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RUSH IN A HURRY -- Obamacare Tells the Nation: Screw You!
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Posted on 02/22/2010 5:01:01 PM PST by GOP_Lady

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Monday Quotes:  Pearls of Wisdom 
February 22, 2010


 
"A year ago they were on the verge of getting the ring.
The ring was two centimeters away from the finger and now it's on the floor and they can't find it."

"The American people don't want any part of this health care bill. 
They're still going to ram this thing down our throats. 
They do not care.  It's a suicide pact.  That's all you can say this thing is."

"This is a $1 trillion plan and it's going to insure everybody that's uninsured, 31 million people now, and it's not going to add to the deficit. 
Do you believe that?  Yeah, it's magical.  It's pure magic."

"We conservatives don't need prompters.  It's in our hearts, in our minds. 
We've refined it over years and years and years of our lives."

"One year after the inauguration of Barack Obama there is a conservative ascendancy within the Republican Party,
and it needs to be encouraged, not beaten down.  It needs to be inspired. 
We need to thank them and join them, which we will continue to do here at the EIB Network." 

"Aren't you nervous when you see an individual lusting for power? 
Here's hundreds of thousands of these little people lusting for power. 
They want their hands forever on the US Treasury. 
Don't ignore the fact that it's all about money."

"I want to propose my own health care plan.  It's very simple.
The first part of my plan will pay every Senator $10 million personally to vote against this. 
I will then pay as many union chiefs as I can find $15 million each to not support this. 
I guarantee you it would be what's going to happen anyway,
and it will be a lot cheaper than going through the motions of passing this thing." 

"Do you know how many times the word tax is mentioned in Obama's health care bill? 
Thirty-five times 'tax' is mentioned in the Obama health care bill."

 
"Obamacare is an act of anger, it is an act of desperation, it is a law that soon-to-be-fired
Democrats will abandon and leave on the doorstep of the rest of the country."

"Every time I see Geraldo Rivera show up on Fox, I think somebody died."

"Honest to God, folks, I'm serious about this.  I'm not trying to be funny.
I don't think Barack Obama is psychologically grounded in reality."

"Liberals are a small minority of the country with an overwhelmingly majority of the media and
that creates the illusion that they are a majority in the country, and they're not."

"Any organization that has a straw poll vote on who the party presidential candidate
ought to be and comes up with Ron Paul is not an organization of conservatives."

"We conservatives want everybody in this nation to succeed.
We want everybody's pursuit of happiness to have fruition.
We want all of these things."

"We thought by this time we'd have a health care bill.
We would have socialized cap and trade.
We would have all of this. We don't have any of it yet! 
They can't get anything done amongst themselves."

"Conservatism is the solution. 
Conservatism is the answer for this country's problems and challenges that we face."

"The best way to insure that Obama succeeds is to think that we need a third party."

"The DC mayor is telling people to shovel their own streets. 
Meaning, the government cannot handle it. 
Yet, less than ten days later they tell them that government will deal with their health care."

"With every position advocated by Obama, Republicans ought to counter with a poll to show that a majority disapproves of it. 
With every position Republicans advocate, attach a poll to that, too."

"The American people have said 'no' to Obama's proposals, his taxes, his fines.
They have said 'yes' to free markets, capping trial attorneys, tort reform, insurance sales across state lines."

"If you believe that there's not a public option in this, you're too gullible, and besides, this is just phase one."

"How can President Obama say that he's setting up a blue ribbon committee to fix the deficit and
then make these irresponsible new spending promises?  They don't care.  They literally don't care. 
The bipartisan commission is the lie.  Obamacare is a lie. 
The country's broke and this just accelerates our already certain bankruptcy."

"Voters are not losing patience with political gridlock.  Democrats are.  
The gridlock is what is saving this country. 
Gridlock is what is preventing the Obama administration succeeding at their destructive agenda."

"Look at what they're doing with the economy: they're destroying it, all this debt. 
I mean people who are not even conceived yet, people who are not even thoughts
in their future parents' minds are in the crosshairs of this administration. 
And this is a warning bell that I, El Rushbo, having ringing and sounding here for the past year."

"All I do when I pay for my own health care is accept personal responsibility for it and not assume that you are going to pay for it for me."
  
"We now know the American people have not been transformed to a western European socialist type behavior or attitude. 
We know that the vast majority of Americans are still Americans as this nation defines Americans, as this nation was founded."

"If Mr. Obama hasn't noticed, his approval numbers are in a free fall. 
He doesn't care because they want to ram this thing through, and they think that when they do,
they will have put enough roadblocks in our way of freedom that we won't be able to stop it."

"Have you ever seen a genuine Democrat leader that's a pauper doing it for the cause? 
They do it for the cause, but these people don't want to earn their money by working. 
They get their money by taking." 

"We don't want government.  We don't want to have power over government. 
We want to deemphasize government.  We don't want to live in Washington. 
We don't want to work in government.  We don't want to become bureaucrats. 
We want to close bureaucracies.  It's an epic battle."

"We stand for taking care of ourselves, personal responsibility, all of these things. 
We're the ones that are said to be out of touch because of that. 
It happens to me every time I mention buying something without getting the money from you to do it."

"Truth be told, Obama would love to have the Republicans run one of those houses
so he can blame them literally for everything that doesn't get done. 
He wants to blame the Republicans now even though there's nothing they can do, or wasn't until Scott Brown, to stop it."

Continually repeat ...

It's not about me.
I'm the President.

Past editions of "Rush In a Hurry"

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Obama Unveils Health Care Plan:  A Defiant "Screw You" to Nation
It's a suicide pact they intend to ram down your throat.
February 22, 2010

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 
 
RUSH:  It's a suicide pact.  I mean that's all you can say this thing is.  They don't care.  They know Harry Reid is going to go down in flames, they know Obama is going to go down in flames in 2012, they don't care.  His approval number is down to 45% in Rasmussen.  It's minus-19 on the strongly approve, strongly disapprove Rasmussen graph.  The American people don't want any part of this.  They're still going to ram this thing down our throats.  They do not care.  Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB Network and a brand-new week of broadcast excellence.  Great to have you here.  It's 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.  The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

I've been trying to gather as much information on this stupid thing as I can.  And, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I somewhat feel responsible for what's happening today because it was I and I alone, who, for a year said, "Where the hell is his plan?  He doesn't have a plan!"  He's letting Reid go down with the ship and he's letting Pelosi go down with the ship over in the House and the Senate, but he hasn't put his name to any plan, where's his plan?  Well, he's got a plan now, and it's still not a piece of legislation.  It's just a bunch of outline and overview things.  The reason I flunked speech is because I didn't do outlines in college.  I gave every speech, but I didn't outline them, so I got an F. They should have called the course Outline 101.  Well, Obama obviously passed it because he's got an outline here, a proposal.  Let me go through some of this stuff for you.  They were going to bring this back, they're threatening reconciliation.  Folks, this is a monster.  The first seven pages are a summary, and it's all Robin Hood, it's all Robin Hood, then it gets ugly. 

It's the fourth quarter.  We got two minutes, he's down 13 and Peyton Manning is hurt.  This thing is going to get uglier and uglier.  Do you realize, this line's actually in it:  "The president's proposal provides that it --" (interruption) yes, I'm going to get to CPAC, Snerdley.  We're not even three minutes in.  I haven't brought it up so you think I'm going to forget about it?  No.  This proposal is actually in this president's outline.  "The president's proposal provides that, if necessary, funds will be transferred to the Social Security trust fund to ensure that they are held harmless by the proposal."  That's an admission it's going to fail, so they're trying to create another revenue stream here.  So what that means is if Social Security goes broke, revenue from health care taxes will be transferred.  Oh, by the way, do you realize Obama didn't wait for the CBO.  This is a $1 trillion plan, and, you know what?  It's going to insure everybody that's uninsured, 31 million people now, and it's not going to add to the deficit.  Do you believe that?  Yeah, it's magical.  It's pure magic.  It's going to cover everybody that's not covered. 

He's going to really choke those insurance companies, too.  The federal government is going to take over setting their rates and make sure everybody gets covered, spend a trillion dollars -- didn't he just have these two clowns come out, deficit commission last week, reduce spending commission?  And he comes up the following week, hey, here's my $1 trillion plan, doesn't add to the deficit, insures everybody.  We got a panacea here.  Now, how would you like to be "Irksome" Bowles and Alan Simpson Babe as they go into this thing now?  By the way, Ben Nelson's deal is not survived but Mary Landrieu's does.  Yes, it does.  The Louisiana Purchase survives on the Obama plan.  And, of course, the sycophant media is playing right along: "This is the big week."   
 
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to propose my own health care plan.  It's very simple.  I don't know what the health plan details are.  I'll get to those later.  But the first part of my plan will pay every Senator $10 million personally to vote against this.  I will then pay as many union chiefs as I can find $15 million each to not support this.  I guarantee you it would be what's going to happen anyway, and it will be a lot cheaper than going through the motions of passing this thing.  Do you know how many times the word tax is mentioned in Obama's health care bill?  Thirty-five times "tax" is mentioned in the Obama health care bill.  So, yeah, Ben Nelson is hung out to dry here.  "Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid."  The public option's not in it but what I just read essentially says that it is.  If you believe that there's not a public option in this, you're too gullible, and besides, this is just phase one. 

