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July 21, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to temper your enthusiasm.
Those of you who have heard that Henry Waxman pulled the health care bill from the energy and commerce markup today.
I want this is a very, very dangerous time right now.
What this means is that Nancy Pelosi has pulled a bill.
The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats are going up to the White House this afternoon to be lobbied by Obama.
They're going to be working with the White House to make another run at health care.
It is not dead.
We need to be on our toes.
They're going to regroup.
They are going to pretend to be addressing the public's concerns.
They will uh they'll up the lies.
They will up the rhetoric.
This is a very dangerous time.
There was a lot of euphoria this morning when the markup committee just gave up when Waxman pulled it.
Boehner went out there and uh said they never go away, folks.
They never go away.
We got some great sound bites here of health care fiascos at town meetings involving Obama administration officials, Reserve Louisiana is one place.
We're loaded here today with stuff like this.
Greeting, it's great to have you with us.
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Two days in a row.
Obama moments away from another televised appearance on health care.
USA Today Gallup poll shows huge dangers for Obama.
He is tracking lower than Jimmy Carter.
In the Gallup poll, the USA Today's website, you can see Obama compared to other presidents since polls were started in the 40s.
He's 10th.
He's the tenth most popular president since polls were taken at this stage in his administration.
And the drive-by's state-run media is appalled.
They're out there making all kinds of excuses for this.
It's natural.
He's taking on big things.
It's only natural that gravity would assert itself here.
So big health care day coming up today, and again, the the Energy and Commerce Committee that could try to they'll try again tomorrow to get to start marking up the health care bill.
They're going up to the White House today to be lobbied by Obama, which means Rom Emanuel is going to be there with a loaded gun.
And we'll just we'll just have to wait and see.
This is this is not a time to start thinking victory.
This is a time to keep mounting up even more heat.
We'll get to the details of all this in just a second, but this is amazing.
As the watchdog of the government's massive bailout of the financial sector.
TARP, Neil Borofsky had a simple question.
What had the nation's banks done with all their bailout money?
It can't be answered, said the Treasury Department, because the way banks move money internally, the department declined to put the question to the banks.
So Borofsky started asking financial institutions himself, and he got answers from more than three hundred that had received federal bailout money and learning to what extent they had used the money to increase their lending and so forth.
The bottom line here, there is no transparency in TARP.
There are all kinds of examples of waste and fraud and abuse.
Over 35 instances of waste.
Actually, fraud in the bill from Mr. Transparency himself, Barack Obama.
The whole thing is an absolute disaster.
Geitner did not allow Treasury to trade uh uh track money to the banks in the bailout, so nobody knows.
There was no transparency, there was no track.
This is a stinging report from the TARP inspector general.
This guy probably got canned too, like the inspector general for AmeriCorps, Gerald Walpen.
Um, this guy says it's a stinging report.
Just a stinging report.
All told.
Let me get you the numbers here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, all told 83% of the financial institutions said they used some of the funds for lending.
Although there were no effort to verify the reports, the inspector general said the survey provided a useful picture of how funds were used, but they don't have any idea.
They really don't know what was done with the TARP money, other than these instances Of fraud.
And to add insult to injury from state-run AP, Obama says he sees a lack of humility among leaders of the financial community.
While noting that some of the nation's most powerful banks had repaid federal bailout money, Obama said what you haven't seen in the financial sector is a change in culture.
A certain humility where they kind of step back and say, gosh, you know, we really messed things up.
He's on the Today Show today.
He said the industry should be more focused on products.
We're providing consumers.
Let's make sure we're operating in a more secure, safe fashion.
it.
So we we really messed things up.
They want the banking people who we mess things up.
This is what Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Dodd, Biden Obama should be saying right now.
We mess things up.
You're the ones that have messed things up, Mr. President.
You've messed things up for everybody.
So they asked Barney Frank about this today.
This is uh in Washington, the House Financial Services Committee here.
Well, he wasn't asked about it.
There was a hearing, and Barney Frank said we have two bites.
Here is my problem.
I cannot find a villain.
Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains.
They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder.
But as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged.
He can't find a villain.
Look in the mirror, Barn.
Look in the mirror.
