http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/06/25/republicans_yet_again_promise_to_repeal_obamacare_but_they_never_act_on_it_do_theyRepublicans Yet Again Promise to Repeal Obamacare, But They Never Act on It, Do They?
June 25, 2015
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RUSH: You better believe it, because I guarantee you this is what they're gonna say. They've got a built-in campaign issue that's just been handed to 'em on a silver platter again. No, no, it's an important distinction here. Hill.com says: "GOP Pledges to Fight 'Tooth and Nail' to Repeal Obamacare."
"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) added that Republicans will continue to move forward with their legislative alternatives, including the Patient CARE Act, which would repeal Obamacare. He said, 'Fortunately, Republicans have a plan to reverse this course by repealing and replacing Obamacare with reforms that put patients -- not Washington -- first.'"
That is my precise point. What conservatism becomes is fine-tuning socialism. The left has figured out how to get all of these things, socialism, call it what you will, make it look really appealing to the great unwashed, the low-information voters. End up being implemented, the public ends up accepting all these things, Social Security -- Obama's out there touting it in. (imitating Obama) "Social Security was guaranteed to see to it that our seniors were no longer consigned to starvation and death in retirement." That's not what it was, but it doesn't matter. Social Security has become government-paid retirement now. It's not what it was intended to be. Actually, it was. That's not what they said, though. It's another fine point. The liberals never give you the truth of these things.
But, anyway, that's the great appeal of socialism is that the downtrodden will be taken care of and finally very well will they be taken care of. These entitlements get implemented, and for the most part people don't complain. I mean, they complain about the operation. They don't complain about the existence. When's the last time you heard any Social Security recipient say, "You know what, we gotta ditch this program"? They don't. What do they say? "We need to increase the benefits." They always talk about improving it but not getting rid of it. They don't complain about the existence.
So then the conservative movement ends up becoming a movement to fine-tune or make more efficient all of these social programs, instead of being what it should be, and that is a debate, conservatism should present an alternative to all of this. But that's not what the Republican Party has done since Reagan. The Republican Party has assumed, or it has been presumed the Republican Party equals the conservative movement, and the Republican Party simply seeks to fine-tune all this stuff. "We can do it smarter," they say, "We can do it better."
And right on cue, here comes Senator Hatch. "Republicans will continue to move forward with their legislative alternatives, including the Patient CARE Act, which would repeal and replace." Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's this replace business? Senator Hatch said, "Fortunately, Republicans have a plan to reverse this course by repealing and replacing Obamacare with reforms that put patients -- not Washington -- first. Moving forward, we will continue to seek input on our legislative proposal ... and use every opportunity available to give both states and patients more freedom and flexibility."
But the structure isn't gonna change.
"The Republican leader," Mitch McConnell in this story, "tried to pressure Democrats who supported the law, saying they face a choice to either 'crow about Obamacare's latest wobble toward the edge, or work with us to address the ongoing negative impact of a 2,000-page law that continues to make life miserable for too many of the same people it purported to help.'"
So the headline here is: "GOP Pledges to Fight 'Tooth and Nail' to Repeal Obamacare." Let me tell you how that's gonna manifest itself. I have no doubt that before you can finish whistling Dixie, Republican presidential candidates are gonna start tearing into this reaction today, this decision today, and they're gonna start campaigning on repealing Obamacare just like they did the last two elections. And people are gonna go, "Yeah, man, you go, you go." And some people are gonna vote for Republicans based on this pledge to repeal Obamacare. And then let's say the Republicans win at everything in 2016, there won't be any repeal of Obamacare.
That's been the lesson, again, experience guided by intelligence. Experience has been the GOP campaigns on a pledge to get rid of this, but then they don't. After they get elected they start to fine-tune it or to make it more efficient or what have you.
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