Now, it also will increase "the threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and start it in 2018 for all plans."  It's 2010, right?  2018.  Nobody's fingerprints on this thing are going to be around for you to punish.  They're all going to be gone.  Louisiana Purchase stands, at least the way I read it.  There's more, ladies and gentlemen.  Obama's plan would set a national eligibility threshold for Medicaid, the federal state insurance program for low-income Americans at 133% of poverty, the Senate preference, rather than 150% of the federal poverty level as proposed by the House.  So under the White House proposal states would get 100% federal funding for any newly eligible Medicaid participants for four years, from 2014 to 2017.  So the states are being incentivized to go higher and go sign up wards of the state.  Now, there's no public option, right?  They're big-time touting no public option.  But listen to this provision.  "Under the White House proposal states would get 100% federal funding --" and remember, now, this isn't going to add to the deficit.  We get 100% federal funding for any newly eligible Medicaid participants for four years, from 2014 to 2017, with 95% reimbursement the following two years and 90% after that.  Folks, I mean we're talking dead on bankruptcy here, national bankruptcy. 

We're talking about bankrupting the country.  Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, are broke, there is no Social Security trust fund anymore anyway.  That's why he's talking about refunding it, none of this is sustainable.  Expanding any of this is sheer madness.  Promising to fund Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, is a lie.  We don't have the money.  And as I asked mere moments ago in a very brilliant way, how can President Obama say that he's setting up a blue ribbon committee to fix the deficit and then make these irresponsible new spending promises?  They don't care.  They literally don't care.  The bipartisan commission is a lie.  Obamacare is a lie.  The country's broke, and this just accelerates our already certain bankruptcy.  The State-Controlled Media are saying: "Obama's bill helps cover 31 million Americans."  Sorry, it mandates coverage with the threat of a fine or a tax.  It coerces coverage.  This is raw, bare-knuckled, government power, fines for not buying Obamacare, unconstitutionality throughout this thing.  Thank you, Professor Obama.   
 
BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: By the way, from the Los Angeles Times, this is from yesterday, headline really says it all:  "White House adjusts strategy on Republicans -- The Obama administration aims to put members of the GOP on the spot, forcing them to compromise on issues or be portrayed as obstructionists." That's the health care summit Thursday at Blair House.  Is there any reason now to go to this thing?  Somebody help me out here.  Is there any reason for the Republicans to trudge up there and appear at this thing?  Obama's plan, he put it out there.  And, look, everybody knew from the get-go this is designed to make the Republicans look like the obstructionists. The Democrats cannot get anything passed in the House and the Senate, and they have all the Democrats they need in the House to do it, and they had all the Democrats in the Senate, they couldn't get it done, so now they want to shift blame to the Republicans, and the Republicans are being advised by people, "You can't reject the invitation to the president, you really gotta go to the White House." 

Boehner, I think, there's a letter he released this morning questioning why they should go now.  I don't know what the status of it is, but here it is:  "As voters lose patience with political gridlock --" They are not losing patience. That's another story that's being spun.  Folks, the American voter loves the gridlock right now.  The gridlock is what is saving this country.  Gridlock is what is preventing the Obama administration succeeding at their destructive agenda.  Voters are not losing patience with political gridlock.  Democrats are.  "-- the Obama administration is embarking on a strategy aimed at putting Republicans on the spot: Either participate in bipartisan exchanges initiated by the president, or be portrayed as the party of obstruction."  You may as well be portrayed as the party of obstruction because you can't stop 'em anyway.  I mean you can I guess now with Scott Brown over in the Senate.  I'll tell you what, this is no slam-dunk.  They just made it by three votes in the House on the Pelosi version of this.

We're getting closer and closer to November and these Blue Dogs over there, the Democrat Party, people are dropping like flies, and I'm not sure they're going to get this passed out of the House this time.  You would think they'll do it, but where's Pelosi?  You talk about going underground, you talk about low profile, where's Pelosi?  We haven't seen her, and we haven't seen Dingy Harry except when he was trying to act like he wasn't at the Obama town hall.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, I want to look at the Democrats here as a couple of parents, in a way.  You people know that having children will not save dysfunctional marriages.  It just doesn't work.  And to the Democrats, passing Obamacare will not save you.  It is going to destroy you!  It is a suicide pact.

Troubled marriages become more troubles when new responsibilities are added to couples who are already prone to anger and disagreement -- and, frankly, hate each other.  Obamacare is not being conceived by a bunch of happy people who are likely to stay together, folks.  This health care plan has been prepared in anger. This health care plan's been prepared in defiance. This health care plan is being revived to ram it down your throat and my throat and everybody's throats. The purpose of this health care plan is for them to show you who the hell is boss and you think that they think that you are respected. No!  They think you are stupid and they're going to ram this down your throat regardless.  There's not happiness, there is no joy. There is nothing that is positive about the conception of this health care plan.  This November the American people are going to impose a divorce decree on the very Democrats plotting to conceive a bill that will destroy private health insurance, a bill that will grow up to become a doomed single-payer, government-owned and operated, rationed health care system.

The Democrats are giving birth to every movie monster you have ever seen, from Freddy Krueger to... Hell, I can't remember them all.  Every movie monster ever, the Democrats are conceiving it.  They are not happy with themselves. They're in a series of rapid divorces. They're angry. They're throwing the kitchen sink at each other -- and to try to help themselves out, they are now conceiving a health care plan.  Obamacare is an act of anger, it is an act of desperation, it is a law that soon-to-be-fired Democrats will abandon and leave on the doorstep of the rest of the country.  It's a bill with no visible means of support.  We're getting a total deadbeat offspring of the Democrats here. It has no visible means of support or love. Nobody's going to love this bill. Nobody's going to have any support for it. It's going to be an unwanted, unloved bill, dependent on the expanding bankrupt government.  What could possibly go wrong here?  What could possibly go wrong?  This bill, while it is right now just an unviable tissue mass which has zero humanity in it, needs to be aborted.  I've always been pro-choice.  I've always chosen life, except in this case.  This bill needs to die.  This bill's being conceived by the most unhappy bunch of parents.  It's a bill conceived in grievance and anger and desperation and defiance and an attitude of "Screw you!" to us.  
 
BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I thought we were going to "laser-like focus on jobs"? Honest to God, folks, I'm serious about this. I'm not trying to be funny. I don't think Barack Obama is psychologically grounded in reality.  I'm not a professional in this regard, but something here just isn't right.  And it's frightening.  It's really, really scary.  I've been "axing" people about this on the break, if I should go further on this.  Some people think I should explore it, and I'll keep "axing."  You'll never get to what you really need to know if you stop "axing." "Axing" is -- unless you're talking about wiping somebody out, "axing" is -- how you express your curiosity.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

 This is Obama this morning on the National Governors Association. He's making a speech. He's so proud of his suicide health care plan that he barely even mentions it.

OBAMA:  As governors, I know you feel the same responsibilities to see the people we serve through difficult times --

RUSH:  Yeah?

OBAMA:  -- and I know you share my feelings that we've also got responsibility to think beyond the crisis and build an economy that works for our future, to tackle some problems and barriers that have held us back and to secure our rightful place as the preempt economy in the Twenty-First Century.

RUSH: (signing)

OBAMA: That's why we've taken up the cause better health care that works for people, our businesses, and our governments like.

RUSH:  Okay. (singing) Everlasting love! 
 
END TRANSCRIPT

Read the Background Material...
Sweetness & Light: Obama's Healthcare Proposal - Overview
AP: Obama puts Forward $1 Trillion Health Care Plan
The Hill: Obama Healthcare Plan Nixes Ben Nelson's 'Cornhusker Kickback' Deal
The Plum Line: White House: If GOP Filibusters, We'll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation
Rep John Boehner: President's Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit, Doubles Down on Failed Approach Americans Have Already Rejected
Los Angeles Times: White House adjusts strategy on Republicans

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Flashback:  Barry Mocked McCain's Blue-Ribbon Commission Proposal
Sept. 2008:  "The oldest Washington stunt in the book."
February 22, 2010

Sen. Obama:  McCain is "Passing the Buck"
 
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 
 
RUSH: this blue ribbon commission business, this is kind of fun.  Let's go to the audio sound bites.  During the campaign, Obama ridiculed McCain's idea for a fiscal commission, a blue ribbon commission, to study our debt.  McCain proposed it, too, and Obama, September 16th, 2008, in Golden, Colorado, said...

OBAMA:  This morning, instead of offering up concrete plans to solve these issues, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book:  You pass the buck to a commission to study the problem.  (laughter) Here's the thing.  This isn't 9/11.  We know how we got into this mess.  What we need now is leadership that gets us out.  (cheers and applause) I'll provide it, John McCain won't, and that's the choice for Americans in this election.

RUSH:  Okay.  So September 16th, 2008, it's the oldest Washington stunt in the book, you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem.  Here's Obama last Thursday.

OBAMA:  Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible.  They're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as cochairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  I'm asking them to produce clear recommendations on how to cover the costs of all federal programs by 2015 and to meaningfully improve our long-term fiscal picture.

RUSH:  It's the oldest Washington stunt in the book and just a year and a half ago, Barry Obama was ridiculing it. 
 
END TRANSCRIPT

Read the Background Material...
BusinessWeek: Obama Creates Bipartisan Fiscal Panel to Tackle Debt
Politico: Obama Dismisses McCain Commission as 'Stunt'

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"Ax" Not What Your Country...
Listen closely to our "clean," "articulate" young president.
February 22, 2010
 
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RUSH: Let's go back to the audio sound bites, and I just want to play this for your entertainment.  This is this morning at the White House, President Obama addressing the National Governors Association.  Ah, just a small portion of what he had to say here.

