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Dec. 11, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 11, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
You ever heard of stoplights freezing over?
You've not heard of stoplights freezing over.
Well, they're starting to freeze over up there in um is Wisconsin.
Global warming snowstorm Algor.
New and improved.
They use less energy.
And uh they produce less heat, so the snow doesn't melt.
The ice doesn't melt, so you can't tell whether it's red, green, or yellow, or any color, and so people are having accidents.
It's just a microcosm of what's ahead.
It's Friday, folks.
Great to have you here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
So happy to have you with us.
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You can pretty much talk about whatever you want when you call and get on the program.
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I was not making this up.
This is from West Bend, Wisconsin.
High efficiency traffic lights are being blamed for layer of ice and snow that completely covered stoplights across the area.
According to West Bend, Department of Public Works, ICE built up over new high-efficiency LED fixtures installed in traffic lights.
The LED traffic lights use substantially less energy, less electricity, but they do not give off enough heat to melt ice or snow.
That is uh contrast to traditional traffic light bulbs that typically generated enough heat to melt ice or snow.
Public works employees spent parts of Thursday afternoon scraping the ice and snow after off the traffic signal.
So we have shovel ready green jobs.
Just in time to use stiff stimulus money.
This is a microcosm, folks, of what is is headed our all the compact fluorescent light bulbs, all of these improvements.
Wait till you find out.
I got another story in the stack here about all these electric cars and what that's gonna require.
And of course, we thought about that.
Who where does electricity come from?
You plug it into the wall, what makes it possible?
It's called coal, which Obama wants to get rid of.
It's just it's silly.
By the way, things are not going well in Copenhagen.
They are not going well.
The G 77.
And don't ask me.
We got the G8.
We have the G7.
We have the G20.
I have a G 550.
We're now talking about the G 77, and they have walked out of the COP 15 meeting.
The chief negotiator for 134 developing nations left the climate change conference yesterday in anger.
Lamumba Stannis Los De Upping, who is from Sudan, uh, the G 77's uh top negotiator is also accusing Denmark of driving the climate summit into the ground.
This is the the uh the Danish texts, uh, where it has been discovered that the rich nations of the world, as Reverend Wright would say, the white Europeans have begin taking over the world.
And the plan here is the U.S., the UK, and Denmark, however, they got thrown into this, to basically take away all climate operations, um, fundraising operations, theft, fleecing, and all that from the UN and do it themselves.
And not give any money to the uh to the developing nations.
The developing nations have been exempt from any carbon emissions limits, but now this uh this discovered text puts limits on carbon Emissions in the developing nations, which means they have to stay poor.
And they're livid about it.
So Lamumba Stannis loss die upping from Sudan.
And the way to think of this guy is Barack Obama Sr.
This is the kind of Barack Obama Sr. was a communist.
This guy's a communist.
And if if it weren't Lamumba Stanislaus Diapping from Sudan, it would be Barack Obama Sr. were he still alive.
Lomumba Stannislaus Diaping, whatever you pronounce his name is D I A P I N G. Look, you're certified black enough to criticize.
How would you pronounce that?
Diping.
So Lamumba Stannis loss diaping.
Okay.
Well, whatever.
He said things are not going well after walking out from an hour-long negotiation.
It's very problematic that there's a different agenda running alongside the official UN process.
When asked to elaborate on those comments, he said, Well, your prime minister is talking to Denmark press here.
Your Prime Minister has chosen to protect the rich countries, and that's not okay.
If the Copenhagen summit ends in failure, the whole Scandinavian multilateral tradition will be jeopardized, said Lamumba.
Diping.
What your Prime Minister is doing is completely against the spirit of the foreign aid Denmark and the Danish people have given to Africa for so many years.
So basically the welfare payments are going to stop, uh, is what this uh uh Lamumba diaping is worried about.
Uh but it's I don't think there's anything really to worry about here.
All of this will be resolved in the end.
These poor countries like China uh will allow the rich countries to continue to send foreign aid to them just like always.
Really nothing's gonna change much.
Only now they'll be able uh to get even more of the pie, all in the name of climate change.
Now, Tiger Woods.
New York Daily News today.
It's actually, I guess it's uh looks like an AP story.
Tiger Woods was into threesons and shelled out more than sixty thousand dollars to cat around with high-priced hookers.
A Hollywood madam claimed yesterday, one of his favorites was Laura Dana Jolly, or Jolie.
