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Jan. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Freedom is awaking from its coma.
Yes, you heard right.
Oh, hi, Wendy.
Dawn's not here today.
Wendy's here.
That's and I hadn't said hi, so I just did.
Freedom is awaking from its coma.
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Nancy Pelosi says she does not have the votes to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives.
She made that announcement not long ago.
House Dems do not have votes to pass the Senate bill.
Don't have the vote.
It's an amazing.
It's an amazing thing what one election can do.
Just one election.
I have always said that elections have consequences.
Dow Jones Industrial Average falling, plummeting down 200 points in the last half hour since Obama.
Well, it's been going in it's been dropping all day, actually, but uh took a big plunge when Obama announced his latest uh reforms, restrictions, penalties, and punishments on America's banks.
We'll have details of that as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
Freedom awakening from its coma today because of a huge, huge, huge Supreme Court decision.
Huge.
I cannot tell you how big this is.
And the decision, it's a 5-4 decision.
The cisia was written by Justice Kennedy, and what it does, it removes limits on independent expenditures that are not coordinated with candidates' campaigns, meaning corporations and not-for-profits can spend any amount of money they want running ads.
And there's no limit as to when those ads can be run.
So McCain Feingold takes a huge hit today.
Now the question of uh uh of campaign contributions directly to candidates was not part of this decision because it was not before the court.
So there uh the issue was in uh issue advocacy ads uh by nonprofit corporation, uh the uh citizens united in this case, but it it uh it covers all nonprofits and all for-profit corporations.
And I I I'm gonna go through it here uh uh pretty much line by line just to show you how profound this decision is.
But I've got to mention a couple of things here.
Uh Paul Krugman, in his blog at the New York Times.
I mean, the liberals are coming out of the dark places that they hide to agree with me that Obama has been a failure.
They just cannot give up on health care.
And there's a there's a uh uh a great piece today.
Actually, yesterday, it was by James Taranto, Best of the Web, Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal Online, saying, don't listen to the media.
They're the last to give it up.
There's no way health care in its present form is gonna see the light of day.
And Pelosi confirmed that by saying she doesn't have the votes in the House to pass the uh the Senate bill.
And the Senate bill is what they were trying to ram down the House's throat.
But here's Paul Krugman.
He wasn't the one we've been waiting for.
Health care reform, which is crucial for millions of Americans, hangs in the balance.
Progressives are desperately in need of leadership, more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn't what they wanted, but is vastly better than nothing.
And what we get from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change is this.
He quotes Obama, I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package people agree on.
Basically, Obama giving up, saying, Well, well, well, what whatever we can get, we'll take.
Krugman says, run away, run away.
Maybe House Democrats can pull this out even with a gaping hole in White House leadership.
Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism, but I have to say I'm pretty close to giving up on Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believe in.
He is not the one we've been waiting for.
And then we have uh Mort Zuckerman, who owns uh the New York Daily News and U.S. News and World Report.
He's done everything wrong.
Another piece.
Mort Zuckerman saying Obama has failed.
Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.
He has misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach.
There's the saying it's the economy stupid.
Well, he didn't get it.
He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda.
He didn't address the main issue.
Mort, he did.
What do you think the slush fund stimulus bill is?
They did.
They didn't do it over a long period of time.
They rammed it down in two weeks, but he thought he dealt with it.
And he's had job summits.
What are you people?
When are you going to figure this out?
When are you going to start listening to me?
This is the You leftists who are unhappy with Obama.
I predicted all this.
And now all everybody joining in line, everybody joining the chorus.
He's not the one we were waiting for.
Obama's failed.
They're all disappointed.
Here's more from Morton Zuckerman.
The uh this health care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country.
Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage.
This is going to raise costs dramatically.
Mort, he didn't care about health care bill.
He doesn't care about health care.
He wants to privatize or socialize one sixth of the economy.
Well, what is so I mean, Mort, you could have written this a year ago.
You knew it.
Instinctively you knew it, but your hopes and dreams and your cult-like devotion forced reason out of your cranium.
In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual.
He did change them.
It's now worse than it was.
I've now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I've never seen before.
It's politically corrupt, and it's starting at the top.
It is revolting.
Five states got deals on health care.
One of them was Harry Reid's.
It's disgusting, just disgusting.
I've never seen anything like it.
The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in a health care bill.
