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Breaking news, breaking news.
President Obama is to speak on healthcare.
When isn't he speaking on healthcare?
It would be breaking news if he wasn't speaking on healthcare.
But apparently, he will be speaking on healthcare momentarily.
So we'll try our very best not to bring that to you.
Because as he himself said, as he himself said when he was speaking about healthcare only last week, everything that can be said on healthcare 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 the time for talking is over in his latest talk coming up in a couple of minutes.
I just saw that breaking news flash.
President Obama to speak on healthcare.
So we will do our very best not to bring that to you.
Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs on healthcare, said on Meet the Press yesterday, whoever sits here, not Meet the Press, it was Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Whoever sits here this time next week will be talking about healthcare reform not as a presidential proposal, but as the law of the land.
This is it, folks.
This is the week the healthcare bill is going to be dragged into law one way or the other.
Nancy Pelosi says, we stand on the doorstep of history.
It was only last week that we stood on the front porch of history way back on Christmas Eve when the Senate passed the health care bill.
We stood at the garden gate of history.
But then Scott Brown got elected in Massachusetts and for just a moment we briefly backed out of the front drive of history and reversed over the neighbor's dog of history.
And back in the fall, when the House passed its original health care bill, 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, 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, be further down the track.
We stand on the doorstep of history.
One thinks of Don McClain's sage words from American Pie: Bad news on my doorstep.
I couldn't take one more step.
I've been saying on this show, I think the first time was about a year and a half ago now, that healthcare reform, so-called healthcare reform, you need a ton of scare quotes around every word in that around health care and reform.
Healthcare reform is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture.
And 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.
And that's why 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.
They've just released, in fact, they're kind of openly contemptuous about the fact that the details don't matter.
Late last night, just before midnight, the Democrats released a 2,309-page health care bill that is intended to start the process of reconciliation, as they call it.
But it's not the actual reconciliation bill with all the alleged changes to reconciliation between the Senate and the House that they've been talking about.
It's just a kind of shadow bill, a shell bill, a pseudo-bill, a Potemkin bill.
It's apparently some early draft of some bill from a few months ago.
It's a phantom bill.
Nothing in this bill is real, but this is the process by which Nancy Pelosi has determined that if you pass this phantom phony bill, then the Senate and House bills can be reconciled and we can get healthcare through by the end of the week.
I mean, this is not only makes nonsense of any kind of responsible government or parliamentary procedures, it's nakedly contemptuous of that, but it drives home the point that I've been making all along, that the details don't matter.
Just pass anything, pass something, pass anything.
Once it's there, once you get across the river to the other side, 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 that will be caused by this bill.
So this is it, make or break week.
And again, as I told you, so I don't want to keep saying as I told you so every two minutes.
So you can just take that shred for a lot of this stuff.
But the point here is that the Democrats long ago factored in a possible loss in 2010.
And if you're going to lose in 2010, and maybe they would anyway, because a lot of the sheen of Obama has worn off.
And just in the normal course of midterm elections, it might well be that they'd have taken a hit.
You might as well take the hit to some purpose.
And they figure this is worth it.
Because what will 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.
A bunch of Republicans will get elected, but they won't do anything about that big healthcare 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 healthcare,
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 that just needs to be given a couple of jolts of electricity to be sparked back to life and start rampaging around the neighborhood all over again.
So we're going to talk about that today.
We're going to talk about the political implications of this healthcare thing today.
But Robert Gibbs has pledged, he has pledged that this thing is going to be the law of the land within seven days' time.
And he's serious.
He's serious about this.
All the stuff, you know, all these little itsy-bitsy things.
Is it going to be funding for abortion in it?
Is Ben Nelson going to have to give back the Cornhusker kickback?
Is Mary Landrew going to have to give back the Louisiana Purchase?
All this is irrelevant.
They'll do what they need to do to get their 60 votes 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 Afghanistan, Buskaji?
They play it with the carcass of a dead goat.
It's the headless carcass of a dead goat.
It's like polo played with the carcass of a dead goat.
