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Aug. 10, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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What is it, Snerdley?
Is it a clunker plan for some, you know, that for planes, a clunker plan for jets?
That is resonating out there.
These jets, they're going to buy eight more corporate jets to have for members of Congress, and they find out that these guys have been using them to take extended vacations with family and so forth.
While Americans cannot find a job and their homes are underwater in terms of value.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Great to have you here.
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Okay, I want you to listen again carefully to this New York Times story today by Eric Dash.
We'll get to the Pelosi soundbite in a minute.
The resurrection of the guaranteed bonus on Wall Street is sure to become a hot-button issue for the Obama administration's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, who is preparing this week to review how compensation should be structured at seven companies that receive two or more federal bailouts.
The companies must each submit 2009 compensation plans for their top 25 earners by Thursday this week, and Mr. Feinberg has 60 days to rule on them.
He has the authority to single out any of those employees and adjust their pay packages.
And I would ask, how in the hell does he have this authority?
He's not a cabinet member.
How does he have this authority?
From where does he get this authority?
In the next phase, the pay czar is to review the packages of the next 75 highest earners at each company.
For them, he can set pay formulas to be applauded broadly.
So we got one guy working for Obama who has not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate who can sit there and tell people at Wall Street what they can or cannot make based on whatever he feels is fair, right, just, whoever, whatever reason.
All right, let's go back and compare this to Nazi Germany.
Under Adolf Hitler, the German labor front, the DAF, was the amalgamated National Socialist Nazism.
Nazism was officially National Socialism.
It refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers' Party under one Adolf Hitler and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
A trade union, this is how they defined it.
A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions, organizations which replaced the free and diverse Weimar Republic.
The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933.
Following World War I, the Republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918.
A trade union or labor union is an organization run for and by workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions.
Now, Adolf Hitler had a labor czar.
His name was Robert Lay, L-E-Y.
German Labor Front Facts Discussion Forum Encyclopedia article.
The DAF, the German labor front leader was Robert Lay, was a Nazi Germany politician, head of the German labor front from 1933 to 1945.
He committed suicide awaiting trial for war crimes.
He stated that the aim of his organization was to create a true social and productive community.
Now, theoretically, the German labor front existed to act as a medium through which workers and owners could mutually represent their interests.
However, in reality, it was a means by which workers were controlled, ensuring wage demands were not made too often.
Wages were set by the 12 trustees of the German labor front, which was headed by the Pesar or the Labor Czar, Robert Lee.
So, Obama has a Pesar demanding compensation schedules for seven Wall Street companies by Thursday, after which he will have 60 days to reject or accept and change and modify.
And the big difference here is that Hitler and his boys dictated wages for the unions, which Obama, in his own way, is, I guess, doing by giving them ownership of General Motors and Chrysler and so forth.
Once again, folks, I'm telling you, Nancy Pelosi started this.
If she didn't want to go down this road, she should not have said, she should not have said that there are people at these town hall meetings carrying signs with swastikas on them.
And by the way, we've looked.
We have found one picture of a protester with a swastika on the sign, and it had a line drawn through it, meaning no.
It was not supported.
It was meaning no.
Haven't found one beyond that.
And even that one that was found has been misrepresented by people like Nancy Pelosi.
Speaking of whom, let's go back to the Nut Roots Convention in Austin, July 19th, 2008.
You make America more American because of the vital participation in the process, and as Mr. Doggett says, to hold elected officials accountable.
While we may not always agree on the resolution and what we have to deal with, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be persistent, dissatisfied, and relentless in making us, taking us, pulling us over to where you believe our government should be.
So here's Nancy Pelosi talking to the insane lunatics of the far-left fringe on the websites out there.
Hey, hold us accountable.
Hey, drag us and tug us and, you know, pull us over to where you believe our government should be.
Now, now, now, now, it's people who do this are Nazis.
Lloyd Doggett Zushi was talking.
A guy got run out of his own town hall meeting with questions he didn't want to answer.
The deficit, ladies and gentlemen, under our brilliant president recovery, our economic prosperity, building a new future, all this wonderful economic news we have out there.
The deficit grew by $181 billion in July.
