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Aug. 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What day is it?
Is it Wednesday?
It is Wednesday.
Anyway, great to be here, folks.
Great to have you.
I want to warn you.
I want to warn you, doing the program today on less than three hours' sleep.
And those three hours, I don't think we're solid.
We are just having a blast out here.
We're in Los Angeles all week long.
And remember, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies travels with me.
As long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where he is.
Looking forward to talking to you today.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
You got to hear this.
Last night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Barney Frank having a healthcare town hall meeting.
A woman stands up.
She's holding an Obama as Hitler poster.
The woman wants to know why Barney Frank supports Obama's Nazi health care policy.
And this is what Barney Frank said.
When you ask me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask to your question with the question, on what planet do you spend most of your time?
You stand there with a picture of the president, the face to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis.
My answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.
Kim, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.
I have no interest in doing it.
It's fabulous and fantastic and hilarious that a woman shows up at a Barney Frank town hall meeting with an Obama as Hitler poster in this Nazi stuff in his district.
I mean, this is unreal.
But the killer for me was, here's Barney Frank.
So what planet do you live on to this woman?
Isn't it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?
So when he starts talking about where people live, folks, I just can't.
This is all so much fun to watch, and it's all so much fun to analyze.
Here's another exchange, another audience member with Congressman Frank.
You're going to bankrupt this country, you and the Democrats, and you're making a mistake.
I'm in response.
Sorry, but I really, I don't understand your mentality.
What do you think you accomplish by yelling?
When you're through yelling, call me.
Are you incapable of a conversation in which you talk and then I talk?
You have to interrupt?
I don't ask you to trust me.
I ask you to have a civil conversation.
Barney Frank losing it here with his own people, scolds the crowd for interrupting him.
Next, he gets booed when he tries to say that Medicare isn't bankrupt.
The government is not the church.
Socialism is taking money that people don't want to give, assuming that you can do better with that money than they can.
Well, I disagree that it's socialism to have unemployment comes in.
Is Medicare bankrupt?
No, it's not technically bankrupt.
It needs more money.
If we hadn't gone to the war in Iraq, we would have had more than enough money to pay for health care.
Somebody is putting the news out there, folks, that Social Security is going to be in default in two years.
Yeah, did you see?
I mean, Social Security default in two years.
We're trying this massive health care plan.
The Democrat Party, I mean, things are disintegrating around the White House is double flip-flopping on the public option.
And they have nobody fooled by running around saying that, well, we're going to get no public option, but we're going to do these co-ops and so forth.
I mean, you got Gibbs yesterday looking like an absolute arrogant idiot saying, no, no, no, no.
Public option, it's always the centerpiece.
It's never been otherwise.
Captain Sebelius gets thrown under the bus with all of this.
It is, you know, it's becoming clear.
You take President Obama off the teleprompter with prepared remarks, and it is a crapshoot.
It really is a crapshoot what he's going to say and what's going to come out of his mouth.
And it's interesting.
And now you've got poor old Eleanor Cliff.
You'll hear her in a moment.
She did, oh, so said he will be a total failure if he doesn't get this.
Now, the bottom line is for Obama, at the end of the day, he will sign anything they send to him.
It doesn't really matter.
He's building a monument to himself, and he's going to get this done.
He knows that whatever they send him out of the Congress is going to be single-payer and universal.
And I have to laugh.
Folks, I have to laugh now.
The big story, the Democrats, they're going to go it alone to hell with bipartisanship.
They gave it a shot.
They gave a chance to the Republicans to help compromise here.
But now they're going to go it alone.
Now, that is laughable because the Republicans can't stop them.
I'm getting blue in the face pointing this out.
The Republicans cannot stop them.
And the big word here, when the Democrats say that they're going to go it alone, that's reconciliation.
And that's not constitutional.
Reconciliation is the only procedure.
It's for budget items, passing budget items in the Senate.
And it is the only time where the Senate can pass something with 51 votes as opposed to 60 and invoking cloture.
Now, the reason that this was decided is because there is a constitutional requirement that the government have a budget and that they pass a budget.
So reconciliation is the way that that's done.
The Democrats are talking about using reconciliation to pass their health care bill in the Senate.
And if that happens, the Republicans, if they want to, via parliamentary procedures, can shut down the Senate for a year simply by demanding that every bill and every amendment be read every day on the floor of the House before voting on it.