OBAMA:  As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds we will "ax" all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college and career ready in reading and math.

RUSH:  Did you catch that?  You missed it.  See, you're listening to the substance here, you missed this.  Play it again, Mike.

OBAMA:  As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds we will "ax" all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college and career ready in reading and math.

RUSH:  This is what Harry Reid was talking about. Obama can turn on that black dialect when he wants to and turn it off.  The president of the United States just said here:  "As a condition of receiving --" I wonder if this was on the teleprompter?  Did somebody put this on the prompter?  "As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds we will 'ax' all states."  Who is he trying to reach out to here, the Reverend Jackson?  The Obama criticizer?  Now, if I use the word "ax" for the rest of the day am I going to get beat up and creamed for making fun of this clean, crisp, calm, cool new articulate president?  Maybe we should do it and see what happens.  I'll "ax" my advisors, and I might even "ax" Governor "Coomo" as the Reverend Jackson pronounced his name.   
 
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Stacy, Our Health Insurance Guru
Our insurance analyst goes through the health care bill.
February 22, 2010
 
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RUSH: I want to go to Stacy now, who is on hold from Georgia. Stacy, it's great that you got back in again.  I'm glad to hear from you.

CALLER:  Dittos, Rush!  How are you?

RUSH:  Very well.  Thank you.

CALLER:  Well, listen, I printed off this monstrosity. At least it didn't take me 2,000 pages, but I printed it off about an hour ago and have been flipping through it, and I could go for hours on this, but my general sense overarching: The very largest and very strongest private health insurers will survive maybe ten years under this plan.  Let me explain to you why.  We talked last time about HSAs.

RUSH:  Yeah. Let's define the term: Health Savings Accounts. Right.

CALLER:  Exactly.  This, quote, unquote, "plan" virtually eliminates HSAs. It will eliminate HRAs, Health Reimbursement Accounts, and some of the FSA provisions as well.  It also makes a mockery of this nonsense that you get to keep your plan if you want it.  So, sorry.  But if you look --

RUSH:  This is what I mean.  Stacy, this guy is not grounded in reality.  There's not a soul in the world that believes they're going to be able to keep their plan.  There's no need for this if you get to keep your plan.  If there's no government or public option -- which is also BS. This is one scary bill. It just scary.  We have somebody who is not grounded in reality.  He's living in his own world.

CALLER:  Well, and he certainly knows nothing about health insurance.  If you look at --

RUSH:  He doesn't know anything about anything, Stacy!

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH:  This is the point.  He's a community irritator, agitator. He doesn't know diddly-squat. All he knows is what Harvard taught him which apparently also included how to say "ax."

CALLER:  Please don't do that. (giggles)  That gets on my nerves.  Oh, please don't do that.  Anyway, let's talk about there's a paragraph on page three: "Strengthen Oversight of Insurance Premium Increases."

RUSH:  Yeah?

CALLER:  Basically the feds and the state are going to have the ability to tell insurance companies what they can charge for premiums.  But, if you look in the extended consumer protections against self-insure practices provision, you'll see that we'll be required to cover adult dependents up to age 26, apparently without any student regulations or anything to that effect. So you could theoretically have a 26-year-old with three children who's married still be on my insurance plan because she's under 26.

RUSH:  Right.  But the point --

CALLER:  We also have no annual or lifetime lapses.  I'm sorry, I lost it.  Where did it go?

RUSH:  Let me step in here because you're an insurance agent. What that all means is... By the way, is it "insur-ance" or "IN-surance"?  How do you prefer it be pronounced? 

CALLER:  I am an insurance business analyst.  What I do is I compare. I take the business requirements and determine how to automate those through computers.

RUSH:  Okay, "insur-ance" analyst.

CALLER:  Yeah.

RUSH:  Now, what occasion the government is forcing insurance companies to ensure all of these people regardless of preexisting conditions and then on the back end of that is going to tell 'em what they can't charge?  Your first comment rings true: This is a disguised attempt to wipe 'em out.  The only question is: How long is it going to take.

CALLER:  I think it will be ten years. Like I said, for the largest companies it will be ten years.  Now, let's also talk about Med Advantage.  You know, the "gator aid" was exempting Florida from the Med Advantage revocation.  Over on page eight, the first paragraph, you'll see where Obama (or Emanuel or whoever wrote this nonsense) said that Med Advantage is "a very profitable line of business."  I don't know what fantasyland that person's living in.  We barely make enough to cover expenses on our Med Advantage plans.

RUSH:  By the way, you should know: Stacy retreats to one of the few remaining phone booths in America to make this phone call.

CALLER:  (giggling) But I mean it's just insane.  It's craziness what he's talking about.  So one: We don't make a lot of money for it.  But then he turns around and says that they're going to force us to go to fee-for-service reimbursement rates.  So let me explain to you what that is.  A fee for service is where you tell the doctor, "I'm going to pay you $20 for an office visit."  Okay? That fee for service.

RUSH:  Who's telling the doctor? The insurance company's telling the doctor that or the government?

CALLER:  Well, that's the government's Medicare plan. 
 
RUSH:  Okay.

CALLER:  That's what they do, okay?

RUSH:  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

CALLER:  So what we do in our networks -- we have networks, we have providers -- we say, "You know, it costs you $50 generally to do a visit. How about if we pay $45 so you'll be in-network and you'll get a lot more people." The government, the reason they created Med Advantage to begin with was that providers were not taking Medicare.  A Medicare patient could not get a visit because the fee for service was so ridiculously low, it wasn't worth it.  So they created Med Advantage in large part to get access to our provider network.

RUSH:  So they're just making it worse? They got a problem be the working they come up with a solution that just makes it worse?

CALLER:  Well, now, Rush, Med Advantage has been very successful in access for these seniors, particularly ones with preexisting conditions.

RUSH:  It wouldn't... My point is -- Stacy, I love you and your expertise here; I really do, and I enjoy hearing from you on the guts of this stuff.  But let's take what you just said: Med Advantage.  Why did we need it?  We needed it because a previous government attempt to make something work didn't.

CALLER:  Yes, sir.

RUSH:  So we didn't need Med Advantage. We needed Get the Government Out!

CALLER:  I agree.

RUSH:  Get the person who's screwing it up out of the equation, out of the assembly line.

CALLER:  I agree.

RUSH:  Get it out of there.  We're just adding more and more and more and more to it.  And I think at some point, whereas -- you know, this is your business, this is your nuts and bolts -- you have to look at the specifics of this on the scary idea that it passes.  But somebody like I, oriented toward defeating it, can't get bogged down in the minutia here.

CALLER: I'm sorry.

RUSH:  No, no, no, no, no, no, no.  Please, I am not being critical.

CALLER:  Well, let me bring you up a bit then. How about that?

RUSH:  You're doing great. I'm personally going to attack the ideology of this and the basic structure and the premise behind it, and screw the details.  But go ahead.  In fact, let me take a break here because I do want to hear more of what you have to say about it because this is the best way I will have. I'd much rather listen to you than have to read this crap. Hang on. 
 
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RUSH:  Back to Stacy in Georgia.  She is an insurance analyst, and she's giving us her lowdown, the first-glance look at the plan Obama actually posted at WhiteHouse.gov today.  Welcome back, Stacy.

CALLER:  Hey, Rush, have you read page five yet?

RUSH:  Like I told you, I can't read this stuff.  I know the first seven pages are like a Robin Hood summary, and then it really gets ugly.  Tell us about page five.

CALLER:  Listen to this sentence:  "The President's Proposal builds on those provisions by incorporating a number of additional proposals that are either part of the Administration's FY 2011 Budget Proposal or were included in Republican plans."  It says that!

RUSH:  Well, I've heard that.  They're trying to incorporate some so-called Republican shreds of proposals in this to try to get the bipartisanship to play out.

CALLER:  Okay, well --

RUSH:  It's BS.

CALLER:  Let me tell you why I'm reading page five.  This is where all the databases come into play.  And if you read page five, you'll see that anybody who is participating in a federal health program see your insurance exchanges which, by the way, is not fleshed out at all in this document, that means that every claim that is submitted on your behalf is going to go into this database, and supposedly they're going to use it to look for fraud and abuse, quote, unquote.

RUSH:  Hm-hm.

CALLER:  So all you privacy lover advocates out there, good luck with that.  And they also have a nifty little provision about limiting Medicaid -- now, mind you they want to expand Medicaid to cover everybody, but they're going to limit drug access, high cost drugs are going to be looked at and denied.  So I'm floored, Rush. 

RUSH: You can't possibly be floored, Stacy, you had to expect this.

CALLER:  Well, I expected it, but not in such an idiotic -- I mean, my 12th grader could write better than this.  I mean it is so full of internal contradictions you can't process it all.  I'm wasting my lunch break sitting here reading this nonsense --

RUSH:  Stacy.  I mean, I hate to be doctor reality here, but they don't care what you think.

CALLER:  I know they don't.

RUSH:  They don't care what you think of the contents, they don't care what you think of the structure, they don't care whether a 12-year-old could grade it, read it, or otherwise.

CALLER:  But, Rush, they've got me in the crosshairs.  That's another thing that's really griping me about this is, is that my company employs about 15,000 people all told.  If this goes through, that's 15,000 people that would have no jobs and we are a high-tech industry, believe it or not, health insurance is a very high-tech industry.  It pays extraordinarily well for the technical expertise and they've got me in the crosshairs, and I just don't know what to say.  Although I will say this.  I certainly hope one of these Republicans who's going to go traipsing up there and try to play the bipartisan nonsense realizes, he's saying that their proposals are in here, but in looking at it, I haven't seen one yet except the tax break for people who buy their own insurance.  That's it.

