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"Obama is going to turn doctors into laborers for the state and they'll
probably have to unionize just like every other public sector employee."
"You Democrats need to keep in mind Obama is saying jobs are his focus while he's
obsessing over the destruction of the best health care system in the world, ours."
"Obama told everybody not to listen to me.
I don't want to brag here, ladies and gentlemen, but our audience ratings -- ahem -- have never been higher."
"As far as the left is concerned, the only corrupting influence in the universe is Republican and conservative human beings.
Everything else is pristine, clean and pure as the wind driven snow."
"I could retire and I could have three times the wealth I have if I could just get a dollar for every time I've been asked,
'Why don't the Republicans do X?'"
"One of the core principles of Marxism is that the capitalist system must completely collapse before Marxism can be installed.
There can be no integration. It has to fully collapse."
"The media and the Democrats are squealing like a bunch of stuck pigs, so that must mean the RNC has finally done something right."
"Any doctor that votes for Obama might be in line for a lobotomy."
"Scientists and doctors have a lot to think about today.
Do they give a damn about their professions?
Do they give a damn about their reputations?
Or are they content to just be props for liberals?"
"Obama uses doctors like Tiger Woods uses pancake house waitresses and pole dancers.
Has there ever been a more respected profession this maligned, this used, and this minimized?"
"What Obama did yesterday with these doctors was just perform his own version of political surgery,
cut 'em off at the knees, remove their vocal cords at no charge."
"Why should these Democrats trust Obama to keep his word?
He has broken his word to Democrats in his base on lots of things, from closing Gitmo,
to leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," to all kinds of other things big and small."
"A little shout-out here to Bart Stupak in Michigan.
How does it feel to be treated like a Republican, Bart?"
"What Andy Stern wants, the head of the SEIU, is to unionize doctors.
He wants their dues.
He wants to have a union control the whole health care industry here, and they're just now getting started.
Obama is his blood brother."
"Any change in the abortion language in the Senate health care bill would be a violation of the Byrd rules,
since it has nothing to do with any budgetary things and that's where reconciliation can be used."
"Is the RNC playing on fear?
What, pray tell, is the entire strategy used by liberals and Democrats my whole life?
Global warming! Fear. You're going to die if you eat or drink that! Fear."
"We ought to be afraid of these Democrats.
It's natural to be afraid of Obama. He's a joker."
"If Washington thinks what they've seen from conservatives, tea partiers and all that across this
country up to this point is 'heat,' they haven't the slightest clue what real heat they are about to feel."
"In the midst of all of this, ladies and gentlemen, where is Obama's 'laser-like focus on jobs'?
Where did that go? What happened to that?"
"The House doesn't have the votes because they don't like the Senate bill and they are scared to death
of being told to pass that bill, then the president signs it -- and what if Obama and Reid stiff 'em and there's no reconciliation?
They're stuck. They have been screwed."
"Blue Dogs? Blue poodles! Blue poodles, blue lapdogs, whatever you want to call 'em.
There aren't any moderate Democrats."
"This guy ruined our summer, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Now he's going to ruin our Easter by trying to ramrod something nobody wants down their throats on Easter!"
"There is some irony that Obama's great, great, great plan that is going to ostensibly improve the country's health,
all hinges on whether the federal government will pay for the killing of babies or not -- and deciding that by Easter."
"Despite all these horrors like childhood obesity, the life expectancy just continues to edge upward in this country."
"A cardiologist called today and said about 8% of what goes through Medicare actually makes it to doctors.
Everything else is wasted."
"Here we are in the middle of a Great Recession and there's nobody doing anything to stop it."
"There are going to be no special changes in health care,
none of the so-called magical health care reform will happen for four years.
Zilch, zero, nada. All that's going to happen is the tax increases."
"Nobody has refuted Paul Ryan.
Nobody in Washington has even tried.
They're ignoring him."
"The young don't know the truth of the eighties.
The young do not know how tax cuts work.
They don't know the truth of the sixties and Kennedy's tax cuts."
"Why would Democrats trust Obama?
He's asking them to give up their careers for his own narcissism."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: Now, I have been telling everybody -- I didn't miss this -- I've been telling everybody the action is in the House on this now, it's not the Senate, all this talk about reconciliation in the Senate only becomes valid if the House passes the Senate bill. And that's not an automatic. Bart Stupak says we got 12 votes against it because of abortion. Here's what Stupak said.
STUPAK: It's accurate to say there are at least 12 of us who voted for health care who have indicated to the leadership and others that unless you fix this abortion language, we can't vote for a final version of the bill.
RUSH: So the question, "If reconciliation requires people to vote up or down on the Senate version that the president has endorsed, that means it won't get your vote, does that mean that it won't pass?"
STUPAK: If it's the proposal that the Senate passed and nothing's changed in it, the Senate health care bill, if that's the one they're presenting in reconciliation to the members of the House of Representatives, I'll bet you that won't even come close to passing, it will be defeated soundly. Members do not want to vote for it. The process has been tainted and we're not going to attach our names to it.
RUSH: That's Bart Stupak. Now, I have a way for Obama to handle Stupak. Obama's narcissism is out of control on this. He doesn't care about anything other than getting this. And Gibbs is out there saying, "Whatever it takes." He doesn't care about the politics; he doesn't care about anything; he's just going to get this. So they've got an obstacle in the road out there. It's Bart Stupak. So here's what Obama ought to do. Call Stupak on the phone and say, "Bart, the AMA has scored my health care bill, and it will bend the abortion curve down. There will be fewer abortions in my bill." The second thing he should do to sell Stupak is to offer to carve out an abortion exemption for Michigan just like they carved out a Medicare exemption for Ben Nelson. So whatever abortion language is in the bill, it won't apply to Michigan. The third thing: Suggest a 0.1% tax on all abortions and claim bipartisan agreement because Republicans say if you tax something, you get less of it, so tax abortions at a very, very, very minimal rate and then offer to rename the bill the Stupak Anti-Abortion Right to Life bill.
This is the kind of stuff Obama is doing, folks, to try to get this passed. Number five: Offer Stupak's family ambassadorships and a dozen Greek islands, and let the State-Controlled Media pound away. (laughing) It actually isn't funny. Here's the thing. Steny Hoyer said yesterday that the first thing that's going to happen is the House would pass the Senate bill, and then that bill becomes the official House bill and then reconciliation can start. However, this is what I missed. If the House goes first -- and that's what everybody is talking about now -- that means the House would pass the Senate bill that passed on Christmas Eve. That's the bill that everybody's talking about. Obama does not have a bill. All he's done is endorsed the Senate bill. All this bipartisan addition, there's nothing in it. It's the Senate bill, and if the House passes that, guess what? Guess what? The Senate's already passed it. They sent it over to the House under the pretext of it going back to reconciliation. But, no, no, no, no. If the House passes this, it goes to Obama.
It goes to Obama. If the House passes the Senate bill, then he's got both houses who have signed off on it and he's got a health bill he can sign. And reconciliation is not going to happen. It is a feint, it is a distraction. It's not going to happen. Well, it might have to happen because they don't have the votes in the House. See, this is the key. If they had the votes in the House for this bill we would already have health care. She does not have the votes. You just heard Stupak say that there are 12 people that voted for it that are going to vote against it. There hasn't been any change in the Senate bill and there can't be a change in it, so all this talk of reconciliation is actually a bit of a, shall we say, lie to members of the House to say, "Okay, you pass our bill in the Senate here, we'll get reconciliation, we'll put back in it what you want." They don't have to do that. We would have Obamacare if the House passes the Senate bill. Everybody's looking at the Senate. Everybody's looking at Reid and reconciliation. The battle is in the House, and it has always been in the House, because she does not have the votes right now.
You know, this guy Massa, we told you yesterday that he's been accused of sexually harassing a male staffer. Guess what? Steny Hoyer knew it, knew it all along. This guy voted against the bill the last time, not because he disagrees with it but because he thought it was too expensive. So guess what? He's now going to retire. If they knew about it, how do you think it leaked? Also, Obama is gonna appoint to the federal bench a relative of a member of Congress who voted against the health care bill. That's why I said give Stupak some Greek islands. They're pulling out all the stops here. So forget the Senate, folks. The necessity here is to continue to focus on your member of the House of Representatives, and all of them. Snerdley, you're jumping out of your skin with a question, what's the question? Hm-hm. The changes that Obama says he wants are not gonna get in the bills right now, all that's a smoke screen. Let me tell you something. Any doctor that votes for Obama might be in line for a lobotomy. Are we still allowed to use that word when doing satire? I forget. Still okay? All right.
