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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	I'm sitting here, ladies and gentlemen, behind the golden EIB microphone and fastest three hours of meeting.
	I'm wondering right now, based on everything I've read in the news today, I'm wondering how much of the stimulus package, the porculus package, is being parceled out this week by Nancy Pelosi to buy votes in the House of Representatives for the Senate health care bill.
	I mean, it's a good thing that money wasn't wasted on jobs and infrastructure and shovel-ready jobs so that Pelosi would have that money remaining to buy off recalcitrant House members as they still don't have the votes.
	And as Bart Stupak, I warned you about Stupak yesterday.
	There's a story on Stupak.
	Oh, I think we're very close to a compromise on it.
	Somebody needs to explain something to me.
	We've got a Senate bill.
	Stupak's out there saying, no, we really don't have a piece of legislation we're working on yet, meaning they don't.
	The bill hasn't been passed in the House.
	What I want to know is, how in the world can they start adding things to a bill that's already passed in the Senate and doesn't exist in the House and cannot start in the House?
	For example, you small business people, get this.
	A Democrat aide says a new provision in the health care bill will require businesses to count to part-time workers when calculating penalties for failing to provide health coverage.
	That's never done.
	In fact, a lot of businesses in this tough economic climate are hiring part-timers for that express reason.
	The bill originally passed by the Senate only penalized businesses for full-time workers who weren't covered.
	The Senate bill is being used as the basis for a final package Obama wants Congress to pass in the next few weeks.
	The inclusion of a part-time worker provision is part of a package of final changes that is nearing completion, according to the Democrat aide, who spoke, of course, on condition of anonymity because it's not been made public.
	Yet it has been made public just now.
	Democrats feared that businesses would avoid penalties by hiring more part-time workers, but business groups opposed.
	Somebody that understands all this better than I do, and that's very few people, are going to have to explain to me how the Democrats are writing new language into bills already voted on.
	The Senate bill cannot be amended.
	The Senate bill has not, I mean, it is what it is, and this is not in the Senate bill.
	Yet it says here, a Democrat aid will add, says a new provision in the health care bill will require businesses to count.
	Where is that being added?
	Is this being added in whatever?
	Where's it being?
	Somebody needs to tell me.
	And of course, this is state-controlled AP, so they're probably not even curious about this.
	Some nameless, faceless Democrat aide comes, oh, guess what?
	We're going to really stick it to these businesses now.
	We're going to penalize them if they don't offer insurance to part-timers.
	Oh, good.
	AP dutifully writes it down and puts it out on the wire.
	And nobody says, how the hell can this happen?
	Somebody needs to explain this to me.
	Anyway, greetings, folks.
	Great to have you here.
	Rush Limbaugh off and running.
	800-282-2882.
	Email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
	The state-controlled media snerdly today, oh, they're breathless over two things.
	One is they think that I am a big supporter of Eric Massa.
	And they're trying to link me to Eric Massa.
	I'm not kidding.
	If Politico did it yesterday, here, grab audio soundbite number one.
	Here's a media montage of how they're trying to do this.
	Massa has left Washington, but he burned every bridge he could find and has now become a right-wing hero.
	He's suddenly the new conservative hero.
	Rush Limbaugh was talking him up yesterday.
	All these conservatives who have now put him in a bear hug as their champion.
	Now he's a champion of the right, and now Rush Limbaugh.
	All over Rush Limbaugh yesterday afternoon.
	Even Rush Limbaugh is offering to help MASA air his grievances with the Democratic Party.
	Helping MASA air his grievances.
	No.
	MASA said he would consider rescinding his infant.
	We want loose cannon kooks like this in the Democrat Party.
	We don't want him out of there.
	This guy, folks, we're talking eel, snake-like kind of slime here.
	We want this guy in the Democratic Party.
	He's no champion.
	I'm no champion of his.
	This guy, this guy, you know why he opposed the House health care bill?
	Because it's not far left enough.
	Because it's not single payer, because it doesn't spend, he's not one of us.
	But if this guy's going to run around and tell stories about Roman Emmanuel running in nude into a shower curtainless stall in the house gym, hell, we'll be happy to spread that story.
	He said he wants national coverage.
	Fine.
