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January 7, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2

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	With half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
	Rush Limboy, your guiding light.
	Everybody wants to be me.
	Behind the golden EIB microphone at 800-282-2882.
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	Great to have you with us, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
	U.S. intelligence officials, under pressure to better track terrorist threats, are hampered by their own vast bureaucracy, and an overwhelming flow of information analysts say this from the French news agency, uh, President Obama.
	Now, all of a sudden, when Obama's in the White House, oh, it's understandable that we've got intel that may not be quite up to stuff.
	Oh, he's so sad.
	They're so overworked, and they have such a vast bureaucracy, and it's an overwhelming flow of information, and and they're just under better pressure.
	They're hampered.
	Yeah, French agency now has a total understanding of the difficulties.
	President Obama has now discovered that he's inherited an intelligence community in the U.S. Which is bloated, bureaucratic, and even with the best of intentions, has become so large it finds it very hard to put together the pieces, said Bruce Rydell, a former CIA officer to the French news agency.
	So there you have it.
	The reason, and and this is this is when it when I people ask me, why is Obama being so blunt here?
	Why is he saying he's gonna that's a second strike and there aren't going to be three strikes?
	Why is he saying that this is a screw up?
	Well, here's your answer.
	Because he can once again dump on Bush.
	And the drive-by state-controlled world media is helping right along.
	President Obama has now discovered that he has inherited an intelligence community which is bloated, bureaucratic, and even with the best of intentions has become so large.
	It's very hard to put together the pieces.
	It's you know, I I don't doubt.
	I mean, homeland security wasn't even necessary as far as I'm concerned.
	We've created a whole new bureaucracy.
	And as I saw last week, somewhere, I don't remember where some smart person said, we already had a Department of Homeland Security.
	It's located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
	That's where the White House is for those of you in Rio Linda.
	And that's true, but all of a sudden now uh it's too bloated, it's too big.
	It's it's unwieldy.
	Uh it no more it President Obama just it's it's too much for anybody to keep up now.
	You remember all those stories.
	I'm sure making excuses for Bush before and after 9-11, when the uh intelligence agencies were even more overloaded.
	I'm sure you remember those stories where Bush was sympathized with so now I don't remember him either.
	Uh we can't wait to hear the excuses when this bunch runs one-sixth of our economy when they take over the health care system.
	If they think they're overloaded with a bureaucracy now, if they've got an inflow of information that that's too hard to put together, I mean for wait wait until they deal with health care.
	There's a story in the stack here today, the IRS.
	The IRS plans on answering 71%.
	And this is they put this out as a as a as a as a gold star for themselves.
	They plan on answering 71% of telephone calls they get from citizens asking questions this taxpayer season.
	Yeah.
	71%.
	And so some enterprising journalist at some state controlled news organization decided to put him to the test.
	He called the IRS, he got sloughed off to a couple machines and automated answering services, then finally got to a live human being.
	His total wait time was in the neighborhood of 15 minutes, just to the IRS to uh to find out uh an answer to a tax question, income tax uh uh form question.
	Fourteen minutes, fifteen minutes.
	Now you imagine when we all have to do this for health care.
	Which takes me back to my experience in Hawaii and in the hospital at Queen's Medical Center.
	MSNBC cannot give this up.
	Yesterday, they had a continuing inane discussion on me and medical bills, and then they say, you know what?
	Rush, we heard Rush today.
	And Rush, he's now on the side of the Democrats.
	That's what they said.
	Listen to this.
	Rush Limbaugh is back and healthy, according to the conservative radio host, and so is America's health care system.
	Yes, Rush returned to his show today after that hospital stop in Hawaii.
	Limbaugh had reported chest pains.
	Well, today he did not hold back, as you can expect.
	He said he paid for his own bills.
	He's a multimillionaire, and actually saved 35% on his bill by doing so.
	I know that not everybody can do it under the current structure of our system, which is my real point.
	Real reform of the health care system would involve nothing like what we have done in the House and Senate.
	Cost control, increasing access to health care.
	Is Rush kind of changing his tune?
	At first it was nothing is wrong with our system, and now he is bringing up what the Democrats have said all along.
