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March 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Great editorial today in the Wall Street Journal, Paul Ryan versus the President.
We just had uh caller.
Well, why don't the Republicans say X one?
Every argument has been made.
Everything that there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it.
That's what Obama said yesterday.
As he said, no more debate.
The time for debate is over.
Let's go let's move forward.
What hasn't been heard, however, is even a shred of White House honesty about the true costs of Obamacare or its fiscal consequences.
Nearby, we reprint Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's remarks at the Health Summit last week, which methodically dismantle the falsehoods.
There is no other way of putting it that Mr. Obama has used to sell reform and repeated again yesterday.
They're using falsehoods, and I say lies.
No one in the political class has even tried to refute Mr. Ryan's arguments, though he made them directly to the president and his allies, no doubt because they are irrefutable.
Cookie.
See if you get Paul Ryan.
We had it, I think we aired him last Friday after the Thursday.
There were two of them if I recall.
He was talking right to the press.
And rather than read those comments to you as the journalist published here, what I want to do is uh let you hear them again.
Because the journal is right.
Nobody in the political class has even tried to refute what Paul Ryan said.
Obama just shot him, the bird got a little mad, a little angry.
You could see it was visceral anger.
And the reason nobody's trying to refute Paul Ryan is because nobody can.
If Democrats are willing to ignore overwhelming public opposition to Obamacare and pass it anyway, then what's a trifling dispute over a couple of trillion dollars?
At his press conference yesterday, Obama claimed that my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions, families, businesses, and the federal government.
He said it's fully paid for, brings down our deficit by up to one trillion dollars over the next two decades.
Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility.
And the one reason Obamacare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint.
They know a big con when they hear it.
And you know, I I'm gonna tell you something.
The um this the question here that needs to be addressed.
Is Obama delusional?
Is he really crazy?
Is he this detached from reality?
Or is he just this narcissistic and dishonest.
Obama's fiscal assertions are possible only because of the fraudulent accounting and budget gimmicks that Democrats spent months calibrating.
Readers can find the gory details in Mr. Ryan's preemptive rebuttal nearby, though one of the most egregious deceptions is that the bill counts ten years of taxes, but only six years of spending, which we mentioned yesterday.
The real cost over a decade is about 2.3 trillion dollars on paper.
That's Paul Ryan's estimate.
And even that's a lowball number, considering how many people will flood to free health care and how many businesses will be induced to drop coverage.
Obama claimed yesterday that the plan will cost about a hundred billion dollars per year, but in fact, the costs ramp up every year.
The program exists.
The far more likely deficits are 460 billion over the first ten years and 1.4 trillion over the next 10.
What Mr. Ryan calls probably the most cynical Gimmick deserves special attention, which is known in Washington as the dock fix.
Next month, Medicare physician payments are scheduled to be cut by 22% and even deeper thereafter.
Though Congress is sure to postpone the reductions as it always does.
Failing to account for this inevitability takes nearly a quarter trillion dollars off the Obamacare books and by itself wipes out the savings the White House continues to take credit for.
Some in the liberal cheering section now claim that this Medicare ruse isn't Obama's problem because it was first promised by Republicans and Bill Clinton in 1997.
But then why did Democrats include the doc fix in all early versions of the bill to buy the support of the AMA only to dump this pricey item later when hiding it would make it easier to fake reduce the deficit?
The president was miraculously struck dumb by Paul Ryan's critique and in his response drifted off in irrelevant tangent about Medicare advantage.
While a California Democrat, Xavier Bacera claimed you essentially said you can't trust the congregational budget office.
But Ryan was careful to note that he didn't doubt the pros over at CBO.
Only the truthfulness of the Democrat gimmicks that the budget gnomes are asked to score.
Yesterday, Obama again invoked this nonpartisan independent authority of CBO, which misses the reality that if you feed the agency phony premises, you're gonna get phony results at the other end.
The president also claimed that the reason his plan is in trouble, and the reason Democrats must abuse the Senate's rules to ram this plan into law is that many Republicans in Congress just have a fundamental disagreement over whether we should have more or less oversight of insurance companies.
So most of Obama's first year in office has been paralyzed over nothing more than minor regulatory hair splitting.
This is so preposterous that the president can't possibly believe it.
The Republicans couldn't stop anything.
What the Republicans do on this is irrelevant here.