Has there ever been a more respected profession this maligned, this used, and this minimized? Obama uses doctors like Tiger Woods uses pancake house waitresses and pole dancers. If I'm a doctor and I turn on that propalooza thing yesterday, the propagandalooza, how do we even know those were doctors? Just put some white coats on these people, how do we know they're doctors and not from the DNC? How do we know they're not from MoveOn.org? How do we know they're doctors? If I'm a doctor and I watched that thing yesterday and if I have any self-respect whatsoever, I'm wearing a "Just Say Hell No to Obama" button today and every day while I treat my patients. I'm attending every tea party event that's held when I can. Obama is going to turn doctors into laborers for the state and they'll probably have to unionize just like every other public sector employee, and I speculated in today's Morning Update that there in fact would be a doctors union coming down the pike.
Scientists and doctors have a lot to think about today. Do they give a damn about their professions? Do they give a damn about their reputations? Or are they content to just be props for liberals? Are they the liars and cheats and butchers that Obama has said they are? Do they make their own decisions on what to charge, who to treat and how to treat them or do they take orders from a guy who doesn't know a belch from expelling gas through the anal cavity? What Obama did to doctors yesterday was absolutely humiliating and consistent with how he's mistreated them ever since he went on this rampage to get this monument to himself. What he did yesterday with these doctors was just perform his own version of political surgery, cut 'em off at the knees, remove their vocal cords at no charge. Did any of them say anything? No, they're just standing up there looking like a bunch of props, like a bunch of dupes. Oh, yeah, we support every lie this guy is telling, and nodding their heads and standing ovations and so forth, and how do we even know they were doctors? Well, I ask that because the last time they brought a bunch of doctors up there these clowns forgot to bring their lab coats and so somehow the White House had boxes of them to pass out in the Rose Garden. If you got a box of lab coats a year ago you still have them today. I doubt that you've given them to Goodwill, probably right there in the prop closet. I'm serious.
So what we're talking about, folks, is not reconciliation. We're talking about if the House passes the Senate bill, we got Obamacare. They don't have the votes in the House, we know that or they'd be passing it already. It woulda happened. They don't have the votes. I don't care what anybody tells you. David "Rodham" Gergen doesn't think they've got the votes. David "Rodham" Gergen thinks this is a mess getting set up here in a couple Rush See, I Told You So's coming. Yesterday I told you that the first place you should look to find out what really went on yesterday, and what's really going on is the Heritage Foundation.
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RUSH: Back to the Heritage Foundation Morning Bell and health care: "The doctors in lab coats surrounding President Barack Obama as he gave his latest health care speech yesterday were not there to give the President a physical; that happened Sunday. No, these doctors were props, dressed to impress for what the White House claims is their 'final push' for the President's government take-over of the health care industry. The President again repeated the same old tired claims" which are lies "he has been making for months: 'The proposal I've put forward gives Americans more control over their health care,' 'our proposal is paid for,' and 'my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions.'" All of that's lies. All of that is right out of Saul Alinsky. As the Heritage foundation says, "We, and plenty of others, have refuted all these claims before, but this time they are particularly easy to expose as patently false.
"President Obama gave away the game when he said: 'Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades. And those aren't my numbers -- they are the savings determined by the CBO, which is the Washington acronym for the nonpartisan, independent referee of Congress.' But there is one huge difference between the Senate bill and what the President kept referring to as my/our proposal: the Senate bill actually exists." We don't have an Obama bill! He made it sound like he's got a proposal yesterday, that he's incorporated all these Republican ideas. It doesn't exist! None of what he said yesterday exists, unless it's already in the Senate bill. "For all the talk in Washington about Democrats in the Senate using reconciliation to pass a final version of Obamacare, one key fact has been overlooked: no reconciliation bill exists.
"Not in the House. Not in the Senate. Nowhere. It simply has not yet been written, and there are plenty of reasons to believe it never will" be written. "The White House is telling the public they expect the House to pass the Senate bill, and then both the House and Senate would pass the yet-to-be-drafted reconciliation, all before Easter recess." What that means here is that the task for Nancy Pelosi is to convince her members of the House that they're going to get their changes -- that is, the "fixes" -- in the reconciliation bill from the Senate, and these that these fixes will be allowed under the Byrd rules. Now, we have suggested prior to this that any change in the abortion language would be a violation of the Byrd rules, since it has nothing to do with any budgetary things and that's where reconciliation can be used. So here comes a parliamentary objection, here comes a parliamentary ruling, and then the vice president gets to overrule the parliamentarian.
But all this is really smoke. "But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) simply does not have the votes to pass the Senate bill. If she did, it would already be law. To convince her fellow wayward Democrats to vote for the Senate bill, the yet-to-be-drafted reconciliation bill is expected to: 1) scale back the tax on high-end health insurance policies (decreases revenue); 2) close the Medicare D loophole (costs money); 3) boost insurance subsidies (costs money); and 4) increase Medicaid payments (costs a ton of money). Where exactly do House and Senate aides writing this new bill expect to come up with the money to pay for all these new goodies? And they have to find that cash because all reconciliation bills must be certified by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reduce the deficit by $1 billion over five years. And that CBO score will take at least a week, or possibly two to complete," and they cannot score it, as Obama said, that it will reduce the deficit because all of this -- these four items -- either cost money that's not now in the bill or decrease revenue, which is in the bill. They have an unfettered mess here. "So when will the public get to see this reconciliation bill? The Wall Street Journal reports that 'Democrats have started writing the formal reconciliation bill' and 'intend to send it to the Congressional Budget Office for evaluation by the end of the week.' But The Los Angeles Times reports that: 'Senior Democrats on Capitol Hill will not finish writing the reconciliation package until next week at the earliest.'" Heritage says: "Don't hold your breath."
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RUSH: Where is Obama's "laser-like focus on jobs"? Where did that go? What happened to that? All right. Before we get back to Heritage, Roll Call: "The assumption has been that the House would first need to pass the $871 billion" Christmas Eve Senate bill. It's actually more than that. It's a cheap score. Anyway, that bill would then be signed into law. Obama would then sign the bill. Now, folks, this is where Pelosi really has her work cut out for her. "The assumption has been that the House would first need to pass the $871 billion Senate bill, which would then be signed into law, and then followed by a package of fixes through the reconciliation process to appease House Democrats. [Steny] Hoyer said that while the House is constitutionally required to initiate reconciliation bills, that doesn't mean the House would have to pass the Senate bill first before passing a reconciliation bill to amend it."
It was Harkin yesterday who said the House would pass the Senate bill, but Hoyer said, "Whoa-ho-ho-ho. Wait a second, now. Yeah, we are "constitutionally required to initiate reconciliation bills, that doesn't mean the House would have to pass the Senate bill first." "'We could pass the reconciliation first, have the reconciliation passed by the Senate and then pass the Senate bill,' Hoyer said. From there, he said, the president would have to sign the Senate bill first and then the reconciliation package. Hoyer conceded that process would be 'more complicated,' however, since House lawmakers would effectively be reconciling a bill that hasn't been passed yet." Now, why...? (interruption) No, no, Snerdley. It's not a shell game. The key to understanding why all this is happening is Pelosi doesn't have the votes.
The House doesn't have the votes because they don't like the Senate bill and they are scared to death of being told to pass that bill, then the president signs it -- and what if Obama and Reid stiff 'em and there's no reconciliation? They're stuck, they have been screwed, and they know Obama is very oriented toward doing that kind of thing. That's why Hoyer is saying (paraphrased), "No, wait a minute. Let's do the reconciliation first. We don't have to pass the Senate bill first. Let's put our changes to the Senate bill first, send it over there and have them deal with it." I said yesterday: It's all about who's going to go first here. So another way of putting this is the House cannot reconcile anything until there's a bill to reconcile, okay? So at least technically they have to pass the Senate bill first, and probably the president even needs to sign it into law before they can get their fixes.
Then Obama and Senate Democrats could just stab 'em in the back, throw 'em overboard and not pass their fixes at all, which is why Steny Hoyer is trying to get 'em to pass the fixes first, which doesn't make sense, and is probably (technically at least) illegal, but it doesn't matter because Joe Biden would okay it because you have rules but you have Democrats, which means you've got no rules. It's fascinating, and it has nothing to do with the Republicans. It never has had to do with them. The Republicans have no say in this, because they can't fix the Senate bill with 60 votes now because of Scott Brown. So they've gotta deal with that bill, and the House doesn't like it, and Stupak says, "I've got 12 guys that are not going to vote for it that did last time, with me." Now back to Heritage: "In the meantime Speaker Pelosi is bleeding the votes she needs to first pass the Senate bill, by an up or down vote, in the House. Just 220 members of the House voted for their version of Obamacare in November.
