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Aug. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh on uh EIB Network, and we're having more fun than human beings should be allowed to have.
It's Friday, so live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And uh here we go.
The rules are very simple.
Monday through Thursday, we talk exclusively about the things that uh matter to me.
Uh on Friday, though, when we go to the phones, uh, you own the show.
All yours.
By half to, I will fake being interested.
Doesn't happen much.
I love turning the program over to rank amateurs uh once a week.
It's a great career risk that uh that I take.
And people know it.
They don't talk about it much, but they dazzled by it and they and they marvel at it.
Nobody else would take the risk that I take.
Well, actually, most do every day.
That's them.
How many?
By the way, you know, Barney Frank.
Barney Frank says the witch, the witch.
The one thing they can't do is build their own bridges.
And then another thing they can't do, they can't clean us, so we have to pool our resources.
Well, pool resources means tax the rich.
It's code lingo for the Democrats.
But just because he said that I think I'm going to invest in the manufacture of a hover car so that I will not need a bridge.
And I won't even need a road.
Ha ha ha.
Did I give the phone number?
Doesn't matter.
Everybody knows anyway.
800 282-2882, email address rush at EIBNet.com.
How about the Breck Girl?
The Breck Girl demands, after Rupert Murdoch buys the Wall Street Journal, the Breck Girl demands that Hillary Clinton and anybody else that's taken money from him, like Obama, give it back.
And then I'll tell you this Clinton Ink bunch.
They are fast.
John Edwards, who yesterday demanded that uh Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of Murdoch's publishing houses.
But I'll tell you what, the Hillary campaign is fast.
The Edwards campaign said that the uh multimillionaire trial lawyer would not return the hefty payout from Murdoch for the book entitled Home, the Blueprint of Our Lives.
Campaign didn't respond to a question from the New York Post about whether it was hypocritical for the Breck girl to take money from News Corp while calling for other candidates not to.
In addition to a $500,000 advance from HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp, uh Edwards was cut a check for 300 grand for expenses.
He also claimed $333,000 in royalties from last year's release of the book, according to media accounts.
He says he gave that amount to charity, which would also provide tax benefits for the uh for the Bret girl.
Where Rupert bought his haircuts, uh Rupert bought a lot of things uh for the uh for the Bret girl.
Well, the House of Representatives erupted in chaos uh last night, a massive flare-up of partisan tensions.
Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democrat maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for the Democrats lost a vote, so they said, Well, screw this, the vote never happened.
It does never happen.
The flap represents a complete breakdown in uh in in parliamentary procedure and an unprecedented low for the sometimes bitterly divided chamber.
The ranker erupted shortly before 11 o'clock last night as Representative Michael McNulty, a Democrat from New York, gaveled close the vote on a standard standard procedural measure with the outcome still in doubt.
Details remain fuzzy according to the politico, but numerous Republicans argued afterward that they had secured a 215 to 213 win on their motion to bar undocumented immigrants from receiving any federal funds apportioned in the agriculture spending bill for employment or rental assistance.
The Democrats are trying to incremental uh incrementally uh get what they failed to get in the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007, also known as immigration bill.
The Democrats, however, argued that the measure was deadlocked at 214 and failed.
Members and aides on both sides of the aisle said afterwards.
There's a tie, it fails.
Uh One Republican aide saw McNulty, the Democrat, gavble the vote to a close after receiving a signal from his leaders, but before reading the official tally.
Votes continued to shift even after he closed the roll call.
Which that's strange.
How can votes shift after you stop the voting?
Whatever the final tally, acrimony quickly exploded between lawmakers on either side of the aisle as Democrat leaders tried to plot a solution while parliamentarians on either side argued over protocol.
Stanny Hoyer, who's uh Nancy Pelosi's number two, eventually offered a motion to reconsider, according to floor staff on either side, ostensibly giving members a chance to recast their votes, but the maneuver sparked a chorus of angry protests and the Republicans yelling shame on Democrats while they returned fire with angry volleys of their own.
