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May 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I certainly hope everybody had a great weekend.
We're back.
I certainly did.
I hope you did.
And we are off and running here, folks, with a brand new week of broadcast excellence right here on the ever-important, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program, where it has just been stated that you who listen to this program are self-brainwashing.
Have you heard that?
You are self-brainwashing.
And if you watch Fox News, you are self-brainwashing.
And if you listen to this program, and if you watch Fox News, do you know what it also means?
It automatically means you do not watch any other media.
And we know this because of a man named Bruce Bartlett, who's got his nose in a twit over something here about not being popular as a conservative anymore.
He used to be in the Bush regime.
And I used to communicate with this guy email-wise back and forth, and he was a nice guy.
And I started knowing, and I don't remember what years.
This is years ago now.
Two, three, four, maybe five.
I don't.
I'd have to go back to my email record.
But I don't have one anymore.
So I can't do that.
But maybe I'll be able to get it back.
At some point, I could go back and look at when all these exchanges took place, but I could track his disgruntledment with conservatism.
And I don't remember what it was, but but he's he's gone over to the dark side now.
And he was on I I remember I informed him somebody who's writing a book about of all things the Victorian age, and I remember I informed him of something he didn't know.
Maybe you didn't know that.
Do you know the Henry the Tudors?
Tutor people, Henry VIII.
Do you know they only bathed once a year?
No, no, it is true.
I learned this on a on a trip to London way back in the eighties on the tour guide trip.
And uh we were out at uh at the old estate where Cardinal Woolsey lived and ate five turkeys a day.
He was a big guy.
And a tour guide said that tutor people bathed once a year.
They believed that that water and and bathing damaged them somehow.
I forget which.
And naturally the the uh the the birth rate every spring and summer, well, actually toward the end of the year went crazy because that's when all the copulating took place, is after they bathed that one time a year.
Honest to God, it's not something that's reported much.
Anyway, I told Bruce about it, he said, I didn't know that.
I didn't know about tutor people.
He looked it up and he confirmed that I was right.
Uh and I used to have email exchanges back and forth with the guy, and and now he's well, he was on CNN, Grab Sun by three.
This is um reliable sources.
He's talking to Brian Stelter about uh George H. W. Bush, by the way, not W. George H. W. Bush.
He was the assistant treasury secretary back then, and he used to be just a rock-ribbed conservative.
And I don't know what happened.
I mean, I could speculate, but that wouldn't be fair, I guess I don't really know.
Um, but anyway, uh he's now a darling of the left because he rips into conservatives and conservative media, that's why he was on CNN.
And so Stelter uh said, if if Fox News can almost be called self-brainwashing, you said that.
Many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox, and and to believe whatever appears on it as gospel truth.
Self-brainwashing, is that what you say this is?
I don't think that word is too strong.
Uh I think uh many conservatives live in a bubble where they uh watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh.
When they go on to the internet, they look at only uh conservative websites like National Review, News Max, World Net Daily.
And so they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again, and that's that's brainwashing.
Okay, here's my problem with this.
You who listen to this program learn more about liberalism on this program than you would reading Politico or then you will reading the New York Times because it takes me to interpret it for you.
My point is you who listen to this program hear much more about liberalism philosophically and what it is and how to recognize it and how to spot it and how to defeat it.
You learn that on this program, where supposedly you only come here to hear what you want to hear.
You only come here to hear what you know to be true.
You only come here to be validated.
You're not interested.
You're living in a bubble.
You're living in a tunnel.
You don't care what happens outside of what you think.
That's absurd.
You cannot listen to this program and only know what conservatism is, because the way conservatism is explained in this program is as a bounce off, if you will, to liberalism.
For example, this I mean, I don't even need to give you example.
You know what I'm talking about, you know, it's true.
The drive-by media is liberal.
We talk about them all the time.
Let me prepare you.
The drive-by media has told us today what is the most important story of everything happening.
And it's a it's a close call, because there's many of them that they're focusing on.
But the Supreme Court decision in the Burwell case on Obamacare and whether or not the subsidies live or die, that is the story the drive-bys are salivating over because they think the Republicans lose no matter what the Supreme Court does.
And they can't wait.
And I'm here to tell you if you haven't noticed it yourself, and how do I know this?
Because I'm watching the liberal media.
But according to Mr. Bartlett, that's not what happens here.
Because we conservatives never consult anything other than our own comfort level.
It's so ridiculous and so absurd.
