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Jan. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 1, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, fill seekers conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's truth detector, and the doctor of democracy on Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Sheldon Whitehouse.
Here, play this.
Play this sound by play play number eight again again because we've got this and then two more to go on this.
This is Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate floor.
This is after Dingy Harry yesterday afternoon had denigrated me already, blamed me for getting tough on Mitch McConnell, which made McConnell say no to Dingy Harry's request for the weekend off to go to a fundraiser.
Sheldon Whitehouse then got up there.
Democrat from Rhode Island, he said this.
This is about creating a political defeat for the president of the United States on their side.
Right.
Nothing to do with health care, entirely about creating a defeat for this new president.
When in the face of all the obstruction that the distinguished Senator from Michigan described so eloquently, this record-breaking, unprecedented in the history of the Senate obstruction that we're seeing the person who I think right now seems to characterize the leadership of the radicalized right wing that is running the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, is telling the other side that they haven't been obstructive enough.
Well, here's Sheldon Whitehouse, and notice this new president, this new we just want to politically defeat this new pres I don't care if he's new, I don't care if he's old.
I don't care if he's black, I don't care if he's I don't care.
All I care about what he's trying to do to this country and stopping it.
So, Senator, you are exactly right.
But I'm not alone, Senator.
Do you realize that support for this bill in the Senate is plummeting?
It is cratering.
You're down into the low forties and high thirties in some poll, Senator, of people who approve of this.
The vast majority do not want this thing to pass.
And are you telling the world, Senator, that the American people, who a vast majority of whom oppose government-run health care, do so not because of what the plan would do to them, but because they want Obama to lose?
Are you saying the entire American population opposing this is only interested in Obama losing?
So I'm a part of a conspiracy here with the uh with the public against this new president, Obama.
This is how these fools think, folks.
It's all about Obama, it's not about the people, it's all about Obama and the Democrats and their power.
Here's a question.
I have a question for Sheldon Whitehouse and his master, Harry Reed.
Why do you reject what the people are telling you?
Why do you hate the American people?
Why do you hold the American people in contempt?
Why do you insist on enslaving us in some kind of government-run health system when they're telling you loudly and repeatedly they do not want this?
Why don't you believe in the public's will?
Why don't you understand that they understand what you're doing?
Why don't you believe in representative government?
Why don't you believe in the limits placed on you in the Constitution?
What do you think your role is?
To flood the zone with so much confusing confusing rhetoric and stuff that you're just gonna swamp people?
What is your role here?
Are you many little dictators talking about wanting us Obama to s fail?
What what is you want Obama to succeed regardless of what it is he's trying to do?
Tell me, Senator White House, why haven't you supported an amendment that would apply the same government health care you would impose on the rest of us on you and your own family?
Why are you such a self-serving hack?
Senator Whitehouse, If this is so wondrous, if this health care bill is so miraculously needed and wonderful, why don't you sign on to it?
Tell me, Senator White House.
Who died and named you chief of doctors?
Who died, Senator White House, and named you chief of nurses and hospitals and nursing homes?
Tell me, Senator White House.
Who gave you the power over our health decisions?
Tell me, Senator Whitehouse.
Who are you?
Who appointed you?
Who appointed you to suggest that we follow your mandates on any aspect of our health care?
Who are you?
Where's the resume?
I want to see it.
This continued.
He then asked with Debbie Stabenow what Rush Limbaugh would say if the Democrats tried to work with Republicans.
Do you think there's any likelihood that people on the other side would suddenly want to cooperate with President and not President Obama and not hand him a defeat?
Do you think that suddenly, if we did that, Rush Limbaugh would say, okay, uh Republicans in the Senate?
Go ahead.
Work with the Democrats now.
Don't just be the party of obstruction and delay, but try to work cooperatively for the American people.
Before commenting on that, this is what this is what Stabenow said.
I can't imagine.
Frankly, I think it's unfortunately they view it as in their self-interest, whether it's a business decision as a radio host, whether it's a decision of the other party.
I appreciate the fact that it's hard to lose elections.
We've all been in those situations.
I appreciate the fact that folks don't want to be in the minority, and most of us have been in that situation.
I appreciate that.
But I think all of us were really hoping that this year, with two wars, with the deficit we have, with the challenge on health care, with the need to create jobs, with the financial crisis that we have, that this year, somehow, it would be different for a while.
Oh, play me the violins.