In one month, the deficit $181 billion.
Bailouts for, this is from theHill.com, bailouts for financial firms, billions in tax revenue lost because of the recession, drove the deficit to a record $1.3 trillion in July, according to the independent CBO.
Now we know why Obama didn't want that number out there before the vote on healthcare.
Tax receipts that have fallen due to the poor economy.
What?
Poor economy?
The Hill.com said, We're in a recovery out there.
I mean, we only lost 247,000 jobs last week.
We're making great, great progress here.
Tax receipts that have fallen due to the poor economy.
Increased spending to save car companies, banks, and mortgage firms are major contributors to the deficit, said the CBO, which provides official blah, blah, blah, blah.
So here are, you know, oh, by the way, by the way, by the way, I've got this.
Obama sharpens war goals in Afghanistan.
President Obama, this sets up the benchmarks.
He's got no benchmarks in Afghanistan.
Remember, all these benchmarks we had to have for the surge, for the success in Iraq.
There are no benchmarks.
Obama next month will send Congress a new plan for measuring success in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it will not include victory, I guess, because we can't say we're at war with them.
In an effort to build confidence among wavering Democrats and give sharper direction to a costly and increasingly bloody war, the administration has begun seeking feedback on the plan from lawmakers and their staffs.
The finished version is to be delivered to Capitol Hill by September 24th.
There is an intense impatience here for results, and I think an absolute.
So we've got a surge.
Basically, we have a surge going on in Afghanistan with no objective.
So Obama, in a month, has got to put out what his new objective is.
As Lee Kerry at the American Thinker says, this is sort of mass ackwards, isn't it?
You come up with the objective and then you do the surge.
But we've ordered the surge and we don't have an objective yet.
How do you not have, remember these people demanding an end game in Iraq, demanding what we were going to do to get out of all these demands, all these benchmarks of the Iraqi government?
And Obama has doubled troop levels, got this big surge going on over there without an objective.
So let me help out.
I have studied President Obama.
I have some goals that he can put in his paper that he's going to release on September 24th.
Here's what he should say.
I will create or save 100,000 new Afghani freedom fighters before the end of the year.
For every car bomb that is detonated, I will punch back twice as hard.
I will lower the mountains where the Taliban hides.
I will inspire Afghanistan poppy growers to plant different crops by telling them we are the ones we've been waiting for.
I will destroy their economy too.
And if that doesn't work with the poppy growers, Obama can nationalize the poppy farms and turn them over to the United Auto Workers and send union leaders from America over to run the poppy fields and collect the profits.
After five years, the operation will be so bogged down with red tape, strikes, installed negotiations with drug lords, the whole poppy industry will collapse under its own weight.
Just apply liberalism, Obama liberal socialism, to the whole poppy problem in Afghanistan, and you can kill it by giving it to the UAW and the service employees international union.
So let's go back to the economy.
Deficit grew by $181 billion in July.
Well, we need some benchmarks here in the economy, too.
We have no benchmarks in Afghanistan.
I just helped out Gabe some.
My favorite is lowering the mountains where the Taliban hides so that our troops can more easily get in there and wipe them out.
Obama would lower the mountains like he is going to lower sea levels.
Our troops won't have to climb as high.
And Taliban won't know what's happening to him.
Can you imagine being on a mountain and all of a sudden the thing starts sinking on you?
And we drop little pamphlets say, Obama's doing this until you give up.
Your mountain's going to continue to sink.
All right.
Three reality-based benchmarks to judge Obama's handling of the economy: economy, job creation, tax revenues, and spending budget deficits.
And using those three benchmarks, we've got utter failure.
If the economy is not producing jobs, there's no growth in tax revenue, right?
And if spending isn't controlled, when jobs aren't being produced, then Obama is failing.
Everything collapses like a house of cards, which is what is happening.
We know that the Porculus bill has not produced jobs.
We know that Congress has been on a reckless spending binge.
Tax revenues are down.
We have a catastrophe in the making, and we are watching it.
We are witnessing.
This recession will not end until jobs are created, tax revenues increase, and spending is slashed.
Until that time, we'll have a few periods of less pain here and there, but the disease has not been cured.
I love helping out this way.
