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Feb. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, we're going on now the second day of the grilling of Toyota.
As Henry Nostrolitis Waxman refers to the company.
Does anybody really doubt, uh ladies and gentlemen, that Toyota does a good job making safe affordable cars?
I mean, there's so many of them out there.
Does anybody doubt they have done their best to cowtow the environmentalist wackos?
So why the Spanish Inquisition?
Why is this happening?
There's only one thing that Toyota does wrong, and that is they don't hire UAW workers and pay them an average salary of 73 grand, including benefits, and that's why Toyota is being hung out to dry.
And I, folks, you know, I have to I have to laugh here, because this is a teachable moment.
An organization is accused of selling a defective product that unintentionally harms people who buy the product, a product marketed and sold to keep millions of people safe.
Are we talking about Toyotas or are we talking about Obama's health care plan?
Toyota is being accused of careless, reckless behavior in producing a defective product by Congress.
By Congress.
This is chutzpah.
At the same time, Obama and Congress have manufactured a health care product, Obamacare, that is a ticking time bomb of design flaws.
I mean, the difference between Toyotas and Obamacare is that nobody's forced to buy a Toyota.
The difference is a tiny percentage of Toyota owners are affected, whereas all Americans will be forced to buy a health care product that is riddled with design flaws, weakens the company selling them, and puts the buyer at great personal risk.
And the worst thing about it is that the CEO of this will not be subject to recall.
Meaning Obama.
The uh the the these hearings are taking place just as Obama's one-day-only political theater opens.
I saw something hilarious this morning.
On Fox, mere moments ago, here in the middle of show prep, they had two guys on, a former Republican congressman, and some snooty smug just irritating former Obama campaign advisor, who was just going on and how the public is being so ill-served by what's happening at the summit tomorrow.
Why, people's lives are at stake, and all that's taking place up there is theater.
And I said, Well, holy cow, we're actually getting a Democrat with an honest assessment of this, and then the guy blew it.
The Republicans are saying that they are going to come and crash the party.
That is nothing but pure political thing.
The Obama people have people's lives on the line and in mind, and they're trying to do something terribly desperate.
And the Republicans are going to now everybody knows it's theater.
Both sides know that nothing is going to come of this.
It's all over the news today.
Obama's pretending that he doesn't even know what the Republican plans are, but guess what?
The House Republicans gave Obama their health care proposals weeks ago.
He's had them.
Ron Emanuel has had them.
And Obama keeps pretending he doesn't even know what they are.
So here we're gonna get, we're gonna we're we're in the we're we're watching.
You talk about watching sausage being made.
We are watching the death of the country by legislation and by executive order.
And instead, we got a bunch of Toyota execs up there groveling, bending over and grabbing the ankle, saying, Yes, we're guilty.
Yes, we grew too fast.
How can we do this?
How can we get out from under your bed vibe?
We don't want to offend you anymore.
Well, what can we do?
You want us to hire union work?
Fine, we'll do it.
Just leave us alone.
Meanwhile, we have to sit here and put up with this attack on the private sector, private insurance agencies, private everything is going under water.
You've seen the new numbers on home sales.
Uh they are horrible.
Home sales hit a record low in January.
New home sales plummet 11.2% to an annual rate of 309,000.
That's the lowest on record.
Meanwhile, the recovery's out, and the CBO's or recovery's going on, and the CBO says, Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo, uh, that the stimulus actually created a million and maybe two million jobs in the fourth quarter.
Nothing is real.
By the way, folks, I think, and I've been doing some uh commercials lately for Carbonite.
And I'm gonna have to change one of the things in there that I have been saying, because I've been saying there's one thing you can learn right now about time travel, and that is it ain't possible.
Sorry, it is.
Time travel is now possible.
If you want to see America's future, book a flight to Greece.
Get off and stay there a couple days, and then if you can get if you can find an airline that's still flying, or if you are alive after all the protests and riots going on, come home and you'll understand where we are headed.
