Nov. 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| And a quick look at some headlines here. | |
| Senate to put off climate bill until spring. | |
| Claire McCaskell, Democrat Senator Missouri, it's really big. | |
| Really, really hard. | |
| And it's going to make a lot of people mad. | |
| That's what I'm wondering. | |
| Is she talking about the climate bill there or what? | |
| It's really big, really, really hard, and it's going to make a lot of people mad. | |
| So they're putting a climate bill off till the spring. | |
| Guantanamo will not close by January, Obama says. | |
| Greg Craig taking a fall for this one, but uh the left is gonna be mighty, mighty ticked off about this. | |
| Layoffs begin at the Associated Press, which means there are probably no more Sarah Palin books to fact check out there and get this one, and this is just one of about ten economic stories that I've got. | |
| Folks, brace yourselves. | |
| Obama, job creation is not the goal of the December 3rd jobs forum. | |
| Greetings, my friends, and welcome. | |
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| President Barack Obama says that creating jobs is not the goal of a coming White House forum on jobs and economic growth. | |
| The president told NBC News today that the purpose of the December 3rd summit is to figure out how to encourage hiring by businesses, still reluctant to do so. | |
| What uh would somebody uh tell me the difference here? | |
| Well what is the difference here between creating jobs and encouraging businesses to hire? | |
| Well, there is a difference. | |
| And that's it's gonna be it's gonna be the hammer being laid down on these business people one way or the other. | |
| Obama's gonna put the put he's gonna put it all on them. | |
| He's gonna issue some demands, and if they don't meet them or he's gonna issue some incentives that make no sense, uh, and if they don't follow through, then it's gonna be their fault, not his. | |
| That's what this is all about. | |
| The U.S. unemployment rate. | |
| But I mean, it's stupid to run out and say that the goal of the job summit is not job creation. | |
| Then what the hell is it? | |
| Well, it's a propaganda meeting. | |
| It's for Obama to save some face and to shift the blame. | |
| Uh meanwhile, Congressional Democrats are in near panic amid forecasts, and this is from the New York Times blog, by the way. | |
| Congressional Democrats in near panic amid forecasts that unemployment will remain high through next November's midterm elections. | |
| A party leader said that the uh House will pass a new jobs bill before December 18th. | |
| Now wait a minute. | |
| Obama's gonna have a jobs forum that has nothing to do with job creation on December 3rd. | |
| Uh the uh the Democrats in Congress are gonna pass a new jobs bill before December 18th, so we can have more fake made-up bogus jobs to have the drive-by's report on. | |
| What what in the world are they gonna do? | |
| Don't these people yet understand this is not where jobs are created? | |
| Jobs are not created with legislation in the House of Representatives unless that legislation happens to be oriented toward tax cuts. | |
| Senate Democrats likewise are weighing options, the signals from Congress followed by a day. | |
| The White House announcement that Obama will follow his forum on jobs and economic growth on December 3rd with a main street tour starting uh the next day in Allentown and continuing to uh other hard-hit places in coming months. | |
| Stanny Hoyer, Democrat majority leader from Maryland said the new measure should not be called another stimulus bill. | |
| No, no, no, I don't want it to be as broad as that. | |
| I want it to be very targeted on jobs. | |
| What the hell was the first stimulus bill supposedly targeted on? | |
| He indicated legislation might include money for public jobs, which uh many liberals have advocated. | |
| What is the stimulus for? | |
| Shovel ready construction, roads, bridges, schools, highways, sinkholes, you name it. | |
| They're gonna do it all over again. | |
| Tax credits to employers for new hires. | |
| And they brought that that's already in there too. | |
| And let me tell you how that works. | |
| If you go out, and this is what Obama's gonna do in this forum on December 3rd as he shifts the blame. | |
| Follow me on this, folks. | |
| He's gonna tell these guys look for every new hire that you make, we'll give you a $3,000 or $4,000 tax credit. | |
| Now, any businessman worth his salts knows that that's a losing proposition. | |
| Because how much is it going to cost to hire somebody, including benefits, in a recession, and all you're going to get is a $3,000 tax credit for it? | |
| And then when they don't do it, when they don't take the deal, then Obama can say, well, hey, we did everything we could. | |
| We passed stimulus, but these people out there just refuse to cooperate with me. | |
| That's what he's setting off. | |
| Or setting up, shifting the uh the blame. | |
| So that I guess that sets up our unemployment show ourselves here on December 3rd. | |
