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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 21, 2010

Rush Limbaugh... Number 1 talk radio host in the country discusses failing ObamaCare, newly elected Sen. Scott Brown, and Democrat politicians

So many great transcripts are online this week at the Rush Limbaugh website… here are a few pieces from yesterday’s show about the doomed health care bill, the sudden civility of Democrat politicians, and the significance of Scott Brown’s election win in Massachusetts that need to be shared with all patriots… excellent job, Rush!

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One Election in Massachusetts Has Changed Everything in Washington

Rush Limbaugh Radio Show
Excerpts from January 20, 2010 transcript, EIB Network

RUSH: …There [Scott Brown is] playing it straight down the middle, which is a very smart and wise thing to do. John Kerry, just a couple of weeks ago who… was out there saying (imitating Kerry), “We’re going to pass this bill before he’s seated, we’re going to delay –” he was all part of that chorus that was going to delay Scott Brown being seated. Now he’s done a total 180 in just two weeks. And after Brown met with McCain, he went and met with other Senators, including Senator Kerry, who said this (plays tape):

KERRY: We have to work across the aisle here to make things happen. Americans don’t just elect Democrats and Republicans. They elect people to be responsible with the people’s business.

RUSH: Isn’t it amazing what one election does? Just one election. Reporters this morning asked if Democrats are courting Scott Brown. Unidentified reporter said, “You feel you’re being courted by Democrats as a possible swing voter?”

BROWN: I’ve always had great respect for Senator Kerry, always. We have worked together on other issues. I know we’re going to work together on issues in the future. I have a great relationship with the delegation because of my years at the statehouse. If I see a bill that is good for my state, I’m going to vote for it. And that’s my first priority. And I look at the bills first, determine how much they cost, if they’re going to benefit my district and the state, and, you know, I’ll take it that way and continue to be the same type of voter I’ve always been.

RUSH: So, again, playing it down the middle here, being noncommittal and certainly non-provocative. He realizes he’s dealing with loaded questions, he’s not gonna give them the meat that they want. They’re a bunch of sharks circling out there and he’s not going to bleed for them…

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RUSH: …Let me tell you the way I see this. The way I see this is that nobody who stands for reelection really wanted to sign this bill, really wanted to vote for it. Pelosi exempted. But you notice how fast the rats are deserting the ship after one election? After one election, everybody’s running away from this bill faster than I’ve seen anybody run away from a bill at all. I guarantee you, this is worse than you and I even know because it’s going to be impossible to put this whole thing back together as it was. They’ve got their out now.

Nelson never wanted to vote this thing and he never wanted to take that stupid deal, same thing with Landrieu. They had to take it because they’re scared of Obama. They got Rahm Emanuel leaning on them, talking about this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get what FDR wanted, we gotta do this for Obama, we gotta build a monument, this is the greatest thing for our party, if you don’t do this you’re going to lose reelection. But none of them wanted to do it, or clearly not a whole lot of them wanted to do it.

The way it manifested itself, as big as this thing got, I guarantee you, folks, I’m not saying the Democrats aren’t who they are, and I’m not saying that they’re not huge statists, but for Pelosi, it was just yesterday or maybe Tuesday where Pelosi said by hook or by crook we’re going to get this done. There will be health care reform. She was defiant as she could be. And all these Democrats before Brown actually won the election, “Oh, yeah, if we have to do whatever we have to do, in fact, delay certifying his election, delay seating him, Senate rules in charge, whatever we have to do to push this thing through,” and then yesterday Obama comes out and says, “We’re not going to jam this through until Scott Brown is seated,” meaning they’re going to jam it through at some point.

But all these rats are deserting the ship so fast that it tells me, at least the ones publicly deserting wanted no part of this at any time and are really happy to be freed from the shackles.

[My producer] Snerdley just asked me if this takes the albatross off them and strengthens their hand, meaning since this has fallen apart, that health care will not be something dragging them down, a shackle around their ankles. Let me tell you something. People are not going to forget this ’cause it’s not just health care, Snerdley, it is the arrogance. It is the willful ignoring of the will of the people. It is all of this spending; it is all of this debt, and the people of this country know that the Democrats own all of it. It is not the Republicans. The Democrats own this. So, no, hell, they just asked to raise the debt limit another $1.9 trillion yesterday. The debt limit is over $14 trillion now.

Now, this is a Politico story: “Sour Swing Voters Desert Democrats — As they did in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests last fall, sour swing voters overwhelmingly supported the Republican.” Note now you swing voters, you moderates, you independents, now that you supported a Republican, now listen to the way they talk about you. They don’t have this reverence for you as they always used to. They loved you when you moderates were voting Democrat, but now you’re sour, now they come up with all of these horrible words to describe you.

The words I’ve seen to describe these independents are angry, sullen, sour, negated, dissatisfied, racist, hicks.

