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March 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 15, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the uh foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a it's a terrific program.
Uh penniless foreigners like me get to come and study here.
And uh and in return, a lucky congressional aide gets to join uh Eric Masser on a fact-finding mission of steam baths in Bangkok.
So it works out great for everyone.
Welcome to the start of another week of uh excellence in broadcasting.
Only substitute host level excellence in broadcasting today.
But uh Rush will be back uh tomorrow to take you through to Friday.
Uh I'm here live today, live uh from our friends at uh WNTK New London, New Hampshire.
WNTK was one of the very first Rush affiliates, one of the first 50 affiliates way back when uh twenty something years ago.
So they've been part of the Rush family uh a lot a long time.
As as you know, I I live in New Hampshire, and usually when I'm sitting in, I fly down to New York from uh Burlington, Vermont.
But but as you may recall, we've had times when uh when Vermont Airspace has been closed due to the excessive levels of uh bovine flatulence, it's it's not safe to take off in that stuff.
Uh so uh in those circumstances, we're happy to come to you live uh from WNTK uh New London.
Uh the station owner, in fact, has a life-sized cardboard cutout of Rush uh in the other studio.
And in fact, the cardboard cutout of Rush does a better job guest hosting than I do.
So uh if things get sticky, we'll we'll prop him up at the mic and and let him go.
Uh, I'm not sure how all this works technically, but I I don't believe you'll notice a thing.
All you do is call 1800-282-2882 to make your point.
Uh HR in New York will have it transcribed and facts to Southern Command in South Florida, where uh Mr. Snerdley uh puts it on a steam packet via the uh Cape of Good Hope to uh Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and from there a team of sled dogs will race it direct to us in New Hampshire.
Well, I'll respond to your point three weeks later.
So you won't notice the thing.
Uh breaking news, breaking news, President Obama is to speak on health care.
When isn't he speaking on health care?
We'll be breaking news if he wasn't speaking on health care.
But apparently uh he will be speaking on health care momentarily.
So we'll try our very best not to bring that to you.
Uh because as he himself said as he himself said when he was speaking about health care only last week, everything that can be said on health care has been said, so the time for talking is over.
That's what he's been saying now in every speech for the last six months.
The time for talking is over.
So he'll be saying uh the time for talking is over in his latest talk coming up in couple of uh a couple of minutes.
I just saw that breaking news flash, President Obama to speak on health care.
So we will do our very best uh not to bring that uh to you.
Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs on Healthcare, said on Meet the Press yesterday.
Whoever sits here, not not meet the press, it was uh Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Uh whoever sits here this time next week will be talking about health care reform, not as a presidential proposal, but as the law of the land.
This is it, folks.
This is the week.
The uh the the health care bill is gonna be dragged into law one way or the other.
Nancy Pelosi says, we stand on the doorstep of history.
Uh it was only last week that we we stood on the front porch of history, way back on Christmas Eve when the Senate passed the health care bill.
Uh, we stood at the garden gate of history.
But then Scott Brown got elected in Massachusetts, and and for just a moment we briefly backed out of the front drive of history and reversed over the neighbor's dog of history.
Uh and back in the fall, when the House uh passed its uh original health care bill, uh we stood at the mailbox out on the sidewalk of history.
We've come so far, come so far.
Only a year ago, when Barack Obama had three quarters of the American people in favor of so-called health care reform.
We stood on the edge of town of history, asking the cranky old guy in plaid with no teeth, uh asking for directions to history's house.
And now, as Nancy Pelosi says, we stand on the doorstep of history.
And as Robert Gibbs has Promised.
In just seven days' time, we will be in the rec room of history.
This thing will no longer be an oncoming train.
It will have run over us, flattened us, left us in the dust, and be further down, uh f be further down the track.
We stand on the doorstep of history.
Uh one uh one thinks of Don McLean's sage words from American Pie.
Bad news on my doorstep, I couldn't take one more step.
Uh, I've been saying on this show, I think the first time was about a year and a half ago now, uh, that uh health care reform, so-called health care reform, you need a ton of stair scare quotes around every word in that, around health care and reform.
