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RUSH: Now, look I understand it, folks, I totally understand it, but I gotta caution you again. I think people are way too giddy out there on this health care business. I think Obama's close to going over the edge. I hope nobody talks about his big ears within his earshot today, because this is a guy who grew up charmed, he grew up never laughed at, never teased, never kidded, and probably never criticized. He doesn't deal with this very well, and if somebody within his earshot today happens to talk about his big ears it could push him over the edge, so don't get, in our giddiness out there, thinking this health care thing is defeated, it isn't, he's gonna try to win over these Blue Dog Democrats, these so-called Blue Dog Democrats. I've seen these pictures the last couple days of Rahm Emanuel, and DeMint was right. This is Waterloo, if he loses this, and he knows it. Chuck Grassley has admitted that a Democrat member of Congress, senator or somewhat, quoting Obama as saying, "You can destroy my presidency." It is about him. Greetings, folks. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Great to be with you. Our telephone number, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
All right, now, the president of the United States says, ladies and gentlemen, that they rescued the economy. The poll numbers are dropping here. There's an AP-GFK poll and it now shows that a majority of Americans are back to thinking that the country is headed in the wrong direction after a fleeting period in which more thought it was on the right track. The number of people who think Obama can improve the economy is down 19 percentage points from days just before his inauguration. Ditto for expectations about creating jobs. This is where the Waterloo is, not just in health care. Now, he's out there, the question was asked yesterday by a caller, and it is a great question to keep asking, "What has Obama done for you? What have the liberal Democrats done for you?"
They've been running the show since 2007 on Capitol Hill. Obama's been running the show with them since January of this year. What have they done for you? Another question, "What have they done to you?" They haven't done anything for anybody. They can say we rescued the economy as a means of saying, "Well, it would be much, much worse if we hadn't done what we have done." They haven't done anything. We just found out stimulus money is going to be used to put new energy efficient lights at the runways at the Raleigh-Durham airport. Stimulus money. It's going to cost either six or eight million. How long is it going to take to get the savings back, and this is part of the stimulus bill? It's absurd. He's not doing anything for anybody.
Now, let's get to health care because that's what the presidential press conference tonight is going to be about. I have a simple question. If health care is such a catastrophe in this country, if there is such a pressing, overwhelming need for reform, why didn't any of the $1 trillion in Porkulus money go to insuring those who don't have any insurance? Why didn't that happen? Now, I ran some numbers, and sometimes when I run numbers I'm off a little bit. So I ran these numbers backwards, forwards, upside down. By my calculation, you have 47 million uninsured people. Now, the assumption is that all of them really wish they had insurance. (crying) "I can't afford it, it's not fair." That's not true. Not all 47 million want health insurance. There was a guy at a town hall meeting yesterday in Maryland, we played the tape for you, he didn't want it, he likes having the money to spend on other things. Anyway, you could, for between 30 and $100 billion, you could buy a health insurance policy for a full year for every person who can't afford it. That's twelve million people, people that can't afford it -- of course it depends on the policy you look at -- between 29 billion and a hundred billion, that's a broad range, you could cover everybody for a year.
Now, we just spent a trillion dollars in Porkulus. Why didn't we do that if it's such a catastrophe? It's a drop in the bucket for what Obama is spending, not just on Porkulus but TARP, all the bailouts that we've had. It's a drop in the bucket. We don't need to spend a trillion dollars on health care to insure people. Nowhere near it. Why didn't the stimulus bill pay for health insurance for the downtrodden? Why not send billions to emergency rooms and hospitals who provide care for anybody who walks in? Why not do that? Why didn't Obama rescue the people without health insurance while he was rescuing the economy? We have a deficit we can't pay off; we have unemployment about to go double-digit; Obama wants to destroy the health insurance policies a huge majority of Americans have and like. He isn't rescuing anything. He's destroying it. And he's doing it on purpose. He doesn't give a damn about anybody but himself and his media. Destroying the American economy is not how anybody helps people and this health care debacle is an absolute debacle. It has no prayer of working and providing greater health care.
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RUSH: Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, has really, really hit pay dirt with his claim that this health care, if it's defeated, is Obama's Waterloo. What's interesting is Obama put his presidency on the line, and then he recoils when DeMint agrees with him. "What do you mean by that, Rush?" Okay. From the National Journal: "A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator's comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth. Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.
"'Let's just lay everything on the table,' Grassley said. 'A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes made ... and the president says, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.'" The president told a Democrat member of the house, "You're going to destroy my presidency." I thought it wasn't about him. I thought this wasn't about him. I thought this was about us! I thought this was about us and our precious health care. No, no, no, no! It's all about him. He's worried about his presidency being destroyed. So all DeMint did was say this could be his Waterloo. Obama agrees with him and recoils when DeMint says this. He can't handle criticism. He's never been criticized, substantively, I'll guarantee you.
I know these kind of people, folks. I've worked for them; I've been fired by them. They've never been criticized, never laughed at, never teased. Remember, Maureen Dowd made some comment about his elephant ears during the campaign, and he walked down off the stage and confronted her. He said, "I'm very, very sensitive about my ears," and she said, "We're just trying to toughen you up!" So I guarantee you there's instability over there in the White House. They've been coming unhinged because the magic that got him elected is gone. Can you imagine, folks...? Imagine if they'd have done health care first instead of Porkulus. They'd have gotten it. They would.
Nobody would dare stop the first thing he was going to do. He was in his honeymoon, the first black president, historical and all that. He was going to get that. He got that stimulus in two weeks. We better thank our lucky stars -- I never thought I would say this, but we better thank our lucky stars -- that they did stimulus first. 'Cause if they had done this first, it would be signed into law already. He woulda gotten it. I'll bet Rahm Emanuel is kicking himself and the furniture, stabbing steaks with a knife and sending dead fish to himself because he's all upset about the strategical blunder. Now they started with Porkulus and it ain't working! It's not doing anything for anybody, and the poll numbers are plummeting.
And because of that the health care problems in big trouble. Nothing this administration has done has fixed anything, and each and every day there's a greater realization of that fact by more and more people. So here are five questions that Jim DeMint would like the president to address tonight. Now, he will not be asked these questions, and if he does get some tough questions tonight (there's always the possibility that a renegade will get in there), he's going to start filibustering. He'll give a 10- to 12-minute answer to limit the number of questions, because he thinks he dazzles people with his command of the facts in 10- to 12-minute answers.
All right, here are five questions DeMint would like the president to answer: "1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the [hurry] to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?
"2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO's?
"3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?" And Obama won't. He doesn't debate. He clears the field. He gets rid of opponents. He does not debate issues. He does not do that. He has his ideas -- and they are his, and they are right, and they're going to happen come hell or high water -- and we don't even have the right to disagree. We are being uppity if we disagree with this man's brilliance.
"4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are 'content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.' Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House...?
"5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?" Five questions for the president tonight.
