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"There's no difference in this global warming hoax, and the health care reform hoax.
They are born of the same ideology, they're born of the same tactics, and they are born with the same objectives.
Radical leftists claim that man-made global warming destroys lives.
Radical leftists also claim that private sector medical care destroys lives.
The president himself has indicted the medical community for this."
"We now have an underground government.
We are going to get the effect of cap and trade, cap and tax, without any legislation on it."
"If union bosses cut union dues in half until we reach full employment again, somewhere between four and five percent unemployment,
wouldn't that be a nice gesture to make? Start it right now, in time for the holidays."
"So does this mean that workers, employees, can sue their employers if they are made to work around
people who are emitting such a dangerous substance as carbon dioxide?
And if not, why not?
The EPA, a federal agency, has just said this is poison; has just said that it is destroying the climate; has just said that CO2 endangers human health."
"The only thing stopping union bosses from helping their members in a down economy is the
depth of appreciation they have for working men and women, their brothers and sisters."
"The first identified mistress of now what looks like nine of them in the Tiger Woods story, is mad that he had all these other women.
Can you believe that? How stupid must all of these people be?"
"I assume by now everybody's heard of Mannheim Steamroller, but if you haven't, and if you like Christmas music, stuff is so great.
It is so nice."
"Now, you name another group of conservative, thoughtful, smart researchers looking out for the nation the way Heritage does.
I mean, a lot of people are trying, but the Heritage Foundation, they do it the best."
"Government cannot control costs, and these people at Washington don't care about that.
This is about control, as most of what they're doing is."
"Liberals cloak their fraud in compassion, in saving the planet, in saving the polar bears, in not disappointing the children,
in insuring the uninsured, in providing the best health care for the sick and the elderly, in blah, blah, blah, blah."
"ClimateGate and Obamacare require much higher taxes that will cripple the private sector and the domestic United States economy.
ClimateGate and Obamacare severely limit personal freedom and disposable income.
ClimateGate and Obamacare are both job killers. ClimateGate and Obamacare are economy killers."
"The underlying data proving man-made global warming has been hidden from public scrutiny.
The underlying laws providing and proving Obamacare is deficit neutral had been hidden from public scrutiny.
The State-Controlled Media has knowingly and willingly advanced the man-made global warming fraud.
The State-Controlled Media has knowingly and willingly advanced the Obamacare fraud."
"A significant person at the ClimateGate fraud is Dr. Phil Jones.
He has been forced to step down as director of the Climate Research Unit due to his corrupt behavior.
A significant person in the US Senate in the Obamacare fraud is Max Baucus."
"The only idiots that are going to reduce their carbon emissions are us, because the whole design is to fleece us."
"Story: 'One in five rural counties in the United States is prosperous and doing better than the nation as a whole' on a lot of measures.
Yeah, those bitter clingers just continue to surprise everybody, don't they?"
"We are for things. We just don't have a lot of people willing to say what they are. We're for individual liberty and freedom and small government, low taxes, and get the government out of our way. We're for private sector solutions to all of these problems that have been caused by government."
"We have an administration now -- and a federal bureaucracy -- populated with people who believe that the
US military is the focus of evil in the world, and that's why you're not hearing a whole lot of talk about Pearl Harbor today."
"So now you have no relationship between the patient, the customer, and the provider of service.
And that's why there's no affordability.
The government being involved in this is precisely why it's as out of whack as it is and why it's going to get even worse."
"A new Gallup approval number is out for President Obama: 47%.
They worked hard, folks, to keep it up there at 50%, but reality has descended even on Gallup."
"It's always been my favorite time of the year and it always will be,
especially since I now live in a place where it seldom is below 70 degrees on Christmas."
"Try living through the Great Depression followed by two world wars, followed by Korea, followed
by Nikita Khrushchev saying he's going to bury your grandchildren.
You try living before the invention of the automobile and electricity and air-conditioning, you try living that."
"Those were tough times, when horse manure was essentially the street, the main street of town, horse manure.
I know that times are tough now, everything is relative, but look at the life expectancy then versus now.
We don't have it that tough, we had to invent our traumas and we've done a great job of it."
"If you're Obama and the Democrats, and you look at the elderly as the wisest segment of the population,
if you look at the elderly as the most informed and because of the length of their lives the most educated,
and because of the length of their lives, the greater their memories, what harm is there in a bunch of people
who realize that the way to get out of a recession is what we did in the eighties, to get sick and sort of wither
away, not be around to remind everybody? That stuff is insidious."
"We are where we are in part because expectations have been raised that in this one area,
everybody expects the best, which is just not possible."
"It is not in any way, shape, manner, or form consistent to say that anything government does results in abundance."
"The one consistent result of government-controlled anything is scarcity. Go to Cuba. Go to Venezuela.
Go to the old Soviet Union. Scarcity, that's what you end up with when the government controls everything."
"The consistent result of a free market is plenty, and this country is the greatest illustration of plenty in the history
of humanity because it has been largely a free market. FDR tried to sabotage it and Obama's doing FDR on steroids.
But they were both doing it for the same political reasons. Obama is a little bit more dangerous than FDR was, but it's close."
"If Paul McCartney doesn't want to eat meat on Monday, fine, Sir Paul don't eat it, but keep your damn No Meat Monday to yourself.
Stop trying to force it on everybody else."
"I wonder, now that carbon dioxide is officially a danger to human health, how long is it going to be before
we start seeing news reports of hybrid cars running down and killing joggers?"
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Now, this is not funny. On the surface of it it's funny, it's ridiculous. But it's not funny. It's insidious. I want to walk you through some progressions here. The Supreme Court first off has assigned to itself the role of expertise in matters of science. And of course they're all-knowing and they're all-powerful. The finding, the EPA finding today, timed to boost the administration's arguments that the Copenhagen climate conference, the United States is aggressively taking action to combat global warming. Good thing this is not political. Good thing it's not a political ruling, eh? Now, by the way, let's go back, first sentence: "The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people’s health and must be regulated." This is all about CO2. So does this mean that workers, employees, can sue their employers if they are made to work around people who are emitting such a dangerous substance as carbon dioxide? And if not, why not? The EPA, a federal agency, has just said this is poison; has just said that it is destroying the climate; has just said that CO2 endangers human health.
So you let some clever trial lawyer get hold of this and get some poor employee somewhere who comes down with some disease, sues the employer for making him work next to somebody exhaling this stuff. You think I'm making this up. I hope it doesn't happen but I'm trying to illustrate the absolute absurdity of this. This is just part and parcel of the divide we face, the Universe of Lies, the Universe of Reality and what is really intended for this country and the world at the hands of both domestic and international leftists and Marxists. And, you know, there's no difference in this global warming hoax, and the health care reform hoax. They are born of the same ideology, they're born of the same tactics, and they are born with the same objectives. Radical leftists claim that man-made global warming destroys lives. Radical leftists also claim that private sector medical care destroys lives. The president himself has indicted the medical community for this. The hoax, I want to walk you through these progressions. The hoax known as man-made global warming is based on manipulated, falsified, altered temperature data, basic weather information.