"Since that time, Reps. Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) have left the House; Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) has passed away; and Joseph Cao (R-LA) has said he will vote against the bill. That leaves Pelosi 216 votes, which would be exactly enough to pass the Senate bill. But then there is Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) who will not vote for the Senate bill since it uses taxpayer money to fund abortion. And Stupak says he has a dozen other members that will switch from yes to no with him. And Rep. Michael Acuri (D-NY) now says he is likely to switch his vote from yes to no. And Rep. Shelly Berkley (D-NV), who voted yes the first time, says she is 'not inclined to support the Senate' bill. And Rep. Gerry Connolly says he could 'absolutely' switch his vote from yes to no. And now Congressional Progressive Caucus Rep. Raúl Grijalva, (D-AZ) says he's less likely to vote for the final health care reform bill if the reconciliation bill contains the ideas President Obama outlined yesterday.
"One House Democrat tells the LA Times why the White House is facing such a tough sell: 'It's a no-win situation for those of us in moderate districts. If you vote no, your base is upset. If you vote yes, everyone else is upset. You almost couldn't design a legislative vise more damaging to moderate Democrats -- or that puts our majority more at risk.'" He's exactly right. Obama is the one tightening the screws 'cause he doesn't care. The level, the degree of narcissism that we see in our president... We've not seen this radical a psychological profile in our nation's history. James Lewis has a great piece on that, by the way, at AmericanThinker.com. So here's Heritage again: "But don't worry House Democrats, the Senate is going to do everything it can to convince you that you aren't going to walk the plank alone again.
"Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) tells Politico that Senate Democrats are planning a gesture some time next week that will guarantee to House Democrats the Senate will act: 'I don't know what the gesture will be but it will be a convincing gesture.'" Really? If you have to have Dick Durbin go out there and promise Democrats in the House: "Hey, you know what? We are planning a significant gesture to convince you that we will reconcile the bill you pass to include more of what you want in it." Now, you and I know that trusting any Democrat these days is risky, and they know it, too. They know who they are. They know who they are better than we do. So if you're Bart Stupak and Dick Durbin says, "Hey, don't worry about it, Bart, baby! We're going to have a significant gesture next week, maybe. It'll convince you how serious we are."
In the meantime, what you have here is "Kabuki theater." So it's a fascinating thing here. I want to reemphasize here that the focus of attention is on the House of Representatives and the vise the Democrats are in. This moderate Democrat business is... (sigh) You know, we call 'em "Blue Dogs." There's a story out today (it's a distraction story) that moderate Democrats in the Senate all of a sudden now are more open to the possibility of reconciliation. Moderate Democrats in the Senate? Look, Blue Dogs? Blue poodles! Blue poodles, blue lapdogs, whatever you want to call 'em. There aren't any moderate Democrats. This is what we all have to learn and understand. Let's go to the audio sound bites. Here are a couple of See, I Told You So's. I pegged Obama's speech as a bunch of lies as soon as I read the excerpts.
RUSH ARCHIVE: He's going to lie, which he can't help. He's a liberal. He has to lie. He's gonna use this lie, this throwaway line, to paint the insurance companies as the villain here -- with not one word about how government intrusions have totally screwed up the market and driven up costs.
RUSH: So let's go to CNN's Anderson Cooper 180 last night. He spoke with David "Rodham" Gergen. He said, "What did you think of what Obama said today? What do you think of his chances here, moving forward?"
GERGEN: I think he mischaracterized the Republican opposition today. Basically he said today, "If you vote against my bill that's because you're voting for the insurance companies." This is not about the insurance companies from a Republican point of view. It's about... You know, it's about government intervention, a large cost, uhh, significant questions about it, and Democrats believe that we have a moral responsibility to provide coverage. That's a legitimate argument. The insurance argument, I think, is a side argument.
RUSH: One of many side arguments. It's a distraction. I mean, he's done the same thing to the doctors. "Yeah, they do tonsillectomies just for the big bucks, unnecessary tonsillectomies -- even amputations," Obama said. These clowns go up there and stand behind him? Here's the second See, I Told You So. I said this yesterday...
RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, we'll see. I still am not convinced they have the ability to get this done, 'cause if we adopt that attitude then there's a natural sense of finality that steps in and the passionate opposition to it recedes. That can't be allowed to happen. I don't think they're anywhere near actually getting it done.
RUSH: Last night on Anderson Cooper... Sorry. What the hell difference is the show? Last night on CNN, Wolf Blitzer talking to David Gergen: "David, I assume this White House and the Democrats are strong enough to know if they didn't have the votes, they wouldn't be going through this right now."
GERGEN: I don't think that's true. I think this is a gamble. They've doubled down on what they were betting before. This is his signature issue; he's going to push it through.
BLITZER: You think he could still fail?
GERGEN: A lot of people are not committed. The intensity is in the opposition and the grassroots movement. If the Republicans get the grassroots to really work on this, they could still keep that big opposition out there.
RUSH: Despite Wolf saying, "It's going to pass, right? (sobbing) David, it's going to pass? He's gonna get it, right? (crying)," Gergen says, "Well, I'm not so sure. A lot of people are not committed," and Gergen said the key is whether conservatives keep up the heat. Ha! They don't know what heat is. If they think what they've seen from conservatives, tea partiers and all that across this country up to this point is heat -- ha! -- they haven't the slightest clue what real heat they are about to feel.
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RUSH: None of the changes that Obama lied about yesterday are in a bill yet. They are not in a bill. He has not written a bill. There is no Obama bill. The only bill that exists is the Senate bill passed on Christmas Eve, and it has none of the reforms or changes, TORT reform, Medicare fraud and waste, none of that is in the bill. The only way it gets in the bill is if there is a reconciliation. And the House is scared to death that if they pass the Senate bill as is and Obama signs it, that that's it. It was a total lie. There is no Obama bill.
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RUSH: So what do we have here? We have Obamacare. And the real sticking point in the House of Representatives -- there is one that triumphs over all -- is abortion. Obama says he wants the bill on his desk by when? Easter. Therefore, the way to characterize this, President Obama and the Democrats in a showdown over abortion on Easter. Showdown over abortion on Easter. That's reducing Obamacare to its essence. Here's Pelosi this morning on Capitol Hill at her weekly press briefing.
PELOSI: I feel very confident that the up-or-down vote on the majority rule proposal that will come to the House will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill.
GIBBS: Notice she does not say she has the votes. If you're confident, vote today, Madam Speaker. Now, what is this? Let's break this down. "I feel very confident that the up-or-down vote on the majority rule proposal that will come to the House will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill." What is she talking about? The majority rule proposal that will come to the House -- that's not the Senate bill because she then says, will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill. So she's a talking about reconciliation. This takes me back to Hoyer. They're going to reconcile first and then they're gonna send it to the Senate, "You put it in there and you send it over to us." You know what's going to kill this? Aside from the content what's going to kill this is this process, this very process. When people learn, like you people listening to this program have learned, when they learn the process, people will instinctively know this is not how this happens in our country. This is not how laws become law.
By the way, a little shout-out here to Bart Stupak in Michigan. How does it feel to be treated like a Republican, Bart? The cable TV people are just nothing more than Obama surrogates. Every time they interview Stupak they bore into the guy. "You really want to be the reason why we lose health care in America? Do you have no shame? You really, really, really want to be evil and the reason we don't all have health care?" It's the same thing they were asking Scott Brown, except he was a Republican. Stupak is a Democrat.
Let's get these next two out of the way. This is Gibbs, White House spokesman, on MSNBC this morning. He was talking to the cohost Savannah Guthrie along with F. Chuck Todd. Question: "For a president that really, really prides himself as a consensus --" Savannah, would you show me one consensus he's built? These people in Washington are so insulated, they haven't the slightest clue. Would you show me where he's ever unified anything, Savannah? His own chief of staff is out leaking in the press how rotten a guy he is, and if it weren't for his chief of staff they'd be in real trouble. There's no unity between himself and the chief of staff. He's complaining about his wife nagging him on his cholesterol and everything else. No wonder the guy smokes and drinks. Show me the unity, Savannah! It's no use, folks. All these false premises, all these templates, story lines. All right, here's a question. "For a president that really prides himself as a consensus builder, does it kind of turn his stomach that he's now at a place where he has to really get health care by this 51 person vote as opposed to the more traditional means of a supermajority in the Senate?"
GIBBS: We got health care done, not with 51 but with 60 votes. That's what passed the Senate back before Christmas. In most households, I bet in Chuck's household, I know in my household, 51% represents a majority viewpoint. I don't think that's a crazy concept here in America.
