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"What is the big difference between Reagan and his recession and Obama and his recession?
Very simple: Reagan was trying to end his."
"Obama's amazing.
He has the White House, the Senate, the House, and every news network,
and yet talk radio -- which means me -- manages to ruin everything.
What a crybaby! What an absolute crybaby!"
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VIDEO: "Everyone Gets All Wee-Weed Up"
VIDEO: Getting 'All Wee-Weed Up'
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RUSH: We're all wee-weed up here, folks. President Obama yesterday, he was at the Democrat National Committee headquarters, he spoke to supporters via a webcast, and here is a portion of what he said.
OBAMA: Sometimes it seems like one loud voice can drown out all the civil, sensible voices out there. Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. That's how we won this election. We've been through this before. Some of you were involved when we were in Iowa, 30 points down and all of Washington said, "Oh, oh, it's over," hand-wringing and angst and teeth gnashing, and then last year just about this time you'll recall that the Republicans had just nominated their vice presidential candidate and the media was obsessed with it and cable was 24 hours a day, and "Obama's lost his mojo," (laughter) you remember all that? (laughter) There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up.
RUSH: Everybody gets all wee-weed up in Washington. Here's a guy who's got the bully pulpit. He's starting to sound like Clinton. Starting to feel sorry for himself. He's got the bully pulpit, he's on television every day, twice a day, he's doing these Web things, he's on the phone with rabbis and preachers trying to co-opt them, and he says here, "Sometimes it seems like one loud voice can drown out all the civil, sensible voices out there." Well, what is he talking about there? Who? Which one loud voice? Who could that be? Hm-hm. Anybody have any ideas who he could be referring to out there? I think, ladies and gentlemen, he's referring to me. Now, everybody is all wee-weed up, he's lost his mojo, still got Sarah Palin on the brain. Charlie Cook -- this is in The Politico yesterday afternoon after we finished the program -- "Charlie Cook, one of the best," it says here, "political handicappers in the business, sent out a special update to Cook Political Report subscribers Thursday that should send shivers down Democratic spines." Of course the thing wrong with that is they don't have any spines for shivers to go down.
But regardless: "Reviewing recent polling and the 2010 election landscape, Cook can envision a scenario in which Democratic House losses could exceed 20 seats." I think it could have been higher than that. Charlie Cook says, "These data confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and Congressional Democrats. Today, The Cook Political Report’s Congressional election model, based on individual races, is pointing toward a net Democratic loss of between 6 and 12 seats, but our sense, factoring in macro-political dynamics is that this is far too low. Many veteran Congressional election watchers, including Democratic ones, report an eerie sense of deja vu, with a consensus forming that the chances of Democratic losses going higher than 20 seats is just as good as the chances of Democratic losses going lower than 20 seats."
Now, if they're talking 20 it actually means 40. I mean they are in big trouble, and here's Obama talking about this one loud voice drowning out all the civil, sensible voices out there, and the teeth gnashing and about this time they had nominated their vice president, media obsessed with it, cable 24 hours a day. Yeah, Mr. President, ripping her to shreds 24 hours a day. What do you mean, media going crazy with it? They were trying to destroy her. I mean, everybody was scared to death; they're still trying to destroy her. He says (doing Obama impression), "Remember all that? Something about August going into September, everybody just wee-weed up." Well, I'm wondering if that was on the teleprompter, because he was speaking there at, well, I guess he was at the headquarters. That means he had a teleprompter over there, there's no question about it.
Related story: "What recovery?" This is from CNBC: "'What Recovery? New-Home Market Remains in Deep Slump' -- When it comes to the economic recovery, the real estate and housing businesses are in very different places. Though sales of existing homes appear to be bouncing back -- as cheap foreclosure properties attract vulture investors and first-time buyers -- the market for new homes remains stuck below sea level. 'It’s a very one-dimensional recovery,' says National Association of Home Builders CEO Gerald M. Howard. 'The rest of the housing market is still in a recessionary stage.'" So potential new home buyers are wee-weeing themselves out there. So what if unemployment's pushing 10%; so what if Obama and his tax cheating Treasury secretary have promised tax increases; so what if the Democrats are pushing cap and tax and bucks for butchers? I think we need to we rename his health care plan. We got Cash for Clunkers, Bucks for Butchers 'cause the doctors getting 30 grand for chopping off a foot.
Only a coward would fear a sluggish economy and a continued recession, and now Americans have wee-weed themselves over Obama's wasteful spending and central planning. What's wrong with the American people? Everybody is wee-weeing. And Americans who have lost their jobs, are they wee-weed up? Are they wee-weed up over the stimulus bill? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost every month. What was it, another 568,000? Millions of jobs since Obama was immaculated. The president has destroyed the budget for generations. He promised unemployment would not exceed 8% if the $1 trillion Porkulus bill was passed. It's now at 9.4% and it probably will go higher according to the Obama administration. The American people are scared to death about the future because they do not trust the president, he's lost it, he can't get it back. So are Americans wee-weed up over the economy? Here's Obama talking about everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up, he's the reason everybody is wee-weeing. He's the reason. He's got everybody all scared to death. Americans are wee-weed up over the economy.
Maybe the State-Controlled Media today in the White House briefing could ask Baghdad Bob Gibbs if the American people are wee-weed up out there over everything as well as people in Washington are going to get wee-weed up in August. Are America's seasoned citizens wee-weed up over rationed health care? Who's wee-weed up? He says everybody in Washington is wee-weed up, I think everybody is wee-weed up. Hell, I'm wee-weed up. That's a great way to put it. Speaking of losing trust, this is from the ABC News/Washington Post poll published today in the Washington Post: "Faith in Obama Drops As Reform Fears Rise." Faith in Obama? "Public confidence in President Obama's leadership has declined sharply over the summer," because of that one loud voice out there drowning out over the sensible, civil voices. And this is "amid intensifying opposition to health-care reform that threatens to undercut his attempt to enact major changes to the system."
Here are the numbers: "Among all Americans, 49 percent now express confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country, down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark." Do you realize that is a plummet? You don't get that back, and especially when you factor in the reasons that he has lost all this trust and people have lost faith, it's because he's not telling the truth. He's all over the board. There's no consistency to what he's saying. People know more about this than he does. He cannot hold up a health care bill and say here's what's in it. He can't say, "See, right here, we're not going to insure illegal immigrants. We're just not going to do it." By the way, a question about that. If illegal aliens are not going to get Obamacare -- and he's been telling everybody that this week -- why are the following groups lobbying for Obamacare via Health Care for America Now? Here are the groups. The League of United Latin-American Citizens, LULAC, the National Council of La Raza. By the way, La Raza the steering committee for Health Care for America Now. The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Sorry. "The National Latina Institute for Taxpayer Funded Abortion."