One tree in the Siberian peninsula, one tree is responsible for this hoax. And a guy with this hockey stick graph, which has also now been proven to be a sham. The hoax known as Obamacare, deficit neutral, will improve health care, is based on manipulated financial data, basic accounting information. Key people who gathered, manipulated and destroyed inexact temperature information, information that is the foundation of the global warming theory, were considered trustworthy, they are scientists. I'm speaking of the climatologists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. These people are knowing participants in a fraud, however. They had the respect of the world, they were scientists, and they were saving the planet, and no one doubted them except ideological skeptics and a few scientists who had the guts to. Key people who gathered and manipulated inexact financial information, information that is the foundation of the deficit neutral theory in health care, were considered trustworthy, with wonderfully good intentions. I'm speaking of the accountants at the CBO. These people are knowing participants in a fraud.
The underlying data proving man-made global warming has been hidden from public scrutiny. The underlying laws providing and proving Obamacare is deficit neutral had been hidden from public scrutiny. The State-Controlled Media has knowingly and willingly advanced the man-made global warming fraud. The State-Controlled Media has knowingly and willingly advanced the Obamacare fraud. A significant person at the ClimateGate fraud is Dr. Phil Jones. He has been forced to step down as director of the Climate Research Unit due to his corrupt behavior. A significant person in the US Senate in the Obamacare fraud is Max Baucus. He should have to step down due to his corrupt behavior. ClimateGate was advanced by propaganda and by public perception that men and women of science dressed up in lab coats were honest brokers of facts, when in fact all they were were greedy, grubby leftists on the take. Most of science is funded by grant. Science, government, academia, and media, have all been corrupted. They are the Four Corners of Deceit.
ClimateGate advanced by propaganda and the public perception, the men and women of science dressed up in lab coats were honest. Obamacare advanced by propaganda where the White House called a phony meeting of doctors, who support socialized medicine, and passed out white lab coats to them for them for a photo-op. ClimateGate and Obamacare are the most significant power grabs, tax increases, and losses of freedom and liberty in American history. ClimateGate and Obamacare require central planners running a command-and-control economy. ClimateGate and Obamacare require much higher taxes that will cripple the private sector and the domestic United States economy. ClimateGate and Obamacare severely limit personal freedom and disposable income. ClimateGate and Obamacare are both job killers. ClimateGate and Obamacare are economy killers. ClimateGate and Obamacare are budget killers. ClimateGate and Obamacare require, demand everyone's participation.
Violating the laws of these two pieces of legislation will result in fines and/or incarceration. ClimateGate and Obamacare put the public sector and public servants in total control of the private sector and over every individual American. Truth, facts, and public opinion mean nothing to the radical leftists ramming through ClimateGate and Obamacare. They are one and the same issue. They have the same technique, the same propaganda, the same end objective. They are part-and-parcel of an un-American and unconstitutional takeover of American lives by radical leftists in the United States government and governments all over the world, and they are all based on lies. They are all based on frauds. They are all based on man-made hoaxes advanced by liars, dressed up as people we should trust.
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We're for individual liberty and freedom and small government, low taxes, and get the government out of our way. We're for private sector solutions to all of these problems that have been caused by government. It's like Robert Samuelson says today in his piece in the Washington Post, entitled, "Health Care Nation." Medical spending threatens everybody else. It has to be stopped here, folks. "President Obama's critics sometimes say that he is engineering a government takeover of health care or even introducing 'socialized medicine' into America. These allegations are wildly overblown. Government already dominates health care, one-sixth of the economy. It pays directly or indirectly for roughly half of all health costs. Medicine is pervasively regulated, from drug approvals to nursing-home rules. There is no 'free market' in health care." He's exactly right and that's why it's in the mess that it's in. And that's why the strategy, "We don't intend to slow things down, offer some good amendments and make it a better bill." There is nothing in this worthy of being improved. It's got to be stopped.
Samuelson says: "What's happening is the reverse, which is more interesting and alarming: Health care is taking over government. Consider: In 1980, the federal government spent $65 billion on health care; that was 11 percent of all its spending. By 2008, health outlays had grown to $752 billion." That's like 29 years. Let's round it up and say 30 years, federal spending on health care went from $65 billion to $752 billion, 25% of the total. One dollar in every four is spent on health care. And people still complain about it, and we still hear that there are all these people uninsured, and we still get the medical opportunity tarred and feathered, doctors, insurance companies, drug companies, they're the villains! And there's no free market in it. "Even without new legislation, the health share would grow, as an aging population uses more Medicare (insurance for the elderly) and Medicaid (the joint federal-state insurance for the poor, including the very poor elderly). Obama would magnify the trend by expanding Medicaid and providing new subsidies for private insurance. Thirty million or more Americans would receive coverage. All this is transforming politics and society. The most obvious characteristic of health spending is that government can't control it," which is why I say that it is a total fraud and hoax perpetrated by the CBO and everybody involved in this to say that this is deficit neutral or that it's going to reduce the deficit over the long term. It's absurd!
We're being lied to left and right by people who want only total control over our lives. It's really no more complicated than that. "The reason is public opinion. We all want the best health care for ourselves and loved ones; that's natural and seems morally compelling. Unfortunately, what we all want as individuals may harm us as a nation. Our concern sanctions open-ended and ineffective health spending, because everyone believes that cost controls are heartless and illegitimate. The recent furor over proposals to reduce mammogram screenings captures the popular feeling." No. This is where I part ways with the brilliant economist Mr. Samuelson. I think the problem is third-party payers. Third-party payment in government. You know, I got all kinds of hell -- well, not a lot, but from some people. Did you happen to watch the Shatner show last night, Snerdley? Well, we've got the video and the transcript at RushLimbaugh.com. I forgot to watch it, too, I was caught up in the NFL, and I got notes, "Hey, this was fabulous, this was great." And I said, "Ah, I don't like watching myself on TV anyway," so I didn't feel too bad and Cookie told me there was a replay at two a.m. so I TiVoed that, but I haven't seen it. H.R. just shouted in the IFB that I was great.
Well, one of the promos they use, he says something along the lines of it's true that the more money you have the better health care you get. And I said, "Yeah, and the more money you have, the likelihood you're going to have a house on the beach." "But this is health care." "So?" He was just dumbfounded. "But it's health care, it's health care." "Well, so? Why is health care so morally different than any other thing anybody wants?" "No, it's just something we need." "Well, doesn't everybody need a house on the beach? Doesn't everybody need an Aston Martin? Where does this stop?" I said the whole problem here, Bill, is we're fixing a problem here that's been caused by the very thought that you have -- and Samuelson is mentioning it here -- there's this moral opinion everybody has that everybody's entitled, when it comes to health care, to "the best." And of course politicians try to fulfill that fantasy with people by claiming to be the only ones who can provide the best, and look what they've done to it.
