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	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, ladies and gentlemen, Andrea Mitchell is just fit to be tied over this Republican obstructionist tactic to read, have the clerk read from the Senate floor the entire 767 page Bernie Sanders amendment requiring a single payer.
	It will never pass.
	It'll never pass.
	Why are they doing this?
	It'll never pass.
	It has no chance of passing.
	Why are they doing this?
	Greetings, folks.
	Rush Limbaugh, great to have you with us on the EIB network, the fastest three hours in media.
	Andrea Mitchell, upset about Obama's lies about transparency.
	Are you upset about that, Andrea?
	Nobody has seen Harry Reid's bill.
	The reason nobody's seen Harry Reed's bill is on purpose.
	He doesn't want people to see it till the last minute to be voted on.
	Yet Obama claimed he was going to have the most transparent administration ever, and the Democrats are still hiding their dirty work so nobody can see it.
	So the Republicans finally pulled a little rabbit out of their hat and said, look, if you won't tell people what's in the bill, read this one.
	Read the amendment.
	And Dement has vowed that the whole read bill when it's finally presented will also be read.
	Is Andrew Mitchell upset that these senators have not read what they're asked to vote on?
	I think this is an important moment in the GOP re-establishing its credentials.
	And in standing for the people against the leftists and the radicals in this government.
	They are demonstrating that they, the Republicans, are finally showing that they are the only thing that stands between individual liberty and freedom and government run amok.
	Now, let me tell you what the media is going to do.
	Andrew Mitchell's already doing it.
	The media will report Tom Colburn's parliamentary action as a terrible act of defiance, as something unseemly, as something undemocratic.
	Why would they do this?
	And it's an amendment that has no chance of passing.
	These are just the just say no Republicans all over again.
	Well, let me tell you something.
	Coburn and those who follow him in reading amendments are patriots.
	It is Obama and the Democrats who have defied every public opinion poll and the people, who have conducted themselves in secret, who have lied repeatedly.
	Don't fall for this.
	The Republicans are finally doing something to delay this.
	Because it's obvious.
	It's all about Obama.
	He doesn't care what's in it at this point.
	The Democrats are the ones who have used every contemptible trick and procedure to impose on this nation something this nation does not want.
	It is the Democrats who cannot be honest.
	It's the Democrats who are plotting the destruction of the private sector of this country and are doing it in private.
	And they're willing allies in the in these in the in the media are helping them cover up what this is really all about.
	Andrea Mitchell, an example of it today.
	It's Obama and the Democrats who are obstructing true reform through market competition.
	It is Obama and the Democrats who are attacking the very institutions and traditions that have defined this nation's greatest greatness.
	Folks, it's it's not complicated here.
	What's going on here is a battle between liberty and the loss of liberty.
	Freedom and an attack on freedom.
	And Tom Coburn from Oklahoma and the Republicans are standing up for liberty.
	They're standing up for freedom for each of us, for the Constitution, against a rising tide of tyranny from this administration and the Congress.
	And the media are in on this monstrosity.
	The media are in on it.
	They are the propagandists.
	So the Republicans finally wake up.
	They don't roll over, and Andrea Mitchell, anything here's Washington, did her whole show today, or practically her whole show.
	Why would they do this?
	Why would they do this?
	This doesn't have a chance.
	It's never going to pass, and stop and think about that.
	The Bernie Sanders amendment is simply a single payer government-run health care system amendment.
	It's simply saying, forget the 2,000 pages.
	What we're going to do here is establish a single payer government-run health insurance program in this country.
	And Andrea Mitchell is admitting that doesn't have a prayer.
	She's admitting it doesn't have a prayer.
	It ought to tell everybody on the Democrat side, if you think that what you're going to get is unlimited health care with somebody else paying for it.
	I.e.
	the government.
	It ain't going to happen.
	And the Democrats' own propagandists are saying so.
	I mentioned earlier that Nancy Pelosi is a little bit uh uneasy.
	The House at large is uneasy because they went first on this and they passed a very Marxist socialist bill.
	It has the public option in it.