I don't Fox News has liberals all over the place.
You can't miss liberalism by watching Fox News, half of their analysts are.
And I I just have to laugh.
Here we have CNN, which which an audience you can now fit in a thimble, and MSNBC, an audience that you couldn't find in a thimble, sitting here lamenting what's wrong with Fox News.
It's like the chickens describing how Colonel Sanders is screwing up.
I mean, these people are sitting there dying professionally.
They have no audience, nobody cares what's happening on CNN or MSNBC, and yet every day they do their media shows and try to tell everybody what's wrong with Fox.
What's wrong with the people doing it right?
What's wrong with the people winning?
It's the most amazing thing in the psychological button.
Anyway, my point is that I spend countless hours on this program instructing, teaching, informing, explaining, dissecting, analyzing, and everything else liberalism.
People who listen to this program who are conservative know more about liberalism and why and who liberals are, why they do what they do than liberals themselves.
So it's a it's just it's a it's a false premise.
And once again, it's it's it's almost like it's uh, I don't know, chip on his shoulder, poor taste in his mouth.
I don't know what it is, but it's patently absurd that conservatives self-brainwash.
The brainwashing, if there is any in this country in the media is in the drive-by media, the left-wing media.
That's where the brainwash in the public school system is where brainwashing is taking place.
We are trying to counter it.
We're trying to open it up and expose it.
We're trying to free people from brainwashing, which is what education's become.
Education is not mind expanding.
Education has become mind limiting.
Education has become propaganda or something worse, indoctrination.
And we expose it all, and we couldn't expose it if we didn't talk about liberalism.
In talking about liberalism, we explain it.
So you who listen to this program are well-versed and well informed.
And if after hearing, like I am more honest about liberalism than liberals are.
Liberals have to cover up who they are.
They have to mask and camouflage what they are, who they are, what they believe, what their agenda is.
We're still a majority wouldn't vote for it otherwise.
So you on this program learn more about it than you will hear anyway, because liberals out there are trying to cover up who they are.
We expose them.
Now, how in the world this results in conservative brainwashing is beyond me, but it's an often heard lament from people in the media who are losing to the power of conservative media.
And believe me, there are a lot of people.
And I've got a story in the status, it's not just conservative media and liberal media and liberals losing this.
You know, one of my main points since the midterms of 200 10 and last year has been the overwhelming, I mean, it's phenomenal.
Just shellacking defeat the Democrat Party has had in the last two midterm elections, all the way down to dog catcher level.
It's so bad, even Michelle Obama talks about recapturing the dog catcher office in a graduation speech at Oberlin College.
And I got a couple of stories here, lamenting what's happened to the Democrats, and how they don't have a bench.
And that's why he'll and this is in the drive-by media here, folks.
So you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution and political evolution and analysis if you listen to this program.
So just and when whenever you have a comment like this, people are self-brainwashing, it's actually an assault and an insult to uh actual members of the audience.
And I think it's the exact opposite, as you well know, and I've made no I think the conservative audiences in this country are the most informed, the most open-minded, the most aware, and the most objective people in this country.
I don't think there is any question about it.
So much so that most conservatives in this country still believe in the old Civics 101 that we're all in the arena of ideas, we put their ideas out there, they put theirs, we're in a competition for ideas, and the good guys, the good ideas win, the bad ideas lose.
That's not what happens anymore.
The guys with the bad ideas know they're going to lose, and so they start rigging the game and dis and and trying to trash, besmirch, destroy, defame every conservative person of power, they can.
They can't rely on their ideas.
And it is here on this program that you learn about all this.
I think this the audience of this program at Fox News, probably among the most informed audiences in this country, and yet they'll show you polling data which says something uh close to the opposite of that, which is again disingenuous and illegitimate because we all know how the left uses public opinion polling and their news media agenda, which is to form and shape opinion, not reflect it.
But brainwashing, I mean, actual brainwashing does work.
I mean, look at the school system.
K through 12, college education proves that brainwashing uh works.
I mean, hell, people of Rio Linda, I would bet you that the people of Rio Linda are more informed and objective and probably in a better mood every day than your average liberal audience member is of anything he or she happens to watch.
Hey, by the way, did you see over the weekend grab audio sound by number two?
See over the weekend that um the war in Afghanistan's over.
Yeah, yeah, I I remember on Friday.
If you recall, if you were here, you might not have been because this is a big travel weekend.