Okay, here's how we measure Obama's economic success, and there isn't any.
We pronounce it a failure.
And my advice and goals for Afghanistan, for Obama to announce on September 24th.
What a service we do here.
He'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Folks, how's that hope and change working for you out there?
I have a little news story here you may be interested in.
Those of you who are among the two and a half million people have lost your jobs since Obama was inaugurated and thought that the stimulus bill was about finding you a job.
Stand by.
Ready?
Three, two, one.
NASA.
For those of you in Rio Linda, the National Aeronautics Space Administration, the people that launched the shuttle, NASA plans to use $50 million of federal economic stimulus money to cede development of commercial passenger transportation service to space.
Aspiring space ship operators will have 45 days to submit proposals, which will be competitively evaluated.
Awards for the Commercial Crew Development Program are expected to be announced before the end of September.
The United States is retiring its fleet of space shuttles next year after seven more missions.
After that, the U.S. plans to buy rides for astronauts to and from the space station from Russia.
So NASA is going to award $50 million and somebody, a bunch of people come up with a space taxi.
Not build it, $50 million to design it, produce it, and have it approved.
Space taxis.
All right, John in East Brunswick.
I can't keep a straight face half the time anymore on this show.
John in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
Hello, sir.
Thanks for waiting.
How are you doing, Rush?
Pretty well, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking my call and thanks for all you do.
You appreciate it.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Listen, a couple things I just want to say.
First of all, these idiots are ultimately going to pass this bill because they don't really care what any of us say.
And when it fails, then we both know it's going to fail.
They're going to do the same thing they did with the stimulus package and tell everybody how they didn't realize how bad it was, and it was the Republicans that caused the health care to be horrific and whatnot.
And they do the same thing they were doing.
Well, that's a fatalistic attitude about this.
And I can't afford to have that kind of attitude.
If I had that kind of attitude, then I would have to resign.
You know, I'd have to quit.
See, I disagree.
I think the Democrats can get this done without one Republican vote.
If they do it, there's going to be hell to pay.
Now, here's the counterbalance to it, though, folks.
Look at, I've had enough of these calls past two weeks.
I understand something.
Some of you just love bad end-of-the-world news.
I'm going to give you some.
You just love, you want your pessimism verified and validated.
I'm going to do it for you.
All right, if that's what you want, because Sturdley keeps giving me these calls.
Doesn't matter, Russ, Democrats are going to get away with it.
They're going to destroy it.
They're not going to blame Republicans, and we're never going to win another election.
Here's the counterbalance to my saying, Democrats will pay for this debacle.
Let's eat a little blue dogs, because the past last week I focused on the blue dogs.
And I warned them, if you guys vote for this while you're out there trying to make yourselves out to be fiscal conservatives and you vote for this, you're nothing but a radical leftist like the rest of your party.
And you are going to pay for it come 2010.
But maybe they won't.
If Obama can marshal all of these people to run out of these town hall meetings and so forth, what about voter fraud in 2010?
What if you are a blue dog Democrat and your dilemma is, do I vote for this thing and risk the wrath of my constituents?
Or do I vote against it and risk the wrath of Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel and the president?
And Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel call you in and say, what's your problem?
Well, I got a dilemma.
My constituents hate this plan, and I want to be re-elected.
Rahm Emanuel and Pelosi and Obama can say to any blue dog or anything that, well, I can find a way to get you re-elected.
It's called Acorn.
We'll simply cheat.
We'll register all kinds of people in your district.
We'll get you the votes on election night.
Nobody can stop us.
So what I'm saying is they can do what they want and get away with voter fraud the next election and not pay for it.
Now, if you're a blue dog Democrat and your leadership gives you the option of vote with us and benefit from election fraud so you can stay in office, or vote against us and it's Sayonara, we'll see you later.
Don't be surprised if an SEIU van is seen near your home sometime.
The Blue Dog Democrat's going to say, well, if you can guarantee my reelection with Acorn mobs and so forth out there registering voters, I got nothing to lose by voting for this.
Now, I can be just as easily pessimistic, folks, if you want me to be pessimistic.
I frankly don't want to be pessimistic.
I think this is a long way from being over.
