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June 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, I got my soundbite rosters all out of whack and order here, so I'm hunting and pecking.
627.
Let me look here.
627 number 19.
So what did I say?
627-19.
I'm going to write that down so I remembered.
627-19.
Oh, yeah, and have Banking Queen by Barney Frank standing.
Well, yeah, by Barney Franklin.
Okay, we're ready to go here.
Final hour, broadcast excellence today.
El Rushbo behind the golden This Is It.
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The email address Elrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Warren Buffett has blasted Nancy Pelosi's cap and trade.
Look at.
This is the Waxman Marquee Bill, but it's Obama's.
So Warren Buffett's, in effect, he's blasted Obama's cap and trade national energy tax, calling it a huge tax, fairly regressive, that will harm an awful lot of people, not to mention the U.S. economy.
Warren Buffett, a giant Democrat wrecking ball today on CNBC.
And from Channel 11, WPIX TV New York.
Story out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a video which shows an exorcism of a teenager to drive out apparent homosexual demons has sparked outrage among several gay rights activists.
Now, this is not Perez Hilton.
They're not talking about Perez Hilton here.
The video was posted on YouTube.
It features church elders from the Manifested Glory Ministries Church in Bridgeport performing the exorcism on a 16-year-old boy.
Again, not Perez Hilton.
One of the church leaders involved with the exorcism in the video says, right now, I command you to leave.
The teenager, not Perez Hilton, is seen rolling around on the ground, moaning and screaming.
And at one point, he even vomits.
It's not Perez Hilton.
Well, I don't know if it, well, let me read the rest of the story.
Does it matter?
It's unclear when the video was made, if the teen suffered any physical injuries.
Advocacy groups calling it video abuse.
They want authorities to get involved.
Video has since been taken down from YouTube.
Footage still making its rounds on the internet.
No word on whether the exorcism was successful.
But again, just to make sure no rumors erupt here, this is not Perez Hilton on the video.
All right.
Let's see.
Oh, about healthcare.
This, another story that took place while I was absent playing golf, staying in touch with the common man, as President Obama says, is the reason he plays golf.
He said it.
All right.
Look, I said, grab number 28.
Grab somebody 28.
We'll do it again.
It's amazing.
It was on the morning show, CBS yesterday.
Harry Smith, tongue, dragging on the floor.
What does golf do for you, President Obama?
It is the only time that for six hours.
Just moment I'm outside.
And second of all, where you almost feel normal.
There are a whole bunch of secret service pads, but they're sort of in the woods.
And when you're out there in the tea lot and you're hacking away and hitting some terrible shot and your friends are laughing at you, you know, it feels as if, you know, you're out of the container.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, he went out on Father's Day.
It's obvious he bailed on the family.
He goes out because he's horrible at golf.
He's admitted it.
He has admitted he's terrible at golf.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something.
You're just going to have to trust me.
If you're terrible at it, it's no fun.
If you're terrible at golf, playing it for six hours is one of the most miserable things you can do.
I don't feel like I'm out of the container when I play golf.
I'll tell you the one thing that I don't, and I really have never looked at it as related to common man.
I've always gotten grief for being an elitist playing golf.
Yeah, keep playing golf.
Stick to the issues.
No people don't care about golf.
Not enough people play it.
Russia just, you're showing how you've lost touch.
And Bush played golf.
They ripped him a new one.
When Obama plays golf, they let him get away with saying it's how he stays in touch with a common man.
For me, playing golf is: A, I have moments where I'm good enough that I enjoy it.
And number two, I don't think about anything else for the time I'm out there.
I'll tell you what, you can talk to people I play with when I'm not doing well.
I'm mad.
I am angry at myself.
And I, so I'm just trying to, he's as bad as he says he is.
It's no fun to be out there playing golf.
Anyone who's out there playing golf, I'm still working.
I'm still doing show prep.
And about this health care, have you remember hearing the news that the unions are going to be exempt from the Democrat health care tax?
You hadn't heard this one?
Oh, good.
See, it's a good reason for me to come back.
The best chance for compromise legislation on health care may be a plan under construction in the Senate Finance Committee that would pay for a public plan in part by taxing worker health benefits.
Your health package, your benefits package from your job, would be counted as income and you'd pay income tax on it.
However, the union workers who helped Democrats win Congress in the White House and whose support will be key in getting it signed into law would not pay the tax.
While cost estimates already run as high as $1.6 trillion, Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, has proposed paying for the bill in part by taxing health care benefits for workers who earn more than $100,000 or $200,000 for married couples, according to those familiar with the discussions.
