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"So according to Pelosi, quit work, indulge your fantasies, become an artist or a documentarian,
and let the rest of us pay for your healthcare bill. And, by the way, if you happen to get pregnant
and want to have an abortion, no worries -- we'll pay for that, too."
"I wouldn't be surprised if they try to cram amnesty into this bill, too. Why not?
I f you're trying to get everything done in the Senate with 51 votes, why leave anything out of this?
I probably shouldn't have said that because I've given them an idea. Oh, well!"
"In this culture of ours, people have this insatiable desire to be known, insatiable desire for fame:
Facebook, MySpace, Space-Butt -- whatever it is."
"Story: 'A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign today against
demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.'
Why didn't Bill Clinton think of this?"
"I love these guys at Gawker.
They make up stuff about me all the time and they're as snarky as they can be about me, but for some reason, I love these guys.
You guys at Gawker? You're priceless. We love you here at the EIB Network."
"Oliver, have you ever said to this guy,
'Zeke, have you ever stopped to think that it's people like me paying you to do nothing like this?'"
"Nancy Pelosi is as incoherent sometimes as David Brooks is when he writes."
"So we are going to officially document as a country what these people at the UN consider to be our own human rights abuses?
Well, let's see... Where do we send our comments? I don't know."
"If you're expecting an income tax refund from your state, forget it.
They're going to hold onto those refund checks for months and months.
There's no word on how much these states have cut their union workers' salaries, but your refund checks?
Screw you!"
"Senator Durbin said that 70 Americans are going to die every day for the next four years
until the so-called benefits of this health care bill, of which there are none, kick in.
So then why this mad dash on this if it doesn't kick in for four years?"
"If Biden overrules the parliamentarian… I mean, we're talking Nagasaki nuclear.
This is going to make the nuclear option in the Senate about all those judges a few years ago look like romper room."
"You House Democrats, if you think after Obama signs this bill he's going to even
permit another word to be said about it, you need to have your head examined."
"So that's what Democrats are fighting for:
They're fighting for you not to have a job and yet still have healthcare so you
can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, and taking pictures."
"Maybe they could turn Detroit into a giant solar power plant;
they may as well get started on this green energy somewhere!
I mean, if we're going to bulldoze a bunch of blighted areas and turn them into farmland,
let's also build some mirrors."
"I think to the extent the banks are not loaning any money it's because they don't have confidence
that people are going to have any chance at getting their business started given the current economic climate."
"If you haven't heard, as of this morning, pancake waitresses and
escorts in Augusta, Georgia have been placed on high alert:
Tiger Woods likely to make his return to golf during the Masters next month."
"We're coming up on two years of Barack Obama having direct influence over the United States economy.
Two years -- and there hasn't been one improvement in these two years. Not one.
It's going in just the opposite direction."
"Howell Raines has written a piece in the Washington Post.
The headline: 'Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?'
This from a guy who hired Jayson Blair!"
"Don't forget, folks: The largest insurance company in this country is the US government,
and they do not grant everybody treatment.
They have denials left and right -- they deny more claims than private sector insurance companies do!"
"It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job, you know?"
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: "The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress' original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package." That was a verbal ruling. The office was responding to questions posed by Republican leadership, and the answers were provided verbally. "Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office eliminates the Slaughter option," which is to -- (interruption) what is it? We used to pass bills we haven't read, and now we're passing bills we haven't voted on. We're going to deem it passed. But apparently that can't happen now. The Slaughter Rule, we can't deem it passed. They have to pass the Senate bill in the House before they can make changes to it. But I looked at Pelosi today in her press conference, they're still proceeding on this basis that the Slaughter solution is an option.
Let's go to the audio sound bites. This is Pelosi during a news conference this morning. We have a couple of sound bites from her. They can't ignore the Parliamentarian, but Biden can overrule the Parliamentarian. Joe Biden can overrule the Parliamentarian. You want to talk about a real nuclear option. If the Parliamentarian issues this as a formal ruling in writing, and Biden overrules him, we're talking Nagasaki nuclear. This is going to make the nuclear option in the Senate with all these judges and so forth look like romper room. They are so desperate. They will do anything. If they're willing to do the Slaughter Rule. If they're willing to deem a bill passed without voting on it, I mean, there aren't any rules after that. Zilch. Here's Pelosi.
PELOSI: In order to have the Senate bill be the basis and build upon it with the reconciliation, you have to pass the Senate bill, or else you're talking about starting from scratch. So we will pass the Senate bill. Once we pass it, whether the president signs it or doesn't, people would rather he waited until the Senate acted but the Senate Parliamentarian, as you have said, said in order for them to do a reconciliation based on the Senate bill it must be signed by the president. So it isn't going to make any difference except maybe the mood that people are in. But the fact is once we pass it in the House, it's going to be the law of the land.
RUSH: Right. Right. Now if anybody, if anybody thinks that after this thing gets signed by Obama it's going anywhere else, you have another thing coming. If you think Obama's going to let this thing out of his hands. I talked to Paul Ryan yesterday after the program for the upcoming newsletter interview. I was talking to him about this Parliamentarian ruling, and he said, "Let me tell you something, there's no way after Obama signs this thing it's going anywhere, except in F-22." If Obama happens to be in Indonesia vacationing with the kids, they're going to put an F-22 in the air with the bill in it, and they're going to have tankers to refuel it, and it's going to get over there at the speed of sound, or twice the speed of sound so he can sign the damn thing. They'll put it aboard and F-22 military fighter, the fastest plane we've got to get it wherever he is to sign it if this happens while he's gone.
He's going to delay his departure three days for his laser-like focus on health care, health care, health care. He's going to leave on the 18th, but now move it back a couple, three days. So it's obviously not much of an official trip. I think it's a vacation trip. I think it's to show the kids where he grew up and all this kind of stuff. They're just desperate and Pelosi has now got to tell her House members, "Oh, yeah, after Obama signs it it's going to go back. Oh, yeah, it will go back to the Senate, that's where it's going to get marked up." Here's what she's saying.
PELOSI: Senator Reid has had the votes. He just hasn't had the time to address each one of these issues. So the concern that they have was about what has happened in the past based on the 60-vote rule. Under the reconciliation, the simple majority, the constitutional majority, I think members are much more comfortable about the fact that this reconciliation will happen. And the hesitation anybody might have about do you trust the Senate is offset by the great vision that they have for health care for all Americans and that we will be able to do it in a reasonable length of time. It will take a little faith. But what we do always does.
