Posted on 05/13/2009 8:10:48 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
Threatened him how?
Clearly an abuse of office, not that the JACKASS party would bat an eye...Just like Duncan Hunter said during the last campaign, DUmocrats promote those who break the law. Lard a$$ Murtha must be looking for a promotion.
I heard that! I don’t know how that fat, foul-mouthed bully stays in power.
Well, I guess I do.
The DUmba$$ Murtha Chief of Staff even called his commanding officer:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22449.html
Dittocam is messing up today.
Wheeeew...I was worried it was just me!!!!!
I turned on the radio.
I want a Dittocam bail out!
I had to go on realplayer, mediaplayer didn’t work for me.
DITTO!!!....heheheh
No bailouts for you!
Dems coming for your healthcare benefits and 401(k)’s.
BOHICA
I sure hope we make it to 2010!
I wonder if he’ll go ballistic on Mo Dowd today. She ripped him and Cheney in today’s column.
Phasing in on rosey-posey economic news and a TOTUS that cares about us and the nation...... /sarc
Anybody see Obama clip this morning where he is saying we have to get healthcare reform done THIS YEAR?
I guess even the Dems know they are going to lose big in ‘10... provided the Pubbies wake up and become the opposition party alternative.
If we are dumb enough to allow them to get away with it, this wanton destruction of our healthcare system will not be reversible by any bill or program. Once we allow them to destroy it, we will never be able to go back and undo it.
The Death of American Health Care
Jewish World Review ^ | May 13, 2009 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
http://jewishworldreview.com/0509/morris051309.php3
Posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:08:34 AM by reaganaut1
When all of America’s top health insurers and providers met at the White House this week and pledged to save $2 trillion over the next decade in health costs, they were pledging to sabotage our medical care. The blunt truth, which everybody agreed to keep quiet, is that the only way to reduce these costs is to ration health care, thereby destroying our system.
Here’s why:
1) Essential to any cost reduction is a cut in doctor’s fees. Congress is trying to cut Medicare fees by 21 percent. But cuts in fees and doctors’ incomes will just discourage people from entering the profession and those already in it from practicing. The limited number of doctors and nurses in the United States is the key constraint on the availability of health care. Our national inventory of 800,000 doctors is growing at only about 1 percent a year (18,000 med school graduates annually minus retirements), while the nurse population is stagnant at 1.4 million. To stretch these limited resources so that they can treat 50 million more people is possible only through the most severe kind of rationing.
2) As in Canada, the best way to cut medical costs is to refrain from using the best drugs to treat cancer and other illnesses, thereby economizing at the expense of patients’ lives. Forty-four percent of the drugs approved by the Canadian health authorities for use in their country are not allowed by the health care system due to their high cost. As a result, death rates from cancer are 16 percent higher in Canada than in the United States. We will pay for the attempt to save $2 trillion with our lives. (And remember, one cannot opt out of the Canadian system and pay for the medications out of pocket).
3) The only real way to save money on the scale projected is to ration health care services. Optimists say that this can be achieved by increased use of preventative care. But the Canadian experience indicates that when government or its satellite private insurance providers ration health care, they cut preventative care first. In Canada, colonoscopies are so rationed that the colon cancer rate is 25 percent higher than in the United States (even though Canada has a much smaller proportion of poor people whose frequently bad diets would make them more prone to the disease).
Obama’s pretension that nobody will find changes in their current health insurance plans except for a magical reduction in their cost by $2,500 a year is a fool’s proposition.
Private health insurers will be no more private than TARP-funded banks or government-subsidized car companies are in Obama’s America. They will be controlled by government health care planners who will approve treatments, limit drug use, hold down medical incomes and bring their cost-cutting programs to bear. Inevitably, their axe will fall on the oldest and the sickest among us, those least “deserving” of our newly limited and, under Obama’s program, diminishing, health-care resources.
The other radical changes Obama is bringing about in our nation can always be reversed. New taxes can be repealed or lowered. That which was nationalized can be privatized. Government that has grown can be cut. But once the health care system is extended to cover everyone, with no commensurate increase in the resources available, the change will be forever. The vicious cycle of cuts in medical resources and cuts in the number of doctors and nurses will doom health care in this country. This wanton destruction will not be reversible by any bill or program. A crucial part of our quality of life the best health care in the world will be gone forever.
Politically, voters will feel the impact of these “reforms” very quickly. When they face rejection or limitation at the hands of the bureaucrats, they will quickly understand that their options have become limited. Just as in the 1990s, when HMOs first became universal, the patient outrage will create a political force all its own, and those who foisted this brave new world on the American people will be in their crosshairs.
They’ve gotta shove what they can through now because they know they’ll LOSE BIG in 2010.
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