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	And we're back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
	We come to you from the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	We're doing open line Friday on Thursday today because they're going to be gone tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday.
	And so we got Mark Davis tomorrow and Tuesday.
	Mark Stein will be here on Monday.
	So we go to the phones today.
	The program is all yours.
	Whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
	800-282.2882 is the number if you want to be on the program email address L. Rushbow at EIB debt.com.
	Byron York from the DC Examiner.
	Norman Eisen, White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with investigators on the staff of Senate Republican Charles Grassley at Grassley's offices yesterday morning.
	The investigators wanted to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt firing of the Americor Inspector General Gerald Walpen.
	According to Grassley, Eisen revealed very, very little, refusing to answer many questions of fact that were put to him, and now Grassley has written a letter to the White House counsel asking for answers.
	Grassley says that since Isen's refused to answer the questions in person, he would submit a dozen of them in writing, and here they are.
	Did the Corporation for National Community Service Board communicate its concerns about Mr. Walpin to the White House in writing?
	Number two, specifically with the CNCS board members, which uh which CNB uh CNCS board members came forward with concerns about Mr. Walpin's ability to serve as the inspector general.
	Number three was the communication about the board's concern on or about May 20th, 2009, the first instance of any communications with White House personnel regarding the possibility of removing Mr. Walpin.
	Number four, which witnesses were interviewed in the course of Mr. Eisen's interview.
	Number five, how many witnesses were interviewed?
	And uh it it it goes on.
	Uh what's what what happens in what's happening?
	And you do I need to repeat the detail.
	Okay.
	Kevin Johnson, a mayor of Sacramento, former NBA star Phoenix Sons.
	He has a charitable foundation in Sacramento called the New Hope Academy.
	And it's a place for inner city kids to go after school so they don't get involved in gang activities and drugs.
	It's been on hard financial times for quite a while.
	It received a grant of $800,000 from AmeriCorps.
	Now AmeriCorps got some, I'll get this later sometimes with Acorn, by the way.
	It's this this stuff is so insidiously intertwined.
	They got a grant of $800,000 from AmeriCorps.
	Mr. Walpen is the inspector general for the agency that runs AmeriCorps, and it's his job to, it's one of them, and it's his job to determine whether or not the money's being used properly, whether any chicanery is going on.
	And inspectors general are above politics.
	They are not political.
	I'm not supposed to be in theory anyway.
	It turns out that he found much misuse of the federal funds by Kevin Johnson and the New Hope Academy.
	So he documented the evidence.
	He presented it to the U.S. attorney in Sacramento, who is interim is sitting in until Obama appoints somebody because the Bush U.S. attorney there quit after the uh inauguration.
	The interim U.S. attorney in Sacramento said, screw this, there's nothing here, not here.
	That made Walpen mad, so he went to other areas to try to get something done.
	And in the process, a settlement was negotiated between AmeriCorps and Kevin Johnson's New Hope Academy, where nobody admitted guilt of anything, but they sent 400 grand back.
	Now, some of the allegations were that uh Johnson was using some of the federal funds for personal reasons and personal uses, and other people at the New Hope Academy were doing the same.
	That's what Gerald Walpen documented.
	The inspector general was then fired by the Obama White House in a phone call.
	He was given an hour to either resign or be fired.
	The law says it takes 30 days to fire an inspector general.
	They're really supposed to be untouchable.
	Forty-five minutes after being given an hour, the White House counsel called back and demanded his answer in Walpons, I'm not quitting.
	So they begun the began the procedure to fire him.
	In the process, they have impugned his character.
	They have said that he's senile, that he was out of control in meetings.
	Typical kind of stuff that Clinton said about the travel office people that they can't.
	So that's where we are.
	And Charles Grassley, even Claire McCaskill.
	And Obama wrote the law, by the way.
	He co-sponsored the law and voted for the law that sets up the way inspectors general have insulation from the normal political back and forth and what it takes to fire one and what the process is, which violated his own law.
