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Sept. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, it always comes down to me, doesn't it?
It always comes back to me.
I'm the one that has to clean up all the drive-by news messes they make over the weekend.
And what they did with this Alan Greenspan book over the weekend is a mess that needs to be cleaned up El Quicko.
And I will.
Oh, look at that.
Mrs. Clinton unveiling her new socialist health care program right now, as this program is underway, no doubt hoping we will carry her remarks.
Fat chance.
She's doing so in uh in Iowa right now.
We've come to learn here, uh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, the American Prospect, which uh which is a commie drive-by organization, that Mrs. Clinton was not the architect of the health care plan in '93, that Bill Clinton was, that Hillary was just charged with making it happen.
We'll have details on this and a lot of other things as the program gets underway today.
800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I I cannot stand.
I literally cannot stand the fact that we might have to go through a whole new episode with OJ Simpson.
The bail hearings on Wednesday.
If this goes to trial, it's gonna be the same thing over and over and over again.
I oh, this is cool.
Play everyone's a winner after an OJ blurb.
Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
This, this folks is hilarious.
A Bosnian couple.
You gotta hear this.
Don, this is especially relevant for you.
A Bosnian couple getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting with each other online using fake names.
Sanya Clarick, 27, her husband Adnan from Xeneke, poured out their hearts to each other over their marriage troubles, and both felt they had found their real soulmate.
The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she was in an internet cafe, they started chatting under the name Sweetie and Prince of Joy.
The pair eventually decided to meet up, but there was no happy ending when they realized what had happened.
They've been chatting with themselves and ratting each other out to each other.
Uh now they're both filing for divorce, with each accusing the other of being unfaithful.
You gotta be careful, folks, if you do this kind of stuff out there.
Go to those chat rooms.
So here I am.
I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday night, and I'm up there in a uh uh in a nice, lavish, suitable, uh more than suitable for me, uh, suite and box with uh a host of friends and associates watching USC Nebraska.
And uh during a timeout, I decided to pull out the trusty iPhone, because I'll tell you, TV timeouts in college football are longer than pro games.
Uh two and a half, three minutes there.
So I pull out the trusty iFi IPhone, and I uh I see if I've got any uh mail.
I didn't have any mail.
I'd checked a drudge page and I see this headline Greenspan book, colon or something like that.
Iraq war was for oil.
And I said, what the hell is this?
And I started showing it to the people sitting next to me.
I said, what the hell is this?
So we started all talking about theories, and I read some of the stuff that was being said about the book, and I said, This this doesn't compute.
This makes zero sense.
What's a praising Bill Clinton as a hero?
I said, This uh, you know, this sounds like Colin Powell wrote the book.
You know, this sounds like Bob Rubin wrote the book.
I mean, somebody that is the Greenspan book here about establishing the legacy of Bill Clinton.
Well, it turns out that the whole reference to the Iraq war being for oil was totally purposefully taken out of context by the Times of London on Sunday.
Totally out of context.
Uh Greenspan said really nothing of the sort.
What he said actually makes some pretty good sense.
And here's the here's what I mean about having to clean up messes when I come in here.
That reverberated all over the world.
I mean, we're not gonna get that back.
We got all these fringe kooks and who knows who else now thinking that the former chairman of Federal Reserve, Impeccable reputation, unchallengeable, all that thinks that Bush and Halliburton were in on this for just the purpose of securing the world's oil supply for themselves, and it wasn't that at all.
By the way, before I get into the details of setting the street, I got to tell you about the trip to Nebraska.
It was it was just a hoot.
It was unfortunate the way the game turned out, uh, U.S. C in a route over the uh over the cornhuskers.
We got there, uh, took a bunch of friends with me, but stopped in Dallas, and uh actually my host and hostess and and uh son and daughtered a friend who picked them up and took them in.
Um and we got there about 3.30, we we found our way to the uh Memorial Stadium complex, uh, took a tour of some of the new athletic facilities, um, uh then uh went to this outdoor park, kind of chilly up there, like 55 or 60 degrees.
It was great football weather.
