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March 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
In case you missed it yesterday, the Sullivan Group, the opinion auditing firm that I use in Sacramento that audits my opinions, has delayed by one month the February opinion audit.
They think the jury is still out on whether or not I was actually wrong in urging the Republicans not to go up to the healthcare summit.
What they're saying at the Sullivan group is they have noticed Harry Reid saying the bill now has bipartisan support that the Republicans showed up and talked with Obama.
And it may well be that we'll have to wait and see.
But they consider the auditing, in my opinion, to be such a serious thing.
They get this one time to play out.
So there will not be.
We'll just have the unemployment numbers tomorrow, but not the new Rush opinion audit figures.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
What was that?
No, we dealt with that yesterday.
The blizzard has no effect on the opinion audit, only the jobs numbers.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
From Los Angeles, three Los Angeles scruel teachers have been suspended for giving...
I wonder if I can do this story.
Yeah, it is news.
It is news.
It's an APS story.
I mean, I know I can do it.
Am I going to get accused, be accused of being a racist?
Okay, three Los Angeles Screwl teachers have been suspended for giving children pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman, and Rue Paul to carry in a Black History Month parade.
Los Angeles, you look confused in there, Brian.
Is it something going to make any sense?
The Los Angeles Scruel District spokeswoman Gail Pollard Terry said yesterday the teachers were removed from their classrooms at Wadsworth Elementary School.
She says the teachers who are white could have made a more appropriate choice, such as Oprah Winfrey.
She says the Scruel held the parade Friday with children from other classes carrying photos of black heroes such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, and President Obama.
Well, I mean, OJ was a hero to a bunch of them, at least 12 of them on a jury.
They celebrated all over the country there.
Dennis Rodman, championship basketball player to a lot of people.
Dennis Rodman's a champion.
I don't know what's wrong with RuPaul.
I haven't the slightest idea what's wrong with him.
So this school sounds like it's a little intolerant.
Here's also from Los Angeles.
They're escalating the war there against gigantic billboards.
City attorney Carmen Trutanich has obtained arrest warrants for four people days after he jailed a man on a $1 million bail for allegedly putting up an eight-story super graphic ad without a permit.
The Los Angeles Times says a judge has issued a warrant with $250,000 bail, three others with bails of $100,000 each for allegedly violating the city code.
An attorney for one man, Alexander Kuba, says that his client will turn himself in and fight the charges.
The warrants involve super graphics on Hollywood Boulevard, a building across the street from where an ad for the movie How to Train Your Dragon was put up last week.
Freedom, anybody?
Liberty, anybody.
I want to put this whole Obamacare thing.
You know, as I always say, I love to quote Shakespeare.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Meaning the fewest number of words you need to make a point, the more powerful the point.
So what do we have here?
We have Obamacare.
And the real sticking point in the House of Representatives, there is one that triumphs over all, is abortion.
Obama says he wants the bill on his desk by when?
Easter.
Correct, Mr. Snordley.
Therefore, the way to characterize this, President Obama and the Democrats in a showdown over abortion on Easter.
Showdown over abortion on Easter.
That's reducing Obamacare to its essence.
Here's Pelosi, audio soundbite number 23, this morning on Capitol Hill at her weekly press briefing.
I feel very confident that the upper down vote on the majority rule proposal that will come to the House will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill.
Notice she does not say she has the votes.
If you're confident, vote today, Madam Speaker.
Now, what is this?
Let's break this down.
I feel very confident that the upper-down vote on the majority rule proposal that will come to the House will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill.
What is she talking about?
The majority rule proposal that will come to the House will, that's not the Senate bill, because she then says will satisfy members' concerns about the Senate bill.
So she's talking about reconciliation.
This takes me back to Hoyer.
They're going to reconcile first, and then they're going to send it to the Senate.
You put it in there, and you send it over to us.
You know what's going to kill this?
Aside from the content, what's going to kill this is this process, this very process.
When people learn, like you people listening to this program have learned, when they learn the process, people will instinctively know this is not how this happens in our country.
This is not how laws become law.
This is just, there's something about this is in addition to the content.
By the way, a little shout out here to Bart Stupak of Michigan.
