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March 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, goody, goody, goodie.
Obama is gonna go at 145, about uh damn, 39 minutes from now.
If he's on time.
And guess what, folks?
His latest health care speech, number 442,000.
He's gonna be surrounded by doctors and nurses.
I hope they remember to bring the lab coats this time.
Remember the last time I did one of these in the Rose Garden, they had to pass out lab coats to the doctors.
Of course, that wasn't a prop.
Oh no, no.
That wasn't a prop.
But when Eric Cantor brought the actual bill to the health care summit, that was a talking point and a prop.
So he's gonna be surrounded by doctors and nurses.
Greetings, great eight, uh, great to have you uh Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
Folk, I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but there is real trouble in paradise.
I mean, there are factions of Democrats at war with each other out there, and it's not being reported very much.
The real tsunami that is happening is this conservative ascendancy.
The media is missing that.
I don't know if you're with is this a second week this has gone on now, but Tavis Smiley.
I know who?
Tavis Smiley.
Didn't he used to have a radio talk show like the TV show?
Well, he still has the PBS TV show, I think.
Do they have a radio to probably be a take less time to list the people who've not done a radio show?
Anyway, Tavis Smiley has this uh little TV talk show, I guess on PBS.
And he's mad that Obama is not got a black agenda.
He's mad Obama's not specifically doing things to help the brothers.
And Sharpton, they in this this is second week here, they're going at it back and forth, and Sharpton is essentially saying to Smiley, shut up.
The brothers are getting it without anybody noticing it.
Just shut up.
Obama's doing okay.
We're doing okay.
Obama's giving people stuff.
Sit back and relax.
Don't call attention to this.
It's funny.
Then we got Pelosi, who is asking, ordering Democrats, to throw themselves overboard, or to throw themselves under the bus in order to pass Obama's health care bill.
And then we got Chuck Wrangle being thrown out.
And there's there's even more.
I mean, there's uh Democrats all over the country.
So wait a minute now.
This is not the way this is supposed to be going.
We're supposed to be halfway to our utopia by now, and we're falling apart.
Ron Emmanuel and Obama going at it.
The unions are not happy.
Unions are saying, we're gonna get our co I gotta find that.
Oh, and the Democrats really ticked off because a member of Congress wants to put uh Reagan's face on a $50 bill.
Now get this.
You want to laugh.
I know I say I know I said I'm gonna get to the healthcare stuff, and I am I uh you know I'm just in a good mood.
It's just like I didn't want to get a global warming stuff.
I mean, I've been writing about this for 20 years.
We move on here.
We all know what this healthcare crap is.
We'll get to it.
It is Representative Patrick McHenry who wants to uh put Reagan's face on the $50 bill.
Quick, Brian, whose face is on the $50 bill at present?
Ulysses S. Grant.
Now, this is important because there are Democrats who are opposing this.
One of these Democrats is a real uh whack job.
Brad Sherman from Sherman Oaks, California.
Get this.
And Brad Sherman's on the House Financial Services Committee.
He said, there is there is no way.
There's absolutely no way.
Our currency ought to be something that unites us.
Now I want you to go down to Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina.
And when you ask them just what a unifying figure Ulysses S. Grant was.
Do you I thought right above right above Sherman?
He only won 49 states twice.
How much more unifying can you get, Congressman Sherman?
I mean, it's no big deal to me.
I can, but I just I love these guys and their and their response.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Uh, we need to have somebody um somebody unionize uh you uh uh somebody unify.
Uh yeah, the union union is not happy, they're all upset.
Um it's a mess, and now you've got Ram Emanuel taking on Obama in every Washington publication he can, and guess who's losing that one?
Obama.
I mean, the tr the the the template on that one is if Obama had only listened to Rom, he wouldn't be in any of his trouble.
Uh I've I've heard of presidents going at it with their chiefs of staff, but I never heard of the president losing.
Particularly when he's public battles.
Now, you got to hear this sound bite.
This is Fortney Pete Stark, who is next in line to have the gavel at the House Ways and Means Committee.
He is from uh far left California.
This was last September in Fremont, California at a health care town hall.
This is how Fortney Pete Stark treats his constituents.
Mr. Conspeet, don't be on my leg and tell me it's raining.
Thank you.
I wouldn't dignify you by uh peeing on your leg.
I don't know, and it wouldn't be worth wasting the urine.