We have some we have some audio sound bites of all this.
Very late last night.
This is Stenny Hoyer and the Speaker Pro Tem Representative Michael McNulty with this exchange are both Democrats.
Reconsider the vote by which the uh uh previous vote was taken.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, Parliamentary Inquiry.
Mr. Speaker, Parliamentary inquiry.
I must first call the vote.
The chair, the chair.
Prematurely called the vote at 214.
Thank you.
Call the vote at 214-214.
While there while that while there were while there were votes being entered.
After all of the cards were added, the final vote was 212 to 216.
Nay.
It sounds it sounds like the House of Commons, you know, during Prime Minister's questions.
So the Democrats stole a vote.
They did they just cancel the vote.
Here's McNulty this morning on the floor of the House as it continued into today.
I wish to express my apology to all of the members of the House for calling the vote prematurely.
I called the vote at 214-214.
Subsequently, members of both parties changed their votes.
The board showed a different vote, which was it was 212 in favor and two sixteen opposed.
The members who have been around for a long time and staff know that I have presided over the House many, many times since 1989, when Jim Wright first put me in the chair.
And all during that time, I have always strived to be scrupulously fair.
And I just want to pledge that I will continue to go out of my way to be fair.
When I am given the privilege of serving as Speaker Pro 10.
It's all the time for John Bader to respond to this.
And typically, the Republican leader accepts the apology from his good friend.
What happened last night happened last night.
And we can have a commitment of getting to the bottom of what happened last night.
That we ought to proceed with the business that the American people sent us here to deal with.
No, this is the people's house.
I accept the uh regrets offered by my friend from New York.
Having been in the chair myself, uh, I understand how it can happen.
He and I are friends.
But we need to have some understanding early today, uh, if in fact uh we're going to proceed today in an orderly fashion.
Well, uh, Roy Blunt, the uh Republican whip, was not happy about this, wasn't satisfied with this exchange.
The vote on the piece of paper was two fifteen to two thirteen.
The remedy for the House would solve this problem is to let the vote stand.
A majority of this House voted that illegal immigrants would not receive these benefits.
That's what the vote was about.
All you've got to do is go back to committee, amend the bill, and come back to the floor.
You lost the vote.
I didn't hit the gavel.
I didn't speak over the clerk who was trying to read the vote.
The chair did.
A week Of violations of the principles of the House culminated last night in such an excessive way that Republicans walked off the floor, and it was a deserved walkout, and I'm ashamed of the House.
So Blunt was not satisfied with Boehner's attempt to uh mend fences.
Uh Eric Cantor, a Republican from Virginia, this morning on the House floor.
I want to respond to some of the comments that were just made.
I don't think he understands our anger.
I can assure you that never once did we in the majority attempt to steal a vote.
Attempt to steal a vote to make sure, to make sure that illegal immigrants, to make sure that our position, the Republican position to defeat the ability for benefits to flow to illegal immigrants.
That's what this is about.
So, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New York admits mistake and apologizes.
We accept that apology.
It was a bad call.
But the price to pay for that bad call should be to admit that the motion to recommit passed.
The bill should go back to committee.
The committee does its work and the bill comes back to the floor.
You know, this this uh I we're laughing at this, but this is a serious thing.
The Democrats are hell-bent on getting these illegal immigrants in here and making them voters.
They are held in on expanding the redistribution of wealth.
They are hell bent on getting them in here and getting them on our welfare rolls and the you know the social safety net uh, which we uh more properly have termed here the hammock.
And uh the Republicans thought they defeated it last night, and they probably did, which is why all this I'm sure they did, and the Democrats just couldn't put up with that, so they uh they just they just stole the vote, and the Republicans are not letting go of this.
Here is Joe Barton.
Um, I love this.
Do you remember when the Republicans ran the Senate?