How does it feel to be treated like a Republican, Bart?
You know, the cable TV people are just nothing more than Obama surrogates.
So they got Stupak.
Every time they interview Stupak, I mean, they bore into this.
He's a Democrat.
They bore into it.
You really want to be the reason why we lose health care in America?
You have no shame.
You really, really, really want to be evil incarnate.
The reason we don't all have health care.
It's the same thing they were asking Scott Brown.
Except he was a Republican.
Stupak is a Democrat.
Let's get these next two out of the way.
This is Gibbs, spokesman, White House, on MSNBC this morning.
He was talking to the co-host Savannah Guthrie along with F. Chuck Todd.
A question for a president that really, really prides himself as a consensus.
Savannah, would you show me one consensus he's built?
These people in Washington are so insulated.
They haven't the slightest clue.
Would you show me where he's ever unified anything, Savannah?
His own chief of staff is out leaking in the press how rotten a guy he is.
And if it weren't for his chief of staff, they'd be in real trouble.
There's no unity between himself and his chief of staff.
He's complaining about his wife nagging him about his cholesterol and everything else.
No wonder the guy smokes and drinks.
Show me the unity, Savannah.
It's no use, folks.
All these false premises, all these templates.
Storylines.
All right, here's the question.
For a president who really prides himself as a consensus builder, does it kind of turn his stomach that he's now at a place where he has to really get health care by this 51-person vote as opposed to the more traditional means of a super majority in the Senate?
We got health care done not with 51, but with 60 votes.
That's what passed the Senate back before Christmas.
In most households, I bet in Chuck's household, I know in my household, 51% represents a majority viewpoint.
I don't think that's a crazy concept here in America.
President, he's the president, and he's got to leave this country.
We will continue to talk to Republicans.
We have added their ideas throughout this process.
They seem to not want to take yes for any sort of answer.
We are going to work every day here in the White House over the next two or three weeks to get health care done.
Silly to waste time on this guy.
He's a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
So we'll move on.
We have here a, well, again, this is Savannah Guthrie and F. Chuck Todd are talking to their own correspondent, Mike Vaccara, about Representative Eric Massa deciding not to run for re-election because this is a guy who's been accused of sexually harassing a male staff member.
Savannah Guthrie says, you know, Obama really prides himself as a consensus builder.
For lack of a better word here, is this a sideshow on Capitol Hill?
Eric Massa was a no vote on health care.
Right.
Does he now become a yes vote since he's not running for re-election?
Huh.
Sort of an odd fallout on that front.
Thank you, Mike Vaccara.
He was one of the ones that they were hoping to get to switch.
So you have the NBC guys.
I think he's already switched, is right.
They're trying to get him to switch.
F. Chuck, he switched already.
But F. Chuck here basically saying that these allegations could be good for Obamacare.
You see, a prison.
So here's a guy.
His life is probably really damaged here.
It's been leaked by his own party, no doubt, that he had a sexual harassment allegation against him by a man in his office.
And here's F. Chuck.
Man, oh, man, he's going to really help Obamacare.
What a great thing.
Okay.
I never thought this would happen.
I never thought this would happen.
We have a montage of some media people calling Obama out on a reconciliation flip-flop.
Now, some of these don't surprise me.
Greta Van Susteren, Larry Kudlow.
However, the perky Katie Couric is in this montage, as is Anderson Cooper.
Plan B, reconciliation.
President Obama didn't always think, though, that it was a good idea.
Mr. Obama had a different message back in 2007.
In 2007, when President Obama was a senator, he criticized the use of the reconciliation process in healthcare reform.
Is this a case of where you stand depends on where you sit?
He flip-flopped on this.
Clearly now he's going back on what he said on the campaign trail, basically saying he's prepared to ram this thing through Congress with a 50-plus one vote.
Okay, I take it back.
They're just pointing it out, but they're not upset by it.
And they don't think there's anything fraudulent about it.
And they don't think there's anything hypocritical about it.
They probably think it's good for Obamacare.
Because that's all that matters.
Is it good for Obamacare or is it not?
Dung He Parkin.
There he is right there on MSNBC.
Just said Pelosi doesn't have the votes yet.