RUSH: The woman is as incoherent sometimes as David Brooks is when he writes. She had a question there. There are assurances in the Senate. Reid can give ironclad reassurances because of the rules of the Senate. But what assurance have you gotten that they'll probably take up this reconciliation bill to your member's pleasure? She's telling her members, trust Harry Reid. Trust Harry Reid. Why? Well, because of the great vision that he has in health care for all Americans. Trust Harry Reid. So she's asking her membership to trust Harry Reid out there. Folks, you know it and I know it, everybody knows it. If the Senate bill is passed in the House -- and they don't have the votes for this yet, they do not, and they have abandoned the Stupak crowd. "We're not going to even try to mess with you, Stupak. You're just a pro-life idiot." They're now going to work on the moderate Blue Dogs and try to turn them. I read somewhere there's still under 200 votes in the House. So now she's gotta go tell these people to trust Harry Reid.
By the way, Nancy, you better tell them to trust Obama because I don't think you're going to get the bill back. You House Democrats, listen to me on this, you know the polling. You know you're going down in flames, regardless of what you do, but you're really going to go down in flames if you pass this. Even Lawrence O'Donnell, a vowed socialist, on MSNBC today said, (paraphrasing) "It's going to be a disaster. The worst thing in the world for Democrats is for this to pass. The worst thing for Obama is for this thing to pass." Pat Condell and somebody else, he's a pollster, had a story in the Washington Post, same thing. If this thing passes it is Waterloo. It's over for Obama and the Democrats. So given that, given the polling data that we have, if I might address you Democrats and the House again, you can trust me more than you can trust Reid with what I'm going to tell you here. If you believe with the polling that has you and Obama and the Democrat Party on health care, if you think after Obama signs it he's going to even permit another word to be said about it, you need to have your head examined.
If you and the House pass the Senate bill, Obama is going to sign it and then he's going to decree that not one word about health care be uttered between now and the election. He's going to move on to immigration, cap and trade or whatever it is. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Because of polling data, if this passes they're not going to have any more debate or discussion about health care between now and the election. And then the Republicans are going to win in November. And your chances of adding to or fixing this debacle you think happens in the Senate, is over. So the Senate bill, if you pass it, that's what you live with, that's what's the law of the land, and it ain't going to change unless it's repealed.
One more Pelosi bite because she attacked the Republicans here. It was last night on television and she was asked about Stupak, "Have those supposed dozen members come and addressed those issues with you with their office? Have you dealt directly with Stupak on this?"
PELOSI: This bill is not about abortion. It's about health care for all Americans. And those who want the bill to fail hijacked the good intentions of others who have concerns about federal funding of abortion, and to turn it into a conversation about that.
RUSH: It's a tax bill, a redistribution of wealth bill. But isn't it ironic that it is about abortion. That abortion is why they don't have the votes, of all the things. Oh, do you know what else is going to be passed if they ever do get this reconciliation? The student loan program is going to be packaged in reconciliation as part of the health care bill. Pelosi even alluded to wanting to put cap and trade in the reconciliation. Every day it's something else that they keep adding to this. They're not finished.
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RUSH: The Obama trip next week is a vacation trip. It's time for his daughter's spring break. It's to Indonesia. It's billed as a homecoming of sorts, and the White House is under a lot of pressure. "You mean you're going to leave right in the middle of the health care debate to go on vacation, spring break with the kids?" So Obama delayed the trip about three days. It's not an official trip of any kind. He may do a couple of appearances over there to justify it, but it's a vacation trip.
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RUSH: Now, let's go to audio sound bite number nine. I reference Lawrence O'Donnell earlier in the program. This was this morning on Scarborough's show and O'Donnell was asked, "Are the Democrats going to get health care passed?"
O'DONNELL: I do not see how they can do this, and part of that is because it's never been done before and they have moved into a legislative territory that has never previously existed. This is unprecedented using reconciliation this way. We're going to abandon conferencing this bill and move over to another legislative vehicle called reconciliation to handle something that you've already been legislating in other ways. That's never occurred before. I'm a very conservative political analyst, in that I will not predict positive outcomes for things that have never happened before. You know, if it's never happened before, I will tend to bet against it.
RUSH: So O'Donnell thinks two things here. A, it will destroy them if they do it. But, he doesn't think they can do it because it's never been done before. Well, Lawrence has to know the desperation these people feel, the unlimited... I wish I could think of the word. The desire they have for this, there's a really great word that defines a lust that is inexplicable. I can't think of what the word is. The rules don't matter; the fact that it hasn't been done before don't matter. The fact that Obama needs it is all that matters. But they're all going to go down the tubes big time if it passes. This is what everybody now knows. I mean, there's a story out that no Democrat wants to talk about health care reform. It's in TheHill.com. So I'm saying, "Why don't they want to talk about health care reform?" because the White House is saying that the polling is trending upwards since the State of the Union speech.
It's obviously not. If this passes, I'm telling you, we will never hear -- from the Drive-Bys even -- the words "health care reform" for months, after Obama signs it. It will be like it never happened. We're not going to hear about improving it. We'll not hear Democrats or Obama talk about health care reform, changing it, or Stage 2. We'll hear Republicans talking about it as a campaign issue, but we will not hear the Democrats and the media will ignore it. It will be as though it never happened, especially because the tax increases start immediately and they are not going to have a whole lot of discussion about, "Well, yeah, these new taxes are because of the health package just passed."
"Oh, yeah? Where is my reduced premium?"
"That doesn't happen for four years but it isn't going to be reduced anyway," and Dick Durbin said so. We played the sound bite on the Senate floor (paraphrased) "Anybody who thinks that insurance premiums are going to go down after we pass this has another thing coming. We're not going to lower any premiums. All we'll hope to do is reduce or slow the rate of growth." We played that sound bite earlier in the week.
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RUSH: This is Ken. It's great to have you on the program, sir. You're first today.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush. I wanted to say that the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, they've totally lost their grip on reality. If they pass this national health care bill -- a bill that the overwhelming majority of American people have said they're against, a bill that they're using so much political chicanery in order to pass -- I think you're going to see the reaction of the American people, the outcry of American people is going to make what we've seen from the tea party movement be like a drop in the bucket compared to the tidal wave of anger that is going to appear on Election Day.
RUSH: Yeah, I was going to ask you how you expect this anger to manifest itself. You think it will show up on Election Day?
CALLER: Exactly. I think that politically you're going to see a political massacre of any candidate running for office, whether he's a Republican or a Democrat. Anybody who supports this national health care bill, the American people are going to be so outraged that, like I said, what we have seen from the tea party movement is going to be nothing.
RUSH: There aren't any Republicans supporting this anywhere.
CALLER: That's what I'm saying. It's anybody.
RUSH: Something tells me, Ken -- and I don't know what I'm really talking about here, but something tells me -- we're not going to have to wait until election day to see this anger boil over. Something tells me. Yeah.
