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March 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Coming to a state near you.
Have you seen what's happening in Greece?
My gosh, folks, Greece have been hit by strikes and riots over the austerity plan.
The media walked off the job yesterday to join the protests.
The media.
Hey Chikums, you might want to send your people over to Greece to learn how to do Marxist news theory.
Even some police in uniform walked off the job to join the protest in Greece.
Over austerity cutbacks coming to a state near you.
And did you see that the uh the Russians now they have they have the reason why they botched it at the Olympics?
McDonald's.
Fast food destroyed their Olympics.
Destroyed their athletes.
Oh, yeah, got the details.
And if you're expecting an income tax refund from your state, forget it.
They're going to hold on to those refund checks for months and months and months.
Now there's no word on how much these states have cut their union workers' salaries or reduced or even delayed their pension payments.
But your refund checks screw you.
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Residents eager to get their state tax refunds may have a long wait this year.
The recession has tied up cash and uh caused officials in half a dozen states to consider freezing refunds, in one case for as long as five months.
During that recession, I thought we're coming out of the recession.
Did you see, by the way, folks?
Did you see what happened to Waldo de los Rios overnight?
Number one in total, regardless the category, regardless any kind of uh the list, number one in total Waldo de los Rios.
He's now slipped to number two.
Fun while it lasted.
You gotta wonder can you make that record company?
I don't even know what the label is.
And if for any surviving members of Waldo's family, what the hell is going on here this week?
They're probably asking themselves, and you watch somebody oh, Opal of Oprah was plugging it.
Or uh or or some such thing.
Have Big Macs ruined Russian sports.
This is from Foreign Policy Magazine.
This folks, this is I think foreign policy is um it's either foreign policy or foreign affairs.
This might be part of the Council on Foreign Relations, the CFR.
I get confused sometimes.
Foreign policy uh MAG versus foreign relations.
Uh at FP, we've been following Russia's soul searching following its subpar Olympic performance.
Uh and uh that sees uh a problem here isn't McDonald's.
Uh and they got a picture here.
Big Macs have ruined Russian athletes.
That's the excuse that they're that they're using.
Okay, the Senate parliamentarian yesterday uh ruled that Obama must sign Congress's original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package.
That was a verbal ruling.
Uh the office was responding to questions posed by Republican leadership, and the answers were provided verbally.
The uh Republicans said that they have received from the Senate parliamentarians' office eliminates what the slaughter rule or the slaughter solution, which is to you know what is it?
We we we we're not do we used to we used to we used to pass bills we haven't read, and now we're passing bills we haven't voted on.
Uh we're gonna deem it passed, but apparently that can't happen now.
The slaughter rule, we can't deem it passed.
They have to pass Senate bill in the House before they can make changes to it.
But I looked at a Pelosi today at her press conference, they're still proceeding on this basis that the that the slaughter solution is an option.
Uh let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is Pelosi during a news conference this morning.
We have a couple of sound bites from her.
It's always well, they can't ignore the parliamentarian, but Biden can overrule the parliamentarian.
Joe Biden can overrule the parliamentarian, and you want to talk about a real nuclear option.
If the parliamentarian issues this as a formal ruling in writing and Biden overrules him, I mean, we're talking Nagasaki nuclear.
I mean, this is gonna make the nuclear option and the Senate with all these judges and so forth look like you know romperoom.
If they do that, if Biden over folks, and they are so desperate, they will do anything.
And if they're willing to do the slaughter rule, if they're willing to deem a bill passed without voting on it, I mean why there there aren't any rules after that.
Zilch, here's Pelosi.
In order to have the Senate bill be the basis and build upon it with the reconciliation, you have to pass the Senate bill, or else you're talking about starting from scratch.
So we will pass the Senate bill once we pass it, President signs it or doesn't people would rather he wait it until the Senate acted, but the Senate parliamentarian, as you have said, said in order for them to do a reconciliation based on the Senate bill, it must be signed by the President.
So it is uh it isn't going to make any difference, except maybe the mood that people are in.
But the fact is, is once we pass it in the House, it's gonna be the law of the land.
Right, right.
Now, and if anybody, if anybody thinks that after this thing gets signed by Obama, it's going anywhere else, you have another thing coming.
If you think Obama's gonna let this thing out of his hands, and I talked, I talked to Paul Ryan yesterday after the program for the uh newsletter interview upcoming, and I we were talking to him about this the parliamentarian ruling, and and he said, let me tell you something.
