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Dec. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 9, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's a blizzard out there, ladies and gentlemen.
It is a blizzard.
Snowstorm Al Gore, global warming snowstorm Al Gore, the first named global warming caused snowstorm of the winter season, even though it's not winter yet, is moving through the Great Lakes, disrupting commerce, costing millions of dollars in lost productivity.
And we got blow-hard wind conditions are being felt throughout Iowa and the Ohio Valley.
Snowstorm Al Gore's jet in the upper atmosphere is approaching speeds of 200 miles an hour, the jet stream up there, which we trust being offset somewhere.
And here's another take on Des Moines, Iowa.
This is from MSNBC in a scene stretching from the upper Midwest through New England on Wednesday.
A broad storm front forced the cancellations of hundreds of flights, the delays of hundreds more, while roads fared little better.
Whiteout conditions, 50 mile per hour wind gusts slowing or stopping traffic.
It is global warming, snowstorm Al Gore, the first named global warming-caused snowstorm of the winter season.
I figured, folks, why stop at naming hurricanes, which are global warming inspired?
We're going to name all these winter storms, too.
And we're going to go, we'll have, eventually we'll get to snowstorm Obama or Snowstorm Barack or both.
A snowstorm Bamster.
They'll be all over the place.
Grievings, great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, this is the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Some updates on healthcare coming here in just a second, but let me get a couple things out of the way here.
Al Gore, according to a blog here by Andrew Bolt at the Australian HeraldSun.com, is just, well, they say here falsifying the record.
I think he's lying about these climate research unit emails.
He claims to have studied the emails with his typically rigorous eye, and he's dismissing them as mere piffle.
How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of emails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia, Al Gore?
Well, to paraphrase Shakespeare, its sound and fury is signifying nothing.
I haven't read all the emails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old.
These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.
Now, here again, we are in the universe of lies.
I mean, it's just stunning.
And if you think that was just a mere slip of the tongue, with another question, there is a sense that in these emails, though, the data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make in your book about having an open and fair debate.
Answer.
I think it's been taken wildly out of context.
The discussion you're referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn't be accepted as part of the IPCC report.
Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed.
So an email exchange more than 10 years ago.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, the point here is that he's lying through his teeth about this.
The most recent email was November.
They're not 10 years old.
They're Unix timestamped.
They go through a long period of almost 10 years, with the most recent email being in November.
We've got emails from an AP reporter, Seth Borenstein, who is asking the people at the Climate Research Unit, how do I handle this journal here that's got a lot of credibility that says that you guys are full of it.
How do I handle this?
We had the media asking for advice from the hoaxers.
These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.
There are about 450 academic peer-reviewed journal articles questioning the importance of man-made global warming.
I mean, the sheer number of scientists rallying against a major intervention to stop carbon dioxide is remarkable.
It's just like Harry Reid is doubling down on the slavery comment.
It's like Dianne Feinstein says it is entirely moral that pro-life American taxpayers should pay for abortions for people who want them in this country.
See, it's not a moral question.
I mean, these people are so radical that we most people do not know how to deal with this.
It's clear that the Senate Republican leadership doesn't know how to deal with this in the healthcare fight, delay, delay, ad amendments, so forth.
This is unlike anything we've ever seen before.
This has to be stopped.
And by the way, do not believe these stories that Reed's close to a deal.
He's not close to a deal.
He's at least four votes short.
He's not close.
The game plan in this healthcare business all along has been to dispirit you, to cause you and others like you to not even try to stop it, to protest, to show up at rallies or any of that, because they want you to think it's a fait accompli.
And it's not.
This is all part of the strategy to make it look like stories out there today.
It's not the case.
In fact, the Heritage Foundation today, if you are one of the, and the reason I'm interspersing these two is because it's the same issue.
Climate change, global warming, healthcare, it's all the same people doing it the same way.
It's the universe of lies.
There's nothing about any of this that is real, except that it might happen.
But nothing that they're saying about it to advance it is real.
Now, the Heritage People, if you are one of the few Americans who still subscribes, your morning newspaper probably has a headline like this, Democrats reach deal on health plan.
Don't believe it.
Harry Reid is still light years away from producing the 60 votes necessary to pass Obamacare out of the Senate.