Baucus is also weighing a tax based on the value of health care benefits that exceed a yet-to-be-determined cap.
So a tax on benefits that exceed the cap by a mere $3,000 could amount to $750 in taxes annually for a worker who earns as little as $34,000 a year.
But those union members serving under collective bargaining agreements would not be subjected to the tax at all.
And they're open being blatantly open about this.
Union workers would be exempt from the Democrat health care tax.
So guess what that says to people?
Hey, buddy, if you join our union, your health care won't be taxed like everybody else's.
Critics of the Baucus proposal to exempt unions said the exclusion could be used to lure into unions employees who are anxious to avoid the benefits tax.
Yes, exactly right.
So you continue to throw a bomb to the unions of the workers' paradise.
Remember, I said earlier that Obama's right on a Das Kapital.
Obama looks at profit as just surplus revenue that he can grab.
The private sector is just an endless, endless pile of money.
He can go get it, use it, for run it, whatever he wants.
I have also said that if you want to understand Obama's economic policy, understand just one thing, and that is he considers his mission to be to return the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners.
Now, if you're familiar with Marx and Das Capital, the rightful owners of a nation's wealth are the poor and workers, the middle class, who are exploited and used and taken advantage of, and on whose backs other people get rich.
Profit is considered evil.
Profit is considered something that's unequal.
It's unfair to have a profit and to make one.
So let's now go to the audio soundbite.
James Clyburn, is he chairman of Black Caucus now?
Or the ex-chairman of the Black Caucus?
Well, he's either ex-chairman or he is chairman.
He's a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
And Chris Matthews said to him that healthcare is redistributing wealth, reparations for slavery.
Matthews actually said in the question, I think reparations make sense.
I just wonder if we're ever going to figure out how to do it.
Do you have a clear sense of what's appropriate?
If you were the president right now, had the Congress 100% behind you, what would you do to make reparations for slavery?
What I would do is exactly what we're attempting to do with this legislation, energy legislation, health legislation.
I would look at ways that we can programmatically and with new policy address these inequities and make concerted efforts to do things that will make up for them and eliminate the disparities.
That's what I would do.
We're talking about addressing inequities, disparities that exist in the healthcare in our communities.
That's the kind of thing that we ought to be doing.
There you have it.
Matthews asks a question with the word, I think reparations make sense.
Reparations make sense.
So here it is, right at Das Capital.
Karl Marx, James Clyburn.
Well, we got to look at what we can do to address these inequities, make concerted efforts, make up these disparities and eliminate them.
Return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
Barbara Lee is now the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
That's right.
James Clyburn used to be.
Quick take.
Time out.
Sorry, back right after this.
Don't go away.
I spent the break here looking for a story involving the Congressional Black Caucus.
I found one, but I can't find the one I thought I saw, thought I had.
So I'm going to have to do an expert search on my computer.
I had it today.
I thought I'd print it and put one of these stacks.
I think it is that the Congressional Black Caucus is upset with cap and trade and don't like it.
But I can't find that story.
And I thought for sure that I had it.
So we'll find it.
I don't know, whatever it was about.
At any rate, I do have this about the Black Caucus.
An investigation into a trip taken by members of the Congressional Black Caucus is triggering a backlash against the Office of Congressional Ethics, which is Pelosi's signature ethics proposal.
Congressional Black Caucus members, frustrated at what they perceive as an accusation by a conservative group that's been blown out of proportion, last week formed a working group to look at taking on the 2006 resolution that created the Office of Congressional Ethics.
We might need to revisit the law.
In a CBC meeting last week, members complained the office doesn't have enough minority staffers.
The investigators acted like they were with the FBI.
Apparently, what happened was they took a trip somewhere.
They did some sort of hell, I don't know what it was.
Some sort of fact-finding trips or junkets or something, and the Office of Ethics is looking into how it was paid for.
And so the Congressional Black Caucus is now screaming racism at the top of its lungs, claiming that there aren't enough black investigators on Paul Pelosi's committee.
Yeah, it was a trip to the Caribbean.
Black Caucus criticizes Ethics Probe of their trip to the Caribbean.
And everybody thought the race business was going to go away with the election of Obama.
Gene in Brookfield, New York.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor.
My mother turned me on to listening to you.
Oh, gosh, it's got to be at least 15 plus years ago.
Anyway, the question or the comment I'm calling about is: I'm a retired disabled federal employee.
Now, I still have health care through my employer, which was the United States government.
I pay nearly, well, all but $27 of my retirement goes to my health care, so it's very, very costly.
It's a very good plan, or at least always has been.
