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Nov. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, folks.
Greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, all across the fruited plain Rushlin Bush.
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Telephone number if uh you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
You know, I was just thinking here at the top of the hour.
You remember the uh interview I did with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday.
I said every day, every day I get up here and I feel like I'm in the in the trenches in a war.
No bullets are flying, but I it it just it's intense, it never stops.
Every day, you get up and you find out the Democrats are doing something to assault liberty.
I was I watching this House vote Saturday night, and those Democrats, they started cheering like they had just saved the world from something.
It was the biggest cheer since uh Marjorie Margoli's Ms. Vinsky had been convinced by Clinton to change her vote on his big tax increase.
Um I'm watching them and I'm saying to myself, in a sane world, these these Democrats have just a number of them, and a large number of them have just voted themselves out of office.
In a sane world.
And I actually think, folks, it's gonna happen.
I actually think that a lot of them are going to be defeated in 2010.
There's a rage about this that's uh that's happening all over the place.
And I got to thinking, you know, I used to every day preparing this program had a stack of just pure silly stuff.
Lighthearted, silly human interest stuff.
And there's some of that, but I don't ever seem to get to it because all this stuff is so damned intense.
I'll give you an example.
Saturday night, I flew to Chicago.
17 years ago, Neil Bortz, a nationally syndicated radio host and former sports agent, he was when I met him, he was uh sports agent to Evander Holyfield.
And Holyfield had just won the first championship bout, and uh at that point Holyfield toward pulled Bortz, look, champ don't pay for anything.
So Bort was being told he was going to have to work for nothing if he wanted to continue to work as a lawyer for Holyfield, so he says, screw it, and I'm I'm gonna go full-time into uh into talk radio.
And he asked me 17 years ago, maybe 16 years ago, he said, Look, if I ever am induction, inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame, would you present me?
And I said, sure, I'd be happy to, never thinking it would happen.
So Saturday night, Neil Bortz was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.
And I went there to present him.
And I wore a uh loudmouth jacket.
I didn't wear my loudmouth shorts, but I wore a loudmouth jacket with black slacks and a black muck turtleneck.
It was a black tie affair.
I took a couple friends with me, uh, actually nine, took nine friends up there with me.
They had their own table for the for the festivities.
Among them were George Brett and uh and Vince Flynn.
And I had four minutes to present Borts.
And I didn't want to go through all the career statistics and get all this sort of stuff because everybody does that for how many stations or this or that and everything.
I just I said Neil Bortz is one of the greatest representatives of our business.
I was gonna say art, but I just couldn't bring myself to do that, of our business that there is.
Solid, great character, uh genuinely good, good and decent man.
But I said, Neil Bort's nearly cost me my own national show.
Back in 1989, shortly after we secured the Big 89, WLS, as an affiliate, and they were one of the first top ten markets that we got.
Now it was unrelated to anything.
It just did uh that what Bort sent me a note and he said, you know, this this is news stories out there, it's getting bigger, you ought to treat it this way.
So I looked at Bortz's idea, and I said, you know, this would be funny.
So I took to the microphone that day, and I discussed the increasing number of automobile accidents taking place in American cities.
It was an epidemic back then.
Somehow it made news.
There was all kinds of traffic accidents that were happening.
There was a spade of them.
And I said, folks, I've got a solution.
It's not seat belts, It's not this.
It's not it's not sober up.
The best thing we can do if we want to make highways safety, safer and road safer, is to simply ask women to stop farting in their cars.
And I explained uh that just that one simple step would clean up a whole lot of traffic messes.
And went on to other things in the monologue and finally went to the phones and everything.
What do you mean?
What do you mean women?
Well uh what about men?
I I've never seen um uh uh a man farting his car.
Well, have you seen women all the time?
Well, how do you know that that's because you can see it, I said.
This went on for 30 minutes.
WLS, Tom Tradup was the general manager, WLS canceled me for 45 minutes until the bit was explained in full.
The word was FARD, F-A-R-D, and it's French, and it means to apply makeup to the face.
But if you say it real fast, I guarantee you, as you could play the tape back.
I did not say the word you think I said.
It's just you never heard of the word FARD.