Yeah, were you able to hear that?
That was Fortney Pete Stark saying to a constituent, thank you, but I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg.
It uh it wouldn't be worth wasting the urine.
So, I mean, this is the modern Democrat Party, and of course, ladies and gentlemen, uh the template in Washington is damn Republicans refused to be bipartisan, refuse to help Obama.
Let's go to the audio sound bites because I promised.
April 25th, 2005, at the National Press Club, Senator Obama spoke about changing the filibuster rule.
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.
Now he cares about what the founders intend.
He doesn't care a whit what the founders intended now.
This was about just a review, the nuclear option on judicial appointments.
The Republicans control the Senate and the House, and remember the battle cry back, it's remember the rights of the minority, remember the rights of the minority.
It's not right.
We shouldn't have two parties, one party running every branch, it shouldn't I be.
They were whining and moaning, and they got the exact situation now, and of course, everything they said back about filibuster rule no longer operative.
Let's go back, November 2, 2004, election night, CBS TV, Obama said this about passing legislation in the Senate.
My understanding of the Senate is that you need 60 votes to get something significant to happen, which means that Democrats and Republicans have to ask the question do we have the will to move an American agenda forward, not a Democratic or Republican agenda forward.
Now, what he's saying here is that if you're gonna if you're gonna have a massive agenda move, you gotta get 60 votes in the Senate.
You you have to have a supermajority here to make it legitimate.
He was all for it back then.
July 12, 2006, at the Center for American Progress Convention.
Those big ticket items fixing our health care system.
You know, one of the arguments that sometimes I get with uh my fellow progressives, and and some of these have flashed up in the blog communities on occasion, uh, is this notion that we should function sort of like Carl Rowe, where we we identify our core base, we throw them red meat, we get a 50 plus one uh victory.
See, Carl Rowe doesn't need a broad consensus because he doesn't believe in government.
If we want to transform the country, though, that requires a a sizable majority.
So once again, here is Obama as a senator wailing, whining, and moaning about how the Republicans are trying to get things done with 51 votes, and you're gonna transform the country.
You need 60.
You can't just trash the Senate rules.
2007 Obama in Chicago at the Change to Win convention.
The bottom line is that our health care plans are similar.
The question once again is who can get it done?
Who can build a movement for change?
This is an area where we're going to have to have a 60% majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk.
We're going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk.
That is not just a 50 plus one majority.
This is Obama.
Now, this is just three years ago.
Early, early days of his uh potential campaign.
And we're going to have to have a 60%.
Now he wasn't saying he wanted that.
He was saying it was necessary.
That it was necessary.
Well, of course, now none of this matters.
Now, and all of this is nothing new either.
It's just more blatant pure hypocrisy, which these people do and commit daily.
Multiple times each day.
October 9th, 2007.
Conquered New Hampshire.
The Concord Monitor Editorial Board interviewed Obama.
We've got a break out of what I call the 50 plus one pattern of presidential politics.
Maybe you eat out a victory of 50 plus one.
You can't govern.
You know, you get everything.
I mean there are a lot of experts.
But you can't, you can't deliver on health.
We're not going to pass universal health care with a 50 plus one scratch.
So there you go.
Numerous times, Barack Obama saying it's not right.
51%, 51 vote majority.
No, we're going to be transformative.
We're going to need a supermajority.
Now, all this is in the context of wailing, whining, and moaning at the Republicans by saying, well, they may have these majority, but they're not strong enough to do everything that they want to do.
Bush doesn't have this kind of power.
He shouldn't be allowed to get away with this kind of thing.
He doesn't have that kind of much, doesn't have that kind of power.
Well, guess what?
Obama had it.
Obama had his 60 votes in the Senate, and he still couldn't get this done.
He's got 59 votes in the Senate.
He still can't get this done unless he blows up the very rules he was suggesting should never ever be violated five years ago, four years ago, three years ago, and even two years ago.
Look, folks, I really...
I...
I...
I really want to apologize, ladies and gentlemen.
Um for playing Obama's words.
Uh I just I I just I feel horrible about that.
And I sincerely apologize to all of you for for playing Obama's words.
They were never intended to be taken seriously.
Back in 2005, 6, 7, 8.
They were only meant to sound serious, but they were never meant to be.
Nothing Obama says is ever meant to be taken seriously.
