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July 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know, Snerdly, I know it's time to start the show.
I am the host.
I had to move the phone.
Oh, boy.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
This, the EIB Network and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And another full three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead, just for you.
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Looks like President Obama is now going to have to invite a black female cop who says she won't vote for him now over for Champagne with Gates and Crowley on Thursday.
They're going to get beer, but this cop probably is and maybe maker a czar of something.
Have you heard of it?
You don't know what this is about?
Oh, let's go right to the audio tape.
This is last Saturday night, CNN's newsroom.
They anchored Don Lemon interviewing Cambridge police officer Kelly King.
Now, you have to just love this.
We have here a black.
We have here a black woman.
We have here a black woman cop.
We have a black woman cop who voted for the BAMST.
We have a black woman cop who voted for Obama who now says never again.
So what we have here, we have a black woman cop who voted for Obama saying never again on CNN.
And by the way, CNN, you wizards over there, consumer confidence plummeted this month.
Your report on the rebounding economy yesterday didn't have much influence out there with people who are living in it.
A private research group says Americans' mood darkened further in July as worries about job security offset any enthusiasm about the resumed stock market rally that has helped bolster retirement.
I can't believe who wrote this.
Oh, yeah.
State-run AP helped bolster retirement accounts.
Retirement accounts are down what?
From their top?
60%, 40%, whatever it is.
Property taxes are going up.
Do you realize that 61,000 Californians in the next five months are going to expire their health care benefits?
And that's going to be happening all over the country.
People are going to, they're going to, unless they pass extensions, and there are already extensions upon extensions.
Now, watch what happens when that happens.
We'll see all of a sudden employment numbers go up as those people fall off.
They're not looking for jobs.
They're not finding any jobs.
They're no longer getting benefits.
They'll cease to exist as far as government reporting statistics are concerned.
So anyway, the economy is in the toilet.
Conference board said today, Consumer Confidence Index, which got a little bit better last month, fell to 46.6, down from 49.3 in June.
Economists were expecting a reading of 49, idiots.
It would take a reading above 90 to signal the economy is on solid footing.
Somebody needs to tell them this at CNN.
I mean, CNN, yeah, the recession's over.
Do you know that?
The recession's over.
8,000 jobs canceled by the end of the year at Verizon.
And what is it, Citibank?
Bank of America closing 10% of their branches.
Recession's over out there.
I have not lost my place.
Don Lemon, CNN, talking to a black, a black woman, a black woman cop, a black woman cop who voted for Obama.
A black woman cop who voted for Obama saying never again.
A black woman cop who voted for Obama saying never again on CNN.
She was asked, when you heard about what happened with this sergeant, what did you think?
I was appalled.
I know Jimmy.
I've known him for more than the 11 years with the Cambridge Police.
I knew him when he worked for Harvard.
I know him to be a good police officer, a good man, with character.
And I knew these charges were bogus.
There has been a tremendous rush to judgment.
And I think the thing to be learned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all.
I think Professor Gates has done a very good job of throwing up a very effective smoke screen calling race into this.
It had nothing to do with it.
This is Kelly King.
She's black, and she's a cop on the Cambridge Force.
So the CNN anchor Don Lemon said, well, what about the president?
It's unfortunate.
I supported him.
I voted for him.
I will not again.
I agree that I think it's admirable that he would speak on behalf of his friend, but he should have accused himself.
He should have stepped back and he should have said, I support my friend, but I don't have all the facts.
I won't weigh in yet.
The governor?
I would apply the same to him.
Don Lemon finally says, well, what do you want the people around the country to know who may have already made up their minds about Sergeant Crowley?
Keep their minds open and realize that we would not support someone that we felt wronged someone else.
We took this job to do the right thing.
We all took this job to do the right thing.
We would not support anyone in blue doing the wrong thing.
That is Cambridge Police Officer Kelly King saying, never ever voting for Obama again totally blew this.
That's why I was saying she's going to be invited.
She'll be invited to the White House and not beer.
Champagne A may make her a czarina, you know, give her some department to be a czar over.
You know, Obama, we all hear about how smart this guy is.
He's just, this is dumb.
If he's going to do, this meeting ought not be in the White House.
This is just going to add two more days to this story.
If there's a meeting, it ought to be up in Cambridge, either at Gates' house, if they can find a way to get in, or at the police station.
