America Hangs by a Thread (Rush Limbaugh)

At the end of the day our freedom has been assaulted. This is the kind of change that people did not think they were going to get when they voted for Barack Obama.

Great to have you here. We'll be talking to you about all of this, 800-282-2882 is the number, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

You have to deal with reality here, and that means focusing on the future. Now, there are some people who want to look back at the past and say, "How did we get here?" and that's all fine and dandy, but we know how we got here.

Barack Obama was elected president. If you want to go back any further than that, we can, but we are here because Barack Obama was elected president.

We are here because the Democrat Party has a majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The thing that Bart Stupak needs to be hounded out of office for is for misleading an entire nation and giving an entire nation a big fake feint job that he and his cohorts were somehow going to do something to stop this on the basis of a false premise anyway.

I want you to hear a piece of audio from Stupak, and this is October 24th in Sheboygan, Michigan.

He held a town hall meeting -- this is Internet quality here -- he held a town hall meeting, and he told a questioner, he told one of his voters that if he liked everything but the abortion funding he would vote for it.

STUPAK: If everything I want [is] in the final bill, I like everything in the bill except you have public funding for abortion, and we had a chance to run our amendment and we lost.

Okay, I voted my conscience, stayed true to my principles, stayed true to the beliefs of this district, could I vote for healthcare? Yes I still could.

There were some of them that were given a chance to vote "no" because they had enough of a majority last night, but up until four o'clock yesterday afternoon theoretically Pelosi did not have the votes.

I'm asking myself what kind of country are we today. We're not a representative republic.

The will of the people was spat upon yesterday. The will of the people is of no concern to the people who now have power and authority from the White House all the way down to Capitol Hill.

The will of the people is something to be crushed. So we're not a representative republic. You can't even say loosely defined we are much of a democracy.

We have to restore these things. We have to do this by getting rid of these people at the ballot box. We must get them out of office. That's the only thing here.

I hear people talking about repeal, and that's great, but there's something that has to happen before we can do that. We can't repeal this thing as we sit here today. We don't have the votes. We didn't have the votes to stop it. We're not going to have the votes to repeal it.

But I'm going to tell everybody in the Republican Party that's running around talking about repeal, it better be more than a campaign slogan.

Don't declare something as principle and then play it like a five dollar poker chip like Bart Stupak did. Stupak has humiliated and disgraced himself.

He lied because he held out the hope of millions of Americans that this travesty would not happen.

Bart Stupak has not only humiliated and disgraced himself; he has as big a role in destroying this country as it was founded, as Barack Obama does.

Last night, Bart Stupak damaged the already crippled Democrat Party more than he knows, more than they know. That executive order, totally laughable, Stupak just wanted his "notice me" moment.

Stupak is no different than Neville Chamberlain, came back with that little letter from Hitler, "Oh, yeah, Hitler says no war between his country and ours." Churchill said, "Well, you're a fool."

Which is worthless, can be rescinded, but it does not have the ability to counter statute.

So whatever's in the Senate bill, and there is federal funding for abortion in the bill, and folks, make no question, the lies that we have been told about what's in this bill, what's not in this bill, it is an utter disaster, and if you want we can spend some time today going through some of these individual items, which we've been doing for a year-and-a-half.

The point is, the American people have awakened and they finally have seen what statists look like and what they do and how they act.

Even McCain, who as recently as a year ago wanted to "walk across the aisle" and work with these people, said today he's upset just looking at how happy they are at what they've done.

Of course, it need not have happened had we... Well, I don't even want to go there.

Focusing on the past is only relevant in terms of how we learn from it and not make the same mistakes in the future. So yep, we repeal -- fine and dandy -- and we take these lawsuits.

I mean, they need to be filed and they need to be argued, and we need to push back in every direction, but the focus has to be on defeating Democrats in November in these midterm elections.

We have the people. We have the intellectual arguments. We have the common sense arguments. We have history. But they won yesterday.

They won because they held Congress and the presidency, and therein lies the lesson:

If there are Republican primaries, elect conservatives and then defeat the Democrats -- every last one of them -- and then we start the repeal process.

And by "repeal," I mean use every single legislative and bureaucratic tactic we can muster to obstruct, derail, and defeat them. Just saying "repeal" does not make it happen.

As you have seen, the law will not stop them, the Constitution will not stop them, hoping that they will do the right thing will not stop them because their definition of "the right thing" has nothing in common with ours.

They must, my friends, be hounded out of office. Every single Democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, that they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. We now have leftist radicals in charge of your health care decisions rather than doctors.

I got up today and I said, "We're hanging by a thread," and there's a difficult balancing act on this program today: Dealing with the reality of what has happened, which can't be candy coated, with the need to fight on. The need to fight on and the urging to fight on must have some substance to it and not just be rhetoric and language and lingo.

