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Feb. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh doing play-by-play today.
Rush Limbaugh with play-by-play of the healthcare summit.
Now, they just took the lunch break out there.
And I guarantee you, somewhere in the White House, they're trying to find an excuse to cancel the rest of this.
Jobless claims keep climbing.
Durable goods orders are weak.
Obama's had all these job summits, and now unemployment keeps rising.
Now we're having a health care summit.
And I'm going to tell you what, there's a theme that I have detected here that Obama keeps stressing, and that is, shut up, John.
The campaign's over.
People don't care about the process.
The American people don't care about the process.
Translation, reconciliation on Monday.
That's where this is headed.
They're going to try to say on the Democrat side that Americans won't care if it's never been used this way before.
The ends justify the means.
The American people want this, and they're sick and tired of the process.
Mark my words.
And I'll tell you something else that I've detected.
It's a theme, but I didn't need this stupid summit to understand it.
The main strategy here is to frame the issue as Republicans and big insurance versus the poor American people.
Every Democrat has told a sob story about a constituent or two who have some horrible experience with an insurance company.
I guarantee you, in fact, perhaps the best one of all was Louise Slaughter.
I ain't lying.
Louise Slaughter, just before they broke, said one of her constituents is having to wear the dentures of her dead sister because she can't get insurance.
She's having to wear her dead sister's dentures because she can't get insurance.
And now, Eric Cantor was scoring so many home runs that Obama finally said, sort of wagging his finger, look, Eric, this is not really fair.
I mean, you and I can't sit here occupying all this time going back and forth.
But I got a lot of Democrats over here who haven't had a chance to speak yet.
We've got to get them in there.
So they broke for lunch.
I guess some senators had to go over and vote on something.
And now they're huddling and they're trying to figure out how to get Obama back in charge of this thing.
But I think it's a lost cause.
Because here's Obama.
Eric Cantor brings up 5,000 pages of health care legislation, the House and Senate bills, all Democrats.
Obama calls it a prop, a distraction.
The actual subject of all of this, he called a distraction, a talking point, stagecraft, to actually bring the legislation they're talking about, trying to agree on, a prop, a distraction.
That is how disoriented Obama is.
I have never seen him more agitated, more arrogantly condescending, more ticked off, more uncomfortable in my life.
This is not at all what they had planned.
Now, my friends, if you think that my summary of this is going to be anywhere close to what the drive-by media summarized, don't kid yourself.
When this is all over, Obama will have been masterful.
No one else could have done this.
Six hours to never lose the organizational mantle, keep it flowing.
In fact, nothing's flowing.
Everybody's just talking right past each other.
They're not even talking to each other.
The Republicans are trying to talk to Obama, but it is obvious he's coming off confused, annoyed, and whiny.
Our guys know more about Obama's health care bill than Obama does.
And that is patently obvious here today.
Our guys have read the bill, and he hasn't.
So keep in mind, all these job summits and what's happening, unemployment claims keep going up.
And another thing is, people don't care about this summit.
The process notwithstanding, they want an economy that starts to recover.
They don't care about it because it's obvious that all of this is for Obama.
All of this is for Obama and his monument to himself.
I want to go back and play Audio Soundbite 19.
Now, this is the soundbite of the week.
This is John Avalon, who's a columnist at the Daily Beast out there, with Jessica Yellen, who was sitting in last night for Anderson Cooper on his show.
And they're having a discussion about politics and what in Washington and what the hell has gone so wrong.
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 Limbaugh.
Four words.
I hope he fails.
He ended up starting the entire Republican strategy at a time President Obama was 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.
There you have it.
Rush Limbaugh, four words.
And in fact, that's what I said to the Wall Street Journal when I asked for 200 words on Obama.
I don't need 200.
I just need four.
I hope he fails.
Let's see.
They've got a couple of more stories on the unemployment.
This is Reuters.
Now let's go to CNN.
Jobless claims up 12% in the past two weeks.
It's a good thing we got that stimulus bill passed twice.
Good thing, right?
A number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to just below the 500,000 level last week, have climbed more than 12% over the past two weeks.
The government said on Thursday, jobs claims rise due to weather-related factors.
It's amazing to me as I go through these stories every month, however often they come out, how far our great watchdog media willing to go to try to explain away the bad numbers.
It's always something.
It's the weather.
It was Thanksgiving and offices were closed out there.
