Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Don't worry.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
But for the next three hours, I'm here behind.
I was going to say behind the golden EIB microphone.
What happened to it?
He's taking the Golden E. Rush's the Golden EIB microphone with him in Los Angeles.
So I've got this washed out grey thing.
That doesn't bode well for the level of guest hosting performance, does it?
Anyway, this is Mark Stein, not behind the golden EIB microphone, but behind the washed-out grey guest host microphone.
Great honor for me, notwithstanding the collapse of the microphone budget.
I got a place in the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
Terrific exchange program.
Guys like me get to come and study at the Limbaugh Institute.
And in return, Barack Obama gets to intern at the Royal Scottish Institute of National Health Resource Efficiency Management and Death Panels.
Rush is in Los Angeles with the microphone recording his appearance on The Family Guy today.
Did I hear that right yesterday that he's going to sing on the show?
He's going to sing.
Do we know the song or is that a closely guarded secret?
Rush won't be able to hear the song, but he's going to sing anyway.
Yeah, there's not a lot of pointed, you know, give me an A or whatever, is there?
It's like, okay, so that's something to look forward to.
Rush will be, he's not doing Dancing with the Stars, is he?
No, no, that's Tom DeLay.
Tom DeLay's doing Dancing with the Stars.
The hammer hits the dance floor.
He's up against Donny Osmond, I think, on this season.
so i don't know uh ham yeah do the it's not it's that do the hammer is a 60s dance craze isn't it wasn't that uh uh um But I'm nervous about that.
I'm nervous about Tom DeLay going on Dancing with the Stars.
You know, people say, oh, relax.
He wouldn't have agreed to it if he didn't know what he was doing.
You know, for all you know, he was probably the Texas State Mambo champion of 1968.
So just relax.
Don't worry about it.
But I think Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars could easily set conservatism back a good 20 years.
I'm worried about it.
Yes, that's great.
You can't cut.
HR thinks unless he cuts the budget.
You can't cut the budget on Dancing with the Stars.
Have you seen the dresses the girls wear?
It's like one wispy little red chiffon thing just snaking, weaving around the vital areas, and that's it.
So if you cut the costume budget 80%, the wisp of chiffon wouldn't cover what it needs to – you can't be a fiscal conservative on dance.
I think the last conservative on Dancing with the Stars was Tucker Carlson, if you remember, the bowtide boyish charmer who was on CNN's Crossfire and then I think CNBC, MSNBC, or whatever it was.
And he got eliminated in round one.
And Tucker is one of those famously moderate conservatives.
You know, he's not one of the mean-spirited types like us.
And he was for the Iraq war and then he turned against it and, you know, a bit wobbly, a bit wobbly on these things.
And he gave a very moderate, tentative, not quite sure he believed in it himself kind of performance on Dancing with the Stars.
He didn't dip.
Not only did he not dip, he didn't stand for the first half of the routine.
He was sitting on this wooden chair like you find in the basement of a CIA safe house before you're about to be interrogated.
And the music starts, the big cha-cha-cha music.
And the gal comes out in the slinky little backless, frontless, legless thing we're talking about with the costume budget and starts meandering all over the place.
And she's dancing up a storm.
And the Latin rhythms are pulsating all over.
And Tucker Carlson is still just sitting there on the wooden chair.
And you think, is there some kind of confusion in the booking?
He got the format wrong.
He thinks it's lap dancing with the stars or something.
What is this?
Which, by the way, is a hell of a concept.
That'll be on some channels sooner or later.
And then eventually, after the gal had been prancing around for three minutes, he stands up and he takes a couple of very tentative steps forward.
And then the music ends and he gets eliminated.
And one of the judges says, you were doing great until you stood up.
And folks, Tucker Carlson's dance routine is a metaphor for moderate conservatism.
Faint-hearted, tentative, too cool to throw yourself into it as if you believe it.