	Plain and simple, blatantly broke his own law.
	Gerald Walpen is fighting back.
	Gerald Walpen is not acting out of fear, which is what the White House counts on everybody doing.
	John Henraker today at our buddies at Power Line fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin's responded aggressively to new claims by the Obama administration.
	He was fired from his job because he was confused, perhaps senile.
	Byron York records Walpen's response, which is to say the least coherent.
	Much more than we can say for Obama's ever-shifting stories about why he fired an inspector general who caused trouble for a prominent supporter of the administration.
	Byron York himself notes that Walpen exhibits no sign of any confusion.
	The White House suggesting that Walpen, who's 77, somehow mentally not up to his job and can't perform his duties, has caused great skepticism among Republicans on Capitol Hill.
	GOP investigators have talked to Walken.
	They found him entirely uh sharp and focused.
	He's been collected and coherent, says one investigator, what the White House described is not the experience that we've had in dealing with him.
	Now as our power line buddies point out, this is classic Obama.
	An inspector general investigates how a nonprofit in Sacramento uses AmeriCorps funds, finds that the head of the organization, a prominent Obama supporter, used a lot of the money to pay recipients to wash his car to run errands for him, etc.
	The inspector general blows the whistle, promptly finds himself in Obama's crosshairs.
	Obama, in his usual bullying way, first demands that he resign within an hour.
	When Walpin refuses to do so, Obama high-handedly fires him without stating any cause in apparent violation of the 2008 statute co-sponsored by Obama, which was intended to assure the uh independence of inspectors general.
	When state uh Senate Democrats expressed their dissatisfaction with that end run around the law, Obama invented a whole news story to the effect that Walpin had to be fired because he was senile and incompetent.
	And now Senate Republicans are pushing back.
	Byron also notes that the Obama administration is in disarray.
	They are retreating.
	Norman Eisen, White House counsel, again to the president for ethics and government reform, met with investigators on the staff.
	He wouldn't answer any requests.
	He received very, very little, uh, revealed very, very little, refusing to answer any questions put to him.
	Grassley has written the letter.
	Here are the twelve questions.
	What this shows, you we you don't know how courageous Gerald Walpin is.
	We've been talking about this all day about how let them run health care, let them run your credit card company.
	And just the fear that you are a Republican.
	Your fear that because you're Republican, they will discriminate discriminate against you in uh health care or salary or other things if the government's in charge of salaries at your business.
	Just that fear, whether they actually do that kind of discriminator discrimination or not, that fear alone might cause you to shut up, clam up, and not criticize Obama or the administration.
	So you don't get noticed.
	So you sail through.
	And that would have been the easy way out for Gerald Walpin, who's 77.
	He's going to go on and split the scene, but he's fighting back.
	And now we see that uh Obama may have painted himself into a corner.
	It's a great example what can happen when you fight back.
	And that's the lesson here.
	The lesson is also who are these thugs from Chicago running our country?
	That's obviously a lesson.
	But the other lesson is look what happens.
	A great example of what can happen when you fight back.
	White House is reeling on this.
	They attempted to impugn the character and reputation of a fine man.
	And he chose not to sit there and take it.
	And finally, he's got getting some backing from Republicans now, who are uh getting courageous, fighting this back.
	So, you know, I've often talked here on this program about how fear is is basically an agent of paralyzation.
	Fear can paralyze people and doing things out of fear, sometimes it's unavoidable.
	Sometimes fear is a great motivator.
	But when fear is involved in every decision you make, you are bound to make incorrect decisions.
	In fact, the more fear you have, the less action you will engage in in the in the first place.
	It's a bad place to come from, and the way to get rid of the fear is to confront it.
	And it's a very difficult thing to do the first time, but once you do, and you find out you survive, then the fear quotient reduces enormously.
	Now, this senile assertion.
	There's also age discrimination here.
