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Aug. 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings to your music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It is time for the award-winning thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
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You know, I have a story here from state-controlled Associated Press.
I guess this was expected because the word unexpected doesn't appear in the story.
More than 13% of American homeowners with a mortgage are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure as the recession throws more people out of work.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said today they record high numbers in the report of being driven by borrowers with traditional fixed-rate mortgages rather than the shady subprime loans with adjustable rates that kicked off the mortgage crisis.
Jay Brinkman, the trade group's chief economist, said clearly we've not seen the bottom in Florida.
President Obama has pledged to fight the problem, but its foreclosure prevention program, known as Making Home Affordable, is off to a disappointing start.
It's yet another failed Obama program.
As of July, only about one in 10 eligible borrowers had signed up for the failed Obama program, Making Home Affordable.
Obama's pledged to fight the problem, but the foreclosure prevention program, making home affordable, is off to a disappointing start.
So I guess this was expected because there's no mention of any of this being unexpected in the story.
This is from McClatchy newspapers.
Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled off a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998, and that's given global warming skeptics new ammo to attack the prevailing theory of climate change.
The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide are ill-founded and unnecessary.
The Heartland Institute said proposals to combat global warming are crazy, and they will destroy more than a million good American jobs and increase the average family's average energy bill by at least $1,500 a year.
Now, this article, given that it's state-run, McClatchy News Service spends more time, I'm not going to bother reading the whole thing, but spends more time finding global warmers to refute the facts.
Go out and find the global warming believers to refute the facts, but it still is an unexpected article.
And I love it when the global warmers, and I think they're equipped, you know, you people run around and you talk about the birthers and how irresponsible and off their rockers they are.
The global warming believers are just as wacko as the birthers, if you want to look at them as wacko.
I mean, if there is a leftist equivalent of the birthers out there, it is the global warmers.
In this story, they're blaming the ocean for falling global temperatures.
The sun warms the oceans, so any fluctuation comes from the sun.
There is no other heat source for the ocean.
At any rate, who in their right minds trusts Gore or Obama on this?
The reason that we're in a cooling period is sunspot activity.
Anybody knows this, the sun's cooled a little bit, and only a fool would be surprised that Earth's temperatures have fallen as a result.
For crying out loud, folks, the sun is in a solar minimum phase right now, and we've studied these, and we know when they are in minimum phases, and they're in one now.
And it just makes common sense.
If you're in a solar minimum phase, that the temperatures are going to be lower here on Earth.
Have you ever just been as amazed as I am that the global warmers just discount the sun?
It's not a factor as far as they're concerned.
And it's the only factor.
Without it, we wouldn't be.
You know, I feel for the Kennedy family.
I really do.
Senator Kennedy is dying of the same brain tumor, same type of brain tumor that just claimed Bob Novak.
However, Senator Kennedy is doing something here that I don't think is excused by his illness.
You know, they want to keep their 60 votes in the Senate for health care and a number of other things.
And Senator Kennedy is worried about a five-month-long vacancy he will leave after his death that'll deprive Democrats of the 60 votes, the filibuster-proof Senate.
So Senator Kennedy is moving to change the very law on Senate appointments that he himself backed five years ago.
Now, Kennedy watchers believe that Senator Kennedy is in his last days, having missed his sister's funeral this month, and also the White House ceremony giving him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Now, here's the AP story.
I've got three things here.
There's an AP story highlighting the Kennedy scheme.
And it is from state-controlled Associated Press.
A cancer-stricken Senator Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.
The note has been sent to the governor DeValpatrick and the state's Senate president and House Speaker, while Congress considers an overhaul of the nation's health care system, of course, a life cause of Kennedy's.
The letter acknowledges that the state changed its succession law in 2004 at the behest of Senator Kennedy to require a special election within five months to fill any vacancy.
And that was because they all assumed that Lurch, Senator Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, would, of course, emerge triumphant from the 2004 presidential race.
So they wanted a quick special election within five months to fill his vacancy.
Now, they couldn't specify it to Lurch, but that's what they had in mind.
At the time, legislative Democrats with a wide majority in both chambers were concerned because Mitt Romney had the power to fill any vacancy created as Kerry ran for president.
If he won, Romney would get the appointment.
So Kennedy said, well, we've got a Republican governor.
