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Aug. 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, I just I just realized something.
This show has been a lot more peaceful this week.
There have been far fewer intrusions, and I just figured out why Snerdley is not here trying to tell me how to do it.
Snerdley did not make the trip.
And so there's no Snerdley shouting in my ear every five seconds.
Anyway, greetings, folks, and welcome back, Rush Limbo here, the EIB network.
We are in Los Angeles, and we're here for the balance of the week.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
Here's Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, talking about the violence in Iraq.
There's a reporter said nearly 100 people that have died in the latest bombing in Iraq, the bloodiest day in a year.
It comes just weeks after U.S. troops, combat troops pulled out of the urban centers.
What, if anything, uh Mr. Gibbs, does this say about the readiness of Iraqi security forces to take uh take over responsibility?
And is there any concern that the U.S. pull out of those cities was premature?
No, I don't I don't think the again, remember that was a uh this is determined by the Iraqis as part of agreements that were made.
Um look, uh I think it shows you that agree to which extremists will always go to wreak havoc through senseless violence that harms innocent human lives.
I just I am stunned.
I know some of you think that he was comparing uh the extremists in Iraq to those of you showing up at the town hall meetings, and I wouldn't reject it out of hand.
But do you guys maybe pull out to say, oh no, no, no, my previous administration did that deal.
Uh we inherited that pull-out date.
We uh that's what he was saying.
We inherited that, and um, you know, we just uh part of the agreement.
Look, uh the extremists will always go to recap as though it's just commonplace now.
I love these guys.
I really try this headline.
Heart attack deaths fall after Medicare guidelines.
Clearer U.S. guidelines on how to treat elderly heart attack patients appear to have saved lives with a marked reduction in heart attack.
This is this has got to be stopped.
This has got to be stopped, saving the seasons citizens' lives with health care tips.
This is not in the plan.
I mean, you're gonna have too many seasoned citizens living, that's gonna botch up the whole effort to control costs.
I'm glad to be able to bring this to their attention.
We have read excerpts of a of column or columns written by a uh a Brit at the UK telegraph.com.
His name is uh Gerald Warner, he is an author.
He's a broadcaster, he's a columnist.
He's a commentator.
He writes about politics, history, culture, and society in general.
Here's the headline for his latest piece.
President Panty Waste in retreat.
Barack Obama hoists the white flag over Stalinist health care proposals.
See, the UK is not invested, the UK media not invested in Obama's success.
The white flag is flying over Camp Obama, which makes a pleasant change from the red flag that metaphorically speaking has been flying there since January 20th.
Obama's plan for socialized health care on the uh Stalinist model across the U.S. is now in full retreat.
Not only will it not play in Peoria, it will not play anywhere.
And it goes on and just pulls no punches.
But Mr. Mr. Warner, I I'm it's not time to get giddy yet.
I am in charge of telling people when it's time to get giddy.
And I'm eager to say so, but the time has not arrived yet.
Now, speaking of Medicare patients surviving longer because of heart at heart attack tips and how to deal with the seasoned citizens who have heart attacks.
Now this is this is uh not a good sign for the Obama health care plan because the Obamacare features rationing.
And you remember when Clinton was talking about uh welfare reform, the slogan was mend it, Don't end it.
I think with Obamacare rationing.
The slogan regarding America's lifespans will be end it, not extend it.
That is the Obama health care plan's way of dealing with spiraling out of control costs.
When it comes to life in America, end it.
Don't extend it.
Rationing health care means limiting life.
Limiting medical treatment is cruel and unusual in a free country.
It's unthinkable in America, as unthinkable as infanticide, which Obama once voted.
He actually once voted to withhold treatment from infants who survived abortions.
Obama keeps talking.
We've got to stop the waste in the insurance business.
We need to stop the waste in government.
We need to reject Obamacare.
The slogan for America's approach to life must be extend it, not end it.
And these guys are just in a mess right now.
And they they uh might pull it out, they might put it together, gonna certainly try.
Uh, but it is it is just delightful to see.
I can't, I can't tell you how how no one overdo this, how proud of everybody that's getting out there and doing this, and and the intimidation tactics are not working, and the Democrats are bringing up more fake doctors.
Gateway Pundit has revealed.
Apparently, there was some wacko woman that showed up, not the one carrying the Nazi picture.
Some wacko woman showed up at Barney Frank's town hall and identified herself as a doctor.
And she's not a doctor.
She's an idiot.
Sheila Levitt, a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton, Massachusetts lefty who homeschools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat them.