	They were trying everything in the liberal handbook to poison everybody's minds about this guy.
	And Grassley, Grassley also, I don't know what the status of this is, but Grassley also wants to know what, if any, involvement Michelle Obama had.
	Oh, that reminds me, folks, I probably should not do this.
	But I got a story here from the Politico.
	Politico.
	The Obama diet is the title of the story.
	Of course, not nobody ever asked about the Bush diet.
	Bush was not trying to ram how we should eat down our throats, and the Obamas are.
	Until Michelle Obama writes a mega-selling diet book, be it first ladies don't get fat or the South Lawn Diet, two questions loom.
	What do the Obamas eat at home?
	And how do they stay so thin?
	No idle questions these.
	Health care policy is dominating Capitol Hill at a time when sports-loving president has set an example of fitness, and a svelte first lady has revived the notion of the backyard vegetable garden.
	People just don't know how to eat.
	Said Edie or Eddie Gaiman Cohan has been overwhelmed with interest in the presidential mean uh meal plan.
	People just don't know how to eat and they don't know what to eat in order not to be fat.
	They're looking to the Obamas like, how did you do this?
	How do you do this?
	Now never mind.
	Ah, got some official pictures here of the Obamas walking a dog.
	And I never mind.
	Never.
	And the plot thickens, ladies and gentlemen.
	A mere four minutes ago, Byron York posted the latest update on the whole firing of the AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpen at uh the uh uh DC examiner, Washington Examiner.com is the uh website, Washington Examiner.com, a top White House lawyer call the firing of Gerald Walpen an act of political courage.
	According to House Republican aides who were in a meeting with the lawyer yesterday, Norman Eisen, who is the White House special counsel, the president for ethics and government reform met with staffers for Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican in a House Committee on Oversight Government Reform.
	Uh Eisen, along with a few White House staffers who accompany him, wanted to talk broadly about inspectors general.
	Uh when we pressed them on specific questions and documents, they said they weren't prepared to give us information on that.
	But in one exchange, according to a GOP aide, the White House lawyers explained that Inspector General Walpen was not working well with the Board of the Corporation for National Community Services, which oversees AmeriCorps, and the administration believes that IGs should work well with the leadership of their agencies.
	policies.
	Eisen said he knew that removing Walpin might be seen as an action that would raise questions, but Eisen said that what they did in trying to fix situation was an act of political courage.
	Political courage is the phrase they used.
	Political courage for the most powerful man in the world to fire a comparative peon.
	Political courage.
	What's the political courage?
	What's the courage?
	Facing the criticism from a few ten to fifteen or twenty people.
	What political courage?
	They broke the law that Obama wrote to the phones.
	Justin, 18 years old in Las Vegas.
	Welcome.
	It's great to have you on the program, Justin.
	Hi, Russ.
	How are you doing?
	Fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Now just get to my question.
	I'm just a little aggravated on why aren't Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats.
	Because the way I see it.
	People who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us.
	And what amazes me is no one is.
	No one standing up for what I believe in or what anyone else who I talk for, they're all just being quiet because I guess.
	There are some who are standing up.
	I could give you some names.
	Most of them are in the House of Representatives.
	But I know the Republican Party does not have a single figure that stands up and represents the values, things that you think are important.
	I agree with you.
	And your question is one that a lot of people have asked.
	You're 18 years old, and you have called the right place to have your question answered.
	Why don't why you're essentially saying why why are the Republicans so eager?
	Why does it appear they want to get along with the Democrats, right?
	Yes.
	Well there the Republican Party right now is divided into, let's just make it simple, two groups.
	A little bit more complicated, but we'll make it two groups.
	All right.
	The one group, the people you're talking about, the moderate Republicans, they're called country club or blue blood Republican, liberal Republicans.
	They're not conservatives.
	And the other group is the conservatives in the Republican Party.
	And the conservatives now are fractured in the conservative media.
	There's uh there's an argument going on over what conservatism is among people.
