Posted on 07/21/2009 3:48:20 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
On Today's Show... |
July 21, 2009
|
|||||
|
||||||
|
Terms of Use | Privacy Statement | Copyright & Trademark Notice | Unsubscribe
The Rush Limbaugh Show® Premiere Radio Networks © All Rights Reserved, 2009. Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. 15260 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
|
||||||
"I just checked the e-mail during the break,
and it's amazing how the seminar e-mailers
are out in droves: 'Rush, please stop
speeding up Obama. I have a hearing problem,
and I can't understand what he's saying.'
Don't tell me you have a hearing problem!
I am deaf, and I can hear it!"
Hilarious: The chipmunks are back today
with the "Banking Queen" theme song!
To be added or removed from the "Rush In A Hurry" Ping List, FReepmail GOP_Lady.
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to temper your enthusiasm. Those of you who have heard that Henry Waxman pulled the health care bill from the Energy and Commerce markup today, this is a very, very dangerous time right now. What this means is that Nancy Pelosi has pulled the bill, the Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats are going up to the White House this afternoon to be lobbied by Obama. They're going to be working with the White House to make another run at health care. It is not dead. We need to be on our toes. They're going to regroup. They are going to pretend to be addressing the public's concerns. They'll up the lies, they will up the rhetoric.
This is a very dangerous time. There was a lot of euphoria this morning when the markup committee just gave up, when Waxman pulled it. Boehner went out there and said, (muttering) -- they never go away, folks. They never go away. We've got some great sound bites here of health care fiascos at town meetings involving Obama administration officials. Reserve, Louisiana, is one place. We're loaded here today with stuff like this. Greetings. It's great to have you with us. Two days in a row. Obama moments away from another televised appearance on health care. USA Today/Gallup poll shows huge dangers for Obama.
He is tracking lower than Jimmy Carter. In the Gallup poll, USA Today's website, you can see Obama compared to other presidents since polls were started in the forties, he's tenth. He's the tenth most popular president since polls were taken at this stage in his administration. The Drive-Bys, State-Run Media is appalled, they're out there making all kinds of excuses for this, "It's natural; he's taking on big things; it's only natural that gravity would assert itself here." So big health care day coming up today, and again, the Energy and Commerce Committee will try again tomorrow to start marking up the health care bill. They're going up to the White House today to be lobbied by Obama, which means Rahm Emanuel is going to be there with a loaded gun. We'll just have to wait and see. This is not a time to start thinking victory. This is a time to keep mounting up even more heat.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I really believe Obama is showing some instability, folks. He's becoming a little unhinged. The poll numbers are falling. His trust numbers are falling. They're very low. Nothing is happening as they envisioned in the White House. The power of his personality and his essence, his being, is not enough to get them over the hump here. There's fallout on this health care business all over the country. For the second day in a row Obama is going on TV -- he's late; he was supposed to be up there six minutes ago, probably a teleprompter problem -- and he's gonna make a big push. Now, there was a markup session today in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman's committee, to mark up the House version of the health care bill that fell apart. They don't have the votes to pass it right now. So Obama is going to bring all these people up to the White House this afternoon to lobby them.
That means Rahm Emanuel is going to be in the room with a loaded gun. But, folks, this really is a very dangerous times. I would not be surprised... Obama will make any deal he can to get this done. They'll say, "Okay, we've heard you. We're not going to tax health care benefits. We're not going to raise taxes on the rich to pay for it. We're not going to do any of that. We've heard you. You'll be able to keep your health insurance," blah, blah, blah, blah, all these lies -- and then once they get a bill done and get their foot in the door all that promise that they made is out the door. These people think that we don't know who they are? They will do and say anything to get this bill because it's not about health care. Right now what this is about is saving the Obama presidency. Jim DeMint was right. If he doesn't get this, he's done. This is his signature thing. He can come back for it next session, next year.
They'll keep coming back. But, remember, Clinton tried once, didn't get it, and the same thing is happening this time that happened back then: People are reading the bill. Not the people in Congress who are going to vote on it, but people are reading the bill and they're finding out what's in it. I'll tell you, the thing to feel optimistic about here is that with no votes in the House or Senate, this has been brought to a screeching halt. For now. It's not over, and they're never, ever going to go away. They're never, ever going to give up on this, but it's a testament to the role that the New Media is playing on this. Who is informing all of these people who are opposed? The mainstream media is not informing them. The State-Run Media is not telling them what's in health care. Many of the conservative intelligentsia inside the Beltway are not telling them what's in the bill.
It's us, folks. It's us in talk radio. It is us on the Internet, the blogs and so forth. We're doing the heavy lifting on this. In fact, about this, there's a funny column today by David Brooks in the New York Times: "Liberal Suicide March," and Brooks' point is that the liberals -- just like conservatives, just like Republicans -- have overreached. They have overstepped. He says, "It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts. ... It's not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That's because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates.
"They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own..." David Brooks' column today credits the Blue Dog Democrats for putting the brakes on the fast track to Obama care. Now, as you know Mr. Brooks -- and I mention that because it's somewhat funny -- wait 'til you hear one of the closing paragraphs in this piece coming up in just a second. But David Brooks is obsessed with attacking conservatives and conservatism, especially talk radio. So his column today is interesting for only one reason. He shows how wrong and clueless he and his ilk are. The reason that the brakes have been put on is not the Blue Dog Democrats! He is so desirous of crediting people that he thinks are like him: the moderates. The moderates, the Blue Dog Democrats. The moderates, they're the ones that have brought this to a screeching halt.
That's BS. I and my fellow colleagues in talk radio have spent months exposing the defects, the dangers of national health care. We have given voice to the studies and the reports analyzing the massive costs and dislocations and loss of freedom it'll cause. David Brooks hasn't done that, none of his ilk have told anybody what's in the bill. He's just standing around watching from the sidelines and doing anything now to credit "moderates" for stopping this. We, on the other hand, have discussed with our audiences day after day after day, despite the best efforts of the Drive-By Media to deliver national health care to Obama and his party -- and from right now the brakes are on, and they are in a state of disarray. Obama is showing signs of being unhinged and signs of instability. Now, this is the nature of talk radio, it's the nature of democracy, and it's been rejected time and again by the intelligentsia in the conservative movement of the Republican Party.
They attack our voices and our philosophy and so forth. So we get this blather from Brooks today who blithely asserts that the Democrats have overreached, that they are insulated, but what he cannot bring himself to be is honest. The reason the public is reacting as they are is because they are informed. They are not stupid. They have avenues for information they would not otherwise have but for talk radio and the Internet and some more mainstream outlets. Mr. Brooks has not been a participant in informing people of just how horrendous this Obama health care plan is. He's content to sit there and write today that they've "overreached." Oh, it's fun to watch everybody overreach. The Republicans did it and now the Democrats are doing it because everybody ignores the moderates. Look at this. Snerdley, I want you to listen to this. This is actually funny.
