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Aug. 26, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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How am I going to pull what off, Snerdley?
I mean discussing the passing of the lion of the Senate.
Ted Kennedy, and we were his prey.
Well, I tell you that I think the uh the best way to deal deal with this is I I I just have to share with you what I heard on on NBC of the Today Show today.
Brian, turn my mic up a bit now, just a testing one to level check, level chef.
That's good.
I actually heard Chris Matthews say that Ted Kennedy had turned a ball over to Barack Obama.
He said Barack Obama is the last Kennedy brother.
I'm beginning to think Chris Matthews is the last Marx brother.
There was Harpo Zeppo Groucho Gummo Checo, and now Chris O. Let's just go to the audio.
You know, I uh there are a lot of people saying you you gotta you gotta gentleman has passed away.
And I'm we're gonna have some serious things to say about this as well.
Um, folks, but but I just want to go to the audio sound bites first here to get this out of the way because I caught hell.
I caught hell la one year ago.
One year ago when when his diagnosis was announced, I predicted that uh they would use his eventual death as the sympathy trigger to get health care passed.
I caught hell for that.
And I I reiterated it back in March, March 6th, to be exact.
If they get national health care, folks, the country as you and I have known it is over, but the failing health of Senator Kennedy, as I told you way back when the driving force here.
The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or or technique to get national health care on the fast track.
Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.
Well, they just erupted out there in the uh in the state run media.
They just had a cow over this, so let's let's go to State Run Media.
We'll go to uh CBS early show today, Harry Smith talking with the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley about the passing of Senator Kennedy.
Harry Smith said, as we think about him, is there a way to sort of sum up what his life was?
Well, the health care debate that we're in the middle of right now.
I mean, it's been a summer of town hall meetings.
We're going to head into September and October, and I think uh the ghost of Ted Kennedy, the spirit of Ted Kennedy is going to be with that health care debate.
Democrats are going to try to push universal health care through as the legacy piece for Teddy Kennedy.
Yeah, just I just caught hell for saying this.
I caught literal hell in the media for saying this.
And here's here's Nora O'Donnell this morning on uh on MSNBC.
She was asked the question what's the impact of Ted Kennedy's passing on health care reform?
I think there's a huge impact.
Ted Kennedy asked President Obama to promise him that uh this would get done because as Ted Kennedy has said, this is the cause of his lifetime.
David Gregory, the uh moderator of Meet the Press had this exchange with Savannah Guthrie of MSNBC about Ted Kennedy this morning.
I wonder what you think the impact of his passing will be now on this battle.
Is there a possibility that there will be some new groundswell of bipartisanship that it could be a change of tone, or does all of that pass with him?
This was a great cause of his life, getting uh health care reform.
There's no question that uh Kennedy will still loom large as this debate uh moves forward.
And this morning on CNN's American Morning, the co-hostette, Kieran Chetry spoke with senior political analyst Gloria Borger about the passing of Senator Kennedy.
She said, as we move forward with this health care debate, what direction does it take now?
In your opinion, we've seen at times it gets nasty and personal out there.
The Democrats will continue to talk about the legacy Of Ted Kennedy and try to pass some version of health care reform that Ted Kennedy uh would have supported and would have liked.
Donna Brazil on CNN this morning said this.
This will help to redouble the efforts of those who would truly like to see some major reform of our health insurance system in this country.
And I hope that when Congress returns to work in a couple of weeks, they will not only uh remember Ted Kennedy, but also remember what he fought for.
This would have been a fight that he would lead to the bit of end.
Over on ABC, the official doctor over there, Dr. Timothy Johnson, uh, was asked by Chris Cuomo about this.
Who will take up the mantle of fairness and the right of health care?
A very big fight ahead.
His memory will be constantly interjected into the debate, and in that sense he will be a part of it.
Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat West Virginia, the only Senator to have served longer than the late Senator Kennedy, mourned his friend today, saying his heart and soul weeps.
Senator Byrd said that he hoped health care reform legislation in the Senate would be renamed in memorium of Kennedy.
I had hoped and prayed this day would never come, Byrd said in a statement.
My heart and soul weeps at the loss of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend Ted Kennedy, in his honor...
And as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name-calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform, which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to ensuring the health of every American.
Nancy Pelosi has pretty much said the uh same thing.
Kennedy health reform dream will be real this year.
So I predicted when anybody could have predicted this, and we we know these people like the back of our hands.
