The House Republicans are trying to force reopening the ethics investigation on MASA.
Eric Massa specifically to find out when the Democrats knew about it.
They're voting on it now.
There it is.
Right up there on box.
Uh let's see.
Well, uh ordering the previous Well, it looks like the 332 to looks like the thing may pass if I'm reading this right, but uh, you know, C-SPAN, you gotta be able to translate hieroglyphics to know what the hell is being voted on if you watch C-SPAN.
So if they're if they're indeed voting on this resolution now to uh open investigation to win the Democrats knew about Eric Massa, it looks like it's gonna pass if that's what it is.
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Now, let's put this in proper perspective.
Let's go back and look at the whole Mark Foley circumstance.
Pelosi and the other Democrat leadership knew about Mark Foley for months.
They said what was he accused of?
Texting pages.
Whatever Foley was accused of doing, it's far less than what Massa did do.
All right.
But the Foley thing involved children.
Pages, teenagers.
Pelosi and the Democrat leadership sat on the Foley information until the day after the deadline for putting on people on the Florida ballot.
So that they could run against Foley or a blank space.
And of course they won the Foley seat.
They are that venal, folks, they were willing to uh uh uh allow this exploitation so-called of House pages to go on and on and on for months and months and months just to take a congressional seat.
That's it we're dealing with out there in Pelosi.
360 to 2 in order to to to reopen the investigation to look into when.
Now that's a bunch of Democrats that didn't vote here.
And some Republicans too.
But now that's that's kind of interesting.
That kind of tells us where the Democrats find themselves.
That kind of tells us what the Democrats really are, and that is scared to death of everything going on regarding their electoral chances in uh in October.
All right, here's Pelosi from last hour.
This is uh during her weekly news conference as she came out of the big closed door meeting with House Democrats.
They cancel all committee hearings today and everything, all the House business, and that is big confab behind closed doors where we assume they were discussing the slaughter rule, which again uh the slaughter rule is the Democrats are just gonna deem themselves to have passed the Senate bill without voting on it.
Of course, no wh why why even have Congress?
Why in fact, why why not just deem full employment?
Why not just deem budget surpluses?
Why not just deem the end of the Republican Party?
Where does this stuff stop?
So they're gonna deem themselves to have passed the Senate bill without having voted on it.
They're gonna add their changes.
That's what we think they were doing.
Pelosi came out and said this.
Correcting the Nebraska agreement fix, whatever you want to call that, but having more equity for the states.
We don't want to have unnecessary burdens on the state, and this legislation comes closer to what the House had in mind.
In addition to that, that's what the investments on the pay for side, as you know, the so-called Cadillac plans, and Nancy discussed uh 80% of it would be removed from the bill, and that's a real victory for the House, and discussed further how that is represented in the bill and what is used instead, which is a Medicare tax on unearned income for for the bulk of it.
So it was it was very productive in terms of hearing directly from the White House, what the president's proposal was.
Whoa!
Wait a minute.
So somebody from the White House was in there.
And only today they found out what Obama wants.
Just today.
Well, Shazam.
They just today found out what Obama wants.
There is no legislation.
So it looks like it's full speed ahead for the slaughter rule.
They're already assuming they've passed the Senate bill, and now they're gonna they're gonna make these changes in what she is calling legislation.
So the Cornhas Cornhusher kickback is gone.
Louisiana Purchase is gone, and so is the tax increase or the tax on Cadillac health plans.
The unions don't like that.
It's in the Senate bill, but it doesn't kick into 2018.
But they're gonna take it out in the House and replace it with an increase in the Medicare tax on unearned income.
Meaning your investment portfolio, your stocks, or whatever else, any profits there will be taxed.
Uh the Medicare rate will be tacked onto the capital gains rate.
Well, this is what they uh this is what they're planning.
Here's an ex-Obama advisor, audio subject number two here, CNN this morning, former deputy national campaign director for 08 Steve Hildebrand said this about the 2010 midterm elections.