"That leaves matters in the hands of the Blue Dog Democrats. These brave moderates are trying to restrain the fiscal explosion. But moderates inherently lack seniority (they are from swing districts). They are usually bought off by leadership at the end of the day." Brave moderates? Mr. Brooks, first, who do you think is putting pressure on these so-called brave moderates? They are fearful, Mr. Brooks! They are fearful of their voters. Their voters are more conservative than most of them and certainly more conservative than Obama. I don't care where you go inside the DC Beltway; other than talk radio there and some other place, you are not going to find any media that actually informs anybody on anything. As I said yesterday, most of the media spending time talking about, "Is Obama going to win or is Obama going to lose? Are the Republicans gonna lose? How badly are the Republicans going to lose? It's horrible."
No details! No details at all on the literal destruction of the US economy. All we get are "brave moderates." Now, I'm not doing this, I'm not making this point to give myself credit. As you know, I don't need the credit. Everybody knows the facts about this radio program. The point of all this is to reinforce with all of you that your steady opposition and your letting your representatives know is what is working. And it's a very dangerous time, because the Democrats and Obama know the trouble that they're in. This is his signature issue. They're going to get this one way or the other by stealth or right out in the open, and I fully expect them to come out and lie about it.
"Well, okay. We've heard the objections. We'll make changes here and changes there," and once they get the bill and they get it over to the Senate and the commerce committee goes behind closed doors starts adding things to it (like the amnesty bill) and before long we get a bill that we don't know what's in it. That's why we have to continue to focus on what we know that's in this current House bill and continue to tell people this is what their ultimate objective is. This is what they want, regardless what's said from this day forward after this markup failure today -- and there's always tomorrow to come back to the markup. So this is an attempt by me to keep people inspired and motivated rather than on the sidelines and analyzing it, the brave moderates! The brave moderates? (laughing) By definition, moderates can't be brave! They don't have opinions. (interruption) Dawn doesn't like me saying things like that. But, I mean, brave moderates? Great Moderates in American History? Show me the book!
END TRANSCRIPT
| Read the Background Material... |
|
| • David Brooks: Liberal Suicide March • Fox: Key House Panel Cancels Health Care Session as Moderate Democrats Voice Concerns |
They’ll hold it till the week after Teddy dies and then pass it in his wake as his legacy ala LBJ passing the Great Society for JFK
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, was scheduled to do a brief, it's not a news conference, that's tomorrow night. But it was a statement on health care at 12:15, basically 19 or 20 minutes ago. He still has not shown up at the podium, wherever this is going to happen. He uses a different room in the White House for every speech and there's clearly one reason why. He had to wait for his staff, or maybe he listened himself, to tell him what I said before going out and making comments. They're on defense at the White House about this. The instability of this White House and the unhinged behavior regarding this health care bill is breathtaking to watch. You're not going to have that characterization of this White House portrayed by the State-Run Media, of course. (interruption) No, Snerdley, I'm not joking and I'm not being pompous. I'm never pompous and I'm not being braggadocios. You're not bragging if you can do it.
You know, this markup thing today, last night, I will tell you that I heard -- I wasn't going to mention this at all today. But now I can. There were rumors floating around last night that the House Democrats, not just in the Energy and Commerce Committee, but the whole House, were in rebellion over the sweeping nature of this whole health care bill. But number two, they're really upset that they have to fall on the sword and go first before the Senate does. The Senate has their own bill. And, by the way, did you know that there is a Republican version of a health care bill in the Senate that features, among other things, the deductibility of health insurance on your taxes? No, you don't know that because it hasn't been reported, but I have little doubt if he's listening to what Jim DeMint is saying he's listening to this program as people in the White House are to get an idea of what the reaction to the markup is today, Obama will be out shortly I'm sure with his reaction.
Let's give you a flavor, a taste, of how it's going out there in the public as various members in the administration and members of Congress fan out to do town meetings on health care. We have in Maryland, first up Senator Ben Cardin, held a town hall meeting. Audience member Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland, lost his job, replaced it with one that paid him far less money, had this exchange with Senator Cardin.
BROADUS: That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
BROADUS: Senator Cardin, I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't pay it?
AUDIENCE: (applause)
CARDIN: What happens if you get sick? What happens if you are in a car accident or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency room? You don't pay. You are part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does pay. And they're paying for you.
RUSH: I shoulda said he's not buying health insurance and he's using that money for other things. Right now he's young, he doesn't want to buy health insurance, he's one of these 47 million that does not want it for whatever reason. So he's asking if he's going to be forced to buy or be fined $2,500 if he doesn't. Now, I guarantee you he's had to have heard that on talk radio. He's had to have heard that or read that on a blog. He has not heard that from State-Run Media. He hasn't read that in the New York Times or the Washington Post or TIME Magazine or Newsweek or anything else. He hasn't seen it on television. Mr. Broadus knows this. We talked about it yesterday. It's in the bill. That's in the McCaughey story, 16, 17, if you don't have health insurance, if you can't prove to the IRS -- remember that -- that you have health insurance, if you can't prove it you get fined $2,500 bucks. So Cardin comes back and says, "All well and good, but then you get sick or have a catastrophe, other people who are paying are going to have to pay for your health care." What a convoluted system. But the point here is that people are informed about this, and they are really taking it to members of Congress. Let's go to Reserve, Louisiana, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a town hall meeting, and an unidentified audience member had this exchange with her.
MAN: It will be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country.
AUDIENCE: (wild cheering)
SEBELIUS: Excuse me. Excuse me. The federal employee health system would stay in place, as would other employer based coverage.
AUDIENCE: (booing)
RUSH: She's getting booed, she's getting booed. People know, ladies and gentlemen. "It will be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country." "Excuse me, excuse me, the federal employee health system will stay in place," and it would. They won't have to go to the public option, either. The federal employee health system is a great one, they're not going to have to go to the public option. This guy knows it. Kathleen Sebelius didn't know what hit her. These people in the Obama administration think they're all going to be junior gods when they go out because they think Obama is universally loved as a god, and he may be by a lot of people but his policies are not loved as though they are biblical. His policies are not even supported by a majority of people. Let's now go to the president himself. This was a conference call with left-wing bloggers yesterday in Washington. A blogger from Maine had this exchange with President Obama.
BLOGGER: Investor's Business Daily, they're saying that H.R. 3200 will make individual private medical insurance illegal. Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?
OBAMA (sped up): You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you're talking about.
RUSH: He doesn't know what's in the bill! He admits he doesn't know! We're speeding up Obama, Barney Frank, Pelosi, because they're in such a hurry to get this garbage done before we find out what it's in it. Of course, it's too late. We know what's in it. So we're speeding them up to illustrate the haste that they are engaged in. We'll make individual private medical insurance illegal. It will. It will. Guy asks the president, a left-wing blogger -- how did that question get into a left-wing blogger conference call in the first place? And so Obama says he doesn't know if the House bill outlaws private insurance.
BLOGGER: Investor's Business Daily, they're saying that H.R. 3200 will make individual private medical insurance illegal. Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?
OBAMA (sped up): You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you're talking about.
RUSH: Then the president goes on and promises he won't sign a bill that does that. If that's true, he cannot sign this bill.
OBAMA (sped up): I have committed myself consistently to a very simple proposition. If you have health insurance and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it, period, and I won't sign a bill that somehow would make it tougher for people to keep their health insurance.