| December 3rd, we're going to do our own unemployment forum, and we're going to do what Obama won't do. | |
| We're going to talk to those of you who are unemployed exclusively. | |
| And we're going to hear what you think needs to be done. | |
| And I want to hear from those of you who are unemployed who want a job and those of you who don't want a job, because the unemployed is made up of both. | |
| People who have given up looking, thinking there's no hope. | |
| People are still struggling to find a job, and maybe some of you entrepreneurs are thinking of starting your own business. | |
| We'll talk to all of you on December 3rd as the president does his no job creation job summit. | |
| The unemployment talk to the unemployed people that are enjoying it too. | |
| The AP has told us about all those people. | |
| People that got laid off from Boeing are happier than people still working there, for example. | |
| So we want to talk to the happily unemployed. | |
| We're going to talk to everybody. | |
| But you got to be unemployed to get on the program December 3rd as we do our own jobs summit show to counter what the president's doing. | |
| A non-job creation jobs summit. | |
| Sponsored by uh President Obama. | |
| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will turn to a jobs bill after it completes action on the health bill, which could take Dingy Harry. | |
| I want you to keep that up because every poll indicates nobody cares about health care right now compared to jobs. | |
| Everybody's focused on the economy. | |
| You guys do this health care bill, and you are going to destroy even more jobs. | |
| I mean, it's just amazing to watch all this uh transpire, fall out right before our very eyes from the politico mounting evidence. | |
| That independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage. | |
| Rhetorical? | |
| That means call in George Blackoff rhymes with. | |
| You give him new words to issue confidence to people. | |
| Following serious setbacks with independents and off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors. | |
| And said Obama sees no need to reposition his own image or the Democrat message. | |
| Since then, however, a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independence and with unemployment not expected to ease by the next elections. | |
| These people are in panic mode. | |
| A gallup poll released last week offered a disturbing glimpse, it says, about the state of play. | |
| Just 14% of independents approve of the job Congress is doing, a lowest figure all year. | |
| In just the past few days alone, surveys have shown that Democrat incumbents trailing Republicans among independent voters by double digit margins in competitive statewide contests in places as varied as Connecticut, Ohio, and Iowa. | |
| And the Republicans continue to increase their lead in the generic ballot, meaning you're going to vote Republican or Democrat in the next congressional races. | |
| Nathan Dashel, executive director of the Democrat Governors Association. | |
| Yeah, we withdrew from the account of voters, and we now need to pay them back. | |
| We're having these conversations right now about what independents need to see and hear. | |
| So the Democrats are talking among themselves about how to say things that will get uh independence back on the party. | |
| Pat Walk, Chairman Colorado Democrat Party, said the party has so far failed to convince independent voters of the steps it had taken to improve the economy. | |
| That's because the economy has not improved. | |
| It has gotten worse. | |
| Rhetoric ain't gonna help these guys this time. | |
| Rhetoric isn't there's too much suffering. | |
| There's too much pain and dirty little secret. | |
| Have you seen the rising gasoline prices out there? | |
| Have you noticed them? | |
| Now they are not being reported this time around since Obama's in the White House. | |
| But gasoline prices are trickling up. | |
| And they're getting and we're getting close to $80 a barrel oil. | |
| Not there yet, but we're getting close to it. | |
| We don't need to hit $100 a barrel oil for there to be real economic impact here. | |
| And fuel prices includes heating oil going into the very cold winter that is forecast by the Farmers Almanac, NASA, and Nostradamus. | |
| So it's uh it's it's it's looking bleak out there. | |
| And here from Chris Salizza at the Washington Post, the most important number in politics today is one. | |
| The most important number is one. | |
| That is the number of issues where a majority of political independents approve of what Obama's doing. | |
| Only on one issue does he have majority support of independence, international affairs. | |
| Only in international affairs does Obama get majority support with 57% of independents offering approval for the job he is doing. | |
| Quinnipiac, by the way, has him down to what 48% today. | |
| Gallup has him teetering around 50%. | |
| The Rasmussen Index is at minus 14. | |
| This is the the uh the difference between strongly approve and strongly disapprove. | |