So now you have no relationship between the patient, the customer, and the provider of service. And that's why there's no affordability. The government being involved in this is precisely why it's as out of whack as it is and why it's going to get even worse. As he points out, government cannot control costs, and these people at Washington don't care about that. This is about control, as most of what they're doing is.
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RUSH: I want to get back here to this Robert Samuelson piece 'cause it says so much. Two more paragraphs that I wish to quote to you: "A society that passively accepts constant increases in health spending endorses some explicit, if poorly understood, forms of income redistribution. The young transfer to the elderly, because about half of all health spending goes for those 55 and over. Unless taxes are increased disproportionately for older Americans (and just the opposite is true), they are subsidized by the young. More and more resources also go to a small sliver of the population: In 2006, the sickest 5 percent of Americans accounted for 48 percent of health spending. ... Obama's health-care proposals may be undesirable (they are), but it's mindless to oppose them -- as many Republicans do -- by screaming that they'll lead to 'rationing.' Almost everything in society is 'rationed,' either by price (if you can't afford it, you can't buy it) or explicit political decisions (school boards have budgets). Health care is an exception; it enjoys an open tab. The central political problem of health-care nation is to find effective and acceptable ways to limit medical spending."
Now, I want to go back to this concept of rationing because that's essentially what I was telling Shatner. If you can afford a house on the beach, you can. If you can't, you can't. If you can afford an Aston Martin, you can afford one. If you can't, you can't. And if you can afford the high-tech hospital services and room, you can. If you can't, you can't. And when I said that all of a sudden I became heartless in his mind. "But it's health care. It's health care." I said, "Yeah?" "But it's health care." But see, society does ration everything. Nobody gets everything they want, except Barack Obama and now the Democrats in Congress. They're about to get everything they want, including personal wealth. Nobody gets everything they want. Now, when we approach the subject of health care, though, we throw that out. Samuelson's right. He says if you want it you should have access to it because somehow your body, your health is no different than anybody else's. If we've got the best technology to treat cancer, and everybody that gets cancer ought to have assess to it. Fine. Somebody has gotta pay for it.
We all are paying for it. And costs are out of control. And, by the way, after all this spending, does everybody get access to the best in health care. They don't, do they? I wonder why that is? Because it's impossible for everybody to all have the best of anything. Now, when the free market rations, that's the free market. And you see, the way it works in human nature, in a free society, you're born, you grow up, you see things, you're inspired, you're motivated, or you're not, whatever, you want to become something in your life or you don't care to. Depending on how badly you want something, you'll work your buns off for it. And if you succeed in working your buns off for it, then the spoils go to you. If you outwork others, that's up to you and them. We've gotten to a point now where the people in a free society who have sought to be the best they can be, and that's what America is. America, the United States of America, is the place in the world you come to be the best you can be. The United States of America is the place for all people to become the best they can be.
But not everybody has the same ambition. Not everybody has the same desire. Not everybody has the same commitment. Not everybody has the same devotion. Not everybody has the same ability. Not everybody has the same educational opportunity. Not everybody has the same intelligence. And nowhere in the history of mankind have outcomes ever been guaranteed unless you live in oppression, and then everybody is equally miserable. But that's what American exceptionalism is. We are the exception to the history of the world: tyranny, oppression, discrimination, dungeons, torture. We're the exception. It's not that we're better people because we live here. It's that our system, our freedom, our enshrined documents, founding documents, laid the groundwork for this country to be an exception to human history. We have been. It's under attack now. Now, it may be heartless to say, "Well, yeah, Bill, if you have a lot of money you get better health care than somebody else. If you have a lot of money you get house on the beach, other people don't have one." But the simple fact of the matter is it's the reality.
We've gotten to the point now where everybody thinks that when it comes to health care, that there ought to be no differences, even though the differences exist. And now we're spending money left and right, and transfers of wealth, Samuelson is exactly right about this, but when the free market does the rationing people like me have to problem with it because you end up getting what you deserve in the free market. And sometimes you don't get what you deserve, sometimes you do work hard, sometimes you do bust your butt, sometimes you do outperform and you still don't get what you deserve. You keep working at it. It's the story of life. It's human nature. It's hard. Even in a country like this, life is hard. But we have it easier today than it has ever been in the history of humanity. But since most of us never lived during really tough times, we can only relate to things based on our own baselines or own experiences. But to people who are knowledgeable and educated it is pure folly for anybody in this country to think they've got it tough. You may have it tough compared to somebody else. But you're on a cakewalk.
That's why I've always said -- and always got in trouble for this, too -- I've always said that the Baby Boom generation -- and I'm a not-so-proud member of it because half the Baby Boom generation has now grown up to run this country into the ground. But I've always said the Baby Boom generation had to make up its traumas in order to convince itself that life was a b-i-itch. Try living through the Great Depression followed by two world wars, followed by Korea, followed by Nikita Khrushchev saying he's going to bury your grandchildren. You try living before the invention of the automobile and electricity and air-conditioning, you try living that. Those were tough times, when horse manure was essentially the street, the main street of town, horse manure. I know that times are tough now, everything is relative, but look at the life expectancy then versus now. We don't have it that tough, we had to invent our traumas and we've done a great job of it. We now have psychotic drugs to handle all of our traumas. We got people ringing their hands over the inequities and unfairnesses of life and how tough they've got it, and it is tough now for a lot of people in this recession, unemployed and so forth.
I'm not trying to diminish it, but I guess just a little sense of perspective, especially this time of year, to have a little appreciation for what we have and what we still have a chance to become. Even though the slogging is going to get tougher because we've got much bigger obstacles than we in our lifetimes have ever faced. But we can overcome this, too. We're going to have to have an educated, informed public to do it. Okay, so that statistic about the amount of money spent, 5% of Americans accounted for 48% of health spending in 2006. They are the seasoned citizens. And they will be rationed, their care will be rationed. If you're going to make even a pretense at cutting costs you have to go to where the costs are, and the young, if you're Obama and the Democrats, you can't tax 'em totally into oblivion or they'll stop working for you. You need them to continue to work. But if you're Obama and the Democrats, and you look at the elderly as the wisest segment of the population, if you look at the elderly as the most informed and, because of the length of their lives, the most educated, and because of the length of their lives, the greater their memories, what harm is there in a bunch of people who realize that the way to get out of a recession is what we did in the eighties, to get sick and sort of wither away, not be around to remind everybody? That stuff is insidious.
Folks, what is happening here, to me, it's as near criminal as this climate hoax, climate change, global warming, whatever it is. But we are where we are in part because expectations have been raised that in this one area, everybody expects the best, which is just not possible. Snerdley, what's your favorite car? If you could go out and buy a car tomorrow, don't think about it, what's your instinct reaction, what's your favorite, what would you buy? Top-of-the-line Beamer. All right. Snerdley's preferred car is a top-of-the-line Beamer. I saw a car the other day that I had never seen before. And it was being driven by a buddy of mine, Buddy Marucci who, by the way, took Tiger Woods to extra holes in the US Amateur in '96 or '97. And I bought the car I have from Buddy when he was in the business. So I pulled up to him, I said, "What kind of car is that?" It was right there on Royal Poinciana Way. He said, "It's an Aston Martin." I'd never seen this car. I know what Aston Martins look like. I'd never seen this.