Was it $27 a month?
Oh, God, no.
$500 and something a month.
Oh, you said all but $27.
All but $27.
Okay.
Because when you're retired government, you have to apply for Social Security so that the one agency can take 80% of the other's money and vice versa until you reach a real age of retirement.
Right.
Otherwise, it's called double dipping, even though it's not double dipping when you pay into it.
So, anyway, I always had excellent health care, and I still have that same plan, and I paid through the nose dearly for it.
But I have noticed lately, especially since the economy went south, obviously insurance companies are out to make a profit.
Their profit lately hasn't been the greatest because, just like everybody else's bank account, it's gone down with their investments.
So, lately, I have noticed that one particular item of mine, which is very costly, has been being denied.
Even though for umpteen years it's been medically necessary to get this item, CDPHP out of Albany, New York seems to deem that, oops, it was a mistake.
You don't get that.
And I have noticed that the reason that this is my guess anyway.
Wait, wait a second.
I'm confused here.
You're going to have to help me out on understanding something.
Okay.
You worked for the federal government.
Correct.
You had a health care plan through the federal government.
Correct.
Through a private insurer?
Yes.
You get to have your choice.
When you're a government worker, you get to have your choice of whom you're going to be able to do.
Okay, but this is a private insurer that's providing insurance for other government workers in a pool in your work.
Correct.
Correct.
Interesting.
And so now essentially your health care is being rationed.
For whatever reason, economy going to whatever your health care is.
My guess is the economy.
Yeah.
Because they're out to make a profit.
And the main comment here is.
Well, now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Just a second.
Now, when you say they're out to make a profit, you say this with a huge negative connotation to it.
No, I have no problem with businesses making profits.
However, my main point would be, if people now who have a very good health plan coverages are being denied so that you have to go through appeal after appeal after appeal, that if we're having problems with good insurances trying to get things that they've always covered before, what the heck do people think it's going to be like when the government's trying to hold on to it?
I can tell you right now, there won't be just the people that have insurance now that are getting disapproved for items currently.
Now, you say you're disabled.
Yes, I am.
I got hit by a truck.
You have a hip a truck.
Yes.
Government truck?
No, I was on my way to work, but I was in my own vehicle.
A truck put its rear bumper up my car up to the back of my head.
Oh, whoa, you literally.
Whoa, it gave you an enema.
Yeah, literally.
So I therefore was broken for the government.
But anyway, everything works out for a reason.
I now have metastatic cancer, so I wouldn't have been able to work now anyway.
So what the heck?
But the main thing here is.
Wait a second.
Are they treating the metatastic cancer?
That, but they don't want...
I have lymphedema from before.
And the garments, they say, are just the support stocking.
And you don't get to have that.
Even though everybody's going to be able to do it.
The disability is one thing.
Correct.
But you've got two conditions here.
Oh, I have multiple, yes.
All right.
Well, you got two, but you've got metatastic cancer, and you've got this disability.
Now, in my opinion, these circumstances are precisely what health insurance is for.
Correct.
It's not for people who go to the doctor every other day with, I think they had a cold or a cough or so.
Somebody is deciding somewhere that you're not worth it.
Right.
Even though I hate to put it that way to you, Gene, for whatever reason, you think it's profit or whatever, but somebody's determining that you're not worth it, and I bet you it's the cancer that you've got.
But they said that if you're a breast cancer patient, lymphedema of your arms, the material, the garments for that would be covered.
Mine happened to be up my legs.
Yeah, this is.
They're too expensive.
They used to cover them, but now they say, oh, that was a mistake.
Well, this may be private insurance, but is this...
But I'm just trying to save...
Is this Medicaid or Medicare related at all?
No, no, not at all.
I do have Medicare through Social Security, but only part A, only when I'm in the hospital, does that become primary?
This is absurd.
This whole circumstance that you're facing is absurd, and you're right.
It's only going to get worse.
It's going to get worse.
It's going to get worse.
And you know why this is the reason that this is absurd is because it's gotten so out of whack you can't afford it yourself.
Correct.
It faces out of the way.
So now you're dependent on all these other people.
This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Yep, you better believe it.
And my stepfather was on the last boat to this country with the communists seven miles behind him.
And when I was a little girl, I used to listen to him tell stories.
You always watch if your government ever does this or that.
And I used to roll my eyes thinking, oh, here we go again.
And let me tell you, I was talking to him Sunday for Father's Day.
I was talking with him on the phone.
And he said, gay, baby, he says, I never thought in all my life that I would see or live to see what is happening to this country.
