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March 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, we're going to go back to it.
This is too good to only use it one time.
We've got to go back to it, especially now that the Democrat longknives are out even in greater force for resigning Congressman Eric Massa.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh back at 800-282-2882.
Now, here's the thing that they're saying.
All these Democrat specialists, pollsters, and so forth, are going, this guy, come on, who's going to believe this guy?
This guy's credibility.
Shut.
This guy have any credibility?
Say Ron Emanuel came up to him, nude, in the shower, in the gym, in the house gym, poking him in and demanding he do the right thing on health care.
This guy doesn't have any credibility.
This guy doesn't have any credibility.
This guy's got as much credibility as anybody else in this party has.
Here's the thing.
It doesn't matter whether he has any credibility.
He's a Democrat, even though he changed parties to win an election.
He's a Democrat.
And it's all, I mean, these people are imploding.
This is a giant cleansing of this party going on.
It has truly become a gulag.
Not a big tent, but an expanding gulag.
But just the fact that this guy's out there saying this stuff and has the White House hasn't really, I mean, I read where the White House was responding to these allegations, but I haven't seen it all over the place.
You know, the White House didn't respond to Paul Ryan.
I haven't seen this massive refutation.
They're just sending people out and say, hey, this guy's got little credibility.
Let me tell you something, folks.
This kind of stuff does not happen in a Republican Party.
There were many times, many times, ladies and gentlemen, during the immigration debate during the Bush administration that emissaries from the White House were sent down here to try to explain to me why I was wrong, but none of them ever showed up naked in the shower and poking me in the chest while they tried to get my mind right.
It was all very civil.
Republicans just don't do this kind of stuff.
So we've got these five soundbites of Eric Massa, who was on a radio show in New York yesterday, just ripping the Democrat Party front to back sideways, and I'm going to play them all back to back here.
Ron Emmanuel is son of the devil spawn.
He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote.
He would strap his children to a front end of a steam locomotive.
And if he doesn't like that, he can come after me personally.
Let me tell you a story about Ron Emmanuel.
I was in the congressional gym and I went into the showers, which, by the way, I, for the life of me, can't figure out why they took all the shower curtains off the shower stalls in the congressional shower.
Last thing I want to look is my fellow colleagues naked, but they don't have any shower curtains down in the gym.
And I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird.
And here comes Ram Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget.
Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
What the heck is he doing in the congressional gym?
He goes there to intimidate members of Congress.
We had words, and he hates my guts.
He's hated me since day one, and now he wins.
So he'll get rid of me, and this bill will pass.
And I don't know what we're going to do in this country.
When I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang, and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rob Emanuel.
And he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
And I gave it right back to him in terms and words that I know are physically impossible.
I told him to do things that I know the human anatomy cannot do.
There's no doubt in my mind.
And then it got quiet.
And I said, Ron, let's have a conversation.
You pretend that you're the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America and I'm a sitting member of Congress.
And he said, there's no reason for you to swear at me.
I said, you're the one that unlit on me first.
And I'm going to give as good as I get.
So if Ron Emmanuel wants to come after me, maybe he ought to hold himself to the same standards I'm holding myself to and resign.
I've had union leaders tell me point blank, we are not going to contribute to your campaign unless you vote for this health care bill.
Is that or is that not a bribe?
It makes me weep when I realize our nation is being destroyed from within.
But I will not go quietly into the evening.
If you think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is a deciding vote in the health care bill, then ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not to understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. You cannot effectively govern this country without the consent of the governed.
The entire nation has said, let's rewrite the health care bill.
Let's find what we can agree upon.
No, no, no, no.
We're going to ram this down the throats of the American people, and anyone who stands in the way of doing that is going to be smeared, and they're going to be kicked out of Congress.
And we're going to have people like Stenny Hoyer lying in the press.
They are going to ram this bill down the throats of this country, and it is going to rip this nation politically to pieces, and it'll be a generation before we recover.