	We're national.
	We're helping out.
	They're trying to say that I've adopted this guy and he's one of our great cause.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	We were hoping to keep him in the house because he's a no-vote and he's a kook.
	He's a freak.
	You know, I had forgotten this, and I'm not even sure I knew it at the time.
	But MASA, tell me if this rings a bell with any of you in there.
	During the phony soldier bit, MASA was a leading House member accusing me alongside Harry Reid of besmirching the troops.
	And he, did you know it?
	Did you know it to forget it?
	I mean, Michelle Maulkin sent me a note today said, you remember this guy?
	And I don't remember, and I don't know if I ever knew because these are all YouTube videos.
	He's out there challenging me to a fight.
	He wants to come on this show, calling me a coward on this phony soldier business.
	And these guys in the media, we got that tape if we want to play, but these guys in the media try and say, I'm one of these guys' champions.
	Anybody who embraces this guy, including a Democrat's, you know, please do, but it isn't me.
	This guy is no us.
	No, not Dan Rather's champion.
	Oh, speaking of Dan Redder, behind the scenes at the Chris Matthews show, this after the show, you have that ready, Mike?
	After the Chris Matthews show on Sunday, did you hear about this?
	They were talking about Obama's health care and how Obama's just really screwing it up.
	And Dan Rather said that if he keeps going like this, the Republicans are going to say essentially that he couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road if a state trooper was stopping traffic for him.
	And Matthews, wait a minute, Dan, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	So after the show, this conversation took place.
	I went to look for Dan Ratherback on the Chris Matthews show on Sunday.
	Now, the second thing, the second, I didn't even know I did any media tweaks yesterday.
	Two of them.
	The second thing is a Huffington Post.
	You remember we had a call here from a guy.
	We're talking about health care and all the what's going to happen after Obama puts private insurance out of business.
	How the fines that businesses and individuals pay are much cheaper than having to go out and buy health insurance itself and that people will naturally pay the fine.
	If they don't have to go to jail, they'll pay the fine rather than incur costs, especially if the Senate bill says, which it does, that the day you have the auto accident, you get covered.
	You don't have to have any coverage before that.
	But the day you're in the crash, you go to the hospital, the insurance company has to pay for your treatment.
	Well, that's not insurance.
	That's private sector welfare, and there's nobody could afford it and it'll go out of business, which is the purpose.
	So this guy calls up and says, if all this happens, what are you going to do?
	And I said, well, if doctors are not permitted to serve, to opt out of the government insurance pool and so forth, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever it is, and if they're not allowed to establish a private practice with private sector patients paying their own way, then I'll go to Costa Rica.
	Well, that has been turned, and I want to leave the country for Costa Rica and move there if Obamacare passes.
	I've had all kinds of reporters.
	Is this, you real, are you serious?
	Do you really mean this?
	You would move to.
	So I've had a patiently explain today to people who do not bother to stay informed on this stuff what the genesis and the primary context of my comment was.
	I said, look, there are insurance companies who don't want to be put out of business.
	We've talked to them on the program.
	I've talked to them privately.
	They are establishing health care clinics with quality doctors in places like Costa Rica.
	They're going to continue to sell policies to people who have the ability to fly down there and get treatment.
	And if I have to get thrown into this massive government health care insurance business and end up going to the driver's license office every day when I need to go to the doctor, yeah, I'll go to Costa Rica for treatment, not move there.
	So they're just in a tizzy out there between Costa Rica and Eric Massa.
	So it's going to be a fun day.
	Heck, it already is a fun day.
	A quick timeout, my friends, will be back.
	We'll continue much more straight ahead here on the Rush Lindbaugh program at the EIB network.
	No, I'm serious.
	I want to know with this Democrat aid saying a new provision in the health care bill will require businesses to count part-time workers when calculating penalties for failing to provide coverage.
	Aside from small business being screwed again, which is obvious here, what are they adding this to?
	There's only one piece of legislation.
	It's the Senate bill passed on Christmas Eve.
	What are they adding this to?
	There will not be any reconciliation.
	Anybody still talking about that is being fooled by it.
	They don't have the time.
	For one thing, the CBO does not have time to score everything that's going to happen during the reconciliation process.
