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Jan. 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 6, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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And I am your host, Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
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A couple more things about about this health care.
I went in, you know, I've been going back and forth on whether or not I should uh divulge how much the hospital stay, the tests, the doctors and all that uh cost last week.
And you go back and forth on it.
Uh I went in to the uh booth on the other side of the glass, and they were all studying.
He said, really?
It cost less than a car?
And I said, Yeah.
It costs less than your average SUV that your average family wants.
And they said, Well, how much was it?
And I told them, and they were shocked.
And I smiled.
They they they thought, one of them thought this would be six figures that this cost.
I could not believe that it cost what it costs.
So I'll ask you, if you when we get to the phones, if if anybody wants to take a guess at uh what it costs, I'll I'll uh go that way.
But it's safe to say.
And by the way, I um I'm not we're all in the habit of saying the healthcare system, but there is no real health care system there.
It's going to be if Obama gets his way.
But the Queen's Medical Center and Hospital, uh hospital in in Hawaii competes with other hospitals.
I mean, they were very happy I was going to go out and do a press conference.
They're very happy about that.
They compete.
Um, and that there may be a system in Hawaii, state controls and so forth, but regardless, use the word system or not, what happened to me worked.
It worked, and it was not because I make whatever numbers of millions of dollars a year.
You don't have to make any you don't need to make a million dollars a year to afford what I got last week in Hawaii.
You do not.
This whole notion that only rich, super rich can afford this kind of is it's there's so many myths and mythno myth misnomers.
And again, I was charged 30% less because I didn't use insurance.
That ought to tell somebody something.
And I've uh I've had that experience before, but uh uh health care system at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu worked.
Maybe what we ought to do, folks, is start working on our national security system.
Maybe we ought to work on making sure that fruit of kaboom bombers don't get on airplanes with bombs in their underwear.
Obama running around talking about it was a screw up.
A screw up, a screw up that could have been disaster, screw up.
That's something that could happen to anybody.
After a screw up, you say, I'm sorry you move on.
You don't fire somebody for a screw up.
Letting the uh fruit of kaboom bomber on a jet into the U.S. is gross incompetence.
It's almost an indictment.
Who's been fired?
Anybody been fired?
Is anybody been fired in Secret Service or at the White House for three crashers?
Is there any accountability in this administration anywhere?
Oh, by the way, I'm prepared.
I know how you left us work out there, and then because one of the uh the release of prisoners at Gitmota Yemen.
Well, I'm gonna we're gonna pull back on that.
Uh yeah, we're gonna pull back on that.
Doesn't look good.
Uh and then the leftists, but hey, you know, Bush let a couple of them out too.
Bush, Bush Not because he wanted to.
Bush released people from Guantanamo Bay because our good old ACLU and a number of leftist organizations and members of Congress decided to take the powers of Commander Chief away from Bush in that way.
Bush did not want to release anybody from Guantanamo, but the idea that there is some kind of equivalence between Bush and Obama regarding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is sim simple folly.
What we have here, folks, is not a screw up.
And, you know, Obama's not going to fire anybody over this, because that would be evidence that he screwed up.
Obama will end up holding nobody responsible unless he can find a Bush appointee.
Because it would, it would uh it would be a poor reflection on himself, which is this is pure narcissism.
He's going to hold nobody accountable because he doesn't want to be held accountable.
Uh you want how about this this uh these show trials that Obama is going to bring off.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the boys.
Eric Holder and Obama gonna this is an absolute disaster waiting to happen.
It's gonna it's gonna cause great harm to the criminal justice system in and of itself.
Now, is is giving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the mastermind of 9-11 and his two henchmen, giving them a show trial with full constitutional rights in New York City, is that a screw up?
Is giving the fruit of kaboom bomber, who isn't a citizen of this country, an attempted act of war, giving him full constitutional rights, is that a screw up multiple unauthorized guests into the White House at a screw up Fort Hood terror attack.
Was that a screw up?
Being tougher on Israel and Iran, is that a screw up?
Planning on sending 90 hardened terrorists from Guantanamo Gay to Yemen?
Screw up.
Is lifting an executive order, giving Interpol immunity from American laws a screw up, is reneging on an unprompted, calculated campaign pledge to put Obamacare negotiations on C-SPAN eight different times.
Is that a screw up?
Is creating two trillion dollar slush funds, while calling them TARP and job stimulus plans.
screw up Obama screw up in everything he's done to try to reignite the US economy 10 to 17% unemployment.