Well, that's you know, kind of light-hearted stuff that uh we used to have time for.
Even when Clinton was, this is pre-Clinton.
Uh, you know, things got really intense when Clinton tried to blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing and uh uh other things ratcheted up, and as as the success of this program grew and intensified, it became more of a target in a political sense, not a not a program at all discussed in the realm of broadcasting or slash uh entertainment, other than way when they sought to discredit me.
So I'm telling this story in my four minutes to introduce Borts, and it worked again.
You should the room got quiet.
My buddies were sitting there telling me there were five women at the table next to theirs, and they started shooting me daggers and so forth.
It just, it's amazing.
Here they think I'd actually say this word at such a black tie August gathering, and then introduced Borts, and Borts came up and uh and did his acceptance and we went off and and uh took pictures, which is what happens, all the inducted.
I got my picture taken with the gang from all things considered at NPR, that's when I went in.
Also, you remember when I went in?
You remember what happened snurly when I went in?
Sally Sally Messi Raphael uh wormed her way in as my presenter.
And look it, I was still naive at the time.
I had a little red flag about it, but I was assured of a hall of fame people, oh no, no, no.
She's very, very much looking forward to this.
I soon found out why.
Have you heard about this, Don?
She stood up and in her in her supposed induction speech, gave a little lecture on why I should not be admitted into the Hall of Fame.
And Paul Herbie was seated at the next table.
I and he just looked, looked at he could not believe what he was what he was hearing.
Nobody in the room could.
My brother threw his napkin down on the floor.
So I went up there and on my acceptance speech.
I just ignored what she'd said.
Uh I thanked uh, and she had this big grin on her face, short little twerp, but she had this big grin on her face, and I just I just uh thanked the American people.
I thanked my radio affiliates uh for making the dream come true and so forth.
Uh then we we we uh had to leave to go back stage to get pictures taken, which is a tradition, and Brett and Flynn came back and appeared in the picture with us uh with with Neil.
So it was funny.
Then we got on the airplane and head right back.
Because we had uh stuff to do the next day, and and uh watching this vote.
This is where I started watching this vote, watching these Democrats cheer.
What they had, this is the biggest assault on freedom and liberty yet to occur in the United States Congress, and then to learn that the StuPak Amendment was part of this that the pro-lifers ended up buying into this whole thing because funds were gonna be taken out of health care to buy abortions when you know they're gonna go.
Democrat Congressman's already saying it's gonna go back in.
And this is, you know, I love the pro-life community.
I'm pro-life myself, but single issue politics is just deadly.
I mean, what are we supposed to do?
Now we're all supposed to support the bill because it has this Stupak Amendment in it.
So anyway, uh I do have somewhere here in the stack, I do have a couple of light-hearted, well, if you can call them lighthearted stories.
Here's one SUV.
Well, no, you can't.
I can because nobody got hurt here.
From the Indianapolis Star.
Try this headline.
SUV smashes into Eastside Tavern, comma runs.
As though the SUV committed a crime and ran away from the scene.
The way the reword the headline is SUV smashes into Eastside Tavern flees scene.
A man drove an SUV into an Eastside Bar after closing this morning, blah, blah, blah.
SUV slammed into the southeast corner of the building and the driver sped away.
The headline, though, says the SUV sped away on its own.
And have you s have you heard about the um I guess it was the Washington Zoo where uh Rudolph, a deer.
It's gonna be a holiday season here, folks.
Rudolph, the deer somehow ended up in the lion's den.
And two female lions came over there and just attacked Rudolph and ate Rudolph, and it drew a crowd.
The crowd showed up little kids watching.
It was like it was like stopping at the scene of a crime or a highway accident caused by a woman farting in her car.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Uh right, looking at the call screen, uh, the roster of callers.
It says the next caller is a woman named Bruce.
So, Bruce, welcome to the uh EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Uh I'm a guy, I'm not a woman.
Sorry.
Um, it's a snerdly typo.
Uh Bruce of Fort Wayne Indiana, by the way.
It's great to have you here, Bruce.
Always a pleasure, sir.
I want to know why the Republicans voted for the Stupak Amendment.
I, if they had voted against it, it would have put the so-called blue dog Democrats on the spot to vote for the bill.