	It has all kinds of stuff, the destruction of private insurance, the requirement by law that you buy insurance, the fact you get fined if you don't, all of this stuff and more, all the tax increases.
	The House led first.
	They stuck their neck out.
	They got it, and now the House is upset because the Senate, in their view, is getting cowardly.
	The Senate's taking out the guts in order to get Lieberman's vote.
	And they're gonna take out some more guts to get Ben Nelson's vote.
	And so the people over in the House say, wait a minute here.
	We can't possibly agree to that.
	So Nancy Pelosi, according to the Hill newspaper, has privately told her politically vulnerable Democrat members that they will not vote on controversial bills in 2010 unless the Senate acts first.
	After a year of bruising legislative victories that some political analysts believe have done more to jeopardize her majority than to entrench it, Pelosi is shifting gears for 2010.
	The speaker recently assured her freshman lawmakers and the vulnerable members of her caucus that a vote on immigration reform is not looming despite a renewed push from the White House and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
	The House will not move on the issue until the upper chamber passes a bill.
	Well, that's going to be increasing increasingly difficult, especially after the November elections in 2010, because after that, Pelosi's gonna have a lot fewer Democrats, and the Democrats are not going to have 60 votes in the Senate after the elections in November.
	Now, according to Democrats who have spoken to Pelosi, the Speaker has expanded that promise beyond immigration, informing Democrat lawmakers that the Senate will have to move first on a host of controversial issues before she brings them to the House floor.
	The Speaker has told members in meetings that we have done our jobs, and the next year the Senate's gonna have to prove what it can accomplish before we go sticking our necks out any further.
	Representative Jerry Connolly, Democrat Virginia, the president of the freshman class, said that Pelosi came to last Wednesday's freshman breakfast to deliver the message, and that it was met with wide spread approval.
	So, all this talk, the Republicans are stopping this, the Republicans are the obstructionists, the Republicans don't want to compromise, the Republicans this.
	The simple fact of the matter is that the party in disarray in this country is the Democrat Party.
	They are in the midst of a civil war.
	And it's it's delightful to see this.
	But I would just say this to Nancy Pelosi.
	It's too late.
	You've already killed off a couple dozen of your party members.
	Whatever happens on this bill, you blew it.
	Whatever happens, you're gonna lose 24 seats minimum in the November elections.
	Too late now.
	What are your what are your what are your uh vulnerable members supposed to do when it comes time to campaign for re-election?
	Go home and say, Don't worry, I'm not gonna be voting first from now on.
	We're gonna be waiting for the Senate to go, and then we're gonna go.
	Is that what you're gonna say?
	Big, big trouble out there.
	You remember, uh, ladies and gentlemen, how we were told that Bill Clinton's sex escapades made no difference, that it was just sex.
	We were told that it didn't affect his leadership or power or persuasion as president, that it did not compromise his moral authority as leader of the United States.
	And to this day, they say the same thing when a Democrat is caught in a sex scandal, hetero or other.
	And yet now, even after all of that, it's just sex.
	It affects his leadership, didn't affect his ability to do his job.
	Now all these advertisers are dumping Tiger Woods.
	Thought it was just sex.
	Certainly didn't stop him from doing his job.
	Well, maybe it did.
	We don't know.
	He didn't win a major last year.
	Don't these businesses know who which side of their bread is butter on, and don't they know what hurts their bottom line?
	What the the great thing about this is that in the real world, when you have a sex scandal of this proportion, it matters.
	Sex does matter.
	It's not just accenture is not looking at the Tiger Woods saying, Oh, it's just sex.
	Gillette's not saying, ah, it's just sex.
	It doesn't affect his ability to be a moral leader.
	It doesn't affect his ability to do his job.
	In the real world, all of it, man, puts the lie.
	The real world puts the lie to every liberal mantra out there.
	Oh, yeah, Bill Clinton did it, didn't matter.
	Whether we're Democrats, just sex, it doesn't matter.
	He's making a big deal out of nothing.
	In fact, we're gonna start uh we're gonna start teaching uh BJs and sex in school now, because it's really it's not sex.
	They told us it wasn't sex.
	I never had sex with that woman, Miss Salinsky, not a single time.