	And I guarantee you that if Pelosi gets the votes, and she doesn't have them now, she's probably under 200 votes right now, but I'm sure she's parceling out stimulus money.
	But if they pass the Senate bill, that's all, folks.
	I mean, they're going to take it.
	They're going to take it up to Obama.
	He's going to sign it, and that's it.
	I don't know where they're adding these provisions.
	Now, we're going to get on the phone here and find out to what all this is being added and by who and who's voting on it.
	I mean, this story just says a Democratic aide says a new provision in a health care bill, and there isn't one in the House.
	Well, there is, but it's worthless because the Senate's never going to pass this thing.
	Require businesses to count part-time workers when calculating penalties.
	The bill originally passed by the Senate only penalizes, so they're adding it to something else here, and they're not voting on it.
	So it hasn't happened.
	They're just adding it in, but there hadn't been a vote on it yet.
	It's not a fait accompli.
	Now, back to Eric Massa.
	Yesterday, I had never heard of this guy in my mind.
	If I had heard of him before, I had forgotten him.
	All I knew was that this guy was telling great stories about Rahm Emanuel and these guys being butt-naked in the shower in a house gym.
	And he's talking about how the country is going to hell in a handbasket and how this is the Democrat Party is forcing things down people's throats and we consent of the governed and all this kind of stuff.
	So here we have a legitimate kook.
	And he says, I won't quit.
	He's no vote.
	We don't want this health care.
	We don't care who it is that's voting against it, kooky or not.
	And if he says, I might rescind my resignation if the story goes national, I simply offer to help take it national.
	But supporting what he said, who knows?
	I mean, actually, from the moment this thing started yesterday, I suspected a Ropodope, and I still think Eropodope's going on.
	And I still think that anybody out there who embraces this guy is in for big trouble.
	Anybody who embraces this guy is going to get caught.
	Now, the reason, and I never heard of this guy, is that this is his first term in Congress.
	He was a candidate in 2007.
	He was running for office, and he was glomming onto Harry Reid during that ill-fated phony soldier business.
	Now, if you weren't here then, we had a bunch of lying, fraudulent people who claimed that they had been in Iraq, who hadn't been, and were coming back, ripping the war effort and so forth.
	It's pointed out that they were phony soldiers because they hadn't been serving and so forth.
	And I called them phony soldiers.
	Harry Reid goes to the floor of the House trying to take advantage of the fact that nobody on radio more supportive of the U.S. military than me, and everybody knew it.
	They thought they could make some hay when the media by casting me as somebody criticizing these guys because they were criticizing Bush.
	So Dingy Harry writes a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel, my syndication partner.
	And in a very brave move, the CEO of a Clear Channel allowed me to have the letter rather than buck in fear to Harry Lee.
	Harry Reid's letter demanded I apologize and maybe be censored a while and so forth.
	And I asked, can I have the letter?
	I want to post it on YouTube and auction it off.
	And at the end of the day, we got $4.2 million for that letter for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
	We totally rammed it down Reed's throat to the point that on the day we closed bidding and got the high total bid of 2.2, which I matched, Reed's on the Senate floor trying to take credit for being part of this whole process.
	Now, I didn't know while all this is going on that there's this guy running for office named Eric Massa from New York who's using YouTube to glom onto this for himself.
	And Michelle Mawkins sends me a note today reminding me of all this.
	If I've heard of this guy, I've forgotten it.
	My memory is pretty good.
	Yesterday was the first day I think I'd ever heard of this guy, but I will have to check our archives.
	I may have commented on this guy back during this whole thing.
	Eric Massa, according to Michelle, owes much of his career and political success to Wesley Clark, Ashley Wilkes.
	Massa served under Clark and worked on Clark's doomed presidential campaign.
	Clark provided cash-strapped MASA critical political action committee support, help from the fringe kooks and the websites of the left, and funding for his congressional bid.
	In addition to that, oh, look at this headline.
	This is from the Politico, MASA neoconservative media hero.
	Not a media hero, and he's not a conservative.
	And nobody ever said that he was.
	I didn't.
	Anyway, that's how they try to tie it to me.
	But this guy, back in November of last year, outlined the reasons why he voted against health care, and he was going to vote against it because it's not liberal enough.
