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Aug. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, it really is amazing just to watch all of this.
Oh, Brian, that does sound better.
Even to me, it sounds better.
We decided to take the EQ out of the mic processor.
We're going to run it flat here for a while.
And we were running flat out of L.A., and I was getting all kinds of people saying it sounded technically great better.
Well, the content was, I mean, I never get complaints about the content.
The content was considered to be over the top as well.
But I mean, people noticed the audio quality is being somewhat improved.
And I said, Brian, what's the difference out here than it is in Florida?
So we're running flat out here.
So let's run flat back in New York in Palm Beats.
We're running flat here.
And it does even in my cochlear implant.
Sounds clearer.
Sounds better.
Great to have you here, folks, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We're behind a golden EIV microphone, telephone number 800-2882.
I'm trying to say too much too soon because there's too much to do here.
800-282-2882 is the phone number if you want to be on the program.
Look at how effective Obama is in foreign policy.
This is really amazing.
We got the number one, the highest-ranking military commander saying, we are outnumbered here in Afghanistan.
We need twice as many troops.
We need a plan.
We need a policy.
And of course, he's talking to President of the United States who has said publicly, I got a problem with the word victory.
I have a problem with the concept of victory in Afghanistan.
When I think of victory, I think of poor old Hirohito, and it wasn't Hirohito, but what the hell Obama said it, so it doesn't matter.
Poor old Hirohito coming down to the USS Missouri and signing terms of surrender and so forth.
Now we've got Obama with Afghanistan apparently falling apart.
What's he doing?
He's reviving the CIA interrogation panels.
He's trying to get his base on board for the U.S. being the villain in the world again.
And in the meantime, we had this, we had the Lockerbie bomber was released.
And of course, there's all kinds of controversy about that now, that the Brits have some kind of business deal going with the Libyans.
And that was why the release was made.
The bomber supposedly suffering from fatal cancer three months or so to go.
But we learned that Obama had warned Gaddafi, Moamer Gaddafi, not to treat that terrorist like a hero.
He's got to be low-key.
And Obama, by the way, couldn't even get the Brits to hold him.
Obama didn't even try to get Gordon Brown to not let this guy go.
All he said was to Gaddafi, you don't treat this guy like a hero.
So what does Gaddafi do?
He organizes a huge welcome home demonstration at the airport.
And when the plane lands, it turns out that Gaddafi's son is on the plane with the Lockerbie bomber, the terrorist.
And Gaddafi's son raises the guy's hand like a great champion as the crowd is cheering and screaming, Allahu Akbar.
The Russians are doing whatever they want to do.
Ignore Obama.
They're drilling for oil with the Cubans.
The TRICOMs are going to be drilling for oil along with the Cubans.
Latin America is running hard left without any opposition.
Hell, they're getting handshakes from us.
He's done nothing close to what Bush did for Africa.
This guy is a screwed-up college kid.
He's a screwed up Ivy League college graduate who loves running around playing rich guy, who happens to be a far left-wing radical who knows better than anybody else and is doing everything he can to tear down what this country was as founded and remake it in his own image.
This VA death book.
We have this for you from Los Angeles on Friday, all 52 pages of it.
We posted it at rushlinbaugh.com.
We went to page 21.
All these end-of-life questions you're supposed to ask yourself.
And in fact, let's grab, just to set this up, because they trotted out poor old Tammy Duckworth over the weekend to try to defend this thing.
Tammy Duckworth, of course, the disabled vet or Iraqi vet, big liberal Democrats supported Obama and so forth.
They trotted her out to defend this.
This administration, I don't care if it's their health care plan.
I don't care if it's their VA death book.
We're looking at it.
We look at the plan and we look at the VA death book and they say, no, it doesn't say what you see.
But it does.
We're looking at it.
And they try to tell us that it doesn't say what it says.
Next, they'll tell us we can't read.
I mean, this administration is amazing.
Oh, no, it doesn't say that.
I didn't say that.
It does.
21 things here to do to check off my work.
My life isn't worth living if.
Here, here's Obama taking to the airwaves to sell this now.
And so now we go to the audio soundbites.
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, he talked to the VA Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs Tammy Duckworth.
Now, she's a disabled Iraqi vet, an amputee, and they've made her this, given her this position, Assistant Secretary of Public and basically a spokesman.
So they send her out there to defend the indefensible, the VA death book.
And Chris Wallace says, do you have any problem with the VA asking elderly veterans whether life is worth living if they have a disability, if they live in a nursing home, if they're unable to shake the blues?