	And on his mind, I think that he probably didn't.
	A couple of sound bites here before we go to the break.
	Back to Howard Dean.
	Howard Dean has um that's that's true.
	James Carville is not calling Tigers women trailer trash.
	Other people are, but James Carville isn't.
	Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Howard Dean out there just with a broad swipe right across the bowel of the Obama steamship.
	He says this is a lousy bill.
	It's horrible.
	It it he said things in opposing it, saying it should just be killed and start over.
	Said things that Republicans say and think about the bill.
	And they're very they're ticked off out there about this.
	Last night on MSNBC, uh, Howard Feynman from Newsweek was there to discuss this.
	And uh the guest host said to Howard Feynman, what effect will the Dean defection on health care have on the Senate vote?
	Well, I think it could have a big effect, Lawrence.
	The interview that you just conducted with uh former Governor Dean was remarkable for a couple reasons.
	First of all, he's a doctor.
	He's got credibility on this.
	Second, he's been a reformer for years and knows it as well, if not better than anybody, as an issue.
	Third, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
	Hello.
	That interview that you did with him could be cut in its entirety and placed in a Republican ad attacking the process right now.
	And I don't know how much weight Howard Dean has nationally anymore, but in terms of a weapon the Republicans can use, I think he's very useful.
	Uh it it it depends on what kind of influence Howard Dean still has with the kook fringe that makes up the Democrat base.
	And my guess is he has a lot.
	So this morning, a little montage again on PMS NBC.
	Mika Brzezinski, Nora O'Donnell talking about Howard Dean.
	The White House Christmas party last night, and there was a skunk in the room, and we thought it was Joe Lieberman.
	But it's Howard Dean.
	They want to tie him up and let people come and beat him.
	They are so angry with him that the skunk at the party.
	And the issue is he said, kill the bill.
	The propagandists in the media are livid at Dean, the skunk in the middle of the room at the White House Christmas party.
	This morning on again MSNBC, White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie said this about Howard Dean.
	Dean is having what one official called a tantrum, but at the end of the day, the president's been able to hold them in line, and they think progresses will be with them.
	Progressives read radicals.
	Progressives, radical leftists, pure unadulterated liberals.
	We move on to soundbite number 10.
	Darren Radicken this morning or Dylan Radikan had uh had uh Anthony Wiener, Democrat New York on.
	And uh he's a member of the House, and he's upset at what's happening in the Senate.
	And so Radigan says you have no leverage because you can't vote no.
	Well, you know, we're kind of like a group uh holding ourselves hostage with a gun to our own head that says if you make one more move, we're gonna shoot.
	Forty-four years ago when we passed Medicare.
	A lot of people said, Don't worry, we're gonna start with those 65 and over and then come back in a couple of years and expand that.
	We're 44 years later, and that incremental expansion hasn't happened.
	Would you vote no?
	If that if the answer to that question is it does more harm than good, I would vote no.
	And there are a lot of people around here in that same place.
	So what he's saying is that when the bill gets over to the House, and if it doesn't have the Medicare expansion in it, he'll vote no.
	And if it doesn't have the public options, he'll vote no.
	That's what he's saying.
	Now, this is before Pelosi uh again gathers her charges in her dungeon and starts whipping them into shape.
	Back after this.
	Having more fun than the human being should be allowed to have.
	I am Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
	You know, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Anthony Weiner.
	In that soundbite we played.
	All upset here that the Medicare expansion is not in the Senate bill.
	Yeah, 44 years ago we passed Medicare, and they said that they would expand it to beyond age 65 then, and they haven't done it.
	It hasn't happened.
	A wiener.
	After 44 years, the program is going broke.
	It is trillions of dollars in debt.
	And you want to turn Medicare into government-run national health care.
	You are truly a fool.
	It hasn't been expanded for a reason.
	It's out of money.
	Hell, the whole country's out of money.
	Uh MSNBC can't get over this.
	They cannot get over the clerk reading the Bernie Sanders amendment.
	This is funny.
	This is the helpless, the hapless Contessa Brewer uh responding to all of this today.
	At this hour, Republicans resorting to stall tactics intentionally to slow down the health care bill in the Senate.
