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July 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As always, a thrill and delight to be with you.
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ABC Radio News at the top of the hour during the most recent newsbreak here on the EIB network.
This kind of this kind of drivel makes me.
You know what?
We ought to provide our own programming here.
If we don't have any break at the top of the hour and allow our stations to continue to carry the program, it would be polluted by some state-run media.
It's not surprised, ladies and gentlemen.
It's no surprise whatsoever.
This is a new Castrati uh voice, by the way.
It's no surprise that a president who grapples with tough if you should poll numbers drop.
Of course not.
What a brave and courageous young man this young president is willing to risk his poll numbers for all that he believes in for the American people.
It's not unusual at all to see a president who grapples with tough issues, see his poll numbers drop.
Did we ever come close to hearing any analysis like that during the Bush administration?
I'm gonna tell you what here, folks.
All the networks are breathlessly awaiting Obama's speech on health care as he supposedly grabs the baton.
My he has never let go of the baton.
And he's got this speech, and there's this little children's hospital teddy bear logo that he's going to be standing in front of that they are, I think they're in disarray.
The White House is in disarray, and here's the reason why they're in disarray.
The so-called personal lovability, respectability, competent, whatever you want to say, however, you want to describe Obama's personality.
Well, at least he can talk.
He's smart, he's educated, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh is not working anymore.
There is no bam magic.
When the approval numbers start falling, there is no bam magic.
You know, I was talking about Clinton uh and his poll number 60%.
I left out something crucial in analyzing why Clinton's number stayed above 60 during impeachment Lewinsky.
The economy was roaring.
The economy was roaring, and people don't mess with it, don't mess with it.
We don't like the guy, but we really don't like it.
He was a reprobate, but don't mess with it.
The economy's good.
Don't mess.
Well, the economy ain't good.
And Obama's got there, look at Teddy Bear Children's National, whatever the hell it is, the logo he's going to be speaking in front of or underneath.
Obama is liked, unlike Clinton was not like Obama is liked, but the economy is excrement.
The only difference between our economy look it's just bad.
We're gonna see the real Obama see the real Obama now because of this disarray and because of this frustration that that magic isn't working.
We are now going to see the real Obama starting today with his speech, how he seeks to smear and destroy people behind the scenes who disagree with him.
We're gonna see the TV ads now.
We're gonna see Acorn and other groups become even more active.
We will see efforts to mischaracterize Obama opponents.
We will see and hear continual lies about their motives, people who oppose either Cap and Tax or the or the health care plan.
So get ready because we are going to soon see the real Obama.
The magic has worn off.
And he is, folks, who was it that it was um Jim Dement.
Senator Jim Demint, South Carolina said, if Obama doesn't get this health care, Obama is over.
Well, that really teed him off, and they're using that statement in TV ads.
They're gonna be going after Dement, but Dements closer to the truth than he knows.
If he doesn't get this, this is this is this is a centerpiece of everything else.
He had to destroy jobs in the private sector first.
He had to, well, he's had to start the assault.
He had to weaken the economy.
He had to run around and talk about how health care is a right.
You lose your health care when you get canned when you lose your job when you're laid off.
And so Jim Demint's got got uh more on this, more right on this than uh than he knows.
I mentioned uh Betsy McCoy, this is from July 17th in the New York Post.
Somebody read the bill.
She did.
She's not voting on it, but let me give you some highlights from her piece.
President Obama says if you like your health plan, you can keep it, even after he reforms our health care system.
It's untrue.
The bills now before Congress would force you to switch to a managed care plan with limits on your access to specialists and tests.
Two main bills are being rushed through Congress with the goal of combining them into a finished product by August.
Under either a new government bureaucracy will select health plans that it considers in your best interest, and you'll have to enroll in one of those qualified plans.
If you now get your plan through work, your employer has a five-year grace period to switch you into a qualified plan.
If you buy your own insurance, you'll have less time to switch.
As soon as anything changes in your contract, such as a change in copays or deductibles, which many insurers change every year, you'll have to move into a qualified plan instead.
That's on page 16 and 17 of the House Bill.
When you file your taxes, if you can't prove to the IRS that you are in a qualified, by the way, qualified plan means approved by Obama.
Qualified plan here means approved by government.