| That means that there are 14 percentage points more people strongly disapprove of Obama than approve. | |
| And I have a question about that. | |
| Obama's Rasmussen Approval Index dropped to its lowest point ever today. | |
| It's minus fourteen. | |
| Why would this be? | |
| I have a multiple choice question for you. | |
| Please choose between A news that the government may be setting up women for rationing screening for breast cancer, Bines and incarceration for not buying into Obamacare, C, death panels funding abortion and illegals receiving Obamacare, D. bowing to royalty, e. | |
| Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting a show trial in New York City. | |
| More on that because Holder's testifying about it today in just a moment. | |
| How about a national debt over $12 trillion? | |
| Well, the next 10 years with no end in sight. | |
| Dithering in Afghanistan, stonewalling Congress on an investigation of the terror attack at Fort Hood, and the President's indifference to the attack when it happened, double digit employment, or could it be D, J, all of the above. | |
| All of the above, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Minus 14 on the Rasmussen approval index. | |
| And remember, President Obama says creating jobs is not the goal of a coming White House forum on jobs and economic growth. | |
| We'll be back, folks. | |
| Sit tight. | |
| Yeah, well, I'm going to get to the holder stuff in just a second. | |
| I'm still compiling things on it because his uh testimonies ongoing, and they're in a break now. | |
| And I'm I'm uh even while executing broadcast excellence flawlessly, still continuing to do show prep because I, L. Rushbo, a man who everybody would like to be, can multitask. | |
| Now, I have 10 snippets of stories here. | |
| Ten snippets of news stories uh from today highlighting the economic crisis, government waste and fraud and mismanagement that cannot be spun. | |
| Beijing, November 18th, Reuters. | |
| President Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double dip recession. | |
| I know it's schizophrenic, but there are two reasons for this. | |
| The Chicoms are laying into him. | |
| The ChICOMs are laying into him about the cost of health care, about the deficits. | |
| The Chicoms are laying into they are saying we want you to pay back you. | |
| We want, we want to get paid. | |
| We own your debt. | |
| You have got to start paying us. | |
| You are running your country into the ground. | |
| If you run your country into the ground, our debt is worthless to us, and you're worthless to us, and you don't want that. | |
| So uh, and plus on the political side, this Sets up massive tax increases. | |
| My friends, coming up later in the program, an explanation of how we might be looking at three trillion dollars in new tax increases from every American. | |
| Now, of course, it won't add up to three trillion because these tax increases are going to further hamper economic activity, and they score all these tax increases. | |
| And by it would repeat it would involve repealing every Bush tax cut, not just the ones that uh that expire in 2011. | |
| They're the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 and let both those go, and then add more. | |
| And uh they they score these things in a static way. | |
| They don't score them dynamically. | |
| They never do. | |
| And that's why they're always shocked when tax increases don't produce the revenue that they expect. | |
| So the Chikom's away and into Obama, make no mistake about it, and he's setting up tax aft. | |
| He's already spent us into a destructive debt, to the point that this country will not be what it was for years and years. | |
| Now he says, government are pile up too much debt, and it's always Bush's fault. | |
| AP Beijing, President Obama says creating jobs isn't the goal of a coming White House forum on jobs. | |
| Number three. | |
| Democrats realize the problem with the phony stimulus numbers. | |
| House Appropriations Chairman David Olby, Democrat, Wisconsin. | |
| Quote, the inaccuracies on Recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous. | |
| The administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct these ludicrous mistakes. | |
| Credibility counts in government. | |
| Stupid mistakes like this undermine it. | |
| Little editorial comment here. | |
| It was Joe Biden who was established by President Obama as because nobody messes with Joe. | |
| Joe was going to police all this. | |
| He was going to make sure people weren't playing games with it. | |
| He was going to make sure the money was being used properly. | |
| He was going to make sure that people were not being engaging in fraud or abuse or any of that. | |
| Old Joe, because nobody messes with Joe. | |
| Well, Joe can't keep himself out of automobile accidents. | |
| Two accidents this week alone, involving his motorcade, three people injured. | |
| Oh, would you like to hear an interesting little Biden story? | |