Ron Emmanuel is son of the devil spawn.
He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote.
He would strap his children to a front end of a steam locomotive.
And if he doesn't like that, he can come after me personally.
Let me tell you a story about Ron Emmanuel.
I was in the congressional gym and I went into the showers, which, by the way, I, for the life of me, can't figure out why they took all the shower curtains off the shower stalls in the congressional shower.
Last thing I want to look is my fellow colleagues naked, but they don't have any shower curtains down in the gym.
And I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Ram Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget.
Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership.
And the Republicans will make a case, and a lot of independents will buy this argument.
Listen, he just hasn't been leading.
Look at the health care bill.
It was his number one priority.
It took him forever to get it through, and he had to compromise it to death.
And a version of, listen, he's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against him.
But he couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him a statement.
That's just yesterday.
That's just yesterday.
Here, grab somebody's 12 and 13.
This was also great.
This is on this week yesterday during the roundtable.
Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Rice, shh, sh.
And George Will were talking about health care reform.
Rice, shh, shu, went first.
Health insurance is going up in terms of rates 20, 30, 40, 50 percent in many states.
In fact, Oldman Sachs just this past week has said to many of its investors, invest in some insurance companies because they don't have competition and they are exhibiting huge profits.
That is money directly out of the pockets of Americans.
Let them compete across state lines, fine, but not a race to the bottom.
Set minimal federal standards because we've seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don't know what they are buying very often until there are common standards, minimal standards.
Then people are going to be changing.
And that is what's happened over and over again.
And George Will was just sitting there taking it all in and hit a grand slam.
There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today's liberalism.
The American people are such dopes, they can't be counted upon to buy this.
Robert B. Rush, so as it was a great day on the Sunday shows yesterday, we're happy to make it all available to you because we know how few people watch these things anymore.
Ken Blackwell has a piece in The American Thinker Today.
Guess who's coming to your house?
And it's about a provision in the Senate health care bill.
Home visits.
Home visits that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill, supposed to be voluntary.
If you have a strong stomach, you'll find home visitation on pages 568 to 595.
That's section 295.1 Of the bill, the Senate Bill Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve, all voluntary, they say.
But once you volunteer to have the also helpful folks from social services come in to help you with your newborns or with a number of other specified issues, you will never be able to get rid of them.
The bill provides for federal funding and the supervision for a vast expansion of government intrusion into family life.
And it's described in pages of the bill.
But what's really interesting to me about this story is Gloria Borger, White House senior advisor, told CNN's Gloria Borger what Obama's people are telling wavering Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Gloria Borger said, right, this is not going to be subtle at all today.
I think this is it.
I was speaking with one senior White House advisor just before I came on the air here, this is yesterday, and he said, think of it this way: this is the last helicopter out of Saigon, okay?
Could anything be more bizarre?
A senior member of the Obama administration comparing the president's signature measure in Congress, healthcare, to the forced evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam in 1975.
It's the last helicopter out of Saigon.
We'll be right back, folks.
Sit tight.
Federal and state authorities said, I think it was last week, 22 individuals have been charged in an identity theft ring involving the sale of New York driver's licenses to convicted felons using stolen identities that generated more than a million dollars at a news conference preet Bahara.
The U.S. Attorney of Manhattan and the New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that six people, including New York State Department of Motor Vehicles employees in the New York City area, who were allegedly members of the ring, were arrested Tuesday.
A seventh individual remains at large.
Identity theft is at an all-time high.
I've told you the story.
I got a letter from 20th Century Fox Animation family guy who does some work there, or have done.
And that episode, by the way, is the premiere episode of the fall season.
And all the information I had to give them, social security numbers, the contract deals, were on the computers that were stolen.
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And you could be looking at people who know you at a bank.
And I'm sorry I can't help you.
Back to the phones where we go.
This is Fred Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Great to get an opportunity to speak to your Russian mega Sunshine State Marco Rubio Dittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
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So thank you for being so selective with your clientele.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate your sophistication and understanding their role.