When you file your taxes, if you can't prove to the IRS that you are in a qualified plan, you'll be fined thousands of dollars, as much as the average cost of a health plan for your family size, and then you'll be automatically enrolled in a randomly selected plan.
That's on page 167-168 of the House Bill.
You have to, if you can't prove to the IRS that you're in a qualified plan.
By the way, folks, let me, you know, I don't do this very often.
Let me get personal here.
As you know, I'm in the midst of another harassing audit from New York State and New York City for the last three years.
I'm there 15 days a year.
I have to and I pay taxes when I'm in New York, and thus I have not been there this year, and I'm not going this year.
I'm sure I'll get audited for this year.
I'll have to prove that I was never there.
I have to prove fourteen different ways.
In fact, now we've come up with a couple of new ones that were sixteen different ways, including the lunch that is ordered here every day that we are in New York for the staff.
We have a bill.
We got a statement from the little Delhi that brings it in here every day.
We're going to submit that.
And they'll probably say, well, you could get them to say anything.
Do you have the same kind of service in New York?
We want to see those bills.
So we're up to 16 different ways.
Sixteen different ways I have to prove to the New York City and State Tax authorities where I have been every day, not just work week, but every day for the past three years, but it's been this way for the past 12.
Barack Obama has yet to have to prove he's a citizen.
All he'd have to do is show a birth certificate.
He has yet to have to prove he's a I have to show them 14 different ways where the hell I am every day of the year for three years.
And now if you file your taxes, if this health care plan passes, if you can't prove to the IRS that you're in a qualified plan, you are going to be fined thousands of dollars as much as the average cost of a health plan for your family size, and then automatically enrolled after you've been fined in a randomly selected plan.
Pages 167, 168 of the House Plan.
Imagine that.
Prove to the IRS.
It's one thing to require that people getting government assistance tolerate managed care, but the legislation Limits you to a managed care plan even if you and your employer are footing the bill.
Senate bill, page 5758.
The goal here is to reduce everybody's consumption of health care and to ensure that people have the same health care experience, regardless of ability to pay.
Except members of Congress, the White House staff, House and Senate, and so forth.
They'll have their own separate plan.
They will not be subject to this, and there are references in the Senate bill, I believe, that exempts the Senate from this plan.
The goal is to reduce everybody's consumption of health care.
See, let me focus on that for just a second, because the way they're selling this is that health care is a right, and that too many people are getting short shrifted.
They're not being allowed any health care, because they don't have insurance.
It's only a and you should be able to get the health care you want.
The United States of America.
America, well, the goal is to reduce everyone's consumption of health care.
In other words, you can no, you're not covered for that.
No, you can't go to the doctor for that.
No, you can't.
If you're 70 years old and you can't go to the no no, they're gonna that the only way they can come even close to not breaking anybody's bank, which they're gonna do anyway, is to reduce how much health care people consume, and then to ensure that people have the same health care experience regardless of ability to pay.
So you're gonna level the playing field, regardless.
You're gonna get the same health care as everybody else, and it's gonna be inferior.
Remember, the left never elevates things to make people equal.
They always lower.
Nowhere does the legislation say how much health plans will cost, but a family of four is eligible for some government assistance until their household income reaches eighty-eight thousand dollars a year.
House Bill Page 137.
If you earn more than that, you'll have to pay the cost no matter how high it goes.
So the idea that single payer and the good it's not going to cost you anything.
The price tag for this legislation.
1.04 trillion to 1.6 trillion.
These are CBO estimates.
Plenty of waste in Medicare.
CBO estimates only one percent of savings under the legislation will be from curbing waste, fraud, and abuse.
Anyway, this is Betsy McCoy.
We'll link to the whole story at Rushlimbaugh.com later this afternoon as we update the site to reflect the contents of today's program.
Brief timeout, we'll come back and we'll get to your phone calls ill quickly right after this.
We have talked about a group called Public Policy Polling from time to time on this program there in North Carolina.
They have a major Democrat group, uh, admittedly so, and they're troubled by some of their own polling, public policy polling's national survey.
This is just out today, by the way, shows Obama's approval rating continuing to drop.
Now, in this poll, public policy polling, Obama's at 50% approval, with 43% of voters disapproving, continuing a steady decline from 52% in June and 55% in May in this poll.
Compared to a month ago, his numbers are largely unchanged with Democrats and independents, but he continues to lose the little bipartisan appeal he had to begin with.