But um, one of the things, just I want to revisit something I had.
Grab sound bite number one.
Let's go just play the audio of me last Friday as we headed into the Memorial Day weekend, because this sets up this Afghanistan comment.
This to me is one of the most important memorial days, and they're all important.
Even that little characterization should give you an idea how tough this one is to talk about.
This particular Memorial Day, with everything going on in Iraq and the Middle East and ISIS now just running out of control, and our leadership seemingly unconcerned.
The Iranians nuking up.
But Iraq and what's happening there has got to make this memorial day a real challenge for a lot of American families.
Those who had family members who served in Iraq, who were injured and wounded in Iraq or died in Iraq.
I mean, they might legitimately be asking themselves this weekend, this memorial day, why?
What was the point?
Was it worth it?
And you wouldn't blame them if they did.
It's a toughie.
Still needs to be acknowledged.
Yeah, and I can't help but remember as I listen to myself say that.
Boy, it's every time I do that remind me how lucky you people are that you actually get to listen to me.
I never do.
Not live, I can't.
I mean, I'm too busy doing it, because I am me.
The only time I get to hear me is like this.
Audio soundbite or something.
It just strikes me how fortunate you are.
Anyway, say, listen to this, I'm I'm also reminded about how Obama and Biden out there claiming victory in Iraq.
It was so state.
Iraq was a success story.
Shortly after Obama had been immaculated and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
Is that not an ongoing joke?
A poor joke, a bad joke, but isn't it typical?
Anyway.
So they're out there claiming credit.
They wanted to claim credit for the victory in Iraq.
It was so good.
Things were so stable.
It looked like such a success.
And now look.
Ramadi Falls, and now we're told by our Department of Defense, wizards of smart that, yeah, well, the Iraqis are getting ready to fight back.
The Iraqis know that they've got to defend themselves.
The Iraqis know they've got to take all the training we've given them, and they've got to act in their own interest.
Now the Iraqis are going to be preparing to take Ramadi back.
Right.
Exactly.
You got to get them back first.
They've all split.
I mean, it just, and here's Obama.
This is uh yesterday in Arlington, Virginia at the uh at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Just a brief little 16-second sound bite here.
For many of us, this memorial day is especially meaningful.
It is the first since our war in Afghanistan came to an end.
Today is the first memorial day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war.
There wasn't any applause there.
Why do you suspect there wasn't any applause when Obama's I mean, you would think that a line like that would be, yay, right on, dude.
Yes, sir, rebound.
But what he said, today's the first Memorial Day of 14 years, the United States not engaged in a major ground war.
Why wasn't there any applause?
Take a stab, Mr. Snerdley.
Exactly.
We're losing them is why.
They don't like losing.
I just realized something, ladies and gentlemen, since I obviously I cannot listen to myself.
How in the world could I self-brainwash?
As Mr. Bartlett claims happen.
Maybe he wasn't talking about me, maybe he was talking about you, uh, the the audience.
But even if if that's what he meant, that can't be true because as I say, you people know more about liberalism here than liberals themselves.
Because you know the truth about them.
They live in denial.
And that's not an exaggeration.
But I doubt that I could even I couldn't be self-brainwashed because, you know, I I can't listen to myself.
And I don't watch a lot of cable news.
I t I told um I told Snerdley, I treated this weekend as a mini vacation.
And I really did not turn on one single news related television program, not even for two seconds.
Not even channel surfing that I happen to whiz through a news station.
And it was not that I didn't do show prep, I read all kinds of I did, but I just didn't have it on on the on the television.
So, and it's it's just further evidence that I, El Rushbo, am not self-brainwashed, because I don't do apparently what's necessary to become self-brainwashed.
I don't listen to me or other talk radio, and I didn't watch Fox News.
So, and I don't mean that to be cutting, I'm just telling you the uh the truth.
The Republican presidential candidates being hit with, well, knowing what you know now.
Would you go back into Iraq?
And they've mostly accepted the premise that Iraq was a big boondoggle, a huge mistake.
Bush lied, we shouldn't have done it, and they've been answering on that basis.
Well, on Fox News Sunday, which I didn't see.
During the group panel discussion, Chris Wallace speaking with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
Wallace said the politics of Iraq gotten a lot of attention the last couple of weeks with Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, a bunch of others.
And these questions of was it a mistake to go in 2003?
Was it a mistake to get out in 2011?
What impact this could all have on a Republican race, a Democrat race.