TODD: But you made the decision --
GIBBS: The president understands that he's the president and he's gotta lead this country. We will continue to talk to Republicans. We have added their ideas throughout this process. They seem to not want to take "yes" for any sort of answer. We are going to work every day here in the White House over the next two or three weeks to get health care done.
RUSH: It's silly to waste time on this guy. He's a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. So we'll move on. Savannah Guthrie and F. Chuck Todd are talking to their own correspondent, Mike Viqueira, about Representative Eric Massa deciding not to run for reelection. This is the guy that's been accused of sexually harassing a male staff member. Savannah Guthrie says, "Obama really prides himself as a consensus builder. For lack of a better word here, is this a sideshow on Capitol Hill?"
TODD: Eric Massa was a "no" vote on health care. Does he now become a "yes" vote since he's not running for reelection? Huh. It's sort of an odd fallout on that front. Thank you, Mike Viqueira.
VIQUEIRA: He was one of the ones they were hoping to get to switch.
RUSH: I think he's already switched, is right. (laughing) F. Chuck, he switched already. But F. Chuck here is basically saying that these allegations could be good for Obamacare. So here's a guy whose life is probably really damaged here, it's been leaked by his own party, no doubt, that he had a sexual harassment allegation against him by a man in his office, and here's F. Chuck, man, oh, man this could really help Obamacare. What a great thing.
Okay. I never thought this would happen. I never thought this would happen. We have a montage of some media people calling Obama out on reconciliation flip-flop. Now, some of these don't surprise me. Greta Van Susteren, Larry Kudlow. However, the perky Katie Couric is in this montage, as is Anderson Cooper.
VAN SUSTEREN: Plan B, reconciliation. President Obama didn't always think, though, that it was a good idea.
KUDLOW: Mr. Obama had a different message back in 2007.
COURIC: In 2007 when President Obama was a Senator, he criticized the use of the reconciliation process in health care reform. Is this a case of where you stand depends on where you sit?
COOPER: He flip-flopped on this. Clearly now he's going back on what he said on the campaign trail, basically saying he's prepared to ram this thing through Congress with a 50-plus-one vote.
RUSH: Okay, I take it back. They're just pointing it out. But they're not upset by it. And they don't think there's anything fraudulent about it and they don't think there's anything hypocritical about it. They probably think it's good for Obamacare because that's all that matters, is it good for Obamacare or is it not. "Dung Heap" Harkin, there he is right there on MSNBC, just said Pelosi doesn't have the votes yet. Trust me, my friends, on this, don't doubt me. They don't have the votes, they're nowhere close to having the votes, and the more convoluted this process gets the even angrier people are going to get.
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RUSH: So he wants Obamacare passed on Easter. Do you realize this guy ruined our summer, this guy ruined our Thanksgiving, this guy ruined our Christmas, and now he's going to ruin our Easter by trying to ramrod something nobody wants down their throats -- and on Easter! There's something very symbolic about that. I'm going to get to that. Obamacare was born on Christmas Eve, and now they want to resurrect it on Easter. Some might say that the bill was conceived on Christmas Eve but the template will fit a messiah if it passes. How better to portray yourself as a real messiah if your signature issue is born (or conceived, whatever) on Christmas Eve, and dies and then is resurrect on Easter. The only prob... (interruption) Well, I know it's not a virgin birth since we're all getting the shaft here and getting screwed but it's also going to be a problem with his Muslim friends with the timing here. He coulda done it on Ramadan and it would be a little bit better for them, but never mind that. There is some irony that Obama's great, great, great plan that is going to ostensibly improve the country's health, all hinges on whether the federal government will pay for the killing of babies or not -- and deciding that by Easter.
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RUSH: This is Bob in Worcester, Massachusetts. It's great to have you on the program, sir.
CALLER: Rush, it's a big honor to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: About this congressman from Utah who's brother's offered the judgeship on the Court of Appeals?
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I wanted to ask your opinion on it. I was thinking that if he does change his vote on this, this could really backfire big time for the White House because I think the outcry on this would be so severe that it could cost 'em -- who knows? -- a half a dozen or a dozen votes, just from the storm it causes.
RUSH: Maybe. I don't think the White House is looking at it that way. I think they might think it might hurt the congressman who allows his vote to be purchased with the appointment of his brother, but Obama doesn't care what happens to the congressman.
CALLER: Rush, you don't think it would scare off maybe five or six or ten that might be on the fence?
RUSH: Why? The Louisiana Purchase didn't send any Democrats running the other way, and the Cornhusker Kickback didn't send any Democrats running the other way.
CALLER: Well, when you add 'em all together, Rush, the people are starting to really get fed up, you know?
RUSH: Well, I know. No question. This whole process is really ugly, and people start to see this. This is not how this stuff gets done, especially since it's all happening because no one wants it. This is a total stab in the eye at the American public, the American people. They have expressed themselves clearly and frequently and proudly on this. They want no part of it, and so rules are being broken. Corners are being cut. The Chicago way: Whatever it takes to get this done. There is just something about this that rubs people the wrong way, besides the content of the bill. The content of the bill is bad enough. But the entire process here is also something that is just not working in Obama's favor, except he doesn't care. I mean, the thing that you have to understand about Obama is he doesn't care. He has three years before he has to face anybody. He doesn't care.
He doesn't care what you think of the process. He doesn't care what you think of the bill. He doesn't care whether you like it or not. He does care if he can convince a number of Democrats in the House to give up their careers and fall on the sword in order for him to get his bill, his monument. He doesn't care what you think. And the vast majority of Democrats in Washington don't care what you think. The testament to that is right before your very eyes. Since last August, they have telegraphed it. Hell, they haven't telegraphed it; they've advertised it. They don't care what you think. They don't think you're smart. They don't think you're smart enough to know what's good for you. But they know this isn't good for you. This is only good for them. They don't care! The party of supposed compassion and love and tolerance and understanding -- the party of "the little guy" -- doesn't care about you at all. Not a whit. And it's not 'cause I'm saying it. It's right out there for you to see each and every day.
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RUSH: All right. Dave in Charlottesville, Virginia, hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you doing?
RUSH: Good. Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I'm very excited to talk to you. I've been listening to you for like 15 years. Let me pull over here so I don't lose you. Rush, I've got a comment that I don't know about. There's probably not a solution to it, but it's a frustration of mine. I am conservative, a fiscal conservative. This fiscal insanity of the debt, all of it is just driving me nuts. The taxation, the huge government, the whole thing, it's all driving me crazy, and I have a couple kids in college and what I'm hearing from them is what I'm hearing from a lot of people where I live: We drive away a lot of people with the religious component of the conservative platform. It scares them to death. When they think of conservatives they think of just that.
RUSH: Well, let me ask you a question: What do you think we should do about those Christians?
CALLER: I don't know. I don't know. I just... I don't know. I don't have an answer. But I know that's a fact.
RUSH: Do your kids tell you this is what they're hearing or do you hear it or do you think it yourself?
CALLER: Well, I hear this from my daughters. I've got one daughter who is a staunch conservative and --
RUSH: Where does she go to school?
CALLER: Pardon me?
RUSH: What school does she go to?
CALLER: She goes to Washington and Lee (University) in Virginia.
RUSH: Washington and Lee in Virginia. Okay.
CALLER: Which is a very conservative bastion. My other daughter goes to... I live in Charlottesville, which Neal Boortz refers to as "the People's Republic of Charlottesville."
RUSH: Yeah, I was going to say.
CALLER: So we're in the minority. My other daughter goes to VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) in Richmond and is very liberal, and I can't talk to her because of this issue. She knows the debt is insane. She knows the big government doesn't work.
RUSH: You know this is really about abortion, right?
CALLER: Yeah, I think it comes down to that. I do.
RUSH: Does your wife henpeck you about it?
CALLER: What's that?
RUSH: Does your wife henpeck you about it?
CALLER: N-not at all. No. I mean... No. We're --
RUSH: Because I've heard this. I was at a party in the Hamptons back in the early nineties. This is a really, really powerful party. I don't want to mention the names but you would know every Republican that was at this dinner party. After dinner we went out on the deck of this man's house. I must have had four people come up to me. One of them poked me in the chest and said, "What are we going to do about the Christians?"
I said, "What do you mean, 'What are we gonna do about the Christians?'"
"Well, they're destroying our party."
CALLER: The answer is to leave people be free to believe what they want. I'm not religious, Rush. Neither is my wife. We're not. We're --
RUSH: No, that's not what you're advocating because you they think they're losing votes. I told these guys this: "They are 24 million votes that are voting for your party."
This guy said to me, "Yeah, but, you know, my wife hates this abortion issue. It just ticks me off. My wife is always nagging me about those Christians in the party and she doesn't want to go to the convention with me because they're there. What are you going to do about it?"
