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June 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Great to have you with us, my friends.
As we head on down the tracks of truth.
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You know this Mark Sanford business, the governor of South Carolina, vanishes out there.
Nobody knows where he is.
His wife doesn't know where he is, his staff doesn't know where he is.
The word comes out that he's out there hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Then word comes back, no, he wasn't hiking the Appalachian Trail.
He was going to go to the Appalachian Trail.
He's walking the beaches of Ipanema.
Then he wasn't walking the beaches of Ipanema.
Then he was on a cruise ship down there to Argentina somewhere.
Just got back.
Everybody's waiting for the press conference to figure out what's going on here.
And, you know, I've got I've got mixed emotions about this.
I the appearance here is obviously very strange.
You don't tell your wife you're splitting a scene.
You don't tell your family on Father's Day, by the way.
And then Obama, you know, Obama bailed on the family on Father's Day, too.
He went out there to play golf.
But uh Sanford left the family on Father's Day weekend, goes out there wherever he went.
Nobody knew, staff didn't know, and everybody just in a tizzy about this.
Now we have forgotten.
Back in the day, Teddy Roosevelt did this all the time.
Teddy Roosevelt just to get away to hell with this.
And he go out there hunting or doing something.
Now, this is back before big nationwide 24-7 media cycle before television and all that.
But it was also back in the day where people were not so damn dependent on some public figure every day being visible for their own security.
So what a governor takes five days off.
Big whoop.
How many lives changed?
What did the welfare roles jump?
Did something if somebody somebody not get their federal their their check from South Carolina?
What's the big deal?
You know, now, depending on what happened and what he did here, but I do think that one of the things that ask exacerbates this is this this ever-pressing dependence on government that people have.
As though the governor was gone five days.
Oh no!
Why we could have collapsed here?
Oh no!
Why would it all gone to hell in the handbags?
Oh no, nothing happened that that affected anybody's lives except his family's uh and maybe his, and we won't know that until uh press conference, see what the shakeout, the fallout here is.
CNBC, an interview just moments ago, Warren Buffett, big early supporter of the BAMsters, Huge Obama supporter, says there's been little progress over the past few months in the economic war being fought by the country.
We haven't got the economy moving yet, Buffett said.
And of course he's right, except Goldman Sachs is out there sat at a record first half of 2009.
Or they're gonna pay record bonuses of some such thing, and city banks given people raises of 50%.
While the unemployment rate skyrockets at 10%.
While the economy is a shambles and likely to stay that way for some time, Buffett remains optimistic.
There will eventually be a recovery over a period of years, but of course there will be.
It's a cyclical.
But what kind of recovery is it gonna be?
Buffett says the nation should concentrate on creating jobs.
I thought that's what the stimulus bill was.
The nation should concentrate on creating jobs.
The nation should that's what the private sector always does.
But when you deplete the private sector of operating capital, be it with this monstrosity of health care reform or cap and trade, or any of the other Obama initiatives running the automobile company.
So what the hell?
Where is the money to hire people?
The government's got it all.
And then the government's dictating how it's gonna be used.
The government dictating which automobile dealerships are shut down.
The focus ought to be creating jobs.
If you want to create jobs, get Obama out of the private sector.
It's just that simple.
Get him the hell out of the private sector.
Get President Obama out of it, scrub this health care business.
It's a debacle.
It is unnecessary.
It's unneeded.
The eighty eighty some odd percent of the American people are satisfied with theirs.
This whole thing is a ruse.
There's no need for it.
Every claim that's being made about how it's not going to cost any money is absurd.
Let's go back.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Audio sound bite number I want you to keep this in mind.
As you listen to Obama and his minions, Ram Emanuel and so forth, plug and promote cap and trade and health care.
This is Obama last Saturday during the YouTube weekly address.
There are also millions of Americans who signed contracts they didn't always understand, offered by lenders who didn't always tell the truth.
Well, who was responsible for that?
The government was.
And now they're going to operate health care, and you're going to end up with a whole bunch of other stuff you had no idea you were going to end up in, and then you're not going to be able to end up out of it.