	We've even got some of our conservatives joining in blue bloods in trying to gain the approval and get along with the Democrats and the Democrats and the Liberals in the media.
	Now the reason the answers to this are psychological.
	They're not political, except in one way.
	There is a political uh attachment here in this answer, but the the main thing, it's it's just it's it's psychological.
	Washington is a town, Justin, run entirely by Democrats.
	Business, political, and very importantly, social.
	Being invited places, being considered part of the in-crowd, not being considered an outsider.
	They're the dominant party, they are the people that lead, and we have some weak need and linguiny-spine people who want to get along with them simply because it's easier.
	Okay.
	Now the the political aspect of this, even when you're too young to remember, but Ronald Reagan was conservative.
	He won two landslides.
	He got 58% of the vote in his re-election in 19 or in uh in 1984.
	Even then, the Republicans that you are noticing today didn't like Reagan.
	They didn't have the courage to stand up and say so because they had no way, I mean, it would have been foolhardy, but they were embarrassed of him.
	Just they're embarrassed of him.
	They thought he was a dunce and everything else.
	These people are are more interested in losing but still sharing power than they are doing what it takes to win.
	Because winning requires confrontation, and they don't want that.
	The the but the real political thing here, Justin, and don't I'm not I'm not exaggerating this.
	The thing that causes the biggest fissure in the Republican Party between these blue bloods I'm talking about and the conservatives you wish would stand up and represent you is the issue of abortion.
	Now the issue of abortion is referred to as social issues.
	The blue bloods will say we've got to get rid, they got to get rid of these people who care about the social issues.
	If The social issues are killing our party, they think.
	They what that the translation of that is, they think that the pro-life voter, the evangelical Christian, is the death knell of the party, and embarrassed by them.
	They don't like going to the Republican convention and having so many of them there, but they're and their wives are constantly nagging them about this.
	And they wish their wives would shut up about abortions.
	Just get rid of the Christians.
	Just get rid of the social issues as the code word there for getting abortion out of the Republican Party platform.
	And that's, in a political sense, that's one of the primary reasons that the party is divided.
	And uh it's considered enlightened to uh to be a pro-choicer and understand that it's a woman's right to choose, and Republicans can gain a lot of friends and a lot of respect in Washington from Democrats by occupying that position.
	So there's your answer.
	Happy to have been able to provide it for you.
	I'm glad you called.
	I've been watching the weather at the U.S. Open at Beth Page Blackett's in Farmingdale.
	Sixty-three degrees, and a gully washer today.
	Uh it's it's just it's amazing.
	This is June the 18th, 63 degrees on at a Long Island.
	The um looks like there's about to be a break in the rain, but that course is underwater.
	I don't know how long it's going to take them to get it in shape for today to uh to have play resume.
	I mean, it's it they teed off at 7 o'clock, and I think by 1030 they had to stop play.
	So not anywhere near even half the field is teed off yet in the uh in the first round.
	You know, most people, and I'm one of them, they read 1984 and they were scared.
	When Obama read it, he started taking notes.
	This attorney general, this or inspector general thing, Dan Real at uh Real Worldview is uh posted last night a uh, well, I guess early this morning, information and documentation on uh it's not just Gerald Walpin that three IG firings now are being questioned.
	By the way, uh a survey, a review by uh Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light indicates that Gerald Walpin's probably a Republican.
	He donates to Giuliani and Lazio and so forth, so uh this this does not surprise us.
	But there's a great piece today at the American Spectator blog by Matthew Vadum.
	I hope I'm pronouncing it right, V-A-D-U-M.
	And the headline of this piece, AmeriCorps and Acorn, go way back.
	And really, when you read this story, it is a cancer.
	This is a cancer and it's out of control.
	The cynical, politically motivated, and apparently illegal firing of Gerald Walpen shocks the conscience.
	I'm not going to examine here the circumstances surrounding his termination, but I want to remind readers AmeriCorps has long been ripe for abuse.