Well, no, that probably never happened.
But seriously, this is politically, this is dumb to play this out.
Are we going to have smoke signals come out of there at the end of the meeting?
What are they going to have?
Are they going to have a beer at 6 o'clock?
Is somebody going to apologize?
They're going to embrace.
They're going to be pictures all around.
It's just, it's, to me, it's mystifying within the context of how, you know, instinctively brilliant politically Obama is.
And by the way, Barney Frank, he weighed in on this this morning on Bloomberg Television News.
Correspondent Peter Cook said to him, the Gates situation in your home state of Massachusetts.
Did the president make a mistake there?
I didn't follow it all very closely.
Well, let me put this here.
The president has said what he wanted to say about it.
And I think he did.
It was very reasonable to find and diffuse this situation.
I did comment that I would say that to the extent that Father Bum was, people thought Professor Gates would be disrespectful.
People yell at me a lot.
I think the right to yell at people in authority is a very important American democracy.
Of course, if you're disruptive, if you're threatening, that's a problem.
But the right to yell at authority figures is, I think, a very important point in order to be protected.
This guy is from John Conyers, from John Conyers.
I'm still mystified by this.
I'm still mystified that this has not made it beyond the boundaries of this radio program.
And John Conyers, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said, who in the world can expect us to read our bills here?
You need two lawyers and two days to read this thousand-page health care bill and you need a lawyer.
Newt Gingrich had a great line about this.
Newt said, if the bill is too complicated for the chairman of the Judiciary Committee to understand, then it's too complicated to work.
If nobody can understand it, then it is a mistake to even try it.
So then we have Kanye saying that Barney Frank yesterday saying, it's not my job to help people make money.
It's their job to produce money for us.
And now Barney thinks it's okay to yell at people in authority.
Yeah, some people.
So people yell at him all the time.
I can imagine that that's true, but he thinks people could be able to yell at people of authority.
But let's go back.
Barney certainly does enjoy his right to yell.
We put together a montage here of Barney Frank, who was acting speaker at the time, and Representative Patrick McHenry, North Carolina.
You'll remember this.
Yes, the gentleman may state the inquiry.
So the chair is saying that I may not offer an amendment exempting American Samoa.
The gentleman is making a speech and will suspend.
The chair is not saying anything.
Mr. Chair, let me finish my question.
The gentleman will suspend.
The chair has answered the gentleman's question.
The gentleman will state the point of order.
How many times did I suspend?
The gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
The chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempted from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding.
The gentleman will not make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
Comments.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
The gentleman from Texas.
The gentleman from Texas was out of the water in the past.
So there's Barney yelling at people as acting speaker.
All right, we got to go.
Quick timeout, but lots to do and a lot of head right here on the EIB network today.
As usual, I, El Rushball, with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, we're coming right back.
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The times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, disaster, economic shortfalls, foreclosures, falling 401ks, and even the good times.
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You know, folks, there are days, there are days that I feel like a schizophrenic.
And you know me, I'm one of the most normal, solid, well-adjusted guys walking the planet today.
I mean, I'm a rock, but there are days I feel like a schizophrenic, and this is one of them.
I'll tell you what.
I have in the stack two or three stories.
They're from Wacko environmental blogs.
And one of them basically says we just need to stop doing everything.
Let the government do it all.
Some people just need to even stop working in order to save the planet.
Just sit around and do nothing.
Government can handle it.
We've got a planet to save.
By the way, do you know that China has three power plants, three power plants that emit more carbon than all of Great Britain?
Yes, it's true.
It is true.
I have it.
Like I say, I'm loaded today.
So these idiots think we ought to sit around.
On the other hand, and what causes the schizophrenia, on the other hand, I got all these stories here.
I've shared some of them with you already about how low people's confidence is in the economy.
And people aren't spending and people aren't consuming.
And we got to get in gear.
We've got to start consuming.
We've got to start spending.
We're saving too much.
That's another thing that causes schizophrenia.
You know, a year ago, we weren't saving enough.
Now we're saving too much.
We're not putting it in circulation.
And then the other hand, we shouldn't do anything to save the planet.
Spend, not spend, consume, not consume.
Be confident I'm saving the planet.
Be confident I'm saving the economy.
What are we supposed to do here?
And all of this is courtesy of our famous drive-by state-controlled media, which is constantly confusing people day in and day.