And I'm telling you that this is not.
This plan does not embody and reflect the heart and soul of the United States of America.
This plan is rejected by the heart and soul of the United States of America.
The backbone of this country, the people that make it work, want no part of this.
And if we've gotten to the point where elections don't matter because they're all fraudulent and so forth, then what does any of this matter?
We know we haven't gotten to that point because Democrats don't win every election.
The media doesn't get its way all the time.
I got to take a brief time out here, but maybe I ought to do sternly a program feature, you know, one pessimistic comment a day to satisfy the people that want to hear it, and then back to normal.
Back after this.
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We just had the report.
Obama has ordered the surge in Afghanistan with no objective.
The objective will come September 24th.
This is not surprising.
It was just a couple of weeks ago.
We had this story from ABC News and Fox News.
President Obama has put securing Afghanistan near the top of his foreign policy agenda, but victory in Afghanistan isn't necessarily the United States goal, Obama said.
I'm always worried about using the word victory because, you know, it invokes this nation, a notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur, he told ABC News.
Remember that?
He said, victory is not necessarily our goal in Afghanistan.
Well, obviously not.
Now, we don't know what the objective is.
However, all right, let's go back to the audio soundbites.
Wolf Blitzer on Friday, CNN Situation Room, tried to make a point of fairness with the forehead as his commentator analyst, but it didn't work.
Rush Limbaugh makes the point, and I'll throw it to Paul Bagala, that, you know, he started making these comparisons after Nancy Pelosi said some of these protesters, some of these pro-crazies were carrying swastikas.
The speaker was reporting the truth.
That's Bagala there, single speaker.
We've only found one picture, and it was a Nazi sign with a slash through it.
And Bagala went on.
Should the Democrats simply ignore a comment like this from Rush Limbaugh?
Nine months ago, sent out a memo saying Rush Limbaugh was the leader of the Republican Party.
We helped to whip up this frenzy.
When we did it, we knew there was one big risk.
If a leading National Republican stood up and denounced Limbaugh, he or she would become the real leader of the Republican Party.
And I was frankly worried that maybe Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin would do that.
Bill Clinton picked big fights with labor unions.
Barack Obama picked a big fight with the Clintons.
Strong leaders have to take on the tired leadership of their party.
Well, I guess so.
The forehead's now finally admitting that he was behind that strategy to make me the leader of the party in order to get me denounced.
But it didn't work.
Because I wasn't the leader of the party anyway.
Now let's move to CNN State of the Union, John K. What?
Powell was fulfilling his role set forth by Mr. McGala, because Powell did denounce me.
But Powell didn't become the leader of the party, did he?
Didn't become the leader of the party.
Bagala failed.
Didn't it?
Well, I don't know that Powell wants to be the leader, but Bagala said that whoever denounced me would be the automatic real leader of the party.
And not to David Brooks, Powell is the ideal, the epitome of the modern-day Republican.
Linda Douglas, the what would we call her?
She's the healthcare minister of information.
Minister of Propaganda, healthcare information.
She was on CNN on Sunday during Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources segment.
And he spoke with her.
And Howard Kurtz said her, what did you make of Rush Limbaugh saying the healthcare logo in the administration resembles didn't say it resembles a swastika.
I said that the whole Nazi logo there and Obama's healthcare logo looked similar, and we morphed them on the websites.
Asked Linda Douglas about this.
I just don't even know what to say about something like that.
I mean, you know, and people are saying crazy things right now.
You know, here's the thing.
Americans are suffering under the rising costs of health care.
They are paying 30% more out of pocket than they did.
It's threatening their jobs.
They are being denied insurance coverage by all these crazy rules.
They are, let's see, threatening their jobs.
They don't have any jobs.
Then Kurtz literally destroyed her on the whole notion that Obama's not for single payer and that there is no snitch website.
They took pieces of sound bites from different periods of time.
They put a Chiron, that's the words on the screen, that said wants to eliminate private insurance to go along with these sound bites that they cobble together.
And our point is that he's saying exactly the opposite.
Apparently, he had a different position when he was a senator, and that's legitimate.
He didn't have a different position when he was a senator, but the point is the president of the United...
What do you mean he didn't have a different position?