Because you're not going to have any options.
And then they're with this this cap and trade business, they're going to start they're going to st they're going to start taxing carbon.
Do you realize they're even going to be able to raise taxes on Coke and Pepsi?
It's carbonated beverages.
It makes it fizz.
It's absurd.
All of this is going to deplete the private sector.
And Buffett's, and Buffett knows this.
And Buffett's out there talking about, well, focus of the country ought to be on creating jobs.
Here, listen to this.
This morning and Good Morning America, the day-long ABC infomercial.
On Obamacare.
Diane Sawyer talked to uh the BAMster himself this morning.
She said, is it time for Americans to recognize that they're going to get fewer scans, fewer procedures, fewer tests.
The measure of the quality of care is not quantity, but whether or not it is making you better.
What we've said is, let's put out the research.
Let's study and figure out what works and what doesn't.
Will there be a board making solomonic decisions about best practices?
What I've suggested is that we have a uh a commission that helps, made up of doctors, made up of experts, that helps set best practices.
The doctors and experts paid for by Obama.
Doctors and experts are going to be dependent on Obama for their income.
So of course they're gonna have to speak the party line.
The bottom line is you're gonna get a board full of bunch of bureaucrats deciding what medical care that you get.
And it's not gonna be based on the quality of care.
It's gonna be based on what they think is worth spending on you.
It's no more complicated than that.
If they think you're not worth spending enough money to find out what's wrong with you, they're not gonna find out what's wrong with you.
If they don't think you're worth spending enough money to cure, then they're not gonna spend the money to give you the treatment that you need.
That's what this all means.
That's what's coming down the pike.
Don't forget we had a call last week.
There are people who are actually fearful that if they are Republicans, they will be discriminated against in terms of health care.
Because this is such an ideologically political administration that does have a bunch of enemies.
Well, Rush, what do you mean?
They're gonna decide how much it's worth to treat me.
Well, in large measure, it's gonna have to do with your age.
If you are approaching seasoned citizen status, your worth is a lot less than a young person.
You're need you you have a duty to die and get out of the way.
A Democrat, former governor of Colorado said that, Richard Lamb.
Old people, come on, get out of the way.
You're spending all this money, you're costing us all this money, you're gonna die anyways, just go ahead and fade away and die.
And the truth of the matter is 80% of the nation's health care costs are spent, or 80% of the individual's health care costs are spent in the in the last years of one's life, understandably and logically.
So when they're the best way to understand this is this board, this bunch of bureaucrats, they're not gonna decide what tests you need based on the quality of care.
They're gonna decide how much you're worth to them.
Help keep these social security numbers in check.
How do you how the hell do you think they're gonna reform that?
They're gonna reform Social Security by having it pay out to fewer people.
And how are they gonna do that?
By treating fewer older people.
You think they're really gonna reform this in some measurable way and make it solvent?
They're gonna try to reduce the number of people getting it.
I'm dead serious, snerdly.
I wouldn't say this stuff if I didn't mean it.
This is all such bilge.
It is all drivel.
You are going to get treatment based on how much some government agency or bureaucrat thinks you're worth.
And that could who knows how that's going to be decided.
The degree to which you have a sickness or an illness or a disease?
Your age?
Are you working or not?
Are you a drag on the system anyway?
Did you vote for Obama?
What did you eat during your life?
Have you eaten carrots in the last 30 days?
Have you eaten trans fats?
Do you smoke?
Have you drunk a lot of softened sweet beverages and so forth?
Well, I don't know.
There's a reason.
We don't need to give you a test.
You're sick because you've been eating all this rat gut we've been warning you against for 30 years.
Screw you.
And then so, okay, well, I'll go to my own doctor.
No, there won't be a private doctor for you to go to.
Sad to say.
And surprise, surprise.
His thinking on mandates is now evolved.
Remember, he blasted Hillary for having mandates during the campaign, but his promise of having no mandates is expired.
Diane Sawyer said, Will you accept mandates with fines for individuals if they don't sign up?
