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"The House Democrats are ripping up the Constitution,
writing the longest suicide note in history, and calling it self-executing."
"There are a lot of things about this country not to be proud of right now,
but they're not happening with the US military, and they're not happening outside of Congress.
They're happening in Congress. It's all inside."
"I believe that if Pelosi could pass the Senate bill, she'd do that.
But they don't have the votes to pass the Senate bill and they're probably not going to get the votes to pass the Senate bill."
"The Democrats may be suicidal, and they may be willing to lose a lot of people, but Pelosi and Reid don't want to get hurt.
They're happy to sacrifice other members of the Senate, primarily of the House.
But they don't want to suffer."
"I very seldom doubt my own instincts.
I mean, folks, even when I think I'm wrong I'm usually right.
That's how right on, spot on my instincts are."
"It's gotten to the point now where this is not even about health care reform.
It's all about saving Obama.
Destroying one-sixth of the country is not worth saving Obama's presidency."
"What's coming in the fall is the deceptively named net neutrality. T
he easiest way to understand this is to think of a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet."
"When you consider what the expectations were and what the promise was,
everything people thought Obama was going to be, that's history now.
He's a total joke.
But to say his party's going to be running him, take a look at what's happening here and it's obviously the other way around."
"They simply are on an unsustainable direction in New Jersey, and they,
unlike the federal government, cannot print money.
They have to do something about it."
"If you're not paying your own way and the taxpayers are paying your way,
and we are bankrupt and broke, the taxpayers can't keep paying your way."
"We conservatives believe that it is destructive of human lives to make them
dependent on a meager subsistence that they get from the state.
It's got to change. It cannot be supported anymore, particularly at the state level."
"We don't have the money for anything we're spending it on.
We're going to be adding $10 trillion to the national debt just in Obama's four years.
We don't have any money."
"For only the second time in American history, I have given out the Capitol Hill Switchboard number,
and I'm urging everybody to call and ramp it up, ratchet up the pressure."
"Obama said premiums for each employee's health care are going to fall 3,000% after
Obamacare passes and employers 'could afford to give you a raise.'
If you reduced it by 100%, you'd pay nothing.
So health care premiums are going to fall so much, health care companies will be paying employers.
They'll make a profit on health care!"
"Obama's whole appearance in Strongville, Ohio, was filled with lies, falsehoods, untruths, and even another sob story."
"The Republicans can't stop Obama.
The American people can, but the Republicans can't.
They don't have the votes to stop Obama."
"Hey, get used to it, America!
This is your new country: A permanent unemployment rate of nine, 10%.
That's the new norm according to the White House economic advisers."
"This is not a health care bill anymore. This is a save Obama's face bill.
This is save Obama's bacon bill. Save Obama's presidency bill.
It doesn't matter what's in it!"
"How do you buy off Dennis Kucinich? Would somebody explain that?
He's got an extremely dishy wife. His wife's a millionaire. How do you buy the guy off?"
"All deception requires secrecy. Secrecy is the number one desired weapon of tyranny.
You have to be able to do things in secret that nobody knows about to have a successful tyranny."
"The lies are so blatant, the process is so corrupt, that Obama wouldn't dare attempt to defend any of it in a press conference."
"The resolving door between media and government spouses --
non-spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, mistresses -- for crying out loud, is all over in D.C.
It's incestuous in that town."
"Take any team Obama picks to win. They lose. That's how I knew that the US hockey team had no prayer in the Olympics.
They had no prayer 'cause Obama picked 'em.
Whoever he picks to win it all in the Final Four, the March Madness, they're doomed."
"Have you noticed that all of a sudden, out of the blue we're talking amnesty now? Why? Replacement voters."
"We think of presidents as decent and good and patriotic Americans who love us and love the country. We don't have any of that."
"Google and this administration are very, very tight. Very tight."
"To all of you leftists in the media out there who are just beside yourselves that Virginia Thomas,
wife of a Supreme Court justice, is starting her own website oriented toward causes that are
designed to save this country from the American left: Do you remember the name Hillary Clinton?"
"Hillary's the secretary of state and her husband is an ex-president running around making speeches all over the place.
Where do you guys find the ability to draw the line here when it comes to Clarence Thomas and his wife?"
"The liberals will always tell us who they fear."
"We like America as it was founded. We don't want to turn it into a Third World country."
"Because Bill Clinton had dalliances with several women from trailer parks,
television studios, pancake houses and so forth, Hillary Clinton exacted a price.
She got to play a role in policy in order to stay married and present the happy couple face."
"Joblessness, Greece, Americans killed in Mexico, the national debt and budget deficit?
None of that bothers Obama. No, what really gets him to lose his cool is when the Jews build 1600 new homes in Jerusalem.
That makes Barack Hussein Obama mad."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air says that the Obama administration's decided that it's going to be too provocative for US forces on a humanitarian mission to fly the American flag at their base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Flying our flag would be a statement that we are an occupation force, not an international partner. There are a lot of things about this country not to be proud of right now, but they're happening in Congress, they're not happening with the US military, and they're not happening outside of Congress. It's all inside. Has anybody asked this question? You know, Obama's obviously losing his cool, but let's look at the things that he does not blow up over, the things that he does not lose his cool over. Unemployment, not a problem. In fact, three members of his economic team said today, hey, 9%, 9.7% unemployment for the next few years. We don't see job creation improving at all this year and not much in the year after and the year after that. So permanent new statistical unemployment rate of 9%, the new norm, and the administration itself after saying they're focusing laser-like on jobs, "Well, we're not going to have any new jobs, not this year, certainly not next year, maybe we'll get started the year after that."
So the job situation, unemployment, not a problem, doesn't lose his cool over that. The deficit, not a problem, doesn't lose his cool over that. Greece, a little look into our own future, not a problem. Iran getting nukes, he couldn't care less. He does not get worked up about it at all. Now he won't fly the flag in Haiti because he doesn't want to provoke people. But look what does get him mad: 1,600 new homes in Israel. Israel wants to build these homes for people who can afford to pay for them, in Jerusalem, and this has got Hillary Clinton flying off the deep end, it's got Obama flying off the deep end, it's got Biden flying off the deep end, this somehow is what angers this man? He's a Third World president, and he's a masquerade.
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RUSH: Well, Snerdley's in a little fit here, folks. He thinks I've really stepped in it by referring to our president as a Third World president. "What do you mean by that? You better explain what you mean by this." It's very simple. We have to destroy our country in order to save our leader's face. Now, where does this happen? It happens in Cuba. It happens in North Korea. It happens in Venezuela. It happens in every Third World country there is. They destroy countries in order to save their face, build monuments to themselves. They're leaders for life or what have you. This is not a health care bill anymore. This is a save Obama's face bill. This is save Obama's bacon bill. Save Obama's presidency bill. It doesn't matter what's in it!
He'll sign whatever he gets, as long as it says "health care reform" somewhere in it.
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| • Hot Air: US Forces Not Flying the Flag in Haiti? • Bloomberg: Obama Aides See Jobless Rate Elevated for 'Extended Period' |
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RUSH: Audio sound bites. This is Obama yesterday in Strongville, Ohio. This whole appearance yesterday was filled with lies, falsehoods, untruths, even another sob story about some person unable to get health care. "Yeah, she can't be here today because she's so sick." The reason why she wasn't there is she's in the hospital, being treated at no charge! Anyway, this is just one thing Obama said.
OBAMA: How many people are getting' insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands? A'right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000%, which means they could give you a RAISE!