And that judge who said, I liked it until you stood up, represents mainstream media approval of moderate conservatives too.
They like you because you won't stand up.
You won't stand up for anything.
So I hope Tom DeLay bears that in mind when he's on.
I'm just offering a bit of advice here.
It's not often you get a big shot conservative on Dancing with the Stars.
So I hope Tom DeLay bears that in mind.
You know what I like to see, by the way?
Death Panel with the Stars.
You'd get half a dozen celebrities.
You know, you get, I don't know, somebody from the Love Boat, the bass player from Hootie and the Blowfish, the Olympic bronze medalist from the 1978 Bahamian two-man loose team, you know, the usual crown.
And they'd do the cha-cha-cha and the foxtrot and the merengue.
And at the end, Kathleen Sebelius, Rahm Emmanuel's brother, and the vice president of Acorn would vote on which one of them would get the hip replacement.
I think that would be a great show.
Death Panel with the Stars.
It'll be coming to a network near you soon.
Anyway, we certainly hope Tom DeLay has better luck than Tucker Carlson did on that show.
Actually, speaking of Tucker, I was sorry to see that his old pal from the CNN Crossfire days, Bob Novak, died earlier today.
Bob Novak was my colleague at the Chicago Sun-Times for many years.
And I think actually the face for a long time on American TV, actually the face of conservatism.
He was the only conservative who got on there for a long time, the only one who actually wasn't ashamed about being mean-spirited and immoderate about it.
He was particularly strong on fiscal issues.
He tended to wander off the reservation a bit on certain foreign policy issues.
But on fiscal conservatism, he was right and he defended the cause of small government, not confiscating the fruits of the citizens' labors very vigorously, decade in, decade out.
He was known as the Prince of Darkness.
And I must say, I think this was at CPAC a year or two back.
A young lady, he and I happened to be sort of signing books at adjoining tables.
And a young lady came up, a very attractive young lady came up and asked if she could have her photograph taken with me.
And I always like to give good value when I'm asked to pose with young ladies.
So I was kind of getting close.
I put my arm around them.
I'm like Tucker Carlson should have been on Dancing with the Stars.
I'm like, you know, we're intimately locked our bodies.
And she got a really great photograph, me beaming away.
And she then asked Bob if she could have a photograph taken with Bob.
And he put on a classic Prince of Darkness expression.
He stood there scowling into her cleavage as if he had not the slightest desire to be there.
And she, again, was absolutely delighted in an entirely different way because she got one of the all-time great Bob Novak as the Prince of Darkness photographs.
He was a great defender for a lot of important things in this country, particularly on the responsibility of government to stick to its core activities, not to try and do everything and not to try and spend everything.
And at a time when we're running up these multi-trillion dollar deficits, we could certainly use a guy like Bob Novak.
And I'm sorry that we won't have his much-needed voice in the months ahead.
Bob Novak died earlier today.
And those were the glory days, by the way, when Bob was on Crossfire, when they tried to monkey with the format.
Remember, towards the end, they just wandered off the charts.
They changed this, they changed that, and it never worked.
The classic Crossfire format had Bob Novak just being terrific and mean-spirited and lethal on the right side.
And we shall miss him for that.
Robert Kuttner, big liberal guy in the Washington Post, wants to know where are the liberal protesters?
Because he's tired from seeing all these right-wing mobs everywhere.
And he wants to know where are the liberal protesters?
Aside from the Acorn operatives and the Union Heavies, they're in short supply.
And the short answer to that, I think, is that it's the genius of Obama to have alienated the geezers.
He'd bought up all the Astroturf.
He'd got the AARP on board with his policies.
And now, apparently, I see CBS is reporting that 60,000 members of the AARP have resigned their membership.
I would imagine if I was the AARP, I would be a bit concerned at having got on board too early with this disastrous Obama healthcare plan that's going to impact principally America's seniors.
The AARP is supposed to represent America's seniors, and this plan is not in their interest.