What I called about was it seemed kind of odd to me, and I wondered what your thoughts were, that they threatened MASA with an ethics investigation, yet Charlie Wrangell is still gainfully employed?
Seriously?
That's not hard to understand.
See, what you have forgotten, Dick Durbin told us this, Charlie Rangel served in a segregated black unit in Korea.
So he's, you know, this country really mistreated Charlie Rangel, just like it did Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Now, we have to understand these people are going to try to get a little piece of the pie once they're on the inside.
It's owed to them.
Besides, Charlie was the right vote on health care, and MASA's not.
You know, the real thing about MASA, by the way, that's kind of gotten overlooked with his radio appearance yesterday, is what he's saying is, is that the Democrat leadership is responsible for putting out the news that he had this complaint against him, the sexual harassment against a male worker in his office.
And he's saying that they did this on purpose to force him to resign because he is a no vote on healthcare.
And that's why he's launching on Ram Emanuel.
He said, they're out there saying, well, this guy doesn't have credibility.
If Wrangell were voting no on health care, believe me, they would have done something a lot sooner than they did.
There's no honor among thieves.
But if you're going to be a thief, you better be on the side of the other thieves.
Or they're going to kick you out.
Glenn Reynolds had a great piece yesterday, by the way, in TheExaminer.com, and it's a piece about how the consent of the governed is vanishing in this country.
The government, particularly the Democrat Party, is governing against the will of the people.
Any quotes from the Declaration of Independence?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator, certain unalienable rights.
Among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
So deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Boyler played American history.
Something that a lot of Americans have taken for granted.
Every point that somebody makes really needs a great analogy.
And Glenn Reynolds, who's a law professor at the University of Tennessee and a blogger as well, has come up with a unique analogy here.
When I think of the federal government's brand now, I think of Schlitz beer.
Schlitz was once a top national brew, but in search of short-term gains, it began gradually reducing its quality in tiny increments to save money, substituting cheaper malt, fewer hops, and accelerated brewing for its traditional approach.
Each incremental decline was imperceptible to consumers, but after a few years, people suddenly noticed that the beer wasn't any good anymore.
Sales collapsed.
A taste-my Schlitz campaign designed to lure beer drinkers back failed when the improved beer turned out not to be any better.
A brand image that had been accumulated over decades was lost in a few years, and it has never recovered.
The federal government finds itself in much the same position.
The political class sold its legitimacy off in drips and drabs.
He goes on to complete the analogy and says, when a great beard dies, it's sad, but when a great nation dies, it's tragic.
And I think, you know, people say, Rush, have we reached a tipping point?
Like the email that I received earlier today.
How will we know when the wheels come off the Obama bus that's run over countless Democrats?
The wheels have come off the bus, but the bus is still rolling.
The bus is part of the expanding gulag.
I will tell you when this is all official.
But people, I mentioned it last week, are starting to realize something's not right here.
This is not how it happens here.
This whole healthcare process with 4,000 speeches, all these polls opposing it, Democrats retiring and resigning and losing big-time elections, and still the president pushes it.
So people who are casual participants, casual observers of politics, instinctively know something's not right here.
There's been a, like with Schlitz, there's been a steady deterioration of the product or of the brand, but it takes a certain amount of that over a long period of time before the cumulative effect is noticed.
And that's where we are with, particularly with the Democrat Party and their leadership right now.
And here's a couple of more stories.
Now, I went through earlier in the program.
I just did the headlines.
We're going to link to these stories at rushlimbaugh.com.
UK Telegraph, the end of the road for Barack Obama.
Obama seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York.
And it's a great piece on how is a failure, is a miserable out-of-touch failure.
Frank Rich.
New York Times yesterday, Obama is toast.
We face the alarming prospect that his presidency could be toast if he doesn't make good on one year's worth of false starts.
And it won't even be the opposition's fault.
If too many Democrats in the House defect, healthcare will be dead.