Republicans in Congress just have a fundamental disagreement over whether we should have more or less oversight of insurance companies.
Here's what Paul Ryan said.
This is what the journal is writing about.
As you listen to this, there's two bites.
Last Thursday in Washington Blair House.
Nobody has refuted this.
Nobody's even tried to tell anybody Paul Ryan was wrong.
The president didn't say, you know what you're talking about, Congressman Ryan.
How dare you say that about my plan?
That's not true.
They know it's true.
The fact that nobody's tried to refute this is evidence that the contents of this, the details are not even a factor in it.
Here's number one of our two bites.
We agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us, and it's basically this.
We don't think the government should be in control of all of this.
We want people to be in control.
And that at the end of the day is the big difference.
We are all representatives of the American people.
We all do town hall meetings, we all talk to our constituents.
And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged.
And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Here is discussion.
This is 26.
This is the breakdown of the financials to a certain extent.
This is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
When you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does treats Medicare like a piggy pick.
It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, not to short Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program.
When you strip out the double counting and what I would call these gimmicks, the full ten-year cost of this bill has a 460 billion dollar deficit.
The second 10-year cost of this bill has a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit.
Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
And so when you take a look at all of this, it just doesn't add up.
Now, play the next bite again because this is I want to get this in the right order.
Uh he's just said there aren't any savings in this bill.
The $500 billion of Medicare cuts are not really cuts, they're just going to spend it on this new health care plan.
You know, I I remember talking to a Democrat who was opposed this bill because she couldn't believe they're going to cut Medicare fire.
I said, Oh, they're not going to be any $500 billion Medicare cuts.
You think a Democrat Party is going to do that.
There's no way.
They're putting that in there to get an accounting number that they want.
And I was exactly right about it.
Now here's Ryan again to wrap it up.
We've been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us.
And it's basically this.
We don't think the government should be in control of all of this.
We want people to be in control.
And that at the end of the day is the big difference.
We are all representatives of the American people.
We all do town hall meetings.
We all talk to our constituents.
And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged.
And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Nobody has refuted Paul Ryan.
Nobody in Washington has even tried.
They're ignoring him.
Howard Dean, this is from the the Hill.com.
Passing the health care proposals before Congress will hang out to dry every Democrat incumbent running for election this fall, Howard Dean said today.
Howard Dean said that Democrats in Congress plus Obama would do themselves more harm than good by passing the current health care bill.
The plan as it comes from the Senate hangs out every Democrat who's running for office to draw it, including the president in 2012, because it makes him defend a plan that isn't in effect essentially yet.
it's easy to campaign on repealing something if nobody knows what the something is And that's fundamentally people don't understand what the president's health care plan is.
And if it passes next week and get signed into law the week after, we're not going to be able to explain it to people.
Because the full impact of it will not be felt for four years.
All that's going to happen is the tax increases.
People will hear there are gonna be no special changes in health care cup.
None of the so-called magical health care reform will happen for four years.
Zilch Zero Nutta.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
One more Paul Ryan here.
This is from last night on the uh Fox Business Channel, America's nightly scoreboard with David Asman, Paul Ryan, the guest.
And Asmond said, Look, I gotta ask, do you think this thing is gonna pass?
Will all these manipulations and maneuverings succeed?
It clearly can pass, but I think we can defeat this.
March is it.
It is basically March madness up here.
The American people can make sure that this doesn't pass if they talk to the representatives.
The fight's really over here in the House now, it's not really in the Senate.
If you can talk to your congressman, talk to your congresswoman, and make your points clear, I think this can be defeated.
Members of Congress have to basically choose.
Are you ideologically fixated with this notion of this progressivist agenda of a government-run health care system?
And are you willing to throw away your congressional seat for that?
Because that's basically what they're doing, because you're totally thwarting the will of your constituents.
Or do you listen to the people you represent, which is supposed to be our jobs, and what you back off of this?
Somebody needs to really nail home what this is all about to these Democrats.
I I'm I'm sh well, that's the wrong way to put it.
We need to nail home the American people what this is really all about.
This is about destroying the system.
This is not about health care.
This is not gonna do anything Obama said.
This is going to crash.
We're talking about hard drive crashes and these carbonite spots.
This is gonna crash the United States economy.
It's gonna crash the country.
This is the intent of it.
To so overload the system.