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They were told, members of the Democrat caucus were told this morning, that the rule would be closed providing for one vote -- and that one vote would include the cramdown. I think "reconciliation" is the wrong word to use here. "Reconciliation" sounds problem-solving and really sweet and kind. "Oh, there are people getting along." This is a cramdown what's happening here. The cramdown provisions are amendments to the Senate Health Reform Bill and the student aid package. The student aid package is going to be thrown in there, so it's the student loan bill and the Senate-passed reform bill. Now the Senate bill vote is not separate. It's wrapped into the single vote. In other words, they're not going to pass a Senate bill by itself.
They're going to "deem" it passed. I guess they're back to this. They're going to have one vote on the Senate bill (and the things they add to it) in the House of Representatives. So when members vote for or against the cramdown package, they will also be voting for or against the Senate-passed health reform bill. Now once passed, the Senate bill will go to the president for signing and the reconciliation provisions will go to the Senate where they will need to pass unchanged. That is the procedure. Now, our spy said that while the leadership has not yet shared the legislative language of the add-ons, they have been told that the cramdown package has deleted the Cornhusker kickback and the Gator deal, but the Louisiana deal and the Connecticut hospital deal are still included.
So Nelson loses his thing. The Gator thing is out. But Mary Landrieu gets to keep her Louisiana Purchase and the Connecticut hospital deal is still included in there. The Cadillac tax was changed so that it only addresses individuals making $250,000 a year or more. Our spy also said that the DME tax would be 2.9%. The abortion language has not been changed from the Senate bill. So they're basically just going to say, "Screw Stupak." and The spy also said he's not sure yet whether Pelosi has the votes, but he thinks she's close. This is all over the ballpark. It depends on who you talk to. Lobbyists who are close to this are saying it's below 50/50 this thing is going to pass. Anyway, all the details are going to be rolled out this weekend or Monday, and that's the procedure. That's what we've been told is going to happen: A vote within a week.
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RUSH: Pelosi was talking about how artists and photographers will now be able to quit their jobs if we pass health care. (laughing) This is what they're fighting for.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.
RUSH: So this is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, taking pictures. It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job. It's so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job. It stifles people. It stifles creativity and economic growth to require people to have a job, to have health care. What a country. Man, are we horribly rotten mean to people. So Pelosi says go ahead, health care will allow people to quit their jobs and write, take pictures and paint while the rest of us work to pay for it. While the rest of us work to pay for these... never mind.
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RUSH: Now, I want to play this sound bite again from Nancy Pelosi. This is what Democrats are fighting for. Nancy Pelosi, this idiot Pelosi, thinks this country is Woodstock or Moscow or something. Listen to this.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.
RUSH: So they're fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids with asthma or what have you, and we're going to pay for this. This idiot thinks this is Woodstock. I mean, it's right out of the San Francisco mentality. It's just breathtaking here.
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RUSH: I still can't get over this sound bite number four. Listen to this again.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.
RUSH: At least one of Pelosi's 25 kids or however many she has is a documentary filmmaker. One of her kids is a documentary filmmaker. I forget her name. (interruption) Yeah, it's the one that hassled and tailed Bush around during the 2000 campaign. (laughing) She really... I mean, she thinks of the country as Woodstock or as San Francisco.
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RUSH: Folks, we can time travel. Remember how I opened this program. In Greece, austerity cutbacks coming to a state near you, by the way. The media walked off the job to join the protest. Even uniformed police walked off the job to join the protest in uniform. Now, if you live in five or six states, probably more, you're not going to get your income tax refund this year for many, many months. All the while, you have to watch Washington pass health care reform, which is going to add to your taxes like you can't believe. They're going to be taking more money from you, denying you your overpayment, your refund at the state level, and guess what? Another reason why we will not hear the words health care reform after if Obama signs it is because what's up next? Immigration, amnesty and what does that mean? That means adding 25 million illegals to the health care rolls paid for by all of us, except for those who want to quit their jobs to become artists and filmmakers while the rest of us pay for their health care benefits. Why don't we just give them food and water, too, in addition to health care, if they're going to quit their jobs to follow their dream.
Back in the Depression in Hollywood do you remember the movie Holiday starring Cary Grant? Old, old movie. During the Depression they made movie after movie all about dropping out of the capitalist system to find yourself. Yes, you can look it up. All kinds of movies. Just drop out during the Depression, see what capitalism has done for you, just drop out and find yourself. So history repeats, cycles repeat, and it's all out there. So the question now, if this thing passes, Obama signs it and nobody wants it, what happens? Let's go to Greece. What happens? And then who joins who? I, for one, am going to be fascinated to watch.
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RUSH: Listen to Pelosi again. Oh! I got a note from my buddy Vince Flynn when he heard this. Let me find it. I want to print it out real quick. Vince has an interesting story about this. Here's Pelosi. This is from last night on MessNBC.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.
RUSH: I get angrier each time I hear it. So quit work. Indulge your fantasies. Become an artist or documentarian, photographer, what have you -- and let the rest of us pay for your health care bill. And, by the way, while you're out there finding yourself, if you happen to get pregnant and want to have an abortion, no worries! We'll pay for that, too. But I want to focus on something here. "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance." Now, one of the things that Obama has promised is that you will not lose your coverage. If you like it, you'll be able to keep it. Here is Pelosi admitting: If you're able to quit your job and have "free," quote-unquote, health health coverage, who is hell is providing it for you? Government.
Pelosi inasmuch as confirmed single-payer, public option, universal health care in this quote, while she's attempting to establish solidarity with the nation's freeloaders! She's encouraging the freeloaders to freeload. Isn't it such a shame that this country requires people to work to have health care? How inhumane is that? So we're going to enable you to quit! If you want to dabble sitting there writing things, taking pictures or painting garbage that nobody will ever be able to understand, go for it! And we'll give you your health care. And, by the way, when the 25 million illegals get amnesty? Hey, they're going to join you! We'll be paying their health care too. All the while the states are withholding your income tax refunds. All of this is your money. It's mind-boggling.
In Detroit, they're going to level the place just like Mao did. They're going to level blighted areas and turn it into farms, and they're going to tell people where they have to move. It's amazing. Vince Flynn sent me a note. "You know, Rush, when I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was offered to support starving artists. I can't tell you how much this deeply offended me. I told her in very clear language..." and I know what Vince Flynn clear language is. "I told her in very clear language that I thought it was ridiculous to think that other Americans ought to pay for me to chase my dream. Anybody who understands pride and self-determination gets this. So I bartended at night, I wrote during the day, and I paid for my own damn insurance. I didn't expect anybody else to pick it up for me, and now we've got the Speaker of the House encouraging people to just check out!"
Just move to Haight-Ashbury. Just be done with it. Move out there and start painting murals or whatever you want to do, and all of your neighbors will come up and pay for your health care for you.