There's a real shot that we're gonna get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren't leading the efforts to reform Washington.
It's what we campaigned on in 06 and in 08, and if voters don't see that change, we haven't lived up to our promise.
Hey, Mr. Hildebrand, what's obvious is that voters realize you lied.
He didn't promise to reform Washington, he came to further corrupt it and take it over and overthrow it as it existed.
That's what you came to town to do, and that's what you're doing.
Yeah, you are gonna get slaughtered.
You're gonna get slaughtered, you're gonna get slaughtered because of the slaughter rule, you're gonna get slaughtered because of Obama and the House Democrats and all that.
You're gonna get slaughtered.
I mean, I have very little question, folks.
This is big.
I have had this bombshell in my hands for quite a while, and I've been intending to use it ever since it hit my hands.
But this health care stuff obviously took a little precedence.
Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute by way of a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate data set of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies was considered by the top climate scientists within NASA itself to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia, which we now know was totally fraudulent.
The NASA scientists also felt that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies data was inferior to the National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network.
These emails obtained by Christopher Horner also show that the N or that the NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies data set was not independent of the Hadley data.
Furthermore, all of this information regarding the accuracy and independence of NASA data was directly communicated to a reporter from USA Today in August of 2007.
The reporter never published it.
Let me translate this.
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies did their own and had their own climate research data, and it was considered by their own scientists to be inferior to the fraudulent stuff we now know that was being put out at the uh climate research unit at the Hadley Institute, the East Anglia University.
We know that NASA scientists and the media knew about bogus climate data three years ago.
And they sat on it.
A reporter for USA Today sat on it, just like when the first emails got somehow got out of the confines of the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit.
They were sent to a reporter at the BBC who sat on the information.
He didn't use it.
We have since learned that The BBC has invested a lot of money in carbon offset programs and other things that are dependent on this hoax being perceived as truth.
So here are two media units.
The BBC and USA Today, who at least in USA Today's case three years ago, along with NASA scientists knew.
Now during this time, James Hanson's running around lying through his teeth about everything.
He's NASA.
Al Gore running around lying through his teeth.
What we have here is 100% junk science.
USA Today, I don't know the name of the reporter, but he knew that the data was considered to be inferior to stuff that was fraudulent.
And even now it has not been published.
It took an FOIA request to learn this, just as it did at uh at uh East Anglia to get that data.
Actually, the F no, the FOIA was refused.
That's why the emails had to be leaked by somebody inside.
Because the scientists, Phil Jones and his crowns, uh Michael Mann over there, Penn State, were doing everything they could to not respond.
That's why they destroyed the data rather than release it to people who were requesting it through Freedom of Information Act requests.
So we've got this frauds on both sides of the Atlantic now.
Media fraud, NASA, East Anglia, the UN, folks, everybody involved in this, knew it was junk.
Media on both sides of the Atlantic knew it was junk and didn't report it.
And they continue to this day to spread this hoax and this lie.
So we had one of our first stories today was that the ChICOM government is upset that their media has forgotten the Marxist theory in reporting news.
And I suggested send them to any American university with a journalism school, because our guys have it down pat.
Our guys have got Marxist news reporting theory down pat.
If the ChICOM guys are losing control of their journalists, send them here because our guys know exactly how to do it.
Hey, I well, what happened to the debate's over?
What happened to Obama demanding an up and down vote?
What happened to that?
I guess that's off the table now.
Obama's been demanding an up or down vote.
Now it's no up, and now it's no down.
Now it's only slaughter.
So we're gonna have slaughter vote, which means we just deem it.
We got junk science at NASA and Goddard.
We got junk science at Hadley.
We got junk science at East Anglia.
We got junk science at the uh at the UN.
We got junk science being known by USA Today three years ago.
We got junk science being known by the BBC three years ago, and they sat on it.