Trust me, my friends, on this.
Don't doubt me.
They don't have the votes.
They're nowhere close to having the votes.
And the more convoluted this process gets, the even angrier people are going to get.
So he wants, he wants Obamacare passed on Easter.
Do you realize this guy ruined our summer?
This guy ruined our Thanksgiving.
This guy ruined our Christmas.
And now he's going to ruin our Easter by trying to ramrod something nobody wants down their throats and on Easter.
As something very symbolic, I'm going to get to that.
Obamacare was born on Christmas Eve, and now they want to resurrect it on Easter.
Some might say that the bill was conceived on Christmas Eve, but the template will fit a Messiah if it passes.
How better to portray yourself as a real Messiah if your signature issue is born or conceived, whatever, Christmas Eve, and dies and then is resurrected on Easter.
The only problem, well, I know it's not a virgin birth because we're all getting the shaft here and getting screwed, but it's also going to be a problem with his Muslim friends with the timing here.
Could have done it on Ramadan, it'd been a little bit better for them, but never mind that.
There is some irony that Obama's great, great, great plan that is going to ostensibly improve the country's health all hinges on whether the federal government will pay for the killing of babies or not, deciding that by Easter.
To the phones we go.
Who's up?
Catherine in Collieville, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I was calling about Medicare and the slow erosion of freedom within the community of the doctor community.
Basically, over the past two or three months, cardiology has taken incredible pay cuts, which is increasing the practice of medicine.
Well, Medicare and Medicaid particularly, you mean, right?
Medicare, yeah.
Specifically, a couple of months ago, the imaging that's performed in cardiologist's office took a 40% pay cut.
And that was followed up with this past Monday with a 20% pay cut to all physicians.
And it's really affecting how patients are getting taken care of.
We've had to lay off some employees, and it's really touch and go whether we'll be able to continue to see Medicare patients.
I was just going to say, your only hope is to get out of the program.
Well, there is an out, which a lot of cardiologists, about probably 30%, have already accepted, is that hospitals are buying out cardiology practices only to become employees of hospitals.
Yeah, I know.
But once you opt out of Medicare, you can't take a Medicare patient ever again, right?
I'm not sure all the rules.
I'm probably out of my territory there, but there's nothing specific rules for not taking care of Medicare patients.
But the problem is, is that, you know, once you're an employee of a hospital, you've lost your freedom.
And some practices that have been bought out have already been told by the hospitals that, oh, well, we're going to have to cut your pay 15%.
And you have no, you can't, there's no recourse.
All right.
I want to try to put what you've said here into an understandable context for the audience.
No, no, stand in line here because I need you to tell me if I'm right or wrong on this.
Okay.
I mean, the odds are I'm right.
I'm very seldom wrong, but I still want you there to correct me.
Now, the very people, the very people who just yesterday in a big dog and pony show said we're going to expand coverage.
We're going to insure 31 million more people.
We're going to lower costs.
The same people are reducing what they are paying you and your husband, cardiologists, to the point that you cannot keep your practices going.
That's basically a huge part of the, probably 50% of the local cardiology business is Medicare.
Of course it is.
It's a very successful business.
Let me tell you that over the past 10 years, you know, heart disease was the number one killer 10 years ago.
But do you know that in the last 10 years, the mortality has dropped 30% because of cardiology care?
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Despite all these horrors like childhood obesity, the life expectancy just continues to edge upward in this country.
That's right.
My point with you, Catherine, is that the very people who claim they know how to fix this are breaking what we have now.
Exactly.
What we have now is already so broken that basically insurance companies in government have doctor groups fighting among ourselves for what's left of our 8% of the Medicare dollar.
Because about 8% of what goes through Medicare actually makes it to doctors.
Everything else is wasted.
Thank you, Catherine.
I want to make another point about this, ladies and gentlemen.
I want to go back to my old buddy Howard Feynman in his piece earlier this week in Newsweek, in which he wondered, where's all the money going?
Where's all the money?
If they're cutting the, well, the money, we don't have it.
In case we got a $1.5 trillion deficit, the money is owed.
The money is going to debt.
But this is the real point.
You listen.