It's no wonder consumer confidence is at a low.
You know, they tried to during during the last three to four years of the Bush administration, state-controlled media did everything in its power to try to create a consumer confidence rating such as that was produced today, and they weren't able to do it.
But they tried.
Now consumer confidence is really low.
Why?
Because it's genuine.
The economy is not in good shape for more and more and more people.
And CNN is doing its level best to tell everybody that what they're seeing and feeling and experiencing isn't accurate.
That we're coming back.
That the stock market's rebounding.
That your 401k is all of a sudden expanding.
Everything's okay now.
In the meantime, more and more people lose their jobs.
And there's it's actually, and I hate to see consumer confidence this low, but it is heartening in one regard, and that is that it's not helpful to the people in charge who are in the act of destroying the economy.
It's not helpful for them to see that the American people aren't buying any of this.
For example, Americans are fairly evenly divided on the health care reform proposals working their way through Congress.
However, most remain convinced the plans will raise costs and hurt the quality of the care they receive.
Only 23% believe health care costs will go down if reform passes Congress.
76% of Democrats favor the proposal.
76 of Republicans are opposed to it.
Among the unaffiliated, 35% are in favor.
60% are opposed.
And notably, just 16% of the unaffiliated strongly favor health care reform, while 47 strongly oppose it.
Now, let's put this in perspective.
President Obama had been on TV 24-7 since he was inaugurated.
He has been on television multiple times a day talking about health care reform, the stimulus, getting the jobs back, getting people back to work, and it's not working.
He has been unable to sell this monstrosity.
He's been unable to sell it to anybody.
24-7 talking about this damn thing, how it's going to cut costs.
And he's convinced a gigantic 23% of the American people that what he's saying is true.
In other words, only 23% believe what Obama is saying about his own plan.
So we know, a lot of us know he's lying to us about this.
And most people, when they learn about this, don't want any part of this health care reform in the first place.
So it's relevant to ask the question, since state-controlled media has yet to, in any detailed way, analyze the contents or the guts of this proposal, how is it the American people are learning about this?
Maybe it's from me and Talk Radio, where, of course, we need to elevate the discourse, according to Robert Gill, where Bill Moyer said yesterday that I fan.
No, I get Moyer's and Gibbs lines confused.
Gibbs said, I fan the flames of racism to sell advertising.
That's the second White House administration has tried to call me a racist.
Clinton was the first.
Gibbs the second.
But what did Moyers say?
Riots in the public in the public.
I create riots in the public mind.
Now, it's just the opposite.
These people, Moyers, Gibbs, all these other people, are doing everything they can to not tell the people the truth of any Obama proposal.
But yet the truth is getting out.
And it's heartening.
As joblessness soars, more Americans are losing their homes.
I thought the recession was over.
That's what CNN said yesterday.
I thought the recession was over.
The 401ks are coming back.
Stock market's ticking up.
Hey, everything's hunky-dory.
And from CNNmoney.com, as a growing number of Americans default on their mortgages, the Obama administration is set to meet today with industry executives to discuss their efforts so far to help people save their homes.
Are you going to kneecap them too?
As joblessness soars, more Americans are losing their homes.
The Obama administration meeting with loan servicers to find out why this is happening.
Round three of some kind of foreclosure reform.
Round three of trying to keep people in their homes.
So what we're doing isn't working, so it's time to do more.
It's no different than if they get serious talking about a second stimulus.
Now we're just going to give money in the form of grants to cover people's mortgages.
That's what this story implies.
Just give money in the form of grants to cover people's mortgages.
You know, folks, I don't want anybody to lose their home, and I certainly don't want anybody to lose their job.
Just the exact opposite.
I want everybody to succeed.
I want this country growing.
I want prosperity for as many people who care to try to achieve it.
But the answer to people losing their homes is not to pay for their homes.
The answer is to create jobs.
The answer is to create a growing, thriving economy.
That's how all of these problems would be fixed.
And anybody who is economically literate in a private conversation would tell you that this is the exact opposite way to do it.
You don't go out and give people grants so they can pay for their mortgages.
You're just delaying the reckoning.
You know how much debt that we're going to buy this week or sell?
Your government, our government, going to borrow $200 billion this week, this week alone.
Do you know what that brings to total we've borrowed so far this year?