And whatever he's doing on the floor of the Senate is irrelevant, and whatever the Republicans are doing on the floor of the Senate is irrelevant because they don't have the votes to stop Reed.
Reed is trying to blame all this on Republicans not going along.
He's working the back of the room, trying to make deals and buy off however he has to, all of these recalcitrant senators on the Democrat side.
Now, that being said, our party is in a huge mess.
Do you realize we're down to having to be concerned with Olympia Snow or Ben Nelson does?
I have to tell you how offended I am over that, that we are held hostage to what Olympia Snow or Ben Nelson does because our leadership has blown this in not taking it on ideologically and not all kinds of parliamentary steps could have been taken.
And I'm not talking about reading the bill.
They could have done that, but there are all kinds of steps could have been taken to slow this down, to stop it, and to alert and educate the American people as to what's going on here.
But as usual, it's left to us in the so-called new media to accomplish this.
And the Heritage Foundation is a great help today.
The few details that have leaked about this new broad agreement only reveal just how desperate Reed is to get any bill on Obama's desk by the new year.
And that's what this is about.
It's Obama building a monument to himself, the Democrats believing that they lost the House in 1994 because they didn't get this passed.
I mean, E.J. Deion Jr., the leftist columnist in the Washington Post, said the December deadline is a purely political invention created for the sole purpose of enabling President Obama to point to at least one accomplishment during a State of the Union speech in January.
The ramifications of the passage of this, nobody's talking about.
On the Democrat side, in the mainstream media, It's an utter disaster, as you and I all know.
Details of this agreement being heralded all over the media today have not been made public.
Senate Democrats are refusing to make them public until they hear back from the Congressional Budget Office, which is also being set up for a false score to show that this is revenue neutral, deficit neutral, might even actually reduce the deficit.
How stupid do they think we are?
Judging from what little has been selectively leaked to the public, this whole idea deserves to die.
Doubling down on debt.
Medicare already bankrupting the country.
In 2007 alone, Medicare was forced to draw $179 billion from general revenues of the U.S. Treasury.
It's a death sentence for hospitals.
The Reed Health Bill already delivers a huge blow to the nation's hospitals by cutting Medicare reimbursements to hospitals by hundreds of billions of dollars.
This is why both the American Hospital Association of Federal or Federation of American Hospitals set alerts yesterday urging their members to oppose this.
Government-run health care coup.
Now, one of the things they're saying today is, you know, we're going to get rid of the public option.
We're going to get rid of the public option.
That's the only way we can satisfy a senator here or a senator.
They're not getting rid of the public option.
You might think that the leftists who have been dreaming about single-payer government-run health care for years would be upset about this Senate deal if they were really getting rid of it.
But they're not, are they?
The existing Medicaid expansions in the bill and the new Senate deal Medicare expansions are just a continuation of the left's health care agenda since the defeat of Hillary Care, which is to slowly expand existing government programs so that all private health care is strangled out of existence.
And they're going to, this is what I mean when I say the universe of laws, it's just, it's a tsunami of them.
It is a veritable tsunami of lies.
It's like Obama saying yesterday, we've seen the largest contraction to expansion of our economy in my administration in more than the last 30 years.
Sorry, we're still spiraling out of control economically of the private sector.
There's no indication that it's going to get any better.
Meredith Whitney was at CNBC yesterday saying the government's out of bullets, meaning there's nothing left to spend.
And she's worried that consumers, because a lack of available credit, are going to effectively drop out of the financial system.
You've got all these houses that are underwater.
Foreclosures continue.
He's out there talking about the largest contraction to expansion.
They're out there saying, we struck a deal here.
We are not going to have the public option.
If they're not going to have a public option, then there's no reason to do this.
And if they're not going to have a public option, it was genuinely true, then you would have Democrats all over this country livid and doing their own protests.
But they're not because they understand the game and what's headed here.
And then Dianne Feinstein said that using tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion is morally correct.
I mean, that's, I mean, to say that that is morally correct.
I mean, that is an in-your-face.
That is a thumb in your eye.
That is a shut up, get out of here and stop bothering me.
When President Obama gave one of his first national health care addresses in June, he told Congress, as we move forward on health care and reform, it is not sufficient for us simply to add more people to Medicare or Medicaid.
