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Sept. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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So it's a top of the hour break.
And I'm in there.
I'm in there in Snerdley's office.
He's got all three TV monitors on.
So he's got he watches C-Span Fox and uh PMS, NBC.
And over on PMS NBC, somebody sitting in today for uh Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
It's not there.
I think it was Savannah Guthrie.
And she's talking to the hack, the White House health care hack, Linda Douglas, formerly of uh state control ABC.
And they put up a quote from Howard Dean about the Baucus Bill.
You know what Howard Dean said about the ballcast bill?
Howard Dean said this is the worst piece of legislation he has seen in Washington in 30 years.
And I busted a gut laughing.
The worst piece of legal he said this was written by the insurance lobbyists that the Baucus bill is nothing but a giveaway to the insurance companies.
And I'm thinking circular firing squad.
And then I stumble across this story by Cece Connolly in the Washington Post today.
On the surface, it appears that no one is happy with Senator Max Baucus and his bill, and that may be the best news Obama has had in months.
Now follow the logic here from state-controlled Washington Post.
Within minutes of the release of Baucus's long-awaited health care reform bill Wednesday, the attacks started flying.
Liberal Democrats and allies, particularly labor unions, were angry Republicans after being courted for months, denounced the work as pure partisanship.
But behind the rhetorical fireworks was a sense that the fragile coalition of major industry leaders and interest groups central to refashioning the nation's health care system remains intact.
As they scoured the 223-page bill, many of the most influential players found elements to dislike, but not necessarily reasons to kill it.
Most enticing was the prospect of 30 million new customers.
At the White House, after the delays and drama of the summer, strategists spoke finally of movement and a possible path toward success.
Jay Rockefeller's upset because Baucus didn't include a public health insurance option.
He tempered his criticism after meeting with Obama, signaling that he hopes to work out a compromise.
At the heart of the administration's strategy and Wednesday's guarded optimism is a collection of ideas, uh, or deals, rather, intended to neutralize the interest groups that helped defeat Clinton's health care overhaul 15 years ago.
So the Washington Post has this story.
This is exactly what Obama needed.
Something that everybody hates.
Something that everybody hates but the coalition's Obama needs in the private sector to go along with it are happy.
Now did Howard Dean kill it?
When he comes out and says, this is the worst piece of legislation I've seen in 30 years, or did Howard Dean give it a boost.
According to the Washington Post, the more you say you hate the Baucus bill, the better it is for Obama.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement.
I have begun an exercise regimen.
Yes, I'm gonna make the I just did it.
It's too late to take it back now, Snerdley.
I have begun an exercise regimen.
I started it Saturday and I did it on my own with no prodding.
Uh I was under no duress.
I was sitting in my library, and we just got a couple new pieces of equipment over there in the gym, and I usually get it for guests and so forth.
So I'm gonna go over there and use it.
So I got him a treadmill.
And I did uh 35 minutes.
There is not film of this.
You have to take my word for it.
I did 35 minutes, uh including a five-minute cooldown, but uh got the top speed up to four miles an hour, top incline at two and a half or three, got the heart rate up to 130 beats, and held it there for 10 minutes, and went back six hours later and did it again.
So a total of Saturday, probably four miles on the treadmill.
And I had college football on, uh, whiling away the uh The tedium and the boredom.
On Sunday, prior to the start of the NFL games, I went over and did the same thing.
Another two miles, top speed four miles an hour, incline got it up to two and a half or three, whatever it was, heartbeat 130 minutes.
And resumed the regimen today.
Another ditto.
I mean, same routine.
35 minutes, about two miles, top speed, four miles an hour.
And I'm going to do it again when I get home.
I have a meeting after work.
I'll do it before having dinner when I get home tonight.
I announced this to the staff mere moments ago.
And Snerdley thinks that I have just betrayed one of my core principles.
No, it's not a joke.
It's not, in fact, I got to tell you, I was watching Fox and Friends this morning while I was on the treadmill.
I got up at 7.15, and I was over there at 7.20, and I got finished at 8 o'clock.
And I'm I'm watching Fox and Friends, and I've got the close captioning on it because treadmill makes a lot of noise.
I can't hear it even if it's turned it up loud.
And they got this interview with a postal union chief in Dallas.
Now, apparently, and allow me to get some of this wrong because I'm, you know, I'm I'm I'm I I caught this in the middle of it, but this it was Steve Deucey, who is who is hilarious and kill me.
These guys are a huge comedy routine.