Uh well, it doesn't matter.
I predicted it, and and I I caught, you know, all kinds of grief for it out there.
Uh and here's Gregory Meeks, uh, Democrat New York on CNBC's squawk box, talking with Carl Quintinella, who asked if Senator Kennedy's memory would play a role in the health care debate.
Uh Gregory Meeks said, yeah, his memory definitely will.
We hope his death will cause us to sit down like never before.
That'd be a fitting tribute to Senator Ed Kennedy.
That's from uh Gregory Meeks.
Didn't take long.
Now uh what I think dealing with the entire health care debate here, the experiences of Senator Kennedy are actually somewhat instructive.
The uh left is exploiting him his death uh and his legacy, and they're going to do it, which predicted uh to push health care through.
So let's go with the flow on this.
The greatest tribute would be that every American, every man, every woman, every child will get the same health care options that Ted Kennedy got.
Ted Kennedy did not have to face death panels.
Ted Kennedy did not have to face government-run, end-of-life counseling.
Nobody said to Ted Kennedy's family, give him a pain pill.
I think if you want to move the health care debate forward, let's do Ted care for all, forever.
And make sure that every man, woman, and child got the same health care options that Ted Kennedy got.
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People are frustrated as they can be over the slobbering media coverage today, over the passing of Senator Kennedy.
And, folks, you're going to have to put up with it for a week.
It's just the way it is.
It shouldn't surprise any of you.
But I think we need to look at Senator Kennedy in a number of ways.
I think Senator Kennedy would serve us well to remember
take that Senator Kennedy is a perfect example of the the redeeming and aspect liberal, is of liberalism.
politician a If and gives it to people who don't work, they are redeemed for every bad act on earth they commit.
if politician uses the government to money from people who work, no more complicated than that.
Why is Kennedy being so lionized after what he said about Bork and these other things?
It's because he took money from people who worked, used the government to do it, and gave the money to people who don't work.
And all of that, that simple act is the redemption that all liberal politicians get on earth anyway, and it's sort of like a chit for any bad behavior that they engage in.
That's how they are defined as compassionate and caring and saintly, virtuous, all because they support liberal policies.
They take money, use the government, take money from people who work, give it to people who don't.
It's that it's that simple.
Now when you look at Ted Kennedy, I think, particularly where we are as a nation today.
I think that Kennedy's struggle to live is what should be lionized.
Not his politics, and not uh not his work in the Senate, but his struggle to live.
Will there be a single liberal come forward and embrace Senator Kennedy's example of seeking and securing the best medical care available?
For those who truly respect and admire Ted Kennedy the man, I ask you, put politics aside today.
Forget the words, embrace the actions of Ted Kennedy.
Learn from the way he chose to live and die.
Why support the rationing of health care when Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, did not?
Why not look at the example Ted Kennedy set and learn from that?
Liberals will do Ted Kennedy, the man they love a great disservice if they turn his death into a metaphor for hypocrisy.
It's not too late to make Senator Kennedy a symbol for life.
Chappaquitic and rationed health care are not how Ted Kennedy should be remembered.
His own struggle to live is what should be lionized.
How in the world can people who support rationed health care and everything that's in that monstrosity of a bill in the House of Representatives dare put Ted Kennedy's name on it?
Ted Kennedy did not use any aspect of that health care legislation to try to survive.
It would be an insult to the memory of Ted Kennedy to put his name on a bill that has rationed health care based on someone's age and the extent to their illness.
Ted Kennedy didn't let any of that stand in his way in his effort to live.
His spirit was for life.
And I think it would be a trend, I'm being dead serious here.
I think it would be a tremendous disservice to come up with a health care bill that we have now in the House and is floating around the Senate, and the one that Obama's talking about, where the government is going to decide whether people like Ted Kennedy get to go through every aspect of survival that he did.
Exercise their spirit.
He had a spirit for life.
He wanted to live.
He did not want to die.
Now Obama has said, well, we can't look at that.
It's costs just we're looking at somebody's spirit and will to live.
Well, Ted Kennedy's spirit was to live, and he chose to exercise as many options as were available to him to prolong his life.
And to put his name on a health care bill that denies that to other people and say we're doing this in his memory is hypocrisy.
And it would be insulting to his memory.
And I am, I am, I'm dead serious about this.
The United States government was never a partner in Ted Kennedy's death.
Remember what Obama said?
Obama said this week, we are partners with God in decisions of life and death.