FOLLOWERS: (cheering)
RUSH: Three thousand percent premiums are going to fall! Three thousand percent! Now, there were only 200 people that showed up yesterday. I don't know if that's all that were interested or that's just the number they could find that were not opposed to health care. But let's use on me some numbers here. Let's apply some numbers here to this 3,000% reduction in premiums. I'm just going to pick a random number here to use. Let's say the employer pays $4,000 in health care premiums for an employee. If his premium went down 100%, he would save $4,000, all right? If the premium went down 3,000%, that's a savings of $4,000 (100%) times 30. That equals $120,000, which means that if Obama's number is accurate here, that health care will allow employers to give people a raise because their premiums will go down 3,000%. That means the employer will make a $120,000 profit on each employee's health care insurance once Obamacare is passed. Now, you can buy a lot of unicorns for $120,000, and you can buy a lot of idiots for $120,000, but that's what he said. (impression) "Employer, eh, 3,000%! He could give you a raise." Well, they're not going to get any raise. This is bogus, 3,000%? The health care companies are going to be giving employers 120 grand per employee?
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RUSH: Back to Obama in Strongville, Ohio, yesterday. A final portion of his remarks.
OBAMA: We need an up-or-down vote! It's time t'vote. And now as we get closer to the vote there is a lot of hand-wringing goin' on. We hear a lot of people in Washington talkin' about politics, talkin' about what this means in November, talkin' about the poll numbers for Democrats and Republicans.
WOMAN: We need courage!
OBAMA: We need courage.
FOLLOWERS: (applauding)
OBAMA: Did you hear what somebody just said there? That's what we need. That's why I came here t'day. We need courage! We need courage.
RUSH: "We need courage." That's why he went there today? We need courage? We need an up-or-down vote? No, Mr. President. We're not going to get an up-or-down vote. Your party will not permit an up-or-down vote. You're going to lose your up-or-down vote. You have to break and violate the Constitution, blatantly, in order to save your presidency. Think about it. That's why I call him the Third World president. Let me tell you something, folks. It's very, very, very simple. This is fundamental. If Obama was proud of this bill, if he was proud of this process, he would have a full-blown news conference tonight, and he would answer every question about it -- and he would plug it, and he would show it. He'd point to page X and say, "This is where your premiums are going to go down 3,000%."
By the way, Bush never said that. I mean, you'd never hear: 3,000%, premiums are going to go down 3,000%, and his stupid audience is applauding that. But he doesn't dare do a news conference. He doesn't dare go on television to hype this bill. And you know why? All deception requires secrecy. Secrecy is the number one desired weapon of tyranny. You have to be able to do things in secret that nobody knows about to have a successful tyranny. Secrecy. That's what this is all about now, because they need deception. No one has seen the Slaughter solution bill. What's been posted is a shell bill. That's just a bill to distract everybody. That bill is just to get something posted just to get the process going. It will be gutted; it will be replaced. The Congressional Budget Office cannot score the final bill because nobody has seen it. It doesn't exist yet!
That's why Pelosi said they'll have to pass the bill for us to know what's in it. It's a patchwork of deceptions, threats, backroom deals, passed by unconstitutional parliamentary tricks. And the president of the United States, in order to save his face, is lying to the American people about Obamacare. His speeches are laced with fiction after fiction after fiction, and everybody knows it. Everybody's watching this, scratching their heads, trying to understand: "Does he not know that we know that he's lying?" I mean, hell, even the Washington Post today editorialized against the Slaughter solution. They call it "unseemly."
The Washington Post! I mean, they've done everything but poll in favor of Obama. They were the first bunch to run all the puff pieces on Obama a year and a half, two years, the start of his campaign. So he's out there lying to the American people about his health care bill. Fiction after fiction after fiction. The lies are so blatant, the process is so corrupt, that Obama wouldn't dare attempt to defend any of it in a press conference, even if every question was posed and written by David Axelrod. There is no way he can publicly defend this bill. He has to lie about it. He has to make things up about it. He has to deceive you. His most important thing, the thing most important to him, he can't defend. Not the real thing. He refuses to.
This procedure, the Slaughter solution, not only is it unconstitutional, not only is it universally unpopular -- not only does it ignore the one issue Americans really care about right now: Jobs -- not only are bribes necessary to get the required votes, not only will it require and guarantee Republican control of the House and maybe the Senate, not only will it destroy every budget until the country's bankruptcy, not only will passage spark protests like this country hasn't seen since our founding. This bill is so unpalatable that Obama can't get more than a couple hundred people to show up for his narcissism-fueled monument grab yesterday in Cleveland! Two hundred people showed up. Oh, and one of them fainted. You hear that? They're pulling out all the stops now. We're going back to the campaign, where people are so deliriously happy at Obama's presence that they are fainting -- and Obama just happens to see it every time it happens. (impression) "Oh, oh! Wait! Uh, somebody fainted. Medic! Get a medic in here, somebody. Uh, give him some space. Give that person some space," and he goes on with his deception speech.
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RUSH: Here is President Obama. Try to imagine the reaction if George W. Bush or Dan Quayle said this.
OBAMA: How many people are getting' insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands? A'right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000%, which means they could give you a RAISE!
FOLLOWERS: (cheering)
RUSH: What a bunch of idiots in the audience. Okay, here's the number just a number to work with to illustrate this. If your employer is spending $4,000 on your premium, your health insurance premium, a 100% reduction would mean there would be no price to pay whatsoever. If you reduce the premium by 100%, you wipe it out, the $4,000. If you reduce that $4,000 premium by 3,000%, that number is $120,000. So what Obama was saying is that health care premiums will fall so much that insurance companies will be paying your employer $120,000 per employee. It's moronic. It's off the cuff, irrelevant, untrue, just stupid. There's nothing intellectual about it, there's nothing elite about it, there's nothing special about it -- except in its utter stupidity and recklessness.
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RUSH: This is Amanda in Ironton, Ohio. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you today?
RUSH: Very well. Thank you.
CALLER: Well, I was watching C-SPAN yesterday, our anointed one was in Cleveland, and I'm from Ohio, and that was not a fainting spell that the guy was having there. What he was doing, this is exactly what happened, he said, "Get that guy a medic, he needs a medic. I think that guy needs a medic," and the C-SPAN cameras panned over and there's four to six cops dragging this guy out of there. And so they pan back to Obama. And I heard this lady shout out "how dare you" and then he went on with his, you know, same old, same old.
RUSH: You mean a woman shouted at Obama "how dare you," meaning how dare you lie about this?
CALLER: I think it was how dare you stifle this man's freedom of speech because you have a right to not agree with Obama.
RUSH: Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So the guy didn't faint?
CALLER: No! He was being drug off by four to six cops, and him saying that he needed a medic, that was a lie, among many that day. That basically telling the cops to drag that guy out of there, he was disrupting his lie fest, I guess.
RUSH: Nothing's genuine! I mean every story I read talked about this poor guy who fainted. Now, we never heard what happened to him as a result of fainting. We were snookered again, maybe.
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RUSH: All right, we had a caller say she watched this on C-SPAN yesterday and the fainter didn't faint, that the fainter was pulled out of there by four to six cops. We've got a little sound bite here. We're working on a couple of others, too. It looks like the caller was right. Here is how it went down.
OBAMA: Anybody here, if you lost your job right now and -- and -- and -- and after the COBRA ran out...
WOMAN: (unintelligible)
OBAMA: Looks like we got somebody who might have, uh, fainted down there. So if we've got a medic.
WOMAN: (unintelligible)
OBAMA: No, no, no, no. Hold on. Uh, I'm talking about there's somebody who might have fainted right down here, so... So if we can get, uh, a medic, just back here. Th-they're probably okay. Just give her -- or him -- some space.
RUSH: Now, we think what is unintelligible there, it is first time you hear somebody yelling, it looks like... By the way, I'd like to ask, did anybody in this place yesterday have a job? "Did you lose your job right now 'cause of...?" Did anybody, any of these 200 people have a freaking job? "Anyway, anybody here if you lost your job right now," audience member faints, we think at that point somebody yelled, "How dare you?" or maybe it was later in the clip. "So we've gotta get a medic," audience member yells something intelligible, but we think it's a second instance where somebody yells, "How dare you?" because nobody fainted. "Uh, uhhh, no, no, no. Hold on. Talk about somebody might have fainted down there. Can we get a medic? Here, listen to it again. You're not going to be able to understand the unintelligible, but I think I've got a clip located where we can understand. I'm not sure. I'm making no promises here. I got stuff flooding in at me like you can't believe here, and I'm the one guy trying to organize it for everybody else to get it done while hosting the program. So here's the first of what I hope is going to be two or three of these that have a little bit more clarity to them.