Is that a screw up?
No.
No, all of this is on purpose.
Everything I've just gone through is on purpose, including 17% unemployment.
Now, for those of you who still doubt, who still have trouble putting your arms around the concept that this economic disaster is purposeful.
Peter Schweitzer has written Architects of Ruin, page eight.
This is uh a look back at Saul Olinsky.
Saul Olinsky, an Obama acolyte, or Obama's one of his acolytes, argued, Olinsky argued the middle class would have to be brought around slowly to revolutionary change, to radical change, couldn't do it overnight, and that the best way to do it was to take everything away from them.
Listen.
This is Alinsky.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.
They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.
This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.
Now, speaking for myself, I have no doubt that Obama wishes to remake this country because he finds it guilty.
It is immoral.
It is colonial.
It has been imperialistic.
It's military is immoral.
We have supported the wrong people.
We have plundered the earth.
We have stolen all these resources for our own benefit, our own lifestyle.
Meanwhile, we have created and continue to propagate poor people all over.
He thinks that way of this country.
It's what he's been taught.
It's what he learned in Harvard.
It's what he learned in Hawaii.
It's what he's learned everywhere he's been in school and by the people that managed him.
This country is unjust and immoral.
He's going to make it right.
But he is, he taught Olinsky at the University of Chicago.
He lectured on Olinsky.
Alinsky is a god to leftist radicals.
And so when Alinsky writes, people have to feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the current system, i.e.
capitalism, that they are willing to let go of the past.
Capitalism change the future, socialism.
Well, I don't know if you've seen the economic news.
If you have it, I'll share it with you, but they're talking a double dip real estate problem, unemployment, no change coming.
People are unhappier in their jobs than ever before.
There is a lot of frustration.
There's a lot of defeat out there.
A lot of people feeling lost, a lot of people feeling futureless.
And the way Obama and Rama Manual look at this is a crisis to be taken advantage of.
Quick timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls right after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, how are you?
It's Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
And again, at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We go to the phones as promised.
We're going to start Springfield, uh, Illinois.
John, I'm glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, I've listened to you since you were on Little WIPV in Belleville, and your ratings were so high that KMOX had to pick you up in the middle of the year.
Yeah, that's uh thank you very much, sir.
I remember that well.
Well, I'm a I'm a cardiologist.
I'm driving in central Illinois, and I wanted to tell you you did not get any different care than anyone else.
We do similar things to every person, and we don't ask them how much money they make or what their insurance is.
We just take care of them.
Well, I know.
This is that's it's one of the many myths about this is that uh certain people get special treatment.
I guess.
Well, hold on a hold on a second.
If there's nationalized health care and the ability to do routine cardiac casts is limited, well, you wouldn't have gotten your cardiac calf the next morning.
Well you would have had to wait two or three weeks, you would have gone home, and you would have had to come back when they said you could come back.
Exactly.
That's my whole point.
There was not one bureaucrat between me and the doctors or the hospital.
Not one bureaucrat.
There was nobody assessing whether or not I deserve to be treated based on uh risk factors, age, weight, whatever it was.
Uh there was there was uh nobody there was no guidelines as to uh w should a a cardiac cath be used here or not.
Uh it was it was uh you know.
They told me with no one else that it was right then.
And that's exactly what happened.
And they told me the same thing.
Uh both cardiologists told me that nothing happened to me that wouldn't happen to anybody else that came in in the same circumstance.
Ambulances arrives, chest pain, they're doctors.
They want to find out what the hell happened.
Exactly.
Now, uh you really don't want me to guess how much it costs, do you?
Sure.
Good take a flyer.
I mean, I Well uh a cap.
Now uh now you're paying yourself or are you on Medicaid?
Pay myself.
I did no Medicaid Zilt Zero Nada, me.
Right.
If you paid for a calf yourself, you may have paid about three grand for the procedure.
Okay.
Now, if you're on Medicaid, it takes we get about seventy-five dollars.
We have to bill repeatedly, and uh then the state of Illinois delays her payment six months to a year, and then may not pay us at all, deny the claim for any reason.
So it's it waste my money, not my time and money, but it's a waste for my staff's time and money to even bill Medicaid.
75 bucks you get reimbursed for a three thousand dollar procedure.
No, I'm not saying we get reimbursed, I'm saying that's what they say they'll reimburse us.
Most times they don't.
Medicare, Medicare, you get under uh you get under uh under a thousand.