I said, "What are you looking at me for?"
"Well, they're your audience."
I said, "Well, so are you!" I got into a little bit of a discussion about abortion with them. I said, "Can you maybe get past the personal discomfort you feel inside your bedroom or at a convention and understand what we're talking about here? We have country with the founding documents that acknowledge: 'We're all endowed by our Creator,' God-d, 'with certain inalienable rights,' that means they can't be taken away, 'LIFE, liberty, pursuit of happiness.' If a country founded and blessed by God makes killing children in the womb something that is commonplace, then we've lost a foundational building block of the country."
I understand what irritates you about people like that. It's that you think they're single-issue, and if that issue isn't right then they'll vote for the ruination of the country in other ways just to stand on their belief on it. But I'm telling you: They aren't the problem. The problem is B-a-r-a-c-k O-b-a-m-a. It's Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Tom Harkin. Anybody with a capital D by their name is the problem, not the Christians!
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RUSH: Kathryn in Colleyville, Texas. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. It's great to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I was calling about Medicare and the slow erosion of freedom within the doctor community. Basically over the past two or three months, cardiology has been taken incredible pay cuts, which are impacting the practice of medicine.
RUSH: Medicare and Medicaid particularly, you mean, right?
CALLER: Medicare, yes.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Specifically, a couple of months ago the imaging that is performed in cardiologists' office took a 40% pay cut, and that was followed up this past Monday with a 20% pay cut to all physicians. It's really affecting how patients are getting taken care of. We had to lay off some employees, and it's really touch and go whether we'll be able to continue to see Medicare patients.
RUSH: I was just going to say: Your only hope is to get out of the program.
CALLER: Well, there is an out, which a lot of cardiologists -- about, probably, 30% -- have already accepted. Hospitals are buying out cardiology practices, only to become employees of hospitals.
RUSH: Yeah. I know.
CALLER: Huh. And that's (garbled).
RUSH: But once you opt out of Medicare you can't take a Medicare patient ever again, right?
CALLER: I'm not sure all the rules. I'm probably out of my territory there, but there are specific rules for not taking care of Medicare patients. But the problem is that once you're an employee of a hospital you've lost your freedom, and some practices that have been bought out have already been told by the hospitals that, "Oh, well, we're going to have to cut your pay 15%, and you have no recourse."
RUSH: All right. I want to try to put what you've said here into an understandable context for the audience.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: No, no, no. Stay on the line here because I need you to tell me if I'm right or wrong on this.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: The odds are I'm right (I'm very seldom wrong) but I still want you there to correct me. Now, the very people who just yesterday in a big dog and pony show said, "We're going to expand coverage, we're going to insure 31 million more people, we're going to lower costs," the same people are reducing what they are paying you and your husband, cardiologists, to the point that you cannot keep your practices going?
CALLER: That's basically it. It's a huge part of this. Probably 50% of local cardiology business is Medicare.
RUSH: Well, of course it is.
CALLER: It's a very successful business. Let me tell you that over the past ten years... You know, heart disease was the number one killer ten years ago. But do you know that in the last ten years the mortality has dropped 30% because of cardiology care?
RUSH: Yeah. Oh, I'm not surprised. Despite all these horrors like childhood obesity, the life expectancy just continues to edge upward in this country.
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: But my point with you, Kathryn, is that the very people who claim they know how to fix this are breaking what we have now.
CALLER: Exactly. What we have now is already so broken that basically insurance companies and government have doctor groups fighting among ourselves for what's left of our 8% of the Medicare dollar. About 8% of what goes through Medicare actually makes it to doctors. Everything else is wasted.
RUSH: Thank you, Kathryn. I want to make another point about this, ladies and gentlemen. I want to go back to my old buddy Howard Fineman and his piece earlier this week in Newsweek in which he wondered, "Where's all the money going?" Where's all the money going if they're cutting the doctors? Well, the money isn't there. We don't have it. We have a $1.5 trillion deficit. The money is owed. The money is going to debt. But this is the real point. You listen to this doctor. I could do this all three hours any day I wanted. I could take calls from doctor after doctor after doctor who would tell the same story: Medicare payments, copayments are being cut back to the point that they can't continue to keep the office open on what the government is paying them.
You have cardiology patients, heart patients, going in to get treated, and some far-off bureaucrat somewhere... Not an insurance company. We're talking Medicare here, not some evil insurance company. Some federal bureaucrat is deciding what the cardiologist is going to get paid. That's not a free market. There's no relationship to Kathryn's patients and the price of Kathryn's service. The patient isn't paying diddly-squat, or very little on Medicare and even less on Medicaid if we lump that in. We'll leave Medicaid out of it for now. There's absolutely no relationship. These people walk in with a heart problem. The service and the fee attached to it by Kathryn and her husband the cardiologists is not based on that woman's ability to pay or the patient's ability to pay or the patient's level of care that's needed, treatment, what have you.
Some bureaucrat that nobody knows, sitting far away in some dank federal office, is using a computer with printouts and models -- formulas and so forth -- to determine what the doctor rendering the service is going to be paid. This is price fixing. This is government control. We already have this. This is why it's messed up. Now, we can get lost in the details here of the doctor's only getting reimbursed this or they're having their payments bundled here or what have you. That's not the point. The problem is, imagine if you had to check into a hotel this way and the room is 400 bucks a night, and some federal bureaucrat says, "We're only going to pay the hotel a hundred bucks for this," and the hotel has to give you the room! It can't be sustained.
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RUSH: Steve in Rockford, Illinois, you're next. It's great to have you here, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I was wondering why nobody is even bringing up -- it just seems like the logical progression to this thing if Obama is doing this all on purpose -- that the first ones that are going to be sucked into this government option are all the government unions.
RUSH: Wait, what? The reason Obama is doing what is for government unions...? Say that again.
CALLER: If he's could go this all on purpose, you know, to --
RUSH: Okay. Doing what on purpose? Doing what on purpose?
CALLER: Ramming the health care through and basically destroying the economy. The first ones are going to get sucked into his government-option health care plan are going to be the government unions. All teachers, all workers of state universities, everybody who works for the government -- and the government unions, they'll be the first ones sucked into the government option.
RUSH: Uhhhh. Yeah, but everybody's going to get sucked into the government option.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I mean, in ten years there's not going to be any other option but the government.
CALLER: Right. But their base, they gotta have a base to operate from first, and the first ones they're going to take in will be the government employees --
RUSH: Wait, now.
CALLER: -- so the state governments can save money.
RUSH: State governments, state governments can off-load...? Well, look, there are a lot of reasons why Obama wants this. It's no accident that he wore a purple tie yesterday. Purple is the official color of the SEIU. It's like Clinton. Have we forgotten? Clinton used to signal Monica Lewinsky, "Today is a good day," by wearing a certain color tie. Remember that? This is Andy Stern, union driven. Folks, the union heads and the leaders of these unions, essentially, are communists. They don't like this country. I'm talking about government union people. I'm not talking about the UAW and Teamsters, although they might be. I'm talking about unions that exist in the federal government. These are Obama's buddies, but the overall reason (we've discussed this) that Obama wants this, is expansive government that he controls, limiting the freedom of Americans. I'm getting blue in the face here saying all this over and over and over. Put quite simply, Barack Obama does not like this country as it was founded and he wants to transform it, and he has said so. But this has to be stopped because if he gets this, then he's got 90% of his objective done. Because everything about human behavior can be regulated because it has relationship to health care costs, which they -- Obama -- are going to have total control over.
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RUSH: And we're back. It's El Rushbo, talent on loan from God-d.
Look, the bottom line on the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, they represent more than 900,000 caregivers and hospital employees, including about a 110,000 nurses and 40,000 doctors in public, private, and nonprofit medical institutions. What Andy Stern wants, the head of the SEIU, is to unionize doctors. He wants their dues. He wants to have a union control the whole health care industry here, and they're just now getting started. Obama is his blood brother. The energy behind this is more than just focused in Obama. It is concentrated in all of these unions, and they are the largest union of health care workers in the country, and they're just getting started. That's also at play here, too.
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RUSH: Susie in Jacksonville, Florida, nice to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hello there. There is another sinister side to this Medicare problem, Rush, I believe. When Obama said he was going to fundamentally change America, I think that might include less health care for Medicare recipients, because if you're older and you have less care, you die. So once a certain number of people are gone out of the system, it lightens up the load on Medicare, it lightens up on Social Security, and --
RUSH: Let me ask you a question, Susie.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: Seriously. When did you arrive at this conclusion?
CALLER: Oh, it's been awhile. It's been awhile dawning on me, but --
RUSH: I want to know exactly when. There's no wrong answer here. I'm just genuinely curious. At what point and how did you arrive at this conclusion?