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RUSH: Jim DeMint destroyed Matt Lauer today on the Today Show. DeMint rendered Matt Lauer speechless on Obama's rush to have a government takeover of health care. In fact, you know, I was watching. I got in here today and I turned on the TVs -- well, they were already on -- and I look up at MSNBC, and I see that they've got the headline at the bottom of the screen: "Obama Rush..." I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What did I miss?" and then I see they're just putting my name in there as a substitute for the word "hurry." "Obama Rush to Have a Government Takeover of Health Care." Question from Matt Lauer to Jim DeMint: "Are you rallying conservatives to the cause of health care reform, or are you rallying conservatives to the cause of breaking a president?"
DEMINT: We need to put the brakes on this president. He's been on a spending spree since he took office. His goal seems to be a government takeover, not making insurance more available. So I do think we need to stop the president on this. We need to stop his policy because if we allow him to continue to ram things through Congress before we even get a chance to read 'em... Matt, I just brought one of the bills this morning. I mean, if you look at this bill, it's one of the three bills that we're going to have to look at.
LAUER: It's a complicated issue. There are a lot of details in that bill.
DEMINT: But why do we need to pass it in two weeks before we go home in August?
LAUER: Well, that's a good question.
RUSH: Ah! It's a good question. Why do we have to pass it in two weeks, when it doesn't get implemented for four years? Why do we have to pass it in two weeks? By the way, I don't know if you saw this or not: "President Barack Obama's pledge to make sure health care legislation is fully paid for excludes $245 billion to raise fees for doctors treating Medicare patients, a senior administration official said Tuesday. Peter Orszag, the budget director, said the administration always had assumed the money would be spent to prevent a cut of more than 20 percent in doctor fees..." I'm not sure I understand this. Is this story saying they missed $245 billion in doctors fees? We know they're going to squeeze the doctors to try to cut costs, but how do you have this health care legislation and not cover payment to doctors? That could have been what... Maybe it can. Maybe. With this bunch you just don't know. All right, now, I want to comment on cut 12 again but I want to play cut 13 first. Jim DeMint and Matt Lauer, the second sound bite of their exchange on the Today Show today.
LAUER: The words you chose were very specific. "It could be his Waterloo. It could break this president." I guess the obvious question is: It wouldn't break your heart if you break this president, would it?
DEMINT: It's not personal, but we've got to stop his policies, Matt. The policies are not matching up to the promises. They're loading trillions of dollars of debt onto the American people -- and the thing is, we need to real health care reform.
RUSH: See, the Drive-Bys here are trying to make it out like DeMint, me, and everybody else want to destroy the president personally. Understand this. He's already failing. He is in the process of failing and failing big. He is failing the United States. He is failing our country. He is failing our economy. He, in his mind, is succeeding. This is what people still don't get. What's happened as a result of his policies is exactly what was intended. There is no sane person in the world who would implement policies like this if their objective was economic growth and prosperity. You would only do what they are doing and then double down on it if your intent is to remake it, destroy it, and put it back together in a way that we won't recognize. And that's what's going on. We've got to stop him, and what DeMint's saying. It doesn't matter who it is. This could be anyone.
Anastas Mikoyan could be president. Whoever is doing this, we've got to stop him. The Drive-Bys want to make this all personal. I'm going to tell you something. This health care deal is Obama's Waterloo. I think DeMint's right. I think the stimulus bill is his Waterloo, actually, and this is going to be Waterloo 2. But there's another Waterloo happening out there, and the Waterloo that's happening out there is the mainstream media. The mainstream media has met their Waterloo, and their Waterloo is Obama. They are giving up every ounce of integrity and character they ever had to defend this guy. They are not reporting what his policies are doing. They're covering him only from the standpoint of a horse race.
"Is he going to win? Is he going to beat those evil Republicans? Is he going to triumph? Can Obama pull it out? Can Obama pull it out? C-c-can Obama win? How can we help Obama destroy the country? That's what he wants to do, how can we help him out?" They are sacrificing every bit of integrity, objectivity, and professionalism they ever had. And we can debate how much that was. But they've sacrificed. They have punted. They've given it up. They have met their Waterloo. They are destroying themselves to defend President Obama regardless.
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RUSH: Obama is mad that his presidency might be destroyed. We heard this from Charles Grassley who quotes a member of the House, saying that, "Democrats in Congress could destroy my presidency." And that's what makes him mad. See, he doesn't care if he destroys private insurance companies. He doesn't care if he destroys the automobile industry. He doesn't care if he destroys elements of the private sector. He doesn't care if millions of jobs are destroyed, but, boy, let's start talking about his presidency being destroyed, and now we got some anger and now we got some motivation. And the motivation Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats and Obama are in today is saving his presidency. It's not about giving you health care. It's not about doing anything for you. What have they done for you?
Rich Hrebic, AmericanThinker.com: "'One Step Closer to Losing Your Right to Health Care' -- Isn't the point of the Democrats' push to reform the health care system based on establishing health care as a right? That's what the politicians say of course. But in reality the result will be the exact opposite. Part of the problem is that most Americans don't understand what a right is." Anybody ever ask you to explain or define a right? You may know what it is, but have you ever tried to tell somebody what it is? "A right is not a guarantee that the government (i.e., other people) will provide you something for free." A right does not come because the government grants it. "We have the right to engage in religious expression, but that doesn't mean that the government pays for the construction of the church. We have the right to peacefully assemble, but the government doesn't promise to supply your transportation," to get you there unless you're Obama and have ACORN.
"You have the right to keep and bear arms, but don't expect the government to provide you with a free firearm and bullets. You have the right to free speech, but the government won't grant you free radio or TV airtime. What makes something a right is not whether the government can force somebody else to pay for it. What defines something as a right is whether the government can or cannot prohibit you from doing it." And this is what President Obama calls negative liberties. The Bill of Rights he refers to as a negative liberty because all it does, all they do is define what the government cannot do to you. But it doesn't say what the government can do to you. It doesn't say what the government can do for you. So the Constitution is an obstacle to this man. A right is something that they can't take away in a free society. If the government can't stop you from doing it, then it's a right. And rights came from God. We're all endowed by our Creator to certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. But Obama's government's trying to take every one of those away from some people. Life, of course, both abortion and late-in-life death counseling. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Young people in America have given an up on that. They just want to survive now.
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"It's not about me," he said. It's all about him! He's worried his presidency is on the line here. This tweet from the White House last night, "Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics w/ our lives & livelihood. Fight back." Now, there are no health care reform "opponents." Health care reform opponents scale up attacks? There are no reform opponents. We all have reform ideas. There are just those who disagree with Obama's 1,000-page plan that Obama admits he hasn't even read. See, we're not allowed to disagree. We're now "health care reform opponents scaling up attacks." We just disagree with this debacle. So the president of the United States starts off by smearing those who have different ideas. So much for post-partisan! So much for hope and change. So much for a new era.
Obama never takes on opponents in the arena of ideas, folks. He misleads and plays politics when we're talking about the doctor-patient relationship in America. This is the president tweeting? "Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics w/ our lives & livelihood. Fight back." Next he says those that oppose his reforms are "scaling up their attacks," like pointing out the CBO that says this plan Obama hasn't read is a disaster? Are they part of the group that's attacking him? When Obama says "attacks," he means bringing up facts after studying his deeply flawed plan that he says he hasn't read. Then he says those opponents of his plan who have read the plan are playing politics. Obama is ramming a plan to socialize medicine into law at light speed with no one even reading the bill, except the people who have read it who are pointing out what's in it and then he demonizes those who have read it and think it's a bad idea by saying they are playing politics!
