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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 EIB Network, and we're having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
It's Friday, so...
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday!
And here we go.
The rules are very simple.
Monday through Thursday, we talk exclusively about the things that matter to me.
On Friday, though, when we go to the phones, you own the show.
It's all yours.
I have to.
I will fake being interested.
It doesn't happen much.
I love turning the program over to rank amateurs once a week.
It's a great career risk that I take.
And people know it.
They don't talk about it much, but they're dazzled by it and they marvel at it.
Nobody else would take the risk that I take.
Well, actually, most do every day.
Listen, by the way, you know Barney Frank.
Barney Frank says, the rich, the witch.
The one thing they can't do is build their own bridges.
And another thing they can't do, they can't do cleaners, 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.
Did I give the phone number?
Doesn't matter.
Everybody knows anyway.
800-282-2882.
Email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
How about the Brett Girl?
The Brett girl demands, after Rupert Murdoch buys the Wall Street Journal, the Brett 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 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.
I'll tell you what, the Hillary campaign is fast.
The Edwards campaign said that the multi-millionaire 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 Brett 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, Edwards was cut a check for $300,000 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 Brett girl.
Where Rupert bought his haircuts, Rupert bought a lot of things for the Brett girl.
Well, the House of Representatives erupted in chaos last night, a massive flare-up of partisan tensions.
Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believe to be Democrat maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for the Democrats lost the vote.
So they said, well, screw this.
The vote never happened.
It does never happen.
The flap represents a complete breakdown in parliamentary procedure and an unprecedented low for the sometimes bitterly divided chamber.
The rancor erupted shortly before 11 o'clock last night as Representative Michael McNulty, a Democrat from New York, gaveled closed the vote on a 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 incrementally 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 2.14 and failed, members and aides on both sides of the aisle said afterwards.
It was a tie, it fails.
One Republican aide saw McNulty, the Democrat, gavel 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 protocols.
Stenny Hoyer, who's 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 in the Republicans yelling shame on Democrats while they returned fire with angry volleys of their own.
We have some audio soundbites of all this.
Very late last night, this is Stenny Hoyer and Speaker pro tem Representative Michael McNulty with this exchange.
They're both Democrats.
Reconsider the vote by which the previous vote was taken.
Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
I must first call the vote.
The chair prematurely called the vote at 214-214.
While there were votes being entered, after all of the cards were added, the final vote was 212 to 216.
Nay.
It sounds like the House of Commons, you know, during Prime Minister's questions.
So the Democrats stole the vote.
They just canceled 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 2.14, 214.
Subsequently, members of both parties changed their votes.
The board showed a different vote, which was 212 in favor and 216 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'm given the privilege of serving as Speaker pro tem.
Yada yada yada.
So the time for John Boehner to respond to this.
And typically, the Republican leader accepts his 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 regrets offered by my friend from New York.
Having been on the chair myself, I understand how it can happen.
He and I are friends.
But we need to have some understanding early today if, in fact, we're going to proceed today in an orderly fashion.
Well, Roy Blunt, the Republican whip, was not happy about this, wasn't satisfied with this exchange.
The vote on the piece of paper was 215 to 213.
The remedy for the House that 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.
I'm ashamed of the House.
So Blunt was not satisfied with Boehner's attempt to mend fences.
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 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 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 hell-bent on expanding the redistribution of wealth.
They are hell-bent on getting them in here and getting them on our welfare rolls and the social safety net, which we more properly have termed here the hammock.
And 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 just stole the vote.
And the Republicans are not letting go of this.
Here is Joe Barton.
And I love this.
You remember when the Republicans ran the Senate, all we heard from the likes of Harry Reid and Dick Durbin and Dianne 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 them.
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's strength is in using the rules.
When we're smart enough to use the rules and win, we ought to let it count.
Right on, right, right.
Republicans have no rights when they're the minority.
Those minority rights only extend to Democrats.
Quick timeout, back after a bit.
Yeah, bruha 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.
It's dramatic to see how incompetent these people are at running their institutions.
Speaking of Pelosi, there's this, what is this?
Where's this story?
This is the Washington Times today.
Headline, monumental Iraq progress needed to sway Democrats' plans.
Democrats, including the party's conservative blue dogs, 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, California Democrat chairman of Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee, said the military victories are just episodic.
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 Nancy Pelosi, who aides say is not willing to concede there are positive things to point to in Iraq.
Look, 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 soundbites here.
This is last night the news hour with Jim O'Rara on PBS.
He had the speaker on there, and he said, from your perspective, what General Petraeus says in September of the surge is an irrelevant act on your part.