And I really apologize for playing it.
Now, here's the latest on this, and none of this is a surprise, but it's gonna be interesting.
Tom Harkin told Politico that Senate Democrat leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route.
The House, he said, will first pass the Senate bill after Senate leaders demonstrate to House leaders that they have the votes to pass reconciliation in the Senate.
There's still a little tizzy here about who's gonna go first.
Um of these guys really want to fall on the sword for this, but they have to.
So there's an argument, okay.
Who's gotta go first?
And in this case, um, the House will first pass the Senate bill, and they don't want to do that.
They want the Senate to go first, and the Senate wants the House to go first.
And what's gonna so the House will pass the Senate bill first, Senate leaders will demonstrate to House leaders they've got the votes to pass reconciliation.
Now, Harkin made the comments after meeting uh in Harry Reid's office in the meeting were um Bauchus Harkin, Dodd Durbin Schumer, and Patty Murray.
Now this means this, I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.
This means that the House has to pass its bill.
So we are back to having the Corn Husker kickback and all the other bad things Obama said he opposed still in it.
We're talking the Senate bill, and there's not a new one.
They can't take those out under reconciliation.
Every one of those things is up for debate.
If the Republicans want to try to stop this uh in parliamentary procedures, they can throughout the process.
However, the parliamentarian can be overruled by Biden, who is the president of the Senate.
We know what Biden's gonna do here.
So if they go, reconciliation, all the stuff that Obama's gonna say in 20 minutes is simply nonsense.
Whatever he says, he's gonna have the doctors and the nurses out there.
As I say, I hope they remember the lab quotes.
I forgot them last time.
I have also just had it made available to me to me uh some excerpts from Obama's speech coming up here in about 20 minutes.
And that's released uh by the by the White House.
And he's he's he's using the doctors and nurses as a prop for atmosphere and as a prop in the speech.
Here is the obligatory Alinsky line, and this is the first paragraph the White House has released.
I don't believe we should give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America.
Of course he precisely believes that.
He precisely believes that a government bureaucrat, namely himself, should have control over health care.
That's what this is all about.
But he's you're gonna hear him say, I don't believe we should give government bureaucrats insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America.
He wants control of it.
This is pure Alinsky.
You speak in the language of your audience.
He knows that his audience does not want what he is prepared to give them.
So he's going to try to convince his audience that he's going to give them what they want.
He's going to lie, which he can't help.
He's a liberal.
He has to lie.
He's going to use this lie, this throwaway line, uh, to paint the insurance companies as the villain here, with not one word about how government intrusions have totally screwed up the market and driven up costs.
I take you back to Howard Feynman's column yesterday in Newsweek about his uh medical emergency uh down in Argentina.
We've we've we find ourselves accepting so many premises that are ludicrous.
It's been 24 hours, and not one person, and I begged for one person, anybody, somebody tell me what it is that qualifies the most inexperienced, unqualified guy in whatever room he walks into, Barack Obama, to run a two and a half trillion dollar segment of our economy.
Would somebody show me the resume?
Would somebody show me that he understands how drugs are developed and brought to market?
Would he somebody show me that he understands the patent process?
Would somebody show me that he understands how the MRI came to be, what its purpose is?
Can somebody show me that he knows how to run a hospital?
Can somebody show me at any point in his life where he has had any experience with our health care system other than as a blood-money-sucking patient?
No, nobody can because he doesn't have any.
And yet, we're sitting here debating a premise.
Obamacare, Obama, he hasn't the slightest idea how to do this.
There is no business in this country that would hire Barack Obama to run it.
They might hire him as a rainmaker.
They might hire him as a PR guy, but nobody, But nobody would ever hire this guy to run any aspect of their business.
And yet we're sitting here debating this whole notion that Obama is the guy to set this up while he lies to us and says we have to give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats less control over health care in America.
He's going to wipe out insurance bureaucrats.
He's going to expand bureaucratic power in Washington mainly by giving it to himself.
So it's the same old BS here, folks.
Hold hold the insurance companies accountable.
But no one holds the government accountable.
Nobody is looking at this in any kind of a rational way.
Well, yeah, we look at the bill and we look at the details and the spending and the deficits and the redistribution.
Oh, that's fine.
All that's true, but we've we've done this all year.
The real question is who the heck is this guy?
To say I'm going to divide the system.