	He wants to lift restrictions on writing policies across state lines, but he wants far more robust public options.
	He wants the government, single payer.
	He's against the Stupak Amendment.
	He doesn't regulate private insurance companies near enough in this bill.
	He wants them put out of business.
	He's a single payer guy.
	MASA is not saving the union.
	MASA is not coming forth and providing something that we've needed a long time.
	And that is somebody in Washington to speak out.
	This guy is a loose cannon, and he's a risk being involved in.
	Now, let's go back.
	This is October 2 of 2007 YouTube channel, MASA for Congress.
	Recently, Rush Limbaugh called them phony soldiers because they disagree with the president's policies, even while they obey his orders.
	You know, last year, Russ Limbaugh called Major Paul Hackett, also a candidate of the United States Congress and a decorated Marine, a staff puke.
	Now, you've got to remember, Rush Limbaugh never once wore a uniform, not in his entire life.
	In fact, he sought out and obtained deferments so he wouldn't have to serve in Vietnam.
	I didn't seek out, get deferred.
	You can't seek out and get deferments.
	I didn't seek out anything.
	Here's the next bite: October 2nd, 2007, the YouTube channel Massa for Congress.
	Rush, you're a schoolyard bully, and I'm sick and tired of it.
	And those of us in uniform are sick and tired of it.
	And we're calling you out and we're standing up and saying, you want to attack people like Senator Reed.
	You want to attack people like Paul Hackett.
	You want to go after those soldiers who are serving, who are letting their views be known, both under the rules of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and in a respectful manner, calling into question the failed policies of George Bush.
	You should be ashamed of yourself.
	You're a pompous coward, and it's about time that someone call you out on it.
	And that someone is me.
	My name is Eric Massa.
	I'll go on your show any day.
	And I'll say it to your face and I'll say it anywhere.
	Meet me in the shower at the house gym tonight, six o'clock.
	Oh, wait, you quit.
	So this guy's a kook.
	He's a literal kook.
	He jumped on this phony soldier business simply because he bought all the left-wing websites and Harry Reid trying to, and he was obviously trying to score points in his congressional campaign as a result of doing this.
	And by the way, Elliot Spitzer endorsed him.
	We've got audio of that coming right up, plus your phone calls eventually.
	Lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, Jesse Macbeth, who was the phony soldier that I called a phony soldier.
	Jesse Macbeth, back in September 2007, man who posed as military hero sentenced to five months in prison.
	This is from the Seattle Times.
	He was a phony soldier.
	I was dead right about everything I said.
	And now the media in trying to lump me with Eric Massa.
	I mean, what are they actually trying to do here?
	They're actually trying to chide me for believing something a Democrat says.
	Are we not supposed to believe Democrats?
	So I'm not associated.
	What is their headline here?
	Limbaugh pages are sticking.
	Massa new conservative media hero.
	Here's the bottom line.
	I've done more for Eric Massa.
	I've done more to illustrate that this guy is a lunatic fringe kook in the last 10 minutes than he's been able to do himself his entire life.
	Prior to my playing these audio soundbites of his YouTube campaign, 13,000 people had viewed, or there had been 13,000 views, of his YouTube campaign, the particular soundbite where we're taking these audio soundbites.
	Now, I'm told that since that time, just in the last, is this accurate?
	The last 30 minutes, last 20 minutes, it's now 13,000 people times 278.
	278 times 13,000 is how many people have now seen the video.
	In other words, we did more in 30 seconds for Eric Massa to illustrate what a kook and an idiot and a fringe player he is than anything he did in his entire political career.
	He is now a national kook.
	He wanted to go national and he is a national kook.
	And it's thanks to me.
	And the media is chiding me for not believing a Democrat.
	It's amazing.
	And never forget, Jesse Macbeth was a phony soldier, made it all up, got five months in prison.
	Here's the rest of that Massa for Congress YouTube channel thing, October 2, 2007.
	You did your best to dodge military service whunders of thousands of Americans wore the uniform to give you the privilege of misusing the radio waves and spread propagandistic lies that are wholly inaccurate about our military service members.
	I'm tired of your tactics.
	I'm tired of you shoving people around.
