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Dec. 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Well, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, and what's his name?
Ron Emanuel.
They're giving everything away in order to get Lieberman who they got.
They're going to give everything away in order to get uh Ben Nelson.
Now, what they're doing out there, they're they're they're getting very close to making sure the Senate's gonna vote for this.
They're gonna 60 votes.
But they are really angering their base on this.
The base wants a public option, the base wants single payer.
The base wants the Medicare buy-in, and those are the things that are coming out, at least right now, in order to get uh the votes of Lieberman and Ben Nelson.
Hi, folks, great to have you with us.
Uh Rush Limbaugh back in action here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, a telephone number if you want to join us.
Uh as always, 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Mr. Snerdley, uh, do you find um do you find insulation to be sexy stuff?
The President of the United States does.
Barack Hussein Obama went to a home depot today to talk about cash for caulkers.
He wants to get people caulking their windows to weatherize their houses.
And of course, the first question that comes to mind is why?
If there's global warming and everything's heating up, why do we have to worry about loss of heat inside our homes?
The uh it is it's silly, since I know the idea may not be very glamorous, although I get pretty excited about it.
Energy efficiency and retrofitting or sexy says, insulation sexy stuff.
Here's what's sexy about it, saving money.
If people are trying to keep their houses, they're trying to stay in them.
Uh, and Obama's out there.
This is the result, by the way, one of the job summit.
This is uh one of the things that came out of the jobs.
It just it's it's it really is amazing to watch all this.
Again, now get this story.
This is from uh ABC News.com.
This morning we have a recall of historic proportions.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the window blind industry are recalling virtually every Roman blind and roller shade on the market, around 50 million sets, because the cords pose a strangulation hazard to children.
Uh recall.
Recall 50 million sets of window blinds.
You know, it's amazing that you have kids that are alive today, given all of the threats that are that they face each and every day just in their homes.
Five children have died, another sixteen have nearly strangled in the cords of the Roman shades.
And three children's deaths have been linked to roll-up blinds, which is why the Consumer Product Safety Commission negotiated the massive recall, but the agency said it's frustrated it was necessary since the product should have been safer in the first place.
So 24 kids have died, a whole industry needs to have a product recall.
I'll tell you what, we we had a story that uh a couple couple months ago that all these uh flat screen TVs that you put on a wall, they're falling on kids.
Kids are being injured by falling TVs.
There's another story about that today.
Pretty soon the TVs are gonna be banned.
The way we're headed here, in addition to the consumer product safety commission's recall, some major retailers are issuing recalls of their own.
Walmart has issued recalls for 500,000 Roman shades, and uh 600,000 roll-up blinds.
Jacques Penet, which is uh JCPenney, recalled more than 2.2 million Roman shades and about 340 roll-up blinds.
The pottery barn recalled about 305,000 Roman chains.
I mean, this is just it's absurd.
It is just absolute ridiculous.
Political correctness, Nanny state politics, taking over virtually every aspect of our lives from Reuters.
You remember some years ago, over 10, coffee was one of the most hazardous things you could drink.
It would lead to heart attacks, it would lead to hardening of the arteries, it would lead to all kinds of horrible things.
Plus caffeine was rotten for you.
But now coffee, tea, Or decaf, no matter what your choice, drinking any of these beverages may reduce your risk of diabetes.
According to a new analysis of 18 studies, including hundreds of thousands of people.
2005 research review concluded that people who drank the most coffee were one-third likely to develop diabetes.
Every day there's some new health tip that contradicts some health crisis that we were told about months or weeks ago.
And this is why we need death panels.
Another story from Reuters.
Americans may live significantly longer in the future than current U.S. government projections, and that could mean sharply higher costs than anticipated for Medicare and other programs, according to researchers yesterday.
Researchers say that by 2050, Americans may live as much as eight years longer than government forecasts, and that spending by Medicare and Social Security could rise by 3.2 trillion to 8.3 trillion above current projections by 2050.