It was pure union politics.
Daniel Henninger has a great piece on just that today in the Wall Street Journal.
Even that is not the worst part.
He could have said, I know.
I promise these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.
You want to deal with health care?
Fine.
Issue number one with health care was the cost.
You know I think it was 37% or 33 who were worried about coverage.
Fine.
I wrote an editorial to this effect, focused on cost containment first.
But he's trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much.
This is not leadership.
I don't consider this a triumph.
I consider it a disaster.
I can't predict two things two years from now.
But if he continues on the downward spiral he's on, he won't be re-elected.
In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party.
And when I say Democrats, I mean Obama.
They are now behind the Republicans, 48 to 44 in the lace poll.
Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.
Mort Zuckerman is livid.
They're all over the place on the leftist blogs.
They are livid, especially on a health care.
Healthcare's gone down the tubes.
And yet here's Obama out announcing today that he's really going to get tougher on the banks.
He's not going to put up with this anymore.
He's not going to put up with them using depositors' money to make financial risky investments like uh do hedge funds and so forth and so on.
They got to stick to the business of banking.
And he's going to see to it that they do that.
So he's still trying to capitalize on what he thinks is a universal hatred for bankers and banking.
Uh, just like he proceeds on the belief that there is a universal hatred of insurance companies and big oil and uh big pharmaceutical.
You gotta hear this.
Scott Brown shows up in Washington today, folks.
This is hilarious.
It's it's hilarious and predictable.
I told Cookie I want a montage of the questions, the initial questions that he was asked.
We who've covered Senator McCain for a while have heard them say that a lot.
Is there any sort of tips, uh, Senator McCain?
Perhaps you'll be giving him on how to be a baby during the fact.
Senator LeGround, Democrats have historically relied on New England Republicans to negotiate on various issues that New England Republicans have generally been the most amenable to deals on various issues.
Where do you see Potential for common ground with Democrats in the majority.
Now the Republicans have 41 seats and a legitimate seat at the table.
How would you like to move forward on legislation working with the Democrats?
Perhaps better than the two parties have so far this last.
That's the first series of questions.
Those are the first questions Scott Brown was asked today.
And by the way, um you get any sort of tips, uh, Senator McCain, um, giving him on uh on being a maverick.
If anybody needs to give somebody tips on being a maverick, it's Scott Brown telling McCain how to do it.
There's the real maverick if you want to talk about it.
The real maverick is Scott Brown.
But you see, all these media people, I can boil it all down.
What are you going to do to help the Democrats?
What are you going to do to work with the Democrats?
And by the way, every one of those questions came from the You heard it.
Female.
The chickification of the news.
Every one of them.
What are you going to do work with a Democrat?
How are you going to make the Democrat uh succeed?
How are you going to cross the aisle?
What what in New England, New England Republicans have always helped Democrats.
Uh, how are you going to do that?
Here are just a few of uh sampling of uh Scott Brown's answers on working with the Democrats.
I have eighty-five percent of the delegation in Massachusetts are Democrats.
I actually voted for a health care bill in Massachusetts, and it was uh a great bipartisan effort, so it's clear that I wanted uh coverage for everybody in Massachusetts, and we have ninety-eight percent of the people insured there.
The bill that was being pushed uh in Washington was not good for Massachusetts.
I'm open to looking at every single bill on its merits and making a decision based on that.
And my first interest is gonna look uh is whether it's good for my state, and then obviously if it's good for the country.
Now he says we have real problems like the economy and Al Qaeda trying to kill us.
Uh but Scott, if I personal aside, the Democrats do not want to work with you on either of those.
They do not want to work with you on the economy.
They want you working with them.
People want good government, they want transparency.
We've got Al Qaeda, you know, trying to kill us.
We've got very serious tax and spend problems, we've got some some real uh fiscal issues and job questions, and we're not solving them.
We're talking about things that are really irrelevant.
And that's what I'm hopeful that, you know, based on the messages I've heard from all the delegations, whether they be Republican or Democrat, uh, I think they get it.
And I'm hopeful they get it.
And I'm going to try to remind everybody that you know we can do better.
Yeah, well, good luck.
Uh, but there he's playing it straight down the middle, uh, which is a very smart and wise thing to do.
John Kerry, just a couple weeks ago, who by the way served in Vietnam, who is seventy one years old.
No, his wife's seventy-one.