	They're forcing the clerk to read the entire text of the 767-page Sanders amendment, which would establish a single-payer government-run health care system.
	The reading could take until midnight.
	Now that just doesn't seem fair to the clerk.
	That doesn't seem fair to the clerk.
	It's the clerk's job.
	Doesn't seem fair to the clerk.
	You think they'll get a couple other clerks in there to rotate reading this thing?
	I would think so.
	Back to the phones to Tulsa and Joe.
	I'm glad you uh held on, sir.
	Welcome to the program.
	Oh, hello, Rush.
	Proud to be calling.
	Thank you, sir.
	I have been working ever since I was eight years old on a farm in western Oklahoma.
	Work my way through college, worked in corporate America.
	Maybe that's better, but I wanted to make sure that I could retire so I actually remodel houses on the site as well.
	I have not done this all my life.
	So we have a health care reform bill that increases my premiums and takes away money from me in increased taxes, so I won't be able to retire.
	I'm not going to work until I'm 80 years old to pay for people who do not work.
	Support another entitlement program.
	Yeah, you're not just paying for people who do not work.
	There is a story out there today, Joe, that 2% of uh.
	Let me find it.
	I aced it here to the bottom of the stack, I think.
	Two percent let me find it very quickly.
	I think I know exactly.
	Yes, here it is.
	This is from CNN Money.com.
	At 8 a.m., homeowner Rodney Wynne was drowning under his eighteen hundred dollar a month, 13.4% interest rate mortgage.
	But by 5 p.m. he had found some relief.
	A 4.7% loan with a $970 monthly payment.
	Wynne is a program director for a Ute home in North Carolina.
	He is just one of a growing number of homeowners getting dream workouts on their mortgages.
	Some are even getting sweet 2% interest rate deals.
	Nearly 80% of all loan modifications resulted in lower payments in the second quarter, according to the Office of the Controller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision.
	That's up from just over 50% three months earlier.
	Still just a paltry 4% of all homeowners in need of workouts are receiving them.
	Now the the what you have to conclude from this is that there's only one word for the poor slobs who are still paying their mortgages at their full rate, and that is suckers.
	So not only are you paying health care for people who do not work, there are people who are mortgage getting mortgage relief, and it's being paid for by you as well.
	Learn it, love it, live it.
	Greg in uh in LaClair, Iowa.
	Great to have you on the uh program, sir.
	Hi.
	Yes, Russ, it is uh I know the state control media isn't gonna uh let anybody know that the uh the prison that they bought in that sleepy little town in Fulton, about twenty miles south, there's a nuclear power plant.
	From Really, there's sleepy little town in Illinois where the Al Qaeda prisoners are going.
	There is a nuclear power plant 20 miles south of it.
	Yes, sir.
	Well, what a convenient location for terrorists who'd like to get hold of some nukes.
	Yes, to be.
	I thought I wanted to get that out there for everybody to know that's exactly what our government's doing to us.
	Well, thanks for the call.
	Appreciate that.
	I I did not know that.
	But now it all makes sense.
	Richard in Hillsborough, Texas, your turn.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	You know, you hear all the talk about insurance for everybody.
	Just what is the insurance going to cover?
	If the insurance doesn't cover enough, what good is it for you?
	Well, it's a good question.
	You're going to be forced to buy it.
	If you don't, you're going to be fined.
	You could be put in jail.
	The fine, it's much less than the premium that's going to cost.
	A lot of people are going to choose not to have insurance and simply pay the fine.
	They're admitting it in any number of indirect ways.
	And the uh you know people who are elderly, who come down with some disease that some bureaucrats say, you know, it's not worth treating.
	It's not worth treating and uh prolonging your life because you're not going to live that much longer.
	It's a dread disease.
	This is how it's it's all going to work.
	So the question is good, uh, folks, because it illustrates the government doesn't do anything of this kind that it tackles right.
	Social Security was supposed to provide little bit of retirement for people.
	Original price tag 35 billion.
	Now we're up into the trillions that it costs, and it still doesn't accomplish what its uh expressed purpose was.
	So it's a good question.
	I'm glad you called.