All we heard from the likes of Harry Reid and Dick Durbin and Diane Feinstein, what about the right to the minority?
What about the right as though the minority had the right to win every vote because they were the minority?
They were victims.
Joe Barton turns that argument around on him.
I've never seen anything like last night.
When you look up on that board over there or over there, it says 215 to 213 final.
That's it.
Now, in the 23 years that I've been in the House, I've never seen a vote that said final and been gaveled, reopened until last night.
I mean, how important is it that you win a motion to recommit?
My gosh, all you do is take it back to committee, report it back out, muscle your troops in line, and pass the bill as you want it.
The strength of a democracy is how you treat the minority, and the minority strength is in using the rules.
When we're smart enough to use the rules and win, we ought to let it count.
Raddo, Rado, Reno.
Yeah, the uh uh Republicans have no rights when they're the minority.
Those minority rights only extend to Democrats.
Quick timeout, back after this.
Yeah, Bruhaha on the floor of the House last night.
I mean, Nancy Pelosi's keeping bad house.
Ladies and dingy Harry can't run the Senate.
Uh it's dramatic to see how incompetent these people are at running their institutions.
Speaking, speaking of Pelosi.
Uh there's this.
What is this?
Where's it where's the story?
This is the Washington Times today.
Headline monumental Iraq progress needed to sway Democrats' plans.
Democrats, including the party's conservative blue dog, says it'll take monumental improvement in Iraq, not the current blips of success, to sway them from pushing for a U.S. troop withdrawal after a September progress report.
Jane Harmon, a hawkish, well, for a Democrat, a hawk.
Uh California Democrat chairman of Homeland Security Intelligence sub sub-subcommittee.
So the military victories are just episodic.
Uh Charlie Wilson, a freshman Democrat from a conservative blue-collar Ohio district, said he would definitely need monumental proof, not just an isolated improvement.
The remarks also echo the opinion of uh Nancy Pelosi.
Uh, who aides say is not willing to concede there are positive things to point to.
Iraq.
I t look.
You I told you this, what was it, two days ago, two or three days ago.
They are wedded to this position of theirs, which is defeat.
They are wedded to it.
They will continue to use those talking points.
I have a couple sound bites here.
This is uh last night, the news hour with Jim Lara on uh PBS.
He had the speaker on there.
And he said, from your perspective, what General Petraeus says in September of the surge is uh is an irrelevant act on your part.
The purpose of the surge was to create a secure environment in which a political progress could be made.
That has not happened.
The president's own benchmarks are not being met.
So it's a political standard.
The security, the surge was to make the area more secure so that the political solution could take hold.
And the measure will be okay.
Did the surge achieve its its purpose?
Did the political progress occur?
Amending the constitution, having calling for provincial elections, having loyalty for the fair distribution of oil in the region, reviewing the order on debasification, some of the president's own benchmarks.
Uh I read something the other day that uh the oil revenue is being divided, even though that they haven't finished the law, that the oil revenue is being divided.
Also read something the other day, some some some big oil people went over there.
Uh, and they they did some quick studies and research.
They they think the the second largest reserves in the world are in on underneath the sands of Iraq.
Uh, but they are distributing oil ribbon.
Of course, her own house is falling apart.
She cannot keep order or security in her own house, but of course, whatever Petraya says, doesn't matter, folks.
It doesn't matter.
The surge was to bring security, it's not working, blah, blah, blah.
No chance that she's gonna accept what uh what Petraya says.
So Jim O'Lara uh said, Well, some people have expressed outrage over the fact that the Iraqi Parliament's taking a month off as a vacation.
Do you share that?
Can you believe these questions?
Do you believe here's the Well, while our troops are uh in harm's way there, and uh the need for us to see strong political change, uh it seems they've left before their work was completed.
You don't see any parallels between that recess and the recess of the U.S. Congress.
No, not at all.
Oh of course not who could possibly see any similarity between them going on uh vacation in August and the U.S. Congress going on vacation.