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RUSH: Oliver in Wichita. Great to have you on the program. Nice to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you very much. Thank you for doing the work, and I think you're more of a journalist than anybody else out there.
RUSH: Well, be careful, because I laugh, and journalists don't smile.
CALLER: Well, I know. I know you always say you're an entertainer, but I think you're more of a journalist because what you're saying I believe to be the truth.
RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you very much.
CALLER: Well, here are the facts. I'm 27 years old. I've been on the taxpaying workforce for ten years. I've been living on my own for nine years. Everything I've ever bought I've earned, even health care. I mean, I've paid myself with cash. The only debt I have alone is my car. My point is, I'm an artist. I trained for three years at the Actor's Lab here in Wichita, Kansas, with Tracy Sloat to be an actor. I wanted to be an actor since I was five, and I paid for that tuition with my own money. I would love to move to New York and I would love to pursue my craft full time, but I'm not going to do so until I can save up the money making an honest living to do that -- and even when I move there, I will even get a job to supplement my income because savings, like a stimulus, does not last forever. I don't know why Pelosi would even say something like that. I mean, I wish she would stop to pursue art.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: You know, it would be terrible for the art community, but it would be great for our country.
RUSH: You're great! How old are you? How old are you, Oliver? Right, you're twenty-seven. When you tell people that you have paid your own way on all these things, are they proud or do they think you're "out of touch" and you don't know what life is really like in this country anymore?
CALLER: They think I'm proud, and they actually say, "I don't know anybody like you." (laughing)
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: They're usually adults. Actually, a son that works for the owners of the company I work for, he recently just got on unemployment. He quit the job to get unemployment to get about $460 a week, and he doesn't know why everybody doesn't get on unemployment so they can go to school or hang out. He wants to go, like, on a vacation every single month. He's in Cancun right now. He doesn't get why people don't do that. I'm like, "Well, because some people understand what this country was made and founded on."
RUSH: Oliver, have you ever said to this guy, "Zeke," or whatever his name is, "Zeke, have you ever stopped to think that it's people like me paying you to do nothing like this? Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you are stealing from everybody? You're capable of getting a job and you refuse to do it. You're going on vacation. Does it ever occur to you that it's people like me who are making it possible for you, and you don't even say 'thanks'?"
CALLER: Yeah. I've said that to other people. I didn't say it to him because things are tenuous at my job right now. He's the owner's sons. And to be honest I was just in the position to lose my job and collect unemployment.
RUSH: Wait a second!
CALLER: But I fought really hard to keep it.
RUSH: Hold it!
CALLER: So that I didn't have to get unemployment.
RUSH: He's the owner's son?
CALLER: He's the owner's son, and he has quit every job there, like every department, to go to another one because he complained about it. He doesn't like it. He didn't like what it was about and everything. But he complained and everything. And they gave him another job, another job, another job to be here. Now he just quit to take unemployment because he wasn't making enough money.
RUSH: Good Lord.
CALLER: I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job (crosstalk) now.
RUSH: He doesn't even have the courage to sponge off his own father! He's got to sponge off the rest of us. This really offends me. The owner's kid quits every job and then signs up for unemployment. He ought to be sponging off his own dad! I know you can't say that; your job's tenuous. This guy really has no character. Zilch, zero. Nada.
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RUSH: Lynn in Delaware. Great to have you on the program.
CALLER: Hi. Are you there?
RUSH: Yeah, right here.
CALLER: Such a joy to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I just wanted to say that I think Pelousy is speaking to the lowest common denominator of our society. And I loved the e-mail from Vince Flynn. I think he speaks for most of us than Pelosi in our pride in our country, and I completely agree with you that the outrage over this healthcare bill will not wait until November. The Tea Party Express is already on the road, and by April 15th it's going to make last year's protests with over a million people --
RUSH: The tea Parties are having rallies all over the country, one in Georgia, one over in Tampa on April 15th, tax day. They're going to have tens of thousands of people at these things. So Snerdley, if you want to send in a report on how the Democrat Party has totally destroyed the black family as a human rights violation, do it. And if you want to send in a report that the Democrat Party is lining up seasoned citizens to have their health circumstances reviewed by death panels, feel free. Go right ahead. Just sign it Bo Snerdley when you send it in there, because citizens can do this.
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RUSH: It just keeps getting worse, ladies and gentlemen. "Democratic Congressional leaders struck a tentative agreement on Thursday that breathes new life into President Obama’s proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs." Listen to this. "The deal would bundle the bill into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote." Cramdown. Reconciliation. "Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster." So everything they can't get legally they're going to put into this reconciliation bill.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have time on this that they try to cram amnesty into it. Why not? Why not? If you're trying to get everything done in the Senate with 51 votes, why leave anything out of this? Why not just put amnesty in there? Why not put cap and trade in there? Why not put card check in there? All of these things. Get rid of this March 18th deadline and just put everything in this reconciliation bill. It only needs 51 votes in the Senate. What are we talking about here? Why limit this to the government takeover of the student loan process? I probably shouldn't have said that because I've given them an idea. Oh, well. (interruption) No, Snerdley, believe me, I don't have to give these people any ideas. I don't have a corruption gene in me. I don't have a pollution gene in me. These people are defined by their corruption genes.
Bart Stupak last night On the Record, Greta Van Susteren, she said, "Let me give you a hypothetical. Suppose it goes this way: House passes the Senate bill, goes to the president for signature, comes back for reconciliation. Is that a procedure you could live with?"
STUPAK: Members don't like the Senate bill, especially with the special deals in it. Why would we vote for it, send it to the president so he could sign it, it becomes law, then the special deals are law, and then trust that they're going to fix it later? It's not just me, many members said they don't agree with that process. Those of us who've been here for a little while know that tomorrow never comes. You know, we'll fix it tomorrow. Never happens.
RUSH: Actually, it does. But it takes a while. Do you remember welfare reform that Clinton signed in 1996? I'll never forget the Reverend Jackson and a number of others were demanding he fix it. Well, Clinton didn't have time to fix it, but welfare reform has significantly been rolled back, has it not? The requirement to work is not near what it was. You can repeal things. You can change it. You can roll things back. But it does take some time. So Van Susteren then said, "Nobody can seem to agree on these deadlines, and this doesn't seem like it's going to actually happen."
STUPAK: We've been having a lot of caucuses. We're here tonight. We finished up, but they're going to make us stay so they can have another caucus tomorrow morning.
VAN SUSTEREN: What happens at these caucuses? What do you do?
STUPAK: Oh, nothing. The same people get up and talk.
VAN SUSTEREN: And say, like, what, though? I mean, like, what, do you guys all sit in a room?
STUPAK: And we think this will happen. And we'll say, "Well, can we see the score from CBO? You say it's going to cost this much, has anyone independently checked those figures?"