	Acorn took advantage of the federal agency a decade ago.
	As I wrote previously, Acorn, which is now notorious for its commingling of funds within its network of affiliates, used government resources to promote legislation.
	A congressional report noted that there was apparent crossover funding between Acorn, a political advocacy group, and Acorn Housing Corp, a nonprofit AmeriCorps grantee.
	That is a major affiliate of Acorn.
	The government-funded AmeriCorps, which promotes public service, suspended Acorn Housing Corps funding after it was learned that AHC, the you get lost in all these acronyms, the American Acorn Housing Corp, and Acorn shared office space and equipment and failed to assure that activities and funds were wholly separate.
	The report noted that AmeriCorps members of the Acorn Housing Project, or AHOR A Corporation, raised funds for Acorn, performed voter registration activities for Acorn, and gave partisan speeches.
	Acorn Housing Corp is supposed to be separate from Acorn.
	It's a nonprofit, it's an AmeriCorps guarantee.
	In one instance, an AmeriCorps member was directed by Acorn staff to assist the Clinton White House in preparing a press conference in support of legislation.
	It was a report on the activities of the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities during the 104th Congress.
	Now, aware of this kind of abuse earlier this year, Senator David Vitter, Republican Louisiana, tried to block Acorn from using AmeriCorps funding to promote its own political objectives, but Acorn allies, including Barbara McCulski, Democrat Maryland, helped to defeat Vitter's legislation.
	Now, as Matthew Vadem Wright wrote in his blog today at American Spectator, as I write this, Acorn donors are celebrating the 39th birthday of the radical activist group at a 250 dollar a ticket Gala reception at the National Education Association.
	Center for American Progress President John Podesta, the uh service employees International Union boss Andy Stern, and the corrupt former HUD Secretary Henry Cisnaros are expected to attend.
	So they're all of these, it's it's incestuous.
	It's a cancer, it's malignant, it's out of control.
	It exists strictly to serve Democrat interests, union interests, to grow government, and to punish Republicans like Gerald Wolvin.
	Now remember, folks, when George Bush fired eight U.S. attorneys.
	Remember the hell that ensued from the Democrat Party and state-run media at the time.
	They wanted Carl Rove indicted again.
	They wanted Alberto Gonzalez fired, they did the hearings, they demanded these guys come up and testify before Congress.
	Of course, that was well within Bush's right to fire U.S. attorneys.
	They tried to make it political.
	We have blatant political firings of inspector generals in violation of a law Obama wrote, and the action, reaction in the state-run media is ho-home.
	Here's David in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
	Nice to have you on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I wanted to tell you an interesting story.
	I think I I know you'll be interested in.
	It's the first time I heard your voice.
	It's way b before.
	I'd never heard of you, and uh you were local in Sacramento.
	I happen to have been reassigned up here in Sacramento with the Defense Department, and I had just finished uh doing a big investigation on a huge scandal in the Bay Area where I was confronting liberals at all levels, political, clergy, and all.
	And uh it was just it turned into an amazing big scandal international, actually.
	And so I came up here, and then I was doing some surveillance uh on a pipeline uh calibration.
	The young operator was listening to you, a young black guy, heck of a nice guy, a Democrat, but he was listening to you.
	And that's the first time I heard your voice.
	And I thought to myself, well, the first thing was this man understands everything I went through in the Bay Area, confronting all these crazy liberals that could not see what was going on in this major scandal.
	And uh it was it was just stunning because I finally found somebody who understood everything you were saying was what I was trying to tell people, and how blind they were to see what was going on.
	For nine years I did this investigation.
	Actually, the scandal was Jim Jones.
	Oh, that the uh the Kool-Aid.
	Yeah.
	And I know that you had mentioned and hinted at that.
	Well, I went through the whole thing in the Bay Area.
	But the key thing is, uh when I first heard your voice, two things happened.