It was a ragtop convertible. Boy, it was sharp looking, black. Why doesn't everybody want one of those? Why doesn't everybody want a top-of-the-line Beamer? Why is there not a national clamor for it? Why is Congress not working to give everybody a top-of-the-line Beamer? Why? Why is Congress promulgating the hoax and the lie that they're going to give you the best of health care? There's no power in everybody driving a top-of-the-line Beamer. If you're driving a top-of-the-line Beamer you can probably outrun Congress when they chase you down to collect your taxes.
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RUSH: Now, one more thing here on the notion that the free market rations, which was the word used by Robert Samuelson. I know what he means by rationing, he just means that not everybody can have what they want and that the system, capitalism, decides who gets what. But here's the basic difference. In the free market there is abundance. Now, this is very important to understand. In a free market there is abundance. Any centrally controlled product or service must be rationed. For example, if coffee was considered a right, it would have to be rationed. And it would cost through the nose. "What do you mean, Rush, what do you mean?" Because if there's one entity involved in bringing it to the market and charging for it, and there's no incentive, and there's no competition in it, it's going to have to be rationed because there won't be enough of it. There's never enough of anything that government provides unless they go into debt or start printing money wildly to provide it. And even then, with the government now mostly in charge of health care, we still have all these uninsured people. Right?
So it is not in any way, shape, manner, or form consistent to say that anything government does results in abundance. But since coffee is available from the free market, it's abundant, and it's affordable, because there are all different types of it, ways you can get it, prices based on what people will pay for it. The one consistent result of government-controlled anything is scarcity. Go to Cuba. Go to Venezuela. Go to the old Soviet Union. Scarcity, that's what you end up with when the government controls everything. The consistent result of a free market is plenty, and this country is the greatest illustration of plenty in the history of humanity because it has been largely a free market. FDR tried to sabotage it and Obama's doing FDR on steroids. But they were both doing it for the same political reasons. Obama I think is a little, slightly bit more dangerous than FDR was, but it's close.
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CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you doing today?
RUSH: Good. Very well. Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, did you happen to hear that Sir Paul McCartney wanted to proclaim Monday as being No Meat Monday in an effort to reduce global warming?
RUSH: I hadn't heard specifically that, but I know that McCartney says he doesn't ever want to eat anything with a face on it for the same reason that -- never mind. I was going to make a Tiger joke, but never mind.
CALLER: Yeah, I know we could go on and on. By anyway, I was driving my children into school this morning.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And we heard that on the radio so the three of us decided to name the rest of the days of the week along Sir Paul's lines, and I'd like to give you some of what we came up.
RUSH: Sure, sure. Fire away. I got the hand on the bleep button here.
CALLER: Oh, no, I'm good, we're all good here.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: We like Tyrannical Tuesday, although Tax Tuesday twice came into mind.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: Wealth Redistribution Wednesday. How about Thoughtless Thursday. Fried Steak Friday. We like Sausage Link Saturday. And my daughter, who is 11, came up with Social Security Sunday.
RUSH: Social Security Sunday, and this is No Meat Monday?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: He's an idiot. You know, these people, if he doesn't want to eat meat on Monday, fine, Sir Paul don't eat it, but keep your damn No Meat Monday to yourself. Stop trying to force it on everybody else. I'll tell you, I wonder, now that carbon dioxide is officially a danger to human health, how long is it going to be before we start seeing news reports of hybrid cars running down and killing joggers?
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| UK Guardian: Paul McCartney Backs 'Meat Free Monday' to Cut Carbon Emissions |
PELOSI: I believe that the transaction tax still has a great deal of merit. The concern that many others have had is that it will send transactions overseas. Well, let's say. But the fact is what we're talking about is a global transaction -- something that we would do in connection with other G nations, whether G8, G20, whatever the current G number is, and because it is really a source of revenue that has really minimal impact on the transaction, but a tremendous impact on helping us meet our needs, and I think there would be a market among the American people to say that we're all participating in the economic prosperity of our country and we're all pitching in to continue that prosperity.
RUSH: And we're all participating in the destruction of economic prosperity, Madam Speakerette. I'll tell you what else, this is a $150 billion global tax on every stock transaction, every one. And they think it's going to raise $150 billion a year because it is her belief that people aren't going to stop buying stocks because of the stock tax. Well, every time you raise taxes on an activity you get less of that activity.
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RUSH: Kelvin, I'm sorry - in Stanbury Point, Iowa, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: My question is, how can economists comment and predict on the economy, and especially unemployment I've been hearing about, right on the eve of cap and trade and health care legislation?
RUSH: An even better question is, "Why is there ever going to be any serious employment take place when employers do not know what all this is going to cost them?"
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: So what predictions are you referring to specifically, future predictions? Just every month when we get the numbers, "experts were surprised, experts were unexpectedly shocked," or what have you? And --
CALLER: Well, all the experts talk about how much of the economy this will affect but they're all making predictions on unemployment, and I don't understand how they can not knowing what the effects are going to be.
RUSH: Well, it's a good question because when they -- well, they're trying to calculate the effects, but they never do it dynamically. They'll say, "Okay, we're going to raise taxes $150 billion on stock transactions. Global stock transactions will raise 150 billion." And it won't because there will be fewer transactions taking place, so the tax revenue will be less just like the income tax revenue that's projected to increase with tax cuts -- or tax increases. Never materializes, because when you tax an activity, it slows down.
So, look, all of these predictions into the future about the economy and so forth from people who are on board with the Obama agenda can't be believed anyway. They're sugarcoated to hide the disaster that awaits.
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OBAMA: These additional American and international troops allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.
RUSH: Sunday morning, various Sunday morning shows, we have a montage, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates denying that Obama set an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
HILLARY: We're not talking about an exit strategy or a drop-dead deadline.
GATES: We're not talking about an abrupt withdrawal. / I don't want to put a deadline on it, okay?
HILLARY: Yes, we don't have an open-ended combat commitment.
GATES: We will have 100,000 troops there, and some, handful, or some small number will begin to withdraw.
HILLARY: We think we have a strategy that is a good, integrated approach.
GATES: I don't consider this an exit strategy.
HILLARY: A firm deadline.
GATES: There isn't a deadline. What we have is a specific date.
CLINTON: It's not an arbitrary time.
GATES: Let's be clear. The date in July 2011, to begin thinning our troops and bringing them home is firm.
CLINTON: It's very hard for any of us to be armchair generals.
RUSH: Okay, July 2011 is not a deadline; it's not an exit strategy. Let's go back and play Obama again, sound bite number four. You just heard this montage. "No, 2011, it doesn't mean anything, no, it's not an exit, no, we're going to start thinning the herd, no, no, no, no."
