RUSH: I look at all this and I’m not a Washington insider, an establishment person, and I don’t want to be.
I simply ask myself, “Why in the name of Sam Hill is it this complicated?” And I say, “Well, one of the reasons it’s this complicated is because the complicatedness was written into it. It’s part of making it hard to unravel that it is just tentacle after tentacle after tentacle of parts of government we don’t even know exist that have a hand and a say-so in this, and it’s an absolute mess, and just to repeal it…” Then we get into the whole: How do you do it? Reconciliation for part of it, which you don’t need 60 votes for?
But you can’t do all of it with reconciliation. You have to get 60 votes to repeal some of it, and we’re never gonna get 60 votes ’cause we’re never gonna get the Democrats. And that’s when I ask, “Why? Why can’t we come up with an intelligent, really smart way that repeals this junk — we’re the United States of America! — and replaces it with something that makes utter common sense, that is rooted in fiscal responsibility and a little self-reliance, a little mixture of everything that the Democrats can’t afford not to support? Why is that not even an option? Why does nobody even consider it a possibility?
Why is the order of the day “it’s doomed”? Because if it’s doomed… If this repeal and replace that’s being talked about right now is doomed, and it’s the first bill that Trump’s trying, I’ll tell you why it’s doomed to failure. Because they want failure written all over Trump’s face and name in the first six months of his administration. They figure if they can do that, they can make the remaining 3-1/2 irrelevant, if they can create the news narrative that Trump is an abysmal failure in his first big legislative effort out of the box. That is what is going on here, in my humble opinion.
RUSH: Now, I can imagine there’s some people who are gonna have conniptions over this. But I happen to believe Trump, and by that I mean I have enough confidence in Trump.
I don’t believe Trump is going to say things on the campaign trail as often as he did, as purposefully and consistently as he did, and then be one of these guys that goes to Washington and just says, “Well, to hell with that,” and does whatever he can get away with. In other words, I really believe that of all the people in Washington that can come up with the best way to fix anything, it’ll be Trump. Again, experience guided by intelligence and vice-versa.
Now, it’s not doubtless. I’m not a Fanboy. But I have… I just don’t believe Trump is one of these typical Washington people who says things just to say them and then has no intention of following through. In other words, I believe Trump’s dead serious that Obamacare’s bad and it’s gotta get fixed and that he’s gonna do what he can to do it. It’s a faith thing, and I will wait to be proven wrong if that is the case.
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RUSH: I fully expect to be purposefully taken out of context and misunderstood in my comment not long ago that I have trust in Trump. Oh, I can imagine how that’s gonna blow up. But we’ll explain more about that in the days ahead.