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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 Nostrilitis Waxman refers to the company, does anybody really doubt, 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 kowtow 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 folks, you know, 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?
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 healthcare 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 healthcare 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, is that the CEO of this will not be subject to recall, meaning Obama.
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 the 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 theme.
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 Emmanuel has had them.
And Obama keeps pretending he doesn't even know what they are.
So here we're going to get, 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 and say, 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.
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 underwater.
You've seen the new numbers on home sales.
They are horrible.
Home sales hit a record low in January.
New home sales plummeted 11.2% to an annual rate of $309,000.
That's the lowest on record.
Meanwhile, the recovery's out, and the CBO recovery is going on.
And the CBO says, yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo, 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 commercials lately for Carbonite, and I'm going to 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, we're not going to bail you out, and you can't keep going like that.
You've got to reduce the GDP percentage of your deficit.
You've got to get it.
And so they say, okay, well, we'll put these austerity measures in place.
And everybody is striking.
24-hour walkout is the first joint strike called by public and private unions, representing half of Greece's workforce of 5 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 roiled markets and worried its neighbors, the European Union.
36-year-old civil servant Nicholas Carlios 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.
It's difficult.
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.
She's got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt, way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now.
And 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.
I point out that, you know, people who say that they lost 50 or 60 pounds have actually gained all the weight back.
That's Tony Kornheiser.
ESPN didn't like that.
They suspended him for two weeks.
I, ladies and gentlemen, would like to step forward today and claim responsibility for this.
Well, how am I responsible for it?
Well, I don't know.
They're going to end up blaming me for it.
Anything that happens drawing an ESPN, you know, I just, eventually it's going to come down.
It's going to be my fault.
Because after all, Kornheiser would not have a talk show if I had not blazed the trail.
And so, you know, I get away with stuff like that.
Kornheiser doesn't.
So I'm just moving.
ESPN, I'm taking it.
I'm not going to 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 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, but I'm going to take blame for that.
And, of course, Kornheiser was not suspended 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 quote Tony.
What do you think of that?
I've said this before.
That is blatant race dating.
He has done this.
That's bigoty.
The real 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 having a storm.
So I, ladies and gentlemen, will take responsibility for this.
It involves ESPN, and a guy on radio really doesn't know how to do radio.
He's 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 this 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.
Well, the drive-by's, ladies and gentlemen, 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 suggest.
Let me find the transcript for somebody 21.
They're trying to suggest here that they can, they want to convince Scott Brown that he's now hated on the right because I hate him.
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 Joel, Sam Stein with a Huffing and Puffington Post.
Scarborough said, 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 build on there.
Scott Brown, how remarkable is that?
Within two days, he's now hated by Rush Limbaugh.
And the question, so you have Scott Brown, hero of the Tea Party movement a couple weeks ago, now villain number one with a lot of people on 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 the villain of the right.
Rush Limbaugh is not a big fan, of course, this morning.
But like you said, this is such a, you know, among the jobs bill.
I mean, we had a $100 billion plus bill in the House that was supposed to be the basis for this.
This is $15 billion coming.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Because 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 $500 billion 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's got to throw his, he's got to do this occasionally.
He's got to get re-elected up there in two years.
You know, 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.
And 13 or 15 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 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 half hour, but a series of soundbites.
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, the nuclear option?
You remember what that was?
It's so fuzzed up now that no one remembers really what it means or for what it was intended.
But overriding all of this is the Senate filibuster rule that outside of budget bills, the Senate requires 60 votes to stop debate and 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.
51 votes is all that has ever been necessary to confirm a judge nominated by the president.
51 votes.
51 votes for a non-budget bill.
The Democrats are out there saying we've got these great audio soundbites from recent years ago.
For a non-budget bill 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.
Yeah, I saw it.
The red go-go boots and the short.
What's the big, did you people know the audience of ESPN?
It's single guys between 18 and 24, probably can't get dates, little zits on their faces, and that's television.
Of course, I saw what she was wearing.
It's not a surprise to me at all.
You got to 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 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.
Liberals said that the Senate's filibuster rule, Republicans ran the place back then, you've 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 tried 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 option is now called reconciliation.
Nuclear doesn't sound too good, does it?
Reconciliation?
Oh, yes, we'll reconcile.
We'll come to an agreement.
The point is that we've got audio soundbites 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 grip.
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 going to do this kind of naked power agree.
I mean, it's on and on and on.
We got Feinstein.
We've got Hillary Clinton.
We have Senator Byrd.
We have Chuck Yu Schumer.
We have all this, 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 going to 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 60 votes needed to confirm judges.
And so it was all, you know, arguments back and forth.
Should we 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 Gramnesty 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.
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 bottom of the hour break coming up.
I'll let you hear it for the entertainment value of it.
Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, testified today before the House Budget Committee, and he assured lawmakers today that stimulus spending to spur the economy now is not in conflict with the need for longer-term austerity.
Folks, we are doomed.
Without growth, we can't begin the process of restoring fiscal responsibility, Geithner said.
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 Chikons, the ChiCons have to be scared to death and livid if they heard what Geithner said today, unless they're willing to lose trillions of dollars to see us implode.
And this is unbelievable.
Unless, of course, it is on purpose.
Be right back, my friends.
Sit tight.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushland Blood doing what I was born to do.