	And I'm tired of you being a schoolyard bully.
	You might have a lot of weight to throw around, but it doesn't carry a lot of weight with me.
	Rush Limbaugh, I'll go on your show any day.
	My name is Eric Massa, and you know where to find me.
	I never heard of him until yesterday.
	I'm convinced I never heard of him.
	Somebody do.
	I've got to confirm this.
	George, go do an archive search, a total archive search from 2007 and see if Eric Massa was ever discussed by me on this program, specifically in regards to the phony soldier business.
	That's the webmaster, and he's looking at it now.
	I've honest, what's that?
	What'd they do?
	Oh, they just, even despite the PMS NBC, is associating me with NASA.
	You know, it's like trying to sink a battleship with BBs.
	And they, for 20 plus years, they have been so eager to get this done.
	And they just continue to make abject fools of themselves.
	Here's a modern-day Democrat Party right here.
	Here it is.
	Massa and client number nine, Elliot Spitzer.
	This is March 11th, 2008, an ad for candidate Eric Massa featuring the then governor, Elliot Spitzer.
	I believe in Eric Massa because he believes in a better New York.
	Stardom on day one.
	Together, we're going to reduce taxes for families.
	Together, we'll make doing business upstate more affordable to create jobs.
	Together, we're going to secure our future by investing in our schools.
	And together, we're going to clean up waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
	He's Eric Massa.
	He's running for Congress.
	And I approve this message and ask for your vote on Election Day.
	Together.
	Together.
	These guys have a sordid sexual history that would embarrass even Sidney Biddle Barrows, the original Mayflower Madam.
	Hang on here, Mike.
	I got to find a soundbite.
	I'm looking for Jonathan Cape Part.
	Let me find out.
	I don't know what's coming up here.
	Where did I see it?
	It's number 16.
	Then I went way past it.
	Now, yeah, yeah, here it is.
	Number 16, Jonathan K. Part, who is at the Washington Post on the editorial board, he was on Mess NBC today with Scarborough and Mika Bzezinski.
	And K-Part wanted to talk about one other aspect of this story that nobody is really focusing in on.
	Now, I want to play this soundbite.
	You keep in mind, Elliot Spitzer, client number nine, running around with prostitutes and sluts.
	And we've got the allegation here that Massa himself was running around sexually harassing male staffers.
	Here's K-Part's take.
	Now, remember, we just heard the commercial.
	Elliot Spitzer and Eric Massett together we will X. You didn't talk about this story about Massa's story that he told in that radio interview on Sunday on the ship in the Persian Gulf during Operations.
	What's that?
	So he goes back to his room, which is really, really small.
	But this is what he's in the bed.
	He's in the Navy.
	They're on the ship in the Persian Gulf.
	And they have bunk beds, a fold-down table, and a sink.
	This is what he says.
	And he walked in where his roommate was, as he said, euphemistically, remembering his wife, his spouse.
	I decided to walk in, pat him on the leg, and said, if you need any help with that, let me know.
	And then I went to sleep.
	Pat and I are uncomfortable with allegations.
	Yeah, Mika says she didn't understand what that reference.
	Dawn, do you know what that means?
	You don't?
	Oh, yeah, I don't want you to talk about it.
	I'm taking a survey here to see if people understand that he was remembering it.
	No.
	Was he throwing up, remembering his wife?
	No, no, no.
	He was not vomiting when he was remembering his wife.
	No, no, no, no.
	And besides, Massa didn't offer to help him vomit.
	And Massa was offered to help something else.
	So here you are.
	Client number nine, Eric Massa.
	We were just trying to keep a French cook in the Democrat Party and keep him in the House of Representatives.
	And it's been taken way out of context.
	Look, this guy, we've got the Washington Times story from, let's see, I think it's November 9th of last year.
	Yeah, we'll link to it.
	Here's what he said, though.
	I'm not going to vote for 3,200 House bill.
	As it's currently written, step one, I'll vote for single-payer option or a bill that does have a Medicare-coupled public option, which we don't have right now.
	So if we got your meetings to 60-40, you'd vote.
	There was a single-payer in a bill, you'd vote for it.
	Oh, I absolutely would vote for single-payer.