Uh who could possibly see any similarity in the Iraqis getting probably more done uh than uh than uh the U.S. Congress is doing who who can possibly see any similarity?
Of course not, no, no, no, no, not at all.
And of course, Jim O'Lara just nods approvingly.
Good answer, Miss Pelosi.
That's what we in the drive-by media want you to say.
Here's Dennis in Dayton, Ohio, as we go back to the phones.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Yes.
Uh I told certainly a topic, but I'm gonna beg your permission to give you a 30-second compliment.
Because I know it's hard for you to take that sometimes from your callers, but I've waited three years to say this, and it's dear to my heart.
So I'm gonna ask your permission.
If I still have any time to make a point, I'll do it then.
Uh well, uh, I'm in a really good mood today.
Normally I would say no because I get compliments from everybody.
But today I'm in a real good mood, so go ahead.
Okay, this isn't a token.
I'm gonna say I'm a purple heart Vietnam vet.
I was in Vietnam for two years, and I don't want to go into all what would happen, but last it was the last uh presidential election during the 2004 campaign.
You were talking about the service of the Vietnam veteran and what we did and why we did it.
And I'm telling you, sir.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Uh I've not had that articulated so well.
And you know, they say you gotta be in combat to understand what people in combat go to, and yeah, there's truth to that, but you don't got to be there to know why we are there.
And I just want to tell you, uh, you know, when I came home, people like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry tried to steal our honor, tried to shame our service, and yes, they did.
And they those of that hope are trying to do the same thing now to our soldiers that are in Iraq.
And you know, I weep when I read about lives being lost, and I know what those young men and women are facing.
And I want to tell you, thank God for you for calling these people to task.
Because let me tell you, you are a true Believer.
And I know it's just a talk show.
It's not just that.
I know it's entertainment.
That's what you're there for.
But I tell you, I know in my heart of hearts, you're a true believer.
You understand what a great country this is.
And why those who risk their lives, why we do so.
Because it's not privileged, it's not trivial.
Shame on those on the left.
Shame on those on the left who who trivialized the lives of those men and women who fight for our country.
And that's rushed.
That's that's what I wanted to tell you.
And I waited three years to tell you that.
Um because I mean I know you've got to have your bad dad, and you say today you're in a good mood.
I know I c I can't imagine you do your job as well as you do, because you're always positive.
I know you gotta have the down days.
And when you have a down day, there's a lot of us out there.
Just think of this.
A lot of us.
Well you are chicken, I look at arguments.
I uh Denish, you you you're making my day.
I appreciate so much what you said.
Thank you.
El Mucho.
You know it, and I know it.
And so guess what they're now saying in uh in uh Minneapolis, what the uh well, somebody's saying it.
Minnesota bridge death toll far less than feared.
The uh, you know, there's the original predictions of uh numbers of deaths far, far less than feared.
So once again we have an example of the drive-by is, you know, create a crisis attitude, the crisis mentality and so forth, rather than waiting.
It's just like Katrina.
We had so much misreporting about what went on inside the Superdome and what was going on at the convention center turned out to be vastly overrated and exaggerated.
Get this.
The Washington Post, the AP story, the Washington Post Company reported a thirteen percent drop in quarterly earnings Friday as declining revenue from its flagship paper continued.
Circulation continued to fall.
For the first six months of the year, circulation of post fell three percent.
As of July one, it stood at uh six hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred daily.
Uh this is the only revenue in Washington that is going down.
The Washington Post.
Tracy in uh Plymouth, Minnesota.
I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
Hey, Russ.
Hi.
Mega Ditto.
Thank you very much.
I've been a longtime listener since the late eighties, and this is my first time calling.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
And I wanted to say I want to give credit to my twenty-year-old son Joe, who is the oldest of my four rush babies for encouraging me to call today.
So we don't sound old enough to have a twenty-year-old.
Oh, well, thank you.