Let's get the the piano from a love story.
Where do I begin?
Back to Sheldon Whitehouse.
Any likelihood that people on the other side would suddenly want to cooperate with President Obama and not hand him a defeat.
See, even it's about Obama.
It's Obama's not talking to Republicans, Senator Whitehouse.
It's Obama that's not accepting any alternative ideas.
It's Obama this, it's Obama that.
And by the way, um, why do you need Republicans?
You have sixty votes there.
Why do you why do you need the Republicans?
Obviously, you're worried you don't have 60 votes.
You don't have 60 Democrats, so you dump on me.
You blame me because you don't have any Republican support.
Do you ever stop and think that maybe there are people that genuinely don't like this bill?
I just I I I listen to these people in absolute awe.
I am overawed by these people and not in a positive way.
Let's change gears a little bit.
Al Gore, I mentioned yesterday, uh maybe it was a couple days ago.
Al Gore has uh written a poem that is in his book.
Our what is the title of that book?
Last choice, first choice, only choice, it's something choice in there.
Is this not pro-choice?
But uh don't look it up.
Our choice, our choice, he's written a poem, and uh CNN.com has a uh a web series called The Halls, which I guess they go out and anybody roaming the halls of CNN, they stop them and ask him questions.
And I guess Al Gore was roaming the halls at uh CNN, unidentified reporterette.
Mr. Vice President, first things first, we want to know why did you write this poem?
Are you trying for poet laureate?
I never I didn't intend to.
The the truth is I wrote 28 pages when I was writing this book on the latest impacts of the climate crisis.
And since the book, Our Choice is all about the solutions, it didn't really fit anywhere.
So I kept trying to squeeze it down to where it would Fit.
And I came up with a few lines, and then I decided, oh well, what the heck?
Try to make it into a poem.
So I'm not a poet, but I did my best.
And then standing in the hall at CNN on a show called the Halls.
Al Gore read his poem.
Do you want to read the poem?
You want to hear the poem?
I you know what I should have done.
I've been distracted this morning.
I should have, I should have told Mike to go out there and get uh uh the piano from uh Love Story.
Put that behind this.
But let's here's Al Gore reading his poem, which you should know that that the members of state controlled media, they think this is just the best.
They think this is rad.
They are overimpressed.
They think this is one of the best.
It's gut-wrenching.
It is, it's true.
It is uh what was the Vanity Fair guy would have describe it as uh uh frightening in its scope.
Listen to it.
Once in September soon, a floating continent disappears in midnight sun.
Vapors rise as fever settles on an acid sea.
Neptune's bones dissolve.
Snow glides from the mountain.
Ice fathers floods for a season, a hard rain comes quickly.
Then dirt is parched.
Kendling is placed in the forest for the lightning celebration.
Unknown creatures take their leave on mourn.
Horsemen ready their stirrups.
Passion seeks heroes and friends.
The bell of the city on the hill is rung.
The shepherd cries, the hour of choosing has arrived.
Here are your tools.
Well, we did find the music put behind it.
It's Al Gore and his poem from his book, Our Choice.
And this is...
Thank you.
No, they are.
I'm telling you sturdily, I read the reaction to this guy.
They think they're all caught up in this.
They they this is emoting.
This is compassion for the planet.
This is the heart.
This is Yeah, yeah, it's they think it's fabulous.
Okay, quick time out.
Your phone calls are coming up right after this.
Stay here.
Hi, welcome back.
Hey, Senator uh Senator White House, tell me one more thing.
Who is it who is meeting in secret?
Who is it who cut out Republicans?
Who is it who keeps these bills from the American people?
Who is it who promised transparency and negotiations, aired on C-SPAN but lied about it?
Who?
It was President Obama.
All of that.
You guys, you Democrats are the ones doing this in secret.
Now, before we get to the phones, this this is just it's it's hilarious.
Have you been to the Drudge Report?
Have you seen the picture of the it's an amazing picture taken at Copenhagen?
Or is it uh Oslo?
It's Oslo.
Uh over during the Nobel Peace Prize uh ceremony week, and the uh there's a it's it's it's a spiraling blue column of light in the middle of the sky, all the way down to the ground, and it happened.
People, what is this?
Nobody had ever seen anything like it.
Here's what it was.
The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway.
Russia's defense ministry said that a Bulava missile was launched on Wednesday by a nuclear submarine submerged in the White Sea.