And we went to this outdoor place uh where there's a little pregame tailgate, only it was it was the Tom and the Tom Osborne Center, which is the little patio deck that holds a thousand people, it was pizza and no adult beverages allowed anywhere in the stadium.
So it was uh Pepsi and Dype Pepsi official sponsor.
And uh it didn't take long, a line formed people wanting photos.
It could not have been nicer.
It was we finished that, we went down in the field, uh, and we came out to the uh the uh end zone area where the Huskers take the field, and we're standing there, and we're waiting for the Huskers.
We're about ten minutes before it's at six o'clock.
Game time is seven fifteen.
The Huskers hit about six eleven for the pregame warmup.
And as I'm standing in there, who do I see wearing a bright red Husker's sweatshirt and Husker's cap, but associate chief associate uh justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, and his wife, and there's an ABC camera crew following him around.
I guess they're doing a profile on him.
He's got his memoirs coming out uh October 1st, my grandfather's son.
It's a powerful book.
And I guess they're doing a profile.
So and Ward Connorly was with us.
Uh we picked Ward Connorly uh, he flew in from Sacramento, so we picked him up at the airport.
We got Lincoln and we drove him uh in we were all sandwiched into this van.
It was embarrassing for me, by the way, to have to ride in a van, but I didn't say anything about it.
I dutifully got in there and discounted the seconds till we got out of the thing.
But at any rate, uh uh Ward rode in there with us, and when Ward walked up and saw Clarence, Ward saw Clarence before I did, uh, went up there and must have just uh ten minutes laughing and joking about things, and uh just this gigantic swarm of media cameras descended, both video and still, and the flashes are going nuts.
Uh and and of course, you know, in a situation like that, I can't hear.
I mean, I I I I could hear Clarence talking to him, but I mean I'm if if somebody shouts my name from the stands or somewhere nearby, I I won't hear it.
So somebody was with me and always tapping me on the shoulder when somebody wanted something.
We're walking after we finished with Clarence and walked the length of the end zone to get to the uh Husker's bench, because we did a 360-degree two well, we didn't go behind the U.S. C bench because of the spying allegations of New England Patriots.
We didn't want to be uh we're obvious Husker fans, so we stayed away from the U.S. C. Bench, even though I would have loved to have Sao Pete Carroll, a coach.
We didn't, so we didn't go behind their bench.
Uh but we uh uh just we were walking, and you know, every every five or six steps I get the tap on my left shoulders and look up into people in the stands or you know, wanting pictures with their cell phones or giving me thumbs up.
It just I knew Mr. Snurley when I told you last week going out, this is the heartland.
This is a this is this is the pulse of the country, this is where the country, the people who make the country work live.
Um and the the funniest thing that happened.
We got to the end of the end zone, and we're gonna make that turn to go along the sideline of the uh where the Huskers bench is.
And as soon as we make that turn, we're in that corner of the stadium.
I get another tap on the shoulder, and I look up, and there's a lot of people, 30 or 40 people standing up and they're pointing at me, thumbs up, taking pictures with their cell phones, and then the largest roar I have ever heard erupted, and the whole stadium, the whole corner of the stadium where I'm looking, stood up.
Well, naturally, I thought it was for me.
I thought they'd all spotted me.
And then a split second later, I realized this can't be for me.
And I turned around and a Huskers had just come on the field.
Oh, it was fun.
We finished the tour, uh, Went around the uh the the whole the whole stadium.
And I I had uh it just I can't describe how how uh outgoing and and uh friendly people were.
It was just a uh wonderful time.
And then uh count guy I got home about 5 30 or 6 Sunday morning after dropping uh everybody back in uh in Dallas.
But I during the game when I fired up the iPhone and a drudge report and I saw that Greenspan hit, I just I have I flipped, so what the hell is this?
So they made the mess, and I'm gonna clean it up along with a lot of other things today on the program, as we always do on Mondays, following the mess the drive bys make over the weekend.
So sit tight, we'll be right back.
I'll tell you what, I may get a hernia trying to smoke this cigar.
The draw in this thing is so tight today.
I may have to see that.