OBAMA: Anybody here, if you lost your job right now and -- and -- and -- and after the COBRA ran out...
WOMAN: (unintelligible)
OBAMA: Looks like we got somebody who might have, uh, fainted down there. So if we've got a medic.
WOMAN: (unintelligible)
OBAMA: No, no, no, no. Hold on. Uh, I'm talking about there's somebody who might have fainted right down here, so... So if we can get, uh, a medic, just back here. Th-they're probably okay. Just give her -- or him -- some space.
RUSH: Now while all this is happening, four or six cops are dragging this clown out, and we think that somebody said "How dare you?" during it. We're on the case. We're looking for other bites. Now, we had a caller recently asking about Obama's low numbers and will that mean that he's lost all influence and power in the Democrat Party and so forth? "No, no, no." The way to look at this is: Have you wondered why...? To understand Obama, it's a conflict because we know he's a narcissist but a narcissist really doesn't care what you think about him 'cause he loves himself so much. The fact that you can't just means that you're screwed up. He's a narcissist first and he looooves himself, and if you don't get that, tough toenails. Bill Clinton was not a narcissist. Clinton was a sociopath. If you didn't like him, it was his intention to make you like him.
If there were a hundred people in a room, he could find the one in there that didn't like him. He'd zero in on them and try to persuade them into loving him. Obama doesn't care. He loves himself too much. So he doesn't care what people think. Obviously he doesn't. If he cared what people thought, he wouldn't be doing this. He's simply pragmatic and practical. So he knows even if -- even if -- he doesn't get the bill passed, he's toast. He's toast. Whichever way this goes, his popularity is going to continue to plummet. So have you noticed all of a sudden out of the blue we're talking amnesty now? Why? Replacement voters. Twenty-five million or 12 million, whatever it is -- new voters just in time for 2012, who will owe their citizenship to him -- to replace the voters that he's losing in this process. He doesn't care. People do not understand, and it's very difficult to get your arms around a personality that you don't associate being president of the United States. We think of presidents as decent and good and patriotic Americans who love us and love the country.
We don't have any of that. We got a Third World president. We've got a guy who is willing to destroy his country in order to still love himself when he looks at himself in the mirror. Third World. People like Kim Jong-il do that. People like Kim Il-sung did that. Castro. Chavez. You name it. They destroy their country to make themselves look good or to save face. That's what we have going on here with health care. So we're past the point of return here where he can turn everybody around and make him loved again. I mean, the Obama of the campaign will never be again. That Obama will never be. But he's still gonna need to get reelected if he wants to. How does he do it? He's gotta find replacement voters. Bammo! Here comes amnesty being discussed right on the heels of this. Make no mistake. However this turns out, there's no let-up. None whatsoever.
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RUSH: All right now, we have a couple more examples of the faint that wasn't a faint. This first one is from MSNBC.
OBAMA: Give her or him some space.
Male Audience Member: I hope he has insurance! (laughter)
Female Audience Member: How dare you!
OBAMA: So -- so -- so let's -- just --
RUSH: You could hear it plain as day there, "how dare you." And it kept going, "how dare you." So what happened, apparently it was somebody in the audience who was speaking out against the health care plan, probably somebody who has a job. Well, doubt that anybody in there had a job. Probably somebody that didn't have a job and really wishes he were focusing on that. How dare you, how dare you. And Obama vamps to get the guy out of there, said, oh, medic, medic, somebody's fainted. And they come in and they start dragging the guy out when he hadn't fainted at all, he was just giving Obama the business. (interruption)Yeah, they were fainting everywhere, everybody loved him. That Obama, like told you yesterday, we're never going to see that Obama again. We'll see Obama, but we're not going to see that kind of adoration, love, blind support, those days are gone.
Here's the C-SPAN version, and let's see if it's any more intelligible here.
OBAMA: Give her or him some space.
Male Audience Member: I hope he has insurance! (laughter)
Female Audience Member: How dare you!
OBAMA: So -- so -- so let's -- just --
RUSH: So that's the same clip, two different sources, MSNBC and C-SPAN. We have a CNN version? Well, just came in. That's strange, it didn't go through me, usually it goes through me before -- well anyway, here's CNN's version.
OBAMA: Give her or him some space.
Male Audience Member: I hope he has insurance! (laughter)
Female Audience Member: How dare you!
OBAMA: So -- so -- so let's -- just --
RUSH: He did sound a little bit unnerved there. Yeah. Hope he has insurance, hope he has insurance. Well, fascinating, is it not, fascinating, is it not? So the fainter didn't faint. Even that was made up. Cops dragging the guy away, but you gotta give Obama credit. I mean that's a quick vamp. That is a quick vamp, call for cops when somebody's giving you the business and get 'em outta there. It might have been a prearranged code. I gotta remember that. I never get heckled when I go anywhere but if I ever do, "Medic! Medic! Somebody had a heart attack." (laughing) Right. (laughing)
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| • Sweetness & Light: Somebody Fainted At Obama's Speech |
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RUSH: Folks, you know, I very seldom -- as you well known for 21 years -- encourage phone calls and e-mails and letters to members of Congress. The reason that I don't do it is that I never want the charge to be levels that whatever response you gave was not genuine, that you had been talked into it or motivated and inspired or manipulated into doing it. I think it is pedal-to-the-metal time, and even if you have been e-mailing and faxing and calling, I think it's time to intensify it. You call the local offices. You call the Washington office of these people, the Democrats and so forth. The Republicans are like Martians: They can't stop this. The Martians couldn't stop it, the Republicans can't stop it. Not with votes. They don't have the votes to stop it, but you can. The only reason we are where we are now is because of you, the American people. That's the truth of the matter. I normally don't do this, but time to throw down the gauntlet here and really ratchet it up, to go along with all the other pressure that is being brought to bear elsewhere throughout the rest of the media.
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RUSH: Now, I have done this one time. I have actually given out a phone number in Washington one time. It was during the nineties. I was in New York and Steve Roberts was doing what was to be a cover story on me for US Snooze & World Report. Steve Roberts, the husband of Cokie Roberts. And the question came in, "You're always having people call Washington and you're always telling them to do this and do that." I said, "No, no, no. I'm not part of that crowd." I said, "You want me to show you what happens if I do it?" He said, "Yeah." "Okay. Today I'm going to give out a phone number and you watch what happens." I gave out a phone number and the place shut down. Just to demo. It was a big deal, too, because I never wanted to be able to offer the libs and the Democrats the opportunity to say that the effort was illegitimate because it was manipulated by me. But it's time to go all out here.
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RUSH: Well, something very interesting is happening. I've had two reports on this. I have not had a chance to assign a staffer to actually do this, but apparently when you call the Senate toll-free number that I just gave out you get a recorded message urging you to support the health care bill and to call somebody, a member of Congress to say that you support the bill. I have not heard that about the House number. If this is actually true (and I've had two or three e-mails from people on this) I'm not really surprised. The Democrats run these places. They could put on these phone switchboard messages whatever they wants, I assume. The lines are busy. Some people are getting through and some people aren't, but what you can also do is Google "Code Red." Just put in "Code Red." Just search for it. You'll find a website link.
You go there, it's a Republican site, and it will list all the undecided representatives. I think their phone numbers are there. You can call their local offices; you can call their Washington offices as well, directly. Those are not toll free numbers, I don't believe. The switchboard numbers are. I've even got the SEIU number. You know, Obama has a number out there with the SEIU. It's not identified as such. It's a toll-free number to call. When you call that you get a big spiel about how great and wonderful the bill is, and then it asks you to get hold of your congressman and let him or her know. You press a number and they give you a number for your congressman. I'd avoid the SEIU ad because they're only going to direct you to Democrats. Yeah, Koko is going to put the Code Red link right up on our website. So you're not going to have to Google it. Just go to RushLimbaugh.com for the Code Red website and find these members and their names.