| He was in Las Vegas recently, where corporate executives have been discouraged from going by President Obama, getting on their planes flying to Vegas, those days are over. | |
| But uh nobody messes with Joe. | |
| Plugs Biden was in Las Vegas to do a fundraiser for some Democrat out there and had an aid call a local members-only golf course, a pretty exclusive members-only golf course. | |
| The pro, the club pro who answered the phone said, uh, no, no, no, no, sorry. | |
| Uh we like the vice president, all that, but this is a members-only club. | |
| And he hung up the phone. | |
| A short while later, another phone call came, this time asking for the manager of the club. | |
| The message was look, Plugs Biden really wants to play your course. | |
| The call came in at 7 a.m. and he wanted to play that day. | |
| The second call came in before 8 a.m., I'm told. | |
| The club manager, realizing what he was being told, relented and plugs Biden showed up with some secret service guys at 11 a.m. to play the course. | |
| Now keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that um corporate executives and entire the entire hospitality business has been under assault by this very president and vice president. | |
| They can't go to Vegas. | |
| They're not supposed to hop on airplanes to go to Vegas. | |
| They're not supposed to play golf at exclusive members-only clubs. | |
| I will guarantee you, if a Republican vice president had done this, the media would right now be scouring the membership to find out how discriminatory it is. | |
| Are there any blacks in this club that the vice president played? | |
| Are there any Jewish members of this club? | |
| Do they allow women? | |
| That's what the media would be doing right now. | |
| The only story we're getting out of this is a local Las Vegas newspaper. | |
| And of course, this is how the elites do it. | |
| They want to go play golf where they're not a member. | |
| They want to angle themselves in using the force of federal power and intimidation. | |
| They do it. | |
| The media doesn't say a word about it. | |
| Just say, old Joe's out there playing golf before fundraiser. | |
| You know, Joe Cool. | |
| Republicans try that, and the media takes on the club. | |
| Try to find out who belongs, who was not admitted, and why. | |
| And then they would also be doing stories about, you know, here we are in a recession, 10.2 10.2% unemployment. | |
| Uh we got Marines dying and military people dying in Afghanistan were dithering on whether we should win the war over there. | |
| Um nothing's going right. | |
| The president's out of the country, the vice president wants to play golf and all that. | |
| That's what we'd be getting. | |
| If uh plugs were a Republican. | |
| But we're not getting anything of the sort. | |
| So Obi wants accountability from the most transparently promised administration in history, Barack Obama. | |
| This is in reference to the uh congressional districts, which don't exist. | |
| Tim Geithner is in trouble again. | |
| Fred Barnes explains it in the weekly standard. | |
| Uh some details have come out about the AIG bailout, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch Wachovia. | |
| Uh, doesn't make Geitner look good. | |
| Fred doesn't think he can survive this, but I mean, who's gonna pressure him out? | |
| I want to continue with this economic list. | |
| Ten snippets of news stories from today highlighting the economic crisis, government waste, fraud management. | |
| That cannot be spun. | |
| Fred Barnes says Geitner's in trouble again. | |
| Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner is in trouble this time. | |
| He may not be able to save his job. | |
| You'll recall that his confirmation was threatened by revelations of cheating on his income taxes. | |
| Now, Geitner is accused of paying billions too much for the bailout of AIG and allowing the insurance firm's Wall Street creditors, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Wakovia, to be paid in full for their derivative contracts with 27.1 billion dollars in taxpayers' money. | |
| Now, what is noteworthy about that is that in bankruptcies or similar situations, creditors always accept less than 100% paybacks. | |
| It can be anywhere from 50 cents on the dollar to 60 cents on the dollar. | |
| Geithner paid back everybody in full with the AIG bailout. | |
| Uh, and and their creditors, which is a bad deal. | |
| And it smacks a cronyism, 100% cronyism. | |
| Geitner is one of those guys. | |
| Henry Paulson is one of those guys. | |
| And when this news gets out, if it does, is the kind of thing that's going to irritate people even more and more who think that there is a special scratch the back relationship between Washington and Wall Street. | |
| Reuters, improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms, and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009, President Obama plans new rules to clamp down the White House said yesterday. | |
| I was under the impression President Obama has already fixed all of this. | |