Whatever happened to of the people, by the people, for the people? It's become, "Screw the people, by the people, to the people." Playing politics with our lives and livelihoods? This bill is a jobs killer! The Porkulus bill was a jobs killer. Playing politics with lives and livelihoods? Obama's already taken care of that. He's destroying some lives. You know I've got a story in the stack here about kids and the music they're listening to these days and the music they like. It all talks about how there's no reason to succeed anymore 'cause there's nothing to succeed doing. There's nothing out there, nothing to grab. We've gotta all learn to do with less. It's sad. This is the United States of America! He's destroying ambition! He's destroying desire!
He is creating a scenario and an atmosphere where people settle for less than they could be. For the young to be thinking this (snorts) is not good for the future of the country. Obama is playing politics with lives and livelihoods. "Fight back," he said, not compromise, not talk, not find common ground. Fight back. In that one short sentence, that tweet, Barack Obama gave away all the dignity of the office of the president. That tweet is filled with contempt. It is filled with deceit, smears, and is partisan politics at its very best, or worst. President of the United States. "Health care reform opponents scale up attacks, playing politics w/ our lives & livelihood. Fight back." We are fighting back. We're fighting back to save livelihoods. It's called jobs.
A lot is on the table. A lot is at stake. Fifty-three percent, by the way, now oppose congressional health care reform. This is a Rasmussen Report. "Health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the last month, and 53% now oppose it." There's a great piece at the AmericanThinker.com on rights, what they are, and what a health care right is. It's really brilliant. It's well done. I will share it with you after we come back from the time-out. But this post-partisan business. Obama's going to get rid of partisanship and politics as usual. Hope and change! The GOP and Blue Dog Democrats are opposing Obama. That's bipartisan. There is bipartisan opposition, not just the Blue Dogs. There are some standard run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats who are very nervous about this. But I have a story here, Charlie Rangel. Nobody's got the guts to tell Nancy Pelosi to slow down and certainly nobody has the guts to tell the president to slow down.
But they are scared. Folks, I'm telling you even to your run-of-the-mill, average liberal Democrat this is too much. They'd love to get it, but they don't want to lose election in 2010. They'd love to get this done, but this is so fast, such an overreach, such a giant grab. They like to do things on the stealth. They like to do things under the guise of helping the poor and everybody. This is not going to do anything but hurt everybody. Obama is the one being purely partisan and Rahm Emanuel. Obama is the one leading the hard left of his party and that's who exclusively support this: the hard left. The opposition to Obama is bipartisan. He is the one who's the pure political partisan. He's just like every other liberal Democrat that's ever come along, except he's far more radical. There's nothing new about him. There's nothing unique. There's nothing we haven't seen before. He's just the first guy that had the audacity to give an acceptance speech in front of some fake, faux Greek columns.
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| • The Hill: Obama Tweet: Health Bill Opponents 'Playing Politics With Our Lives' • Twitter: Barack Obama |
CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: I'm 60-plus years old, and my income bracket would put me among the working poor, but I have health insurance because I choose to pay for it. The idea that people making 50 or $75,000 a year can't afford health insurance is an out-and-out lie.
RUSH: Of course they can. You're exactly right out there, Ralph. What's happened is over the last 30 years people have been conditioned to think somebody else should pay for it. It's a right. If you can't afford a lawyer, we'll pay for one. Health care is more important than a lawyer. So people think the government ought to pay for it or your employer ought to pay for it. Sure. Don't buy as many plasmas. Don't buy a new car. But health care has assumed this position because of the Democrat Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and some of the Democrats, LBJ. Health care shouldn't be paid for by people. That's just not fair.
CALLER: Well, the reason they don't have health care is because they choose not to pay for it, but Obama wants me to pay for their choice. To me, a 50 or $75,000 income would be a life of luxury. When are people gonna come out from under the ether that this man has got them under?
RUSH: It's starting to happen. I mean, it's got a long way to go out there, Ralph, but it's starting to happen.
CALLER: The only way that you can accurately describe this administration is by the words of the song: "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves."
RUSH: Yeah, that was Cher.
CALLER: Exactly right.
RUSH: That was back in the early seventies. I played that song when I was a struggling young disk jockey. (singing) "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves." No offense, gypsies, but it's in the title of the song. (interruption) Don't ask me. Tramps? I'm not going to name names. We all know who they are. I'm not going to name them. Look, Ralph brings up a very good point. He doesn't make much money but he chooses to have insurance 'cause he buys a policy he can afford. Ceci Connolly, Washington Post says automobile insurance, that's mandatory, why, what's the difference in health care? Now, there are people that don't own cars and there are people that don't drive. Should they have to buy auto insurance to lower the cost for all the rest of us? Should people who don't have kids have to pay exorbitant property taxes to support the schools? This is such a... The whole thing is fraud, folks. This whole health care thing is a total fraud, and of course Obama may have to wait for it.
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RUSH: Hey, a quick question, folks. What does health insurance insure? This is not a trick question. If you think health insurance insures your health, you're wrong. Health insurance does not insure your health.
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RUSH: What's it for? Does health insurance insure your health? It can't possibly. Health insurance cannot possibly insure your health. In fact, "Health care insurance, formerly called 'medical insurance,' is merely an instrument of neutralizing risk. Financial risk, that is." Not health risks. "It was brought about by a need to insure a family's assets against a dread disease requiring care so expensive it would wipe that family out financially. As a strictly financial planning endeavor, the issue never seemed to be discussed in terms of being 'a right' or in terms of 'compassion.' But 'medical insurance' as a component of financial planning has morphed into 'health care' as a right for everyone in the new political parlance.
"And not only is the insurance a right, but the insurance should be 'free' and it should cover everything from routine care visits to erectile dysfunction to ADHD to" addadictomies! Yeah, addadictomies are covered in San Francisco. "It is no more practical to have "health insurance" to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and tire rotations." This is C. Edmund Wright at the AmericanThinker.com. There is so much brilliance out there on health care. I'm glad this actually has come up here because we're getting a perspective and a viewpoint on this that we have not had throughout this whole debate, and Obama is reeling. It ain't going like it was supposed to go. It wasn't supposed to be this hard.
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RUSH: Rachel, 23 years old, Bartow, Florida. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. Mega dittos. I've been listening to you since Day One. I was a really little kid, but I've been listening to you ever since.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Well, I have health insurance. I work for a national home improvement chain, and my health insurance is absolutely horrible. It is awful. I cannot stand it. I cannot wait to get out of any part-time job and go into the full-time world after I get my degree. I'd just like to say: That health insurance that I have right now is still better than what Obama is proposing.
RUSH: What is so bad about your health insurance?
CALLER: Well, the number one thing that gets to me is in order for me to go to ER, they don't cover ER visits unless I'm hospitalized. So if I'm in a very severe car accident and I have to be hospitalized, then they'll cover the ER visit. But if I break my arm at seven o'clock at night and have to go to the ER to get it set and everything because my orthopedist isn't open 'til eight a.m. the next day --
RUSH: Well, here's --
CALLER: -- then I have to pay that out of pocket.
