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June 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What a pleasure to be here.
It's always a pleasure to be here.
It's a pleasure to be anywhere, as George Burns once said about age.
But in my case, it's great to join you from proud Limbaugh affiliate WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth.
We've spoken before a time or two.
Rush has taken a nice big old fat long weekend, which he richly, richly deserves.
And on Monday, Mark Stein will be here, and I will join you in listening to him because it is always a pleasure.
But what we're going to do first and foremost is find a way to get into a couple of things of topicality that you know and I know are going to be big on Friday or any day.
And that involves, I mean, anytime you wake up in the morning and you find that the United States is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions are escalating between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart the nuclear weapons program, that's something that's going to be sort of front of mind.
So let's do that today.
And I find that there are similar things that we can do.
There are things that we can link with that.
There are things about America facing certain threats.
There are things about this president.
There are things about the stance America takes astride a globe that is filled with evil and filled with obstacles to liberty.
What does the American president do?
Because he speaks for us.
When Bush was president, people drive me nuts.
They say, well, it's not my war.
Well, yeah, it kind of is.
Your country is at war.
He won.
Elections have consequences.
Your nation is at war.
You don't have to like it, but it undeniably is.
Well, now the shoe is on the other foot.
And now President Obama is president, and there's nothing I can do about that, nothing we can do about that.
Is it 2012 yet?
Then we can.
And certainly every time we're together, we can do a little 2012 sweepstakes if you want to and talk about those prospects as we constantly are on the search for the face of the Republican Party and the voice of the Republican Party and the things that we want embodied in our standard bearer.
But the standard bearer that we have right now for the nation is Barack Obama.
And from this pernicious Cairo speech some weeks ago, offered up as some bizarre sermon on the mount by many whose adoration for him knows no bounds, what I believe that that Cairo speech actually did was embolden the mullahs of Iran.
It was proof positive.
It was exhibit A for them, A through L at least, that the American president would do nothing to thwart them, that the American president was not going to be someone, unlike the last eight years, to get up in terror's face and try to do something about it, but would rather offer this kind of malignant neglect, this kind of I'm above it all.
This is a quote that Rush has talked about a lot.
It was Evan Thomas of Newsweek who issued these horrific words.
He's kind of like God.
He's more than being American.
He's above being American.
He's sort of looking at all sides of the world and refereeing all of this.
Well, God help us and save us from that.
I want an American president who looks out for American interests.
And I know that's self-evident.
It's kind of generic talk show guy.
I don't want an American president stands up for American interests.
But I do.
And the reason that those are words that deserve to be said is I don't know if we have one anymore.
The president is just umbilically tied to certain elements of globalization, the moral equivalencies from that Cairo speech in which he seemed to say to the murderous lunacy of that portion of the Islamic faith, hey, you've done some stuff to us.
We've done some stuff to you.
Call it a push.
Well, guess what?
No, the failure to speak truth to evil.
When you fail to speak truth to evil, you cannot, in fact, combat it.
For years and years and years, what have we told the people of Iran?
What's been the book on Iran, for example?
That this is the youngest population in the Middle East, very well educated, a ton of college students and young folks and people of all ages, really, who are sick of the 12th century theocracy that's been handed them for so long, and they want out of this nightmare of an Islamic revolution that happened to them in 1979 and happened to us as well with the advent of the Iranian hostage crisis.
So for more than a generation, we've said, hey, Iranians, reach out, grab that democracy brass ring.
It'll be tough for you, but when you do it, we will be there.
Hey, Iran, fight those mullahs.
Reach out there and get beyond that theocracy.
Try to be a real democracy.
And when you do, we'll be there for you.
Well, that's exactly what these protests in the streets are about.
That's exactly what the people of Iran are doing.
And they get nothing but stone-cold silence from this president in terms of the words that he should be speaking.
Oh, he will talk a good game about being troubled.
He's troubled.
Oh, is he really?
Oh, is he really?
And we can't meddle.
We can't meddle in Iranian affairs.
Oh, really?
We can meddle in Israeli affairs.
We can wag our finger at Israel and refer to their occupation in Nazi-like terms.
We can get all up in Netanyahu's grill and blame him for trying to protect his own country.
Oh, but we have to stay hands-off on Iran.
And why is that?
And why is that?
Because the narrative that is etched in stone for this president is for the sheer force of his will, the sheer magnetism of his personality to melt Ahmadinejad into a cuddly stuffed toy.