	It's a cost issue.
	He's a multimillionaire.
	What he is able to do is not what's affordable to everyone else.
	What I I do not know how to react to this and stay calm.
	Uh in the first place, yes, multimillionaire, but what this cost me, and I've been advised, you know, look, Rush, you know how irritated we get uh when people start telling us how much what they have cost.
	Yeah, yeah, I understand that.
	Uh but I'm just telling you, uh, you don't have to be a s a millionaire to be able to pay for what I was charged for my hospital stay in Hawaii.
	And when she says here what he's able to do is not what's affordable to everyone.
	Not true.
	To the vast majority of people, this would be affordable.
	It's just a choice.
	I mean, this was more affordable than the car.
	This was more affordable than a house by far.
	Uh this was this was more affordable than some people's media rooms that they put in.
	Uh so you know, I uh that this continues.
	This is this is part of the class envy here that only the super wealthy can afford to go to the hospital.
	It isn't true.
	It does boil down to choice.
	I thought long and hard about whether to bring this back up because I was um I got not many, but I got some emails yesterday afternoon and last night in the subscriber email at my website, chastising me for being out of touch, for bragging about being able to pay for my health care when so many people can't, and it's just especially a down economy, and you're just you really rushed, you just you've lost all sensitivity to the pain and suffering out here.
	I'm surprised that you blah blah.
	And I thought about it, I gotta deal with this.
	Because I I don't think that those people were actually conservatives.
	I think they were spam emailers or seminar emailers.
	Uh but you know, it it's and I'm I'm I realize I'm on a on a tough challenge here, and probably gonna lose it because we've had 50 years to establish a mindset which basically has most people believing that health care ought not cost anything.
	Or it should cost very little.
	And when somebody comes along like me and accepts the responsibility of paying for it, um, look at I'm one of the 47 million uninsured, and I'm look at me in one way, I'm providing leadership.
	I'm advocating a system get reformed so that people can afford it, that there'd be a relationship between the patient and the provider and the hospital without some middleman or two where people can actually afford it just as they're able to afford other services throughout our economy.
	So the the um but you you hear here that uh multimillionaire, only Limbo could afford that.
	That's such a misrepresentation of the truth.
	I'll just tell you, if you can afford a car, you can afford what I did in the hospital.
	If you can afford a pretty expansive media room, you can afford what I spent in a hospital.
	And with all the tests and everything else.
	If you can afford an SUV, you could have gone to the hospital three or four times.
	For what I it's just a matter of choice, it's to matter what you know, what what you want to budget for and pay for.
	But Rush, we've got to have a car to get to work and we've got to have a house, and so we have what everybody says they gotta have health care too.
	People don't prioritize it the way they do uh the way they do other things.
	Now, the the real funny thing in this soundbite was that they quote me as saying there's nothing wrong with the U.S. health care system.
	But what I was talking about in Honolulu was that was I got private health care.
	There's no similarity to what Obamacare is going to be to what I got.
	I was in a private hospital, I had private care, there was nothing statewide about it.
	I didn't access any Honolulu or Hawaii State program, I didn't access any federal program.
	It was just me and the doctors and the nurses and the hospital administrators, I didn't have to ask for mission.
	They treated me and so forth.
	And so then yesterday, explaining, this is how they take things out of context.
	Explaining that what we need in this health care system is to reacquaint the association of customer patient to provider.
	Just like when you check into a hotel, you don't have a middleman, you don't have insurance, you don't have a bureaucrat, you don't have to ask permission.
	You check in a hotel you can afford, you buy a car you can afford, you buy a house you can afford.
	Right now, people are afraid they can't afford health care.
	Most people can.
	Uh it just depends on what you want to spend with you if you're willing to pay for it.
	And that's again, gets to the problem that most people, most people do believe that it's a moral entitlement to perfect health care without paying for it.
	I don't know anything in this country that gets done or happens without somebody getting paid for it, and that's true in health care.
	Somebody's getting paid everywhere along the line.
	And somebody who wants the results and not pay anything for it uh is the problem.