I I don't know how old the lurch is.
Uh all I know is the lurch could not make the oceans boil.
Uh, the lurch couldn't make I mean, couldn't cause a ripple in a bathtub, even getting in it.
Now, uh, just a couple weeks ago, Kerry was out there saying, we're not gonna pass, we're gonna pass this bill before he's seated, we're gonna delay.
He was all part of that chorus that was going to delay Scott Brown being seated.
Now he's done a total 180 in just two weeks.
And the uh reporters, you know, he started uh after he after he met with McCain, he went and uh met with other senators, including Senator Kerry, who said this.
You have to work across the aisle here to make things happen.
Uh Americans don't just elect Democrats and Republicans, they elect people to be responsible for the people's business.
Isn't it amazing what one election does?
Just one election.
Reporters this morning uh asked uh uh if Democrats are courting Scott Brown, unidentified reporters.
You feel you're being courted by Democrats as a possible swing voter.
I've always had great respect for Senator Kerry.
Uh always.
We uh have worked together on other issues.
I I know we're gonna work together on on issues in the future.
I have a great relationship with the delegation because of my years at the State House.
Uh if I see a bill that is good for my state, I'm gonna vote for it.
And uh that's my first priority.
And I look at the bills first, determine what what how much they cost, if they're gonna benefit my district and the state, and uh I'll I'll take it that way.
I continue to be the same type of voter I've always been.
So again, playing it down the middle here uh being noncommittal and uh and certainly non provocative.
Uh he realizes he's dealing with loaded question.
He's not gonna give them the meat that they want.
They're a bunch of sharks circling out there, and he's not gonna bleed for them.
Now, I want you to hear this from uh Jeff Tubin.
Uh he is the uh legal analyst at CNN.
And the the the left is just a gog.
They are beside themselves that freedom is coming out of its coma today, is awakening from its coma with this Supreme Court decision, which I'm going to get into after the break.
But I want to show you how upset that Tubin is and the left really are.
Tubin is in crisis here.
It's really not just the 20-year-old ruling from 1990.
It's more like a hundred years of regulation of the way corporations are prohibited from being involved in the political process.
It's really bigger than 20 years.
It's more like a hundred years of precedent being overturned.
It basically says money is speech and corporations are people, both of which are debatable propositions, but both of which seem to be, you know, popular at the Supreme Court at the moment.
What's debatable about corporations are people and money is speech.
Those two things are inarguable.
That's what the court said by five to four, with Kennedy, who is, you know, his he's the swing vote.
He wrote the opinion here.
That is significant.
So we'll tell you what, and he's right, by the way.
This this turns over 100 years of precedent.
You know, and you know how how anti-corporatist the left is.
You know how they hate corporations.
They despise this, folks, is causing ulcers.
I can't tell you what this decision is doing today to these to these leftists who just a year ago they had such high hopes that they're going to have every CEO in jail and every soldier in jail.
Uh and and uh it's just it's in one year, in one year, because the people of this country are not socialists.
The people of this country still have roots to freedom and entrepreneurialism and liberty.
And nothing, the left, Obama, nothing can snuff that out.
Well, the economy unexpectedly continues to go to hell.
Uh jobless claims unexpectedly.
They have to be doing it to tweak me.
They have to be doing this to tweak me.
This is this is a full year of unexpectedly jobless claims going up, or surprisingly, or what have you.
All right.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, get this.
This is uh from the uh from the speaker's website, Speaker of the House, and it's from yesterday.
Americans are responding with generosity and compassion to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, donating their hard-earned money and time, which can literally mean a difference between life and death to many Haitians and others.
Today, the House unanimously passed legislation to provide an immediate benefit for those who have already given and an incentive for those who are considering a charitable contribution.
The legislation allows individuals making a charitable contribution after January 11th and before March 1st to victims of the uh earthquake in Haiti to claim these charitable contributions on their 2009 tax return.
So the House has unanimously passed a bill to accelerate tax deductions for Haiti relief.
So they know if you want more of a good thing, like donations to Haiti, you lower the taxes on it.
So they know this.
I'll tell you, it's a defeat, ladies and gentlemen, for the fascists, the statists who seek to control our property, our bodies, and our speech.
It is uh it it's a it's a defeat for Senator McCain.
The muzzle is off the American people now because they in fact can spend the money on advocacy ads prior to the general and primary elections.
