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March 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this show documented to be almost always right 99.5% of the time, I, of course, am that host, America's real anchorman, writing above liberal media destruction, primarily of itself, as well as the country.
Great to have you here.
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Boy, do they hate Jim Bunning out there?
Oh, ho, ho!
Because he's simply trying to enforce a pay go rule.
They despise Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning.
Details coming up.
Yeah, there she is again.
There's Pelosi.
You know what?
I'm going to tell you what.
Here's the way we have to start looking at Nancy Pelosi.
Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi.
She's no different than these mullahs and these imams who convince all these people to put bombs on their kids and send them out there to blow up.
The only she's exactly what she's doing to the Democrat Party.
The only thing she can't do is promise them 73 virgins or whatever it is.
But that's in essence what she's doing here.
And I have a great explanation as for why.
Andy McCarthy wrote an expansion on the theory of mine that I've been promulgating here for many weeks.
But first, Sunday morning this week, the fill-in host Elizabeth Vargas talking to Nancy Pelosi.
You understand, I mean, Charlie Wrangel, I mean, you promised the most ethical Congress in history.
And I mean, you've got to understand now why so many Americans think Congress is corrupt.
It just doesn't look good.
This Wrangel thing just doesn't pass the smell test.
No, it doesn't.
I served for seven years on the ethics committee.
The last thing I would have wanted would be for the Speaker of the House to interfere in a political way in what was going on there.
That just should never happen.
But the fact is, is that what Mr. Wrangel has been admonished for is not good.
It was a violation of the rule of the House.
It was not something that jeopardized our country in any way.
Oh, no.
Of course not.
No, no, no.
Folks, how could the fact that one of the most powerful men in Congress is corrupt have any effect on America?
I mean, after all, all he does is write the tax law.
He's chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
That's exactly.
He doesn't have any effect on America.
No way.
I mean, don't even tell me he's in the same league as Tom DeLay, who they had to force out of there.
Here's Pelosi back from November 7, 2006, election night.
Today, the American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C.
And the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.
Yeah.
Yeah, big dream there.
Typical of everything the Democrats say.
It's a lie and is not true.
Here's Paul Krugman from the New York Times.
He was on this week as well during the roundtable.
And Elizabeth Vargas says, Speaker Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer were all calling for Tom DeLay to relinquish his post when he was also admonished by the Ethics Committee.
It is worth pointing out that none of these things actually seem to affect national policy.
Yeah, I'm unhappy with this.
I wish Wrangel would go away, but it really has no national significance.
Oh, no national significance at all.
He's only chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
He's cheating on his taxes.
He's not reporting income.
He makes Tom DeLay look like a piker.
Oh, but we have to keep him there.
He's so important a position to Democrats so important to America.
I really don't like this.
No, no, I'm happy with it.
Who cares whether you're happy or not with it?
Who are you?
Paul Crowe.
Who cares?
Now we go to this morning on MSNBC.
Joe Scarborough says to Senator Durbin, you served with Charlie.
I served with Charlie.
Are you disappointed?
I want to tell you one thing about Charlie Wrangell.
When he joined the Army after World War II as an African-American, he was put in a segregated unit.
He served in combat in Korea.
This man has served his country.
I am not going to presume guilt when it comes to Charlie Wrangell.
Charlie Wrangell is a veteran, so who cares if he's corrupt?
What's it got to do with the dog food?
Democrats are just not going to eat the dog food on this and send Charlie Packet.
He served in North Korea.
Who cares?
He was corrupt.
Don't forget, Admiral Buddha committed suicide for fallace.
Remember that, Tom Lantos.
So, the conversation continued over ethics and Wrangell this morning on MSNBC.
Have you ever forgotten to report $500,000 on a congressional?
Should we worry about that?
Have you ever done that?
Have you ever forgotten to say that?
I think the answer is no.
He just said no with a smile on his face.
Durbin would not say if he ever went on a trip and didn't know who paid for it, which is, I mean, Wrangell, a bunch of trips, not just one.
My staff did that.
I didn't know anything about it.
He's also blamed his wife for this kind of stuff.
