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Feb. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You know, folks, it's actually better than I thought it was going to be.
The reason it's better than I thought it was going to be is because it is illustrating what a bunch of mean, arrogant, petulant, just lousy people.
The Democrats are at this summit.
Republicans are up there, I think, knocking this out of the park.
They are announcing plans.
They're putting forth proposals to actually deal with the problem, and all the Democrats are doing is I got this letter from somebody who lost half their face in an operation with a killer whale, and oh, he can't get any insurance.
Oh, it's horrible.
And Obama's talking about his family problems and so forth.
It's just, it's amazing but the whole thing's a sham anyway, because on Monday, the Democrats have a plan, it's exclusive in the politico, to go ahead and start ramming big health care through with no Republican support whatsoever.
So the point of this, when this is all over today, we're gonna hear about uh how the Republicans will not willing to compromise.
They were not willing to budge.
They were not really wanting to do anything other than embarrass our our our young president uh and selfishly propose their own ideas without any willing to compromise whatsoever.
That'll set the stage for Obama and the boys to be able to say, okay, well, we gave it a shot here, but they're just intractable over there, so we gotta go do it ourselves, our own way.
And this is suicide.
It is suicide.
And the uh I I this thing is started off so boring, I'm not sure a lot of people are watching it, but to the extent that people are, Democrats are not looking good here, folks.
They do not look like serious, they don't even look like nice people.
Plain and simple, they don't look like nice well, they're not, but they don't they don't look like it being petulant.
Here's Obama, he actually said, I don't count my time because I'm the president.
The time I speak doesn't count because I'm the president.
You know, Mitch McConnell actually said, hey, you know what?
You guys are not giving us a fair shake on the time.
David Rodham Gergen was asked what he thought of this thing so far.
Yeah, yeah, the Republicans uh I'd say it's even right now.
They're looking at this as a political horse race.
Well, I'd say it's even.
If David Rodham Gurgen says that it's even right now, that means the Republicans are kicking butt.
Greetings, my friends, how are you?
Uh it's Rush Limbaugh here on Healthcare Summit Showdown Sham Day.
Uh EIB Network, three straight hours of this.
They're gonna be taking a break here soon.
Uh, timed uh not coincidentally uh to the start of this program.
Phone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the uh email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Once again, folks, we are seeing that without a teleprompter, uh, we have a president who it does it well it's said very well by a friend of mine, doesn't have a clever or supple enough mind to come at the issues from a different angle than he's done 347 times in the past.
Literally, he started out, this is a health care summit, trying to get together with the Republicans.
He started out saying the exact same things, telling exact same stories that he's done at all of his health care town halls.
It wasn't talking to Republicans, he's talking to whoever was watching on uh on TV.
Not one new approach, not one new tactic, not one new strategic move here.
Um he's lying so big and does it so easily.
He clearly something I said about him uh recently is uh obviously true today.
He is the most inexperienced, unqualified guy in the room.
And whatever room he walks into, that's true.
Especially a room like this.
Harry Reid, my God, I I that this guy must have gotten up mad today.
He's just mad at everybody, uh, particularly the uh the Republicans, because and what that what the Republicans are doing are simply reading from the Democrats' health care bills, Obama moves in and cuts them off and says it's not productive.
Obama's body language.
I mean, look at folks, um the the when he finished his opening segment, and then uh Lamar Alexander went in there, and Lamar, aside from his open race and we want you to succeed, because it's not true.
All this is about Obama failing with this, but you know, that's that's typical inside the book.
Oh, we really want you to succeed.
No, we don't.
The American people don't want Obama to succeed.
That's what this is all about.
But he sets there, sits there on the hand uh propping up his head, Biden the same thing, looking bored, uninterested as Lamar Alexander starts in.
And then when Alexander starts making points, Obama raises his head very arrogantly.
Eyes are narrowed the slits, saying, How dare you embarrass me this way by making more sense than I just did?