RUSH: Well, I got a suggestion for you. There's an emergency room in Texas --
CALLER: (chuckles)d
RUSH: -- that I think, over -- I have so many numbers here, but over -- 2,000 visitors by nine patients in six years. Now, that emergency room is obviously treating people that can't pay.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: A number of times. Another thing you could do is if you have that catastrophic accident but it's not enough to hospitalize you just ask for some pain pills. That's in the Obama health care plan and -- if you can't go to emergency room at least they'll give you some pain medication.
CALLER: I would love to take painkillers but if I were to do that then I couldn't go do my job because heavy machinery is going around, and you don't want to do that.
RUSH: Wait a second. You can't do your job if you're in the emergency room, either, now. We gotta get our priorities right.
CALLER: (chuckles) This is true. This is true. But still, it's absolutely amazing to me how --
RUSH: Look, you're a part-time worker.
CALLER: -- much worse off I would be.
RUSH: You're a part-time worker, but your story illustrates what national health care really ought to be. Catastrophic only, we cover everybody on catastrophic illness, accidents, because that's what breaks everybody's bank. You don't need health insurance for annual checkups, tests. You can pay for that or you can buy a different policy that will be a lot cheaper that would cover those things if you want to. This catastrophic care, that's what scares people your age. You're not worried about a terminal disease right now. You're worried about an accident that lays you up and you can't afford to pay for it.
CALLER: Well, it's funny you say that because I have a herniated disk in my neck. I still go to work every day I never call in sick. I don't complain about it. I'm not on narcotics. I don't do painkillers. It's just not my thing. I don't like being looped out like that. I don't see a problem. I mean, my health insurance is bad but I still don't have a problem getting the medical attention that I need for my pain.
RUSH: That's the point. That's the reason I took your call. You are not first in line Rachel, and I didn't put you first in line because Rachel is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
CALLER: (giggles)
RUSH: I put you first in line because of this story that I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It's from the Associated Press and it's a cry, sob story that is designed to help Bam get back in gear on health care. The headline: "No Jobs, No Insurance, Hard Times for Young Adults -- One-in-three twenty-somethings is without health insurance." (Gasp!) Oh, no! What a horrible country. It goes on.
CALLER: None of my friends need health insurance. They're never sick. So what does it matter?
RUSH: See, that's the key. Most health expenses come later in life. I'm not going to read the whole story here to you, but it starts: "Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she'll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year. Heath insurance is out of reach, so she avoids thinking about what would happen if she got sick, was hurt in a traffic accident or was severely burned... 'Would I have to declare bankruptcy at age 23 or would my parents have to bail me out?' asked Weinstein, of Portland, Ore. 'What would I do?'" Oh, what would I do! (crying)
CALLER: You're talking to somebody who has their back surgery already and I'm working part time.
RUSH: Yeah, but wait a second, Rachel, when you go and you read the story and it's three pages long, you find out that all of these people got the health care they needed. They don't have insurance, but they all get health care -- miraculous, timely, brilliant, lifesaving-enhancing, cutting age health care. In a story "No Jobs, No Insurance, Hard Times for Young Adults," this story nevertheless points out that these people do get health care. It's just not apparently worth paying for. So here we have a system where the vast majority of Americans get all this astonishing medical care that costs so much nobody can afford it (which is a problem, by the way). They may not have insurance, but they're getting health care. This story inadvertently points that out.
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AUDIENCE: (laughter)
CARNAHAN: Part of that Congressional Budget Office --
RUSH: Hold it. Hold it a minute. Now, recue that. They laughed. They laughed when Russ Carnahan said, "The estimated cost is a trillion dollars over ten years, and about half of that comes from savings and inefficiencies." Now, do you know who first said "inefficiencies"? Obama! He misspoke. He meant to say "efficiencies." They had to rush out a correction from the White House and they said, "Everybody knew what he meant." Russ Carnahan didn't get the memo. Russ Carnahan stuck with inefficiencies! Here it is from the top.
CARNAHAN: The overall cost of the package has been estimated at about a trillion dollars over ten years. About half of that comes from savings and inefficiencies in the system.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
CARNAHAN: Part of that Congressional Budget Office most recently came out, uh, and analyzed the current plan and said that it was not only deficit neutral -- which has been one of the important factors for the president and congressional leaders -- but also that over ten years it would create a $6 billion surplus.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
CARNAHAN: So the --
RUSH: They're laughing at him! They know more than he does! They're laughing at their congressman. They're laughing at their Democrat congressman at Forest Park Campus in the St. Louis Community College in St. Louis. Here's another portion of this town hall.
CARNAHAN: When you have the larger pool, uh, we also have the ability to spread and shrink those administrative costs so that a larger portion of our health care dollar is actually going to treating a patient, as opposed to administrative costs. Novel concept.
AUDIENCE: (chuckling)
CARNAHAN: But it's a very important part of -- of creating those larger pools.
MAN #1: If it's so good, why doesn't the Congress have to be on it?
MAN #2: Yeah, right!
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: "If it's so good, why doesn't the Congress have to be on it?" As I said earlier, the health plan... We hear about the health plan that Congress has. It's not government-run. It is a smorgasbord of choices. It's paid for by us, but it's not government-run. They have private sector health coverage, folks. Everybody misunderstands this. They think it's a government-run program. It's not. These clowns are the government, and they would no more entrust their health care to each other than they would entrust their lives to each other. But they'll put us in the system. Their health care, after Obamacare gets done, will continue to be private sector health care. They're not opting into this. Their health care is not government-run. All right, let's go back. So Russ Carnahan got laughed at and ridiculed by his own constituents. Let's go back and let's revisit Monday in Maryland, Ben Cardin talking to a constituent who's chosen to not buy insurance, likes his life that way.
BROADUS: That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
BROADUS: Senator Cardin, I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't pay it?
AUDIENCE: (applause)
CARDIN: What happens if you get sick? What happens if you are in a car accident or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency room? You are a -- a -- You don't pay. You are part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does pay.
RUSH: Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
CARDIN: And they're paying for you!
RUSH: Wrong. Wrong. The truth of the matter is here that he didn't deny the guy's question. The guy asked, "You gonna make me buy insurance or fine me?" Cardin says, "Yeah, and you know why? Because you don't have the guts to pay. You don't have a plan, and so you're going to be paid for by others." Wrong, you go to emergency room, they treat you. It's federal law. They send you a bill. You don't pay it they come repossess one of your kids, your car, whatever they can get. Yeah, you can be fine if you don't have it. It's a "right," you understand, and you can be find if you don't have that right. Ha. Let's go back it happen Katheliiiiiiine Sebelius in Reserve, Louisiana, also on Monday.
MAN: It would be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country.
SEBELIUS: Excuse me. Excuse me. The federal employee health system would stay in place, as would other employer-based coverage.
AUDIENCE: (booing)
RUSH: No, the federal employee health system would stay in place in the private sector. Other employer based coverage would vanish because they would opt out of it.