Remember him saying that?
Well, I'll tell you this.
The United States government was never a partner in Ted Kennedy's death.
Ted Kennedy's life, if it stood for anything, was a thundering rejection of President Obama's statement to hundreds of rabbis In trying to recruit them to sell his public option, we are God's partners in matters of life and death.
The U.S. government was not a partner in Ted Kennedy's death, and it should not be a partner in anybody else's death.
As they say, you know, actions speak louder than words.
The lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy never invited any bureaucrats into the decision-making process regarding the medical care he received.
In his desperate and human and wholly admirable struggle to remain alive, Ted Kennedy's spirit was to live.
And he didn't bring any bureaucrats in.
And he didn't have any end-of-life counseling with people.
At least mandated by the government.
You see, my friends, there are lessons to be learned in life, lessons to be learned in death.
Senator Kennedy's last days and his death were a powerful manifestation of the survival instinct, the will, the spirit to live.
God bestowed on each of us the miracle of life.
It's a gift that is personal and it is priceless.
And no government of ours should ever become a partner in snuffing out a life.
Slavery was a sin because governments approved the imposition of a monetary value on a human being's life, and they seized the right of individuals to be in charge of their own destiny, rationing health care, I think, is a comparable sin because it imposes a value on a human's being human being's life, and it allows the human being's life to become nothing more than a mere budget item.
And in the process, it denies the individual the right to determine their own destiny.
We are not the property of the state.
One of the great lessons of the United States of America is that the state is not God's partner in anything, much less matters of life and death.
We are servants of God.
The suggestion that such a partnership exists, partnership with God in matters of life and death, said President Obama.
The suggestion that such a partnership exists is vulgar.
It is a debasement of life, and it is itself unAmerican.
The state's right to permit a value to be placed on a human being's life was the central issue of the civil war.
Hundreds of thousands of lives, 500,000 lives were lost to ensure forever the rejection of that inhumane practice, a practice in which states were a partner.
One of God's many gifts is the miracle of life.
The government does not have the right to take what God has gifted.
And Ted Kennedy's passing reinforces that simple, self-evident and larger than life fact.
Ted Kennedy's passing is a powerful reminder of the respect and dignity of the intensely personal will to live that we all possess.
Ted Kennedy didn't have to read a death book Ted Kennedy wasn't asked to say Is my life worth living?
His life was worth living To him and his family, he did everything he could to survive it.
The state was excluded from that part of Ted Kennedy's life, and it speaks well of the country and government Ted Kennedy was elected to serve that the state had nothing to do with his end.
So placing his name on a health care bill in memorium, or using his name as a sympathy ploy to advance a health care bill that would deny Americans.
The choices Senator Kennedy had is an insult and is supreme hypocrisy.
I doubt that any of this will have any effect on anybody because passing the bill is what's first and foremost...
On the president's mind and on the Democrats' mind, and sadly, Senator Kennedy now becomes a pawn.
His death becomes something they can use To facilitate a political aim.
And they will be saying things and doing things, claiming this is what he wanted.
This is what he inspired.
Well, he did not inspire a health care plan that would deny people their own right to die and seek to live in their own way by their own choice.
He didn't.
He was not limited in any way.
Well, Rush, we're rushed.
We can't afford it for everybody.
We can't afford.
Ah.
So we're gonna have elites get one way of being treated, and the rest of us another way.
I thought it was a right.
The point is God's gift of life is priceless.
We are not partners.
No government is a partner with God in matters of life and death.
And no government was a partner with God in Ted Kennedy's death.
To put his name on this current health care bill would be to insult what he stood for.
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Let's go to the phones.
People uh uh want to weigh in on this, and there's lots of other stuff in the news today that we're gonna get to.
Uh, and some great audio summites coming up as well.
But we're gonna start with Michelle in Memphis.
Uh I'm glad you called.
Thank you for calling, and welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
You bet.
Um, I was gonna say my father, who was a wonderful man and who turned me on to you, by the way.
Um he was diagnosed with the very same brain tumor that Kennedy had back in 1999, and we did our research and found out that the best doctor was at Duke University, and it's the same doctor that Kennedy went to.
Right.
Uh my father passed away, but he did a lot of um I'm sorry, I'm nervous, I'm shaking.
He did a lot of um experimental protocols, that sort of thing, to further the research.
And I I just find it ironic and appalling that Kennedy would want a health care bill to where the regular people wouldn't have access to the top-notch facilities and the top-notch um care that's available.