| The bondholders, yeah, that's a good point. | |
| The bondholders on GM in that bankruptcy were told to take a hike. | |
| Obama called him selfish for wanting even a portion of what they were paid or what they were owed paid. | |
| The bondholders were held up as villains, the people who had invested in General Motors, which Obama now owns. | |
| They were held out as villains. | |
| They were pointed to as the bad guys, as the demons. | |
| And yet here's Geithner paying back Goldman Sachs, which is just rolling in money right now. | |
| Merrill Lynch Wacovia in full for their derivative contracts with 27 billion dollars of taxpayer money from the AIG bailout. | |
| Oakland, California, California faces a budget gap of nearly 21 billion dollars over its current and next fiscal years, according to the state government's budget watchdog agency. | |
| The LA Times reported yesterday. | |
| Meanwhile, the state is proceeding with its attempt to uh reduce the size of giant screen TVs that consumers are allowed to have. | |
| Number seven. | |
| A setup for rationing. | |
| Mmography outcry points to trouble for health care reform. | |
| You know, this this mammography story that came out yesterday. | |
| We had this two weeks ago on this story. | |
| The American Cancer Society put the news out first. | |
| They were shocked at this. | |
| That the age for mammograms will go up to 50 instead Instead of 40, because remember that that story we had said that mammograms can cause problems. | |
| Early mammograms can cause problems because they can find things that are really not bad that end up being treated and cost a lot of money and are wasteful. | |
| Say move the age to 50. | |
| Los Angeles Times, a core tenet of the health care overhaul President Obama's pushing through Congress is that medical care can be improved and costs contained if the country relies more on experts to determine which procedures and treatments work best. | |
| But Monday's mammography report by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force delivered to a swift and stark reminder that few ideas are more explosive in health care. | |
| The expert panel, which recommended that women in their 40s should no longer get annual mammograms to screen for breast cancer, sparked an outcry from those who say that the federal government is more interested in saving money than in improving women's health. | |
| This is really the first step toward that business of rationing care based on costs, said Representative Phil Gingri, Republican Georgia, who is a physician. | |
| He's exactly right, and we've all predicted this. | |
| There's no question that this is what's going to happen, and this is a little leading indicate. | |
| And you might even say that uh we got death panels uh going on here. | |
| Number eight. | |
| Recovery board chairman, we can't certify jobs data at recovery.gov. | |
| The chairman of the Obama administration's recovery board is telling lawmakers that he cannot certify jobs data posted at the website, and he doesn't have access to a master list of stimulus recipients that have neglected to report data. | |
| Well, this is a comedy of errors, also totally predictable, folks. | |
| Another government bureaucracy acts like a bureaucracy and doesn't know what it's doing and can't keep track of what it's overseeing. | |
| Big suck. | |
| Earl Devaney, the chairman of the recovery accountability and transparency board, responded to questions posed by Daryl Issa, Republican California late yesterday to say the board can't vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding. | |
| Number nine, the Wall Street Journal, the 1.9 trillion dollar gimmick. | |
| What passes for a joke on Capitol Hill these days is that Bernie Madoff should be put in charge of the federal budget. | |
| Nancy Pelosi and Company seem to have taken it as a serious suggestion. | |
| The House is expected to vote on a $210 billion fiscal swindle that will prevent automatic cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. | |
| The entitlement's price controls are scheduled to fall by 21.5% in January, another two percent every year after that, under a formula known as the sustainable growth rate. | |
| The dock fix was originally part of Obamacare until Pelosi realized that adding a quarter trillion dollars to the total tab made it difficult to pretend the bill would reduce the deficit. | |
| In the fiscal responsibility section of the press release, Democrats insisted it'll be subject to the pay as you go principle of budget discipline. | |
| Which she promised, by the way, in 2006-2007, there is no pay as you go. | |
| The Comedy Central Punchline, the Medicare Physician Repayment Form Act would not increase total payments to physicians above what they are today and therefore would not be subject to the pay-go requirement. | |
| In other words, under the Madoff School of Accounting, Democrats rely on straight deficit spending. | |
| It just is criminally irresponsible here what is happening in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate when it comes to health care. | |