There is no way after Obama signs this thing, it's going anywhere except an F-22.
If Obama happens to be in Indonesia, vacationing with the kids, they're gonna put an F-22 in the air with the bill in it, and they're gonna have you tankers to refuel it, and it's gonna get over there at the speed of sound, or twice the speed of sound, so we can sign the damn thing.
They will put it aboard an F-22 military fighter, the fastest plane we got to get it wherever he has to sign it, if this happens while he's gone.
He's gonna delay his departure three days for his laser-like focus on jobs, j uh uh health care, health care, health care.
He's gonna leave on the 18th, but now he's gonna move it back a couple three days.
So it obviously not much of an official trip.
It's uh it's I think it's a vacation trip.
I used to show the kids where he was uh grew up and uh who all this kind of stuff.
So I mean they they are they're they're just desperate.
I just and Pelosi is now gonna tell her House members, oh yeah, oh yeah, well, after Obama signs, it's gonna go back.
Oh yeah, it'll go back to the Senate, and that's where we'll get marked up here.
Here's what she's saying.
Senator Reed has had the votes.
He just hasn't had the time to address each one of these issues.
So the concern that they had was about what has happened in the past based on the 60 vote rule.
Under the reconciliation, the simple majority, the constitutional majority, I think members are much more comfortable about the fact that uh that this reconciliation will happen.
Any hesitation anybody might have about do you trust the Senate is offset by the great vision that they have for health care for all Americans, and that we will be able to do it in a reasonable length of time.
It will take a little faith, but what we do always does.
A woman is as incoherent sometimes as David Brooks is when he writes.
Uh but but basically she had a question here.
There are assurances in the Senate.
Uh Reed uh can give ironclad reassurances because of the rules of the Senate.
But what assurance have you gotten that they'll probably take up this reconciliation bill to your members' uh uh uh uh uh pleasure.
And uh I she's she's telling her members trust Harry Reed.
Trust Harry Reid because why?
Well, because uh of the great vision that he has in health care for all Americans.
So trust Harry Reid.
So she's asking her her membership to trust Harry Reid out there.
I'm just gonna, folks, you know it and I know it, everybody knows it.
If the Senate bill is passed in the House, and they don't have the votes for this yet, they do not, and they have abandoned the Stu Pack crowd.
They've that they're they say, Okay, we're not gonna we're gonna try to mess with you, Stupak.
Here's this a pro-life idiot, and they're gonna now work on the moderate blue dogs and try to turn them.
Because I think the red somewhere, they're still under 200 votes in the uh in the House.
So now she's got to go tell these people to trust Harry Reed.
By the way, Nancy, you better tell them to trust Obama.
Because I don't think you're gonna get the bill back.
Here's the thing, you House Democrats listen to me on this.
You know the polling.
You know you're going down in flames, regardless of what you do, but you're really gonna go down in flames if you pass this.
Even Lawrence O'Donnell, avowed socialist on MSNBC today said it's going to be a design the worst thing in the world for Democrats is for this to pass.
The worst thing for Obama is for this thing to pass.
You and and Pat Cadell and uh somebody else, he's a pollster, have a story in the Washington Post, same thing.
If this thing passes, it is Waterloo.
It's over, it's finished for Obama and the Democrats.
So you given that, given the polling data we have, if I might address you, Democrats in the House again.
You can trust me more than you can trust Reed when about what I'm gonna tell you here.
If you believe, with the standing that they're the polling uh has you and Obama and the Democrat Party on health care, if you think after Obama signs it, he's gonna even permit another word to be said about it.
You need to have your head examined.
If you in the House pass the Senate bill, Obama's gonna sign it, and then he's going to decree that not one word about health care be uttered between now and the election.
He's gonna move on to immigration, cap and trade, whatever it is.
Uh jobs, jobs, jobs.
Because of the polling data, they're not gonna have any more of this if this passes.
That's it.
They're not gonna have any more debate, any more discussion about health care between now and the election.
And then a Republicans are gonna win in November.
And your chances of adding to or fixing this debacle you think happens in the Senate is over.
So the Senate bill, if you pass it, that's what you live with.
That's what's the law of the land.
And it ain't gonna change unless it's repealed.
Quick timeout.
Well, one more Pelosi bite.
One more because she attacked the Republicans here.
It was last night on television, and um she was asked about Stupak and said, have have those supposed dozen members come and address those issues with you with their office.
Have you dealt directly with Stupak on this?
This bill is not about abortion.
