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Aug. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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And with talent on loan from God, I am Rush Limbaugh, emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the fastest three hours in media.
And it's always a thrill and a delight to have you with us, folks.
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I think all of you who have handy used the VA, VA Hospitals, Veterans Administration, Healthcare, you'd all agree that the VA is national health care.
It's national health care for a group of people, correct?
Well, with that in mind, I share with you the following story.
At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the VA that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.
They have been mistakenly told this.
One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.
Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error.
Who cares?
Who cares how it happened?
The fact is it happened.
You've got national health care for veterans.
1,200 of them have been told they have a fatal neurological disease.
All because of a coding error.
Have 1,200 patients ever been told by one doctor mistakenly that they have a fatal disease of any kind?
I don't know how many people Kvorkian saw and lied to about they have no future, but I mean, other than that, do you ever hear about things like this in the private sector medicine-wise?
Try this, ladies and gentlemen, state-controlled Associated Press.
Senator John McCain says that President Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health care reform.
So far, so good.
I'm still reminded last week I was laughing myself silly when news came out and how big news it was that McCain was voting with Republicans.
Our nominee, our presidential nominee, and there was a huge story, but hey, he's voting with Republicans now.
And of course, he was called a sellout by the left.
So, so far, so good.
McCain says Obama will have to drop proposals for government-run health program if he hopes, or insurance option, if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on reform.
McCain says many Americans are losing confidence in Obama, partly because of concerns about the so-called public options.
So, McCain proposed that Obama meet with members of both parties in Congress to find areas of agreement, abandon the public option, and then make clear exactly what he wants in the legislation.
Just as things were going good.
Just as things are going good, what happens?
McCain rides in to quote unquote, save the day.
I've got this deja vu gang of 14 thing running through my head.
Well, what do we know?
I'll tell you what I got concerns.
It's right, public option, no good, won't pass.
Leave it there, Senator.
Leave it there.
Don't have a meeting with him to figure out what can pass.
Leave it there.
Don't let this guy do it.
You guys come up with your own decent reform plan when you got the power back.
Don't let this guy do it.
Don't get, oh, no.
Oh, no.
Here we are.
We are, we've got victory in our jaws.
All we have to do is clamp down, and here comes McCain With the jaw constrictors, that's right, Lynn boy.
That's right.
By apprenticeship, by apprenticeship.
I'm going to show that we can do this if we work together.
No, no, you don't want to be part of this.
When the other guy's going to bomb out, when the other guy is going to flame out, when the other guy's going to McCain, would you follow an enemy fighter pilot down and crash just because he was going to?
No, you would stay up there and gloat, especially if you shot him down.
If this guy is going to go down in flames, figuratively speaking, watch from the cockpit.
Oh, geez.
And Maxine Waters, all up in arms about the Neanderthal Democrats in the Senate.
This is Saturday in Los Angeles at Los Angeles Southwest College.
She held a town hall meeting.
And a guy stood up and said, Is your line in the sand on the public option not being included in any bills saying I vote no then?
Absolutely.
Let me tell you why.
We want to do everything that we can to organize and bring pressure on those senators.
Stop our form by Neanderthals.
We're going to say to the president, we want you to use every weapon in your bass hand.
She's rallying the base out there calling conservatives names.
Well, no, she's calling Democrats names.
I mean, she's talking Democrat Neanderthals.
Some of those Neanderthals in the Senate don't get her going on the well, that would be an insult if she called me a Neanderthal.
I mean, being called a Neanderthal by Maxine Waters is, I'd just laugh.
I'd say, what is that?
The kettle calling a pot black, or vice versa.
But regardless, she really goes nuts is when you get her talking about Blue Dog Democrats.
Then she really launches into Rom Emmanuel and the Blue Dog Democrats in the House.
No, Snerdley didn't believe me on the George Soros stuff earlier.
This is AP, an enormous offshore field in territorial waters, the biggest Western hemisphere oil discovery in 30 years, has Brazilians saying, drill, baby drill.