You see what a big draw I'm taking, there's hardly any smoke coming out of the that's not good.
Uh anyway, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh kicking off brand new week of broadcast excellence here on the uh the EIB network, just when everybody had given up hope.
It's Monday, and my program arrives to stimulate folks.
I have to tell you this cute little story relayed to me during the most recent commercial break by dawn.
She's she's she's got first dibs on driving a new GM car they brought by on Friday.
It's actually a GMC Acadia.
And I was wrong.
I said it's it's a crossover, it's larger than a crossover.
So I'm asking her, I say, how did you like it?
Well, I love it.
I love it.
It's got a heads-up display, the windshield actually displays the speedometer, so I don't have to look down.
She didn't call it heads-up display.
I said, that's a heads-up display, and I didn't know it had that.
She said, Yeah, I also like the camera, the in the back.
When you put it in reverse, it shows you where you're going.
This way I don't hit the wall as much when I park it.
So, you know, we're all saying you don't hit the wall as much with the camera.
You still hit the wall with the camera.
No, GM, she is not.
She had this, she just she was just being a girl.
That and that's what we love about Dawn.
She can do it on occasion.
Just be a girl.
Plus has seven seats in it.
It's got that back row.
All right.
Here's the thing about about the Greenspan uh circumstance.
Uh the internet just went nuts starting Saturday night with this headline, that Greenspan said two things.
Said basically that the uh uh Iraq war was for oil, and that Bill Clinton was a hero.
And there was a third thing, he was criticizing Bush left and right.
Now uh what?
Yeah, first yeah, I'm gonna get there.
He's criticizing Bush, but I didn't know that at the time, so criticizing Bush for what?
What is this?
When I started hearing a defense of Clinton in a Greenspan book, you know, I start I start trying to connect the dots.
I start reading the stitches on the fastball.
And I'm thinking Bob Rubin's got to be involved in this somehow.
You know, Bob Rubin, high finance guy, treasury secretary, probably knows Greenspan.
Inside the beltway legacies are crucial.
Greenspan's this is this is the thought process I'm having is I read that one headline, and I read a Q there's a couple subheads too.
And I'm trying to put this all together.
This doesn't make any sense.
Defend Bill Clinton as somebody has to have gotten to Greenspan to somehow put in his book that Clinton was great and Bush was not.
Uh and and who you know, the reason I thought this is because all these people that worked with Clinton, like Rubin and Madeline Albright, you name them, uh as Clinton's legacy goes, so go theirs.
And you know, they've got as much of a selfish reason to want their legacies to be good as they do Clinton's.
They're inexorably linked.
You know, and I don't put anything past the inside the beltway crowd uh when establishing their legacies.
So I got home and I, you know, didn't didn't think much about it yesterday because I knew I would be doing intense program prep last night and uh and this morning.
One of the things that I did find out, I went back and I looked at some of the news that was made when Greenspan announced his memoirs.
Uh and here's just a couple passages that I found during some research, though he will use a ghost writer to collaborate on the book, he said.
Quote, I plan to do the first draft and the last draft, but the ghostwriter's gonna do everything else.
Now that would explain the oil and the war confusion.
And then I began to read even further.
Peter Peter, uh P E T R P E T R E, might pronounce his last name Petri, a senior editor at large at Fortune Magazine, co-author of the bestsellers by Schwartzkoff and Tom Watson Jr., the IBM chairman, will help recently retired uh Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan write his memoirs, according to an article in the Tuesday New York Times.
This is again from way back before the book was actually written.
This is the announcement of it.
And so well, saw this as something's really at play here.
I'm I'm not sure based on uh what he said last night with Leslie Saul, I'm not sure that he even knows what was in his book, based on a story by Bob Woodward in the Washington Post today.
And here's the headline, Greenspan, ouster of Hussein, crucial for oil security.
What Greenspan was saying was not that the war was for oil.
Now listen to me on this, folks.
He never said that the war was for oil, and it's not in his book in that way.
He said in an interview that there, well, it might be in the book that I I frankly haven't seen the book.
It might well be close enough to that in the book.