The Republicans will be able to argue this fall, not without reason, that the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress can't govern.
And then there is from George Packer at the New Yorker, Obama's lost year.
An immediate campaign by opposition politicians and media to declare the program a failure, talking about the stimulus bill.
A weak, uncoordinated administration effort to explain and champion the stimulus package, gradual public disillusionment.
It's not working.
Nothing Obama's doing is working.
And it's all starting to be evident to people.
And more of these kinds of stories are showing up.
We have almost now a daily story of how Obama and Rahm Emmanuel are in a deathmatch inside the White House and how Emmanuel is winning it.
The stories now are that without Emmanuel, it'd be even worse for Obama.
Now, if we get a story a day or three of these a week, I guarantee you there's even more going on inside there that's not good.
And then we have this.
From Reuters, black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
The National Sleep Foundation, a telephone poll of more than 1,000 people from the four ethnic groups also showed that more black Americans are likely to do job-related work before bed.
I have no idea what that means.
I don't want to even speculate what that means.
Black Americans are also more likely to pray and have sex before going to bed and need the least amount of sleep to function.
Asians reported getting the best sleep, while whites are more likely to sleep with their pet or their partner.
But blacks and Hispanics are losing more sleep over worries about the economy.
And that's that, I mean, that's right at the feet of Obama.
The watermelon patch Dan Ratter was talking about.
Aha.
Aha!
I have found out.
I have found out why there were such roars from the crowd today in Pennsylvania at Obama's healthcare rally.
I have found, and I instinctively knew that the place was packed.
But Obama is going to be in St. Louis tomorrow for healthcare speech number 3780.
And the public is not allowed in.
Obama will not let the public in to hear his healthcare speech in St. Louis.
He's locked.
Well, he's going to have his, it's going to have Claire McCaskill in there, Jay Nixon, Russ, and Robin Carnahan, who are the son and daughter of the widow Carnahan.
And they're going to have union people.
I'm going to have Obama supporters in there, but they're just not going to open up to the public, is the point.
And the reason they're not going to do that is because he'd be booed the moment he walked on the stage.
Snerdley, no, you're the third person on the staff who has wanted me to speculate why it is that Ram Emmanuel, butt naked, with Eric Massa butt naked, was poking his finger in Massa's chest.
You have to understand this is a family program, and you might think it's a school day, but we know the dropout rate is very high in this country.
They're young children.
And I'm not interested in going there.
This is why I never allowed these.
You people always get mad at me.
You ask me, why can't we ever hear Snerdley?
You can't, just because Rom's short doesn't mean anything.
Trust me on that.
Now, you people, why won't you let the staff be heard when they answer you?
This is why.
You're just going to have to trust me on this, folks.
The only person that's ever going to have a microphone on this program is me or a sanctioned guest or a guest host.
Now, continuing with these negative stories, we just had the story that blacks and Asians are losing sleep over Obama's economic policies.
Minorities hardest hit.
Then they left women, they didn't segregate it by male and female.
Usually it's minorities and women hardest hit.
This is from a state-controlled Associated Press, Hispanic and Black Business Leaders.
Now, we just had, is it the same two groups?
Reuters, blacks, Hispanics, right?
That's Reuters.
No, but this is a different malady.
Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small share of federal porculus money, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive and more closely track who receives government-financed work.
Latinos and blacks have faced obstacles.
Now, this doesn't surprise us, because the Democrat Party screws everybody that supports it at one point or not, or destroys them, one of the two.
How many of you, when you travel, stay in these hotels?
I'm not going to mention you brand names, you know, like the suite.
Every room's in there a suite.
It's no bigger than their room.
They just carve a small living room and they call it a suite.
Maybe put a microwave in there.
How many of you stay at these places that offer free breakfasts as part of the deal?
A lot of people do.
of what state is this?
Uh, I don't know what state it is.
Looks like it's...
Looks like it's Tennessee.
The state wants to tax the lodging businesses for the food they offer as free breakfasts as part of the room rate.