Brazil, long proud of its push to develop renewable energy and wean itself off oil, has a bad case of fossil fuel fever.
The government's whipping Brazil into a euphoria that's going to be the solution for all of our social problems, said the Director of Public Policies for Greenpeace Brazil.
Brazil's no longer seriously looking at alternatives.
Such an opportunity here.
Brazil has, for the longest time, gone green.
They're thinking they've taken the lead here in going green.
And all it took, all it took, was this largest Western hemisphere discovery in 30 years.
And all of Brazil says, get it, get it, money, get it, get it, get it, money, money.
And the Greenpeace people are going nuts.
Can you imagine the damage we can inflict to our stupid local environmentalist wackos if we would go out and find our own oil?
Okay, so Brazil has found this big oil deposit.
As of June 30th, the stake in Petrobras, the Rio de Janeiro Brazil-based oil producer, is known.
Made up 22% of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depository receipts held by Soros Fund Management.
Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo, Brasilleros, S.A. in the second quarter of this year, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding.
We have just sent $2 billion to help Brazil get the oil from this largest find in the Western Hemisphere of 30 years, and the company doing it is George Soros's.
So there's the you want the details, there it is.
$2 billion to Brazil, most of it to George Soros and the company he's the largest stakeholder in.
Well, his yeah, yeah, we'll leave it at that's close enough.
And meanwhile, we're going green windmill, wind, bubble cars.
And at the same time, they're just knocking Greenpeace Brazil for a loop, showing that it can be done.
So while you're sitting out there on the cusp, you maybe have lost your job or you're looking at losing your job, Obama is enriching George Soros, who doesn't, I mean, the famous Democrat last words, doesn't need it.
If anybody doesn't need $2 billion, it's George Soros who does not need $2 billion.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, and the most listened-to radio talk show in America here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I mentioned earlier this amazing story on homelessness in Washington, D.C.
It's from McClatchy.
Homelessness grows in shadow of White House.
You know, I saw this.
It's yesterday.
I was stunned.
You've got a Democrat in the White House, and they write this.
Homelessness grows in the shadows of the White House.
And I got some excerpts here.
Some of the comments below from these poor people.
Listen to this.
Indications are that homelessness is going up, said Nan Roman, the president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Now, she still has a job.
Who do you think pays her?
No, no, no, I'm serious.
You've got something out there called the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
You know, I'm reminded of the Sam Kinnison bit with Sally Struthers.
Sally Struthers would go over to Africa and she'd do these TV commercials.
Won't you please get here?
Won't you please just take a dollar?
Look at these poor kids.
They're starving.
They're starving.
You got little insects flying up their noses.
Sam Kinnison says, well, feed them.
You didn't go over there without lunch.
Give them your sandwich, McCarthy.
It's a great point.
What does the person at the National Alliance to End Homelessness do?
Who pays this person?
I'm sure probably a 501c3 or whatever's donation, but she's living off of homelessness.
While more and more people are getting homeless, the woman that ransom or runs the National Alliance to End Homelessness still works, still has a gig.
She's failing.
And yet she becomes a source here in the story.
Indications are that homelessness is going up.
Largely, it's because of increased unemployment, housing costs, and poverty.
That's what Nan Roman said.
Well, now, wait a minute.
Increases in unemployment?
What about all those jobs Obama saved?
Where are all those jobs that Obama saved?
How come there can be a rising homelessness tide with Obama saving all these jobs?
Housing costs, poverty?
I thought we fixed poverty with the war on poverty.
Roman said, they were still sticking with her.
Nan Roman, president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
The prior years, the numbers had been going downward, meaning the Bush administration.
The prior years, the numbers had been going downward.
The fact that it flattened out is not promising.
It's a little alarming that our progress is reversing so quickly.
Yeah, like in nine months of the Obama administration, since January of 2009, how's that hope and change working out for the homeless?
At the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, Northeast Washington, the waiting room is crowded with young women holding their babies and older mothers weary from the search for a place to get out of the heat and rest.