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RUSH: Listen to this. I have just been handed, ladies and gentlemen, this is intel, intercepted intel. An e-mail from a liberal pro-government-run health care advocate in Virginia to his organizing group, get 'em all fired up. Here's the e-mail: "We are at a transformational time, especially when it comes to the possibility of getting health care coverage for every person in this country. Unfortunately, conservative talk radio has people all wound up and calls to some of our members of Congress this week are running 15 to one against health care reform. How can anyone advocate keeping things the way they are?" The libs are upset with me again.
By the way, folks, we now know why this health care plan has to be passed before the August recess. We have learned it in this half hour. Obama says you need a deadline to get anything done. No. That's not the answer. The answer is what we've heard in these town hall meetings from Kathleen Sebelius in Reserve, Louisiana, Russ Carnahan in St. Louis, and Ben Cardin in Maryland. What Obama and Rahm are going to tell members of Congress is, if you don't do this before the August recess, you're going to go home, you're going to do your town meetings, and your constituents are gonna hang you out to dry. They're going to beat you up and there's going to be audio and video of it and by the time you get back here, Limbaugh and Hannity on TV and everybody is going to be playing all of this footage of town meetings where your constituents are ripping you to shreds and laughing at you. That's why you gotta get it done before the August recess. I'll lay you ten to one, after these three incidents here I guarantee you Rahm Emanuel is going to tell 'em that. You better get this done or you're going to get destroyed when you go home for your recess, and they're going to make clowns outta you for the rest of your career.
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RUSH: To illustrate my point here, ladies and gentlemen, I guarantee you, Obama, Emanuel are telling members of Congress, "You've seen what's happened to Carnahan. You saw what happened to Kathleen Sebelius. You have seen what happened to Ben Cardin. The constituencies out there know more about this bill than you do or I do." This is what Obama is telling them, "And they are gonna pepper you with stuff and you are going to be made to look like a laughingstock and Limbaugh and everybody else are going to be playing footage of these town meetings you're gonna have in the recess. You better get this done now before you leave." That's the reason for the deadline. Remember Monday, Obama, he doesn't even know what's in the bill. He had a conference call with left-wing bloggers and a liberal blogger from Maine had this exchange.
MAN: Investor's Business Daily, they're saying that H.R. 3200 will make individual private medical insurance illegal. Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?
OBAMA: You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you're talking about.
RUSH: So you don't want to be laughed at like I've been laughed at, and you don't want to be laughed at like Russ Carnahan has been laughed at -- of course, he's laughed at a lot, not just this at a town meeting. You don't want to get laughed at like Cardin got laughed at. You don't want to get treated like Kathleen Sebelius got treated. So hurry up. And I want you to hear this again. This is from the ABC Obama special on health care from back in June. Jane Sturm stands up, "My mother is 105. At 100 the doctor said to her, 'I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.' I said go for it, she said go for it, the specialist said nah, she's too old. She went to another specialist who saw her joy of life, and that specialist said, 'I'm going for it,' and five years ago she got the pacemaker. My question to you, Mr. President, outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who's elderly, is there any consideration that could be given for a certain spirit?" You know, this question in the United States of America, we actually have a citizen asking the president, "Mr. President, is there something you can do to take into account somebody's life before killing them because of health care?" And here's Obama's answer.
OBAMA: I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are gonna provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions already are being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.
RUSH: Let's just zone you out. Let's just zone your grandmother out, loop her out, put her on the pain medicine, and she won't even know that she's going to die. She won't remember dying. Can you believe this is happening in our country? I can understand somebody calling up Kim Jong-il. I can understand somebody calling up Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, if they could get through, saying, "Can you do something, my grandmother is only 50 and --" "Nah, too old, no money, dead." Hang up. But calling the president of the United States and asking this kind of question?
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RUSH: In fact, there's a gutsy story today, I found it last night on the American Thinker by a guy named James Lewis. Talk about not pulling any punches. "Does Ted Kennedy deserve his extended cancer care?" is the headline to the piece. "Senator Ted Kennedy, who is now 76 years old and was diagnosed with brain cancer in May of last year, is telling the world that nationalized medical care is 'the cause of his life.' He wants to see it pass as soon as possible, before he departs this vale of tears. The prospect of Kennedy's passing is viewed by the liberal press with anticipatory tears and mourning. But they are not asking the proper question by their own lights: That question -- which will be asked for you and me when we reach his age and state in life --- is this: Is Senator Kennedy's life valuable enough to dedicate millions of dollars to extending it another month, another day, another year?"
This is a very brave piece by Mr. Lewis at the American Thinker because you're not supposed to write things like this about people who are terminal. But it's a pointed question because we're all going to reach this stage, or most of us will, and Obama's health care plan, by definition, will not cover people in Senator Kennedy's circumstances because the investment will not be deemed worthwhile. Senator Kennedy is available to get this because he's got a great health care plan and because he has independent wealth to augment it and to go along with it. "Consider what happens in the Netherlands to elderly people. The Netherlands legalized 'assisted suicide' in 2002, no doubt in part for compassionate reasons. But also to save money. There is only one money kitty for medical care in the socialist Netherlands. When you get old, the question is asked, either explicitly or by implication: Do you deserve to live another year compared to young refugees from Somalia, who can use the same euros to have many years of life?"
That's how they look at it in the Netherlands. This is where we are headed. By the way, grab audio sound bite 16. June 24th, 2009, just last month, on ABC's Obama reality show, primetime questions for the president. One member of the audience, Jane Sturm, said, "My mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctor said to her, 'I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.' I said go for it, she said go for it, but the specialist said no, she's too old. When the other specialist saw her, saw her joy of life, so on, he said, 'I'm going for it,' that was over five years ago. My question to you is, outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who's elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?"
I can't believe somebody is actually asking this question of the president of the United States in this country, but it happened. A woman asks the president, "Would you let my mother live? Would you take into account her joy of living? Would your plan let my mother live?" Can you believe that we're even asking that question? Sadly, it was asked, and here's his answer.
OBAMA: I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.
RUSH: So maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller. All right, would we have said that to Senator Kennedy under the Obama health care plan? No. Senator Kennedy is exempt from Obama care, as are all members of Congress. And, by the way, do you know that the health care plan -- and it's a cafeteria, it's a smorgasbord of choices that congressmen and senators have, and members of the federal workforce -- do you know the government does not run those plans? Those are private plans. The government doesn't run the health care of elected officials in Washington. That's not government-run. They're not going to opt in to a government-run program. It's just not going to happen. So many things are misunderstood about health care in this country anyway.
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RUSH: Marla in Rockford, Illinois. Great to have you with us today in the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Listened to you for years and it's great to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much, same here.
CALLER: Thank you. I'm calling because I have a grandmother who's going to be 103 in August, and this past June she had a pacemaker put in because she was getting weak and pretty lethargic and very low energy, and so they put in a pacemaker, it went very smoothly. Now my grandma is very active; she lives on her own; my uncle lives above her in an apartment; she gets her hair and her nails done every week; she loves to shop, she goes shopping every week --
RUSH: A woman's a woman, doesn't matter the age.
CALLER: Yeah. She has lunch with her daughters, her granddaughters, her great-great-granddaughters and she's just in great shape. She got her bill for the pacemaker, $26,000 this past week.
RUSH: Whoa!
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Does she have insurance?
CALLER: She has a supplement to her Medicare.
RUSH: How much of the 26 grand was covered?