And these two teams ride up and down the field swinging with mallets at the carcass of a dead goat.
And you can imagine what state the carcass of the dead goat is at by the end of the game.
But they get that carcass across the whatever they call it there in Buskaji, the goal line.
And they don't care what shape the carcass is in as long as they get it across the goal line.
And that is exactly the same with the Democrats.
They don't care what shape this dead goat's carcass of a healthcare bill is in by the time they get it across the goal line.
The point is to get it across the goal line.
And that is what they are determined to do this week.
So we will talk about that and lots more in the hours to come.
1-800-282-2882.
If healthcare is a right, this is Jeff from Berwin, Pennsylvania.
Jeff writes to me, if healthcare 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 healthcare is a right, then you'd be amazed at how restricted the access is to it.
But it'll take 40 years to figure that out.
The Supreme Court of Canada, a Quebecer, took the view that Jeff in Pennsylvania did.
He'd been waiting years for some operation or other, and he took it to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada eventually ruled 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 circa mid-21st century.
1-800-282-2882, the Democrats dragging the dead goat's carcass of a healthcare bill across the finish line.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
We're talking healthcare, healthcare reform.
Obamacare has got worse numbers out there in the U.S. than the opening weekend numbers for Matt Damon's new movie.
But they're still going to ram it through.
They're going to shove it down America's throat because they know what's best for you.
1-800-282-2882.
What should Republicans do?
This isn't just like any other bill.
This isn't like any other bill.
If you don't have a strategy for rolling this back or at least throttling it and denying it oxygen, it will metastasize and eat everything.
And we're already in a situation where moody's are now thinking of openly musing on the possibility of downgrading America's AAA credit rating because of the out-of-control spending here.
So I think Republicans need, in effect, to take a pledge to repeal this thing or defund it.
Whatever is possible, and as we've seen from this joke of a bill that the House Democrats put up just before midnight last night, you know, the checks and balances of the U.S. Constitution are really only as secure as the deference accorded to them by the political class.
I mean, Nancy Pelosi is driving a coach and horses through parliamentary decorum to pass this thing in the face of overwhelming rejection by the American people.
And not only that, but passing a Senate bill that couldn't even get passed in the Senate now.
So I think all Republican candidates for the Congress, for the House and the Senate in 2010, ought to take a pledge to repeal this or throttle it.
You know, these pledges can often be meaningless, but they do help to keep the political class honest.
In New Hampshire, for decades now, we've had a no-tax pledge.
This state has 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 them take the pledge, by and large, they do stick to it.
And one can argue that if we hadn't had this tax pledge, we would have both a state income tax and a state sales tax, like most of the rest of the country by now.
So a tax pledge, if you apply that to healthcare, the idea that every Republican candidate should pledge for the repeal of this thing, pledge not to assist in the enforcement of this thing.
Pledge, in fact, to give it, to do what they can within the limits of whatever majority they have come next January to defund it, to starve it, to do their best to make it wither.
Because this isn't one of those things like the Department of Education or the Environmental Standards Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, or the NEA, all these other little things that were allowed to drift through and Republicans opposed them and Republicans never did anything about rolling them back.
This will be one of those things that if you let it just sit out there sucking up money, expanding the bureaucracy, will eventually devour everything in sight.
So, candidates have to actually get, you know, you should be pumped about this.
This is great.
This is a great cause.
It's immensely unpopular.
People understand that the basic arithmetic doesn't add up.
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 going to be speaking on healthcare any minute now.
And so, it's breaking news.
The president is to speak on healthcare.
I think this is his 437th speech on healthcare.
We're going to do our very best not to bring that to you live or even on tape.
But the president, when last he spoke about this, was saying that we need to pass this because it will increase consumer choice and it will control costs and it will give you greater access to healthcare.
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 and America's international debtors understand that, even if the president doesn't.
It is not going to increase choice.
It is going to provide the kind of regulation that will turn private insurance companies, in effect, into the equivalent of 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 between you and healthcare.