And it's not so much that it's going towards socialism.
It's at the speed of which things have changed and are changing in this country.
Amen to that.
It takes sometimes an outsider to see that.
Well, God bless you, Gene.
I wish you all the best, but I'm glad you called and shared that with us.
That's a pretty good lesson.
Well, I've been monitoring Governor Mark Sanford's press conference here, folks.
I guess we've learned something.
Republicans like sex, too.
Up till now, that's been debatable.
Republicans are these church-going, moralistic, no fun in life kind of people, according to Libs.
And Mark Sanford developed, what did he say, an email friendship with the started innocently, the girl from Iponima, he went down to Argentina to see the girl from Iponima.
I mean, could have flown her in.
If he's going to do this, but for crying out loud, folks, this is inexplicable.
You are married.
You are a governor.
Father's Day weekend hits.
You get on an airplane and you drive your SUV to the airport in Atlanta alone.
You get on a plane, go visit the girl from Ipanema.
The word gets out, you're walking the Appalachian Trail.
The wife defends him.
Oh, yeah, he's out there writing.
He's doing some stuff.
This, how do you, how do you, how do you, how do you, this, what, yeah, at what point is your brain shut off?
I mean, this, this is, well, I, I, it's inexplicable.
It's, it's inexplicable.
This is whatever, a power of lust.
I've said, I've said over the years that lust is the one human emotion over which you have no control.
It can make you do things that in your sane moments you would never do.
And we're looking at an example of it here.
Well, love, I mean, people in lust think they're in love.
This is the kind of stuff that addicts do.
Never going to get caught, never going to happen, and so forth.
You just, you marvel at this.
But I'll tell you what, if he were a Democrat, it'd be a resume enhancement.
It has been a resume enhancement for many years.
If he were a Democrat, James Carville and Paul McGallow would be out attacking this woman today.
We'd find out who she was.
She'd be plastered all over as trailer trash.
Then we go after whatever media members are going to go after.
Whoa, this is a, it's a, well, wife is not standing there with a.
I don't look at, you know what?
I don't blame the wife not standing there.
That's always rubbed me the wrong way.
These politicians go out and do this stuff and their wives dutifully stand there.
not there i am mark sanford i mean i've met him I've met him at a wedding in South Carolina, and it was very nice.
Did say, by the way, he thought it was crazy for me to say, I hope Obama fails.
Oh, speaking of that, the RNC put out some release yesterday about how Obama's agenda is collapsing on him.
Did you see that?
I guess the RNC says Obama's failing.
Remember all that grief I caught from all these Republicans for saying that?
Now the RNC is putting out gleeful press releases about Obama's agenda collapsing on him.
Okay.
I found that story with the Congressional Black Caucus reference.
It's the climate change vote.
It's from thehill.com.
It was published yesterday.
Speaker Pelosi is moving forward with a floor vote on climate change legislation this week, even though many Democrats are undecided, although they did turn eight Democrats in favor of it.
And by the way, you Democrats that have changed your mind on this, you have guaranteed a no vote.
You've guaranteed your loss.
You are not going to be re-elected in 2010.
Anybody who votes for this thing guaranteed not to be re-elected, well, moderate conservative so-called Democrats.
But the reference here is Representative Lacey Quay, Democrat Missouri, and Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrat, Texas, members of the Congressional Black Caucus say they are not yet sold on the bill, so it's not the whole CBC.
The vote counter for the CBC, Representative G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat of North Carolina, explains his colleagues are reluctant to give a firm commitment until they can be satisfied it'll not disproportionately affect minority families.
Well, okay, so they'll be exempt from it, just like the unions are exempt from the tax increase on health care benefits.
All right, to the phones to Don in Lake Ronkunkaba, New York.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you again.
Mega Dittos.
Thank you.
As you said before, the ABC News is going to be presenting the Obamacare Infomercial miniseries tonight.
And I have no desire to watch it, but I was tempted.
What sign should I hang on the set if I was to watch it?
You used to do this during the Clinton administration.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you really mean?
All I could think of was return next week to hear what I really meant to say.
Well, no, if you want a sign to put on your TV tonight while you're watching the ABC infomercial, these people will die of anal poisoning.
I am the chosen one.
Listen to me.
My health care plan is for your own good.
Whatever, whatever.
Put a sign up there that reminds you that it's all BS.
Right.
Don, I appreciate the call out there.
Yes, sir.
Thanks very much.
Got Barney Frank standing by.
Testing one, two, three.
Good.
I got a response there from the New Yorkers.
You know, I'm thinking about Mark Sanford.
Hold it.