It has to have some substance behind it, because we really are facing the prospect that our country will never be the same after yesterday, if this stands. It will never be the same, and a majority of the American people understood it.

A majority of the American people understand it and know it and are outraged by this. Americans are now eagerly awaiting their insurance premiums to be reduced by $2500 a year.

Obama has been promising this since his presidential campaign of 2008. Americans are now eagerly awaiting for all of the uninsured to magically have health insurance. The American people are now waiting for their premiums to magically go down, for their access to go up.

I was listening to some of the Democrats in the media last night. Juan Williams on Fox was just excited. "Oh, my God, this is so wonderful!

It's so wonderful! No more preexisting conditions! No more preexisting conditions! Everybody gets insurance," and I'm saying, "Does anybody not understand economics here?" We're not even talking about an insurance business anymore.

What's happened here is not insurance. Insurance is you insure yourself against a catastrophe, something that might happen to wipe you out.

This is not insurance. This is simply the insurance companies being captivated or taken over by the government and having their behavior mandated for the express purpose of putting them out of business.

Under this bill, as I told you last week, you don't have to buy insurance. You can wait until the accident or the illness happens and then buy it that day, and they have to sell it to you.

No matter what. If you get terminal cancer and the doctor gives you three months, they have to sell you your coverage. Except you're not going to have to buy it. If you can't afford it, we -- all your neighbors -- will. No insurance company can stay in business doing this.

What happens to you, you have an automobile policy, you're driving around, and you have an accident and you do a lot of damage? Hey, guess what? You are a higher risk. Your auto insurance premium goes up, right?

Why shouldn't that happen with health care? Why shouldn't it? (whining) "It's not fair? No, it's not fair!"

Well, it won't now. It won't now. So, yeah, preexisting conditions are going to be covered, but who's going to pay for this? Insurance premiums are going to skyrocket in the next couple of years until they are out of business and the government steps in to take over with the...public option.

Which is just waiting a couple of months, couple of days, couple years down the tracks. It's just waiting for this to happen because this bill mandates the destruction of the private health insurance business.

Rush is spot on...and we've been coming to it over a long period of time.

I'm already sick of hearing what a "masterful" job Pelosi and Obama have done with the Health Care Monstrocity.

What the State-run Media (aka the Main Stream Media) will not tell you is that if it was masterful, it was only masterful in its lies, deciet, and treachory. They used trickery, sculldruggery, bribery, threats, and lawlessness to pull this Health Care Vote out by the skin of their teeth...and the battle is still far from over.

The man who despises America

Stupak was not padding to a democrat victory. No the EO deal was the democrat leadership's last ditch gasp to gett the votes they needed...because the vote makes clear that they did not have them before. And Stupak and those listening to him fell for it and will be forever remembered for being duped, bribed, and sashayed into supporting a bill that will use tax payer money to pay for abortion...and ruin the best health care services in the world as they are found in this nation...and enslave our children and grandchildren in debt. I do not know what all they were promised, or threatened with...but you can bet that it had a lot more to it than a rediculous Executive Order which will not stand or be used to stop it anyway.

We have a band of traitors running this country. I know of no other way to state it or express it. That is the truth about Barrack Hussein Obama and those in league with him.They have proven by their words, their deeds, and their stances...for decades...what they are, and now they have punctuated it with this God-forsaken, monstrocity social health care bill, and intend to continue punctuating it with amnesty for illegal aliens, a world-wide socialist cap and trade effort...among many other things. They are marxist ideologs who hate the free market, who hate free enterprise, who disdain the constitution and its attending, foundational principles, who reject freedom and personal responsibility, and who promise the wrteched masses that they themselves have created through dependancy, anything they think they want, so they can amass power to themselves and destroy this Republic, its liberty and way of life, and make it over into a decrepid socialist/marxist state where they and their cronies amass tyranical power unto themselves.

This cannot stand...indeed, this MUST NOT STAND. We must press forward to the elections of 2010 and throw these enemies out with such resounding clarity that it cannot be denied either here or abroad what is occurring. We must do so by turning to the constitution and the principles that are its foundation and then electing only those candidates who swear their allegiance to that constitution and those principles.

Nothing else will do.

If, as a people, we do not turn away from the course these quislings and traitors have set us on, then, as history and God are our witness, we will ultimately be left only with same course our own forefathers were compelled to take...that is, the force of arms, in the hands of citizens and citizen soldiers of this country to route these traitors out.

We are at a monumental crossroads in our nations history. We are on a path to self destruction and the loss of our freedom and way of life. But we have the opportunity to turn off that path and return to the principles that have made America free and prospered her.

Rise up O America, your liberty is calling!

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Sincerely, and in liberty,

Jeff Head
Emmett, ID
March 22, 2010

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