We've been discussing by the way, Tracy's one of my top ten all-time favorite female names.
Oh, really?
Always has been.
Okay, well, there weren't too many of them when I was born, so um we've been discussing, in fact, my son and I this morning were talking about the fact that in the last year or so there was an attempt to raise the gas tax here in Minnesota, and of course, our Republican Governor Tim Pollenti was being blamed for vetoing it because at the time the state was running a two point one billion dollar surplus.
Right, right.
And also, I believe there might have been something in the form of a referendum for trying to look at improving road work.
But there was really quite a bit of outcry amongst the conservative talk radio stations in town talking about the fact that we have recently spent millions on light rail here, which is not being utilized very much at all.
And the wording of what they were attempting to pass basically gave an open door for them to primarily use all of the money toward r light rail if they so chose.
So, you know, obviously with the kind of weather we have here, our roads need work a lot, but you know, I knew that if it was passed, that more than likely none of that money would have gone toward anything like fixing a bridge.
Of course not.
No.
But not only that, the taxpayers up there uh built a twin stadium, being asked to build a Viking stadium, right?
Well, actually, they're about to break ground on the twin stadium.
In fact, they were gonna do it that on Wednesday and they canceled the right, right.
They also cancel the game with the uh the Kansas City Royals.
Yes, yes.
Uh well, yeah, but how about how about all the money they spend for a bear exhibit at the zoo?
Well I've been through a lot of the stuff.
I went through this in the first hour.
I covered a lot of the pork and a lot of the things.
You know, all these states that run out, they fund arts centers for the arts and croissant crowd for the for the uh for the Brie and Chablis bunch.
Um they've got these states two point one billion dollar surplus, Tracy, they've got more money than they know what to do with.
Raising taxes is just a it's a reflexive reaction that Democrats have, that liberals have, and it's all about control over people's lives.
And they take the occasion of this tragedy to advance their political agenda again, which is commonplace as well.
Yeah, we we knew that was gonna happen.
We were waiting, and it didn't take long.
Well, you did great.
This is your first call, and you did fabulous.
Thank you.
Your son should be very proud of you.
Thank you.
All right, thanks, Tracy.
Great that you called.
Let's go to Omaha.
This is Roger.
Uh great to have you, sir, here on the EIB network.
Roger, are you there?
I I I appreciate uh all you do for America, and uh there's no doubt that you're one of the funniest informative uh broadcasters that that that I'll ever uh see in my life.
Thank you.
Thank you for all you do.
I appreciate you saying that, I really do.
Um I'm uh I'm a truck driver, and uh over the last eighteen years, you've given me so much to laugh about that uh sometimes I well I call it a ten mile laugh, where you you say something I laugh for ten miles going down the road, so I can't imagine what I must have missed in those ten miles.
But anyway, some of the most memorable things that I have heard on your show.
Uh you remember Luke Sissyfag?
Oh, yeah.
But who could forget Luke Sissifag?
Whatever happened to him.
Luke Sisyfag right now is working uh he's an animal rights activist.
He's working for some nonprofit uh uh uh thing.
I don't I'm not in the 90s it was he was working for some place called Last Chance for Animals.
Well but his real name is Luke Montgomery, but is he called himself Luke Sissifag.
Uh he he was uh uh he was a member of Act Up, you know, the the the militant uh aids group.
Yep uh and he uh I was I think it was back it was December 1st, 1993.
That's World AIDS Day, and and he was at a this is where we got to know him.
He attended a speech in Washington that Clinton was marking the occasion, and and uh Luke Sissifag interrupted the speech and shouted at the president he wasn't taking enough action uh against AIDS.
Uh and uh, you know, it it he he made statements that were highly critical of the gay community uh following uh a transition of aid or tradition of AIDS activists set by the likes of Larry Kramer and so forth.
Uh and and and uh he he actually ended up agreeing with me on his uh uh somewhere publicly that I said the problem with AIDS is that the Democrats have politicized that.