The look on Obama's face was not pretty.
Reed, Biden and Pelosi just looked away.
They would not even afford or accord Lamar Alexander even the appearance of respect.
Their body language was very clear.
We're not listening, we don't give a rich, we're in what you say.
We're not interested.
Now, Obama starts out, grab audio sound by number one.
This is pretty much how Obama started.
I can certainly remember Malia coming into the kitchen one day and saying, I can't breathe, Daddy, and us having to rush her to the emergency room because she had asthma.
Or Sasha when she was a baby, getting meningitis and having to get a spinal tap and uh being on antibiotics for three days and us not knowing whether or not she was gonna merge.
Okay.
In each of those instances, I remember thinking while sitting in the emergency room, what would have happened if I didn't have reliable health care?
Right.
Well, yeah, what would have happened if well the fact of the matter is that any person in America, from the richest guy in the country to the cheapest, poorest illegal immigrant, can do exactly the same thing Obama just described, and that's go to the emergency room.
And Tom Colburn made that point.
Everybody gets treated in this country.
That's not what we're here talking about.
We're talking fraud waste, we need to get it out of there.
Um, why?
Since Obama just describes this wonderful system where his two daughters, two fat daughters, according to his wife, his two fat daughters came down with uh some sort of a disease, had to rush into the emergency room.
Uh why design a system that destroys the very best private health care that he says he's so thankful for because that's what he and the Democrats have in mind.
Make the private health care system more affordable by allowing free markets to work their magic.
That's what this ought to be about, but it isn't.
So look at I could I could go on for the next 20 minutes without repeating myself doing analysis.
But I think folks that this is backfiring on these people.
Um the Republicans have been shortchanged on time, and the president says, Well, I don't count my time because I'm president.
You know, I won.
I don't I don't count my time.
But we are learning here.
I mean, if you landed from Mars, if you landed from Mars today, and all you had to go on before you arrived from Mars was what you had ever read or seen in the in the mainstream media about Republicans.
What you would learn first up today is that the Republicans are really reasonable about this.
They're really sensible.
They are earnestly trying to fix this.
This is new information for the left in the media.
This is a side of the Republicans they're never allowed to see.
That's that is never portrayed.
So in one respect, I guess it's good that they're going up there and doing this.
I mean, everybody knew that Pelosi would demagogue.
Everybody knew that Harry Reed would demagogue, everybody knew that Obama would give a great classroom lecture, but he's not even giving a great lecture.
He's stuttering around and and plus he's responding to virtually everybody.
Well, I don't know you want to say that.
A couple of points you made out.
So he's is uh it's spoiled little brat, but these Republicans, why they're actually human beings.
They don't have horns on their heads.
People are learning that they actually are nice guys here, which ain't all bad.
Uh Harry Reid basically saying, I must summarize all this for you, but Harry Reid basically saying, if we would all just agree with him and Obama Pelosi, that we'll be working for the people.
You know, therefore nonpartisan, uh non pelagius, they just want what's good for the people.
We're not partisan, we're not political.
Um Republicans ought to stop playing games and Just work with us on this.
Now, Dave Camp, a Republican from Michigan, was scoring three pointers.
This guy was sinking nothing but net from beyond 25 feet, time and time and time again.
He was reading from Democrat bills.
Dave Camp, Republican Michigan, reading from Democrat bills.
What's and and uh it's what got him in trouble the first time is what's in the bills.
He's reading from the bills, and that is death for Democrats.
So he gets cut off.
Obama cut him off and said, No, no, we're not here for this.
Uh we're we're we're we're um we're we're trying to find common ground here.
They're reading from these bills, which is why a continuingly increasing margin of people, majority, do not want this.
The Democrats are up there using the same old page from the same old playbook, emotional stories.
Uh, all these poor people.
Yeah, I lost half my face in a shamu tank, and I couldn't get it fixed because of uh didn't have any insurance.