The budget-strapped state hopes to get an estimated $10 million for its coffers from the sweet rolls, coffee, and such that hotel patrons enjoy at no charge from the Smoky Mountains to Graceland.
The proposal pending committees in the General Assembly is to collect tax on the food at prevailing sales tax rates in the county involved, which could be up to 9.75%.
State officials stressed that the businesses would be taxed and not the hungry patrons.
How many, what kind of idiots are these?
They're just going to add to the price of the hotel room if the hotel has to pay tax on the free food.
Now, I don't know that this is constitutional.
You can give anybody $13,000 a year tax-free.
You can.
Anything above that is applied to your lifetime tax, a gift tax exemption of a million bucks.
The hotel's already paying for the food, already paying taxes along the line in order to get it.
And now they've got to pay an additional sales tax.
They're going to create it as part of a room charge in the state of Tennessee.
Now, I think you could go after them on this because, well, that's a federal gift law.
And I don't know what the state has to honor it in that case.
But certainly, they're not giving away even $13,000 a year total in free food if a guy stayed there every night and had breakfast there every morning.
So be on the lookout for that if you are in Tennessee.
All right, David in Clearwater, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
It's a pleasure speaking with you.
You bet, sir.
I just want to make a statement.
We do not have in this country at the present time health insurance.
What most people have are health plans.
They purchase a certain amount either themselves or through their employer, and it covers them to X, Y, or Z limits.
We haven't had real private insurance for the majority of people since the mid to late 1980s.
And this whole business is going on is just, if you would, redistributing a limited amount of dollars, and there's just no way it can be done the way it's being done.
One of the things that I think makes sense would be, you know, you have your car insurance and you have your homeowner's insurance, but you don't have health insurance.
You have health coverage.
And I think just a second.
A lot of people listening to you think that, what are you doing?
Where's this guy just nitpicking?
But he's exactly right.
It's impossible to insure your health.
What you are insuring is against catastrophic loss if you get sick.
That's what you're insuring.
Because nobody, no insurance company can guarantee you good health.
And so we don't, you're right, we don't have health insurance.
We have health coverage.
And most people do not have that.
The employer provides it as a benefit.
And they might have a co-payment or deductible, but they're not buying the policy.
That's correct.
And to go on further with the economy being what it is and jobs and whatnot, why not make health insurance a personal responsibility?
Keep the employer out of it.
A personal responsibility.
That's correct, sir.
I have a responsibility to myself and to my family.
How insensitive can you be?
Well, I didn't think I was being insensitive.
I thought it was being logical.
Let me, to illustrate my reaction.
I read a story.
I had a story last week.
I can't remember where it came from.
But it was about a guy who was going to get an organ transplant for free.
And he was going to get three years of post-op coverage at no expense to him.
But then after three years, he would start paying for it.
And he was outraged.
He was outraged.
And the story was replete with examples and illustrations like that.
The reason I reacted the way I did is because in healthcare, Democrats among way too many percent of, too big a percentage of people in this country have created the notion that it is a right that shouldn't cost anybody anything because health is more important than even having a lawyer, which is a constitutional right.
So if you're going to get a lawyer paid for by the state, even if it's a lousy one, why shouldn't you get your health coverage?
It's just too important.
And they've created this whole entitlement mentality, and they succeeded because there's no relationship between the customer's ability to pay and the medical service provided.
If there were that, then all this would not, these problems wouldn't exist.
But they do because there have been middlemen inserted into that relationship and the money gets paid regardless of the person's ability to pay.
I mean, the last time, I can't remember the last time so many members of this, my own audience got mad at me, as last January when I got back from Christmas break and told everybody a little medical scare I had out there that I didn't, I got that I paid for it myself.
Well, you're out of touch.
Oh, of course you can.
I couldn't.
What do you say?
We've gotten to a point here where people cite their own acceptance of responsibility for their own actions and they're considered out of touch.