VAN SUSTEREN: And what's the answer when you say "When?"
STUPAK: "Oh, we'll get it to you." That that's the standard answer. Will they get it to us? Sure. But when? Members are not going to accept that. We're not going to accept this, "Trust me, we'll fix it later." There has to be something more.
RUSH: So there's Stupak describing your average caucus meeting. Now remember, I'll go through this briefly, I have a spy who told me what went on in this morning's Democrat caucus meeting. The Democrats in a meeting this morning were told that there will definitely be a House vote in the next week on health reform and that all the members need to be prepared to stay in next weekend and through the following week until the vote happens. They were told that the rule would be closed, providing for one vote. That one vote would include the reconciliation provisions, the amendments to the Senate bill and the Student Aid Bill, along with the Senate passed bill. Everything would be tied into one vote. Now, the Senate bill will not be separate. They're going to go ahead, but they haven't seen the language for this yet. That's why they're being told to stay in town. They're going to vote on something they haven't seen. They're going to vote on something they haven't voted on. They're going to put all this together.
It's going to be like they're going to do their own one-House conference. They're going to take the Senate bill and the House is going to add their stuff to it with the Senate having no input. Then they're going to vote on it, and that's what's going go to Obama. And then supposedly after he signs it it's going to go back to the Senate where the Senate will say okay or whatever. It's a convoluted process. But what they were told today was that the Cornhusker Kickback is gone, and that the Gator Aid is gone. They were told something different yesterday. Michele Bachmann said in the caucus meeting yesterday that the White House people actually got booed by members of the Democrat caucus when they were presenting what Obama wants in this thing. It was Pelosi that came out after the meeting and said, (imitating Pelosi) "Oh the leadership from the president, why, we wouldn't be where we are. This is the most competent leader, this man's vision. We're going to get this done."
So they're saying things in public, but you listen to Stupak. Stupak says there's nothing going on in here, it's just a bunch of BS. But they come out of these meetings every day, Pelosi and Reid have these trumped up lying sacks full of stories about how wonderful and rosy it is in there and how everybody is up and it's close and we never felt better about this. It's clear that what's going on behind closed doors is not at all the way it's being portrayed by Pelosi and her gang.
This is Michael Leahy and the Washington Post. It appears, folks, that having a black president is not all it was cracked up to be. The headline here: "A Frustrated Caucus Keeps Complaints Quiet -- A year ago, members of the Congressional Black Caucus openly wept at Barack Obama's inauguration. Slowly, that euphoria has given way to frustration that his administration has not done more for black America. Questions about how to elect him have been replaced by questions about how to prod him. For many, it is the surprise of a political lifetime that they find themselves wrestling with such quandaries." They thought a black president was going to lead to all kinds of magic for the black community, and they think the Obama administration is taking them for granted. But they have to keep quiet about their criticism. They can't complain now, because that wouldn't look good.
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RUSH: I'm being accused of using a slur by accusing the Senate of "Indian giving" by taking back the Cornhusker kickback. People said I should have said "Native American giving." All right, it's "Native American giving." I'm being accused of a racial slur by using the term "Indian giving."
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Now, I've been alerted here, ladies and gentlemen. When was this? Let's see. It was last night at 9:20, Hot Air by "Allahpundit." It focuses on Lindsey Grahamensty. Apparently Lindsey Grahamensty and Chuck-U Schumer "met with Obama to update him on their efforts to advance immigration reform legislation. During the meeting, Graham said he made it clear to the president that the already difficult task of passing immigration reform becomes even harder when reconciliation is in play. 'I expressed, in no uncertain terms, my belief that immigration reform could come to a halt for the year if health care reconciliation goes forward.
"For more than a year, health care has sucked most of the energy out of the room. Using reconciliation to push health care through will make it much harder for Congress to come together on a topic as important as immigration,' Graham said in a statement," and the Allahpundit guy concludes his post here with the following: "Exit question: Will Rush be pushing amnesty on tomorrow's show? Operation Chaos, take two!" Meaning: Should we start pushing amnesty and immigration reform in order to derail health care? (laughing) It's an interesting thought. Interesting thought.
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I wish I would have followed my instincts so I could do a "See, I Told You So." I wish when that guy claimed his accelerator got stuck in his Prius at 94 miles-an-hour and a cop stopped him, I would have said, "Something smells here." Fox News: "Man at Wheel of 'Out-of-Control' Prius Has Troubled Financial Past." We're looking at Bubble Boy 2 here or Balloon Boy 2 here. "The man who became the face of the Toyota gas pedal scandal this week has a troubled financial past that is leading some to question whether he was wholly truthful in his story. On Monday, James Sikes called 911 to report that he was behind the wheel of an out-of-control Toyota Prius going 94 mph on a freeway near San Diego. Twenty-three minutes later, a California Highway Patrol officer helped guide him to a stop, a rescue that was captured on videotape.
"Since then, it's been learned that: - Sikes filed for bankruptcy in San Diego in 2008. According to documents, he was more than $700,000 in debt and roughly five months behind in payments on his Prius; - In 2001, Sikes filed a police report with the Merced County Sheriff's Department for $58,000 in stolen property, including jewelry, a digital video camera and equipment and $24,000 in cash; - Sikes has hired a law firm, though it has indicated he has no plans to sue Toyota; - Sikes won $55,000 on television's 'The Big Spin' in 2006, Fox40.com reports, and the real estate agent has boasted of celebrity clients such as Constance Ramos of 'Extreme Home Makeover.' While authorities say they don't doubt Sikes' account, several bloggers and a man who bought a home from Sikes in 2007 question whether the 61-year-old entrepreneur may have concocted the incident for publicity or for monetary gain."
Well, he had $55,000 from being on The Big Spin in 2006. At least the possibility that this is not all together truthful has opened up, and what it is, it's this culture of ours. People have this insatiable desire to be known, insatiable desire for fame. Well, it's Facebook, MySpace, Space Butt whatever it is. People are vomiting every bit of information whatever it is about themselves, having no clue what it means to lose their privacy and their identity and anonymity. They all want to be on American Idol, on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. What made me suspicious was the timing of it is the fact that the guy was able to go 94 miles-an-hour for so long without an injury or an accident to give time for video crews to get there and capture the whole thing while the cops stopped him.
All of this hysteria that's been raised about Toyota would help somebody pull off a hoax like this, because people would be more inclined to believe it, what with all the news about all these accelerators sticking and so forth. I don't know. My suspicions were something about this was wrong, primarily because every bit of it was on TV. We saw every bit of it, and then we heard the 911 call. (interruption) I don't know. I just... I can't get any deeper than that, Snerdley. Just my instincts. I'm not doing a "See, I Told You So." I wish I voiced my sentiments. The reason I didn't because it was just a wild opinion, and nothing other than that. People would say "rumor," and I didn't want to be responsible for starting that. But apparently other people began to look into it because they had similar doubts, questions or what have you.