We can't do this.
We need a special election within five months.
And they did it.
So from 2004 to the present, a special election is now the law in Massachusetts to fill any vacancy.
In this case, the upcoming vacancy that everybody here is obviously discussing with his AP story involving Senator Kennedy.
Today's political diary, the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, notes that Mr. Kennedy's request puts lawmakers in a delicate position because they are nervous about being accused of engineering a self-serving change to help their party only a few years after ramming through a similar self-why are they nervous?
They're Democrats.
It's Boston.
It's Massachusetts, and nobody can stop them anyway.
And they have shown that shameless political maneuvering is not something they're worried about now.
So why worry about it now?
Now, the Globe says that they should be hesitant, and it's sad to see Senator Kennedy sign on to such an obvious game changer under the law that he now proposes he probably wouldn't have ever made it to the Senate.
In 1961, when his brother became president, Teddy didn't meet the requirement that he be 30 years of age to be appointed to the Senate by the state's Democrat governor.
So a faithful Kennedy ally was appointed for two years as a stand-in until Ted Kennedy was old enough to run and win the seat in 1962.
Now, under the changes that Ted Kennedy now wants, a special election for his brother's Senate seat would have been held in early 61, an election he would not have been eligible to run in.
And whoever won the race would have been a formidable opponent for Mr. Kennedy in the election for a full six-year term in the next year.
So it's just typical shameless policy.
I have to wonder.
I shouldn't do this.
I really shouldn't say this.
And every time I say to myself, I shouldn't say it, it actually means fire both barrels.
But you read the story, and there are quotes here from Kennedy family aides.
Now, I come from a prominent family, and we don't have any aides.
I mean, if there's somebody from the family who's going to speak, if somebody speaks, Limbaugh family aides.
I think I'm going to go out and appoint some just to have Limbaugh family aid.
You want to do it, Brian?
Okay, you can be the family aide that can speak for the family.
But I'm just, as brazen as this is, I mean, it was just five years ago they changed the law to make sure a Republican governor could not appoint a Republican to replace Lurch if Lurch happened to win the presidency.
Five years later, I want to scrub that since they've got a Democrat governor in there now, so I want to go back to the way it was.
Senator Kennedy did not appear at his sister's funeral, Eunice Shriver.
He didn't show up to win the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Are the National Medal of Freedom, not Congressional, the Medal of Freedom for Senator the White House.
But he's got time to sit down and write a poignant letter.
Maybe he did.
Maybe he dictated it.
Maybe family aides wrote it.
But this is purely political.
And this note, note that the focus here is, this is Senator Kennedy's life cause, national health care.
And it's obvious that the untimely death of Senator Kennedy here is seen by some as an opportunity for political maneuvering.
Here's the Boston Globe story, by the way, of June 11, 2004.
It was a personal appeal that Ted Kennedy made to pass the vacancy law that he now wants reversed, prodded by a personal appeal, personal appeal from Senator Edward Kennedy.
Democrat legislative leaders have agreed to take up a stalled bill creating a special election process to replace Senator Kerry if he wins the presidency.
Is all because Mitt Romney was the governor at the time and would not have appointed a Democrat, more than likely.
And here is a full version of this story in theWallStreetJournal.com.
The Kennedy rule, no GOP senators allowed.
Diagnosed last year with the same type of brain tumor that columnist Bob Novak succumbed to this week.
Senator Kennedy did not attend the funeral of his sister, nor the White House ceremony honoring him with the Medal of Freedom.
Another sign that the Senator Kennedy may not be returning to Washington for Senate business is today's interview with the Boston Globe.
He urges his state's governor and the legislature to amend a 2004 law that set up a special election in the event of a Senate vacancy.
Mr. Kennedy tells the Globe he's concerned the state could lack two working senators for as long as five months under current law.
With Democrats needing every vote to pass Kennedy's health care plan, the time lag in filling a vacancy could be crucial.
Senator Kennedy went so far as to write a letter to state legislative leaders asking them to grant Governor Duval Patrick authority to appoint a temporary placeholder to the seat until the special election can be held.
Although Senator Kennedy emphasized that he wanted Governor Patrick to appoint somebody who would not seek to retain the office in a special election, his suggestion will still meet resistance as it should.