	If there was 60-40 sentiment in the room, listen, I'll tell every audience I'm in favor of single-payer.
	So the reason this guy opposed a health care bill is not because he's a conservative and not because he's worried about Washington corruption and not because he's worried about the consent of the government.
	He opposed it because it wasn't liberal enough or socialist enough or Marxist enough or whatever you want to call it.
	Now we move on to other exciting items here, particularly with healthcare.
	And I warned you people yesterday about this.
	And here's the headline.
	It's from Foxnews.com.
	Stupak, more optimistic, abortion fight will end.
	I told you yesterday, these guys are Democrats, and they're out looking for something personal here.
	They're not taking some stand.
	Look at, if you want to know how malleable Stupak is on abortion, he's got this great image of pro-lifer.
	But last year, maybe the year before, I forget which, the House Republicans, knowing they would never get this passed, but they still circulated a proposal.
	It was either an amendment to some bill or a standalone that they wanted to defund, federally defund Planned Parenthood.
	Because the dirty little secret is that if you really want to cut abortions, if you want to reduce them, you defund Planned Parenthood.
	Planned Parenthood's responsible for most of the abortions that take place in the country.
	So you take the money away from them.
	So they sent this to Stupak.
	He wouldn't go along for it, wouldn't go along with it.
	Now, here's a guy who is the Democrat pro-life champion.
	Here's a proposal that would defund Planned Parenthood and significantly reduce the number of abortion.
	Nope, nope, nope.
	So the Democrat first, no such thing as moderate Democrats.
	They're just Democrats.
	Blue dogs, lap dogs, you name it, junkyard dogs.
	They are Democrats first.
	A key anti-abortion Democrat in the House said he's confident a deal will be struck that resolves a critical dispute over abortion language in Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.
	Now, a lot of people are looking at this.
	Whoa, they're shocked.
	This is not a shock.
	This was imminently predictable.
	Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights, but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure.
	Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support for Obama.
	Stupak said, now we can keep reading from this.
	I think I will.
	I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago, Stupak said to the AP between meetings with constituents and in his northern Michigan district.
	The president says he doesn't want to expand or restrict current law on abortion.
	Neither do I, Stupak said.
	That's never been our position.
	So is there some language that we can agree on that hits both points?
	We don't restrict.
	We don't expand abortion rights.
	I think we can get there.
	Residents offered mixed messages on health care Monday during several stops.
	Donna Reminder, and that's how it's spelled here, 77 years old, not a reminder, said she didn't like abortion, but she didn't want Stupak to let the issue keep him from supporting a health care bill.
	I'd say go for it anyway.
	We need it, Reminder said during lunch at a senior center.
	Not having a good health care is killing a lot of people.
	Well, we never saw this coming.
	The AP somehow goes out and finds a pro-lifer who's willing to throw the issue away for health care.
	I wonder how long that took him.
	Five seconds?
	And of course, the ever-obliging, that's Fox News.
	AP gives in on this too to give Stupak cover a policy change on abortion, but how radical.
	By Richard Alonzo Zaldivar, President Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.
	Abortion rights groups, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Pro-Choice America, say the House and Senate versions of the bill represent the biggest expansion of abortion restrictions in years, yet they're not trying to defeat the measure.
	No, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
	That, of course, folks, that puts a lie the whole thing.
	If Planned Parenthood and NAGs say that the House and Senate visions represent the biggest expansion of abortion restrictions in years, but are not opposing it, then it doesn't represent the biggest expansion of abortion restrictions in history.
	What it means is that federal funding for abortion is the endgame and it's in there, and that's why they're not protesting.
	Now, here's another expert, Stephen Schneck, director for the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at Catholic University of America in Washington.
	I actually think, I actually think the Senate bill will more effectively prohibit federal funds from going to abortion.
	That legislation will actually reduce the demand for abortion in the U.S.
	Now, how convenient that the Associated Press found such an expert and somebody who works at the Catholic University.
	Notorious, I know it's a notoriously liberal place in Washington.
	Don't forget this is the Catholic Church has got many different factions.
	In California, some official church group of bishops or cardinals or whoever it was, priests, established new things you could do for Lent, like not drive your car one day a week or turn off a light bulb for Lent.
