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Dec. 21, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, there's one thing we can say with absolute ontological certitude.
Prostitution has been legalized in Washington, D.C. Mary Landrew, Ben Nelson, Chris Dodd.
He gets $100 million.
Vermont, Massachusetts.
On and on it goes.
Greetings.
We all got screwed, even prostitution is now been legalized.
Great to have you here, folks, as we kick off a couple days of Broadcast Excellence.
We'll be out on Wednesday and through January the 4th.
We've got Mark Steinen here on Wednesday, and then best of shows and guest hosts all next week, and then we'll be back.
Also, a programming note.
We have run into a couple of unforeseen snafus in the installation of the high-definition DittoCam.
And I should have, I should have, you know, I should have not promised to be back today because I just should have known we were going to run into these snafoos.
Also, there's this.
I continue to do the program standing up so as to relieve as much pressure as possible on my cervical spine where this pinched nerve is.
It's disc C5, and that screws up the angle of the camera anyway.
So one thing cancels out the other.
But it will be back, we promise, when we get back for the first of the year.
Now, here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
We have a special message, ladies and gentlemen, from the Senate Majority Leader, a special Christmas message from Senator Harry Reid.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
How's that hope and change working out for you?
Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays to all of you from all of us here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
You want to hear a liar lie.
You want to hear a liar lie right to your face.
We have two of them, two soundbites here.
Barack Obama, this morning in Washington at the White House, a press conference about health care and a number of other things.
The Congressional Budget Office now reports that this bill will reduce our deficit by $132 billion over the first decade and by as much as $1.3 trillion in the decade after that.
So I just want to be clear, for all those who are continually carping about how this is somehow a big spending government bill, this cuts our deficit by $132 billion the first 10 years and by over a trillion in the second.
That argument that opponents are making against this bill does not hold water.
That's just an out-not lie, folks.
I mean, there's no other way to characterize this.
It's not a prevarication.
He's not wrong.
He's not looking at a set of figures that are incorrect.
It's an out and out lie.
Even Robert Samuelson today in the Washington Post, a column which says passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama.
Well, by God, we only hope so because it's a nightmare for all the rest of us.
It damn well better be a nightmare for President Obama and his political future.
Samuelson, Robert Samuelson agrees this is all about Obama and his legacy and nothing else.
It will not cover everyone.
Even by 2019, there will be something like seven or eight million people uncovered without health insurance.
It will not control costs.
It will worsen the budget and the budget deficit.
It is going to raise taxes out the wazoo on virtually everybody.
It is going to disrupt the entire health care system.
It is atrocious legislation.
All of that.
That's the summary of the Robert Samuelson piece.
Here's the next Obama soundbite from this morning at the White House.
When my administration walked through the door, the country faced a growing economic downturn as well as a deepening fiscal hole.
Washington had passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy and an expensive new entitlement program without paying for any of it.
Health care costs continue to rise year after year, and little effort was made to cut wasteful spending.
As a result, over the previous eight years, the national debt doubled.
Doubled.
As I've said, in the long run, we can't continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences, as if waste doesn't matter, as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money.
That's what we've seen time and time again.
So he has the audacity here to say that Republicans spend your money like monopoly money.
And again, blaming the Bush administration, this guy is a coward.
He does not have the gonads or the spine to even stand up and accept what he's doing.
All of this is his doing.
He cannot even proudly say, you should like this.
You may not like it, but I'm telling you it's the best thing for you.
It's the best thing for me.
No, he knows it's a disaster.
He has to slough this off on his previous or his predecessor, the previous administration.
When my administration walked through the door, the country faced a growing economic downturn, a deepening fiscal hole.
Massive tax cuts are the cause of all this.
Those massive tax cuts created more revenue to the Treasury than they had anticipated.
They always do.
The capital gains tax cuts alone caused more money to pour into Washington than anybody figured.
Health care costs continue to rise.
Eight years, national debt doubled.
This man has spent more deficit money in one year than the Bush eight years in total, ladies and gentlemen.
The audacity of this is Alinsky-like.
Simply go out and lie to everybody's face.
And you note what's on tap here.
And this, because I have known this from the get-go, once they pass health care reform, all we're going to hear amounts to deficit.
And that is a code word for Democrats.
We have to raise taxes.
That's what's next.
The deficit.