This is the narcissism that may be the most dangerous thing about Barack Obama.
We've always had liberals around us.
We've always, and there's a whole new breed of socialists, and that's a terrible thing.
But you can fight that.
You can try to maybe show people, hasn't conservatism shown liberalism over the last few generations, lower tax is good, higher tax is bad.
I mean, those lessons appear to be unraveling before our very eyes.
But, you know, this is something that every once in a while, liberalism can be cowed into submission, where even the L word, but now they have to call it, what do they have to call themselves now?
Progressive.
We succeeded in making liberal an epithet.
Why?
Because the weak on defense, huge taxation, culture of dependency that comes with those policies fell into disfavor.
That I can deal with all day.
But you give me somebody who thinks he's infallible.
You give me a president who not only holds views with which I disagree, but there's no coming off of them because he is just more than American and maybe even more than human for crying out loud.
That's pathological.
That is just plain pathological.
And the irony of this, I want you to go find a New York Post column by Ralph Peters called Green Light for a Crackdown.
Ralph Peters of the New York Post, Green Light for a Crackdown.
His point is that silence is complicity.
And what the president has essentially done is a wink and a nudge to the Iranian mullahs that, hey, guys, do whatever you want.
Follow your nastiest whim.
We won't get in your way.
The final paragraph of the Ralph Peters column, a little bit of an eyebrow raiser.
If we see greater violence in Tehran, the blood of those freedom marchers will be on our president's hands.
Whoa.
Okay.
Well, you can either go there or you can't.
But I will tell you this: in terms of the infallibility and all of this nonsense that we're getting, that our ideas.
Oh, there's a wonderful moment in the Robert Gibbs news conference, and those are rich with wonderful moments, where someone asked Mr. Gibbs, the often overwhelmed press spokesman.
I will give it to this press corps, this press corps every once in a while, whether Newt says something or if President Bush actually says something as he did actually came out and talked some issues in Erie, Pennsylvania night before last and shared some of his values.
Shared values like the private sector will get us out of this economic crisis, not government, that it's not government that creates wealth.
What government should do is get out of the way and let everybody create the wealth that's based on the risks they choose to take.
And President Bush actually saying these things that he believes in was instantly headlined as Bush attacks Obama.
You know, Bush give it to Obama in the chops.
Well, you know, not so much.
But what we had was the press corps asking Robert Gibbs about that.
And Mr. Gibbs, not wanting any part of that, said, well, you know, those debates have been had, and we all, you know, we had a big vote on that in November and we won.
The arrogance of that, the rank arrogance of that, that winning in, hey, listen, elections do indeed have consequences.
Elections do entitle the winning side to do whatever they want.
That's true.
But the notion that it makes them perpetually infallible and that they are not to be questioned and they are not to be criticized.
Good Lord, man.
I mean, that's kind of sick.
And the irony, the half-comic, half-tragic irony of this is given the criticism of the Bush administration, you remember what the narrative was about them, that they are unwilling to admit mistakes.
What?
What?
Oh, heavens to Betsy.
This is these are interesting times, made more interesting and more hazardous by not just the policies, but the personality flaws of this president.
Now, that was a pretty big Iranian point of departure that I went on there.
The headline today is that the U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii.
Tensions escalating between Washington and Pyongyang.
So let's talk about what's going on there.
Okay.
The USS John McCain, which puts a smile on my face, is headed out there.
And Defense Secretary Robert Gates has had some thoughts about this.
So let's put that together in a sort of an open line Friday environment.
And us, guys, did we officially do the thing or did I just head off on a complete tangent?
I did, didn't I?
Shall we do this?
Shall we do it or is it too late to do it?
Yeah, you were rolling.
Let's, I was.
But you know what?
Just, you know what I do on Fridays in the local show?
I played James Brown singing and saying, I feel good.
It's a ritual.
People's lives feel incomplete without it.
So with permission, as we prepare to actually go into the first break, I think we got just another few seconds to make official what today actually is.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
There.
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And then I get to come back on Tuesday.
And the number again is 1-800-282-2882.
Feel free to weigh in on things that are on your mind.
I got a ton of things that I'm dealing with here.
And so let's put it all together and make us, let's do Rush proud.
Let's let him enjoy that long weekend knowing that the ship is in good hands.