	I'm glad you got through.
	A brief, brief timeout, back before you know it.
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	Here's Paul in Chicago.
	Paul, I'm glad you waited.
	Welcome to the program, sir.
	Hey, Rush.
	Mary, I got a thrill running up my Legs to talk to you dittoes from cold Chicago.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	Well, there's a very, very small piece of the first tape you played about an hour ago of the clerk reading the bill that tips off what this amendment is.
	What it is, to me, is it sounds like the government is creating an HMO.
	Because if you listen closely, she says it is a capitated plan, meaning that enrollees would be capitated, meaning that the physicians who see those patients are paid a certain amount of money each month or each year to see those uh to have those people enrolled in the network, if they see them or not.
	And so not only would the government be directing payment, they would also be directing care because they control the gatekeepers, they control the primary care physicians who then goal out specialty care and surgical care and wellness care.
	So it it's more control, is what it sounds like.
	Not just a single payer, but a single controller of health care.
	And that to me is a bit more scary.
	Well, it's exactly, but that's where they're headed, regardless that they've taken single payer out or the public option.
	Regardless whether they've taken out Medicare expansion to get this thing passed, you're exactly right.
	That's where they all want to go.
	That's where the Liberal Democrats all want to go is have the government be in charge of who gets what, who gets paid for what, and where one goes to get it.
	Pure and simple.
	Now, the news, ladies and gentlemen, the news is all over the place.
	Uh, that uh, for example, as a headline, uh Tom Colburn forced a clerk to read the Sanders Amendment.
	A terrible GOP.
	Mean spirited GOP.
	Now, what this is designed to do is to get the Republicans to stop this.
	They know the Democrats and media know this is effective, and what they're going to try to do is scare the Republicans into stopping because they're going to say you guys are now running a risk of not winning re-election.
	And I think what's finally happened is the Republican leadership in the Senate understands that nothing is more important than stopping this.
	If we are to preserve this country as we have always known it, it must be stopped.
	And I certainly hope they've got the guts and the courage to ignore all these attempts by the media and the Democrats to portray them as obstructionist and mean spirited, making the making the clerk uh read the bill, forcing the clerk to read the bill.
	Rosa Delora was on uh MSNBC saying that Joe Lieberman should be recalled.
	Michael Moore threatened boycott what?
	Michael Moore is threatened to the boycott going to the state of Connecticut because Lieberman got what he's wanted, wanted here.
	Well, if I live in Vermont, I'd I'd I'd go, all right.
	All right, Mama.
	Michael Moore's not coming here, cool.
	So they're out for Lieberman.
	They're out for Lieberman's wife, and now they're out for the Republicans for forcing the clerk to do the clerk's job.
	This is not something extra parliamentary.
	This is in the procedures.
	Here's Mark in San Diego.
	Mark, welcome to the program.
	Great to have you here.
	Good afternoon, Rush, and Merry Christmas.
	Thank you.
	I did want to say one thing.
	Bo's an excellent and a professional call screener, but I um I'm in a hot big hospital in San Diego begins with an S. There's several of them.
	But our cancer committee, it's accredited uh cancer center.
	Looked back in the last four years from 2004 to 2008, uh, the number of cancer cases we had, and those people under 50, we came up with a thousand one hundred people that showed up having cancer, uh, breast cancer or something similar.
	And uh above that, the total for all years from uh 20 to 99, they determined there was 390.
	I mean 3,990 uh cases total.
	So that makes about 28% of the people we screened came up being under page 50, and California's just said they're not gonna pay after 21, 2010 for uh the uninsured and the poor to have those screenings below 50.
	Well, then what do we have here?
	We have a death panel, don't we?
	Yes, it's a uh tax and kill.
	Not unlike we had in the early 70s when we didn't have enough dialysis units, and then they had to have choose who couldn't get it.
	Hoax and chains, tax and kill.
	Hey, Rush, what's Canada going to do um when we start taking all their medicines if that part of the bill passes?
	I mean, they're not gonna like to have their prices raised because of scarcity.
	Well, see, the dirty little secret about that is that the prices are going to seek their own market level anyway, even after they're re-imported.