When you're talking about a thousand-page bill and all these other large bills that are filled with lots of pages, I mean, that's going to take a lot of time.
And so now the question is, are they bluffing about reconciliation?
There are a lot of people that think the Democrats are just bluffing and they're just trying to scare.
And if you look at Pelosi, I don't know that Pelosi has enough guile to bluff.
I think she's just, I mean, she's got guile, don't misunderstand.
But I mean, in this case, she's not, she has no reason to be deceptive about it.
You know, she doesn't have any reelection problems.
Her big problem differs from Harry Reid's in a big way.
Harry Reid is up for re-election 2010, and he's got a problem.
And Harry Reid is going to have to do things in the Senate in a totally different way than Pelosi does in the House.
Pelosi has got to go pedal to the metal, far left, radical extreme, as much as possible to keep her base and her radical Democrats in the House unified.
Harry Reid can't go that way.
Harry Reid's in big trouble if he goes all the way radical, left-wing extreme, because that doesn't help his re-election efforts.
So they're in kind of a funny mess.
They still pose a great threat.
Don't misunderstand.
Nothing's changed.
They could still do this tomorrow if they wanted to.
And I think all this talk about bipartisanship and wanting compromise, get the Republicans on board, I think it's just been a delay tactic.
I think it's just been a way for them to distract people.
They're going to end up trying to do this anyway.
Too much is writing on it, particularly their dreams for the kind of country they want to run.
And of course, the fortunes and the future of their dear president, whose legacy will largely rise or fall based on what happens with this.
Now, let me see.
Let's go ahead and stop here with number 17 because I want you to hear some of the soundbites of the flip-flop and the double flip-flops that are happening here with the administration.
First off, Gibbs, daily press briefing, reporters says, what's been the response so far, kind of feedback to this suggestion in recent days that a public option might not be part of health care reform?
The president, his position, the administration's position is unchanged.
That we have a goal of fostering choice and competition in a private health insurance market.
The president prefers a public option as a way of doing that.
That's what the president has said for months.
Coincidentally, that's what the Secretary of Health and Human Services has said for months.
It's what I've said for months.
I think the suggestion somehow that anything that was said Saturday or Sunday as being new administration policy is just not something that I would agree with.
Well, now, this is flat out unbelievable.
I mean, Gibbs is trying to tell the Press Corps yesterday and everybody else that what Obama and Sebelius said on the weekend never happened.
No, they didn't say what you heard them say, and it didn't happen.
And this is supposed to be the most competent press secretary and the most savvy White House machine that we've ever had in terms of communications.
So let's go.
Yesterday, Washington, the Administration on Aging's Senior Medicare Patrol Conference.
What the hell is with all these names?
The Administration on Aging's Senior Medicare Patrol Conference.
And Kathleen Sebelius spoke, and here's what she said.
All I can tell you is that Sunday must have been a very slow newsday.
Because here's the bottom line.
Absolutely nothing has changed.
We continue to support the public option.
That will help lower costs, give American consumers more choice, and keep private insurers honest.
If people have other ideas about how to accomplish these goals, we'll look at those too.
But the public option is a very good way to do this.
Okay, so now she comes out and says that what she said Sunday, she didn't say.
Gibbs says, no, Obama and Sebelius didn't say what you heard them say.
And Sibeli says, that must have been a slow news day because you guys, I mean, I didn't say it.
She blames the media.
Kathleen Sibeli is blaming the media for what she actually said on Sunday.
Let's go back.
This is what she said on the CNN, State of the Union, on Sunday.
John King asked her question.
You don't have the votes right now in the Senate for the public option.
Is the message from the president that the votes aren't there?
It's time to come up with a plan B?
What we don't know is exactly what the Senate Finance Committee is likely to come up with.
They've been more focused on a co-op, a not-for-profit co-op as a competitor, as opposed to a straight government-run program.
What's important is choice and competition.
And I'm convinced at the end of the day, the plan will have both of those.
That is not the essential element.
All right.
You know, I only had two or three hours' sleep last night, but I can follow this.
And these people have no idea.
They have lost the message.
There is no discipline.
Now, some people might think Russia are doing this on purpose.
They're just trying to keep everybody distracted and have you talk about how they're saying one thing and doing another thing.
But this is not productive.
Obama has lost the only thing he had going into all this.
He's lost the trust of a majority of the American people.