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CALLER: Hello, Rush. Right-thinking, earned-my-own-way, Louisiana musician dittos.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey! I'm a musician, and I work (in a sense) in the school and in the public sector, but we're given grants to work in these sectors. And those people who give money from private grants and have had their --
RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait, I don't understand this. You're a musician. You work "in a sense in the school"?
CALLER: As a private contractor doing programs for kids and stuff like that, and also library and things. And those people who give money for private grants that fund this kind of stuff have had their finances so badly assailed that they're not giving money now to these grants, and those people who do the kind of work that I do aren't working like we used to. I'm working. I've always worked a day job. By the way, thank you, Ms. Pelosi. I don't need your help. But (cell garbled).
RUSH: I don't understand what this is. (interruption) Private money's drying up, the private grants to keep people doing what he's doing, but he's got a day job. (interruption) Okay. Okay. So...what? (interruption) Private money's drying up. (interruption) Oh, oh, oh! So he's tying this back to Pelosi. Oh, okay. He's tying it back to Pelosi. "Go ahead and quit your job because we'll give you healthcare." But then, okay, what else are these people going to live on? You can't eat your healthcare and you can't drink it. Anyway, Nick in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB Network. Sir, it's great to have you here.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush, how are you?
RUSH: Great.
CALLER: You actually were a mentor of mine in Pittsburgh back in the '70s. You helped me, actually, get into radio.
RUSH: Really?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Was this in McKeesport?
CALLER: Well, you were at KQV.
RUSH: KQV?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: So this was after McKeesport.
CALLER: (chuckling)
RUSH: Where did I meet you, Nick? Did we meet in person?
CALLER: Yes. We actually had a meeting. I won the WQED auction and you and I actually had a portrait made down at at a professional photography studio.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I don't know if you remember that or not.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: We've got a phone problem.
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: What is that?
CALLER: How about now?
RUSH: Nick, sounds like --
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: -- you're throwing up out there.
CALLER: (laughing) I'm on my cell.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: (static) The reason for the call is not only just to say hello and thank you for the mentoring that you gave me back in the '70s to get into radio. Actually, I was in radio for about five years. I was a broadcast major in college. But as you know the Pittsburgh market's pretty tough to get a job in radio.
RUSH: Yeah, but your big mistake --
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: (laughing) Gee, whiz. --
CALLER: (static) What's that?
RUSH: It sounds like you're being eaten out there.
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: (laughing) It sounds like you're in a jungle or something.
CALLER: No, I'm in Monroeville, but the reason --
RUSH: You're in Monroeville.
CALLER: (static) Yes.
RUSH: So you're up on Route 30.
CALLER: (static) But the reason for the call, too, not only to say hello, is currently I'm a small business owner here in Pittsburgh. I actually run a private-licensed technical school where we put people in the auto detailing business. What we've done is (static) we've lowered our tuition this year to help increase our tuition, because there's many people that are obviously unemployed, and we've seen an increase in students. But the problem is once they graduate from our course, they can't get any money to start their business, and these are people with good credit. They've been laid off. They've had great jobs. College students that are coming out of college. The problem is there's no money out there. The banks aren't loaning any money. Sally Mae funding dried up. I wanted to make that comment to see whether you had any insight on what we could do to possibly help our students once they've graduated to open up their own business.
RUSH: Uhhh.
CALLER: (static)
RUSH: Geez. It sounds to me like the best option is to call Pelosi.
CALLER: (laughing) I'm embarrassed (static).
RUSH: Now, I know the banks are tight with money right now. But I also know existing small businesses are saying, "It's not that we can't get loans. We don't want them. We're not growing. We're not hiring anybody. We have no desire to. We don't know what the terms of the deal are going to be going forward, based on Obama's legislative agenda." Now, if these people... When you say they've got a good credit rating, how old are these people you're talking about?
CALLER: Well, you know, it varies. We have students that are just out of college (static) and we have people that are in their 40s and 50s that have gotten laid off from their jobs --
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: -- and they're looking to do something else.
RUSH: And how much money are they trying to borrow?
CALLER: Anywhere from five to 10,000.
RUSH: They can't get a five to $10,000 loan?
CALLER: The banks are not doing it. The local banks are not doing it.
RUSH: Do these people have any collateral to put up?
CALLER: Some of them do. Most of them don't.
RUSH: Well, now, that's the reality. If you've got nothing to secure it, that's going to be problematic no matter what economy you're in. You are in Obama's America. We are all living in Obama's America, and I guess you could tell these people to wait for Obama to come into town for a town hall, because that's how he's dealing with jobs.
CALLER: Yeah, he's not doing a great job overall, as obviously we're in agreement. But for the small business owner or for the entrepreneur, there is no support anymore. There truly isn't, and it's the small business owner that made this country strong.
RUSH: Well, I know. Look, there's no economic growth going on out there and if the (sigh). It's just too bad. It's too bad that your graduates aren't trying to get a house, because that would be easy. It's... I don't know. The economy is in such a mess, and I think to the extent these banks are not loaning any money it's because they don't have confidence that these people are going to have any chance at getting their business started given the current economic climate. But I'm just wild guessing here, Nick, because I don't know the specific circumstances of each of your graduates, of each of your students. So without knowing that, it's tough to give anything beyond anything just general here. But there are banks lending money to people. The problem is a lot of people don't want to borrow it. People don't want to go into debt. I'll tell you something, Nick. (interruption)
That's a good point. Snerdley has reminded me of something. All of that TARP money and a lot of the stimulus money was to go to stuff just like this. It was to be able to bankroll people like you, and it's not going there. It's going to state governments and Obama's union buddies. It's not going to shovel-ready projects. It's not going to schools. Look at Detroit! Boy, if there was ever a place that could use stimulus money, it's them. What are they going to do? They're going to be bulldozing things. Now, I remember Nick when we met at the WQED auction. That's the PBS affiliate. Back then they always had these auctions that ran a week or two, fundraising drives. Fred Rogers was there. He did a show out of Pittsburgh. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood was done out of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh PBS affiliate. I got thrown off of every PBS auction I ever did, in Pittsburgh and in Kansas City. (laughing) I'm surprised I lasted long enough there to have a portrait made there with Nick. But I got thrown off, because I was too controversial. I'm way long on this segment. I have to take a break. (interruption) Oh, yeah, I got thrown off. I think I got thrown off of three of them. I mean, within an hour, within an hour of going on the air. (laughing)
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MITCHELL: Bottom line, what happens if you don't get health care for this president? This is really all-or-nothing for the sense of his power, for his legacy. He's invested so much in this in this first year. You've GOT to get this for him!