This is not going to surprise you, ladies and gentlemen, but it is still infuriating.
Report finds college students fail basic civics test.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms or aphorisms of Edmund Burke.
Judging from the results of a recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, most of the 14,000 college students who participated, sadly, will be repeating history.
Considering that most of the 14,000 students who completed the exam scored an F on the portion of the test covering basic American history and basic American institutions, not only will they be repeating history, but with test scores like that, they'll be repeating history class as well.
No, they won't be.
The Institute or the Intercollegiate Studies Institute is a conservative nonprofit educational organization.
They have recently published the results of this sweeping survey in a 32-page report entitled The Shaping of the American Mind, the Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs.
Here are just a few of the results.
71% of Americans failed the civics knowledge test.
51% of Americans could not name the three branches of government.
The average score for college seniors on the civics knowledge test was 54.2%.
That's an F by any standard.
The average student's test score improved only 3.8 points from freshman to senior year.
Freshmen at Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Duke scored better than seniors on the civics knowledge test.
79% of elected officials that took the civics knowledge quiz did not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits the government from establishing a religion.
79%.
30% of office holders did not know that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
And I wonder how many of them know what inalienable means.
Thirdly, what does inalienable mean?
Brian, what does inalienable mean?
We are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
Among them are, what does inalienable mean?
No.
Can't be taken away.
Exactly right, HR with the answer.
Can't be taken away.
It's not the immigration bill.
This is, they can't be taken away.
27% of politicians could not name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
27% of politicians could not name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
43% did not know the purpose of the Electoral College.
39% of lawmakers believe the power of declaring war belongs to the president.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And then here's a companion story.
A companion story.
If you combine this college civics disaster story with Senator Lindsey Gramnesty's plea for cap and tax based on the feeling, just listen to this.
Graham explains, I have been to enough college campuses to know that if you're 30 or younger, this climate issue is not a debate.
It's a value.
These young people grew up with recycling and a sensitivity to the environment, and the world will be better off for it.
They're not brainwashed from a Republican.
They are.
It's a hoax, Senator.
So you combine the basic ignorance of so many college students with the fact that they do believe that global warming is a hoax.
They have been brainwashed.
And you find out why it is that so many Democrats and others go to the youth vote to try to get them on their side because they're easy.
They don't know anything.
They haven't been taught properly.
Anyway, brief time out.
We'll continue with much more here on the EIB network before you know it.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Joe in St. Louis.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
You know, Rush, how about if you ask some college students, they could tell you how evil Christopher Columbus was.
Oh, yeah, there's no question.
The reason I called is why don't you dig up that soundbite of Nancy Pelosi way back in the beginning when she said, we won the election, we write the bills.
Period.
End of story.
Well, we could try to find that.
It would fit right in with the fact she's Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi.
We won the election.
We write.
That's like Obama.
Well, I know you guys like cut taxes, but I won.
Screw you.
And they did win.
This is what happens.
Elections do have consequences.
Lee in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megan Dido is from Jacksonville, Florida, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I got a comment about the so-called tsunami that hit.
I was watching the news the other day, and they had a NOAA expert on there trying to explain this tsunami.
Well, you had a soundbite last week that said NOAA was the gold standard of climate the world, but they can predict what happened on the same day.
Yeah, that was some Obama administration department head, cabinet member, maybe over at, I forget what it was, but that's right.
Oh, yeah, well, we don't listen to you and we don't listen to that East Anglia stuff.
Our gold standard is NOAA.
You're exactly right.
These are the guys that were predicting this massive tsunami on Saturday.
And I was talking to my uncle last night.
He's old.
I grew up in West Virginia, and we were talking about climate change.
And he said he's 77 years old.
And he goes, well, I still remember it snows in the winter, it's hot in the summer, the flowers bloom in the spring, and the leaves fall off in the fall.
It hasn't changed in my 77 years.
Exactly.
You know, Al Gore is going to come out very soon.
He had a piece of New York Times yesterday, which I might dissect.
It really is painful to expose oneself to such psychological frailty.