CALLER: Well, you just see that tightening up on the doctors, putting them in the strain to treat Medicare and --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- older health patients like the cardiologist --
RUSH: Oh, I understand, but when did you figure out --
CALLER: Way back a long time ago.
RUSH: No, no, no, no. Let me finish.
CALLER: I can't give you an exact date.
RUSH: Well, two months ago, six years ago, when did you figure out that if the government controls Medicare, they could determine whether or not you live or die by denying or giving you care? When did that realization hit you?
CALLER: When I first heard about this plan, probably, right in there somewhere.
RUSH: Well, I gotta tell you something. You are brilliant.
CALLER: Oh, my.
RUSH: Because that's exactly -- forget the reasons why, culling the herd, or what have you, the whole point of getting control of health care is to regulate everybody's life, and look at how they decide now whether somebody should get treated or not: age, how sick are you, how much it's going to cost to invest in your recovery, are you going to recover. And when the government is in charge of making those decisions and not you and your doctor --
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: -- guess what, we don't have any money.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: We're broke.
CALLER: Didn't he also, now, I'm not sure about this man's name, but wasn't it Sunstein back there, one of the czars early on said that the world would be better off if we had a third less people?
RUSH: Well --
CALLER: I'm not sure about that --
RUSH: -- you're talking about Cass Sunstein. He's a constitutional bomb detonator.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: There are a lot of Democrats that have said things like that, Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb back in 1976. That's part of the global warming argument, it's part of the health care argument, it's part of every -- look, as far as the left is concerned, the only corrupting influence in the universe is human beings, Republican and conservative human beings are the only corrupting influence. Everything else is pristine, clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
Bill in Houston, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush, an honor to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Got a question for you. I tried to get through to you all day yesterday and actually since the health care summit last Thursday, what you said when you first came on today, I was trying to get through to you to let you know that yesterday, because I couldn't find any new bill. And if there is no new bill --
RUSH: No.
CALLER: -- and you say is right, and I believe 200% that you are right, that's what they're trying to do, why isn't Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, all the Republicans, why aren't they telling people this? Why aren't they telling them that there is no bill, that if the House passes this, it's done?
RUSH: Well, because there's still the possibility that there will be what Obama wants in a reconciled bill. Now, they could go out and say there isn't one now but Boehner just said he expects the Senate bill to arrive on the House floor within days and for the House to begin debating it, and essentially vote on it or not vote on it. All this means is they don't have the votes for this yet but they can't go out and say there is no Obama plan, he's lying because what Obama said could end up in there. It's a technical point. I could retire and I could have three times the wealth I have if I could just get a dollar for every time I've been asked, "Why don't the Republicans do X?"
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RUSH: A great editorial today in the Wall Street Journal: "Paul Ryan v. the President." We just had caller, "Why don't the Republicans say X?" "Every argument has been made. Everything that there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it." That's what Obama said yesterday as he said, "No more debate, the time for debate is over, let's move forward." "What hasn't been heard, however, is even a shred of White House honesty about the true costs of ObamaCare, or its fiscal consequences. Nearby, we reprint Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's remarks at the health summit last week, which methodically dismantle the falsehoods -- there is no other way of putting it -- that Mr. Obama has used to sell 'reform' and repeated again yesterday." They're using falsehoods, I say lies.
"No one in the political class has even tried to refute Mr. Ryan's arguments, though he made them directly to the President and his allies, no doubt because they are irrefutable." Cookie, see if you can get Paul Ryan. I think we aired 'em last Friday after the Thursday summit. There were two of them, if I recall. He was talking right to the president. Rather than read those comments to you as the Journal has published here, what I want to do is let you hear them again because the Journal is right. Nobody in the political class has even tried to refute what Paul Ryan said. Obama just shot him the bird, got a little mad, a little angry, you could see it was visceral anger. And the reason nobody's tried to refute Paul Ryan is because nobody can.
"If Democrats are willing to ignore overwhelming public opposition to ObamaCare and pass it anyway, then what's a trifling dispute over a couple of trillion dollars? At his press conference yesterday, Mr. Obama claimed that 'my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions -- families, businesses and the federal government.' He said it is 'fully paid for' and 'brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades.' Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one."
I'm going to tell you something. The question here that needs to be addressed: Is Obama delusional? Is he really crazy? Is he this detached from reality? Or is he just this narcissistic and dishonest? "Mr. Obama's fiscal assertions are possible only because of the fraudulent accounting and budget gimmicks that Democrats spent months calibrating. Readers can find the gory details in Mr. Ryan's pre-emptive rebuttal nearby, though one of the most egregious deceptions is that the bill counts 10 years of taxes but only six years of spending," which we mentioned yesterday. "The real cost over a decade is about $2.3 trillion on paper, Mr. Ryan estimates, and even that is a lowball estimate considering how many people will flood to 'free' health care and how many businesses will be induced to drop coverage. Mr. Obama claimed yesterday that the plan will cost 'about $100 billion per year,' but in fact the costs ramp up each year the program exists. The far more likely deficits are $460 billion over the first 10 years, and $1.4 trillion over the next 10.
"What Mr. Ryan calls 'probably the most cynical gimmick' deserves special attention, which is known in Washington as the 'doc fix.' Next month Medicare physician payments are scheduled to be cut by 22% and deeper thereafter, though Congress is sure to postpone the reductions as it always does. Failing to account for this inevitability takes nearly a quarter-trillion dollars off the ObamaCare books and by itself wipes out the 'savings' that the White House continues to take credit for. Some in the liberal cheering section now claim that this Medicare ruse isn't Mr. Obama's problem because it was first promised by Republicans and Bill Clinton in 1997. But then why did Democrats include the 'doc fix' in all early versions of the bill to buy the support of the American Medical Association, only to dump this pricey item later when hiding it would make it easier to fake-reduce the deficit?
"The President was (miraculously) struck dumb by Mr. Ryan's critique, and in his response drifted off into an irrelevant tangent about Medicare Advantage, while California Democrat Xavier Becerra claimed 'you essentially said you can't trust the Congressional Budget Office.' But Mr. Ryan was careful to note that he didn't doubt the professionalism of CBO, only the truthfulness of the Democratic gimmicks that the budget gnomes are asked to score.
Yesterday Mr. Obama again invoked the 'nonpartisan, independent' authority of CBO, which misses the reality that if you feed the agency phony premises, you are going to get phony results at the other end. The President also claimed the reason his plan is in trouble, and the reason Democrats must abuse the Senate's rules to ram this plan into law, is that 'many Republicans in Congress just have a fundamental disagreement over whether we should have more or less oversight of insurance companies.' So most of Mr. Obama's first year in office has been paralyzed over nothing more than minor regulatory hair-splitting. This is so preposterous that the President can't possibly believe it."
The Republicans couldn't stop anything! What the Republicans do on this is irrelevant here. Republicans in Congress have a fundamental disagreement over whether we should have more or less oversight of insurance companies? Here's what Paul Ryan said. This is what the Journal is writing about. There's two bites, last Thursday in Washington, Blair House. As you listen to this, nobody has refuted this, nobody's even tried to tell anybody that Paul Ryan was wrong. The president didn't say, "You don't know what you're talking about, Congressman Ryan, how dare you say that about my plan, that's not true." They know it's true. The fact that nobody's tried to refute this is evidence that the contents of this, the details, are not even a factor in it. Here's number one of our two bites.
RYAN: We've been talking about how much we agree on different issues but there really is a difference between us and it's basically this. We don't think the government should be in control of all of this. We want people to be in control, and that, at the end of the day, is the big difference. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've gotta tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
RUSH: This is the breakdown of the financials to a certain extent.
RYAN: This is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud. When you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does is it treats Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare not to shore up Medicare solvency but to spend on this new government program. When you strip out the double counting and what I would call these gimmicks the full ten-year cost of this bill has a $460 billion deficit. The second ten-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit. Hiding spending does not reduce spending. And so when you take a look all of this it just doesn't add up.
RUSH: Now, play the next bite again because I want to get this in the right order. He's just said there aren't any savings in this bill. The $500 billion of Medicare cuts are not really cuts, they're just going to spend it on this new health care plan. You know, I remember talking to a Democrat who opposed this bill because she couldn't believe they're going to cut Medicare. I said, "There is not going to be any $500 billion Medicare cuts! You think the Democrat Party is going to do that? There's no way. They're putting that in there to get an accounting number that they want," and I was exactly right about it. Now, here's Ryan again to wrap it up.