And it'll be blamed on Bush.
And we've got to fix it.
And there are stories out there.
The Chinese are now saying the world does not have enough money to buy up U.S. Treasury bonds.
The U.S. does not have, or the world does not have enough money to buy up our debt.
The Chinese, the ChiComs are now saying this, and it's, I'll take them at their word.
The world doesn't have the money to buy the financing, to finance the spending of this out-of-control little child who thinks he is the Messiah, who thinks he's saving everything.
He's botching everything he touches.
Over at Copenhagen, it was an unmitigated disaster.
He tried to blame the Chinese for everything, and they're not taking it.
I mean, it's rarely have I seen, and I hoped for it.
I wanted this kind of failure, but not to the extent that he got what he wanted when it comes to health care.
But he is failing in every which way you can imagine, other than in his agenda to totally remake and destroy the country.
He's not making any friends around the world in the process, but I don't think he cares.
Everything that was said about how health care, health care reform will cut the deficit will be immediately forgotten.
If the health care reform is going to cut the deficit, we don't need to raise taxes, do we?
If health care reform, at that first bite, we're $132 billion over the first decade and $1.3 trillion deficit reduction the decade after that, then that's fine.
Health care will do its magic.
So we don't need to hear anymore about the deficit, do we?
But we will.
We will, along with all of Mr. Obama's campaign promises about not increasing taxes for anybody making less than $250,000.
And of course, we'll never hear another peep about those promised tax cuts that he made, cap and trade.
That'll also come along, and that will help us pay down the deficit.
All of this new spending, it's going to defy all logic.
But he's going to say all these new things that he's going to introduce will reduce the deficit, even giving amnesty to illegal aliens.
That will come under the umbrella of deficit reduction.
It'll be sold as a way to get more taxpayers to pay down the deficit.
We need more taxpayers.
We need to legalize these people.
They're already here working.
We need to collect taxes from them rather than have them send the money back home to Mexico.
An argument, by the way, they conveniently avoid when it comes to abortion.
We could outlaw abortion and have a whole bunch of taxpayers paying taxes.
So, the lying, the obfuscation, the outright insults to our intelligence continue.
Let's go back, by the way, July 23rd this year, Shaker Heights, Ohio, a wealthy suburb outside of Cleveland.
Obama held a town meeting on health care reform, just a portion of what he said.
Reform will keep the government out of your health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your coverage if you're happy with it.
So, don't let folks say that somehow we're going to be forcing government run health care.
It's just not true.
That just happened in the Senate this morning at 1 a.m.
And the final vote will be Christmas Eve, 7 p.m., if the schedule is maintained, in order to get this done before these senators go home and face the music from constituents, in order to get something done so the president can have something to really, really proclaim as a great achievement during his State of the Union speech.
You are not only going to be mandated to buy insurance, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg to do so.
And the left, I'm not sure the left's anger here is genuine because I think the really far extreme left knows exactly this: that they're going to get all that they want down the road.
But some of the left going after Lieberman, Paul Krugman said, hang Lieberman in effigy.
Can you imagine if I'd said that about Obama?
Paul Krugman says, time go out and hang Lieberman in effigy.
This is an outrage.
You will not keep the coverage.
You're going to be mandated to go out and buy insurance.
Why didn't they just make poverty illegal?
If you have a law that says you have to buy insurance, and by the way, you now have to buy it from insurance companies, not the government.
And you ought to see what insurance company stocks are doing.
The wise investor loaded up on insurance company stocks last week, knowing full well what was coming last night or early this morning.
Insurance company stocks are through the roof because Barack Obama and Harry Reid have now mandated that every American buy it, which I don't even think is constitutional.
Of course, I know it's not.
Also, Nancy Pelosi prevailed, ladies and gentlemen.
The Botox industry has been excluded from tax increases.
And replacing the Botox tax increase, tanning salons will now be hit with a 10% tax on indoor tanning services, replacing the cosmetic surgery tax, otherwise known as the Botox tax.
Brief time out, my friends.
We'll come back and continue after this.
Hi, you're welcome back.
I got an interesting note from a friend of mine who wants me to castigate you all for not getting it.
He wants me to castigate you in my audience for not understanding what's going on.
That's not what's happening here.
Everybody in the country understands what's going on.
We no longer have a representative republic.