It's just amazing.
They go out of their way to explain all of this.
It's gotten to the point of they're blaming it on snow, blaming unemployment on snow.
They actually in these stories say, yes, the employers tend to lay off more people when a blizzard comes.
But we've got a weatherization program going on out there.
I mean, well, actually, it's not going on out there.
But I want to see in the policy manual at, say, the ABZ widget company where it says, if it snows, you're fired.
I mean, they're contorting themselves like pretzels here in order to explain this away.
And I really wish somebody would point out, besides me, we've had all these job summits.
How many have we had those?
We had one in December where the focus was not even on creating jobs.
We had a job summit.
And yet, unemployment just continues to skyrocket.
Now, I want to go back to this Jessica Yellowdon John Avalon Peeps because I did, I don't deny it.
I did say I hope he failed.
But more to the point, I knew in the end his policies would fail because they've never worked anywhere else they've been tried.
And I knew his policies would damage the nation.
But the point is that he is a failed president, and he's the one that did that, not me.
I mean, I'll gladly take the blame, credit, whatever your point of view is, for daring to tell the truth when nobody else would about what we all needed to happen here, and that was for him to bomb out.
But he's the one failing, not me.
I'm the opposite of failure.
I'm sitting behind a microphone in Florida, and I brought Washington to a standstill like a blizzard.
I mean, I'm a human blizzard out there, according to these people.
And again, just remind you that this whole thing today is just theater to set up reconciliation on Monday.
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 bill party strategist at Toll Politico.
A Democrat official said the six-hour summit was expected to give a face to gridlock.
What it's doing is giving a face to stupidity and incompetence and inexperience.
And that face is our young president, Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen.
Democrats plan to begin rhetorical and perhaps legislative steps toward the Democrat-only reconciliation process early next week because the American people are tired of the process.
And yet, from Gallup, whoa, Americans don't want this, folks.
They didn't want health care in August, hence the Tea Parties.
They still don't.
After 437 Obama speeches, Americans are skeptical that lawmakers will agree on a new health care bill at today's summit.
If an agreement is not reached, Americans by 49 to 42 percent margin oppose rather than favor Congress passing a health care bill similar to the one proposed by Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate.
So if this thing fails today, which it's supposed to fail, so you can blame Republicans for it, Americans do not want it at all.
By a larger 52 to 39 percent margin, Americans also oppose the Democrats in the Senate using reconciliation to avoid a possible Republican filibuster and pass a bill by a simple majority vote.
And if you dig deep in this, I'll just point out to you here that the gallup in this poll overwhelmingly shows it's not just Republicans who don't want this.
And everybody knows the summit is a joke.
I mean, that's the summary of this poll.
So they don't want it.
They don't want the summit.
They don't want the – this is a big distraction.
This is something I think that, well, I opened up Monday with the, you know, snerdly telling me, I just don't understand their strategy here.
I mean, this is suicide.
It's not yet for Obama.
And his view is, remember, it's all about him.
If he doesn't get this, that's how he's a failure.
If he doesn't get it, he's a failure.
And that's our success.
And he doesn't care who falls on the sword in order for this to happen.
Unrelated news, or is it?
Montgomery County, Maryland is losing its share of millionaires, causing a sharp decline in income tax revenue.
County officials estimate next year's budget deficit will be more than $761 million in Montgomery County.
Much of the shortfall is tied to taxpayers who fled Maryland's new millionaire tax.
$70 billion of wealth has left New Jersey.
And they keep talking about raising taxes even more.
A couple quick soundbites, and then we're going to get to your phone calls on this.
Here's Mitch McConnell at the health care summit at Blair House this morning in Washington.
One thing I think we need to be acutely aware of, ladies and gentlemen, we are here representing the American people.
And Harry mentioned several polls.
I think it is not irrelevant that the American people, if you average out all of the polls, are opposed to this bill by 55 to 37.
And we know from a USA Today Gallup poll out this morning, they're opposed to using the reconciliation device, the short-circuit approach that Lamar referred to that would end up with only bipartisan opposition by 52 to 39.
So these guys live and die by polls, and there's McConnell reminding them of where they are.
Tom Coburn pointed out the obvious.
You know, when you compare the private sector fraud rates, it's 1% compared to Medicare and Medicaid.
You know, there's estimates that there's $15 billion worth of fraud and Medicaid a year in New York City alone.