Only the elite people would.
It just seems kind of sad to me.
Well, yeah, i I'm a I tell you what, I'm I'm a little uncomfortable today going after um Senator Kennedy on on matters of politics, which is why I chose to uh if I call it a eulogy or whatever in the uh in the in the previous monolith.
What are you laughing at in there, Snerdley?
What are you laughing at for?
Well, I look at I th I I think it suffices to say that it would be hypocritical as it could be to put his name on a health care bill that forces things on people that he was not forcing on himself.
I think it would be uh it would be an insult to his memory.
His you know, his struggle was to live and it his life should be remembered in that way.
If we're gonna put his name on a health care bill, if we're gonna if we're gonna pursue national health care uh in in his name, then it would it's it would be so inappropriate to have a plan that forces on people things uh he refused to do or or or limit himself to, as uh as well.
Charles in Bozier City, Louisiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
God bless I get to talk to you.
Let me get to my point.
Yes, sir.
Everyone's wanting to know why all the hate out here in the country, Chris Matthews, why is there hate?
I'm gonna tell you why there's hate.
What Ted Kennedy did to Clarence Thomas and Judge Bork and their families.
How he just put the hate and fear in them, tore their families down.
That's when all the hate started in this country, Rush, when Ted Kennedy did what he did to them two fine men.
That's when all the hate started in this country.
And Ted Kennedy, what he did to their families and them, that's when it comes, and it didn't come from talk radio.
It came from Ted Kennedy's mouth the way he did them fine people.
And that upsets the hell out of me, Rush.
Well, a lot of people um uh are upset today for a host of reasons.
Uh I find it, you know, Chris Matthews, I mean Chris Matthews is Barack is the last Kennedy brother.
Barack Obama is the last Kennedy brother.
That That that uh Ted Kennedy passed the torch to uh to Barack Obama.
I mean that you can't get more ridiculous.
The bloody Marys.
The bloody Marys had to be flowing over at NBC and MSNBC today with some of the stuff that they're saying.
The talk about when the hate started, why is there so much the liberals no?
I mean, they're they're the architects of it.
I mean, they're the they're but it's it's uh that it's actually it's an interesting point that you make.
I um I was gonna try to avoid this today, but uh you people are revved up out there about this.
And of course, sturdley not helping the cause at all here by virtue of his uh call screen.
Let's see what's next.
Vienna, Virginia, this is Kim.
You're next.
Hello, and welcome to the program.
Hi.
It's so good to talk with you.
I'm a first time caller in terms of getting through.
Thank you, ma'am, very much.
My comments today focus on I believe that he access not just excellent Senate quality health care through an insurance bill, but also through cash pay alternative medicine.
Our family is benefited from alternative medicine from this standpoint, some of the treatments that we've heard that the Kennedy families have used, but those are the same kinds of treatments and alternatives that will be probably outlawed by health care reform.
And it's been interesting with kind of problems our families had by choosing to go to doctors that we have a relationship that we pay those physicians directly.
We find that it's about a quarter of the cost that is billed by insurance.
And we've had just amazing results.
It it kind of is interesting that Kennedy lived over a year with brain cancer.
How many other people have those kinds of results?
Well, now that's the medical question I can't answer.
I don't know about the severity of the tumor.
We only were told various things in the media.
Uh you know, Bob Novak did not live quite as long as Ted Kennedy did.
We were told he had the uh the same kind of tumor.
But I mean, I the the the uh uh the the question I don't I we don't know what what treatments that Senator Kennedy was using.
It was private.
See, that's the whole thing.
It was a it was a private matter between Senator Kennedy, obviously his family had the money uh that that most families don't have to go out and seek the best.
But we would assume that that would be a terribly high cost.
My point is that the cost goes beyond dramatically whenever the middleman, the insurance industry, the government, all of the paperwork that's required for the government, whatever I was just seeing the physician.
That is an excellent point.
It's an excellent that that that I'll tell you a little personal story.
I was in uh two or three years ago.
I came back from Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, and I had a delayed 30-day reaction.
I got some sort of intestinal bug.
So I went to the hospital here and I knew they were going to admit me, because they just do.
And so I got admitted and they did the tests, and they thought the worst at first, they finally had a cat scan, found the found a little bug in there, started taking the antibiotics to get rid of it.