Its third stage suffered an unspecified failure.
Photographs and amateur video footage of the uh bluish white in the Norwegian skies have been circulating on the internet since last Wednesday.
The ministry did not confirm that these lights were the result of a failed launch, but military analysts said the lights were clearly a result from uh the explosion of Bulaba.
Now, what a perfect punctuation mark to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.
This is what's hilarious about this.
Obama has this vision, as you all know, of a uh global nuclear disarmament.
Everybody giving up their nukes.
Among many other of his initiatives.
And one of the reasons he was honored, one of the reasons he was honored, they got the Nobel Peace Prize because he wants to get rid of nukes.
Vladimir Putin, it seems, had no problem reminding the world at just that time in a beautifully timed nuclear ballistic missile test that both the Norwegians and Obama are chasing unicorns.
But it's a fail for everybody.
Putin's test failed.
It's a failure for Obama and an epic fail for the Nobel Committee.
I mean, you realize that this is hilarious.
That the Nobel Peace Prize, the Russians launched from a submarine a nuclear test missile.
It causes spectacular lights and panic.
What the hell was that?
It's basically Vader Vladimir Putin was thumbing his nose at the whole peace concept and the whole peace prize, launching it on the night of the peace prize ceremony.
A nuclear missile.
Back to the phones.
John in Crawfordville, Florida.
Great to have you, sir.
You're up first today.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh I had a question.
Uh if they pass the health care bill.
And the uh it's not supposed to take effect till 2013, right?
Twenty fourteen, yeah.
Twenty fourteen, and all that money is sitting around, and Democrats are still in power.
Are they gonna start using it as a slush fund and start using it before?
Because you know they're not.
No, here's no no no.
Here's here's what's gonna happen.
That is being done simply to get a false CBO score.
They do these things in 10-year increments, and in order to get support for the bill, they have to have it come in under a trillion dollars over ten years.
And the reason that's magical is because they're putting out the number that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars cost a trillion dollars.
And so they think it's a moral victory if they can come back and say, look, our health care bill, and that's for people.
That's not for unjust wars, those are for people coming in less than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
So the way they do it, they have this 10-year plan.
The spending on the health care plan doesn't start till 2014.
But John, the tax increases will start ASAP immediately.
And so it's it's uh uh it it it gives away the the ruse here.
What this actually is is a tax increase bill, multiple tax increase bill, a redistributionist bill.
It's not about health care.
If it were if we had these dire emergencies, they'd start the health care spending.
If this was magical, if this was going to solve everybody's health care problems, they'd start the spending on that immediately, but it doesn't.
And also want to wait till after the 2012 presidential election, so that Obama will not be dragged down by people disliking this thing in its uh implementation.
So it's they they they've got they've got slush funds out the wazoo.
They've got unspent tarp, they have uh uh the the unspent stimulus, but there's just uh there's no stopping them.
There's a there's a story I have here in the stack about Pelosi.
They just spend, spend, spend, spend.
There is no end in sight to the spending.
They just keep it here it is, it's a heritage foundation piece.
Speaker Pelosi's spend a Palooza.
Pelosi is expected to attach a provision to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill that would increase the national debt limit by 1.925 trillion dollars.
The uh debt limit increase would authorize the United States Treasury to borrow as much as 14 trillion dollars, 30% higher than the 10.8 trillion limit that was in place when Obama was immaculated.
Now, can we put that in perspective for you here?
The debt limit, the amount the Treasury was allowed to borrow from the ChICOMs and anybody else who lend it to us was 10.8 trillion in January.
They have now asked for an increase, the second one since he was inaugurated, that will take the debt limit up to 14 trillion dollars.
Let me give you an analogy, and I will make this personal.
Over my years of dieting, and I've done the yo-yo, you gain weight and you lose weight.
And I bet uh all of you who have had a weight problem and uh or do have one have experienced the same thing I have.
There are times when there was no off button on the appetite with regard to eating.
There was nothing that said, stop, you're full.
Can't take it anymore.
And you could feel it, but you just didn't stop.
This is where we there's there's no off button for Pelosi.
These people are gluttons.
Except they're not eating, they are spending money.
They just spend and spend and spend, and there's no way to tell them to stop.
There is no off button to manage them in a responsible manner.
And I think, you know, this is a uh a natural reaction to uh abundance.
When you have a lot of anything, you tend to use it.
They always claim that we are terrible savers.