Flights were grounded, ministries and schools were shut in Greece today, as civil servants and private sector workers went on a nationwide strike to protest the austerity measures, the cutbacks, the lack of spending.
You've got an entire country of entitled people who expect everything in life is going to be provided for them by their government, and they got to the point now they can't afford it.
The EU is saying, you know, you guys you can't uh we're not gonna bail you out, and you can't keep going like that.
You gotta you gotta reduce the GDP percentage of your deficit.
You've got to get it.
And so they say, okay, we'll we'll we'll put these austerity uh measures uh in place, and they everybody is striking.
Twenty-four-hour walkout is the first joint strike called by public and private unions, representing half of Greece's workforce of five million.
This is since the socialist government won elections in October.
The socialist government won elections in October, and that was the tipping point for sending this country over the edge.
The participation numbers will be seen as a barometer of how much ordinary Greeks support government efforts to slash the deficit to fight a fiscal crisis that has royal markets and worried its neighbors, the European Union.
Uh 36-year-old civil servant Nicholas Corlios said, I am striking against the wage cuts.
I'm striking because others stole the money, and we're the ones that are going to have to pay for it.
They're cutting my allowances, and I have two children to raise.
So time travel.
Time travel possible, ladies and gentlemen.
Head on a plane, go to Greece, and you'll see where we might be headed.
If the Democrats remain in power in this country, Tony Kornheiser on his radio show said this recently and has been suspended for two weeks because of it.
I'd like to point out Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today.
Um she's got on uh red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt, way too short for somebody in her forties or maybe early 50s by now.
And uh she's got on her typically very, very tight shirt, so she looks like she's got sausage casing wrapped around her upper body.
I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people like point out that you know, people who say that they lost 50 or 60 pounds have actually gained all the weight back.
That's uh Tony Kornheiser.
ESPN didn't like that.
Uh they suspended him for two weeks.
I, ladies and gentlemen, would like to step forward today and claim responsibility for this.
Uh well.
How how how how how am I responsible for it?
Well, I don't know.
I mean, it would uh I um uh I I j I just uh I I they're gonna end up blaming me for it.
Um happens if drawing an ESPN, uh, you know, I I just uh eventually it's gonna come down, it's gonna be my fault.
Because I'm and after all, Kornheiser would not have a talk show if I had not blazed the trail.
Uh and so uh, you know, I get away with stuff like that, Kornheiser doesn't, so I'm just moving ESPN, I'm taking the I'm not gonna suspend myself, but I will take responsibility for this.
The commissioner of the NFL weighed in.
Divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about.
And uh so, you know, I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL.
No, absolutely not.
Now, he was not speaking about Kornheiser, uh, but I'm gonna take blame for that.
Uh and uh course Kornheiser was not suspended uh for this three years ago.
Rush Limbaugh reportedly said Friday night that the fell too often looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods without any weapons close, Pop Tony.
What do you think of that?
I've said this before.
That is blatant race baiting.
He has done this.
That's bigoting.
The real uh funny thing about this is that Kornheiser is so ugly.
They make a freight train take a dirt road.
And yet he's out there commenting on a hand of a storm.
So I, ladies and gentlemen, will take responsibility for this.
It involves ESPN, and a guy on radio really didn't know how to do radio.
He was a writer, and I paved the way for all these guys who are now doing radio.
And so they'll cite me as the example, and I get away with the stuff they'll say.
So I'm just going to go ahead and take the blame for it now before it eventually comes to me anyway.
Thank you.
Well, the drive-by's ladies and gentlemen are trying to stir up trouble between me and Scott Brown.
And what they're trying to do, I know this track trick tactic.
I've seen it employed countless times.
What they're trying to do is uh is suggest.
Let me find the transcript for somebody 21.
Um they're trying to suggest here uh that they can what they're well they want to convince Scott Brown that he's now hated on the right because I hate him.
Uh and they're trying to turn him around on his vote for health care.
They're trying to say, look, Brown, look at what these evil right wing guys are saying about you.
They hate you now.
You have not voted their way, and they hate your guts and they hate you, and they're trying to turn him around.
Here it is.