	Not I I refuse to let you liberals out there paint me as the problem because I have assumed the responsibility of paying for what I got.
	I I was um telling some friends last night, it's funny, it is hilarious.
	I'm a bad guy.
	I'm a bad guy because I paid for it.
	I'm a bad guy.
	I'm a I'm insensitive because I announced that I could pay for it.
	And that I did pay for it.
	And what my hope is is that everybody someday would be able to pay for it, like we used to when I was a kid.
	This whole system has been destroyed, and I'm talking about the payment system and the cost system, not the quality of care.
	The whole cost system has been destroyed because of government involvement.
	Medicare, Medicaid, all of these things.
	It's you know, wipe it all out and start over.
	Or well, that's not feasible, but but introduce some reforms, health savings accounts and so forth that start the process of creating competition among doctors and hospitals.
	It works every time it's tried.
	Bring prices down and make them realistic.
	Yeah, it's just but these people say Rush changing his tune.
	At first there's nothing wrong, and now he's bringing up what the Democrats have said.
	Cost issue.
	The Democrats are saying it's a cost issue, but Ms. Hall, this is Tamron Hall at MSNBC, no costs are gonna go down.
	There are not going to be significantly new people insured.
	This is not a health care bill, it is a multiple tax increase bill disguised as a health care bill.
	It is not gonna lower anybody's cost.
	It's gonna threaten people with jail.
	You're gonna be required to buy insurance or face a $15,000 fine.
	I don't know how anybody with half a brain who studies this can possibly say it's gonna reduce costs.
	If it were, folks, very simple.
	If this were the bonanza, if this were the PS de resistance, that uh that that they're talking about, everybody would be for it.
	Now, Ms. Ms. Hall, let me ask a question.
	Let's uh let's let's say I'm not a multimillionaire.
	Let's say that I'm an illegal alien.
	Or better yet, Tamron Hall.
	Let's say that I'm a Yemeni terrorist.
	I'm being held by authorities.
	They would all get the same treatments and procedures and medicines that I received.
	Everybody in the same circumstance in Hawaii who had had the same thing happen to them would have gotten the same identical stuff that I got.
	The ambulance ride, the testing, the medicines, the attention from the doctors.
	The only difference is that I paid for it.
	The only difference is I don't expect or ask for freebies.
	And all of a sudden, I'm the bad guy.
	According to all these liberals in the media, I'm the bad guy.
	I'm insensitive.
	I'm at a touch.
	All because what you know what I should have done?
	I should have walked out of there and not paid.
	I should have said the American taxpayer's going to take care of this.
	I'm a big time celebrity.
	I'm a powerful influential member of the media.
	Let Obama pay for it.
	Let the government pay for it.
	That's that's what I should have said, because that's what Obama's voters are saying.
	Obama's voters, oh yeah, let the rich pay for it.
	I shouldn't have to pay for health care.
	Let Obama pay for it out of his stash.
	No, I paid for it.
	And somehow that's bragging.
	Somehow that's being insensitive.
	A quick timeout.
	We'll be right back after this.
	Sit tight.
	In fact, uh, ladies and gentlemen, let me make one more point about this.
	As you know, I choose not to have health care insurance.
	And a lot of people say, Well, why don't you have health care insurance?
	I said, Well, very simple.
	I don't like dealing with bureaucracies.
	I don't like filling out a bunch of forms and so forth, and I I just if I don't have to, I'll self-insure where I can.
	I just don't want to mess with what I want to go to the doctor, pay for it and get out of there.
	If I have to go to hospital, ditto.
	But now some people, a lot of people have health insurance.
	And as such, what happened to me would cost them even less than it cost me.
	I mean, what are you spending six thousand a year for your premium or eight thousand or whatever your benefit is that uh that where you work, but you've got a deductible of some point, you've got to co-pay, you've got some amount you have to pay.
	But for those of you who have insurance, you don't have to have a multimillionaire to get the treatment I got.
	This is just absurd and it's obscene that they want to continue to cloud the health care delivery system in this country the way they do.
	If you have a high deductible uh insurance policy, uh then you you would have paid even less out of pocket than uh than I did.