RUSH:  Yeah.  And that won't survive when they take this to legislation.

CALLER:  Oh, no.

RUSH:  'Cause what you're reading from is not legislation.  It's just an outline, it's just a suggestion.  It's basically just so Obama can say, "Here's my plan. People say I don't have a plan, I've always had a plan, here it is."
 
 
CALLER:  Next time you say something, just think, maybe we don't want him to have a plan because this takes the worst of the House --

RUSH:  I didn't -- (crosstalk)

CALLER:  -- into one.

RUSH:  I didn't want him to have a plan, I was pointing out that he didn't have a plan.

CALLER:  I know, I know.

RUSH:  Stacy.

CALLER:  I love you, Rush.

RUSH:  Stacy.  You are not the only person in the crosshairs.  My point is we all are.

CALLER:  Exactly.

RUSH:  We're all in the crosshairs.  This man and his administration are gunning for everybody who has had --

CALLER:  Oh, yeah.

RUSH:  -- success, wants to have success, and they want to shut down, you know, Fairness Doctrine, radio, TV, they want to do these kinds of things. Look at what they're doing with the economy, they're destroying it, all this debt.  I mean even people who are not even conceived yet, people who are not even thoughts in their future parents' minds are in the crosshairs of this administration.  And this is a warning bell that I, El Rushbo, having ringing and sounding here for the past year.

CALLER:  Well, Rush, guess what?  Part of the -- where I'm talking about they're getting rid of the HSAs, they have an interesting phrase that says: "prohibit discrimination in favor of highly compensated individuals."  Now, I don't know who's discriminated against based on somebody else's paycheck, but I have a feeling that when that gets into legislation you're going to see some really ugly stuff going on.

RUSH:  Of course you know what that means.

CALLER:  No, I don't.  Tell me.  What does it mean?

RUSH:  It means the rich are going to stop getting all the good stuff. This is income redistribution.  This is returning the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, rightful owners.  This is a civil rights bill.  This is reparations, whatever you want to call it.

CALLER:  But, Rush, you know, I know insurance policies.  We have nothing whatsoever, no benefit structure based on what somebody's annual salary is.

RUSH:  Exactly!  It's why this is not about health care, Stacy, it's about income redistribution and class envy and getting people who can't read this to think it's going to be good for them because rich people are going to get stuck again.  I gotta go.  I'm over time.  But I'm glad you called.  Don't doubt me. 
 
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RUSH: Steve in Lafayette, Louisiana, as we go back to the phones.  It's great to have you here.  Hello, sir.

CALLER:  Oh, what an honor.  I love this show, Rush.  You got a business analyst for the insurance companies whose sole purpose is to maximize profit for the insurance, telling us how to run health care.  I love it.

RUSH:  Well, I'm glad you saw it that way.

CALLER:  I called to tell you, I finally agree with you.  I mean it's been a long time since I have agreed with you, ten years.  And I agree, the Republicans should not show up to the health care conference, absolutely not.

RUSH:  Oh, really?  Share with me your wisdom in arriving at this conclusion.

CALLER:  Well, they have no ideas to present there, they will embarrass themselves absolutely again.  The only thing they have is the Rush Limbaugh cash payment plan for health care, and they also have medical savings plan, which a --

RUSH:  Let me see -- (crosstalk)

CALLER:  -- $35,000 a year --

RUSH:  Here we go.

CALLER:  -- never save enough money --

RUSH:  Steve.

CALLER:  -- for surgery.

RUSH:  Steve, nice try, may man, but you just crossed the line out there.  All I do when I pay for my own health care is accept personal responsibility for it and not assume that you are going to pay for it for me.  All I do is not be a burden to my fellow citizens, and you have just told me that's not an idea.  By the way, the Republicans will never propose that.  They don't have the guts that I have.  But they would never propose that and they haven't proposed that.  What we're trying to do is reduce costs, Steve.  Obama's plan doesn't.  It's sad, because you're smart enough to make, you know, smart-alecky jokes, you ought to be smart enough to figure out that you are unwittingly participating in the destruction of this country by supporting this stuff.  But the day when we arrive at the point where somebody taking care of him or herself without being a burden on anybody else, is not good or is outta touch, or is a problem, then we really do have a problem.  And I fear that we're there, Steve.  I fear that we are there.  But we're not going to give up.  I still am going to continue to work on trying to persuade people like you.  And trust me, despite Obama's efforts here, I'm not quitting until everybody agrees with me, and that includes you.  
 
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Rep John Boehner: President's Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit, Doubles Down on Failed Approach Americans Have Already Rejected
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The Latest from General Powell
And he's supposed to be the prototypical Republican?
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH: As you all know, the prototype Republican (according to inside-the-Beltway Democrats) is General Colin Powell.  General Powell, the prototypical Republican, strategic endorsed Obama for president at a time designed to hurt McCain the most after telling us that John McCain was the perfect candidate for the Republican Party: Moderate, willing to work with the Democrats across the aisle and all of that.  So General Powell was on with Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, yesterday, who said, "Do you think the political system is broken?"

POWELL:  The American people I think see the extreme positions being taken -- too left on the Democratic side, too far right on the Republican side. Uh, the tea party movement has also now become a force in American politics.  So our system is not broken.  It's a great system but it's in some disarray right now, and the American people are looking for their leaders to fix it.  They're looking for the White House to fix it, and they're looking for leaders in both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, in the House and Senate to start finding ways to compromise and get the country moving and not just scream at each other.

RUSH:  Okay, there we go: The typical inside the Beltway state of mind.  When liberals are not getting what they want done, somehow the system is broken!  System isn't broken. They're just a minority, a small minority but they got a Big Media on their side.  So let's see here.  It's in disarray.  "The American people are looking for their leaders to fix it, they're looking for the White House..." No.  General Powell, the American people understand the White House is who's breaking it.  The White House and the Democrat Party have already broken it.  We don't want them to be part of the equation.  They don't fix things.  The American people are rejecting the Democrat Party.  The American people are rejecting Barack Obama.  The Republican Party isn't doing anything.  They don't have the votes to do anything.  The next question: "Well, regardless of who is right and who is wrong..." Of course, see, that doesn't matter.  In the Beltway it doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong. Just: Do you agree and support liberals?  Question here: "Regardless who's right and who's wrong, the critics, especially Republicans, are having a field day with what's going on right now. The CPAC conference, this is the conservative group that met in Washington this week, your fellow Republicans."

POWELL:  I would caution my Republican friends that he's got three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a "socialist" taking over the country.  Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system?  That's kind of absurd.  And, in fact, you're seeing through the tea party movement and to what the Republicans are doing that no one person can -- can change the country that way.

RUSH:  Okay, so General Powell here is warning conservatives that Obama has three years left and to try to destroy him and call him a socialist, is not right.  The question I think is not properly framed.  His question:  "Have we lost faith in this country so that we think one person, one man can suddenly change our entire system?"  It's kind of absurd.  We have one man that's trying, and he's gotta whole political party behind him, General Powell.  And right now, General Powell (ahem) I'm not sure, but I don't think you're doing anything to stop it.  I haven't heard you criticize any of this.  In fact, you said, General Powell, that this is what the American people wanted: Bigger government, higher taxes.  It doesn't look to me like that's what they want, now that they find out that's what they're going to get.  I don't see you criticizing any of this.  He's got tea party people on his mind, however. He's mentioned it in these two bites.  We have one more.  Schieffer said, "The former vice president almost on a weekly basis has said something about the president's putting the nation's security at risk.  He talked about 'dithering.'  He talked about how we should still have the option of using waterboarding if necessary when we catch these guys.  Are we less safe?  Has Obama made this country less safe?"

POWELL:  The Transportation Security Administration created by George Bush is still in action working our airports.  The Director of National Intelligence was created by President Bush and it is still, under President Obama, working hard.  Counterterrorism authorities and forces are hard to work. Our law enforcement officials are hard to work.  We have gone after the enemy in Afghanistan with 50,000 more troops. We have continued the policies that President Bush put in place with respect to, uhh, Iraq, and so I don't know where the claim comes that we are less safe.

RUSH:  Did I really just hear that?  So Mirandizing the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber, bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York at a $200-million-a-year-for-security-only trial, having this new Muslim outreach guy that spoke up in favor of Sami Al-Arian (who's been convicted of raising money for the Islamic Jihad while he was teaching at Florida Atlantic University, or some south Florida university).  He denied that he spoke out for the guy, then said, "Oh, you know, I just remembered I did vouch for the guy once. " Why do we need "Muslim outreach"?  I thought Obama was the guy to do that?  The Fort Hood shooting. This lunatic professor was so into Obama and you still not read that she's a Democrat, Amy Bishop. We had the attempted terrorism at Fort Dix in New Jersey. We had the routing and the death at the recruitment center in Arkansas. 

What am I missing here?  We didn't have any of this stuff going on when George W. Bush was in office -- and, by the way, just because he's still got people filling these offices is not enough. We don't know that these people have the slightest clue what they're doing.  We don't know if these people think that terrorism is our fault.  The odds are they do if they're part of Obama's team.  We deserve to be hit, General Powell.  Democrats have said that! Because we are stealing all the world's resources and terrorism are poor. Terrorists are poor because of us and we support Israel.  They have a right to be mad, and we should understand why they're mad.  That's the kind of people running these positions now.  This Brennan guy? A lot of people have accountants but they steal sometimes.  Just because you got the position filled doesn't necessarily mean it's good. So anyway, there's your prototypical Republican, General Powell.  
 