You didn't hear what he said.
He oh here, play it again.
We gotta we'll play this again.
And it is a second soundbite.
Come but he cannot find a villain to blame all these tarp fiascos on.
Play 17 again, please.
Here we go.
Here is my problem.
I cannot find a villain.
Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains.
They tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder.
But as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged.
So uh can't find a villain.
He's looking at himself in the mirror.
He's the villain.
There's Barney Frank, there's Chris Dodd.
All of these people are the villains in this.
He can't find a villain.
And then he goes on to say this.
No one has ever gotten re-elected with a bumper sticker said, it would have been worse without me.
You probably can get tenure with that, but you can't win office.
I understand that reality, but we should not let it distort us.
And it would not, I think, hurt us every so often to admit that not every action by every public official was a bad thing, and sometimes we should give people credit for trying to cope with uh an unpleasant reality the best they can.
Oh.
So now he wants credit for trying.
See, we're back to this.
We've got to give them credit for their good intentions.
Never do we look at their results, and he can't find a villain.
So here he is, the banking queen himself.
Here is my problem.
I cannot find a villain.
Now, many of my colleagues have found various villains.
Uh they tend to be private sector or public sector, depending on the ideology of the finder.
But as I look at what happened, what I see is a very difficult situation that threatened further severe damage to an economy already damaged.
I really believe Obama is showing some instability, folks, becoming a little unhinged.
The poll numbers are falling.
Uh his trust numbers are falling.
They're they're very low.
Uh nothing is happening as they envisioned in the white.
The power of his personality and his essence, his being, is not enough to get them over the hump here.
There's there's fallout on this health care business all over the country.
For the second day in a row, Obama's going on TV's late.
He's supposed to be up there six minutes ago, probably a teleprompter.
And uh he's gonna make a big push.
Now, there was a markup to session today in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman's Committee, uh, to mark up the House version of health care bill that fell apart.
They don't have the votes to pass it right now.
So Obama is uh uh gonna bring all these people up to the White House this afternoon to lobby them, which means Ron Emmanuel's gonna be in the room in a loaded gun.
Um, but folks, this is it, it really is a very dangerous time.
Well, I would not be surprised.
Obama will make any deal he can to get this done.
They'll say, okay, we've heard you.
We're not gonna tax uh we're not gonna tax health care benefits.
And we're not, we're not gonna uh we're not gonna raise taxes on the rich to pay for it.
We're not gonna do it.
We'll we've heard you.
You'll be able to keep your health in sure.
Blah, blah, blah.
But All these law.
And then once they get a bill done and get their foot in the door, all that promise that they made is out the door.
These people think that we don't know who they are.
They will do and say anything to get this bill because it's not about health care.
Right now, what this is about is saving the Obama presidency.
Jim Dement was right.
If he gets, if he doesn't get this, he's done.
This is the signature thing.
He come back for it next session, next year, keep coming back.
But remember Clinton tried once, didn't get it, and the same thing is happening this time that happened back then.
People are reading the bill.
Not the people in Congress are going to vote on it, but people are reading the bill and they're finding out what's in it.
And it this is a I'll tell you, the thing to feel optimistic about here is that with no votes in the House or Senate, this has been brought to a screeching halt for now.
It's not over, and they're never ever going to go away.
They're never ever going to give up on this.
But it's a testament to the role that the new media is playing on who is informing all of these people who are opposed.
The mainstream media is not informing them.
The state-run media is not telling them what's in health care.
Many of the conservative intelligentsia inside the bellway are not telling them what's in the bill.
It's us, folks.
It's us in talk radio.
It is us on the internet, the blogs and so forth.
We're doing the heavy lifting on this.
In fact, there's a about this, there's a funny column today by David Brooks in the New York Times, liberal suicide march.
And Brooks's point is that the liberals, just like conservatives, just like Republicans have overreached.
They've overstepped.
He says it was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America.
Yet a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.
It's not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America.
That's because the plot lines exactly the same.
The parties led by insular liberals from big cities in the coasts who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates.
They have their own cherry-picking polsters, their own media, and activist cocoon, their own David Brooks' column today credits the blue dog Democrats for putting the brakes on the fast track to Obamacare.