We got the ChICOM government worried that their own journalists don't know how to practice Marxist journalism theory anymore.
Send them here, Hu Xin Tao.
Somebody in Chinese intelligence I know is monitoring this program.
I have a personal message to Chinese Premier, and I will not refer to him as a ShyCom out of meta respect here, to Chinese Premier Hujtao, who send them here.
In fact, give us your guys.
You don't even have to, we'll just do an exchange.
Give us your guys, we'll send you our guys.
That way you don't have to spend any money on retraining.
Our guys already have it down pat.
You want news suppressed, our guys know how to do it.
You want to perpetuate hoaxes on Marxism and so forth.
Our guys got it down pet.
They know how to do it.
They've been trained in the finest Marxist journalism schools in the world.
Columbia University or Columbia School of Journalism in New York, University of Missouri Journalism School in Columbia, Missouri.
Practically all of them.
Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation at books.
That's what it be.
Any attempt by President Obama and Congress to implement national health care overhaul in states like Virginia without debate.
The House of Delegates voted 80 to 17 yesterday to accept Senate amendments to a bill that supporters say preserves Virginia's prerogatives as a state.
I love it, love it, love it.
34 other legislatures have also filed or proposed similar measures rejecting health insurance mandates from Obama from Washington.
NASA, three years ago knew that their own climate data was worthless.
It was inferior to the stuff at East Anglia, which has now been exposed as a fraudulent hoax.
They told a USA Today reporter, their own scientist told a USA Today reporter who sat on it.
This is why Chuck Todd's so upset.
At Matt Drudge, Chuck Todd and these guys like this reporter at USA Today, they want to be able to determine what you don't know.
And they've lost that monopoly.
Al Gore.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you right now, Al Gore had to know, has to know all this is fraudulent.
I find it difficult to believe that all these people were duping him.
He's dupable.
Don't misunderstand.
I think Al Gore is imminently dupable.
But he's in on this, and his net worth is well over.
What is it?
150 million dollars since he left office start doing this stuff.
Or is it higher than that?
Well, it's a it's it's it's a lot of um it's a lot of money.
Big bucks.
By the way, uh Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundant uh has all the details on this.
That's just uh Yeah, it's all it's all crashing down on them, folks.
It's all they're in their little cocoon of deceit.
They're in their false universe of lies.
The universe of reality is just surrounding them, and we are all peering through the portholes at these ants, roaches and stuff, the Democrats and the left running around trying to cover themselves and live as though none of this is known by us.
Back to the phones.
Nancy in Santa Rosa, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, sir.
Um I thought this was important enough to wait.
Um my husband and I are uh with uh Anthem Blue Cross.
We have a Medicare supplement plan with them, and I believe Obama mentioned them by name as one of the greedy ones.
Yeah, these are the pirates that raised your uh your premiums 39%.
Yeah, well, they lowered ours by $31 a month.
What?
They lowered our premium.
We got a letter in the hell you say January.
hell you say that saying based on a review of the cost and use of benefits by members of your plan in your area over the past year will be able to reduce your Medicare supplement premium effective March 1st 2010 Use of benefits by members of your plan.
What is that what what what the Medicare supplement plan?
No, no, no.
I understand that.
But the use of benefits, what does that mean?
You've had fewer people making health claims?
Well, yeah, I guess so.
They uh they certainly don't owe us anything.
They have paid and paid and paid for us, and without any qualms or questions.
Well, um.
So these guys are not the bad guys that uh as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah.
That's a month, right?
Yes.
Premium reduction.
They lowered it from uh uh four hundred and twelve to three hundred and eighty-one.
Well, so they're not the bandits and thieves that Obama's portrayed them to be.
They've been very good to us.
Well, I'm happy to hear that.
That's that's that's Anthem Blue Cross.
And the Blue Cross, yes.
Thanks, Nancy, very much.
By the way, um, in case your voice is recognized, you might want to hire security in the front and back of your house in case there are any SEIU union thugs tuning in.