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What I Would've Said at CPAC
There's no doubt:  The two parties are NOT the same.
February 22, 2010

VIDEO:  2009:  Rush's First TV Address to the Nation 

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RUSH: No, Snerdley. Look, I'm going to get to it.  I got an e-mail just in time ago, "Would you stop being mean to Snerdley?"  Hey, e-mailer! Snerdley should stop interrupting me.  He's not the host.  I am.  All I'll tell you is that any organization that has a straw poll vote on who the party presidential candidate ought to be and comes up with Ron Paul is not an organization of conservatives.  I just tell you.  Something's haywire there.  I know the Ron Paul people go in there, but they had been attendees to get in there.  Ron Paul winning a straw poll at a conservative conference?

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RUSH: Geraldo Rivera Saturday night.  Every time I see Geraldo I think somebody died, when he shows up on Fox.  They're doing a show, Geraldo at large on the Fox News Channel.

RIVERA:  It turns out that last year's CPAC keynote speaker, Rush Limbaugh, was ahead of the political curve when he dared to say then what other conservatives now openly embrace.

RUSH:  That is failure, Obama failure.  You know, Mitt Romney was talking about it.  So there's Geraldo saying I was a year ahead of the curve.  The Grim Reaper! The Grim Reaper actually has me in my proper place: A year ahead of the curve.  He's Margaret Carlson. This is Friday night on Bloomberg's Political Capital, Albert Hunt said, Margaret, "Were you excited by Marco Rubio?"

CARLSON:  He was exciting everyone there.  He was this year's Rush Limbaugh.  He's the first candidate to tap into the tea party movement but still be a, you know, sensible kind of insider.

RUSH:  And Saturday night on CNN's Newsroom, the political editor Mark Preston said this about CPAC and me.

PRESTON:  We saw Glenn Beck just speak behind us. Not quite the speech that Rush Limbaugh gave last year that a lot of people said really helped kick off conservatives. It really gave him a kick in the pants, so to speak, as they moved forward through the year.

RUSH:  So I wanted to get those out of the way. I'll talk about CPAC later in the program. 
 
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RUSH: Okay, so I made my comment last hour that if the Conservative Political Action Conference that ends ups with a straw poll vote saying that Ron Paul is the nominee of the party for president, something's gone haywire there. That's not a conservative conference.  People said, "What would you have said if you were there? What would you have said?"  Folks, that's hard to know. I don't know what I would have said.  I didn't know what I was gonna say last year 'til I was driving into town from the airport.  I never plan these things.  That's why I don't like 'em, because I'm afraid, "What if I don't come up with something to talk about?"  You know, "What if I'm five minutes away and I still don't know what I'm going to say?"  I mean, that's sheer panic, 'cause I cannot write a speech, I just can't.  My brain stops working when I write.  But since people have asked me, I have given it some thought, and I would have used CPAC this year for the incredible opportunity it was. 

Last year I spoke there and I said, "I hope he fails," and I explained what that meant, and everybody knew, and everybody agreed.  And I said, "Don't be afraid to join me in hoping he fails, because we're trying to save the country."  I took some time to explain, during my First Televised Address to the Nation, who we conservatives are, how we have been aligned, what our wishes and desires are for the American people.  We want everybody to succeed. We want everybody's pursuit of happiness to have fruition. We want all of these things.  One year later, the Democrat Party is on the run!  One year later, the ship of the Democrat Party is about to run aground, and the rats are jumping off of it.  One year later, the Republicans win the Ted Kennedy seat.  In less than a year, the Republicans won governorships in New Jersey and in Virginia. 

This would have been, in my estimation, an occasion to keep building these people up, to keep inspiring them, the people who are making this happen.  Because the people who are making it happen are us, all of you: The average, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, finally refusing to put up with this.  You have taken the lead.  I would have simply urged you to keep going and do it with a big smile on your face because we can win this and we can stop this.  You know, I always try to give uplifting speeches: Inspirational, uplifting, positive speeches. I tell people they're capable of more than they think they are and praise them when they deserve it.  This is a huge, huge ongoing effort to take back the country.  Nobody thought we stood a chance a year ago.  Less than a year or in a year, we're having more success than anybody a year ago dreamed. 

We thought by this time we'd have a health care bill. We would have socialized cap and trade. We would have all of this. We don't have any of it yet!  They can't get anything done amongst themselves.  The Republicans, whatever you think of them, up until middle January, did not have the votes anywhere to stop anything.  It was the American people that stopped 'em.  It was the American people that gave elected Republicans the confidence to go in there and oppose this and not "walk across the aisle," join John McCain, and be bipartisan with these people.  It was the American people who gave elected Republicans a backbone. The era of McCain is over, or it was.  I still think it is, and I seriously hope so.  I would have acknowledged the people in the Republican Party who are fighting from within to take it back.  I would have mentioned names. 

I certainly would have mentioned Obama a lot.  And I would have mentioned Harry Reid, and I would have mentioned Pelosi, and I would have mentioned the Kennedy seat being won, and I would mention the trouble that Barbara Boxer is in, and I would mention the trouble that the Democrat Party in general is in, and I would say that the Republicans have not joined the Democrats in any of this destruction.  The Republican Party has -- because of you, because you let them hear from you -- not gone bipartisan.  They have not joined this failure.  In fact, there are people in the House (from John Boehner to Mike Pence, to Eric Cantor, to Paul Ryan) who are doing everything that they can. Jim DeMint over in the Senate, Tom Coburn over in the Senate, these people, especially now don't deserve to be bashed or lumped in a generalized way with all the bad apples in Washington because all of them there are not bad apples.   
 
These people really, I think, deserve some attaboys.  I happen to think that. You know, these guys that I've just named, they're really, really, really going against instinctive grain, operating the way they are. It's so much easier for you if you just go along. Your life is so much more enjoyable there if you just go along.  The media will like you, the Democrats will pretend they like you.  Now, these guys are resisting all of that, and I'm going to call 'em out. I would have identified, by name, those who are undermining this country, and I would have held them to account for the radical policies that they are seeking to impose upon us, and I would have identified the source of those radical policies: And that's Barack Obama and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and whoever else you want to name on the White House staff or in the Democrat Party, or any union head. Because that's who we're up against.  It was just, I thought, great opportunity to keep the momentum going rather than put the brakes on. 

I would have tried making people laugh.  I'm pretty good at that sometimes because I would have been having fun. I know I'd have been having fun.  I'd have fed off the audience energy.  Who knows what else I would have come up? I mean, I didn't know what I was gonna say last year 'til I got up there and started speaking.  I never know what I'm gonna say.  Sometimes I go out with five or six little outlines, but other than that, I don't know.  But I certainly... This is the Conservative Political Action Committee. It's not some group of Libertarians.  I would have defended conservatism and I would have promoted conservatism and I would have reminded people conservatism is the solution.  Conservatism is the answer for this country's problems and challenges that we face.  Nobody's out there defending bad Republican policies. 

The point at this stage is to support the conservatives in and outside public office.  I certainly would not have ignored the other team on the field, the Democrats.  They're the only reason we're in this mess.  The Democrat Party is the only reason we are threatened with the things we're threatened with.  The Democrat Party. Solely. They own it.   There's no evidence I see of anybody colluding with the Democrats on this health care business.  There's not one Republican vote in the Senate for it.  In the House there was one, I think, from the guy in Louisiana and he said he's not going to do it a second time.  I woulda had a real tough time not talking about cap and trade, Card Check, Miranda rights for terrorists, tax increases, breaking the bank of the American private sector.  It would have been very difficult for me to be critical of Dick Cheney.

But to each his own.  There are motivations for people who do what they do -- and I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, I think I know what's going on and why various people are doing what they're doing and taking positions that they're taking. But the best way to insure that Obama succeeds is to think that we need a third party. All the momentum that we've got going right now is just going to hit a brick wall if a third party starts, particularly on the basis that there's "no difference between the two parties."  I guarantee you there's not a Republican I know, elected or unelected, that would propose anything Obama has.  They haven't joined him.  We are at this great crossroads in our history because of people who hold a particular ideological point of view.  I don't care what you want to call them. I call them liberals because that's what they hate and that's what they are and that's what the American people reject. 

I don't like the liberals getting away with changing their titled or how they reference themselves or how they want us to reference them.  The media will go along with that but to me they're Liberals with capital Ls, and it is essentially a four-letter word in politics, and they know it.  The word "liberal" is like showing Dracula the cross.  And there are many things that equate to that with liberals.  There are a bunch of things you can say about them, do to them that make them react like Dracula at the sight of a cross.  But the radical policies -- and there's no other way to describe them. The pure radical policies that they're trying to impose on us need to be called out and as many people as possible made to understand them.  I would figure, again, that people beyond being conservative would be watching this speech like was the case last year.  That's why I jokingly called it my "First Televised Address to the Nation," because there are people probably never listen to me on the radio watching it, channel surfing. You never know how many, but it was a significant number, I'm sure.  So, I don't know. I would have left no doubt that I had just spoken at a gathering of conservatives.   
 