The purpose of the surge was to create a secure environment in which 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 purpose?
Did the political progress occur?
Amending the Constitution, calling for provincial elections, having law for the fair distribution of oil in the region, reviewing the order on debathification, some of the president's own benchmarks.
I read something the other day that 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 big oil people went over there and they did some quick studies, some research.
The second largest reserves in the world are underneath the sands of Iraq.
But they are distributing oil revenue.
Of course, her own house is falling apart.
She cannot keep order or security in her own house.
But of course, whatever Petraeus says doesn't matter, folks, doesn't matter.
The surge was to bring security.
It's not working.
No chance that she's going to accept what Petraeus says.
So Jim Oara said, well, some people have expressed outrage over the fact that the Iraqi parliament's taken a month off as a vacation.
Do you share that?
Can you believe these questions?
Do you believe?
Here's the answer.
Well, while our troops are in harm's way there and the need for us to see strong political change, 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, no, no, no.
Of course not.
Who could possibly see any similarity between them going on vacation in August and the U.S. Congress going on vacation?
Who could possibly see any similarity in the Iraqis getting probably more done than the U.S. Congress is doing?
Who could 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.
Now I told Sterling a topic, but I'm going to 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 going to ask your permission.
If I still have any time to make a point, I'll do it then.
May I do that?
Well, 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 going to 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 happened, but in the last 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.
I've not had that articulated so well.
And, you know, they say you've got to be in combat down the damn what people in combat go through.
And, you know, 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, you know, when I came home, people like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry tried to steal our honor, tried to shame our service.
And they did the whole thing.
Yes, they did.
And those of that yoke 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 frivolous, it's not trivial.
Shame on those on the left.
Shame on those on the left who trivialize the lives of those men and women who fight for our country.
And that's, Rush, that's what I wanted to tell you.
And I waited three years to tell you that.
Because, I mean, I know you've got to have your bad day.
And you say today you're in a good mood.
I can't imagine.
You do your job as well as you do because you're always positive.
But I know you've got to 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 taking away the business.
Dennis, 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 Minneapolis?
Well, somebody's saying it.
Minnesota Bridge death toll far less than feared.
The, you know, there's the original predictions of the numbers of deaths far, far less than feared.
So once again, we have an example of the drive-bys, you know, creating a crisis attitude, the crisis mentality and so forth rather than waiting.
It is 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 13% 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 3%.
As of July 1, it stood at $652,200 daily.
This is the only revenue in Washington that is going down.
The Washington Post, Tracy in Plymouth, Minnesota.
I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
Megha Ditto.
Thank you very much.
I've been a longtime listener since the late 80s, 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 20-year-old son, Joe, who is the oldest of my four Rush babies, for encouraging me to call today.
You don't sound old enough to have a 20-year-old.
Oh, well, thank you.
We've been discussing.
By the way, Tracy is one of my top 10 all-time favorite female names.
Oh, really?
She always has been.
Okay, well, there weren't too many of them when I was born.
So 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 Palenti was being blamed for vetoing it because at the time the state was running a $2.1 billion 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 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 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 going to do it on Wednesday, and they canceled the stadium.
Right, right.
They also cancel a game with the Kansas City Royals.
Yes, yes.
Well, how about all the money they spend for a bear exhibit at the zoo?
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.
All these states, they run out, they fund arts centers for the arts and croissant crowd, for the Brie and Chablis bunch.
They've got these states, $2.1 billion surplus, Tracy.
They've got more money than they know what to do with.
Raising taxes is just 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 knew that was going to happen.
We were waiting, and it didn't take long for that to happen.
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.
Great to have you, sir, here on the EIB Network.
Roger, are you there?
I appreciate all you do for America, and there's no doubt that you're one of the funniest, informative broadcasters that I'll ever see in my lifetime.
Thank you.
Thank you for all you do.
I appreciate you saying that.
I really do.
I'm a truck driver, and over the last 18 years, you've given me so much to laugh about that sometimes.
Well, I call it a 10-mile laugh, where you say something, I laugh for 10 miles going down the road, so I can't imagine what I must have missed in those 10 miles.
But anyway, some of the most memorable things that I have heard on your show, do you remember Luke Sissy Fag?
Oh, yeah.
But who could forget Luke Sissy Fag?
Whatever happened to him?
Luke Sissifag right now is working.
He's an animal rights activist.
He's working for some non-profit thing.
In the 90s, he was working for some place called Last Chance for Animals.
But his real name is Luke Montgomery.
But he called himself Luke Sissifag.
He was a member of ACT UP, the militant AIDS group.
And I think it was back, it was December 1st, 1993.