And in the midst of all this, we're going to do health care reform with death panels to make sure that we don't spend this much money.
The reason for this uh advanced lifestyle and and uh life expectancy, advances in medical care.
We'll accelerate and stretch out life spans, the MacArthur Research Network said.
If we if if we're right, we got a problem, said Dr. Jack Rowe of Columbia University's public school of health.
Can we really afford to have everybody quit work at 65?
We really can't afford.
Oh, we're gonna lower Medicare to 50 if except the Medicare buy-in's gone.
For now, the public option is gone.
For now.
It is clear they don't care what's in this bill.
It is clear they do not get I saw Susan Collins.
I saw Susan Collins, and it she just it epitomizes the problem.
She's talking to the press.
I think Senator Lieberman has improved this bill.
I have been working with everybody, uh the president and his chief of staff to improve the bill.
We can't be just say no.
We have to sit here and improve the bill.
And I want to tear my hair out.
You know, we have we we've got to get rid of these rhinos.
Getting rid of the rhinos in our party is the key to this.
You know, we're gonna have a big, big, big election next November, folks.
It is going to be huge.
The Democrats, I've got stories in the stack, they acknowledge they're gonna lose.
Pelosi says she's comfortable with losing 40 seats.
Thin the herd.
She refers to the 30 or 40 seats that they might lose as transitional anyway.
Meaning they're not the hardcore reliable leftists like Barney Frank and Henry Waxman and Conyers and uh and then Hoyer and all those people.
The blue dogs, all these transitional that guy, the guys that come in there and stay two to four terms, two to two to four years and then leave, she's totally content to get rid of them.
This is a strategy.
She said she will sign anything.
Harry Reid, there's the the Harry Reed and uh uh Ben Nelson.
Senator Nelson, I don't know if you care, but you're finished if you vote for this.
Uh and uh Lieberman's not, but but Ben Nelson is finished.
If he votes for this, he's finished.
I'll tell you what's going on with Nelson.
It's not just the abortion language in the bill.
There are two things that are happening with Ben Nelson.
One is there's a doctor-owned hospital, physician-owned hospital being built south of Omaha.
And it's not finished.
It has been put on hold.
It's under delay.
Under this current health bill, it may not be finished because doctor-owned hospitals are going to be legislated out of existence.
Doctor-owned hospitals are targeted for elimination.
So Ben Nelson says, I want to finish this hospital.
Dingy Harry says, we'll think about it.
Also, Offit Air Force Base in Omaha is slated to be closed in the next round of blue ribbon base closing commissions.
The next seating, the next convening of a base closing commission is 2013.
Off at Air Force Base, which is where the strategic air command uh is, was uh off at Air Force Base is responsible for 10,000 jobs and gazillions of dollars In not just the uh Omaha area, but the Nebraska economy, and Ben Nelson is holding out.
Look, you you gotta you gotta help me on these two things.
Of course, Dingy Harry, I'm sure in Obama, that won't be any problem.
Okay, we'll exempt Offitt, we'll keep it going, we'll think about your physician-owned hospital, and they'll they'll monkey around enough with the abortion language to get his vote.
If they get his vote, it's over.
Lieberman, here.
Lieberman just today, this morning in Washington on Capitol Hill, he held a press conference.
If, as appears to be happening, the so-called public option government run insurance program is out, and the Medicare buy-in, which uh I thought would jeopardize Medicare, cost taxpayers billions of dollars over the long haul,
increase our deficit is out, and there's no other attempts to bring things like that in, then I I'm I'm gonna be in a position where I can I can say I'm getting toward that position where I can say what I wanted to say all along, and I'm ready to vote for health care reform.
Okay, so they've picked off Lieberman.
Now a lot of people getting optimistic here, so whoa, but rush, but rush, they're getting rid of the public option, they're getting rid of the Medicare buy-in, which would essentially uh uh expand Medicare to cover people uh as young as uh is fifty-five.