And 60,000 members have figured that out and resigned.
I don't know whether it means the end of the AARP.
I wouldn't have thought so.
I would have thought Obama, given their friendliness to his policies, would certainly be prepared to bail them out as he's bailed out so many institutions.
But it is the Ulsters who are resigning their AARP membership and going to these town halls hopping mad.
I mean, these are people, a lot of them, who voted for Obama.
And they didn't realize that he wanted them to spend their last years howling in pain, waiting for a knee replacement that's never going to come.
I switched on the TV yesterday, and they were showing some footage of one of these town halls.
And folks were so steamed, I figured it must be some real hardcore conservative neighborhood in Texas or Mississippi.
It turned out to be Vermont.
In Vermont, the Ulsters had turned out and were telling people that they don't want Obamacare.
So the idea that there were going to be masses of liberal protesters showing up to reverse what is happening at these town halls is not going to happen.
The young people aren't going to show up for it.
And the old people, it's the peculiar genius of Obama and the Democrats to have turned one of their core constituencies, these elderly voters, against them by threatening their medical care.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush is out in Los Angeles doing the family guy, but he will be back tomorrow.
They're starting to turn on Obama.
This is a headline from Politico.
Does Obama have the guts?
This is terrific stuff.
He's too wimpy.
Was Hillary right about him, that he's a pretty boy who could give a good speech, but he doesn't, when it's needed, he lacks the intestinal fortitude to see it through.
By the way, I don't know whether Obama does have the guts or not, but I believe under government healthcare, you'll have a three-year wait for guts.
So if he doesn't have them, he's not going to be getting them anytime soon.
He was supposed to be, he wasn't supposed to, I didn't know it was about guts.
He was supposed to be the hip replacement.
He was the hip replacement for all these square old white guys that we'd had for years, and that was all he needed.
And now they're saying he doesn't have the guts.
He doesn't have the guts to get this done.
I wanted to talk about something Rush mentioned yesterday because it's a good point, you know.
They can do, they can demonize individuals.
They can do it to Joe the Plumber.
They can do it to Sarah Palin.
They have a much tougher time making the case that large numbers, thousands and thousands of ordinary people, citizens, going to these town hall meetings, are an out-of-control, rampaging mob.
And actually, when you see it, when you see what they mean by an out-of-control, rampaging mob, it usually involves somebody asking a tough question of Arlen Specter or one of these other lifetime legislators, the emirs of Incumbistan, as I like to call them, these lifetime legislators.
And Arlen Spector can't come up with an answer.
He just stands there, and then he says afterwards on TV when he's back in his safe environment that they're not representative of real America.
But apparently, asking a tough question means you're a rampaging mob now.
Rush mentioned yesterday that when we had real rampaging mobs, remember these anti-globalization meetings, summits, you used to have a globalization summit, the WTO or the IMF would be meeting somewhere.
And these anti-globalization mobs would turn up and trash the town.
It happened in Seattle, happened in Washington, happened in Quebec City, happened in Gothenburg, Sweden, happened in London.
And nobody minded.
They thought that was just youthful idealism.
There was this French farmer who used to be in all these riots, a guy called Bovais, who took it out on McDonald's because he was upset about some new French tax on cheese.
I don't claim to be an expert on the ins and outs of Paris's cheese taxation policy, des ampo de fromage, but I don't see why it required smashing up McDonald's.
I don't see why it requires tossing bricks through McDonald's windows.
And this French farmer said, oh, attacking McDonald's is not violence.
The free market is violence.
And all the progressive opinion went along with that.
They said, oh, we don't mind you smashing the streets.
You've got to understand that the people are very motivated.
They're very idealistic.
They're very concerned.
Tim Robbins and Susan Sarindon and Ben of Ben and Jerry's, the great hippie-dippy Vermont ice cream makers, and Anita Roddick of the body shop, you know, where you buy all those like bath salts and cleansing lotions, the things they have at the airport all the time.
