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Limbaugh pushes baseless claim that Dems will pass health care reform without voting

March 11, 2010 2:28 pm ET

From the March 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Doocy baselessly claims Slaughter is angling to pass health care reform without a vote

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    • Author by shaggles (March 11, 2010 2:35 pm ET)
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      How in hell would they accomplish that?
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      • Author by bintx (March 11, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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        They can't. Besides, health care reform has already passed the House AND the Senate.

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        • Author by neon desert (March 11, 2010 2:54 pm ET)
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          Surely he means without ANOTHER vote. No national political radio host would be stupid enough to not know that it's already been voted on twice. And the only other option would be that he's lying, and no drug-addled doctor-shopper would adulterate his character by doing that...
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      • Author by pete592 (March 11, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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        They don't have the luxury of using the Supreme Court, like the right-wing did in 2000. Roberts and Co. won't play ball.
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      • Author by The_Cat (March 11, 2010 2:47 pm ET)
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        My very first thought, shaggles. Passed without voting. Hmmm.
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (March 11, 2010 4:55 pm ET)
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        I'm sure Magic will be here soon to enlighten us on the subject.
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    • Author by marco21 (March 11, 2010 2:35 pm ET)
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      All the right wing trolls on various sites and blogs are pushing this today. No wonder.
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    • Author by bintx (March 11, 2010 2:36 pm ET)
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      False talking point of the day. Doocy's already reported it, now Rush . . . I'm sure Beck, O'Reilly, that weird dude I've never heard of, and Hannity will line up to repeat it. That's how propaganda works. Repeat the same lies over and over and over again, even in the face of facts disproving them, in the hopes that a significant number of people will believe them.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (March 11, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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      Well, duh.
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    • Author by afriend (March 11, 2010 3:49 pm ET)
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      both houses have already passed health care reform..in the Senate, by a supermajority. Rush is just not very intelligent.
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    • Author by ojnabieoot (March 11, 2010 5:12 pm ET)
         
      By the way, for the actual clarification:

      Slaughter postulated that it might work for the House to pass the reconciliation bill as if they had passed the amended Senate bill; e.g., they don't need to take two separate votes. The bill could say "Let [whatever the Senate bill was] be enacted subject to the following amendments..." which could technically count as having passed an amended Senate bill. I'm not sure if it would work or not, but it seems plausible to me, and worth the parliamentarian taking a look at.

      TL;DR - Rush Limbaugh is a lying idiot. I liked his tiny rant at the end about how "passing without voting" is an overthrow of government. It seems odd to combine that with "the government is taking over health care oh noes!" but agreeing with Rush Limbaugh requires no more than the memory of a goldfish.
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