But remember, this is just the starting point.
You the the stuff that's already in this bill outside those two things, the marriage tax penalty, it's gonna when people discover this, all of the nanny state regulations, the 114 new bureaucracies in the Senate bill, the fact that the government's gonna be controlling even more of the health care system than they do now.
Uh the the the the what this is is a framework for the destruction of private sector health care.
And it's still in place.
And this is just year one.
Okay, so they get this done, they send it over to Pelosi, who says she'll vote for anything.
So they go to conference and they do whatever they do there, and they send this up to Obama and it gets signed, and it looks like that could happen.
Then they come back.
Come back next year, and guess what they put back in?
The public option.
And then guess what they put back in?
The Medicare buy-in.
And who knows what the hell else they add in.
And there won't be any blue dogs around to stop them.
They'll get rid of the blue dogs.
The whole point here is to thin the herd to weed out all the Democrats that cause Pelosi problems, and the problem Democrats in the Senate that cause Reed problems.
They're they're willing to lose a bunch of seats.
The logic from their standpoint is somewhat understandable.
Rich Lowry, uh, sorry, uh Byron York writes about it today in the D.C. examiner.
And the logic at the White House is we're not up for re-election.
We don't give a rat's rear-in what happens here.
You sign it, you get it up here.
In the House, Pelosi would love to get rid of 30 to 40 blue dogs and transitional uh Democrats.
She might wouldn't even mind losing her majority for a while because she thinks she's going to get it back.
Uh and in the Senate, Dingy Harry's personal numbers are in the 40s and re-election polls in Nevada.
But from from their standpoint, they've been working on this since FDR.
They've been working on this since FDR.
And they're telling themselves that if they don't get it done now, it's gone forever.
The theory is that if Obama and Clinton couldn't get it done, then nobody can get it done.
So I think what you need to look at, uh, something is going to get passed out of the Senate called health care reform.
And I doubt that very many people there are going to have the slightest idea what's actually in it.
Lieberman's going to think that it doesn't have a Medicare buy-in.
He's going to think the public option is gone.
Uh Ben Nelson's going to think that Offitt Air Force Base is going to uh remain untouched, his hospital's going to be finished, and the abortion language is going to be done, but they're not going to know what they'll anybody.
My friend, anybody with half a brain who reads this and has any sense of what it is to be an American would get nowhere near passing or signing or voting for this.
It's that outrageous.
But we actually have, I think, a collection of dunces.
We have a radical left Senate.
I mean, there aren't this notion that there are moderate Democrats up there, don't buy that.
And uh as far as Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, you know, you you two and a lot of others, you're finished.
If you vote for this, you are finished.
You are not going to be re-elected next November.
Uh A lot of Democrats in the Senate that are really pushing this are not up next year anyway, so they think the public will forget by the time their election comes up.
So if if uh I'm sure also what Ben Nelson's being told, look, Ben, if you lose, we'll take care of you.
We'll get you a plum lobbyist job.
We'll get you a job with George Soros, or we'll get you a really flashy uh federal appointment somewhere, maybe an ambassador ship somewhere.
They're going to take care of these guys.
They have to ask themselves, though, is this what they want for their career?
Do they want to be shellacked in a landslide defeat because of their vote?
It apparently makes no difference to many of these people what their constituents want.
Apparently makes no difference whatsoever.
Brief timeout.
Off to a rousing start.
We got global warming stack, there's Al Gore out there.
This is hilarious.
Everything he says about the melting ice caps is now proven to be a lie.
Proven to be a lie, and he acknowledged it yesterday in Copenhagen.
And the guy that uh whose data Gore relied on is saying, I don't know how anybody could conclude what Gore concluded looking at my data.
And Gore's been using this data about melting ice caps since 2000, since he ran for the presidency.
And he was just smacked down at Copenhagen yesterday.