CALLER: You know, I don't know that. I know that my mother, the daughter, told me that it would be covered between the Medicare and her supplement.
RUSH: Now, see, this is a very interesting point here. Medicare already covers your mom. Medicare is going broke, but the promise of Medicare was that it would cover the elderly free 'til they die. That's the promise. That's going to change if Obama gets this plan because your mom, unless she had the money herself to pay for the procedure, 'cause she wouldn't be allowed to buy her own insurance policy, unless she had the money, she wouldn't get Obama's health care plan paying any of that pacemaker, because she's 103, and Obama already said about a 105-year-old woman maybe it would be better just to have her take a pain pill.
CALLER: Oh, yeah, and he wasn't listening to her because if he had listened to the woman who was describing it, he said painkiller, there is no pain. My grandma has absolutely no pain. So again another waste of money prescribing drugs --
RUSH: I know what he meant by this. He knows that there's not pain associated with a pacemaker, you're not in pain, you just die.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: What he was saying is, if you don't have a pacemaker and just wither away, like Medicare is going to wither away, Obama is going to cause it to wither on the vine, but nevertheless, what he meant by that was, look, end of life, people have these diseases, sometimes it's just better to give 'em a pain pill, loop 'em out so they don't know what's going on and let 'em just fade away, rather than spend all the money. That's what he meant by the pain pill reference. You get into advanced stages of cancer, certain kinds and you're on so many pain medications it's the only way you can survive. The pain of cancer, everybody I know that's had it is it's just unbearable, certain kinds. But he knows there's no pain with a pacemaker business. He's just, look, sometimes it's better to zone 'em out, just loop 'em out and they won't know what's going on and eventually die and we save a lot of money.
CALLER: Yeah, well, he didn't have any problem entitling himself to a date with his wife that cost over $50,000 that meant nothing to any of us, yet the lives of our seniors who are still imputing into the economy, my grandmother still pays her property taxes every year, she's still contributing, and in that interview with the woman --
RUSH: Hell, she's getting manicures and getting her hair done, don't leave that out, and she's shopping.
CALLER: And buying lunch, yeah. But, you know, he called it end of life, instead of calling it senior care, he called end of life care. And really more accurately, it's end of life termination, and he's the caller of it. My brother-in-law's nicknamed him the terminator because that's what he's going to do to them.
RUSH: Yeah. That's what the plan will do.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: And we learned yesterday that in the House bill, there are end-of-life counselors, so in the case of your grandmother, under Obamacare, they'd tell her no on the pacemaker, and then they'd send a therapist in to help her deal with the fact that the government's just sentenced her to death.
CALLER: Well, she'd probably pray for them because she's a pretty strong woman.
RUSH: She's gotta be. My grandfather lived to 104, and he worked as a lawyer 'til he was 102.
CALLER: Good for him. My grandma shows no signs of dying. We don't have any indications that maybe a couple of months or maybe a year.
RUSH: Did you hear about the guy over there in Europe? Oldest guy died at 113.
CALLER: Good for him.
RUSH: Just last week, and he said the secret to his long life was cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women. You should ask your grandmother if she has something similar to his theory.
CALLER: Well, she puts salt on absolutely everything and she loves coffee and never turns it down.
RUSH: Does she drink adult beverages?
CALLER: No, she doesn't.
RUSH: Has she ever?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Well.
CALLER: No, she's been a good Christian woman, raised all of her family --
RUSH: Hey, hey, hey, hey, a lot of Christians drink.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Nothing un-Christian about it, I mean wine is all over the Bible.
CALLER: Right. But in her time you didn't, and that's how she lived. She's a good woman.
RUSH: All right. Marla, I've enjoyed talking to you. We didn't get to her yesterday and we called her back. I'm glad you let us do that. Thank you much.
CALLER: Well, thank you.
RUSH: All right.
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LIMBAUGH: I hope he fails.
GRAHAM: Basically I think he'll fail.
DEMINT: If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.
OBAMA: Now, there's some in the -- this town who are content to perpetuate the status quo.
SHUSTER: What is the Republican plan?
ENZI: No.
WOMAN: Senator Gregg?
GREGG: No.
WOMAN: Senator Alexander?
ALEXANDER: No.
WOMAN: What will the political price for the Republican Party be if it succeeds in blocking health care reform?
LIMBAUGH: I hope he fails.
GRAHAM: Basically I think he'll fail.
DEMINT: If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.
OBAMA: This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. It's about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses, and breaking America's economy.
RUSH: Health care is doing none of that. This isn't about me, but yet I have here State-Run Media, the Associated Press: "Obama May Have to Wait for Health Care." Well, it must be about him, then. Obama may have to wait for health -- (crying) -- so sad. I'm so sad, poor Obama, he may have to wait for health care. (Crying) It's so unfair, he's an historic president and he may have to wait for health care, may have to wait. It doesn't say nation may have to wait on health care. It doesn't say people without insurance may have to wait. It says Obama may have to wait for health care, and I thought it wasn't about him. It's about Obama, not us. It's about Obama, not the doctors. It's about Obama, not your parents, it's about Obama, not your grandparents, it's about Obama, not even your children. Obama may have to wait. And he's already got the best health care he can get.
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Big government is not compassionate. Big government is destructive; big government is harmful; big government denies people life and liberty, it does not enhance it. And that's the hallmark of the Democrat-led Congress and the Obama White House. They are denying people life and liberty. They are not enhancing it, they are not compassionate, they are destroying jobs, they are destroying the place in our economy where jobs are created, the private sector. There's nothing compassionate about these people, and yet they're dragging all these people up to support their bill. "I got cancer and I want Obama's health care plan." "I've got dreaded diseases, I want Obama's plan." Let's bring some people up that have a dreaded disease who aren't going to end up being covered.
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RUSH: Nancy Pelosi, I mentioned earlier in the program, the parade of victims now, you know they're in trouble when they bring out the parade of victims. Pelosi brings out a parade of people that have cancer, "We want health care, we have cancer, we're dying, and we want health care." These are the exact people that won't get it. What the Republicans ought to do is bring out their own parade of victims who will be cut off from health care if this passes. Here is what the speaker of the House said in resorting to this page in the 30-year-old playbook.
PELOSI (sped up): Today we're going to hear real stories from real people about the impact that health care reform will have on their lives. We are joined by four Americans who have tried to work hard and play by the rules and have ended up with crushing health care costs and debts. Vernon LeCount of Freedom, Maine with tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt because of his health insurance had a waiting period and a high deductible. Molly Secours of Nashville, Tennessee whose medical debt from uterine cancer could result in foreclosure on her home. Catherine Howard of San Francisco, California, and Jacqueline Mikolos of Norwood, Massachusetts Katherine, who both beat cancer but had radically different experiences with their health insurance.
RUSH: So the parade of victims has begun, the old standard. By the way, I got the official stat here. We talk about $23 trillion to completely make the financial system solvent, somebody said that, one trillion dollars equals a million dollars a day since Christ was born. That's one trillion. You could spend a million a day, not year, multiply 2009 by 365, that's how many days. And you could spend a million dollars on each of those days and you would equal one trillion, and we're told we're outta money. What are you laughing at in there, Snerdley? Well, the parade of victims, yeah. By the way, if you're just joining us here we're speeding up Barney Frank, Pelosi, and Obama 'cause they're the ones in a hurry on this. So if they're in such a damn hurry we'll hurry up their speech to help emphasize just how hurried they are or as it's being said today, in a rush they are.
