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Rush likens House rule to "banana republic" and again promotes noncompliance for "something that is unconstitutional"

March 17, 2010 2:23 pm ET

From the March 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Rush advances myth that House rule is illegal, promotes noncompliance with "lawless" health care reform

Constitutional expert rebuts claim that health care procedure is unconstitutional

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    • Author by mmfa.fan (March 17, 2010 2:33 pm ET)
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      What a strange world these RW folks live in.
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      • Author by marco21 (March 17, 2010 2:39 pm ET)
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        I suggest we encourage them to cede from the Union, give them a state and move them all there. When Right Wing Nation implodes in 6 months, America could consider aiding their disaster.
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        • Author by Tommy (March 17, 2010 5:07 pm ET)
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          It would actually be amusing to see that. I would beat that the Red State would thrive while Socialist States of America would continue to crumble.

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          • Author by whatIthink (March 17, 2010 5:15 pm ET)
               
            Ummm, don't know if you know this, but the people who need healthcare reform the most live in red states. By any measure, whether economic, academic, health, education, money, whatever, the worst states in the country are die hard red states and are the ones who protest the loudest against the very measures that would benefit them the most.
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          • Author by marco21 (March 17, 2010 6:48 pm ET)
               
            I guess if prayers to Jesus were health care, you'd be just fine.
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        • Author by angels4light (March 18, 2010 11:56 am ET)
             
          I wouldn't want the people who we help move somewhere else to have any border in common with any part of the United States of America except that border which is the ocean.
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    • Author by markslp7013 (March 17, 2010 2:39 pm ET)
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      I believe Rush on this one. They are not going to stop, no matter what, and it will always be because of some undemocratic process that the Democrats were able to get this done. In many ways I don't think that the conservatives have yet to recognize Obama as president, and that he ran on a message of reforming health care among other things. They just don't see him as legitimate. Just like the birthers...
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      • Author by marco21 (March 17, 2010 2:42 pm ET)
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        Why would they stop? Their true believers don't care if they're being lied to and fleeced. Truth be damned. They've made up their minds to be wrong and they'll stay that way.
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      • Author by dogbreath (March 17, 2010 2:48 pm ET)
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        I agree. I imagine this whole thing is going to enter a new realm of ugliness, especially as we enter the election season.
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    • Author by shaggles (March 17, 2010 3:05 pm ET)
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      So was it a banana republic when the Reps used 40 times the last time they were in the majority?
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      • Author by Tommy (March 17, 2010 5:09 pm ET)
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        Didn't your mother ever tell you that two wrongs don't make a right. tsk tsk.
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    • Author by seahawks123 (March 17, 2010 3:28 pm ET)
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      The Supreme Court will throw this out so fast your head will spin.
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      • Author by dogbreath (March 17, 2010 3:29 pm ET)
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        On what basis are they going to do that Mr. Lawyerman?
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      • Author by roverflash (March 17, 2010 5:19 pm ET)
           
        Prove it. Make my day and just prove it for once.
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      • Author by whatIthink (March 17, 2010 5:21 pm ET)
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        Quick course for you in constitutional law. The Constitution allows congress to pretty much make it's own rules. The process being used by the Democrats, deem and pass, is a well established legislative rule set by...Congress. But, based on some language in case law, it can be challeneged and the Supreme Court can agree to hear the case. But if they overturn the bill, you can expect every decision made using deem and pass will be challenged, and that will a bigger blow to the party who has used it the most: Republicans.
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      • Author by liberalXtian (March 17, 2010 5:31 pm ET)
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        If the Supreme Court does rule "deem and pass" unconstitutional, won't that also void all the laws the Republicans passed using this method?
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      • Author by progressiveright (March 17, 2010 10:16 pm ET)
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        This rule has been up held in the past you idiot.
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    • Author by bintx (March 17, 2010 3:53 pm ET)
         
      Banana Republic is the talking point of the day. Not applicable, but it's there nonetheless.
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