Sometimes they've come from other states to help in the nation's capital.
However, resources are decentralized and shelter space is shrinking, advocates say.
And the local homeless problem in Washington is inflated by people from neighboring Maryland and Virginia.
Omega Butler, the director of the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, said, everybody thinks this is the nation's capital and they should be able to come and change their lives.
How silly.
How silly.
That only works for the Democrats in Congress.
They arrive middle class.
They end up millionaires.
Biden, Rom Emanuel, John Conyers, Harry Reid, Obama.
And it goes on and on.
It's just the most amazing thing to see a story on how rotten the homeless problem is in Washington with Obama in the White House and the director of this homeless center saying it's really gotten bad the last nine months.
Here's another one.
Cargbo pulled out a small plastic bag, riffled through it before laying out her daughter's birth certificates, her certificate of guardianship for her niece, her ID, her daughter's college acceptance letter, and the social security cards.
A friend she'd stayed with at the beginning of her struggles allowed her to list the address on her daughter's application as her own.
She allowed it only that one time.
I begged her, Cargbo said.
So the documents were photocopied.
Do you have family in Arizona that could help?
Do you know how long and far and how expensive it is to get to Arizona?
Cargbo replied, it's not an option.
But it is.
You don't have to go from Washington to Arizona.
Go from Washington to New York and they'll pay for you to take a one-way trip to Arizona.
People don't know what cities are doing here.
They're going to the wrong place.
If you want to go to Arizona and you're homeless, listen to me.
If you're homeless right now and you want to go to Arizona, you've got to get to New York fast.
And when you get there, you've got to advertise.
Hi, I'm homeless.
Hi, I'm home.
Wave your arms.
Go down to Times Square, 8th Avenue, plenty of places to go.
Go to Port Authority bus station.
Hi, I'm homeless.
And somebody will come along in the nick of time before you know it and give you a one-way ticket to Arizona.
As long as you can say you got family there, and of course you've got the fake ID here you just admitted having.
So as long as you got family in Arizona or say you do, the mayor of New York will put you on a bus or on a plane to Arizona and you'll get there.
Who's next?
Louise in Colchester, Vermont.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, thank you.
Rush, I went to a Bernie Sanders Astroturf town hall meeting on health care yesterday in a small town that was away from any population center.
I got there at the time that I was told, and it was already like an hour late for food because all of the disciples were there and they knew to get there at 4.30.
Now the food's not important, but of course, just that there was an inside group of hundreds of people.
And it was definitely looked to be organized by some union because many of them in the long line to get in the meeting room had these union shirts on and pre professionally prepared posters for universal health care.
And just about everybody in the line had these little stickers on their shirts for single-payer health care.
So obviously we didn't get any food.
It was around dinner time, but also I drove two hours with two of my friends to get there, and we never got into the meeting room, but we wouldn't have wanted to anyway because it was a definite bunch of the anointed there.
Wait, wait a second.
What's interesting to me about this, you are going to a town meeting sponsored by an admitted avowed socialist in a state that is as close to a socialist state in this union as you can get.
And they still had to stuff the room with union thugs.
Apparently.
You mean that's amazing that Bernie Sanders was afraid as a socialist in a socialist state for all intents and purposes.
He was still afraid that a bunch of opponents to a socialist health care plan would show up to the point that he had to put out the plea to the union thugs to come and take up half the hall.
And they were in this church and some of the people who were, as I say, swooning over him, I just happened to be like right near him as he was going through the line.
And I was walking behind him and they're all saying things like, oh, you could give a sermon here.
You know, you're just so wonderful.
We love you.
Thank you.
You're going to save us.
And I mean, they were definitely in his camp.
All right.
So the purpose of the union thugs was to keep out any opponents.
But still, what's heartening to me here is that he feared opponents showing up.
So let me tell you something.
And look, I'm sounding a broken record on all this, and I don't mean to, but the passion of people like you all over the country showing up, genuine and real, and they can't stop it, and they can't duplicate it.
They have fake passion.
They are astroturfing.