This is Sam Stein this morning on Morning Joe.
Uh Sam Stein with a Huffing and Puffington Post.
Scarborough said, Maybe uh maybe they do health care incrementally out there, Sam old buddy O'Pal.
That's the fallback option now if you can't get something big passes to do small bits that are sort of non-controversial and built on there.
Scott Brown, how remarkable is that?
Within two days, he's now hated by Rush Limbach.
And uh question.
So you you have Scott Brown, hero of the Tea Party movement a couple weeks ago, now villain number one with a lot of people in the right for voting for this jobs bill, which is a collection of tax cuts.
This is pure treachery, obviously, you know.
Scott Brown elected two weeks ago or whatever it was, and now he's uh the villain of the right, uh, Rush Limbaugh is not a big fan, of course, this morning.
But like you said, this is such a you know, uh, among the jobs bill.
I mean, we had a hundred billion dollar plus bill in the House that was supposed to be the basis for this.
This is fifteen dollar.
Stop it, stop it.
Because there must this is not a jobs bill.
This is stimulus two.
And it is there's folks, do you realize how much unspent money from the original slush fund there is?
There's about five hundred billion dollars from the original slush fund that's unspent.
There's no reason for this, but no time did I say yesterday I hate Scott Brown.
In fact, I said I'm not surprised by this.
He's from Massachusetts.
He he's got to throw his he's he's gotta do this occasionally, he's got to get re-elected up there in two years.
Uh you know, it I uh this is something that, speaking for myself, was not a surprise.
And by the way, he has said, you know, the House gets this thing now, because it passed the Senate, then if thirteen or fifteen other Republicans voted for it now on final passage, in addition to Scott Brown.
So it goes over to the House.
Now, if those people lard the thing up with a bunch of earmarks and pork, Scott Brown has reserved his right to vote against it.
And it said so.
So they're they're trying to convince Brown, see, these guys don't really love you.
You may as well join us, vote for health care and so forth and so on, because these guys, that's what they're trying to do here.
Make no mistake about this whatsoever.
Speaking of health care, we have, I don't have time to get to it right now, maybe in the next uh in the next half hour, but a series of sound bites.
Do you remember?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the nuclear option.
You remember what that was?
It's it's so fuzzed up now that that no one remembers really what it means or for what it was intended.
Um you overriding all of this is the Senate filibuster rule that uh outside of budget bills, the Senate requires 60 votes to stop debate and they go to a final floor vote to pass a bill.
We all know this.
Now, trying to make sense out of filibusters and reconciliation, the so-called nuclear option.
The bottom line is this.
And this is where the nuclear option began.
Fifty-one votes is all that has ever been necessary to confirm a judge nominated by the president.
Fifty-one votes.
Fifty-one votes for a non-budget bill.
The Democrats are out there saying we've got these these great audio sound bites from uh recent years ago.
Uh for a non-budget bill is is arrogant, a power grab because the Senate has rules for legislation.
It takes over the private health insurance sector, for example.
So in 2005, there was a question about how many senators are needed to give their advice and consent for a judge nominated by the president.
There was a constitutional question in 2005 about whether 51 or 60 senators were needed.
What?
Yes.
I saw what Hannah Storm was wearing.
I s yeah, I saw it.
The red go-go boots and the short.
Yeah, I saw what's what's the big did you people know the audience of ESPN?
It's single guys between 18 and 24.
Uh probably can't get dates, a little zits on their faces, and uh that's television.
Of course I saw what she was wearing.
Uh it's not a surprise to me at all.
You gotta understand who watches these shows.
Now back to what I was saying.
In 2005, constitutional question about whether 51 or 60 senators were needed to confirm a president's choice for the judiciary.
It was about the appointments clause, which reads thus.
The uh president shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and for which shall be established by law.
That's Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2.
Conservatives said that 51 votes was enough if the advice and consent clause of the Constitution meant anything.
Uh liberals said that the Senate's filibuster rules that the Republicans ran the place back then, you got to remember.