And I'm only doing half the pulling.
I'm only pulling half the weight because the rest of the work on Open Line Friday is yours.
So bring us what you got.
Let's see what's in your head and in your heart on this Friday.
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I'm Mark Davis getting to pay an occasional visit filling in from WBAP here in Dallas, Fort Worth, where we are all aflutter.
Tomorrow at the Dallas Cowboys' brand new stadium, you saw them this morning on the Today Show.
They invade here immediately.
Jonas Brothers.
Look out.
But speaking of invasions and such, let's cover some of the basics here on exactly what's going on with the U.S. fortifying Hawaii to meet a Korean threat.
And then we'll see if we can't get a call in before the bottom of the hour and then just begin the whole free-for-all.
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Yoki Driesen has the byline from the Asia Bureau, the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions are escalating between Washington and North Korea.
They're restarting the nuclear weapons program.
They're resuming the test firing of long-range missiles.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday the U.S. is concerned that Pyongyang might soon fire a missile toward Hawaii.
Which leads me to question number one for you.
If they do that, what should we do?
Wasn't it a couple of July 4ths ago that we said, oh, those Koreans better not, those North Koreans better not fire a missile.
Better not fire a missile.
Better not fire a missile.
They fired a missile.
What do we do?
Squat.
And that was under President Bush.
God love him.
Some senior U.S. officials expect a North Korean test by midsummer, even though most do not believe that the missile would be capable of crossing the Pacific and reaching Hawaii.
But just doesn't your mind flood with history?
I mean, you know, I believe that even the younger folk among you will recall Hawaii was very much the starting point of our involvement in another war in memory.
Not suggesting that, you know, this is history repeating itself just yet, but Hawaii just, there's every time I got to get out there and got to see that.
And I've got to go to the Arizona Memorial and just stand there and appreciate the sacrifice of the men on that vessel and appreciate the history of what happened there.
Anyway, Secretary Gates, Defense Secretary Gates, told reporters that the U.S. is positioning a sophisticated floating radar array in the ocean around Hawaii to track an incoming missile.
The U.S. is deploying missile defense weapons to Hawaii that would theoretically be capable of shooting down a North Korean missile should such an order be given.
Quote from Secretary Gates, we do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile in the direction of Hawaii.
We are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect American territory.
Hmm.
I wonder what the usual rules of, would they be called rules of engagement in this regard?
Just sort of what the limits are.
There's a guidebook sitting around somewhere that says if a missile gets within X miles of us, we take it out.
What is that number?
I don't want to know what that number is because that's one of those national security things that, quite frankly, we don't have a right to know.
But I do wonder what it is.
And I hope it's a really big number.
And by that I mean, if this Korean missile, I mean, I don't know what it would be.
I mean, that's plenty of thousands of miles between the launch site of the missile in North Korea and the coastline and then the westernmost coastline of Hawaii, whatever westernmost island would be at issue there.
But I wouldn't let it get halfway.
I wouldn't let it get a quarter of the way.
I would hope that our guidelines are very, very broadly drawn.
I would love a little practice, a little shooting practice on an actual Korean missile.
Not for the sake of it, not just to go, ha, I'll show you Kim Jong-il, but to make clear that we will not be trifled with.
And as I say these things, as these words come out of my mouth, I'm then yanked back to reality of who the president is.
You know, I mean, thank God for Secretary Gates, who I'm batting about 500 with.
I'm glad he's there as opposed to, you know, Defense Secretary Cindy Sheehan, which I suppose we go ahead there briefly.
I'm glad he's there rather than some other leftist hack from the Obama cabinet gene pool.
But the last thing Robert Gates did and the last time I mentioned him, probably on this show last time filling in, if not in some other show or column or something, he caved on the news photography of the remains of our returning soldiers at Dover.
That was an enormous problem I had with Secretary Gates.
That is a question that should never be asked.
No news organization should ever go to a grieving family and say, hey, can we film your son?
We're doing it to honor him.
Oh, sure you are.
You're doing it to have propaganda footage you can put behind the anchor's head to try to make people feel as badly about the war as you do.
So I'm running about 500 batting average with Secretary Gates, but I do like the sounds coming out of him of late and talking about fortifying Hawaii.
And so at what point do you want to blow that missile out of the sky?
Mark Davis, filling in for us, that much more when we come back.
And nothing says Friday to me like some vintage Michael Jackson.