RUSH: Now, folks, I told you yesterday how difficult it is for me to accuse the president of the United States of lying, buy one of two things. If he doesn't know what's in the bill, which is entirely possible, he may not know what's in it. He's got this grand, grand statist, giant government vision of things, and he actually believes that's going to make things better for everybody. And somebody may have told him -- I know this sounds hard to believe -- somebody may have told him, "No, we're not messing with private. If people want to keep their plans, they get to keep their plans." But that's not the case. I don't know how many times I have to say this but we'll keep saying it. People are beginning to understand this. There will be no private plans offered because private plans will not be able to compete with a government that does not have to make a profit in their health insurance plan. They can print money. There will never be a loss on their books. There's no way to compete. Plus the plan specifically says if you change your policy or lose your job, you're done, you have to go public option. It says that. He doesn't even know that. Let's go back to the campaign. Here's an ad that Senator Obama ran about Senator McCain.
OBAMA: I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
ANNOUNCER: Maybe you're struggling just to pay the mortgage on your home. But recently John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Hmm. Then again, that same day, when asked how many houses he owns, McCain lost track. He couldn't remember. Well, it's seven. Seven houses. And here's one house America can't afford to let John McCain move into.
RUSH: So running ads out there making fun of McCain not knowing how many houses and condos he has. His wife owns them, that's why he doesn't know. And Obama doesn't know what's in the health care bill, admits, "I didn't know that provision was in there." Did you also hear President Obama say, "This is not about me"? We're gonna destroy that later in the program, too. And he also said, defended his response to the economic crisis. He said, "The fire is now out." He said this on PBS. We've got it coming up here. I think we've stepped back from the abyss, I think we've put out the fire. What did he say out in Hollywood? He said we've turned back from the brink. It was a couple months ago. Other days it's going to get worse out there, folks, but we put out the fire, fire is out now.
The analogy I use sometimes is we had this beautiful house and there was a fire. We came in, we had to hose it down, the fire is now out, but what we've discovered is we need some new tuck pointing, the roof's leaking, the boiler's out, oh, and, by the way, we're way behind on our mortgage. So maybe there was arson. If the fire is out now, we've gotta ask who started the fire. Obama loves attention and adulation, so he goes into your house and starts the fire, he took office, he's an arsonist, he started the fire. After he starts the fire, he runs out of the house, he waits for the smoke, and then he starts yelling fire, fire, fire, fire! He then gets the hose, and he starts spraying your house, all to get the credit as the hero who noticed and put out the fire that he started, leaving you with a big soggy mess of a home, when he started it in the first place.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I want to go back to the sound bite here from the town meeting with Benjamin Cardin and audience member Robert Broadus. I was in such a hurry to get all of this in in the first segment that I forgot to answer something very crucial here in this sound bite. Here's the bite again.
BROADUS: That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
BROADUS: Senator Cardin, I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't pay it?
AUDIENCE: (applause)
CARDIN: What happens if you get sick? What happens if you are in a car accident or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency room? You don't pay. You are part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does pay. And they're paying for you.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
RUSH: Now, two things about this. Number one, Cardin does not deny the guy's question. He doesn't deny his point. Cardin confirms, "Oh, yeah! You're going to be fined if you don't have health insurance, because you're putting pressure on the system. When you need catastrophic care and you don't have any insurance, we all have to pay for it." The answer to that is very simple. If people were not already paying so much in federal and state income taxes and local property taxes, this young guy that asked the question might have more money to buy a policy of his own choosing. Maybe he only wants a policy that covers catastrophes! Maybe he only wants catastrophic care. What happens then is you get bills from the hospital. We had the doctor on the phone yesterday. People get treated without insurance.
They get a bill from the hospital. A payment schedule is worked out. Folks, you know, we've lost sight of the premise here in this whole health care fight. There's nothing wrong with our health care system. There is nothing really wrong. It needs some fine-tuning. The thing that's really out of whack is the cost. But we've got the finest health care in the world. As I pointed out yesterday, nobody leaves this country for health care. Nobody. Unless they go to the Sweden to dry out or to Mexico for some revolutionary new unapproved cancer treatment, but nobody leaves this country. Nobody takes their kids out of this country for health care. It's all over the world, people come here, and they come here from programs that are socialized -- Canada, Great Britain -- because they're rationed, and there are long lines. But nobody leaves here.
There's nothing really wrong. All we gotta do is reorient the cost structure -- and that's what Obama and the Democrats strictly oppose. There's one thing here that I think, on our side of the aisle, where health care is concerned -- there may be a couple more than these. But there is one factor that tends to make people who otherwise oppose health care support it, and that is people who are relatively young but who have preexisting conditions and can't get insured. If somebody has diabetes, or if somebody has a heart condition, they're not going to get insured, and Obama's promising to insure 'em. Obama's promising that everybody's going to get insured. So if you're in a family that's relatively young and you got a family member that has a preexisting condition...
That's something that needs to be dealt with and taken care of, handling preexisting conditions but that's a minor fine-tune. That is not a major overhaul. We don't need to "overhaul" this. We have bought a bill of goods, we've been sold a bill of goods, since 1993 that our health care system is falling apart because that there were 43 million uninsured or 47 million uninsured. "All these poor people, they want health insurance and that get it! It's so unfair. The country is so unjust and so immoral." There's nothing wrong with the health care system major, structurally. There's nothing wrong with it. We bought the premise that we have to have major reform. We don't. So just put the breaks on all this. Obama has shown up now. He's 35, almost 40 minutes late for his announced 12:15 statement here, his remarks on health care reform. He doesn't look happy up there. There won't be any questions. That's for tomorrow night.
END TRANSCRIPT
thought we already had socialized med. in usa
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: To Woodstock, California. Or is that Georgia? Georgia. We start Georgia and Cynthia. Hi, Cynthia. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello. It is such an honor to talk to you today. I am a huge fan, and I thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: We found out this morning that my husband became a statistic of Obama. He got laid off from his job, and we're devastated. You know, we didn't vote for Obama, we don't like Obama, and here this is the change we're getting? And when's it going to change? When are things going to turn around? When are these jobs that he promised coming be back? It's terrible. I mean, what has this man done for our country in the past five, six months? Nothing.
RUSH: Wreck it.
CALLER: Yeah, and we're just... I'm tired of him. Didn't like him before, don't like him now.
RUSH: Yeah, I hear you. I'm as frustrated, if not more so than you are, and I have not been laid off.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Although they are gunning for me.
CALLER: Oh, aren't they, though!
RUSH: But let me answer your question. You asked me a question, and I am an honest host.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: And I can only tell you what the Obama administration said in answer to a question similar to yours --and Larry Summers went out, he's one of the economic advisors to Obama and said the stimulus worked.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: You know, it's working just like we thought. But this is going to be a jobless recovery.
CALLER: (sighs)
RUSH: So things aren't going to change job-wise. They're going to get worse. Obama himself admits that unemployment will exceed 10%.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: Your husband is part of the statistic that will lead it higher than 9.5, which it was at the last reporting period.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: However, having said that, I don't know what your husband does for a living.