And Bush was having a lot of trouble with his nominees, and this is where the gang of 14 comes into play.
John McCain and gang of 14 trying to stave off the nuclear option.
The nuclear option was using 51 votes instead of 60 because we're talking here about something that's standard, the confirmation of judges.
So now the nuclear options now called reconciliation.
Nuclear doesn't sound too good.
Reconciliation?
Oh, yes, we'll reconcile.
We'll come to an agreement.
The point is that we've got audio sound bites from 2005 of all kinds of Democrat senators saying that this is a naked power grab to use 51 votes to confirm judges instead of 60.
It's a naked power group.
We got Biden saying, I'll tell you, you're not going to have this power forever, you Republicans.
We're going to have it, and we're never gonna do this kind of naked power gram.
I mean, it's on and on and on.
We got Feinstein.
Well, uh Feinstein, we've got Hillary Clinton, we have Senator Byrd, we have Chuck Yu Schumer.
We have uh all of these i it just now.
The thing about this is to me it's not a surprise.
You know me.
I liberals lie.
Democrats lie.
They do everything they accuse everybody else of doing.
It's called projection.
And so now they are going to use reconciliation.
They are going to blow up the Senate rules, they're gonna nuke the Senate rules in order to get health care through the Senate.
They were all against doing this precise thing back in 2005 to confirm judges.
They all of a sudden out of the blue wanted to require 60 votes to confirm judges because they didn't like Bush's appointments.
There have never been sixty votes needed to confirm judges.
And so it was all arguments back and forth.
Should we should we uh launch the nuclear option?
And we're all set to do it.
Bill Frist and these guys there weren't crazy about doing it, and then along to save the day came McCain and Lindsey Grahamnesty and the gang of 14, which was a bipartisan group, put together of 14 Senators to make sure that the nuclear option was not used to protect the sacred rules of the United States Senate.
And we have Hillary Clinton talking about how it's not efficient over here.
It's not efficient by design.
The founding fathers built the Senate this way so that we would not ramrod through legislation without taking careful time to consider it.
All of that's out the window now.
It's pure hypocrisy.
It's deceit galore.
It's typical of the Democrats and the Libs.
And we come back from the uh bottom of the hour break coming up.
Uh I'll let you hear it for uh the entertainment value of it.
Timothy Geitner, uh, the Treasury Secretary, uh, testified today before the House budget committee, uh, and he assured lawmakers today that stimulus spending to spur the economy now is not in conflict with a need for longer-term austerity.
Folks, we are doomed.
Without growth, we can't begin the process of restoring fiscal responsibility, Geithner said.
Uh, he offered a forceful endorsement of administration policies ranging from expanded health care to tougher banking regulations, which would of course destroy the economy.
The ChICOMs, the ChaiCons have to be scared to death and livid if they heard what Geidner said today, unless they're willing to lose trillions of dollars to see us implode.
Uh this is unbelievable.
Unless, of course, it is on purpose.
Be right back, my friend, sit tight.
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The Politico says that um Obama's top advisors are quietly now laying the groundwork for his 2012 re-election campaign, likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Now, this, folks, imagine you are a member of Congress.
Imagine you're you're a member of Congress, you're a Democrat, and you're being told by all the experts that you're going to lose your seat.
The Democrats are going to lose control of the House, they might lose nine Senate seats, and you get up and you read that um while Obama is demanding that you put aside your own re-election chances in 2010 in order to focus on his health care bill, the president is working overtime on his own re-election bid two, three years from now.
This is not loyalty for this White House uh I th Pete Wayner has a great piece today of a commentary where he points out he's worked in the White House.
He worked with Rove uh in the uh in the Bush administration.
He said, Boy, when stuff like this starts happening, when you have uh uh stories uh Rahman Manuel saying if uh boy, if if Obama had listened to me, he'd be in much better shape.
Uh I'm really gonna get it saved Obama.
He's being ill-served by uh by bag dad Bob Gibbs and Valerie Jerry.
Well, it starts start stuff starts happening, that kind of stuff starts happening that it says a uh signal that there's a greater unraveling uh than and even is known uh inside the White House.
