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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 PMS NBC.
And over on PMS NBC, somebody's sitting in today for Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
It's not there.
I think it was Savannah Guthrie.
And she's talking to the hack, the White House healthcare hack, Linda Douglas, formerly of state-controlled ABC.
And they put up a quote from Howard Dean about the Baucus bill.
You know what Howard Dean said about the Baucus 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, 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 Conley 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' 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, 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 coalitions Obama needs and 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 going to make the announcement.
I just did.
It's too late to take it back now, Sturdley.
I have begun an exercise regimen.
I started it Saturday and I did it on my own with no prodding.
I was under no duress.
I was sitting in my library.
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 going to go over there and use it.
So I got on the treadmill and I did 35 minutes.
There is not film of this, so you're going to have to take my word for it.
I did 35 minutes, including a five-minute cooldown, but 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, whiling away 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 Snurdley 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 watching Fox and Friends, and I've got the closed captioning on it because treadmill makes a lot of noise.
I can't hear it, even if I turn 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 caught this in the middle of it, but it was Steve Doocy, who was hilarious.
And Killmead, 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 Deucey and Killmead are asking this guy's name as Larry.
Well, what can we do about this, Larry?
And this guy, Larry, is, well, we're doing everything we can here.
My union working hard on this standby time.
And I'm just laughing myself still.
It was the fastest five minutes on 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.
Take it back.
Sorry, just a light-hearted, 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, 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.
This treadmill has a calorie counter.
You put in your weight in there and 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.
You all know how they work.
I'm sorry.
I think I've discovered something new.
Well, anyway, 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 have not betrayed it in 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 physical health, but nothing to do with losing weight.
It's not part of the regimen.
I have demonstrated and proven.
I did zip-zero nada exercise.
I lost all that weight fairly rapidly.
So I just wanted to come clean about this and admit it.
Snerdley, as I say, thinks I've committed a huge betrayal here to a core principle.
And a core boat.
No, Snerdley, 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 going to 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 going to be a tough day for people.
I understand it.
We have no missile shield.
That's right.
No missile shield.
We have exposed ourselves and our buddies to the Soviets again.
We are letting all the communist thug dictators into the UN, but we're keeping the legitimate president of Honduras out.
We're making nice with Mahmoud Ahmadine Zad.
Jimmy Carter's doubled 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.
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.
It's good to talk to you, Anrush.
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 Sodomayor into office as fast as possible.
But 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 ethnicity or religion or sex.
But Sodomayor 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, as I mentioned earlier, this is an ongoing effort.
There's three things going on.
They're panicked.
They're throwing the race card.
They are in the midst of confusion and disarray here.
It's not worth it.
And Obama did this during the campaign.
You know, 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.
All these people know.
Now, when they go after Clarence Thomas, it's not racism.
When they go after Connell Lee, 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 got the White House leading a movement to claim that half the country is 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. Perfect.
No, his country's racist.
That's what they're trying to set up.
You know, it's laughable.
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.
The rising tide lifts all boats.
We're in 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 his joint.
He said something about health care insurance being burdened with overhead and profits.
Profits are what come after the overhead.
Profits are 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 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 Kornbloot 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 it 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 Rodd.
It's coming from Rahm Emmanuel.
These are the guys that give dictation to the state-controlled media.
Race issue deflected.
If that's true, if the race issue is deflected, well, 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 deflected.
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, racism.
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, Emmanuel.
On Wednesday, Gibbs said the White House has 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, let's see, we have a montage.
We have to have time here.
This is a montage.
Of course, 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?
Saying that he believes an overlong 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?
Would the president 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 race.
Has the White House instructed any Democrats, either in the House of Representatives or elsewhere, to stop talking about race?
The former president is raising this.
Isn't at this point incumbent upon the president 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 going to deal with it.
That's part of my campaign promise, and we're going to deal with it.
That's what they wanted: they want Obama to come out and confirm their reporting.
And then there's some lone voices that are: 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 waved 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.
It'd bury health care with Kennedy.
Resume 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 soundbite, 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 stop talking about it.
Just call him up.
Jimmy Earle, and I'm not hopeful right now.
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've 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, pal.
It'll increase your appetite for food and sex.
Exercising in the gym oftentimes leads to exercising in bed.
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 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 the treadmill.
I see it.
It's right there on the handlebars, warning this machine could cause weight gain.
Because it does.
It enhances your appetite out there.
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, Rush?
How can 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, he's just biding time on this troop request from the generals in Afghanistan.