But that's all Obamacare has turned out to be.
That's the sum total of what's happening here.
In the midst of these mythical $500 billion cuts in Medicare, we'll see if those things ever actually materialize as well.
A brief time out here, folks.
Grad that you are with us.
Telephone number again, 800-282-2882.
One more thing.
Al Gore was on CNN yesterday warning the two or three people that watched CNN about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman, global warming.
It was just seconds before the anchorette infobabe Kieran Chetri reported the monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states with winter still two weeks away.
He's out there.
We face imminent destruction, global warming.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
And now for the next story, global warming snowstorm Al Gore paralyzing the upper Midwest two weeks before winter.
We'll be back.
Every time he shows up someplace, every time, it was almost comical.
Every time he shows up someplace, there's either an outbreak of weather that is the exact opposite of what he's talking about.
And it never does seem to get embarrassed.
That's why they've stopped calling it global warming and they'll call it climate change so that virtually every perceived abnormality can be said to be caused by climate change.
Back after this, folks, at fight.
Add a little manner's steamroller as we continue our foray into the Christmas season.
Great to have you here.
So I guess what we're to understand here is that we have to destroy our health care system and thereby destroy our health in order to deliver Obama a political victory so he can tout an achievement in a State of the Union show next year.
It's all about Obama.
It's all about Obama, not the American people, not the health care system.
It's about Obama.
We've got to do this for Obama, the embattled Obama, who's cratering in the polls now.
46% approval in the Marist poll.
Here is Dingy Harry not backing down, doubling down on the race card and the slavery comment.
Reporters said to him yesterday, can you comment on Republican demands to make you apologize for your comments about slavery, civil rights, and women's suffrage?
That at pivotal points in American history, the tactics of distortion, delay have certainly been present.
They've been used to stop progress.
And that's what we're talking about here.
That's what's happening here.
It's very clear.
That's a point I made.
No more, no less.
Anyone who willingly distorts my comments is only proving my point.
Doubling down on it.
And once again, the way they defend these things is to come back at you twice as hard and say, you didn't hear me right, but in case you didn't hear me, let me say it again and then accuse everybody of distorting what he's talking about.
Of course, I pointed out yesterday, the Republican Party was born of slavery.
It was Southern Democrats who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act.
It was all those Southern Democrats, one of them still in the Senate, Robert Byrd, who opposed all of those things and did their best to stop them.
The Civil War was about freedom.
The whole health care bill is not about freedom.
It's limiting freedom.
The analogies that he's made are just wacko.
Here, here's his original remark.
Let's go back and listen to it.
This happened Monday on the Senate floor.
Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans have come up with his, slow down, stop everything, let's start over.
Do you think you've heard these same excuses before?
You're right.
When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, slow down.
It's too early.
Let's wait.
When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote.
Some insisted they simply slow down.
And this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone, regardless of the color of their skin.
Some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.
They were Democrats, but the problem is the Democrats filibustering civil rights were trying to deny freedom to people.
The people that are trying to stop health care today are trying to maintain the freedom and liberty of the people of the United States of America.
By the way, Mr. Snerdley, all week long, Monday, Tuesday, all week long, Snerdley has been baiting me to make comments about a certain aspect of the Tiger Woods scandal.
And I said I'm not going to do it because I know that everybody in the media is out there waiting for me to do it.
They want to make comments too, but they want me to lead the way.
They want me to make the comments, and then they can jump in and then rip me to shreds for making the comments.
So yesterday, I played a couple soundbites from the Reverend Dackson in which he clearly stated that the black frame of mind is not good, that they're very disappointed.
All this high unemployment in the minority community, it's not what they expected, and they want something done about it, meaning they want some payoffs.
And I threw in a little line.
I said, I'm sure that the kind of women that Tiger is having affairs with is not helping either.
That whole thing was taken out of context, and a major story appeared in the New York Daily News today, funneled by people at Media Matters.
This is exactly.
Thirdly, that one line has been turned into a 750-word story.
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
That's why I refuse to do it.
Now we've got audio soundbites of that being discussed on MSNBC this morning.
I kid you not.
Anyway, healthcare.
Bottom line is, the American people do not want this.