They they they should have voted against it.
Were they afraid of some sort of campaigning in 2010?
Why did they vote for it?
Were they myopically focused on it?
I mean, what's with this?
Uh it is an important issue to a lot of people.
Therefore, to many people, they're it's the only issue that counts.
Single single issue politics.
This is one of the problems.
I've always railed against this, by the way.
I've railed against single-issue politics.
Because in this case, Bruce, they should have known that this is not going to survive in the final version of this bill.
They should have known this was a trick in order to get the pro-life votes.
The thing that really frosts me about this is that this whole bill is about death.
This whole bill is about rationing who gets coverage and who doesn't, and under what circumstances it is the single greatest tool a government will have to regulate every aspect of behavior.
This is a freedom killing, and it is going to end up being a life-threatening bill.
Human beings will die earlier than normal than necessary because of this bill.
There will be bureaucratic uh institutions, bureaucracies, which will make decisions on who gets treated and what kind of treatment they get and who doesn't get treated.
But because they thought the bill had been improved to say that no money would be used to fund abortions, that it was okay to support the bill.
It's just the whole thing could have been killed.
The whole thing could have been killed if they'd have just ignored this.
And Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is one of the most strident feminists in the Democrat caucus, and she's from Boca.
She was on MSNBC today, and she said, I'm confident that when it comes back from the conference committee, that that language, the Stupak Amendment, won't be there.
And I think we're all going to be working very hard, particularly the pro-choice members, to make sure that's the case.
Now, some people think the bill would have Passed regardless whether the Stupak amendment was there or not, and because Pelosi would have found some other way to get the votes.
And that probably is the case.
But this was just unfortunately short-sighted.
Now I just had sent to me via email a blog post, a blog post from the Imam, who was at the false church Virginia Mosque when the 9-11 terrorists and the uh Hassan guy was there.
The Imam now lives in Yemen.
And the headline on his blog post, if it's if it's really him, Nidal Hassan did the right thing.
Nidal Hassan is a hero.
He's a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that's fighting against his own people.
This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn't exist.
Any decent Muslims cannot live understanding properly his duties toward his creator and his fellow Muslims and yet serve as a U.S. soldier.
The U.S. is leading the war against terrorism, which in reality is a war against Islam.
Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done?
Sounds like the old Imam here is jumping to conclusions.
Wonder if Obama's going to get on the phone here and try to dial a guy back.
Greg in Moline, Illinois, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Thanks, Raj.
Can I first say that you have single-handedly helped shape my view of life in the last 15 years I've been listening to you?
Well, I thank you very much for that.
I hope you have a decent outlook on life.
Well, politically primarily, but you have been a true hero of mine, and I just want you to know how much I appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I am a strong pro-lifer and support the causes of many of those organizations.
But ever since they started asking us to send petitions to say include language that excludes abortions, I thought this has been a great ploy of the Democratic Party to last minute, as what happened on Saturday, state that okay, we'll drop the abortion as long as you vote for the bill.
And I think they've been planning this for months to use this ploy.
Do you agree?
I wouldn't be surprised.
I know that Pelosi would do anything to get this passed, and she's not.
I'll tell you something else that she did.
There were um there are seven Democrats, I've got somewhere here in the stack.
I'll just try to tell you this from my uh memory, paraphrasing it.
There are seven prominent Democrat members of Congress who apparently, unbeknownst to anybody until Saturday, were facing ethics investigations or charges in the House.
And just somehow, a staffer's computer had the file sharing turned on, and the memo talking about the possibility of these seven Democrats being investigated was released to the media.
One of the Democrats was Jane Harmon from California, who is not, I mean, she and Pelosi are at odds.
And so there was there were she she put an order out that everybody had to be on the House floor to vote, or else.
And so she used the taint of corruption.
The Speaker of the House detect determines the speed at which ethics investigations take place.
Speaker House runs a show.
And so that's another thing she did.
If if just three of those people had not even shown up, or if they had voted some other way, uh, then this whole thing would have failed.
So, you know, she she did the the vast majority of the votes here were not for this.
These these votes were coerced, or they were tricked, or they were strong armed or something.