I'm going to run it.
I'm the only one who can.
Who the heck is he?
What's he ever done?
Gets nagged by his wife for crying out loud over cholesterol.
That's why he nags us about it.
Same old BS.
He's my proposal also gets rid of many of the provisions that had no place in health care reform.
Provisions that were more about winning individual votes in Congress than improving health care for all Americans.
Okay, I assume that means a Louisiana Purchase and the Corn Husker kickback are gone.
I don't know.
I don't know how it can be gone given reconciliation.
Are you gonna lie about saying if you like your plan, you get to keep your plan?
When in fact his plan's going to drive our plans out of existence by design and on purpose.
Who is this guy?
I know.
Thank you and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
I was just asked by the production staff if I'm going to JIP Obama.
Join in progress.
So a note to our affiliates, because I I don't know what the affiliates uh on the EIB network are going to do.
Some of them might uh cover the whole thing.
We're gonna jip it.
We'll jip it.
But I mean I'm telling you what he's gonna say in advance right now.
Using a White House owned excerpts, and I'm analyzing it right now.
We'll jip it, but we're not gonna go wall-to-wall coverage on this thing.
I mean, that's that's what this guy wants.
I mean, this is not an accident thing is scheduled for 145, right smack dab in the middle of the EIB network's broadcast presentation of the day.
So we'll jip it.
Our microphones are there, but we're not gonna go wall to wall, and I'm not gonna walk out of the room for the 15 to 20 minutes gonna take him to do this.
We'll comment as it goes.
I'm watching them now, the lab coats are filing in now.
They remember to have the doctors and the lab coats or the nurses in nurse uniforms.
Anyone in there on a stretcher?
Um there on life support?
Anybody in there who was just canceled by an insurance company?
Pre existing condition or denied.
Maybe they ought to go for broke.
Wheel in somebody that just died this morning that might have might be able to blame it on an insurance company.
I mean, that's about how desperate these people have become.
By the way, from the congressional record, December 20th, 2005, then Senator Barack Obama, under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate.
Reconciliation is therefore the wrong place for policy changes.
In short, the reconciliation process appears to have lost its proper meaning.
A vehicle designed for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked.
Barack Obama talking about what he's going to do to pass his health care bill.
Okay, so he's gonna say, in addition to everything else I've told you he's gonna say, at stake is not just this problem, but our ability to solve any problem.
Uh he doesn't get it, or maybe he won't get it.
See, we think government causes the problems.
We don't need government to solve it.
We just want government out of our way, Mr. President.
We don't look to government solve problems.
Those who do are continually disappointed and borderline insane.
You cause the problems.
I don't believe the wish to give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America.
That's the Alinsky line.
That's where he's just lying through his teeth.
Of course he's going to run the insurance bureaucrats out of business and empower one bureaucrat primarily himself.
But then he's going to say this.
This so this is our proposal.
This is where we've ended up.
It's an approach that's been debated and changed, and I believe improved over the last year.
It incorporates the best ideas from Democrats, there aren't any, and the best ideas from the Republicans.
Now, what are these best ideas of the Republicans?
Well, here you go.
Including some of the ideas Republicans offered during the health care summit, like funding state grants on medical malpractice reform.
What is he talking?
Medical malpractice reform does not require government funding.
What is that?
Funding state grants on medical malpractice reform.
You just get you just you just change the tort law.
And here's the second Republican idea.
The second Republican idea that came up, this from Tom Coburn during the healthcare summit.
Curbing waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care system.
Does that mean if the Republicans hadn't brought it up, they were going to leave it in?
If the Republicans had not brought up the concept of getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse that the Democrats would have it as part of the plan.
This is a Republican only idea.
Getting rid of waste, fraud well, in practice it probably is, but illustrates the problem.
So there you have it.
As I say, we'll jip it.
And let me for our affiliates down the line.
We're gonna have to go to uh the break a little earlier, like in a couple minutes, maybe three, in order to uh gyp the very beginning of this thing.
Let's go to uh Virginia Beach.
Uh and D. Great to have you on the program, D. Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, thanks for having me.
Yes.
Here's the thing.
The you're talking about Obama being a hypocrite, but for not passing the bill with 60 votes.
The bill was already passed on Christmas Eve with 60 votes to the Senate.
So how is he a hypocrite?