You were against that during the campaign.
I have to tell you that uh this is an area where people have uh made some pretty compelling arguments to me that if we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we've got to have healthier people, not opt out of the system.
I think uh my thinking on the issue of mandates is evolved.
Well, what what else needs to be said?
Everything else that he said yesterday in his press conference about competition, private sector versus the public option is just meaningless.
He's now evolved on mandates.
Fines for individuals if you don't sign up for health care.
Remember, Mrs. Clinton, this was a biggie.
They were gonna force you into this, and Obama, no, no, we can't do that.
But he's uh he's had some pretty compelling arguments made for him.
He's changed his mind on this.
We have a system that drives down a cost for everybody.
We've got to have healthier people.
So you're gonna mandate it.
All the rest of this is just BS.
The government's gonna mandate that you get health care, and then after they mandate you get health care and sign up for insurance, then they're gonna decide whether or not you're worth treating.
Then they're gonna decide whether or not you're worth testing.
If you think that national health care is gonna open up a new vista of endless health care to make sure you always get cured or you never get sick, you've got another thing coming.
It ain't gonna work out that way.
Here, by the way, is the Warren Buffett soundbite, uh, Becky Quick, CNBC talking to him.
The question last time we sat down to talk with you was on May 4th, and you told us you think we're in an economic war right now.
How much progress do you think we've made in that war?
Well, it's been pretty flat.
No, I I I get figures on 70 odd businesses, a lot of them daily.
I mean, I I everything I see about the economy is that uh we have had no bounce.
Uh the financial system was really where the crisis was, you know, last September and October, and and that's been surmounted, and that's enormously important.
But in terms of the economy coming back, it takes a while.
There were a lot of excesses to be wrung out, and uh, and uh that process is still underway, and it looks to me like it'll be underway for quite a while.
In the annual report, I I said that the economy would be in the shambles this year, and I'm I'm afraid that's true.
Well, okay, that's inspiring.
Economy is gonna be in the shambles this year.
This is a big big Obama backer.
But notice is the financial sector been surmounted.
I guess so.
I guess the people are still being foreclosed on out there.
I've got stories on them the snack, and people still can't get loans and their credit card rate is still going up.
But we somehow we've we've we've mounted the financial uh thing.
Goldman Sachs with the record bonus payouts the first half of this year, Citibank raising salaries uh 50%.
Yeah.
Depending on how you look at it, I guess financial sector has rebounded a little bit back after this.
White House is in trouble on health care, and the evidence of this is all over the place.
But one of the telling indications is that Ram Emanuel has been dispatched today to call up a bunch of members of Congress and the Senate and is dropping the F bomb on them and demanding that they get on board with this and so forth.
This is Chicago thug acracy that's operating out of the White House, the uh the technique developed by uh Mayor Richard Daly, from which Emmanuel comes or David Axelrod comes, uh and uh of course Obama himself.
And you know, it was part of Obama's uh news conference yesterday.
Uh that smug voice and that tone, saying, hey, if the public system outcompetes the private system in health care, then the private's will have to get with the program and learn how to do things right.
He kept talking about this government never does anything right, but if we do it right in the private system, uh have to get with the program and learn how to do things right.
Now that is just in that's ignorant arrogance.
He intended it to be that way.
He never answered the question about the unlevel playing field.
And the question he got on this was well, the public option, the government will not be pressured to make a profit to stay in business.
You know, they won't be pressured to make a profit.
The government has to make a profit in anything.
The private sector, private insurance companies, private health care, they have to make a profit to stay in business.
And the tenor of his answer on this was most revealing.
He almost slipped up and said, Well, they shouldn't be making a profit in the first place.
He did he didn't say it, but that was his tone.
I think that Obama looks at profits as evil.
He obviously doesn't understand that business cannot function without profits.
You know, he's like, he's like a lot of other dictators.
He's got the private sector, and he thinks it's always going to be there to be raped.
It's always going to be there to be pillaged and plundered.
The private sector's always gonna be something he can go grab and control and tax and take money out of and grow the government.