His approval with Republicans is now 12% down from 18% in June.
While he's continued to maintain a high level of popularity with African Americans and Hispanics, his approval with whites is now at 39%.
That's four points below what exit polls showed him earning last November.
Now we move on to this.
The numbers from this poll also seem to indicate that Sarah Palin did not do herself any immediate damage with her decision to resign as governor of Alaska.
Her favorability spread of 4745 is the best.
Public policy polling is founded over the course of six surveys conducted in the last four months.
Also, her eight-point deficit against Obama is the first time it's been in single digits as a prospective 2012 matchup.
Romney, uh what poll is it that hasn't tied?
I don't know.
So many polls.
Rasmussen 2012, um Obama 45, Romney 45, and Obama 48, Palin 42.
2012 presidential spread, Rasmussen.
How do I explain what?
The Palin thing.
Well, you know, this reminds me of a story.
And this is not one of my most proud moments.
I have I have to admit that.
I was very ashamed that this happened.
Last Thursday night the beautiful and gorgeous and just wonderful Catherine invited uh good friends of hers from Connecticut, the Goldman's down for the weekend, and they came over uh to uh compound for dinner on Thursday night.
Uh Ben Goldman is is 13 years old, is the most amazing 13-year-old kid I've ever met.
He has a um an inoperable brain tumor.
His health is okay.
It's just it it's it's inoperable.
It's uh it's it's it's it's a long story here.
But this young man is 13, going on 30 in terms of maturity and knowledge and what he knows.
So he and his brother um Nicholas and their mom and dad uh were down, and two cousins of theirs, so there were six of them.
We just had you know hot dogs and hamburgers.
I had the chicken and broccoli uh staying on the on the diet, a little putting contest out in the putting green on the back, and Ben took them over, showed a game arcade that we have built for the kids.
Uh and then we we we sat down to dinner and the subject of Palin came up, and one of the two cousins was complaining about Palin in much the same way that a lot of Republicans complain about Palin that it just it got on my nerve, and I blew up.
I just I just blew.
He it was it was a I actually am ashamed of the of the of the incident because I I started screaming, I started yelling, but I'm I'm I've gotten so frustrated with people on our side.
It's not enough that the liberals are trying to destroy the one candidate that fires up the Republican base.
She's got a 72% uh approval rating in in some other poll, favorability rating is as as we mentioned.
And I had just, you know, on the golf trip the week before, I had had to put up with this from Republicans, and they were just they were repeating what what the media says about her.
She's unsophisticated, she doesn't know anything about foreign policy, she's this and that and the other thing.
And I'm I mean here we we're looking at a guy, I'm looking at him on television right now, the guy is destroying the U.S. economy.
We have a president who has as his intention the destruction of freedom, free market economics via this assault on the U.S. economy.
Uh and Sarah Palin, of course, when she talks about economic matters is dead right on.
There's no question in my mind, Sarah Palin would be a 2,000 percent improvement over what we've got now.
So would Romney, so would so would anybody else.
But nobody's attacking Romney, nobody's attacking Huckabee, nobody's but everybody is out for Palin, and I know what I know why.
It's because people are still on our side, some of them still just hopeful that someday the drive-by media will love our candidate.
And I keep telling these people, they are telling us who our strongest candidate is by who they're trying to destroy.
The more you sit around and wait for NBC or CBS or ABC to validate Sarah Palin so that you can feel good about her, you're just gonna be continually disappointed.
So I just I didn't explain it in this reasonable way.
I'm explaining it to you.
I was literally shouting in my own dining room.
Ben Goldman with a big smile on his, he thought it was a good show.
And I profusely apologized.
I got up and gave these two guys the two cousins, big bear hugs, and I apologized.
They had smiles on their face for most of it, because who knows they might have thought it was a good show, but it was I I I just I I I've lost uh control there for for about three minutes.
And uh I I reminds me here of of the you know, this her numbers didn't drop because of resignment.
I knew they wouldn't.
The conventional wisdom is she's finished, and it was Republicans who were leading the charge saying she was finished.
And it what it goes to, folks, is this never ending the ongoing battle, the Republican Party trying to rid itself of conservatives, redefine the Republican Party so it has no I'm telling you, there's a lot of talk about third party out there uh that we ought to go third party.