But that doesn't matter because they're saying, like Tony Blair said, hey, even if the science is wrong, doesn't matter, we still can't afford not to do this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Uh, I think you guys better rethink your health care.
Bill, you're gonna destroy my state.
You're gonna you're gonna destroy my state if you do this.
But then he's also out there saying we got to move forward fast as we can on climate change.
So it's um it's difficult to keep up with all these people, but if there's anybody that can do it, my friends, it is I, L. Rushball with talent on loan from God.
Let me show you the problem.
Let me illustrate for you the repro the problem on the Republican side.
Because it's sounding like Susan Collins may be the 61st vote for this thing.
Here is what I saw her say uh at a press conference on television before the program starts.
There's a lot of noise in this because this took place in the rotunda of the Capitol.
There's a lot of people milling around in there.
Let me say that I'm grateful for the work that Senator Lieberman has done.
I believe that his principal stance have improved the bill.
I very much would like to see a health care bill that is based on lowering costs, expanding access, helping small businesses tax.
She went on to say that that uh she doesn't believe in this, just say no business.
Now, this just goes to show what a what a what's what's a polite word here for somebody that's just stupid.
What is what is a polite word?
Um ignorant, uninformed.
challenged, ignorant, uninformed.
She would like to see a health care bill based on lowering costs.
The...
D-Thank you.
Expanding access.
It's gonna restrict access, Senator.
People are going to be dying because they're going to be denied coverage.
Small business is gonna get creamed by this.
Everybody's gonna get creamed by how can she not know this?
How can she possibly not know this?
Let me give you an illustration of something.
Social security, and I'm not gonna be able to go through all this in the next break, but stick with me on this.
Social security, this to show you how these government programs quietly grow.
Social security passed in 1935 to give some small assistance to the very old and widows with children who are in dire straits.
But ever since 1935, Social Security's been amended, been enlarged year after year, just like the health care bill will be.
Social Security is something people really do or did keep their eyes on.
In 1940, benefits paid totaled 35 million dollars.
Now stick with me on this.
Payments rose to 961 million in 1950, ten years later.
$11.2 billion in 1960.
$31.9 billion in 1970.
All the way up to 2004.
$492 billion worth of benefits were paid to 47.5 million beneficiaries.
In 2009, nearly 51 million Americans will receive $650 billion in Social Security in a program that originally paid out $35 million.
As recently as 1950, it paid out $11 billion.
Today it's up to $650 billion since its inception.
I don't care if you factor inflation in.
This is simply out of control, unsustainable, and this is exactly what will happen to healthcare.
Hey, folks, a 14th woman, a 14th paramour, a 14th, uh, um, uh, Well, woman has surfaced in the Tiger Woods story.
She's 48 years old.
She's blonde.
She lives right here in Wellington, Florida, which is which is out there where all the polo stuff happens.
And uh it the story that announces this says that um uh Tigers on the Edge is just is barely holding it together out there.
And the story also says that Tiger Woods and the Olympic swimmer Dana Torres, she's from Miami, right?
South Florida somewhere, it we have both been treated by a doctor in Canada who um has been known to prescribe performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.
Well, now wait till that hits the mainstream.
I mean, if that that all you need is that innuendo to add to all the rest of this stuff, tiger on the edge.
That's just unbelievable to realize how easily a totally false image was established and maintained.
Uh especially when you realize that so many in the media, in the sports groupie media knew about the uh the the babes.
And the philandering.
Uh now see, Snerdley, Snurley's asked me a question.
Do you think at some point he's going to start getting some sympathy?
Now that is an interesting question to me.
The attitude, the mindset that would even be thinking that way.
That is the mindset of a sexist who thinks that all of this is a little unfair.
All this attention is somebody eventually going to start feeling sorry for him.
Uh, I'm sure a lot of people already do feel sorry for him, uh, in a in a in a variety of ways.
But you have to remember, like I told you, we were presented with the perfect human being here.