If illegal immigrants are not going to get Obamacare how come all of these Hispanic groups are lobbying for it? And speaking of that, I was remembering the other day, remember when he had his appearance with McCain at Rick Warren's church out there, the Saddleback Church, remember he was asked -- (interruption) what? Said what? Well, McCain was really good. That was back in the days when McCain sometimes supported his own party. But that's another subject. "US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by 'mega-pastor' Rick Warren during a televised forum. Asked at what point a baby gets 'human rights,' Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: '… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.'" But now Obama is saying we are God's partners in matters of life and death. This is the kind of stuff that is causing people to lose faith in him. We are God's partners in matters of life? Well, when does a kid become a kid? When does a baby get human rights? That's above my pay grade. And yet here's a guy who claims to have all the answers for Americans and their health care.
"As challenges to Obama's initiatives have mounted over the summer," because of that one lone voice drowning out all the civil, sensible discourse in Washington, "pessimism in the nation's direction has risen: Fifty-five percent see things as pretty seriously on the wrong track, up from 48 percent in April." So look at this: Forty-nine percent express confidence versus sixty percent express confidence in Obama at the 100-day mark. "Forty-nine percent now say they think he will be able to spearhead significant improvements in the system, down nearly 20 percentage points from before he took office." I mean this is a major, major plummet, and it is all happening because people lost faith, whatever, they've lost trust. He is not the guy they thought he was. So after he talked about Washington being all wee-weed up in the month of August, he continued talking about the problems he faces when he was at the Democrat National Committee headquarters yesterday.
OBAMA: Unfortunately, Washington is obsessed with the snap poll, they are obsessed with what's -- you know, what is played on talk radio or what's said at a town hall meeting. You can have 20 really civil, sensible town hall meetings but if there's one where somebody's screaming, you know which one's gonna get on television.
RUSH: Here's what's amazing. He's got the White House; he's got the Senate; he's got the House; he has every news network; he's got every newspaper, and yet talk radio, which of course means me, manages to ruin everything. What a crybaby, what an absolute crybaby. And, by the way, Mr. Obama, you are Washington. When you sit there and say Washington is obsessed with the snap poll, what's played on talk radio, you are Washington. You and your party are Washington.
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RUSH: So we got the ABC News/Washington Post poll: "Only 49," less than 50%, "express confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country, down from 60%." George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News website today: "The biggest problem for President Obama in today's poll," the ABC News/Washington Post poll, "is this: Only 49% of Americans are confident that he will make the right decisions. Voters like Obama but they're worried he's getting in over his head. Blaming the Republicans for blocking health care will make Democrats feel better but may turn off independents who are already abandoning Obama." It's a seventeen-point drop in handling health care and overall job approval.
"In fact, the best short-term antidote for Obama is a solid two-week vacation. Give everybody a chance to cool down, get himself off of television, and hope the economy's slow mend continues." You know, it isn't gonna work. Blaming Republicans here is not gonna work. The bottom line is they can't stop anything. The effort here to get Republicans on board, obviously for bipartisanship to share some of the blame when the excrement hits the fan, is what the Democrats are all about. But it isn't going to fly. The Republicans can't stop it, and everybody knows this. The Democrats are the power in Washington, DC. Now, here's Obama. You can tell what really bugs him by listening to the things that he complains about. Another sound bite from his little talk at the DNC headquarters yesterday.
OBAMA: There was a poll done, some of you may have seen. Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. Turns out that a huge proportion of the American people are convinced, A, that, uhh, somehow health reform means illegal immigrants are going to get health care.
RUSH: What?
OBAMA: B, that it's a government oh-- takeover of health care.
RUSH: Yeah?
OBAMA: C, that all the money's, uhh, going to be funding abortions.
RUSH: Yeah?
OBAMA: D, uh... uhhh... That... What's the other one? Death panels.
FOLLOWERS: (laughing)
OBAMA: That w-w-we we're all going to be, uhhh, you know, pulling the plug on grandma. Eh... Now... (clearing throat) C'mon.
RUSH: Is that presidential. "Now, c'mon!" Uh, c'mon. Let me tell you something. "A huge portion of the American people are convinced somehow health reform means illegal immigrants are going to get health care"? They already do, and they are going to get it. Again I ask if they are not going to get it, how come the League of United Latin-American Citizens, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health are all lobbying for this? They're all supporting it. "A government takeover of health..." Hell, hell's bells, that's the only reason he's doing it! Of course it's a government takeover of health care. Who in the hell is he out there talking about running it? Himself and the federal government. "All the money is going to be funding abortions?"
Um, why is Planned Parenthood supporting this? And "we're not going to be pulling the plug on grandma." We only spend money on the sick, and we're going to ration that care. So what we have here is the president of the United States... Now, think of this. The president of the United States has finally identified his true enemies: Straw men, scapegoats, villains, doctors, rumormongers, the greedy, that "one lone voice overpowering the sensible and civil" -- and that one lone voice, obviously, moi -- conspirators, bitter clingers, Republicans, angry mobs, Dittoheads. Mr. President, can we just talk about substance? Could you just talk about the substance of your plan? Please? You can sit there and you can go up to these sycophant Democrats and you can say, "How about the stupid American people, look what they've been led to believe. Ha-ha-ha. They believe everything about this is true. Everything is true! They've been made to believe it. That's not how this is supposed to work. We're supposed to get away with lying to them about this, but they believe it."
How about...? Mr. President, how about this: How about you present a bill and we discuss it? How about you go out there and hold up some pieces of paper that comprise your health care plan? It's not enough for you to say, "We're not going to pull the plug on grandma." I want you to show us the section and the page in your bill where it says we're not going to do that, because the House has a version that says we are going to do it. You know, to Obama the devil is anybody who doesn't blindly follow him. I think Obama is coming off as two levels below Nixon even on Nixon's best day.
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RUSH: Dorothy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Great to have you here as first up. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. My name is Margie, not Dorothy.
RUSH: What is it?
CALLER: Margie.
RUSH: Margie, and are you from Charlotte, North Carolina?
CALLER: I am.
RUSH: All right. I just wanted to make sure that Dorothy had not hung up and that we were --
CALLER: No, no.
RUSH: -- answering an unscreened call. Okay.
CALLER: That's quite all right. I only have one comment.
RUSH: Is Snerdley screening the show today? Does he sneak in there 'cause he's always getting people's names wrong like this. I apologize for that, Marjorie.
CALLER: It's quite all right.
RUSH: Is it Marjorie or Margie?
CALLER: It's both. Marjorie, I'm called Margie, though.
RUSH: All right, fine. That's one of my all-time top ten favorite female names anyway, so --
CALLER: I think you say that about every female name that someone gives you.
RUSH: Right. Okay. What's up?
CALLER: I just want to know, I'm absolutely -- as I said to the screener -- I'm absolutely appalled that the president of the United States, one of the most powerful individuals, says "wee-wee"? Rush, are you not appalled that the president says "wee-wee"?
RUSH: Of course. That's why I've been making fun of it all day.