Uh health care reform is the fastest way to a permanent left of center political culture.
And uh the the waste of time is to talk about what's actually in the bill.
The waste of time is to talk about what it means for this and what it means for that, because it isn't primarily government health care isn't about health care, it's about government.
It's about government.
Uh and that's why uh the the objective of the Democrats is to pass anything.
Get it over the bridge, get it across the river and burn the bridge.
That's what matters.
The details don't matter.
Uh they've just released uh, in fact, they're they're they're kind of openly contemptuous about the fact that the uh details don't matter.
Late last night, just before midnight, the Democrats released a 2,000 309-page health care bill that is intended to start the process of reconciliation, as they call it.
Uh, but it's not the actual reconciliation bill with all the alleged changes to reconciliation uh between the Senate and the House that uh they've been talking about.
Uh it's just a kind of shadow bill, a shell bill, a pseudo-bill, a Potemkin bill.
Uh it's apparently some early draft of some bill from a few months ago.
Uh it's a phantom bill.
The nothing in this bill is real, uh, but this is the process uh by which Nancy is Pelosi has determined uh that if you if you pass this uh phantom phony bill, uh then you then uh then the Senate and House uh bills can be reconciled and we can get house care through uh health care through by the end of the week.
I mean, this is uh not only uh makes nonsense of any kind of responsible government or parliamentary uh procedures, uh it's uh it's nakedly contemptuous of that, but it drives home uh the point that that that I've been making all along, uh that the details don't matter.
Just pass anything, pass something, pass anything.
Once it's there, once you get it once you get across the river to the other side, uh you've got the embryo bureaucracies.
You can expand them and expand their funding as much as you want.
The details are irrelevant.
In the end, the corn husker kickback and all the rest of it are irrelevant because it's all going to be small potatoes compared to the catastrophe uh that will be caused by by this bill.
So this is it, make or break week.
And um, as uh again, as I told you so, I'm I don't want to keep saying as I told you so uh every two minutes.
So I'll you you can just uh take that as red for a lot of this stuff.
But the point the point here uh is is uh is that the Democrats long ago factored in a possible loss in 2010.
And if you're gonna lose in 2010, and maybe they would anyway, uh, because a lot of the sheen of Obama has uh has worn off, and just in the normal course of uh midterm elections, it might well be that uh uh they'd have taken ahead.
You might as well take the hit to some purpose.
And they figure this is worth it.
Uh because what'll happen, the way they see it is this.
Democrats have calculated this is what's going to happen.
They'll pass the health care bill.
They'll lose in November.
Uh a bunch of Republicans will get elected, but they won't do anything about that big health care monstrosity.
And when the Democrats are returned to power in the House and the Senate in 2012 or maybe 2014, whenever it is, that huge monstrosity of health care, uh, the embryo form of a permanent left of center political culture will still be down there in the basement,
like the slumbering monster in a creature feature uh that just needs to be given a couple of jolts of electricity uh to be uh sparked back to life and start rampaging around the neighborhood all over again.
Uh so we're gonna talk about that today.
We're gonna talk about the political implications of the uh uh of uh of this health care thing today.
But Robert Gibbs has pledged, he has pledged, uh that this thing is going to be the law of the land uh within seven days' time.
And he's serious of it.
He's serious about this.
All the stuff, you know, all the all the all these little itzy bitsy things, is it gonna be uh isn't going to be uh funding for abortion in it?
Uh is Ben Nelson gonna have to give back the Cornhusker kickback, uh is Mary Landrew gonna have to give back the Louisiana Purchase.
All this is irrelevant.
They'll do what they need to do to get their 60 votes uh and to get it through the House.
But it doesn't really matter.
It's like that have you ever seen that game they play in in uh Afghanistan, Buzkarie?
They play it with uh the carcass of a dead goat.
It's the headless carcass of a dead goat.
It's like Polo played with the the carcass of a dead goat.
And these two teams uh ride up and down the field uh swinging with mallets at the carcass of a dead goat.
And you can imagine what what state the carcass of the dead goat is at by the end of the game.