Al Gore barely hanging on here now.
And to read this thing is somewhat painful and dissected even worse.
But he will say before long that this summer, it's going to be hotter than it's been all year.
That's where Al Gore is these days.
This is from an obviously context-free Associated Press.
2,000 federal transportation workers are going to be furloughed without pay today.
The Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it, which means, by the way, that 2,000 federal transportation workers will get an unplanned paid vacation because these furloughed government workers always end up being paid.
Just like during the government shutdown, the only guy didn't get repaid was that sleigh ride operator at Jellystone Park.
But everybody else got their Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys when that mean Mr. Newt shut down the government.
Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted.
The Transportation Department said in the statement late yesterday, the reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Senator Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation that would have extended federal highway and transit programs.
Those programs expired at midnight Sunday.
Now, who knew?
Who knew?
But if you look at this story, folks, this is the worst thing that could have ever happened.
2,000 federal workers are going to be furloughed, and there might be a delay in some unemployment benefits being paid.
Oh, my God, this is the worst thing it's ever.
Who knew, folks, that one lone senator from the minority party could wreak so much damage to our economy?
Unemployment advocates.
There are reports out there.
Unemployment advocates.
Have you ever heard of that?
Unemployment advocates are calling for Jim Bunning to be removed from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Bunning objected to the $10 billion measure, saying it would add to the budget deficit, and he was just basically trying to enforce the PAYGO rule, which means we're going to pay for all of this somehow, some way.
We're going to have budget cuts somewhere else, or we're going to find a way to generate more revenue.
Senator Bunning noted that Congress is supposed to be acting under its newly reinstated PAYGO provisions, which Obama signed into law on February 12th.
Under PAYGO, Congress is required to find offsets, meaning reduced spending or increased revenue, to pay for any new spending legislation.
Instead, Congress wanted to exempt this bill, which is the very first bill to come before them under PAYGO, which again Obama signed back on February 12th.
Now, I thought, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama and his fellow Democrats were major proponents of PAYGO.
The name is just words.
In any case, Bunning's actual motives would seem to be a minor detail that the AP does not want the reader to know.
The impasse, they say, has provided the administration with an opening to excoriate Republicans for allowing popular programs to run out, even if only for a short time, which also shows our watchdog media to do the same while withholding the facts of the matter from its poor readers for crying out loud.
This is not about withholding unemployment benefits.
It's about making sure that Congress follows the law, which is PAYGO.
He's making a point.
And all these furloughed workers are going to get all their money.
They're going to get all their salary paid to them.
It always happens.
They're not going to go dry, shall we say.
Jan in Bakersfield, California.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Hi.
I have a comment about what you were saying about kids in college and what they don't know about the First Amendment, what they don't know about government, what they don't know about politics.
Now, I'm 56 years old, Rush.
When I was 25, 30 years old, age 20.
I didn't go to college, but I can tell you that the First Amendment and what the First Amendment said wasn't at the top of my list of what I thought I needed to know.
What I needed to know is how to work, how to survive, how to take care of a family.
I had friends that went to college.
I had friends who have PhDs.
That wasn't, I only think if you're taking political science or you're that involved in politics.
Wait a minute.
Are you calling after being referred to us by the Obama seminar caller website?
Oh, gosh, no, Rush.
I'm 100% behind you.
I'm 100%.
I am a conservative.
But what I'm saying is in the real world, look what it costs for kids to even go to college nowadays.
They're more concerned, and they're not at the top of their list.
Is it even how much taxes they're paying or what this health care is going to cost them?
It's about the moment.
We live in the moment.
And I don't think until you get older, you even get that involved in what's going on.
No, I'm a big fan of yours, Rush.
I've only been listening for three months.
My husband's listened to you forever.
And you know what I used to say?
Will you turn that off?
Because that is so negative.
But now I see why you're there and what you're trying to tell us and how you educate us, Rush.
No, that's my point.
But in the reality of a child's world, that's where they're at.
Well, if that's true, we are in greater jeopardy and peril than I even thought.
We are, Rush.
We are.
Because what we're talking about.