This is John Funn, by the way, in the Wall Street Journal.
So this, you know, I remember the grief that I took.
I remember the grief that I took when I accurately forecast that the health of Senator Kennedy, the declining health of Senator Kennedy, would be used as an emotional tug to secure votes from all over the United States Senate.
Even went so far as to say they would name the health care bill after him.
Who could then vote against that?
The public pressure, the emotional, sentimental pressure would be overpowering.
And I remember the grief.
How could that limbaugh?
Just so unfeeling does the man have.
No shame whatsoever.
Now here we go where the death of Senator Kennedy is being used by the Democrats.
The eventual death of Senator Kennedy is being used by Democrats to once again make sure that his death does not cause a loss of 60 votes in the Senate.
Also, this monstrosity of a debacle.
National health care could be passed.
Quick timeout.
We'll get some of your phone calls when we come back.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We have an announcement from the Limbaugh family, Limbaugh aide Brian Glicklick here with the announcement.
You know how to talk in the microphone.
We just hired him.
I mean, I don't even give him an interview.
Let's see how this goes.
I'm still a little news.
You need to get a little closer to the microphone.
I'm getting right up close.
Southeast Missouri Hospital announced that Debbie Linnes, former president and CEO at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, will be the new president and CEO of Southeast Memorial Hospital.
Southeast Missouri Hospital aide, and it's in Cape Girardo.
You got to tell him that.
Cape Girardeau Southeast Missouri Hospital.
Linnes will replace James Wendt, who is stepping down after more than 34 years at the hospital, including 18 years in the top job.
During his tenure, Wendy helped establish a nursing college, create the region's first heart and cancer treatment center, and nearly doubled total employment at the hospital.
Get to the limbaughs, though.
Ah, the first action Linnes took as president and CEO was to name James P. Limbaugh, the hospital's executive vice president of planning and business development.
Limbaugh has been the chief operating officer at Montgomery Bank since 2000.
Limbaugh had to give up his chairmanship on the hospital's board of trustees, a position which first vice president Al Spradling III will assume.
Limbaugh was a member of the board for 15 years.
Very well.
See, we have an aide too here, Brian Glickwick, with the announcement that my cousin Jim's got some posh hospital appointment here at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Jerry.
Thanks, Brian.
It's very well done.
I mean, that's off the cuff.
Five seconds before you read it, I said, get in here because I just saw the it's a hell of a time to get the job, too.
Now, yeah, when you are an aide, you are not a flunky and not a flack.
When you're an aide, you actually help the family do stuff.
When you're a flack, you just tell people what the family wants people to know.
It could be true or not true.
But in this case, it was all true.
This is funny.
Steve Gilbert at SweetnessandLight.com.
That's actually from the Green Inc section of the New York Times.
British customs officials have arrested seven people near to London who were suspected of dodging taxes that should have been paid for selling large amounts of carbon dioxide permits, the main currency in the European Union's emission trading system.
Carbon traders arrested for tax fraud in London.
The suspected fraud amounted to 38 million pounds or roughly $63 million.
According to the British agency, it is thought that the proceeds of the crime have then been used to finance lavish lifestyles and the purchase of prestige vehicles.
Further arrests are likely.
The investigation continues, said the agency.
Many polluting businesses in Europe are required to buy the permits, which are part of a cap and trade system similar to the one being proposed by President Obama.
Now, they created their cap and trade market in 2005, and there's already been arrests for tax fraud.
All right, to the phones and Scottsdale, Arizona.
This is Greg.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
We need a radio show to talk about your radio show.
There's so much information and stuff to talk about.
You know, that's actually true.
A radio show to discuss what happens.
Cable can't do it alone.
That's exactly right.
Excellent idea.
A quick comment about that Brother's Keeper thing.
Obama likes to throw that emotional Molotov cocktail into the debates all the time.
But in actuality, let each care and provide for self, and all will be cared and provided for.
And this would encourage self-reliance and personal responsibility.
And that is really.
You know, if you want to interpret I am my brother's keeper that way, you can.
In the book, the question is: am I my brother's keeper?
And I've always thought that the question, oh, see, just a minute.
I have received, we'll get back to Greg in just a second.