So Dingy Harry, why are you doing this?
You're doing it to empower yourself.
You're doing it to reward the trial lawyers and the unions and the pro-abort groups.
You're doing it to empower Obama.
And you claim you're doing it for people when the people say no.
Harry Reid is a disgrace, and Harry Reid is a liar.
America's Truth Detector and the Doctor of Democracy, Rush Limbaugh, and the EIB Network.
We come to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You know, Obama's out there making a speech about the troubled asset relief program's TARP business.
I've had a lot of people email me today saying, Rush, the Treasury Secretary can just act by fiat and decide to, they're going to extend the program, by the way, until 2010.
That was announced today by little Timmy tax cheat Geithner.
They're going to extend the TARP program to 2010.
Yeah, there's $200 billion of it on spending.
And people say, can he do that?
I remember I read the law to you.
TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Troubled Asset Relief Program was put exclusively in the hands of the Treasury Secretary.
Back during the Bush administration, it was Hank Paulson and the boys.
And the Treasury Secretary has sole discretion on how it's used.
Now, in this case, of course, Obama is telling Geithner what he wants done with it, but Geithner can do whatever he wishes.
But there's $200 billion.
Here's a way to look at this.
I think a better way to look at this is: let's say that you take your kid to a ball game.
I may not get the prices right here, but the point the same.
You take your kid to a ball game in the National Football League.
And you, after in the middle of the first quarter, you send the kid up to the concession stand to get two hot dogs, a couple soda pops, and a beer for you, and maybe some peanuts.
And you give the kid 500 bucks.
Kid comes back with all of it and has $100 left over.
The two hot dogs, the beer, the two sodas cost $400.
You say to the kid, all right, give me the change.
Give me the $100 back.
No, no, no, I'm going to keep that.
I'm going to apply it to other things that I want to buy.
Give me my change back, kid.
That's how you have to look at the unspent TARP.
Okay, they said they needed this to go do that.
It didn't require that to do this.
So we've got $200 billion in change.
That's our change.
We want it back.
And our president's saying, no, I'm going to take it.
It's my money now.
And I'm going to spend it however I want, buying votes or buying off senators or whatever I need to do.
That's what he's doing.
Now, Snerdley is asking me to play a soundbite on this Tiger Woods stuff.
So here's, let's start.
This is the setup.
It's what I said yesterday after playing two sound bites from the Reverend Dachshund, in which the Reverend Jackson talked about how angry the frame of mind is in the minority community over President Obama.
I'll tell you what's going on here with this.
The Reverend Zach, hmm, and I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof.
Black unemployment is terrible.
The black frame of mind is terrible.
They're just a matter of fact.
Stop it right there.
Stop it right there, and I want you to re-cue it.
I was talking about these stories, these two stories in the stack that say and discuss and report on black unemployment through the roof.
Black unemployment, terrible.
Black frame of mind is terrible.
The Media Matters guys take that out of context, reported to the media that I'm saying the black frame of mind is out of context.
Black frame of mind is terrible.
They're claiming I said that when I was simply reporting two stories that state-controlled media ran.
And this is how this stuff works.
They take that quote out of context and a couple other things I said about Tiger, and they turn it into a full-fledged story.
I knew they were sitting around waiting to do this.
And of course, it worked because they got some media people now thinking I alone said the black frame of mind is terrible when I was simply reporting two news stories.
Here it is, again, from the top.
And then we'll give you the little media montage reaction that we have.
I'll tell you what's going on here with this.
The Reverend Jackson, hmm, and I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof.
Black unemployment is terrible.
The black frame of mind is terrible.
They're depressed.
They're kind of, Obama's not doing anything for them.
How is that hoax and change working for you?
They're all livid.
I mean, they thought there were going to be an exact 180-degree economic reversal, and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody.
But they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them.
And now they feel abandoned.
And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping them out with their attitudes there either.
Folks, about that, I got a great piece to share with you from Lisa Schifrin at theamericanthinker.com on the parallels between Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.
The theme is that both are the result of lies, falsely crafted images that are in no way representative of who they really are.
All right, so that's the sum total.
Talking about two news stories that report on the demoralized attitude of the black community, the anger of the Reverend Jackson and two soundbites over record high unemployment.