And they're talking to this union chief, this postal worker union chief.
Apparently, a lot of postal workers in Dallas are spending all day on what is called standby time.
They're just not doing anything.
They're just standing by.
They're just there.
You know, while there are lines of people who want to buy stamps or whatever they do at the post office.
And so Deuce and Killmeter asked this guy's name is Larry.
Well, what can we do about this, Larry?
And I'm I I'm I'm this guy, Larry is well, I we're doing everything we can here in my union working hard on this uh standby time.
And I'm just laughing myself still.
It was the fastest five minutes of treadmill I've ever spent.
Because Deucey and Killmead couldn't have cared less.
It was a comedy routine, and this guy's taking the questions very seriously.
What can we do about this, Larry?
Fox News said, what can we do about postal workers on standby time?
Just keep the guns out of their hands for one thing.
Ah, take it back.
Sorry, just a lighthearted jocular moment.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, one more thing about the exercise regimen.
I have not betrayed any belief.
This has nothing to do with my diet.
Zilch, zero nada.
It will not make me lose weight.
In fact, in fact, what's happening is I'm getting hungrier after I do this.
And so to ward that off, what I'm doing is chugging a little bit more fluid, a little bit more water.
But I'm not that this I have not I look at I it that this treadmill has a calorie counter.
You put in your weight in there, and uh put your put your hands occasionally on the little handlebar in front of it gives you a heart rate.
That's how you know what that is.
Oh, I'm sorry, as you all know how they work, I'm sorry.
I think I've discovered something new.
Well, anyway, it's it says that I'm burning about 300 calories in this half hour.
Now, I know full well that two deep breaths, and I'll regain the 300 calories.
I mean, I'm don't I have not betrayed anything, but this has nothing to do with losing weight.
Nothing whatsoever to do with losing weight.
It has to do with heart health.
It has to do with overall uh uh physical health, but not nothing to do with losing weight.
It's not part of the regimen.
I have demonstrated and proven.
I did zip zero nada exercise and lost all that weight fairly rapidly.
So I just I just wanted to come clean uh about this and admit it.
Snurdly, as I say, thinks I've committed a huge betrayal here to a core principal and a core bo, snurdly if I the betrayal would be if I said, you know what, I've added to my weight loss regimen exercise.
That would be a betrayal.
But I'm not doing it to lose weight, because I know it isn't gonna lose any weight.
In fact, I could gain weight if I ate like I used to and did this, I would gain weight.
I understand this.
It's not about that.
We have it's gonna be a tough day for people.
I know understand it.
We have no missile shield.
That's right, no missile shield.
We have exposed ourselves and our buddies to the uh to the Soviets again.
We are letting all a communist thug dictators into the UN, but we're keeping the legitimate president of Honduras out.
We're making nice with Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad.
Uh Jimmy Carter's double down, the National Hemorrhoids doubled down on racism as the primary reason for Obama being criticized, and now I come along and announce an exercise regimen.
I can understand if America is profoundly confused today.
Back after this.
Back after this.
Back after this.
Okay, we're back, and still got lots more to do here, but it just hit me.
I haven't had a phone call yet.
Haven't taken one, so let's reward the patience of those who have been waiting since prior to the program's commencement.
Sugar City, Idaho.
Josh, you're up first.
It's great to have you here with us.
That's good to talk to you in Rush.
Thank you.
My comment was, you know, it actually sickens me and infuriates me to no end was how Congress and the Democrats wanted to get Sotomayor into office as fast as possible.
Well, when you get a white Congressman stand up and say one comment that says you lie, they automatically deem him as a racist, even though his comment had nothing to do with ethnic ethnicity or religion or sex.
But Soda Mayor can come out blatantly say I can make better decisions as a Latino female than a white male.
Exactly right.
You got it nailed.
See, this is it's it's as I mentioned uh uh earlier.
This is a an ongoing effort.
Uh there's three things going on.
They're panicked, they're throwing the race card, they are in the midst of uh confusion and disarray here.
Uh it's not where they're and Obama did this during the campaign, you know, during during the uh during the primaries, they said it up.
If he loses, it's because this country's racist.
And then in the general election, if he loses, it's because this country is racist.
It's all these people know.
Now, when they go after Clarence Thomas, it's not racism.
When they go after uh Connelly, it's not racism.
What they're trying to do is convince everybody that conservatism is racism.
You know, this stuff is close to backfiring on these people.
Now you're you know now you got you got the White House leading a movement to claim that half the country's racist.