I have received several emails asking if my cousin Jim Limbaugh in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, who has been named to the Executive Vice President of Planning and Business Development at Southeast Missouri Hospital, if he will actually have to show up because Michelle Obama did not have to show up for her hospital job.
And so people want to know if my cousin will have to show up for his.
Folks, we are limbaughs.
We work.
We show up.
I am insulted at the question.
This is not a patronage job.
I mean, nobody in the family is going to benefit from this.
We're still going to have to have doctors charge us $30,000 to take our feet off if we got diabetes.
Nothing's going to change.
No special favors here.
I wanted to get that out of the way.
Now, back to Greg in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I'm sorry, I didn't look at the clock when I took your call and we got interrupted.
You were saying.
Oh, no worries.
Well, so my thing is that this public option keeps getting touted as, you know, competition and there's going to be choice.
It'll drive down the price and the cost.
But that is antithetical to the Dem's ideology.
I mean, competition and choice, those are fundamentals of capitalism.
I mean, mother's milk to us.
But they think competition is evil.
And I mean, they screamed about how, you know, competition destroyed the markets and the economy.
And now they want to engage in it.
I know.
Competition destroys kids.
And we shouldn't even keep score and intramural basketball, baseball, softball, football games, because one side's going to lose.
It'll humiliate them.
But you've identified a good point.
One of Saul Alinsky's rules is that when you're arguing and trying to put something over on people, you speak within the area of their understanding and expertise of what they're familiar with.
See, Obama knows full well that if he were honest about his plan, nobody wants it.
I mean, maybe 25% of the country would want it.
So he's got to lie.
So he's got to talk in terms that Americans understand.
Competition, lower prices.
This is what Americans understand.
This is what their life experience is.
Obama's out there just lying through his teeth saying that's what his health plan wants to be, wants to provide.
Why don't we just want to add more competition?
But you're exactly right.
The Democrats don't believe in that, and there won't be any when Obama gets his government-run plan.
Now, he just finished a radio interview with a conservative radio host out of Philadelphia, Michael Smirkanish.
And I didn't hear it because it was happening during this program, which means that very many of you did hear it either.
But the one point, the president lied again when he said that you get to keep your insurance.
So he said it today, and he said it yesterday at the, well, in a conference call with the National Council of Churches.
I've said this before.
I want to repeat it so that every member of your congregations understand this.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Nothing that we're doing obligates you to choose any plan other than the one that you have.
If you like your doctor, you can keep seeing your doctor.
We're not going to interfere with that.
It's just not true.
Last Friday, he said it wasn't a sure thing.
Everybody here who still has currently private insurance, you know, you would more than likely still be on your private insurance plan.
More than likely.
Used to be definitely.
Now it's more than likely.
Again, look, I really would like to move on from this.
I know you probably get tired of hearing it, but we do have audience building here incredibly, and there are new tuner inners each and every day.
So bear with me as I repeat things you've heard me say.
The way this is going to work, they're going to get their public option, and they want one.
There's no reason for them to do health care reform if they don't get the public option.
The public option simply means they run it.
That's what Obama wants.
He's an authoritarian.
This is not about any sort of private sector reform.
So what's going to happen is very, it's in the House bill.
It's spelled out.
Yeah, you keep your private doctor for a while.
You keep your private insurance plan.
But the moment it changes in any way, if your premium goes up a dime, if you decide that you want to add to or subtract from the coverage that you have and pay for, you lose it.
It's in the bill.
Another way you're going to lose it is that many of your employers are going to opt out of private and go public to offload the expenses.
You're not going to have a choice in this.
And Obama has said he's for single payer.
He said it 2003.
He said it in 2007.
He's for single payer.
He knows it can't be done right off the bat.
They have to ease into it.
That might take 15 or 20 years, but that's the objective.
So you might be able to keep your private plan for a period of time while they get this going.
Let me address one more question that seems to be a popular question I'm getting regarding my cousin Jim being named to an executive position, Southeast Missouri hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
The question, why did he take the job?
Because he's going to be out of a job a month after Obama's health care bill passes.
Simple.
Jim wants it on the resume, wants to be able to say he had the prestige of being an executive at the hospital, but he'll offload the work, too.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just having a little fun with this.
My point is that all this private stuff that exists now is subject to major overhaul.
That's why this is being done.
It's the only reason it's being done.