	What you were saying was just it was just like a I was so relieved.
	I I found somebody could understand.
	Secondly, your voice, and and one of the reasons you you really made it big, I think, is your voice is so distinctive and compelling, and that drew me also.
	But this young guy that was listening to you, he was inspired by your motivational aspects, too.
	He ended up leaving the job shortly thereafter and went out and did his own thing and did very well.
	And here's a young black democrat who turned me on to you.
	Imagine that.
	It was just astounding.
	What a story.
	1984, 25 years ago, and you sounds like you remember it like it was yesterday.
	Well, I co-authored the definitive book on Jim Jones.
	Published by Putnams.
	Oh, so you had a major publisher for this.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, this is very nice of you to call and tell me this.
	I um I appreciate it.
	And you know what?
	you're you have helped me to once again explain to people the reason for this program's success.
	So the critics of this program have said that people in this audience are just mind-numbed robots, and that I'm sort of like a Pied Piper in Savengali, and you're sitting out there starved every day until I tell you what to think and what to do.
	And the truth is, you already knew what you knew.
	You already had the opinions and feelings that you had.
	All you didn't have was somebody in national media validating and reflecting what you thought.
	Everybody else was against you.
	Exactly.
	I happen to I I I confronted Willie Brown's uh office out here.
	They told me that it just didn't happen that he didn't pave the way for Jones.
	And of course, he was the major instrument that paved the way for Jim Jones.
	And of course, you know, pe th they they just light up a storm.
	I found the document that tied him to it.
	But anyway, uh it it was just astounding to find somebody that understood.
	Well, actually, I'll give your screener uh uh an article that I wrote on on the on a website out of San Diego State University, which you will really appreciate.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate you gave Snertley the uh heads up on that.
	Uh no, I I haven't yet, but I will.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, we'll put you on hold.
	I gotta take a break here anyway, so we'll put you.
	Look, um Thanks, David, very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, thank you.
	It's a it's a pleasure to finally talk with you directly.
	I understand.
	Uh have a wonderful weekend.
	We'll be back here in just a second.
	Uh get on following there snurdly and okay.
	Oh, but what do you say?
	I was not faking that last call.
	Yeah, I was not faking that last call.
	Why what what was what was there to have to fake in the last call?
	The last call was.
	Well, I mean, I I'm trying to get better at accepting praise and compliments.
	I'm trying to get better at receiving.
	Uh people think it's it's that it's it's uh humility, a good a good quality, very humble to refuse praise, but it's actually not because then you're disrespecting the person who seriously intends to um thank you or to compliment your what have you.
	So you have to get out of the way and you yeah, just let them know you appreciate it.
	And uh I knew it was a big deal for the guy, so that's that's why I was you know sitting here and and remembering all the twenty-five years ago.
	All right, back to the phones.
	Brian in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
	Great to have you.
	What's the population there, Brian?
	Oh, I think combined between Porridge and Kalamazoo, it's roughly a hundred thousand.
	What was it ten years ago?
	Um probably about the same, quite frankly.
	Well, congratulations.
	Yeah, well, we we uh so far have escaped a lot of the wrath of Granholm, but uh I'm not holding my breath.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you very much.
	Hey, uh Russ, just real quick.
	Uh I I uh have a uh nine-year-old stepdaughter and uh uh son that was born two months ago Tuesday, and what an honor it will be to tell both of them that I got to speak to Rush H. Limbaugh III, sir.
	I appreciate you taking my call and I thank you very much.
	Well, you're welcome.
	And uh the point I wanted to make, and and after I make a point, I have one more uh quick thing if you indulge me, but my point is about uh the criticism of of Obama's silence on uh the Iranian election.
	And um I look at it as he really doesn't have any other choice, and the reason is is what you are asking him to do is to condemn voter intimidation and voter fraud and election theft and I I sir, sir.