And the real bottom line here is that this is cover for Obama's failure.
If he doesn't get anywhere near what he promised, if he doesn't get anywhere near what he wants, they can say it wasn't his ideas, it wasn't his personality, it wasn't his actions, it wasn't his agenda.
Because he's Mr. Ferbick.
No, his country's racist.
That's what they're trying to set up.
You know, it's laughable, but it's also embarrassing.
These are some of the most closed-minded bigots.
Oh, there's a fourth thing going on here, too, and that's projection.
These people are the racists.
It is the media, it is the Democrat Party, it's the American left that looks at people and sees the differences.
They are the ones that see gender, sex, skin color, try to guess religions and so forth.
They are the ones, they are projecting who they really are onto us.
And they do this in many, many areas.
Not just race.
They do it on bigotry, sexism, homophobia, all of this stuff.
They're the ones that group people.
They're the ones that look at people with condescension and arrogance.
They're the ones that look down on average ordinary Americans with contempt.
You know, we're like Ronald Reagan.
Rising tide lifts all boats.
We're on a great country.
We don't care who's involved in making it great.
They're all Americans as far as we're concerned.
Anybody here legally, get involved.
You look at what this administration is tearing that apart.
This administration is making sure that there is no prosperity.
You know, when Obama launches an attack on profit, which he does very frequently, he's really attacking prosperity.
In that, in that in his joint.
He said something about health care insurance uh being uh burdened with uh overhead and profits and so.
Profits are what come after the overhead.
Profits is what left after you have the overhead.
When you hear Obama attack profits, I want you to substitute a word.
Use the word prosperity.
Profits lead to prosperity.
And that's under attack.
This is this is a uh this is this is i i it's it's undignified.
And there's a there's a story here in the Washington Post, you know, carrying the water, race issue deflected now as in campaign.
It's by Ann Kornblut and Chrissa Thompson.
A debate over the role of race in the current criticism of President Obama is forcing the White House to confront a volatile issue at rather avoid.
So the Times, the New York Times, Washington Post, oh boy, Obama's trying to steer clear of this.
Wrong oh, he's behind it.
It's coming from the White House, it's coming from Axel Rod, it's coming from Rahm Emanuel.
These are the guys that give dictation to the state-controlled media.
Race issue deflected.
If if that's true, if the race issue is deflected, well was it was it abandoned or deflected?
You know, that's a key difference here.
Deflected is one thing still out there, still flying around.
They're just deflect abandoned.
That's what they're trying to tell us.
If it was working, the White House would be piling on.
Trust me on this.
If this Jimmy Carter, national hemorrhoid doubling down on it, if this were working, you'd be seeing the White House, you'd see Gibbs, somebody up there would be piling on this thing.
We agree the criticism of our great president is in fact racist.
They'd if it were working, they'd be saying that.
Since it's not working, that's why they want to deflect all this.
But it's one of their command operations coming right out of their command and control center, the office of Rom, the Ballerina Emanual.
On Wednesday, Gibbs said the White House is not asked members of the Black Caucus to stop ascribing a racist motive to Obama critics.
Oh, they've not asked the black caucus to stop the smears.
Let's go to uh let's see, we have a montage.
We have to have time here.
This is uh montage, and of course, uh, this is Gibbs being peppered with questions on Carter and race.
And I ask you as you listen to this, who is it that's obsessed with this subject?
Carter saying that he believes an overloming majority of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards the president is because he's black.
Are you saying that the president is not concerned about the climate of hate in this country today?
With the present regard statements from such a prominent American, a former president, son of the South as he described himself helpful.
Because he's black.
Why is he or why are you so reluctant to talk about?
He gave this big speech during the campaign on race.
Why is this not a teachable moment in terms of the role that race is playing in society?
There's now a conversation that's risen to the level of a former president about racism.
Has the White House instructed any Democrats, either in the House of Representatives or elsewhere, to stop talking about race.
Former president is raising this, isn't it?
To say, you know what?
No, I don't agree with him.
So they're trying to do two things here at the state-controlled media.
But really, as I listen to this montage, they really want Obama to come out and join the fray.
Is it time for a teachable moment?
Is it time for Obama to stand up and say, yes, half this country is racist, and we're gonna deal with it.
That's part of my campaign promise, and we're gonna deal with it.
That's what they wanted is they want Obama to come out and confirm their reporting.
And then there's some lone voices in there.
Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Maybe you should stand up, should the president stood up and shut this down, which is what he ought to do.