And this is, we're just barely halfway through the year.
$1.15 trillion we've borrowed this year with more to follow.
As if the debt itself isn't bad enough, who do you think is going to end up paying the interest?
You and I, folks.
And when this money is borrowed, guess where it's not available?
Private sector.
Government getting bigger.
Back after this.
A man, a living legend, and a way of life.
No, no, it's Le Poin, Snerdley.
Why couldn't you ask me this stuff during the break?
Why do you always?
I know, because he wants me to talk about this to you people.
There's this French infobabe coming in here today to do a profile of me from there's a magazine in France that's the Time magazine of France is how it was explained to me.
It's called Le Poin or Les Poin, The Point.
And she said to my trusted aide-de-camp and chief of staff, H.R., yeah, there's nobody in France like Rush.
Well, there's nobody in America like me either.
But that hasn't caused the drive-bys to be the path to my door here.
So anyway, she's coming in at 1 o'clock, I think.
So probably listening now.
So, I just want to warn you, be nice when she's in there, as you always are.
Well, now, sometimes, you remember when Zeb Chaffetz came down here to do the New York Times piece?
Snurdley greeted him at the front door.
Are you the hack here to do the hit piece on us?
Right when he walked in the door, yeah, right anyway.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, seriously, folks, we are going to borrow $200 billion this week.
If we can find somebody to buy it, $200 billion, the TRICOMs will get in line, and who knows whoever else?
$200 billion this week, this week alone.
And that's going to bring the total that we've borrowed to $1.15 trillion this year.
And there's more to follow.
We're just barely halfway through the year.
And the debt is if the debt's not bad enough, who do you think is going to end up paying it?
And the interest.
And I'll give you a hint: it isn't going to be Congress.
It's not going to be the liberals.
And it won't be everyone but you.
It's going to be you.
Now, the debt itself is bad enough.
But one of the greatest problems with government budget deficits, all of this debt, is it takes that much money out of the free market.
When the government borrows $1.5 trillion to finance its waste, that's $1.5 trillion not available in the free market for you, a small business, or whatever to borrow.
This is how Obama is depleting the capital of the private sector.
This is by design.
This is making the private sector smaller.
We're not growing.
People are not confident our economy is getting better.
People are smart enough to have their own experiences tell them the truth.
So that $1.5 trillion so far this year is money that could be used to create new industries, new services, new technologies, as the president likes to say, new jobs.
You know, we've had so much focus on the 4,000 troops that we lost in Iraq, and we can't even get a wink and a nod at the $4 trillion in debt that we are losing.
This budget deficit this year is going to end up being over $2 trillion.
And people hear me say they're doing this on purpose.
They're purposely shrinking the private sector, growing the public sector government.
And people ask me: did the liberals realize what they're doing?
Do they even care?
It's a good question.
They know exactly what they're doing.
They think they can't be stopped.
And right now, they can't.
There aren't enough opposition votes to stop anything they want to do if they remain unified.
Now, they need a demon.
There's a story in the stack here today on the health care bill.
And the Democrats in Congress need a demon.
They need a villain.
But there aren't any Republican villains.
And Bush is gone, and Cheney is gone, and Scooter Libby is gone, and Karl Rove is gone.
They don't have any villains.
The villains in the House on the health care bill are the so-called blue dog Democrats.
They can't get anything done without a villain.
Everything that they do has a demon or villain attached to it.
The latest demon, and this is related to healthcare, of course, is obesity.
You remember when smoking was the big demon?
You remember when it was Republicans?
When it was greedy corporations, it was big oil.
Now it's obesity, chubbies, fatties.
We get stories that doctors don't even like to treat them, that doctors don't take them seriously.
When fat people walk in, the doctors say, I don't even want to see them take off their clothes, much less check the breadpress.
We're going to see stories like this.
I don't think that anyone but your host, I, El Rushbo, would have the nerve and the gall, the courage to ask this question.
Okay, tell us, the cost of obesity is what, $147 million a year, $147 billion.
I think I saw the figure.
How much does HIV and AIDS cost us?
Not supposed to ask that rush.
Don't ask that.
Don't ask.
It's too late.
Don't tell anybody I said it.
Okay, folks.
Just keep it between you and I. How dare you, Rush?
Obesity is by choice, by overindulgence.
It's an unhealthy behavior.