But they get that carcass across the uh whatever they call it there in Buskar, the goal line, and they don't care what shape the carcass is in as long as they get it across the goal line.
Uh and that is exactly the same with the Democrats.
They don't care what shape uh this dead goats carcass of a health care bill is in by the time they get it uh across the goal line.
The point is to get it across the goal line.
Uh and that is uh and that is what they uh are determined to do this week.
So we will talk about that uh and lots more in uh the uh hours to come.
1-800-282-2882.
Uh if health care is a right, this is Jeff from uh Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
Uh uh Jeff writes to me, if health care is a right as the left claims, wouldn't it follow then that the government cannot deny treatment of any kind to anyone?
No, sir, no, sir.
Once uh once health care is a right, uh then you'd be amazed at how restricted the access is to it.
Uh but it'll take 40 years to figure that out.
The Supreme Court of Canada, a Quebec took the view that uh Jeff in uh Pennsylvania did.
He'd been waiting years for some operation or other, and uh he took it to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada eventually ruled uh that the right to be put on a government waiting list is not the same as the right to health care.
It took 40 years from the passage of government health care to get a decision like that from the Supreme Court.
So if we're lucky, we may get some constitutional rulings on a lot of this business from the Supreme Court of the United States uh circa mid-21st century.
1-800-282-2882, the Democrats dragging the dead goat's carcass of a health care bill across the finish line.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
1-800-282-2882.
Uh we're talking uh we're talking health care.
Uh health care reform, Obamacare has got uh has got worse numbers out there in the US than the uh than the opening weekend numbers for Matt Damon's new movie.
But they're still gonna ram it through.
They're gonna shove it down America's throat uh because they know what's best for you.
1-800-282-2882, what should what should Republicans do?
This isn't this isn't uh just like any other bill.
This isn't uh like any other bill.
If you don't have a strategy uh for rolling this back or at least uh throttling it and denying it oxygen, uh it will metastasize and eat everything.
And we're already in a situation where Moody's are now thinking of uh uh openly musing on the possibility of downgrading uh America's triple A credit rating because of uh because of uh the out-of-control spending here.
Uh so uh I think I think Republicans need in effect to take a uh uh uh a pledge uh to repeal this thing or defund it.
Whatever is uh possible, and as we've seen from this joke of a bill uh that the uh the House Democrats put up just before midnight last night, you know, the checks and balances of the US Constitution are really only as secure as uh uh uh as uh the the deference accorded to them by the political class.
I mean, uh Nancy Pelosi is driving a coach and horses through parliamentary decorum to pass this thing in the face of uh re overwhelming rejection by the American people and uh not only that, but uh passing uh passing a Senate bill that couldn't even get passed in the Senate now.
So I think uh r all Republican candidates for the Congress uh for the House and the Senate in 2010 ought to take a uh a pledge to uh repeal this or throttle it.
You know, these these these pledges uh can often be meaningless, but they do help to keep pol the political class honest.
Uh in New Hampshire for uh decades now we've had a uh a no tax pledge.
This state has uh no income tax and no sales tax, and although candidates can get sort of wobbly and equivocal on that, if you make them take the pledge, if you make him take the pledge, by and large they do stick to it.
And uh one can argue that if we hadn't had this tax pledge, we would have both a a state income tax and a state sales tax, like most of the rest of the country by now.
So a tax pledge, uh if you if you apply that to health care, the idea that uh every Republican candidate should pledge for the repeal of this thing, pledge not to assist in the enforcement of this thing.
Pledge uh, in fact, uh to uh to give it uh to to do what they can within the limits of whatever majority they have uh come uh next January uh to defund it, to starve it, uh to do their best uh to make it wither.
Uh because this isn't one of those things like the Department of Education uh or the Environmental Standards Agency, uh Environmental Protection Agency, uh or the NEA, or all these other little things that uh that were that were allowed to drift through and Republicans opposed them and Republicans never did anything about rolling them back.
Uh this will be one of those things that if you'd let it just sit out there sucking up money, uh expanding the bureaucracy will eventually devour everything in sight.