No, let me tell you who ought to go third party.
The people have hijacked our party, Colin Powell, John McCain, uh some of these inside the beltway types, let them go form their third party and let us have our Republican Party back.
They're the ones hijacking this party from its days of victory.
They're the ones that can take a hike and form your own third party as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, we'll be back.
You know what I'd love to see?
I would love to see the party platform of a Colin Powell-led third party.
I would love to see the party platform of a Colin Powell, Meghan McCain, John McCain led third party.
And here's what it would be.
I can do it in one sentence.
We believe in the following.
But we're not going to tell you what the following is, because if you don't agree with us, we might agree with you.
It just depends.
That would be the party platform of a Colin Powell-led third party.
All right, I'm going to go to the phones, and I want to say one more thing because Obama just finished this breathtakingly misrepresentative speech on health care.
We can make reforms in ways that don't add to the deficit.
The CBO has put the lie to that, and Obama is withholding the July budget update numbers precisely because it will add to the deficit.
There's no interest in savings here.
There's no interest in efficiencies.
These people are acting like they've got no record and that we don't know who they are.
People like them have designed every losing program that we've got, every money-losing bank breaking program that we've got.
Now, when Obama sends his kids to public school, government-run school, when Obama lives in real public housing, not the White House.
When Obama uses public transportation like he wants all of us to use a war, he starts driving around a bubble car.
And when Obama's retirement consists only of social security, a public pension system, then he might be more convincing about the wonders of public, i.e., government-run health care.
But the fact is, the truth is Barack Obama lives off of and has gotten wealthy off of capitalism and the private sector.
Despite all his talk about the wonders of big government, he lives one way, he talks another, as do all the rest of the leftists in Congress.
I would love if if if he actually relies only on social security for his employment, send his kids to an average DC public school, then I'll listen to him when he tells me how wonderful the government runs things.
But when he will not subject himself to the same public institutions that he's going to require all of us to be subjected to.
And tells us how wonderful they are, but he won't go anywhere near them.
I'm sorry.
That adds up to zip zero nada credibility.
John in Radcliffe, Kentucky, as we go to the phones now.
I appreciate all of you who are on hold, your patience.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing today?
Just fine, thank you.
As I told Mr. Snartley, I'll go well, I'll get right to the point.
I uh I'm I'm retired from the Army, so I got a lot of time on my hands, and I decided to conduct a survey.
Uh I called around to as many congressmen as I could get through to on uh Thursday and Friday of last week, and I got a hold of about 75 to 80 senators and around 125, 150 uh representatives.
And I asked them that if uh being how they were so in intent on giving us this health care program, I asked if they would be willing to add on to it and eliminate the health care program that they have for themselves and for the president and join us in the program they want to give us.
Uh out of all those that I Got a hold of, I got no takers.
Of course not.
And I had one, the uh one one of the staffers that I spoke with said that that my idea had already been brought up during the uh markup process for the bill and rejected by the Congress.
It might already be...
Well, it's it that that was a it was a proposal in the House Ways and Means Committee by Sam Johnson.
No, that was illegal immigration, uh illegal immigrants being covered.
Uh that you're but you're right, it uh it did happen.
This is this is why I say, John, when all these people, Obama Pelosi, when they send their kids to public school, when they live in real public housing, when they take public transportation, when they avail themselves of all the wonderful benefits government-run institutions provide, then I'll listen to them tell me how wonderful it'll be for me.
But as long as they exempt themselves from the very things they're designing for us, I'm sorry, they have no credibility, and it should be rejected.
They're leaders, right?
They should show the way.
These are leftists and they are elitists, and these people have a different plan.
It's called power over you.
It's called limiting your freedom.
In fact, I want to go back to a soundbite from the open of the program.
And I I must remind you if you're just joining us, to illustrate the hurry that Obama and Pelosi are in.
I directed today that all audio sound bites about health care from Obama and Pelosi be speeded up.
Not quite to chipmunk speed.
I do.
You know what?
I after listening to these four, I myself personally think they're much more palatable to listen to.
They go by quicker, they don't sound as offensive, and it doesn't irritate me as much as listening to them at regular speed.
But I want to play this particular soundbite of Obama discussing the opponents of his health care plan.
Opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government run health care with long lines and ration care.
That's not true either.
I don't believe that government can or should run health care.