We no longer have a democracy.
What we have here is a whistle-stop casino.
The game's rigged.
The dice are loaded.
The roulette wheel is controlled.
The cards are marked.
They're not counting on us being suckers.
They know we're suckers.
They know that we can't stop this.
Folks, this is literally outrageous.
I would not be this disquieted, this outraged over the health care scheme if the Democrats had just come out and said, we want to take over health care much like Canada and England have.
We want to appropriate one-sixth of the U.S. economy if they had told us that here's what you're going to get and here's how much it's going to cost and this is why we're doing it.
Here are the pluses and here are the minuses.
Then at least we could have had an open and honest, transparent debate with honest politicians and honest editorial writers giving their honest opinions.
Then and only then could we say we have a democracy that is functioning.
And I would call on myself and all of us to go the will of the people, which are universally opposed to this.
The vast majority of the American people have no dis.
If I were Senator Ben Nelson, I would be ashamed.
If I were Senator Ben Nelson, I would be embarrassed.
What a charade Senator Nelson ran and now trying to hide behind the shadow of the governor, the Republican governor of Nebraska.
All the Republican governor of Nebraska did was say, this is going to drive up our Medicaid costs.
We can't afford it.
And so Reed says, all right, well, we'll give, we'll pay a little prostitution fee here for Senator Nelson, and we'll give you, by the way, if I'm Missouri, if I'm Kansas, if I'm all these other states outside of Nebraska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, and Massachusetts, I'm a little ticked off today, too, if I'm a governor of one of those states.
How come those states get bought off?
How come my state doesn't get bought off?
How come my state's going to have all these expanded Medicaid costs and these other states aren't?
I mean, this is simply outrageous.
We got deceptions, we got deceit, we have payoffs.
We have out-and-out bribes here taking place in what was once the greatest deliberative body on earth.
We have secret meetings.
We have artificial deadlines.
We have accounting gimmicks that would put Enron and Bernie Madoff to shame.
They are so obvious, it's embarrassing to have to even explain them.
We have bills that don't come due until 2014 after Obama's possible second term and liberal senators getting another six years.
So you can say goodbye to this being a representative republic.
It's simply not a democracy anymore.
This is a whistle-stop casino.
And the American people are totally sold out, are totally ignored, mocked, and laughed at.
These sellouts of moderates like Nelson, Landrieu, and others demonstrates once again that these so-called Democrat moderates are no such thing.
They are liberals, liberals, liberals, liberals in any important question.
They are partisan Democrat hacks first and everything else second.
And they have the willing press attaching the moderate label to them to give them cover.
Just because they pretend to look responsible does not mean that they are.
Only Lieberman is somewhat conservative, but not on economic issues.
Now, if I'm an activist on the left wing, if I'm one of the kook fringe, I might be saying, what the hell's going on here?
While the bill is onerous and expensive, it's a fiscal fraud.
It's a tax increase on everybody at a time of 10% unemployment, as I understand the bill.
It's none of the stuff that they really said it was going to be.
None of the stuff they really want.
None of it.
There is no public option right now.
There is no expanded Medicare right now.
But here's what I think.
You know, what they've done here, ladies and gentlemen, and I know why they've done it.
They've front-loaded the bill with taxes.
They backloaded the benefits in order to make the bill look fiscally prudent and to also protect the reelection of the criminals that pulled this off, the president and these senators that are up in 2010 and 2012.
Now, liberals like Franklin Delama Roosevelt and LBJ front-loaded the benefits.
They backloaded the taxes, Social Security and Medicare, in order to set the hook in the mouth of the middle American taxpayer.
By the time people realized what national fiscal calamities these programs are, huge, entrenched, selfish interest groups had sprung up to defend them to the death.
So when people get taxes without benefits from Obamacare, they may rebel.
And that's going to happen for four years.
The tax increases kick in next year after this SOB gets signed.
This is what happened to Reagan's catastrophic health care plan for seniors.
Reagan wanted to come up with a catastrophic insurance plan for seniors.
And people found out about it.
And this is when they ripped Dan Rusty Rostenkowski out of his car in Chicago, practically beat him up.
But they have front-loaded the taxes here and backloaded the benefits for the express purpose of protecting themselves at reelection time.
However, I think it may work just the opposite.
It may work just the opposite.