OBAMA: These additional American and international troops will allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.
RUSH: All right. So what's the story? Well, let's go to Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. She was on MSNBC this morning and she was talking to Scarborough. She said this about the White House and their exit strategy for Afghanistan.
MITCHELL: They don't want to communicate the real decision. The decision is there's an exit strategy. They don't want to say that. That will scare Pakistan. There is a clear glide path out.
SCARBOROUGH: How do you know that?
MITCHELL: From talking to people very high up in --
SCARBOROUGH: So you've talked to people at the White House, and they're saying, "We understand we put out our two hawks this weekend, but don't listen to anything they say."
MITCHELL: Once they put it out there, it's clear that there's an exit strategy.
RUSH: So there's Andrea Mitchell saying that people in the White House said, "Don't listen to Hillary and don't listen to Gates, I mean there is an exit strategy." That's what she's being told by people at the White House. And then there was this over on Stephanopoulos' show. He had Gates on there, secretary of defense. "When was the last time we had any good intelligence on where Bin Laden is?"
GATES: I think it's been years.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Years?
GATES: I think so.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So these reports that came out just this week about a detainee saying he might have seen him in Afghanistan earlier this year, we can't confirm that?
GATES: No.
RUSH: No intel in years. I guess that's 'cause we don't have any gravediggers out there looking for the body.
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RUSH: To the Global Warming Stack. This is from Vanity Fair online: "In his almost 30 years of crusading against global warming, Al Gore has worn a variety of hats. In roughly chronological order these include: congressman, senator, author, vice president, traveling evangelist, filmmaker, investment adviser, and Nobel Peace Prize winner," and dunce. "Now, with the publication of his new book, Our Choice, Gore has unveiled a fresh and most unexpected talent..." And they're serious here. "... the book’s opening chapter of concludes with a poem he wrote -- 21 lines of verse that are equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing. Here is how the poem begins:
'One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea.'"
That's how it begins. And they are praising this. By the way, Mark Hertsgaard is the author here. "It’s odd that none of the reviews of Our Choice have mentioned this poem. Even my old friend Bill McKibben, the dean of America’s climate journalists, didn’t see fit to mention it, though Bill himself wrote a column a couple of years ago pleading for poets, musicians, and other artists to bring their talents to bear in the climate fight," and he's the dean of America's climate journalists. He's a fraud, too. They are all frauds as well. One of the e-mails, the AP science writer is a guy named Seth Borenstein, he writes the guys at Hadley, he writes these guys at the Climate Research Unit and says, "Marc Morano is going nuts on some scientific paper here. How do I deal with this, guys?" The AP was asking the hoaxers at the Climate Research Unit how to handle an opposition paper. I'll read it to you here in a minute.
I want to illustrate the idiot that Algore is on this and how journalists have been corrupted. "The result is a surprisingly accomplished nuanced piece of poetry." Mr. Hertsgaard, I have to tell you, you are embarrassing yourself by writing this. "The images Gore conjures in his (untitled) poem turn a neat trick: they are visually specific and emotionally arresting even as they are scientifically accurate." Ha! Nothing is accurate in this, Mr. Hertsgaard. When was this stupid thing published? This was published December 4th, plenty of time for this guy to have learned about the e-mails at the climate search unit. Okay, here's more of the Algore poem.
"Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration."
"It’s usually a mistake to read too much literal meaning into poetry. But the final lines of Gore’s poem certainly apply to the governments that will gather in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18 for what is regarded as humanity’s last chance to avert absolutely catastrophic climate change." These are supposedly smart people. There are more stupid smart people in our country and they seem to be in journalism. Humanity's last chance? Would somebody explain to me what's wrong with it getting warmer? I don't think it is. I think it's getting colder, and that's disaster. If it's getting warmer we're going to have less energy costs to keep warm; we're going to have longer growing seasons; we're going to have more food. What the hell! "But, Rush, but, Rush, the sea levels are going to destroy Cuba and Florida." No, they're not. That's bogus. Let me ask you this. Let's say that instead of global warming happening right now, let's say that there was conclusive proof that we are headed to a little ice age. Do you think these people would be urging us to run around and drive our SUVs, more emissions, pollute the skies, what they say is pollution, get the smokestacks revving, burn coal to heat it up, you think they would be telling us that? You don't? Why?
They would not urge us to go do what they claim we're doing that's warming the planet if it were conclusively proven that it's in the process of chilling because that would be freedom. That's liberty. That's driving what you want. You know, I think we all ought to go out, in the summertime lower your thermostat to 55, in the wintertime raise it to 80, run out there and if you participated in the Cash for Clunkers program, you're driving around in a little soapbox, go out and buy a Ford 150 or go out and buy some big honker truck or SUV. That's how to react to this, 'cause it doesn't make any difference. Humanity's last chance? Okay, here's how the poem ends. Well, I don't know if it ends. They don't actually publish the whole poem. They just do three verses at a time here.
"The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools"
And then Mr. Hertsgaard says, "Is Gore himself that shepherd? No matter. What counts is that the hour of choosing has indeed arrived and, as documented in Our Choice, we do have the tools to survive -- if we choose to employ them." This is hilarious. It is absolutely absurdly hilarious. If it weren't so dangerous, it is a total man-made hoax. Obama's going over there. He knows it's a hoax. They're going to try to act like it's not because it's not about saving the planet. Health care is not about health care. This is not about saving the planet. I'm getting blue in the face talking about this.
"Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into 'climategate' Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here. 'We believe this scandal -- or what has been referred to as the "climategate" scandal -- we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations,' the Saudi Arabian negotiator said." Now, you gotta understand the Saudis. I mean oil is about to be outlawed if these people ever get their way, and that's the only income source the Saudis have to run around and pretend they're Tiger Woods. (interruption) Snerdley, you can continue to try to bait me with these questions into discussing what I am not going to discuss. You can go ahead and try. You will learn of my steely resolve. You will learn of my unwavering commitment. You will learn that I cannot be taken off track. You may interrupt me but you will not get me. You will not sucker me into providing satisfaction for the entire sportswriter community and the entire left-wing punditocracy. If they want to discuss it, if they want to bring it up, Oprah wants to talk about it, go right ahead. I don't. I'm not going to bring it up.
Let me take a break here, my friends. We do have sound bites coming up, and there's an interesting theory going around that it's the Russians who hacked the computer at the Climate Research Unit, because they too export oil and they don't want their business shut down and they're trying to sabotage this thing. (laughing) I mean the plot is thickening.
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RUSH: At Copenhagen, at this last chance, utterly last chance to save ourselves and our planet, some 40,000 tons of carbon emissions will be spewed getting this crowd together and keeping them there in comfort. That is the daily amount of carbon dioxide produced by 30 of the world's smaller countries, according to UN statistics. I mean the hypocrisy here is just blatant for everybody to see.
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RUSH: Aaron in Durham, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: How you doing, Rush? Mega dittos.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: I just wanted to tell you, I was told to tell you I'm a Rush Baby, so --
RUSH: Well.