This is why I mean he may not even know what's in his book, uh, based on the fact that some ghostwriter wrote the damn thing.
Uh Greenspan said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been essential to secure world oil supplies.
A point he emphasized to the White House in private questions or conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Uh Greenspan, uh uh, who was the country's top voice on monetary policy at the time, uh, that Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, has refrained from extensive public comment on it until now.
Uh he made the striking comment in a new memoir out today that Iraq, the Iraq war is largely about oil.
And they they took the about in that sentence and changed it to four.
That changes the whole meaning.
And by by the way, folks, well, what's so bad?
Even if that were the case, you know, oil is crucial.
Oil is like the blood supply of the world, whether you like it or not, and securing the free flow of oil at market prices is crucial to growing economies and maintaining growing economies.
Uh the I the idea that there's something immoral about this in the first place is uh is is a little plot the left has hatched here to somehow condemn oil as some sort of poison.
Uh and of course that they have done.
Uh but in this uh interview with Bob Woodward in the Washington Post, he clarified that sentence, and this is a 531-page book, and this is what they took out of it over the weekend, and he clarified the sentence.
He said that while securing global oil supplies was not the administration's motive.
He had presented the White House with the case for why removing Hussein was important for the global economy.
I was not saying that's uh the administration's motive.
I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, are we fortunate in taking out Saddam, I would say it was essential.
Folks, do you realize what a profound difference this is?
Now, in his book, he says the Iraq war is largely about oil.
In his interview, he said, yeah, but it was it was about securing global oil supplies, and that he advised Bush to do it on that reason, and uh uh for that reason that Bush rejected that as the reason.
So what we had over the weekend was a purposeful.
Taking out of context is something in Greenspan's book, and again, I trying to be polite here.
I'm not sure that he even knows what's in his book.
Given he had the ghostwriter, given a number of other things.
But this is they are purposefully using his comment in the book wrongly.
They take it out of context, uh give it the interpretation and meaning that they want to advance their narrative, their agenda on this.
And the sad thing is is that that's out there now.
And that's been out there for two days.
Well, yeah, Saturday night, Sunday, most of today.
It's out there that the especially these Doomkoffs and these socialists around the world who uh not to mention the American left who get caught up in all these conspiracy theories.
Uh just now and one other thing, too, before we go to the break, the criticism of Bush, by the way, is sensible.
It's it's about the overspending.
It's about it's about not vetoing spending bills.
Uh it it has it has nothing to do with anything other than that in the book, anyway.
We'll have a brief time out here as we must.
We'll be back and continue in a second.
Your guiding light, El Rushbow, behind the golden EIB microphone.
A brand new week of broadcast excellence.
It's going to be not a full week, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll not be here on Friday because we'll be in Sacramento making a speech.
For the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce.
By the way, one of the five speakers on the roster this Friday in Sacramento is former Harvard Professor Larry Summers.
And he's also the uh the uh Harvard professor who was thrown out of there by a faculty vote of uh enraged nags.
The National Association gals of feminist professors.
Well, guess what?
He was invited to speak on Wednesday at a dinner or luncheon or something involving faculty at UC Davis.
And the women at UC Davis erupted, and they got his invitation canceled.
Now, this a former Clinton administration treasury secretary, he gets thrown out of Harvard by a bunch of enraged women, and now the the faculty well, but you know, you laugh about this, but this is this is the ultimate suppression of free speech.
Uh what'll you wait till you hear the reason?
They're getting rid of him.
They're not they want him to speak because they don't want to be offended.
Uh so I don't know what he's gonna do uh for a couple days in Sacramento before he speaks.
I think I probably know what he'll talk about now.
I mean that.
Well, I mean, it is funny in the sense that uh, you know, you like it when they when they cut down one of their own, but that it just it just proves they'll stop at nothing.
I know I've been telling you for all of these years that these people are speech suppressors, that that's what political correctness is, and it's all about if you offend somebody, you can't do it, you can't say it, you can't act it.
Uh the offended have become an official minority victim group, uh, and they've uh they've turned it into uh into political hay.