We don't save enough.
If you have a lot of something that you like, you tend to use it.
You don't hoard it, you use it.
And just two years ago, we had so much money coming into governments, they got addicted to spending it as fast as they could.
The unemployment rate was 4.5%, the tax increase of tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts were generating so much more revenue than anybody had projected, well the experts had projected.
Uh and now the government is just morbidly obese.
It's one of the ways of looking at this and trying to understand it.
They are just spending and spending and spending and stealing, and they can't stop.
Now you add the ideology to this.
The ideology is that they have no problem with the destruction that they are causing, because in their perverted view, this is what empowers them in perpetuity.
They don't conceive of losing power at the ballot box.
Power is their birthright.
That's why they're headed, they do not have the slightest idea what's going to happen to them next November.
All right, Mike on an audio sound by standby for 11, 12, and 13 in order.
You know, I have a I have a question, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
William Shatner asked me, how do you know?
How do you know?
You know who that question needs to be asked of?
Why didn't somebody ask Sheldon Whitehouse?
How do you know?
Somebody needs to ask Harry Reed, how do you know?
Somebody needs to ask Barack Obama, how the hell do you know?
What the hell have you ever done?
Who the hell are you?
Somebody needs to ask Hillary Clinton, how do you know?
I'm talking about this health care fiasco.
How the asking, how do I know?
They asked me.
How do I know?
I do know.
I know more than they know.
They're lying.
They are liberals.
Somebody needs to ask Diane Feinstein, how do you know it is moral to take taxpayer money to fund insurance policies that will pay for abortions?
How do you know that that's right?
We're asking the wrong people.
How do you know?
I'm not the subversive.
In fact, these same people, I want to tell you something, folks, these same people, the Obamas on down, these people in uh in the 60s, they were the ones.
Their mantra was we must challenge authority.
So here I am challenging authority, and I'm the subversive.
I gotta shut up.
How do you know, Limbaugh?
How do you know?
That's not the question.
I can't do anything to anybody.
I can't get in the way of your doctor-patient relationship.
I can't do a thing about your insurance policy.
Harry Reed is trying to, Obama's trying to.
How do they know?
Where is it written we have to be deferential to these people when we elect them?
Now let's get to the guts of this.
Here's here's here's the latest intelligence of ladies and gentlemen from Capitol Hill, the Senate, particularly on health care.
Staffers from Senator Reed's office, the Senate Finance Committee, and the help committee all had a conference call with several stakeholders last night.
And the here are the notes from the call.
Health care will resume on Monday.
The congregational budget office score will come out on Monday or Tuesday.
They will finalize the language on the OPM and the Medicare buy-in and uh the any role of public option and abortion, and then Reed will file cloture on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Now, the three cloture motions, because there's this the uh uh there's three different versions here floating around here and and all these amendments.
The three cloture motions will each take 30 hours of debate.
This means if you do the math, that they are hoping to pass a bill, anything in the Senate on the 22nd or 23rd of this month.
Now, what's also known is that the House will not pass the Senate bill.
Whatever comes out of the Senate, the House is not going to go for it.
So there will have to be some kind of conference.
The original plan was to have the House rubber stamp a Senate bill and a Senate bill that would look much like the House bill, but that's not going to work out.
They Obama's not going to have a bill on his desk by Christmas.
But they want the Senate for Obama to get the bill in the Senate done by then.
Now, many experts think that this is a very ambitious and optimistic timeline.
That there's a lot to try to get done here by the 22nd or 23rd.
And here are the here are the um factors.
There are some factors.
Dorgan has an amendment, and he's irritated.
Dorgan is irritated that his colleagues, particularly Carper, who has the hold on it, and and Lottenberg, who is trying to neuter it with a second degree amendment, are messing with his amendment.
I'll tell you about his amendment in just a second.
Now, Reed, it's it's about the re-importation of drugs from Canada, cheap cheap drugs.
Harry Reid has voted for the reimportation previously, but the White House knows, and this is key, this is a Dorgan amendment.
Now, the White House knows that if Dorgan wins his amendment, and that means this bill permits the reimportation of cheaper quote-unquote drugs from Canada, then big pharma has no choice but then to try to kill it.
And they don't want a fight with big pharma.
They'd rather have Big Pharma on their on their side.
So Reed is in a pickle still.
Don't believe any of these stories that say they're close, that they've come to a groundbreaking deal or any of this.