So you're a member of Congress.
You're basically being sacrificed for Obama's agenda, and then you get up and read that while you're being told to take a bullet for the guy, he's working on his own re-election campaign in 2012.
This I love it.
I absolutely uh love this.
He's asking Democrats to walk the political plank for him, to give up their political power, to refuse the will of the people to create a political monument to him.
A man who said he could lower the C's, who said Democrats crashed and burned in 94 because they were stuck with Clinton and not a Messiah, and Politico runs a story on Obama's 2012 plans.
Now I thought jobs was the laser focus.
And now we're back to health care, and now we get a story that Obama's already working on his own re-election campaign in 2012.
Timing is everything.
Obama's a failure at that, too.
All right, to the phones quickly before we get to all these funny audio sound bites.
This is Bev in Willows City, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
How are you?
Hello, Russ.
I'm great, and I'm sure happy to be able to talk to you.
But I got kind of a bone to get with you.
The last two days I've been listening to you, and you've kind of made me almost doggone mad.
Ah, my family tease me because they listen to you so much.
But how come on Monday, you had to go after Glenn Beck.
Because he's talked about the Republicans sharing the responsibility with that kind of thing.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute now, Bev.
I didn't go after Ben Beck.
No, you did.
No, I did not.
Oh yeah.
I was simply asked, what would you have said?
Is that what I I was simply asked, what would you have said?
Some people want to know what I would have said.
I simply said I would have gone a different direction.
That's all.
Well you did.
You in your speech, you gave I listened to you last year, and you gave a great speech.
Glenn Beck also gave a great speech.
I didn't say it wasn't a great speech.
I did even the Republican.
I didn't even.
And I happen to be a good one.
So here we go.
Here we go.
That may share some responsibility for the mass this country's in.
Let me tell you something, Bev.
Um I was one of the first people to point this out.
And I can't tell you the number of times I got calls from the White House saying, hey, could we come down and talk to you and try to get your mind right on the Medicare entitlement?
I wasn't for it.
Harriet Myers, no way.
She wasn't qualified to be in the Supreme Court.
All of the spinning, no child left behind, working with Ted Kennedy on the edge.
I mean, from the get compassionate conservatism, uh no child left behind.
All this stuff.
I was I was against it from the get go.
I know that.
Well that whether But for some reason you're not getting the message across then, because people are those Republicans haven't changed.
They must not be listening to you for the last twenty years.
What is he won't change?
A lot of us have been writing them.
We've been talking to our congressman.
Bev.
We've been telling them what conservatism is.
And they don't seem to understand it.
All right.
Bev, I don't think you've been listening to me closely enough.
Yes, I have.
Uh been listening to me as closely as you should have this week or even in previous weeks or whatever.
But never never never mind.
Uh I realize that I have in many minds similar to yours, Bev, but I have I've gone astray.
I somehow don't get it.
I somehow am partially responsible for all this Republican spending.
Uh I'm partially responsible for the fact that the Republicans have not changed in twenty years.
And I have not done enough uh to uh steer the Republicans in the right direction.
That many of you think I'm just a lapdog for the Republicans.
So uh the only thing I can think to do is do to myself what I think you would like to do to me.
Snerdley, are you yelling at another caller?
Is it a caller who wants to get on my case about the same thing?
Remember, Snerdley, you've been suspended for this.
Be polite.
Like I was polite here to Bev.
That there's something that has to be done here.
Um and I I'm just gonna do to myself what I know many of you would like to do to me if you had the chance.
So I want to stand up.
You uh watching on the Diddle Cam, this will be a treat for you.
All right, here we go.
Standing up.
I know putting microphone near my rear end.
I'm going to spank myself for not making the Republicans do the right thing.
Okay.
Now I hope that has made you feel better.
I really did hurt myself.
I could have made it easier by looking at a picture of Hannah Storm.
Well, I did that.
But I didn't.
Self-inflicted pain.
Because I haven't done the right thing.
I in twenty years have failed to change the Republicans.