He talked about, first he talked about single payer supporting that was years ago.
And then he talked about making a transition over 10 or 15 years to fully government insurance.
What he talked about early on was, look, if he could start all over again, maybe it would be fine to have a single payer system, but we're not going to start all over again.
There's a lot of misinformation, and there is, as I said in the video, a lot of disinformation.
That's information that's meant to mislead you.
Ms. Douglas, you know, your guy is hanging out to dry here.
You're on the flagpole and you're nearly nude, Linda, because all your clothes have been, you have no cover left.
Well, you've got Jan Schakowsky out there saying this is the prelude to single payer.
She's a Democrat from Illinois.
You've got Barney Frank saying it, and you've got Obama saying it numerous times in the campaign and all the way back to 2003 when he was in the Illinois Senate talking about it.
I've got, folks, I have right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
While everybody's sidetracked here discussing Nazis, and of course that's me too, but I'm going to get it back on track here.
What Obama's got on the back burner here is this.
Page 16 states, if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change your insurance, you'll be required to take a similar plan.
If that is not available, you'll be required to take the government option.
Page 22 mandates audits of all employers that self-insure.
Page 29, it admits on page 29 your health care will be rationed.
Page 30, a government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get.
And unlike an insurer, there is, well, there's an appeals process, but you don't want to even mess with that.
Page 58, every person will be issued a national ID health card.
Page 59, the federal government will have direct real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 239, the bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid, meaning there will be Medicaid cuts.
The president's out there saying that there won't be.
Page 427, government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment.
Government dictates how your life ends.
The Washington Post read this section in section 1233 and came to the same disturbing conclusion.
Page 429, Advanced Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients' health deteriorates.
This can include an order for end-of-life plans.
The order will be from the government.
Now, Ms. Douglas, you can go out there and say that the president's not for single payer, despite the president saying so.
See, this is the problem, Linda.
The problem is, we don't know what to believe because the president's saying everything.
He doesn't have a plan, so when he says something's not in the plan, we don't know what he's talking about.
The only plan out there is the House plan, and the president hadn't said that that's the plan he's talking about.
He keeps talking about his plan.
I haven't seen his plan.
I don't know what it is.
If his plan differs from the House plan, he'd better say so because he's contradicting himself, and you're out there being forced to say things that can be factually disproven simply looking at the House bill.
I mean, if there's a provision in there that says if you have a private plan and there's the slightest change in it, change your coverage, change your fee, change your premium, then you are out of it.
Got to go government option.
Without even having that, Linda, you know, and I know that if this debacle ever happens, the first thing that's going to happen is a lot of businesses are going to offload their health care plans to the public option.
They're simply not going to make it available to their employees.
I mean, most employee health care coverage comes from the employer.
If the employer says, I'm out of here, they have no choice but then to go government option.
So these Democrats, Barney Frank, Jan, Schikowski, a number of others who say, Yeah, we can't get it all at once 10 to 15 years.
It is the objective, and everybody who's looked at this knows it.
So when you get set out there as the minister of health care information propaganda to deny all this is not good for you.
Now, here's on the SNCC website.
Howard Kurtz says Republican Senator John Cornyn has asked the White House to stop the SNCC website.
He says this could raise the specter of a data collection program.
There's no list being compiled.
The information's not being retained.
The sources are not being tracked.
But if there's a rumor going around, as there have been many rumors going around, we say, let's take a look at the rumor and see what the truth is.
Yeah.
People who don't believe this.
By the way, let's go back and listen to Obama a flashback here.
This is 2007.
We're going to go ahead and stay in order, Mike.
2007 in March at the Service Employees International Union Health Care Forum.
And this is Obama's buds.
This is his group.
These are the people he wants to know what he really intends to do.
This is 2007.
My commitment is to make sure that we've got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president.
I would hope that we set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort.
But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately.
There's going to be potentially some transition process.
I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.
March 2007, I mean, if you're going to eliminate employer coverage, where else do you got to go?
Obama public option.
Let's go back to 2003 at an AFL-CIO conference.
I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.
That's the only reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, is spending 14%, 14% of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody.
And that's what Jim's talking about when he says, everybody in, nobody out.