They were all in favor of this direct action to the point that they subsidized it.
They bankrolled this thing called the Ruckus Society that used to train people in direct action at a camp in California.
It would say it would actually train them for what they had to do when you got to the anti-globalization summits and you wanted to smash the place up.
And what was particularly impressive about this, Anita Roddick, who owned the body shop, that was on the list of targets of the anti-globalization guys because of something they used in their cosmetics.
So she was actually paying a mob to throw bricks through her own windows.
And that's perfectly fine with the left.
They don't mind about any of that.
The Canadian government at the summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, I was there, George W. Bush was there, all the leaders from North America, Central America, South America there.
I remember sitting there as a large slab of concrete came whistling past my ear and the Surete de Quebec, the local police, turned on the water can and it was just like this little sort of squirt, like that urinating boy in the statue they got in Belgium.
Because they'd been told not to be too mean to the protesters, even when they were like throwing huge lumps of concrete at you that would kill you.
In fact, the Canadian government gave $300,000 of taxpayers' money to subsidize protesters to go to Quebec City and trash the city.
And so when you had these things in Seattle and Washington, London, Gothenburg, Rome, nobody said then, oh, out of control, rampaging mob.
But you get a nice, sweet little old lady of 63 who's concerned about Obama's death panels, and she goes along to ask Arlen Spector a question, and suddenly, oh no, that's un-American, according to Nancy Pelosi.
They're evil mongers, according to Harry Reid.
Harry Reid, the same lefties who said that Ronald Reagan calling the Soviet Union an evil empire, and who bemoaned the simplistic cowboy moronic analysis of President Bush when he referred to the axis of evil,
these people all say, oh, but these people are apparently entirely relaxed about Harry Reid demonizing thousands and thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands by now, of concerned American citizens exercising their right to question their representatives as evil mongers.
And the Democratic Party will not be able to pull this off.
You can do it to a Joe the Plumber.
You can do it to a Sarah Palin, but you cannot demonize hundreds of thousands of citizens and make them into something they're not.
And by the way, I think that's the lesson they're getting here.
Someone like Arlen Spector, who essentially believes in nothing but his own indispensability.
Arlen Spector, who was a Republican of convenience for many years and now he's a Democrat of convenience because basically he represents the party of Arlen Spector.
The one thing he is sure of is that Arlen Spector is indispensable to the health of this republic.
And what these people going along to these town hall meetings are reminding Senator Spector and others of is that you are not our rulers.
You are our representatives.
This is a republic of citizen legislators.
You are one of us who has been elected to represent us.
And the sight of lifetime senators and lifetime congressmen recoiling in horror from the impertinence of citizens who have the temerity to question them does not speak well for the legislative class.
Harry Reid cannot make this stick.
More straight ahead on EIB.
Yes, Rush back tomorrow.
He's in California all week.
He's filming the.
Well, I don't, you can't be filming it because it's like animated, isn't it?
Yeah, he's voicing.
He's voicing the animation.
He's voicing the soundtrack for his animated appearance on the right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
I get how it works.
He's doing the family.
It's all very, it's more complicated than this, isn't it?
He's doing the family guy, and he will be back tomorrow.
Now, the important thing to remember about what's happening here in the healthcare debate is that don't be fooled by all this stuff that says, oh, Obama's on the ropes.
He's conceding on the death panels.
He's conceding on the public option.
He's going for this new thing, this co-op thing.
These details don't really matter in the bigger scheme of things.
What he has to do is get something passed, anything passed this fall that has the seeds of a public option within it, that provides for the expansion of government direction of healthcare.
Because if he gets that passed, if he gets across the river, he can burn the bridge and we will never be able to go back.
If he gets something passed, it'll be reformed.
It can be reformed.
It will be endlessly reformed again and again and again.
Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized healthcare knows, in fact, that that becomes the dominant political issue.