Uh so candidates have to actually get on, you know, you should be pumped about this.
This is great.
This is a great cause.
It's immensely unpopular.
Uh people understand uh that the basic arithmetic doesn't add up.
Uh people understand the president is being fundamentally dishonest in the way he's selling it.
His last speech, I don't know what he's doing today.
He's he's going to be speaking on health care any minute now.
And so uh it's breaking news.
The President is to speak on health care.
I think this is his 437th speech on health care.
We're gonna do our very best not to bring that to you live or even on tape.
Uh but the president, when last he spoke about this, uh was saying that uh we need to pass this because it will increase consumer choice and it will control costs and it will give you greater access to health care.
He's selling it in conservative terms.
This is a man who has believed in the single payer option for his entire political career, and he is willing to stand there on his head, in effect, and say, no, no, no.
This bill is the opposite of everything I've been in favor of my entire adult life.
It will control costs, no it won't.
No new entitlement is going to control costs.
Moody's uh and America's international debtors understand that, even if the president doesn't.
Uh it is not going to increase choice.
It is going to provide the kind of regulation uh that will turn that will turn private insurance companies in effect into the equivalent of um government regulated utilities.
So look at your electricity bill and figure out how much choice you get with that, because that's what's going to be happening to the insurance companies.
And they say it's going to be giving you greater access to health care.
No, it's not.
It's going to be inserting giant bureaucracies uh between you and health care.
Uh so but but the significant point of that is that Obama knows this bill is so stinkingly unpopular that he can only sell it, even though he's in effect given up selling it and is just taking a mallet and hammering it down your throat regardless of how much you object to it.
Even though he's doing that, he still f understands that he can only uh do that by presenting this bill in entirely fraudulent conservative terms of fiscal responsibility and consumer choice And all the rest of it.
No.
If he wants fiscal consum uh responsibility and consumer choice in health care, uh he should get he should leave it to the market and dismantle the obstacles to a functioning health market that government has already erected.
Uh but that's why that's why we should look at the president's uh dissembling on this matter as a sign of weakness uh and understand that every time he talks about this, people under s people get something very basic now, that the whole thing is a fraud.
The whole basic shtick is a fraud.
I thought when he introduced the term trillion dollars as uh to the Washington vocabulary last January that it would play to his advantage, but it doesn't.
Every time anyone uses the word trillion now, uh uh the American people realize that this stuff is unaffordable, there are not enough people to pay for it, and there will never be enough people to pay for it.
So this thing is working out really badly for the president.
And we need to keep the pressure up, and you need to keep the pressure up on Republican candidates uh as well to pledge to throttle this thing at birth.
Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Rush will be back uh tomorrow.
Uh the city of Detroit, the city I always like stories from the city of Detroit because uh funnily enough, it used to seem so weird and untypical just a couple of years ago, and now it seems like the future for the uh for the entire Lower 48 plus Hawaiian Alaska.
But uh uh but uh city employees in Detroit.
So if you work for the city of Detroit, and basically if you everybody in the city of Detroit is either working for the city of Detroit or on welfare because everybody else has fled.
Uh so if you work for the city of Detroit, uh following the settlement of a federal lawsuit, you are urged not to wear scented products, including colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes or deodorants.
So don't um if you're uh if you work for the city of Detroit and you work in a uh public office, do not uh use underarm deodorant.
It's nothing to do with the hole in the ozone layer or saving the planet or any of that.
Uh it's the result of this federal lawsuit stemming from a complaint filed by a city employee who complained that a co-worker's perfume uh made it difficult for her to do her job.
And it's something to do um with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Uh the uh the these perfume sensitivity to perfume is now covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
You know, this is this is a a good example of where it's going to go with health care.
When the when the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, people thought it was to do with stuff like wheelchair ramps.
Uh they so they they had to put up a wheelchair ramp everywhere.
If you go around New Hampshire, every little rinky dink broken down general store in in some nowhere hick town has got a has got a a uh wheelchair ramp with pressure-treated wood outside it uh by federal law.