I could do this all three hours any day I wanted.
I could take calls from doctor after doctor after doctor who would tell the same story.
Medicare payments, co-payments being cut back to the point that they can't continue to keep the office open on what the government is paying them.
You have cardiology patients.
You got heart patients going in to get treated.
And some far-off bureaucrat somewhere, not an insurance company.
We're talking Medicare here.
Not some evil insurance.
Some federal bureaucrat is deciding what the cardiologist is going to get paid.
That's not a free market.
There is no relationship to Catherine's patients and the price of Catherine's service.
The patient isn't paying diddly squat or very little on Medicare and even less on Medicaid.
We'll lump that in.
We'll leave Medicare alone, Medicaid out of it for now.
There's absolutely no relationship.
These people walk in with a heart problem.
The service and the fee attached to it by Catherine and her husband, the cardiologists, is not based on that woman's ability to pay or the patient's ability to pay or the patient's level of care that's needed, treatment, what have you.
Some bureaucrat that nobody knows sitting far away in some dank federal office is using a computer with printouts and models, formulas and so forth to determine what the doctor rendering the service is going to be.
This is price fixing.
This is government control.
We already have this.
This is why it's messed up.
Now, we can get lost in the details here of the doctors only getting reimbursed this, or they're having their payments bundled here or what.
That's not the point.
The problem.
The problem is, imagine if you had to check into a hotel this way.
And the room is $400 a night.
And some federal bureaucrats say, well, we're only going to pay the hotel $100 for this.
And the hotel has to give you the room.
It can't be sustained.
Barack Obama ruins our summer.
Barack Obama ruins back to school.
Barack Obama ruins Halloween.
Barack Obama ruins Thanksgiving.
Barack Obama ruined everybody's Christmas and New Year's, all his healthcare garbage.
And now wants all of it resurrected on Easter.
I am Rush Limbaugh, your spring lamb of hope and possibilities here at 800-282-2882.
And the email address is Rush.
Brian says, what does he mean by that?
Limbaugh, Rush at LRushwood EIBNet.com.
All right, now, back to the phones we go.
And then we're up to soundbite number 10.
That's Paul Ryan, which I want to get to in just a sec.
Here's Don in Chicago.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
28-day Dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Rush, this is a great opportunity for the nation to see Chicago politics at work, up close and personal.
They pull a knife, you pull a gun.
This guy, if he can't cut you off at the knees, he'll figure out a way to buy you off, and you're already starting to see it.
Everybody has their price.
That's the motto in the White House.
That's the motto in Chicago.
It's always been that way.
I'm 54 years old, and I've seen this every day.
And people will just fall in the wake of this man, and he doesn't care their collateral damage.
Everybody has their price.
Everybody has a past.
Everybody has a scandal, large or small, in their lives.
Of course, there's nothing that these people will not use.
Rush, do you know what's going on right now?
And I think you hit on this a couple days ago.
I'm sure you know about it.
With Rob Emmanuel leaking out that he's a little discontent with his boss, there's a Senate race going on in the state of Illinois for his seat between Mark Kirk and this guy, Alexei Julunius, who has a real shaky past.
And the president's already endorsed him.
And they're now talking that they're going to try and convince this guy to relinquish his primary win, and that the rumor is Rob Emmanuel will come in and take the seat.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Well, I know that we've chronicled here at great length the contretemps going on between Rob Emmanuel and Barack Obama inside the Beltway media.
And it is unusual because the president's the one that's taking it on the short end here, and it's usually the other way around.
Chiefs of staff do not prevail in behind-the-scenes, public behind-the-scenes battles with the president of the United States.
We'll keep a sharp eye on this.
I appreciate the call out there, Don.
This is Bob in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Rush, big honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
About this congressman from Utah whose brothers offered the judgeship on the Court of Appeals.
Oh, yeah.
I wanted to ask your opinion on that.
I was thinking that if he does change his vote on this, this could really backfire big time for the White House because I think the outcry on this would be so severe that it could cost them, who knows, a half a dozen or a dozen votes just from the storm it caused.
Maybe.
I don't think the White House is looking at it that way.