Now to stay overnight uh in the ER, that was probably another three grand.
Uh, then you stayed an extra day.
Uh you probably got out of there for about ten grand.
A little bit more than that, but not much.
There was a there were a lot of other tests.
Um, let's let's just say in the situation similar for me.
Let's say that uh you didn't get done the next day.
Well, you're gonna tell your friends that hey, they jerked me around, they didn't take care of me, and your friends will go down the street to the other hospital.
Yeah, that's they're let's let's say there's only one hospital and one program and one cost and one price.
Well, I guarantee you you're gonna wait.
And in fact, I hope that uh some friends of ours from Canada or Britain call in, or some friends, and I hate to say it because my son's at the Naval Academy, but I hope some friends that deal with the VA call in.
Well, the horror stories horror stories are all over the place, I know.
Um but and the the the Queen's Medical Center does compete.
There's another hospital in Honolulu, and uh I I was taken to Queen's, but no, every point you're making is uh is is valid.
No question about it.
Fred in Kalamazoo, Michigan, you're next on the EIB.
Rush, how are you doing?
How are you doing, sir?
Believe it or not, I'm a lifelong listener, first time in a long time calling.
And I am a Democrat, and I'll just tell you right off the bat from Dr. Martin Luther King when he said he he somebody said they're glad they did uh he didn't sneeze.
I'm glad that you came through your procedure as well.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Okay, because I I understand it.
I I disagree with you on the health care issue.
Uh I I I guess roughly with procedures, uh my guess is it ran about forty thousand dollars.
Uh I might be a little bit off.
Uh but for uh an average working individual, uh even with a payment plan and uh a thing that would set them up where uh you could be able to uh pay your way out of it along with a mortgage and uh a car note or anything else you have to have to sustain uh uh the American lifestyle.
This is why Democrats and people who are are are I'm I'm semi-conservative, but people who are truly liberal are pushing for national health care.
Uh and not only that is because of the fact that other countries are subsidizing their health care anyway, which puts us uh in in a commerce situation at a health advantage.
Let me let me tackle first in order the things that you've said here.
You've said that the treatment I got would bankrupt you, and you guessed that the treatment cost forty thousand dollars.
Right, that's correct.
Okay.
It did not cost anywhere near forty thousand dollars.
Okay.
It cost less.
Not it didn't even cost half what the average SUV owned by the average American family is.
Right.
Now you say that the average working man couldn't come up with a payment plan, couldn't afford this.
Right.
Because of the American lifestyle.
You gotta have your mortgage, you've got to have uh car, you gotta have this and other yes basically.
And then you say not but what then you say that this is why liberals are for health care because they're compet what you're saying is you want me and other citizens to pay for your health care that you don't want to have to pay for.
Who do you think is gonna pay for it if you don't?
But but you're paying for it anyway by the people who are not insured anyway.
The premiums that you're paying, or if you if you have a traditional.
No, no, no, no, no, I don't pay I don't pay premiums.
I purposely opt out of the health insurance system on because of my own proclivities.
I just don't want to be involved in a bureaucracy.
I have I have no desire to have a government bureaucrat in the state or uh an insurance company bureaucrat deciding getting in the way between my and my doctor.
Now I know I'm very lucky in this, but it's something I've worked for.
Yeah, but there's only a lot of people.
And that we could get to the No, it used to be that way for everybody in this country.
But it used to be until liberals got involved in this.
But that's the same thing.
When I was a kid, when I was a kid, went to the doctor, they sent a bill.
Hospital sent a bill.
Medicare, Medicaid come into play, all this uh the the government uh creating HMOs, thank you, Ted Kennedy, prices start to skyrocket.
There's no reason this had to happen.
And there's no reason we can't go back to the way it was.
We do it in every other aspect of life.
But see what you you just you just made my point, and I'm not I'm not criticizing you because I understand why you do it.
You're a liberal, you think you've got a bigger heart and everybody else, and you're you're very compassionate, and there's something about health care that everybody's entitled to.
Everybody's we're not at all entitled to cars.
We're not all entitled to uh uh uh houses on a beach, but we all are entitled to health care.
And somehow the the o i somebody has to pay for it.
And if you're thinking that the average working man can't afford this, that somebody else is going to have to pay for it.
So you're you're you're I I think you're just abrogating responsibility and disguising it with compassion.
I I've I'm I know this is a tough sell, folks.
I mean, I mean, pst many of you in this audience get it, but I know what I'm up against here.