And the media has been featuring a lot of stories recently with the Congressional Black Caucus upset with Obama.
So it's well documented.
I'm not saying it in any way, shape, man, or form on my own.
I'm just reporting that.
And then I threw in a little joke there about Tiger.
So now we go to Scarborough's show this morning on MSNBC with Mika Zhuzhinski, Mike Barnacle, Tina Brown of the Daily Beast, and CNBC's Donny Deutsch, co-host Willie Geist.
And here's this discussion about Tiger.
You know something?
You know, Tracy Kwan, who is a former Corgal, who is one of the Daily Beast's, you know, very well-regarded contributors, she wrote a very good piece saying his big mistake was that he should have just paid for this fair and clean.
I know this is a terrible thing to say, but maybe this is a big mistake.
This kind of, you know, the pancake tosses and, you know, so forth are not the most.
You're saying pay for sex, says Tina Brown.
I'm simply saying You pay for it one way or another I love to salute Rush Lamar on his show, and he had a great piece yesterday when he talked about that.
Blacks in America are depressed now because he's been choosing white women down the fairs with, and there were no black women.
Oh, I thought it was.
We have a very anxious.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to take.
Now, what's funny about this is that those stories have been out there in the Associated Press quoting black women.
I mean, there have been numerous stories, and that's what Snerdley has wanted me to comment on.
It's I'm not talking about it because they're all waiting for me to.
And so I threw that one little line, and I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females is not helping.
Bam!
I am now responsible for saying what the AP has reported.
A lot of black women say, I have even not even mentioned it until now.
After the fact, just to prove a point.
All right, back now to Dingy Harry, audio soundbite number five.
This is important.
He announces a deal, but he can't expose the details.
So much for transparency.
This is last night in Washington.
He had a press conference out there.
Tonight, we've overcome a real problem that we had.
I think it's fair to say that the debate to this stage has been portrayed as a very divisive one.
And many have assumed that people of different perspectives can't come together.
But I think that what we were able to work out the last few days, which culminated tonight, belays that fact.
We have a broad agreement.
We can't disclose the details of what we've done, but believe me, we've got something that's good that I think is very, for us, it moves this bill way down the road.
And of course, the state control media dutifully falls in line.
Politico read, Dems reach broad agreement.
And the broad agreement has leaked.
And that is the public option will be replaced by a new national insurance plan offered by private insurers.
That's what they're, that's, which is, unless private insurers don't step up into it.
If private insurers don't want to do it, then it doesn't happen.
It's all smoke and mirrors anyway.
Politico dutifully steps in line.
L.A. Times, Senate Democrats reach health care deal on public option.
And there's very little clarity in this story.
The national plan would be issued by some nonprofit insurer and the government would oversee the plan.
A non-profit insurer that the government oversees sounds like the government to me.
Now, if this unknown nonprofit doesn't materialize, and we're led to believe here that somebody, some nonprofit has to step up, then an honest, upfront government plan is triggered.
Folks, and this is his big deal because there are senators who don't want the public option.
So Reed's saying, okay, we won't have a public option.
What we're going to have is a nonprofit insurer that we would oversee from the private sector.
But if one of those private sector insurance companies doesn't step up or if a nonprofit doesn't step up, then that triggers the public option.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
They do not, and by the way, the main point here is, do not fall for this business that they are close to a deal, that they have a major, major bridge that they crossed.
That is not the case.
As the Heritage Foundation says today, if you're one of the few Americans still seeing a morning paper, has a headline, Democrats reach deal on the health plan, don't believe it.
Harry Reid is still light years away from producing the 60 votes necessary to pass Obamacare out of the Senate.
That's what is so frustrating.
The reality here is so frustrating.
I hate to say this because I like these people, but the Senate Republican leadership strategy here was flawed because it allowed the Democrats to take offensive, the offensive by time to work out a deal.
I don't know.
I've never been in the Senate.
I've never been elected.
I'm not a parliamentary expert, but I know a disaster when I see it, and I know that it's got to be stopped, and whatever parliamentary steps are available to people who do know what they are should have been taken.
Every blocking tactic they had at this, push this past the end of the year.
Make sure that nothing does happen before Christmas.
I get frustrated.
You know what?
I know you are too.