What a trick. (interruption) Okay, Brian just got through, and it does say that. You called the number, and they...? (sigh) What a bunch of tricksters. They're misusing public telephone lines (laughing), which is nothing compared to the way they are genuinely shredding the Constitution in this. It's lawless, it is unconstitutional, it's illegal.
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RUSH: The Politico, ladies and gentlemen, has noted that I have given out the Capitol Hill Switchboard number for only the second time in American history. For only the second time in American history, I have given out the Capitol Hill Switchboard number, and I'm urging everybody to call and ramp it up, ratchet up the pressure. Here's something else. Something else I want you to be on the lookout for. If you do happen to get through to a member of Congress and that member of Congress tells you that he or she is undecided, that's a delaying tactic. Demand an answer. Because the odds are that somebody telling you when you call them, "Well, I haven't decided." They don't want the grief that they would get if they tell you they're going to vote for the thing. So try to pin 'em down, say, "What do you mean you're undecided? It's been going on for a year, how can you possibly be decided? We want to know, are you going to vote for it or against it? We want you to not support it," whatever you tell 'em, but this undecided riff is a delaying tactic.
Now, here's another switchboard number. This one's not toll-free. This one will cost you. It's worth it: 202-224-3121. That is the direct Capitol Hill Switchboard number, but it's a toll call as we used to say back in the old days of Ma Bell. It's a toll call. It's 202-224-3121.
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RUSH: Folks, if you'll indulge me for just a second here, this is an example of the day. I just mentioned the Politico blog post saying that for only the second time in history that I urge people to call Washington actually give out phone numbers. The blogger, Michael Calderon, has written me a note and said, "Look, I know you're busy, and you're still on the air now, but if you have a minute when you're done, I have a couple questions." I don't. Michael, I really don't have the a minute today when I'm done. So I'm going to answer your questions here on the air. Now, it's gonna take away from your exclusivity, but one of the questions I already answered on the air today. "When was the other time? When was the other time that you urged this?" It was when Steve Roberts of US News & World Report was doing a profile on me way back in the nineties.
He was of the belief, like so many people believed back then, that all I was doing was giving out phone numbers of members of Congress and switchboards in Washington and he asked me why I did that. I said, "I don't do it. I'm the one that doesn't do it. I don't use my show for activism." I said, "If I did it, I would shut the place down. So I'll demonstrate it for you." So I gave out a number. I forget what it was about. I forget what the whole thing was. In fact I think I told people, "Look, I'm trying to demonstrate something to a reporter here what will happen if I give out the Washington switchboard number." So I gave it out and of course the switchboard was tied up for a half hour or so, people couldn't get through. The same thing happened today at the two toll-free numbers I gave. Those numbers have now shut down.
You don't even get a recording at them now. They're invalidated. Nothing happened. So we had to give out the toll free and the toll call numbers. (By the way, the toll-free number to the switchboard is 877-762-8762.) "Why did I feel it necessary to do it now?" Because this is ballgame. This is ballgame. And Michael, the only reason we're at this point is because the American people have stood up. The Republicans don't have the votes to stop this, the Martians don't have the votes to stop this (and Republicans may as well be Martians on this, given all their influence). All we can do is continue to have the American people let it be known they want no part of this, the substance of the bill, or the process. They don't like it, and that's why I am urging them to call, 'cause this is a transformation of our country into something that no one has ever seen it be like. We don't want that transformation to take place. We like America as it was founded. We don't want to turn it into a Third World country.
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RUSH: Steny Hoyer has just come out and said the Democrats don't have the votes, which takes me to the final question from Michael Calderon at Politico -- and, Michael, I really do not have a moment after the program. I am swamped until I finally get to lay my head down on the pillow tonight. Last question from Michael Calderon: "Do you think there's a chance of still changing the minds of members as to how they may vote?" Now, if there's no chance, why is Pelosi trying to do at that? Yeah, I think there's a chance! I think there's a chance of making sure a bunch of "no" votes don't turn to "yes." I think there's a chance to make some of these undecideds go to "no," and I think there's a chance to make some of these "yes" votes last November go to "no" because the political climate is totally different. But if the time was past where there was a chance of still changing the minds of members, then what's Pelosi doing trying to change their minds, and what's Jim Clyburn doing trying to change their minds?
Why am I getting this question? Michael, why didn't you call Pelosi's office and ask: "Do you really think there's a chance of changing your members' minds?" Apparently they're up for grabs because they don't have the votes. I, apparently, am not the one who has to change anybody's mind. Pelosi is. Hoyer just came out and said they don't have the votes. Pure and simple. One of the underlying aspects of the Democrats' hail Mary pass attempt to push this health care plan through is that if it passes, it's the first time in American history the federal government will force every American to buy something whether you can afford it or not. Now, the Heritage Foundation has been making the point for months: there's no constitutional or judicial precedent for such a power grab. None whatsoever.
If this bill passes, the Constitution's carefully crafted limits on congressional power will have been reduced substantially. It's an all-out assault here. Now, this is not what the Founding Fathers intended -- and this is why, Michael, I'm trying to get as many people (for the second time in history) to call people in Washington and stop this. We're dealing with a transformation of this country unlike anything we've seen before, and certainly not as it was founded. We did not elect people to overthrow the government. We did not elect people to reshape it or to remake it. They are stewards. The Constitution is the Constitution, and it doesn't matter to these people, and it doesn't matter to the people in the media. They don't care. They don't even care what the substance of this is. They're just surprised anybody would oppose it.
"Why, he's a historical president. He's our first black president! Why would you oppose this?"
They look at it from the prism of just a horse race.
"Can Obama get this done? Can Obama win?" Secondly, and almost just as important: "Can Obama beat the Republicans?"
Well, hint, hint! The Republican can't stop Obama. The American people can, but the Republicans can't. They don't have the votes to stop Obama. This is not about the Republicans! The Founding Fathers intended none of this. Heritage Foundation is on a mission to make sure you know exactly how the Democrats are damaging the bedrock of our system of government.
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RUSH: And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network. The House of Representatives, I guess Congress in general, has put out a System Advisory saying: "House telephone circuits have neared capacity." This explains why nobody can get through their busy signals. The actual message: "Due to the high volume of external calls, House telephone circuits are near capacity, resulting in outside callers getting busy signals. If you have any questions, please call the technology call center," and there's an 800 number here. (877-762-8762) (laughs) So... (interruption) No, no, no, I don't want to give that number out. But people are writing me and saying, "We can't get through." I know we can't get through. That's the whole point! Just keep trying. Nobody else can get through either. Now, I don't doubt that a lot of members have their phones turned off and they have their mailboxes full.
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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites because the health care topic is obviously the one that's first and foremost front and center. Let's go first to Sunday. This is the House whip, Congressman Clyburn, James Clyburn, Democrat, South Carolina, former head of the Congressional Black Caucus. They're not a happy bunch these days, either.
CLYBURN: No, we don't have them as of this morning, but we've been working this thing all weekend, we'll be working it going into the week. I'm also very confident that we'll get this done. I have been talking to members for a long time on this, and they have the will to do it. They've been looking to us to create a way to do it. I think we have gotten to a place where we do have a way to do it and I think the members are going to vote for this.
RUSH: That's Sunday. They don't have the votes. He doesn't even sound confident he's going to get the votes. Then he said in an interview with McClatchy newspapers, the House health care vote could be delayed until as late as Easter now. "Clyburn said it is possible that the House vote on healthcare reform could take place long past the vote Democratic leaders had hoped for this week. 'The chances are good, but I wouldn't bet on it,' the third-ranking House Democrat said of whether a healthcare vote could be held by the April 4th holiday." Then this next story, and I got this in an e-mail question: "Rush, I'm confused, I don't understand. If they have the votes why would they need the Slaughter rule?"