If he had any dignity, if he had any real concern for ending strife and division in this country, he'd stand up and say, Stop this, stop acting like children.
He'd direct his comments at the media, and other people leveling this accusation.
Here's Jimmy Carter, the national hemorrhoid doubling down last night.
When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others began to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy.
Those kind of things are beyond the bounds.
Wait, stop the way.
That's not what the sign says the very health care with Kennedy.
Resumed tape.
Have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.
And I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.
It's a racist attitude.
Now, if we get the next sound, but I don't have time for it right now, is Gibbs, the White House apparently throwing Carter under the bus.
But if they wanted Carter to stop talking about this, they could get him to start stop talking about.
Just call him up Jimmy Earl.
Hold and keep your powder dry.
Please drop this.
But they are not doing that.
They want Carter to continue out there saying this stuff, which is great for us.
But I mean, here you got the biggest failure in American presidency in our lifetimes, failure foreign policy and domestically, and Obama is following right in his footsteps.
I just got a funny email from a friend of mine who is shocked and stunned at the announcement that I have begun an exercise regimen.
Exercise warning is the subject line in the email.
Dear Rush, be careful here, uh pal.
It'll increase your appetite for food and sex.
Exercising in the gym oftentimes leads to exercising in bed.
And as you well know, exercising does not lead to weight loss.
It leads to more bedroom time.
And if you're not careful, rush babies, authentic rush babies.
A friendly warning.
Budget your time accordingly.
By the way, folks, I have put a warning on the treadmill.
I'm following suit.
You may remember a monologue of uh two weeks ago or so when I had one of these stories that exercising had nothing to do with weight loss.
I put a sign.
There's a sign on a treadmill.
I see it, it's right there in the handleboys warning this machine could cause weight gain.
Because it does.
It enhances your appetite out there.
Just it just does.
So all kinds of helpful hints are coming in.
And a little warning to you liberals out there.
Because you soon are going to be the next racists.
What do you mean, Roy?
Liberals be racist.
Well, here's how.
Today Obama wants Obamacare, and anybody opposing it is racist, right?
In a short while, he's just Biden time on this troop request uh from the generals in Afghanistan.
But it in a short while he's going to meet the request.
And he is going to ask for more troops in Afghanistan.
He's going to send them there, and when that happens, the fringe left because he owns Afghanistan now.
That's why I'm sure he's going to do this.
It might be a moderate increase in troop levels.
It may not be actually what the generals are asking for, but But he's going to send more troops over there.
And that's going to start the caterwalling from the left.
From the Pelosi's from the carries, or from the lunatic fringe on the websites out there.
And when they start criticizing Obama, they are going to be the next racists.
Because any criticism of Obama is racist.
So look at, I'm not absolutely certain he's going to do the right thing and up the troop levels in Afghanistan.
But if he does, if he does, then we know who the next racists are.
Grab sound by 26, because I mentioned what I watched on MSNBC at the top of the hour here.
Here's the question that Savannah Guthrie asked the uh the health care info hack in the White House Linda Douglas.
A question we just heard the president talking about the Baucus bill.
Howard Dean and Democrat says about this bill.
A Baucus bill is the worst piece of health care legislation I've seen in thirty years.
In fact, it's a sixty billion dollar giveaway to the health insurance industry every year.
It was written by health care lobbyists, so that's not a surprise.
It is an outrage.
And so the uh infobabe, the anchorette, asks the hack, Linda Douglas, is this a good bill?
Look, there are many things in this bill that share common features with what the president has laid out and what is in the four of the five other bills that have already passed through committees.
As you just heard the president say, there's eighty percent agreement.
Obviously, many, many common features.
Now the five bills will have to all come together.
We'll be pulling together features of each of these bills, and uh they are very, very uh, you know, similar in many ways, and the legislation will be built upon these principles that they share.
Again, I ask why is this even necessary?
Well the the question of Linda Douglas ought to be why the barcus bill, what's the bargas bill?
The president just went before a joint.
He just did a joint last Wednesday night.
And he told us what's in his plan.
He let he spelled it out.
What's in his plan?
So what's his Baucus bill stuff?
That's the real question.
Uh here.
Audio soundbite number five.
This is Gibbsy, the White House press secretary pretending to throw Jimmy Carter under the bus is Jake Tapper asking the question.
Is former President Carter saying that he believes an overwhelming majority of the uh inaudible demonstrated animosity toward the president because he's black?
Well, uh let's take what former President Carter said.