I don't know many people that will disagree that one in $3 doesn't help somebody get well and doesn't prevent them.
Then we ought to be going for that one in $3.
And we ought to do it not by creating a whole bunch of new government programs, but by creating an incentive to reward people.
That is a doctor speaking, by the way, Tom Corburn, Senator from Oklahoma, and we'll be right back and get to your calls.
We haven't taken one call yet.
We have to do that.
People have been on hold since before the show started.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the universe of reality, it is quite appropriate to say, I think even safe to say, after the first three hours of the health care summit added to the first 13 months of this man's administration, that Barack Obama is doing to his party what he has done to the economy and what he wants to do to health care, and that's kill it.
This is, if we get two sound bites into your phone calls, the wheels are falling off now.
Nobody messes with Joe Biden, tries to help Obama fight Cantor, and makes it worse.
Listen to this.
President, I have 10 seconds.
We don't have a philosophic disagreement.
If you agree that you can't be dropped, there has to be dependent coverage.
If there's no annual lifetime cap, then in fact, you've acknowledged that it is the government's role.
The question is, how far to go.
So this idea we have a fundamental philosophic difference, you're either in or you're out.
The government can't do it, none of it, or they can do some of it.
We argue how much.
The cost issue is legitimate.
We're going to address it.
Mr. President, it's the cost issue, but it's being driven by the fact that you've got in the bill, which I assume that your proposal supports, that the Secretary define what a health benefit package should be.
Only in the exchange.
Only as part of the pool that people who don't have health insurance would buy into.
All right, so Biden's in there trying to help Obama fight Cantor, and Obama shuts him up.
And Cantor comes back and, again, illustrates that he knows more about what's in this legislation than Obama does.
And Obama's reduced to calling the very subject matter for this summit a prop.
And that is the legislation.
Now, here's Louise Slaughter, sob story of the day.
She's a congresswoman from Nueva, Orta.
Think about what's absolutely important here.
Not nitpick, but think about all the people out there every single day.
The number of people with excess deaths because they have no health insurance.
I even have one constituent.
You will not believe this, and I know you won't, but it's true.
Her sister died.
This poor woman had no dentures.
She wore her dead sister's teeth, which, of course, one conflict did not fit.
Do you ever believe that in America that that's where we would be?
That pretty much sums up the way the Democrats have been approaching this today.
While the Republicans have been asking the Democrats, what the hell does this mean here in your bill?
She's having to wear her dead sister's teeth.
And of course, it's uncomfortable it don't fit.
Do you believe that would happen in America?
Yeah, when Obama's running things, absolutely I believe it.
It's only going to get worse, Congresswoman slaughter.
All right, to the phones, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Phil, you are up first.
Great to have you here with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How you doing, man?
Well, thank you.
Hey, Rush, I was listening to this debate, and Kyle brought up a little after 12 three points about how he disagreed with Obama's plan.
And when he finished, he got to the point where he said, hey, it comes down to is it what Washington thinks best or what people think best for themselves?
And Obama cut him off saying, that's a talking point.
Everybody knows how they hate Washington.
And nobody said anything.
And I'm thinking, that's one of the cruxes of the whole problem.
It is not a talking point.
It is a fundamental point.
Exactly right.
Exactly.
Well, that's why he shut up, McCain.
Shut up, John.
Campaign's over.
This is a bunch of talking.
But look at what's what's happening, folks, when you see, let me try to explain this a different way.
When this whole deal was conceived, remember now, the people in Obama's inner circle still believe him to be this messianic guy, the one, the one we've all been waiting for, who has this magical ability to render people speechless in stunned amazement at just the sound of his voice.
So he was going to run this summit here today, and he was going to embarrass the Republicans, and he was going to illustrate how they are disagreeable, how they're mean-spirited, how they don't care about people suffering, they side with the big insurance companies and heartless, extreme meanies, and unwilling to compromise.
And instead, what's happened is that Obama has been shown to be petulant, whiny, out of control almost, unprepared, ill-informed, and basically arrogant and cocky.
And unable to discuss this, he has to shut down discussion because to continue the discussion would embarrass him.
That's just a talking point.
We're not here talking points.
Eric, come on now.
You can't come in here and bring up these props, a bunch of stagecraft, talking about the actual legislation that they're discussing.
So I guess backfired totally on them.