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, still shoring up support for legislation to overhaul the U.S. health- care system, vowed that Democrats will be ready to pass the bill when the time comes. 'When we bring the bill to the floor, we will have the votes.'" They obviously don't have the votes. Stupak, by the way, says they're 16 votes short. But Stupak's been all over the board on this with his predictions. (interruption) About Stupak? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, he's a Democrat, I mean you gotta keep 'em at arm's length no matter what they say they're for or against, moderate, Blue Dog, lapdog, rabid dog, whatever they want to call themselves. But I happen to think he's right about this one. I think they are at about 200 votes. I'm running a risk in telling you what I really think here, 'cause I don't want anybody to relax over this, but I don't think they're close. I think the only reason they're talking the Slaughter rule is because they're not close, and the Slaughter rule is basically they're going to pass a bill which they haven't voted on, they're going to deem it. No question about it, it's unconstitutional. This is not how legislation becomes law. It's right there in the Constitution. I'm sure that all of you who have been paying attention to this have heard this throughout the weekend and yesterday. What they're doing is totally unconstitutional.
I believe that if Pelosi could pass the Senate bill, she'd do that. She would do that. But they don't have the votes to pass the Senate bill and they're probably not going to get the votes to pass the Senate bill. So now they're doing... it's got a bunch of different names, self-executing rule, going to deem the Senate bill to have passed. What Slaughter is doing, she's head of the rules committee, and, by the way, the Republicans have done this, the Republicans have used self-executing things before, and the Democrats are saying, "Hey, well, wait a minute, you can't criticize this, why, why, the Republicans did this." Yeah, they did it raising the debt limit, which is a perfunctory thing. I frankly don't think it should ever be used. I think the Constitution needs to always be upheld, but just because the Republicans did it doesn't give everyone else the right. Just because somebody breaks a law doesn't give everybody else the right to break the law with impunity. The Republicans never did anything like this with this scope, nationalizing, socializing two-and-a-half trillion dollars of the private sector economy in this country, one-sixth of it, they've never done anything like that.
In fact, I have the details in my numerous stacks of stuff here today, but the first time that Republicans tried this, Louise Slaughter sued them and Pelosi sued them and Henry Waxman sued the Republicans for using this self-executed -- basically what Slaughter is trying to do now. The bad news is they lost. An appellate court upheld what the Republicans did. But they didn't endorse it, they just upheld it. And again it was on the basis, "Ah, you know, this is a perfunctory thing," the country has to raise the debt limit every now and then and this is a fast way of getting it done. Democrats said, "Well, why are you complaining at us?" Republicans have never, ever tried to do anything like this. I really believe Pelosi, to get back to this train of thought, would love to be able to pass the Senate bill and not have to go the Slaughter rule route. But she will. The Democrats may be suicidal, and they may be willing to lose a lot of people, but Pelosi doesn't want to get hurt, and Reid doesn't want to get hurt. They're happy to sacrifice other members of the Senate, primarily of the House. But they don't want to suffer. They don't want any bad hits to their reputation from inside their own camps.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they're going back and forth on the Slaughter rule simply as a way to make it look like the Senate Democrats and Obama failed to get this done. Because what will happen, if the Slaughter rule is used, they will deem the Senate bill passed, but it will not have passed, so the president really can't sign it, even though it's deemed to have passed. So they'll add the Slaughter rule to it, which adds all these changes, the term reconciliation being used, and then those changes -- one thing nobody has been talking about, and it finally hit me last night, the one thing nobody's been talking about, what does Reid think of this? What do all these senators think of this? The House is here making unilateral changes to their bill, what did they think of it? Nobody's asking Democrat senators, what do you think about taking out the Cornhusker Kickback or what do you think about putting in the public option and what do you think about the abortion rules and then having it paid for by taxpayers? Nobody's asking them that.
Well, those things eventually have to go to the Senate, they have to eventually debate 'em and approve 'em and we could have a reverse situation here theoretically. Before this all said and done, it could be the Senate that has to now deal with whatever the House has done and what if they don't? What if they don't pass it? Then who gets the blame? Reid! Then it's on Reid's head that the thing didn't happen. And then it's on Obama's head, but it's not Pelosi, 'cause Pelosi can say, "Hey, I did whatever it took to get this passed." There is so much intrigue going on with this and it's all based around the fact they don't have the votes. Now, I don't think they're close, I don't think they're five short, I don't think they're four short. These whip counts, who can possibly know? My instincts, I trust 'em. I very seldom doubt my own instincts. I mean, folks, even when I think I'm wrong I'm usually right. That's how right on, spot on my instincts are. And the way this is all playing out, how many endgame stories have we had in the last year? "Democrats down to the endgame on --" for a full year! They haven't had the votes for a full year. There's nothing that's happened this year to make it any more palatable to support this thing. It's only gotten worse.
The White House even has a pollster out there who is lying about the support for the bill increasing since Obama's State of the Union show. And what he's doing is saying, "Look at this individual part of the bill, people like that, that individual part." He's taking little parcels of it, asking poll questions about it, but when people are asked about the whole comprehensive bill, they reject it by a majority poll number each and every time, and the number is getting bigger. The number of people in the country who oppose this is getting bigger. There's nothing that has happened to inspire anybody to have any more confidence this thing is going to pass in the last six weeks, the last two months, yet you turn on the television and all you see is we're going to get this done, we're really close, we're only five votes down, Obama is delaying his trip. It's only a vacation trip, no big deal.
Now, Clyburn is out there saying we may not get this done by Easter, which means if he can't get the votes then the House done, either Slaughter rule or whatever, which is unconstitutional and ought to cause, if it happens, peaceful outrage like we have never seen before, peaceful, but this news every day, "Oh, yeah, we're really close, we're really close," it's all designed to dispirit us. It's all designed to dispirit opposition and dispirit members who are going to vote "no." It's all designed to create a false sense of momentum toward passage. And I don't see it. I know Pelosi's trying to buy votes, and I know all these things are going on, and I'm not saying it's dead, please don't misunderstand, and I'm not saying stand down, I'm not saying relax on this. This is a time to stay as intense in your opposition to this as ever before.
But if this doesn't happen by the time the Easter Passover break happens, of course these members of the House are going to go home and they're going to get an earful from their constituents, and that's one thing that everybody's worried about in getting this done. It's gotten to the point now where this is not even about health care reform, it's not about doctors and nurses and clean water, it's not about insurance. It's about saving the Obama presidency. That's what's driving this, the absolute wrong reason, the wrong inspiration, the wrong motivation for doing this. It's all about saving Obama. Destroying the country, one-sixth of the country, it's not worth saving Obama's presidency. Obama's presidency is an abject failure and deserves to continue failing.
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RUSH: Now, this Clyburn business, James Clyburn coming out in McClatchy said, "We may not get enough votes here to get this passed by Easter." This is the first real public sign of weakness by the Democrats in this. As I say, normally what we see each and every day is, "Oh, yeah!" Like Pelosi last Friday with that Botox smile. You know what? I would love to know... Never mind. Never mind. I was going to say "what pharmaceutical she's on," but I withdraw it. She's up there smiling big time on Friday. (impression) "It's going to be so wonderful, and it's going to be so exciting. A week from now, the president will be here, this historic vote for national health care, what will happen next week. We're so excited and, the president delaying his trip," as though it's a fait accompli. Why not do it now? Why make him delay? What's the magic? What are you going to find between now and Saturday? Whose votes are you going to change?