That's World AIDS Day.
And he was at, this is where we got to know him.
He attended a speech in Washington that Clinton was marking the occasion.
And Luke Sissifag interrupted the speech and shouted at the president.
He wasn't taking enough action against AIDS.
And he made statements that were highly critical of the gay community following a transition of a tradition of AIDS activists set by the likes of Larry Kramer and so forth.
And he actually ended up agreeing with me on his, somewhere publicly, that I said the problem with AIDS is that the Democrats have politicized that.
That's right.
That the Liberals have politicized that.
And he actually agreed with me.
Luke Sissy Fag agreed with Rush Limbaugh.
That's why I remembered it.
But he's still around.
He's an animal rights wacko now.
Okay.
And I have my favorite hip-hop song of all time, Womb to the Tomb.
Is there any way that you could play that?
Yeah, we've had it standing by for you ever since you requested it out there.
Well, and I've been sitting here, I thought of another great story that you told about back in the old days when people could say stuff on the floor of the Senate that they don't say now.
You were talking about some Southern Democrat that was talking about Ted Kennedy doing offshore drilling.
Oh, yeah.
Well, 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 Womb to the Tomb?
The thing is, this is a true story.
Yes.
What happened was, this is back in the late 80s, I think.
Senator Kennedy is vacationing off the coast of the south of France, and he's got a young nubile, very limber and flexible young woman with him, scantily clad in a nice bikini.
And we know this because Paparazzi were taking pictures from neighboring boats.
And the New York Daily News published the pictures.
And there were a series of three pictures.
And the first picture shows them, you know, convorting out there on the boat.
The second picture shows the scantily clad nubile, very flexible and limber young woman diving in the water 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 him back in the boat making having having having intimacies, let's say.
And these pictures made the rounds, and they showed them to Howell Heflin, the senator from Alabama.
He was a huge guy.
And he looked at the picture and said, wow, I do declare.
Why, it looked to me like Senator Kennedy done change her 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.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
Unbelievable.
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.
They're not getting anything done other than the minimum wage.
All they're doing is investigating, yammering away, sending subpoenas, sounding negative and doomy and gloomy, and 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-bys to give them cover.
And so, Carl Lubsdorf 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 cents.
What a party.
What a party.
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% in most.
Hey, Carl, try 3%.
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, this fascinating story.
Too early to judge a new majority.
No, no, no.
We've got to give them cover.
We've 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, there's still a Republican in the White House, and the Republicans still have clout in 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 anything done.
Impeach them.
Joe in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Yeah, how you doing, Rush?
Never better, sir.
Good.
Hey, I seem to keep on missing the tell-ins of conversation about the health care for the children that the Democrats are trying to propose and they're trying to pass.
But I did hear a couple things last week, and I wish I could have got through when I originally heard you talk about them.
I think it was you that had mentioned about people not having health insurance, and you were kind of talking about that.
And I guess that as a Republican, which I am, I guess we're supposed to not support this Democratic 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 when you were kind of, maybe you were generalizing all people, and I want to see how I fit, because I make about $50,000 a year.
My health insurance right now is $60,000, $40,000.
My cost pays 60%, and I pay $40,000.
It's well over $900.
I work a full-time job plus a part-time job.
I mean, I'm working pretty hard out there, and I just need to know exactly what would be so bad.
And like I said, I'm really not too sure what the bill is.
So if you can clarify that, but I kind of feel like that if I can get some kind of, you know, be subsidized from the government, I would be more than happy to take it because if my...
Well, I'm sure you would.
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 don't.
Well, you are?
Who do you think funds the government?
Well, that's what I want you to clarify.
I mean, what I'm trying to say is we pay for other things.
And that's a good question.
And I'm not disagreeing with you.
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 them because right now I'm paying for it.
But I will say this, Bill Rush, and you may disagree with me.
If my employer wasn't paying 60%, you had made the comments about people not having insurance at all.
And I'm being from Bama Harris.
It would be really tough for me to make that payment.
And if you, I don't know where the hell people spend their money.
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.
You know, people have to make priorities.
You have to establish priorities.
If health care is the most important thing to you, then you've got to do, wherever you are now, you've got to do with less.
There are, somewhere else.
You're asking your neighbors to subsidize your insurance for health care.
This program that you're talking about, the SHIP program, that's ship with a P, is 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 get and treatment that you get.
But that's beside the point.
I mean, the intricacies of the program, do you think it's right that a health insurance program for the children includes children under the age of 25?
Do you think that it matters that a family of four earning $82,000 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.
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.
And 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've got a truly lot to squeeze in there.
A lot of things still 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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