	Now, you you would have been charged 30 percent more in total, because I got a 35, 30 percent discount for for not going through insurance, but uh still it's an American uh situation.
	We have freedom.
	I can choose not to have insurance until for now.
	I'm just I'm glad this happened before Obamacare goes into play, because then I I'm gonna have to have insurance or pay a fine or maybe go to jail if I don't.
	Here's Jay in uh Northern Virginia.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Thank you for waiting.
	Rush, on behalf of my uh beautiful wife, my brother Dave, and my parents and millions of listeners, welcome back to the airwaves.
	It's a pleasure to to uh hear you on the uh radio again.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	Uh there's a reason that the uh president and our uh um security officials are uh concerned about the Detroit bomber.
	Eighty grams of patents uh uh detonated over a uh a uh wing spar would have brought the plane down, and I don't think uh I don't think America knows how close we came to uh losing that aircraft.
	But we have uh we're we're upset in the aviation community.
	We want Dennis Blair and Janet Napolitano to explain to us why um if uh Umar was on the uh the watch list and not the no-fly list, why wasn't word given to the uh flight crew that there was a uh passenger on board that hadn't uh got his paperwork correct.
	We could have isolated a passenger, not made a big scene, but could have isolated them and realized uh nobody knew there was a bomb on board, but we could have isolated them and and uh and and secured this man from uh even trying to detonate the uh and we did know after he was on the plane.
	That's one of the big stories today.
	We knew after he was on the plane.
	So we knew exactly as you say the that that uh who the guy was, he was on the plane.
	He's on a no-fly list, but his father had also warned everybody be careful of my son.
	He's going loco.
	And that dot was not connected.
	And now we're hearing, well, that's because President Obama is so overloaded now with a bloated bureaucracy, and and there's so much information coming in.
	And this is all necessary to be able to dump all this on George W. Bush.
	It's amazing.
	We are very concerned in the aviation community.
	Please uh keep up the good work and and uh see if Mr. Blair or Miss Nepal Tellin will uh call you and let you know why uh we weren't notified that there was a uh passenger of interest on board.
	A flight that covered uh 4900 miles, ten hours in the air, and uh nothing.
	No word.
	Well, look it the people are just plain incompetent.
	They can call and explain it all they want, but that's the explanation.
	By the way, story out of Reuters, a man who described himself as a Palestinian and said that he wanted to kill all the Jews was hauled off a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines flight in Miami and arrested, uh, the authorities said today, Mansour Mohammed Assad of Toledo, Ohio began making loud anti-Semitic comments and chanting, apparently in Arabic, uh I'm Palestinian and I want to kill all the Jews.
	I wonder if is anybody gonna want to go to Detroit after this?
	This is another guy wanted to go to Detroit.
	Folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
	I'll probably get in big trouble for this.
	But if you import people from the third world, you get people from the third world.
	Everybody is breathlessly awaiting Obama to speak on the uh security problems involving the uh the uh fruit of kaboom bummer.
	Breathlessly waiting because of this.
	White House National Security Advisor James Jones says Americans will feel a certain shock when they read an account being released today of the missed clues that could have prevented uh the fruit of kaboom bomber from ever boarding the plane.
	President Obama is legitimately and correctly alarmed at things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available were not acted on, Jones said in an interview uh yesterday with USA Today.
	That's two strikes, Jones said, and he said there aren't going to be three.
	He doesn't want a third strike, and neither does anybody else.
	So the White House is uh gonna release an unclassified uh report today on what went wrong in the incident involving a 23-year-old Nigerian man.
	You want to take any bets that before all of this is explained at the end of the explanation, it's gonna have something to do with we inherited from our predecessors.
	The French news agency has already set it up.
	Oh, poor Obama.
	Poor Obama.
	The bureaucracy is so big.
	And there are so many bits of information coming in, it's just impossible to keep up with.
	That's where it's headed.
	Um you wait.
	That's that's well, it's gonna be problematic.
	I I think I don't think this is playing anymore.
	I don't think it's selling anymore.
	I think a lot of people looking at him as a spoiled little brat, continuing to blame Bush.