Dave in Logansport, Indiana, you're next.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, good talking to you, Rush again.
Hey, the purpose of my call was on drugs today.
It talked about a new Democratic effort to get this health care plan through by splitting the bill.
And it's funny because I hadn't heard anything about it, but it's funny because they blame it on getting a little chance for bipartisan support.
Didn't mention the fact that the constituents were up in arms.
But I was just curious what your thought was about this, if it would, in fact, be good for the Republican side if they ramroded it through, did it through procedural methods, so that come election time, people would have been able to see exactly how their representatives voted on a bill that was taken apart and put through for the sole reason of politics and not listening to constituents.
Well, that's all this is in the first place is politics.
But I think whether they split the bill or not, I'll give you the details on that here in just a second, whether they split the bill or not, there ought to be no Republican involved in this.
If a Republican wants to guarantee his or her reelection, stay away from this.
They can't stop it.
So they should vote against it.
They can't stop it, particularly in the House.
But here are the details here.
It's in the Wall Street Journal.
The White House and Senate Democrat leaders, seeing little chance of bipartisan support, bipartisan support for the health care overhaul, are considering a strategic shift that would break the legislation into two parts and pass the most expensive provisions solely with Democrat votes.
The idea is the latest efforts, or effort, I should say, by Democrats to escape the morass caused by delays in Congress, as well as voter discontent crystallized in angry town hall meetings.
A lot of polls suggest the overhaul plans are losing public support, giving Republicans less incentive to go along.
Democrats hope a split the bill plan would speed up a vote and help Obama meet his goal of getting a final measure by the end of the year.
The likelihood of a strategiary shift has grown after the negative response of Republicans to overtures of compromise.
Senate Finance Committee members working on a bipartisan bill are scheduled to talk today on a conference call.
Max Baucus said he's a chairman, the finance committee is on track to reach a bipartisan agreement on health care reform that can pass the Senate.
But other senators noted privately that several factors are working against any deal.
Many Democrats now believe it's a long shot.
Baucas has set a deadline of September 15th to reach an agreement.
And so this takes us to reconciliation.
Once again, to explain that the Senate operates under the rules now that you've got to have 60 votes to pass any legislation.
And the party that's opposing whatever happens can invoke a filibuster.
And to break the filibuster, close cloture, you got to have 60 votes.
So there's only one procedure in the Senate that allows passage of a bill with 51 votes, and that's budget bills.
And they do it via reconciliation, and they do it because the Constitution requires it.
It's a must, the operating funds for the government.
So the Democrats are talking about using reconciliation for something not permitted by Senate rules.
And this has a lot of Republicans upset, and there are ways they could retaliate here by requiring that every word of every bill be read every time the bill is being discussed or debated, and that could delay things and cause a major log jam.
But the interesting thing is in the end of this Wall Street Journal piece, the idea of using reconciliation angers even such moderate Republicans as Olympias Snow at a time we need to bolster the public's confidence in whatever we do with health care.
I don't think the reconciliation process will serve the purpose of providing affordable health care security for all Americans.
Now, the positive here is if we found something about the Democrats that finally angers Olympia Snow, we're making progress.
And by the way along those lines, from Congressional Quarterly, McCain, Maverick, no more, ex-presidential candidate siding more closely with GOP these days.
This is just mind-boggling.
This is our former presidential candidate.
And here's a story about all of a sudden he's starting to side with Republicans.
And he was our nominee.
And he wasn't even good enough for Colton Powell.
He ran for president last year as a Maverick Republican, talking about how well he could work with the other side.
He had a high-profile meeting with Obama after the election.
But John McCain has been a staunch Republican vote since failing to win the White House.
In fact, McCain is siding with his party this year.
It is news.
I mean, that's worth a bullet.
The way this stuff's written.
In fact, McCain is siding with his party this year on closely divided votes with greater frequency than at any other period in his 23-year career, according to a congressional quarterly analysis on votes that pitted most Democrats against most Republicans.
McCain has sided with the consensus GOP position 95.4% of the time.
McCain's year-to-date 2009 party unity score is the 14th highest among the 40 Republican senators.
So we have Olympia Snow finally mad at the Democrats.
McCain finally voting with the Republicans.
And to whom do we owe all of this?
Obama and the radical left of the Democrat Party.