I in twenty twelve, almost twenty and a half years.
I have not done one thing to get the Republicans to stop being exactly like the Democrats.
You're right.
There's no difference in Mike Pence and Barack Obama.
There are no difference in Eric Cantor, Nancy Pelosi.
There is no difference in Jim Dement and Harry Reed.
And it's going to take me a while, get my arms around that, and join you in that view of things.
I just want you to know I'll be working on it.
Brief timeout now because I spanked myself so hard that every element of my cochlear implant fell apart.
And I have to put it back together now.
Brian, come in and help me.
We'll be back, friends.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We've heard from people like uh uh Sean Penn and uh similar types that uh health care in Cuba is the best in the world.
Seven Cuban doctors and a nurse have sued Cuba, Venezuela, and the state-run oil company in Venezuela for alleged conspiracy to force them to work in conditions of modern slaves in order to pay off the Cuban debt with the Venezuelan government for oil supply.
Uh the defendants intentionally and arbitrarily held the healthy uh health staff in debt servitude, and the staff became economic slaves and political advocates according to the complaint filed in the U.S. Meanwhile, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in our own country, Mr. Obama's trying to enslave millions more doctors in nearly identical debt servitude.
And yet this is the very same Obama who used to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln.
What are we going to have to call it?
An honest ob to go along with honest Abe.
Give me Andrea.
Line two.
Andrea line two in Tampa, Florida.
Uh I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rash.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
You bet.
Um, I'm twenty-five years old, and I've been listening to you since I was nine.
And you have been one of the greatest public speakers that I have ever listened to ever.
You have guided me politically, and you have helped inform me of things that weren't just on TV, because you know, everything news is biased, and um AM Radio has definitely shown me a different way to think.
And I wanted to personally thank you, because every day I have to fight the other side.
Every day I go to school and have another teacher put down the founding fathers.
Every day I have to listen to their opinion.
Even my uh history teacher put you down the other day.
Pretty offensive.
Um he said that you ran away from the Vietnam War.
So I I I was I was kind of upset about that, but you can't really argue with your professor unless you want to fail.
But uh, I know you but look, I I appreciate uh your nice comments.
These these these uh things like ran away from the Vietnam War and so forth are in um the long ago written Lexis Nexus database.
These professors are some of the most closed-minded uh uncurious people.
Uh, and they're all left-wing idiologists.
You're right, they're everywhere.
They're all over the place.
Actually, they're not.
See, uh Andrea, I made this point yesterday, and I want to drive it home again.
They're not everywhere.
They are everywhere in certain institutions.
They are everywhere in academia.
They're everywhere at all levels of education.
They are everywhere in bureaucracies.
But in terms of their percentage of this population, they are a minority.
They are a small minority, but they have as an ally something huge, although it's shrinking, and that is big media.
And big media makes it look like the country is far left.
Big media makes it look like your professor is average and ordinary, just like every other American.
And he's not.
Your professor is a kook.
Your professor is an uneducated boob who is attempting to indoctrinate people like you into what he believes, not what he knows.
It's like it's the Democrats are all mad, uh, Andrea at um what's his Evan Bye.
They're mad at Evan by because when Evan Bai announced he's leaving the Senate, he said, I'm gonna go do something.
If I could create one job in the private sector, I would do more than Congress has done in six months.
And Mary Landrew is outraged at this.
A lot of Democrats how could he say that?
Why sound just like the Republicans?
And then Mary Landrew said, I have piece of paper on my desk that shows X number of jobs have been created in Louisiana.
Well, hey, Senator Landrew, I have a piece of paper on my desk that says John McCain was elected president in 2008.
That doesn't make it true, just like your piece of paper doesn't make it true.
Your teacher, your professor, deals in a bunch of BS pieces of paper.
And so you think you're surrounded by these people, but you're really not.
If this country were made up of people like your professor, they wouldn't be having any problem at all getting health care passed last summer.
If this country were made up of mostly people like your professor, we would have had Obama winning in a landslide.