Um, and it is it is uh a 100-year-old precedent that has been overturned.
It is solid in that respect.
Citizens United produced an advocacy commercial about Hillary Clinton, which uh which they ran or wanted to run before the primaries.
The question was whether it violated McCain Feingold's ban as some kind of a political commercial.
The Supreme Court said such advocacy by citizens united and other groups is protected constitutional speech.
But the opinion addresses more than that.
The court says the law provides an outright ban backed by criminal and civil sanctions, including nonprofit corporations, to either either expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates, or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30 days of a primary, 60 days of a general election.
These would be felonies, and the court struck these down.
The court struck down all the limits on where you can advertise, when you can advertise, and how much you can spend on this advertisement.
I'll go through the rest of the ruling here in a summary form when we get back from this timeout, which will be sooner than you know.
And welcome back.
El Rushmore, talent on lawn from God.
on Ladies and gentlemen, more analysis here of the uh SCOTUS decision today on campaign finance reform.
The court says that the McCain Feingold law provides an outright ban, backed by criminal and civil sanctions, including nonprofit corporations, to either expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates or to broadcast electiering communications within 30 days of a primary, sixty days of a general election, these would be felonies, the court struck it down.
Laws prohibiting speech, even via corporations, are subject to the highest scrutiny, which is strict scrutiny.
It's not enough to broadly claim that a certain form of speech is corrupt with little more.
The government may not impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers or based on the wealth or lack thereof of the speakers.
Yes.
That you realize that this you gotta understand, folks.
See, I know liberals.
I know these cockroaches.
And I'm telling you, this just has them boiling today.
You add the fact that everything's falling apart and going wrong for Obama.
I mean, you go back to one year ago, almost to the day.
Hell, it is one year ago to the day.
No, it's one year plus a day.
One year plus a day.
Nevertheless, you know what they thought they were in power in perpetuity forever.
They had their Messiah.
And it was going to change this country forever.
And now the American people have said no way.
They have learned what this was all about, saying no way.
This court decision has these people fuming.
The government may not impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers, or based on the wealth or lack thereof of speakers, the public has the right.
The court said the public has the right to obtain all kinds of information from the widest number of sources.
Now, these are not direct quotes.
But my summation, but this is what the court is saying simply because speech has taken on a corporate form, does not give it any less protection under the First Amendment.
All speakers who communicate via broadcasting and other outlets amass funds from the economic marketplace to fund their speech.
So the idea that money somehow does not equal speech.
The court saying, look at everybody who communicates via broadcasting and other outlets, amass funds from the economic marketplace to fund their speech.
There can be no dispute of that.
But it's now the law of the land.
Under the government's reasoning on corporate restrictions, wealthy media corporations would have their voices diminished to put them on par with other media entities.
There's no precedent for this.
There is no, it's not constitutional.
This is liberalism itself has just been struck down.
This whole notion of fairness based on who has more than somebody else or who has less than somebody else is bigger than somebody else.
There is no precedent for advantaging certain corporations and disadvantaging Others respecting speech.
Speech is speech.
There's the First Amendment.
It doesn't matter how much money you have or how big you are, there is no restriction permitted on it.
They are really hammering away here, folks.
This is pretty sweeping.
This is landmark, I would call it.
The law's purpose and effect is to prevent small and large corporations, for profit and not for profit, from presenting facts and opinions to the public.
There is no constitutional support for this, struck down.
The law's purpose, this is McCain Feingold, they're talking about.
McCain Feingold's purpose and effect is to prevent small and large corporations, for profit and not-for-profit, from presenting facts and opinions to the public.
There is no constitutional support for this.
So it's it's you know, I'm I think back.
One of the things that Senator McCain always said was, well, you know, money corrupts the system.
Money these good people come to Washington and money corrupts them.
We have perhaps the most corrupt presidential administration I've seen in a long time.
What does money have to do with it?
Is it not their ideas?
Is it not their desires that are corrupting them?
Is it not who they are that's corrupt?
By the way, another reason you know this is a great, great piece of uh of Supreme Court reasoning is that Chuck Yu Schumer is livid.
Chuck Yu can't he's beside himself over this.
Chuck Hugh doesn't like the Constitution.
Only his endless speeches are worthy of protection.
Here's a quote from the from the uh from the opinion.