CALLER: I mean Bush was not a great speaker. Clinton was a used car salesman speaker, which I think the Americans love to hear, but our president says "wee-wee." I mean, who do we have -- I guess I'm just shocked.
RUSH: Margie, let me ask you a serious question. When he said people get all wee-weed up in Washington in August, what do you actually think he meant?
CALLER: I don't have a clue.
RUSH: Because I have no idea. I'm like you, when you hear the term "wee-wee" -- what does it mean, Washington gets all wee-weed up?
CALLER: I have no idea. When he said that, I just was appalled, really, that our president talks like that, and I guess that's all I wanted to say, that I can't believe more Americans aren't seeing President Obama for who he is. America's got what they voted for.
RUSH: Wait a second. Where did you hear it first?
CALLER: I heard it from you. I turned the radio on and I heard it from you saying that --
RUSH: Some Americans may not know, if NBC, ABC, CBS did not play the clip, they may not know that he used the term "wee-weed up."
CALLER: On someone like O'Reilly, those terrible, terrible people at Fox to play it or for you to play it.
RUSH: Well, I do play it. I play all this stuff and millions and millions and millions of Americans do hear it when I play it, but you heard it from me. Look, Margie, all the polling data, he's losing trust. People are losing faith in him. His numbers issue by issue by issue, he's losing on every one of them. The bloom's off the rose, the magic that was Obama doesn't exist.
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RUSH: Robert Gibbs, Baghdad Bob Gibbs, the great Gibbs, here at the White House press briefing this afternoon, a question from Savannah Guthrie at NBC: "What does 'wee weed up' mean?"
GUTHRIE: What is 'wee weed up'?
GIBBS: I don't know if I should do that from the podium. I think "wee weed up" is when people just get all nervous for no particular reason. This is sort of an August pundit pattern between people getting overly nervous for something that still has a long way to go. Bedwetting is -- would be probably the more consumer-friendly term.
RUSH: So he did mean that. He did mean that people are wee weeing out there. First it was Nazis, now it's bedwetters. Everybody is out there, unruly mobs, they're gangs, and now they're bedwetters and now they're pee-peeing all over the place in August. And this dolt press secretary has just confirmed it.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is heartbroken. Obama is learning the presidency is hard. Everything left over from Bush is much worse than anyone thought. That's her summary. Charlie Rose said, "Doris, what do you make of President Obama?"
GOODWIN: What we've seen so far is a man that surprisingly is in command of the office. Think back to the days when people worried about a three a.m. call coming in the middle of the night and this rookie wouldn't know what to do. He's had multiple crises, and he seems to still be steady, projecting an aura of self-confidence. My suspicion is that things are far worse than he thought and that accounts for some of the difficulties he's having.
RUSH: This is considered to be one of the brightest women on the East Coast, and this is just a plain old silly comment. He is not in command of the office. He's not in command of the health care issue. He's lost it. Charlie Cook, Doris, the Democrats have totally lost control of the debate. He says they're going to lose 20 seats in the House. That's Obama. Obama's the face of the Democrat Party. He doesn't seem in command of anything. He's out there using terms like "wee weed up." He's complaining and whining about Bush, and you're helping it here, Doris, by saying, "My suspicion is things are far worse than he thought." And then Charlie Rose goes to Arianna Huffington of the Huffing and Puffington Post and says, "Arianna, how do you see this leadership question with President Obama?"
HUFFINGTON: I agree with Doris. On top of it, he's a natural-born teacher. He's teaching about how to be a human being, not just a president. His ability not to hold grudges, to stay centered, all those are great qualities. My concern is that he's demonstrating a preference for compromise and reconciliation even before the fight has been fought. He's a pied piper, but he has not taken this strong stand on health care or, indeed, on reforming Wall Street that would have led to fundamental change.
RUSH: What in the world is she talking about? He hasn't taken a strong stand? What planet is she on? We know that Barney Frank's prowling around Uranus. We know that that woman at the health care meeting came from Lyndon LaRouche's planet, the woman at Barney Frank's meeting. What planet is this woman on? We're very close to hiring a translator here for when we have Arianna Huffington sound bites. What in the world is she talking about? And now this. She continued. She's not happy with the way Obama is executing the brilliant plans of Saul Alinsky.
HUFFINGTON: President Obama who, as you know, is a student of Saul Alinsky, the great community organizer, has actually changed the perspective of the Alinsky theory. He wants to move from the first stage, which is the identification of the problem, to the fourth stage, which is reconciliation. And he doesn't really want to deal with the messy parts in between.
RUSH: Well, this is absurd, much less insane. Barack Obama is not about reconciliation. He's about sweeping people off the playing field and getting rid of everyone.
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RUSH: We continue now with the disarray that the Obama White House is in on health care and Obama himself and the angst this is causing in State-Controlled Media. Very concerned that Obama has lost the magic, this morning on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough was talking with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes. They're talking about Obama's health care and Scarborough says, "Lesley, it seems like it's always something in August, people get wee weed up out there."
STAHL: You know, I was thinking about Reagan and how unbelievably unpopular he became when he had his recession, and we forget that that happens to presidents. When you have increasing joblessness, it is absolutely inevitable.
RUSH: Uh, Obama's unpopularity the same thing Reagan went through in a recession? There's a difference, though. What's the big difference, Glicklich? I'm going to put you on the spot here. What is the big difference in Reagan and his recession and Obama and his recession? We need to pass this on so Lesley Stahl can understand it, too. What is the big difference? Chad, you want to take a stab at this? What's the big difference in the two recessions? Nobody wants to take a stab. See, this is why there isn't another me. I'm giving everybody an opportunity to show -- (interruption) no. Well, he did have optimism, but the big difference is Reagan was trying to end his recession; Obama is not trying to end his. Very simple. Obama is not doing one thing to end this recession. He's doing things to compound it. Reagan was trying to end it. He cut taxes. Obama's making it worse. She wasn't through. She kept going.
STAHL: There's all this question about how he's not being passionate, he's not expressing verve, and Reagan used to do it so brilliantly. He could be angry without having that angry face. People said he was a B-actor but as president he was an A-actor.
ROSE: Right.
STAHL: I would be right up close and he'd get that angry, for example, at the air traffic controllers, things like that.
ROSE: Hm-hm.
STAHL: He'd get the angry look, and I knew he was acting, I knew it wasn't from down here, and Obama has to find that spot, because he's an actor, too, and find a way to express his passion without crossing a line he doesn't want to cross. He doesn't want to --
ROSE: Right.
STAHL: -- become part of the angry mob.
RUSH: This is unbelievable. This woman is one of many who spent years impugning, insulting Reagan because he was an actor, he wasn't a real guy. And now all of a sudden he was great, he was a great A-actor, and Obama's gotta learn how to act. This couldn't be a bigger insult. Of all the people, somebody in the State-Run Media's advising Barack Obama to emulate Ronald Reagan. They're spiraling out of control over there. Obama, I guarantee you his head's swimming. He has no idea where he is now.