One more thing here from the Washington Post today on the Greenspan interview.
Uh though Greenspan's book is largely silent about Iraq, uh it is sharply critical of Bush and fellow Republicans on other matters, denouncing in particular what Greenspan calls the president's lack of fiscal discipline and the dysfunctional government he's presided over.
Uh in the interview, Greenspan said he previously told Bush and Cheney of his critique.
They're not surprised by my conclusions in the book here.
Uh and to that extent, you know, if if uh if his criticism of out of control spending happens to wake up some Republicans, then so be it.
But as for Iraq, Greenspan said that at the time of the invasion, he believed, like Bush, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, quote, because Saddam was acting so guiltily, trying to protect something, unquote.
While he was reasonably sure he didn't have an atomic weapon, Greenspan added, in my view, uh, if we did nothing, eventually he would gain control of a weapon.
His uh main support for Hussein's ouster, though, was economically motivated.
If uh Saddam had gotten hold of oil supplies, like he that was the original reason for the invasion of Kuwait was to get their oil.
Uh and then he had plans to go to Saudi Arabia to take over those fields.
It had to be stopped.
Free flow of oil market prices, folks.
World can't live without it.
You know, these you run around, I don't know if you see them or not.
I sometimes do, and I did not see one of these when I was in Nebraska, by the way.
You run around and you see these little these these dip squirts with these bumper stickers on the back of their stupid dead little cars that say no blood for oil.
Oil is the blood of a free society in this country.
There's no two ways about it.
You can wish it weren't true, you can wish it were something else, but it is what it is.
Here, by the way, is Greenspan talking last night with uh with uh who did this?
Leslie Stahl.
You want to know something else interesting about this on 60 minutes.
Leslie Stahl did not ask him about Iraq.
Now, I know the interview was done.
Uh uh earlier than yesterday.
Uh, Maybe she did ask him about Iraq.
I don't know.
Maybe they edited it out because they knew that the whole thing had been taken out of context.
Just wanted to point that out.
There was nothing about oil in the interview last night, very little about it.
Uh that Leslie Stahl and and Greenspan had this exchange about Mrs. Clinton.
Do you think she can handle the presidency?
Certainly.
Well, I think she's unquestionably capable.
The question is is she the best person for the job?
And uh my tendency would be to vote Republican.
Now the drive buys are totally leaving this out.
The drive I mean, they're doing everything they can to avoid covering Greenspan on Hillary.
My tendency would be to vote Republican.
I'm sure he's got a battle inside the house because uh his wife is angry at Mitchell and maybe seeing anyways, Washington.
Uh and uh, you know, she might have had a hand in a book.
Hell I don't know, folks.
I'm just telling you what I uh what I suspect here.
Big mess, big big mess to clean up.
Moving on to Mrs. Clinton announcing her big health care plan today in um in uh in Iowa.
And here's the uh here's the AP take on this for months, pant pant.
Democratic presidential Hillary Rodham Clinton, uh candidate, uh, has promised a plan to bring health care to every American.
She was to make good on that pledge today, unveiling a sweeping proposal requiring everyone to carry health insurance, and offering federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.
With a price tag of about 11 billion dollars per year.
Oh, give me a break.
We spend six hundred billion dollars a year on 40 some odd or more poverty programs.
A hundred and ten billion dollars a year for health care for everybody in this country?
Cut me some slack here, folks.
But this simply is not possible.
She's named this uh this scheme, American Health Choices Plan, and it represents her first major effort to achieve universal health coverage since 1994 when the plan she authored during her husband's first term collapsed.
AIDS said that Mrs. Clinton will propose several specific measures to pay for her plan, including an end to some of the Bush era tax cuts for people making more than 250,000 a year.
There's gonna be a lot more to it than that.
Fact, there's a fascinating editorial.
I was I was kind of stunned to see this.
A uh fascinating editorial today in the Rocky Mountain News.
And its uh headline is a sick way to save.
And the the upshot of their their little editorial here is that the only way a single payer plan can contain costs is to deny service to some people.
U Apparently there are four proposals in Colorado submitted to the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission for health care reform.