When I was in Iraq and I was injured, thank goodness I had an advanced directive, that I had both a living will and a medical power of attorney that my husband was able to use to really execute my wishes.
I think that any worksheet that any veteran wants to use that helps him make those decisions in advance for his family members so that they know what your wishes are, that you do want your life prolonged, that you do want to be resuscitated.
Those are all important.
Okay.
So then Wallace says, well, when you look at the workbook, Your Life, Your Choices, there's a disclaimer.
It says the document is currently undergoing revision for release in the VA.
The revised version will be available soon.
But when the VA first reinstated the document six weeks ago, why did the disclaimer about the book only appear this week after Mr. Toy's article appeared in the Wall Street Journal?
Actually, that disclaimer has been there since 2007 when we pooed it.
Well, it wasn't there before August 20th, between July 20th, July 2nd, and August 20th.
The disclaimer was not on the website because we checked.
Chris, the disclaimer has been at the beginning of the Your Life, Your Choice booklet since 2007 when the Bush administration decided to pull it off and revise it on an established time schedule.
The record doesn't show that.
So it's look at it.
Chris Wallace says your website doesn't have a disclaimer.
Oh, the disclaimer's always been there.
No, we checked.
The disclaimer wasn't there.
Yes, it's always been there.
Ever since the Bush administration started, the Bush administration pulled this death book.
The Bush administration yanked it.
It's the Obama administration put it back on there.
We linked to it at rushlinbaugh.com on Friday.
It's there.
And the disclaimer was and wasn't there.
But this poor Tammy Duckworth, I actually have some sympathy for people who have to go out and represent this administration.
So Wallace finally says, well, look, if you feel so strongly about the value of life, although the disclaimer is on there, this document, Your Life, Your Choice, is still on the VA website.
While it's supposedly being revised, it's still up there.
Can you promise us that this is going to be taken down today?
It is still up there with the disclaimer that it's under revision and do not use it.
It can't be done.
It doesn't say don't use it.
Don't use it, but why have it up there at all?
Why not just say we're going to take it down?
Because we are bound by federal law.
It was developed with federal research grant monies, and most of our programs that were results of federal research grants are online for people to use for research purposes.
The checklist that we're actually using is a completely different checklist from this one because this one has been taken off for revision.
Well, it hasn't been taken off.
It's being revised, but it's still on the website.
It's still up there.
You can still go to the VA website and get the death book.
I mean, this is incredible.
She's trying to say the VA doesn't recommend it, even though it's still on the website.
What happened?
They got caught.
They, of course, recommended.
They, of course, want veterans to start asking themselves, I'm depressed today.
Is it really worth living?
I don't know.
I'm living in a nursing home.
Is it really worth living?
They want this.
They do have.
There will be rationing of health care for seasoned citizens in the Obama health care plan.
There's nowhere else the rationing can take place.
Well, seasoned citizens and people who have very, very serious accidents or illnesses at whatever age, but primarily seasoned citizens.
So it's there.
Well, we don't want people to look at it.
Well, then take it down.
Well, it's under revision.
Well, if it's under revision, take it down.
Do you get the revision?
Well, we can't because we're obligated.
Federal monies were used to put this together.
We're required by law.
Well, the Bush people took it down.
The Bush people didn't put it up there.
Well, that's different.
The Bush people sucked.
That's about the only answer they have.
Back after this, your phone calls are next.
I know it's such a moot point.
Obama himself favors end-of-life pain pills.
He said this to the woman with the 100-year-old, now 105-year-old grandmother, pacemaker.
Spirit of life matter when you make decisions, Mr. President, on who gets medical treatment.
No, don't think we're telling pill.
So, I mean, he's in favor of end of life pain pills, into life government counseling.
All this is right in front of our eyes, and they want to deny it all they want.
And all he's doing is destroying even more trust with people.
All right, get this.
Now, on Friday, right as my program was ending at 2:54 p.m. on Friday, Mike Allen, Jim Vandehey at the Politico, posted the following story: Obama's Big Bang could go bust.
Barack Obama's Big Bang beginning to backfire as his plans for rapid once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation, and health care are running into stiff resistance both in Washington and around the country.
The Obama theory was simple, though always freighted with risk.
Now, get this.
I can't believe, this is a jawdropper.
I cannot believe I actually see this, that they've actually written this.
The Obama theory, use a season of economic anxiety to enact sweeping changes the public likely wouldn't stomach in ordinary times.
The state-controlled media themselves has blown up the secret.
Ron Emmanuel said it.