CALLER: He does computer forensics.
RUSH: Computer forensics.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: All right. There is still time. Obama has not destroyed the private sector. He's en route. He's on the way.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: But he hasn't eliminated opportunity yet. There are any number of things that people still need service-wise in this economy. The point is, your husband may... There are plenty of great jobs in computer business in India, especially for computer forensics. They're just getting up to speed. Your husband could own a job in India, but I doubt that you want to move there.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: Correct. So, you're left here with facing... Do you work?
CALLER: I work part time because we have child with special needs, and so I have to work part time so I can take him to his therapies and be there for him. So it's put us in a bind. I mean, my husband is the breadwinner. And, you know, we're concerned.
RUSH: Well, you'll be comforted to know that there are unemployment compensation benefits --
CALLER: Oh, yes!
RUSH: -- that will be extended to you.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: That will, you know, cover about 25%.
CALLER: Yeah. (chuckles)
RUSH: But, you know... (sigh) I say this to people throughout the 20-plus years I've been hosting this program, because people have lost their jobs every year. It happens. People lose jobs, lose careers, change jobs, change careers, and so forth. There's still opportunity. I don't know how big a place Woodstock, Georgia, is --
CALLER: We're right outside of Atlanta.
RUSH: All right. You still live in the United States of America, and there are still jobs out there to be had. There are people getting jobs. It's just the fact that more people are losing them than are getting them.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: This is still a country where you can create your own job.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: Now he was doing computer forensics for a company, right?
CALLER: Right, workers' compensation. Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: There's nothing stopping him from hanging his own shingle.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: He can do this. This is the United States of America.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: I'm not trying to be falsely optimistic here or hopeful, but this guy hasn't succeeded in beating everybody down yet.
CALLER: Yet. Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: And so I understand your frustration. I relate to it, and I'm as angry as you are. I'm an American!
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I detest what I see this administration doing. I detest it. There is no need for this.
CALLER: We can't believe this is America. It blows our mind when we wake up every morning and we watch the news, we're like, "This is America? This isn't the America that we grew up in." I mean, it just blows our mind.
RUSH: Well, it certainly won't be if this guy succeeds.
CALLER: That's right. We're behind you where we don't want him to succeed.
RUSH: Well, we want him to fail.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: And problem is he is failing.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: With his own plan, which we knew would fail. I wanted him to fail implementing the plan, but regardless. Well, good luck.
CALLER: Thank you.
RUSH: Chin up.
CALLER: We will.
RUSH: There is opportunity out there. Your husband is in computer forensics. He's a bright guy. He'll find something, I am confident.
CALLER: Thank you.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: Appreciate it.
RUSH: All right. You, too, Cynthia.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Our last caller asked what Obama's done for the country, and I neglected to answer that. He closed Gitmo, except now he can't. He got us out of Iraq, except we're still there. He ended partisanship, except he didn't. He ended racial politics, except he's promoting it. He's "saved" millions of jobs, but he has not yet stopped the seas from rising, as he promised. That's still a work in progress. That's about it. That's what he's done for the country.
END TRANSCRIPT
| No bad guys in TARP fiasco, Barn? Check the mirror! July 21, 2009 An EIB Parody Classic: The Banking Queen
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
The bottom line here, there is no transparency in TARP. There are all kinds of examples of waste and fraud and abuse, over 35 instances of fraud in the bill, and from Mr. Transparency himself, Barack Obama, the whole thing is an absolute disaster. Geithner did not allow Treasury to track money to the banks in the bailout so nobody knows. There was no transparency. There was no track. This is a stinging report from the TARP inspector general. This guy will probably get canned, too, like the inspector general for AmeriCorps, Gerald Walpin. It's a stinging report, just a stinging report. Let me get to the numbers here, ladies and gentlemen. "All told, 83 percent of the financial institutions said they used some of the funds for lending. Although there was no effort to verify the reports, Barofsky said the survey provides a useful picture of how funds were used," but they don't have any idea. They really don't know what was done with the TARP money, other than these instances of fraud. And, to add insult to injury, from State-Run AP: "Obama says he sees a lack of humility among leaders of the financial community. While noting that some of the nation's most powerful banks had repaid federal bailout money, Mr. Obama said: 'What you haven't seen (in the financial sector) is a change in culture, a certain humility where they kind of step back and say gosh, you know, we really messed things up.'" He said this on the Today Show today. He said the industry "should be more focused on products we're providing consumers. Let's make sure we're operating in a more secure, safe fashion." He said we really messed things up. We messed things up? This is what Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Dodd, Biden, Obama should be saying right now, "We messed things up." You're the ones that have messed things up, Mr. President. You've messed things up for everybody. So they asked Barney Frank about this today. This is in Washington, the House Financial Services Committee here. Well, he wasn't asked about it, there was a hearing and Barney Frank said... FRANK (sped up): Here is my problem. I cannot find a villain. Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains. They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder. But, as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged. RUSH: He can't find a villain! Look in the mirror, Barn, look in the mirror. Play this again. He cannot find a villain to blame all these TARP fiascoes on. Play 17 again, please. Here we go. FRANK (sped up): Here is my problem. I cannot find a villain. Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains. They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder. But, as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged. RUSH: So he can't find a villain. He's looking at himself in the mirror, he's the villain. There's Barney Frank. There's Chris Dodd. All of these people are the villains in this. He can't find a villain, and then he goes on to say this. FRANK: No one has ever gotten reelected where the bumper sticker said, "It Would Have Been Worse Without We." You can probably get tenure with that, but you can't win office. I understand that reality, but we should not let it distort us. And it would not, I think, hurt us every so often to admit that not every action by every public official was a bad thing, and sometimes we should give people credit for trying to cope with an unpleasant reality the best they can. RUSH: Oh! So now he wants credit for trying. See, we're back to this. We've got to give them credit for their good intentions. Never do we look at their results, and he can't find the villain. So here he is, the Banking Queen himself. (playing of Banking Queen) FRANK (sped up): Here is my problem. I cannot find a villain. Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains. They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder. But, as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged.
|
| Read the Background Material... |
| • Bloomberg: Frank Says No "Villain" in Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Deal • AP: Obama Notes Lack of Humility Among Bankers |
|
|
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I had a chance to listen a little bit of the president here, and he's lying again, folks. He says, "If you like your health insurance plan, you keep it." It's right there on page 16 of the House bill that you don't get to keep it. Obama also does not cover preexisting conditions. Remember his own story about some people, maybe it's not worth the money or the time if they're a hundred years old or whatever to treat 'em with a pacemaker? Just give 'em a pain pill! You know, give 'em a pain pill. By his own admission he would not cover preexisting conditions. That 100-year-old lady that got a pacemaker? She lived to 105, I think, whatever it was. He talked about giving her painkillers instead. If you ration care, preexisting conditions are not always going to be covered. Lots of existing conditions are not going to be covered once you start rationing. So he's telling the same falsehoods. This is an amazing thing to watch.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
President Obama said, "This isn't about me," talking about health care, all of his legislation. "This isn't about me." This is the man who gave his acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention in front of some foam Greek columns at Invesco Field at Mile High. "This isn't about me," he said. I have a couple questions here, folks. How is it that Obama can make the short little speech that he just made -- and I'm sure we're working on sound bites even now -- but he didn't say anything new, he just told the same lies, how can he make this speech when he just said he doesn't know what's in the health care bill? He doesn't know what's in it? He hasn't read it. He has denied what the Investor's Business Daily people found and Betsy McCaughey found about losing your health insurance, that you won't be able to keep the option that you have now. He flat-out says people will not lose their insurance. But he doesn't know this. It's in the bill.
