Republican infighting over the GOP leadership's healthcare plan is overwhelming what should be lawmakers' happiness at "blowing up Obamacare," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday.
Limbaugh said Republicans have been promising voters they'd get rid of Obamacare ever since it became law.
Yet with the 2016 election that gave the GOP control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, and the American Health Care Act proposed to repeal and replace the 2010 healthcare law, "I'll be damned if I can find anybody happy about."
"Where is the happiness associated with blowing up Obamacare?" Limbaugh asked. "This is like defeating socialism… There ought to be parades. There ought to be bands. We ought to be playing the Star-Spangled Banner, God Save the Queen, God Bless America, Battle Hymn of the Republic. You know, take copies of the lyrics and shove ’em down [New York Democratic Sen.] Chuck Schumer’s throat. Where is all that?"
"Where is the celebration of getting rid of one of the greatest attempted socialist takeovers in this country?" he added.
Limbaugh said despite the disagreements over the proposed American Health Care Act, "there are those who just have total trust in Trump – and believe that everything in the news about this right now is designed to make people think" the GOP plan is "a disaster… when at the end of the day it’s gonna be a grand-slam home run and Trump is going to have kept his promise."