| And finally, number 10 for the AP. | |
| Washington, the trucking industry, lost another 7500 jobs in October, as the U.S. unemployment rate surpassed 10% for the first time since 1983 is likely to go higher. | |
| But if there is, the recession's over. | |
| You can't tell it by the trucking industry. | |
| 7,500 more jobs lost. | |
| From Fortune magazine, I referred to this earlier. | |
| Are cash-strapped American consumers on for another date with energy price misery? | |
| The U.S. economy remains weak. | |
| One in six Americans cannot find enough work, yet oil prices have risen steadily. | |
| This year, a barrel of crude cost 79 dollars and change, more than doubled its price the end of 2008. | |
| This year's run up pales in comparison to the one that peaked last summer above 145 dollars a barrel. | |
| Even so, some researchers warn we could once again be approaching the point at which rising energy costs will squeeze consumers. | |
| That could complicate recovery in an economy that despite the tumult remains as consumer-driven as ever. | |
| The price of a gallon of gas right now, 263, according to the latest AAA survey, that's well below the 2008 peak of $4.11. | |
| But it is up 25% from a year ago and 63% above last December's law, but it doesn't have to get the four bucks to cause a problem this time because nobody has jobs. | |
| If you're unemployed and you're living on unemployment assistance, $2.63 a gallon gas or higher gets pretty close to the impact of $4 a gallon gas. | |
| What's more, the factors behind this spike seem uh seem about to persist for some time. | |
| They include a pickup in global economic activity fueled by massive government spending, which is not really pickup in economic activity, a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar as the U.S. holds interest rates near zero, and lack of new oil supplies coming online to meet future demand. | |
| We're doing it to ourselves. | |
| Liberals are doing it to us. | |
| Liberals and the Democrat Party. | |
| It's called drill baby drill. | |
| Brief timeout, folks. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Get some of your phone calls after this. | |
| Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do. | |
| Host, the nation's most listened to radio talk show. | |
| One more economic story. | |
| I'm not trying to depress you here, folks. | |
| I'm I'm I'm I actually the purpose for reciting all of this is to document the failure of Barack Obama. | |
| Because all of this is on him. | |
| All of this is on his administration. | |
| Every story that we have had, including the budget problems in California. | |
| Uh it's all on him because he has set up circumstances where nobody can recover. | |
| California's got their own independent problems. | |
| They're run into the ground by liberals, of course, but they don't have a chance. | |
| Hardly any other states have a chance. | |
| There are some states doing pretty well, not pretty well, but but that are less damaged by the economic circumstances, but this is the documentation of Barack Obama's failure. | |
| Failure for the United States. | |
| To him, it's a success story. | |
| This is what is maddening and infuriating. | |
| All of these items are a success story. | |
| He wants this chaos. | |
| He wants people on welfare. | |
| He wants people dependent on government. | |
| New York Times, new home construction slowed unexpectedly in October to the lowest level in six months, according to the Commerce Department. | |
| What in the world would be unexpected about new home construction slowing down in the middle of a recession with 10.2% unemployment. | |
| Nothing unexpected about that. | |
| Nobody would be surprised by this, and anybody who claims to be surprised is incompetent. | |
| Bob, in uh in Hewlett, Long Island. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| You're up first today. | |
| Hello. | |
| Rush, good morning. | |
| Uh, you are a gentleman and a scholar. | |
| Uh, I'm a diagnostic radiologist, and I am continually appalled at how the uh liberals are trying to hurt the population that they claim to save. | |
| For example, the desire to move mammographies to the age of fifty, uh, not only uh allows cancers to go undetected in people who are most susceptible to severe breast cancer, that between the ages of 40 and 50. | |
| But number two, it helps the attorneys because it's uh without tort reform, the results of this delay can result in huge payouts to the attorneys who support uh the liberals in Congress and Obama in particular. | |
| Well, how so? | |
| Lawsuits because of cancer undetected? | |
| Well, absolutely. | |
| It's much harder to find breast cancer in younger women. | |
| The glands are denser, they are uh more lumpy bumpy, and uh it is much harder to find cancer in younger women. | |
| Yet the people who have familial histories of breast cancer and uh are most susceptible to the most severe forms of breast cancer going undetected will now be delayed ten years. | |
| Oh, the lawyers won't care about that. | |