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SHARPTON: When some of us said during the election that we need to get straight on things about the black community, a lot of people called, "Nope, don't do that! You all just jealous. You all player-hatin'." You told us to shut up now he is doing exactly what he promised and you all want us to go back now and make him do something he never promised! He has not lied. He never told nobody he was going to apologize for slavery. He ain't said that now; he didn't say it last year. He never told y'all he would support reparations. He said he didn't. And you all beat us down! "You gotta support the brother. What are you taking so long for, Sharpton?"
RUSH: What's happening here, folks, is kind of fascinating. The whole point here is that Sharpton's audience in his radio talk show is getting on him because they don't think Obama is sufficiently down for the struggle. He hasn't talked about reparations, what they want, this kind of stuff. And Sharpton is saying, "Yeah, I told you so," but he's defending Obama because Obama never promised the stuff people thought they were going to get. These people really thought Obama was going to get them out of their bad houses and get them into new cars and maybe new dishwashers and so forth. It didn't happen. They want reparations. What they don't know is that Obama's entire economic program is reparations! If I were Sharpton, if I'd been guest hosting Sharpton's show and I got a call like that, somebody complaining, I'd say, "Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh. Let me tell you the truth here. Everything in the stimulus plan, every plan he's got is reparations. He gonna take from the rich. He's going to take from the rich and he's going to give it to you. It just can't happen overnight. Be patient." It's redistribution of wealth, reparations, "returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners," whatever you want to call it. It's reparations.
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RUSH: Pete Wehner's Commentary piece says it just wasn't supposed to be this hard, and I doubt anything in Obama's life really has been hard. I think he's been very charmed. In this story from the AP that Obama may have to wait for health care, listen to this quote from Obama. "There have been so many times during my political career where people have said, 'Boy, this is make or break for Obama.'" Uh, ladies and gentlemen, his career is about five minutes old. "So many times in my career," and he talks about stock market went down, "Everybody was saying, 'This is a disaster.' What I found is as long as we're making good decisions," which you're... Well, his career is five minutes old. He had 150 days in the Senate. He's never done anything. Obviously it's time for a third memoir. I mean, if his career is this extensive and he had this many challenges, it's time for the third biography. Yeah, let's start discussion a legacy. What a career, what a career, 150 days in the Senate, and rabble-rousing as a community organizer.
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RUSH: We actually have the quote or the sound bite here from last night on the CBS Evening News. Katie Couric, presiding over the lowest ratings ever in the history of CBS Evening News, despite the intro still being done by the late Walter Cronkite, interviewed Obama. She said, "There's a lot of talk about momentum right now. Of course, the first month of the presidency, that's when the political wind is with you. Are you worried, if you can't get something passed soon, that health care reform will be DOA?"
OBAMA (sped up): There have been so many times, uh, during my political career, certainly during this -- the presidential race, and even in the last six months, where people have said, "Boy, this is make-or-break, uh, for Obama." That was true when I was in Iowa, uh, and people were sure that we weren't going to win. That was true, you know, during periods in the general election. Uh, when the stock market went down, everybody was saying, "This is a disaster." And what I found is -- is that as long as we are making good decisions, thinking always, "What's going to be best for the American people," that eventually, uh, as long as we're persistent and we're listening to the American people, that things get done.
RUSH: Well, you're not listening because they don't want this. It's up over 50% now who want no part of this. "Throughout any career..." which is five minutes old. He had 150 days in the Senate, six months in the White House, some career. As I say, it's time for a third memoir. He's gotten so much done, so many hard decisions out there, so many challenges out there. Katie Couric, the exchange continued...
COURIC: Are you concerned about all that if health care reform fails it will be a huge and devastating setback to your presidency, and may put some of the rest of your agenda in peril?
OBAMA (sped up): You know, I -- I think that the easiest way to keep your poll numbers up and, uh, to garner good press is to do not that much here in this town, and not to cause a lot of controversy. Uh, and there are some people that would probably advise that that's the approach you should take. But that's not why the American people sent me here. They sent me here to solve problems.
RUSH: Yeah, that's what they thought they were sending you to do. You're causing them. You're now causing problems and it's catching up with them. People are figuring out now. He's causing this stuff. So Katie Couric finally says, "Mr. President, if the stimulus plan isn't really working, at least for now, why should Americans sign off on spending billions of dollars on health care reform?"
OBAMA (sped up): I disagree that the stimulus plan is not working. Think about what -- where we've been and since that time, we have stabilized the financial markets, we have created the ability of businesses to borrow again.
RUSH: No, no.
OBAMA (sped up): We have prevented, uh, thousands of layoffs in states all across the country.
RUSH: How can he say that?
OBAMA (sped up): Are we where we need to be? Absolutely not. Would things be much worse if we had it is not put the recovery package in place? Absolutely.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, they rescued the economy out there. So none of that's true. Think about the financial markets. You know how we stabilize financial markets? It wasn't stimulus plan. Bernanke has flooded the financial markets with dollars. And I saw the other day, if we fully bailed it out, do you realize what a myth this is? The financial markets are $23 trillion to make 'em all solvent is what somebody said it would cost. Twenty-three trillion! There haven't been a trillion hours since Christ was born. A trillion seconds, maybe. Something like that. Twenty-three trillion. Okay, so Obama you heard him say here things would be much worse if we hadn't put that recovery package in place but it was just yesterday that Barney Frank said...
FRANK (sped up): No one has ever gotten reelected where the bumper sticker said, "It Would Have Been Worse Without We." You can probably get tenure with that, but you can't win office. I understand that reality, but we should not let it distort us. And it would not, I think, hurt us every so often to admit that not every action by every public official was a bad thing, and sometimes we should give people credit for trying to cope with an unpleasant reality the best they can.
RUSH: Yeah, right. So Obama says, "Hey, it would have been much worse if we hadn't done this," and Barney Frank says, "I never knew anybody got reelected trying that ploy." Ha, ha, ha!
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RUSH: Here's Jayne in Soda Springs, Idaho hi Jayne great to have you with us.
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, ma'am.
CALLER: I appreciate that.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I'm just really glad you got to visit our state and enjoy our outdoor air-conditioning, and I'd like to invite you to come to our golf course where you can play golf right next to the wagon ruts of the old Oregon trail.
RUSH: Wow, it was beautiful. It was the first time I'd been to Idaho, I went to Coeur d'Alene.
CALLER: We're down in the mountains in the southeast corner, and it's really pretty here --
RUSH: Yeah, that would be 20 minutes away on EIB one from Coeur d'Alene, yeah, then I want to go up to what is the place, the media bigs have their meeting there every year, and John Kerry has a place up there. My good friend Mike Hartley has a place right next to John Kerry.
CALLER: Yeah, Ketchum, Idaho.
RUSH: No, not Ketchum.
CALLER: Sun Valley.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, Sun Valley.
CALLER: Sun Valley.