(playing of Obama spoof song.)
RUSH: That is white comedian Paul Shanklin and I'm In Over My Head. That's Barack Obama. You know, folks, somebody had better tell the media, like Lesley Stahl, the State-Controlled Media, stop harping on Reagan. The era of Reagan is over. David Brooks has said that, David Frum has said that, a number of conservative media, the era of Reagan is over, and yet now we've got the State-Run Media saying, "Obama, you are going to have figure out how to be like Reagan." Twin spin time, folks.
(playing of Obama spoof)
RUSH: White comedian Paul Shanklin as President Obama and American Lie, a featured twin spin here at the EIB Network.
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's great to speak with you. I'd like to thank you for the great work that you've been doing for so many years.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I have an observation I'd like to share with you and possibly get your feedback. Since Obama took over I've been watching some of these town hall meetings, and it hurts me to see fellow Americans be categorized as Nazis, being on the lunatic fringe and so on.
RUSH: Unruly mobs.
CALLER: And what they did with Sarah Palin was despicable. Now, two years ago, when Bush was in the White House, he had his detractors -- the jersey gals and the Dixie Chicks, and in particular Cindy Sheehan.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
CALLER: And did anybody in the Bush White House call Cindy Sheehan a Nazi or a member of the lunatic fringe or did they treat her with respect?
RUSH: I actually think they treated her sympathetically. They didn't mention her at all publicly.
CALLER: Well, didn't...? My mind is going blank. (nervous laugh) The guy who ran for president. I'm sorry.
RUSH: Kerry?
CALLER: No, no. The Republican with Sarah Palin.
RUSH: McCain?
CALLER: Yeah. Didn't he sit down and meet with her?
RUSH: Yeah, he might have. I think he did.
CALLER: My point is they never categorized any of these people as lunatic fringe or Nazis. They accepted the fact that they didn't agree with them. You know what I'm saying?
RUSH: Yeah, I know exactly your point. It's just a matter of you're president of the United States, you're president of all the people, and you're not going to start doing this. You know, Bush would not get partisan. To a lot of people's frustration he would not get partisan because he didn't want to be lower the dignity of the office. But I gotta tell you about Cindy Sheehan. You know, she's going to Martha's Vineyard to protest Obama. She thinks there's no difference in Obama and Bush 'cause we're still in Iraq and we're still in Afghanistan -- and you would not believe what Charlie Gibson said about Cindy Sheehan when he was asked about her.
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RUSH: You know, when Cindy Sheehan was all revved up and protesting outside George Bush's Crawford, Texas, home and marching around, she did meet with McCain, and after the meeting she called him a warmonger. I always said at the time that I felt sorry for her. This woman was devastated by the loss of her son. She couldn't get over it and she was trying to find some meaning to it, and she was used. A leftist PR firm in San Francisco decided to adopt her and promote her story as a way of continually harassing the Bush administration, to defeat our Iraq objectives and policies. She was used by these people. I was angry at her but at the same time I felt sorry for her because she was just a pawn. She was just a pawn, and I knew like every other pawn that the Democrats use when they're finished with them they throw 'em away, they just get rid of them. Once they've served their purpose they just become a statistic.
So this week in Chicago on our affiliate WLS, The Big 89, Charlie Gibson, the anchor of ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings was talking to the host up there, Don Wade, about Cindy Sheehan. And Don Wade noted all the coverage that Sheehan had received in 2005, and he asked Charlie Gibson whether we're going to see some coverage of Cindy Sheehan as she goes up to Martha's Vineyard to protest Obama because he's still in Iraq and he's still got us in Afghanistan. And here is what Charlie Gibson said: "It's such a sad story. Martha Raddatz [of ABC News] wrote a terrific book about one battle that took place in Iraq, and it was the battle in which Cindy's son was killed. And you look at somebody like that and you think here's somebody who's just trying to find some meaning in her son's death. And you have to be sympathetic to her. Anybody who has given a son to this country has made an enormous sacrifice, and you have to be sympathetic. But enough already." Enough already, Cindy.
You know, so after going through all the proper, oh, she's a sympathetic figure, so sad, trying to find meaning, why did her son die, has it really helped anything, is it really an honor for her and her country that her son gave her life in battle and so forth. When she's out there revving up people against George W. Bush, it's, let's cover her 24/7, let's make sure we have our cameras out there outside Bush's ranch when she's there, whatever she's saying, whatever she's doing, if she goes down and meets with Hugo Chavez, our cameras will be there. They could not get enough of her. Now that she's headed to Martha's Vineyard, the State-Controlled Media, Charlie Gibson, State-Controlled Anchor, ABC: "Enough already." Cindy, leave it alone, get out, we're not interested, we're not going to cover you going to Martha's Vineyard because our guy is president now and you're just a hassle. You're just a problem. To these people, they never had any true, genuine emotional interest in her. She was just a pawn. She was just a woman to be used and then thrown overboard once they're through with her and they're through with her. They don't want any part of Cindy Sheehan protesting against any war when Obama happens to be president.
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RUSH: We now go to Yakima, Washington, this is Andrew. Andrew, how long have you lived in Yakima Washington.
CALLER: I've lived here my entire life, I'm 31 years old.
RUSH: Thirty-one-years old, you're right on the cusp, let's see --
CALLER: I was born in '78, March 9th, the day you started losing weight.
RUSH: Yeah, you might be a little young. There's something that Yakima, Washington, was the first at in this country ever, something that happened in Yakima, Washington, did it before anybody else did, and it's pretty common now all over the country. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
CALLER: Not a clue.
RUSH: Yakima, Washington, was the first community to put 90-gallon trash cans on wheels for your home so you fill up your 90-gallon trash can and you roll it out there in the driveway and the sanitation people come pick it up. Up 'til that time the largest trash can ever used was like 30 gallons, and this had the lid on the wheels, Yakima, Washington, was the first to break the garbage can size barrier.
CALLER: Very nice.
RUSH: I can tell you're really proud of that.
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: I just wanted to mention that to you. I know that's not why you called. What is your question?
CALLER: I'd like to make a statement and then I have a couple elaborations. The first is I believe that the Democrats have to be most concerned about losing their fringe base. And let me elaborate. First, Republicans lost of support of staunch conservatives by not being able to enact a conservative agenda and then finally by behaving like liberals. And then the Blue Dogs have to be concerned whether or not they pass the health care bill 'cause if they pass it they lose support of their constituents, and if they don't pass it, they lose support of their base.
RUSH: Ah, ah, ah. That's close. You're right on the first count. If they vote against the health care bill, they satisfy their base, meaning their constituents. If they go along with this health care bill, their constituents -- or their base, if they go along with the health care bill -- it's the other way around. If they vote against the health care bill, they have made angry Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel, who will see to it they don't get any reelection money and no committee assignments, nothing of any kind of stature in the House. They have a tremendous problem, the Blue Dogs, what do they do, and the question is who are they going to be most afraid of, their voters or Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel?