What we are talking about here is not politics.
We're talking about understanding the root of our freedom.
If we lose that, we lose the country.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I really don't want to embarrass our previous caller, but to say that it's not important to kids about the Bill of Rights and what the freedoms in the Bill of Rights are, and it's not their world right.
Well, you know, my dog doesn't like eating the dog food either, but I cram it down its throat.
Your kids don't like milk, but you make them drink it.
And if you're crying out loud, you're supposed to learn this stuff in junior high school.
You're supposed to learn this stuff in elementary school for crying out loud.
All it is is understanding the foundation of our country and why it works and why you have the freedom to not be concerned with anything except being first in line at blockbuster on Friday.
Over half the people in this survey, these kids did not know when the War of 1812 was fought, much less who was in it.
They didn't even ask them who was in it when they found out half of them didn't even know when the War of 1812 was fought.
This is not minor stuff.
It is evidence of the dumbing down of the country at the youngest ages so that liberalism, socialism, the Democrat Party can wreak havoc in this country with hardly any impunity because half of the people are too stupid or ignorant to know the damage they are causing.
And where the Democrat Party screws up, it's not violating the Constitution.
It's when they finally try to force things down people's throat that they instinctively don't want, which is what's happening now.
But it is crucially important.
You know, one of our sponsors here is Hillsdale College.
And I have, I know the president of the college, Dr. Larry Arn.
I've known him for a long time.
He used to run the Claremont Institute.
This man takes education seriously, and it's all about the Constitution.
The Constitution is a four-term course, not a one-month little review.
And when you go to Hillsdale, you better be able to explain anything you're asked about it, including the Federalist Papers, which were the president, so to speak, of the Constitution.
And to hear him talk about the way he teaches kids, I guarantee you that a lot of people in this country would consider it torture.
Not because it is, but because of how lax we have become in what we think it's important for our children to know.
And you're going to hear voices of students in commercial messages for Hillsdale as their advertising campaign unfolds here.
These are bright young leaders.
They have chosen to go to Hillsdale, small little town in the middle of Michigan, 1,300 students.
They all sign an honor code.
They get this.
They sign an honor code to defend our civil and religious liberties.
They promise to act at all times worthy of America's blessings.
That's what they're taught.
The students and the college do not take a penny of government money.
They want to teach America's brightest, the bedrock of conservative principles and our founding without government interference.
Now, this is a college that teaches the graduate students in all kinds of fields, business to pre-law and beyond, kind of place that's in demand.
There are no compromises.
There are no cutbacks.
There are no shortcuts for the kids.
Just listening to the way they talk about it, I would venture to say they push the students a little harder at Hillsdale than most other undergraduate environments.
And they have an amazing teacher-student ratio, and applications are up next year from students that want to get in by some 20%.
I mean, it's an amazing place.
I'm actually going to go up there and sit in on one of the classes just to see this.
I'm actually going to take a day off here.
I'm going to fly up.
I haven't scheduled it yet, but I'm going to go up there and see this because I've heard so many marvelous things about it.
They have a publication, Monthly Digest of the Best Conservative Speeches called Imprimus.
And it's got a circulation of about 1.8 million, and you can get it really free and no strings attached.
Just go to rushforhillsdale.com.
Rushforhillsdale.com is the web address to sign up.
And if you're not online, you can call 1-866-Hillsdale.
That's their phone number.
We ought to learn about this place because it's such a stark contrast to the way mass education is taking place in the country today.
Now, get this.
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and a baby brother.
Argentine Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.
Their son Francisco died instantly after being hit in the back.
The unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her dad's handgun miraculously missed her vital organs.
Paramedics.
Now, folks, I'm going to tell you something.
This is directly attributable to a hoax and a bunch of fear-mongering led by the likes of Al Gore and the International Planetary Commission on whatever the hell those idiots are to you in and the East Ang, all of these people, every damn one of these people has their blood on their hands with stuff like this.
Ginning up, can you imagine?
Can you imagine if some nut had gone out and done this because of socialism?
It's a good point that was just made to me.
Can you imagine why they'd be trying to attach that person to the Tea Party movement?