Uh Michelle Braun told the Daily News describing the gorgeous blonde as a playboy model from Sicily, who's been living in New York since she was fourteen.
She's a stunning girl, said Michelle Braun, who I guess is the um the madam here.
She's a stunning girl.
He went out with her four or five times.
She took part in group sex.
They met up in 26 or early 2007.
I'd say he paid $15,000 for.
Woods had a pretty big appetite for women, added Braun as the world famous athletes' list of extramarital transgressions continues to uh grow.
Well, now, this this means that Tiger has now completed a resume requirement for election to high office as a Democrat.
You can do this in New York if you want to go the state level.
Uh but clearly, I mean, this is Clinton-esque.
Uh, and a number, and uh client number nine, Elliot Spitzer, who was the governor of New York.
And a friend of mine said, well, if that's if that's true, then this is it.
I mean, that's that's uh that that that's that's it's it's it's that'll be the end of Woods now, if if it wasn't already.
And I think, what's the difference?
What's the difference?
In fact, many of the many of the uh many of the uh African American columnists who have written about this has suggested it would have made more sense to pay for it than to go through all this stuff, because they generally have more security and privacy, and of course that's blown up.
Now the next story, companion to this, I just, and this is this is from a uh a British tabloid newspaper.
I just I don't know.
Tiger Woods, they say is ready to quit golf in a desperate bid to save his shattered marriage.
Uh apparently his wife Ellen has given him an ultimatum.
It's golf or me.
And then last night, reports in America surfaced, Woods was terrified he might have fathered a love child.
Uh some of the women making a point that he didn't use protection.
Then, you know, his yacht's docked here uh up in North Palm Beach.
That Yacht is named Privacy, and it's been spotted.
It's a hundred and fifty-five-foot yachts, a big thing.
And they've been spotted loading provisions on the thing, food, and then he covered up the name of the yacht so people wouldn't know what it is, so speculation is now that Woods is taking Ellen on a Caribbean cruise aboard privacy since the words out helicopters are going to be flying them over them everywhere if they if they do this.
But I didn't, I quit golf.
I mean, she would demand he quit golf.
Where's the money going to come from?
I just that that I don't know, folks.
It doesn't compute.
Some of this stuff just doesn't compute.
All right, I came up on the health care debate on the Senate floor yesterday.
I was actually mentioned by Sheldon White House.
Uh uh, let's see, Ellen White House.
Debbie Stabenow and Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry is all upset, ladies and gentlemen, at me.
Because I criticized McDonnell, McConnell, and because I criticized McConnell.
McConnell said, no, we're working this weekend.
You're not taking the weekend off, Dingy Harry, and so you can't go to your fundraiser down in Louisiana with Mary Landrew.
So Dingy Harry's all upset that he can't go to his fundraiser for Mary Landrew down in Louisiana is blaming me for ripping into McConnell, which caused McConnell to get tough and hang in there and refuse to uh give uh Dingy Harry his request for the weekend off.
You'll hear all that and more.
And by the way, by the way, one thing here.
What I want to ask you a question.
What is what is worse?
Tiger Woods paying for sex with his money, or Democrat Max Baucus paying for sex with taxpayer money.
Think about that.
I'll pose the particulars when we come back.
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I asked you the question again.
What's worse?
Uh Tiger paying for sex with his money, or Democrat Max Baucus, the senator, uh, paying for sex with taxpayer money.
Now it's rumor about Woods.
We just have this New York Daily News story.
But for the sake of argument, let's look at Tiger Woods versus Max Bauchus.
Let's say that Tiger spent his money on a woman for his adult needs.
Compare that with what the politico is reporting on Democrat Senator Max Bauchus of Montana, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the author in large part of this debacle of a health care bill in the Senate.
Democrat Max Bauchus gave a $14,000 pay raise, which is taxpayer money, to his love interest staffer, and then took her on a taxpayer-funded trip.
Trying to reach a uh decision here.
There are laws against prostitution in some states, but there may not be a law against what Bauchus did.
Tigers married, but so was Baucas.
And here are the details.
Senator Max Baucus, Democrat Montana, who never met a tax increase he didn't like.
Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer 2008.
At the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and a Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.
Oh, what a thing to include in the story.
Late last Friday, Bauchus acknowledged his relationship with Melody Haynes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana after it was first reported on the website, MaineJustice.com.