	Yep.
	And price fixing uh setting also rate leads to scarcity, as we know.
	Of course.
	Oh, it's exactly right.
	So it's fixing prices and you get less of the product that you're pro you're controlling.
	Well, just want to let you know and have a good Christmas that 28% of our women here in the Southlands are under 40, under 50 and found found to have cancers.
	Not all die, but you miss one and it increases the death rate by 15% for learning.
	You're talking about mammogram screenings.
	Amograms, yes.
	All right.
	Mark is a uh is a doctor in San Diego, by the way.
	Thanks, uh, thanks so much for the call.
	Folks, I uh I had an interesting meeting after the program yesterday with the uh with the Heritage Foundation.
	They sent four people down here for a uh just an update conference on how things are going, the membership drive and ask heritage.org, and they uh they showed me their new website design, and they asked me for some ideas.
	They asked me for some ideas, and I said, Well, you what you need to start doing is playing off the askheritage.org uh and have you know, people uh people uh open up a way for for people who are members on a um uh controversial issue that they may not understand to be able to ask somebody, ask a scholar at the Heritage Foundation and get the answer posted online.
	And they uh I think I think they're gonna work on that.
	And I also told them at the Heritage Foundation that one of the things I have been urging people here to do in times like this, because people ask me all the time, what can I do, Rush?
	What can I do?
	People are leaderless.
	The Republican Party right now, and this is not a complaint, I'm just giving you a fact.
	We have a lot of people in this country who oppose the Democrats, oppose Obama, oppose the agenda, and they would get behind anybody who would lead that opposition.
	But right now that opposition hasn't surfaced.
	They call here and they say, What can I do?
	You've heard them.
	And one of the things I said, what you need to do, and and this was an idea put forth by a uh a writer that had the piece published in Americans or AmericanThinker.com.
	Become the person in your family that is the go-to person when somebody has a question about anything going on.
	If somebody has a question about health care, and if there's an argument in your house about what the bill does or what it doesn't do, is an argument about what the Democrats say it is and the Republicans say it is, you be the one in your family to arbitrate the arguments.
	You be the one to know, you be the go-to person.
	That's what you can do.
	You'll have you you will have no idea, no comprehension of how you will influence people.
	And what and I was telling the Heritage Foundation uh foundation people this, and I thought one of the uses of their of their website and of the of the whole think tank, AskHeritage.org, is to enable people to have a one-stop place to go to become that well, also here.
	But beyond that, go to the AskHeritage.org and become that one person, the go-to person that has the answers.
	You I it will be fun when you become that person.
	You will love being the go-to person in your family.
	And it's easy to do.
	And it's easy to do with confidence.
	Once you have the facts, once you know what you're talking about, you will lose your fear in discussing it.
	And the Heritage Foundation's AskHeritage.org website is an ideal place for you to to uh to study and to learn and to become that go-to person.
	Now their membership has grown astoundingly this year.
	They are way ahead of their own projections.
	And they're gonna be with us all next year.
	That's one of the things the meeting was about.
	So go to AskHeritage.org and become a member, and all kinds of opportunities to interact with the people there open up to you in a number of ways, which you'll see when you become a member.
	It's AskHeritage.org, and the uh the membership they average membership fee is forty bucks.
	Uh average donation is forty dollars, and it's tax deductible.
	But the uh the smallest increment you can get into as a as a member you can you can pay is twenty-five.
	And I asked them what's your average?
	They said forty.
	So and in economic times like this, that's excellent because it means people are spending disposable income on fattening their brains, and that's a great place to do it.
	AskHeritage.org.
	Oh man, this is great.
	They are livid.
	The Democrats are livid.
	Bernie Sanders and his 767-page amendment, which would convert the U.S. healthcare system into a single payer government-run health care program is livid.
	Now his amendment is the most honest thing the Democrats have put forth in this entire health care debate.
	Bernie Sanders' amendment spells out what the end game is.
	Bernie Sanders just went to the floor of the Senate and tried to pull the bill.
	Pull his amendment so that the clerk could no longer read it.
	They realize what's going on here.
	And this is going to happen when the whole bill is done and presented.