And now because this one Republican, this Cash Cow guy from uh from Louisiana from New Orleans, this is a guy that replaced Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, Cole Cash Bill, Had the 90 Gs in the freezer.
And they finally ran him out of there.
And so this guy Cow, uh, Joseph Cow, CAO is how you pronounce it.
Cash Cow's his new nickname.
If you go to his website and find it, he he Obama bought him off with the promise of uh increased Medicaid payments or Medicare payments, one of the two, to some people in his uh in his district.
So we got one Republican.
How many Democrats voted against this thing?
So was it 39, 30?
30.
She couldn't lose 40.
She let 39 blue dogs, I'm pretty sure, vote no on this to save themselves.
Other blue dogs had to vote yes.
She had, so she she needed, she couldn't lose 40.
She got 39 Democrats, she got this one guy.
This one guy with Obama.
So now one Republican votes for this thing, and the media and everybody out there talking about it honestly, folks, as a bipartisan result.
Not that 39 Democrats voted against it, but that one Republican voted for it, Joseph Cash Cow from New Orleans, which makes the bill bipartisan.
I mean, it's just yes, to answer your question out there, uh, Bruce, there's the to me there's there's uh there's no question that there was any kind of chicanery, and I bet, you know, even if they hadn't tried the trick on the Stupak Amendment that they would have found something else uh to engineer the uh the votes.
She was gonna get them one way or the other.
Now we now we're dead on arrival in the Senate.
DOA in it.
Do you believe that?
I'm not sure I do.
We'll be back.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limboy, a household name in all four corners of the world.
Clark in Seattle, uh, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, sir.
It's an honor.
Yeah.
I called up this morning, sir, to warn you that you are walking on thin ice.
You cannot go around calling the Army major terrorist a terrorist, sir.
Uh, the Obama administration and the Homeland Security, they don't accept the truth, sir.
You can't use those words.
And if you're not careful, Obama's gonna unleash his Marxist propaganda on you like he did Joe the plumber.
He might even have Rama Manual send you a fish.
I think Obama's already got me in the crosshairs with Marxist propaganda.
Uh, you know, uh the thing here, Clark is right about this.
Uh uh, we have now it's not the war on terrorism.
Remember that?
It's not war on terrorism anymore.
They they've they've taken the word out of the uh lexicon and both the Pentagon and the uh and the State Department.
Well, uh what are we supposed to call these terrorists?
I don't know.
Now, I I don't I don't succumb to political correctness, so you know.
Might be an enemy combatant.
Might be an Well, no, you can't send him to get mode because they waterboard people there.
We can't, and because we're gonna close Gitmo, right?
Well, Gidmo closes a couple months.
He never.
By the way, if you want to read The Best Thing Yet of What Happened of Fort Hood, find Ralph Peters piece from uh November 6th in the New York Post.
It's let me just read a little bit of it uh to you.
On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim U.S. Army officer shouting Allahu Akbar committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9-11, and nobody wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are.
Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did, and the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act.
That's an italics, he writes, when an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it's an act of terror.
Period.
When the terrorist posts anti-American hate speech on the web, apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name, loudly criticizes U.S. policies, argues as a psychiatrist, no less, with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices, Refuses in the name of Islam to be photographed with female colleagues, lists his nationality as Palestinian in a Muslim spouse matching program, and parades around Central Texas in a fundamentalist play suit.
Well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an Islamist terrorist.
But the president won't, despite his promise to get all the facts, because there's no such thing as Islamist terrorism in Obama world.
And the Army won't, because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America haters is safer than calling terrorism terrorism.
And the media won't, because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops, despite their crocodile tears.
Major Nadal Malik Hassan planned this attack.
He executed it in cold blood.
The resulting massacre was the first tragedy.
The second was that he wasn't killed on the spot.
Hassan survived.
Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills.
Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming harassment drove him temporarily insane.
There'll be no end of trial delays at best.
Taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come since our politically correct army leadership wouldn't dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.
Major Hassan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here.
While U.S. Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hassan will be praised privately, and he will have the last laugh.
But Hassan isn't a sole guilty party.
The U.S. Army's unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Fort Hood.
Given the myriad warning signs, it is appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn U.S. policy.
But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Fort Hood had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.