She's a vegetarian.
She shows up and she says she's a doctor.
Now, this is the second or third time at a Democrat town hall meeting, somebody stood up as a doctor.
We love the plan, Mr. Frank.
We love the plan, Mr. Obama.
What is it with these Democrats?
Um and their attraction to fake doctors.
Well, the answer is very simple.
Everything they're doing is fake.
Everything is a head fake.
Everything is deceit.
Everything is fraud.
Uh they have to send their union thugs out to try to intimidate the people who are showing up because of uh or out of genuine passion.
Uh it was I don't know.
I just so great because they've got all this power, and now they're just showing everybody who they are, what they are, and people are seeing it.
And when Obama loses that commodity that he had, the trust, you don't get that back.
When people start doubting you, uh, and you are the Messiah, and you lose your messianic status.
I don't know how you get it back.
Now, people are asking me, and I haven't uh people here in the staff email, hey Rush, hey Roy, how was it that the family guy taping yesterday?
My friends, if I may say so.
I nailed it.
We had allotted three hours and forty-five minutes to tape the uh the segment, and I am the featured star.
And the premise of the program is a family dog Brian gets tired of being a liberal, he stumbles across a book of mine that I've written when I'm in town signing a book, and he becomes as big conservative and he actually becomes uh a groupie, following me around, moves in with me, uh, tries to take over my radio show.
And it is hilarious.
I uh I met a lot of people over there.
This is funny.
Now, the family guy, as everybody knows, is staffed pretty much by liberals.
So I walk in, and the first guy that comes up to me whispers, hey, I'm your biggest fan here.
I'm the only one.
I'm a conservative.
I'm really glad to see you.
It's a thrill to meet you.
I said, thank you.
Shook his hand and so forth.
And Seth McFarland, the creator and the voice of four of the characters comes out.
We had a uh great conversation.
I've met talked to him on the phone before, I never met him in person, uh, at a great time, took some pictures.
They had to take some pictures for the animators for me.
And uh so I said, okay, sure.
So I'm And they're all, boy, you, you.
Why we can't refer to you as fat anymore in this episode.
I said, I know.
So would you pose for some pictures?
And I said, sure.
So I just stood straight.
And it had it wasn't professional.
He's had a little point and shoot pocket camera.
And it took a couple straight on.
He said, would you would you mind turning if we get some from the side?
Oh no, you want a side shot?
Gladly.
Turn to the side.
And then I said, hey, why don't you say a picture of my butt?
So I bent over and grabbed the ankle and said, take a picture of my butt.
I'm sh you never know what the animators are going to do.
So they did then everybody, this is attracting a crowd, and everybody starts laughing.
We go in to the sound booth, uh, wrap it up in a in a in uh an hour and 45 instead of 345.
Now I do sing a song in this episode, but it was a song to which the melody I've never heard.
So we didn't get the song finished yesterday.
I'm gonna be coming back in September to put the uh the wrap on that.
When I walk out, on the way out, another guy comes up.
I'm the only conservative in the building.
And I just I wanted to say hi and I wanted to see you before you left.
And I said, no, no, no, no, there's another.
There are actually two of you.
I didn't know, didn't tell him who.
I didn't identify.
His secret is safe with me, but I said there's another guy in here that he came up and said he's conservative too.
Another guy, so I don't know.
You know what I mean?
We're walking through this family guy office complex, the set and everything.
It was huge.
There are two lobbies.
And on the way out, I said, Seth.
How many people work on this show?
He said, 500.
500 people.
You heard it, Brian.
You were there.
500 people.
I believe it.
Um I I don't know how many do what, but 500 people for this show.
Now, one thing I didn't know until yesterday.
I had heard this, but I didn't get confirmed it.
I thought this episode was gonna uh start out this season.
It would be the premier episode this season.
It's not.
It's the premier episode in September of 2010.
It takes them a year to animate an episode.
And that's there every episode, they've got teams that people are doing the animation.
Uh, and uh it's it's extensive and it's very hard work.
I said, uh I said, Seth, where'd you get your start?
How'd you come up with the idea for this?
He worked at Hannah Barbera.
Uh when Hannah Barbera said, you know what, we want to get back into the prime time uh anime to cartoon business rather than just doing things for Saturday mornings and other things.
And it just it just uh he had an idea for this family guy thing.
He pitched it to Fox and they uh and they liked it.
So it was a um it was great fun.
It was uh it was a well the question has just been asked.
Will the will the character capture my new stealthness?
That is the theory behind taking the pictures.