Bob Woodward, I know you want to talk about it because you've written a lot and you've reported extensively on this.
What do you say about it?
There's a kind of line going along that Bush and the other people lied about this.
I spent 18 months looking at how uh Bush decided to invade Iraq.
Lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tennett, the CIA director, don't let anyone stretch the case on WMD.
And he was the one who was skeptical.
A mistake certainly can be argued, and there's an abundance of evidence, but there was no lie in this that I could find.
See how easy that is?
See, Bob Woodward, the sane member of Woodward and Bernstein, says there wasn't any lie.
He looked into this.
And by the way, the Democrats don't think all signed on to this.
They all twice the Democrats in the Senate signed on to this, the use of force agreement.
And it took Bush, Woodward says 18 months looking at it.
It took Bush almost a year of going all over this country making speeches, building the case, United Nations, and all that.
And at no time during any of that did anybody accuse Bush of lying at that point.
Only after the fact when it became a political football.
But there's Bob Woodward.
Hey, Bush did not lie.
That's not at all what happened here.
Case closed, that's it.
Talent on loan from God, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone is always the excellence in broadcasting network.
I need to address one little quick housekeeping thing, folks.
I have noticed in the past couple of months, an increase in the number of emails accusing me, accusing this program of adding commercials.
Now we are playing more commercials than ever.
And I want to shoot that down because we're not.
Our programming format clock has not changed in years.
We have not added an additional second of commercial time.
Do you know why you think you're hearing more commercials?
Is because the program is so good that you are so impatient during commercial breaks for it to return that it just seems like the breaks are longer, but they're not.
Nothing has changed.
It stands to reason when you like the content of a program, anything interrupts it's going to have you a little frustrated.
And uh, the more you want it back, and the sooner you want it back because you want to hear where it's going next.
You're gonna think like those interruptions are getting longer, but they aren't.
It's just that you are loving the program even more.
That's all that's happening.
Now back to Bob Woodward.
One more sound bite, Fox News Sunday, after Woodward claimed, hey, I looked into this.
I wrote a book about this.
There might have been mistakes made in Iraq.
Well, Bush did not lie about anything.
Chris Wallace said, well, what about 2011?
Obama's decision to pull all the troops out.
There had been the status of forces agreement between Bush and the Iraqi government that provided for a follow-on force.
Pentagon was talking about somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000.
A lot of people think Obama didn't really want to keep any troops there.
Look, Obama does not like war.
But as you look back on this, the argument from the military was let's keep 10,000, 15,000 troops there as an insurance policy.
And we all know insurance policies make sense.
When you're superpower, you have to buy these insurance policies, and uh he didn't in this case.
I don't think you can say everything is because of that decision, but clearly a factor.
All right.
I have to tell you, folks, do you realize how tough it probably was for Bob Woodward to admit both of these things?
That A. Bush didn't lie.
And then in the second soundbite, essentially saying that the loss of Iraq is Obama's fault.
Now that has to be a tough thing for Bob Woodward to say, because Obama's a guy.
No doubt voted for him, invested a lot of hope in him, but it's clear.
Obama lost Iraq by refusing to keep a follow-on force.
And he went out and claimed victory for it, but he wanted no part of any remaining force.
He'd been promising his insane base that he was going to close Getmo, get us out of Iraq, get us out of Afghanistan, and make sure the United States took it in the shorts everywhere possible, as we deserved.
And so he calls it an insurance policy.
We all know insurance policies make sense.
Speaking of which, you heard the latest in Obamacare.
It's just so good.
The left Tom Harkin and Baghdad Jim McDermott.
That's who it is, right?
Is it Baghdad Jim McDermott or is it Jim Moran?
One of the two and Tom Harkin, they're wringing their hands over the fact that they're the Obama well, they're not using the term Obamacare.
They're complaining about all of the people who are underinsured.
All the new signatories, all the new signups for Obamacare, but they're underassured.
And you know what the problem is?
They've all signed up.
And they've got Obamacare, but they can't afford to use it because the deductibles are so high, and the deductibles are so high because of Obamacare.
So people have been forced into buying health insurance, and it's too expensive to use.
And so now Baghdad Jim McDermott is Baghdad Jim, right?
Baghdad Jim McDermott and Dom Dung Heaparkin now are demanding more money and different rules and all kinds of changes to Obamacare because for some reason, I mean, something got past them.
They made sure people that didn't have insurance got it, but now that they've got it, they can't afford to use.