This is why the White House is getting unhinged and this is why I think you're seeing major instability coming out of these people right now because we, ladies and gentlemen, are supposed to rely on Obama. Our trust in Obama, our love for Obama is supposed to be all that we need and let him just rush this bill through. This is all about trusting him. It's all about him. They're using and have used his personality and his supposed magic with the American people to race all of this stuff through. It worked for Porkulus, and with cap and trade, health care, they're running into some roadblocks here 'cause it isn't working when it's all about him. This is the reason they're getting unhinged in there. This is all about trusting Obama. We're supposed to listen to what he says and not hear him. We're supposed to see him and get the vibe and then trust him.
It is all about him. He doesn't want us to read the bill. He doesn't have to read the bill. He just wants us to trust him. Now, this little speech today is a joke coming on the heels of him admitting he doesn't know what's in the bill. He's making promises and guarantees yet the he's taking no questions. He's got a press conference tomorrow night. You know, I ought to offer -- Mr. President, I'll show up and we'll have a debate on health care, cancel your press conference, we'll have a debate on health care. I know he's not going to get any serious questions, and if he does start to get some serious questions he'll filibuster an answer for ten or 12 minutes and limit the number of questions in the press conference, which is a technique. He's out there reading off notes even today, I'm sure grieving over the loss of the teleprompter.
He looked like he's getting grayer out there today. Clinton played around with the Grecian-Formula every day depending on his audience. We don't know if Obama is doing the same thing or not. But the bottom line is I guess, ladies and gentlemen, the value of Obama's plan is not self-evident. He won't get off the stage. He's gonna take the baton. It is all about him. The health care plan does not stand on its own. This is what you have to know. The plan sucks. Plan will not stand on its own. They have to send Obama out to use this magical power of his messianic appeal, his cult-like appeal to people to try to get 'em over the hump on this. And how could the plan stand on its own? They are hiding it. They don't know what's in it; they're not even reading it themselves. The people who write it know what's in it, but I mean they're not spreading this around. It's very obvious here that the bloom is off the rose, and the poll numbers indicate it.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here's something about Obama. You know how he coulda gotten this? He coulda had his health care reform bill in March if he were the guy everybody thought he was. Remember, now, everybody thought Barack Obama was above politics. "It's time to get rid of the old Washington politics." Every candidate says it, but they believed he meant it. They believed he was something new. That's the cult. They believed he was something heretofore unseen, and if he would have come in there and threw things in there like tort reform he coulda gotten what he wants. But you know what got in the way? He's nothing but a twisted liberal radical ideologue. He is no different than any other elected Democrat except he's more radical.
The stimulus bill, everything. He is more radical, he is more liberal. He is not new. He is just like every damned other one of them. There is nothing new about Barack Obama. There's nothing we haven't seen before. There's nothing special. In fact, he's less qualified than most who run for the office. He's much less qualified than those who get elected. He is a fraud. He is nothing like he said he was, and we're probably pretty lucky, because if he were what he said he was, we would have all this stuff by now. There would be no stopping him. But he can't. He's a petty, angry, partisan politician. Liberal radical politician. The Communist Party... Randall Hoven at American Thinker... I've got it in the stack. This was published last week when I wasn't here. Friday I think it was. Whenever it was, there are other more pressing items, but they've got excerpts from it.
Mr. Hoven has assembled excerpts from the leader o the Communist Party USA. When this guy analyzes what's happened the first six months of the Obama administration, it's gold star, gold star, gold star, gold star and we're in great shape. Obama is doing what he set out to do. In fact, you can't really tell the difference in this guy and Obama. It's striking. He's not special. He's not something we haven't seen. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to share with you a few excerpts from his acceptance speech in Denver. He never ran anything in his life. He worked in the Senate not much more than 150 days. We have no track record. We only have his associations, his background, his childhood, the people who mentored him, and his campaign promises. 'Cause he's never accomplished anything. He has no resume. There aren't any records from Harvard, from Columbia, where he went to school. There are no medical records.
We don't know who he is. So we have to go on his campaign promises. He said, "We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma." Well, if he's measuring progress by how many people find a job, he's gotta be assessing himself as a failure. "We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs created when Bill Clinton was president." We've lost over two million jobs just since he was inaugurated. "Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence..." He's wiping out opportunity for everybody! "As president I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal and find ways to safely harness nuclear power." He's doing none of that. It's solar and wind and big gambles on "green" technology that doesn't work. I could go on. I could read excerpts. We're lucky he's not who he said he was.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Well, I just checked the e-mail during the break and it's amazing, the seminar e-mailers are out in droves. "Rush, please stop speeding up Obama. I have a hearing problem. I can't understand what he said." Look, I'm deaf, and I can understand what he's saying. We don't speed it up to chipmunk, don't try that on me. Don't tell me you got a hearing problem. I am deaf, and I can hear it. "Rush, why are you doing this? It's just very distracting." Oh, the libs, they know how effective this is. And then I'm getting people saying, "You are really blowing it. You are lying when you say that Obama's lying that you get to keep your health insurance, have you read it all? He hasn't read it, you haven't read it." Man, I'll tell you, folks, there's some libs out there that are starting to figure out they are going to lose their health coverage that they like. I mean they're in a situation they didn't anticipate. They were relying on Obama. This is all about him. They're relying on the power of his cult-like appeal to get everybody over the hump of the details. And it isn't working.
Look, there's another great article breaking down Obama's lies about this. He says it isn't about him. Everything is about him. When you lie to the American people about what legislation is and isn't, you're putting your personal credibility on the line. Obama owns this legislation that he admits he hasn't read. Bernie Madoff owned the fraudulent investment schemes he was peddling and he was promising people all this great stuff, and look what happened to him and the people who believed him. Obama is making personal promises; he is personally guaranteeing results just like he did with the stimulus package and his failed mortgage foreclosure legislation. I'll tell you another reason this is about Obama, it's because he's the one remaking America.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here's Obama returning -- this is my point. The old Democrat playbook, demonize drug insurance companies and all that, demonize doctors, it's your average, run-of-the-mill Democrat tax and spend, except this guy is more radical than any of them that have come before him.
OBAMA (sped up): I know that there are those in this town who openly declare their intention to block reform. It's a familiar Washington script that we've seen many times before. These opponents of reform would rather score political points than offer relief to Americans who have seen premiums double and costs grow three times faster than wages. They would maintain a system that works for the insurance and the drug companies while becoming increasingly unaffordable for families and for businesses.