Taking Kucinich up for a spin in Air Force One and you go to him under pressure in front of his constituents there in Cleveland is going to make a difference? The guys like Kucinich are not the problem. The problem is the 17 people that voted "yes" last time who are thinking of voting "no" this time 'cause everything's different in their district. There's some polling data I saw in Wall Street Journal on Sunday night. I mean, some of these Democrat districts it's hopeless, and some of these people voted "yes" the first time around and might be voting "no." This Clyburn coming out here and saying, "Weeeell, health care vote could push past the Easter holiday, could be delayed," that's the first real public sign of weakness. The first deviation from this, "Oh, yeah! Everything's cool. We're out on track. We're going to have the votes. We're so close, we're so excited," and you have all these three robots -- Axelrod, Gibbs, somebody else from the White House -- all on the Sunday shows flooding the zone. "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's easy. We're going to have these votes." They don't have the votes now.
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RUSH: Let's go back to the audio sound bites. This is Obama putting the screws to Dennis Kucinich.
OBAMA: Your own congressman, who is tireless on behalf of workin' people, Dennis Kucinich.
FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause)
SCREAMING MAN: VOTE YES!
OBAMA: Come-ah (snickers) Did you hear that, Dennis? Go and say that again.
SCREAMING MAN: VOTE YES!
RUSH: Yeah, big 200 crowd of people there, "Vote yes!" to Kucinich in there. How do you buy off Dennis Kucinich? Would somebody explain that? He's got an extremely dishy wife. His wife's a millionaire. How do you buy the guy off? You gotta put the public option in there to buy this guy off. You gotta make it even worse. (interruption) What? (interruption) I know he... (interruption) Well, he's... (interruption) No. He said "no" last week, and now he's saying he's undecided. I can explain that to you. Well, not very many people get to fly on Air Force One and the people that do very seldom are brought into the presidential cabin and wined and dined -- or, in this case, chewed out. You know, Dennis Kucinich, at the end of the day, is a nonentity, as is every member of Congress compared -- individually compared -- to the president. So you bring them into the Oval Office or Air Force One where you're flying him back to his district and he gets to get off the airplane with you.
This is presidential power; this is how it's used. It can be used to say, "Dennis, you're really important. I need you. I need you." Everybody wants to be needed. Everybody at the end of the day wants to say, "I'm the man, I'm the guy that helped the president get this done." (interruption) Well, he's a true believer. Yeah, Kucinich is a true believer, and I'm by no means predicting how it's going to go. I'm just asking you what they could do to pressure the guy. I mean, they can't buy him off. His wife's got a zillion dollars, so it's easy for him to go out and be a socialist. You know, he married up. By the way, here's the latest news from the House. Boehner "today announced that House Republicans intend to force a vote on a resolution requiring an actual up-or-down House vote on the Senate health care bill."
This is a technique they're going to try to stop the Democrats from using the Slaughter rule. "If passed by the House, the resolution would prevent Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from implementing the 'Slaughter Solution,' the scheme by which Democratic leaders are seeking to pass the Senate [bill]." The statement says: "'This week, House Republicans intend to force a vote on a measure that would give the American people an up-or-down vote on the Senate health care bill,'" without all this slaughter stuff, "Boehner said." Now, I have no idea how the vote on that would come out. You know, I think what they're trying to do is say, "Let's force a vote. Let's make the Democrats go on record that they are willing to break and violate the Constitution. Let's get the Democrats on record saying, 'Yep,' they intend to be lawless and they will use lawlessness."
What are the odds that Boehner is able to get this vote? Pretty slim. Pelosi would have to call for it, have to agree to it. But at least it's not a bad countermeasure.
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RUSH: Washington Post today: "We understand the administration's sense of urgency on health-care reform." I don't know that they do. The sense of urgency is not health care reform. It's not insurance premiums, it's nothing. It's saving Obama's face. The urgency is about saving Obama's presidency. But then the post editorial continues: "But what is intended as a final sprint threatens to turn into something unseemly and, more important, contrary to Democrats' promises of transparency and time for deliberation." Well, big deal. Do they still believe at the Washington Post that transparency and proper time for deliberation is a factor here? "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday that she is leaning toward a parliamentary maneuver under which the House would vote on a package of changes to the Senate-approved reform bill, and the underlying Senate bill would then be 'deemed' to have passed, even though the House had never voted on it. That may help some House members dodge a politically difficult decision, but it strikes us as a dodgy way to reform the health-care system." Well, that's exactly right.
Here we are, look at the tricks, the unconstitutionality, the lawlessness that the Democrat Party is having to resort to in order force something down our throats that nobody wants. This is not just a little bit of debt raising, this is one-sixth of the US economy. This is more than unseemly. It is unconstitutional. It's more than dodgy. It is lawlessness. It is perhaps the greatest assault on the Constitution in our lifetimes. The Constitution is probably more specific about how a bill becomes a bill than it is about anything else in the Constitution. It spells it out from beginning to end with no ambiguity. A president cannot sign a bill until it has been passed by both houses, and this will not do that. Even the Slaughter solution, this will not do that. This is more than dodgy, this is more than unseemly. It's illegal! It is un-American, it is unconstitutional, and it is lawless. And it deserves no patience or tolerance whatsoever.
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RUSH: So we have the House Democrats literally ripping up the Constitution, writing the longest suicide note in history, and calling it "self-executing." (laughing) We have all that going on, and the media's constitutional scholars are talking about the politics of the wife of a Supreme Court justice. It's amazing stuff.
By the way, the top four Democrat leaders all disagree on where they are in the votes. Bloomberg: "Pelosi Says Dems to Have Votes for Health Bill." The Hill: "Hoyer Shoots Down Larson's Vote Count, Clyburn's Timeline." The Hill: "Clyburn Says Health Vote Could Push Past Easter Holiday." Politico: "Larson Says Dems Have the Votes." The Hill: "Hoyer Shoots Down Larson's Vote Count," says they don't have the votes, and shoots down "Clyburn's Timeline" of Easter. Folks, they're turning into the Keystone Cops. They're dangerous bunch of Keystone Cops. But people are starting to laugh at them now. The Alinsky Rule for Radicals of "ridicule" is being turned on the House Democrats. It's about time.
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They delayed the vote one hour beyond when it was scheduled to be stopped. She was personally lobbied by the Clinton administration, and Clinton himself. She caved inside of an hour. She switched her vote, voted "yes" on a budget, and it passed. She then got creamed in her next election. She was voted out of office in almost a landslide -- in Philadelphia! A Democrat place if there ever was one. So they dragged Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky back out on MSNBC today and do you know what the point was for her being there? She was actually saying she was there to have a message for Democrat members of the House who are really worried about their future if they vote "yes" on the health care bill. She said, "Listen to me and my story. I am living proof that there is life after Congress. In fact, my life became more prosperous than ever when I left Congress."
So she's up there on Mess NBC today with a message Democrats: "Hey, life's only going to get better! Life doesn't end when you leave Congress. Why, for me it got a hell of a lot better: I'm richer, I'm happier, my son's marrying Hillary Clinton's daughter." That's Mark Margolies-Mezvinsky. That's true. Chelsea Clinton is engaged. They're getting married sometime in July. Nobody knows where or when, specifically, but, yeah. I mean, that... (laughing) I don't know what that deal was back in 1993, '94, but her son is now marrying Chelsea Clinton. She's on television, "Oh, there's life after Congress!" In other words: "Go ahead, commit suicide. There is an afterlife -- and in my case it's even better than it was in Congress. There's certainly more to life than Congress." I'm just telling you: If they're dragging her out to go on TV to say this to Democrats in the House, it's just further evidence they're not that close on the vote. They just aren't. They're nowhere near it.
I've often said that Obama is not grounded in reality, that Obama tells himself lies about himself, about his circumstances, about his situation; that he's very, very odd in this way. From the UK Telegraph (I have the story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers): Obama has issued a threat: Any Democrat who does not vote for his health care bill will not receive a campaign visit by Obama. That's a threat. He's actually threatening them. "Barack Obama has said he will not campaign for any Democratic congressmen who fails to support health care reform. [He] will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill." He will not help you if you vote against the bill. Well, the reality is this is music to their ears. Obama coming in, especially in November if this thing passes, is as big a death knell as voting for it.