CALLER: I'm not sure it matters.
RUSH: Well, it does to them because politician's first job is to get reelected. If they go against the leadership, the leadership can make sure they don't get reelected.
CALLER: But so can the constituents --
RUSH: If they go against their constituents, their constituents can make sure they won't be elected. But Pelosi and Reid can say, "No, no, we'll send ACORN in there, we'll have enough voter fraud, we'll run enough commercials that your constituents won't matter." That's what they're going to be told.
CALLER: At the end of the day they're just Democrats.
RUSH: Well, yes, I say that to a Republican audience, here a conservative audience, at the end of the day they are Democrats, but they're trying to craft this image that they're fiscally responsible, that they're conservative in that way because their voters are. If they vote for this thing they can no longer claim fiscal responsibility, they're just as anybody else. But you did hit on something and it illustrates the big difference in the House and the Senate. Nancy Pelosi, like she's out there saying, "I don't care what Obama says about a public option. The public option is going to be in the health care bill." Let me find the bite.
PELOSI: I agree with the president that the public option was the best way to keep the insurance companies honest. Let me say it another way. There's no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option.
RUSH: That's it. No way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option, because of her fringe base. The lunatic fringe base and the Democrat Party, they're already upset. They're upset that Obama is still spying on Americans; they're upset we haven't closed Gitmo; they're upset we're still in Iraq; they're upset we're still in Afghanistan. They're upset over this public option business. When Sebelius went out there and took it off the table there was an eruption on the kook left websites. Remember I told you I went to Democrat Underground and every other word was the F-bomb and they're saying, "My gosh, we have the White House; we have the Congress, the House and the Senate, why the hell can't we get anything done?" The House is as radical fringe left as what you'll find down in Venezuela but it's not that way in the Senate. So Pelosi has to pass this bill with the public option in it. This is no head fake from her. This is pedal to the metal. The public option is going forward because Pelosi is driving the bus.
Harry Reid, on the other hand, has got a reelection campaign of his own in 2010. He's in trouble, and the public option is not something his constituents want. So he's not nearly as pedal to the metal on this as Pelosi is. This is going to be an interesting conference fight when they get there because Obama's going to win this, there will be a public option because there's no reason to reform health care from their perspective if there's not. But the public option is not an option the public wants or needs. It's the government option. Public option equals government option and there's no other way to look at it. This is the Pelosi-Obama campaign. Pelosi's made her intentions clear. Obama has the luxury of pretending the government option isn't that big a deal to him. To Obama getting the public option isn't everything it is the only thing but he can go out there and act like it doesn't really matter that much to him. Pelosi can't. Pelosi has to act like it's the only thing.
Now, once it gets through the House, Obama and the State-Controlled Media will move heaven and earth to get it passed through the Senate. It could destroy Harry Reid but he's too weak to put up a fight. Reid is expendable. They can find some other soft-spoken little nerd to run the Democrats in the House. And this is killing Hillary. This is killing her because she could have been the next Senate majority leader if she'd have stayed there. Now she's been dispatched to where? Nairobi and Kenya. Her job now is to run around and kiss the graves of all of Obama's dead relatives while Bill's out there securing freedom for Algore journalists from the little pot-bellied dictator in North Korea, Kim Pyongyang or whatever his name is. To add insult to injury, Reid's in trouble, the public option is his problem and therefore he's expendable. So the mother of all political battles lies ahead. The statists want a war, and a war is what they're going to get.
General Patton said, "Pressure makes diamonds." Pressure also crushes the weak and the unworthy. And this is a country of the people, by the people, for the people. The people of this country are the diamonds. The statists are not. When you say that they're playing to their base that is true, the fringe base, Pelosi has to play to it plus she is one of those kooks. I mean it's not as though she's doing something she doesn't want to do. Now, you know, we gave you a detailed subscription and analysis of the problems that Obama has, his plummeting poll numbers, he's now below 50% in terms of people having faith or trust in him, and the Drive-By Media is all concerned, "Oh, no, no, no, is he really human after all?" They're actually asking that question, "Is he human.?" In fact, let me find the bite of that. Stick with me on this. I know it's coming up soon. I saw it here back in the end. It might have been Lesley Stahl that asked that, but they are asking it.
In the meantime, Joe Conason, who is lunatic fringe angry typical ultraradical leftist, has a column and I want to read to you a portion of what Conason has written: "Every mistake made by the Obama White House in the pursuit of health care reform can be traced to the political style and ideological prejudices of Emanuel." Now, we look at Rahm Emanuel, and we see this knife-throwing, dead-fish-sending, former ballerina who just goes for the jugular. Joe Conason is upset because he sees Rahm Emanuel catering to conservatives. Listen to this. "Every mistake made by the Obama White House in the pursuit of health care reform can be traced to the political style and ideological prejudices of Emanuel, who has sought to intimidate progressives and empower conservatives, always in the name of winning elections and 'getting things done.'"
Now, let me ask you a question. For those of you up to speed on Rahm Emanuel, is anything he's doing look to you like patronizing us? Empowering conservatives? Is Rahm Emanuel doing one thing to empower conservatives? Rahm Emanuel is leading the charge to destroy conservatives and Republicans, and yet here's this fringe ultraleft radical Conason, he sees Emanuel as being tough on the progressives, the libs, and kowtowing to conservatives. "Although few Democrats trusted Emanuel to hold true to principle, many hoped that he would get things done -- and that those things would reflect the progressive outlook of his boss rather than the attitude of accommodation he picked up on Capitol Hill." So the kook fringe in the Democrat Party looks at Rahm Emanuel as a softy.
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RUSH: Here's more evidence of a civil war that is brewing. The civil war is the fringe left angry at Obama making deals with Big Pharma, and Rahm Emanuel supposedly demanding bipartisanship, trying to get Republicans and the Blue Dog conservative Democrats (so-called) on board, trying to get Republicans in the Senate. The fringe left is all upset about this. They say, "Just do it! We don't need the Republicans," and they're right, by the way, about that. The reason that Obama and some Democrats want Republicans to go along with this is so that they can share the blame when all hell breaks loose when this thing actually is enacted. Now, Paul Krugman, who is an economist and a columnist at the New York Times, is unhappy with the Bamster.
Krugman is one of these guys Obama is talking about in August, "all wee-weed up" in the Beltway. According to Bob Gibbs, the spokesman for Obama, Paul Krugman's a bed wetter. When Krugman starts writing like this, there is trouble there. The title of this is: "Obama's Trust Problem -- According to news reports, the Obama administration ... is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives," liberals. "Well, I'm shocked and surprised at their shock and surprise. A backlash in the progressive base..." Liberal base. You know, he keeps using the word "progressive" here, and it's "liberal, statist, socialist."