More and more people do not trust what Obama is saying.
They don't believe him.
And without that, and he's got nothing because he's got no success track.
I mean, everything he's done to supposedly fix problems has made them worse.
So this is a, I've not seen it, I hoped for it, folks.
I'm going to be honest.
When I said I hope Obama fails, this is exactly the kind of stuff I hoped would happen from day one.
But I mean, this is a Keystone cops.
This is a gang that can't shoot straight.
They're still, of course, pose a great danger.
Now, Rasmussen has the polling data out that's interesting on this.
Just 34% of voters nationwide support the health care reform plan proposed by Obama and congressional Democrats if the so-called public option is removed.
In other words, without the public option, enthusiasm for the health care reform, especially among Democrats, collapses.
Well, now that is a double whammy because most people don't want the public option to understand what it is.
What lingering support there was or is for Obamacare resides in the public option.
A lot of Democrats think that's what we have to do.
Now with talk of it coming off, Obama's losing even the people that were locked in on this.
This is the stuff that I dreamed of when I said I hope he fails is starting to happen.
I just wish it had started six months ago instead of today, but I'll take it.
Here's Linda Douglas yesterday afternoon on MSNBC's Dr. Nancy.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman says, could you shed some light as to why the reason the president, at least it appears, to be opening the door to co-ops instead of a public option?
Let me just say again, as I've said to many of you over the last 24 hours or so, nothing has changed.
I mean, it's very interesting that somehow there is this story that something happened when actually nothing happened.
Nobody in the administration said anything different.
The president has always said that one of the key goals, among the key goals of health insurance reform, is you've got to lower costs and you've got to increase choice and competition in the insurance market.
The president said over the weekend, said again, a good idea of achieving those goals would be a public option.
And there's another thing, too.
They keep talking about wanting competition.
They do not want competition.
They do not want competition and choice.
But here's Linda Douglas, the chief propagandist.
You know, she is, it's a toss-up.
You remember Baghdad, Bob, Brian?
You remember Baghdad, Bob?
Our troops were in Baghdad.
We were, I mean, Saddam Hussein was hiding in bunkers and places around town.
We had pictures, live TV shots of our troops moving in on Baghdad.
There's Baghdad Bob saying, oh, no, the troops aren't here.
They're not even close.
Well, I think Baghdad Bob perhaps has taken over the bodies of Bob Gibbs, Robert Gibbs and Linda Douglas, because he's got Baghdad Bob is the PR operation, the communication strategy they've got.
I mean, this is utter, utterly absurd.
They're trying to tell us that what Obama said and Sebelius said, they didn't say.
And then Sebelius is saying, I said it, but you're distorting what I said.
And I really didn't say it.
It was a slow news day.
So, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, MSNBC.
Well, another NBC news poll just out today looking at people, the American public, and how they're looking at the public option.
And 45% are saying they believe in lower costs, but a significant number believe it'll limit access.
Now, if you reframe the White House message that a public option is, in fact, Medicare, but without the age restrictions, can you address these numbers?
Well, you know, the way the public option works, and people really don't have a lot of information in some ways.
I mean, there's a lot of misinformation floating around there.
There certainly are scare tactics underway to try to prevent people from getting at the truth.
The president thinks it would be a good idea to have a public option or a mechanism that would lower costs and increase choice and competition.
So there's not a question of limiting access.
That's certainly not part of it.
It's a question of expanding access.
It cannot possibly be expanding access.
There is no way around this.
A good idea to have a public option that would lower costs and increase choice and competition?
They actually want us to believe we've already got numerous choices that people have in the private sector.
Why is it that a public option, a government-run option, is going to provide that great competition?
It's going to really bring these insurance companies into line.
It's going to do just the opposite.
There's no way costs are going to get lowered.
Now, the overall costs are not going to be low.
We are going to spend less on certain people, and that is the sick and the elderly.
By the way, the AARP, what is it, 60,000 members cancel their membership?
That's a good start.
We only have 40 million more to go.
But 60,000, who would have ever thought that a Democrat president could come along and get 60,000 seasoned citizens to tell the AARP to go to hell?
And it's happened.
Yeah, I know.
I got to take a chipe.
I'm way long here, folks.
My clock's in a different place here, and I don't look at it enough.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
You know, folks, following their argument out here, this we need a public option, reduce competitive, increase competition, a public option out there, lower costs.