It's a big health care day for Obama supporters and spam callers, and this is not what they want to hear.
I mean, they want to put the people you deal with at Anthem Blue Cross in jail.
So, John and good, didn't mean to scare you, but I mean we got to take steps, we all do.
Um, whether the turtles force you to turn out the lights or what have you.
Uh John in Goodview, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Good afternoon, my brother Megadiddos to you.
Uh, it's a privilege to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
And I'm going to be brief and I'm going to be quick.
I am a union member.
I'm a Locomotive engineer on a major class one railroad.
Yeah, but who owns a railroad?
Uh the stockholders.
Okay, so it's not a government, you're not a government union employee.
No.
No, okay.
No, I'm a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Great Brotherhood.
Great Brotherhood.
Hey, at any rate, I'm a conservative.
Uh I'm matter of fact, I'm one of the few conservatives you'll find in a union.
Still alive, yeah.
This health care thing.
Uh they're going to either take my benefits away from me, which would be the correct business decision to make.
Or they're going to run my insurance company completely out of business.
Now, I pay, I pay for my insurance.
I pay a couple hundred bucks a month for my insurance.
My company pays about a thousand eleven hundred dollars a month for my insurance.
It's a managed care plan.
We're very happy with it.
It's not the best in the world.
It's by no means is it a Cadillac plan, so I probably won't get taxed on it yet.
But I will eventually, because this is about power.
They don't want us to have insurance.
They want to keep it.
They want to tell us what we can do with our health care as opposed to letting us make...
That's that's right.
They they want you to have insurance, they just want you to have to go get it from the government from them.
Exactly.
So I make about eighty grand a year.
I'm not going, you know, hell, anybody that you know, anybody that works for the railroad knows how much money I make a year.
If the railroad decided when this crap passes.
Yeah.
Quickly.
Hey, eight percent of eighty grand, that's sixty four hundred bucks.
We're saving ourselves a ton of money.
Exactly right.
Well said.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, I now have in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, the PDF file of email correspondence between the USA Today reporter, whose name is Doyle Rice, and the people at NASA and the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and there's one in here from Jim Hansen.
So Doyle Rice at UIC today is a guy who sat on the data in 2007.
This uh email date range is uh August 29th of 2007 from uh let's see about uh twelve thirty in the afternoon through three o'clock in the afternoon.
Uh dear Doyle, this is from Rito Rudy, who is at uh NASA.
Doyle, my recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC's data for the U.S. means and Phil Jones data for the global means, meaning mean temperatures.
Our method is geared to getting the global mean and large regional means correctly enough to assess our model results.
We're basically a modeling group.
We're forced into rudimentary analysis of global observed data in the 70s and early 80s since nobody else was doing the job at the time.
Now we happily combine NCDC's and Hadley Center's data to get what we need to evaluate our model results.
For that purpose, what we do is more than accurate enough.
But but we have no intention to compete with either of the other two organizations in what they do best.
We're not competing with them.
They got much better data over there at Headley, which is East Anglia.
And uh uh thank you for sending clarification.
I also received the graphs from McKiko, so it's correct to say that NASA's data is more accurate than uh NCDC's and no no no, they're that this is the email that preceded the one I just read you.
No, no, it's not more accurate to say that.
Our data's not as accurate, but we want you to go with ours.
And USA Today dutifully did.
And then there's a email here to uh Doyle Rice from Jim Hanson explaining how to go about all this.
Okay.
Doyle, since this is a technical question, Dr. Hanson busy this afternoon, I'll answer it.
Your statement's not correct.
To get the U.S. means, NCDC's procedure of only using the best stations is more accurate.
My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC's data for the U.S. means and Phil Jones' data for the because our our their data is better than ours.
There we have it.
Hey, who's next?
Mike in Eastern, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How are you doing, sir?
Very well.
Mega Ditto, you're a great American.