Um the one in my town, I've never seen a wheelchair on it, but in hunting season, people use it to drag the deer up uh to be weighed on the scale.
So the uh wheelchair ramp is streaked with blood.
I don't know what anybody I don't know nobody uh no American with a disability would want to stop and use a wheelchair ramp like that because if they're heading through town and leaf peeping season, they think they've stepped into some Stephen King novel.
Uh so the wheelchair ramp is completely covered with blood uh and isn't actually used for wheelchairs.
But now we've moved from wheelchair ramps to if you're sensitive to perfumes and underarm deodorant.
If you're sensitive to underarm deodorants, that's now covered by the Americans with disabilities uh act.
Uh uh no word yet on whether you're just sensitive to underarms once they haven't got the deodorant on it.
That may be a whole other thing.
Detroit is America's future.
Uh do you see that story in the paper a couple of days ago, they now want to uh plow up all the uh unoccupied housing in Detroit.
You can buy a house in Detroit for uh 14,000, uh 14,000.
And uh so people are um you know, there's no nobody wants to to live there.
So they're thinking of destroying all these houses and uh uh putting farms in the city of Detroit.
So you would have like the the uh the occupied housing project full of the people on welfare, uh you would have the neighborhood crack house, uh you would have uh the government office where people aren't allowed to use underarm deodorant, and then you would have a nice Dairy farm full of grazing Holsteins uh in between the uh government office where no one has underarm deodorant and the crackhouse.
Now I don't know whether the government worker will be able to sue because uh now that nobody's wearing underarm deodorant or or heavy cloying metrosexual John Edwards Cologne, uh that they the smell from the Holsteins at the dairy farm next to the government office is wafting through the window.
Uh but at any rate that is what is uh that is what they're they're proposing in in uh in Detroit.
They're gonna destroy the housing and put in farms uh and you will be able to appreciate the smell of nice fresh cow manure in your government welfare office because nobody in there will be will be uh using any underarm deodorant.
Mark Stein, Info Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Let us go to Martha in Arlington, Virginia.
Martha, you're live on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Thank you for having my call on.
My pleasure.
I I just wanted to say I'm about to utter words that I never thought I would hear myself say, and that is Barack Obama could not be more right.
I couldn't agree with him more that the time for talking about this is over.
Fine, if that's the way you're gonna be, put up or shut up.
I think that Republicans have to go on the floor of the House.
They gotta do it today.
They have to go on and say, let's vote.
Right now.
We're done.
Yeah.
You want them to go out there and say, bring it on, baby.
You've been talking about this for one year.
Let's hold the vote.
Let's call the vote.
Let's let them put up or shut up.
And uh this is your fearless leader, Barack Obama that has instructed you the time for arguing is past.
Let's do it and see if they have the votes.
Because if they had the votes, they'd be on the floor right now.
Yeah, that's that's true.
And you know you know you know what's wrong about this, Martha.
Uh that uh I don't think it's this way in Virginia, but if you were at a New Hampshire town meeting uh and people were just talking, talking, talking, talking, talking like this, someone can actually stand up and say, let's call the vote, let's have the vote.
And you can do that.
Uh but in this in this situation, uh the the only reason we've spent six months dragging this dead goat's carcass of a bill on and on and on to the next stage is because they don't have the votes without all the arm twisting and all the deal making.
And you're saying, in effect, uh now uh you've you've you've had you've had a year to do your shabby, grubby, disgusting uh uh uh uh vile uh little deals from up and down the land.
Let's if you haven't done them by now, you should have done, let's have the vote.
Right.
I think that they need to they they need to either do this or not.
And I think Republicans need to stand up and they need to say, let's let's bring it.
Bring it on.
You want this vote, you got it.
I think that people need to call either the Republican representatives or their Democrat representatives and say you either vote for this now or we don't want it.
And you just have to you have to have the guts to get on the floor and just say bring it.
You know, that's uh that's a very good point.
Um I i it would be more effective if the if the House was a real legislature where uh opposing ranks sat across from each other uh like they do in uh in parliamentary uh systems.