And therefore, they're trying to figure out now they're going to gin this thing back up in 15 minutes, supposedly, at 1.45 Eastern.
And they're back there huddling.
It is halftime.
Okay, how can we get Obama back on top of this thing?
Remember now, the Democrats have still had twice the talking time that Republicans have had, and it's still gone miserably.
Now, I'm just giving you the honest play-by-play.
I'm giving you an honest summary.
You're not going to hear anywhere near the truth of what happened in this thing from the drive-by media.
Just warning you about that.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And ladies and gentlemen, I am required to do this so rarely that whenever I do do it, I always call great attention to it, precisely because it is such a rare occurrence.
But I must say, I was wrong.
And this is going to detract from my opinion audit.
At present, I am documented to be almost always right 99.5% of the time, but I rendered an opinion on this healthcare summit.
That is, a Republican should not go.
And I was wrong.
And I want to announce this not only to the Republicans, I don't think it's, well, Mr. Nerdley, there's still three hours to go here.
This might be a little premature.
At this stage, I'll reserve the right to retract my announcement that I'm wrong.
But I do want to make it at this stage of the game, halftime of the healthcare summit.
I want to announce to the media I was wrong.
I want to announce to the Republicans that I was wrong.
I want to announce to all of you in this audience that I was wrong when I advised the Republicans to skip this summit.
What's unseemly for me to admit that I was wrong?
I know it's very difficult for people to deal with this.
Well, I'm not a slave to my accuracy rating.
I don't do things just to keep the rating up.
You know, that's, I'm not concerned about polls.
I'll just report what the audit opinion is, but our opinion on it is.
But the Republicans need to be commended here for having a pretty good strategy of going up there and ramming this right down their throats and not rolling over and playing dead, not rolling over and talking about bipartisanship and not saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, Mr. President, we really want to work with you.
We want to get along.
They are taking it to him.
I mean, the president here has been slapped around the room rhetorically, politically.
The president and his team and the Democrats know it.
I mean, when we're reduced here to Louise Slaughter, isn't it cool how she can automatically turn on a Mississippi accent anytime she wants, even though she's from New York?
When Louise Slaughter, who apparently forgets there's something called Medicaid out there that helps people with teeth, poor people, can you believe there's a woman in my district who's wearing her dead sister teeth?
Of course it's uncomfortable and they don't fit.
Do you ever believe something like this ever happened in America?
My friends, I was wrong.
It is the Democrats, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Biden, who are coming off like the most unlikable, mean, petulant people that they are.
The media can't cover for them in real time.
This is on display for whoever it is that's watching this.
I want to commend the Republicans for, at least up to now, sticking to the high arguments of this and making hash out of Obama and the Democrats.
So let it be noted that on February 25th at 1.35 Eastern Time, I, Rush Limbaugh, acknowledged being wrong about the Republicans attending the summit.
I thought they shouldn't go.
And one of the reasons I thought they shouldn't go for you, recall, was the polling data.
They're worried about being called a party of no.
They should be happy to be the party of no.
Fox News opinion dynamics on health care.
47% say start over.
23% say do nothing.
23% say pass the current bill.
So if you add it up, 70 to 23 against the current bill.
CNN opinion research, 48% start over.
25% don't do anything.
And 25 pass the bill.
So in the CNN poll, 73, 25 against. the current or a similar type bill.
The American people do not want this in any way, shape, matter, or form.
Now, along the lines of my admitting, acknowledging that I was wrong, last night on Campbell Brown's CNN, she had this little exchange with John Barrasso, Republican senator from Wyoming.
You've heard top Republicans like John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, all saying that this is a trap by the Obama administration.
But given you've had your cards on the table, the White House has had its cards on the table for months, essentially.
How can this be a trap?
Well, I'm hoping it's an opportunity to compromise.
The president said, you know, please make a good faith effort, and that's what I want to do.
I was surprised last week when he said, well, I'm going to come out with a bill, and he did just three days before this summit, which is supposed to be to get the best ideas the Republicans have to offer and then get incorporated into a bill.
And then for Harry Reid yesterday to say, well, I'm going to ram it through no matter what, that makes me wonder if there's an agenda behind this.
And we now know that there is because the political story today and exclusive that on Monday they're going to start the reconciliation process.
The theme of the summit here is the American people are tired of process and just want the bill, which they don't.
So, you know, it was, it was a trap.
It still is a trap.