Thank you, sir.
I was traveling down I ninety five and you said something on the radio that put a fire in me.
This slaughterhouse tactic they're talking about.
What in the world?
How can they get away with doing something like that?
It's it sounds like it's just dirty.
It is.
It's Democrats.
I mean, if they get away with that, is there anything we can do?
Put them in jail or something for breaking the laws.
They can set their own rules.
And Louise Slaughter is writing one here.
Louise Slaughter from New York is the chairman of the rules committee in the House.
The Constitution doesn't matter.
Uh well, somebody has to challenge this on constitutional grounds, and maybe the House Republicans could, but if if if they want to deem themselves to have voted for the bill when they haven't, uh they can do it.
I guess I I until I until I get some legal scholar telling me that they can't do this, I have to assume they can, or they wouldn't be trying it.
It's just wrong.
Of course it's wrong.
They're wrong.
These people are repugnant.
Well, Russ, keep doing what you're doing.
I enjoy it.
Thank you.
Mike, I'll tell you what I would do if I were you.
I would I would just deem yourself a million dollars and go spend it.
And and then, and then when the people want to actually be paid for it, oh uh I I'm just following the example set by uh Louis Slaughter and Nancy Pelosi, the House of Representative, they deem themselves to have voted on something they didn't vote on, and I guess they can do it, so I'm just gonna deem myself to have a million bucks.
And well, the difference is, sir, is that I I want to earn my money, I don't want to steal it that way.
Well, I appreciate that.
I I uh I understand that.
It's just uh just an idea.
Yes, sir.
Once once this stuff starts, you say, but how do you why do we even need Congress?
Why can't Obama just deem this done?
Hmm.
Well, that's the Constitution says what the hell's the Constitution matter.
Snirdley says because only the House has the uh has the right constitutionally to originate spending measures.
It's true.
So does it matter?
Rules, Democrats equals rules don't matter.
Are you telling me that look at they're already shredding the Constitution with all these federal mandates that you buy insurance?
The Constitution is already in tatters with these people.
Here's uh here's Josh in Sugar City, Idaho.
Great to have you here, sir.
I had to get talking to you again, Rush.
You know, I was listening to your program the other day, and you made mention of a uh a North Korean man getting publicly executed because he was talking on a legal cell phone to his brother in South Korea.
And then you make mention this morning of those union thugs um wanting those executive insurance people arrested, and I thought to myself, well, shoot, we're right on track with North Korea.
Or if you give these union thugs more and more power, you know, it might be twenty years from now, but we might have public executions in this country for stupid crap because it's not gonna go that far.
American people are gonna.
But you you'd h hope it doesn't, but it's a same flipping thing.
I understand, but we're not, you know, th at some point uh like I said yesterday, um the the American people now a great majority realize that they made a mistake, that they were defrauded, fooled, scammed, and they see all this stuff.
They see stuff like the salt ban in New York.
I want to tell you people something, by the way.
You hear this stuff, and you say, eh, Rush, don't worry about never happened.
Ban salt.
I mean, they had the human body is point nine percent salt.
They can't ban salt.
We can't live without salt.
Uh I mean, uh it'll never happen.
That's what they told me when I warned them about the SUV ban that was starting in 1996.
You remember that?
Ah, come on, Rush.
They're never gonna be able to tell us what got a carbon.
You just you know you take these people too seriously, you give them too much credit, they're just about the cooks out there.
Yeah, well, look where we are now.
You can't find a Hummer, the Chicoms won't even build them.
That deal fell south.
You drive around an SUV, you may as well be a marked person.
You're driving around in a stigma.
In fact, I think somebody ought to make a new SUV, make that the model name in the GM stigma.
At any rate, or the Chevrolet stigma, what have you.
This ban on salt, these people, you they're about to they're about in fact in this health care bill.
Where is it?
Where is no, it's in the stimulus bill.
Let me get the dis right stack.
In the stimulus bill, already.