Fifty years of an ingrained uh political drumbeat that there is some moral requirement or entitlement to to uh to health care.
I I'll just for myself in helping to explain, I do not look at it that way.
I forgive me for looking at things this way, but I actually think I have to pay for what I get.
Um I do.
I I've I've I was raised that way.
I I know this is insensitive to say.
I know it's insensitive to uh uh uh make this point because not everybody can pay for what they want.
They have and so forth.
But I do.
Uh I I know that makes me an oddball, the notion that I should pay for what I get.
And I I've just accepted that responsibility, even with the exorbitant prices of not just health care, but a whole bunch of other stuff out there that's ridiculously priced as well.
And we'll be back.
And here's something else to think about, and this is something that the guy from Kalamazoo did bring up.
I mean, how how how much less, how much less would my hospital bill have been if the people on Medicaid and Medicare were actually paying their way.
My costs were what they are, because people like me are subsidizing, and a lot of you too.
The Medicare Medicaid system, people who aren't paying for their health care, and those with no insurance who just don't pay.
That would be the illegal aliens in one.
So it would have cost even less.
And nobody's talking about doing anything.
There's not one element of any of these plans in the House or Senate is going to reduce anybody's cost.
Not one.
There have been 1,246 United States winter weather record events since last Wednesday.
1,246 winter weather record events.
Snowfall, 454 records, low temperatures, 233.
Lowest maximum temperature, 559.
1,246 U.S. winter weather record events since last Wednesday.
And still I can show you stories in the stack of stuff about we gotta act fast on climate change and global warming.
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
She's not happy.
You know, Obama's out there promised eight times, uh, have all these health care negotiations on C SPAN, Brian Lamb says, hey, televise them.
Well, we'll do everything.
We'll let the American public see this exactly like President Obama said.
And uh Pelosi, she's not she's not happy about this at all.
In Washington, a reporter said C-SPAN wrote a letter.
Mr. Lamb to you guys to have this process be transparent regardless of conference committee right now is being done with ping-pong.
Any response to that?
Really?
Well, there are a number of things they were small on the campaign trail.
What I will say that there has never been a more open process for any legislation and anyone who serves here's experience.
What planet is this woman on?
What planet?
The most open process.
Did you hear the dig at Obama?
All right, he promised a lot of things.
What she's upset about, she's upset that there's a tax increase on the middle class in the health care bill in the Senate on Cadillac health care plans.
She's upset about that.
And the liberals in the House, they don't like the fact that there won't be a conference.
Well, Pelosi and Reed are going back and forth uh just in in under cover of darkness.
And this is leading folks.
There are all of these Democrat resignations and retirements.
And the Democrats are retiring.
Make no mistake about it, because Barack Obama is destroying his party, exactly as I predicted on this program.
Many, many moons ago.
They are retiring because he's failed.
If if Obama's policies were succeeding, there wouldn't be any retirements.
They'd all be out there trying to break Senator Byrd's record.
Length of service record, but they're running for the hills.
A lot of them, governors, gubernatorial candidates, senators, members of the House.
These Democrats drank the Obama Kool-Aid.
And uh and they're they're committing political suicide.
Some are just dropping out sooner than others.
But the Obamacare, cap and trade, job killers, the um stimulus bill is not working, private sector is being destroyed.
Um, you know what what Obama wants, I hope doesn't happen.
We we're not sitting here envying Venezuelans.
We want a better life for ourselves and for future generations.
Uh, and Obama's not interested in providing that.
The net negative.
Now the resignations here is fascinating.
Is somebody, somebody's telling these people to go.
I wonder who who called Chris Dodd and said, You got to go, you gotta go, or we're gonna torture, right as in Robert Torricelli.
They're gonna who calls these people, who somebody's telling them they've got to go.
I I just refuse to believe they're coming to these decisions on their own.
You know, last thing Dodd wants to do is leave the Senate.
Uh but in some cases, people, uh political scientists are analyzing that this is uh good moves by the Democrats because these people that are quitting had no prayer of winning their replacements now might hold the seats.
And I think I we're gonna win in um in uh in Connecticut, I have no doubt about it, and we're gonna we're gonna win in um in Nevada.
I think Reed's toast.
I I I don't, folks, I don't think the political class yet grasps the degree of anti-majority party incumbency they want to get rid of.
I don't think the Democrat Party has the slightest idea.
They may think they do, but they don't have the slightest idea of the genuine outrage that exists out there.
The Democrat Party is at war with the American people.