Do you ever, in your guilty pleasure, visit the folks at tmz.com?
I always feel like grabbing a quick shower every time I do.
It's basically paparazzi chasing celebrities, garnering eight seconds of meaningless interchange with them, and then coming back and they gather in their cubicles and talk about it.
But every once in a while, something interesting happens.
They got what's left of Michael coming out of the back of an SUV.
And the goal of the paparazzi is to not just to say, hey, look at me, look at me, but to say something that will actually get the famous person to talk back to you.
And one of these genius photographers said, hey, Michael, could you still moonwalk?
And, you know, and to me, the question lately is, hey, Michael, can you even get up the stairs?
But his reply was, why wouldn't I be able to?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
It is funny, though, because in this era of reunion tours, isn't everybody that was big in the 70s and 80s out just, you know, squeezing a few more bucks out of us?
And I am such a willing participant in that.
I mean, you give me a Styx Foreigner REO speed wagon thing, and it's like, crack, I am there.
I can only think that with what's been going on in Michael's life, that if he could get out and do some kind of comeback tour, they could probably sell those tickets for about a grand apiece.
And so if he's not, it must be because he just plain can't.
So I don't know.
Anyway, well, what got me off on that?
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
I am your ADD-stricken substitute host, Mark Davis at WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth, in for Rush.
And so let us begin the Open Line Friday parade of your phone calls.
Let's go to Kansas, Lincoln, Kansas, to be exact.
Hi, Keith, Mark Davis, Infor Rush, and it's a pleasure to have you.
How are you?
Hey, Mark.
Good to hear, and good to talk to you.
Hey, whatever happened to the days when Ronald Reagan was in there with Gorbachev, and Gorbachev asked us to get rid of our crews and Persian missiles, and Reagan asked him to get rid of his SS-22s and not have non-proliferation, which four presidents that Gates has worked for, he says, that he has worked under that would like to see non-proliferation.
Well, a multi-layered question.
The key moment for me from the Reagan-Gorbachev era was the meeting in Reykjavik when President Reagan refused to dismantle the plans for SDI, suddenly significant again with regard to the Korean missile launch that might be coming July 4th.
And his refusal to do that made those talks fall apart.
Viewed as a failure at the time, they were ultimately one of the great successes in American foreign policy.
It was called America Standing Up for What It Needed to Do.
As far as nuclear non-proliferation, that's a very loaded word.
President Obama, unfortunately, views all nuclear weapons as something bad and to be gotten rid of, as if there's no distinction between American nukes and Iranian nukes, which is as stupid as equating the gun in the policeman's hand with the gun in the criminal's hand.
So I've never sought nuclear non-proliferation.
I have sought an American nuclear arsenal that exists as much as it needs to to thwart the nuclear tyranny of others.
Yeah, but let me ask you this, though.
In World War I with Woodrow Wilson, the Luis Vitenhoe was attacked by Python.
Or the Lusitania, as it's sometimes called.
Yeah, and 118 Americans were killed, and he gave them that ultimatum.
So we entered into the war in 1917, and he had ran on the idea that I kept you out of war.
Well, we came out all right on that one, and we stopped the Germans in Normandy, and we stopped German aggression.
Well, with Franklin Roosevelt, the same thing.
When we got attacked Pearl Harbor, he did the exact same thing in 1941, and it turned out where we actually turned back the Germans, and I think we kept being occupied by the Germans.
But my whole point is this.
Okay, number one, we didn't stop Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, China, any of these countries from developing nuclear weapons.
We invented them in snapshot in the deserts in Nevada.
And not only that, but we have 800 million times more super explosiveness than we had on Nakasaki and Hiroshima, the superpowers.
My point is, who gives us the right, like Woodrow Wilson says, to be the world's dictator of who and who does not control the weapons?
That's a thoroughly, thoroughly worthy question.
I believe that the right to have a nuclear arsenal is tied directly to what your goals are for it.
The world has no need whatsoever to fear the American nuclear arsenal.
I don't believe it has a reason to fear the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
There was a time when it didn't have much reason to fear the Pakistani nuclear arsenal.
That has probably changed.
There was always reason to fear the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and there is certainly ample reason to fear in advance the Iranian nuclear arsenal.
A nuclear arsenal, I'll finish, get right back to you.
A nuclear arsenal is a moral blank slate written on by the motivations of the government that controls it.