This is Cloward Cloud Pivans to so overload the system that it cannot function.
You have to reboot it, and you reboot it with Marxism, socialism, whatever you want, but you have to crash the system.
And you have to do it slowly, and you have to do it by putting people out of work and making them dependent on government on employment benefits and what have you.
It doesn't matter how much debt you rack up.
It doesn't matter how much you can't pay for.
That's the point.
It's all part these these are radicals like we have never seen in positions of this kind of power.
And that's what's difficult for people to get their arms, even today.
Even a lot of people still look at this as just, well, well, this is really strange Democrats.
They really got a weird health care plan here.
This is not the usual ebb and flow of Republican versus Democrat.
We've never had this kind of radicalness.
We've never had a president where more and more journalists and commentators, pundits are questioning his motivation, sanity, psychological circumstance, and health and so forth.
Um it's it's it's really scary thing.
What they're trying to do here.
Crash the system.
I bet you there are some duped Democrats who really think that's all about compassion, ensuring a bunch of people don't have insurance, and making sure everybody has health care.
And they think they're doing a great compassionate thing here.
Uh but the leaders of this bunch it's not about that at all.
That's just how they're choosing to sell it.
Here's Mitch McConnell, by the way.
Yesterday afternoon late on Capitol Hill, he had a little press conference said this.
I assure you that if this bill is somehow passed, it won't be behind our democratic friends.
It'll be ahead of them.
Because every election in America this fall will be a referendum on this issue.
And there's an overwhelming likelihood that every Republican candidate will be campaigning to repeal it.
Back to the phones to Fall River, Massachusetts.
William, thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Thank you.
It's a great pleasure to be talking to you.
Thank you, sir.
Great fan of you.
Thank you, sir.
Um the thing I was questioning is that I I w I went back to you I know you remember the the apartheid in South Africa, and Reverend Tutu saying that reconciliation uh truth has to be uh in the forefront.
In other words, those who were engaged in the apartheid had to tell the truth, or they would not get reconcil reconciled.
I'm asking you right now, this this movement that the Democrats are trying to do with reconciliation, uh it's got to be based on the truth.
And I'm not hearing the truth.
Well, of course you're not.
We're dealing with Democrats here, but uh um I don't think that uh Desmond Tutu was speaking of budget reconciliation.
Uh he was he was he was speaking though, uh Rush, is uh the reconciliation of uh of the hate, and that in order for them to get pardoned, they would have to tell the truth about what they did.
And what I'm saying is You're talking about Mandela to get out of jail to get pardoned, he would have to tell the truth.
He right, exactly.
And he didn't do that, he just he served the term.
He wouldn't admit what they wanted him to admit.
Yeah.
But he he but during the apartheid, after it was all over.
The apartheid, in order to get beyond the apartheid, he had to he had to get the people who co who did the atrocities admit the truth.
And what I'm saying is the word reconciliation is that the truth has to be present.
And what I'm doing is I don't want to I don't want to nitpick here, but uh this is a word that has many definitions.
You're talking about reconciling uh different arguments, reconciling uh the the the truth on something here, admitting forthcoming being forthcoming.
Budget budget reconciliation has it's like the U.S. Geological Survey.
There is no actual surveys, that's what they call themselves.
It's like the Geneva Conventions.
It's not a convention.
It's an uh it's uh it's a it's a it's a list of rules.
Uh people don't go to Geneva to attend the convention.
It's just and and reconciliation here is a uh uh of constitutionally created uh process for putting together the budget every year.
Uh the truth uh in in in this uh is nowhere to be found.
There is no truth on uh fr from the Democrat side about any aspect of this.
I'm talking about their claims of who gets covered, how much it's going to cost uh all of that.
So I think maybe that's what you're saying that this thing doesn't have a chance because of using reconciliation, there's no truth in it.
Uh you're right if you if you observe that.
Steve in Sunnyvale, California.
Thank you for calling.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, Rush.
I've heard you talk about socialist this communist that.
And I think there's a lot of your listeners out there who think, oh, he's just being over the top and exaggerating.
And I've been to uh several anti-war protests in San Francisco, and I listened and saw and talked to these people, and you're not kidding.
You're understating it.
I saw the signs that weren't shown on the TV broadcast.
You listen to the speakers, just a whole series of people who talk about how horrible everything in this country is.
And at the end, the master of ceremonies at two of these said.