That would be the same thing as if there were no post office now.
And them telling us we need to create the post office to drive down prices at FedEx and UPS.
It's just none of this is sensible at all.
All right, a very short segment here because I say I went long.
We got to take another break here coming up.
Not enough time to get into another sound bite.
But it is interesting.
Democrat investigators targeting health insurers.
Wait till you hear this story.
You have to ask yourself, do we still live in the United States of America?
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Have you noticed, by the way, in all these soundbites, from Gibbs to Linda Douglas to Kathleen Sebelius, the words lower costs, increase competition?
Do you realize that the Democrats now have had to resort to conservative principles and ideas to sell a radical socialist health care overhaul?
And that's right out of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals.
Never make an argument outside your audience's area of expertise.
What Alinsky's rules are really all about is how to lie to people effectively.
The truth doesn't matter.
Words are just tools.
There are no facts.
It's how you present what you want.
And so this is a tacit acknowledgement and admission by the Obama crowd that the American people ain't liberal.
The American people are not a bunch of socialists, so they don't want a socialist country or government.
So they're having to sell this radical overhaul as filled with competition that is going to lower costs.
Now, if they really believed that, they would have never done the stimulus.
They would have been doing things to get themselves out of the private sector so that stimulation could occur there via competition, via incentives, and costs coming down and so forth.
The way economies revive anyway on their own at some point or another.
And Gallup, the reason they're doing this, you know, they've got the same polling data that we have and probably even more.
Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states now, according to Gallup.
At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative and have made that claim in any of the last four years.
Thank you, President Obama and the Democrats, because they are bringing it out.
The only, if you want to attach something that's not really negative to this, but it's still worth pointing out, it's not because some magical conservative figure, other than me, of course, has popped up and is dominating the scene.
There is no identifiable Republican in elective office right now that's, well, maybe Palin, but even so.
This is all happening because we're finally seeing what ultra-radical leftism is.
We're seeing exact ⁇ thank you, President Obama.
In his arrogance and his contempt, he is finally opening up, being exactly who he is.
And this next soundbite from Eleanor Clift, I think, illustrates this.
She's on Matthew's show last night on MSNBC.
And he says to Eleanor Clift, are we going to get a bill or not?
If the Democrats don't produce, I think the anger against them in the midterm elections next year will be quite strong.
And they would condemn Obama's presidency to failure.
I'm waiting for the Barack Obama who the country voted for to show up in this battle.
And they view everything through the last campaign.
And they're saying, oh, he's a great closer.
There's still a lot of fight left on this public option.
And if you use the analogy, I think we're in the Reverend Wright stage of the campaign right now for health care.
This is amazing.
She says that Obama is as low as the Reverend Wright stage.
She's waiting for the Obama on the campaign trail to show up.
She talks about what a great closer he was.
He was not a great closer.
He could not put Hillary Clinton away.
It took the super delegates to get rid of Hillary Clinton.
Remember Operation Chaos?
She was a viable contender up until the super delegates decided to throw it for Obama and end that campaign because it wasn't looking good for Obama.
He was not a closer.
So now here they are.
They're waiting for the Obama of the campaign to show up.
Where is this guy we voted for?
He's been campaigning the whole time.
He's never stopped.
Where is the Obama?
What's happened, Eleanor, is that your guy never had to leave platitudes in the campaign.
But now there are specifics.
Now Obama has done things, and they don't jibe with any of the platitudes that came out of the campaign.
That's why, I mean, the bloom is off the rose here.
And she point blank says here, if the Democrats don't produce, they would condemn Obama's presidency to failure.
See, it's all on the Democrats now.
The Republicans really can't stop any of this, as we keep saying, and all this trumped-up bipartisan garbage.
There was never any bipartisanship here because they don't need it.
In fact, where is it?
Newsweek has a story today.
Yeah, here it is.
This is just amazing.
It's by Andrew Romano.
Bipartisanship is dead.
Newsweek is now proclaiming bipartisanship is bad.
That's the headline of the piece.
Now, what a fascinating sediment after eight years of bashing Bush and Rolfe because of their unwillingness to compromise with Democrat critics.
You know, they were just slapping everybody out of the way, refused to compromise, needed bipartisanship.
If Andrew Romano in this piece can really claim with a straight face that, quote, since the early 1970s, Democrats have drifted only slightly leftward.
You need to get out of Washington, Mr. Romano.