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RUSH: It's been suggested to me, ladies and gentlemen, that we go back and play some excerpts of my CPAC speech from last year to illustrate just where we've come from.  It was one year ago, almost, a little over a year ago, and the contrast of where we thought we all were -- do you realize the gloom a year ago, we had Newt Gingrich talking: "We can't criticize the president, we've gotta work with him."  Every Republican in the world was out there was doing this.  And I thought, "This is the end of the country if this happens."  These people do not realize we're dealing with a radical.  This is not the normal ebb and flow of political parties changing power or trading power: we get the White House eight years, you get it for the next eight.  This is not that.  This is a bunch of sixties radicals grown up with their representative here, Barack Obama, with a chance to finally get a stranglehold on this country and fix it because of the things that they don't like.  So we'll do that.  Cookie will dig 'em out of the archives out there.

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RUSH: Ken in Detroit, welcome to the EIB Network.  Hello.

CALLER:  Yeah, Rush.  I think it's important that we take a look at what is the true motive behind Barack Obama, as well as his fellow Democrats, for promoting this national health care program, a program that the overwhelming majority of American people have rejected, a program that will not save money, a program that will not provide better access to treatment. 

RUSH:  A program that is not designed to do any of that, by the way, either.

CALLER:  I know.  And I think what we should look at is that the true motive is to hand over more power, more control, over the lives of the American people to the federal government.  That is exactly what they want.  That's why they don't care.  They know that, come Election Day, that politically there will be a massacre when it comes to the votes against anyone that supports this bill.  But since it accomplishes their goal of continuing to hand over more power to the federal government, more control, like I said, of the American people's lives to the federal government, that's why Barack Obama will continue to promote this health care bill.

RUSH:  Yeah.  You're right.  There are a lot of other reasons why they're doing this, and they don't care that the vast majority of the American people don't want it.  They don't care.  They have been governing against the will of the American people since they were elected.

CALLER:  Well, Rush, one thing I see is that they are transforming and they will continue to do so unless we resist them.  Currently we have a country made up of citizens protected by the Constitution, a country of individuals.  They are trying to transform us into a country of servants, a country of subjects, to transform us into a country similar to Cuba.  And the American people need to wake up --

RUSH:  Wait.  I knew you were going to go there, Ken, and I would not have said that had I been at CPAC, just to revisit this.  The American people have awakened.  The American people are why they're stuck in the mud and the mire and everything else that's got 'em dead in the water.  The American people want no part of this, and the American people will not put up with it. I don't care what Obama does, I don't care if the Democrats change their rules or break their rules to get this thing passed, the tipping point is coming, and the American people will just say: "Sorry, we're not participating.  You can put us in jail; you can come get us; we're not doing this."  These are the American people we are talking about.  We now know the American people have not been transformed to a western European socialist type behavior or attitude.  We know that the vast majority of Americans are still Americans as this nation defines Americans, as this nation was founded.  The American people aren't going to put up with it. 

No matter what these people do, no matter what Obama does, the American people are awake.  The American people are more awake now than I have ever seen them, more awake than they were back in 1994, more awake than they were back in the late eighties during the House bank and the House post office.  And every time Obama keeps coming back with this and every time Harry Reid goes on television or Pelosi and they talk about changing the rules and every time they keep telling lies about this, that it's not going to add to the deficit, that it's not going to add to the debt, that it's going to lower health care costs, that it's not going to raise anybody's taxes except the rich, that it's going to get everybody covered, everybody knows none of that is true, and they're not going to be patient and put up with being lied to again and again and again. 

If Mr. Obama hasn't noticed, his approval numbers are in a free fall.  He doesn't care, because you're right, they want to ram this thing through, and they think that when they do, they will have put enough roadblocks in our way of freedom that we won't be able to stop it.  Don't forget this doesn't get implemented 'til 2014.  The tax increases will go into effect immediately if this happens.  But the American people are not going to sit idly by.  They're not being fooled by a guy who says I'm laser like focused on jobs.  I gotta have a commission to study why we're in so much debt.  This guy is no longer fooling anybody. 
 
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RUSH:  Yeah, it was Snerdley's idea.  Go back and play some excerpts of your CPAC speech from last year.  As you listen to these -- I've got four of them here -- as you listen to these, stop and think where we were a year ago.  We were in the middle of 80% approval numbers, everybody in love, Republicans everywhere saying we gotta work with this guy, this is a new day, blah, blah, blah.  All of this stuff, you talk about hopeless, everybody felt hopeless a year ago and look how far we've come.  This is February 28th, in fact not quite a year ago, February 28th at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be.  We recognize that we are all individuals.  We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  (cheers and applause)  We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth, that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life -- (cheers and applause) -- liberty, freedom -- (cheers and applause) -- and the pursuit of happiness.  (cheers and applause)  Now, those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded.  We conservatives think all three are under assault.  (applause) 

RUSH:  Awe, damn it, she edited out the applause.  I wanted to hear the applause.  I'm kidding.  It never ended.  Here's the next bite.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  President Obama is so busy trying to foment and create anger in a created atmosphere of crisis.  He is so busy fueling the emotions of class envy that he has forgotten it's not his money he's spending.  (applause)  In fact, the money he's spending is not ours.  He's spending wealth that has yet to be created, and that is not sustainable.  It will not work.  This has been tried around the world, and every time it's been tried it's a failed disaster.

RUSH:  Right on, right on.  Didn't have any applause after that.  And you know, ladies and gentlemen, don't forget, it was Geraldo Rivera, Geraldo on Saturday night who said that I was a year ahead of the curve with this speech talking about failure and how it was necessary.  Here's the next bite.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  The future is not big government, self-serving politicians, powerful bureaucrats.  This has been tried, tested throughout history.  The result has always been disaster.  President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope.  (applause)  Spending a nation into generational debt is not an act of compassion.  All politicians, including President Obama, are temporary stewards of this nation.  It is not their task to remake the founding of this country.  It is not their task to tear it apart and rebuild it in their image.  (applause)  (Crowd chanting USA, USA)

RUSH:  And here's where I explained again and did again and again and again ad infinitum my hope that Obama would fail.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  This notion that I want the president to fail?  This shows you a sign of the problem we've got.  That's nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it?  Why in the world do I want what we just described: rampant government growth, indebtedness, wealth that's not even been created yet is being spent, what is in this, what possibly is in this that any of us want to succeed?  Ladies and gentlemen, the United States, the Democrat Party has actively not just sought the failure of Republican presidents and policies and now wars for the first time, the Democrat party doesn't stop at failure.  Talk to Judge Robert Bork.  Talk to Justice Clarence Thomas about how they try to destroy lives, reputations, and character.  (cheers and applause)  And I'm supposed to say I don't want the president to fail?

RUSH:  That's how CPAC ended last year and that's just four short bites.  This thing went on.  I was supposed to go a half hour, and I started at five.  I was supposed to go a half hour and when I got to 5:30 David Keene said: "Could you kinda keep going?"  Okay.  So I'll just make it up on the fly here.  But it wasn't hard because, you know, we conservatives don't need prompters.  It's in our heart.  It's in our hearts, in our minds.  We've refined it over years and years and years of our lives.  When you're speaking before an electrified audience like that, that's also inspiring.  The audience feeds off the speaker and vice-versa.  So, we're doing this because one year ago, not even one year ago, I want people to remember just where we were and what the outlook was a year ago.  This man looked unstoppable.  He had the Senate. We were just waiting for Franken to be stolen, that election to be stolen by the Franken people to give them their 60 votes.  They had the House by an overwhelming majority. 

The Republicans were entirely dispirited and they were afraid to say anything that was remotely critical of Obama or the Democrat Party because they thought there was such love for Obama and the Democrat Party by the American people.  They were afraid.  I mean it was hunker down and folks were believing that America as we knew it was over.  And this CPAC conference last year, that's the kick in the seat that got everything else going.  And from that, the tea parties -- I don't mean me, I mean the whole conference, the whole three to four days.  Town halls popped up.  The American people stopped the Obama agenda and they will continue to.  And they need to be praised and encouraged, motivated, and inspired to keep it up.

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RUSH:  One year after the inauguration of Barack Obama there is a conservative ascendancy within the Republican Party, and it needs to be encouraged, not beaten down.  It needs to be inspired.  We need to thank them and join them. 
 
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9 posted on 02/22/2010 5:04:25 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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America in the Crosshairs
A new twist on the "America Held Hostage" theme.
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH:  Sometimes, folks, the greatest ideas happen on the fly.  Do you remember America Held Hostage, where we began a countdown of the number of days left of the Clinton administration?  People said, "You need to do it again."  Now, we never go back and repeat stuff unless we do a best-of kind of day, but how about America in the Crosshairs, or Americans in the Crosshairs, and think of the graphics.  We could do that at RushLimbaugh.com, even in the newsletter.  Hmm. 
 
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10 posted on 02/22/2010 5:04:44 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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Obama Addicted to Power, Lying
Since talking about addiction is all the rage these days.
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH:  Baghdad Bob Gibbs, the president's press secretary, and by there's a piece on it. Where did I read this?  I got so many things here.  There's a piece that says that Baghdad Bob, Robert Gibbs, and Valerie Jarrett do believe that Obama is messianic.  These are the people that are the problem. It's not Rahm. Rahm is saving Obama.  That's the thrust of this story: Rahm is saving Obama.  It's Valerie Jarrett and this Gibbs guy who think he is The Messiah, a transformational figure, and they are just basically bowing down as though he's the Dalai Lama going out the back door next to the garbage.  Well, I guess they don't bow down to the Dalai Lama going out the door next to the garbage.  Here's what Gibbs said. These people are not living in reality.  "We've seen in survey after survey that Americans want to see Republicans and Democrats stand together on health care." 