Up in Canada, they've had essentially national government healthcare for 40 years, a government monopoly of healthcare.
And the single biggest issue in every election is always the health system, the waiting times, and they're always appointing what they call royal commissions up there to hold investigations into it and to come up with proposals to reform it.
And that's what will happen here.
Something will be passed.
It will be reformed endlessly.
It will metastasize like your untreated cancer that will be working its way through your body while you're waiting to see a specialist.
Whatever health bill he passes will metastasize and spread and grow and enlarge once the seeds of further government annexation of healthcare are planted.
And that's why this is really dangerous.
This is a really dangerous moment in American history because you cross this bridge and it's all but impossible to go back.
It fundamentally changes the relationship between the citizen and the state.
And you're not really a citizen anymore.
I was listening to Rush yesterday and he had this fellow call up who was hopping mad that the death panels thing had been cut from the latest version of one of these bills because he liked the death panels on the grounds that, as he put it, Medicare won't cover you having a so-called end-of-life counseling.
And a doctor called up to disagree with him on that point and said it didn't matter.
But what struck me about the thing is, well, you know, if you want to have end-of-life counseling, why not book an appointment?
What's it going to cost you?
$100, $200?
It's your life.
It's your life.
What's wrong with you that you're not prepared to spend $100 to talk with some guy in a room about the end of your life for $100 for $200?
How have we so corroded the nature of self-reliance that we're not even prepared to spend a modest three-figure sum getting advice that could change our life?
We'll spend a three-figure sum on a significant three-figure sum on a cable package to get tons of TV networks will never ever watch.
We'll spend a small three-figure sum to get the DVD box set of Dancing with the Stars so we can relive Tucker Carlson's glorious sit-down on the chair on the CIA safe house chair while the girl in the chiffon wiggles around him.
We'll spend a three-figure sum on that.
It's worth spending three-figure sum on the DVD box set of Dancing with the Stars, but not on something that could change your life.
And that's the critical thing.
Once you've accepted the idea, once you've accepted the idea that you're not even prepared to dip into your pocket to spend $100 or $200 for something that could save your life, change your life, dramatically transform your life, then you might as well have government healthcare because you're no longer a self-reliant citizen anymore.
And that is ultimately what is at stake with where we're going on healthcare.
And that's why what matters for Obama in healthcare is he knows if he can pass enough of a bill that the government can annex just enough of the healthcare system to put you in a system, to put you essentially in a situation where private healthcare, private options are shrinking and government's control of the industry is growing, then it is the fastest route.
It's the express train to a permanent left-of-center political culture.
In other words, if you're like Obama and you've read up all the stuff and you've been a community organizer, you've read Saul Lilinsky, you've been marinated in the left-wing politics of Chicago University life all your adult life.
And what you're trying to create is a society in which government is intricately involved in every aspect of people's lives.
The fastest way to that is to governmentalize healthcare.
That's the express route.
That's the express route to a permanent left-of-center political culture.
And that is what is at stake for Americans here.
You know, we immigrants can sometimes sound a bit hysterical about it because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads.
And it is essentially an acceptance of a very philosophically, I think, what's something that's very problematic for any real conservative.
That you talk about a medical problem you have, and the government says, no, we agree you've got the problem.
The doctor agrees you've got the problem.
The doctor would be willing to perform this operation, but we, the government, will not permit you to have that operation.
That's what happens under socialized healthcare systems.
Up in British Columbia, the Fraser Health Authority has just asked, it's got a massive budget shortfall, so it's just introduced massive cuts to senior services, including a 15% cut in elective surgeries.
Now, what does that mean?
Elective surgeries.
The phrase elective surgeries no longer has any meaning in socialized systems.
What it means in British Columbia is that you can elect to have the procedure, but they won't elect to give it to you.
That's what it comes down to.
So you can say you can want the hip replacement, the doctor can say you need the hip replacement, but the government says, no, we only give so many hip replacements a year and you don't get yours.