He doesn't have any concept, or maybe he does, that he's gonna kill it all by doing all this.
So he can sit there and say, no, well, well, we're not gonna get rid of the private sector.
Uh but the public sector, the government will not have to make a profit to stay in business, and the other guys will.
Now, if you have to compete with somebody who doesn't have to make a profit, guess where you're gonna end up?
You're gonna lose.
You're gonna go out of business, you're not even gonna stay in business.
There is no if if General Motors is giving away cars at what it costs to make them, and Chrysler is trying to sell them at a profit.
Guess what?
Chrysler's gonna cease to exist.
It can't compete against people who don't have to make a profit.
Let's do it, let's even give it, let's go further.
Let's say General Motors sells their cars for half of what they cost, and Chrysler's not allowed to do that.
Of course, what sense would it make anyway?
But the government can do it, they can post the loss because they can print the money.
So private sector health covers uh or health care givers, doctors, nurses, insurance companies have to make a profit stay in business.
Obama's business doesn't have to show a profit.
They're not gonna stay in business.
The government's gonna end up being it all by design.
So Obama looks at the private sector as just a never-ending windfall.
He looks at profits like surplus value.
Same way Marx did.
A profit is almost a crime.
A profit's a crime against a people.
A promet, a profit is rape.
It's just it's surplus value that you can go get, and when you take some entity's profit, and you have been fair, and you have equalized society.
And that's how he looks at it.
I think Obama's a true believer on this stuff.
That's why he's so pro-union.
He's He's one of these workers of the world unite type guys.
Down his core.
He's unapologetic about all this.
He doesn't even know he's revealing it to me.
I think he thinks he's fooling everybody, but he's not fooling me.
This guy's right out of Das Capital, folks.
Profit.
Surplus value.
Take it.
Taking the profit is fair and just.
Profit is evil.
Profit is unfair.
What's sad is that the average person, including, I would even go so far as say the average conservative commentator doesn't pick up on what Obama's all about here.
Because they don't believe, they can't believe the guy's as far gone as he is.
So to make this fair, I've got a way to make this fair, which will never happen, but I want to illustrate this point when we come back.
Okay, let's recap here.
Barack Obama and his national health care business.
And he says the private sector, well, if they can keep up, if we can if they can outperform us, then fine and dandy.
Outperform you, they are going to have to make a profit, and Obama won't, and that means they will cease to exist.
So, to be fair about this, let's let's establish one condition.
That the government, when they run health care, will be subject to all administrative reporting requirements, including uh quarterly and annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
They will be subject to all civil and criminal penalties that government imposes on business, and business will be permitted to enforce these requirements on government, just as government does on business.
I'm serious about this.
I am dead serious about this.
This healthcare thing is a debacle.
It is not needed, it is unnecessary, and the vast majority of Americans do not want it.
If we get it, it's ball game.
Every aspect of your life will then be regulated on the basis of cost to the government.
Now the government can sit there and it can regulate, it can now take over businesses.
It can take over the auto business, it can take over the banks, it can run the mortgage business.
It can regulate business all day long.
A bunch of people have no idea how to run a business, can regulate every aspect of your business life, fill out forms, got OSHA, all these other regulations.
Well, all right, if they're gonna get into private sector business operations, let's turn to damn tables and let's regulate them.
Let's make government when they run General Motors subject to the same requirements that the people who used to own General Motors are required.
Now I know it'll never happen.
We somehow got to get past this notion that government does everything right, that government's this this this this divine angel that only intends the best.
I don't care about the intentions because the intentions don't count when you measure the results, which are always horrible when the government's running something.
And guess who has become the latest capitalist?
John Kerry.
I'm not surprised.
Half hour ago, Andrea Mitchell, in me see news in Washington on her MSNB she show, MSNBC show, interviewed Senator Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam about the Citibank news that they're gonna be giving out 50% raises.
If yeah, 50% raises.
And her question to uh to Lurch was finance and banking committees that are all in the Senate, are you disturbed that Citibank's about to award big pay raises, perhaps to get around the bonus requirements?