Don't get me wrong, my friends.
I know what I've said here as a no-no, and I'm not arguing in its favor.
I'm not suggesting it.
I don't like the whole construct of villains in the first place.
What I do suggest is the allegedly rationale analysis of cost savings in these liberal schemes are not economic judgments.
They are political judgments based on creating demons.
They have to keep Americans hating or disliking other groups of Americans.
Have you ever heard of an African Canadian?
Have you ever heard of an African Canadian?
I remember we have African Americans.
Have you ever heard of Uglo Canadians?
We have Uglo Americans, but we don't have Uglo-Canadians.
Have you ever heard of Native Canadians?
Have you ever heard of Hispanic Canadians?
No, they call themselves Canadian.
We group ourselves and become victims.
That's how we're set up.
That's how we're encouraged to act.
And the latest group, smokers, the fat, the obese, or what have you.
These are all political calculations by a bunch of shysters who don't care what you think.
All they know is that they can make you hate smokers and they can make you go along with massive tax increases on smokers.
And 50 years ago, 30 years ago, they told us that if we just cut smoking in half, look at all the health care costs we would save.
And we get rid of all the secondhand smoke and people wouldn't die.
Well, we've cut smoking in half, maybe more.
Have the costs of health care gone down?
Did anything they promise ever come true?
Or is it always just the opposite?
I wonder what percentage of all medical costs are for people over 80.
I wonder what percentage of all medical costs are for people over 70.
But if we're going to start demonizing people, let's go to the people who are actually spending the most money on healthcare, and that's the elderly.
Who, by the way, according to heritage, are more and more opposed to Obamacare.
And I'm going to tell you what, folks, if we can get seasoned citizens rallied against this, then we've got a chance to keep it buried.
Now, the Senate, they're getting close on health care because the Senate committee dealing with it has got some Republicans who want to get a bill with the Democrats.
And this is the Kennedy bill.
Now they're negotiating in there to have some input in it.
What they ought to be doing is saying no to the premise and setting themselves up for 2010 and 2012.
But they've got this notion, well, we've got to do a bill.
We have to get something done.
We have to get a bill saying no won't work.
Yes, it will.
Saying no to this is a winner.
It's going to destroy everything it claims to repair.
It's a tragedy.
It is a tragedy to see all this go down the way it is.
Here's the political story on villains.
With their health care plans in a holding pattern and no Bush to kick around anymore, Democrats are casting about for somebody to blame.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says the Republicans have perfected just say no.
Pelosi said insurance companies are chalking up immoral profits.
But even if they won't acknowledge it publicly, most Democrats in Congress know the truth.
It's their own colleagues who are slowing down progress in both the House and the Senate.
You see little bits of evidence pouring out of state-controlled media.
There's an AP story today that you will not believe is an AP story.
I'll get to it quickly.
Here's the heritage story on Obamacare's effect on seniors.
If we could get these people hysterically mad about what's going to happen to them, then we could do a Dan Rostenkowski on the entire administration.
Today at 1.30, Barack Obama will participate in a healthcare teletown hall at AARP headquarters in Washington.
The president is scheduled to answer questions about his health care plan from ARP members via phone, via email, and even a live audience of about 40 AARP members and volunteers.
Here's some of the things that the AARP members need to know.
Under the current system, more and more seniors are discovering it's becoming harder and harder to find and keep doctors who will accept Medicare patients.
2008 survey found that 29% of the Medicare beneficiaries it surveyed who were looking for a primary care doctor had a problem finding one to treat them up from 24% the year before.
The problem is compounded by the fact that our nation is facing a growing shortage of doctors.
Obamacare promises to only make these problems worse.
First, Obama plans to pay for up to a third of his plan by cutting $313 billion in Medicare reimbursements to health care providers over the next 10 years.
Well, that's how they get paid.
They're going to cut what they get.
This is called squeezing the doctors, which he has promised to do.
You squeeze the doctors.
You're not going to create any more new doctors that want to go into the profession.
And you obviously are going to be rationing health care.
If you're squeezing coverage, if you're squeezing payment, the doctors are going to be able to treat fewer people.
And the people that will be treated less are senior citizens who, because of their age, utilize health services in this country more than any other age group.
Second, Obama's public option could decrease the annual net income of hospitals by $36 billion, while the annual net income of doctors could drop by $33 billion.