You've got to wait.
We're cutting 15% of elective surgeries this year, so you can't get yours.
And that's not an issue about medical efficiency or controlling costs.
What that is, is you accepting the state sovereignty over your hip, over your kidneys, over your prostate, over whatever it is.
And free people should not do that.
If you want to have the hip replacement, that's between you and the doctor.
The government should have no say and certainly no veto on that procedure.
And yet that is exactly what happens in government health systems around the world.
You listen to the words they use.
I quoted over at National Review the words of, I think it was this Orwellian acronym they have here.
They don't call it a death panel in Britain.
They call it NICE, NICE, which stands for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence.
So it's a NICE death panel.
And they issue rulings.
They issue rulings on who can get, they say the obese, you know, the obese can't have the knee replacements and smokers can't have heart disease treatment.
And that's the word to bear in mind, rulings.
Panels of bureaucrats issue rulings just like judges do, just like judges do.
That's it.
You can't appeal it.
You can't go anywhere with it.
Unless you want to get on a plane, fly out the country and have it done in one of the dwindling number of jurisdictions that still recognizes that you own your body and you have the right to decide what it is you're going to do with it.
And it's the acceptance of the state sovereignty over your hip and your prostate and your bladder and everything else that's likely to go wrong is what's at issue here.
And that's why this thing can't be compromised.
It has to be nuked, as Sarah Palin did when she used this phrase death panels.
It has to be nuked and killed and nothing passed.
Because if he gets anything passed, he can expand it from there.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network, talking about healthcare.
Don't rest up for a moment.
It's not about this or that clause or this or that subsection.
What's going to happen is that something will be passed in embryo that will contain the seeds for the massive expansion of government healthcare.
It's effectively the nationalization of your body.
I had a letter from a reader over in Scotland who wants to get a back x-ray, but he can't because he no longer has sovereignty over his back.
There is, in essence, a government line item budget for backs for the entirety of Scottish backs.
And the line item budget that is allocated to backs in general will not pay for x-rays.
So the needs of his particular back count for nothing.
That's it.
That's done.
It's a government line budget item, a budget line item in the budget, and it's nothing to do with the needs of his particular back.
It's the nationalization of your body, in effect.
Let's go to Mark, who is in Onalaska, Wisconsin.
Mark, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you, Mark.
It's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
It's a pleasure to talk to you, too.
We usually have, we've got, you're one of the few remaining marks in the country who's not a certified Rush Limbaugh guest host because we have Mark Belling, Mark Davis, me.
So if you do well, we'll slot you in for Thursday.
So go ahead.
What's your question?
Well, not so much of a question, really, as more of a little insider information I wanted to pass on.
I am a reluctant member of the SEIU.
Oh, now that's the Service Employees International Union, is that it?
Yes, it is.
The wonderful people who were working in coordination with ACORN and all of the other backing and motivations behind the election of the current pretender to the throne.
Well, you did a great job getting him over the finish line and into the office.
Well, I did not, which is why I am so popular in my union.
All right.
You're the token non-Obama man in the SEAL.
Okay.
That must be the loneliest subsection of that union, I would have thought.
Lonely, but you know what?
Like the Minutemen of the founding of our nation, you know, we're manning the walls and we're fighting the good fight.
So, okay, well, you hang in there.
Now, you guys have been at some of these town hall meetings, haven't you?
There was a big SEIU presence at the one in, I think it was St. Louis a week or two back.
Yeah, unfortunately, those that showed up, I hate to say it, but there are many who have just given over their free thinking and their independence to this union, and that couldn't be a bigger mistake, in my opinion.
I know one of the things that prompted me to call this morning was I received a telephone call right away this morning from some comrade working in a telephone bank somewhere who called me up and wanted to tell me of my responsibility to be informed about health care reform and how I needed to make my voice heard.