This is about health care for all Americans.
And those who want the bill to fail, hijack the good intentions of others who have concerns about federal funding of abortion and should turn it into a conversation about that.
It's a tax bill, it's a redistribution of wealth bill, but isn't it ironic that it is about abortion?
That abortion is why they don't have the votes.
Of all the things.
Oh, do you know what else is gonna be packed if they ever do get this rec reconciliation?
No, what's else can be the student loan program?
Student loan program is gonna be um uh packaged in reconciliation as part of the health care bill.
Pelosi even alluded to to wanting to put cap and trade in the reconciliation.
Every day it's something else that they keep adding to this.
They're not finished.
All right, now this is kind of funny.
Same show last night, Pelosi talking about how artists and photographers will now be able to quit their jobs if we pass health care.
This is what they're fighting for.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer, without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar, you name it, any condition is job locking.
So that's what the Democrats are fighting for.
Democrats are fighting for you to not have to have a job and still have health care, so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, uh painting, and taking pictures.
It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job.
It's just isn't it so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job?
It stifles people.
It stifles creativity, it stifles economic growth, to require people to have a job to have health care.
What a country.
Men are we horribly rotten mean to people.
So Pelosi said, go ahead.
Health care will allow people to quit their jobs and write, take pictures and paint while the rest of us work to pay for it.
While the rest of us work to pay for these.
Never mind.
I gotta think of it.
It's Open Line Friday.
I am Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity...
I've been asked to clarify something.
Yeah, it's it's true.
The Obama trip next week is a vacation trip.
It's timed for his daughter's spring break.
It's to Indonesia.
It's its bill is a homecoming of sorts.
And the uh White House is under a lot of pressure.
You mean you're gonna leave right in the middle of a health care debate to go on vacation?
Spring break with the kids, so Obama delayed the trip about uh about three days.
It's not it's not an official trip of any kind.
He may he may do a couple appearances over there to justify it, but it's a vacation trip.
Now, I want to hear I want to put this soundbite again from Nancy Pelosi.
This is what Democrats are fighting for.
This this is Nancy Pelosi, this idiot Pelosi thinks this country's Woodstock or Moscow or something.
Listen to this.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer, without worrying about keeping the day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not the job lock because the child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar, you name it, any condition is job locking.
So, so uh they're fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care.
While they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids and uh asthma, uh what have you.
And we're gonna pay for this.
This idiot thinks this is Woodstock.
I mean, it's right out of San Francisco mentality.
I mean, it's it's it's just breathtaking here.
Now, here's what I, ladies and gentlemen, am hearing uh we have some spies that are able to fill me in on the uh House Democrat caucus meeting this morning.
And in their caucus meeting this morning, the House Democrats were told that there will definitely be a House vote next week, in the next week, on health reform, and that all members need to be prepared to stay in next weekend and through the following week until the vote happens.
She's not letting them leave.
Even if they have to sit there and debate an algae bill.
They were told, members of Democrat caucus were told this morning that the rule would be closed, providing for one vote, and that one vote would include the cram down.
I think reconciliation is the wrong word to use here.
Reconciliation sounds problem-solving and really sweet and kind.
They have people getting along.
This is crammed down what's happening here.
The cram down provisions, which are amendments to the Senate health reform bill and the student aid package.
They're gonna the student aid package gonna be thrown in there, the student loan bill.
Uh, and the Senate passed reform bill.
Now, the Senate bill vote is not separate.
It's wrapped into the single vote.
In other words, they're not going to pass the Senate bill by itself.
They are going, they're going to deem it.
I guess they're back to this.
They're going to have one vote on the Senate bill and the things they add to it in the House of Representatives.
So they will be, when members vote for or against the cramdown package, they will also be voting for or against the Senate past health reform bill.
Now, once passed, the Senate bill will go to the president for signing, and the reconciliation provisions will go to the Senate where they will need to pass unchanged.
That is the procedure.
Now, our spy said that while the leadership has not yet shared the legislative language of the add-ons, they have been told that the cram down package has deleted the Corn Husker kickback and the uh the Gator deal, but the Louisiana deal and a Connecticut hospital deal are still included.
So Nelson loses his thing, the Gator thing is out, but uh Mary Landry gets to keep her a Louisiana purchase and the Connecticut Hospital deal are still included in there.
The Cadillac tax was changed so that uh it only addresses individuals making $250,000 a year or more.
SPY also said that the DME tax would be 2.9%.