Uh the answer that I'm uh give is the same answer that I gave on Sunday when I was asked this question.
Uh the president does not believe that criticism comes based on the color of his skin.
We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we've made and some of the extraordinary actions that had to be undertaken by this administration and previous administrations uh to stabilize our financial system to ensure viability of our domestic auto industry.
BSBSDS, he lost his train of thought there.
I mean, this is this is that uh way to describe Gibbs here is wandering in vain for a desperate thought.
The fact of the matter is, Gibbs can sit up there all day long and say, uh, the president uh president uh does not believe criticism comes uh based on the color of his until Obama says that and puts a stop to all of this.
It's going to continue.
Nobody's gonna believe what Gibbs says about this because the president hasn't said it.
And the reason the president hasn't said it is because the president hasn't asked the black caucus to shut up, and he certainly has his two hacks, Axelrod and Ram Emanuel running this whole operation out of the White House.
Now, last October, we played a soundbite of President Obama back in 1995.
It's a YouTube video, and I want to revisit this.
Admittedly, this is 14 years ago, but this is the kind of vetting that we did not get that I asked yesterday, can we can we ever really have an African American president if the constitutional vetting procedure, which is a free press,
if they're gonna just stand down because of political correctness or bias or whatever, if they're not going to vet minority candidates, because it's just unseemly we can't they've been victimized so much of their lives by being Americans in the first place, that we can't possibly have them.
Well, if we're gonna give them a pass, and if we're gonna look at their past, if we're not gonna look at their associations, if we're not going to scrutinize their policies, their beliefs, their past, their friends, their associates, where they were educated.
If we're not gonna scrutinize any of that, can we actually afford to have an African American president?
I asked the question, I'm dead serious about it.
So last October, we shared this with you.
This is Obama in 1995.
I really want to emphasize the word responsibility, whether you are a white executive living out in the suburbs who doesn't want to pay taxes to inner city children for them to go to school.
I worked as a community organizer in Chicago, uh, was very active in low-income neighborhoods, working on issues of crime and education and employment.
And seeing that in some ways certain portions of the African American community are doing as bad, if not worse, and recognizing that my fate remained tied up with their fates.
That my individual salvation is not gonna come about without a collective salvation for the country.
That recognition requires that we make sacrifices, and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifice that necessary to bring about a new day and a new age.
Translation, Obama believes that white Americans should be made to pay extra taxes for the wrongs done to blacks throughout the history of this country.
Only through collective salvation can all of us be saved.
and Talking reparations here.
It's like he said uh the other day we did when he was out, I forget what speech he was making to whatever group of people.
I think it was the AFL CIO in Cincinnati's.
We uh we we can't all succeed unless we all succeed.
We all have to succeed for any one of us to see.
That's patently not true.
And it's patently not even possible.
The only way that could be made to happen is if everybody's success is mediocrity.
Here's the next portion of Obama in 1995.
There's a certain race-weariness that confronts the country, precisely because the questions are so deeply embedded, and the solutions are gonna require so much investment of time, energy, and money.
The truth of the matter is that many of the problems that Africa faces, whether it's poverty or political suppression or ethnic conflict is just as prominent there, and can't all be blamed on the effects of colonialism.
What it can be blamed on is some of the common factors that affect Bosnia or Los Angeles or all kinds of places on this earth, and that is uh the tendency for one group to try to uh suppress another group in the interest of power or greed or resources or what have you.
Bosnia, where there was ethnic cleansing, LA.
No difference.
This is uh President of the United States.
This is who he is.
We knew this, we played all this during the campaign.
Nobody else in the state controlled media would dare get anywhere near it.
Nobody with a brain believes he sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years and didn't hear anything of the what the preacher said.
Nobody believes that Bill Ayers was just a friend down the street, and Obama didn't even know he'd try to blow up the Pentagon.
We don't believe that.
So this is I mean, it what when I tell you he arrives at the Oval Office with a chip on his shoulder, and he's got to make this country right, it's been immoral and unjust, it's treated people unfair and been wrong, and he's gonna fix it.
It's what we're witnessing here, folks.
So I have no doubt that this policy, this strategy of calling half of America racist simply for disagreeing with the Messiah, is coming right out of his White House.
And back to the phones.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity.
With half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair to Lindell, North Carolina.
This is uh BJ.
Hey, BJ.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
How are you doing?
You're doing a great job.
I know, thanks.
I've read uh the entire HR 3200, and the one thing that I never hear anything about is there's a sa several sections in there.