The Democrat Party treats Americans worse than it treats foreign terror suspects.
The Democrat Party is at war with the American.
The American people have made it plain on health care and cap and trade want no part of this.
This is not what they voted for.
More and more people realize that they voted for an empty suit when Obama said, hey, paint me whatever you want.
I can be a blank canvas.
He was exactly honest.
He was right.
There isn't anything there.
On purpose.
Now it's coming back to haunt them.
Now they have to govern against the will of the American people, and they're gonna lose because of that.
Now they they might succeed in imposing part of their agenda on the nation during this Congress.
But this Congress is going to be different next year.
Very different, and the process of rolling back the agenda is going to begin in earnest.
Obama is a false prophet.
He is a radical dressed up as some historic figure, but there's nothing new about Obama or what he's doing.
It's as old as man.
Obama is a con man from the get-go.
There's nothing new or unique about Barack Obama.
What is new is that he's been able to do so much damage in such a short period of time, and that's due to an accident of electoral history.
How many Democrats in the Senate are actually elected?
They have 60 votes in the Senate through hook and crook.
I will never believe that Al Franken really won his election, for example.
Arlen Spector quit, jumped ship.
Burris, Illinois, unelected.
The Democrats in Illinois would not allow a special election.
Paul Kirk, Massachusetts, not elected, replaced Ted Kennedy rather than a special election.
If they'd had to have special elections, they wouldn't have 60 seats.
I mean, they're standing democracy on its head each and every day.
The people of this country are going to end up being heard despite the efforts to silence them.
And they're going to strike back despite efforts to smear them and assassinate their character, which is what the Democrat Party's doing.
And this is dawning on more and more people.
It's the Democrat Party that's smearing average Americans.
Teabaggers, Tea Party people, whatever they call them.
These are average Americans who simply propose or oppose socialism.
And you can hear how they're disgust.
So now these rats, the Democrats are jumping ship to save face.
Because, and here's the real reason.
If you lose your election, it's tougher to get a big time lobbying job.
You quit now, and then you move into the real big bucks.
You try to get a big time lobby job, or maybe some plumb appointment in the Obama administration.
Because your value, their value goes to hell as electoral losers.
So they're jumping ship to save themselves.
No other reason.
They're not jumping ship to save the party.
They may be being forced to walk the plank.
I still think that there may be little Rom Emanuel there saying, hey, Chris, um, it's over, buddy.
You know how Clinton kept Andrew Cuomo from running for governor.
Somebody's out there pulling these strings.
This is not a coincidence.
Barack Obama, our young, idealistic president, has destroyed our nation's fiscal standing for generations.
He's destroyed it, all of this debt.
He's destroyed our reputation around the world.
He's not rebuilt anything.
He's a wrecking ball.
Wherever he goes.
And he now seeks to destroy the health industry in this country and the energy industry and the private sector generally.
And now he's destroying his own party.
That's who he is.
All of this for himself.
This is all about himself and his power and his narcissism.
Know these people like every square inch of my shrinking and glorious naked body.
My friends, you know liberalism, you know it lies.
And nothing that they promise ever happens.
Just the exact opposite.
And don't doubt for a moment.
Destroy the health care system is what's going to happen.
When I was out in Honolulu and I said the American health care system is the best in the world, it is.
I had a problem.
I went in, I got treated, and I paid for it.
And I walked out.
As alive as ever.
It's the best health care system in the world, and you do not need to make a million dollars in order to get the treatment I got or the care that I got.
Now these Democrats, some of them are spinning this as a win, all these retirements.
Oh yeah, yeah, we're getting rid of guaranteed losers out there.
We're replacing these losers with people who actually hold these seats.
Yeah, the clearing out candidates who can't win in November.
Well, I if that's the case, let's take them at their word.
If that's the case, if that's the if that's a strategy, then more of you Democrats ought to resign, starting with Harry Reed.
Many of you are not going to be around anyway in November, so why not just leave now?
If that's what you're doing, clearing out candidates who can't win, if that's the logic, we need to see mass resignations because you Democrats have no clue how bad it's gonna be in November.
People are not going to forget this.
In any way, shape, manner, or form, there is no love anymore for Obama.
There is no swooning.
There is no his special.
There is no messianic anything.
He's a screw up.
And he's seen that way.
You know who's I'm waiting to hear for?
From?
Now maybe you're willing to wait with me.
Maybe you're curious.
I'm waiting to hear from Colin Powell.