We all knew what it meant, but we had to interpret it for people.
Crisis, we can't waste it.
But here they've said it.
The politico use a season of economic anxiety to enact sweeping changes the public likely wouldn't stomach in ordinary times.
In other words, he's saying, They're saying that what Obama is all about is what America doesn't want.
And now they're having trouble getting it through.
There's a big bang that could go bust.
It looks like the American public doesn't want these sweeping changes even in extraordinary times.
And now to the phones, people have been patiently waiting.
Chad in Silna, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
It is a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm just flabbergasted at our president.
You know, it must be nice to be able to take nice, lavish vacations with those of us that don't even get 40 hours a week and have three kids that are asking, how come we can't go anywhere, Daddy, when they see him on TV and his two daughters there getting off the plate at Martha's.
You got the wrong attitude about this.
Oh.
You know what your attitude is supposed to be?
What's that?
Happy.
You are supposed to be proud that your president can live this way.
After all, he is the one.
He is your leader.
He is your fearless leader.
We're supposed to be happy that our president is going on vacation to get away from the evils of Washington.
We want our president to live the good life.
We want our president to have the best.
And as an elitist, that's, you know, he doesn't care what you think.
He doesn't care what people think about his vacation.
He doesn't.
Look at, folks, I'm telling you, if he cared about you losing your job, he wouldn't be doing the things he's doing.
I don't know how to make this any plainer.
If he cared about your lifestyle, if he cared about your lot in life, he would yank this stimulus plan.
He would yank this health care plan.
He would enact across-the-board tax cuts.
He would get rid of the capital gains tax for a year or two.
He would be doing everything he could to get people in the private sector, business and personal, investing in themselves, in the country, in jobs.
He's doing none of that.
If he really cared about you, none of this would be happening.
He cares about him.
He's building monuments to himself.
He cares about him, and he'll break the bank for George Soros.
George Soros is essentially the owner of Brazil's oil company.
And last week, Obama administration announces $2 billion for Brazil to help them drill for oil.
The company that's getting the money, the largest stakeholder, is George Soros.
So two things are happening here.
We are handcuffing ourselves in terms of our own energy exploration and development and discovery and use.
At the same time, we are helping another country, actually, in this case, a Democrat contributor.
So once again, George Soros, who would love to see this country on its hands and knees.
George Soros would love to see this country suffering.
George Soros, who doesn't need $2 billion from Barack Obama.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't need a government jet.
She and her husband could buy four of them.
They don't need government jets.
They just want you to pay for everything so they don't have to.
Soros doesn't need $2 billion from us if he wants to explore for oil in Brazil.
He's got his own $2 billion he could throw into it.
But no, we're going to get $2 billion down there to a company in Brazil, largest investor, or one of the largest, is George Soros, big Democrat contributor.
So Barack Obama will bend over backwards to keep George Soros rich and wealthy and at the same time, handcuff his own country.
While you're out there trading in your Corvette, this country is destroying perfectly good cars in the cash for clunker program.
They're just destroying them.
Part of the plan.
You have to destroy the car you take in, the so-called clunker.
I saw, well, I didn't see it, but somebody said they sent me the link.
I hate computer videos.
I don't like watching them.
I don't know why.
It's just a pet peeve.
Probably because I can't hear them.
But anyway, they destroyed a perfectly good Corvette using the rules as required by the cash for clunkers program.
So here's Obama wants you driving around in cars you don't want, little bubble cars.
We're investing in windmills and wind and all of this stuff.
And here's George Soros free to explore for oil in Brazil.
If Barack Obama cared about your lifestyle, if he wanted it to improve, he would be doing none, zero of what he's doing.
Vicki in Brooksville, Kentucky, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
It's absolutely an honor and a pleasure.
I know Mega Ditto from Kentucky and Flyover Country.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
And I just wanted to talk to you about the cuts and Social Security.
I'm not ready for it yet.
My husband's a 24-year disabled vet.
We just got slapped with the death book, and now the COLA thing, it's the hypocrisy that's pissing us off.
It's the blatant in-your-face hypocrisy.
It's like being married to a malignant narcissist who keeps saying to you, who are you going to believe, me or your lion eyes and ears?
You are saying that Obama is the equivalent of being married to an abusive husband?
Absolutely.
Whoa.
Absolutely.
And it just seems to be getting worse and worse.
It's like the abused wife who all of a sudden takes the shotgun out, you know?
I mean, just flips out.
No, no, no.
No, no, that isn't what I mean.
I don't mean that literally.