But they can animate me however they wish.
I hope they animate me with the current iteration of my life and and uh and very slinky uh body and look.
Uh then, and I I feel confident that they will.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have uh taken the pictures.
So forth.
But it was all uh it was all a lot of fun.
A lot of you people have been emailing me.
How dare you?
Why would you capitulate?
Why would you go on a on a show that makes so much fun a conservative?
Why would you do this?
Because it's a cartoon show.
And because they asked me.
And I had script approval.
And some of the things in this script are I had to do four or five takes on one line because I kept cracking up in the middle of it.
No, I can't tell you what it is.
I'm gonna let the cat out of the bag.
But there's um there, there are there are the character Brian, the dog that uh becomes a rush groupie.
I'm doing my radio show like now.
I'm sitting at the microphone, and I'm talking about Pelosi.
And I said, What can we do to stop the Pelosi agenda?
And Brian says, You're going soft.
You're going soft.
I said, What are you talking about?
Going soft.
I know what to do to stop Pelosi.
You know, you the problem is you just tell everybody she's on crack.
And I said, Brian, look, I know she's on crack.
But you can't just say it that way.
It's not gonna persuade anybody.
And then he said, Oh, I got a better idea to shut her up.
And that's what I can't tell you.
Uh you'll just have to wait here for it, hear it, but it's uh it was funny.
I had a great time doing it.
I want to thank Seth McFarlane MacFarlane and his people for uh uh giving me the invitation and the opportunity to appear on it and uh throwing me such a great time yesterday.
Now a quick timeout will come back, and your phone calls are next.
So stay where you are.
I have to throw four switches to turn my microphone on out here.
Other than that, and a stupid location for the clock, everything's peachy keen.
Folks, I want I want you to imagine an America where a majority of the people were better informed and wiser than the state-controlled media and their controllers.
It appears that's where we may be.
The American people have been misunderestimated by Obama, misunderestimated by Congress, the Senate, the state-controlled media.
Look at this from the politico today.
The percentage of Americans who hold a favorable view of the Democrat Party has slipped below 50% for the first time since Obama took orifice.
This is a pew research center poll released today.
Only 49% of Americans now hold a favorable view of the Democrat Party.
And by the way, it's mostly their doing.
We've helped a little here, but it's mostly their doing.
It's their being who they are and total power with no check or balance on them and people are seeing it.
Sixty-two percent of Americans held a favorable view of the Democrat Party shortly after Obama was immaculated.
So they've gone from the day of his emaculation as 62% now down to 49% who hold a favorable view of the Democrat Party.
The Democrat favorable ratings hovered around 60% as recently as April, when 59% of those polled held a favorable view.
Now, folks, this is fascinating.
I said last week, I think, maybe the week before, Barack Obama may be destroying the Democrat Party.
We won't know for a while.
But it might be happening right before our eyes.
I find it fascinating.
Pelosi and Obama and Henry Waxman, Harry Reid are taking their party to the brink.
Now, if the Republicans can just hold together the way they did with the stimulus bill the first time around, if they can just hold together and don't join this health care business, just turn this all on the blue dogs.
It's all up to them and how they want to be perceived and who they're most afraid of.
Pelosi and Ram Emanuel or their voters.
If the Republicans just hold together, they can win big in 2010.
Assuming that there are still polls open.
Assuming I'm just assuming that we'll still be allowed to vote in 2010.
And if that's the case, there's a great, great chance it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could get close to or maybe even secure control of the House again.
But if they fold, and if they try to cut a deal for a watered-down health care bill, then they're going to stay the minority party for a long, long time.
If they, if the Republicans fail to recognize the power and the importance of what happens this month, what is happening in these town hall meetings.
They can't make that mistake again, or they will have failed the American people.
So we got polls today that show that conservatives outnumber liberals in every state in this country.
This is a center right country.
We have a poll showing that the Democrat Party approval is under 50%.
So the path for the Republicans here is crystal clear.
No deals.
Present free market solutions and reap the rewards.
Don't have to join them, Senate or House.
Let them do it on their own.
They're out there saying they're going to go it alone anyway, and some people think they're just bluffing.
Call them on the bluff, let them go on their own.
They're in the process of committing political suicide.
When that's the case, get out of the way.
The best thing you can do to help your opponent commit political suicide is get out of the way and let it happen.
It looked like, you know, Obama was going wobbly.
Since Sabilia's out there, well, the public option, eh, it's not a centerpiece.
Drop the public option.
And then Obama is various other administration people drop the same kind of hint.