Quick time out.
We'll be right back before you know it.
And from the ABC The Note website, a top Obama ally predicted yesterday in an interview with ABC News that Democrats will lose their congressional majority in next year's midterm elections if they fail to put a health care reform bill on Obama's desk.
Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, said, I think we're talking about losing control of Congress.
The failure of health care reform would totally empower Republicans to kill all change.
It's hard to imagine the Democrats convincing the public that Republicans are to blame for health care reform going down when the Democrats have such large majorities.
After last year's promise of change, voters will start feeling buyers' remorse.
Now, this is interesting.
This is a union thug.
It is his goons showing up at these town hall meetings, beating up people with cancer and young black conservatives and sending them to the emergency room, saying that the Democrat majority's history, in truth, if this fails, every incumbent is better off except the people who vote for it.
The people who vote for it are the ones that are going to be in deep doo-doo regardless of their party.
But what the union guy is saying here, if this thing doesn't pass, if you guys don't deliver what we want Obama to have, we, the union thugs, are not going to give you as much money as we've given in the past.
That's what he means.
Because the way this is playing out, anybody who votes against this as it is right now is going to be appreciated by voters.
Look at the polling data on this.
You know, it's clear Obama did not have a plan B if his health care plan failed to pass before the summer recess.
There was no plan B.
This was not in the cards.
This was the last thing they thought was going to happen.
And now these multiple town hall implosions that are happening, they were never supposed to happen either.
By now, Obama was supposed to be on vacation at Martha's Vineyard, congratulating the House for passing a bill that nobody read.
And he was going to be kneecapping senators to do the same thing.
Now he's out there attacking the insurance companies.
That was never supposed to happen.
His bizarre accusation of doctors amputating limbs.
I mean, basically, he says doctors are butchers for money.
He would have never said that if the House had just passed the bill before the summer recess.
They had a plan A. Fortunately for America, fortunately for us, unfortunately for the BAMST, there was no plan B.
So this past weekend, big insurance got Alinskied, which is a default solution for this president, but it wouldn't have happened if Obamacare had passed the House.
So he's out there.
He's slandered me.
He has slandered doctors.
He has slandered the insurance companies.
He slanders and attacks anybody who doesn't agree with him.
That's all he knows.
It's Alinsky rule number eight.
Keep the pressure on, never let up.
Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance.
As the opposition masters, one approach hit him from the flank with something new.
Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover, and re-strategerize.
And interestingly, that is what's happened to Obama.
They're the ones that are off balance.
They're the ones that are trying to regroup, recover, and re-strategize, and they're having all kinds of problems doing it.
The whole thing here has backfired on him.
This was never supposed to have played out on the public stage.
Do you realize all of this was supposed to have gone on behind closed doors in the Senate and in the House with nobody knowing what the hell was in it?
So we have to go off script on stage, and that is where Obama has blown it.
That's what we've got people.
Where's the Obama we knew during the campaign?
He goes off teleprompter and he's detached from reality.
We now have the public government option exposed.
The secret is out.
And he's out there.
He's flying blind without a bill.
He doesn't have his own plan.
He keeps talking about the plan, but he doesn't have one.
He's never shown us one.
When people ask him questions at the town halls about these various things, he can't hold up his bill and say, no, you're wrong.
Look at here.
Page 38 clearly says you get to keep your insurance.
He can't do that because it doesn't exist.
So flying blind without a piece of legislation here, his desperation has led to televised, vicious slanders of doctors butchering people for extra money.
I got too many lies to count here.
All I can say is that this was not the plan.
And so the American people, by standing up for their doctors and for the private sector, have forced Obama to call an audible.
People got past the summer recess, forced Obama to assemble his Plan B, and it's playing out in public, which was never, ever supposed to happen.
Liberalism cannot happen out in the open.
Liberalism has to happen in secret behind closed doors and only when you wake up and discover that what happens is not a nightmare, but reality.
And then it's too late.
Well, look at this, folks.
The Washington Times environmentalist wackos are out.
Candle-lit dinners add to pollution.
If that's true, I should be dead.
I have candles going in my house.
I mean, I've got seven, eight big mamas in every room going all the time.
And the Boston Globe very worried.
This is not the time for Obama to take an extended vacation.
It's by Susan Milligan.
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