Uh they don't have 60 votes now, and they don't they couldn't get a compromise.
The House Bill and Senate bill are two different bills.
They couldn't compromise them, they couldn't conference them.
They're two different.
The uh the Senate bill is not communist enough for the House bill.
It doesn't have the public option in it and all that sort of stuff.
It just doesn't destroy the country fast enough soon enough on the Senate side, so they couldn't get an agreement, and then Scott Brown wins, and there and there goes any attempt.
Uh yeah, I understand that, but but the bill passed already.
All they have to do is is merge them together.
Why didn't they?
He didn't pass the whole bill through reconciliation, and that's not.
It doesn't matter.
That was then.
That was then, this is now, and they didn't merge the bills, and now they don't have the 60 votes, they're nowhere near 60 votes anymore.
But he's not gonna pass the whole bill through reconciliation.
That's the thing.
The bill was already passed through the House and the Senate.
No, no, you're misunderstanding this.
One bill and one bill only gets passed, and then the reconciliation process begins, and that's where the fun starts.
There is no conference, there is no merging these two things.
That's why there is a bit of panic on the House side because they got to pass the Senate bill and they don't like it, and they are gonna have to trust Senate Democrat leaders that they can make the changes in reconciliation because they don't have the 60 votes.
Look, I understand that you are a slave to liberalism.
But you gotta get your facts like one of your idols, Harry Reed says, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
And they don't have 60 votes.
And the and the thing that they got passed with 60 votes is never ever going to see the light of day.
And they're losing votes left and right in the House, which is why they have to go reconciliation.
They basically don't have the votes for this D, which means they're going to rewrite rules in the middle of it to say they can pass it however they wish and dare anybody to stop them.
Pure and simple.
You are watching the evaporation of your freedom and liberty and your country as you've known it vanish, dissolve right before your very eyes.
And you call and argue with me.
I can't cancel your insurance.
I can't deny you coverage.
I cannot raise your taxes.
I am not your problem.
But I do want to offer you a gift, since you care about health care.
Mr. Snardley will give this to you.
Five free stitches for the wound of your choice any time you need it for the rest of your life.
Hot chocolate, everyone's a winner, as we breathlessly await the arrival of Dr. Obama to the podium, where there are doctors and nurses, we presume clean water, and probably some sick patients on life support as props.
The ultimate irony, the ultimate irony of using reconciliation.
Reconciliation was originally sold as a way to bring down the deficit.
You even heard Obama reference it that way.
Its real name is budget reconciliation.
And meanwhile, here the Democrat Party is going to use budget reconciliation to expand the deficit like never before even imagined.
And I want you to remember this.
How many of you are part of HMO?
And you hate it, don't you?
Many of you hate your HMO.
Guests who gave us the HMOs.
The same people in this room at the White House.
Same kind of as Ted Kennedy's deal, Ted Kennedy created the health maintenance organization.
Same people.
Absolutely same people.
Who's next?
We're waiting for Obama.
He's uh I'm getting emails, by the way.
Don't jip it, don't jip it.
I came home specifically to listen to your.
I'm not going to get out of the picture here.
Don't worry.
I'll be here when we jip it.
And I'll be the judge.
I'll use my editorial and highly trained broadcast skills to determine just when it's time to get out of this.
And it's not going to be long.
Trust me.
This whole thing is an exercise.
It's compulsive liar.
Dick in uh in Wisconsin, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, greetings from the frozen tundra north of Green Bay.
Thank you.
We're still driving on the ice and drilling holes and fishing.
And enjoying our great outdoors here.
Well, I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the great outdoors.
Uh I'd like to comment on this gas uh thing, you know, because uh these guys are gonna put everybody in the RV industry in Indiana out of business.
All of the recreational parks will be out of business.
Nobody will be going anywhere anymore.
What's new?
Yeah, well, they're gonna put millions of people out of work.
Uh millions more people, you mean out of work.
Millions more.
I mean, this is gonna be it'll be worse than the Carter recession, and then they almost killed the RV industry at that time.
Yeah, well, they're coming back to kill it for sure this time.
Now look, this is don't people don't panic yet.
This is just in a little, you know, dot earth blog of the New York Times, some eggheads at Harvard, um, have looked at the EPA budget, reducing carbon emissions to 2005 levels by 2020, and they say a key ingredient to doing that is seven dollar a gallon gasoline with a vast increase in the federal gasoline tax.