So, 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 understands that he can only 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 responsibility and consumer choice in healthcare, he should leave it to the market and dismantle the obstacles to a functioning health market that government has already erected.
But that's why we should look at the president's dissembling on this matter as a sign of weakness and understand that every time he talks about this, 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 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, 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 as well to pledge to throttle this thing at birth.
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The city of Detroit, the city, I always like stories from the city of Detroit because, 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 entire lower 48 plus Hawaii and Alaska.
But 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.
So if you work for the city of Detroit, 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, if you're if you work for the city of Detroit and you work in a public office, do not use underarm deodorant.
It's nothing to do with the hole in the ozone layer or saving the planet or any of that.
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 made it difficult for her to do her job.
And it's something to do with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Perfume, sensitivity to perfume is now covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
You know, this is a good example of where it's going to go with healthcare.
When the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, people thought it was to do with stuff like wheelchair ramps.
So they had to put up a wheelchair ramp everywhere.
If you go around New Hampshire, every little rinky-dink, broken-down general store in some nowhere hick town has got a wheelchair ramp with pressure-treated wood outside it by federal law.
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 to be weighed on the scale.
So the wheelchair ramp is streaked with blood.
I don't know what anybody, I don't know, nobody, 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.
So the wheelchair ramp is completely covered with blood 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 Act.
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.
Do you see that story in the paper a couple of days ago?
They now want to plow up all the unoccupied housing in Detroit.
You can buy a house in Detroit for $14,000.
$14,000.
And so people are, you know, there's no, nobody wants to live there.
So they're thinking of destroying all these houses and putting farms in the city of Detroit.
So you would have like the occupied housing project full of the people on welfare.
You would have the neighborhood crack house.
You would have 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 in between the government office where no one has underarm deodorant and the crack house.
Now, I don't know whether the government worker will be able to sue because now that nobody's wearing underarm deodorant or heavy, cloying, metrosexual John Edwards cologne, that the smell from the Holsteins at the dairy farm next to the government office is wafting through the window.
But at any rate, that is what they're proposing in Detroit.
They're going to destroy the housing and put in farms, 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 using any underarm deodorant.
Mark Stein, Infra 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 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 going to be, put up or shut up.
I think that Republicans have to go on the floor of the House.
They got to 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 this is your fearless leader, Barack Obama, that has instructed you, the time for arguing has passed.
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 true.
And you know what's wrong about this, Martha?
That I don't think it's this way in Virginia, but if you were at a New Hampshire town meeting 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.
But in this situation, 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, now, you've had a year to do your shabby, grubby, disgusting, vile little deals from up and down the land.
If you haven't done them by now, you should have done.
Let's have the vote.
Right.
I think that they need to either do this or not.
And I think Republicans need to stand up and they need to say, let's bring it.
Bring it on.
You want this vote.
You got it.
I think that people need to call either their 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 a very good point.
It would be more effective if the House was a real legislature where opposing ranks sat across from each other, like they do in parliamentary systems.
But it would be great to actually pressure Republican congressmen to get out there in front of the camera and taunt Nancy Pelosi and taunt all these fixers saying, come on, where's the vote?
Where's the vote?
Why are we still talking about this?
It's all among the Democrats now.
The Republicans are part of this process.
It's all about the price of the last holdout Democrats.
Why should the entire country have to come to a halt until we can determine what pathetic jelly spine squishes like Ben Nelson 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, 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.
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, nobody holds Barack Obama to account.
His thing now, one thing you can bet on is that when Barack Obama says the time for talking is past, you know he's going to talk for another hour and a half.
If you're lucky, and if it's healthcare, he's going to talk for another six months.
As we've seen, he's just about to give some new talk on health care now.
Republicans should get those words.
The time for talk on health care is past.
They should knit together a little commercial of all the times he said that.
Going back, didn't he say it in his 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, he has to get up and say it one more time.
This is a dispute between the Democrats that is actually doing great damage to America.
Why doesn't he just get on and hold the vote?
I agree with Martha on that.
Let's get all those massed Republicans together 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.
Look, every game has its rules.