RYAN: We've been talking about how much we agree on different issues but there really is a difference between us and it's basically this. We don't think the government should be in control of all of this. We want people to be in control, and that, at the end of the day, is the big difference. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've gotta tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
RUSH: Nobody has refuted Paul Ryan. Nobody in Washington has even tried. They're ignoring him. This is from TheHill.com: "Passing the healthcare proposals before Congress will 'hang out to dry' every Democratic incumbent running for reelection this fall, Howard Dean said Thursday. Howard Dean said that Democrats in Congress, plus Obama, "would do themselves more harm than good by passing the current healthcare bill. The plan, as it comes from the Senate, hangs out every Democrat who's running for office to dry -- including the president, in 2012, because it makes him defend a plan that isn't in effect essentially yet. It's easy to campaign on repealing something if no one knows what the something is, and fundamentally people don't understand what the president's healthcare plan is. And if it passes next week and get's signed into law the week after, we're not going to be able to explain it to people," because the full impact of it will not be felt for four years. All that's going to happen is the tax increases. There are going to be no special changes in health care, none of the so-called magical health care reform will happen for four years. Zilch, zero, nada.
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RUSH: One more Paul Ryan here. This is from last night on the Fox Business Channel. America's Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman had Paul Ryan as the guest, and Asman said, "I gotta ask: Do you think this thing is going to pass. Will all these manipulations and maneuverings succeed?"
RYAN: It clearly can pass but I think we can defeat this. March is it. It is basically March Madness up here. The American people can make sure that this doesn't get passed if they talk to their representatives. The fight's really over here in the House now. It's not really in the Senate. If you can talk to your congressman, talk to your congresswoman and make your points clear, I think this can be defeated. Members of Congress have to basically choose: Are you ideologically fixated with this notion, this progressivist agenda of a government-run health care system, and are you willing to throw away your congressional seat for that? Because that's basically what they're doing, because you're totally thwarting the will of your constituents. Or, do you listen to the people you represent, which is supposed to be our jobs, and will you back off of this?
RUSH: Somebody needs to really nail home what this is all about to these Democrats. Well, that's the wrong way to put it. We need to nail home to the American people what this is really all about. This is about destroying the system. It's not about health care. This is not going to do anything Obama said. This is going to crash. We talk about hard drive cashes on the Carbonite spots. This is going to crash the United States economy; it's going to crash the country. This is the intent of it: To overload this system. This is Cloward-Piven. The intent is to so overload the system that it cannot function.
You have to reboot it and you reboot it with Marxism, socialism, whatever you want. But you have to crash the system -- and you have to do it slowly, and you have to do it by putting people out of work and making them dependent on government, unemployment benefits and what have you. It doesn't matter how much debt you rack up. It doesn't matter that you can't pay for it. That's the point. These are radicals like we have never seen in positions of this kind of power, and that's what's difficult for people to get their arms around. Even today, a lot of people still look at this as, "Wow, these are really strange Democrats. They really have a weird health care plan here." This is not the usual ebb and flow of Republican versus Democrat. We've never had this kind of radicalism.
We've never had a president where more and more journalists and commentators and pundits are questioning his motivations, sanity, psychological circumstance and health and so forth. It's a really scary thing, what they're trying to do here. Crash the system. I'll betcha there are some duped Democrats who really think that it's all about compassion and insuring a bunch of people who don't have insurance and making sure everybody has health care and they think they're doing a great, compassionate thing here. But for the leaders of this bunch, it's not about that at all. That's just how they're choosing to sell it. Here's Mitch McConnell, by the way, yesterday afternoon late on Capitol Hill. He had a little press conference and said this...
MCCONNELL: I assure you that if this bill is somehow passed, it won't be behind our Democratic friends, it will be ahead of them. Because every election in America this fall will be a referendum on this issue, and there's an overwhelming likelihood that every Republican candidate will be campaigning to repeal it.
RUSH: Back to the phones, to Fall River, Massachusetts. William, thank you for calling, sir. It's great to have you here with us.
CALLER: Thank you. It's a great pleasure to be talking to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I'm a great fan of you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: The thing I was questioning is I went back to apartheid. I know you remember the apartheid in South Africa and Desmond Tutu saying that "reconciliation," truth has to be in the forefront. In other words those who were engaged in the apartheid had to tell the truth or they would not get reconciled. I'm asking you right now: This movement that the Democrats are trying to do with reconciliation has got to be based on the truth, and I'm not hearing the truth.
RUSH: Well, of course you're not; we're dealing with Democrats here. Now, I don't think that Desmond Tutu was speaking of budget reconciliation.
CALLER: He was speaking, though, Rush, about the "reconciliation" of the hate and that in order for them to get pardoned they would have to tell the truth about what they did.
RUSH: You're talking about Mandela, to get out of jail, to get pardoned he would have to tell the truth?
CALLER: Right, exactly.
RUSH: And he didn't do that. He served the term. He didn't admit what they wanted him to admit?
CALLER: Yeah, but during the apartheid... After it was all over, the apartheid, in order to get beyond the apartheid, he had to get the people who did the atrocities to admit the truth. And what I'm saying about the word "reconciliation" is that the truth has to be present and what I'm hearing now isn't truth.
RUSH: I don't want to nitpick here but this is a word that has many definitions. You're talking about "reconciling" different arguments, "reconciling" the truth on something here; admitting, being forthcoming. Budget reconciliation has no reconciliation. It's like the US Geological Survey. There's no actual "survey." It's just what we call themselves. Just like the Geneva Conventions. It's not a convention. It's a list of rules. People don't go to Geneva to attend the convention, and reconciliation here is a constitutionally created process for putting together the budget every year. The truth, in this, is nowhere to be found. There is no truth from the Democrat side about any aspect of this. I'm talking about their claims of who gets covered, how much it's going to cost, all of that. Maybe that's what you're saying, that this thing doesn't have a chance because using reconciliation there's no truth in it. You're right if you observe that.
Steve in Sunnyvale, California, thank you for calling. You're next on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Yes, Rush. I heard you talk about socialist this, communist that, and I think there's a lot of your listeners out there who think, "Oh, he's just being over-the-top and exaggerating." I've been to several anti-war protests in San Francisco, and I listened and saw and talked to these people, and you're not kidding. You're understating it. I saw the signs that weren't shown on the TV broadcasts. You listen to the speakers. They're just a whole series of people who talk about how horrible everything in this country is, and at the end the master of ceremonies at two of these said, "Our current system of government does not work. It cannot be fixed. It cannot be modified. It must be replaced," and that was almost the most enthusiastic applause and cheering that I heard at these things.
RUSH: I'm glad you called, because the point about this is... You're talking about sixties rallies that you saw or are these recent?
CALLER: I'm talking about in 2003, 2004, 2005.
RUSH: These people have always been there.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: They were around with FDR. They've always been around. The difference is that we've never elected one of them before. They've always had a couple of these guys in the House of Representatives or some statehouse somewhere or in some bureaucracy, but we've never elected one of them to be president of the United States to where he can now pretty much fill up every czarship, cabinet position and bureaucratic position he has control over with similar radicals. And he's doing it.
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RUSH: I want to build on something that Steve in Sunnyvale, California, was saying. Because I have studied all this stuff, plus I've gotten to know people that have also studied it. One of the core principles -- and there are a few of them -- but one of the core principles of Marxism is that the capitalist system must completely collapse before Marxism can be installed. There can be no integration. It has to fully collapse. That is why the Russians, the Trotskyites, the communists, supported the election of Hitler in Germany, just to cite one example. They knew that Hitler, the National Socialist party, would collapse Germany. They thought that Hitler would bring about Germany's collapse and then they would be able to take it over. And they were right partially for a while. But we usually see it happen around the world in other places.
Now it's happening to us. It's happening in our own country. Here we are in the middle of a Great Recession and there's nobody doing anything to stop it. I mean laser-like focus on jobs, jobs summits, and now we're going to add two-and-a-half trillion dollars more debt on a health care plan that's not going to do one thing anybody says it's going to do. You want to hear some propaganda? This person that you're going to listen to is Linda Douglass, a former Drive-By journalist at ABC News. She used to be on the Brinkley roundtable on This Week on Sunday mornings. She finally said I gotta go to the Obama White House. I'm not having enough of an impact as a journalist, I gotta go to where the power really is.
So she is now the White House communications director for the Office of Health Care Reform, revolving door from ABC News to the Obama administration. She's on chairman Obama's channel, Mess NBC. She had this question asked of her: "The president is meeting with key House Democrats today. Yesterday we heard him say in a joking but serious fashion --" That's really cool, joking but serious? "-- that really everything's been said about health care reform, he's made his plan quite clear, so what are these meetings about today, Linda?"