But in a short while, he's going to meet the request.
And he's going to ask for more troops in Afghanistan.
He's going to send them there.
And when that happens, defringe, 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 he's going to send more troops over there.
And that's going to start the caterwauling from the left, from the Pelosis, from the Carries, and 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 Soundbite 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 healthcare info hack in the White House Linda Douglas, a question.
We just heard the president talking about the Baucus bill.
Howard Dean of Democrats says about this bill, a Baucus bill is the worst piece of healthcare legislation I've seen in 30 years.
In fact, it's a $60 billion giveaway to the health insurance industry every year.
It was written by healthcare lobbyists, so that's not a surprise.
It is an outrage.
And so the info babe, 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 80% 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 they are very, very similar in many ways.
And the legislation will be built upon these principles that they share.
Again, I ask, why is this even necessary?
The question to Linda Douglas ought to be, why the Baucus bill?
What's the Barcas 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 spelled it out.
What's in his plan?
So what's his Baucus bill stuff?
That's the real question.
Here, audio soundbite number five.
This is Gibsey, the White House press secretary, pretending to throw Jimmy Carter under the bus.
It's Jake Tapper asking the question.
Is former President Carter saying that he believes an overwhelming majority of the inaudible demonstrated animosity toward the president because he's black?
Well, let's take what former President Carter said.
The answer that I'm going to give is the same answer that I gave on Sunday when I was asked this question.
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 to stabilize our financial system, to ensure viability of our domestic auto industry.
BSBSBSB.
He lost his train of thought there.
I mean, this is that 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, President does not believe criticism comes 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 going to 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 Rahm 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 ever really have an African-American president if the constitutional vetting procedure, which is a free press,
if they're going to 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 that way.
We give them a pass.
Well, if we're going to give them a pass, and if we're going to look at their past, if we're not going to 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 going to 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.
I 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 going to 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 sacrifices 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.
He's talking reparations here.
It's like he said the other day, I forget what speech he was making to whatever group of people.
I think it was the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati.
He said, we can't all succeed unless we all succeed.
We all have to succeed for any one of us to succeed.
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 going to 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 the tendency for one group to try to suppress another group in the interest of power or greed or resources or what have you.
Bosnia, where there was ethnic cleansing, L.A., no difference.
This is 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 20 years and didn't hear anything of what the preacher said.
Nobody believes that Bill Ayers is 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, when I tell you he arrives at the Oval Office with a chip on his shoulder, he's got to make this country right.
It's been immoral and unjust.
It's treated people unfair and been wrong.
He's going to 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 B.J. Hey, B.J. Hey, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
How are you doing?
You're doing a great job.
I know.
Thank you.
I've read the entire HR 3200.
And the one thing that I never hear anything about is there's several sections in there.
One, the first one, and it'll appear 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 $10 billion trust fund for these folks.
You go further down into the bill, towards the end, so to speak, and you're going to 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 going to 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 things.
Well, with all due respect, I don't like correcting callers.
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 why the UAW bailout.
I mean, 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 the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners.
That's how you have to understand.
That's the simplest way to understand what Obama's doing.
And this health care bill, of course, is 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 H.R. 3200 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 going to make them whole and going to 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, Newsbusters, has a piece posted at Publius or PubliusForum.com.
And he's been monitoring Obama's website, the Organizing for America website that tells Acorn people what to do out of the White House and all these other community organizations.
Organizing for America is where they sent out instructions to the union thugs to show up and beat up people at the town hall meetings.
Yeah, 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 healthcare 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.
Guarantee 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's going on here?
Has Obama decided to thumb its nose at 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 Organize for America website.
Here's what you leftists, you know, 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 have a healthcare 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's the House, the Senate, compromise bill, Obama's going to sign what?
A government piece of legislation.
And what's it going to control?
Healthcare.
Ergo, the whole damn thing is government-run healthcare.
And part and parcel of government-run health care is going to 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.
Some people get fooled into thinking Obama's backing off.
He sees the handwriting on the wall.
He understands that this can't possibly happen.
B.S. Obama's got the same dialectic that the old Soviets have.
It takes 15 years to get it, that's what it's going to take.
And they'll lay the groundwork for it now.
So don't buy the notion that the public option is not there.
By the time, if these people are not stopped, if they get this done at some point, it's going to be like the amnesty bill.
They're going to get it.
And they're going to get a public option.
And they're going to 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 of baucus business, just distraction.
Nothing's changed, folks.
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