Their people just don't care about this as much as you care about opposing it, which is why Obama is going back to CIA interrogations, and there might have been torture because he's losing his base.
And the Obama lunatic fringe base, in a contest of what do they care more about, America as the world's villain or a public option in health care, they care more about America being portrayed as the world's villain.
Obama more than eager to help them come along.
So distract them, get them focused on torture, Bush, CIA, all these things that they hate, and they'll forget Obama's wavering here on the public option.
Helen in Jackson, Tennessee, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush.
Happy to be with you.
Thank you.
I wanted to comment on the health care spending in the U.S. as the way the liberal Democrats size up the per capita health care spending as between $5,000 to $6,000 in this country.
Yeah, now it's $8,000 as of last week.
Okay, roughly half of what they keep counting in France and other industrialized nations.
Well, I still come back to that being a flat-out lie because if you strip out all of the illegal immigrant health care spending, all of the prescription drug R ⁇ D that we as U.S. citizens absorb that a lot of the other socialized nations around the world do not have to absorb.
And if we took out all of the corruption and the fraud and Medicare and Medicaid, we'd probably have all of this, all of this is a smokescreen because the Democrats are normally running around saying we're not spending enough on welfare.
We're not spending enough on the poor.
We're not spending enough on the homeless.
We're not spending enough.
We need the money from defense to spend.
And all of a sudden now they say we're spending this much on health care.
We've got to cut costs.
We're just spending way too much.
It's none of what they say is disingenuous.
And to debate these people on the merits is to accept their premise, and that's to be fooled by it.
Your points are right on the money.
You can make the same arguments when people say that we're number 34 in the world in health care.
Well, yeah, well, they don't count other nations at war losing soldiers like we do, for one thing.
Folks, it's worse than I thought.
I know my instincts are right on this, but it's worse for Obama on health care than I thought.
Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to appoint a special prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threaten terrorism suspects.
This, according to two sources familiar with the move, I'm reading to you from the Washington Post.
Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career justice department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.
Durham's mandate will be relatively narrow to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees.
I am telling you, the only reason they're doing this is to distract everybody from health care.
They said in Martha's Vineyard, we don't want to be covered, leave us alone.
They come out with the CIA torture and interrogation stuff.
Holder follows suit by saying, yep, we're going to do a prosecutor.
We're going to look into whether there really was any violation.
And this is all about rallying Obama's base, which he's losing.
Because Obama's base would get much more excited seeing the U.S. as the world's villain than they care about health care.
This is despicable.
This is irrelevant.
He's closing GitMode.
This has nothing to do with now.
This is all about distracting everybody.
This is all about getting his base back.
And it's all about destroying United States national security in the process.
People are a menace.
Butler, Pennsylvania.
Hello, Todd.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hey, make it dude.
It's Rush from Butler PA.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, you know what?
I went to a Spectre Town Hall meeting about a week ago here, and I had the opportunity to ask Spectre a question.
But while I was waiting in line, here came two buses, school buses from around Pittsburgh, and they brought up SEIU and Acorn people.
And as soon as they get off the bus, the first thing they were chanting were, what do we want health care?
When do we want it now?
Over and over and over.
Rush, this just shows the entitled mentality of these people.
And, you know, I've got a buddy who works in the Navy, and he has terminal cancer.
He's my age, 29 years old, has two daughters, and he works 60 to 70 hours a week on average and puts it out on the line for our country and provides for his family.
That's a selfless mentality.
And these people that think they're entitled to this health care and everything, they're up in their sleep.
We're not entitled to it.
Wait a minute.
Now, one thing.
Yeah.
You're right that there are people in this country and way too many of them with an entitlement mentality.
But the people that showed up in those buses were not people with an entitlement mentality.
Those were part of Obama's army.
These are people recruited from a White House website by the unions to go out and provide opposition to the people with genuine passion.
These buses were hired.
These people were organized.
This was community agitation at its best.
This was not a bunch of entitlement people showing up demanding health care.