When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information, or what distrusted source he may or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought.
This is unlawful.
Excellent point, justices, and it applies equally to talk radio.
Let me read this again to you.
When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information, or what distrusted source he or she may not hear.
That means fairness doctrine, we can't listen to Limbaugh.
He's controversial, he's he's uh he's got a monopoly, uh, and you can't trust him.
The Supreme Court says you can't censor anybody on that basis, it's unlawful.
They struck it down.
Uh there's there's a lot more uh to this.
Uh oh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, but um the important thing here is it's a five to four decision, and uh uh Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority, which is significant.
Uh it's as good a decision as anybody could have hoped for.
It's sweeping, and it is uh it is landmark.
Now I want to I want to uh alert you to something happening out there, going back to uh Paul Krugman and going back to Mort Vuckerman, who are both best guys, not the one we've been waiting for, turns it on why he's a you know they're genuinely upset here.
But you heard Kerry two weeks ago, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, wanted to delay the seeding of Scott Brown so that health care would pass, and now two weeks later.
Why he's the voice of the middle of the road, and all these Democrats are.
Now, this is what I want to talk about.
I as I can see this starting to happen.
Carrie's comments a moment ago that I played.
The Democrats, in fact, grab soundbite number four, so that uh people will be able to hear immediately what I am referencing.
This is Kerry talking about how senators have to work across the aisle, which that the last thing they want is to cross the aisle.
They want us crossing the aisle, but they don't want to cross the aisle, and they never do.
You have to work across the aisle here to make things happen.
Uh Americans don't just elect Democrats and Republicans, they elect people to be responsible for the people's business.
Okay.
Now, the Democrats folks are really, really good at changing their skin to fit the current environment.
They are gifted chameleons.
Their insides do not change.
Their core liberalism, statism, socialism does not change, but their external appearance and their manner of speaking and the contents of their speech does change.
They are faking it.
Do not fall for any of this middle of the road stuff that you're gonna get from Harry Reid who just met with Scott Brown or Lurch or any of these people that you know are liberals.
They have not changed.
They fake it.
They'll do whatever they have to do, even if it's take a couple steps back to move another step forward.
They will say anything they have to uh have to say that to assuage the voters and to assuage people like Krugman and Vuckerman.
Now Krugman and Zuckerman are generally angry.
And so the Democrats, you know, John Kerry, somebody will call them up, uh, uh, you know you're right, and uh we'll we'll see in the errors of our ways.
I remember after the 2002 midterms after the uh Wellstone Memorial, those 2002 midterms, which were big for the Republicans, I think it was 2002, yeah, it was midterms, 2002.
Remember the values voters in the exit polls came out of the woodwork.
And the Democrats, oh yeah, well, we uh for two weeks after that election, yeah, we're gonna have to do better with values voters.
Um we're gonna have to be reach out here, and we we uh we have to be willing to talk about this stuff on the snuff.
And that was fakery too.
It just went on for two weeks, and then they forgot about it, hoping that people would remember the uh the original position that they had stated after the election.
But we know exactly what happens when they have power.
We are seeing it now.
Uh just how we saw it in the past with LBJ.
What you're seeing, what you have seen this year with Democrats supermajorities everywhere is who they are.
Pay no attention to their attempt to change their skins today.
They lie, they hide, they try to make uh you think that there are things that all information in history proves that they are not.
They want you to believe and look at them in a certain way.
They don't want you to see their radicalism.
That's the mistake they've made in their arrogance and conceit.
We've seen it on display for a year.
Now they're gonna try to tell you that what you saw wasn't true, that what you saw wasn't real.
They're gonna bank on the fact that you will you will uh uh uh swoon over their new attitude of uh complacency and niceness and uh congeniality and smiles and so forth.
You gotta be on the watch for this, folks, because they are seductive and they have the press to amplify that effort to seduce.
We all want to get along.
We all want to work across the aisle.
Well, we do want to get along.
They want statist type of power.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away, folks.
Sometimes some of you people in the email amaze me.
I checked the email during the break.
Rush, how do you know the Democrats don't mean it this time?
They really have gotten the scare of their life.
Folks, look.
If liberals only changed for two weeks after 9-11, all it took was for two weeks for them to revert to who they are.
What in the world makes anybody think that the Scott Brown victory is going to cause a permanent I can't believe folks don't doubt me on this.