There are tax increases on sugared drinks in the stimulus bill.
It's already there.
They've already passed it.
Obama's already signed it into law.
Everybody thinks this stuff is not going to happen.
It's too weird.
It's too it's too crazy.
But they're on this salt business, and once they start this kind of stuff, folks, it never goes away.
They never give it up.
They continue and continue and continue with it.
I'll find that story.
It's got it's one.
It's in one of these uh two stacks.
This is from the Hill.com, by the way.
Uh more than two dozen Democrats, this is why they have to slaughter this whole thing.
More than two dozen Democrats are expected to vote against a health care reform bill that'll hit the House floor in the coming weeks.
At least 25 House Democrats will reject the legislation, according to a survey by the Hill, a review of other media reports and interviews with lawmakers, aides, and lobbyists, dozens of House Democrats are undecided, or won't comment on their position on the measure.
The 25 opposed include firm no votes and members who are likely no votes.
Most Democrats on the Hill's whip list are definitely gonna go no, but others like Representatives Lincoln Davis, Tennessee, Harry Teague, New Mexico, could end up voting yes.
Then there's the added, the added problem here that the Congressional Black Caucus all bet out of shape over this, and so is uh the Hispanic caucus.
A group of Hispanic lawmakers today will tell Obama that they may not vote for his health care reform unless changes are made to the bill's immigration provisions.
The scheduled meeting comes as Democrat leaders in the White House is struggling to craft a final bill.
Unlike abortion, immigration has flown beneath the radar and almost seemed to vanish altogether.
But immigration remains just as explosive an issue and carries the same potential.
To derail the entire health care end games at a member of the uh Democrat caucus here, Xavier Bacera, who's the caucus vice chairman.
Yep, that's still one of the issues that's out there.
In a congressional black caucus upset, because there aren't enough jobs, and there's not a black agenda in the stimulus bill.
So now these this is what these people are saying publicly.
I think they're well, that's probably true.
I think there's angling for their payoff here by saying, You can't count on our vote, Obama, because they know Obama's writing checks.
They know Obama's handing out money to anybody who uh who would uh who would like it.
Uh this next bit of information, ladies and gentlemen, uh, I'm gonna report while trying to maintain full composure.
There's a financial regulatory bill being hammered out in the Senate, the Chris Dodd bill.
Now, when you see this come out in its final form, you're going to you're gonna see another classic example of big government getting bigger.
No one there listening to the American people.
You are going to be introduced to something called the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, an agency intended to help consumers be protected from banks and financial institutions.
And then you'll be introduced to the notion of a permanent TARP fund with the first monies being earmarked at about 50 billion dollars.
My favorite may be the ambiguous agency for financial stability, which is going to be set up to look after banks and trading institutions with powers to break up companies, force them to sell, and so on, if the regulator thinks they pose a great threat by maybe going broke.
Or taking too big a risk.
Now keep in mind this proposed bill does not shut down any agencies that are already paying attention to these things.
It adds more federal government employees by tens of thousands.
It's all gonna come dressed your way in a boat, just like they told you we're championing our cable TV rights.
We're gonna make sure your cable bills do not get raised.
You people are being raped by the cable companies, and we are gonna make sure that that doesn't happen.
And what happened to your cable rates every time they shoot up.
They're gonna come at you here, and they're gonna say, we're gonna make sure these banks can't screw you.
They can't screw you on ATM fees.
They can't screw you on credit cards.
It can't screw you here.
We're looking out for you.
Senator Chris Dodd will be in the background as Obama introduces this.
And you're supposed to be going, yeah, baby Reno, Radio, Radha, more, more, more.
And then you're going to be shouting, put them in jail along with the insurance executives.
Put the Wall Street guys in jail and put my bank exec in jail.
That's what they want you to do.
You're looking out for you, and they're going to make sure you never get the shaft again.
All the while giving you the shaft themselves.
How do I know all this?