RUSH: All right, attack opponents as stooges of the drug and insurance companies, right out of Democrat Party playbook. Here's the next bite.
OBAMA (sped up): Under each of these bills you won't be denied coverage if you've got a preexisting medical condition. You won't lose your health care if you change jobs, or if you lose your job, or if you start a business. You won't lose your insurance if you get sick. We've agreed that our health reform bill will promote choice. Americans will be able to compare the price and quality of different plans and pick the plan that they want.
RUSH: No!
OBAMA: If you like your current plan you will be able to keep it.
RUSH: That is not true. He just admitted to liberal bloggers last night he is not aware of the provision that makes that not possible. He didn't know it was in the bill. Under each of the bill's, House and Senate, you won't be denied coverage if you've got a preexisting condition. You will! He also said you won't lose your health care if you change jobs. There's no portability in his plan. You won't lose your insurance if you get sick. He himself, he uses the example of a hundred-year-old woman who needs a pacemaker. And here's the lecture. Status quo not acceptable, we need hope and change.
OBAMA (sped up): The American people understand that the status quo is unacceptable. They don't care who's up or who's down politically in Washington. They care about what's going on in their own lives. They don't care about the latest line of political attack, they care about whether their families will be crushed by rising premiums, whether the businesses they work for will have to cut jobs, or whether their children are going to be saddled with debt. I can guarantee you that when we do pass this bill history won't record the demands for endless delay or endless debates in the news cycle. It will record the hard work done by the members of Congress to pass the bill and the fact that the people who sent us here to Washington insisted upon change.
RUSH: They don't want this, Mr. President. That's what's so bold about this. They care about what's going on in their own lives. They don't care about the latest line of attack. They care about whether their families are crushed by rising premiums, whether the business they work for will have to cut -- will have to cut? -- they have cut jobs, over two million since you took office. Whether their children are going to be saddled with debt? They already are. These people think we're stupid. It's about him, using his personality, his cult-like appeal where details don't matter.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Last night, President Obama was on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Jim Lehrer interviewed President Obama since it's The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. And Jim Lehrer said, "Mr. President, it must have been a little unpleasant for you to wake up this morning and see this headline, Washington Post: 'Polls show Obama slipping on key issues, approval rating on health care falls below 50%.' What does that mean Mr. President?"
OBAMA (sped up): It means what we're doing is hard and, you know, truth is I feel pretty good about the fact that our polls have held up under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. You know, I think we may have set a very high bar for ourselves. Normally 59%, folks would say, we'll take it. On health care in particular, look, there's a reason why this hasn't been done in 50 years, and that is because this is a big, complex situation, a lot of special interests here in Washington who are very protective of the status quo.
RUSH: Special interests, my wazoo. It's 50 years of screwing it up! So Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer then says, "But do I read you correctly that you're backing off the August deadline kind of thing that you wanted this by, you wanted it passed by the August recess?"
OBAMA (sped up): Here I think is a fair assessment, Jim. I want this done now. Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town. You've been around here long enough to know that you have to say, "Get this done." If somebody comes to me and says it's basically done, it's going to spill over by a few days or a week, you know, that's different.
RUSH: And he kept going after Senator Jim DeMint.
OBAMA (sped up): There is a certain portion of the Republican Party that views this like they saw '93, '94. The last time there was a major health reform effort, they explicitly went after the Clintons, said, we're not going to get this done. That went down. And at least the history, the way it's viewed here in Washington, is that that's what helped defeat Democrats. So it was a pure political play, a show of strength by the Republicans that helped them regain the House. I think there are folks who think that, you know, we should try to dust off that old playbook. What they don't recognize is that this isn't about me. It's about the American people.
RUSH: It's all about you, and it is the same playbook. The only thing that hasn't happened is the Michelle bus tour starting in Seattle, and when can we expect that?
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: This is Obama on the Today Show on DeMint punishing the rich, Meredith Vieira, "Let me read you a quote from Jim DeMint. He said over the week, 'If we're able to stop Obama on this, it would be his Waterloo, it will break him.'"
OBAMA: (Laughing)
VIEIRA: Funny?
OBAMA (sped up): Well, it's typical. That describes exactly an attitude we've gotta overcome, because what folks have in their minds is that somehow this is about me, it's about politics and the ability to win back the House of Representatives, and people are thinking back to 1993 when President Clinton was able to get health care and right after that the House Republicans won.
RUSH: I'll tell you something: It is about you. They're using your, you, they, use your personality to pass this debacle. Of course this guy's ego is immeasurably large, and it is about him. So they then continued with this exchange on the president's political future which is all the State-Run Media cares about.
VIEIRA: This is about politics, Mr. President, this is a key issue for you. You have a big stake in this.
OBAMA: Of course --
VIEIRA: If this falls apart that is not good for you.
OBAMA (sped up): You know, Meredith, all I can is that this is absolutely important to me, but this is not as important to me as it is to the people who don't have health care.
RUSH: It is most certainly more important because it's not about health care. And finally, Meredith Vieira says, "Do you think because health care reform will eventually help everybody, that everybody should have to sacrifice? In other words, if you attach a surtax on people making $280,000 or more, isn't that in effect punishing the rich?"
OBAMA (sped up): That's not punishing the rich. I think the way I look at it is, is that if I can afford to do a little bit more so that a whole bunch of families out there have a little more security when I already have security, that's part of being a community.
RUSH: It's called the redistribution of wealth and that was a softball setup for President Obama, that question. All right, to the phones, to Las Gatos, California, Kerry, I'm glad you waited. You are up next. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Oh, I'm so excited to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Yeah, I'm calling because I talked to Dianne Feinstein's office and, you know, everybody's been saying call and ask if they are going to be part of the health plan. So I thought, okay, I'm going to do that, and ask her if she's actually read the health plan. And the person who answered the phone said, "Oh, yes, they're writing it in there that the Congress and senators will be part of this health plan."
RUSH: No. Kerry, in the Senate plan, the Senate is expressly exempted from the public option.
CALLER: Yes. I totally understand that. And I said that to her, and I said, "I don't think that's true." And she goes, "Oh, yeah, they're writing it right today, they're working on things and putting new information in there, so it's not completely together." And that was on Friday. So today I called because I thought, well, okay, if it's in there I want to know what page so I can read it. And I called and I spoke to another person, and that person said, "Oh, no, they're not part of it, and the plan isn't fully written." And I said, "What do you mean?" And he says, "Well, you know, there is no real health plan." I said, "But that's not what I'm asking about. What I'm asking is, whatever bill is passed is the senator and the Congress people, are they going to partake in it, like all of the rest of us?" And I just thought, you know, we, the people, if we're having to live with your bill, why aren't you living with it, too? And he said, "Well, it's not completely written yet." "Well, then how can you pass it?" I'm baffled.