I'm sorry to laugh.
It's so classic.
This is what you get when you don't read the bill.
So anyway, that's just a little offshoot on insurance.
More on that as the program unfolds.
The website Vox, which is a relatively new website, it's a home of uh, I say the the young whippersnapper, young liberal journalists who were working at the Washington Post, I guess recline some other places, and they just, you know, they felt constrained even there.
So they formed their own place here called Vox.
And a bunch of young hip uh millennial journalists of all stripes swear by it.
They have a story, give you an idea of what happens on Vox.
Here we are, the uh let's see this today.
So this actually this ran yesterday.
It was posted yesterday.
So the Sunday, the Monday Memorial Day, actually ran a Memorial Day, is this story.
It's time we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too.
Ah, yes.
It's not enough that we have a memorial day where we remember American military veterans who died.
Preserving freedom for the United States and it's not enough that we no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Now we need a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too.
I don't know what they want to call it.
Uh starts out by saying Memorial Day and Veterans Day often get equated, but there's an essential distinction between the two.
Veterans Day honors all who've served, Memorial Day honors those who've died.
It's an annual reminder that wars have grave human costs.
Those costs are not inevitable.
We also ought to set aside time to remember those throughout American history who've tried the hardest to reduce war to stop them, prevent unnecessary loss of life, both American and foreign, and that would be the war resistors, the war protesters.
That's exactly what we need, don't you?
Especially on this Memorial Day, where the families of American uniformed military personnel who were injured or perished in Iraq.
You really, you know, you try to put yourself in their shoes and imagine how tough this Memorial Day was.
Every day's got to be tough for them.
But now, particularly when you see ISIS on the run, and these families are they have you know they are.
They're asking themselves, was it worth it?
These are all volunteers.
These people signed up.
I mean, I've done a troop visit to Afghanistan.
I've talked to these guys, these women too.
This is what they did to save their countries.
What they did to protect their country.
It's all they knew to do.
They joined the military after 9-11.
They wanted to serve, they wanted to protect.
They wanted to defend America.
They didn't want ever to see that happening again.
That's the only reason they did it.
Some of them got shipped out to Iraq.
Some of them got killed.
Their family is well aware.
And now running around, there's Obama celebrating first Memorial Day at 14 years that we're not at war, and everybody knows, yeah, because we're cutting and running and losing them.
And Americans don't like celebrating that kind of stuff.
And now heaped on top of that, we need to set aside a national day for war protesters.
You mean people like Tom Hayden and Abby Hoffman, the Chicago eight or whoever.
People like what's his name?
Neville Chamberlain.
That kind of you need a national holiday for people like that all over the world, by the way.
War protesters all over the world.
That yeah, that's exactly what we need, folks.
Exactly.
I mentioned earlier the drive-bys are salivating over a Supreme Court decision that they think could come any day, and we are nearing the end of the term.
And once you get into late May, early June, this is when decisions start being handed up, or down, as it were, in this case.
And the um drive-by's are so excited because they think the Republicans lose no matter what happens.
This is the Burwell case, and it's about subsidies.
And I have just two stories here, but it's all over CNN.
It's all over MSM.
It's all over everywhere.
They just can't wait for this.
Because if the Supreme Court rules that Obama violated the Constitution and violated Obamacare by setting up subsidies in states that they were not set up by the states and therefore they were illegal.
And if the state, where the if the Fed exchanges have to be taken down, if the subsidies end, then the drive-by's think, oh my God, this is great.
The Republicans are going to get blamed because they're the ones who took the case to court.
So all these Obama people are going to have their subsidies taken away, and the Republicans are going to be blamed for it.
Oh, we love that, because that is really what turns them on, folks.
Is any time they can construct a scenario where the Republicans get blamed for taking things away from people, which of course is not what is happening here.
But that's one way.
And now the Republicans anticipating that they they might quote unquote win the case, and Supreme Court might invalidate the subsidies the regime set up.
The Republicans, you've seen it as well as I have, a number of them running around saying, oh, we've got to have to do something if we lose this, if we win this case, we're going to have something ready to go.
Because we can't be seen as the ones taking subsidies and money and health care away from people.
So the Republicans supposedly running around trying to create an immediately installable app, if you will, that will maintain people's subsidies legally after the court strikes them down.
In which case, Obama wins after he loses.
The other thing, the other side of this is that the Supreme Court upholds Obama and claims that there's nothing illegal, it was just a simple matter of people misinterpreting words.