I take letters up to the residents with me every night, letters from average Americans.
I mean, it's one big sob story after another, one big tear jerker after another.
So they want to continue to play these emotional stories, try to tug at people's heart strings, but their own words in their own legislation is their worst enemy.
Uh the least experienced man in the room is the most worried when facts and specifics enter the fray and become part of the uh uh proceedings.
I'm actually having some fun watching this.
Now, uh, let's see.
Let me take a break here.
I'm gonna decide which of these next sound bites I want to use.
Cookie, I just uh I've been swamped here.
I haven't had a chance to go through the whole roster.
I don't know if you got any Dave Camp here, but if you don't, could you give me some of Dave Camp where Obama shutting him down?
Because I mean he's sinking three pointers after three pointers after three pointers.
Be right back, folks, and we will well, we'll just rev it back up and resume right where we are.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
Happy to have you along for the ride here at the EIB network.
Here is President Obama this morning.
And um now what what they're trying to do here is put a face on gridlock.
Uh at the end of this, the Republicans are gonna get blamed for not compromising.
This is to shift the blame away from the Democrats.
That's the attempt here.
But the Republicans are gumming up the works here because they're coming off really, really well.
And I, in fact, I haven't heard one Democrat sound like a Republican sound like a Democrat today yet.
I have not heard one Republican sound like a Democrat.
I'm sure I'm wrong about that.
Uh I'm sure many of you in this audience are telling me I'm falling for a big inside the beltway trick here.
But here's Obama, something he said uh uh I don't this is not gonna help him.
Categorize this thing as uh Republicans getting in the way, not compromising.
Listen to this.
I've looked very carefully at John Boehner's plan that he put forward.
Uh I've looked at Tom Coburn and and uh Senator Burr's plan uh that's been put out there.
Paul Ryan has discussed uh some of the issues surrounding Medicare.
I've looked at those very carefully.
Yeah.
Well, just what three weeks ago, two weeks ago, Obama said this.
What I've done is I've said to the Republicans, show me what you've got.
You've been sitting on the sidelines criticizing what we're proposing.
That was February 2nd.
Republicans had no plan sitting on the sidelines.
Today, what happened to Party of No?
I thought they had no plan.
He's looked at Boehner's plan, Coburn's plan, Senator Burr's plan, Paul Ryan.
Now he didn't agree with any of it, but he's admitted looking at it.
Lamar Alexander uses Obama's words on filibustering against him.
He used the same bite that we played yesterday, where Obama was talking about how the Constitution was threatened if the Senate got rid of the filibuster rule.
This is Lamar Alexander from just this morning.
My request is this before we go further today, that the Democratic congressional leaders and you, Mr. President renounced this idea of going back to the Congress and jamming through on a partisan vote through a little used process we call reconciliation.
Your version of the bill.
When Republicans were trying to change the rules a few years ago, then Senator Obama said the following.
What we worry about is essentially having two chambers, the House and the Senate, who are simply majoritarian.
That's just not what the founders intended.
We'll have to renounce jamming it through in a partisan way.
And if we don't, uh then the rest of what we do today will not be relevant.
So there's Lamar Alexander just hammering Obama with his own words.
This is what Obama said April 25th, 2005 for the National Press Club.
A change in the Senate rules that uh really, I think would change the character of the Senate uh forever.
Uh and what I worry about would be that the you essentially have still two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian uh absolute power on either side.
And that's just not what the founders intended.
So uh this is why they're getting all testy.
Because the last thing you're supposed to do with Democrats is actually tell people what they say.
You're not supposed to uh throw it back at them, what they say, and Dingy Harry was not happy about this.
I say to my friend Lamar, who I have great respect and admiration for, you're entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.
Your opinion is something that is yours, and you're entitled to that, but not your own set of facts.
No one has talked about reconciliation, but that's what you folks have talked about ever since that came out.
As if it's something that has never been done before.