I mean, this is a double whammy. They need to bring Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky back and say, "There is life after Congress, and there is life after the president doesn't come in to campaign for you." (laughing) Can you say Virginia? Can you say New Jersey? Can you say Massachusetts? Everywhere he goes! Take any team Obama picks to win. They lose. That's how I knew that the US hockey team had no prayer in the Olympics. They had no prayer, 'cause Obama picked 'em. Whoever he picks to win it all in the Final Four, the March Madness, they're doomed. He's worse than the jinx of being on the cover of Sports Illustrated! He better not welcome Tiger Woods back. He'd better not say, "Tiger, we hope you pull it out. Tiger, we hope that you win in Augusta," because if he does that, they'll have to put all the pancake waitresses and pole darkness on red alert.
So Obama threatening not to campaign for these guys is music to their ears. Most people don't want him there. In fact, Obama went to St. Louis last week and a whole lot of local Democrats didn't show up. They didn't want to be there. Why do you think Evan Bayh quit the Senate? It's not because of "too much partisanship" and all that. It's because, ladies and gentlemen, if he wants to run for office -- national office, president, whatever -- he's gotta distance himself from the Obama agenda and he's been voting for it down the line. This guy is so unpopular that being anywhere near his agenda is a death knell. So big threats, big threats from President Obama to members of his own party. Proving, once again, this is all about him. It isn't about health care.
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RUSH: Here's Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, and this is this morning with Mess NBC and Savannah Guthrie along with F. Chuck Todd. And Chuck said, "There are about 37 'no' votes that the White House is trying to switch. Some of these House Democrats, they voted 'no,' now they're tried to be convinced to a 'yes.' What advice do you, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, have for them? You didn't survive. What about the politics of this? What advice can you give them?"
MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY: People don't call into your office if they like what you are doing. They call into your office when they say don't go for it, so don't listen to that. You're a change agent, listen to the Pericleses of the world who say go down there to lead and not to be led. Now, having said that, it's coming from me, I wasn't a good politician. I did a drive-by. I think that we've gotta stop telling people what they want to hear, we've gotta tell them what they need to hear. We are sucking our children and our grandchildren with a debt, and the deficit, that they cannot handle.
TODD: Right.
MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY: But once again, I didn't last very long.
GUTHRIE: Well, you've proven there is life after Congress...
TODD: That's right.
MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY: Well, there is.
GUTHRIE: ...and we really appreciate getting your perspective.
RUSH: She proved that there's life after Congress. Go down with the ship. Go down with it. Tell everybody, whether it's going to result in your defeat, there's life after Congress.
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So here's Ginni Thomas, who has her own life history of being involved as an activist in conservative causes, all of a sudden with a hit piece in the LA Times. This is why, by the way, the LA Times is losing readers: its content, content, content. They are trying to besmirch Ginni Thomas by pointing out that she likes me. This is little Ricky Sanchez on CNN yesterday afternoon.
SANCHEZ: She has started her own tea party branch, loves Rush Limbaugh, refers to the president of the United States's administration as a hard-left agenda. Usually the wife of a justice, a Supreme Court justice, would not take such a public position. But that does not stop Virginia Thomas, who is publicly, if not downright aggressively taking on the left, taking on the president, and fighting for all causes from the right.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. But, of course, not allowed, the liberals can do this. You know, the wives, husbands of liberal judges, they can be all over the place. Here's Nina Totenberg. This is on NPR's Morning Edition today, Linda Wertheimer is the host here, and it's sort of a montage.
WERTHEIMER: Thomas' new role is raising questions about potential conflicts of interest for her husband.
TOTENBERG: She was a top aide to Republican House leader Dick Armey, and in 2000 while Bush vs. Gore was before the Supreme Court, she was working at the conservative Heritage Foundation helping to recruit staff for a possible Bush administration. Thomas describes herself as a fan of Rush Limbaugh.
RUSH: Yeah. This is not hurting her, Nina. Anybody associated with me is only elevated in stature. You're not hurting her; you're not hurting her cause. You people at the LA Times and you people at CNN and you people at NPR have given her the greatest gift possible. You have let the whole country know that there is a website out there pushing to save America that they didn't know about, you're creating all kinds of traffic for it, all kinds of curiosity. Ginni Thomas minding her own business one day, she started this thing in January, she started putting it together in January. Only now in the middle of March did the LA Times hear about it, and now they're having conniption fits out there while in the process making it known to virtually everybody. And, as I say, it's not going to hurt her or her website in the slightest. Here's Jonathan Turley. He was on MSNBC last night, Lawrence O'Donnell was guest hosting. "Did you ever think it could come to this? The wife of a Supreme Court justice appearing at an anti-tax rally on tax day, the day when the government collects most of the money it uses to pay her husband's salary?"
TURLEY: It's, in a word, injudicious. I mean you're talking about spouses of justices who don't fall directly under the ethics rules but the fact that this is news is an example of the self-restraint used by most spouses previously. I mean this is not much to expect for spouses of justices, there's only nine of them, to try to refrain from direct political involvement, particularly to start a group like this so far into her husband's tenure.
RUSH: Come on. For crying out loud, she's worked at the Heritage Foundation. She has worked at Hillsdale College. She helped recruit and educate members of Congress, she's been a legislative assistant, she has helped members of Congress, Republicans, come up with arguments to sell issues. They know all this. Besides, I thought women were supposed to seek their own identities? I thought the feminists had taught us that this is exactly what women should be doing, that they should not be appendages of their husband, that their husband should be appendages of them, uh, if you can picture that. Anyway, what happened to all that? Do you think that Ginni Thomas is the first spouse of a judge? Ramona Ripston at the ACLU, for crying out loud, with her husband on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. So they're squealing like stuck pigs. They will always tell us what they're afraid of, and they're doing it here.
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RUSH: To all of you leftists in the media out there who are just beside yourselves that Virginia Thomas, wife of a Supreme Court justice, is starting her own website and that is oriented toward causes that are designed to save this country from the American left: Do you remember the name Hillary Clinton? Hillary Clinton was a spouse. She was a spouse, not of a Supreme Court justice. Hillary Clinton was the spouse of the president of the United States, and because the president of the United States had had dalliances with several women from trailer parks and television studios and pancake houses and so forth, she exacted a price. She got to play a role in policy in order to stay married and present the happy couple face. You don't think there was something unseemly about that? Hillary Clinton was a spouse and last time I looked she's the secretary of state and her husband's an ex-president, and he's running around making speeches all over the place. Where do you guys find the ability to draw the line here when it comes to Clarence Thomas and his wife? They will always tell us who they fear. They'll always tell us what they fear. It's obvious that this just terrifies them. They're scared to death. If they didn't care about it, they wouldn't be going for it. They wouldn't be going after Ginni Thomas. It's only helping her. This is what they never understand.
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RUSH: Has anybody ever heard of Tom and Linda Daschle? Tom Daschle was the Senate majority leader, and at the time his wife was a lobbyist working on things that came under, of course, his own work. And they said, "Oh, no conflict here! No, no, no. Don't worry about it." Nobody had a care in the world about it. How many members of the media are married to elected officials, or how many members of the media have spouses who work for the media? I know one spouse. I know one CNN infobabe. Her husband was a prime advisor to Jane Harman. They're since divorced, but I don't think Jane Harman had anything to do with it. I mean, the resolving door between media and government spouses (non-spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, mistresses, for crying out loud) is all over. It's incestuous in that town.
All of a sudden Ginni Thomas is going to start a website and the world's coming to an end. No, the world is coming to an end because of Barack Hussein Obama, who is essentially a Third World president -- and what I mean by that is that he's willing to destroy his own country to save face like a Kim Jong-il or a Castro or a Hugo Chavez. All to save face. Health care is not even about health care anymore. It's not about insurance premiums. It's not about expanded coverage. It's about massive tax increases and saving Obama's face, so that when he looks himself in the mirror he still loves himself. Now, Nina Totenberg. Nina Totenberg is out there saying, "Wow, this is unseemly. We can't have the White House of a Supreme Court justice involved in partisan politics." She's so concerned, so concerned that Ginni Thomas might create a conflict. This is a reporter, Nina Totenberg, is married to an ex-senator: Floyd Haskell.