I I'm waiting to hear from Tom Ridge and all these others who said that the American people wanted all this socialism, remember?
The American people want these services and these tax increases, said God General Powell, who is the archetypical Republican.
He's the he's exactly what we all ought to be, they say in the media.
I'm divisive, you know.
De Ridge says divisive I'm not I'm not helpful.
Well, where are these guys now that everything that's being attacked is falling apart?
Where are they?
Why is General Powell hiding?
Why Tom Ridge hiding him?
It used to be they could you couldn't keep them off the Sunday shows.
You couldn't keep them off these nighttime cable chat shows.
And now you don't see them.
They're not they're no longer guests on these uh silly little shows.
So we're gonna win North Dakota.
Helmet head's gone.
Helmet head dorgon.
That there's no way they're gonna hold that seat.
Now helmet head's gone.
We're probably gonna win in Connecticut, too, because the anti-incumbency feeling is deeper and broader than anybody understands.
And by that I mean the anti-incumbency is cutting one way against the Democrats, the majority party.
We'll be right back.
Hi, welcome back.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh with talent on lawn from God.
Clifton in Louisville.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Uh, thank you, sir.
Megadetto, welcome back from the dead.
If this had been Obama, they would have been calling this a reincarnation by now.
Thank you, sir.
The Democrats did have me dead.
I mean, at the time that if you Googled Rush Limbaugh, the first five or six results were limbaugh dead.
Well, sorry to disappoint them.
That's good for them.
Now, I just like to take issue.
I think these guys, this is like the congressional medal of honor, uh, by voting for this healthcare bill, because they've initiated the largest uh socialist system in the world at this particular point, and that they will be justly rewarded with those votes, even though they have been asked to leave.
So I just think that they this is uh medal of honor for them.
And uh they that that was a plan in the beginning.
In short, I'm sure that they're looking at it that way, that they've made the supreme sacrifice.
The ultimate sacrifice they gave up their office, which is akin to giving up their lives, uh, for the people, uh, for a socialist health care system that will.
Yeah, it's it's sick, but there we're I'll tell you what, um, this is gonna result.
By the way, the two other Democrats have not elected.
Kirsten Gillibrand in New York, she was appointed, and this guy from Colorado Bennett.
I mean, there are more five or six of these clowns.
They wouldn't have sixty votes if we'd had special elections.
Says it's a quirk of electoral fate that made all this possible.
And there's gonna be a huge sweeping of Democrats in uh in November, and the rollback of some of this stuff is going to commence.
This is not stuff people are gonna put up for.
You know, a lot of us folks uh had a day or two off, a week off, week and a half off during a holiday period.
People at the Heritage Foundation didn't.
And uh one of the ways I kept up with things was to access AskHeritage.org when I was gone.
They covered the news of the Obama administration lifting the caps on how much bailout money Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack could receive.
You realize that happened?
They lifted the caps.
There's no in fact Barney Frank said that these are now public utilities.
I said that the whole notion of the private sector having anything to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is gone.
He's just appropriate.
The way to look at this is that one congressional district in Massachusetts essentially is able to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack and use it as its personal uh piggy bank.
Harney Frank.
Uh Heritage paid attention to the um the details in the two trillion dollar health care reform bill.
And if you belong to Heritage, if you're a member, you can log on any time and read all kinds of truthful information as to what's going on.
Um they do the truth.
They do it as well as I do, folks.
I mean real truth about big government spending is one of the ways to combat what's going on, and that happens at the Heritage Foundation day in and day out.
You know, truth.
I heard it described when I was gone.
Truth is uh got gravity.
Truth attracts.
The truth bursts through.
Eventually it does.
And that's why those of us who deal with it are so confident and comfortable doing so.
And the Heritage Foundation is also essentially just dealing with truth.
We call it conservatism, others call it truth, but it's the one and the same thing.
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John Fund had a story, uh, a column in the uh Wall Street Journal back on the 30th of December about Ben Nelson and what's happened to him since the health care vote.
And back on December 30th, a Erasmus and reports poll showed that if Nelson were running for reelection that day, he would lose to the Nebraska GOP Governor David Heineman by 61 to 30 percent.
Just three years ago, Nelson won his current term with a solid 64% of the vote.
It looks like that he's been destroyed if this uh if this holds up.
Um, these kind of polling numbers.
So, yeah, I I I have no doubt that the Democrats are looking at these ones that are resigning it.
Yeah, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
They've they've fallen on the sword.
They've gave it all for their for their country.
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