I mean, Citibank took TARP money, should they be awarding big pay raises?
They're not earning money, their stock prices down.
Should they be awarding big pay raises, or is is that as they say what they need to do to compete?
Look, we understand that in the normal course of business, people have to be paid appropriately.
There is competition in the marketplace, you have to attract good people.
All of those things are true.
But you also need to do these things within the limits of of what people perceive of what the marketplace will bear in terms of a sense of appropriateness and decency given the challenges that our economy faces.
And we hope that people will respond appropriately.
What a 180!
What an absolute 180.
Back last fall when we're bailing these people out, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, bashing all of these wall street entities, all of these banks.
Now all of a sudden, well, you know, we got to pay a lot of people.
And they're gonna pay uh good people.
And they gotta pay them appropriately.
It's competition in the marketplace.
That's all fine now.
It's all fine when the Democrats and Obama running the show.
I'm telling you, folks, this is going to filter out to the average Obama voter.
This is not what the average Obama voter thought he or she was voting for to make Citibank rich, to make Goldman Sachs rich.
Forget whether they're right or wrong for a second here.
I'm not I'm not concerned with whether or not these Obama voters understand capitalism or not.
In this instance, and I I remain influenced by that uh bunch of calls we got last week from Obama voters who were livid.
They thought they were gonna be getting all this money, and they just see Obama doing what Republicans are done, bail out the banks, bail out the big rich people.
Well, now with with with with the Goldman Sachs and their big bonuses and their their record first half of 09, whatever it was, now Citibank 50% raises to get around the bonus requirements, limitations.
And Democrats now thought, well, yeah, we have to do this.
See, back in the early days of the administration, when AIG was doing this, it was time to hang them and burn them at the stake and send Acorn up there in a protest on the lawns of the homes of the executives at AIG.
No, we gotta pay people.
Competitive uh business out there.
Uh pay people, good people, you know.
Uh it's all fine now.
I'm gonna tell you what we're looking at here, folks.
Democrats don't get it.
We are looking at Jimmy Carter, too.
We're looking at it.
We're right on the cusp of it.
Warren Buffett's told us today, economy's gonna be in a shambles.
We're gonna see at some point, if I'm right about this, and I'm seldom wrong, we are going to see an approval ratings or approval number chart is going to track pretty close to old Jimmy Carter.
The Democrats, they're arrogant, they are condescending.
They make the mistake of believing that every American lives and breeds and hopes and dreams on what Democrats are going to do each and every day, and that they are insulated and insured against any criticism because this lapdog media that follows them around.
You watch.
You watch this health care thing, too.
This is they're gonna have more problems with this.
And what they've done to Gerald Walpin, this is coming out too.
Gerald, the inspector general in the St. Hope Academy case, AmeriCorps, they tried, they they they tried to ruin this guy.
This is Clinton travel office, all like I said last week.
Like I said last week, this is just like the Clinton Travel Office.
They're just getting rid of somebody who's a thorn in their side.
The St. Hope Academy was a mess out there.
They shouldn't have gotten the money.
Walpin said they shouldn't have gotten the money.
Uh they were misusing it, so get rid of Walpin.
Uh, this kind of stuff.
Is uh and they're trying too much too soon.
Uh Obama's on television every day, this and that and the other thing.
Now it just at some point there's gonna be a lot of give here.
I'm confident of this.
Keep a sharp eye.
Here's Kevin in San Angelo, Texas.
You gotta be going there to get there.
You'll not run into it by accident.
Kevin, how are you?
Well, I'm doing very good, uh, Professor Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Sir, I've got a question for you concerning the state of California.
The uh liberals have been running that state for uh absolutely as long as I can remember, and their state has run into uh a huge amount of bankruptcy, and it looks like you know, liberalism is uh needs to answer for itself after all these years.
And I'm curious what your predictions might be for what we're gonna see here in the state of California in the next month or two, and how this relates to what potentially could happen at the federal level when Obama's policy happened.
Wait a second, did they move San Angelo, Texas to California when I wasn't looking?