There is no such survey!  There is no such survey whatsoever, ladies and gentlemen.  Last week -- maybe it was the week before -- I noted that the mayor of Washington, DC, was sitting there with 25% of his snowplows out of service basically telling the citizens, "If you want your street clean you're going to have to go out and do it yourself." Despite all the taxes they pay there, despite all the public services they are supposed to get for their taxes, they still have to go out there and clean their own streets. Not the sidewalks, folks, the streets in some parts of down.  The DC mayor is telling people to shovel their own streets.  Meaning, the government cannot handle it.  Yet, less than ten days later they tell them that government will deal with their health care, and they tell me that I'm crazy for not trusting the government to take care of it but I'm going to do it on my own for myself.  I'm the one crazy.  Same thing with what School Bus Nagin told them after Katrina. 

"Next time you're on your own. Don't wait for government." Remember that when the school buses didn't evacuate people? He said, "Next time, you're on your own. Don't wait for us."  Well, why in the hell doesn't somebody shout from the rooftops: "Don't wait for us on health care!"  There's no evidence that they could do it because there's no evidence any government program of any significant size whatsoever, health care related or not, has done what its objective stated it was.  They're big-time failures, and the American people know this.  They do not want to invest in it. There's no majority support for this. Zilch, zero, nada.  I don't know what's going to happen now with this Thursday bipartisan televised summit up at Blair House.  But I think what the Republicans ought to do... (interruption) No, no, I would not have said that at CPAC. Snerdley, you're right.  By the way, I do have some sound bites coming up from CPAC. 

I would not have said that the only people who can stop Obama, the Republicans, should be excoriated for being just as bad.  I don't know how you can say, after hearing Marco Rubio, that the Republicans are just as bad. It would never occur to me to say that.  I don't know what the objective would be.  Here's what the Republicans ought to do: With every position advocated by Obama, Republicans ought to counter with a poll to show that a majority disapproves of it.  With every position Republicans advocate, attach a poll to that, too.  Every one they advocate put a poll behind it.  Republicans own the issues on health care!  Republicans own the position of "no" on health care. Look at the polls.  Eighty percent are sick and tired of a liberal-oriented Congress.  Over 60% don't want health care.   
 
What's the risk in standing with the American people in a representative republic?  Where's the risk?  There is none! The Republicans own the issue.  They have not joined Obama.  They don't have their fingerprints anywhere near this disaster, and now is not the time to get their fingerprints on there.  The Republicans are who's standing with the American people here.  The American people are say, "No," and it's the Republicans who are standing with them, and everybody needs to know that.  Obama can say we're the party of "no," because the American people have said "no" to your position.  "We are aligned with the American people, Mr. President," and then provide the poll that supports that.  They're out there.  One by one, lay out what the Republican plan is on that issue and show the American people saying "yes" to that with a poll. 

Republicans have polls in their in favor but they gotta use them as a blunt instrument the same way the media and the Democrats use their polls.  Look, the people have said "no" to Obama's proposals, his taxes, his fines. They have said "yes" to free markets, capping trial attorneys, tort reform, insurance sales across state lines.  Don't position this as what the Republicans are saying.  You position this as what the American people are saying. You position your opposition to Obama on the basis, "Hey, this is what the American people are telling us.  In poll after poll after poll, Mr. President, they don't want any of these things.  They don't want lies.  They don't want more expensive health care.  They don't want to have to go to jail if they don't have a policy." Don't position this as what Republicans are saying. Position everything as what the American people want, what they have rejected as well.  If I ran the Republican Party -- which I don't, except in the White House they think I do.

If the ran the Republican Party I would position this as the American people versus Obama.  And the Republicans are simply representing the majority, because this is the American people versus Obama.  It is not the American people versus the Republicans and Democrats.  This is the American people -- on this issue, cap and trade and everything else in his agenda -- against Obama, American people against Harry Reid, American people against Kennedy Democrats in Massachusetts.  This is the American people against this president.  The Republican Party out to move in there and be their leaders.  Beat that like a drum. (sigh) Reconciliation.  
 
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11 posted on 02/22/2010 5:05:10 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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One Year Later, Democrats are Desperate and Backed into Corner
They're so close to what they've always wanted.
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH: So, I'm in there in Snerdley's office, we always repair in there 'cause it's a fun three or four minutes of every hour to just see what the hell they're doing in the news media.  And Snerdley is just sitting there looking at the monitors, don't know what he's thinking about it, I'm looking, we got Mess NBC, got Fox and C-SPAN on in there.  And Snerdley says, "I just don't understand this." Oh, they put up a deal, Boehner:  "Democrats are doubling down on a backroom deal," they're not supporting 'em, the House Republicans not supporting Obama.  Snerdley says, "I really don't understand their strategy here."  "What do you mean?  Thank God they're not going to support."  "No, no, no, I'm talking about the Democrats."  "What do you mean, talking about the Democrats?"  "Rush, I don't understand their strategy.  It's an election year.  Nobody, nobody wants what they're literally ramming down our throats."  I very patiently -- I must answer this question countless times a day.  I said, "Snerdley, you're trying to understand irrational people in your own rational way, and it's never gonna work." 

You gotta understand, these people have wanted this health care like this since Roosevelt!  Think of the Lord of the Rings, the guy that needed the third ring.  It drove him insane.  Anybody that touched the ring got insane.  Health care is the ring.  They are willing to lose seats to get this because this finally remakes the country into a socialist whatever else you want to describe it, with their party ultimately in charge.  I said, "You have to understand --" and this is not a perfect analogy, because the kamikaze pilots had more honor than the Democrats.  "But I doubt that very many of us could understand willingly getting in a Japanese Zero and flying it into the deck of an aircraft carrier.  That's what they're doing.  They are committing suicide, and if you try to understand that in a rational way, I'm sorry, it's not going to ever make sense to you."  You have to understand these people as they are and what it is that motivates them. They're this close and they wanted it for so many decades.  They had 60 votes and they couldn't get it done!  And they had 4,000 more votes than they needed in the House and they couldn't get it done.  And they've got this man-child of a president that's alienating everybody now and it's gone off the edge of the cliff and they want to grab it and go over the cliff with it because they think that's how it's going to pass.  They're that close! 

Now they've lost the Kennedy seat.  Now we're talking insanity.  Now we're talking payback.  "All right, you people are going to take away the Kennedy seat from us?  Well, watch this.  You like your freedom?  Ha.  You better have fun with it the next four years because we're taking it from you, pal.  You don't support us, you don't think we're the best thing that ever happened to you, we're going to make sure we're the worst thing that ever happened to you."  That's their attitude.  You can't possibly understand that.  Nobody wants to believe politicians have that view of American people. I'm telling you, the modern-day Democrat Party as led from Obama on down, has vile, utter contempt, for you.  And the more you reject them, and you can't reject them more than saying, "Senator Kennedy's seat is now not yours."  You do not understand what that makes them feel.  They do not have the humility to say, "Gee, what are we doing wrong?"  They don't have that kind of humility.  They're never wrong.  They don't do anything wrong.  We are just too stupid to appreciate their brilliance and we really illustrate our stupidity when we take the Kennedy seat away from them and the governorship of New Jersey and Virginia. 

A year ago, folks, they were on the verge of getting the ring.  The ring was two centimeters away from the finger.  It was ready to be slid on there, a little Dizzy Dean lingo, and now the ring is on the floor, and they can't find it.  And they are in an abject panic.  They are irrational to the point of being blinded to the political harm they are causing themselves by doing this.  They are that close, they have a wanted it for so long, and, by the way, the "why they want it" is very important, too.  Aren't you nervous when you see an individual lusting for power?  Here's hundreds of thousands of these little people lusting for power.  They want their hands forever on the US Treasury.  Don't rule out the fact, don't ignore the fact that it's all about money.   
 
Have you ever seen a genuine Democrat leader that's a pauper doing it for the cause?  They do it for the cause, but these people don't want to earn their money by working.  They get their money by taking.  And when you run one-sixth of the US economy, and when you have whatever numbers of trillions of dollars every year coming into the town you run from the back pockets of the working people and you get your dibs on it first before it gets sent back anywhere, yeah, man, that's cool.  Nowhere else in the world you can go to have access to that kind of money when you don't even have to earn it.  You can spend it and you can buy things with it for yourself and you never, ever have to earn it.  What a sweet deal.  And they raise young, little liberals at every level of our educational system to become just like them.  They're up against us. 

We don't want government.  We don't want to have power over government.  We want to deemphasize government.  We don't want to live in Washington.  We don't want to work in government.  We don't want to become bureaucrats.  We want to close bureaucracies.  It's an epic battle.  We stand for taking care of ourselves, personal responsibility, all of these things.  We're the ones that are said to be out of touch because of that.  It happens to me every time I mention buying something without getting the money from you to do it. 

Look at this.  Charlie Cook, the esteemed, respected political consultant, makes predictions out there.  This from Phil Klein at the American Spectator:  "Charlie Cook, whose Cook Political Report is the go to source for reporters assessing the competitiveness of Congressional races, has declared that, 'it's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House.'"  It is hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House.  They know it!  They know why.  It's called Obama, and it's called health care, and it's called debt, and it's called spending, and they're all for it, knowing full well they're going to lose the House.  They believe that before they're thrown out they can get enough done that will essentially remake this country in ways that will be impossible to tear down for years.  It's as though they believe that they'll fly their Japanese Zero into one of our aircraft carriers and survive it.  Maybe not instantly, but in a couple years they'll be back in the cockpit of a new Zero.  They're going to lose the House.  They know it.  Obama's not going to lose anything.  Truth be told, Obama would love to have the Republicans run one of those houses so he can blame them literally for everything that doesn't get done.  He wants to blame the Republicans now even though there's nothing they can do, or wasn't until Scott Brown, to stop it. 