RUSH: Sun Valley, yeah. Another 20 minutes away on EIB from Coeur d'Alene.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Yeah, I know you didn't call about travel, so what's up?
CALLER: Okay, my question is, I think Obama is a chameleon, and the change he talks about was he changes. And I want to know, is he going to change again and move to the center for the next election, or is he just arrogant enough to think that he doesn't have to do that now and he's going to throw the Democrats under the bus?
RUSH: Which election do you mean, 2010?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Well, Obama's never been anything other than what he is. He's never been a centrist. He talked centrism all through the campaign but now we see the real Obama. He's a radical leftist. If he can do it once he can do it again. Something that's happened before can happen again much more logical than something never happening to happen. But he's done it. So he'll do whatever he has to to get this done. He will do whatever, and to save his presidency, if it means Democrats lose he might even like Republicans taking over one of these houses of Congress. I'll tell you why. Because then they get to share the blame.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: He might not mind the Democrats losing the Senate or the House. I'm sure he wouldn't prefer it but I betcha they got a plan, "Okay, good, these guys win, they're going to be culpable, too."
CALLER: Right, yes.
RUSH: They can triangulate like Clinton. In fact, you know, if they don't convince these clowns to get this done by the August recess, when they do come back, and they will come back, that's why we should not get giddy here, this is not over, this hasn't been beaten. He'll come back, "Okay we've listened, we've heard, we're going to pull this out, pull that out," and people go, "We won," and then they'll put it all back in over time with new legislation added to the overall legislation, just like we beat 'em back on the amnesty bill, but now they're going back at it piecemeal. It's the thing about the left, Jayne, I don't care, move center, move right, they're liberals. As such, they are dishonest. They do not seek to do what the people want. They hold the people in contempt. They want power over the people. They will say and do whatever. The reason that they're so just pedal to the metal liberal is because, you nailed it, they own Washington, and that makes them arrogant in public. They're not holding back, they're not denying who they are now 'cause they think they've got power back forever. And they don't. These things are always cyclical.
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RUSH: Maui. This is Laurie in Maui, Hawaii. Great to have you on the EIB Network, Laurie. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are yoooou?
RUSH: Fine. Thank you.
CALLER: I'm so glad I got through to you. (laughs) It's taken me a long time.
RUSH: It's early in Hawaii. It's ten 'til nine in the morning in the Hawaii, too.
CALLER: Of course, but it's beautiful here and you need to come over here and play golf.
RUSH: I am.
CALLER: (laughing) You'll love it.
RUSH: I'm going to be there the first week of September.
CALLER: Oh, God, take my number so I can come and talk to you. (laughing)
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: You're so smart, I love it! (laughing) You're so intelligent.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I know you've got a little bit of time with each of us on the radio but take my number so we can go have dinner. I'll take my husband. He's 91 years old and he's healthy as a champ. (laughing) My question. Actually I want to ask you something, and then give you two things to research, okay? Then give us an answer some other time.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: When Obama gets asked a hard question and he goes into that ten- or 15-minute rant that he goes on, going on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: When he first asked a question, he tries to answer it, but he can't. So he goes on about something else, and I'm totally lost in what he's talking about.
RUSH: That's the point.
CALLER: Ah!
RUSH: That's the exact point. What he's doing out there, Laurie... I'm going to ask you to give Snerdley your research questions because I've gotta get a couple sound bites in here. So don't hang up here. But, Laurie, the point of the long answers is to limit the number of questions. Not only that. It's to limit the number of questions and it's to dazzle people with his command of intricate detail. But let's note that the audience ratings for his TV press conferences are plummeting, folks. It'll be interesting to see what they are tonight. So get her two research things.
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CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Very good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: Wow. (laughing) I wanted to talk about your means of speeding up your program. I cannot understand the -- the accelerated speed that you're doing with Obama's voice and everybody else's.
RUSH: Well, I'm not doing everybody's audio. We're only speeding up Obama, Pelosi and Barney Frank -- and maybe today James Carville.
CALLER: I understand the need to save time.
RUSH: No, it has nothing to do with saving time. It's two things. These people are running at breakneck speed to force a debacle down our throat. I'm just trying to illustrate the breakneck speed -- the disastrous, dangerous speed -- with which they're proceeding on this by speeding them up. If they're in such a hurry, we'll play 'em in a hurry.
CALLER: Well, that's fine, but I can't understand what they're saying.
RUSH: Well, then, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll speed 'em up even more for you. Thank you very much, Tom. I appreciate it.
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RUSH: All right. One more thing on the speeded-up clips. We're going to stick with this, folks. And we're not doing it to save time, although it does help us do that. We're doing it for a reason. I'm not going to tell you why we're doing it. I'm just not going to tell you. We're going to do it, but if you can't understand them for some reason -- now, I'm deaf and I understand them. Of course I have a transcript in front of me, and you don't. But always know this, after every sound bite I always parse it. I always tell you what was said because I always refute what was said. So be calm. Be cool. Everything's fine.
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He is right.
The mainstream media is derelict [and/or complicict] - we don’t know who 0bama is.
We don’t have his medical records [what if he were republican?]
We don’t have his post graduate writings [what if he were republican?]
We don’t have his passport records [what if he were republican?]
And he hasn’t shown his birth cert either [what if he were republican?]
This IS the mainstream’s waterloo.
What if next administration allows only internet sources into press conferences? Would FR then be able to sue LAT et al when they “report” news? rotfl
FRANK: We're being told that we can't afford to do health care, that we can't afford to do housing, et cetera. Well, the military budget is the main reason we can't afford it. If we had not fought that foolish and destructive war in Iraq, we would have the money to pay for health care. That whole debate wouldn't happen.
RUSH: We have the money for health care in the stimulus package, Barn. We could have insured 12 million people, the poor, working poor, we could have insured 12 million people for $29 billion for one year. Chump change compared to the one trillion we spent. If this is so important, Barn -- liberals never change. They never change. Cut defense, cut defense, cut defense -- you know entitlements are over 60% of the budget? Entitlements. So Barney wasn't through. He was all revved up here, as you can tell.
FRANK: If we don't begin to curtail military spending excesses, then we will be in that bind. If we lose this fight, I give the president a great deal of credit for rallying, after we lost the -- the -- the first round, then all bets would have been off and we would have had an ever increasing military budget almost literally eating everybody else's lunch.
RUSH: There you have it, Barney Frank.
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| • CNN: Senator: Democrats 'Baffled' by President's Health Care Stance |
Pelosi says she has the votes to pass communist healthcare. On Fox News.
And Obama has a private meeting with the head of the CBO.
No doubt he was threatened.
I was listening to Rush in the car today, and I heard him play a tape of BHO at high speed. He sounded like a chipmunk, and I just assumed that Rush was having some fun. Then he did the same to Pelosi and Frank, and I began to wonder if there was more to the speed-up. It turns out that he is playing BHO, Pelosi, and Frank at high speed because of their desire to get “health care” passed FAST. It’s hilarious and brilliant, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was picked up elsewhere.
I'm sure she read the ENTIRE bill.
BHO probably told the head of the CBO to “find” the money. LOL.
Bullschiff.
If she had the votes she’d put it out there.
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