I'm saying it figuratively as it the wife who just flips then, you know?
That's what it's like being hitched up to this guy.
Every day it's something new.
Well, I understand.
I understand you can't get away from that.
I don't mean it that way.
I understand.
But I did not mean it that way.
I know.
What you mean is you can't get away from the guy.
Even when he's on vacation, you can't get away from the guy.
He is always screwing up your life.
He is always oppressing you, beating you up, abusing you, cutting your social security, telling you that you got to decide when it's good for you to die.
I think I finally figured it out, folks.
I think I finally figured out why it is Obama's pushing so hard on this health care bill.
He just wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya.
And look, you know, economic anxiety is necessary if you want to become the next black FDR, which is, well, the black FDR.
That's what he wants.
He wants to be the black FDR, the next FDR, an FDR fed off of economic anxiety.
I'm telling you, Obama, if he was concerned about all of the pain and suffering in everyday life, no, he wouldn't be doing anything like he's doing it.
The whole plan here, it hasn't changed.
The whole plan is to get you so upset, so angst, filled with angst, with no future, no food, no nothing, that you will accept any government fix offered as a solution.
And that's still the operating philosophy.
And they're going to do it.
Regardless, the Republicans don't have the votes to stop them.
It is amazing what has happened here.
When you know that salient fact, the Republicans don't have the votes to stop them.
And yet this is in danger.
The politico story, the prospects for winning final passage of a cap and trade bill this year greatly diminished.
And while most Democrats still predict a health care bill will pass this year, it's likely to be a shadow of what Obama once had planned.
By doing so much so fast, Obama never sufficiently educated the public on the logic behind his policies.
Mr. Allen, Mr. Van DeHy, there never was any logic behind his policies, not logic that anybody could understand to support them.
This was just a mad reach for power.
You guys yourselves said it.
The American people would be unlikely to accept any of this during normal times.
Obama never sufficiently educated the public.
He didn't want to educate them.
He wanted to make them hurt.
He wanted the American people feeling pain, economic pain, in order to get what he wanted.
There is no logic behind his policies.
Well, there is, but it's not a logic that's oriented around improving people's lifestyles, growing the U.S. economy.
This is about growing the United States government.
Back to the phones to Conroe, Texas.
Diana, hello, and welcome to the program.
It's nice to have you here.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Big Texas dittos.
I've been listening a long time.
My dad turned me on to you, oh, gosh, years ago.
And it's actually because of him that I'm calling.
I wanted to kind of give a first-hand account of our death book experience.
He was diagnosed with cancer back in 2005 and did quite well with treatment from the VA hospital in Houston.
And for about a year and a half, just was doing great with it.
Really, no other health problems besides the cancer that he had.
He became ill and started feeling poorly.
We took him in, and within about two days, they told us that his cancer had spread to his liver and reproduced his deathbook that we had gotten actually at the beginning of his treatment.
Now, he and I had discussed for a long time what his wishes were.
And his wish was to live as long as he possibly could.
He was a very strong man.
His wish was, you treat me any way you can.
I don't want to die.
I want to be with my grandkids and with my daughter.
Now, wait, you mentioned a death book.
Did he come to that conclusion after looking at the VA death book?
Well, he, no, he didn't.
Actually, he was very incensed when he first saw it because he said, you know, I'm coming in for cancer treatment and they hand me this before I even get my treatment.
I get it.
I get it.
Well, when we were told that cancer had spread to his liver, we were told there really wasn't any more that could be done.
And because of that information, we're with the VA.
The VA works hand in hand with MD Anderson, biggest cancer research hospital there is.
And so we're, you know, we're trusting the information that we were given.
And so at that point, we decided to take hospice care, and he passed away about two and a half weeks later.
Fast forward, a friend of mine was starting an oncology rotation about a year later.
And so I was talking to her and telling her, you know, she was actually asking me about my dad's cancer, and I told her, and she said, well, you know, do you have any of those testing and reports that, you know, from what metastasized?
Because there was treatment that they were doing at MD Anderson and at the VA for that type of cancer for stage four metastasized cancer.
But your dad didn't get it.
Is that your point?
He never did.
Not only did he not get it, he was not offered it.
And I have no doubt, no doubt.
When I heard Friday, I was listening on the way back actually from a medical center in Houston.
When I heard what you were talking about, I had to stop and pull over and I just wept because there's no doubt that he would have said, you give me what you can, and I'll try it.
But he wasn't given the option because it was the VA, it was government.
But there are other patients at MD Anderson, which it's in Houston.