No, well, no, no, no, sir.
I I left the state of California years ago because I saw what was coming.
I gotcha.
And I got out of there and went to a place that's uh much more friendly to fellows like myself.
I got you.
I understand that.
I know a lot of people have been to San Angelo.
Houston Oilers used to train there now and then.
Uh back when they were in Houston and not in uh in in Nashville.
Uh well, California unemployment in May went up to eleven and a half percent.
Only four states have a higher unemployment rate than uh than California.
Michigan's at 14.1, Oregon at 12.4, Rhode Island and South Carolina tied at uh 12.1 percent.
Now, in May of last year, a year ago, California unemployment 6.8 percent.
It's now 11.5 percent.
Not quite doubled, but close to it.
Getting close.
Also, what?
I said that's getting very close.
They number hit the tipping point there.
The state of California is just gonna erupt.
People have got to answer for what they've done.
They're gonna get a bailout.
At the end of the day, they're gonna get a bailout.
Now, the everybody right now saying the right thing about it.
They're saying the right thing.
Obama said, no, we're not gonna bail them out.
We can't bail out states, and Schwarzenegger says I don't want the bailout.
But what, Sterling?
What?
There's gonna there's there's gonna be they're gonna have to this he's right, the state's teetering.
The latest thing, you people in California, I don't know if you even know this yet.
State lawmakers in California have proposed either cutting drastically or l eliminating totally the uh exemption for every child you get on your on your taxes.
It'll it'll cost the average taxpayer an additional two hundred and fourteen dollars a year, or it's either two hundred and fourteen a year or two hundred and fourteen a kid.
I'm gonna have to look this up.
I saw this over the weekend, or maybe maybe yesterday, that they're gonna get rid of the personal exemption.
The state version of the personal exemption.
They're gonna be raising taxes now.
I I um I I it's a Democrat state.
They have to keep it a Democrat state.
People are leaving that state.
They've got to keep it a Democrat state.
We've we've essentially bailed out Michigan with the autocompany deals.
I mean, you can look at that as a quasi uh bailout.
So I'm just pretty won't be it won't.
And Maria Shriver.
I've got this somewhere here in the Maria Shriver saying people of California don't want any budget cuts.
Now she's the wife of the governor.
And she says Kennedy.
And she's, you know, she's doing a cold and Powell on us out there.
People of California don't want their budgets cut.
By the way, did you hear yesterday?
I forget, I forget what the subject was, but Obama did it too.
Is that the subject of budget cuts, local communities, or something came up, and he said, Well, we can't afford that.
Firemen, policeman.
That's what they always do.
They always tell local communities if you got to cut the budget.
Guess who's gonna go first?
Firemen and policemen, which is absolute poppycock.
When you look at education, what are they spending per student in New Jersey?
What's the latest number?
14 grand a student, something like that.
14, maybe it's higher than that now.
Do you realize 14 grand a student?
Now, stop to think of this.
$14,000 a student.
How much of that is in the classroom?
We always hear about dilapidated falling apart schools.
I don't have uh textbooks, and where's the money going?
For $14,000 a student.
If you give me, if I uh let's say I want to take over and run as a private business, the New Jersey school system.
You give me $14,000 a student.
I'm gonna limo the students across the George Washington Bridge into the tunnels are gonna have a lunch at 21 every day.
I'm gonna go hire Harvard professors to teach them, and I'm gonna have money left over.
I'm gonna make a profit at $14,000 a student.
And I'm gonna keep them in class and I'm gonna graduate them.
$14,000 and in some in some uh some school districts, it's more than $14,000 a student.
Yeah, it's $20,000 in some districts in New Jersey.
The average is for 20,000 students.
Now, so we got to cut the budget in New Jersey.
We ought to cut what firemen and cops?
Really?
At $14,000 a student?
I don't know what they're paying in California per student, but it's gotta be astronomical.
Anyway, I'm a little long here.
Uh brief timeout.
We will continue much more straight ahead after this.
The Obama administration, a big push on health care today and this week.