Now, as you know, Mr. Brooks, and I mention this only because it's somewhat funny.
Wait a little wait till you hear one of the closing paragraphs in this piece coming up here in just a second.
But David Brooks is obsessed with attacking conservatives and conservatives, especially talk radio.
So his column today is interesting for only one reason.
He shows how wrong and clueless he and his ilk are.
The reason that the brakes have been on Putin is not the blue dog Democrats.
He is so desirous of crediting people that he thinks are like him.
The moderates, the moderates making it, the moderates, the blue dog Democrats and moderates.
They're the ones that have brought this to a screeching.
That's B.S. I and my fellow colleagues in Talk Radio have spent months exposing the defects, the dangers of national health care.
We have given voice to the studies and the reports analyzing the massive costs and dislocations and loss of freedom.
It'll cause David Brooks hasn't done that.
None of his ilk have told anybody what's in the bill.
He's just standing around watching from the sidelines and doing anything now to credit moderates for stopping this.
We, on the other hand, have discussed with our audiences day after day after day, despite the best efforts of the drive-by media to deliver national health care to Obama and his party, and from right now the brakes are on and they are in a state of disarray.
Obama is showing high signs of being unhinged and and and signs of instability.
Now, this is the nature of talk radio.
It's the nature of democracy, and it has been it's been rejected time and again by the intelligentsia in the conservative movement, the Republican Party.
They attack our voices and our philosophy.
So we get this blather from Brooks today, who blithely asserts that the Democrats have overreached, that they are insulated.
But what he cannot bring himself to be is honest.
The reason the public is reacting as they are is because they are Informed.
They are not stupid.
They have avenues for information they would not otherwise have, but for talk radio and the internet.
Some more mainstream outlets.
Mr. Brooks has not been a participant in informing people of just how horrendous this Obama health care plan is.
He's content to sit there and write today that they've overreached.
Oh, it's fun to watch everybody overreach it.
Republicans did it now, the Democrats are doing it because everybody ignores the moderates.
Look at this.
Snurdily, I want you to listen to this.
This is actually funny.
That leaves matters in the hands of the blue dog Democrats.
These brave moderates are trying to restrain the fiscal explosion, but moderates inherently lack seniority.
They're from swing districts.
They're usually bought off by leadership at the end of the day.
Brave moderates.
Mr. Brooks, seriously, who do you think is putting pressure on these so-called brave moderates?
They are fearful, Mr. Brooks.
They are fearful of their voters.
Their voters are more conservative than most of them, and certainly more conservative than Obama.
This, you know, I don't care where you go inside the DC uh the beltway, other than talk radio there and some interview, you are not going to find any media that actually informs anybody on anything.
As I said yesterday, most of the media is spending time talking about is Obama gonna win, is Obama gonna lose?
Are the Republicans gonna lose?
How badly are the Republicans gonna lose?
It's horrible.
No details.
No details at all on the literal destruction of the U.S. economy.
All we get are brave moderates.
Now I'm not I'm not doing this.
I'm not making this point to give myself credit.
As you know, I don't need the credit.
Everybody knows the facts about this radio program.
What I am what I'm the point of all this is to reinforce with all of you that your steady opposition and you're letting your representatives know is what is working.
And it's a very dangerous time.
Because the Democrats and Obama know the trouble that they're in.
This is his signature issue.
They're going to get this one way or the other, by stealth or right out on the open.
And I don't I fully expect them to come out and lie about, okay, well, we've heard some objections we're gonna make changes here and changes there.
And then once they get the bill to get it over in the Senate, Commerce Committee go behind closed doors, starts adding adding things to it, like the Amnesty Bill before long, we got a bill that we don't know what's in it.
That's why we have to continue to focus on what we know that's in this current House bill and continue to tell people this is what their ultimate objective is.
This is what they want, regardless what's said from this day forward after this markup failure today.
And there's always tomorrow to come back to the markup.
So uh this is uh an attempt by me to keep people inspired and motivated rather than on the side lines and analyzing the brave moderates.
The brave blue I mean it's by definition, moderates can't be brave.
They don't have opinions.
Don doesn't like me saying things like that, but I mean brave moderates.