We understand why they want to drag the dead goat's carcass across the finish line.
But they ought to have got it there by now.
They ought to have got it there by now.
They've got the White House, they've got the House, they've got the Senate.
If they can't get it across the finish line, it's not America's fault, and America shouldn't have to suffer this.
But there's more.
There's a bigger point here, too, which is worth bearing in mind.
That once they do pass it, Peter Bienart, who's a big lefty, has a good piece on this actually at the Daily Beast today.
That once they do pass it, it will tell you something about who this Democratic Party is.
That after flirting with Clintonian centrism and Evan Bayh and the Democratic Leadership Council and all the rest of it for basically the last 20 years, the Democrats have decided to embrace liberal activism.
And they have made a calculation that the American people prefer bold, principled, nakedly radical liberals to so-called centrist Clintonian Democrats.
And once they do that, that deserves to be hung around their neck.
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 New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
Jackie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a little fired up.
I agree with Martha.
But I fear that the Republicans just really don't have the power because they don't have the numbers.
I do wish they would start playing all of those soundbites.
Every single solitary thing that he said.
It's not like we live in the dark ages and he's not on tape or whatever.
I mean, we can see where he's been coming from for a very long time.
And as a former NAG, 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 and where this came from was, of course, abortion.
That's right.
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 more or less do what you like when the...
When the thing's halfway out the womb, you're allowed to do what you like to a live, squealing, muling infant.
But you're right that the feminist position on that was keep your laws off my body.
And now that's apparently feminists are only interested in that when it applies to whatever you call it, the old fallopian tubes or whatever.
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 biology class was a long time ago now.
But I think I'm in the right general territory.
But apparently, once you get north of north, southeast or west of the old birth canal, feminists couldn't care less.
The government should be allowed to have their laws all over your body for everything else, as they do in many other countries.
In Scotland, some guy wrote to me the other day he wanted a back X-ray, but the government of Scotland sets a legal limit on the maximum number of back X-rays.
I don't know what it is, you know, 5,400, whatever it is.
But if you're the 5,400 and first and you want a back X-ray, the Government of Scotland won't let you have them.
And where are the feminists when the government is demanding the right to have their laws all over every other inch of your body, apart from the old, I've forgotten what it was?
What did I say?
The old fallopian tea?
I can't remember.
Whatever it is, down there, generally, that part of the world.
Amen.
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 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.
I am so fired up about this, I could scroll down.
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 G7 economy.
You know, the G7, when they all get together, there's the so-called biggest economies in the world.
This is the equivalent of trying to swallow the entire British or French economy in one fell swoop, or the Indian economy twice over.
Now, look at anything the government runs.
Look at anything the government runs.
And then imagine trying to do it to something the scale of the French economy, the scale of the British economy, or twice the entire economy of India.
Even if you thought it was a good idea, they're simply not capable of doing it.
And when Jackie was talking about Republican gonads, which seem to be in short supply in most circumstances, Jackie was calling from Pennsylvania.
And of course, that is the home state of Ireland, Spectre, D, formerly R of Pennsylvania.
And this is why it's not just a question of Republican gonads, but of the Conservative base demanding of its candidates that they draw the line at this, that they don't just say they want to work to reform it 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 till the end of time, because that is all that countries with socialized healthcare systems do.
Next time you're up in Canada, next time you're over in Britain, 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 to rural areas.
That's all you do.
Once you have government health care, all you do is endlessly tinker with it, try to get it to work.
So, the minute we pass health care reform, we're going to be on to health care reform reform and talking about that all the way to the 2012 election at least.
That's why Republicans need to say we're not going to be part of this conversation.
Obamacare is not what the American people want.
We recognize that.
We will do nothing to assist in it, and we will do everything up to the limits of our power in both the House and the Senate 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 Arlen Specter-type equivocal candidates.
You need to demand that of your candidates.
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Lots more to come.
Did you see this?
Cocaine makes global warming worse.
The chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs in the British House of Commons says we're horrified to learn for every gram of cocaine snorted in a London club, four square meters of rainforest is destroyed.