I don't think I think they might think it might hurt the Congressman who allows his vote to be purchased with the appointment of his brother, but Obama doesn't care what happens to the Congressman.
Rush, you don't think it would scare off maybe five or six or ten that might be on the fence?
Why?
The Louisiana Purchase didn't send any Democrats running the other way, and the Cornhusker kickback didn't send any Democrats running the other way.
Well, when you add them all together, Russia, the people are starting to really get fed up.
Well, I know.
No question.
But this whole process is really ugly.
And people start to see this.
This is not how this stuff gets done.
And it's all happening because no one wants it.
This is a total stab in the eye at the American public.
The American people, they have expressed themselves clearly and frequently on this and proudly.
They want no part of it.
And so rules are being broken.
Corners are being cut.
The Chicago Way, whatever it takes to get this done.
And there is just something about this that rubs people the wrong way besides the content of the bill.
The content of the bill is bad enough.
But the entire process here is also something that is just not working in Obama's favor, except he doesn't care.
I mean, the thing that you have to understand about Obama is he doesn't care.
He's got three years before he has to face anybody.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't care what you think of the process.
He doesn't care what you think of the bill.
He doesn't care whether you like it or not.
He does care if he can convince a number of Democrats in the House to give up their careers, fall on the sword in order for him to get his bill for his monument.
He doesn't care what you think.
And the vast majority of Democrats in Washington don't care what you think.
I mean, you're testament to that's right before your very eyes.
Since last August, they have telegraphed.
Hell, they haven't telegraphed it.
They've advertised it.
They don't care what you think.
They don't think you're smart.
They don't think you're smart enough to know what's good for you.
They know this isn't good for you.
This is only good for them.
They don't care.
The party of supposed compassion and love and tolerance and understanding, the party of the little guy, doesn't care about you at all.
Not a whit.
And it's not because I'm saying it.
It's right out there for you to see.
Each and every day, Steve in Rockford, Illinois, you're next.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
The thing I was wondering why nobody's even bringing up, and it just seems like the logical progression to this thing if Obama is doing this all on purpose, that the first ones that are going to be sucked into this government option is all the government unions.
Wait, what?
What?
The reason Obama's doing what is for government?
Say that again.
If he's doing this all on purpose, you know, to doing what on purpose?
Doing what on purpose?
Ramming the healthcare through and basically destroying the economy.
The first ones that are going to get sucked in to his government option health care plan is going to be the government unions.
All teachers, all workers at state universities, everybody works for the government.
than the government unions, they'll be the first ones sucked into the government action.
Yeah, but everybody's going to get sucked into the government.
I mean, in 10 years, there's not going to be any other option but the government.
Right, but their base.
They got to have a base to operate from first.
And the first ones they're going to take in will be the government employees.
So the state governments can save money.
State government.
You know, but state governments can say they offload.
Well, look, there are a lot of reasons why Obama wants this.
It's no accident that he wore a purple tie yesterday.
Purple is the official color of the SEIU.
It's like Clinton.
Have we forgotten?
Clinton used to signal Monica Lewinsky, today is a good day by wearing a certain color tie.
Remember that?
He just said, this is Henry Stern or Andy Stern.
This is union-driven.
Folks, the union heads, the leaders of these unions essentially are communists.
They don't like, I'm talking about government union people.
I'm not talking about the UAW and Teamsters, although they might be, but I'm talking about unions that exist in the federal government.
And these are Obama's buddies.
But the overall reason we've discussed is that Obama wants this is expansive government that he controls, limiting the freedom of this.
I'm getting blue in the face here saying all this over and over and over.
Put quite simply, Barack Obama does not like this country as it was founded.
And he wants to transform it, and he has said so.
So it's, but this has to be stopped because if he gets this, then he's got 90% of his objective done.
Because everything about human behavior can be regulated because it has relationship to healthcare costs, which they, Obama, are going to have total control of.
Quick time out.
Back with more after this.
Hey, we're back.
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Look, the bottom line on the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, they are, they represent more than 900,000 caregivers and hospital employees, including about 110,000 nurses and 40,000 doctors in public, private, and nonprofit medical institutions.
What Andy Stern wants, the head of the SEIU, is to unionize doctors.