It's a tremendous cancer research center and hospital.
And he had supplemental insurance that said we could have gone to M.D. Anderson.
He chose the VA initially because he was a veteran.
To him, he served his country.
It is what they owed him.
And when we were told that they worked hand in hand with M.D. Anderson, most of the oncologists rotate through the VA that end up there.
And so you're talking, you know, extremely good care.
And we received good care while he was being treated.
I understand.
This is at some point the care was terminated when additional treatment was offered to others.
Well, that's a great story.
This is a great story.
You were not given the option to pursue the other treatment that M.D. Anderson was engaging in with other patients in similar circumstances to your dad.
And we can only assume it was because the VA is government and they just decided to shut it down, even though you had supplemental insurance to cover it.
So it's an interesting story.
The point about this is, folks, is not that the treatment might have worked and who knows, father might have lived another few weeks or months.
The point was they got no say-so in the decision.
The point is that Diana and her father had no say-so.
They were just cut off.
So hello, Obamacare.
There might not have been a death panel that sat around and decided there was a book policy.
There was a book policy that some panel came up with to come up with that.
End-of-life decision, money, is it worth it?
No.
But they were not given the option to decide on their own.
And these are very personal questions and decisions that you want to make with your family and your doctor.
You don't want to just be told, sorry, hospice for you, pal, over there, that bus.
We'll take you there.
Alan in Long Island, you're great to wait.
Thank you for calling the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Lindbaugh?
Sir.
A pleasure.
Let me say, I am the son and grandson of CPAs.
My father, in fact, my employer, read this bill, this medical bill, as this president claims to call it, and he has said this thing is going to destroy us.
It's going to do no one any benefit.
And if anything, he said it was insane.
Every doctor we have, and we have a majority of doctors as clients, every doctor we have is afraid of what this bill is going to do to them because how are they going to continue to function?
How are they going to continue to work if they're told we can only perform certain procedures and we can't help people because doing that would be too much.
They don't deserve to live.
What kind of right does the government have to say that?
They don't.
That's what people are so alarmed about.
Finally, people are waking up.
The government doesn't have the right to tell you you can live or not.
It's none of the government's decision whether you have your insurance now and you get to keep it.
Like I said earlier, look at where there are people going hungry.
Why do we nationalize the food business and agriculture?
And why didn't Obama tell us what we can eat and tell us what we can't eat?
Why did they go all the way?
Well, they will, if given the chance.
Health care is the vehicle that lets them do it.
We got a homeless problem.
Why do we nationalize that?
Why don't we start building houses for the homeless?
We've got all kinds of problems.
Why do we nationalize everything?
Well, that's the end result.
And they know it's going to take years and years and years to do it.
But just as it was in Nazi Germany, the National Socialist Party, health care was the building block foundation.
Just as the Constitution was the foundation and the Declaration of Independence was the foundation of this country premised on individual liberty and freedom, nationalized health care is the foundation on which all of that that we got from the founding vanishes.
It is the end of liberty and freedom.
And then there will be building blocks on top of it.
Once you get nationalized health care, forget public option, right?
I mean, there's going to be a public option.
There's no reason for them to do this without a public option.
Everything they say about, well, we may not get the public option, BS, they're going to get it.
They want it.
They're not thinking they can't get it.
They're thinking, how can we get it without anybody knowing it's happening to them?
And with that, they then regulate what you can eat and what you can't eat.
And they might be able to regulate where you live down the line.
They might be able to regulate every aspect of your life as it relates to health care and cost.
And in the meantime, you know, we've got Obama and all these people in the media.
Oh, it's so horrible.
This great young president, he had so much potential.
But it is Barack Obama himself directly responsible for the problems that confront him today.
Like every other paranoid schizophrenic, the problems are self-created.
Barack Obama, for example, has no health care bill to promote or defend.
He has none.
He can't take a piece of paper out.
He can't take a folder out.
So no, no, no, you're wrong.
Here it is on page 34.
It says specifically, no death panels.
Now, he has not openly endorsed H.R. 3200, the House bill.
He has not claimed that as his own.
He makes grand and vague promises and assertions as health care would be in Obama lot, Camelot.
But he has no single health care bill.
He doesn't have one.
The president doesn't just make promises and assertions about a fictional health care bill.
He also attacks those who point out his inconsistencies, his half-truths, and lies.
The president says there are rumors about his health care plan, a plan which does not exist.
His plan does not exist.
I wonder, I really do wonder if he is aware of just how detached from reality all this sounds.