Great moderates in American history, show me the book.
President Obama, uh, ladies and gentlemen, was scheduled to do a uh a brief what it's not a news conference, that's tomorrow night.
Uh, but it was a statement on health care at 1215, uh, not uh basically 19 or 20 minutes ago.
He still has not shown up at the podium wherever this is going to happen.
He uses a different room in the White House for uh for every speech.
And there's clearly one reason why.
He had to wait for his staff, or maybe he listed himself to tell him what I said before going out and making comments.
They're on defense at the White House about this.
The instability of this White House and the unhinged behavior regarding this health care bill is breathtaking to watch.
Uh you're not going to have that characterization of this White House uh portrayed by the state-run media, of course.
No, sturdily, I'm I'm not joking, and I'm not, I'm not being pompous.
I'm never pompous, and I'm not being bragging noise.
You know, this markup thing today, this this this nobody thought this is going to there last night I will tell you that I heard that there I wasn't going to mention this at all today, but now I can.
There were rumors floating around last night that the House Democrats, not just in the Energy and Commerce Committee, but the whole House were in rebellion over this over one, the the the sweeping nature of this whole health care bill, but number two, they were really upset that they have to fall on the sword and go first before the Senate does.
The Senate has their own bill.
And by the way, did you know that there is a uh a Republican version of a health care bill in the Senate that features, among other things, the deductibility of health insurance on your taxes?
No, you don't know that because it hasn't been reported.
But I have um I have little doubt if he's listening to what Jim Demens saying, he's listening to this program as uh people in the White House are, so to get an idea what the reaction to the markup is today, Obama will be out shortly, I'm sure, with his reaction.
Let's give you some uh flavor, a taste of how it's going out there.
I in the public, as various members of the administration and members of Congress fan out to do town meetings on health care.
We have in Maryland, first up, Senator Ben Cardin held a town hall meeting.
Audience member Robert Broadis of Clinton, Maryland, lost his job, replaced it with one that paid him far less money, had this exchange with Senator Cardin.
That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
Senator Carden.
I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care, or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't think.
What happens if you get sick?
What happens if you are in a car accident?
Or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency rooms.
You don't pay.
You are uh part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does pay.
And they're paying for you.
Now, I should say I should have said so what he's he he's he's not buying health insurance, and he's using that money for other things.
And he right now he's young, he doesn't want to buy health insurance.
He's one of these 47 million, does not want it.
Uh and and uh for whatever reason.
So he's he's asking if he's gonna be forced to buy or be fined $2,500 if he doesn't.
Now, I guarantee you, he's had to have heard that on talk radio.
He's had to have heard that or read that on a blog.
He has not heard that from state-run media.
He hasn't read that in the New York Times or the Washington Post or Time Magazine or Newsweek or anything else.
He hadn't seen it on television.
Mr. Broadis knows this.
We talked about it yesterday.
It's in the bill.
I think it's page uh that's a McCoy story, 1617.
If you don't have health insurance, you if you can't prove to the IRS, remember that, that you have health insurance.
If you can't prove it, you get fined 2500 bucks.
So Cardin comes back and says, well, all well and good, but then you get sick and have a catastrophe.
Other people who are paying gonna have to pay for your health care.
What a convoluted system.
But the point here is that people are informed about this and they are really taking it to members of Congress.
Let's go to uh Reserve Louisiana.
Health and humans uh human services secretary, Kathleen Sibelius, held a town hall meeting, and an unidentified audience member had this exchange with her.
It'll be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
The federal employee host system would stay in place, as would other employer-based coverage.
He's getting booed, she's getting booed.
People know, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country.
Excuse me, excuse me.
The f now get this.
The federal employee health system would stay in place, and it would.
They won't have to go to the public option either.
The federal employee health system is a great one.
They're not gonna have to go to the public option.
This guy knows it.
Kathleen Sabilia just didn't know what hit her.
These people in the Obama administration think they're all gonna be junior gods when they go out because they think Obama is universally loved as a god, and he may be by a lot of people, but his policies are not loved as though they are biblical.
His policies are not even supported by a majority of people.
Let's now go to the president himself.