This was a bunch of thugs that have been hired to show up to obstruct you and other people from getting your message out.
Big difference.
Not to say there aren't people with the entitlement mentality, but you've got to understand who these people are showing up in opposition to you.
They're only there because the Obama White House website's ginning up this support.
The union's ginning up the support.
This is intimidation.
This is community agitation, pure and simple.
Back to the audio soundbites now.
This is from Good Morning America today.
The White House correspondent is Yunji Denise.
We have a montage here of Yunji Denise.
I don't know if it's male or female.
I'll hear it when I hear the voice on Obama's vacation.
The health care reform controversy has followed the president.
He may not get much rest.
ABC News has learned the Secret Service visited the Kennedy compound several times yesterday for what could be a possible meeting with Senator Ted Kennedy, who is suffering from brain cancer.
A family source says a visit might be in the offing, depending on the senator's health, saying he has good days and bad days.
Senator Kennedy has been advocating health care reform for decades.
He has been missed.
Poor Obama.
Poor Obama, he just can't rest.
The health care reform controversy following him.
So what's he going to do?
Going to turn his vacation into a vehicle to exploit the illness of Ted Kennedy.
From the Today Show today, here's a montage of Ron Allen's report.
This is a private family vacation.
Mr. Obama is trying to get away from Washington at a time that's been a very difficult month for him, especially the fight for one of his signature issues, health care reform.
As the first family arrived on Martha's Vineyard, the president let the press know he is not trying to make news.
A presidential historian thinks a few long walks on the beach might just help Obama.
If he can use this time away to just rethink his position in terms of where he's going to be on the health care issue, he could well come back in a better frame of mind to really be able to deal with the real troubles that are going to come down the hill in September and October.
That was the famous Doris Kearns Goodwin, the noted historian who is advocating a walk on the beach, yet he needs privacy.
Can you imagine him talking about Bush this way?
Yeah, he needs to get away to Crawford.
He needs to start chopping some wood.
He needs to come back.
And he needs to get his mind right, get himself stealed, and really, really rethink his position in terms of where he's going to be on the health care issue.
Doris and the rest of you, he doesn't have to rethink it.
He knows exactly what he wants.
It's simply a matter of how he gets there.
He's not looking at this opposition and saying, well, you know, I'm really out of touch with what the American people want.
I got to come up with a new idea.
That's not the way he looks at it.
He looks at it and says, I'm going to have a tougher time ramming this down their throats.
Damn limbaugh, damn talk radio, told everybody what I'm doing.
How can the hell are I going to go now?
I've got a bigger problem.
He's trying to figure out how he can get around his opposition on this.
Not how he can rethink his position.
And I finally admit why Obama was elected this morning.
MSNBC, the host talking to Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Democrat strategerist Karen Finney, the president has shown over the last two years he's more than capable of getting his mojo back for him to make reference to that in a speech this last week.
I remember last September I was at a friend's wedding and they were apoplectic about what was happening with Sarah Palin.
Who is this woman?
He's going to lose.
Why won't he fight?
And I said, something will happen that will change the dynamic.
It turned out that our whole financial system, as we knew it, was going to come crashing down around us two days later.
Perhaps something in September will happen to change the conversation on health care.
Amazing.
Waiting for another element of destruction?
Maybe something will happen to change?
Knowing full well Obama can't pull this out on his own, we need another crisis to happen.
And what better crisis to come along than the announcement that Social Security will be cut the next two years?
Problem with that is that the seasoned citizens already have Medicare.
Joe Lieberman on CNN on Sunday with John King, who said, is it time for the president to hit the reset button?
Forget sweeping health care reform this year.
Do three or four incremental things that are less costly.
Prove that you're bringing the cost curve down and then go after the more difficult and more expensive issues.
I'm afraid we've got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy's out of recession.
There's no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started.
And I think the place to start is cost, health delivery reform and insurance market reforms.
I think it's a real mistake to try to jam through the total health insurance reform, health care reform plan that the public is either opposed to or very, very passionate mixed minds about.