Did they actually name it that?
Yes.
They actually named a Blue Ribbon Commission, the Blue Ribbon Commission.
Uh of the four original proposals submitted, only one would reportedly cost less than the system we have now, and that's the single payer plan.
Now that ought to get your antenna up right because that's economically unpossible.
Or impossible.
Economic forecast by the Lewin Group, a consulting firm hired by the Blue Ribbon Commission, concluded that had the single payer proposal been in effect, Coloradans would have spent about 4.7% less for medical services this year.
At a legislative briefing on Wednesday, Senator Ken Gordon of Denver, as a Democrat suggested that this finding all but settled the matter.
Single payers a way to go.
Best way to expand coverage to the estimated 770,000 Coloradans who are uninsured.
All right, here we get a number.
I want to I want proof of this.
Who are these people?
I don't want to see where in the heck that name number came from, and I want to know how they're breaking it down.
How many of those 770,000, if we accept the number, actively choose not to have it, because they're young and they want to spend their money on something else.
Their business, right?
But not so fast, says the Rocky Mountain News editorial.
The commission will host public hearings in each U.S. House district in October.
They won't present its recommendations to the legislature until January, when lawmakers will consider asking voters to adopt one of these four proposals in the form of a ballot initiative next fall.
Okay, so the proponents are either got four choices.
They already said, hey, single player.
It's the only one that comes in single payer, only when it comes in less than what we're paying today.
Single payer.
You don't pay, somebody else pays, you get covered.
You think this thing doesn't have a heads-up lead right now in all of these four?
But uh the Rocky Mountain News says we've spelled out some of our objections to the single payer plan in an earlier editorial.
We haven't changed our minds.
But let's assume for a second that this system indeed guaranteed medical coverage for every resident.
And that its fifteen member governing board, which will have constitutional powers to contain costs.
Do you realize constitutional powers to contain costs?
Let's assume that this single payer plan actually did keep overall medical spending in check.
Such fiscal discipline would come with an acceptable or unacceptable price, and that would be dramatic compromises in the breadth and quality quality of care.
Say that the plan initially reduced overall medical expenses by the eleven percent that they suggest by wringing out administrative inefficiencies and purchasing prescription drugs in bulk.
After that, though, new costs are going to pile up fast.
For one thing, single payer would immediately increase the number of Coloradans with guaranteed coverage by 19%.
Are you losing me on this, Mr. Snerdley?
What are you losing?
I don't know if you lost me the other day.
You thought that I was reading a story written by Melinda Gates, and it wasn't.
What do you what what do you what are you missing here?
I'm getting to the buttons.
The bottom line is that you have the single payer proponents w thying this to Mrs. Clinton.
She's a single payer advocate.
The government's gonna be the single payer.
It's gonna be socialized medicine, national health care.
In Colorado, they're doing this, they're proposing four different ballot initiatives, and the people on the side of single payer out there obviously have a leg up because they're out there with all these stats saying, hey, it would have cost 4.7 less this year if we would have had single payer.
What this editorial's trying to do is say, nope, it's gonna add costs right off the bat because, in the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient.
They're never going to get rid of administrative costs, they're never going to reduce them.
That's not the purpose of bureaucracy, to increase those things.
That's how the people that work in the bureaucracy get paid.
The people the bureaucrats are not going to sit there and say, you know what, there's too much fraud in our salaries, and there's too much fraud in our expense accounts, and there's too much fraud in our heating and air conditioning here in the building.
Oh, we're going to cut back all this.
But fat chance, folks, not going to happen.
These costs always go up.
When you're in charge of what you get paid, and you have constitutional powers.
What's going to happen?
But there are 770,000 Coloradans without health insurance.
You go to a single payer plan, bamo.
The number of participants in the plan goes up 19%.
No way you cut costs unless you reduce services.
And the Rocky Mountain News is making this point.
I wanted to relate this to Mrs. Clinton today because he's out there proposing essentially a single payer health care plan.
The idea she can do it for 110 billion dollars a year and insure everybody in this country.
We got 43 million people uninsured, right?