He was on the uh the well, this is with a I guess a conference call with left wing bloggers.
Yesterday in Washington, a blogger from Maine had this exchange with President Obama.
They're saying that HR 320 will make individual private medical insurance illegal.
Is this true?
Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though HR 320 is passed?
You know, I I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you're talking about.
He doesn't know what's in the bill.
He admits he doesn't know.
We're speeding up Obama, Barney Frank Pelosi because they're in such a hurry to get this garbage done before we find out what's in it.
Of course it's too late.
We know what's in it.
So we're speeding them up to illustrate the haste that they are engaged in.
Will make individual private medical insurance illegal.
It will.
It will.
Guy asks the president a left a left-wing blogger, a left-wing blog.
This how did that question get into a left-wing blogger conference call in the first place?
And so Obama says, Well, here, listen to the Biden.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know if the House bill outlaws private insurance.
That's just business daily.
They're saying that H.R. 3200 will make individual private medical insurance illegal.
Is this true?
Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though HR 320 was passed?
You know, I I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you're talking about.
Then the president goes on and promises he won't sign a bill that does that.
If that's true, he cannot sign this bill.
I have committed myself consistently to a very simple proposition.
If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it.
Period.
And I won't sign a bill that somehow would make it tougher for people uh to keep their health insurance.
Now, folks, I told you yesterday how difficult it is for me to accuse uh the president of the United States of of lying.
But one of two things.
If he doesn't know what's in the bill, which is entirely possible, he may not know what's in it.
He did he he he's got this grand, grand status giant government vision of things, and he actually believes that's going to make things better for everybody.
And somebody may have told him, I know this sounds hard to believe somebody may have told him, no, we're not messing with private.
If people want to keep their plans, they get to keep their plans.
But that's not the case.
I don't know how many times I have to say this, but we'll keep seeing it.
People are getting getting to understand this.
You there there will be no private plans offered because private plans will not be able to compete with a government that does not have to make a profit in their health insurance plan.
They can print money, there'll never be a loss on their books.
There's no way to compete.
Plus the plan specifically says if you change your policy or lose your job, you're done.
You have to go public option.
It says that.
He doesn't even know that.
Let's go back to the campaign.
Here's an ad.
Senator Obama ran about Senator McCain.
I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
Maybe you're struggling just to pay the mortgage on your home.
But recently, John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
Hmm.
Then again, that same day, when asked how many houses he owns, McCain lost track.
He couldn't remember.
Well, it's seven.
Seven houses.
And here's one house.
America can't afford to let John McCain move into.
Well, running ads out there making fun of McCain not knowing how many houses and condos he had.
It's making his wife owns them.
That's why he doesn't know.
And Obama doesn't know what's in the health care bill.
Admit I didn't know that uh the provision was in there.
Did you also hear President Obama say this is not about me?
We gonna destroy that later in the program, too.
And he also said, defended his response to the economic crisis.
He said the fire is now out.
Said this on PBS.
We've got it coming up here.
I I think I think we've stepped back from the abyss.
I I think I think we've put out the fire.
Uh what did he say out in Hollywood?
He said uh we we've uh we've turned back from the brink.
That was a couple of months ago.
Other days it's gonna get worse out there, folks.
But we've we've put out the fire.
Fire's out now.
The analogy I use sometimes is we had this beautiful house and there was a fire.
We came in, we had to hose it down.
The fire's now out, but what we've discovered is we need some new tuck pointing, the roof's leaking, the boilers out.
Oh, and by the way, we're way behind on our mortgage.
So maybe there was arson.
If the fire is out now, we've got to ask who started the fire.
Obama loves attention and adulation.
So he goes into your house and starts the fire.
He took office, he's an arsonist.
He started the fire.
After he starts the fire, he runs out of the house, he waits for the smoke, and then he starts yelling, fire, fire, fire, fire.
He then gets the hose and he starts spraying your house.
All to get the credit as the hero who noticed and put out the fire that he started, leaving you with a big soggy mess of home when he started it in the first place.
We've got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that, we'll come back and continue after this.
All right, we're gonna get to the phones.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
But first, I want to go back to the the uh the soundbite here from uh the town meeting with Benjamin Cardin and an audience member Robert brought us.