And so are you.
I was born to host.
You were born to listen.
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The Politico says that Obama's top advisors are quietly now laying the groundwork for his 2012 reelection 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 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 while Obama is demanding that you put aside your own reelection chances in 2010 in order to focus on his health care bill, the president is working overtime on his own reelection bid two, three years from now.
This is not loyalty.
This White House, Pete Wayner has a great piece today, but commentary where he points out.
He's worked in the White House.
He worked with Rove in the Bush administration.
He said, boy, when stuff like this starts happening, when you have stories of Rahm Emanuel saying, boy, if Obama had listened to me, he'd be in much better shape.
I'm really going to save Obama.
He's being ill-served by Baghdad, Bob Gibbs, and Valerie Jerry.
Stuff starts happening.
That kind of stuff starts happening.
That sends a signal that there's a greater unraveling than even is known 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 reelection campaign in 2012.
This, I love it.
I absolutely 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 seas, 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 reelection 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 soundbites, this is Bev in Willows City, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
How are you?
Hello, Rush.
I'm great, and I'm sure happy to be able to talk to you.
But I got kind of a bone to pick with you.
The last two days I've been listening to you, and you kind of made me almost doggone mad.
My family teased me because they listened 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.
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 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.
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 didn't protect you.
I didn't even say that.
And I happen to leave.
Here we go.
Here we go.
That they share some responsibility for the mess this country's in.
Let me tell you something, Bev.
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 Medicare entitlement?
I wasn't for it.
Harriet Myers, no way.
She wasn't qualified to be in the Supreme Court.
All of the spending no child left behind, working with Ted Kennedy on the edge.
I mean, from the get compassionate conservatism, no child left behind, all this stuff.
I was against it from the get-go.
I know that.
Well, 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 20 years.
What is a lot of us have been writing them?
We've been talking to our congressmen.
We've been telling them what conservatism is, and they don't seem to understand it.
All right, all right, all right.
Bev, I don't think you've been listening to me closely enough.
Yes, I have.
You can't possibly have been listening to me as closely as you should have this week or even in previous weeks or whatever.
But never mind.
I realize that I have in many minds similar to yours, Bev, that I have gone astray.
I somehow don't get it.
I somehow am partially responsible for all this Republican spending.
I'm partially responsible for the fact that the Republicans have not changed in 20 years.
I have not done enough to steer the Republicans in the right direction.
That many of you think I'm just a lapdog for the Republicans.
So, 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.
And I'm just going to 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 watching on the Ditto Cam, this will be a treat for you.
All right, here we go.
Standing up.
I know putting the microphone near my rear end, I'm going to spank myself for not making the Republicans do the right thing.
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, or I did that, but I didn't.
Self-inflicted pain because I haven't done the right thing.
I, in 20 years, have failed to change the Republicans.
I, in 20, well, almost 20 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's no difference in Eric Canter, Nancy Pelosi.
There's no difference in Jim DeMint and Harry Reid.
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.
A 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 Sean Penn and similar types that healthcare 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.
The defendants intentionally and arbitrarily held the health staff in debt servitude, and the staff became economic slaves and political advocates, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, in our own country, Mr. Obama is 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 him now?
Honest Ob to go along with honest Abe?
Give me Andrea.
Line two.
Andrea, line two in Tampa, Florida.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
You bet.
I'm 25 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 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 history teacher put you down the other day.
Pretty offensive.
He said that you ran away from the Vietnam War.
So I was kind of upset about that, but you can't really argue with your professor unless you want to fail.
But look, I appreciate your nice comments.
These things like ran away from the Vietnam War and so forth are in the long ago written LexisNexis database.
These professors are some of the most closed-minded, uncurious people.
And they're all left-wing ideologues.
You're right.
They're everywhere.
They're all over the place.
Actually, they're not.
See, 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 are 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 the Democrats are all mad.
Andrea, at what's his, Evan Bay.
They're mad at Evan Bayha because when Evan Bayh announced he's leaving the Senate, he said, I'm going to 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?
Well, I sound just like the Republicans.
And then Mary Landrew said, I have a piece of paper on my desk that shows X number of jobs have been created to 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.
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 summary 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's those damn Republicans.
The Republicans are 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.
There's too much gridlock.
There's no bipartisanship.
And I'm 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.
Super majority control of the Senate, big-time majority control of the House.
And look at 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 Hemmer.
He's a Democrat from Michigan.
And Hemmer 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, no, there's other problems with this bill.
The president has tried to bridge the House and Senate bill, but at least to the House members I've talked to, probably about 15 or 20 of them in the last 24 hours.
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 till 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 C-Stack.
This is Bart Stupak from Michigan.
C-Stack is from Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is run by Fast Daddy Rendell, and Michigan's being destroyed by Jennifer Granholm.
This is a Democrat, Bart Stupak.
Nope, not voting for it.
I know 15 to 20 others not voting for it.
And it's got a lot more to do than just abortion.
2018, why are we rushing to do this now?
They are beginning to realize it's all about Obama.
And they're the ones who're 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?
The Grim Reaper will soon be visiting ABC News.
20% of the news staff, 300 to 400 people, I think, are going to get canned.
They're going to be offered buyouts.
These are non-union people, by the way.
And this letter from David Weston to these people is priceless.
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