	But when he gets into his second year, after the State of the Union speech, whenever that is.
	Oh, you want to know something about that?
	There are two dates for this.
	January 26th, I think, and February 2nd.
	It might be the 22nd and the second, and the the White House has to decide which of the following two shows they want to delay.
	The season premiere of Lost or American Idol.
	Whichever night they choose, one of those shows is going to be delayed.
	And of course, they're very sensitive to it because the fans of those two shows are rabid lost and American Idol.
	And I think what's going to happen, folks, uh, you lost fans are the ones that are going to get creamed here.
	Uh they they're not gonna they're not gonna preempt uh American Idol.
	Obama does not want to have lower TV ratings than American uh some other show on at the uh at the same time.
	So that's what they'll do.
	Back to the phones we go.
	This is Bill Aiken, South Carolina.
	Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
	Thank you for taking the call.
	I don't know what the report's gonna have today, but I don't think Americans should be shocked.
	And the reason is because if the boss is interested, the workers are interested.
	Obama treats the security of this country and his responsibilities as a commander-in-chief as unwanted diversions.
	His first priority is domestic, he wants to change the fabric of the country, and anything that interferes with that is treated as an unwelcome annoyance.
	Amen.
	You could tell when he came out, what was it, four days after the Christmas Day bombing effort?
	That he didn't want to be there.
	He was annoyed, he resented being there, and this man has no interest, first and foremost, in terms of being a commander-in-chief.
	He wants to be domestic in chief, nothing more, nothing less.
	I think he's exactly right.
	I think all this stuff, Afghanistan, everything to do with foreign policy, national security is an inconvenience, a political inconvenience.
	And you're right, it was three days uh after the Christmas bomber uh incident happened, and it was a very short press conference.
	No emotion whatsoever.
	Um couples it with uh well, it's a big screw up and now there's a big report.
	But I agree with you, nobody ought to be shocked because this guy has we can't even he can't even pronounce the name Al Qaeda.
	We've got this guy.
	Do you realize what a treasure trove of information this guy would be?
	This guy met with an imam.
	This guy is uh probably has connections to Al Qaeda, but we're not gonna get anything out of him because we're treating him as an American citizen with constitutional rights.
	We're gonna indict him.
	We're gonna charge him instead of treating him as an enemy combatant as a terrorist.
	And so we're we're totally blowing any opportunity to learn anything from this guy.
	One other thing, and I'll let you go.
	You're talking about throwing the counterterrorism chief under the bus because he went back to the ski slope.
	But Obama went back to the golf course, and he's the commander in chief.
	He's the one that took the oath of office to protect this country, people in terms of foreign and domestic enemies.
	Now what's the difference?
	Uh in fact, in fact, I agree with you.
	And when pe people are calling for Napolitano's head uh over this uh same incident, and uh people have properly pointed out, hey, she's not the problem.
	The guy who put her there is the problem.
	The guy choosing all of these incompetence is the problem, and as you point out, the guy acting as though he's inconvenienced by all this uh is uh is the problem.
	Now, Michael Isakoff in uh in Newsweek, President Obama's decision to suspend sending any detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay back to Yemen was politically a no-brainer, a senior administration official tells Newsweek.
	But the move will do more than complicate Obama's commitment to shut down the base.
	It has raised new questions about whether the facility will be shuttered at all, at least in the first term of Obama's presidency.
	I'm uh I'm beginning to think that Guantanamo's not ever going to be closed, says John Bellinger, the top State Department lawyer under uh Condoleezer Rice and a persistent advocate of shutting down Gitmo, given the current political obstacles, I would bet some money that it's not gonna get closed in the Obama presidency.
	If I may, and I really don't like doing this, but I I must I must tell you, my friends, before Obama was inaugurated, I said he's not going to close Gitmo.
	And he's not going to get out of Iraq.
	And people said, How do you know?
	And I said, Because no matter how they articulate their position on Iraq or Afghanistan or terrorism now, meaning during the Bush presidency, if they could saddle Bush with the defeat, if they could secure a temporary pull out or per uh uh premature pull out of Iraq so that they could say we lost, then they would do that.