It cannot be fixed.
It cannot be modified.
It must be replaced.
And then that was the most, almost the most enthusiastic applause and cheering that I heard at these things.
I'm glad you called.
Uh because the point about this is you're you're talking about 60s rallies that you saw or these recent.
I'm I'm talking about in 2003.
2003.
They've always identified.
They've always been there.
They've these people have always been there.
They were around FDR.
They've always been around.
The difference is we never elected one of them before.
They've always had a couple of these guys in the House of Representatives or some state house somewhere or in some bureaucracy, but we've never elected one of them to be president of the United States to where he can now pretty much fill up every czar ship cabinet position, bureaucra bureaucratic uh position he has control over with similar radicals.
And he's doing it.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh.
I want to build on something that Steve in Sunnyvale, California was saying.
As I have um studied all this, the plus I have, you know, got to know people that also studied it.
One of the core principles, and there are a few of them, but one of the core principles of Marxism is that the capitalist system must completely collapse before Marxism can be installed.
There can be no integration.
It has to fully collapse.
That is why.
That is why the Russians, the Trotskyites, the communists, supported the election of Hitler in Germany.
Just to cite one example.
They knew that Hitler, the National Socialist Party, would collapse Germany.
They thought that Hitler would bring about Germany's collapse, and then they would be able to take it over.
And they were right, partially for a while.
But we usually see it happen around the world, other places.
Now it's happening to us.
It's happening in our own country.
Here we are in the middle of a great recession, and there's nobody doing anything to stop it.
I mean, laser-like focus on jobs, job summits, jobs summing.
Now we're going to add two and a half trillion dollars more debt on a health care plan that's not going to do one thing anybody says it's going to do.
You want to hear some propaganda?
You want to hear some and I want to I want you to know that this person that you're going to listen to is Linda Douglas, a former drive-by journalist at ABC News.
She used to be on the Brinkley Roundtable on this week on Sunday mornings.
She finally said, I gotta go to the Obama White House.
I'm not having enough of an impact as a journalist.
I gotta go to where the power really is.
So she is now the White House communications director for the Office of Healthcare Reform.
Right over from revolving door from ABC News to the to the Obama administration.
And she's on Obama, Chairman Obama's channel.
Mess NBC.
She had this question asked of her.
The President is meeting with key House Democrats today.
Yesterday we heard him say in a joking but serious fashion.
That's really cool.
Joking but serious.
Uh that really everything's been said about health care reform.
He's made his plan quite clear.
So what are these meetings about today, Linda?
Certainly there's a conversation that's been going on between the president and the members of Congress as they prepare to move forward to vote on a plan that would uh certainly does contain the ideas, the best ideas of the Democrats, of the Republicans.
It puts health care back and the control of consumers and away from the control of the insurance companies, it lowers their costs.
It's the biggest middle class tax cut on health care in history.
These are the kinds of things that the president's going to be talking to the members about.
Lying to the members of the biggest, they just keep ratcheting this up.
Now this is going to be the biggest middle class tax cut on health care in history.
This is why people are asking, is this guy crazy?
Or is he trying to drive us crazy?
He is saying things that he knows are not true.
Or does he?
And talked about the big lie the other day and how it works.
You just keep saying stuff that everybody knows is so patently false that you couldn't possibly believe they made making it up.
It must be true because it's just so unbelievable.
And that's where we are.
That's Linda Douglas, who said, I just don't have enough power to save the world to affect change as a journalist.
I need to, I need to get where I really need to be.
Health care communications are at the White House.
Ray Lahood lost it yesterday at a Capitol Hill here.
They've budget time and are going through the transportation department budget.
Ray Lahoood's a Republican, by the way.
And here's a portion of what Ray Lahood's.
It's all all about transparency.
And uh he's up there on Capitol Hill screaming about how transparent the Obama administration is.
I served in Congress for 14 and I was a staffer for 17.
I served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
I don't know of a more transparent administration than this one.
And if there's information you want, Senator, we'll be we'll be helpful in in getting it to you.
I will tell you this, Senator, when it comes to the show me state, high speed rail very did very well.
Tiger grants did very well.
I was in a room with over 200 people in Kansas City announcing a tiger grant.
I heard not one word of complaint.
He's talking to retiring Missouri Senator Kit Bond here.
Now this guy's a Republican.