CALLER: I want to tell you that today in class and then also Wednesday -- I go to Southern Connecticut State University, and I'm in a health class right now for educators for the school -- and today we had a guest speaker and on Wednesday we had a guest speaker, he was the teacher's husband who's a scientist. And he came in, and he told us all about how global warming is --
RUSH: Wait a second, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I just want to understand this. You had a guest speaker --
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: -- who was the teacher's husband?
CALLER: Yes, the teacher's husband.
RUSH: Well, what's the teacher's husband do?
CALLER: He's a scientist. She's a health teacher and he's a, quote, unquote, scientist.
RUSH: All right, that means he's a fraud.
CALLER: Exactly. That's what we're all saying. But he comes in and he's showing us all these homemade charts that it looks like he drew himself, he's showing them on a projector telling us how there's people -- he listened to the radio on the way to school today -- there's actual people out there who don't believe in global warming, and it's not a question if it's out there, it does exist. He says there's more evidence than you could believe, and if you don't believe it you might as well tell me you're standing on a flat earth. And we're sitting in class, looking at this guy, and he believes what he's telling us, and he doesn't think anyone else knows what happened with Saudi Arabian's finding out about ClimateGate and the Russians, and he doesn't want to believe any of it.
RUSH: So what did you do? What was your reaction?
CALLER: For most of us, we're trying to keep our powder dry and just get to the end of the year and not get a failing grade by telling the teacher her husband is a fraud.
RUSH: You guys are being propagandized.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: You're being maleducated.
CALLER: Yeah, (crosstalk) my generation, how we're getting taught in school by the Baby Boomers, it's all the educators and the liberals who are taking -- I'm 20 years old, so I've been in high school, I live in Connecticut, so there's liberals all around me. There's hardly any conservatives. I'm surrounded by liberals. My friends are all liberal, everyone's liberal. And you have to deal with hearing FDR and the New Deal was great and now the new thing is climate and climate change.
RUSH: Aaron, how old are you out there?
CALLER: I'm 20 years old.
RUSH: Twenty years old. God bless you. You have the guts to at least know you're being lied to.
CALLER: I've had good teachers. I've had you to listen to my whole life. My father's a die-hard fan of yours, and he got me into you, and I've become addicted to conservative politics and conservative thought and everything.
RUSH: Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. If this ever happens again, I'm sure it will because this is one of the most propagandized subjects in school. I have never said the earth isn't warming or cooling because I think it's always changing. Always. The thing I disagree with is that we're causing either. We don't have the power. We simply just do not have the power. And furthermore, Aaron, progress is what they are blaming for causing all this disaster, progress. Progress. Progress. We have a bunch of demented people who think -- stop and think of this for a second. Here is there vanity. For this argument I'll give them props, and I'll concede the notion that they actually do believe this, that they're not part of the ideological cabal that's trying to propagandize this. Some people do truly believe this. If they do, look at their vanity. Whatever length of time human beings have been on this earth, our time on it can be measured smaller than a grain of sand. I mean microscopically smaller than a grain of sand.
That's how insignificant the world's population at any one time is, or you can narrow it even further, that's how insignificant, in the complexity of the universe, including this planet and its climate, that the population of the United States is. And yet these people in their vanity believe somehow that the environment, as it is now, when they happen to be roaming the planet, is pristine and perfect and that it must not change, "The environment must not change. This is pristine." Now, how absurd, how silly, how utterly vain to believe that, and how utterly stupid to believe that something as complex as simple day-to-day weather, which changes, and that we have no say-so over, how can they believe that something far more complex than just the day's weather, the entire climate is constant and should never change, and if it is changing it's a crisis, and then blame it on us. You've got so many people in this hoax, you've got some who really believe, almost religious-like, that god is the environment and we better not mess with it, we better not tamper with it, it must not change. Then you've got the ideological hoaxers who are responsible for creating the kind of people your teacher and her husband, the scientist, are.
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, Aaron. They could just as well be intellectually aware of what's going on here and that they're participating in a hoax because they're just liberal hacks, but not everybody that believes in this is an ideological liberal hack. Some people really do think the polar bears are dying, they're really scared to death, and this is what I think is one of the near-criminal things about this is. I mean, this is terrorism. This is jihadism, environmental jihadism that is being perpetrated on the people around the world for a political belief.
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RUSH: From the files of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, it is an e-mail from Seth Borenstein, the Associated Press science writer:
Kevin, Gavin, Mike,
It's Seth again. Attached is a paper in JGR today that Marc Morano is hyping wildly. It's in a legit journal. Whatchya think?
Seth
So the AP is calling these guys, e-mailing them: Hey, how do I deal with this? It's in a legitimate journal, how do I deal with it? "The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a US researcher poised to sue NASA ... Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. 'I assume that what is there is highly damaging,' Mr. Horner said. 'These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.' The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler."
So everybody's making it up, everybody's making it up all over the place. They're just making it up. And this is pure ideology. It is nothing other than ideology that's behind this. It is just so hard to make people understand that, people want to continue to look at this in the realm of science, because that's how it's been presented. For example, people want to say, "Well, how do they explain the fact that it got warmer and it got cooler long before the industrial revolution?" They do that with the medieval warming period and the hockey stick, and they say that there was no medieval warming period, they're making it up. They're making it up to say it didn't happen, that the previous conclusion -- and they found one tree with rings in the Siberian peninsula to prove it. I mean there's not anything like this, folks, in it's scope of fraud and pure hoax. It's not even about the science.
One of these e-mails from Phil Jones, (paraphrasing) "Look, I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm a scientist. I just want this to work out because I want the theory to be true." Well, I don't believe that he's not an ideologue; I don't believe he's not a leftist hack. But what he's doing isn't science. I just want it to work out because I want the theory to be true. Well, I'd like to be able to fly on my own. There's a lot of things I would like to work out that are physically not possible and this is one of them, what these people are saying. They have been all discredited and yet they're circling the wagons and heading off to Copenhagen. There are stories I have in the stack today, 200 limousines, 140 private jets flying in. The food, the hypocrisy is all over. You see, if you bring this up to these people, "Well, we are the really esteemed learned scientists attempting to save the world." Yeah, you're trying to save the world from the damage caused by your trip there. "Well, we are entitled. We have purchased carbon offsets to handle the carbon footprint that we've made here. We are investing in a company owned by Algore to plant trees," blah, blah, blah.
And still, to illustrate my Four Corners of Deceit, how science, academia (education), government and media have been corrupted and are part of the Four Corners of Deceit, the mainstream media knows everything about this. They're just not reporting it. It doesn't fit the template. It doesn't fit the story line. They're running around saying, "Hey, 62% of the American people still believe in man-made global warming." Yeah, they probably do, although Rasmussen says it's not quite that high.