But he said that Haynes withdrew from consideration for the job when the relationship became more serious.
The next day, he dismissed calls for an ethics investigation, saying, I went out of my way to be up and up.
What does that mean?
Viagra?
Since his announcement, more details of the relationship have emerged, raising questions about a workplace romance between a boss and employee that Bauch has tried to keep quiet, also contradicting his explanation for why Haynes' nomination was withdrawn.
So my only point about this is Tiger Woods private citizen, Tiger Woods can't raise your taxes.
Tiger Woods can't send your kids off to war.
Tiger Woods can't do anything to you except affect you positively or negatively, depending on your degree of fandom.
Max Baucus can write a health care piece of legislation that can destroy the private sector of this country.
He can raise your taxes left and right.
He loves doing it.
And he can appoint cronies, girlfriends, to jobs in the federal judiciary, and then give her a $14,000 raise, none of it with his money.
So if you're gonna, if we're gonna get involved in prurient uh interest of things, we're gonna get sidetracked by that.
Let's throw Max Baucus into the loop because he clearly belongs there.
In the Baucus case, he's the prostitute.
Bauchus is buying and selling favors with our money all the time.
Jim Rogers, who is a uh well-known investor to the investor community, said the U.S. government's plan to increase spending as a way to kickstart the economy will leave the country with no way to help its way out of the next crisis.
Jim Rogers is chairman of Jim Rogers Holdings, he's made the comments on CNBC yesterday.
The Treasury Department, here's what is his quote, has been putting out all of this stimulus, and now they're talking about extending TARP.
He said Tim Geitner is a very smart person, but he's been wrong about everything for the last 15 years.
Why are we listening to any of those guys in Washington?
They're making our situation worse.
They said in writing yesterday the solution to our problem is to spend more money.
That's what got us into the problem in the first place.
Too much debt.
That's like saying to Tiger Woods, go get another girlfriend.
It'll solve your problems.
Or five more girlfriends, and you'll solve your problems even better.
And he's right.
It's the equivalent to of Tiger, let's say, okay, we're up to 11 or 12.
Maybe it's 13 now if you count the prostitutes.
His marriage is in trouble.
And so next year, the number is only nine.
So his marriage is improving.
Not as many prostitutes.
It's just the other way of looking at it here.
So Tiger Woods problems are going to be solved with more women.
Our problems are going to be solved with more spending.
No way, Jose, no offense to the illegal immigrants in the audience here.
We're all going to pay the price for this one, Jim Rogers says in one, two, three years, the next time we have problems in the economy, which will not be too long, we don't have any bullets left.
We've shot everything we had to solve our problems.
This is the point that Meredith Whitney made on CNBC a couple of days ago, which I mentioned to you.
They're out of bullets, she said.
They fired everything, and it hasn't worked.
Well, Rogers and Whitney, you know, once again, they're caught up in this notion, these guys are just wrong.
It's in it's it's not naivete.
These guys are doing this on purpose.
They are purposely running us out of bullets.
And when we out of bullets and when they and Meredith Whitney's point was was a real good one.
When you take more and more average Americans out of the economy, by making it impossible for them to consume, by making it impossible for them to get debt, credit card debt loans, or what have you.
you take them out of the economy, the economy's dead.
There's nothing that can happen.
We're out of bullets.
All this spending has been designed to create jobs.
It's not.
What we have are slush funds.
Do you see what the Congressional Black Caucus got yesterday?
They...
made a big stink out of Obama not doing enough for for jobs in the in the black community population across the country.
So there was a finance committee meeting here and in the hearing in the House, and they boycotted it.
Forty-eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus boycotted it, and they said they'll boycott even more, and they'll stand in the way of a reforming uh financial services regulations unless they get some action from Obama.
So they got it.
They got two payments.
They got four billion dollars, and that four billion, and I don't know, I don't understand why this is still such a big deal, but that four billion was aimed at subprime mortgages.
They got a total of six billion from TARP or stimulus unspent, whatever it is.
The slush funds are there for exactly this purpose.
So when Meredith Whitney and Jim Rogers, they were out of bullets, and these guys have, like Geithner has done everything wrong, it could do wrong in the last 15 years, they ought to re-examine what the motivation for doing this stuff is and what the explanation for it is.
And it is not that they're naive.
And it is not that they really think that spending more.
I know the stories out there that they think FDR didn't spend enough soon enough.