And the federal subsidies that Obama started in states where there were no exchanges, those subsidies can stay in place.
Then the Republicans get shot down, and the media gets to go after them again as failing to take benefits away from people.
The people will be said to have won again and have been protected again by the court from the Republicans who do nothing more than take things away from them.
That's what the media can't wait.
Because they've got it covered, no matter what the Supreme Court decision is, that the Republicans lose and lose big, both realistically, substantively, and image and brand-wise.
They just can't wait.
So keep a sharp eye.
Now let me show you what I mean here.
New York Times story on the Supreme Court decision coming up, and the headline is this.
Four words that imperil health care law were all a mistake, writers now say.
There are only four words in a 900-page law.
Oh.
Wait a minute now.
Obamacare's not 900 pages, like 2200 pages.
What are they talking about?
Well, anyway.
They are only four words in a 900-page law, established by the state.
But it is in the ambiguity of those four words in the Affordable Care Act that opponents found a path to challenge the law all the way to the Supreme Court.
There's nothing ambiguous about established by the state.
And that's not the only time the points made in the law that only the states will establish subsidies.
And the look, just to just to remind you about this, this was a political trick that the regime played.
This is not a mistake.
In order for customers, people, citizens, Americans, you, to get a subsidy to help you afford the unaffordable Obamacare, you have to sign up in a state exchange.
And the only way a state can offer subsidies to its citizens is to sign up to Obamacare.
Well, it was a trick.
It was designed to force Republican governors to embrace Obamacare and sign up and help the rollout by offering their people subsidies, people that live in their states, because Obamacare in and of itself is unaffordable.
But a lot of Republican governors didn't sign up.
They didn't establish the exchanges.
The regime thought it would be a slam dunk.
Obama thought it would be a slam dunk to force Republican governors to set up exchanges in order to offer subsidies.
But about 26 or 27 governors said you and didn't.
Well, so now it was Obama in trouble.
Now, less than half the people in this country have access to subsidies on a health care reform that makes it unaffordable.
So Obama said, well, you know what?
We'll just offer subsidies through healthcare.gov.
Law says you can't do that.
The law says those subsidies can only come when established by the state.
And so now the Obama people said the state means any government.
We weren't talking about the states.
We were talking about any state, like the United States is a state.
Like Moscow as a state, Russia is a state.
Well, we're a state here.
We're not talking about individual states.
But throughout the law, it was clear they were talking about individual states as opposed to a federal exchange.
It was done on purpose.
It was done on purpose to horn swoggle and force Republican governors who oppose Obamacare to embrace it.
And they didn't.
So Obama and his boys panicked because now, after all the hullabaloo, about 2,500 fewer, uh 2,500 less premium expense.
Keep your doctor, keep your plan.
After all of those lies, it was going to become obvious to people that this was unaffordable.
So they moved fast and they started offering subsidies to the federal healthcare.gov, which is not legal.
The law says specifically that subsidies can only come from the state.
So we've had this massive Supreme Court case over those four words and their meaning and the argument.
And the New York Times is doing journalistic malpractice here.
By claiming those four words are ambiguous.
If you read the whole health care law, there's nothing ambiguous about those four words.
How those words became the most contentious part of Obama's domestic accomplishment has been a mystery, says the Times.
Who wrote them and why?
Were they really intended to make the tax subsidies in the law available only in states that establish their own health insurance marketplaces and not in the 36 states with federal exchange?
Yes, that's exactly right, but the Times is trying to convince its doofus readers of the exact opposite.
But I can answer their question, who wrote these words?
Why did they write them?
Were they really intended?
I'll tell you who wrote them.
Everybody's best buddy Jonathan Gruber, who was out telling everybody how they had to lie to the American people and rely on their stupidity in order to get this law passed.
Gruber wrote those four words.
Gruber designed this specifically to force Republican governors into embracing Obamacare by establishing state exchanges.
And if the Republican governors that did that would have been not tacitly, but directly embracing and accepting Obamacare, which is what the trick was.
And some Republican governors refused to play in where we're we are where we are now.
And the media can't wait because they see a way to make the Republicans lose on it, no matter how the court decides.
It looks like we've got some great phone calls waiting.
I want to get to those as quickly as possible.
You never really know until you take one.
It could be a bomb, but it looks like a bunch of good ones up there.
So if you're on hold, I want you to hang in there and be tough.
We'll get to you sooner than later.
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