I told them uh when I checked the hospital, so I'm gonna pay cash, I'll just give you a credit card here.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that'll knock I think it's it knocked 40 percent off the cost by giving them a credit card, paying for the whole thing.
Just here, what charge me for whatever number of days I'm gonna be here.
It knocked 40 percent off the cost.
This is the point that so many people on our side have been making that medical care costs can come down with the simple capitalist principle.
You have a direct relationship between the product supplier and the customer.
In this case, the doctor, the hospital, and a patient.
And so your point is well taken.
All the middlemen in here, insurance companies are whatever, but that's you you blame it on the insurance companies, but this all got started when the when the when the federal government wanted to get involved.
Remember, folks, the left has wanted nationalized health care since FDR because it's the simplest direct route to total power over people that they can get.
It's ball game.
Once they have national health care, and you have to go to the government for your insurance, your care or whatever, they own you.
And they've been trying for this for as long as I've been alive and longer.
And they Are dangerously close to it right now.
Dangerously close.
They're being beaten back, but I'm gonna tell you what.
They are prepared now in the Senate to go the route of reconciliation.
They are prepared to turn Senate rules upside down in order to get it passed over there.
They are willing to go against the wishes of a clear majority of the American people on this.
They are willing to turn the Senate rules upside down.
Reconciliation means 51 votes, a simple majority, and it's only to be used to pass a budget because that's a constitutional requirement.
They have twice in the past rejected reconciliation on health care bills, the Senate has.
If they go the reconciliation route, it's a testament to two to one thing.
It's a recognition of one thing, that they have lost the issue.
That the American people don't want it, and then they can't get their 60 votes.
And they've got a problem now with 60 votes because they have a vacant Senate seat with the passing of Senator Kennedy.
Now let's revisit something else about this that's interesting.
Remember, it was either early this week or late last week that we heard that Senator Kennedy had sent an impassioned letter to the speaker of the Massachusetts legislature asking him to change the law to allow the governor to appoint a replacement immediately.
What was fascinating about this was that Senator Kennedy was asking for his own law to be changed.
It was back in 2004 when everybody assumed that Senator Carey would be elected president.
And Mitt Romney was the Republican governor, so Senator Kennedy, not wanting the governor to appoint a replacement for Senator Kerry, asked the Massachusetts legislature to pass a law saying a special election would take place in five months.
That is the current law.
Special election in five months.
So as last week, Senator Kennedy goes back and says, hey, in essence, scrap that law that I asked you to pass in 2004.
Go back to the way it was, because now we got a Democrat governor.
And after I pass away, a Democrat governor could appoint a Democrat to replace me, and we'll keep our 60 seats in the Senate.
Now they don't have 60.
Now what do you bet that law is going to be changed in honor of Ted Kennedy?
What do you the Massachusetts legislature is out?
They come back after Labor Day.
What do you bet?
They'll come back before Labor Day, or they'll come back first thing after Labor Day and in honor of Senator Kennedy change the law again, back to the way it was.
Now they have a Democrat governor and go ahead and have him appoint a uh a replacement for Senator Kennedy so the Democrats get their 60 votes back.
I wouldn't, I w I mean it it's all politics in power with these people, and I wouldn't put anything past them on that score.
But the uh the bottom line, uh ladies and gentlemen, is they're not they're not even gonna go the 60 votes route.
They're gonna they're they're making no bonds about it.
They're gonna go reconciliation.
Fifty-one votes, they are gonna this is a the greatest illustration.
They've lost the issue, but it doesn't matter what you want and don't want, they're gonna do what they have to.
The Democrats are to force this down our throats.
So you show up at these town halls, you keep doing that.
You keep expressing your outrage about this.
I mean, there's so many things wrapped up in this health care bill, insuring illegal immigrants, maybe immigration reform.
It's all tied together.
Every one of their agenda items is tied together.
And now the senators' passing is going to uh give them the opportunity to use the sympathy play to get as much done in his name as possible.
And I say to you again that if they pass a health care bill like they have on the table right now, put his name on it, it is the greatest insult to his memory and what he stood for in his life they could ever come up with.
No, it's totally believable.
Unbelievable here, totally believable, I should say.
Drive by media, state-controlled media Reuters.
Just check this headline.
Kennedy death puts family dynasty in doubt.
Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition, and celebrity.
That's not true.
That's not true.
Chris Matthews told us today.
Chris Matthews told us today that Barack Obama is the last Kennedy brother.
That Ted Kennedy passed the torch to Barack Obama, not one of his sons or nephews or nieces.