All these tax increases and no benefits, I don't even like using the word benefits.
There's not one damn benefit in this whole thing, but you know what I mean.
You know, the Associated Press here, state-controlled AP, has a story on the winners and losers in this bill, and there are no winners.
There are no winners except the political class.
There are no winners except the Democrats, at least temporarily.
Ultimately, they are going to pay a huge price for this in November like they cannot imagine.
Here are the winners as defined by AP, cosmetic surgeons, Botox, who fended off a 5% tax on their procedures.
Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Chris Dodd.
These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states.
In the case of Nebraska, the feds are picking up 100% of the tab of a planned expansion of the program in perpetuity.
Vermont and Massachusetts get temporary increases in the federal share of their Medicaid tabs.
In Louisiana, moderate liberal Democrat Mary Landrew negotiated a $100 million for 2011 before announcing her support for the legislation.
Beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage plans, the private managed care plans within Medicare in Florida.
Hundreds of thousands of them will have their benefits grandfathered in thanks to a provision tailored by Senator Ben Nelson and longshoremen.
That's Bill Nelson, Democrat Florida.
Longshoremen, they were added to the list of workers in high-risk professions who are shielded from the full impact of a proposed new tax on high-value insurance plans, the Cadillac plans.
Electrical linemen were already included along with cops, firefighters, emergency first responders, and workers in construction, mining, forestry, fishing, and certain agriculture jobs.
Obama had the audacity to say that he hailed the Senate for standing up to special interests.
He praised the Senate for standing up to special interests, for crying out loud, this is nothing but a gift to one special interest after another.
Here's another winner.
A handful of physician-owned hospitals being built around the country, including one in Bellevue, Nebraska, which would be permitted to get referrals from the doctors who own them, avoiding a new ban in the Senate bill that'll apply to hospitals built in the future.
This is also something given to Senator Nelson from Nebraska.
Now, the losers, and the one losers that they didn't identify here is the American people, but that's at the top of the list of losers.
AP identifies tanning salons, progressives, i.e. liberals.
They had to give up on their long-held dream of a new government-run insurance plan so that Democrat leaders could lock down the necessary votes from moderates.
There are no moderates.
There are only liberal hack Democrats.
And don't forget, this is just the first stage.
Tom Harkin said, we're eventually going to get to a mansion, but this is just the starter house.
I mean, this is absurd, folks.
People making over $200,000 a year.
The Medicare tax is going to go up to go up by almost a full percentage point, putting the Medicare tax at 2.35% on income over $200,000 a year for individuals, $250,000 for couples.
And generic drug makers are losers.
They fought unsuccessfully to block 12 years of protection that makers of brand name biotech drugs will get against generic would-be competitors.
So they've shut down competition.
They've shut down research and development.
They have just generally made a mess of everything with the president out there lying, saying it's going to be a deficit reduction that is not going to run up any kind of expenses.
It's well, it's just insulting.
And it's not American.
What has happened here did not happen in the greatest traditions of the United States Senate or the U.S. Congress.
What happened here is in the greatest traditions of Chicago thug politics, but not much else.
You want to listen to Dingy Harry this morning on the Senate floor, a portion of his remarks.
On average, an American dies from lack of health insurance every 10 minutes.
That means in the short time I've been speaking, our broken system has claimed at least two lives.
Another American has died.
Another American has died.
Two have died.
A preventable death, each of them.
So as our citizens face heart-rendering decisions every day, tonight every senator has a choice to make as well.
That choice, are you going to do all you can to avert the next preventable death?
I mean, this is, folks, this is outrageous.
Harry Reid claiming Americans are dying from lack of health insurance as he is speaking.
Harry, send them an ambulance and shut up.
Give me the names.
Who are these people that died while you were speaking?
And might they have had the television set on?
Could you be a leading cause of death here?
He continued.
All over this great country of ours, people are dying soon, far too soon.
More and more Americans who come down with the flu or even develop diabetes.
Stop this.
Stop this.
The flu.
Another mess the government made.
There was no pandemic.
There was no epidemic of swine flu.
People are dying.
The life expectancy in this country continues to go up.
They cannot tell the truth in even one syllable of what they say.
Suffer a stroke, are dying far earlier than modern science says they should die.
More and more Americans who contract skin cancer or have a heart condition are dying rather than being cured.
Do you believe this?