And Pelosi looks at that, oh my God, Obama's going wobbly, so she stepped in.
She she is not going to disappoint the kook fringe left.
She's She's going to carry this as far as she can get.
She is their leader.
The kooks are so ticked off at Obama for showing weakness.
The kooks are ticked off at Obama for making a deal with big pharma.
The kooks are ticked off at Obama because of his Afghanistan and Iraq stuff and showing weakness.
So Pelosi stepped into the limelight.
There is hope because the more Pelosi is the face of this, the more Pelosi's in the limelight, the better it is for us.
These blue dog Democrats, they are totally screwed.
If they go against Obama and Pelosi, they're cut off from house re-election money, committee chairmanship opportunities, power.
If they go with the flow in the House, politically speaking, they're dead fish.
Because the Democrat Party, this is where the blue dogs have got to realize the Democrat Party has chosen to go against the will of the American people.
They are openly saying, Barney Frank, what planet do you live on?
You're a nut.
You're a fringe.
I mean, talking to you like talking to a dining room table.
They're calling the American people an early mob.
It was Pelosi who called us Nazis showing up with swastikaza.
The Democrats have chosen to go against the will of the people.
The American people have become the enemy, the opponent of the Democrat Party.
This isn't a country of the people by the people or for the people, for now we're a country of central planners and statists.
We'll be back.
Responding to numerous emails, uh, people uh concerned any time their host doesn't sound normal and people are concerned.
Rush, are you sick?
No, folks, we're having a blast out here.
I essentially pulled an all-nighter last night.
And it's I just have, I mean, I'm not tired.
My voice is tired.
Doing a lot of talking last night.
I mean, everywhere I go, people want to know what I think.
And go to dinner, I run the conversation.
And so I just uh I appreciate the concern, but we're having a we're we're just having a blast out here.
I have so many really uh close friends that live out here, and it's great to be able to um to see them.
Now I don't even think they're up yet.
Much less how they sound, they're not even up.
I figured it's 3:30 or 4 o'clock.
Why go to bed when I'm just gonna be getting up at five?
I mean, that's you know, one hour sleep.
I do better just staying up.
I did get in bed, but I didn't sleep.
I laid down, but I I uh I didn't fall asleep.
Plus, I alarm will not wake me up because I am totally deaf, and the sun doesn't come up early enough out here at 5 o'clock.
The light does not so I've always sleep light, sleep light anyway, uh, when I've got an early call like this.
I just decided to pull an all-nighter.
Everything's cool.
Um state auto dealers have pulled out of the Cash for Clunkers program.
They've just pulled, they're tired of waiting to be reimbursed.
In Maryland, only 2% of the dealers have been reimbursed for $36 million worth of transactions.
Now, this is the Cash for Clunkers program, when you strip it all away, the Cash for Clunkers program is one of the most basic American transactions ever.
The simple trade-in of a car.
But because the Obama administration's in the middle of it, the reimbursements are not happening.
So the New York dealers said the hell with it.
The dealers back in the old days were the private sector-owned automobile companies.
The dealers got reimbursed, they were able to function and run a business.
They got the government involved in it here, and you got the post office basically, and at the same time Obama's trying to tell us how he's gonna cut costs, improve uh efficiency and all this in the health care plan.
I mean, it really is just tottering.
And I don't know what happened, I don't know how this happened, but Swiss banking relied on one thing, and that was secrecy.
You put your money in the Swiss bank account, and nobody knew it was there.
Well, the Obama Administration and the IRS decided they wanted to find out how many Americans were trying to evade taxes.
And they leaned on the Swiss, and somehow they were able to make the Swiss buckle.
The Swiss at their giant bank over there, UBS, have agreed to furnish the names of forty, five hundred Americans and their information to the IRS, Treasury Department, so that they can find out who has been evading taxes.
And you know what?
I can't wait to find out how many rich Democrats are have Swiss bank accounts for the express purpose of trying to avoid U.S. taxes.
One final note here before we get back to the phones.
There's a piece at Bloomberg today by Carol Baum.
Impromptu Obama nomics is getting scarier by the day.
For all the president's touted intelligence, his unteleprompted comments reveal a basic misunderstanding of capitalist principles.
The American thinker does a little analysis here of Carol Baum's piece at Bloomberg, and it uh reveals the growing concern Americans share about Obama's foundering campaign to garner support for Obamacare.
Not that most of us would like to see the Democrats succeed in this, but even those who oppose the president's policies would like to see at least a modicum of competence from the politician formerly known as the one.