Hold it.
Stop it.
Stop.
Sorry.
I hit the button by mistakes.
My fault.
I'll take the blame.
I'm thinking about Mark Sanford here.
At least the others, all these other politicians, at least they pretend to go out on dinner dates.
This guy at least admitted he's down on the beaches of Argentina with the girl of Ipanema.
I mean, he didn't hold back on this, folks.
Yes, Barney Frank is back.
He wants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to loosen up.
He wants them to make it easier to lend money to people that can't pay it back all over again.
And Sanford could have been our JFK.
Mark Sanford could have been the GOP's JFK.
Except he admitted it.
Stop the tape a minute.
Don't re-cue it.
We're going to pick it up right there.
Some info, but was it CNN?
Some info, babe, on CNN's having a hissy fit.
A hissy fit over money.
He lied to his staff.
He lied to his wife.
Hey, babe, do you are you reminded of anybody's behavior that is similar to this?
In fact, with that one, we had a blue dress with a stain on it, babe.
She's in a hissy fit over this.
He lied to his wife.
He lied to his staff.
With Bill Clinton, these babes were trailer trash.
Barney Frank, back in on the action here.
Barney Frank, ladies and gentlemen, portrayed vocally here by white comedian Paul Shanklin.
Oh, Sanford could have been our JFK.
It has the look.
It could have been our JFK.
And with no mob ties either.
Another career down the tubes.
Two U.S. Democrat lawmakers now want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condos, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing market recovery.
This is a Wall Street Journal.
Barney Frank, in a letter to the CEOs of both companies, Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70% sales threshold may be too onerous, could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.
So he wants them to relax condo loan rules while more and more foreclosures are taken.
And then all the while, Barney Frank and Du Bois and Chris Dodd denying they had anything to do with the existing problem.
We are just here commenting amongst ourselves, ladies and gentlemen, that when these Republican guys, I mean, nobody caught him.
Nobody caught him in the act.
He came back.
Yeah, I was screwing off literally south of the border.
Girl from Eponyma comes back and admits it.
No wife standing there.
John Ensign last week or whenever it was, senator from, he said, and his wife wasn't standing there.
But when these Democrats go up there, their wives were dutifully in a blue dress room where Elliot Spitzer and his wife Silda was there.
Didn't help much, but just we're remarking, remarking on this.
And of course, it just reminds us of these big differences.
Here's Kira Phillips.
She's a CNN info babe that had a cow here a moment ago.
I don't even know where to begin.
I'm feeling pretty biased in so many ways on this.
You know, I guess we should just try and stick to the reason why we're covering this and not get a little derailed.
But put this into perspective, you know, governor cheats on his wife, lies to his staff, leaves his state, you know, in the lurch with no contingency plans.
You know, once again, all about him and selfishness in his love life.
Kira, Kira, Kira, have you not seen this behavior before?
It's named Bill Clinton.
Did you not probably defend this behavior before?
Did you not probably say he still doesn't affect his business?
He still did his work.
It's just sex.
Who's just sex?
Come on, Kira.
By the way, another sign, if you're going to watch the Obama infomercial tonight on ABC, here's another sign to put on your TV: free breast implants with a question mark.
You can put these people going to die of anal poisoning or free breast implants.
Speaking of Elliot Spitzer, remember how that all went down?
Stupid, he left evidence.
Sanford didn't do that.
I wonder if Sanford thought that he was going to get away with this.
Hop!
They all do, I guess.
I don't know.
It could have been our JFK.
Could have had it all.
Yeah, Gary Hart's wife stood next to him out there, too.
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin, a vocal portrayal there as Bill Clinton, talking about Elliot Spitzer and love client number nine.
Brief timeout.
We'll come back and wrap it up after this.
I'll tell you, Sanford handled this, as we've commented here, he handled this a little differently than most of these guys do.
Like Jensen, he was in a blackmail scheme or we'd have never known about it.
Elliot Spitzer was writing checks to the hookers.
Clinton left the semen on the stain, on the dress.
But what was Sanford did?
Yeah.
Yeah, went down there, screwed off for five days.
My bad.
Leave my wife alone, please.
Wasn't her fault.
Sorry.
Now, the real question is, at the end of his political career, will there be a Mark Sanford library and massage parlor?
Clinton has one, and there have been many famous ceremonies that have taken place there.
Well, what a day.
What a day to get back from a golf vacation in Hawaii, which, as President Obama said, I went to stay in touch with the common man.
That's why he plays golf, he says.
So we're back, and I can't wait for tomorrow, folks.
We'll see you then.
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