And he says he's never seen a more transparent administration than this one.
So Kit Bond lets him have it.
There has been an almost complete absence of transparency, how you're selecting him, where you're going.
All right, great.
It comes down like a gift from Santa Claus.
And sure, my state got some, every state gets some.
But we have a right these days to know what were the criteria, what were the applications, whose were the ones who were disappointed, who did not get it, how are they selected?
No question.
When you throw money in into infrastructure projects, uh everybody likes money in infrastructure projects.
But we need to see how the process works.
And I'll be damned if I can figure out how that process worked.
Hey men, we don't know who's getting the money or why.
We don't know if they're applying for it, or if we're just walking down the street and Santa Claus drops in on them and uh gives them some money.
You call this transfer.
We don't know.
Yeah, my state got some, but I don't know how it happened.
So Lahood claims it's all on a website.
You look on our website.
It's up there now.
So the guidance is up there.
Everybody knows what the criteria is.
I'll be honest with you, Senator.
We heard from a lot of senators and members of the House who called me and said, How many applications from my state?
What are they?
I got phone calls every day from House members, from senators, from governors saying, how many applications from my state?
What are they?
How much are they for?
What are they gonna do?
And we shared all that information.
It would be very easy if you just put it on the website, save you all those calls.
I mean, but the the money quote there is I've been around here 17 years and 14 years, and I've never seen a more transparent administration than this one.
And that's from a Republican.
How many of you are holding on to your car instead of getting a new one?
You got all these recalls out there.
You've got the economy going on.
You don't know what's coming down a pike, uh, you know what the interest rate's gonna be in a loan if you can get one.
If you're holding on to your car, you have to make sure it's gonna keep running.
And uh it's true.
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Now, the best oil service in America is from BG products.
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It's not available retail.
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They have a website that tells you where the nearest dealership or service shop is to you.
It's called fine or BG Findashop.com.
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Now, it's really something to think about here because they offer a lifetime engine coverage.
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It's transferable to the next owner if you sell the car.
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Once you have a BG oil service, which is available at over 17,000 service shops nationwide, you have a vehicle that's worth more because their lifetime engine coverage it comes with the car, is transferable.
I you know, I had a 69 Pontiac Le Mans first car, but I paid for it.
And but I really didn't earn enough money to maintain it properly, and it took it took it to Pittsburgh, and it it I remember on the way the windshield washer stopped, uh wiper stopped working in the middle of a blizzard.
And I kept driving, I pulled into service station, and it was late at night, and there was no nobody fix this.
They just poured a bunch of de-icer on the windshield, and I got back on the road, and I was stupidest thing I've ever done, but I finally got to Pittsburgh where I was going.
And in the car in Pittsburgh snow in the winter time, it was February.
Um it didn't last.
A 1969 car and I had to get rid of it in 73.
Simply because I didn't make enough money at the time to properly maintain it.
I wish I would have known about these people at BG products.
So look, go to BG, find BG Findashop.com.
I keep BG Findashop.com and find out one of these 17,000 service centers near you, especially if you're holding onto your car for economic reasons, because this stuff really is the best you can put in it.
There's no debate about it.
Just think of me as Paul Ryan talking about Obama's health care plan, telling you nobody is gonna refute what I say about BG services.
Hang on here just a second, folks.
Brian, you get that Waldo de los Rios CD.
I put it right there.
All right, all right.
Through the flamethrower back on a CD.
Don't send me a compressed MP3.
And certainly don't send me an MP4.
All right, back to the phones.
Melinda in Whirley, Idaho.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Hi.
Hi.
Um, I just wanted to make a comment that um by controlling Medicare and wiping out the eld elderly.
Um, you're wiping out the people who know history and who know capitalism and who know that capitalism isn't evil.
Um you're wiping out the least indoctrinated people.
That's exactly right.
That's uh that's exactly right.
I've heard that somewhere before.
Uh that that you know that's the young, the young don't know the truth of the 80s.
The young do not know how tax cuts work.
They don't know the truth of the 60s and Kennedy's tax cuts.
So you get rid of the most educated and the most informed people, so you can't teach anybody anything.
Right.
It's hideous out there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When did you come across that, Melinda?
I mean, well, I I just thought of that um, you know, when when this whole uh health care issue started a while back because that's just a larger picture.
If the government has control of health care, then everybody is vulnerable to it.