And the trap is, the Democrats admit it, put the face on gridlock.
And they want that face to be mine and Boehner's and the Republicans up there.
And it just isn't working out that way.
Back to the phones now.
Andrew, San Diego, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How are you this morning?
Fine, sir.
Very well.
Good.
I just wanted to tell you that I see people on TV talking about the inconsistency of members of Congress regarding the filibuster.
You know, they started this in 2000.
And I just wanted to tell you that I did my graduate work on the filibuster and that there's a difference between using the filibuster to block legislation and using it to block judicial nominees.
Because the Constitution doesn't mandate that the House and Senate actually pass legislation.
It just says that they can, in Article 1, Section 5, make their own rules.
But the Constitution does mandate that in Article 2, Section 2, that the Senate advise and consent on the president's nominees at the judicial branch.
Yeah, I made that point yesterday.
Yeah, I know.
I made that point yesterday in discussing, in setting up all the soundbites of the Democrats from 2005 who said getting rid of the filibuster would destroy the Constitution, would end our former government.
It was a bad, bad day.
And their hypocrisy on this is blatant and obvious, but it happens every day.
Absolutely.
I just wanted to, you know, people on the Drug By Media claim that the Republicans and Democrats are inconsistent on it, and they're not.
The Republicans want to end the filibuster of judicial nominees, and the Democrats want to just end the filibuster of judicial nominees when there's Republican, I'm sorry, Democrat in office.
And that's ridiculous.
Right.
Well, again, the whole thing on reconciliation, it's a confusing word.
When the Republicans are talking about it, they call it a nuclear option.
When the Democrats are talking about it, it's reconciliation.
And again, in both instances here, the Constitution is what drives the argument.
The Constitution's advising consent clause clearly says the Senate has a role to advise and consent on presidential nominations of judges and so forth.
And the assumption's always been simple majority then.
Same way Constitution demands that the Congress do a budget.
And because the Constitution demands it, there's no filibuster there.
51%, and that's what reconciliation is, is when you get 51% or votes in the Senate to pass budget bills.
And when it's used in the past, that's what it's been used for.
But it's not been used like the Democrats are going to use it on a piece of legislation.
It's never been used that way before.
So it's, look it, all it means is the Democrats have to do this to govern against the will of the people.
The American people don't want it.
And the only way that they can force it down the people's throat is to change the rules.
It's a suicide mission if they do it, and they seem hell-bent on doing it.
But it's not that easy.
Reconciliation has its own rules.
See, the Senate parliamentarian will have to pass judgment on whether reconciliation can be used.
The Senate parliamentarian will probably say no.
But then Biden, the president of the Senate, can overrule the parliamentarian on anything.
That's a Senate rule.
And bam, they're off and running.
But that presents its own opportunities for Republicans to gum up the works at almost every stage of the process.
But the Senate is the wrong place to look at this.
The House does not have the votes for this right now, no matter what comes out of the Senate.
And in fact, I have a story here.
This is from the Politico.
James Oberstar is a Democrat from Minnesota.
He's chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and he blasted the Senate jobs bill.
He said the measure doesn't even have enough votes to pass the House, and neither does the health care bill.
The Minnesotans said he wouldn't mind if the stimulus section of the House bill got stripped, but he said he won't stand for a change in funding formulas as it stands.
He said that the Senate bill, this is a jobs bill, does violence by giving four states, California and Illinois, almost all the extra federal highway funds.
So, you know, the House is going to gum this thing up.
This is the $15 billion jobs bill.
They're going to put some pork in it.
And if that happens, Scott Brown says, I ain't voting for it.
If it comes back as just a piece of pork.
Well, the House is going to have the same kind of problems with whatever comes out of the Senate.
The House of Representatives is the focus here now on whether anything on health care can get done.
Brief time out, more phone calls and sound bites as we eagerly await the second half of the president's health care summit resuming.
Hey, we have the first review of the first half from the Associated Press.
And Jennifer Lovin and Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar are the two stenographers here working for state-controlled AP.
But they try, they try, but they cannot hide all of Obama's pathetic performance.
There is no praise for Obama in this.
We have a very difficult gap to bridge here, said Eric Cantor.
We just can't afford this, Mr. President.
That's the ultimate problem.