This is not about partisanship or about procedure.
This is not about politics.
It certainly is not about polling.
It's about people.
It's about life and death in America.
It's about human suffering.
And given the chance to relieve this suffering, we must.
I mean, This is just, he's portraying a third world country here with absolutely one hospital.
It just, just, I don't know.
This is before the vote at 1 o'clock this morning, and it's just, it's just unseemly.
This is not about politics.
It's not about polling.
It's about people.
It's about life and death.
It's about human suffering.
Yeah, it's about the loss of freedom.
That's the single greatest casualty here is once this becomes law, virtually every aspect of all of our lives will be regulated by people like Harry Reid and Barack Obama for whatever reason and motivation they conjure up.
Now, here's David Rodham Gergen on CNN this morning, their newsroom show.
The anchor Tom Foreman spoke with Gergen.
He said, look, certainly a victory for the White House, but in many ways, it seems like the fissure in this country between the left and the right, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, I guess you could argue, is even deeper.
This is an historic moment.
The Senate of the United States has never voted for universal access before.
This vote tonight, the 60, now ensures that the Universal Access Bill will pass the Senate.
That's very, very important for them.
Having said that, severe disappointment that this is the first major social legislation that's passed in this country in more than half a century that has not enjoyed a vote from the other side is, I think, brought us to the place where we can say historic legislation is about to be made, but it's a tragedy to me that it can't be done with more support from the other side, that this couldn't have been worked out in a more bipartisan way.
The blame is pretty evenly divided here about who's responsible for that.
But the fact is, the partisanship, the poisonous, toxic atmosphere that exists on the Senate floor tonight and in much of Washington is not healthy for the country.
This is the fault of one person, Barack Obama.
This is the fault of the president of the United States who wants a monument to himself.
He is forcing the Democrats in this way.
Probably not having to use too much pressure because they're as leftist radical as he is for all intents and purposes.
Tragic that this was passed with no Republican votes?
Hell, it's a godsend.
It's a damn godsend that Harriet, that Olympia Snow and Susan Collins held their ground.
Folks, this would be a disaster if just one Republican had voted with them, because then they could say it was bipartisan.
The fact that the Republicans held out and are nowhere near this is the only decent thing about this, not only for their future, but for ours.
Be right back.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
I'll tell you something.
The fact that Olympia Snow and Susan Collins held out shows that even the dumbest Snow and Collins held out shows that even the most obdurate Republican knows that this vote will be toxic for reelection, even in liberal Maine.
If they thought this would help their reelection in Maine, they would have voted for it.
I tell you, the internal polling on this must be incredibly bad for the Democrats.
I just ran some numbers here during the break.
Harry Reid said two Americans are dying every 10 minutes, right?
Make sure that I use the right figures.
Yes, two figures.
Two Americans are dying every 10 minutes.
Shouldn't that mean that we should get the health benefits right away, not until 2014?
Do you realize that the Democrats are doing nothing about all those Americans dying every 10 minutes?
Because the benefits, the so-called benefits, I hate using that word.
There are no benefits, period, in this, in this debacle.
Let's call it the health care spending.
The spending design to make sure everybody's covered and make sure everybody gets better health care than ever before, paid for by the tax increases on a couple of millionaires.
But we're not going to start doing all the great things in health care until 2014.
So the American people will continue to die while paying higher taxes.
There are our random numbers here.
525,600 minutes in one year.
And I know right now there are people going to their calculators trying to prove me wrong because my track record on math numbers on the fly, I admit, is very shaky.
525,600 minutes in one year.
So if we delay the so-called benefits, the great new coverage, the great new health care, at cheaper prices than ever before, if we delay the benefits for four years, that is 2,102,400 minutes.
So the Democrats are killing 210,240 people by delaying the benefits for four years.
According to Dingy Harry's own words, during the time of his speech, two Americans died.
He didn't even bother to send an ambulance.
When you run the numbers out here, by delaying all the miracles in this bill until 2014, 210,240 people will die who otherwise would not have because of Democrats.
Where is the outrage?
Go to the phones, people eager to get in on this, I'm sure.
We'll start in North Platinum, Nebraska.
Hi, Becky.
Great to have you here with us.
Hi, Megha Dido from the Kornhusker State Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
You bet.
Thank you.