	But they're not gonna saddle themselves with what appears to be a military defeat.
	Just like the even in Afghanistan, where Obama says he is uncomfortable with victory.
	He's still sending some troops.
	It may be for show, but he's not pulling out of there, and he's not pulling out of Iraq.
	And now he's not gonna get out of Gitmo.
	And I knew.
	I knew it, because I know these people.
	And this is gonna really tick off the base.
	But big deal.
	Where are they gonna go?
	Um they're certainly not gonna I mean the rad radical leftists are not gonna end up voting a Republican ever, but this is um this is this is really gonna tick them off.
	And i in this Isakoff story, by the way, uh moving these guys, we're gonna send them to Yemen, but we're not, because one in five of them, to get one in five, twenty percent of the people who have been released from Guantanamo Bay have rejoined terrorist groups.
	Twenty percent.
	And people are surprised at this, and I I wonder why.
	What's what's the recidivism rate when you let people out of prison?
	Do they go back to crime?
	A majority of them do.
	Most are not rehab.
	Most of them get back on the crime gravy train.
	Why should terrorists be any different?
	Well, the only reason you might think they wouldn't go back and join terrorist groups is if you think they're not terrorists in the first place.
	And if you're a radical, stupid leftist, you might believe that.
	Because you might believe that Bush were just rounding up people that look like Middle Eastern types and putting them in Guantanamo Bay, because Bush is profiling and Bush is discriminating, and Bush is playing cowboy, and Bush is charging putting innocent people in jail and not charging them with anything.
	It's an outrage.
	It's so it's it's so violating our values and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	We heard all of that.
	So 20% of them go back to terrorism.
	And we're shocked.
	The only way you could be shocked is if you thought they were just innocent little lambs in there and were illegally imprisoned, and their human civil rights were being violated.
	What Isakoff points out, now we're going to send these people, some of them to the Chicago prison.
	Oh.
	Speaking of that.
	We're going to send these people to Chicago prison.
	But if you read Isakoff's story, sending them to that Illinois prison will do nothing to change their status.
	They are still going to be held there without being charged.
	So we're just going to create Gitmo North so that Obama can save face.
	And you know, closing closing Guantanamo Bay has nothing to do with anything substantive.
	It's just you're going to continue to say they're going to close it because it was Bush's.
	And they survive.
	They thrive on the theory that everybody hated Bush and that they have no desire to in any way, shape, manner, or form look like George W. Bush.
	So they got to close Gitmo and all this other.
	In fact, uh the former attorney general, Mr. McCasey, has a critique in the Wall Street Journal today about Obama's handling of the fruit of kaboom bomber.
	And here's the conclusion.
	What the gaffes, the almost comically strained avoidance of such direct terms as war and Islamist terrorism and the failure to think of this guy as a potential source of intelligence rather than simply as a criminal defendant, seem to reflect is that some in the executive branch are focused more on not sounding like their predecessors than they are on finding and neutralizing people who believe it is their religious duty to kill us.
	And that's too bad because the Constitution vests the executive power, not some of it, all of it in the president.
	He and those acting in his direction are responsible for protecting us.
	There is much to worry about if they think that the principal challenge of the day is detecting bombs at the airport rather than activity searching out, finding and neutralizing terrorists before they get to the airport, and that is right on the money.
	So Mr. McCasey thinks that they have such hatred for Bush, and they believe everybody else has such hatred for Bush, that they are going to do anything to avoid looking like Bush.
	Which means go soft on national security.
	Go soft on prosecuting and treating terrorists as actual criminals or rather enemy combatants.
	So probably not going to close Gitmo.
	We are going to move some people to Illinois to create jobs for Dick Durbin, but they're still going to be up there uncharged.
	Their status isn't going to change.
	Oh, And this, this is just delicious.
	This is from founding bloggers.
	An Illinois state panel voted today in favor of letting Governor Pat Quinn close a little used prison in Northwestern Illinois so the Obama administration can use it to hold terrorism suspects now held at Guantanamo Bay.
	Meanwhile, three federal prisoners escaped a downstate federal facility in Illinois today.