Now, we as leaders here, the speaker and I have not talked about doing reconciliation as the only way out of all this.
Uh he's denied you you heard that with me, right?
Harry Reed denying that he's talked about reconciliation, but he did it just two days ago.
My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation.
But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.
They should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before.
It's done almost every Congress, and they're the ones that used it more than anyone else.
This is why he's so mad.
They're just they're throwing everything the Democrats have said.
They're reading from the Democrat pieces of legislation.
Uh, well, Lamar is entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts.
We're not talking about reconciliation.
Nobody's talking about reconciliation.
That's all they've been talking about is reconciliation for how many weeks now?
Let's go to this exclusive political story.
What happens next?
After a brief period of consultation following the White House health reform summit, congressional Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive Democrat-only health care.
According to party strategists, a Democrat official said that the six-hour summit was expected to give a face to grid luck in the form of House and Senate Republicans.
Give a face to grid luck.
Democrats plan to begin rhetorical, perhaps legislative steps toward the Democrats only or reconciliation process early next week.
So Harry Reid is being undercut by his own party speaking anonymously to the politico.
So while Harry Reed's up is talking about reconciliation, nobody's talking about reconciliation.
You're not entitled to your own facts on this.
The Democrats strategists are leaking to the media, oh, yeah, we're going to reconciliation.
We're starting next week.
The whole purpose of this summit here today is to give a face to gridlock.
After the summit, Pelosi and Reed plan to take the temperature of their cockeye.
The point of the summit is to alter the political atmospheric, it'll take a day or two to sense if that succeeded.
Again, that is to give a face to gridlock.
What they're hoping here is that the Republicans look like stuffed shirt, mean-spirited, uncompromising, hateful extremists who don't care if people don't have health insurance, who don't care if people aren't getting health coverage, who don't care if people are dying.
That's what they're trying to set up here.
But the problem is that the leader of this charade is the most inexperienced, unqualified guy in the room.
His name is Barack Obama.
And my friends, he has literally no clue what he's saying when he doesn't have a teleprompter.
He just he just slammed high deductible plans as not providing coverage.
Meaning people will go without basic coverage.
Now the idea of actually going out and buying something on your own just totally escapes this guy.
You look at the controversy.
Look at the controversy over that guy from Canada who came down here to Florida for heart surgery.
He paid for it himself.
Say, look, just because I went into politics doesn't mean that I can't get the best health coverage that I want.
And he paid for it himself, and people are livid about that.
And so here's Obama.
Well, high deductible plans, nobody and nobody knows they'll go without basic coverage because the deductible's too high.
No, they won't.
They'll buy something else.
On their own if they really want it or need it.
But self-reliance is something that totally escapes this guy.
Oh man, oh man, oh man, I love what I just saw, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limboy here at the EIB network.
So we went into that uh bottom of the hour commercial break, and I clicked on one of the TV networks covering this, and McCain was just finishing up whatever it was he was saying.
I don't know what he talked about, but Obama was livid.
The little man-child president said, John, if you don't know it, the campaign is over.
We're not here to campaign, John, the campaign's over.
And McCain said, Yes, yes, I'm reminded of every day, Mr. President.
And everybody started laughing.
And then Obama said, Look.
He's looking right at McCain.
We need to drop all these talking points.
We need to stop the campaign.
The campaign's over.
We need to start discussing insurance and how to get a bill done.
We can't continue to have this debate about process.
We can't just keep having talk about process.
We got to get down to helping the American people.
Well, I don't know what McCain said, but it had to be a home run.
Because this guy was so ticked off.
Shut up, John.
Shut up, John.
Joe, make him stop.
Nobody messing with Joe.
Joe, make him stop.
The campaign's over, John.
The campaign is not over.
That's all you're doing today, Mr. President, is campaigning.
Camp is reading page after page after page from the legislation.
This is the final one before Obama's had it.
Another concern I have is the Senate bill, which on page 982 creates an unelected board charged with recommending even more Medicare reductions.