There is a long way to go before they get to paradise.
And Senator Obama, by the way, Senator Obama voted for re-importation.
When it came up when he was still in the Senate, he voted for re-importing drugs from Canada at a cheaper price.
Next is CBO.
Reed is is counting on getting favorable estimates next Monday or Tuesday from the CBO on this latest deal that they announced earlier this week, where they get to get it rid of the public option.
They're going to have this nonprofit insurance company private sector supervised by the Federal Government.
That's what they're waiting on the CBO to score, and he's expecting that he's going to get a favorable number out of that.
And then there's Lieberman.
Lieberman is is there because uh if if the public option is not done away with to his satisfaction, he's not on board, and they need Lieberman.
Then of course there's Ben Nelson, and he's twisting in the wind on abortion.
Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landry is still not a done deal.
Any of these things can still blow up.
Plus there are the Republicans using procedures, parliamentary parliamentary procedures, and uh offering all these amendments.
Now the purpose I I talked to Senator McConnell about about the uh purpose of the amendments.
He said we're trying to flush out with these amendments just who it is that really we have to focus on here.
And uh the two names that he mentioned were uh uh Ben Nelson and Jim Webb in Virginia, because there there's there's something that that Webb is not going along with the Democrats on forget specifically what it is.
My point in mentioning all this is that the Republicans in the Senate are using parliamentary procedures, they are um uh offering all these amendments not to make the bill better, but to flush out and to find out who it is that they really need to work with to stop this.
That is their objective to stop it.
So Reed has a very ambitious and optimistic plan with a lot of obstacles in his way, and part of the part of the plan is to adopt a public position.
Oh, we're so close, it's just a fate of conflict.
It's just a matter of time here.
We've all come to agreement on these big things, is designed to dispirit people and get you not to show up on December 15th at a code red rally.
That's huge.
Tuesday afternoon, December 15 to 1.30 in the afternoon.
People are going to be flowing in, flying in, driving in, bussing in.
The question is, will Pelosi let them get anywhere near?
The Capitol.
She denied it last time.
But this there's a huge groundswell because just like the Sheldon Whitehouse guy.
He's blaming every American who opposes this simply wanting to defeat Obama.
Not that they don't want the bill, not because they don't like what the bill's going to do to them and their doctor-patient relationship.
So Sheldon Whitehouse is not listening to his emails.
He's not listening to his phone calls.
He's in Roe Island.
I don't even know what the polling on this health care is in Rhode Island.
They don't poll much there.
So anyway, people are share they are they're fried on this.
They are they're fit to be tied.
Because they believe that this is a representative republic.
And that elected officials serve constituents.
And they're learning that these people serve Obama.
Now, here's Reed's problem with Dorgan, and this I'm I referred to this mere moments ago.
Reed has the problem that he has to figure out what to do with Dorgan's amendment, which is ready to be voted on.
Dorgan's amendment would allow drug reimportation, which most of the left and some Republicans for various reasons would vote for.
Because it's cheaper prices.
And of course, that's uh the you think you're serving your constituents if you do anything that lowers prices.
Now, if it passes, big pharma will have to get involved, take on the bill, and they and Reed does not want that, uh, nor does Obama.
Loudenberg's amendment is the loophole that makes re-importation toothless, and this is what Dorgan is not happy about.
The Lautenberg amendment to the Dorgan amendment would preclude reimportation unless safety were certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
And since we don't have the capacity to certify a manufacturing and distribution abroad, certification never would happen.
It is a toothless amendment, and it makes Dorgan's amendment worthless.
And Dorgan's not happy about this.
Now, I would assume that the Republican leadership knows that the Dorgan amendment is one of our best weapons right now, which is why Reed doesn't want to bring it up for a vote right now.
By refusing the uh uniform consent, which is that that means that they can skip all the procedures, they just just skip all the debate, they just vote on it.
So if if they refuse the uniform consent, Dorgan has made, or rather, uh uh McConnell has made life's really miserable here and more difficult for Harry Reed and has bought us a lot more time.
So it's I I would rather uh deal with this, as I say, on the um on the ideological front and just say this whole thing is worthless and it needs to be opposed because of the people supporting it.
But I know that doesn't fly with a lot of people.
Some people want details, so I've dug deep, and here's that's the best that I can figure out to tell you where this stands legislatively.
To me, it's all worthless.
It is a piece of garbage that needs to be thrown out and and and certainly do not put it in the recycled bin.