It's just not good for the system.
Frankly, it won't be good for the Obama presidency.
It won't be good for the Obama presidency, says Lieberman.
The problem is the Obama base despises this guy, as do most heart-left Democrats.
They despise this guy.
It won't be good for the Obama presidency to try to ram this whole thing down our throats.
Of course, the Obama people look into this.
I want to become the black FDR.
I want to get this major monument built to myself, and I don't care who stands in my way.
I'm going to get it done.
And that's where they are.
But I'm telling you, not to sound like a broken record, but now a holder coming out saying there's going to be a prosecutor on CIA torture tells me that this whole public option aspect of healthcare is in big trouble.
Big, big trouble from his side.
Remember, there's nothing the Republicans can do to stop this.
His defections are from members of his own party.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
It's Rush Libbaugh.
This is the EIB Network and the Libbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Anybody?
Kathy in Williamsville, New York.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You know what?
What I can't understand is we have Marines and soldiers that are being blown up and facing down terrorists, and our politicians cannot even face an angry senior citizen.
I just can't even believe that.
You know, in upstate New York, where I'm from, in Western New York, we don't even have one this entire summer, not one town hall meeting with one politician because our districts are so gerrymandered, they don't have to get our opinions, but we're holding without them.
Yeah, but you know what?
You raised an excellent point.
The reason they're not showing up anyway is because they're scared.
They're scared to face you, and they're scared to face you because they know you know what you don't want.
They know that you know what's in the bill and they don't know what's in it and they just don't want the hassle.
They are like an imperial Congress, a bunch of elitists.
They only care about you, Kathy, when it's election time.
That's when they care about you.
And this is a great analogy.
We're sending people all over the world to face genuine, life-threatening situations, and they don't cancel.
They don't say we're not going.
Members of Congress can't even show up and face an angry senior citizen without the White House and other people referring to average Americans as an unruly mob.
The outrage that's happened over all this is genuine, and it's growing, and it's going to continue to grow.
And I don't think the people in Washington have the slightest idea just to what degree you all are ticked off.
And they're going to find that the key for all of you is to maintain this passion.
That's what's going to be tough for 2010.
Because the moment, the moment they think you're tiring out, the moment they think that you are just, you've said what you had to say and there's no more left to say, that's when they'll come gumming for this.
The first moment they see you going timid.
So you're going to have to keep this up.
The pressure is going to have to be on.
And not just about this, cap and trade, the whole Obama agenda, the whole thing.
Tom, in Castle Rock, California, or Colorado, I'm sorry.
Hi, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you, sir.
This is indeed a high honor.
I've been disappointed that the Republican Party hasn't offered a conservative, Republican-based idea.
And I think I've come up with a plan, and I base it on a simple precept.
What would Reagan do?
And my plan is quite simply, we take all legitimate medical deductions and make them 100% tax-deductible.
That we allow.
Rush, are you there?
Yeah, I'm here.
I'm sorry.
I thought I'd been disconnected.
I heard dinner.
Anyways, we make it 100% tax-deductible.
If legitimate medical expenses result in a net negative for the taxpayer, they get a check, much like the way we give the earned income credit.
Thus, everybody can afford health insurance.
Well, one thing.
One thing, Tom.
The Republicans, the conservatives do have many alternative health care plans.
They got lots of them.
And they're good.
Many of them are good.
Feature health savings accounts, which is, I think, a better variation on your tax deductibility idea.
The tax deductibility idea is just going to send people to doctor left and right.
And that's what we want to do less of.
We want people who are healthy not to go to the doctor as much as they do.
But again, I have run up against the constraints of the broadcast clock, so I'll have to elaborate on this tomorrow in more detail.
You know, this prosecutor that Holder has appointed, this is going to be like a malignant cancer itself.
This is going to spread out.
This is going to be the foundation for all kinds of investigations, the Bush administration.
And that's how they're going to use this whole thing to distract people from the Obama agenda since people don't want it.
Be vigilant, folks.
We'll be here to help.
Stay focused, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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