Perfect in every way.
Wife, 2.8 kids, mansion, perfect life, best at what he does, doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to do, works out four hours a day, practices ten hours a day, doesn't have time for anything but golf in the family, squeaky clean, endorsing all of these major corporations, and the the truth is just one hate 180 degrees opposite.
And it's just got to be a shock to people, and it could it, it's another hoax.
It was another hoax, and you find wherever there's a hoax, you have a willing and compliant media.
Now, I want to go back to this this business of of uh Obama saying that caulking is and insulation is sexy, because he went to Home Depot today in uh in Virginia and talked about the need to weatherize our house, even in the in the face of all of this massive heat coming our way with uh with global warming, and he announced a program called Cash for Cawkers, included in this.
We're going to buy appliances now for Obama voters.
We're gonna buy them energy efficient refrigerators and dishwashers, microwaves, and what have you.
Now we've already bought Obama's voters' automobiles.
We are paying Obama voters mortgages.
We have dumbed down the schools for Obama voters and his and their parents to the point that they are no longer acceptable for any parent with half a brain.
And now we've got this.
But I want to take you back, ladies and gentlemen.
My memory, don't ever doubt it, is incredible.
I wish I knew what it was that fired the neurons.
Do you remember the danger that was associated with radon?
The name ring a bell.
The possible danger of radon exposure in dwellings was discovered in 1984 when Stanley Watrous, an employee at the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania, set off the radiation alarms on his way to work.
For two weeks, while authorities searched for the source of his contamination.
They found that the source was high levels of radon.
About 100,000, whatever it is, the way they measure it here.
Uh in his house, in his basement.
It was not related to the nuclear plant.
The risks associated with living in his house were estimated to be equivalent to smoking 135 packs of cigarettes every day.
Following this highly publicized event, national radon safety safety standards were set, and radon detection and ventilation became a standard homeowner concern.
Now, how much more radon is going to be captured and kept in our homes as a result of Obama's new sexy insulation plan.
You have to look at the unintended consequences of uh of all this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, ladies and gentlemen, said today in Good Morning America, he supports Obama's health care overhaul effort, but he warned that the legislation in its current form would be devastating to his state's bottom line.
This is the last thing we need.
Another three billion dollars of spending where we already have a $20 billion deficit.
What he's talking about is all the health care spending that's being mandated on the states.
So I would be very careful to you to the federal government before you go to bed with all this.
Let's rethink it.
There's no rush from one second to the next.
Let's take another week or two and come up with the right pack.
Arnold, where have you been?
How is it you just now discovered this?
Who are these people?
Who are these people we elect to office?
Is it not stunning how ignorant they are?
And I guess the ignorance results from their own conceit and their arrogance.
And having been elected, you know, being elected's like winning an Oscar.
When you have uh enough people in a large state like California to vote for you, I imagine it's a pretty big ego thrill.
You end up thinking you're pretty important.
You add to it the stardom that you have acquired as a result of being a big-time action movie uh star.
It's it's probably very understandable.
You think you know everything already, and you don't need anything else.
So you stop learning.
And then somebody comes along, one of your staff, Governor uh, we just were reading the health care bill.
Do you realize it's gonna mandate three billion dollars in uh new spending on ah three billion dollars?
I didn't know this.
And he's out there at the same time.
At the same time, Schwarzenegger's out there pushing man-made global warming.
We have two sound bites.
Well, we have we have one on that.
This is uh Good Morning America, and Schwarzenegger is uh being interviewed here by uh by uh George Stephanopoulos, who said your own party really resisting Obama on uh on this, starting with uh former Governor Palin.
She says Obama should boycott Copenhagen.
She's calling the proposals job killers, and then she uh he plays a quote from her.
Basically, he asks Schwarzenegger, what do you say to Americans who say, let's fix the economy first before we jump off the cliff on this global warming stuff.
First of all, you can do both at the same time.