One, the first one, and uh appears shortly after.
It talks about retirees.
And when you go back and look and do a search on the terminology used and so forth, the retirees are UAW.
It happens to be unions.
And they're setting aside a ten billion dollar trust fund for these folks.
You go further down into the bill, towards the end, so to speak, and you're gonna find grant money out the yin yang for community organization groups like acorn.
Unions.
You will also find that when the commissioner selects different individuals to be on the committee to make decisions to set the rules, the guidelines, and so forth, you're gonna find labor unions are deeply involved in that process.
What's wrong with this?
I mean, nobody mentions it, and it's one of the biggest.
With all due respect, uh, I I don't I don't like uh correcting callers.
Uh callers are the salt of the earth.
I wouldn't have talk radio without callers.
But a lot of people are talking about how all these health care bills are just one giant wad of friendship, shall we say, to the unions.
The unions that's that's why the UAW bailout.
I mean, it it's it's uh uh it is the unions are part of that aggrieved portion of America that has been shafted for years by rich elitist individuals and corporations and CEOs and Wall Street people.
I'm telling you, it's time to return a nation's wealth to its quote unquote rightful owners.
That's how you have to understand.
It's the simplest way to understand what Obama's doing.
And this health care bill, it's of course it's nothing but pure redistribution.
And it's all one of the arguments that has been made about the unions, BJ, and I'm not trying to steal your thunder here, is that the portion of the HR-3200 uh bill that you read, the reason the unions support it is precisely because so much of their health care funds now are teetering on insolvency, and this bill is gonna make them whole and gonna get them in the public option.
That's the whole objective here is to get everybody on a public option.
However, there has been a development on this.
Warner Todd Houston, who writes for a number of websites, uh newsbusters has a has a piece posted at Publius or Publius Forum.com.
And he's been monitoring Obama's uh website, the organizing for America website that uh you know tells Acorn people what to do out of the White House and all these other community organizations.
Uh organizing for America is where they send out instructions to the Union thugs to show up and beat up people at the uh at the uh town hall meetings, yeah.
It here's it looks like Warner Todd Houston says it looks like Obama's campaign site, community organizing website, organizing for America has quietly dropped its claim that the public option is a must in its health care policies open letter to Congress.
Originally the open letter on the website told Congress it must vote for the public option.
The second bullet point in the OFA's letter originally read as follows.
Guaranteed choice.
Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor, including the choice of a public insurance option.
And he's got a screenshot here showing it.
That was when Obama was raising money from his lefty followers.
Now it's a different story.
Apparently, that whole must urgency is no longer as important on Obama's campaign website.
Now the original, more insistent bullet points are gone, and a generic message only mentioning that the Obama plan has a public option in it now appears.
And so the question is, what what's going on here?
Has uh has Obama uh decided to thumb its nose and its far-left followers and shy away from the public option?
Or is it just realism hitting team Obama between the eyes?
Or is it a feint?
I would vote for the latter.
But regardless, there are a bunch of lefty websites that are up in arms about this public option being taken off of Obama's campaign for America work uh organized America website.
Here's what you you leftists, you know, you you you're you're you you're demanding purity out here, and you're going to get purity.
I don't care what they come up with.
This to me is just straight-old common sense.
If we we have a health care system in America, and outside of Medicare and Medicaid, it's in the private sector, right?
And after we get a health care bill from where?
I don't care what it's a House, the Senate, compromise bill, Obama's gonna sign what?
A government piece of legislation.
And what's it gonna control?
Health care.
Ergo.
The whole damn thing is government-run health care.
And part and parcel of government-run health care is gonna be a public option.
All they're admitting now is that they can't get this if they're open about wanting it in there.
So they take it off the website.
Their left-wing buddies go ape.
Uh some people get fooled into thinking Obama's backing off.
He sees the handwriting on the wall, he understands that this can't possibly have PS.
Obama's got the same dialectic that the old Soviets have.
It takes 15 years to get it, that's what it's gonna take.
And they'll lay the groundwork for it now.
So don't buy the notion that the public option's not there and it's not.
By the time if these people are not stopped, if they get this done at some point, it's just it's gonna be like the amnesty bill.
They're gonna get it.
And they're gonna get a public option, and they're gonna destroy private insurance.
They hate the private sector.
They do not want to compete with it, they want to wipe it out.
It's time to learn who Obama is, and all of this snake oil and all this talk, the bark is business, it's just distraction.
Nothing's changed, folks.
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