I was in such a hurry to get all of this in in the first segment that uh I forgot to answer something very crucial here in this soundbite.
Here's the bite again.
That's working out fine for me because I'm able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself.
Senator Carter.
I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care, or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't do.
What happens if you get sick?
What happens if you are in a car accident, or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency rooms, you don't pay.
You are uh part of the population that shifts its cost over to a person who does pay.
And they're paying for you.
Now, the two things about this.
Number one, Cardin does not deny the guy's question.
Doesn't deny his point.
Cardin confirms, oh, yeah, you're gonna be fined if you don't have health insurance because you're putting pressure on the system when you need catastrophic care and you don't have any insurance, we all have to pay for it.
The answer to that is very simple.
If people were not already paying so much in federal and state income taxes and local property taxes, this young guy that asked the question might have more money to buy a policy of his own choosing.
Maybe he only wants a policy that covers catastrophes.
Maybe he only wants catastrophic care.
What happens then is you get bills from the hospital.
We had it, we had the doctor on the phone yesterday.
People get treated without insurance.
They get a bill from the hospital.
A payment schedule is worked out.
Folks, here's the you know, we we've lost sight of the premise here.
We in this whole health care fight.
There's nothing wrong with our health care system.
There is nothing really wrong.
It needs some fine tuning.
The thing that's really out of whack is the cost.
But we've got the finest health care in the world, as I pointed out yesterday.
Nobody leaves this country for health care.
Nobody unless they go to Sweden to dry out or to Mexico for some revolutionary new unapproved cancer treatment, but nobody leaves this country, nobody takes their kids out of this country for health care.
It's all over the world people come here.
And they come here from programs that are socialized Canada, Great Britain, because they're rationed, and there are long lines.
But nobody leaves here.
There's nothing really wrong.
All we got to do is reorient the cost structure.
And that's what Obama, the Democrats strictly oppose.
There's one thing here that does that that I think on our side of the aisle where healthcare is concerned.
There's one, there may be a couple more than these, but there is one factor that tends to make otherwise people who are otherwise opposed health care support it.
And that is people who are relatively young but who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insured.
If somebody has diabetes, or if somebody is has a heart condition, they're not going to get insured.
And Obama's promising to insure them.
Obama's promising that everybody's going to get insured.
So if you're in a family that's relatively young and you've got a family member that has a pre-existing condition and you can't, that's something that needs to be dealt with and taken care of.
Handle the pre-existing conditions, but that's a minor fine-tune.
That is not amazing.
We don't need to overhaul this.
We have bought or we've bought a bill of goods.
We've been sold a bill of goods since 1993 that our health care system's falling apart because there were 43 million uninsured, 47 million uninsured.
All these poor people, they want health insurance and they can't get it.
It's so unfair.
A country's so unjust and so there's nothing wrong with the health care system.
Major structurally, there's nothing wrong with it.
We bought the premise that we have to have major reform.
We don't.
So we just put this put the brakes on all this.
Okay, Obama has shown up now after 35, almost 40 minutes late, for his announced 1215 statement here, his remarks on uh health care reform.
Doesn't look happy up there.
Uh nobody, I think there won't be any questions.
That's uh that's for tomorrow night.
So uh we've got to take a brief time out here.
Uh just fast as three hours of media time zipping by.
Be back as soon as we can.
Don't go anywhere.
Well, I had a chance to listen a little bit of the president here, and uh he's lying again, folks.
He says if you if you like your health insurance plan, you keep it.
It's right there unpaid 16 of the House bill that you don't get to keep it.
Obama also does not cover pre-existing conditions.
Uh remember his own story about some people maybe it just does it doesn't it is not worth the money or the time if they're 100 years old or whatever to treat them with a pacemaker, just give them a pain pill.
And I'd give a pain his by his own admission, he he would not cover pre-existing conditions.
That 100-year-old lady that got a pacemaker.
105, I think, or whatever it was.
He talked about giving her painkillers instead.
If you ration care, pre-existing conditions are not always gonna be covered.
Lots of existing conditions are not gonna be covered once you start rationing.
So he's he's um he's telling the same falsehoods.
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