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RUSH: Here. Listen to this. Thomas Friedman, the New York Times, foreign affairs columnist. He is a columnist on foreign policy. Do you know that he showed up at the jobs summit? He was in one of the work groups at the jobs summit? And Obama sat right next to him and talked to him for a long time. So last Thursday night he's on Campbell Brown on CNN. And she said, "Give me your take on this e-mail scandal, global warming, if we can call it that. What has it done to the credibility of the environmental movement overall?" Remember, now, to set this sound bite up, there was a consensus of scientists. There was no doubt. In fact, we're almost to the point of no return. No doubt. We are destroying the climate. We are heating this planet up to the point that it's our last chance. A consensus! Now, listen to his answer.
FRIEDMAN: I found some of those e-mails disappointing, frankly, in the kind of way in which it's seen that they're trying to keep certain research out, you know, of the discussion. But here's my take on it. Maybe it isn't 90% like some of the skeptics say, maybe it's only 80%, maybe it's 50%. But you know what that means? There's a 50% chance that -- so when you put that CO2 in the atmosphere, it stays there for about 3,000 years. So we keep putting it there, and it stays there for 3,000 years, and it does start raising temperatures, it's going to be hot here, Campbell, for a long, long time. Bottom line is that the risk is still there. What if it's said it's just a 10% chance -- what if I said there's a 10% if you keep smoking, you're going to die of cancer?
BROWN: Still reason enough to quit that habit.
FRIEDMAN: Exactly right.
RUSH: Why, look at how far we have tumbled, from a consensus to, hell, even if it's only 10%, we can't afford not to act. That's a risk of a risk. Maybe the skeptics are right, maybe it's only 90%, maybe the science only 80% sure, maybe it's only 50% sure. Maybe it's only 10% sure. But can we risk that 10%? Now, he just threw his own scientist under the bus here and has resorted now to a new argument, a new argument based on a wild guess, predicated on fear. And this is exactly how I heard it in 1984, this scientist named Oppenheimer on This Week with Brinkley: "We can't prove it yet, David, but we've only got 20 years to find out. Can we take the chance? What if we're right?" That's what they've been reduced to now. These people have no shame. Friedman ought to be embarrassed to show up at the next golf course member/guest golf tournament he goes to.
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RUSH: And, by the way, for Thomas Friedman, it is simply impossible scientifically for CO2 to stick around in the atmosphere 3,000 years. You know why? Nature gobbles up 50% of all the CO2 we produce every year, no matter how much. When we produce five times as much, nature will gobble up five times as much. And you know why? Because life on earth loves CO2. All plant life depends on it, as do we, for them to convert it back to oxygen so that we can freaking live. What a bunch of ignoramuses.
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RUSH: Ken in Detroit, I'm glad you waited, sir, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush. I'm just calling from the nice chilly side of Michigan. We're getting some snow over here now. I wanted to comment that Barack Obama is really showing his deceitful nature by attending this conference on climate change in Copenhagen. When you have all those e-mails that came out recently showing that the man-made global warming and climate change that's been promoted by Algore and the United Nations as well as others is being a total fraud, something that even a child in elementary school is capable of understanding, when you have the president of the United States continue to hold told this fraudulent science, this is just something that's unforgivable.
RUSH: Well, that's because it's not about the science.
CALLER: Well, no, it's about power, it's about control.
RUSH: Exactly right. Look, the only way to understand this, that's why I came up with the description of the two universes. We really live in two universes. The Universe of Lies and the Universe of Reality, and they're not in the Universe of Reality. Everything the left is doing is predicated on a fraud, a series of frauds, or hoaxes, or lies. It's the only way they can succeed and perpetrate things, and they cloak their fraud and the hoax in compassion, saving the planet, saving the polar bears, not disappointing the children, insuring the uninsured, providing the best health care for the sick and the elderly, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's all smoke and mirrors. Of course he would go. Of course he's going to go. He's not going to announce that he has been influenced by this. That's why serious scientists need to demand a quick investigation into this because it's all of science that stands to be tainted by it.
Pierre in Quebec, Canada. Nice to have you on the program, Pierre.
CALLER: Hello, Rush, how are you?
RUSH: Very well, sir, thank you.
CALLER: Two questions for you.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: But first a great piece you did with Bill Shatner there.
RUSH: Oh, you liked that? Thank you.
CALLER: Oh, loved it, and the look on your face when you hold that Remco AM radio.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: Priceless. Priceless.
RUSH: (laughing) I haven't seen the thing, I forgot to watch it, I TiVoed the replay of it at two a.m.
CALLER: Oh, but do invite everyone to go have a look at it, the look on your face when you hold that radio is just like the most precious thing in the world for you.
RUSH: Well, it is. It's called a Remco Caravelle. My parents gave it to me when was I think in single digits, and it broadcast on an AM signal, any AM signal on the band, just set it for an AM signal if there wasn't one in your town, and it broadcast throughout your house. And they listened to me on the radio play disc jockey.
CALLER: Well, question I got for you about the meeting they're having right now. In the past so far you've got countries like China, Canada and the UN that didn't set real targets as far as green gas emission are concerned. Now that those same players finally have first evidence of weather fraud, with those e-mail that just came out, how come now in Copenhagen, the same countries that are doing everything in their power to come out of it with concrete, solid targets, like they never want to do it before, and now they have a chance to prove it was a hoax, now they want to set up solid targets. So my first question to you, is what happened to change their mind like this 180 degrees around, and their attitude, and second question, could that attitude just be a big smoke screen to take people's attention away from the health care debate, the economy going nowhere --
RUSH: Well.
CALLER: -- and Tiger Woods' favorite color?
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I'm trying.
RUSH: (laughing) Tiger Woods' favorite color. You're asking me what Tiger Woods favorite car is?
CALLER: No, we're just trying to drag you in.
RUSH: Oh, trying to drag me in. In the first place you have to tell me, China and India, they have not changed their opinion, they're not going to play ball. They're not going to reduce their emissions. They're not going to reduce their economic growth.
CALLER: Well, that's not what they're saying right now, especially China. They're saying now --
RUSH: Well, of course not! The ChiComs are ChiComs. The Russians will probably agree, too, but they never agree to whatever they agree to. They never keep the agreements. They just do it to get us to sign it. The ChiComs are no more going to slow down their carbon emissions than the Russians are.
CALLER: They can say anything they want, they'll never do it anyway, they got nobody watching.
RUSH: No. Look, the only idiots that are going to reduce their carbon emissions are us, because the whole design is to fleece us. And Tiger Woods favorite car, hell, I don't know.
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I am not going there. I am not going to talk about it. The AP already went there but have you heard anybody else talking about it? You haven't. They're all waiting on me I guaran-damn-tee you. They've been waiting since noon today, noon Eastern, with their pens and their computers and everything. They've been waiting for me to get into this. And I'm not -- (laughing) -- I'm not going to go there. I'll tell you what, we'll link to the AP story at Rush Limbaugh, people can read it if they haven't run across it. It's hilarious. It's hilarious, and it shows... you want to talk progress?
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RUSH: Pudge in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Mega, mega dittos, Rush. I was just listening to you on the radio and I just want to know if a major news story about Tiger Woods is the color of his mistresses.