RUSH: Well, you're learning how politics in Congress works when the Democrats run the place. You see, "they haven't written it yet" is simply what they tell you as an excuse to not admit anything that's in it. But there are drafts in the Senate and the House bill, and people may have not read them in the Senate or the house but others have gotten hold of the legislation and have read what's there. That's why there is so much opposition to it now, because there is a steady and reliable New Media which is taking the time to learn what's in it and inform people. The New York Times is not doing this. The Washington Post is not doing this. None of the network or cable news networks, other than elements of Fox, are doing this. And that's why all these people are calling and that's why you're getting the answer, "Well, it's not completely written, we really can't tell you whether that's in there," it's just an excuse to not have to admit that anything's in the bill, 'cause you're blowing it. You're not supposed to be asking this question, and you're not supposed to be calling her. And you're not supposed to be calling her office. You're being impudent here. You're supposed to sit back, bend forward, grab the ankles, and love it.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: "It's not about me," President Obama. Well, let's go back to February the second, 2009. (interruption) No, the lightning -- it was a tiny little strike on the ray dome, and the BBML was impacted a little bit, not going to be a major problem, but the NDT crack was the big thing, but they didn't find it. I don't have much time, stop asking me about the inspection. Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer are interviewing Obama, February 2, 2009. Not even two weeks after his immaculation, and here's the question from Matt Lauer: "At some point will you say, 'Wait a minute, we've spent this amount of money, we're not seeing the results, we gotta change course dramatically'?"
OBAMA: Look, I'm at the start of my administration. One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I've got four years --
LAUER: And you'll know quickly how people feel about what's happened.
OBAMA: That's exactly right. And, you know, a year from now I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress, but there's still going to be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition.
RUSH: Thinking about his reelection, it's not about him, though. It's not about him. All right, this is Donnie in Sunset, South Carolina. Hi, Donnie. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, madam.
CALLER: I have a question regarding the effective date of the Obama health care plan should it actually get passed.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: I think most people are under the impression that -- especially if they're hoping this is going to happen, that it's going to affect our health care immediately and going to give them relief or help. However, on Sunday, on Fox News, my husband and I were listening to Bill Kristol speak about the Obama plan, and he says that those benefits are not going to kick in 'til 2013.
RUSH: First place, they're not benefits.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Did Kristol use the word "benefits"?
CALLER: No. No.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: No, he probably didn't.
RUSH: They're not benefits. Number two, yeah, there will be a phase-in period here. Just like the people who have been expecting Obama to make their car payments since the Porkulus bill was passed are still waiting, just like people are waiting for him to save their mortgage are still waiting. But it will take time. This is a massive new bureaucracy that's going to have to be built and established. It will take time to happen. They'll accelerate the tax increases on it and so forth. I mean there will be effects prior to it going into full-fledged operation.
CALLER: But nobody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about the 2013 date or --
RUSH: Well, what does it matter? In the big scheme of things, if you have a six-year-old that doesn't matter. If you have grandchildren, doesn't matter. If you're thinking about the future of the country what does it matter when it goes into effect?
CALLER: No, I just think a lot of people who really want this health care plan because they feel it's going to help them are going to be very disillusioned when they figure out it's not going to answer their problems right away.
RUSH: Well, that's true, but they're going to be more disillusioned when it does implement and makes it worse.
CALLER: That's true. That's true.
RUSH: But I'll add that to the litany. Hey, you idiots that think it's going to solve your health problems immediately, guess what, it doesn't start 'til 2013 and even then it's not going to help you. We'll throw that in the mix. I'll be happy to, whatever works, if that will persuade some people that this is not the rosy scenario, that's cool.
END TRANSCRIPT
| Read the Background Material... |
|
| • RushLimbaugh.com: Obama's Government Will Decide If You Deserve Medical Treatment? • AFP: Healthcare battle 'isn't about me': Obama |
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, ma'am. Are you employed?
CALLER: Yes, I am.
RUSH: Well, we ask everybody from Michigan because it's rare.
CALLER: (laughing) Well, I work for the government. (laughing)
RUSH: The government and health care, by the way, are the only sectors where jobs are increasing. And health care is supposedly in trouble? Anyway, what do you have?
CALLER: I have a question that I haven't heard anybody talk about and I wanted your take on it. Obama is saying that if you're happy with your health care you're not going to lose it. The bill is saying that you need to be on qualified health care within five years. There are millions of children under the age of 12, there are millions of children yet to be born. What's going to happen when they enter the workforce? Are they going to be allowed to keep their parents' insurance that they're on currently? I would think that they're going to have to be funneled into the government health care plan.
RUSH: You are absolutely right. The whole point of this is to get everybody enrolled in the government health care plan. The whole point of this is to eliminate private insurance, qualified or unqualified. It's so easy, by the way, Monica for you to start out in this system with a qualified plan and then to have it be disqualified. For example, this is in the bill. You have a qualified plan. You have your own private insurance qualified plan from your employer or you buy it yourself. But then, within a year after this bill is signed into law, if any aspect of that plan changes, like they changed the premium or they make some adjustment in coverage, your plan's no longer qualified.
CALLER: Right. And I was concerned about it anyway because I work for a city government, and we just had a bunch of cuts and they're trying to balance the budget, and health care is a huge cost for them and I can see easily that in five or six years when they're trying to look at costs they can say, "Well, you can go get the government health care, we can't supply it for you anymore."
RUSH: Yeah. Well, it's even more drastic than that because if your city is having trouble with costs, the states are having trouble, look, Medicare and Medicaid, Medicaid's bankrupting the states, Medicaid is bankrupting the federal government. We're going to build on top of those two failures with a system that's based on both of them. You know who the people in this country are most concerned about health care, the elderly, by definition, they're the ones that spend most of the time in the doctors office talking to their doctors and so forth by definition. They're the ones that are going to get the shaft. They're the ones upon whom judgment will descend as to whether or not the investment in whatever medical procedure is needed to keep them alive is worth it. And it will be based on actuarial tables such as life expectancy, any preexisting conditions. If you're a hundred years old and in perfect health but you need a pacemaker, the odds are you're not going to get it. Obama even used that as an example, some people, you know, give 'em a pain pill, save money.
In the New York Times, an Obama administration official refused to rule out the possibility that federal tax money might be used to pay for abortions under proposed health care legislation. Peter Orszag, the White House budget director, was asked whether he was prepared to say that no taxpayer money will go to pay for abortions. He said, "I'm not prepared to say that right now." Of course, it's constitutional. It's a legally approved medical procedure. And with liberals running this show, every abortion is a political victory for them. Remember what Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsburg said? She let the cat out of the bag, (paraphrasing) "Abortion is about kind of limiting people in the population that you don't really want more of," and we know who she was talking about. This is a dastardly plan. Thanks for the call, Monica. I appreciate it.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we have found something else in the health care bill. Page 425 to page 430. The House version of the health care bill is going to require mandatory counseling for all seniors at a minimum of every five years, more often if the senior is sick or in a nursing home. Just how many government trained counselors will that put into the workforce? With an over 65 population of 38 million according to the US Census 2007, if you have an over-65 population of 38 million people you're going to need four counseling sessions daily, that's 37,000 at a minimum counselors plus their supervisors, then the people who read their reports, and the oversight agency. You know what we ought to do? We ought to put together a single page cut-and-paste fact sheet at RushLimbaugh.com that people could cut and paste and fax to the White House so that Obama will know what is in the bill.