Yeah, but my point is this.
Okay, let's just use an example.
Okay.
Let's just use an example.
14, like Paul A. Norris said, 14 of the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia.
Okay, 15.
Okay.
So anyway, make a long story short, four out of five Americans.
Pretty impossible at this point, but that's okay.
I'm sorry, I'm entertained.
I apologize.
Go ahead.
Hey, I love it.
I love it.
But I want to give you a quote of Nicholas Sarkozy, too, that I think I like real well, too.
But anyway, to make a long story short, quite out of five Americans in the second Bush administration were asked, if we had a chance to go take and take a dictatorship and turn it into democracy, the American people spoke and said no.
Now, here's my point.
We were already in that poll.
No, no, wait, wait.
Okay, boy.
Before you tell me what your point is for the 10th time, because I am enjoying it for the moment.
I don't know what bizarre poll question this was or how curiously it was phrased, but can we revisit that for a second?
The American people were asked what?
The American people were asked in a gallop in the second Bush administration, right after the Axis of Evil speech with Iran and North Korea.
Would you, if you had a chance to change a country from a dictatorship to a democracy, should we interfere?
Should we go in as the world's peacekeeper when we're spending billions and billions of dollars during an economical crisis?
Right.
Should we interfere?
What a lovely, objective way to phrase that poll question.
We could spend a lot of time talking about how poll questions are phrased.
And in fact, as history has borne out, America did get war-weary.
We did indeed grow tired of the noble quest of trying to put a pebble of democracy into the pool of the Middle East and have the concentric circles work their way out.
It is working today despite the middling will of a war-weary, historically illiterate American people.
As best I could tell, we got tired of the war after about a year.
Saddam fell.
That was great.
The Iraqis, you know, listen, 2006 in particular was a horrible year.
There are certainly valid questions that history will ask over time, valid criticisms that history will offer over the manner in which we fought the war.
No doubt about it.
The surge came.
Iraq appears as ready now as it ever has since the war began to start to run its own affairs.
And thanks to people like George W. Bush and David Petraeus, this experiment has an opportunity to work.
We got tired of it in about a year, year and a half.
I offer as comparison the fact that the people we're fighting against will not grow weary after century after century after century after century.
So Vegas odds makers don't tend to like that when one side fatigues easily and the other side is tireless in its zeal.
As far as the as far as the notion of I kept you out of war.
Some wars need to be fought.
There were people who were trying to keep us out of the Revolutionary War.
Would that have worked well?
If we'd have stayed out of World War II, would that have worked well?
If we'd have stayed out of this war, if we had chosen not to, in fact, take war to the terrorists, would that have worked well?
Saddam still in power, al-Qaeda still whole and thriving.
So anybody who comes up and says, hey, I'll keep you out of war, runs screaming from those people.
They should indeed say, instead say, I will look at every occasion that suggests that war is a possibility.
I will avoid those wars that are not in our interest and enthusiastically, perhaps a better adverb would be energetically and conscientiously pursue those wars which are a necessity.
As we go to the break here, we talk a lot about wars of necessity and wars of choice.
All wars are wars of choice.
Here's what I mean.
I mean, even in the case of a war of necessity, someone has to choose to enter it.
Thank God we did in the case of the Revolutionary War.
Thank God we did in the case of World War I and World War II.
We can argue all day about Vietnam and Korea.
Fine.
Wait till Rush gets back.
Thank God we decided to enter the war that we are currently in.
Avoidance of war is not a universal attribute.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And just the big quote here: peace is not the cessation of hostility.
Peace is not when everybody lays down their arms.
Peace is what you get after the good guys win.
Can we put that in Sharpie and scrawl it in various places around the White House?
But not defacing the walls, put it on sticky notes.
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This is great.
It's like clockwork.
If I'm guest hosting, Byron York must be on.
And listen, if that's the case, I'm good with that.
Of course, I'm back next Tuesday.
I don't know if we need to do that again in 72 hours.
But last time I was here, Byron and I were talking about just various things because it's just such a pleasure to read him and talk to him from his long time of service at National Review and now with the examiner.
But he will join us at the top of next hour if you've been paying attention or even if you have only been paying half attention to the entire Gerald Walpin firing.
We're going to give you Gerald Walpin 101 with Byron York at the Examiner and go from the basics of who this guy is, why everybody's talking about him, what the Obama administration did to him, why they did what they did to him, what the ramifications might be, and what Republicans can do.