| They'll say, Well, Doctor, uh, why didn't you suspect it? | |
| Well, hum the hum the hum the the code says fifty is the beginning. | |
| That doesn't matter to attorneys. | |
| They're out for blood. | |
| They're out for money, and uh they don't they could care less about the welfare of their clients, only how much can we shake out of the physicians? | |
| Remember, Rush. | |
| I gotta tell you a little story. | |
| Yes. | |
| I know some trial lawyers down here. | |
| I've uh played in charitable golf turn with a couple of them, and I got a note from one the other day saying, When are we gonna get together for dinner? | |
| You uh I've been inviting you and inviting you, and your schedule just doesn't permit. | |
| They said I can't do it today because I'm at a medical malpractice seminar at a hawk hotel. | |
| So these trial lawyers were at a seminar being advised on the latest procedures to sue people like you. | |
| You want to laugh. | |
| I was at a medical convention, and next door was an attorney convention, and it on their brochure, it said, Radiology mamography department, a good place to shake dollars out of doctors. | |
| And this is what we're up against. | |
| That's why people in my field don't want to do mamographies anymore. | |
| It is the most hazardous of all of all procedures, and it's the most likely to save lives. | |
| But the people and the people unfortunately who develop breast cancer are very angry, very upset, and they are fed by these uh these personal injury uh and malpractice uh lawyers into saying, Oh, we can bleed him. | |
| My lawyer who's paid for by the insurance company isn't interested in whether I did right or wrong. | |
| He's afraid that it's going to extend beyond my coverage, and he'll say to me, Oh, doctor, we want to preserve your assets, and therefore we're going to make you settle. | |
| I said, Settle what? | |
| I did nothing wrong. | |
| Well, he says, Well, if you bring it before a jury, especially in Nook, New York or Brooklyn, forget it. | |
| You're doomed. | |
| So I don't even have half a chance to uh to save myself, even if I've done right, they want to shake the money out of it. | |
| Now, if they move it to the age of fifty, mind you, these are laymen rush. | |
| These are laymen making these decisions. | |
| I know, I know. | |
| These are these are the this this panel is a panel of of accountant types. | |
| Well, the experts who are going to make all these decisions. | |
| Let's not forget what you said at the beginning. | |
| It's amazing how the liberals and the Democrats end up harming the very people they claim to be looking out for, protecting, and standing up for. | |
| Exactly. | |
| I mean, this goes through every aspect of through affirmative action, through everything through all aspects of uh life. | |
| They are hurting people because they think in their uh Ivory Tower that they know better. | |
| They are smarter. | |
| For example, let's say you came to my office and had chest pain. | |
| I said, Oh, were you playing golf? | |
| And so, yeah, I said, Well, maybe you cracked a rib. | |
| If if I'm using insurance from you from uh your company, the insurance company will not allow me to do uh chest x-ray to see whether or not you've got a pneumothorax or a rib series beyond, because it was not approved by some clerk in an office someplace. | |
| This reminds me of the letter, the uh the story from my hometown paper in Cape Girardeau, the Southeast Missourian. | |
| The um at-risk seasoned citizen went to his doctor for swine flu vaccine. | |
| By the way, whatever happened, all those stories about the death and destruction and the sick. | |
| We don't see it. | |
| It must not be uh uh panic or emergency out there anymore. | |
| Anyway, this guy went in and he wanted a swine flu vaccine, and the doctor had three of them. | |
| But the doctor said, uh, you gotta call a county board of health. | |
| You gotta call a bureaucrat. | |
| So the guy called a bureaucrat, and the bureaucrat said, sorry, uh the swine flu vaccine reserved for women and young children who are at risk. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Well, when do I get mine? | |
| Well, we don't know. | |
| Maybe December at the earliest. | |
| So your insurance company, whoever it is, it's everybody Other than doctors making decisions, and it's gonna get even worse if this if this debacle ever actually gets signed into law. | |
| For those of you listening to this program via audio streaming at rushlimbod.com, we are aware of the problem. | |
| It's going out in slow motion. | |
| And uh we've we've got uh we've got all of our web experts who are constantly surprised at everything they learn, too. | |
| Um priz or shocked, are working on the problem even as we speak. | |
| Sarah Palin in uh at the College of the Ozarks, December 2nd, a speech. | |
| She has locked out the media, no media allowed. | |
| They're gonna be fit to be tied, but don't forget, Al Gore never permits the media into any of his speeches either. |
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