A single-payer health care plan, universal health care plan.
That's what I'd like to see.
But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately because first we've got to take back the White House and we've got to take back the Senate and we've got to take back the House.
All right.
Now, he's not a community organizer here.
He's an elected official both times in the Illinois Senate in 2003 and the United States Senate in 2007.
And you'll note that three things had to happen, and they all three have before he can start.
He had to take over the House, had to take over the Senate, and had to take over the White House.
So, Linda Douglas, when you go out there and say that he's not for a single payer, he was if he could start over.
But I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how I would react if my job was to have to lie for somebody.
I don't know how a conscience could deal with it.
Hey, folks, have you decided to become a member of the Heritage Foundation yet?
If you haven't, go to www.askheritage.org and look around.
It is well worth the minimal amount it takes to join the Heritage Foundation, which is $25.
I mean, the American way of life is under assault in this country by no less than the President of the United States and his administration.
Limited government, full liberty, freedom, the basics of the founding of this country are the hallmarks of everybody at the Heritage Foundation, standing up for them, defending them, preserving them.
And in the process, they research and provide facts on all that is happening and changing in Washington, whatever the issue is.
Cap and trade, stimulus porculus, health care reform, whatever it is.
You get facts, figures, armed information to fight back against government and nationalized health insurance plans that's going to cost us another trillion dollars plus, and who knows what kind of misery for your kids and grandkids.
But they can't do it alone.
That's where you come in.
You become a member of the Heritage Foundation when you do that.
You join their cause.
You benefit from their information and influence.
They're doing the greatest work of people that think inside the beltway.
It's amazing.
I don't know how they do it because every time I've gone to Washington, I had to get out of there so I don't become one of those people.
But they are, they do Washington, but they don't do Washington speak.
Heritage Foundation, www.askheritage.org in Atlanta last week, town hall meeting, constituent urologist Brian Hill asks Representative David Scott of Georgia, why are you voting for a health plan that's shown not to work in Massachusetts and why are you going to institute that in a statewide, nationwide manner?
I haven't voted on any bill.
Are you planning on voting on that?
I don't know.
That's an easy alpha.
You supported government fund options.
How about that?
Yes, I do.
And I'm listening to my constituents.
Okay?
These are people who live in the 13th congressional district who vote in this district.
That's who I've got to respond to.
That's me.
Okay?
Right.
This is not a health care event.
You've made the choice to come here.
Not a single one of you had the decency to call my office and set up for a meeting.
Okay?
Then do that.
Do that.
But don't.
Don't come and take advantage of what these individuals have done.
You want a meeting with me on health care?
I'll give it to you.
All right.
So that's the Congressman David Scott screaming at a doctor at a town hall meeting.
Turns out the doctor's not a Republican.
He's an Independent.
He's concerned, and he was treated like dirt by his doctor.
I did not go to a meeting to create any problems.
I went to the meeting to literally ask a question that I thought was very, very important for my patients.
I've asked, is he going to be having health care forums?
Is he going to have an area where we can actually address his thoughts and express our ideas and our thoughts as well?
And I was told no.
And that's why I said to myself, I then need to go to an area where I've got access to them.
And we depend upon our congressman to really do what's right for us.
And I just don't see that happening.
It's happening all over the country.
People are not taking it.
When the congressman starts yelling at you for being impudent and a snob and being disrespectful, that's when you say, oh, I want you.
Just get on your jet and fly home then.
Fly back to Washington.
We don't need you here.
By the way, Nancy Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer have an op-ed, USA Today Today, in which they refer, the headline says it all, un-American attacks cannot derail healthcare debates.
So those of you showing up at town hall meetings, Nancy Pelosi first calls you Nazis by saying you're running around with swastika signs.
And now she and Stenny Hoyer and an op-ed have said you are un-American.
You remember when I said the election of Barack Obama will end up exacerbating race problems in the country and any criticism of him is going to be said to be racist?
Friday night on Hardball, Cynthia Tucker, of the Atlanta Journal Constipation, I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these town hall meetings are people who are not comfortable with the idea of a black president.
Cynthia Tucker, the editor-in-chief or editorial page editor in Atlanta.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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