Had Hassan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would have been gone with the Simon.
But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.
Now twelve soldiers and a security guard lie dead, thirty-one soldiers wounded, twenty-eight seriously.
If heads don't roll in this maggot's chain of command, the army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.
There's another important issue, too.
How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat troubled soldiers returning from war?
An Islamist wacko is counsel for arguing with veterans who've been assigned to his care and he's not removed from duty.
What planet does the Army live on?
For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, as to Ralph Peters writing, I'm ashamed of its dereliction of duty.
The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.
Get ready for the apologies.
We've already heard from the terrorist family is a good American in their world maybe he is.
But when do we, the American public, knock off this PC nonsense?
A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003 in Kuwait on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Recently, an American mullah shoots it out with feds in Detroit.
A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station.
A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife.
A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she's becoming too westernized.
Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again, and we're assured that Islam's a religion of peace.
I guarantee you that the Obama administration's non-response to the Fort Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.
Ralph Peters.
November 6th in the New York Post.
Powerful piece.
We'll link to it at Rushlimba.com, making it easy for you to find it.
Now, I said before the break at the bottom of the hour that Lindsey Graham-nesty and others, particularly Graham-nesty, cannot be counted on at all.
The health care bill that passed the House is dead on arrival in the Senate.
Hey!
It doesn't have a chance.
It's already all to being called dead on arrival, doesn't have a chance.
And they're Playing up the story that Dingy Harry is having trouble.
He may not even be able to get to his vote before the end of the year.
Joe Lieberman was on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Chris Wallace said the House passed the bill.
What do you think of the bill they passed?
And do you still intend if there is a public option and if there's this tax on so-called Cadillac health plans, will you support a Republican filibuster on final passage?
There are millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, but I'm afraid that our colleagues in the House added a lot on to that that subtract uh from the genuine purposes of health care reform.
And one was to create a public option plan.
The public option plan is unnecessary.
It has been put forward, I'm convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance.
And they got a right to do that.
I think that would be wrong.
But worse than that, we have a problem even greater than the health insurance problems, and that is a debt.
$12 trillion today, projected to be $21 trillion in 10 years.
So at this point, I take it you're a no vote in the Senate.
If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote.
Okay, now that sounds pretty firm to me.
It sounds pretty firm to me.
But they can always pass the well, the public option was a big deal in the House.
If they take it out in the Senate as a trick to put it in later, is gonna anger some of these nut jobs in the House once they get this thing to conference.
So he sounds pretty adamant there.
I just these are Democrats at the end of the day, whether blue dogs or whatever they are, they're well, he's an independent, but he's a Democrat.
They're Democrats at the end of the day.
And I don't doubt that he means exactly what he said yesterday on Fox News Sunday, as of now.
But uh and he's he's exactly right in everything he says in this uh in this bite.
There's there's I've in fact I was watching television on this.
Fox was running graphics, and even with this bill, which is gonna add up to being three trillion dollars before it's all said and done.
Even at that, by 2019, there are still 18 million uninsured.
There are 51 million uninsured by 2016 or some such thing.
Which I always thought was the ostensible purpose of this is to insure the poor uninsured in this country.
It doesn't even do that.
Because it's not really about that.
And when Lieberman says there is no reason, there is no reason to create a public option.
It's unnecessary.
Now he's a Connecticut, that's the insurance agency.
But I'll tell you something else.
The public option is the only reason that any Democrats doing this.
It's the only reason.
I know, I know this stupid trigger.
Let me tell you this.
This is this is old buddy Olympia Snow back in action here.
Republican Olympias, though, of Maine, has given the Democrats a possible way out.
She's proposing to allow a government plan if after a few years premiums keep escalating and local health insurance markets remain in a grip of a few big companies.
This is the trigger option.
Well, a few big companies.
Uh premiums keep escalating.
That's like saying, are we going to need air to breathe?
Yeah, if we don't need any air to breathe next week, then I guess we won't have to trigger it.
But if we if we need air, well, we'll have to trigger this option.
So she's predictably backing out on this.
Uh what I was going to say is these look at all these groups.
They got who big pharma gets involved here because they think they're buying protection.
Big insurance got involved.