CUMMINGS: Andrea, I agree with you a million percent.
RUSH: Now, she's a correspondent. She's a reporter, an honest journalist -- an "honest journalist," as Howell Raines would say. This is one of the honest journalists out there, and Howell Raines wonders why they're not taking on Fox News and Roger Ailes. "You gotta get this for him! You gotta. (crying) You gotta get this for him, Elijah! As hard as he's worked on this, as much as he's invested in this. Health care for this president is all or nothing, for the sense of his power, his legacy! (sobbing) You've got to get this!
"I agree with you, Andrea, a million percent." Now will you let go of my leg? Play it again, Sam.
MITCHELL: Bottom line, what happens if you don't get health care for this president? This is really all-or-nothing for the sense of his power, for his legacy. He's invested so much in this in this first year. You've GOT to get this for him!
CUMMINGS: Andrea, I agree with you a million percent.
RUSH: (laughing) "You've GOT to get this for him! You've got to get this. His legacy, his sense of power. He's invested so much in this." Andrea, do you have the slightest idea what's even in this piece of manure bill? Do you have the slightest bit of knowledge what it contains?
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RUSH: The Democrats and yet another sob story. Pulling out another page from the playbook, yesterday on Capitol Hill at a press conference they held a meeting with an 11-year-old boy, Marcelas Owens, to rally support for an end to insurance industry abuses. Here's a portion of Dingy Harry's remarks.
REID: Our health care delivery system, such as it is today, is designed to cover the oldest and the youngest, most say. But for everyone in between, that's most of the people in this country, it's beyond broken. And it can certainly be illustrated by what's happened to a woman by the name of Tiffany Owens. This is her son Marcelas. His birthday was yesterday and he decided he would like to spend it in Washington, telling us and anyone that will listen about his mom.
RUSH: Okay. So, this 11-year-old boy Marcelas Owens said to somebody, "I want to go to Washington. I want to tell Harry Reid about my mother." And somehow this 11-year-old kid found his way into the Capitol, found his way to Harry Reid's office, and they were so impressed by what the kid said, "Hey, let's go get some cameras and microphones." And so here is Marcelas Owens telling his story.
OWENS: My mom was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2006. She missed so much work that she lost her job, and along with her job she lost her health care. And losing her health care ended up causing her her life. And I wanted to finish her fight for health care so I don't want any other kid to go through the pain that our family has gone through. I want Barack Obama and Congress and everybody to come together and help the health care bill pass.
RUSH: Now, this is unseemly, exploitative, an 11-year-old kid being forced to tell this story all over just to benefit the Democrat Party and Barack Obama. The essence of using a young child, and get the next sound bite. This is from Senator Durbin.
DURBIN: Today, 70 Americans will die for lack of health insurance, 70. And when the Republicans tell us, "Go slow, start over, take your time," we've got to add it up. It's 70 a day. How much time can we take?
RUSH: Seventy Americans. No, his number is off. It's 124, because the number is 45,000 a year, 365 days. That's the number we had earlier this week, 100 some odd. Something happened to cut that number in half. Do we even believe this? Seventy people a day die because they don't have health insurance? You know how this number was arrived at? We had the guy call us. Some survey company went out there and if somebody did not have health insurance, what year was it? 85? Everybody that's died since 1985 is assumed not to have had health insurance if they didn't have it in 1985. That's the extent of the scientific nature of the survey. But here's the dirty little secret, Senator Durbin. And I would also say this to Marcelas Owens. Well, your mom would have still died, because Obamacare doesn't kick in until 2014 if they sign it this year. And Senator Durbin, that means that 70 Americans are going to die every day for the next four years until the actual so-called benefits of which there are none kick in. So why this mad dash on this? It doesn't kick in for four years. We've been through this over and over. You're getting blue in the face hearing me. Here's Chuck-U Schumer following Dick Durbin.
SCHUMER: We're asking for an up-or-down vote. And that sounds abstract. It's about Marcelas's mom. An up-or-down vote is about people's lives.
RUSH: I want to puke. I literally want to puke. They do the same stuff over and over again. Senior citizens, now some kid, they bring up a bunch of people in wheelchairs or whatever. It's all about how this country is so rotten, people are dying and nobody cares, the country with the best damn health care in the world. And they get up and tell lies and have other people tell lies and exploit these people. All the tug on people's heart strings to make them feel guilty, make them feel the only way we're going to save lives is through Obama. But we're not going to start saving lives for four years. Here now, ladies and gentlemen, the capper on this outrage, from Senator Patty Murray.
MURRAY: It happened to Marcelas; it happens to a lot of people. The system we have in place today doesn't provide options for people when they are just at the edge. Marcelas's mom was doing all the right things, a single mom raising three little kids. She was working hard. She lost her health care because she lost her job. Marcelas stood up and he came up to a United States senator and he's gone up to the 29th floor of the federal building and he's flown all the way across the country to face this big crew of press people, because he has the courage that his mother left him to remind all of us what this debate is about.
RUSH: I guess I was right, this 11-year-old kid just stood up, he went to Washington somehow, flew there, then approached a US senator, then went up to the 29th floor of the federal building. He flew all the way across the country and had the guts to face the media, with all these Democrats standing beside him. Meanwhile, earlier today, yes, wait for it, here it is again. It's Nancy Pelosi from last night on television.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.
RUSH: Okay, so if you're tied up in a job you hate and you don't want to work there, quit. And sit around in your underwear and paint or take pictures and start writing a bunch of gibberish and claim you're an artist, and you'll be fine. You'll be fine because you're going to have health care. Health care paid for by all the rest of the people who don't check out, who don't let go of their own responsibilities. You can go ahead and just chuck your responsibilities out the window. Pelosi will give you health care. Now, you're going to have to find a way to get food and water until she figures out how to throw that in. And, by the way, if you happen to get knocked up while you're out there writing or taking pictures, don't sweat it, because we are also going to pay for your abortion while you get your health care, because it will be part of it. And then once we get amnesty, then we're going to have 25 million Americans also on the health care rolls who currently aren't. They'll have insurance from the government, paid for by all the other people who don't abolish their own responsibilities. You go ahead and check it out. Pelosi says we don't care, be an entrepreneur, sit on your ass and write and paint and we'll give you health care. Well, we won't. The other Americans who decide to keep working will.
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RUSH: Folks, I... Ahhhh. I'm going to go ahead and say it. I'm going to go ahead and say it. We just played these sound bites. (interruption) You don't think I should say it? You don't know what I'm going to say yet. The staff's going, "Oh, no." They're all putting their heads in their hands. We just played a sound bite of a little 11-year-old kid who miraculously flew to Washington, found a senator, and wanted to tell the world about his single mother who died because she didn't have health care. He wanted to tell the world about it so that we would pass Obama's health care plan, right? Now, one thing that we can deduce from it is that all that sickening audio -- and it's not just from the kid. It's from Dingy Harry to Patty Murray to Chuck Schumer to Dick Durbin. What it means is they don't have the votes. They don't have the votes. That's one thing it means. We also ran the numbers on what's his face, Durbin.