But it would be great to actually uh uh pressure Republican congressmen to get out there in front of the camera and taunt Nancy Pelosi uh and taunt all these all these fixes, saying, Come on, where's the vote?
Where's the vote?
Why are we still talking about this?
It's all it's all among the Democrats now.
The Republicans aren't are part of this process.
It's all about the price of the last hold-out Democrats.
Why should the entire country have to come to a halt until we can uh we can determine what uh pathetic jelly-spine squishes like Ben Nelson uh and his equivalents in the House will settle for?
Why should we?
Why don't we just, as you say, pressure the Republican congressman to go out there and demand we hold the vote?
And it seems to me that if somebody I if everybody all at once, all these Republicans stood up all at once, and all these people called in all at once that you might be able to shame the Democrats into let's vote.
Let's be done with this.
Up or down.
Now you know he's so big on up or down, well then let's bring it and let's vote up or down.
Yeah, unfortunately, no i i i nobody holds uh bar Barack Obama to account.
His his thing now you one thing you can bet on is that when Barack Obama says the time for talking is past, you know he's gonna talk for another hour and a half.
If you're lucky, uh and if it's health care, he's gonna talk for another six months.
As we've seen, he's uh he's just about to give some new talk on health care now.
Uh Republicans should get those words.
The time for talk on health care is past.
They should they should knit together a little commercial of all the times he said that.
Going back didn't he say it to the uh uh in his uh address to Congress back in September.
The time for talking is past.
The time for talking is past.
No matter how many times the time for talking goes past, uh he he has to get up and stand uh say it one more time.
This is a dispute between the Democrats that is actually doing great damage uh to America.
Why doesn't he just get on and hold the vote?
I agree I agree with Martha on that.
Let's get the let's get uh all those massed Republicans together uh demanding and playing these clips of Obama saying the time for talk is past, on and on and on and on.
And let's call them on it.
They want to do it.
We look every game has its rules.
Uh we understand why they want to duh drag the dead goat's carcass across the finish line.
Uh but they ought to have got it there by now.
They ought to have got it there by now.
This they've got the White House, they've got the House, they've got the Senate.
If uh if they can't get it across the finish line, it's not America's uh it's not America's fault, and America shouldn't have to suffer this.
But there's more.
Uh there's m th there's a bigger point here too, which i is worth bearing in mind.
Uh that once they do pass it, uh Peter Beanart uh has uh who's a big lefty, has a good piece on this uh actually at the uh at uh the Daily Beast today.
That uh once they do pass it, it's it will tell you something about who this Democratic Party is.
That after flirting with Clintonian centrism and Evan Bye and the Democratic Leadership Council and all the rest of it for basically the last twenty years.
Uh the Democrats have decided uh that to embrace liberal activism, and they have made a calculation uh that the American people prefer bold principled, nakedly radical liberals uh to uh so-called centrist Clintonian uh Democrats.
And once they do that, uh that deserves to be hung around their neck.
Uh and that's what's causing all this delay.
There's still a few Democrats who aren't sure whether that's something they want to sign up for.
But once they do do it, they will have signed up for it.
1-800-282-2882.
Nancy Pelosi says we stand on the doorstep of history.
So open the door and let her in.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the EIB network, and in compliance with the City of Detroit's new regulations.
I am using no personal hygiene products whatsoever today.
Let's go to Jackie in Newcumberland, Pennsylvania.
Jackie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
My voice.
I'm a little fired up.
I agree with Martha.
Um, but I'm I fear that the Republicans just really don't have the power because they don't have the numbers.
Um, I do wish they would start playing all of those sound bites of every single solitary thing that he said.
It's not like we live in the dark ages and he's not on um uh tape or or whatever.
I mean, we can we can see where he's been coming from for a very long time.
And as a former nag, uh I have a little slogan I'd like to add to, and it's keep your laws off my body.
Right.
That is something that really resonates with me because as much as I regret all the years that I spent being a card-carrying member of the Nags, um, and where this came from was of course abortion.
That's right.
Um we know how things change.
That was supposed to be a first trimester thing only.