I guess I just wanted to address, you know, the complete condescension and arrogance of the Democratic Party.
I just feel so betrayed by Ben Nelson.
You know, he toured on his town hall meetings this summer, and he promised us what he would and wouldn't vote for.
And here this weekend, you know, he's flip-flopped.
And just the idea of, well, you know, I know what's good for you.
So I'm just going to vote for this, despite the fact that 57% of Nebraskans are opposed to this.
And it's just, it's very insulting, I think.
Well, I have his, I have a little soundbite here of Senator Nelson.
This was Saturday in Washington, D.C.
And let's see, he yelled a press conference.
And here is a portion of what he had to say.
Change is never easy, but change is what's necessary in America today.
And that's why I intend to vote for poacher and vote for health care reform.
While each of my colleagues may differ on how to fix the system, I know of no members who are suggesting that the current system is satisfactory.
I know of no member who doesn't think that we need to change our health care system.
Where we differ, and I say so with great respect to all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, is in the way we fix our health care system.
Well, that's just BS.
It's total bunk.
Change is never easy.
That's true.
Change is very difficult for a lot of people.
But change is what's necessary in America today, and that's why I intend to vote for...
Yeah, it's not why you're voting for it.
You're voting for it because you were paid off.
You're voting for it because you were paid off, and you're even sidestepping your own moral issue of abortion.
Abortion's still going to be legal.
Abortion is still going to be paid for by taxpayers.
And this was supposedly his number one moral issue.
That's surprising how easily he was able to change his view on that and sweep that away all in exchange for a bribe.
He's a prostitute.
I don't know how else to describe it.
Nebraska is going to have 100% of its Medicaid expenses paid for by the feds in perpetuity.
In perpetuity for the new enrollees.
And so here's an excuse for more federal spending.
I don't want anybody to ever tell me that Ben Nelson's a moderate or that Mary Lander is a moderate.
You cannot.
It's just like I told the blue dogs in the house.
You vote for this.
You're not a moderate.
You're running around on fiscal restraint policies that you believe in controlling spending.
You vote for this.
There's no way you get to call yourself a moderate or a fiscal conservative ever again.
It isn't going to happen.
Senator Nelson, you're finished.
You're finished.
Nebraskans are not stupid.
They have long memories.
There aren't that many of them either.
Nebraska's population is not that great in terms of other states.
It's not that many people have to forget.
And they won't.
And listen to Axelrod.
They had to send Axelrod out yesterday to defend this.
They couldn't send out anybody else because they didn't trust them.
So he goes on this week with Stephanopoulos.
And Stephanopoulos says, what do you say to progressives like Howard Dean who think they've given an awful lot here?
They think they've given up the public option.
They've given up the Medicare expansion.
And they see moderate centrist Democrats like Ben Nelson, independents like Lieberman making demands and giving everything they want.
What do you say to them?
This bill has the imprint of 60 members of the Senate.
But look, Governor Dean's main concern was that he called this a giveaway to the insurance company, but his facts were wrong.
The fact is that this bill for the first time prohibits insurance companies from spending excessive amounts of money on CEO salaries, on administrative costs, on shareholder profits, so that more money is devoted to patient care.
That's written into the bill.
Yeah, yeah.
So we're all supposed to be happy.
Howard Dean's supposed to be happy because we're destroying an industry here.
That's how he's supposed to be made happy.
We've written it into the bill.
We are going to prohibit spending excessive amounts of money on CEO salaries, on administrative costs, on shareholder profits.
We're going to make them nonprofits.
We're going to make sure they do everything.
This is fascism.
What you have here is privately owned companies being run by people like Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and David Axelrod.
You want to know what the definition of fascism is?
You just heard it here from David Axelrod.
And they're going to run these companies out of business, thereby necessitating the public option.
Howard Dean will eventually be 150% happy as a clam.
So the Senate bill limits the pay of insurance company CEOs, limits their expenses, their administrative costs, and limits their profits.
So much for just controlling pay and all those things, TARP companies.
Why, they can just reach out and by fiat, by Senate legislation, require businesses, private businesses, to run their affairs the way Joe David Axelsrod to Obama say they should.
What you have here, my friends, is fascists.
Plain and simple.
Some people don't like me calling Ben Nelson a prostitute.
Okay.
If that's too hard, we'll just call him Ben bribed Nelson.
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