And if Congress doesn't accept these recommendations, they have to find other Medicare spending to cut instead.
And that gives, I think, too much authority to unelected bureaucrats rather than to elected representatives of the people and the power to decide whether to cut Medicare and by how much.
Now, holding down health care costs for the government is important, but I think it's also important to hold down costs for families and employees.
And here's Obama.
I don't mean interrupt, but we're going to have the whole section talking about deficits.
And we can talk about the changes in Medicare.
And you know, the only concern I've got is look, if every speaker, at least on one side, is going through every provision and saying what they don't like, it's going to be hard for us to see if we can arrive at some agreements on things that uh we all agree on.
So uh I I don't want to try to cut you off.
Please finish up, but I but I just want to kind of point out that.
I do want to say on this issue on premiums, the CBO in their letter on page four does say that the estimated average premium per person for non-group policies would increase by 10 to 13 percent.
And oh that that was it, that was the in the camp.
Nobody's seen him since.
Uh so John Kyle, when it was history, and he picked up on the same theme.
Hey, you guys keep talking about lorry costs, your own bill.
Your own CBO raises premiums by 10 to 13 percent.
Oh, we're not here to discuss process.
Uh John, the campaign's over.
Uh basically it was it was Obama once again saying I won.
Now, I just got a report, I got a spy out there uh that McCain started out pretty bad and wouldn't let Obama cut him off.
Kept going.
Uh, and he was calling him on different rules for different states.
Obama wasn't unhappy about it.
Uh, and he he was talking about using uniform treatment for all Americans.
Um, Of course, in the face of all these special deals.
And then Obama said, John, well, we're not campaigning anymore.
The election's over.
We can spend the remainder of our time with respective talking points.
But uh especially back on Fox News, the split screen, MSNBC, my hope would be that we could just focus on the issues of how we get a bill done.
Um, McCain McCain jumped in there ugly.
Obama didn't like it.
I mean, he knows the most inexperienced unqualified guy in the room, but he's still the president.
At 1218, after Obama had scolded the Republicans for not going along on the on the uh agreed to time limits, a Republican said, uh, Mr. President no one told us there were time limits.
So Obama's sitting up there thinking everybody knows there are time limits, no time limits were announced, he's just arbitrarily imposing them.
Now, here's another reason uh, ladies and gentlemen, why this is especially helpful today for our cause.
Uh and and our cause basically is the failure of Barack Obama, which reminds me, I need to find something very quickly here in the audio sound bites.
Yeah, grab number 19.
Okay.
Here we go.
The limbaugh AP tweak of the day.
Headline initial jobless claims rise unexpectedly.
Now, just yesterday, we had news that there were uh an increase in mass layoffs, which is 50 or more, uh, and that was not unexpected.
Uh, we yesterday we're at 20 percent of ABC is gonna bite the dust.
Uh that's not unexpected.
But they're blaming it now on the snow.
They're blaming it on the snow.
Global warming.
At least they're not blaming it on Bush.
The number of new claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week as heavy snows led to higher layoffs.
Let me see if I understand this.
You're working and you're running a business.
You see a forecast for blizzard conditions.
You say, aha!
I'm firing ten people.
Is that how this works?
Is that how they ate it?
Do if he have economists telling them that when it snows, people get canned.
In addition, many state agencies in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions that process the claims were closed due to the storms and are now clearing out meck logs.
Labor department said first-time claims for unemployment insurance rose by 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 496,000.
Uh Wall Street analyst poll by Thompson Reuters expected a drop to 455.
Every month, the same experts are wrong.
Um, that's that's the AP version.
The job market remains quite stressed as uh robust employment growth remains elusive, said Dan Greenhouse, one of the AP economic experts.
The economy has grown for six months, but it's not yet spurring new hiring.
Many economists point out that the current recovery is weak compared to the aftermath of previous deep recessions.