So no pressure, Byron.
We're going to try to cover that in one nice big first segment of our next hour.
Right now, though, on the Rush Limbaugh Show, we go to Marietta, Georgia.
Hi, Ralph.
Mark Davis, welcome.
How are you?
I'm doing all right.
Thank you for taking my call.
Great to have you.
And this is about the health care plans, the Obama plan.
I believe that those in Congress, the White House, all government employees, and the union people need to give up their health care benefits, and they should be first on the Obama health care plan.
Let them be the guinea pigs for this.
Absolutely.
For at least two years, if there's any health care rationing, let Barney Frank feel how it's about.
Let him find out.
You mentioned something interesting because mentioning a congressman, and a good choice you have made, they are always talking about how, well, you know, the American people should have the same kind of health care we have.
And Rush made this point either yesterday or the day before.
Obamacare, government-run health care for you and for me, will never be the kind of rarefied air that is the very special care that members of Congress get.
It will be the kind of government health care that Canadians get, which has them flooding across our borders, that they get in the UK, which has them waiting ridiculous amounts of time with the rationing of care.
So, Ralph, that would be an interesting petri dish to see how the advocates of President Obama and the advocates of Obamacare would fare under their pet project.
I assume you think that they would come back later and realize the error of their ways.
Absolutely.
And look at how much money will be saved by not having their golden health care plan.
Trillions.
Well, make it a T, man.
Trillions.
That's the tag that's attached to all of this.
Ralph, let me thank you.
Here's, it's a very simple deal, really.
There is an enormous price tag for this.
Anyone coming at you and saying, well, you know, you'll save money.
Prescriptions might be cheaper.
Doctors might be cheaper.
Hospitals might be cheaper.
Well, I spoke to some doctors that were at the AMA at the meeting that President Obama spoke to a few days ago.
And many of them are Democrats.
Many of them voted for President Obama.
And they, like many Obama voters, are realizing the price for what they did.
In the case of doctors, in terms of the kinds of payments, the slashing of payments to them that they will get under Obamacare, be careful what you wish for, Democrat doctors.
It may come true.
And I'll tell you what, let's do.
Let's hit this break on time.
Come right back in our final moments of this hour before we get ready to talk some Gerald Walpin with Byron York.
I'm going to put the lie to a couple of things here.
You have been told repeatedly, you don't have to sign up for government health care.
You don't have to ride the Obamacare train.
You will still have your health care that you have today that you love.
If you want to keep it, you get to keep it.
Oh, really?
Give you the rest of that story next.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis sitting in on the EIB Network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
Mark Stein will fill in on Monday, and then I'll come back and do Tuesday.
And then Rush is back on Wednesday.
So happy long weekend there, big guy.
All righty.
As we close this hour and begin to anticipate the beginning of the next, when Byron York will join us from the examiner to really deconstruct the whole Gerald Walpin story.
Speaking of deconstructing, there needs to be just a team of people that does this.
There's some book someone needs to write.
What they say, what they really mean.
Things that sound so good and yet are so pernicious.
And one of them is this notion.
The president will tell you this.
Lord knows he'll tell you all night next Wednesday night as ABC whores itself out for an Obama infomercial.
I think we'll carve out some time for that on today's program.
But they'll tell you, you don't have to give up your health care.
If you like your health care, you keep your health care.
Oh, we're going to establish this government-run thing, and you can hop onto that and sign onto that if you wish.
But if you love your health care, you can keep it.
Now, let's step over here into the real world.
In economically trying times, as company after company after company after company is firing people, laying people off, slashing their costs as best they can, what is the first thing they're going to do as soon as there's an Obamacare safety net funded with trillions of tax dollars?
What's the first thing they're going to do?
They're going to hold the big meeting in the cafeteria and tell you that one of the and you know what?
The workers will be okay with it because they'll say, okay, you know how tough times are, right?
Well, we had a choice up at corporate.
We could either fire 20% of you or dump the health care coverage that we've always given you.
What should we do?
Oh, please don't fire us.
Dump the health care.
It's okay, employees will say, because we have Obamacare to help us.
And therein lies the noxious logic of Obamacare.
It's not about caring about people or making health care more affordable.
It's about making the very life you live, the very health you enjoy, a product of their benevolence.
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