Heritage Foundation.
Heritage Foundation.
They have done all of the work, advanced research to put together this bill so that I or this this legislation I could just explain it to you in a in a in a very simple, understandable way.
Join the Heritage Foundation.
Give them your membership and your support.
Get all the more active in knowing what's going on.
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Because while we're looking at health care and a slaughter rule and all this other stuff, they got more coming at us.
It's a title wave.
Well, we got new approval numbers on from Gallup.
It's an all-time low for Obama.
46% approval, but the key number here, 45% disapproval for Barack Obama.
Now normally, you have 46 disapprove, uh, for 45 approve, uh, 38 disapprove, uh, ten or fifteen percent on couldn't care less.
We have perfect polarization.
Now that's fine for media people, but it ain't good for politicians.
When you got exactly half of them loving you and half of them hating you or liking you and not liking you, whatever you want to put, it's not good.
Presidents are presidents of all the people.
This is why I say an ever increasing number of people are beginning to realize they've been had their vote was wasted.
They were defrauded into making it.
I'll tell you what, these guys are the DNC, they hate me, which I don't mind.
I want you to listen to this this afternoon and mess NBC, the hapless Contessa Brewer, asked a question written for her on the teleprompter of this Woodhouse guy who's the DNC.
Here's the question they wrote for Contessa on the teleprompter.
Do you think that the RNC goes forward with this ad and there's backlash?
It's about MASA.
Do you think the MASA thing will influence negatively Democrats who want to run for re-election?
I think there will be a backlash, and we will not be shy about reminding people that about 48 to 72 hours ago, Republicans were embracing Eric Massa because they thought that he left forced out of Congress because of his opposition to health care, and now they want to hang Massa on us.
They embraced him, Rush Limbaugh embraced him.
It's gonna come back to haunt them.
Uh we want to hang Massa on you.
He is you.
He's a Democrat.
We didn't embrace the guy, Mr. Woodhouse.
You got to understand how things work here.
When it becomes obvious that there's a raving lunatic in your party, we are more than happy to spread the evidence.
In this case, the evidence was Mass's own words.
So yeah, Massa said he might reconsider resigning.
We'd love to have him in there screwing you guys up and voting no on this precious little bill of yours.
And when he said all he needed was a story to go nationally, might reconsider.
I said, Well, I'll help out here.
So I just played his words.
They didn't brace this guy.
He owns you and you own him.
He's got a big D by his name there.
All right, who's next?
Where are we going?
Ray in Atlanta, great to have you, sir.
Rush Limbaugh saying hi to the EIB network.
Hello, Russ, how are you doing?
Excellent.
Thank you.
I wanted to talk a little bit about this whole thing that's on uh preconditions that both sides seem to be worried about.
Pre existing conditions, yes, yes.
My question to you is what in life doesn't have some type of pre uh pre existing conditions.
For example, I have two teenage boys who drive cars.
My neighbor pays less insurance than I do.
The only thing that I can see that's different is one happens to be, you know, male, one happens to be female.
So that's previously.
So you're saying that your your uh neighborhood you have a pre existing condition known as teenagers.
Correct.
Who are more prone to accidents, and so you have to pay a higher premium.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And then what about, you know, for example, if I had a if I had a DUI and I wanted to apply for a job, and they refused me because I had a DUI.
Well, that's a pre-existing condition.
No, just call the NFL.
My point is that this uh and this might even be a legal challenge.
Can the insurance uh industry say, look.
In fact, if you want to have uh five kids with four women, they'll pay the uh the uh uh uh child support the NFL.
So I mean Well, I'll try out.
And now you're talking about a pre-existing condition.
It just seems silly to me that you know we we call Antonio Cromarty just traded to the Jets from the San Diego um San Diego Chargers.
Well, but well, it's happened.
I mean, I'm just commenting on the news here.
No editorial comment by any stretching imagine.
But if you want a pre-existing condition, that's it.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
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