You probably more frustrated than I am.
Of these old Bob Dole, nothing against Bob Dole, but it's a different era now.
They have no idea what we are facing.
They act like this is just another day at the office.
And maybe in a couple of years, Republicans will get the power back, and then we'll go back and be convivial and all get along and so forth.
This has to be stopped.
Millions, millions of Americans feel this way.
They don't have faith in our principles.
They don't have the will or energy to go on offense and talk about the Republican leadership wherever you find it.
And they're incapable of explaining our philosophy or our purpose.
I mean, I really, I really believe that the way to fight this is on pure ideological terms.
Liberals are liberals, and it's not helpful to them when they are so identified.
They go out of their way to avoid being called liberal.
They don't like it.
They talk about Republican versus Democrat voter identification, conservative versus liberals, where you need to look.
40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal.
And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves.
And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them.
They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.
There's a gold mine of an opportunity here to draw distinctions and contrasts rather than offer amendments to try to improve the bill and accept the premise that this is going to happen.
We just got to make it as less damaging as we can.
We cannot, folks, we cannot allow.
I want you to look at it this way.
We cannot allow our country, the whole country, we cannot allow our party to be based on what Olympia Snow and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may not do.
What's smart about that?
You do not build a strong future on a foundation with unreliable keystones.
I got to take a break.
I'm a little long, but so the next segment's going to be short.
You have been warned.
All right, here's a headline every parent wants to see about their daughter.
Tiger Woods alleged mistress Rachel Yucatel.
I'm not a whore.
There it is, folks, right there.
It's from Fox 411, posted by Fox 411.
It's actually OK Magazine.
She did an interview with OK Magazine.
You ever read OK Magazine?
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Anyway, he said she was unfairly labeled a villain in the scandal as new alleged woods mistresses from porn stars to pancake wigs.
I mean, stop and think of that, from porn to pancakes.
And that pretty much covers the spectrum.
As these babes continue to surface, nightclub promoter Rachel Yucatel is trying to set herself apart.
In every story, you need a villain and a hero, Yucatel said.
I've been characterized as a villain.
People have called me a homewrecker, a gold digger, a tramp, a whore.
I make mistakes, and I'm none of those things.
I have very good qualities.
When you're judged by the nation, it's really difficult.
It's horrible.
Oh, Rachel, Rachel, right.
I guess she didn't know he was married.
Well, how can she say, homewrecker, I'm not gold digger.
I'm not tramp.
I'm not whore.
I'm not.
I'm not any of those things.
I guess would have to say that she didn't know Tiger was married.
Anyway, back to this healthcare business, folks.
Our guys do not seem to understand that this is a new era.
We are fighting radicals who will stop at nothing.
Our guys are still living in the Bob Dole Howard Baker days.
Look at, we cannot outvote Harry Reid.
We can't outvote Harry Reid.
So voting on one amendment after another sends the message that compromise and a deal are fine.
If you just fix the deal, then we'll work.
But no, no, no, it's got to be stopped.
This bill needs to be killed.
And you use whatever tactics you have to expose the entire game and the process that they're doing, the substance.
You go down fighting, not amending.
There's a new poll out.
And it's the political.
The second leg of Quinnipiak's big national poll dropped this morning.
It shows a serious erosion of support for congressional health reform efforts, the president's performance on the issue, too, along with an all-time low 46% approval rating.
46, 44 approval, disapproval.
Voters disapprove 52 to 38% of the health care reform proposal under consideration in Congress.
Only 38% Support health care.
And yet they claim they're doing this for the people.
52% want no part of it.
Do you support?
This is pollster.com, another poll.
Do you support or oppose President Obama's health care plan, or do you not have an opinion?
39% support, 52% oppose.
Nobody wants it.
Well, not nobody, but the vast majority do not want it.
Senator Reed, why are you doing this?
Why are you doing it?
Don't tell us it's for the people, for our health care and our health insurance, because the jigs up, people don't want any part of this.
They know what it is.
Mark Penn is a pollster.
He was a pollster for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.
He is the CEO of the giant PR firm Burson Marsteller.
And federal records show that Mark Penn got $6 million of stimulus money.
Hillary's pollster got $6 million of stimulus money to save three jobs at the firm.
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