But I also don't think insurance companies should have free reign to do as they please.
That's why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, costs, and track records of a variety of plans, including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest and choose what's best for your family.
Now let's examine the meat of this right in the middle.
And it's it's again the straw dog argument that Obama uses, the either or.
He says, I don't believe that government can or should run health care, which he does believe government can and should run health care.
It's what his plan is.
But then he says, I also don't think insurance companies should have free reign to do as they please.
Now, having free reign to do as one pleases is a pretty good definition of freedom.
Is it not?
Now we know that Obama despises free markets, he despises free companies, and he really is threatened by free people.
None of us, in his view, should have free reign to do as we please.
His health care plan will prevent us from getting the health care coverage we want.
That will not be available to us.
It'll be available to him and members of uh Congress and other select few in government, but not us.
So typical Obama pattern here.
I don't believe government can or should run things, but I also don't think insurance companies should have free rate to do as they please.
Demonize every free market business and industry that you can go out and say, I don't think government ought to run things, but I don't think the insurance companies, which is designed to make people say, Yeah, you punish them, you take care of an Obama.
Uh I just I think it's frightening.
What is in store if this ever becomes reality?
Tom in Danbury, Connecticut, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
What a privilege.
Long time listener.
That's the maple sorp uh tobacco.
Uh I have raised four rush babies who are now four rush adults.
Well, thank you very much.
That's great to hear.
Talking about the cost of health care, and it we get fed this uh information about the constant rising costs.
Well, why?
One of the big reasons is because of the cost of Medicare and the cost of Medicaid.
Anybody who has a relative, a mother, or somebody on Medicare, will see that typically they only pay one third of normal and customary charges.
Well, who's gonna pay the balance?
Uh the insurance companies have to make the profit from somewhere, and so because of government's involvement in health care already, that's one of the reasons that health care costs so much.
What do they want to do?
They want more government involvement.
It's insanity, isn't it, Rush?
It is.
It's it's it's the subprime mortgage crisis coming to health care.
Same arguments, same failures predictable shortly down the road.
Robert and Stewart, Florida, you're next.
Great to have you here, sir, on the EIB network.
Sob.
Right, Sob, little CBI lingo.
Why, that's anyone who signs on for this, in my opinion.
I'm an 88-year-old veteran, 100% totally apparently disabled.
Your kiss on a kiss at death.
Just remember to pay it much.
If you couldn't make it, you're cut.
When your navy comes an symbol, and next to it, it's read.
You are not producing.
You're taking too much medicine, it's cost too much, and so you're gonna go.
The government controls those who can be born who choose to be born, an American independence of choosing who may live.
Not right, Bart.
We're a better country than that.
You can't put the mothers and fathers and the older people on the block and say, why do you think they should be terminated?
And I paying in anything, they're taking social security, you know.
You're a number, right?
That's what's gonna happen.
Exactly right.
In fact, I'm in fact, let me give you a uh a good illustration of this.
Ed Koch.
You said you're you're 88 out there, Robert.
Ed Koch is 84.
Let's say Obamacare is the law of the land.
Ed Koch needed bypass surgery, quadruple bypass surgery on June 19th.
He had a heart valve replacement and successful quadruple bypass surgery on June 19th.
He's been in the hospital since then.
He's 84.
Under Obamacare, take Ed Koch out of it, because Ed Koch, former mayor, he'd get covered.
Government official, apparatus, commissar.
But your average 84-year-old who needs a heart valve and a quadruple bypass, I guarantee you is not going to get it.
The government will say there's no point in making this investment in you.
You're already past the life expectancy.
And guess what?
Koch had to have gallbladder surgery today after having the heart valve and the quadruple bypass on June the 19th.
He's been in the hospital since then.
Now I'm not I'm not trying to be ghoulish.
I'm I'm I'm trying to be rational illustrate a point.
If Ed Koch were your average 84-year-old American, would he get any of that treatment?
By design he would not, because he's too old.
He's not worth the investment to keep alive.
Because we got to cut health care costs and so forth.
We gotta lose we've got to use less health care.
That's what it's in the bill.
Ed Coch had the ability with his current plan to have this work done.
He will lose his current plan.
Well, Koch may not be the best example because he's uh he's a former mayor, he's a Democrat government guy, and I'm sure would be taken care of as one of the apparatus, which reminds me of this story.