With Cantor sitting in front of a giant stack of nearly 2,400 pages representing the Democrat Senate bill, Obama said cost is a legitimate question, but he took Cantor and other Republicans to task for using political shorthand and props that prevent us from having a conversation.
Now, You need a psychological analysis of this.
I'm going to give it to you.
First place, 2,400 pages of the Senate-passed bill is exactly why they're there today.
They're just summit on healthcare.
Is there not?
Summit on healthcare would obviously include the legislation.
Eric Cantor was making mincemeat out of the bill and Obama.
So Obama called the bill a prop, stagecraft, and then said it's preventing us from having a conversation.
I watched it and there was a conversation.
Obama was losing it.
But there was a conversation, nothing but conversations.
They've been going past each other, but there's a whole lot of talking going on in there.
They're all kinds of conversations taking place.
So we're not having conversation.
When Obama is losing, when things are not going Obama's way, well, it's stagecraft or it's a prop or political shorthand or talking points.
The campaign's over, John.
We got to stop these talking, talking points.
Now, listen to this paragraph.
This is AP.
As with much in the complicated healthcare debate, both sides had a point.
The CBO says average premiums for people buying insurance individually would be 10 to 13 percent higher in 2016 under the Senate bill, as Lamar Alexander said.
But the policies would cover more medical services, and around half of the people could get government subsidies to defray the extra costs.
Ah, that word costs.
See, this is how it gets misused.
It's a nice try, Jennifer.
Lamar Alexander said premiums would rise, and he's right.
Nobody disagreed with it.
Just because you're going to subsidize somebody with somebody else's money doesn't mean the costs are going down.
The costs are still going up.
It's just transferring who's going to pay for it.
Speaking of which, before this whole thing started, you know what my lead item here in the stack of stuff was?
Let me find it here for you.
Ah, this is a French news agency story that hit 10 minutes before the program ended yesterday.
No, it was, snurdy, it was Harry Reid who accused Lamar Alexander not having his facts straight on reconciliation.
Now, subconsciously, humans want to share the wealth.
Study, French news agency.
Humans may have a selfish gene, but we also experience satisfaction in sharing the goodies, even if this means giving away some of our own, according to a study released Wednesday.
Using 3D hospital scanners, scientists say they have found the first evidence to show the pleasure of helping others and helping oneself both activate the same areas of the brain.
We love sharing the wealth.
Now, what's wrong with this?
I want, no, I want them to do this same study.
It's a quartet of scientists led by John O'Doherty, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
I want you to put up your brain scan, your 3D scan, to somebody who is having money taken out of his pocket by somebody else's hand and having that money given to somebody he doesn't know.
And I want you to tell me if the brain lights up in the pleasure section.
Obviously, charity makes you feel good.
Obviously, when you decide with whom you are going to share the wealth, of course you feel good about it.
The point of giving, But somebody, to try to do a study here that says, oh, yeah, raising taxes, government coming in basically and putting their hand in your back pocket and giving your money to somebody, that makes you happy.
Uh-uh.
You know, I'm getting so many people.
Listen, listen to Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures.
I'm getting so many people.
This is big.
I mean, I get to one-time mention for a laugh.
But there are people out there that think this is huge because it's so stupid.
I mean, for example.
Well, what's wrong with using a dead person's teeth?
Aren't the Democrats big into recycling?
Save the planet.
And so what?
So if you don't have any teeth, so what?
What's applesauce for?
Isn't that why they make applesauce?
Didn't the Democrats want to tax dentures and medical devices and all the rest of it?
They did.
And to some people, dentures are a medical device.
And so, here's Louise Slaughter.
And you believe in American ideas, a woman wearing another dead woman's teeth?
And there is, teeth are mentioned in the House bill.
They are.
I don't have time to give you all the details right now before a break.
The House Bill does mention teeth on page 1714 out of 1,990 pages.
Ensured that pulpal therapy, not including 23 pulpototomies on deciduous teeth or extraction of 24 adult teeth, can be performed by dental health aid therapists only after consultation with dead person who's lost their dentures.
Doesn't say that.
But teeth are mentioned in the House bill.
Look, so there happens to be a woman in Louise Slaughter's district wearing a dead woman's teeth.
Let me blow the whistle on a guy where I live.
There's a guy, I know it for a fact, where I live who wears women's dresses.
Now, what does that have to do with anything?
What does it have to do with Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare summit, or whatever?
Well, I don't know him well at all.
I just know it to be true.
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