And you know, everybody's subject to the government.
Can I?
Now tell me how how old are you?
Forty-four.
Forty-four, twenty-four.
Forty-five.
Forty-four.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you got a few years.
Um I don't.
All right.
Melinda, thanks.
It's great to have you on the phone on the program.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Uh Dave in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh, Russ, I um I'm very excited to talk to you.
I never have been listening for like 15 years.
Um, let me pull over here so I don't lose you.
Uh, Rush, I've got a uh comment that I don't know that they're probably not a solution to it, but it's a frustration of mine.
I am a conservative, a fiscal conservative, uh, this fiscal insanity, the debt.
Uh all of it is just driving taxation, the whole thing, the the huge government, it's all driving me crazy.
And I have a couple of kids in college, and what I'm hearing from them is is what I'm hearing from a lot of people where I live, is that uh we drive away a lot of people with the religious component of the conservative platform.
It scares them to death.
You know, when they think of conservatives, they think of just that.
Well, let me ask you a quote.
What do you think we should do about those Christians?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I just I don't know.
Um I don't have an answer.
Uh but um but I know that's a fact.
I know that's the same thing.
Are your kids are you did you do your kids tell you this is what they're hearing, or you hear it, or you think it yourself.
Well, I hear this from my daughters.
I've got one daughter who is a storm conservative, and where does she go to school?
Pardon me?
What school does she go to?
She goes to uh Washington and Lee in Virginia.
Washington and Lee in Virginia, okay.
Which is a very conservative bastion.
Uh my other daughter goes to I I live in Charlottesville, which uh Neil Bortz refers to as the People's Republic of Charlottesville, which is the right.
Yeah, I was gonna say.
And so we're in the minority here.
My other daughter goes to BCU in Richmond and is very liberal.
And and I can't talk to her because of this issue.
That it she knows that that is insane, she knows that big government doesn't want to.
Yes, Jack, well, you know, this is really about abortion, right?
Yeah, I think it comes down to that.
I do, but is your wife henpeck you about it?
What's that?
Does your wife henpeck you about it?
Not at all.
No.
I mean, no, we're not gonna be able to do that.
Because I, you know, I I've I've heard this live.
I was at a party in the Hamptons back in the early 90s.
I mean, this is really, really powerful.
I can't I don't want to mention the names that you would know every Republican that was at this dinner party.
After party, after dinner, we went on the deck, this man's house.
I must have had four people come up.
One of them poke me in the chest and said, What are we gonna do about the Christians?
And I said, What do we what do you mean?
What are we gonna do about the Christians?
Well, they're destroying our party.
I mean the ans the answer is to believe people be free to believe what they want.
I'm not religious, Rush, neither is my wife.
We we're not really.
Well, no, then that's not what you're advocating, because you you you think they're they're losing votes.
I told these guys, I said, you know, 24 million votes that are voting for your party, and this guy said to me, Yeah, but you know, my wife, this abortion issue, uh just ticks me off.
My wife always nagging me about those Christians in the party.
Why is it she don't want to go to a convention with me because they're there.
What are you gonna do about it, they said?
I said, What are you looking at me for?
And I said, Well, they're your audience.
I said, Well, so are you?
I don't you and I, you know, uh I got in a little bit of a discussion about abortion with them.
And I said, can you look at can you maybe get past the personal discomfort you feel inside your bedroom or at a convention and understand what we're talking about here.
We have a country with a founding documents that acknowledges we're all endowed by our creator, God, with certain inalienable rights.
That means they can't be taken away.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
If a country founded and blessed by God makes killing children in the womb something that is commonplace, then we've lost a foundational building block of the country.
And it's I understand what what irritates you about about people like that is you think they're single issue, and if that issue isn't right, then they'll they'll vote for the ruination of the country in other ways just to stand on their belief on it.
But I'm telling you, they aren't the problem.
The problem B-A-R-A-C-K, O B A M A. Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Tom, Hark, anybody with a capital D by their name is the problem, not the Christians.
Fastest week in media.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
And I didn't get to them today, but we've got it's either three or four superb sound bites from a speech by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to New Jersey mayors.
It is wonderful.
So we'll um if I can remember, we'll do that.
We'll get them in the program tomorrow.
Plus, Open Line Friday, always a thrill and an exciting day for all of us except Snerdley.
See you then.
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