Henry Allingham.
He went to war as a teenager, he helped keep flimsy aircraft flying.
He survived his wounds.
He came home from World War One to live to 11 years of age.
He died Saturday.
You know what he attributed his longevity to?
Cigarettes, whiskey, and wild wild women.
113.
Jokes aside, he was a modest man.
He served as Britain's conscience that said here reminding young people time and time again about the true cost of war.
I want everyone to know they died for us.
Uh these old guys will be looked upon with disfavor by the Obama health care plan.
They represent some of the greatest, the greatest sources of collected wisdom to impart to other people simply because of the experiences that they've had.
But you asked yourself the question about Ed Cotcher.
88-year-old Robert here from Stewart, Florida.
If he if he needs major surgery like this Obama plan, he doesn't get it.
And he can't go pay for it privately.
He can't have private health insurance.
If he can't afford the procedure on his own, and then he's got to find a doctor who's willing to work outside the government plan.
And there's going to be intimidation on that.
This this is this is just a dreadful, horrible thing that they have on the drawing board.
I've got to take a brief time out.
Back after this.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Here we go.
I mentioned a moment ago.
They were gonna see the real Obama, how he seeks to smear and destroy people behind the scenes or disagree with him.
Only now he's doing it in public.
He takes on Jim Dement here in an upcoming soundbite.
We're gonna see the TV ads.
This is Obama in a state, the White House state of disarray.
The Obama magic not working here selling this.
So it's um, you know, a pedal of the metal time.
We have three sound bites, children's national medical center.
Obama delivers remarks on health care.
Here's number one.
We spoke about some of the strains on our health care system and some of the strains our health care system places on parents with sick children.
We spoke about the amount of time and money wasted on insurance-driven bureaucracy.
We spoke about the growing number of Americans who are uninsured and underinsured.
We spoke about what's wrong with a system where women can't always afford maternity care and parents can't afford checkups for their kids and end up seeking treatment in emergency rooms like the ones here at Children's.
So here we go, trying to ramp up the crisis mentality.
Parents can't afford checkups for their kids.
They have to go to the American parents can't afford this.
Parents can't afford that.
There's nobody leaving this country for health care, folks.
Other than some that go to Sweden to dry out, but I mean, traditional health care, nobody leaves this country to get their kids treated.
Except for the Charlatan cancer treatments you find in Mexico and other places.
But you know what I mean.
Nobody's leaving here.
Yet this guy has to once again run down this country's health care system, just like Mrs. Clinton over in India apologizing for all the carbon emissions that we have polluted the planet with.
Trying to get the Indians to agree with us or the Chinese to the Chinese and the Indians are pretty smart people saying, Look, we want our economy to grow.
You didn't hamper yourself when your economy was growing with all this nonsense, so you can't lay it off on us now.
His diplomacy, how's that working out for you, Hillary?
Second bite from Obama.
Just the other day, one Republican senator said, and I'm quoting him now.
If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his waterloop.
It will break him.
Think about that.
This isn't about me.
This isn't about politics.
This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy.
It is about him.
He's talking about Jim Dement, told you we're gonna see the real Obama now.
We're gonna see him.
He's surfacing.
It'll be Obama's water loot'll break him.
It is about Obama.
Read any drive-by media publication, and it's all about can Obama win?
Is Obama winning this or will Obama lose this?
We've got one more to play for you.
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition.
Nope.
Choice.
Nope.
Savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
Nope, nope.
And greater stability and security to America's families and businesses.
No.
For the average American, it will mean lower costs, more options, and coverage you can count on.
No.
It will save you and your family money if we have a more efficient health care system.
We can and we must make all these reforms, and we can do it in a way that does not add to our deficits over the next decade.
I don't know what to say, folks.
I I I literally do you don't know how difficult it is for me to say.
President of the United States is lying through his teeth.
I that is I don't know how else to say this.
None of that last soundbite's accurate.
None of it is true.
If you if you don't believe me, Listen to the governors who don't like this.
It's just such a pity.
It has come to this.
We'll be back.
Government run health care.
I want to explore the beginning of the life cycle and the end of it if the government's in charge.
Coming up soon.
And by Sturdly, have you had any phone calls asking me my thoughts on Walter Cronicite?
Probably just as well.
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