In fact, the BAMSTER's heading out.
He's turning to the grassroots to push health care reform.
Time for the Obama Road Show victim parade.
As people pour over details and ramifications of government-run health care, Obama team seeks to not get sucked in by the Washington discussion.
Obama setting out to humanize the health care debate, push Congress to pass serious reforms.
He aims to ensure, in the words of one White House advisor, we don't get sucked in by the Washington discussion.
The Washington discussion, focused on the high cost, uncertain results of competing proposals is not going Obama's way.
The facts suck.
The facts of this just aren't helping Obama.
The facts don't add up.
So he's got to go out there and do a dog and pony show.
And what they're going to do is they're going to head out there, and they're going to uh have all these sorry cases of people who broke an arm or lost an eye, or the dog did something, and they try to get health care, and the evil insurance company wouldn't pay off, and the evil doctor wouldn't do the test.
That's what you're going to hear.
That's how they're going to do it.
They're going to gin up hatred.
They're going to gin up hatred and people that don't care and they're going to make you think people don't care about you.
Because they, the Obama people do.
Because they're bombing in Washington on this.
They're bombing big time.
So it's time to go out to the Obama people.
So, in that regard, and I know, based on I just trust me, I know you Obama people are in this audience.
All it takes is for one syllable uttered by me from my oral cavity about Obama.
One negative, one negative syllable, and I am overrun with emails.
So I know you're out there.
And maybe some of you independents and moderates on the fence about this.
I just have a simple question for you.
And this is the most obvious question not asked at yesterday's press conference.
Mr. President, with your health care plan work as well as your stimulus plan.
Okay, okay.
I know it's not fair because everybody knows the stimulus plan bombed.
But that's the whole point.
How's that hope and change going for you?
How's that new job?
How's all these shovel ready make work projects?
How's Caterpillar supposedly rehiring a bunch of people when they haven't done?
How's that working out for you?
How's that stimulus plan getting your job?
How's your new job coming?
How's your home foreclosure?
Well, Obama's fixed all that right, and now he's going to be the provider of your health care.
Ha!
How's your stimulus job working out?
I don't think that it is.
And then, of course, the New York Times of the Obama says government health coverage plan would not hurt private insurers.
I just explained how it'll wipe them out.
Private insurers have to show a profit.
The government never shows a profit, and they don't have to.
Private insurers will not be able to compete, pure and simple.
Now Obama's talking about mandates anyway.
Mandating people get coverage, but it's over.
Bruce in Muskegon, Michigan.
You're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Ross, for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Please bear with me.
I'm a little bit nervous.
Long time, long time listener, first-time caller.
Yes, sir.
Um, I'm calling regarding the uh firing of Inspector uh Walton.
Yes.
This kind of reminds me of the days Nixon fired Archibald Cox.
You know, Obama's not even following the laws that he helped co-sponsor when he was in the Senate.
And um, um, you know, other than back on the Fox News, the mainstream media is not covering the story at all.
So I got two two quick questions.
One, um, what will it take to get the main street media to stop being a lab dog for Obama on the state?
And not that the mainstream media is not.
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
Do not ever.
Folks.
Just a teachable moment, and I need to repeat this constant.
Do not ever, especially with this president and this media.
Do not ever think that the media, the state-run media, is gonna carry water for Obama opponents.
It isn't going to happen.
You well, what can the Republicans do about it?
I know there's a letter, a letter signed by a former Republican U.S. Attorney General, a former Democrat White House counsel, 144 other prominent lawyers, has been sent to the White House and to the Attorney General about this.
So the private sector, you know, the special interest groups, they're gonna be the ones to bring pressure.
The media is gonna be dragged, kicking and screaming into covering this and eventually covering for Obama.
We will be back.
Warren Buffett wasn't finished.
Warren Buffett wasn't through.
He blasted Pelosi's cap and trade national energy tax, called it a huge tax, fairly regressive.
It will harm an awful lot of people.
Warren Buffett's a giant Democrat wrecking ball on CNBC today.
And they had a gay exorcism in a Connecticut church.
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