We in uh California have proven in Oba Nova that you can predict the economy and also predict the environment.
That's no excuse at all to just boycott, you know, Copenhagen just because we first have to rebuild the economy.
I think that uh people that just don't believe In uh fixing uh and and and working on the environment.
They don't believe there's such a thing as global warming.
It's still living in the stone age, which is okay.
You need people like that too.
Uh they're gonna take us back to the stone age, governor, if they succeed with all this.
So here's the contrast.
Here's a governor who just found out that the health care bill needs to be stopped because it adds three billion dollars of new spending in his state where they already have a twenty billion dollar deficit.
He just found this out, says you got to stop on the verge of them now finally getting 60 or 61 votes.
At the same time, he says, first of all, you can do global warming fixes and the economy at the same time.
We have proven it in California over and over.
You can protect the economy and also protect the environment.
Would somebody say, would anybody say the California economy has been protected?
They got a 20 billion dollar deficit.
They're gonna add three billion to it.
They're out of control in California with all kinds of their their own subset of uh of entitlement programs and so forth.
The economy, the economy has been protected.
How can you say that and then at the same sentence say, or in the same interview, say, uh, we got to stop health care because why it's gonna cost my state three billion dollars.
Governor, how much do you think that this cap and trade program is gonna cost your state?
How much do you think global taxes to stop man-made global warming, which is not happening, is gonna cost your state.
Where do we get these people?
Where do we get the people voting on these people?
Well, I guess the public school system in this country has successfully dumbed down enough people that idiots can triumph in our political system.
Be right back.
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I don't believe what I just received in the email.
It is from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
These are the people that run out there and try to get senators in our party re-elected.
Democrats have one too, and they have organizations for both parties in the House.
It's from the NA look at I'm sure they're gonna hear about this, and I'm not I just it's speaks for itself.
It was just set out at 1237.
Eastern Times, 1245 now.
So that's not even ten minutes ago.
That is about no, twelve four.
It's ten minutes ago I got this thing.
It's from the Republican, National Republican uh senatorial campaign committee, health care task force.
Dear supporter, if recent headlines are any indication our efforts to stop the Democrats' government takeover of health care, are succeeding with your help, and they cite three headlines.
Lieberman rules out voting for health care bill, New York Times.
Two senators doubt Medicare compromise, Wall Street Journal.
High hurdles ahead for health plan, politico.
So it's a fundraising letter.
They're asking for money.
They sent out three quotes from state-controlled media outlets.
The first one, Joe Lieberman hours ago, said he's now gonna vote for the health care bill because they took the the government option out of it and they and they uh uh got rid of the uh Medicare expansion.
And yet, ten minutes ago they send this thing out, quoting a New York Times headline, Lieberman rules out voting for health bill.
Do they not know in the Senate?
Do the Republicans in the Senate not know before this thing goes out that Lieberman a half hour ago or an hour ago said, I'm all in for health care now.
This is like somebody sending out a press release in the third quarter of last year's Super Bowl, saying Arizona Cardinals win because the New York Times headline says Arizona surprises Steelers.
I'm sitting here and I'm I'm I'm just I'm stunned.
Then they ask you to sign a petition, uh, share it on Facebook and donate to their efforts.
Politico has a story today on Lieberman, and it's uh uh Democrats may drop Medicare expansion.
Uh and it's it's this of course posted before they actually told Lieberman they're gonna drop the Medicare expansion.
Several senators, including Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, said it appeared the Democrats faced with the reality of needing Lieberman's vote to get the 60 would drop the Medicare expansion.
Asked if Reed explicitly dropped the Medicare plan, Birch Bayer or Evan Bye said that's what it sounded like to me.
Tom Harkin said it also appears that Democrats are moving toward a bill without the Medicare option.
And Senator Feingold, a big supporter of the public option and the Medicare idea, said things are not moving in the right direction.