"Seventy people die because of no health insurance every day in this country," he said. But we're not going to get to single-payer for four years, until 2014. We ran the numbers: 180,000 people will die because of no health insurance, from the time Obama signs the bill until it is implemented in 2014. 180,000! Now, the thing that I... I am really am just going to say it. One of the biggest cultural and economic problems we have in this country is single mothers, households without fathers, and the Democrat Party here is... (sigh) Why do we have Medicaid? Why didn't this woman go get Medicaid? Where is the father of these kids? Where is the virtue in this? We're being to be told there's virtue in all of this suffering brought on by who? Who made this woman? Who made any woman a single mother? I'm not talking about a divorced mother. Who made her a single mother? And where's the guy? How come we all have to move in and be the guy? And it's rampant out there. You talk about an obstacle for kids to overcome? It's being part of families like this, and all the evidence shows it. Look, it's sad, and don't misunderstand, but we don't need to be making a virtue out of this, and that's what these schlub Democrats are doing with these kinds of sob stories. They're making a virtue out of this unfortunate circumstance that is not helpful to anyone. I don't know why in the hell... We've got Medicaid for these kind
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RUSH: All right. We've done a little research out there on this boy and his mother, his family -- and wait until you hear it. Wait until you hear it.
But, first, I got a note from my friend. This is really clever. "Rush, my wife and I are enjoying your company as we drive around in north Florida. I just heard you report what 'Dirt' Durbin said that 70 people a day die because of no health insurance. Does that mean that everybody else who dies has health insurance? If so, does that mean that health insurance is a big killer?" Now, that is a great way to look at this. (laughing) Health insurance a big killer! Seventy 70 people who don't have it die every day, but look at the number of people who had health insurance died. How many people died today because they couldn't get care from Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP or the Veterans Administration? Don't forget, folks: The largest insurance company in this country is the US government, and they do not grant everybody treatment. They have denials left and right. They deny more claims than private sector insurance companies do.
Here's the story from the Seattle Times, March 8th. "Local Boy Who Lost Mom Takes Health Care Story to DC -- His mother, Tifanny Owens, was working as an assistant manager at Jack in the Box when she began suffering from mysterious vomiting and diarrhea in September 2006. By October that year, she had missed so much work that she lost her job -- and her insurance. Two months later, Owens sought emergency care at Swedish Medical Center's Central Area campus, where a doctor diagnosed her with pulmonary hypertension, a serious type of high blood pressure involving the arteries in the lungs. In January, she again went to Swedish's emergency room and was hospitalized for eight days." All this without insurance. She was treated. Repeat: She was treated, and she had no health insurance.
"Owens' mother, Gina Owens, said her daughter, who didn't qualify for Medicaid," don't know why "avoided regular visits to a doctor despite frequently throwing up blood." She just wouldn't go. "In June 2007, Tifanny Owens was hospitalized yet again, this time at University of Washington Medical Center. After a week of unconsciousness, she died at age 27, leaving Marcelas and his two younger sisters. Gina Owens has custody of the three children." Now, the woman's mother (this Gina Owens who has now has custody) worked for the "Washington Community Action Network," an ACORN offshoot, "the state's largest consumer-advocacy group. Her death made the family's cause personal." So not ACORN. SEIU. She worked for the Service Employees International Union, the mother of the woman who died, again from the Seattle Times. And also from the Seattle Times story: "Health Care for America Now" which is George Soros, Obama and SEIU, "paid to take the boy and his grandmother to D.C." So the whole thing was orchestrated by the SEIU. The boy's aunt, grandmother, whatever it is, Gina, works for the SEIU. The SEIU... In other words, a woman who got treatment at two different hospitals without health insurance, her illness and death are being exploited by the union that her mother works for -- and now the kid's trip was paid for by the union. SEIU and all of this, that's Obama.
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RUSH: A little more research on the Washington Community Action Network. Technically, these people are not SEIU but they are involved with them. It's close. I want to be accurate here. They're not SEIU, but they're very much involved. And here is their basic stated mission: "to achieve economic fairness in order to establish a Democratic society characterized by racial and social justice --" which just means redistribution of wealth, that's what social justice means, "-- with respect to diversity and a decent quality of life for those who reside in Washington State." They got 50,000 members. That's who the woman who died mother works for, still the woman died. And then the woman's death is exploited by these people, along with the 11-year-old kid.
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RUSH: Here's Jordan in Daytona Beach, Florida, 16 years old. It's great to have you on the program. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you, Mr. Rush. How are you doing, sir?
RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Okay. I'm going to get right to the point. I'm not going to waste any time telling you about me. My question is: Which bailouts do you view as necessary to help the country stay afloat and which bailouts do you view as a waste of taxpayers' dollars?
RUSH: Well, interesting question. My instinct is to say both of them were unnecessary in the size and scope that they were taken. We still have unspent stimulus money, and we still have $200 billion to $300 billion in unspent TARP money. The TARP bailout was $700 billion and that, we were told, was necessary to virtually save the financial system of the world, because we had to save ours. It cost $700 billion, and there's still $300 billion of it left. The original purpose of that $700 billion, Jordan, was to enable lending institutions to start loaning money, and it was also to buy up all these "toxic assets." It turns out that TARP has not been used for that at all. TARP was used to buy General Motors. TARP was used to buy Chrysler. The TARP money was not used for its original purpose. There's something else out there, Jordan, you need to know. The Federal Reserve, before the TARP bailout, made loans totaling $2 trillion and they will not tell us to whom.
We don't know who got the money. Whether the Fed loans it or the government prints it, it's our money. So you can talk about the $700 billion TARP. You can talk about the $787 billion stimulus. That's nothing compared to the amount of money that the Federal Reserve lent people at the same time: $2 trillion. We don't know where it went and they will not tell us. But I would say, based on the fact that there has not been one positive economic uptick as a result of either of those bailouts (and the fact that there is still over half of each allotted bailout left or close to it) my logic says that neither were that necessary. That's just me. That's just me. And there's no mad dash to use that money. There's no mad dash to use the stimulus yet (because it's going to be used for re-election campaigns for Democrats in November) and there's no mad dash to use the TARP money. So I'd say none of it was necessary.
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Who needs a Dad?
Dads are over rated.
Gubmint is your daddy!
Lol, I love that one on the right. Words can’t describe it. At least words that can be posted.....
How much do you charge for those designer shirts, Phil??
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