But here, because these two Looney Toons have a family suicide pact over global, it's not worth living because of global warming.
They try to kill themselves and their kids.
It's a whole hummer.
Well, we're not going to try to find out who's responsible for this.
No, no, no, no.
It might lead to Al Gore.
It might lead to some liberal scientists.
It might lead to a bunch of United Nations people.
Well, no, no, we're not going to bother trying to find out about that.
But I guarantee if this guy had painted socialism on his daughter's chest before shooting her and killed the family because they were worried about what Obama was doing to the country, I guarantee them to you, they'd say this guy was a British member of the Tea Party movement.
And they'd be trying to castigate this guy in a Tea Party movement from now till the end of the year.
The Reverend Sharpton this afternoon on television spoke to a news anchor.
A news anchor also guest on the show was Syracuse University Finance Professor Dr. Boyce Watkins.
And they're talking here about Obama and the black agenda.
And the anchor infobabes, Dr. Watkins writes that Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders are forced to do the dirty work on racial equality because our black president has been terrorized into silence on issues of race.
What is your response to that, Reverend Sharpton?
Am I going to say to the president in a meeting that he made very public in the Oval Office, I don't care about a dropout rate of black kids and that you're giving us billions of dollars.
I don't care about health care and that you're putting millions there.
I don't care you're giving more than historic black college.
I want you to put your fists up and say black power.
Then I'm really more interested in symbolism than I am the substantive problems of our community.
Our job is to deliver something tangible.
You need me to translate that.
All right.
What Sharpton is saying is that black America wants Obama to put his fist up and say black power, but Obama's trying to deliver them stuff.
And they think he doesn't care about race when Obama's actually trying to deliver them stuff.
So he's chiding black America.
He's defending Obama on race here because, you know, they want the black power salute from Obama.
They're not getting it.
That's right.
Sturdley reminds me that this whole thing started with Tavis Smiley, who's got that show on PBS, right?
So now, the next soundbite here is the anchor saying, well, Dr. Watkins, all those issues you've chronicled is pervasively challenging the black community.
Where's the first place to start?
Now, remember, we've been working on this since the, well, it gives us 64 Civil Rights.
That's really in essence.
Brown versus Board of Education.
We've been working on fixing the black community for over 60 years here.
You might even want to go even longer than that.
And yet here on Mess NBC just this afternoon, Dr. Watkins of Syracuse University, the finance professor, says, where's the first place to start?
We just got our first black president.
Where's the first place to start, professor?
I can't wait to hear the answer.
I haven't read the transcript this.
I don't know what the guy's going to say.
When I saw the question, I said, I want to listen to it.
My audience, we're going to listen to it together.
Here's the answer.
Where's the first place to start?
Fixing the black problem.
When you've got black boys being four to five times more likely to be placed in special education than the white kids, and you've got all these kids that aren't graduating, these kids going to schools that don't have the same resources as the schools in the suburbs, that's a problem.
That is Jim Crow in the flesh.
Now, if you want to take the next step, Mr. Eric Holder, you've got to realize that we've got modern-day slavery in the prison system.
The United States incarcerate more of its citizens than any other country in the world.
Most of those citizens are African Americans.
Okay.
Well, let me remind Dr. Boyce Watkins of something.
There was a program in Washington, D.C. that allowed poor black students to use vouchers, money that was largely philanthropic, to attend private schools, such as Sidwell Friends, where Obama's kids go, where Clinton's daughter went, where Al Gore's kids went.
Practically everybody who's anybody in Washington, kids go there.
And for the first time, some poor black kids got there, and they loved it, and they were doing great, and they were scoring well.
And guess who shut the program down?
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama shut the program.
And you know why?
Because he had to make peace with the teachers' unions.
You can't take kids.
You can't take kids out of a teachers' union school, put them someplace where they do better because it makes everybody else look bad.
Teachers, principals, and so forth.
So the money dried up.
Program was not renewed.
And a program that was started not by a black person was shut down by the first black president, Mr. Watkins.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on loan from God.
Great to have you here again.