She was married to ex-Senator Floyd Haskell. There's no conflict there, right? She is best friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Nina Totenberg, a reporter at NPR, is best friends with one of the most liberal justices on the court. She's a parent. She has a kid. She's involved with Americans for Democratic Action, and she's a reporter concerned about conflicts? So what should Ginni Thomas do? Where does this end? If she has money invested in real estate and stock, does that mean there's a conflict whenever issues involving real estate and stocks are before the Supreme Court? What if she is a lawyer who works on anti-trust cases? Does that mean there's a conflict whenever an anti-trust case comes before the court? The Ramona Ripston- Stephen Reinhardt marriage was no conflict to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was it? How about as a taxpayer? Does that mean whenever a case is before the court that involves taxes, that there is a conflict, if Ginni Thomas pays taxes? I mean, it's just absurd on every level.
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RUSH: Quickly to Houston, this is Preston. It's great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Dittos.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: It seems to me that the LA Times just told Ginni Thomas to sit down, shut up, and get in the kitchen.
RUSH: (laughing) Exactly right. Who does she think she is?
CALLER: Exactly, sir.
RUSH: Doesn't she know that she is imperiling the US Supreme Court? (sigh) Fat chance. Anyway, folks, they are running around like stuck pigs. Nothing's going the way it was supposed to go. Health care was supposed to happen last August, if not earlier.
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RUSH: To Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we start with John. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, it's an honor, sir.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: USA Today, the 16th, front page, small story, it seems insignificant. The FCC wants more fast lanes to Internet. They basically hit you with a bunch of numbers, blah, blah, blah, by the time you get through it. But when you read through it and you see what the plan -- actually what they want to do, today they're voting on Congress, is to have a sweeping plan, the federal regulators have unveiled an ambitious plan to bring high speed Internet service to millions of people. Here's their promises, promises, and they go on to say about a nationalized system. Jump way to the bottom of the story, the FCC, the White House or Congress would have to implement the plan, some of which would be controversial, or another way of saying unconstitutional. If you jump around in this story, Rush, it's a takeover of another industry by helping us. And what industry is it? The cable, communications. The FCC, which is the government, wants to take over another industry.
RUSH: Well, it's actually much more hideous than this. This story that you're quoting is just talking about the spectrum, the frequency spectrum, and they want more broadband spectrum for higher speed access for everybody that uses the Internet. In getting this, one of the areas they're looking at is asking over-the-air television stations to stop broadcasting over the air since it's all cable or satellite now and they want to take that spectrum and apply it to Internet. Now, you can say that they want to take over the Internet, but they already have. I mean they regulate all broadcasting. They don't regulate cable or satellite but they regular over the air broadcasting, like radio. You have to go through, every five or ten years, whatever it is now, for license renewal, community ascertain, you have to run out and talk to librarians, a bunch of people, ask them what their big issues in the community are, okay, document that, send it in with your license renewal, they say you're paying attention to local issues, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What's coming way beyond this, what's coming in the fall is the deceptively named net neutrality. The easiest way to understand this is to think of a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. Now, how would this work? Let's say that you want to go Google or Bing, you want to search the mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat. Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue. Yep. And that's going to happen. That pretty much is going to happen. And the White House is in bed with Google. The White House and Google are bedmates, Google, largest search engine. Already, if you do a search of me on Google and you look at the crap that comes up, it's by design and on purpose. It's literal crap, I mean the most obscure places you never knew existed with comments about what happened on this program every day. It took a long time, but we had to really work hard at getting our website to pop up in a search of Google, our own website.
So in the era of net neutrality -- and this is where the Google-White House partnership comes into play -- the results of any search, let's say you want to search abortion, or you want to search the health care bill, they want to control what you see. They want to control what your options are. They can't really control the content, it's too massive and it's too big. What they want to try to do is limit your access to it and have that access flavored toward whatever particular point of view the administration wants supported. Now, that is coming. That's why they want all this new broadband. That's why they want all this new speed. That's why they want all this new access. It's not to own it; it's to control the content as best they can. Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up. I guarantee you that's what's coming. I think this is a fait accompli. I think it practically has been voted on, done deal.
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RUSH: George in Philadelphia. I have about a minute and a half here, but I wanted to get to you. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. The real issue with these net neutrality is that Google is looking for the bandwidth, not so much for searches for information but what they want to do is go into the Voice Over IP telephone business. That's why they need the bandwidth and without net neutrality there would be preference given to like packets being sent by Comcast or by the AT&T networks or something like that. So they have to flatten that out in order to make their VOIP phones work properly.
RUSH: Yeah, that's true. The Voice Over IP, like Vonage.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Google wants to do that with their phones. There's also a cost component to net neutrality, too. And it's kind of complicated to explain, but if a website wants to start charging for its content, it's all gotta be equal, and they have to make content to other websites available as well. It's so convoluted. It's all rooted in this corrupted notion of "fairness" that liberal Democrats have. But the VOIP stuff is probably relevant, too. One thing you can probably rest assured of: Google and this administration, they're very, very tight. Very tight.
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Chris Christie Keeps Promises
New Jersey's governor does what he was elected to do.
March 16, 2010
Conservative Ascendancy: Text of the Speech || Video
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Governor Chris Christie is delivering a speech right now in New Jersey, and he's just taking it to 'em. Here's the New York Times version of this. "Christopher J. Christie, took office two months ago vowing a sharp change of direction for a state battered by the recession and choked by its tax burden. On Tuesday, he made clear that what he had in mind was a U-turn. Upending the priorities of his Democratic predecessors, Governor Christie --" first Republican in 12 years "-- unveiled a budget that would hit the poor, elderly, schoolchildren, college students and inner-city residents hardest, while largely sparing the wealthy and businesses," which is a crock. It is just part of the mainstream media template. Here's a portion of his speech. "Today, we are fulfilling the promise of a smaller government that lives within its means. The defenders of the status quo have already begun to yell and scream. They will try to demonize me. They will seek to divide us rather than unite us. But even they know in their hearts, if not yet in their minds -- it is time for a change. Time has run out, the bill has come due."
They simply are on an unsustainable direction in New Jersey, and they, unlike the federal government, cannot print money. They have to do something about it. This business of hurting the poor, all that is is an attempt to get people to oppose it. What the New York Times doesn't understand is people are fed up with way too many of this nation's citizens being deprived of their full dignity and humanity by being made wards of the state and kept perpetually poor by the state, which happens to be Democrats, the never ending welfare state.
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RUSH: Here is Chris Christie. I mentioned earlier that he was giving a gangbuster speech. Smaller government is cool again. Conservatism is in ascendancy. This is this afternoon in Trenton at the statehouse, Chris Christie, the governor, addressing a joint session about the budget. We have two sound bites. Here's the first.
GOV. CHRISTIE: Today, we are fulfilling a promise of a smaller government that lives within its means. Today, we begin doing what we promised we would do. Now, defenders of the status quo have already been to yell and scream. They will try to demonize me, they will so as to seek to divide us rather than unite us, but even they know in their hearts -- if not yet in their minds -- that it is time for a change.
RUSH: And that the day of reckoning has arrived...
GOV. CHRISTIE: Today we stop sweeping problems under the rug. We will not hide our problems until another day, and we are certainly not increasing the tax burden upon the people that we serve.
LEGISLATURE: (applause)
GOV. CHRISTIE: Today we are taking necessary and decisive action to reduce state spending and reform state government. The problems we have hidden for 20 years are evident for all to see. The day of reckoning has arrived.
RUSH: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, following through on his promises, the promises that resulted in his election.
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