You gotta be aware of what's happening here.
Just that simple.
This from the Associated Press Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today that she lacks the votes to quickly move the Senate sweeping health overhaul bill through the House.
A potentially devastating blow to President Obama's signature if you a potentially devastating.
Here is how the speaker said it.
I don't see the votes for it at this time.
No, I mean, the members have been very clear in our caucus about the fact that they didn't like it before it had the Nebraska provision and some of the other provisions that are unpalatable to them.
But there is a recognition that there's a foundation in that bill that is important.
So one way or another, those areas of agreement that we have will have to be advanced.
I may tell you the way I see this.
The way I see this is that nobody who stands for re-election really wanted to sign this bill.
really wanted to vote for it.
Pelosi exempted.
But you notice how fast the raps at the rats are deserting the shit after ship after one election.
After one election, everybody's running away from this bill faster than I've seen anybody run away from a bill at all.
I guarantee you, this is worse than you and I even know.
Because it's going to be impossible to put this whole thing back together as it was.
They've got their out now.
Nelson never wanted to vote this thing, and he never wanted to take that stupid deal.
Same thing with Landrew.
They had to take it because they're scared of Obama.
They got Rahmanuel leaning on him to talk about the this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get what FDR wanted.
We got to do this for Obama.
We got to build the monument.
This is the greatest thing for our party.
If you don't do this, you're going to lose re-election.
But none of them wanted to do it.
Or not clearly not a whole lot of them wanted to do it.
The way it manifested itself, as big as this thing got, I guarantee you, folks, I'm not saying a Democrats aren't who they are.
And I'm not saying that they're not huge statists.
But I I for Pelosi, what was just it was just yesterday, or maybe Tuesday, where Pelosi said, by hook or by crook, we're gonna get this done.
There will be health care reform.
She was defiant as she could be.
And all these Democrats before Brown actually won the election.
Oh, yeah, we're if we have to do whatever we have to do, if delay certifying his election, delay seating him, Senate rules in charge, whatever we have to do to push this thing through.
And then yesterday Obama comes out and says, we're not gonna jam this through until Scott Brown is seated, meaning they're gonna jam it through at some point.
But all these rats are deserting the ship so fast that it tells me that who at least the ones publicly deserting wanted no part of this at any time and are really happy to be freed from the shackles.
You strengthen their hand, the Democrats.
Well, uh.
Snirdley just asked me if this takes the Albatras uh albatross off of them uh and strengthens their hand, meaning, since this is falling apart, uh that health care will not be something uh dragging them down a shackle around their ankles.
Let me tell you something.
People are not going to forget this, because it's not just health care, Snerdley.
It is the arrogance.
It is the is the willful ignoring of the will of the people.
It is all of this spending.
It is all of this debt.
And the the people of this country know that the Democrats own all of it.
It is not the Republicans.
The Democrats own this.
So no, they're there's the hell they just asked to raise a debt limit.
Another 1.9 trillion dollars yesterday.
So the debt limit uh is over $14 trillion now.
Now listen, listen to um this is a uh uh political story.
Sour swing voters desert Democrats.
As they did in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contest last fall, sour swing voters overwhelmingly supported the Republicans.
No, you swing voters, you moderates, you independents, now that you supported a Republican, now listen to the way they talk about you.
Oh, they don't have this reverence for you as they always used to.
They loved you when you moderates were voting Democrat, but now you're sour.
Now they come up with all of these horrible words to describe you.
The uh the words I've seen to describe these independents are angry, sullen, sour, uh, neglected, dissatisfied, racists, hicks.
You know how I would describe the independents?
And you moderates.
Here's how I would describe you.
Energized, informed, frustrated, motivated, freedom loving, forceful, tireless, engaged.
That's what you are.
And Mr. Snerdley, have no fear, that will not change, Because the Democrats will soon revert to being who they are within weeks, if not days.
Brief timeout, folks, to be right back and continue in jiffy.
Again from the Politico, Obama's first year.
What went wrong?
Let me tell you the three things they say that went wrong.
America had undergone a seismic change.
The stimulus passage would presage a rolling passage of all of its agenda.
This is what they thought.
This is what Obama people thought, that it had undergone a seismic change, that the stimulus bill would presage the passage of everything else, and they really did believe that Obama was special, messianic.
They really believed it, according to Politico.
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