He wants their dues.
He wants to control, have a union control the whole healthcare industry here.
And they're just now getting started.
Obama is his blood brother.
The energy behind this is more than just focused in Obama.
It is focused behind these, well, it's concentrated in all of these unions.
And they are the largest union of healthcare workers in the country, and they're just getting started.
Well, that's also at play here, too.
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Susie in Jacksonville, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello there.
There's another sinister side to this Medicare problem, Rush, I believe.
When Obama said he was going to fundamentally change America, I think that might include less health care for Medicare recipients because if you're older and you have less care, you die.
So once a certain number of people are gone out of the system, it lightens up the load on Medicare.
It lightens up on Social Security.
And when did you?
Let me ask you a question, Susie.
Seriously, when did you arrive at this conclusion?
Oh, it's been a while.
It's been a while dawning on me.
Well, no, I don't want to know exactly when.
There's no wrong answer here.
I'm just generally curious.
At what point and how did you arrive at this conclusion?
Well, you just see the tightening up on the doctors, not putting them in the strain to treat Medicare in older health patients like the cardiologist you were just talking about.
Oh, I understand that, but when did you figure out way back a long time ago?
No, no, no, no.
Let me finish.
I can't give you an exact date.
Well, I'm not, I'm looking two months ago, six years ago.
When did you figure out that if the government controls Medicare, they can determine whether or not you live or die by denying or giving you care?
When did that realization hit you?
When I first heard about this plan, probably right in there somewhere.
Well, I got to tell you something.
You are brilliant.
Oh, my.
Because that's exactly.
Forget the reasons why calling the herd or whatever.
This is the whole point of getting control of healthcare is to regulate everybody's life.
And look at how they decide now whether somebody should get treated or not.
It's age, how sick are you?
How much are it going to cost to invest in your recovery?
And are you going to recover?
And when the government is in charge of making those decisions and not you and your doctor, guess what?
We don't have any money.
Right.
We are broke.
Didn't he also, now I'm not sure about this man's name, but wasn't it Sunstein back there, one of the czars early on said that the world would be better off if we had a third less people?
Well, one of Obama's talking about Cass Sunstein, he's a constitutional bomb detonator.
Right.
But I'm sure this, there's been a lot of Democrats that said things like that.
Paul Ehrlich and the population bomb back in 1976.
Yeah, that's part of global warming argument.
It's part of a healthcare argument.
It's part of every look.
As far as the left is concerned, the only corrupting influence in the universe is human beings, Republican and conservative human beings are the only corrupting influence.
Everything else is pristine, clean, and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Bill in Houston, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Thank you.
Got a question for you because yesterday, I tried to get through to you all day yesterday, and actually since the healthcare summit last Thursday, what you said when you first came on today, I was trying to get through to you to let you know that yesterday, because I couldn't find any new bill.
And if there is no new bill, and the police say it's right, and I believe 200% that you are right, that's what they're trying to do, why didn't Mitch McConnell, Eric Canter, all of the Republicans, why aren't they telling people this?
Why aren't they telling them that there is no bill, that if the House passes this, it's done?
Well, because there's still the possibility that there will be what Obama wants in a reconciled bill.
Now, they could go out and say there isn't one now, but Boehner just said he expects the Senate bill to arrive on the House floor within days and for the House to begin debating it and essentially vote on it or not vote on it.
All this means that they don't have the votes for this yet, but they can't go out and say there is no Obama plan.
He's lying because it could end up.
What Obama said could end up in there.
It's a technical point.
I was, you know, I could retire and I could have three times the wealth I have if I could just get a dollar for every time I've been asked, why don't the Republicans do X?
Grab some by 24.
Tom Harkin, how do you reassure House members that they're not going to get screwed?
Well, I don't know the exact process.
That's up to the Speaker and to Leader Reed in conjunction with the White House to work out that process.
But I believe there's a way forward that we can, in the Senate, that our Democratic colleagues in the Senate can look at the House bill and we can work it out so that there is an agreement that we would take the House bill and pass it.
I think that can be worked out.
Doesn't know the exact process, but read and Pelosi will get it done.
Translation, they do not have the votes.
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