If he had spent even more, then he wouldn't need in World War II to end the New Deal or to end the depression.
I don't bite.
I think that's positioning.
I think we're dealing with a bunch of radicals, like we've never seen in power before.
And these guys just can't conceive of that.
It's open line Friday.
I am Rush Limbaugh serving humanity on the EIB network.
Now Fox News, ladies and gentlemen, is reporting that a drone has killed a top Al-Qaeda leader.
Now, this still is not official.
I don't want anybody to get excited yet because President Obama has not yet apologized for this.
And until he apologizes for the drone killing a top Al-Qaeda leader, we will not have confirmation that it actually happened.
Now, we're just talking about uh Jim Rogers, Meredith Whitney saying, you know, this Geitner case a very smart guy, but he hadn't done one thing right in 15 years.
Now, William F. Buckley Jr. once wrote a piece for Playboy.
I actually read Playboy.
I and this the title piece, it was brilliant.
I read Playboy, I actually did.
And one of the the story in Playboy was how do we define smart?
How do you define smart?
And I think it is a brilliant question.
And a answer to it, well, obviously the answer would be multifaceted.
But just on the surface, how in the world can a guy who's gotten everything wrong for 15 years in any way, shape, manner, or form be called smart?
How does that compute?
He's educated.
Uh he can string a couple sentences together, proper syntax and all that.
What the hell is smart?
This has always been something that has uh bugged me.
Common sense is smart.
Education does not mean you're smart.
In fact, education, depending on where you get it, can corrupt you.
They're idiots with degrees all over Washington, D.C. Now, as another exhibit, I have this story from USA Today.
After climate talks, scientists worry about enforcement.
By Brian Winter, USA Today.
Now listen to this.
Ray Weiss looks at the chanting protesters.
By the way, 68 climate protesters have been arrested over there.
Uh Copenhagen, Ray Weiss looks at the chanting protesters, the Harried delegates, and the 20,000 other people gathered here for a global warming summit and wonders what is the fuss all about.
Weiss is a geochemist.
He studies atmospheric pollution at San Diego's Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
He says the numbers at the core of the debate in Copenhagen are flawed.
Well, duh, we know it's all made up.
The emails prove it.
We're in the midst of a hoax here.
The universe of lies has doubled down on it all and is just flooding flooding the field with uh even more BS in an effort to confuse people even more.
Specifically, says uh Ray Weiss, the cuts that countries, including the USA are proposing in greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.
Again, well, duh.
See, if you go over there thinking this is about climate, if you go over there thinking this is about emissions, if you go over there thinking it's about anything other than wealth transfers from rich countries to poor countries, if you think it's about anything other than establishing a global government, you're gonna miss entirely what's going on.
The numbers don't matter.
The numbers are jimmied from the get-go.
The numbers are plugged in, the numbers are faked, it's a hoax.
Here's Weiss.
I don't see the point in doing all this if the numbers are so far off.
Shaking his head as he watched conference attendees hurry by Thursday.
When you hear politicians tell you that they they can measure these things just because they passed the deal in Copenhagen, I think you should take that with a grain of grain of salt.
I don't see the point in doing all this if the numbers are so far off.
You won't see the point in doing it if the numbers are so far off if you're looking at it as a climate conference.
If you're looking at it as a global warming conference, if you're looking at it as an emissions conference.
It is precisely these facts that nobody knows what they're measuring.
That the results are highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials.
And of course they are.
And who in the right who's going to be right in the middle of trading all these carbon emissions?
Wall Street people, Goldman Sachs, and others, you name it.
This is the whole point.
They pass this thing, they're not going to pass it this year, but if they if they pass it at some point, the numbers don't matter.
They'll be able to make it up.
They'll be able to accuse you or me of emitting more carbon than we're permitted, more pollution, without any numbers, they'll just be able to do it.
They'll have the power.
And then they'll be able to exact punishment in the form of higher taxes or making you roll back your lifestyle or getting a different car.
It's all about it's all about power and control.
These are the people behind all this, folks, are self-loathing, miserably unhappy people.
Nothing will ever make them happy.
Much of the summit's attention's been focused on exactly how much countries will commit to cutting emissions of gases that data suggest are causing the earth to warm.
Oh, wait, I thought it was settled.
I thought the science was settled.
Oh, really?