Big insurance got involved.
The insurance lobby got involved because they they first thought that this bill was going to require everybody to go out and buy health insurance.
So they saw a whole bunch of new customers.
All of these companies that ran to get involved with this didn't give a rat's rear end about the country.
They cared about themselves, and they cared about positioning themselves better than their competitors, given I mean, they basically just succumbed to the notion a government's going to run our business, or we're going to be uh still we're gonna we're gonna have jobs here, but uh Obama's gonna tell us how to run our business or what to do, but we'll have less pain if we go along with it.
So it's uh you just you you look around, you don't see the people that you would usually expect to stand up for the country standing up.
I gotta go a quick timeout.
Back after this with much more.
From the UK telegraph, uh Vicky Larue, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, claims that she is unable to keep a healthy diet because she is afraid of vegetables.
She suffers from a fear known as lacanophobia or lachenophobia.
LACH, lactenophobia, look, whatever.
It leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
Miss Lerou survives on a diet of meat, potatoes, cereals, and an occasional apple, but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate.
I've always had an irrational fear of vegetables, even as a child I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate.
But as it continued into adult life, I started to think it might not just be a dislike for vegetables, but an actual phobia.
So they've named it as a phobia, the fear of vegetables.
Lacanophobia.
That's you know what?
That is the that's the smartest way I have ever heard of somebody coming up and saying, I have no excuse here.
I uh I hate vegetables, I got a phobia, I have to eat all this other stuff.
What the Pelosi Healthcare Bill really says.
Betsy McCoy in the Wall Street Journal, a health bill that Pelosi is bringing to a vote.
And this was November 7th, so this is before the vote.
Uh passed at 11 o'clock Saturday night on the weekend uh of a of a terrorist attack on our country.
Section 202, what the government will require you to do.
Now, and no editorial comments are necessary.
This is just the language in the bill.
Section 202, page 9192 of the bill requires you to enroll in a qualified plan.
If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a grace period to switch you to a qualified plan, meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
If you buy your own insurance, there's no grace period.
You'll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the copay deductible or benefit.
Which this is always been this is why Obama's lying through his teeth when he says if you like your coverage, you'll be able to keep it.
You won't.
Section 224, page 118 provides it 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a qualified plan covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it.
That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now and then filling in the interest rate and a repayment terms 18 months later.
On November 2, the Congressional Budget Office estimated what the plans will likely cost.
An individual earning 44 grand before taxes who purchases his own insurance will have to pay a $5,300 premium and an estimated $2,000 in out-of-pocket expenses for a total of $7,300 a year, which is 17% of its pre-tax income.
A family earning 102,100 a year before taxes will have to pay a $15,000 premium plus an estimated $5,300 out of pocket for a total of $20,300 total, or 20% of its pre-tax income.
Individuals and families earning less than these amounts will be eligible for subsidies paid directly to their insurer.
Oh, and the uh Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp, released a letter from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi bill could land people in jail.
The Joint Committee on Taxation Letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain acceptable health coverage and who choose not to pay the bill's new individual mandate tax, generally two and a half percent of income, are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to 250 grand and imprisonment For up to five years.
In a response to the Joint Committee on Taxation Letter, Congressman Camp, Republican Michigan, said this is the ultimate example of the Democrats' command and control style of governing.
Buy what we tell you or go to jail.
It's outrageous.
It should be stopped immediately.
Go to jail if you don't buy the proper amount of insurance.
Section three because of a break, but uh we'll post uh we'll link to uh uh Betsy McCoy's piece at uh rushlimbo.com.
It's from the Wall Street Journal.
But the deaf panels are back in this thing, too.
They were never out of it.
Now that's the dirty little secret about all this.
Sit tight, folks.
Much more straight ahead.
Last Thursday, Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, blasted the Obama administration and Congressman Barney Frank, telling a banking audience that the Democrats' actions to restructure the entire economy are insane.
I hope the New Jersey Virginia governor's race will put some realism into this administration, Welch told a big crowd at the Bank Administration Institute convention.
I hope it'll cause them to pause and not just jump into anything they encounter.
Jack!
Insane is not the word.
It is lunatics, do it.
It's done.
This is being done on purpose.
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