That's right.
Uh that the liberals have politicized that, and he actually agreed with me.
Luke Sissifag agreed with Rush Limbaugh.
That's why that's why I remembered it.
But he's still around.
He's an animal rights uh wacko now.
Okay.
Um and I have a uh my my favorite hip hop song of all time, Womb to the Tomb.
Is there any way that you can play that?
Yeah, we've got it.
We've been we've had it standing by for you uh ever since you uh requested it out there.
Well, and and sitting here, uh I thought of another great story that you told about uh back in the old days when people could say stuff on the floor of the Senate uh that they don't say now.
Uh you're talking about uh some some Southern Democrat that was talking about Ted Kennedy doing offshore drilling.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's that's uh that was Howell Heflin.
Okay, well, that story that you told, I'll tell you what, I couldn't stop laughing.
You want to hear the story again before wound to the tomb?
The thing is, this is a true story.
Yes.
What what happened was this is back in the uh late eighties, I think.
Senator Kennedy is uh vacationing off the coast of the south of France, and he's got a young newbile, very limber and flexible young woman with him, scantily clad in a nice bikini.
And we know this because paparazzi were taking pictures uh from neighboring boats.
And the date New York Daily News published the pictures.
And a series of three pictures, and the first picture shows them, you know, converting out there uh on the boat.
The second picture shows the scantily clad newbile, very flexible and limber young woman uh diving in the water off the off the edge of the boat.
The next picture, actually, four pictures in the next boat picture showed Senator Kennedy jumping in after her, which was a first for Senator Kennedy to go in the water after a woman, and then the last picture showed them back in the boat uh making uh having having having uh intimacies, let's say.
And they should these pictures made the rounds, and they showed them to uh Howell Heflin, a senator from Alabama, he was a huge guy, and he looked at the picture and said, Well, do declare why it looked to me like Senator Kennedy done change his position on offshore driven.
All right, now here's womb to the tomb, and this is by Doug and the Testicles, ladies and gentlemen.
The grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
That's Doug Rice and the Testicles.
And womb to the tomb will be right back.
Don't go away, bro.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
Unbelievable.
Uh Carl Lubsdorf writing in the Dallas Morning News.
Now, to set this up, the new Congress has a three, three percent approval rating in a way they're handling the Iraq war.
Okay.
They're not getting anything done other than the minimum wage.
All they're doing is investigating, yammering away, uh sending subpoenas, sounding negative and doomy and gloomy, and is there's nothing uplifting or inspirational coming out of any of these Democrats in Congress or the Senate.
And of course, that means it's time to buck them up.
That means it's time for the drive-by is to give them cover.
And so Carl Lubsdorff and the Dallas Morning News headline too early to judge the new majority.
Democrat Congress slow to move, but with reason.
Democrat congressional leaders and their labor allies held a big Capitol Hill rally last week to hail the increase in a minimum wage, which is the only big deal a bunch of sense.
What a party.
What a part.
Well, what these guys do, they know how to throw a party.
A party over the minimum wage.
So sorry I didn't get my invitation.
On Wednesday, they staged a signing ceremony to mark completion of action on a package of post-9-11 homeland security proposals.
And they're working this week on extending congressional ethics laws and a popular children's health care program.
This recent rush of action and the accompanying publicity campaign is designed to counter the fact that public approval of Congress remains very low.
Below 30% and most hey, Carl, try three percent.
That's an even worse showing than Mr. Bush is registering these days.
Republicans gleefully dusting up the old do nothing Congress.
We've added to a do nothing good Congress.
So anyway, um this fascinating story.
Too early to judge a new majority.
No, no, we've got to we gotta give them cover.
We got to explain to our readers why it is they're not getting anything done, because the Republicans still have the White House for all it's said and done, all this power that we have running the Congress, they're still a Republican in the White House, and the Republicans still have clout and the White House.