Now, you add this up.
Hospitals and doctors under Obama's plan lose a combined $66 billion.
Facing a sharp reduction in their pay, more doctors will retire early.
More bright students will elect to pursue other careers.
But there's also other things here.
Losing your coverage.
22% of all Medicare patients, which translates to 10.5 million seasoned citizens, are currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans.
These plans cover all the traditional Medicare benefits and a lot more.
But Obama has proposed killing the program entirely.
A new study.
Look at folks.
They've got to get money from this somehow.
His whole point is that our budget is out of whack, that our spending is out of whack, that our debt's out of whack because of health care.
He's got to show he's going to spend less.
It'll never happen, but he's got to show it.
So kill that program, Medicare Advantage.
Another centerpiece to Obamacare is the creation of a federal health board that will ration healthcare.
A health board will decide who gets treated and for what.
Aimed at senior citizens.
And this is likely going to be done on the back of America's seniors.
I hope to hell, although I'm not expecting it.
I hope to hell this is brought to light by somebody at Obama's little teletown hall today in about 45 minutes.
You can see this at AskHeritage.org, by the way.
Askheritage.org, 25 big bucks is all it takes to join, become a member, go online, and have access to things that I think are the smartest and best produced bits of analysis in all of Washington.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
That AP story I referenced, by the way, coming up is on the stimulus.
And when I share the details, you will not believe that it is from state-controlled Associated Press.
Now, yesterday, Bill Moyer said that I create riots in the public mind.
Robert Gibbs said I fan the flames of racism to sell advertising.
The distinguished first-class intellectual Dyson said that I'm the opposite of a first-class intellectual.
And of course, the running criticism of old El Rushbow out there from the White House on down to state-run media is that I lie.
And I make it up.
Man, that I'm a hypocrite.
So I want to go through four quote-unquote lies here, and I want you to pick your favorite biggest of the biggest, worst of the worst lie I tell.
All right.
Number one, Obama cannot deliver all three of these.
Better health care at lower cost for all Americans.
You like that lie?
Lie number two, centralized, digitized health records won't be any more confidential than our military secrets leaked to the media.
You like that lie?
Number three, squeezing doctor fees will reduce the number of new doctors entering the field.
That's lie number three.
And lie number four, Medicare payments will be further reduced.
So there you have four lies from Al Rushmore.
Which is your...
Well, that's the point, Sterling.
I know they're not lies.
I'm telling people the truth about this, but they counter by saying I'm lying.
So you pick a lie.
Which one, what's your favorite lie there?
And now, let's go to an interesting piece of audio tape.
Back in November of 2004, Obama was on the radio, and he had a discussion with the insane lunatic host about the whole process of passing legislation.
When you rush these budgets that are a foot high, and nobody has any idea what's in them, and nobody's read them.
14 pounds, it was.
Yeah, and it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate, then these kinds of things happen.
And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act.
I mean, you remember there was no real debate about that.
It was so quick after 9-11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
That's five years ago coming up with Obama complaining and whining and moaning about all the legislation and hurry through.
He didn't have time to read it.
Patriot Act, you can't rush these things.
They're too big.
They're too cumbersome.
What's he doing?
He got a new stimulus bill by the weekend.
We need health care by next Saturday.
We need cap and trade passed by Labor Day.
And we need limbo off the radio by the end of the year.
It's got to happen.
It's got to happen now.
It's got to happen.
In fact, let's go back to the White House press conference on Wednesday.
Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead and run this.
Why the rush?
Are you worried that if you don't, there's a delay until the fall, the whole effort will collapse?
I'm rushed because I get letters every day from families that are being clobbered by health care costs.
And they ask me, can you help?
So, I've got a middle-aged couple that will write me, and they say our daughter just found out she's got leukemia.
And if I don't do something soon, we just either are going to go bankrupt or we're not going to be able to do it.
That's it.
That's it.
Got a time card.
That's it.
So, we got to hurry because he's getting letters from people.
Now, over in Congress, the letters are 15 to 1 in opposition to his plan.
But now, we got to hurry because he's getting letters.
Get this: an assistant to the Manhattan Borough president, Scott Stringer, a woman, has resigned after posting comments on her Facebook account defending racial profiling and calling President Obama Odumba.
She was forced to quit after calling him Odumba.
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