Some guy named Thomas Whalen, a professor of politics at Boston University.
There doesn't seem to be someone in the next generation to carry the load here.
Ted Kennedy might be it.
He might be the end of the line.
So the drive by media, they're concerned, not that Senator Kennedy's gone, but oh no.
Where do we go next to Lionize the next Kennedy?
How do we keep Camelot alive?
How do we keep the whole Kennedy thing alive?
Oh no, there may not be anybody in the family we can really with any credibility say the next Kennedy has risen to the occasion.
That's what they're concerned about.
This isn't this this is sort of a uh deaf knell for part of journalism as well.
When you get right down to it.
Here's Christine in Syracuse, Indiana.
Hi, Christine, great to have you with us.
Hi, I want to know how I I'm curious.
You alluded to the fact of what a fighter Ted Kennedy was.
How do you know he didn't have a a living will or a medical directive?
I mean, uh if he had if he had, of course, he had the means to be able to use uh any kind of uh new age and or uh experimental cancer treatment because he had the means.
But uh I'm in favor of a national health care program.
I'm uninsured right now.
I know uh two other people with the same problem I do.
They're either working three minimum wage jobs with no health insurance at all, or they're working a full-time job.
My one friend's working a full-time job and a part-time job, and they just took away her prescription.
Health care coverage.
She has no prescription, so she can't take her high blood pressure medicine.
It isn't on the Walmart list.
She doesn't have uh the means to pay for it, and she makes too much money to get it from a pharmaceutical company.
It just grabbels me that you you talk about um living wills as if it were a bad thing.
I have a 90-year-old father who has a living will.
I did not say living wills were a bad thing.
There is no death panel.
They're allowing they're allowing doctors, they are allowing doctors and paying for doctors to be able to discuss with a patient of a certain age, Christine to be able to write a will to know what their intent is at the end of their life.
I'm not your good thing.
That is a very good thing.
Christine.
You are just wrong.
Now do you want to talk about this, or do you want to go on living the illusions that you're under right now?
I'm not under any illusion.
You are but I ask you something, Rush.
Do you have a living will?
Do you have a medical directive?
Yeah, but the government doesn't demand it.
The government didn't tell me I had to do it, and the government Well, the only difference is the government is paying for it.
No, the government is paying for it.
No, the government is.
The government is not paying for it.
Your neighbors are, Christine.
When you complain that you have no health insurance.
My government is also paying for Halliburton.
My government is paying for Blackwater.
My government is paying for Blackwater.
Hey, Barack Obama.
Barack Obama just hired Blackwater.
Yeah.
My government is paying for a lot of things that I don't necessarily want.
Well, uh, join the club Christmas.
One of the things I join the club, Christine.
Join the my government is paying for a lot of things I don't want either.
But you are wrong in your assessment of this health care legislation.
No, I am not.
I think it's a wonderful thing.
I think it's about damn time.
You know what's also interesting is if you talk to people who are on Social Security, they will tell you.
They will tell you that they love their social security, but they don't want national health care.
Now, why is that?
Maybe they're afraid that the pot will run dry.
Is that the problem?
Uh you know, I also have a pre existing condition.
No, dude.
That bit of a good you take a breath.
I can't get a word in edgewise, and you can cut my mic off.
My gosh, I can't get a word in.
You will cut my mic off.
I've been on before.
Oh, if I may have the point, you got my mic off, I have to go on.
I have not cut your mic off.
You're too you're too valuable.
You do have a living will.
And you do have a medical directive.
Yeah, but but then that's a good thing.
Yes.
It's a good thing.
It is a good yes, but it's not but not because that's a federal panel that's making me do it.
Not because the government's requiring me to federal panel that you no, I've read the legislation on the bill, and yet that is such a listen to me.
Listen, Christine, it's real simple.
At a certain stage in your life, Barack Obama and the executive branch are going to decide who gets paid, who gets covered, and who gets treated.
And they're going to make the decision based on how sick are you and how old are you.
They might be called death panels, but it's going to be it's going to be rationing of health care.
It is going to happen, and it didn't happen to Ted Kennedy.
Now grow up here.
You got to get out of this liberal childishness you're in and grow up and open your mind here.
Get a real job.
By the way, folks, I predicted it, and it's come true now.
The Democrats have faked a vandalism crime against themselves.
It happened.
They did.
They faked a vandalism crime against themselves in Denver.
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