.
Two anonymous White House sources, seven million.
LA Times, nine and a half million uninsured.
Forbes is already out with an op-ed saying there's no way that's true.
I haven't had time to read it and get into it in detail.
But people are reacting to this stuff left and right.
Do you know the regime spent 17 million dollars a month since January all over the country advertising Obamacare?
Maybe you saw some of the ads where you live.
Maybe you saw some local TV stations, ended up doing five and six hour telephones for Obamacare because the owner of the station is a big supporter of Obama.
The Republicans were spending ad money at the same time, but they were focusing their expenditures on candidates seeking elective office.
But the regime, something like 52, 57 million dollars spent just this year on advertising the wonders, the greatness, the aspects that are wonderful of Obamacare.
So it's on TV.
Now, something else interesting.
Before I want to take you way, way back now.
2009-2010.
Before Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said that it would insure four-fifths of the 40 million uninsured.
Now that's 24 million people.
Four fifths of 40 million is there'd be 24 million people who would be insured.
Maybe even more than that.
And now the regime is out there bragging about having insured seven million people, the vast majority who already had insurance.
The AP story, two government officials confirmed the milestones, speaking on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the matter ahead of an official announcement.
So where do you get?
Where are at least 24 million people?
That the CBO I mean.
I know I'm beating my head against the wall.
It doesn't matter.
But I want you to know what the truth is.
We're sticklers for it here.
And we are not going to be bulldozed.
They're not going to insult our intelligence.
Low information people obviously don't care.
It's on TV, it's what it is.
We'll see.
We'll see if this actually takes.
We don't know if this ABC Washington Post polls made up.
We don't know if it is uh the beginning of a trend.
We don't know if it's a real poll, but an outlier that's somewhat wrong.
We'll just have to wait and see.
In the meantime, back to the audio sound bites.
Ron Fournier, formerly of the Associated Press, now the National Journal was on uh the all-star panel on the special report Brett Baer show last night.
And Baer said, uh, Ron, to hear the White House today, uh Jay Carney said it's not a victory lap, but then he kept on saying that we're at six million, we're at six million, and nobody thought we'd be here.
One way or another, no matter how you look at these numbers, several million people now have health insurance.
Repealing it is politically untenable right now.
So the Republicans have a choice of trying to repeal it and being the party that takes away health care, or working with Democrats and actually coming up with some fixes that are bipartisan.
Isn't that the way it always works?
The Republicans be the bad guys and take away your benefit.
Or they can work with the Democrats and fix things in a bipartisan way.
Dr. Krauthammer was next.
It could be resolved if Republicans take control of the Senate.
There are ways in which I think you can make changes, fundamental changes in the program.
Because Obama already has made them himself.
He's abolished the individual mandate.
It doesn't exist.
It's a fiction.
He's already changed it so much that what we're dealing with is a facsimile of Obama care.
So if Republicans let's assume they win the Senate and they do well, they can come together with a new plan, which we have TOIC reform, for example, where you could purchase across state lines.
You could keep some elements, perhaps, of Obamacare.
And Dr. Kana Hammond now saying if the Republicans win the Senate, and obviously keep the House, that they can keep some of the things in Obamacare.
And believe me, we've heard this before.
And it's one of the sticking points.
There are things in Obamacare that Republicans like.
You know what one of them is.
There are two of them, actually, that come to mind, or more than two, but the two biggies are stay on your parents' plan until 26.
Republicans love that.
And the pre-existing condition.
They love that.
And they don't want to be seen taking either of those away.
Well, pre-existing condition is one of the biggest problems, but it doesn't matter on TV.
People with pre-existing conditions are covered.
And that's it.
See, if it's on TV that those people are going to be taken care of and treated, okay, cool.
That's all I need to know.
And uh I'm gonna turn the channel back now to the e-entertainment network.
Which may be where they're getting the news in the first place.
Who knows?
They don't know that the pre-existing condition thing is a boondoggle and isn't working and is a fraud.
They don't know that.
And you're not gonna be able to convince them.
Because they care about people being cared for, and they care about people being cared for equally.
And the same.
So apparently from both sides of the aisle.
Now there's so many people, be it six million, seven million, we can't repeal it because the Republicans, why they can't take health care away from people.
So the best we can do is get in there and win the Senate and tinker at it around the edges.
If you want to know how it really happened, listen to Kathleen Sevelius explain it for us.
We definitely saw the Gallifanakis bump uh the website traffic surged uh once the uh between two ferns interview went on.
But more importantly, what we're trying to do is reach people in the language that they most understand.
Uh certainly Zach reaches a certain audience.
Right.
So Obama, we uh put them over the hump is the between the two ferns show on the internet with Zach Galafanacus.
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