I'll bet he doesn't know that there is end-of-life counseling for senior citizens on page 425 to 430. What is this counseling going to be? Why would you need mandatory counseling for all seniors, and who's going to pay for this? Mandatory counseling for all seniors at a minimum of every five years, more often if the seasoned citizen is sick or in a nursing home. And as Don Parker writes here at the American Thinker, "Don't even think that anyone should receive mandatory counseling regarding the end-of-life issues surrounding abortion." That's an invasion of the right to privacy. We can't have counseling for mothers who are thinking of terminating their pregnancy, but we can go in there and counsel people about to die. I'm sure you could get some counselors from the Hemlock Society to go in and do this. Kevorkian might want to come back to life and handle this. End-of-life counselors, end-of-life treatment for senior citizens, mandatory.
END TRANSCRIPT
| Read the Background Material... |
|
| • NY Times: Health Bill Might Direct Tax Money to Abortion • American Thinker: Government 'counselors' on end of life treatment |
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thank you for having me and definitely thank you for speaking for all the doctors out there. I think there's a lot of interest in what's been going on in Washington lately.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I wanted to bring up a point. In order for a bill to be taken seriously by the American people, it has to contain some aspect of tort reform in it. I think the astronomical increase in malpractice costs for physicians is well known, but I do have a concept of defensive medicine practices. These are tests or studies that are taken not to improve diagnostic accuracy, but essentially to practice CYA medicine for liability from lawsuits. And this costs about 15% of all medicine costs, or $360 billion a year.
RUSH: Wait, now. I lost track here of what you said. Your concept would cost or tort reform costs?
CALLER: No, I think tort reform would limit this, the practice of defensive medicine.
RUSH: Oh, okay. Oh, defensive medicine. Okay, so with tort reform or without the threat of being sued every time you see a patient, you can eliminate a bunch of unnecessary tests that you know you don't really need but you take 'em anyway in order to cover yourself, right?
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Against the trial lawyer.
CALLER: There's a tremendous amount of data on how prevalent this is, and our hands are really tied without some sort of cap on lawsuits. And I think that's an important concept that goes beyond just the dollars and cents value of --
RUSH: Well, there's no question.
CALLER: -- malpractice.
RUSH: There's no question you're right, but I'm going to give you the hard, cold truth. With Democrats writing legislation, there will never be anything approaching tort reform. The trial lawyers are among their biggest donors, contributors, supporters. Their trial lawyers end up being judges that advance liberal agenda without any accountability and no need to be elected. Many of the Democrats are tort lawyers themselves, members of Congress in fact. So as long as you have Democrats, liberals in charge, there isn't going to be tort reform, but it would dramatically reduce health care costs.
CALLER: Absolutely. I agree with you, and I think the American people need to stand up for the physicians now. We need to take a stance and say that we want our physicians, we want our access, and we want our freedom to choose.
RUSH: Look, I agree with you a hundred percent. You guys are being demonized right along -- and Obama did it again today in the speech. Demonize the drug companies. Demonize the insurance companies. They're playing class envy.
END TRANSCRIPT
INSANA: I would say that, you know, the president, who earned $2.7 million selling books last year, I'm not sure how worried about compensation he is in the long run, when he, too, is a millionaire.
MITCHELL: Well, he certainly earned that in writing those books.
INSANA: Yes, now some of the bankers did too.
MITCHELL: No one can deny the best-sellers. Okay.
RUSH: See that? She got really touchy when it's, oh, Obama is a millionaire, nobody's limiting his compensation. "Well, he earned it, he earned it." We've got a montage here of the State-Run Media struggling with Obama's falling poll numbers.
RATIGAN: His approval rating has trended down over the past few months. No surprise there.
HALL: His approval rating, which is still high, there's still a lot of favorability that the American people have toward him.
GOODWIN: Even though some of his approval has slipped on various issues, leadership attributes still remain really high.
GIBSON: While he remains personally popular he cannot defy the political law of gravity. The President's job approval rating has fallen.
SHUSTER: His overall approval rating remains high.
CROWLEY: The President's overall approval is dropping. Though, it does remain a healthy upper 50%.
WATSON: The President's job approval stands at 59%. Not bad.
BREWER: It's slipping somewhat.
SERWER: You have a President who still has very high approval ratings, relatively.
MATTHEWS: It's still okay. It's a little bit down.
RUSH: They're worried, they're worried. They've helped here by not reporting any of the details of the economic destruction that Obama has wrought, and they're doing their best to keep the numbers up. Now they have to, "Well, he's brave, he's a brave guy, he's tackling tough issues. Of course those numbers are going to come down, yeah, yeah, yeah, still doing really well, still really loved out there, still pretty high. They are coming down, but we're going to get 'em back up there, won't take long."
END TRANSCRIPT
MCCONNELL: By any standard upon which it was sold to us, now, by that standard it's been a failure.
STEELE: The Obama experiments are not working. So far his experiments in that economic laboratory called Congress have simply failed.
GRAHAM: (phone) I think he'll fail because he's trying to convince America to be something other than America. I don't think he's going to be successful.
RUSH: Do you people remember the heat I took over this from people in my own party? Remember how the State-Run Media was running out there trying to get all these people to distance themselves, "He wants the president to fail." And now it's become standard operating procedure in the Republican Party to call the guy a failure. This is what I mean when I say, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
END TRANSCRIPT
Click on the pic to watch the "national emergency!"
WALTERS: Whoopi, you don't really doubt that the men landed on the moon.
GOLDBERG: I am just saying that there are wonderful --
SHEPHERD: Don't they have a tape?
GOLDBERG: There are wonderful... You know, I love great conspiracy theories. And these are better than a lot of them, because they say, "Why is the flag rippling? There's no air."
WALTERS: Because he touched it supposedly.
GOLDBERG: Yes, but it was -- was it always in a ripple? Was it starched in a ripple?
RUSH: Whoopi Goldberg admitting that she doubts the moon landing 40 years ago actually took place because the flag has a ripple in it and there's no wind. There's no air up there so how can that be? Did they starch the ripple in it? In fact, yes! Rather than have it stiff. (laughing) "Poor woman" is right. The problem is, these women weigh in and influence other women on serious stuff. More and more of the mainstream media has just become Kook City.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: For Whoopi Goldberg, you know, there's no air on the moon. The moon flag is hung from a horizontal rod, not verticals. It's the same reason your drapes have ripples in them. There's no air. No air flows and so forth. So they had to spread the flag out, Whoopi, otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell what it was. (sigh) Are those...? Well, never mind. I was going to ask if they're really women on that show. They gotta be women.
END TRANSCRIPT
Thanks Gop_Lady for this post. I had to miss the entire show today and I knew it would be of major value.
Rush’s first two hours were great!
“I just checked the e-mail during the break,
and it’s amazing how the seminar e-mailers
are out in droves: ‘Rush, please stop
speeding up Obama. I have a hearing problem,
and I can’t understand what he’s saying.’
Don’t tell me you have a hearing problem!
I am deaf, and I can hear it!”
Diana, my dear, what is so wrong with people that they can’t take a joke? LOL.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