You need to get out of Washington and go to California or go to North Carolina, go to Florida.
You will see only slightly drifted leftward.
So now bipartisanship is bad.
I just, they've changed the rules during the middle of the game in order to make Obama look good.
It's just, it's fascinating.
Let's grab a phone call, Matt, Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program and welcome.
Rush, I wish I could say mega dittos today, but I'm having a hard time doing that.
Well, what do you think dittos mean?
You might still be able to say.
Okay.
Agree.
Just do the bobblehead rush.
You know what?
I'm glad you said this.
I'm not trying to distract you.
You'll have full compliment of time to make your point.
Dittos simply means, you know what, Rush, I love the show.
Please don't ever stop doing it.
It does not mean blanket agreement with what the host says.
It never did mean that.
Well, I was mistaken then.
But I'll see if you can change my mind.
The Hitler mustaches, the Nazi talk, this wearing the gun strapped to your leg stuff.
Yeah, we have the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, but it's stupid.
The other side is painting us, in some cases, effectively.
And I'll give you a soundbite I heard driving into work this morning about the Barney Frank Town Hall.
And of course, you're brilliant, Rush.
You analyze the big picture.
You look at everything.
People don't have time to do that.
And we're giving them ammo.
And in some cases, they're being effective in painting us as a bunch of whack jobs.
And it needs to stop, Rush.
All of it.
The sign you had on your website, the Obamacare thing compared to the Nazi stuff.
I think it needs to stop, Rush.
It's hurting us.
Really?
Yes, I do.
No, no, no.
How is it hurting us?
Because we're giving them ammo.
Here's a soundbite I heard coming to work this morning.
Before I listened to you in the full analysis, I got the soundbite.
And it was a slam dunk.
Wait a minute.
What soundbite?
You mean the woman at Barney Frank's Town Hall?
Yeah, when he said, you know, what planet are you on while he occupies Uranus?
That's a great analysis.
I like that.
But the soundbite with what planet are you on?
And they stopped it right there.
It made it, it was a slam dunk in his favor.
It made her look.
It sounded bad, Rush.
It's just, I think all the signs with the Hitler mustaches and carrying the gun strapped, it's just too much.
It's over the top.
And Rush, I tell you, everybody I talk to is saying the same thing.
It needs to stop.
Matt, I know we have a right to do it, Rush, but in this case, it's just stupid.
My only problem with this, Matt, is that it's not hurting.
Well, the support for Obama in his health care plan is plummeting.
I know.
His presidential approval numbers are plummeting.
These town halls and the things that are happening out there are precisely what has forced Obama into retreat and are the things that may actually prevent him getting this bill done.
Well, do you think it's a good thing if he gets it through the 51?
No, I don't think they're going to go the 51 route.
If they do that, they're committing suicide on anything else they want to do.
But you mean you're talking about reconciliation rather than going no, but that's another thing.
You're saying that the woman showing up with these Nazi posters and my website and so forth.
Yeah, we need to rise above it.
It's giving them ammo.
It's giving them ammo to come out with soundbites that make us look bad.
I don't think it's playing out that way.
I think you're making the mistake here of seeking validation in the media.
You're not looking at the hardcore results here.
I think I'm almost starting to think you might be a seminar caller.
No way.
Rush, that's crazy.
That's crazy talk.
But so is what you're saying is a little crazy.
Because you're looking success right in the face and saying, we got to stop this.
No, no, no.
Only a couple things I think are over the top.
The Hitler mustaches, I think, is over the top.
Okay, let's examine that.
Okay.
I'm okay.
Why can we not use Hitler, who was the architect of National Socialism in Germany?
Because Rush, it's just, it's not, it's a mistake.
No, no, this is where I have explained this.
I have explained this in great detail.
I'm going to do it again.
The reason that you say that we shouldn't be using Hitler in this Nazi stuff is because everybody associates genocide with Hitler.
And you're afraid that people are going to think that we're associating or trying to say that Obama is identical to Hitler in that way.
And I have made it plain: Obama is not Hitler, and Pelosi is not Joseph Goebbels.
But this healthcare plan and the entire Obama agenda has, I mean, it's frighteningly close to the national socialism policies of Nazi Germany.
Far closer are the Democrats and Obama and their policies to national socialism in Germany than anything we on the right believe.
And we've been sitting here, we've tarred and feathered for 21 years, about the length of time I've been doing this show, about how we are Hitler.