Yet some scientists and some legal experts, delegates, say the hardest part of any deal in Copenhagen will be measuring and then enforcing whatever politicians decide.
I just I read this.
When are people going to wake up?
That's precisely the confusion they want.
It's what Obama's doing to this country.
The confusion, the chaos, the tumult that exists already in our country.
Every day there's something new that's going to wipe us out, gonna destroy us.
See, I'm in a disadvantage here, and it leads me to being frustrated.
Have you ever let me explain my situation to you this way by asking you a question?
Have you ever been in a situation you're arguing or not even arguing, you're just discussing things with a group of people, and you know, you know you're right, and you know you can prove it, and it doesn't matter to them.
And the reason that you know you're right is that you know things they don't know.
And because they don't even have that baseline of knowledge to to chat with you, but they they they they can't even understand where you're coming from.
And that's exactly what how I feel talking to people who believe this global warming crap.
And I've I've mentioned this earlier in the week.
To me, this is ideology.
We know that there's no science involved here.
We know it's fake science.
We know people pretending to be scientists.
In fact, they may have uh educations and degrees that say they're scientists, and they may wear the requisite white coats and write their requisite equations and so forth, but they're not.
They're political hacks and they're leftists.
So I know exactly who these people are.
And to get caught up in the numbers, to get caught up in how we're gonna measure the emissions and is to is to fall prey to the trap that they lay.
So I, L Rushbo, I have no doubt.
None whatsoever about what Obama and Geitner and anybody else, dingy Harry and Pelosi have no doubt what they're doing, because I know who they are.
I know what they believe.
And here comes the question.
As Bill Shatner, how do you know?
I just do.
Do I not have a track record of knowing?
Twenty-one years, do I not have a track record of predicting precisely in advance what these people are going to do, and then they do it.
I even make jokes about what they'll do, and the jokes come true.
The only way, the only way to understand what's going on in Copenhagen, or what's happening with Harry Reid's health care bill, or what's happening with climate change, or cap and trade, or any other legislature what raising the debt limit.
Another 1.8 truth.
The only way to truly understand what all this is about is if you understand the differences in various ideologies.
Liberalism, conservatism.
See, a lot of people don't want to go there because they don't like partisanship, they say.
And I think they're true, being truthful.
They don't like it's it's confrontation to them.
A lot of people don't like confrontation, and a lot of people think that they're really smart in everybody else by not having firm opinions on things.
I'm open-minded.
I study both sides of the issue, and then I make an informed decision.
If that's you, you are one of the biggest dupes because you are sitting around judging both sides while one of them is lying through their teeth with everything they say to you.
So you're gonna take lies, in this case, the numbers, the emissions, the targets, the goals, the whatever, Copenhagen.
It's not even about that, but you're going to look at it that way.
Oh, these people say we're uh destroying the planet, uh, we're gonna warm it up so much and have trouble in uh 50 years living in bad news.
The other side says this is not going on.
Uh and then uh they're being called deniers and so forth.
And I've seen an Al Gore movie, and my kids have been made to watch the Al Gore movie in school, and I've heard all about the population explosion is gonna wipe us out.
But I have to consider these things very seriously.
The nature, the evidence, the seriousness of the charge, these people are saying we we really are destroying the planet and so forth and so forth.
So you get caught up in that.
And if you accept any of that, because you don't want to, and a lot of people also look at at uh being ideological as being judgmental, which it is.
I am more than happy to judge the left.
So the definition of how do you define smart?
What is smart.
Well, I I'm gonna just tell you, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I know liberalism, I know what its objectives are, and it's there for anybody to see.
It does not take anything more than an average brain.
All you gotta do is look at Cuba to see where liberalism will take you.
If you don't want to do that, look at Detroit.
Look at New Orleans and Louisiana before Katrina and afterwards.
Look at any major city that has been run by liberals.
Take a look at it.
Go to the old Soviet, you look at any country that is run by liberals or leftists.
It's right out there.
See.
And it's it's all everywhere you go, it's a disaster.
So I know I'm right because I know who liberals are.
And if if if people like this guy, this geologist or geophysicist, get his title correct, I don't want to be insulting you.
Ray Weiss, a geochemist studies atmosphere.
This is obviously science, a scientist.
So he's gonna look at this in scientific terms.
He will not look at it ideologically, and the only way he's gonna be able to answer his questions that he asks, what are we doing here?
The numbers uh don't make sense.