	So anyway, just see, even abortion opponents agree that the Senate bill does not expand the current federal law on abortion, even though it does include federal funding for abortion, which is in direct contradiction to federal law known as the Hyde Amendment.
	So what on earth is the problem with Stupak voting for the bill now?
	I mean, I knew this was going to happen.
	Stupak's got, what, what do you say, 12, 13 people with him?
	This is as easy to read.
	You know what I mean?
	This is like reading the stitches on a softball, slow-pitch underhand that this was going to happen.
	All right, we searched the archives of RushLimbaugh.com and we double-searched it via Google.
	And they made one mention of Eric Massa on this program prior to yesterday, and it was October 20th of 2009 when we played a soundbite of Eric Massa talking about the House and Senate bills, health care being on different planets.
	And Massa said, look, as much as I want this administration to succeed, they didn't present a piece of legislation to the U.S. Congress.
	We still don't have a piece of paper that says what his plan is.
	We're kind of like pilots flying blind.
	And I responded, that's right, Congressman, because you're going to take the hit on this.
	He gets to play Mr. Perfect up there, not have his name attached to anything.
	And he still doesn't, by the way.
	So there was no mention of Eric Massa during the Phoney Soldier business.
	First time I heard of it was today.
	But I just, we had a double check out there because, you know, so much massive amounts of information enters my cranial cavity.
	And I have a great memory, but this guy's name didn't even ring a bell when all this started.
	Now, my accuracy rating, you know, we're on a run of one-month suspension for the February audit of my opinions from the Sullivan Group because they're still assessing whether or not I actually was wrong in suggesting Republicans not go up to the health care summit.
	But I'll tell you, it was just yesterday, it was just yesterday that I told you about this.
	Remember, Snerdley, your eyes got wide and like a light bulb went off.
	I said, what if they tell us that the new norm for unemployment is now 10 to 12 percent?
	And everything's fine at 10 to 12 percent.
	Just yesterday, right?
	What's the source for this?
	Looks like it's CNBC.com.
	A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that policymakers, this is this morning, might be accepting a higher level of unemployment as their goal in the future.
	Might have to accept a higher jobless rate as normal.
	Right there it is, ladies and gentlemen.
	I hold this story in the formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
	So my accuracy rating may not plunge at all, especially after the delay here in assessing the accuracy of my opinion on the Republicans showing up at the summit.
	Here's Kim, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
	You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you?
	Fine, Dandy.
	Thank you.
	May I first say that, Rush, you and Charles Krauthammer are the princes of conservative opinion.
	I need no one else but you two.
	You're terrific.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	I know Charles will be happy to be included in my orb.
	As he should be.
	Listen, the only time I've ever seen Obama have laser-like focus was during the healthcare summit when he was staring at John McCain with his death ray eyes trying to put an end to him.
	It was hilarious.
	But listen, I have something to say about this healthcare business.
	Quickly.
	I don't call it Obamacare.
	I call it the ObamaCon job.
	It's nothing but a Ponzi scheme.
	This is the biggest screw you to the middle class that is out there.
	It is.
	It's almost like Mad Off.
	It's worse than Mad Off.
	You know, you talk about taxation being a Ponzi scheme.
	If they get their hands on the money, the revenue stream that will come in from each, every man, woman, and child in this country on a monthly basis, say once they get the single payer thing going for them, once they get their money on that, their hands on that money, that revenue stream, it'll never stop.
	We've got to pray to God this thing does not go through.
	That's exactly right.
	We're talking about $2.5 trillion that they control, which is largely what this is about.
	Carl Rove, by the way, be a guest here at the top of the hour with his new book, Brief Time Out.
	We'll be back after this.
	Stay with us.
	Karl Rove's new book is out today.
	It's called Courage and Consequence, My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.
	Matt Lauer on the Today Show today practically needed a seat belt to keep from coming out of his seat and attacking Karl Rove over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and a bunch of other stuff.
	So we're talking to the, what's his nickname, the brain?
	The architect, the architect, Karl Rove, right after we get started in the next hour.
	And then your phone calls are coming up.
	We still have lots to do.
	The healthcare stack is big.
	And Democrats are attacking McCain in Arizona.

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