That's the number they keep banding about.
Well, the minute this plan becomes law, they're all insured.
Who could pay that's not going to happen for free.
Can't do this for 110 billion dollars a year, and when you know that we spend 600 billion a year on poverty programs.
You imagine what this thing is going to become.
Anyway, this is going to be a long process to slap this thing down again.
It's going to be it's going to take over a year to do this.
Getting start, well, it's going to run all the way through the election.
Slapping it down is going to be the equivalent of making sure that she doesn't win.
The uh the White House, and that's going to take uh a long time.
But there's a companion story here for this from the American prospect, the hill and that's a lib bunch, folks.
The Hillary Care Mythology, written by a Clinton Health Care Advisory or advisor named Paul Starr.
Did Hillary doom health reform in ninety-three?
it's time to get the facts straight about the Clinton plan.
Here's the real story from the prospect co-editor, who was a White House senior health policy advisor at the time.
And what he says in this rather lengthy piece is that the Hillary plan, the details of it and all that was done without her.
Bill did it.
Bill put it all together and let her chair the effort.
Which is this explains a lot of things about her testimony before committees.
She wouldn't answer any questions.
She didn't know anything.
She's up there spearheading it.
This is her price for, you know, looking the other way would have been more eruptions and other things.
I gotta take a break here.
I'm a little long.
We'll continue with this afternoon.
And it was Don Dolan.
All right, here's the uh the relevant pieces in this American Prospect story, and this is from uh the September 14th issue on the web only.
Uh the uh here's the butt the bottom line on Hillary not authoring the health care plan of 1993.
Hillary's appointment to chair the event, to chair the program, underscored the president's personal commitment.
Although she made no claim to being a health policy expert, she had successfully led a similar effort to develop education polity in Arkansas and her gift.
Remember that line of BS?
And look where Arkansas ranks in education when she got through.
Number 49 or 50.
I'm not kidding about this, folks.
She also had gifts which complemented IRA magaziners.
And I remember during this health care thing, everybody thought he was the uh the brains behind it.
The overall direction of policy was not Hillary's choice.
She had not been present at the key meetings during the campaign when Clinton had discussed health policy with his advisors.
And in the first day in the White House, she was just familiarizing herself with the approach to reform that her husband had adopted.
So, now this is interesting on a number of levels.
Hey, this is a guy that was in the Clinton White House, so we assume he's telling the truth.
Hillary's big claim to fame in one way was that she was the author, she put it all together, brilliant, smartest woman in the world.
Her other claim to fame is that it went down the tubes with her at the helm, and it may have contributed to the Democrats losing the house in 94.
Uh so now all of a sudden, the Clinton White House is getting news out.
She didn't have a thing to do with putting this together.
She just chaired the thing.
She was in charge of a bus trips, she was in charge which bombed miserably.
She was in charge of testifying before congressional committees, but she didn't have anything to do with it.
It was Bill's idea.
Man, can you imagine what goes on in this household, folks, when the doors are closed and the lights are off?
Man, I just...
Why put this out there now?
This comes out on the eve of her announcing the revitalized plan.
She just did it up in uh in Iowa.
The second thing about this that that rings the bill, I always told people uh that the Clintons were a team, that Clinton himself had to be the one to get the votes, and so he had to appear moderate.
He had to appear centrist, he had to appear in the middle.
And Hillary was doing all the really far left extreme dirty work, picking the you know, judicial nominees and the cabinet heads and all this sort of stuff.
And this sort of confirms that Clinton's out there crafting like a mad scientist, all this socialist far left extremist stuff.
But Hillary's getting all the credit for doing it.
While he's back there, you know, I've just I got my job, she got hers.
And uh, you know, we got this triangulation scheme we're trying here, we're we're we've got Democratic leadership council, we're not we're not Democrats or Republicans.
The whole thing, folks.
Do we want to?
I don't want to go through OJ again, and I don't want to go through the Clintons again.
I just do not.
By the way, did you hear what Madel Albright said about Hillary Clinton?
She said she is not a cold fish.
Why would you say she's not a cold fish?
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