You know how I would describe the independents and you moderates? Here’s how I would describe you: Energized, informed, frustrated, motivated, freedom loving, forceful, tireless, engaged. That’s what you are. And Mr. Snerdley, have no fear, that will not change, because the Democrats will soon revert to being who they are, within weeks, if not days.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: We’ll start in Jacksonville, Florida, with George. Great to have you on the program today, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it’s an honor to be speaking with you.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: I will tell you after monumental events like the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, I sometimes wonder “what if.” And I remember when Senator Kennedy, on his death bed, sent a letter to Deval Patrick and said, (paraphrasing) “No, no, no, can’t follow the law, let’s change the law and immediately appoint somebody because health care is that important.” My teenaged daughter sometimes says, “Karma is a witch.” And I’m wondering whether if that had not changed, whether today Martha Coakley might be the new Senator from Massachusetts.

RUSH: A bunch of people doing postmortems on this would agree with you that if they had just followed the law and gone ahead with their special election and not changed the law so that the governor could appoint somebody, then they would probably have still held onto the 60th seat. There’s no question about that, in fact.

CALLER: You know, those who live by political chicanery die by political chicanery.

RUSH: Yeah. I love that phrase, too. It’s absolutely right. Thanks, George. Appreciate it.

Where we going next? Detroit. Ken. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Yeah, hello, Rush.

RUSH: Hi.

CALLER: I wanted to comment on how not only Obama and the Democrats have responded to the election in Massachusetts, but what we’ve seen from it. First of all, when we look at their behavior, their total rejection of it, it shows that they’re not living in the real world, Rush, they’re living in the world of fantasy. Now, the vote clearly showed that those of us who love freedom, who love this country, who embrace the Constitution, we have said that we reject the statist socialist agenda that Barack Obama and the Democrats are trying to force on us, Rush. I mean that’s pretty clear, that the American people, this is how we feel. This is what we’re getting out of this –

RUSH: Yeah. Look, I know what you’re saying. That they’ve heard us, they see, they have received a clear message. Don’t think it’s going to change them.

CALLER: No. Not at all.

RUSH: They’re gonna dislike us and hold us in contempt even more. They’re going to think we’re even stupider than they thought and they’re going to get even with us. This is the way the Democrats operate. They love you when you elect them, but when you don’t see the light, when you haven’t done the right thing, you become their enemy. Look, they were governing against the will of the American people to begin with, and they’re going to double down on that.

They’re going to go through a two-week or three-week show here, as I said, trying to convince people they have changed their minds and they have seen the light, that they now understand that they were out of touch with the American people, like this story here. This is ABC News, an exclusive interview that Obama did with Stephanopoulos: “We Lost Touch with American People Last Year — Obama said today that he believes he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policy-making. ‘If there’s one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values.’”

He doesn’t know what the core values are. He wants to impose new ones. This is so much poppycock. “The president said he made a mistake in assuming that if he focused on policy decisions, the American people would understand the reasoning behind them.” My God, this guy made more speeches than anybody his first six months.

He did not lose touch with the American people. He just exposed himself to be somebody he was not in terms of who they had voted for. “‘That I do think is a mistake of mine,’ Obama said. ‘I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.’” They got it. They didn’t like what you were focusing on. They didn’t like what you weren’t focusing on. They didn’t think you were making rational decisions.

And listen to this. This is the piece de resistance. Folks, do not fall for this “we’ve seen the light; we have received your message; we know we overstepped; we know that we were out of touch; we know we tried to grab too much; we know we were governing against your –” none of that is true. And the president’s quote here in an interview with Stephanopoulos illustrates it. “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts but the mood around the country: The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

So he is still like a spoiled rotten little man-child blaming George W. Bush. Now, he’s either delusional or he is trying to move public opinion in this direction. He’s trying to tell people that the reason they’re mad is not the reason they’re mad. They’re mad at him, they’re mad at health care, they’re mad at spending, they’re mad at this out of control socialist agenda. It wasn’t anger at George Bush that elected Scott Brown. Scott Brown is a Republican! They are not, folks, going to change who they are. They have heard and received the clear message. Behind closed doors they are shouting obscenities aimed at us. Don’t doubt me.

END TRANSCRIPT

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Hot Air: Politico: House Dems already starting to run from ObamaCare
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Patterico’s Pontifications: Democrats in Disarray and Pelosi: “I Don’t See the Votes” to Pass Senate Bill and Specter to Bachmann: “Act Like a Lady” and Did Obama Get Massachusetts’ Message? (Updated x3)
Scared Monkeys: “MASS”acre … Obamacare Soundly Defeated in Massachusetts as Republican Scott Brown Defeats Coakley … Pot Committed Obama Continues to Defy the People
Paul A. Rahe, Big Government: George W. Bush Revisited
Critical Political Thinking: ~ Massachusetts Voters Demonstrate To Forty-Nine Other States: IT CAN BE DONE – (P.S. All Sitting Senators Strongly Advised To Take Note)
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