Here's more from Carol Baum and Bloomberg.
Everyone makes a mistake or flubs a line when asked questions on the spot, including the president.
And we can overlook run-on sentences, subject and verb, tense disagreement, even a memory lapse when it comes to facts and figures.
The proliferation of Obama's gaffes and non sequiturs on health care has exceeded the allowable limit.
He has failed repeatedly to explain how the government will provide more health care for less money.
He has failed to explain why increased demand for medical services without a uh a concomitant increase in supply will not lead to rationing by government bureaucrats as opposed to the market.
And he has failed to explain why a Medicare like model is desirable when Medicare itself is going broke.
The answer to this is he doesn't care what's in it.
He doesn't care about the specifics.
He will sign whatever they produce and put on his desk.
He wants to build a monument to himself.
He wants to be the modern day FDR and Social Security.
He wants health care, whatever's in it.
And when I say whatever's in it, he's confident that with Pelosi writing it and Henry Waxman, what's in it is going to be radical enough.
But the details he's never even bothered to concern himself with.
That's why he sounds so detached at these town hall meetings.
Because he's running around, he cannot answer specific questions, and he doesn't want to, by the way.
Because he doesn't want to tie himself down to something that might fail.
He always wants to be able to blame it on Bush, from whom he inherited all these uh all these messes.
And I don't know that it it's it's accurate to say that he he misunderstands capitalist principles.
I think he does.
I just don't think he likes them.
I think he looks at capitalism the way all liberals do, especially the ones that have been educated in the Ivy League.
It's unjust.
It's immoral, it's unfair.
It has rewarded the wrong people, and it's time to get even with them.
I don't I think he understands capitalism enough to know that he detests it.
Here's Richard in uh in St. George, Utah, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking a call.
You bet.
Uh, I am a real doctor, not a fake one.
Um I've been look watching this very closely, trying to understand the public option and everything.
And my my analysis has been basically what the writer from Bloomberg wrote, but today when uh I heard um that Henry Waxman has basically requested records from over fifty insurance companies.
Um it just struck me if if this this is all about competition and increasing competition, how in the world can they get proprietary knowledge um knowledge from their competitors?
Well, you know, that's an excellent point.
Uh it really is.
Here's although I don't think that's what Waxman's doing, because I don't think he cares.
He knows they can't compete with him.
Right.
But I I it's still an excellent point.
Here you have the federal government, and a lot of people are more frightened of their government today than they have ever been.
And hear Henry Waxman sending out letters to these insurance companies demanding every bit of information about how they run their business, how the executives are compensated.
I I I want to see in the Constitution where they have that right the insurance companies are under indictment only because the Democrat Party has made the insurance industry its latest demon, its latest villain but I don't know that any federal regulatory agency isn't is investigating the insurance industry as a whole for unfair practices and so forth.
So here you have here you have this little power hungry guy sending out these threatening letters this is all about scaring these people.
This is about getting them to go along with the plan.
This is about forcing them by virtue of fear and intimidation.
This is the way they did it in Russia.
The Soviet Union.
This is the way of the world in most places harassment, intimidation, extortion uh but your point is is is doubly powerful if if they really do mean this business about we just want to provide a public option because we want more competition then they've got no business being able to see all the proprietary information of their competitors.
So no matter how you look at this it stinks but once again get out of the way let them do this they're showing themselves finally for who and what they are and they're paying the price for it big time and they don't care.
It doesn't matter as long as they as much as they can ramrad through before 2010 in those elections they're governing against the will of the people they have chosen not only to demonize the American insurance industry they are now demonizing over half the American people this is who they are.
Here's this Tom Colorado nice to have you on the program sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well.
Thank you.
Hey, thank you so much for giving information out there that most people don't find in the mainstream media.
I appreciate you so much.
One thing that just terrifies me, when Obama says you get to keep your doctor, and I run a medical practice here in Colorado, what I hear him say is I will take the public option.
I will basically have my doctors take that insurance, or he's going to take our medical license away, which just terrifies me.
I don't take Medicaid because we can't afford to.
We can't see that many patients.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but on average, the private health care insurances pay 26% more than what Medicare does.
You mean the reimbursements?
Reimbursements.
The reimbursements to the doctors.
So the private insurance companies reimburse you 26% higher than Medicaid does?
Yes, they do.
as far as per city and per state in in your region but I'm not don't forget don't don't don't forget something Obama has demonized the doctors too remember you guys uh take out body organs that are not necessarily to be taken out you do it to line your pockets you chop off diabetics feet for 30, 40 thousand bucks uh this guy has the I I if you look at what he's doing he really wants people to end up hating the doctor, hate the HMO, hate the insurance company, love the government.