But there are now many more people receiving extended unemployment benefits that are not included in the continuing claims figures.
So the unemployment rate is actually much, much higher.
The number of people out of work is much, much higher.
Uh if snow causes layoffs, how come nobody at the federal government lost its job, uh their job when they were shut down for a whole week?
How did that not happen?
Now, from Reuters.
My point here is is while the economic news and the job news continues to worsen.
Oh, what a what a picture.
Ho ho ho!
We got a jip this.
Our cameras are there.
Let's go to the healthcare summit.
...that between 8 million and 9 million people may very well lose the coverage that they have because of this.
because of the construct of this bill.
That that's our concern.
And so as we are in as we're in the market, Eric Cantor in the section of this Obama about health insurance reform.
I know, Mr. President, that you're not going to be able to do that.
Obama's having his lunch handed to him here folks of insurance premium increases.
Because we want to make sure that there aren't excessive insurance premium increases that take place.
The problem is when it's massive consultations going on with Obama and staffers.
There are gonna be some insurance.
Obama being told how to reply to this.
He's not smiling, he is livid.
Who's gonna pay for it?
Lips are pursed to the fact finger over the lips.
He's shooting daggers at Cantor.
So I guess my question to you is in the construct of this bill, um, if we want to find agreement, we really do need to set this aside.
Um and we really do need to say, okay, you know, the fundamental structure is something we can't agree on, but there are certainly Obama looks like Boris Karloff.
And because I don't think he's shooting him in the bird in the positive to say that people will figure it out to maintain their coverage, people will be able to see the doctors they want in the kind of bill that you're proposing.
Well, let me since you asked me a question, let me respond.
Um the eight and to nine million people that you refer to that might have to change their coverage out of keeping in mind out of the 300 million Americans that we're talking about, uh, would be folks who the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office estimates would find the deal in the exchange better.
Would be a better deal.
So they yes, they would change coverage because they've got more choice in competition.
Why?
So let's just be clear about that.
Point number one.
That's a fat lie.
Point number two.
You know, when we do props like this, you stack it up and you repeat 2400 pages, etc.
You know, the truth of the matter is that health care is very complicated.
Oh, and we can try to pretend that it's not.
But it is.
Every single item that we've talked about on the Republican side, if we wanted to exhaustively deal with fraud and abuse, would generate a bunch of pages.
So I I I point that out just because these are the kind of political things we do that prevent us from actually having a conversation.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Let me let me respond uh to your question.
Um where food was probably cheaper than it is right now.
If we just eliminated meat inspectors, and we eliminated any regulations in terms of how food's distributed and how it's stored.
I'll bet in terms of drug prices, we would definitely reduce prescription drug prices if we didn't have a drug administration that's make sure that we test the drugs so that they don't kill us.
But we don't do that.
I'll tell you what he's talking about here in a minute.
We make some decisions to protect consumers in every aspect of our lives.
Alright And we have bipartisan support for doing it.
Okay, end the GIP.
Because we got to go to a brief break here.
What just happened?
Eric Cantor was reading from the 2200-page Senate bill.
And he was reading about how people will lose their existing coverage.
And Obama was sitting there and he had his lips were pursed, they're as tight as they could be.
He had one finger looking shooting Boris Karloff eyes.
He just, how dare you do this?
This is not going the way I had it planned.
Then I I'm the one being embarrassed here, and they're the ones that are supposed to be made to look like a bunch of mean spirited extremists, and now they're throwing my own words and my own plan right back at me, and I don't even know how to respond to this.
So he had to call some had to come over some aid had to come over and give him some advice on how to respond.
It's like he was a witness in front of a congressional committee, like a mob guy and his lawyer whispering.
Um there was there was utter panic.
So what he's talking about we've got twenty-two hundred pages here, Mr. President, and you have nine million here and nine million there, and so well, I mean, of course you got twenty-two hundred pages.
Crying out loud.
Health care is a big thing.
Gotta protect people.