Now they've jackbooted the door open on that baby, and you can just Yeah, no, no, the old partial birth infanticide, you can uh more or less uh do what you do what you like when when the when the thing's halfway out the womb you're uh you're allowed to uh d uh to d to do what you like to a live squealing uh muuling uh infant.
Uh but but you're right that the feminist position on that was uh keep your laws off my body.
And now they were that's uh uh apparently feminists are only interested in that when it applies to uh whatever you call it, the old fallopian tubes or whatever.
I get all I'm all a bit vague at the general geography once you get down there, but I think that's something to do with it.
I don't remember it's uh biology class was a long time ago now.
Uh but I think it's I think I'm in the right general territory.
But apparently, once you get north of uh north, south east or west of the old uh f uh of the old uh berth canal, uh feminists couldn't care less.
Uh the government should be allowed to have their laws all over your body for uh for everything else, as they uh as they do in many other countries.
Uh in uh Scotland.
Some some guy wrote to me the other day uh to uh to he wanted a back x-ray, but uh the government of Scotland sets a a legal limit on the maximum number of back x-rays.
I don't know what it is, you know, five thousand, four hundred, whatever it is.
But if you're the five thousand four hundredth and first and you want a back x-ray, uh the the government of Scotland won't let you have them.
And where where are the feminists uh when uh they want to when the government uh is demanding the right to have their laws all over every other inch of your body, apart from the old uh well what I've forgotten what it was, and what did I say?
The old fallopian to you?
I can't remember.
Whatever it is down there, generally, that that part of the world that part of the world.
Amen.
I I really I wish with all of my heart that the Republicans did have the gonads, can I say that?
To do that, you know, to get on there and just really pull all this all this video and stuff out about every single solitary thing that he has said, and just catch him in what he's trying to do.
He's just a big fat progressive who is just trying to just take one sixth of our economy.
But the I am so fired up about this I could go really.
Exact exactly.
And if you think about it, when you say one sixth of the economy, that's equivalent to the government of the United States taking over any other G seven economy.
You know the G the G seven, when they all get together, there's the the so-called biggest economies in the world.
This is the equivalent of uh trying to swallow the entire British or French economy in one in one fell swoop.
Or the Indian economy twice over.
Now look at anything the government runs.
Look at anything the government runs.
Uh and then imagine trying to do it uh to something the scale of the French economy, the sa scale of the British economy, or twice the entire economy of India.
Uh even if you thought it was a good idea, they're simply not capable of doing it.
And when and uh when Jackie was talking about Republican gonads, which seemed to be in in in short supply uh in in most circumstances, uh Jackie was calling from Pennsylvania.
And of course, uh that is the home state of Ireland Spectre.
D, formerly R of Pennsylvania.
Uh and this is and this is why it's not just a question of Republican gonads, but of the conservative base demanding of its candidates uh that they draw the line at this, that they don't just say uh they want to work to reform it, or they uh or they pledge to reform it.
Because if you go back to what Martha was saying, she's sick of the talking, she's sick of the talking.
Let's assume this thing passed tomorrow.
We will be talking about it uh till the end of time, because that is all that countries with socialized health care systems do.
Uh next time you're up in Canada, next time you're over in Britain, and next time you're in Australia, pick up the newspaper.
They're all full of health care stories about how the government can reduce waiting times, how the government can reduce costs, how the government can get more doctors uh to rural areas.
That's all you do.
Once you have government health care, all you do is endlessly uh tinker with it, try to get it to work.
So the minute uh we pass health care reform, we're gonna be on to health care reform reform and talking about that all the way to the twenty twelve election at least.
That's the way that's why Republicans need to say we're not going to be part of this conversation.
Obamacare is is not what the American people want.
We recognize that we will do nothing to assist In it, and we will do everything uh up to the limits of our power in uh both the House and the Senate uh to kill it, to throttle it of funds, to ensure that there will still be a piece of paper with the name Obamacare on it, but it'll be sitting in a filing cabinet gathering dust because it will have no meaningful application in real life.
And Republicans need to be serious about that.
This is no time for uh Arlen Spectre type uh equivocal candidates.
You need to demand that of your candidates.
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