Yeah everyone should love the the private insurance companies because I tell you your local hospital could not make it if they just went with Medicare in Medicaid.
I mean can you imagine if you take a 26% cut out of any business I mean how many employees would you have to lay off I mean you know people say well I don't get to spend enough time with the doctor now if you cut 20% off of I I'm not a physician by a run of practice but if you cut 20% out of my practice I I I'm gonna have to cut uh cut patient time.
I'm gonna have to cut quality of products I'm gonna have to cut you know services.
Yeah it it's good, it whittles it down to the point it doesn't pay you to do your job.
It doesn't pay you.
Well, we we we we have a friend who's in uh in California, she was out to visit the this weekend, and um i in our practice as far as uh you know dermatology goes, we we see somewhere in the nature of thirty seven, thirty-eight, you know, patients per day.
And primarily because we're you know, Medicare is about twenty, thirty percent of our business.
Medicare and Medicaid is somewhere in in the nature of like seventy five or eighty percent of her business.
She sees sixty-five patients a day.
You know, I I mean, c compare compare the second.
Who would you rather go see?
Wait a second.
One doctor, sixty-five patients a day.
In and out in five minutes.
It's dermatology.
You see it, you identify it, you fix it, you write the script, you have the nurse do everything for you.
Wow.
Interesting.
I mean, if you don't w if you want that, go ahead.
Tell your congressman to support the system.
It's ridiculous.
But doctors will find a way.
Well, Tom, I gotta run here.
I just again noticed the clock.
I'm a little long.
I want to catch myself here before I go too long, but I appreciate your call.
Hey, thank you so much, Russ.
Thanks very much.
And we will be back, so sit tight.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
L. Rushmore here, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Standard operating procedure.
I've had a lot of people call today and uh every day, but that today especially it stands out, thanking me for all of the uh information we produce here that uh they don't find anywhere else in the state controlled media.
And I just want to remind you again that a lot of it I find at AskHeritage.org.
This is an outpost of genuine founding principles conservatism in the heart of Washington, DC.
They got some of the smartest people inside the beltway untainted by being inside the beltway.
They don't do DC speak.
They just sit around and they have a bunch of scholars and they think and they analyze.
Robert Rector at Heritage has done some of the greatest analysis of poverty uh relative in this country, relative to poverty elsewhere.
Stunning stuff.
They're doing uh uh great things in exposing the details of the health care bills both in the House and the Senate.
And you can access it.
You can be a member of the Heritage Foundation, over 500,000 Americans now are.
Just go to www.askheritage.org and sign up and join.
It's it's $25, and you have access to everything any other member has.
Special uh conference calls that uh take place between the scholars and and uh sometimes members of Congress.
It's it's an endless supply.
It's a website fun to visit.
Uh and the provisions to asking questions about things to getting answers, really is just look at it.
Just go to AskHeritage.org and and see what you s see what you find, and I guarantee you that you'll be um you'll be inspired by it.
Robert B. Rice.
A column today at the Politico.
How tough is our president.
Robert B. Rice lets loose with his fantasy about the president not being tough enough.
He doesn't think throwing grandma under the bus or going along with this fishy list, the uh snitch website is tough enough.
He's not going after conservatives enough.
I mean, there's there's dissension in the ranks all over the place.
Hurricane Bill out there in the Atlantic.
It's become what is it, 100 miles in a minute?
Hurricane uh category two, category three.
It's gonna miss everything, which is a disaster for the drive-by media.
Major, major disappointment that the storm is not gonna hit the U.S. coast and do damage.
Cambria, California, Rob, thank you for calling, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Uh long time listener and first time caller.
Rob, I'm sorry, I just the clock again.
I have 30 seconds.
I'm sorry to do that to you.
Okay, uh, a sales manager at a uh Honda dealership, and we have about 70 vehicles in the Cars for Clunkers program, and we have not been paid at all.
We have all the documents in and uh have had no payment.
We have over three hundred thousand sitting there, and we can't we have to uh damage the engine, put in sodium silicate and to kill the engine.
Right, I know about that, but you but well don't do it.
Don't do it till you get paid.
Screw 'em.
Quick time out.
We'll be back, my friends.
Don't go away.
As always, folks, I love this as much as anything.
Doing what I was born to do.
Host this program.
And it's only 21 hours, and we'll be back at it again.
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