RUSH: What major news story?
CALLER: Tiger Woods, the color of his mistresses being non-African-American.
RUSH: I haven't seen that story.
CALLER: Well, I'm just wondering if that's the news story that needs to come up --
RUSH: Oh, you're asking me if that's what I won't talk about?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Yeah. Yes.
CALLER: Okay. I've been a fan of yours since 1982 when I first was able to vote for Ronald Reagan, and I'm just sitting here and I just had to call, and I'm so glad I was able to get in and --
RUSH: Well, glad you got through. In 1982 I was working for the Kansas City Royals. It's nice to know you were a big fan back then. I was in charge of ceremonial first pitches and national anthem singers. That was my public role with the Kansas City Royals. This is the first call I've ever had from somebody who told me they were a fan of me for doing that. Now, Snerdley, you gonna keep trying this? (laughing) You have to go out and find somebody that's been listening to me since 1982, when he first voted for Reagan, to get this out.
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Harry Reid on Sunday had a press conference, said this about Republicans regarding health care.
REID: They're in a different universe talking about this bill being for illegal immigrants, this bill running up the deficit, which is absolutely false, this bill running up premiums, absolutely false. Republicans are being destructive, they want this to be, as one Senator said, "President Obama's Waterloo," and it's not going to be.
RUSH: Let me tell you something, Senator Reid, you just lied through your teeth there. You are living in a universe different than ours. Yours is the Universe of Lies. This bill is for illegal immigrants. I mean there's no question it's for illegal immigrants. This bill will run up the deficit. Everything government does runs up the deficit. It will run up the price of premiums. There's no question it will do that. President Obama's Waterloo is if this passes, not if it fails, if this passes. Well, actually that's not correct. It's America's Waterloo if this passes. Now, this number, listen to this, this sounds absurd to me.
REID: Yesterday, Friday, 14,000 people lost their health insurance in America. Today, Saturday, another 14,000 people will lose their health insurance, and Sunday, and Monday, and Tuesday, and on and on. The American people don't get weekends off from this injustice. Bankruptcy doesn't keep bankers' hours. They don't go away just because it's Sunday or Saturday. The pain's still there. And so our work continues this weekend and it will continue until we give this nation's citizens a health insurance system that works for them.
RUSH: Fourteen thousand people every day lose their health insurance. Now, where's that number come from? Snatched out of thin air. I don't even want to accept the premise. Some people say, "Well, how many people get health care insurance?" I don't even accept the premise. He can't prove the number. Fourteen thousand, how in the world does anybody know this? It's not possible to know. I'll tell you something else. His health care bill does not insure the uninsured, even after 10 to 15 years. It doesn't happen. Now, let's go back, shall we? January 31st, 2008, in Los Angeles during a Democrat debate between Hillary Clinton and Obama, Obama made this promise.
OBAMA: That's what I will do in bringing all parties together and not negotiating behind closed doors but bringing all parties together and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are, 'cause part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process.
RUSH: Yesterday President Obama met with Democrats only in a private meeting. It was not on C-SPAN. There is no transparency in this administration.
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RUSH: Harry Reid, ladies and gentlemen, has compared Republicans who oppose health care as being no different than people who supported slavery. It happened today. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago. The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement... " which largely were Democrats in his party. "...even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery. Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid's comments 'offensive' and 'unbelievable.' But Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era."
I don't understand why somebody up there just doesn't blast him, and Republicans can't stop anything. He doesn't have his 60 votes yet. That's his problem. He needs some Republicans to change their side of the aisle to get 60 votes because he doesn't have them. Frankly, with all the arguments they're having over abortion, illegal immigration, and a public option, unless they're really going to give these Democrats that are wavering a billion or two billion a year to buy 'em off I don't know how they're going to compromise on this by Christmas. I really don't. In fact, they're now saying, ladies and gentlemen, the media and observers that the tone is changing and they expect the bill to pass. Really, the tone is changing? Harry Reid's out there comparing Republicans to the same kind of people that supported slavery, the tone's changing? You start throwing around accusations like that, I mean you're not firing on all cylinders from a position of confidence and strength are you, doesn't seem to me.
Somebody needs to get in his face and say, "Look, it was your party that stonewalled the civil rights acts of '57 and '64, it was your party that stonewalled getting anything done about slavery. It was your party and all those Democrats in the South that wanted to preserve it." Why don't these Republicans speak up, for crying out loud? Because this is something that half the country believes, erroneously so. I ought to test these people some days. I genuinely detest them. There's not one syllable of honesty that's coming out of any Democrat on either of these two major pieces of legislation all year long. The lies, every day, you get up to another set of lies. Global warming, this, it's all fraud, it's all a hoax, manufactured crises.
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RUSH: We have the sound bite here, ladies and gentlemen, this morning in DC on the Senate floor, Dingy Harry.
REID: Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans have come up with is this: Slow down, stop everything, let's start over. If you think you've heard this excuse before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, "Slow down, it's too early, let's wait." When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote. Some insisted basically, slow down. When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats we hear today.
RUSH: They were Democrats. This is outrageous. This is not ignorance. This is outrageous because Harry Reid knows the Republican Party was born in the fight against slavery. That's how the Republican Party came to be. But I just wanted you to hear that because this is what they've been reduced to up there to try and get this done. When it's Democrats they can't keep in line. The Republicans are not even trying to slow it down! That's not even their strategy. It should be, but it's not.
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So, given the support that union bosses have for cap and trade and for politicians who advocate Obamacare and taxing union health insurance policies, a reduction in dues, a dues cut would be a hedge against future financial pain for their own members, the people who pay the salaries of those who have delivered so little. I wonder how many union workers go to bed every night hungering for lower dues, lower taxes so they can enjoy a little bit more of the money that they've earned. The fact is union workers have to suffer a double tax. The taxes we all pay, and then the money they pay to their unions, the union tax, the dues. And what are they getting in return for these taxes? Less disposable income, double-digit unemployment, and they're being sent on assignments to beat up people at town hall meetings. And, by the way, folks, more taxes are coming. Everything will dramatically escalate in price with cap and tax and Obamacare, jobs are going to be lost, hours will be cut, a bonus will be limited to what you find in a box of Crackerjack. So why not help out the workers who foot the union's bills.
Is it the money being thrown down the rat hole known as the Democrat Party? What a shame. I mean those are the people who are about to confiscate what little money union members still have. Union dues are being confiscated to support Democrats who are gonna raise taxes and lower the lifestyles of the very union members who are paying for the Democrats to succeed. That is if they still have a job after all of this. The wave of unemployment coming from states laying off their workers as the stimulus slush fund runs out willing staggering. So I think it would be just a really nice gesture if that Stern guy at the SEIU and John what's-his-face, Sweeney, and what's the other guy that runs the teamsters, Hoffa Jr. and then the mine workers. You know, cut union dues in half. Start now at Christmastime for the good of your own people.
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