The abortion language has not been changed from the Senate bill.
So they're basically just going to say, screw the stupak.
Uh and the the spy also said, not sure yet whether Pelosi has the votes, but he thinks she's close.
And this is all over the ballpark.
It depends on who you talk to.
I mean, lobbyists are close to this saying it's it's it's it's below 50-50 this thing is gonna pass.
Uh anyway, all the details are gonna be rolled out this weekend or Monday.
And uh that's that's the procedure.
That's what we've been told is going to happen.
Vote within a week.
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So much talent on loan from God.
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Folks, it's amazing.
My spy informing me of the Democrat caucus meeting this morning.
Again, I just want to go through this.
The Democrats in a caucus were told by Pelosi, by the leadership today, that this crammed down package that they are going to pass at the same time they vote on the Senate bill.
Uh, will delete the Cornhusker kickback in the Gator deal.
Which which they're they're taking back the things that Reed promised to buy the 60 votes in the Senate.
There, I mean, the Cornhusker kickback gone.
Gator deal gone.
These are things that Reed gave for to get his 60 votes, and then they're taking these things out.
Indian giving over in the House.
Now there was a bit I've been alerted here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to a uh post.
When was this?
Oh, let's see.
Uh last night at 920 at Hot Air, Don Cobb by Allapundit.
And it focuses on uh Lindsey Graham and uh and Amnesty.
Apparently, Lindsay Gramnesty along with Chuck Yu Schumer met with Obama to update him on their efforts to advance immigration reform legislation.
And during the meeting, Gramnesty said he made it clear to Obama that the already difficult task of passing immigration reform becomes even harder when reconciliation is in play.
Uh Grahamness he said I expressed in no uncertain terms my belief that immigration reform could come to a halt for the year if health care reconciliation goes forward.
Uh for more than a year, health care has sucked most of the energy out of the room.
Using reconciliation to push health care through will make it much harder for Congress to come together on a topic as important as immigration.
And I allopundit uh guy concludes his post here with the following.
Exit question.
Will Rush be pushing amnesty on tomorrow's show, Operation Chaos Take Two.
Meaning, should we start pushing amnesty and immigration reform in order to derail health care?
It's an interesting thought.
An interesting thoughts.
I still can't get over this soundbite number four.
I just let's listen to this again.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer, without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job lock because the child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar, you name it any condition is job locking.
At least one of Pelosi's 25 kids, or however many she's got, at least one of her kids is a documentary filmmaker.
One of her kids is a documentary filmmaker.
I forget her name, but she Yeah, the one that the one that hassled and tailed Bush around during the uh 2000 campaign.
So she really, I mean, she thinks of the country as Woodstock or as uh San Francisco.
Now let's go to audio soundbite number nine.
I referenced Lawrence O'Donnell uh earlier in the program.
This was this morning on Scarborough show, and uh he was asked, O'Donnell was asked, are the Democrats gonna get health care passed?
I do not see how they can do this.
And part of that is because it's never been done before, and they have moved into a legislative territory that has never previously existed.
This is unprecedented using reconciliation this way.
We're gonna abandon conferencing this bill and move over to another legislative vehicle called reconciliation to handle something that you've already been legislating in other ways.
That's never occurred before.
I'm a very conservative political analyst in that I will not predict positive outcomes for things that have never happened before.
You know, if it's never happened before, I will tend to bet against it.
So O'Donnell saying two things here.
A, it will destroy them if they do it.
But B, he doesn't think they can do it because it's never been done before.
Well, Lawrence has to know the desperation these people feel.
The the uh unlimited I wish I could think of the word here, the desire they have for this, the there's a there's a really great word that that uh is uh that defines a lust that is inexplicable.
And I can't think of what that word is, but that that's what it is, and the rules don't matter.
The fact it's never been done before don't matter.
Uh the fact that Obama needs it, but they're all gonna go down the tubes big time if it passes.
This is what everybody now knows.
I mean, there's a story out that no Democrat wants to talk about health care reform.
No I and I'm saying, well, this is in the Hill got council.
So why don't they want to talk about health care reform?
Because the White House is saying that the poll is polling is trending upwards since the State of the Union speech.
It's obviously not.
And if this passes, I'm telling you, we will never hear the drive-by's even.
We will never hear the words health care reform for months after Obama signs it.
It'll be like it, like it never happened.
The only thing well, no, I mean, we'll we're not gonna hear about improving it.
We'll not hear Democrats or Obama talk about health care reform changing it, stage two.