And my response to her was that I have made my voice heard.
I'm not in favor of health care reform in its current form or any form proposed by Mr. Obama, and that I planned on fighting it tooth and nail.
To which she hung up on me.
Now, these, I assume all your fellow union members are getting these calls.
A lot of them responding to it and starting to turn up at town halls, as Robert Kuttner said.
Are you the liberal protesters that he wants to see out there at the town halls?
Well, I'm sure they are.
I mean, there's, but I can tell you right now, the area that I work in, the actual institution that I work in, more of the union members there are not pro-Obama.
They are not in favor of a lot of the things that have been going on, health care reform and the bailouts and everything else.
And they're not in favor of the union.
If it really would have come down to it this last time before contract negotiations, I think there is a very strong possibility that if we would have had a unifying force, the SEIU would not have been in place where they are now.
Right.
Because a lot of people are just sick of this.
I myself, during the last election, had McCain signs out in front of my house, Don't Tread on Me Flag.
You know, the whole nine yards.
I am so against everything these people stand for that there was no way it was conceivable that I would ever vote that way.
And yet my union sent me sometimes five and six mailings about what was wrong with John McCain, what was wrong with Sarah Palin, what was right with Obama.
Well, you know what you need to do, Ma?
We need to get you out there at some of these town halls in an SEIU meeting in an SEIU, one of the T-shirts, one of the jackets, as a union man who opposes Obamacare.
We've seen seniors opposing Obamacare.
It would be great to have SEIU guys opposing Obamacare out there at the town hall.
So get along there.
Next time you get a call, say, oh, sure, where is the next town hall?
I'll be there.
And you can stand up in the union jacket and talk down Obamacare too, because that's what we need.
There aren't going to be large numbers of liberal protesters going out there, by the way.
There were three types of people who voted for Obama.
There were the people who just thought it would be cool after all this time, after all these 43 white-bred waspy presidents to have a nice, to have something representing the diversity of this great nation and have a black president.
There was a segment of people who voted for him just on those grounds.
Then there were the suckers who kidded them, so who invented an Obama who didn't exist, who was the so-called moderate, pragmatic, fiscally responsive, post-partisan guy that David Brooks and Christopher Buckley and other commentators who should have known better essentially concocted out of thin air.
He doesn't exist.
And then there were the people who voted for Obama explicitly because he was a left-wing, domestically transformative president.
And they're the least insane of all those three parties, all those three groups, because they voted for what he's now been trying to give them.
And there aren't enough of them.
The great thing about America is there are not enough people who want this country transformed into Scandinavia to push this, to make this happen.
That's why he's got to push it through fast or it'll never happen.
Mark Stein, InfraRush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
I was talking about that question Robert Kuttner posed in the Washington Post.
Where are the liberal protesters?
Well, I'll tell you where they are.
Martha's Vineyard.
God bless her.
Cindy Sheehan is back.
Cindy Sheehan, you know the one who just used to move to Crawford, camp out outside the president's home all summer.
Well, this new president, he doesn't summer in Crawford.
He summers at Martha's Vineyard.
So Cindy Sheehan is camped out in Martha's Vineyard protesting him.
And it will be interesting to see whether the media, who covered every aspect of Cindy Sheehan's protest, even though there are only three people there, will actually cover her protesting Obama and his ruthless support for Bush war policies in the Tony Enclave of Martha's Vineyard.
That's what they always call it, by the way.
I love that expression, Tony Enclave.
I think, didn't Tony Enclave do the drivetime show on WZBQ?
Tony Enclave?
Much more music.
Anyway, in the Tony Enclave of Martha's Vineyard, Cindy Sheehan has turned up.
All the media are already there because they vacation, all the media big shots, vacation with Obama at Martha's Vineyard.
So they don't have to go out of their way to get this story.
They just like to have to, as HR said, step over her on the way into the restaurant.
So it will be interesting to see whether they actually cover this protest.