If this were a Republican Congress, they'd be writing about this is a bunch of boobs, this is a bunch of failures.
These guys are getting it ruining the country, not getting it done.
Impeach them.
Uh Joe in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, how you doing, Rush?
Never better, sir.
Good.
Hey, um I seem to keep on missing the telling the conversation about the um health care for the uh for the children that the Democrats are trying to propose and and they're trying to pass.
But I I did hear a couple things last week, and I wish I could have got through uh when I originally heard you talk about them.
You would I think it was you that had mentioned um about the why you know people not having health insurance and and you were kind of talking about that, and and I and I guess that as a Republican, which I am, I I'm I guess we're supposed to, you know, not support um this uh democratic um process here.
But I have a question for you, and I want to see where I fit into this category, and I want to see if if when you were kind of maybe you were generalizing all people, um, and I want to see if how I fit because I I make um about fifty thousand dollars a year.
My health insurance right now is sixty forty.
My my uh boss pays sixty percent, and I pay forty.
It's well over nine hundred dollars.
Um I work a full-time job plus a part time job.
I mean, I'm I'm working pretty hard out there, and I just need to know exactly what would be so bad, and I'm not and like I said, I'm really not too sure what the what the bill is.
So if you can clarify that, but I kind of feel like that if I can get some kind of subsidy, you know, be subsidized from the government.
Um I would be more than happy to take it because if my my Well I'm sure you would.
Let me let me ask you a pointed question.
Sure.
Why do you want me and my broadcast engineer and my call screener to pay for your health insurance?
I I don't.
Yes, you well, you you are when you who who do you think funds the government?
Well, that's what I want you to clarify.
I mean, I w what I'm trying to say is we we pay for other things.
And that's and that's a good question.
And I'm not just agreeing.
We have we have a learning opportunity here, is what we have.
This is a teachable moment, as they used to say in classrooms.
Yeah, I mean, I want to teach me a moment because right now I'm paying for it and and um and and but I will say this, there Rush, I and and you may disagree with me.
If I if my em employee employer wasn't paying 60 percent, you had made the comment about people not having insurance at all.
It would be and I'm and I'm being from the bomb of heart.
I it would be really tough for me to make that payment.
And and if you I don't know what other people send their money.
People face people face these questions throughout their life.
It'd be really tough if you had a car that you couldn't afford.
It'd be really tough if you know people have to make priorities.
You have to establish priorities.
If health care is the most important thing to you, then you gotta do regard where wherever you are now, you've got to do with less.
There are you you somewhere else.
You're asking your neighbors to subsidize your insurance for your for for health care.
This this program that you're talking about, the ship program that ship with a PS a stealth maneuver by the Democrats to take us further down the road to nationalized socialized medicine, which will be an abject failure.
It will not be free.
You may not be paying for it yourself, but you'll also suffer in the kind of coverage that you uh that you get and treatment that you get.
But that that's beside the point.
I mean, I the the intricacies of the program, how do you think it's right that a that a uh uh a health insurance program for the children includes children under the age of twenty-five?
Do you think that it matters that a family of four earning eighty-two thousand dollars a year qualifies as a poverty stricken family so that their kids can get health insurance?
Who's paying for this?
You're asking your neighbors to pay for this.
Um you obviously don't see it that way, but that's how you've got to start looking at it.
And what if we all started doing that?
Sadly, way too many of us are already doing that.
Um and it's this is a your your your need and your fear have combined to make you susceptible to the notion that the Democrats are peddling something to you that doesn't cost any of your neighbors any money.
And it does, because they're the ones who be paying for it for you.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe it.
Two of them are already finished.
We only have one more to go.
We're gonna try to lot to squeeze in there.
A lot of things still in the uh in the snacks of stuff that I want to get to, and your phone calls as well.
Remember, open line Friday.
You can ask a question, you can complain, you can whine, you can do whatever you want.
You don't have to talk about anything that I particularly care about, so go for it.
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