We'll hear Republicans talking about it as a campaign issue, but we will not hear the Democrats, we will the media will ignore it, it will be as though it never happened.
Especially because the tax increases start immediately.
And they are not going to uh have a whole lot of discussion about well, yeah, these new taxes, that's because of the health package just passed.
Well, yeah, well, where's my where's my reduced premium?
Oh, oh, that didn't happen for four years, but uh, it isn't gonna be reduced anyway.
And Dick Durbin said so.
We played the soundbite on the Senate floor.
Anybody who thinks that insurance premiums are gonna go down after we pass this has got another thing coming.
Uh we can't they're going to lower any premiums.
All we're going to hope to do is reduce or slow the rate of growth.
And we played that soundbite uh earlier in the week.
Let's grab a phone call here.
It's open line Friday.
We'll start in Detroit, where they're trying to downsize the city.
Have you heard that?
They're actually going to try to make the city smaller.
Well, I don't know.
I I forget the details of how they're going to, but they're going to raise blighted areas.
They're going to do Flint too.
Although I don't know if they started in Flint on this year.
Remember, I got blamed for that, by the way.
This is uh this is Ken.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
You're first today.
Yeah, Rosh.
I wanted to say that the uh Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, they've totally lost their grip on reality.
If they pass this national health care bill, a bill that the uh overwhelming majority of the American people have said they're against, a bill that they're uh using so much political shakenery in order to pass this bill, I think you're gonna see that the reaction of the American people,
the outcry of the American people is gonna make what we've seen from the Tea Party movement uh be like a drop in the bucket compared to the tidal wave of uh anger that uh is gonna uh appear on election day.
Yeah.
Um I was gonna ask you how you expect this anger to manifest itself.
You think it'll show up on election day.
Exactly.
I think that uh politically, uh you're gonna see a political massacre of any candidate running for office, whether he's a Republican or a Democrat, anybody who supports this national health care bill, the American people are gonna be so outraged that, like I said, what we've seen from the Tea Party movement is gonna be nothing.
Well, uh, there aren't any Republicans supporting this.
That's what I'm saying.
Is It's anybody.
Something tells me, Ken, and I don't know what I'm really talking about here, but something tells me we're not going to have to wait until election day to see this anger uh boil over.
I uh some something tells.
Yeah.
A brief timeout, ladies and gentlemen, Rushland Baugh and open line Friday on the EIB network.
Folks, we can time travel.
Remember how I opened this program.
In Greece, austerity cutbacks, coming to a state near you, by the way.
The media walked off the job to join the protest.
Even uniformed police walked off the job to join the protest in uniform.
Now, you, if you live in five or six states, probably more, you're not going to get your income tax refund this year for many, many months.
All the while, you have to watch Washington pass health care reform, which is going to add to your taxes like you can't believe.
They're going to be taking more money from you, denying you your overpayment, your refund at the state level.
And guess what?
Another reason why we will not hear the words health care reform after if Obama signs it is because what's next up?
Immigration, amnesty, and what's that mean?
That means adding 25 million illegals to the health care roles paid for by all of us, except for those people who want to quit their jobs to become artists and filmmakers while the rest of us pay for their health care benefits.
Why don't we just give them food and water too?
In addition to health care, if we're going to quit their jobs to follow their dream.
You know, back back in the Depression, Hollywood, you remember the movie Holiday Starring Cary Grant?
Old, old movie.
During the Depression, they made movie after movie after movie all about dropping out of the capitalist system to find yourself.
Yes, you can look it up.
You can look it up, all kinds of movies.
Just drop out during the depression.
See what capitalism's done for you.
Just drop out and find yourself.
So things, you know, history repeats, cycles repeat.
And it's all out there.
So the the question now uh this thing passes, Obama signs it and nobody wants it.
What happens?
Let's go to Greece.
What happens?
And then who joins who?
I, for one, am going to be fascinated to watch.
Here's the story on Detroit.
From a cheering Associated Press, this is from five days ago, four days ago.
Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking.
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swathes of the blighted, rusted out city back into fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods.
Roughly a quarter of the 139 square mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.
I know it's Chairman Mao.
It's Chairman Mao.
It is.
It's a great way to describe it.
Detroit officials first raised the idea of the 1990s when blight was spreading.
Now with a recession plunging the city deeper into ruin.
Ruin.
Think of that word.
A decision on how to move forward is approaching Mayor Dave Bing, who took orifice last year, is expected to unveil some details in a state of the city address this month.
Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable, said James W. Hughes, Dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers.
Politically explosive decisions must be made about which neighborhoods should be bulldozed and which neighborhoods should be improved.
I don't believe I'm reading this.
But the AP is cheering this.
This is Chairman Mao.
This is exactly what Mao Zetung, an idol of many in the Obama administration, by the way, did during his revolution.
Maybe I got some ideas.
Maybe they could turn Detroit into a giant solar power plant.
Maybe turn it into a giant wind farm.
I mean, may as well get started on this green energy somewhere.
We're going to bulldoze a bunch of blighted areas, bulldoze a bunch of stuff that's ruined, turning into farmland.
Hell, let's just build some mirrors.
Let's build some mirrors, maybe a giant wind farm.
We uh we can put those people whose houses are bulldozed into FEMA trailers for the rest of their lives, like we did with Katrina victims.
We can do that too.
There's all kinds of glorious options that we face.
Here's Chris in Carmel, Indiana.
Nice to have you on Open Line Friday.
Welcome.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I am very excited to be able to speak to you today.
I have been a listener since 1989 when my first son was born.
And I just wanted to say to you right now that I have a son at Hillsdale College, and he is definitely a rush baby.
Um and Hillsdale College is a tr fine, fine institution.
Um he is very much challenged there academically.
And I just wanted to thank you for all that you've done to help promote uh this wonderful liberal art children.
Let me uh let me stress something here.
When you say your son's academically challenged, you're not saying he's stupid.
You're saying he's being thoroughly challenged there.
No, no.
He was um he he was actually admitted into West Point.
Um, but he from a couple of um unforeseeable circumstances, he ended up at uh Phillsdale College.
Right.
And it has been an incredibly challenging experience for him academically.
Right because he is um even when you're right, you're wrong.
At Hillsdale.
I mean, that's that's one of Dr. Arne's model.
He he deloves saying that.
He's smiling.
Even when they're right, Rush, they're wrong.
We make them be right every which way from Sunday before the before we tell them they're right.
We don't let them accidentally swerve into the truth.
They have to know it.
Upside down, inside out, backwards and forwards, and that's that's what she means here by academically challenged.
These kids are pushed.
These kids, more is gotten out of kids at Hillsdale than anybody who knows these kids have, especially the kids.
It's it's education the old-fashioned way.
It's education the way it used to take place.
You know, Hillsdale uh is is not it's a liberal art school, but there's no liberalism there.
Liberalism is rampant in the education system at every level.
And it's why it's rare to find uh uh a school that espouses a conservative point of view, let alone allow a college professor, high school history tech teacher to share a thought about the values of our forefathers.
The great thing about Hillsdale College.
Well, we're and yeah, we're happy to have them as a sponsor here.
They don't take a penny of government money.
You can't go there on the GI Bill.
They will not take you.
They are not gonna let one tentacle of the federal government inside that campus.
Not one tentacle, the federal government will direct what happens at that school.
Doesn't even allow their students to use government student loans.
That's how serious they are about keeping the corrupting polluted influences of the federal government out of there.
And they don't want government interference as they teach the conservative principles to these bright kids that get in there.
And they could use your involvement, by the way.
This is a school to be involved with.
Uh go online today at Rushforhillsdale.com, subscribe to their free monthly digest called Imprimus.
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I love this place.
I've heard so much about it from both students and Dr. Arne that I'm gonna go up there and sit in a class just to see what happens here.
Just to see it.
Because I've been so impressed listening to how it operates.
Uh I care about this school.
I come to know the people to run it.
I know a lot of people who have uh have graduated, and you'll feel the same way once you get to know a little bit about Hillsdale College.
Thanks very much, Chris, for the uh for the call.
I appreciate it.
Look at this.
Look at this.
CC Connolly, Washington Post.
Get ready for it.
In delivering health care, More isn't always better, experts say.
So get ready, folks.
They're trying to tell us if this thing becomes law, you're gonna get less health care, and they're gonna tell you that that's good for you.
You'll be back.
Don't go away.
A minor uh correction, a CC Connolly story from last September.
Uh and it is, I intended to use it as a companion story to this uh from AP.
Experts say that U.S. doctors are over-testing and over-treating.
Um, so last September, hey, rationing, it's not a bad thing in healthcare because people are getting too much.
You can get by with far less treatment, and now we're hearing more, but doctors, too much testing going on out there.
This is not the first time we've heard that either.
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