	Is that not just juicy?
	Illinois panel votes in favor of the Gitmo plan to bring some prisoners up to that prison in uh in Thompson, Illinois, the same day that three federal prisoners escape a federal prison in Southern Illinois.
	And to make the point, the seven-page indictment of the fruit of kaboom bomber, the Christmas bomber, the fruit of kaboom bomber, I call it a seven-page indictment.
	The word terrorist or terrorism does not show up.
	Not once, not anywhere in the seven-page indictment.
	How many of you uh remember the name Mickey Edwards, Republican in name only from Oklahoma, member of uh of Congress, former member of Congress.
	Yesterday he was in Washington at the George Washington University at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
	Uh and the he's the Aspen Institute vice president now, former Representative Mickey Edwards, Republican Oklahoma, and listen to a portion of what he said.
	I found often that my constituents who are busy living their own lives, doing the best they can for their families and their careers, didn't have all the information that was available to me or to other members of Congress or to the president.
	Uh and some of what they got, they were getting uh from really deep intellectual sources like Wikipedia or Rush Limbaugh.
	You have to, on an important matters.
	Sometimes you have to say, I listened to my constituents, I took them seriously.
	They're just wrong.
	Now he is suggesting that members of Congress tell their constituents that they, you are wrong on health care.
	I play this soundbite for you because it was mere moments ago, actually, I think in the last hour, somebody called another question.
	Rush, why aren't the Republicans saying anything?
	Why aren't they in there fighting for us?
	And I said, Because three reasons.
	A, they have become of Washington, and uh it's Washington's the center of the universe, and you're not in the center of the universe.
	Second thing is they're frightened, they're afraid, scare off the moderates, or to be called racists if they criticize Obama.
	The third thing, and this is this is directly in relation to what Mickey Edwards just said.
	The third thing is, I know every Democrat up there is governing against the will of the American people.
	Every Democrat holds average Americans in contempt.
	They don't think they're smart enough, sophisticated enough, educated enough, all that.
	They're just rubes.
	They're kooks.
	They think if you call Washington, you're a kook, you're an idiot.
	They've talked to you on the phone, you rant and rail, so forth, they think you're cooking.
	They don't think you represent people that are really real Americans and they work.
	People are really working, as he said here, uh uh living their lives doing the best for their families, don't have time to harass members of Congress.
	So they they adopt this notion that you're just a kook.
	And I don't know to what extent Republicans do, but I do know that that uh sometimes legislators, state governments as well, will circle the wagons.
	Ah, those people outside are just a bunch of wackos.
	That's not that's not representative of the country, and that's why they don't listen to you.
	And here's Mickey Edwards essentially confirming that theory that you don't know nearly what he knew when he was in Congress, and you certainly can't know it if what you know comes from me or Wikipedia, which is a huge insult compare me to Wikipedia, but nevertheless, I play the soundbite just so you can see.
	You're wrong.
	He wants these guys, He wants these people in Congress to run around and tell you that you're wrong.
	Quick timeout.
	We'll be back after this.
	By the way, folks, don't doubt me on this stuff.
	If look at the disdain that all the people who showed up last August at these uh town halls hosted by members of Congress.
	Look at the disdain, both shown uh by the media and by members of Congress.
	I mean, you are a problem.
	You know, you wonder why they don't listen to you.
	There is a cabal.
	It's a it's a uh a mindset uh of sort of like us versus them, meaning they are the us, members of versus all of us.
	And it's it's pervasive, I think.
	And I think it's uh one of the reasons why now they just shut off the phones.
	They know, and and in this case it's the Democrats.
	They know you don't want health care.
	They don't care.
	You are an idiot anyway.
	You're just a bunch of kooks.
	Uh, you don't know what's good for you, and even if you did, it doesn't matter.
	These people now approach in their own minds uh a status of near royalty and uh infallibility.
	And they have had a lifelong dream of socializing health care ever since FDR.
	A lifelong dream.
	Here they are on the precipice of it.
	And uh they're in fact they're gonna do this as much as anything, not to lose, not to lose to the conservatives or Republicans as much as they are to get it done.

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