There's nothing "progressive" about these people. They want to take us back to the Stone Age. Environment policy, this health care policy, what kind of cars we drive. They want to take us back to the relative Stone Age. So they're not progressives. "A backlash in the [liberal] base -- which pushed President Obama over the top in the Democratic primary and played a major role in his general election victory -- has been building for months." A backlash in the liberal base has been building for months. "The fight over the public option involves real policy substance, but it's also a proxy for broader questions about the president's priorities and overall approach.
"The idea of letting individuals buy insurance from a government-run plan was introduced in 2007 by Jacob Hacker of Yale, was picked up by John Edwards [The Breck Girl] during the Democratic primary, and became part of the original Obama health care plan," and, yes, not that they wouldn't have come up with it on their own, but we really do owe this current iteration of public option health care to John Edwards. What a legacy! "One purpose of the public option is to save money." (groans) Be careful, Paul, you're putting a lie to Obama's death panels here. "Experience with Medicare suggests that a government-run plan would have lower costs than private insurers..." It does? I thought Medicare was going broke! What am I missing? I feel like on a different planet from Barney Frank.
"Experience with Medicare suggests that a government-run plan would have lower costs than private insurers; in addition, it would introduce more competition and keep premiums down." It would do no such thing. It would wipe out the private sector. These people are some of the smartest stupid people, the Ivy League grads. "And let's be clear," writes the ferret-like Paul Krugman, "the supposed alternative, nonprofit co-ops, is a sham." Now, I understand why they're mad. I understand why they're mad because here's Obama, he sends Sebelius out, "Eh, public option not that big a deal," and the left has a cow. Obama goes out, "Ahh, she doesn't know what she's talking about. The public option, it's in there." Then he says, "Well, it's not the centerpiece." The left goes ballistic again. "What do you mean, not the centerpiece? Of course it's the centerpiece!"
Then Obama says, "Well, maybe we don't do the public option. Maybe we do co-ops," and they go ballistic again, and that's what Krugman here is saying is a sham. He's saying, "That's not just my opinion; it's what the market says: stocks of health insurance companies soared on news that the Gang of Six senators trying to negotiate a bipartisan approach to health reform were dropping the public plan." Now, see, this is another thing. When shares of stock go up, liberals get livid. When companies become more valuable, liberals get livid. "Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything short of true single-payer, Medicare-for-all reform, viewing anything less as perpetuating the flaws of our current system," which is Medicare! (laughing)
Why would you take a program that's nearly bankrupt and say, "This is the foundation for expanding"? At any rate, I deep digressing, because every sentence here demands digression. "The public option," he says, "which would force insurance companies to prove their usefulness or fade away, settled some of those qualms. That said, it's possible to have universal coverage without a public option -- several European nations do it -- and some who want a public option might be willing to forgo it if they had confidence in the overall health care strategy. Unfortunately, the president's behavior in office has undermined that confidence. On the issue of health care itself, the inspiring figure [liberals] thought they had elected comes across, far too often, as a dry technocrat who talks of 'bending the curve' but has only recently begun to make the moral case for reform.
"Mr. Obama's explanations of his plan have gotten clearer, but he still seems unable to settle on a simple, pithy formula; his speeches and op-eds still read as if they were written by a committee. Meanwhile, on such fraught questions as torture and indefinite detention, the president has dismayed [liberals] with his reluctance to challenge or change Bush administration policy. And then there's the matter of the banks." Krugman writes: "I don't know if administration officials realize just how much damage they've done themselves with their kid-gloves treatment of the financial industry, just how badly the spectacle of government supported institutions paying giant bonuses is playing. But I've had many conversations with people who voted for Mr. Obama, yet dismiss the stimulus as a total waste of money.
"When I press them, it turns out that they're really angry about the bailouts rather than the stimulus -- but that's a distinction lost on most voters. So there's a growing sense among [liberals] that they have, as my colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked. And that's why the mixed signals on the public option created such an uproar. Now, politics is the art of the possible. Mr. Obama was never going to get everything his supporters wanted. But there's a point at which realism shades over into weakness, and [liberals] increasingly feel that the administration is on the wrong side of that line. It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that will draw an administration rebuke: Senator Charles E. Grassley feeds the death panel smear, warning that reform will 'pull the plug on grandma,' and two days later the White House declares that it's still committed to working with him.
"It's hard to avoid the sense that Mr. Obama has wasted months trying to appease people who can't be appeased..." (snorts) This is mind-boggling. Obama is not trying to "appease" anybody! He's sending out thugs to beat up people at town hall meetings. He's calling them unruly mobs. He had a snitch website run out of the administration. "Indeed, no sooner were there reports that the administration might accept co-ops as an alternative to the public option than G.O.P. leaders announced that co-ops, too, were unacceptable. So [liberals] are now in revolt. Mr. Obama took their trust for granted, and in the process lost it. And now he needs to win it back." We've got the most leftist, radical president in our history behaving as a leftist radical, and the other leftist radicals think they've been punked.
Probably they don't like being called bed wetters. I guess it's a purity test. But remember the interesting thing: they don't want Obama working with Republicans. These are the same people that were demanding bipartisanship all through the Bush administration. Even, remember, early on, we kept hearing from the Democrats, "The power of the minority! We must rely on the power of the minority! We gotta have bipartisanship." Now they want no part of bipartisanship, and the myth is that Obama's trying to get some. Back to Joe Conason, who is upset at Rahm Emanuel. He has another piece at Salon.com. "Now More Than Ever Bipartisanship is For Suckers." Remember how they had to share power with Bush as a minority? We had to share power. It was only the right thing to do for democracy.
Conason says, "Republicans want Obama to fail. He needs to stop seeking consensus, because it makes him look weak. ... Whether there was ever any prospect of significant Republican support for Obama's recovery and reform agenda is a moot point. Certainly, the potential for obstruction and worse, in a party dominated by Rush Limbaugh and William Kristol..." and then later on: "Even John McCain, the Republican who could truthfully boast of working with Democrats on serious legislation, and often did during his presidential campaign, now indulges in sourly partisan posturing." My gosh, they feel like McCain has done a Brutus on them! McCain's now a traitor. We had the story yesterday (which I thought was laughable) McCain is now seen voting with his party. It was a news flash; it was a bulletin.
McCain now voting with Republicans! He's a double agent, now we got Joe Conason upset that McCain is actually voting with the Republicans, upset... It's Twilight Zone. It doesn't matter. I'll take it. When Krugman and these guys start talking about Obama having lost trust, when the kook fringe base starts getting mad at you, that's not good for you if you are also a kook fringe kind of politician, which most of the Democrat leadership is. So it's amazing to listen to these people. They actually think that Obama and Rahm Emanuel are going out of their way to incorporate us in their plans! Meanwhile, Obama goes on radio and television starts talking about "this one lone voice," meaning me, that's shouting out all the civil and polite discourse out there.