Charlie Cook: "It's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House." Also looking at maybe nine Senate losses, nine Senate seat losses.  And it's only going to get worse, the more they do this, ram something that 60% of the American people want no part of down their throats and openly cheat, break rules, change rules improperly to get it done, led by some of the most unpopular people the country's ever known, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, with Obama soon to join them.  So the only way you can understand this is to understand how much they want it and why and how close they think they are.  I don't know how 'cause I've never lusted for anything like this, I don't know how to relate to wanting something for 70 years that I thought was actually attainable.  I don't have that kind of lust. 

I work all my life to defend and protect the Constitution, but I can't relate to people who want to tear it apart.  I can't relate to people getting excited about how close they're getting to being able to do that.  I can't help you to understand it other than to say, it's irrational.  You might play a game, you might have fun trying to come up with something you just love, imagine for 50 years you've wanted it.  And there it is all of a sudden.  You can't quite do it yourself, but it's there to be had.  You can't do it, folks, because it's irrational.  It's entirely irrational, especially when you add to it that it's just another phase of everything else they've always wanted that has never worked.   
 
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RUSH:  Here's another way, ladies and gentlemen.  I spent many eloquent moments earlier in this hour explaining the liberal mind-set, comparing them to kamikaze pilots, Lord of the Rings, wanting something so bad, being so close to it that you lose all rationality.  Probably the best way to understand the mind-set of the left and their commitment to things is a fact of information that I bet many of you don't know.  Who is the Founding Father of communism? Karl Marx, exactly right.  And he worked with a guy named what?  Trotsky, those guys were bootlickers.  They came along later.  He worked with Friedrich Engels.  What you do not know is that four of Karl Marx's children literally starved to death while he was researching his work on communism, running around with intellectuals like the very wealthy Friedrich Engels.  Four of Karl Marx's own children literally starved to death while he was running around putting together all the wonderful aspects of communism.

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RUSH:  Karl Marx could not have been researching communism with Leon Trotsky.  Trotsky was four years old when Karl Marx died.  Trotsky, folks, was born in 1879, the same day as Hillary, in fact, October 26th.  Not sure if the same year.  Jury is still out on that. 
 
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12 posted on 02/22/2010 5:05:37 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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Who is paying Obama to push his Socialist Agenda and screw this country over?


13 posted on 02/22/2010 5:05:58 PM PST by FreedBird (S)
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Sarah, Ex-Liberal, Sees the Light
She voted for Obama. In one year, she's turned around.
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH: This is Sarah in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I'm glad you called.  Thank you so much for waiting.  Hello. 

CALLER: Ummm...

RUSH: Sarah, hi.

CALLER:  I'm very terrified of public speaking but somehow you inspired me to call in.

RUSH:  Thank you very much.

CALLER:  Thank you, certainly, for allowing me to call in.  I wanted to actually share a success story that you helped bring about.  Last October I was pretty much liberal to the point where I didn't understand what I was doing.  I had just recently graduated from college about a year or two ago. I didn't know much. I am ashamed that I didn't educate myself very much in this, and I was really taken by some of the pretty speeches that Obama had given.  I guess I really wanted to put a message out there for anybody else who, they have the right mind but they're on the wrong team.  So I wanted to thank a couple people, specifically you, because without you I wouldn't have anyone to turn to for common sense news, which is what really got me.  I really cherish listening to you, I listen to you when I exercise every day. It's the only time I really get news. So I only listen to yours and then maybe Fox later.  For the young people like myself who are in college or just outside of college I would give an encouraging message.  I was liberal or close to it. I wanted to do the right thing, to change things for the better, and at the time Obama's speeches sounded very humanitarian.  I do not think about that anymore.  I know liberalism is not really about helping people or causes. It's more about making everyone equal and mediocrity or dissatisfaction.  So I don't want any of the younger adults out there to let guilt drive them to make wrong choices. So I thank you, specifically, for starting me off on this journey.  I also want to thank Sarah Palin, who I got to meet at a book signing last fall.  She's a great person. She's also a person with common sense I can easily follow -- and ironically I have to thank the frauds at the global warming institute, because without them they would not have catalyzed my reaction to pretty much fear and hate liberalism.  I was a supporter of global warming for a while.

RUSH:  I tell you --

CALLER:  I didn't know as much about it, but I did put my faith in the scientists and their research.

RUSH:  Sarah, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed talking to you and hearing you share with us your revelations.  I know this had to be a slap upside the head.  I hope you're okay now. 
 
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RUSH: That last caller, Sarah. You have to understand: That's the kind of thing you live for.  Here is a young college student who just didn't even know why she was liberal but she had every misconception about it: That it was compassionate, that it was humanitarian, that Obama was indeed something special.  She believed in global warming. And in less than a year, it's all blown up, and she wanted to call here and talk about it, and she did.  She's representative of a lot more going through this, that either don't try to call or when they do try to call they don't get through.  We are growing.

Our ranks are swelling because of people like Sarah.  I mean here it is, folks: This is liberalism on display.  Unfettered, unchecked, unstopped, in Louisiana (well, prior to Bobby Jindal), in Detroit, in California.  Wherever you look, that there's huge trouble you're going to find liberals and unions that have been in charge and in power.  And now you've got Obama and the Democrat Party now no longer even asking George Lakoff (rhymes with) to help them disguise what they're doing.  They're just open about it, and people see it.  This is why I say: "From now on, no Democrat or liberal ought to ever be given power again," but they do package what they do well. They do mask themselves well when they start getting into gear talking about how compassionate they are and how fair they are and how mean the Republicans are.  
 
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14 posted on 02/22/2010 5:06:00 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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Rush Baby on Her College Class
Student bashes country; teacher and class applaud.
February 22, 2010 
 
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RUSH: Here is Kathryn in Pittsburgh.  I'm glad you waited.  Welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  It's a real honor to talk to you.  I've been waiting for some time.  Just thrilled to be talking to you.

RUSH:  Thank you.

CALLER:  You're welcome.  So I'm a college student in Pittsburgh. I have an oral communications class, and a kid in my class was reading a song lyric or a song quote or whatever you want to call it from a song, and it said: to die for your country is not honorable and to die for the red, white, and blue isn't a good way to die, it's not respected, and to those types of tones, and at the end of this presentation everyone clapped, excluding me, I did not clap.  And I got reprimanded for not clapping for him.

RUSH:  Okay.  What did the student say again, go a little slower.

CALLER:  He said to die for the Stars and Stripes is not honorable, and to die for our country is not respected.

RUSH:  So a student made the statement, and everybody but you applauded?

CALLER:  Yes.

RUSH:  And then what happened?

CALLER:  And then my teacher yelled at me, she said, "Why didn't you applaud, why didn't you applaud for him?"  And I said it's disrespectful and I don't agree with it, and I think our country is a great place, and she said --

RUSH:  Why did she think you had to applaud?  Just to avoid hurting the guy's feelings or did she agree with this student?

CALLER:  I think she agreed.

RUSH:  Why do I even ask, of course she agreed, she's a professor at a university.  Why would I even think otherwise?

CALLER:  Because at the end of the presentation -- he was the last presentation -- and at the end she stood up and she goes, "Very good, very, very well, very well spoken."

RUSH:  Okay.  Did you suffer any more than a reprimand, or did it stop there?

CALLER:  I'm not sure yet.  I haven't gotten my grade yet.

RUSH:  Wow.  Well, you hang in there, Kathryn.  This is worth the reprimand.  You heard it from me.  We hear these kinds of stories periodically, kids call from all over with the stories of what's happening inside these institutions of higher learning.  Thanks much, Kathryn. 
 
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15 posted on 02/22/2010 5:06:26 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
I hope everyone had a great day and is in a "RUSH" groove!


16 posted on 02/22/2010 5:06:45 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady; Lakeshark

Thank you, thank you, GOP_Lady!

I had a wonderful “no” stop the tape day!
LOL.

He’ll “stop the tape” tomorrow! BOR used his impersonation tonight on Talking Points.


17 posted on 02/22/2010 5:15:17 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx
Stop the tape for Onyx!
18 posted on 02/22/2010 5:21:56 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

“The American people don’t want any part of this health care bill. They’re still going to ram this thing down our throats. They do not care. It’s a suicide pact. That’s all you can say this thing is.”

Does he not understand that the next Congress (the NEW & IMPROVED ONE, which will be here shortly) can negate all of this?

I’m starting to think that this guy is TRULY incompetent, and not so much evil. I think he doesn’t understand how Government works in the first place...and all of his cronies are afraid to TELL HIM, LOL!


19 posted on 02/22/2010 5:32:23 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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Even Obambi's mere jawboning about capping insurance premiums is going to cause all our premiums to skyrocket this year.

Why?

Of course, if a business is told that next year they will lose their right to set their own prices, they will rush to raise them as high as they possibly can while they still can.

Thanks, Obambi. Idiot.

20 posted on 02/22/2010 5:46:08 PM PST by fightinJAG (Behold the Republican Super-Minority !! (h/t ArchAngel1983) TEA = Taxed Enough Already)
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