So I think uh this is proposal, but from Harvard, but this Clinton had this idea carbon tax back in the in the one of the first things he proposed in the first six months.
Look, Democrats and Democrats, liberals are liberals, and this is what they are proposing, and this is what they want to do.
They want to create.
I keep reading that, yeah, the dream is to create a European welfare.
Hey, Europe's pikers compared to what these people want to do.
These people want to permanently transform the greatest country on earth and turn it into a basic unrecognizable stepchild.
They don't like this country.
This country is unjust and immoral.
This country has stolen things.
It shouldn't have belonged to it.
All the oil that we use and all the trees that we've cut down and all the disease and disaster we've caused.
Okay.
Here comes the procession.
Blue clad nurses.
Here comes a doctor.
Oh.
Oh, no props here, right?
No props.
Wonder how much they paid these people.
I wonder how much these people have donated to Obama.
Is that how you get selected for this?
They're all coming out, they're standing, there's three, four, five, six of them.
And it's pretty diverse.
They've got three women, one of whose black, and then three white guys.
That's a miscalculation.
You got at least a black guy in there.
Tavis Smiley's not going to be happy.
Here is the president now to a standing ovation.
Looks like he's in the East Room again.
These doctors look like they deal with the insane.
And they they may well.
I've seen movies about doctors that deal with the insane.
I know what they look like.
All right, let's jip it.
Let's uh see what's happening here.
Our microphones are there.
Christopher standing bes uh behind me.
Uh physicians, physician assistants, and nurses uh who understand how important it is for us to make much needed changes in our health care system.
I want to thank all of you who are here today.
I want to specially recognize uh two people who have been working tirelessly on that uh on this effort.
Uh my Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sabilis.
Another incompetent clueless.
What about the swine flu emergency?
How about the swine flu?
Where's that?
As well as uh our quarterback for uh health reform uh out of the White House, Nancy Anne DePray.
Who?
Nancy, Nancy.
Nobody else knows the last name either.
Our push to reform, the closed caption people don't know where the last name is.
In this room with doctors and nurses who know the system best.
And so it's fitting to be joined by all of you as we bring this journey to a close.
He drags them into the room last Thursday.
Like being in the Nuremberg trials at a summit where Democrats and Republicans engaged in a public and very substantive discussion about It was a waste of time.
This meeting capped off a debate that began with a similar summit nearly one year ago.
And since then has been put on the table.
No, no.
Every argument has been made.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Everything there is to say about health care has been said.
And just about everybody has said it.
So now's the time to make a decision.
I thought we'd ought to finally reform health care so that it works.
Who are you to do?
But for America's families and America's business.
Demonize insurance companies, predictable.
Now, where both sides say they agree is that the status quo is not working for the American people.
Health insurance is becoming more expensive by the day.
Families can't afford it.
Businesses can't afford it.
Smaller businesses and individuals who don't get coverage at work are squeezed especially hard.
And insurance companies freely ration health care based on who's sick and who's healthy, who can pay and who can't.
Yeah, well, they don't have death panels like you're gonna have.
That's the system we have right now.
Don't worry, folks.
Democrats and Republicans agree that this is a serious problem for America.
They agree that if we do nothing.
If we throw up our hands and walk away, I am not giving up that will only grow up.
We are not gonna block the city.
Yes, they Will.
More small businesses will be forced to choose between health care and hiring.
Uh more insurance companies will deny people coverage who have pre-existing conditions.
There aren't going to be insurance companies.
There may be a lot of people.
Insurance companies aren't going to be insurance.
The rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid will sink our government deeper and deeper and deeper into debt.
On all of this we agree.
Get rid of you.
On one end of the spectrum, there are some who suggest it scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with a government-run health care system.
Like you.
And though many other countries have such a system, in America, it would be neither practical nor realistic.
Right.
But you're still going to do it.
Okay, that's it.
That's exactly what he's got the JIP.
That's exactly what he's going to do.
There is going to be a public option.
That's the only reason to do this.
There isn't going to be private insurance.
He saw Olinsky Jr. here.
I've had enough.
I didn't really need this much.
All right, I listened to a little bit more of it during the obscene profit break.
Really, there is there's no other way to characterize this other than a bold, bald, thorough, utterly complete lie.
Practically every line is a lie.
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