	They're going to ask the uh Jim DeVent the Demint has vowed that the whole bill's gonna be read again.
	Dick Durbin went down there.
	Dick Durbin is all ticked off about it too.
	He said they're doing this.
	Republicans are doing this, reading this bill, making the clerk work hard, and this is going to it is gonna result in in in our continuing resolution to fund the troops in Afghanistan not being passed.
	And if that happens, these Republicans, and it's not just the Republicans, there's some independents involved in this student.
	That that was a swipe at Sanders for even introducing this thing.
	So they're in panic mode up there because they know exactly what this is that they're not trying to get the media to report that the Republicans will result in military troops not being funded in Afghanistan via continuing resolution because all the time for debate is going to be taken up reading the amendment.
	Bernie Sanders went down there and tried to pull the amendment so the clerk would have nothing to read.
	Exclamation point made, ladies and gentlemen here.
	This is uh is great because the most honest thing they have put forth, they're now recalling and uh and retracting.
	You know, the uh Zycam people called me the other day, they heard me say that I wish they had a pill for pinch nerves or a treatment for pinched nerves, and they don't.
	Let me tell you what we've done here, folks, because it's it's um I mean, I've I've I I feel like apologizing again today because I've been stuttering over some words, and it's just that I'm distracted uh by this the pain, and I can't do anything about it, other than I found standing up is the least pain.
	So we overnight, in addition to hardwiring this place for a high definition ditto cam, we have built everything up so I can stand up and do the program and reduce the pain somewhat.
	Uh and uh the Zycam works so well.
	They say, Why can't there be something that something can do for this?
	And and as I told you, the surgery for what I have.
	I've got a cervical pinch nerve, bulging disc, whatever it is, and the surgery goes through the larynx.
	I can't afford to take the risk, even though they say it's only two percent, but I can't do it, so I just have to let it subside on its own.
	And if it's been around for seven or eight years, it comes and goes, but it's it hasn't been this bad ever.
	And uh just you know, I get jealous because the Zycam cold remedy, if you take it early enough when it first sign of a cold, it stops it, or or at least it will shorten the duration and uh decompress the type of of of symptoms, the the depth of the symptoms that you have.
	It's an orange box, it's available in in in stores all over the place, and it works.
	I don't know about you, but I get it I catch a cold, and I I'm just like a baby.
	I may as well have the flu when I when I have a cold.
	And I get mad when I start feeling I'm getting one, and I just use the Zycam as directed, and it works.
	And I get so many testimonials from people for whom it's worked too.
	Now they need to work on a pinch nerve treatment.
	Who's next?
	John and Phoenix, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Hey, Rush, how are you?
	Megadiddoes, and uh Merry Christmas to everybody at the EIB.
	Thank you.
	And uh, just wanted to say, uh, you mentioned uh real quickly I was driving, I didn't hear it all, but something about one of the newscasters was saying, uh, yet again, someone was throwing a tantrum, and it made me think uh the fact that when uh New Gingrich and the boys won back in ninety-four, that uh Peter Jennings referred to us Americans as throwing a tantrum.
	It seems like any time uh someone stands up for liberty and freedom, the the media refers to it as throwing a tantrum, and uh personally it's just uh I guess it's wearing on me a little bit.
	Well, it shouldn't.
	I mean you you have to learn to accept certain things as they are, and the media not liking you, and the media impugning you.
	And the media doing everything they can to defeat the things that you believe in is something that is.
	It just is, and it's not going to change.
	You have to have uh boundaries where you wear some some imaginary armor and let the stuff bounce off of you and understand what they mean.
	They're the ones upset, They're the ones mad.
	They're the ones that know that our efforts have been effective, and they're simply trying to impugn the results by doing that.
	It's actually a sign of victory when they run on or run around and start saying things like, eh, for Republicans, the voters had a temperature.
	They're just a bunch of little kids.
	From the Hill newspaper, the Service Employees International Union is pulling back on supporting the Senate health care bill.
	They don't like the changes that have been made to accommodate moderate Democrats.
	So the unions are threatening to back out of support of this now.
	And that's Obama's big bailiwick.

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