And people get mad at you.
That's odd.
That's why I choked because I was frankly stunned.
We have very many people left who think like you do.
The ACLU has a New York Times ad today calling on President Obama not to back down on the 9-11 civilian trials.
The ad features a picture of Obama morphing into a picture of Bush.
Now, that's an insult.
That's an insult.
I mean, to call Obama Bush, Bush the most hated thing ever.
He's more hated than any movie monster.
He's more hated than me.
He's more hated than anything that's, he's more hated than a nuclear weapon.
George Bush is hated by the left more than anybody.
And now they're carting the, the ACLU is starting to compare Obama to him.
And Michael Moore, that bloated bigot, he wants Obama to hell with this.
Just do what Castro would do and enroll everybody.
Just be a dictator and do this.
If you don't do this, you're a spineless, gutless coward.
Nobody likes Obama out there.
Here's this.
Sam Youngman, theHill.com unrest within Democrat Party plays out in controversy over Ram Emmanuel's role.
Michael Moore, Democrats are going to get an ass whooping of biblical proportions.
These are just the headlines.
Meanwhile, Texas is thriving.
California is dying.
Liberalism kills conservatism builds.
The evidence is there all over the place.
Here's Eleanor in Sonora, California.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you with Rush Limbull.
Hi.
Rush.
Yes.
It's an absolute privilege to talk to you.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Anytime.
The comment I wanted to make was I really feel that it would be something wonderful if we could develop a national triage contract with the new president, with incoming presidents, so that they accept the presidency on the Bible and tell Americans that they understand what the country needs because we all know what the political situation is and the economic situation when they're coming in.
So it would behoove them not to give us what we least need, not to give us the beginning of their presidential legacy, but from day one, like what happens, I guess, in triage in a hospital is there's a determination made when someone comes in that there's a whole shopping list of symptoms.
And, you know, you go through the least important and you start on the most important because that's the one that's going to make life survive.
And this president, I just don't understand how he keeps telling everybody that he's focused on jobs like a laser, and it's just the only thing we're doing absolutely nothing about.
We're trying to understand irrationality as rational people.
And it's not possible.
This guy, look, presidents are elected as stewards of the Constitution.
They're not elected to remake the country.
He's guilty of constitutional fraud.
He misled everybody.
This is very, very serious stuff.
This guy is doing things that nobody expected him to do.
Well, a lot of us expected him to do.
You wouldn't listen to us.
Well, you did, but I mean, a lot of other people wouldn't.
This is not...
I understand.
Do you understand the Constitution?
Do you agree with it?
He would have just lied.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't care at all.
You say he's not listening.
He doesn't care.
The public is shut out of his health care reform rallies now.
The public.
If shut out.
He doesn't care.
I'm glad you called out there, Eleanor.
Thanks very much.
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This is Lynn.
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Hello.
Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
I'm going to get right to the point because I know you're running short on time.
Thank you.
Just very briefly, two points.
Generally, what people are going to feel, how people will feel the effects of this new health care stuff that's coming.
Yep.
For people in general, one, the first thing that's going to go away is food service.
So if people like to have dieticians come around to their room and say, okay, you can have this, you can have that.
Basically, it's going to be the cheap Jell-O that's not even refrigerated.
Well, I'm afraid it's going to be even worse than that.
If you don't have family or friends to bring you food every day that you're in the hospital, you don't eat.
Is that the case in Norway?
Yes, sir, it is.
You know, I misread the clock.
Once again, I'm using an analog here, and I thought I had a minute more than I have.
We're going to get your number, call you back, and let you finish tomorrow.
But I've got to take a break here.
So Obama's locking the public out of his health care rally in St. Louis tomorrow.
Just a few weeks ago, we remember these things here.
Obama promised he was going to listen to the public more, but that was right after being blasted in the Scott Brown election.
Now, and he was never going to listen more anyway.
That was all a bunch of BS.
Now he's locking out the public so that nobody does anything but applaud.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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