Talk of dropping the Medicare expansion angered the party's liberals, who can't believe a senator who no longer considers himself a Democrat is in the position of effectively vetoing a key part of health care reform.
Liberals supported the Medicare expansion as a way to cover more of the uninsured in a government plan.
Already there was talk of retaliating against Lieberman, much as some Democrats sought to strip him of his Senate Homeland Security Committee chairmanship after he campaigned for McCain.
The anger toward Lieberman right now is white hot.
They've also reported in this story that Lieberman did support Medicare expansion in the past.
He's out there saying, No, I've never changed my mind on Medicare expansion.
Now I like as a person, Joel Lieberman.
I've met him on a number of occasions.
He told a very funny joke at a dinner in April of 2008 at the Waldorf Histeria Hotel.
It was the annual uh dinner and ball for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which of course I'm a huge donor of, uh fundraiser for and supporter of.
And I was seated at a table with uh James Baker and his wife Susan, and they were already shooting me daggers because I was publicly not endorsing McCain, not for McCain.
Uh and Lieberman gets up.
He is the guest of honor.
He's getting some special award.
And he said, This is strange year in politics.
I can't believe that I'm here with a bunch of Marines as an independent former Democrat, supporting the Republican candidate for president, and Rush Limbaugh's in the same room and he's not.
And and the and the Bakers kind of nudged me with their elbows and nodded and so forth.
I mean, the pressure was intense, folks.
Pressure was intense on me on this.
Uh just to illustrate my independence.
I didn't buckle to it.
But I like him as a person, but every, you know, he taunts us all the time by saying, you know what?
I'm not, I can't vote for this, and we go, we gotta love Lieberman.
And I keep reminding people there's not really an I next to his name, it's a D. Lieberman is a liberal Democrat.
And at the end of the day, that's where his loyalties are always going to be.
So now, a guy that they really hated and wanted to get rid of because he supported McCain has now affected, at least for now, the structure of the health care bill.
Liberal Democrats are fit to be tied over this, as are the the fringe nutcases that uh that that that uh that lurk and troll around all these far-left nut case websites.
Uh the Daily Coast is just fit, get rid of Reed.
This is the worst thing that's ever happened, pulling out the public option because these people look at at the public option being gone and the Medicare expansion being taken out.
They look at this as a victory for insurance companies.
And you have to understand that hardcore leftists hate capitalism, and anybody that is a capitalist, especially corporation, they despise them.
Just the word corporate can ruin their day.
They could just, if they just read in the newspapers, he c the word corporation, it ruins their day.
They want to put every corporation out of business.
They think everybody runs one ought to be in jail.
And they think Lieberman's in bed with the big insurance lobby because uh they're housed in Connecticut, located there, and so forth.
Uh it's it's it's it's funny story here.
Democrats shared the majority leader's frustration in interviews with Politico.
Senior Democrat aides and senators laid out a range of emotions toward Lieberman from outrage over what they believed was his blatant attempt to kill a bill to surprise over his apparent reversal on the Medicare buy-in, which he has supported in the past.
We go to CNN and their political ticker.
They we find out now that the left is targeting Lieberman's wife, Hadassah.
Senator Joe Lieberman, whose opposition to public insurance options drawn outrage, is uh is used to finding himself in progressive crosshairs, but now it's his wife's turn.
Activists are setting their sights on Hadassah Lieberman, launching a celebrity-studded petition to convince the nation's largest breast cancer nonprofit to end uh her role as a spokeswoman.
Because this is the Susan Coleman for the Cure Foundation.
They're targeting Lieberman's wife now because she's a spokeswoman for the group.
All right, we will, I promise, uh get to your telephone calls in the uh in the next hour, ladies and gentlemen.
As always, we uh we already have a full board.
And in fact, some of them actually are pretty good.
So we'll uh it's uh it's it's good to laugh.
Sit tight.
Uh, we haven't even touched a global warming stack, and it is hilarious today, too.
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