If we didn't know that Obama was lying about his intention to destroy private health care in America, he would be suspected of suffering from schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is when a person has a serious thought disorder, hearing voices that the patient assumes are real.
Like in the movie A Beautiful Mind, if Obama was not known as an authoritarian socialist, it would appear he was promoting an imaginary plan.
There is no plan.
Did you see the movie A Beautiful Mind?
If you didn't, it's tough to explain.
There was a genuine schizophrenic who thought he was being talked to and led astray by the CIA and other government forces trying to find communist conspiracies and so on.
It was out of his mind nuts, but he was brilliant when it came to mathematics.
Highly respected by his peers.
Well, I mean, it's almost the same thing here.
If there are rumors about his health care plan, which doesn't exist, he does not have his own.
We know Obama's lying about his intentions to destroy private health care.
He says he's not.
We know he wants to if this is it's his detachment from reality on this is instructive in a lot of ways.
I'm a little long.
Got to take a break, but we will continue.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair to Spring Hill, Florida.
Amber, nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Gosh, if you can't hear me, it's because I'm in the town hall meeting right now, but it's a pleasure to talk to you, and my husband would be jealous because I call you my radio boyfriend.
Thank you very much.
I understand that there are lots of jealous husbands out there, and I can hear you perfectly.
Okay, great.
What my question is, I'm at a conversation on health care with Congresswoman Ginny Brown Waite, and I just wanted to ask if you have any specific questions that I should ask.
You're at a conversation.
Wait a minute.
You said you're at a town hall.
Town hall.
It's a conversation on health care with Congresswoman Ginny Brown, town hall meeting in Mineola, Florida.
Are there other people talking to her right now?
No, it starts at 2 o'clock, but she's got a panel of health care professionals to talk with her.
You showed up on your own without me asking you to go.
What question were you going to ask?
Where in the Constitution does it say that the president can dictate what he can or cannot do with our health care?
It's a great question.
It's a great question.
See, you've already gotten the rubber guidance without even speaking to me.
That's a great question.
I didn't even remember an hour ago when I was on hold.
Well, that's fine.
You still got it.
You still got it.
Okay, look, I've been going through the Constitution.
I don't see where there is executive authority for telling me what kind of insurance I can have or can't have or where it has to be held.
Where's the constitutional authority for the president to do this?
Yes, and it's pretty relaxed here.
I don't see any kind of weird stuff going on.
We were able to get in pretty fine.
Well, it'll only get raucous if this member of Congress insults everybody's intelligence there with an answer or two.
Then it'll come alive.
But the people showing up there are not loaded for bear until the congressman or congresswoman indicates that they're not up to speed on the details.
Well, they're loaded for bear, but they're polite.
They're not showing up there to disrupt things.
They're showing up there to get answers and to be heard.
Well, I'm ready to go in case anybody has any questions for me.
Well, I'm sure that you are prepared.
You don't want to overload yourself with preparation, though.
I'm ready to go.
So I just wanted to see if there's anything specifically you think that I should ask while I'm here.
Well, Snerdley, give me a, is there anything you would have to ask aside from the extra-constitutional question?
I mean, these questions are.
Hi, Snerdley.
Now, here's one for you.
This is a good one from Snerdley.
You can ask, what is this woman's name again, the member of Congress?
What's that?
What's this member of Congress's name?
Congresswoman Ginny Brown Waite.
Ginny Brownwaite?
Yes.
Is she a Republican or Democrat?
She is a Republican.
She's a Republican.
And she is against the health care.
She is against cap and trade.
Okay, well, then if she's against health care, you're going to ask her where in the Constitution does it say this.
Okay.
She's going to say it doesn't say anything about in this in the Constitution.
So this is not going to be confrontational because this woman's against it.
That's why the crowd's not going nuts.
Dang it.
I was hoping to get some conversation going.
Ask her this.
Here, ask her this, Ginny.
Ask her this.
Congressman Brownwaite, do you sense that your fellow Democrats in Congress are worried about their reelection if they ignore the wishes of the American people on health care?
Okay, that's a great question.
I will get on that.
You ask her if she knows that Democrats are worried about their re-election.
Re-election.
All righty.
And report back, Amber.
We want to know how that went.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
At the Fox News Channel, they just had an interesting little fact of the day graphic they put up there.
This is an interesting way of illustrating the size of $9 trillion.
At $100 a second, if you spent $100 a second, it would take you almost 2,900 years, 2,900 years to spend $9 trillion at $100 a second.
And they tell us we don't have any money.
It's just...
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