We're the conservatives are like Nazis.
And it's just Hitler was a man of the left.
And the Democrats are getting a taste of their own medicine here.
If there is a close association to Hitler in this country policy-wise, the Democrat Party owns it, particularly this version and this strain of it.
Now, I look at the polling data.
I look at conservatives now outnumber liberals in all 50 states.
I look at people showing up at these town halls.
The Joker poster.
You know, everybody was, everybody thought, that has to be some militia guy that put the Joker post.
It was not, it was not only was the guy not a right-wing nut, but he wasn't white and he wasn't right-wing.
The guy is from Chicago.
He's from Illinois.
He's a, yeah, he's a whatbacker?
Yeah, that's right.
He loves Kucinich.
The guy that did this is a far leftist.
And I think you're misreading.
Listen to Charles Krauthammer.
Charles Krauthammer used to say, Matt, the same thing you're saying.
Krauthammer said, yeah, these tactics, they're just going to hand Obama victory on a silver platter.
They're just over the top.
We've got to go out there and we got to be civil.
But he's totally taken it back, done a 180.
Last night, Monday night, actually, on the special report with Brett Baer, question, is this a cat and mouse game, Charles, with the semantics?
Are we just seeing the end result now that they're going to eventually pull it off the table?
It's a full retreat.
Look, Obama had wanted the public option a lot because it is the road to a government-run system, which is what in his heart he wants.
But he's not going to get it and he knows it.
And he knew it early, but he hung on because it would be a bargaining chip when he goes for the minimal plan, which would be health insurance reform, where he slaps a lot of restrictions on the insurance companies where there are no preconditions, et cetera.
The reason he had to drop it now is because of the town halls and the public rebellion.
It's because of the reaction, the angry, agitated, educated reaction of people against the public option, understanding that it's a way to national health care, that it became a distraction and a liability.
So here's Krauthammer, who had the same opinion.
I understand why.
You know, on our side, we are very sensitive to the notion that independents and average Americans who are not all in the game, ideologically or politically, don't like partisanship.
And when the Republicans do this, Republicans yell and scream, ooh, it's this bad.
And those people run to the Democrat Party, and it's always been a lie.
It has always been a lie because the Democrat Party is the most angry, partisan, mean-spirited, insulting, filled-with rage bunch of people I have seen in my lifetime.
The idea that mild-mannered people who only want us all to get along are going to up and run to find solace with a bunch of hate mongers in the Democrat Party because some Republican stands up and offers criticism has always been absurd.
Matt, you're falling prey to an attempt by people to get us to shut up.
What?
Oh, God damn it, I'm way long again.
Sorry about this, folks.
The next segment's going to be really short.
I should have taken the break four minutes ago.
Back after this.
You know, folks, there are always going to be soundbites out there that can be edited to make conservatives get defensive.
But let's not forget where all this started.
Nancy Pelosi.
You know, we keep forgetting this.
Nancy Pelosi called us all Nazis.
Dick Durbin has used the term.
Harry Reid's had some things to say.
But we're the only ones that edit those soundbites.
We don't even edit them.
We play them in full to show who they are.
The days of us being defensive and worrying about what the media is going to say or worrying about what these precious independents are going to say.
It's over.
You know, going on offense here is what has worked.
There's a huge lesson.
Moderate Republicans need to take note here of how you win.
And you don't do it by being moderate.
You don't do it by pretending you're part of the Oxford Debating Society.
I mean, when you're dealing with a guy like Obama and the Democrat Party who are going to impose Nazi-like socialism policies on this country, you've got to say it.
And the same time you say it, you have to go out and point out we're not talking about the genocide.
That's at the tail end of Hitler.
With the stuff that preceded it.
Look, who is acting Nazi-like anyway?
Who is it that's sending out thugs to beat people up at these meetings?
Who is it that is organizing passionless people, at least on the issue?
It's the Democrats.
It's the Obama White House.
Who is it that had the snitch website that they finally admitted and that they've taken down?
We are dealing with a known quantity.
We are dealing with people and we have to point it out.
If 3% more, there's a new poll here.
3% more say that they oppose Obama health care.
If the protests are hurting, how is that happening?
Look, folks, the bottom line is these protests are working.
The media don't want anybody to realize that.
And that's why they're behaving as they are.
But they're working and they're working big time.
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