	But when you look at the way Holder and his Justice Department handled the Black Panthers in Philly when you look at the fact that he's a product of the political machine in Chicago, you look at the acorn fraud, this is consistent with what he was raised on.
	Yeah, but nobody's gonna call him on that.
	The state run media is not gonna say, hey, wait a minute, you hypocrite.
	Well, they should though.
	I'm not sure.
	But they won't.
	That's not the reason.
	That that's not that's not that's not why he's not doing it.
	He doesn't want to offend the Muslim world.
	What do you think the Cairo speech was about?
	He he does not follow in the tradition of every American president standing up for liberty.
	This guy doesn't want to offend the Muslim world.
	I really think that's part of the reason why he's dissing his gay supporters right now, because it's you know homosexuality, not a it's it's uh kind of frowned on in the uh in the Middle East, the Muslim community.
	Remember Achhmedini's nod when he came to Columbia to do his version of Obama's Cairo speech.
	You remember that, folks?
	And what happened?
	He got a question.
	What do you do with gay rights?
	And he said, Well, we don't have any of those in Iran.
	And the students in the audience started chuckling.
	He said, 'What you know something I don't?
	Where do they live?
	Remember that.
	So Obama went over there.
	This big speech to the Muslim community.
	He made a big deal of his Muslim background, his background in Islam.
	He even had a mustache for one day.
	He had a mustache.
	He didn't have his wife there either.
	You know, women in the Muslim world are they're not on stage with their husbands when the husbands are leaders.
	And uh look at folks, I know this may sound a little bit harsh.
	This guy is doing more than he can to destroy Israel and the settlements.
	Then he is trying to hold to account a bunch of tyrants rigging an election.
	He's not standing up for freedom and liberty.
	It's it's uh it's a um it's a shocking thing.
	I want to tell you about the Heritage Foundation and and and nationalized health care uh before we have to get out of here today.
	There's a 615-page bill that's being introduced on the Senate floor, the Affordable Health Care Act, Senator Kennedy's name attached to it.
	Uh I guarantee you that half the Senate and maybe more will never read it start to finish.
	I will also guarantee you that the Heritage Foundation researchers will.
	In fact, their summary of the Affordable Health Care Act is already waiting for you at Askheritage.org.
	You'll find all of the gory details of how the left would like to take over the fifth largest part of our economy.
	Get their hands on 215 trillion dollars, right down to how much more government would decide who in America gets what kind of health insurance, and thus care.
	You want the details of this report.
	If you want to know more about what's in the bill than half the senators voting on it, become a member of the Heritage Foundation like I am, and you will be given access to every bit of this drama as it plays out in Washington.
	This is not a one-act play or a one-week conversation on the floor of the Senate.
	It's a two or three-month push.
	It's just like they're going to try to get this done as quickly as they can, just like they did uh the amnesty bill.
	And it can be stopped the same way as the amnesty bill was stopped, but it's going to take a lot of informed people and intense action.
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	Stop at the how striking that is.
	That a bunch of us will probably know more about what is in the Senate's health care bill than half the senators voting on it will know.
	And what does that tell you?
	It doesn't tell you that we care more than they do.
	Actually, it does.
	Actually, that's exactly what it tells you.
	That we care much more about what's in it than they do.
	And they probably have an intrinsic foundational understanding of what's in it.
	And they don't care about the details, just like they didn't know what the stimulus bill contained.
	Brief time out, we'll be back, we'll wrap it up after this.
	Some uh examples of what was in the stimulus bill that nobody knew.
	Union New York was encouraged to spend $578,000 grant that it did not request to fix a homeless problem it claims it does not have.
	And there are three or four other examples here that uh have been found by the Cybercast News Service.
	Uh U.S. Open wiped out for today.
	Too much rain.
	They'll try to resume the first round tomorrow.
	And you all have a good tomorrow and good weekend.
	Uh going to Hawaii, uh Friends Golf Tournament.
	I'll be back here on Wednesday and see you then.

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