So, bottom line: keep the pressure on. Keep showing up at the town meetings. It's not time to get giddy. We haven't won anything. They can still pull this off.
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CALLER: Whooo-hoo! I can't believe we're talking to you! Hi, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thanks much.
CALLER: I wanted to tell you what Obamacare would be like. I've got an HMO and my daughter's got a special medical condition, she needed to see a specialist, my insurance company denied her. I have an HMO so we went through a grievance process. The panel was composed of three people who had never even heard of what my daughter had. They denied her and then we went on to a second level of grievance, they denied her again, and then a third level. So at this point we decided, let's go to the Indiana Department of Insurance. I was so thankful that they were there. They were independent, they weren't being paid off by the insurance company, and they were for oversight. In Obamacare, there would be nowhere to go, there would be no oversight. My other point was in the process of going through this panel they asked me questions that were totally irrelevant to my daughter's medical condition, like, did she go to school, where did she school, why did I make that choice, you know, things that have nothing to do with her medical condition --
RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, what was the purpose of that?
CALLER: There were a lot of those questions, and I kept thinking to myself, jeez, these are questions that my HMO is asking me, and I'm answering them because I'm desperate, I want those medical bills paid, but can you imagine the questions Obamacare panels would have? That's my point. And also, my 16-year-old loves you. She schedules her homeschooling schedule as much as possible around you. Could you just say hi?
RUSH: That warms my heart. What's her name?
CALLER: Alyssa. Hold on a second.
DAUGHTER: I am such a big fan of you! I listen to you, and so Obama and his friends can get really, really mad, even if I can't listen to you, I still leave my radio on so I can waste energy so Obama will get really mad!
CALLER: She's so excited.
RUSH: That's all right. I didn't have a chance to say anything to her, she didn't take a breath.
CALLER: I don't think she did. We've been waiting for two hours and 11 minutes, and she is so excited to talk to you. (Daughter screaming "I love you!" in background). Anyway --
RUSH: Well, now, wait, what is her name, again?
CALLER: Alyssa. You told her to read Mark Levin. She has a reading issue and you told her to read Mark Levin so she found it on tape and she's trying to educate herself as best she can in conservatism so that she can be able to, you know, have discussions with liberals, and she's --
RUSH: See, this is the kind of stuff that gives me hope for the future.
CALLER: It is hope. It is absolute hope. Anyway, thank you for what you're doing. I don't know where we would be without you.
RUSH: Well, thank you very much.
DAUGHTER: Bye!
RUSH: Bye! (laughing) Bye, Alyssa. Finally get to say her name. Made my day. I appreciate that.
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The VA has a 52-page end-of-life planning document. It has a name. It's called the "death book," and what has happened here, George W. Bush suspended the use of the death books last year. Obama has reinstated the death book! "After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated 'Your Life, Your Choices.'" So it's called Your Life, Your Choices. That's what it's actually called. But it's a death book. And it "presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions ... [A] worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be 'not worth living.'"
I have page 21 right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Page 21 from the death book, from the VA, reinstated by Obama. "What makes your life worth living? Instructions: This exercise will help you think about and express what really matters to you. For each row, check one answer to express how you would feel if this factor by itself described you," and there are, you know, A through S here. Here's A. "I can no longer walk but get around in a wheelchair." Life like this would be: "difficult, but acceptable; worth living, but just barely; not worth living; can't answer now," and the people reading the book are supposed to check off which of these things apply. So, "a. I can no longer walk but get around in a wheelchair." Eh, difficult. I could take it. It's worth living, but just barely. Not worth living.
"b. I can no longer get outside -- I spend all day at home." Can you...? You're asked to say, you know, to hell with it. I don't want to live that way. It's the it's not worth living if I can't leave my house. Hell! "c. I can no longer contribute to my family's well-being." Eh, that's not worth living. "d. I am in severe pain most of the time. e. I have severe discomfort most of the time (such as nausea, diarrhea, or shortness of breath)." My God, that can happen when you're constipated! So you're sitting here saying, "Okay, I'm constipated. Life's not worth living." Well, you don't have diarrhea when you're constipated until you do the fix.
"f. I rely on a feeding tube to keep me alive." Eh, that's not worth living. "f. I rely on a feeding tube to keep me alive." g. I rely on a kidney dialysis machine to keep me alive. h. I rely on a breathing machine to keep me alive. i. I need someone to help take care of me all of time. j. I can no longer control my bladder. k. I can no longer control my bowels. l. I live in a nursing home." I live in a nursing home. Yeah, that's difficult but acceptable. Worth living but just barely. Not worth living. "m. I can no longer think clearly -- I am confused all the time." That describes half the population. "n. I can no longer recognize family/friends." That sometimes could be a blessing.
"o. I can no longer talk and be understood by others. p. My situation causes severe emotional burden for my family (such as feeling worried or stressed all the time). q. I am a severe financial burden on my family. r. I cannot seem to 'shake the blues,'" and then there's a section, "s. Other (write in)." Here are the instructions: "To help others make sense out of your answers, think about the following questions and be sure to explain your answers to your loved ones and health care providers. If you checked 'worth living, but just barely' for more than one factor, would a combination of these factors make your life 'not worth living?' If so, which factors? If you checked 'not worth living,' does this mean that you would rather die than be kept alive?
"If you checked 'can't answer now,' what information or people do you need to help you decide?" What makes your life worth living, and here are the things they want you to assess in the VA death book, and Obama has the audacity to say that in his health care plan -- and he reinstated this. Bush killed it. Obama reinstated it. He has the audacity to say that there aren't anything called death panels or such things in his health care plan, and he's asking veterans to basically say, "You know what? I want to check out. To hell with this! I live in a nursing home. Screw it! Pull the plug. Where is Dr. Kevorkian?" This thing is obsessed with death. It's obsessed with you deciding, or maybe some influence, that your life isn't worth living. There's nothing positive in this.
It's not, "In these circumstances, what would it take to make you want to live?" Nothing. It's all about: "What's it gonna take for us to get rid of you, with you making the decision?" And, by the way, regardless your decision, we're going to be making it for you because of money. You're going to become a budget statistic. People's fears are justified. You know, this is simple. This is not a complicated thing for people to understand, and that's why he's having major problems with this. The VA death book brought back to life by President Barack Obama.
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RUSH: I have an idea. Nobody likes the term "death panels." Well, I happen to like the term "death panels." How about cash for caskets? Hey, Koko, get Michaele at the website working on a graphic of that: Cash for caskets. You know, get a bunch of old people, and put 'em in a casket with dollar signs and bills floating around.
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RUSH: I like that: Cash for caskets. Cash for caskets to replace the whole notion of death panels. And you know, you could use a Darth Vader-like figure assigning caskets to some seasoned citizen in a wheelchair or what have you; and the family of the seasoned citizen smiling, being given a check or some cash. Maybe put Geraldo in there! You know, he's the Grim Reaper. He shows up on Fox when people die. That's how I knew Michael Jackson was actually dead was when Fox put Geraldo on there.
BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Andy McCarthy, my buddy, has another great piece at National Review Online, NationalReview.com. "Killing Obamacare -- 'Death panels' cuts to the chase, which is the only way Democrats can be stopped," and his point here is: Keep shouting. Tell everybody exactly what the plan is, and remind everybody that this can happen tomorrow if the Democrats unify. They can get this done the first day they come back if they want to, and for that reason we have to assume that at some point they are going to get it done. And it's up to us to keep the pressure on to stop it. Koko, I want you link to Andy's piece right now. It's at National Review Online. I want to put it on the website so it will link to it from our site as well. It's called, "Killing Obamacare," and it's just another tremendous piece.
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RUSH: Matt, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Hello, sir, and welcome to Open Line Friday.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I've been listening to you since I was 14 years old, and they told me back then when I was in school that it would lead to no good, but, hey, you know, I made it, so --
RUSH: Well, you're a Rush Baby that survived the experience.
CALLER: I know, imagine. Now if we can only survive Obama. Listen, I'm a car dealer, and you were talking earlier about the effects, you know, how Medicare will have lower prices. I don't think anyone has to look any further than Cash for Clunkers to see what's going to happen to prices. We have seen since Cash for Clunkers was announced, not started, but announced that some of our competitors slowly started raising their base prices in anticipation for what was going to happen with Cash for Clunkers. And since the program has been in effect, a lot of our competitors, and including us to some degree, had to raise our prices because we knew what we were going to be dealing with.
RUSH: I need to ask you a question.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Do you work for an Obama owned company?
CALLER: (laughing) Possibly, yes.
RUSH: No, is it General Motors or Chrysler? You work for General Motors or Chrysler?
CALLER: Yes, I do.
RUSH: Okay. So you work for an Obama owned company. So what you're telling me is that Obama running his car companies decided to end up raising prices because the competitors did?
CALLER: Exactly. We had no choice.
RUSH: Right. You can do that because the hapless customer walks in thinking he's getting a $4500 rebate or at least assistance in buying the car, so you can jack it up, the price. If your competitors do, you can do it, too.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: But why wouldn't you lower the price if your competitors are raising it?
CALLER: Well, you would think so but unfortunately with the government assistance, or intervention as we like to call it now, our cost has gone up just to deal with the problems, you know, first of all submitting all the paperwork --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- I mean, our guys that are out selling the cars, we have to institute all of these new policies, how to get the paperwork right because we are out several hundred thousand dollars right now.
RUSH: Oh, this is wonderful. They're taking automobile salesmen and turning them into bureaucrats.
CALLER: Basically, yes.
RUSH: Essentially.
CALLER: And our costs have gone up, so --
RUSH: You know there are all kinds of stories out there about how Chrysler and General Motors are not the cars that people are buying with the Cash for Clunkers program. And what nobody is factoring in here is that people do not want to buy a car from Obama or an Obama-bailed-out company.
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RUSH: In Chicago, this is Phil. Great to have you with us on Open Line Friday, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Actually I'm calling from Minnesota. I'm originally from Chicago. And I just wanted to tell you that I have fond memories of my dad walking in our backyard, he had a cigar in his mouth and he'd have his radio headphones on listening to Rush and from time to time he'd shout out, "hear, hear."
RUSH: Tremendous. That's great.
CALLER: My point is having grown up in Chicago and having lived there and lived under the tyranny that is Chicago politics I just want to comment on what I've heard this week with people saying, "Okay, it's over the top what we are doing when we're going to town hall meetings, we're making too much noise." No we have to be relentless because they are ruthless. We have to continue to organize, continue to make noise, and continue to be heard.
RUSH: Exactly, and because behaving in this polite, civil manner is how we get the stimulus package.
CALLER: Exactly. And that's the way they do it in Chicago, they just ram it down people's throats, and eventually people lie down, and we cannot lie down. We have to continue to fight.
RUSH: I know. The aggressor sets the rules. But the evidence is in: It works. This kind of behavior at the town hall meetings works. It's based on substance, it's not based on phony anger, it's not ginned up, it is what it is. People see it, that's why they're trying to caution us to dial it back. They don't want to anger the precious independents. The dirty little secret is it's the independents that are abandoning Obama in record numbers.
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I said that he talks to his guests about everything other than their area of expertise. Well, since I'm an expert in everything, everything was on the table, so we did discuss some political stuff. We discussed environmental wackoism. We discussed Obama's health care plan, legacy, what we will leave for our children and grandchildren. And, for example, Bill was concerned about the environment. "I want to make sure that we leave a clean world and so forth for our children and grandchildren." I said, "Bill, if you really are worried about what you want to leave in terms of this country for your kids and grandkids, then we have to defeat Obama and the Democrats."
And he said, "How do you know? How do you know all the time that you're right? How do you know?" And, you know, nobody's ever asked me that. They just assume I'm right. But he said, "How do you know that you're right?" And I'm not going to give away my answers or anything here, but it was a largely philosophical thing. Bill Shatner is a very philosophical guy. He can get very deep. He started out with family influences, grandfather, my father, my mother. Talked about... What was it? Brian was there. Glicklich was there. Our Limbaugh family aide was there. It was wide-ranging. It was all over the place. Truly. I mean, you hear cliche, "wide-ranging interview." This really was. It was. It was a gas. It was lots of fun.
We talked about what makes great radio: Theater of the mind. People already have things in their mind before you add to it. He asked me, "How do you approach the notion that you're on radio and you know that you paint the picture?" and I gave him my philosophical, business, broadcast expertise answer to that. It really was a lot of fun and it was a unique setting. It was in the living room of a private home that was lit really well. I had a great time. I'm going to be eager to see it. Normally when I do television, eh, I can take it or leave it, because I don't have that sense of how well I did as I do on radio. But this I felt really good about when it was all over. And as soon as we get an airdate for it, we will, of course, pass it on to you.
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“OBAMA: That w-w-we we’re all going to be, uhhh, you know, pulling the plug on grandma. Eh... Now... (clearing throat) C’mon.”
Stay classy, Mr. Pres__ent!
“Cindy, leave it alone, get out, we’re not interested, we’re not going to cover you going to Martha’s Vineyard because our guy is president now and you’re just a hassle. You’re just a problem. To these people, they never had any true, genuine emotional interest in her. She was just a pawn. She was just a woman to be used and then thrown overboard once they’re through with her and they’re through with her. They don’t want any part of Cindy Sheehan protesting against any war when Obama happens to be president.”
So it’s official. Cindy Sheehan has been thrown under the bus.
I haven't listened to today's show yet.
When I do, I will let you know if I think it's the same person.
If it is, you are sure sharp!
I think you mean this person here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308284/posts?page=15#15
Heck, I’ll even relisten to Hannity’s show as well.
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