We would not be facing or looking at the possibility of the Democrats losing the House after two years of Obama or a year and a half of Obama.
We wouldn't be looking at that.
So you need to take comfort in the fact that you're not the oddball, that you are representative of a majority of people in this country.
It's just that at this stage in your life you have to surround yourself with these kooks.
Because they are teachers.
And you have to do your best to placate them and satisfy them to get your grade, but not believe much of what they tell you, especially if they're teaching history or political science.
Because everything with these people is an agenda.
Everything is political.
Uh and they exist for the express purpose of converting you to their belief system and making you essentially a mind-numbed robot.
Pure and simple.
Now, here's a grab audio song by number 33.
And Andrea, thanks much for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
Now, to illustrate something, we've all heard ad infinitum.
And it shows damn Republicans.
The Republicans of the party of no.
That's why Obama can't get his monument.
That's why Obama can't get health care because the Republicans are the party of no.
And we heard Evan Bay say, I can't get along here, and there's too much gridlock.
There's no bipartisanship, and I've been pulling my hair out.
You guys have all the votes.
Up until Scott Brown came along, and this is a month ago, you guys had 60 votes, and who knows what kind of a majority in the House.
The Republicans couldn't stop diddly squats.
So the purpose of this little meeting tomorrow.
This theater is to shift the blame to the Republicans.
That's all it is.
That's all the effort is about.
This was an easy call.
But the dirty little secret is that Pelosi doesn't have the votes for a reconciled Senate version of health care.
Eric Cantor's out there saying so.
The Democrats, Pelosi and Obama, have asked too many of these guys to walk the plank for this.
And a lot of them don't want to walk the plank because they don't think it's worth it.
What's Obama done for them?
Obama's done nothing but make their lives miserable.
Their political lives are miserable.
Here they thought they were going to enter the happiest time of their lives, supermajority control of the Senate, big-time majority control of the House.
And look it.
This place is no different than a den of thieves and a pack of wild dogs.
There's nobody on the Democrat side having any fun doing anything, and it's all Obama's fault.
And yet he's asking them to fall on the sword to take a bullet so he gets his health care thing passed.
Well, they're not all on board.
His problem remains the Democrats.
Here's Bart Stupak.
I don't know if he's going to go to Obama's summit.
I don't know if he's going to speak.
But this was this morning on America's Newsroom.
Bart Stupak with Bill Hemer.
He's a Democrat from Michigan.
And Hemer said as it stands now, with all these moderate Democrats saying, hey, this is not the place we want to go right now, meaning the health care bill.
Could it even pass the House?
Do you think?
Despite the abortion language, uh no, there's other problems with this bill.
Uh the president has tried to bridge the House and Senate bill, but at least to the House members I've talked to, probably about uh 15 or 20 of them in the last uh 24 hours.
And they've said there are other problems with this bill.
Remember, the House rejected the idea of taxing health insurance plans.
We've just totally rejected that idea, but yet that's part of the bill.
Parts of this bill doesn't kick in until 2018.
We're saying, well, why are we passing a bill now that's not going to kick in for another eight, nine years?
You just heard a Democrat.
Bart Stupak.
Not to be confused with Joe Seck.
This is Bart Stupak from Michigan.
Sea Stack is from Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's run by Fast Daddy Rendell in Michigan's being destroyed by Jennifer Grantholm.
This is a Democrat, Bart Stupak.
Nope, not voting for it.
I know 15 or 20 others not voting for it.
And it's got a lot more to do than just a portion.
2018, why are we rushing to do this now?
They are beginning to realize it's all about Obama.
And they're the ones going to pay the price for it.
He gets whatever credit if there is any.
And we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
Have you heard?
Uh, the Grim Reaper will soon be visiting ABC News.
Twenty percent of the news staff, three to four hundred people, I think, are gonna get canned.
They're gonna be offered buyouts.
These are non-union people, by the way.
And this letter from David Weston to these people is price priceless.
We'll share that with you.
Plus, these long-promised sound bites of the Democrats being totally hypocritical, like they are every day anyway.
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