I mean, we could have a lot less regulations if we got rid of the FDA.
Uh we have a lot well if we didn't if we didn't regulate food, he was just totally he was put in a position of having to defend the size, the behemoth size of this, and he couldn't.
That's basic, and he's still, I'm sure he's digging a deeper hole because he's still trying to explain this uh in his own way from his own perspective, which is government does everything.
People are incompetent to do things on their own, and they won't do things on their own anyway.
They're gonna wait around for somebody to help them get them done or do it for them.
I gotta take a break here.
Uh, but remember what my point was while all this is going on, more and more people are losing their jobs, and they don't care about this.
Back after this.
This is uh this is this this thing with Eric Cantor here, folks, is uh is just wonderful.
And I I I I love the fact that Obama's complaining about the use of props.
It's we don't need this stagecraft here.
We know what the prop is the House Bill and a Senate bill, 5,000 pages.
It's piled up in front, you can barely see his face.
Cantor's sitting there with barely his face visible above the two bills, and he's reading from them, and Obama is ticked.
Stagecraft.
We didn't come up here for this.
This is not what this is all about.
Uh and and uh Obama is just you know, getting advice.
He is not uh uh you know, I've often thought that there's nobody in this room, for example, to turn Obama's C into an A. You know, he never, he's had a train, he's never gotten challenged like this.
Um back over in the in the Republican retreat back in Maryland, they kind of caved and and uh went into background mode, let him run the show.
But this is this is backfiring totally on him.
What he had hoped to do was to show how the Republicans were intractable, that they were not malleable, that the Republicans were not interested.
And what instead what's being demonstrated here is that there is no consensus on anything, and that the only pieces of legislation are being out there being discussed are the Democrat bills, and when they are discussed, Obama shuts everybody up.
When the Democrat proposals are discussed, Obama tries to shut them down.
Now, the time frame so far on the clock.
The Democrats have had 74 minutes to speak, including Obama, the Republicans have had 37 minutes to speak.
Uh we don't have can't jip it here because Obama, we're not gonna have time, but Obama and Cantor are still going at it.
Cantor's still holding up yellow highlighted sections of Senate bills.
Obama is just ticked as he can be trying to respond to all of this.
Here's the McCain exchange.
Um and this is I guess you'd say Obama resorted to picking uh picking on McCain again.
Remove all the special deals for the special interests and favored few and treat all Americans the same under provisions of the law so that they will know that geography does not dictate what kind of health care they would receive.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Let me just make this point, John.
Because we're not campaigning anymore.
The election's over.
Um, reminded of that every day.
Um the uh we can spend the remainder of the time with our respective talking points going back and forth.
We were supposed to be talking about insurance.
My concern is is that if we do that, then we're essentially back on Fox News or MSNBC on the split screen just arguing back and forth.
Yeah.
So, John, shut up.
I won.
Stop campaigning, old man.
Just shut up, John.
Let's go to Eric Cantor.
And oh can we go back to McCain?
Here is last night, Anderson Cooper 360, fill-in host Jessica Yellen, talking to John Avalon, as a columnist at the Daily Beast about politics in Washington.
We've isolated some of the key culprits who some say have done more to bring the business of the nation to a standstill than any others.
Rush Limbach.
Four words.
I hope he fails.
He ended up starting the entire Republican strategy at a time President Obama's a honeymoon.
He set the gauntlet down and ended up showing that talk radio now has got more influence than party leaders when it Comes to strategy.
And uh we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
You know, folks, I absolutely love this.
So now that all the job summits are over and uh unemployment is skyrocketing.
Unemployment skyrocketing after all those job summits.
How ironic is it that Obama's at another summit talking about containing costs and improving care?
He has made such a mess of the entire U.S. economy.
He is coming off, confused, annoyed, and whiny.
You know, our guys, Eric, the Republicans, know more about Obama's bill than he does.
It's obvious.
They've read it.
He hasn't.
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