Put it where it is gonna be destroyed and never come back.
But people want to know what the details are.
The Dorgan Amendment, the Lautenberg Amendment.
The point of all this is that the Democrats Are the ones not unified.
The Democrats are the ones angry at each other.
The Republicans cannot stop this with votes.
The Democrats have the votes.
Back after this.
All right, now, folks, let me give you a heads up out here because I have once again today, in response to my name being besmirched on the Senate floor by Sheldon Whitehouse and Ninji Harry Reed, I have confirmed I want to hand Obama a defeat.
So the heads up is that that likely will be a headline and a talking point later tonight on all the chat shows and perhaps through the weekend on the Sunday shows.
Knowing that, let me explain why that will happen.
The only thing Obama has going for him right now is his likability.
That's the only thing that's not cratering in the polls.
His presidential approval is crating.
His job performance is cratering.
Support for his health care bill, which he didn't even really have a plan, his name is on, is cratering.
Support for cap and trade is cratering.
Policies are unpopular.
But people still like him personally.
So Obama's personality is the only favorable thing on the left right now.
So what White House and Reed and Debbie Stabenow and the rest of them will be doing is framing my desire to hand Obama a defeat, his health care bill, as a personal thing.
That I do not like this wonderful new president personally.
My fight against the health care bill and the stated objective to hand him a defeat on it is personal, rather than against the merits of the bill.
That's what they're going to try to say.
I just want to when you'll be on the lookout for this over the weekend, because I know these people, I know how they're going to position it.
Well, Ress, why do you give them the ammo?
I look, I don't sit here and think about whether I'm giving the ammo.
I like to tweak them.
What I've what I'm doing here is just telling you the truth.
But how do you know?
Just trust me, I know.
I know it's bad.
I know it's wrong.
I know it's bad for America.
I know it's not America, what this bill is.
So the only way that they can salvage it here is to make it personal between me and Obama and then make me look like a meanie, and whatever else they want to try to attach to it.
Uh they aren't talking about the specifics of this bill.
Especially their latest deal of throwing Medicare up on the wall, and because they will lose on that.
They think they can win by hanging on to Obama popularity, personal popularity.
And they'd be more than happy to pit his personal popularity with what they think is uh my personal hatred factor.
And that's what they're setting up and positioning here.
And then they'll take that and they'll say, are you Republicans gonna let Rush Limboss speak for you?
Somebody who personally wants the president to lose and they're gonna put him on the spot.
So it's another reason why I'm explaining what's going on here and why it is happening.
But I mean, you look at the guts of the bill, the two core parts of the bill, $500 billion in Medicare cuts.
Would somebody explain something to me also?
How in the world can you have $500 billion in Medicare cuts when you are going to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 45 or 55?
Do you remember it was just two years ago that we were talking about to save this program, which is due to go bankrupt in five or ten years, raising the eligibility age to 75 or 70.
Now they're talking about lowering it to 45 or 55 just to expand it and get everybody covered by it.
At the same time, they're talking about 500 billion dollars in Medicare cuts.
Now, if you're gonna do both things, some people are going to have to die.
If you're gonna lower the eligibility age to 45 or 55 and cut Medicare 500 billion bucks, folks, somebody's gotta die, or somebody's got to be denied coverage, which will cause them to die eventually.
And they don't want to talk about that.
They would rather pit this as these mean talk show guys, personally not liking our popular young new president.
And then the second aspect of this is the 400 billion dollars in new tax increases, which happen immediately.
And the marriage penalty tax in this health care bill.
We had a call about that yesterday.
She was exactly right.
Getting married, two people living together 30 grand each, uh, not filing jointly, not married, their tax is whatever it is, but if they get married, under the health care plan, same income, grand total now $60,000 married filing jointly, their taxes go up 20 grand.
It's right there in the bill.
They don't want to talk about the guts of the bill.
They don't want to talk about the specifics.
Because all they've got to rely on now is Obama's personal like ability.
And they're happy to pit that against mean old rush.
So you keep a sharp eye and see if that's not how this plays out, starting tonight on the chat shows and throughout the weekend.
Get this.
This is from Fox News.
The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad claims that the United States is attempting to thwart the return of the Mahdi, the uh Imam believed by Muslims to be the savior, the 12th Imam, the uh uh the return of mankind's savior.
I thought Obama was the savior of mankind.
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