The telephone numbers 800-282-2882, Talking Points memo website, all excited.
They're breathless out there.
30 senators have now said, 30 Democrats have now said that they will vote for the public option via reconciliation in the Senate bill.
Have you noticed, by the way, that they're not using reconciliation anymore.
They're talking about simple majority vote as though some basic rule of fairness is being violated here.
The Senate itself has a rule, 60 votes, except for budgetary items.
60 votes.
And the guys who wrote the bill are now saying that they're victims of something unfair.
And we just need to get back the simple majority vote.
They don't like the word reconciliation because people don't understand that.
Simple majority vote.
Why?
That sounds infinitely fair.
Who could be against the simple majority vote?
It's like lockbox risky scheme.
I mean, they come up with all these phrases.
Republicans want to starve kids with the school lunch cuts, that sort of stuff.
Maybe, you know, maybe what we ought to do here is have simple majority votes on abortion.
Amnesty for illegals.
Let's just have simple majority votes on these things.
Let's see how they like simple majority votes then.
Let's take their little pet peeve of issues and let's just say, hey, yeah, let's just simple majority vote.
In fact, let's just say you need to get 40% and you win.
Why?
Why make it so hard to win?
Now, this is fascinating because Obama's all for reconciliation.
I'm sorry, simple majority vote.
And all these Democrats have, yep, I'll vote for, I'll, up, simple majority vote.
Damn right, I'll be in there on a public option.
But then Kent Conrad appeared on Slay the Nation yesterday with the host Bob Schieffer.
And Schieffer said, if the leaders in the Senate do decide to try this by reconciliation, what's going to happen?
On the question of reconciliation, I've said all year as chairman of the budget committee, reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform.
It won't work.
It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation.
It was designed for deficit reduction.
So let's be clear.
Now, what he's saying is it's right.
The only thing that can be, only things that can be used, or reconciliation can be used for, budget items, because the Constitution demands that the Congress have a budget every year, that the country have a budget.
And it was Sheets Bird who wrote the whole rule way back when.
1974, Sheets Bird wrote the rule back in 1974 exempting budgetary items from the 60 votes.
So here's Congress.
It's not possible.
It can't be used.
And in fact, over the weekend, Saturday or Sunday, I forget what the New York Times had a story, and they were really down in the dumps about the prospects of reconciliation, that it wouldn't work, that it couldn't be used.
And when I heard Conrad yesterday on Say the Nation say what you just heard him say, I thought, oh, well, no wonder the New York Times is.
So I'm thinking, now, where are we going to go from here?
What's really going on here?
Well, let me try to explain to you folks.
In case, see, here you've got Conrad.
It can't be used.
I mean, it won't work.
It was never designed for that kind of significant legislation.
It won't work.
Okay, so what do we have here?
What's the equation?
We have rules and then we have Democrats.
What could possibly go wrong?
If you have rules and then you have Democrats, what it means is that the rules may as well not exist.
So, Conrad, I don't know what he's doing.
He may have forgotten what party he's a member of.
But if Obama wants this to happen and happen that way, they'll find a way around the rules.
That's what this is all about in the first place, is finding a way around the rules.
In fact, Obama is going to announce the way forward on healthcare probably on Wednesday.
His press spokesman, Baghdad Robert Gibbs, said the president will take into account what he heard yesterday at the healthcare summit and will announce the way forward.
And widespread assumption is that Obama will address specific changes that he wants made to the Senate's version of the legislation and that he will encourage Congress to pass those changes using reconciliation, which you just heard Kent Conrad say cannot be done.
I have a huge global warming stack here today, and I even want to get into it because I'm just sick and tired of it.
It's a hoax.
But I'm duty bound to do it, so I'm going to start wading through it.
We get back.
But before I get into it, all this talk of reconciliation, remember Harry Reid just last Thursday got all snippety.
I was talking about reconciliation.
Nobody's talking about reconciliation.
No, that's all anybody's talking about.
You got rules, you got Democrats, which means you got no rules.
So why are they doing this?
I'm going to explain again and expand on that because this really is key.
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