DOUGLASS: Certainly there's a conversation that's been going on between the president and the members of Congress as they prepare to move forward to vote on a plan that would -- certainly does contain the ideas, the best ideas of the Democrats, of the Republicans, it puts health care back in the control of consumers and away from the control of the insurance companies, it lowers their costs, it's the biggest middle-class tax cut on health care in history. These are the kinds of things that the president's going to be talking to the members about.
RUSH: Lying to the members about. They just keep ratcheting this up. Now this is going to be the biggest middle-class tax cut on health care in history? This is why people are asking, "Is this guy crazy? Or is he trying to drive us crazy? He is saying things that he knows are not true, or does he?" I talked about the Big Lie the other day and how it works. You just keep saying stuff that everybody knows is so patently false that you couldn't possibly believe they'd be making it up, it must be true because it's just so unbelievable. And that's where we are, that's Linda Douglass, who said, (imitating Douglass) "I just don't have enough power to save the world, to effect change as a journalist. I need to get where I really need to be." Health care communications czar at the White House.
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RUSH: Melinda in Worley, Idaho, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to make a comment that by controlling Medicare and wiping out the elderly, you're wiping out the people who know history and who know capitalism and who know that capitalism isn't evil. You're wiping out the least indoctrinated people.
RUSH: That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I've heard that somewhere before. The young don't know the truth of the eighties. The young do not know how tax cuts work. They don't know the truth of the sixties and Kennedy's tax cuts. You get rid of the most educated, the most informed people so they can't teach anybody anything.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: It's hideous out there.
CALLER: Yes, yes.
RUSH: Where did you come across that, Melinda?
CALLER: I just thought of that when this whole health care issue started a while back because that's just the larger picture. If the government has control of health care, then everybody is vulnerable to it and everybody is subject to the government.
RUSH: Can I ask you something? How old are you?
CALLER: Forty-four.
RUSH: Forty-four?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Well, you have a few years.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I don't.
CALLER: (giggling)
RUSH: (laughing) All right, Melinda. Thanks. It's great to have you on the program, I appreciate it.
CALLER: Bye, Rush.
RUSH: All right.
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If you lose your seat by being loyal like a Corzine or a Coakley, they come out -- use a little Fortney "Pete" Stark lingo -- and urinate all over your memory and say that you were a lousy candidate. They threw poor old Creigh Deeds under the bus, off the bus, over the cliff, two weeks before the election, blamed him for not listening to them. Why would Democrats trust Obama? He's asking them to give up their careers for his own narcissism! Let me go through a longer list. Let's go through a list of Obama's accomplishments, shall we? Why shouldn't Democrats trust Obama? I mean, what could possibly go wrong? In no particular order: the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial in New York City. That's really going to work out well for New York, and noticed they haven't given up on this. The non-closing of the promised closing of Gitmo. Hey, Democrats, do you remember Virginia, New Jersey, and the Kennedy seat? Just why would you trust Obama and vote for his legislative agenda? Look at his accomplishments! He lost the Kennedy seat! He lost Corzine. He lost Tim Kaine, whoever. He lost Virginia. And he's going to lose a lot more.
Also, you Democrats need to keep in mind Obama is saying jobs is his focus while he's obsessing over the destruction of the best health care system in the world, ours. Newspapers are running endless stories of Obama's thug chief of staff being more competent than the president is. You know, even David Broder has weighed in on that one today. Details are coming up. Obama reading the teleprompter and saying "corpseman." Two big-time, embarrassing flops at Copenhagen, one the Chicago Olympics, the other the stupid climate bill. Obama versus Paul Ryan. You remember how that went at the health care summit? Obama versus El Rushbo, told everybody not to listen to me. I don't want to brag here, ladies and gentlemen, but our audience measurement ratings -- ahem -- have never been higher.
Obama thinks it's important to send out a ditz to teach America how to sneeze to avoid a phony, nonexistent flu emergency. Van Jones, the New Black Panthers; the out of control deficit and national debt; rising, out-of-control unemployment; apologizing around the world for the country he leads, greatest country on the planet, that he wants to remake in Venezuela's image; the teleprompter; bashing a decorated Cambridge police officer for doing his job and being white, and Joe Biden claiming Iraq is a great Obama accomplishment. Now, you Democrats in the House, you really need to sit back here and review this list of accomplishments. Let me rephrase it: There aren't any. There are massive sell-offs, massive sellouts. There are all kinds of betrayals. The things that he has gotten done are not good for you because you're going to lose your seat. And now the biggest nuke of all, Obamacare, narcissism care, is going to be the virtual end of your career. In the words of Fortney "Pete" Stark, Obama is going to urinate on your leg and tell you it's just rain.
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CALLER: Twenty-eight-day dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Rush, this is a great opportunity for the nation to see Chicago politics at work up close and personal. "They pull a knife, you pull a gun." This guy, if he can't cut you off at the knees, he'll figure out a way to buy you off, and you're already starting to see it. "Everybody has their price." That's the motto in the White House and that's the motto in Chicago. It's always been that way. I'm 54 years old, and I've seen this every day.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: People will just fall in the wake of this man, and he doesn't care their collateral damage.
RUSH: Everybody has their price, everybody has a past. Everybody has a scandal, large or small, in their lives. Of course. There's nothing that these people will not use.
CALLER: Rush, do you know what's going on right now -- I think you hit on this a couple days ago; I'm sure you know about it -- with Rahm Emanuel leaking out that he's a little discontent with his boss? There's a Senate race going on in the state of Illinois for his seat, between Mark Kirk and this guy Alexi Giannoulias, who has a really shaky past. The president's already endorsed him, and they're now talking that they're going to try and convince this guy to relinquish his primary win. Then the rumor is Rahm Emanuel will come in and take the seat.
RUSH: Hmm. Interesting. Well, I know that we've chronicled here at great length the contretemps going on between Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama inside the Beltway media. And it is unusual because the president's the one that's taking it on the short end here and it's unusually the other way around. Chiefs of staff do not prevail in public, behind-the-scenes battles with the president of the United States. We'll keep a sharp eye on this. I appreciate the call out there, Don.
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SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION LAHOOD: I served in Congress for 14 [years] and I was a staffer for 17. I served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I don't know of a more transparent administration than this one. And if there's information you want, senator, we'll be helpful in getting it to you. I will tell you this, senator: when it comes to the Show-Me State, high speed rail, very -- did very well. TIGER grants did very well. I was in a room with over 200 people in Kansas City announcing a TIGER grant. I heard not one word of complaint.
RUSH: He's talking to retiring Missouri Senator Kit Bond here. Now, this guy's a Republican! And he says he's never seen a more transparent administration than this one. So Kit Bond lets him have it.
BOND: There has been an almost complete absence of transparency in how you're selecting them. Where you're going, all right, great. It comes down like a gift from Santa Claus -- and sure, my state got some. Every state gets some. But we have a right these days to know what were the criteria. What were the applications? Whose were the ones who were disappointed? Who did not get? How were they selected? No question when you throw money into infrastructure projects, everybody likes money in infrastructure projects. But we need to see how the process works, and I'll be damned if I can figure out how that process worked.
RUSH: Amen! We don't know who's getting the money or why. We don't know if they're applying for it or if they're just walking down the street and Santa Claus drops in on them and gives them some money. You call this transparency? "Yeah, my state got some but I don't know how it happened." So LaHood claims it's all on a website.
LAHOOD: You look on our website. It's up there now. The guidance is up there. Everybody knows what the criteria is. I'll be honest with you, Senator. We heard from a lot of senators and members of the House who called me and said, "How many applications from my state? What are they?" I got phone calls every day from House members, from senators, from governors saying, "How many applications from my state? What are they? How much are they for? What are they going to do?" and we shared all that information.
BOND: It would be very easy if you'd just put it on the website. That'd save you all those calls.
RUSH: (laughing) But the money quote there is (imitating LaHood), "I've been around here 17 years and 14 years, and I've never seen a more transparent administration than this one," and that's from a Republican.
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“The question needs to be addressed: Is Obama this delusional and detached from reality, or is he just this narcissistic and dishonest?”
Can’t he be all of those things, Rush? LOL!
I’m glad Rush keeps hammerin’ on this healthcare stuff. Just when you think it’s DEAD, it rises again from the crypt!!
Those pesky pro-life Christians......
(do I need the sarcasm tag?)
Just finished up 'H3ll Week' at work. Basic Training was easier than getting ready for the spring season at a garden center, LOL! I now have a day off, and then it's back to work again for 'Hell Weekend'! Mama's havin' a Crantini!
Narcissistic liar.
Thanks for RUSH IN A HURRY!
Lakeshark, you're late. ;0
Lakeshark must be shopping!
That picture of Pelosi.
“My Precious....”
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