Oh uh where it's it's a total waste of time here.
I don't see the point in doing all this if the numbers are so far off.
That ought to send all kinds of red flags go up in the mind of Ray Weiss.
Okay, if the numbers are wrong and they're purposefully wrong, then what are we really dealing with here?
Is this really science that we're dealing with, or but a scientist by definition will not want to go the ideological route because that is to pollute science.
And they the left wins in that case because they've already corrupted science.
It's one of the four corners of deceit in the world.
But I'm just telling you folks, the only way to understand this with certitude, with confidence, And then to be able to explain it to others is to understand what being a conservative means, what being a liberal is, what a leftist is, socialist, Marxist, communist, they're all derivatives of a leftist.
And once you understand that, it is so easy, because all you have to know is that everything they say, and I know this sounds extreme.
Everything they say is a lie.
That's basically it.
Once you come to accept that, then the rest is easy.
Sort of a derivative of J.R. Ewing.
Once you take care of the ethics, once you don't worry about the ethics, the rest of it's easy.
In this case, once you understand that everything you hear from Barack Obama or Harry Reed is a lie, it's easy.
It's easy to understand.
You might not want to accept that, maybe too tough.
It might be, oh my gosh, I don't want to think that half the country's lying.
We gotta face it, folks, because this is uh uh, as they say, in football training camp nutcracking time.
All right, now look, here's another way of looking at this, folks.
If the whole global warming movement, if Copenhagen, if the UN's IPCC was based on science, then the IPCC leaders and these clowns at the climate research unit would be thankful that new evidence was showing that man-made global warming is a false alarm.
They would be happy.
Instead of being receptive, they are hostile.
They are hostile.
If this were about science, the head of the UN's intergovernmental planetary climate commission would be a climatologist.
But he's not.
He's an economist.
It's about redistribution.
To the audio soundbites, Dingy Harry, floor of the Senate yesterday.
Based on the Rush Limbaugh Glenn Beck, which is on all the news today, they're upset at Senator McConnell because he's not opposing the health care bill enough.
That reasonable process on this.
There's there no uh efforts made to improve this bill, only to kill this bill.
And I think that this debate has really come to a point that I have rarely seen in the Senate.
In fact, I've never seen it.
To have my friends on the other side of the aisle come to the floor and in some way try to embarrass or denigrate me by virtue of the fact that in fact trying to embarrass me.
But they should understand any events that I have scheduled this weekend have been canceled.
Yeah, okay.
Uh leaned on the No.
Right.
Yeah, he's not the fundraiser.
He's he's embarrassed about the fundraiser.
The McConnell embarrassed him with a fundraiser.
He wanted a weekend off to go to the fundraiser after saying we're going to work, work, work, or work and work, get this thing done.
He thinks McConnell would not grant him the weekend off because I jumped on McConnell.
So Sheldon Whitehouse bemoans the obstructionist Republican Party, which is prodded by me to make sure the president fails.
Last night, Washington, D.C. Senate floor, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island.
This is about creating a political defeat for the President of the United States on their side.
Nothing to do with health care, entirely about creating a defeat for this new president.
When in the face of all the obstruction that the distinguished Senator from Michigan described so eloquently, this record-breaking, unprecedented in the history of the Senate obstruction that we're seeing, the person who I think right now seems to characterize the leadership of the radicalized right wing that is running the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, is telling the other side that they haven't been obstructive enough.
Yeah, it's true.
Um he's exactly right about that.
Damn right.
But only one correction, Senator White House.
Uh it is necessary to uh create a political defeat for the president.
I don't deny that we're after that, but it's necessary to save the country, sir.
It is necessary to save the United States of America as it was founded.
It's necessary to defeat the president politically and this bill, because this bill isn't about health care, Senator.
What must it be like to be one of a hundred people In the most amazing deliberative body in the world, and have the people who elect them be 25 times as smart and informed as they are on this.
What an idiot.
All right, so Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat Rhode Island.
So the American people, in his view, the vast majority of them oppose government-run health care, not because they oppose what the plan would do to them.
No, no, no, no.
We oppose it because we want Obama to lose.
So Sheldon Whitehouse says that I am leading a conspiracy with the public against Obama.
See, this is how these fools think.
It's all about Obama.
Not the people, but Obama and the Democrats and their power.
It's not about you.
It's not about us.
It's about Obama and whether or not he's gonna get a win here.
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