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	America's Anchor Man returns tomorrow.
	Till then, this is your undocumented anchor man Sidney in.
	And happy to be uh with you from the studios of our friends at uh WNTK, New London, New Hampshire.
	You you can't miss us if you're in the runaway Prius doing 94 miles per hour, just head straight over the roundabout, and you'll basically come flying in through our front window and we'll be happy to see you.
	Uh live from uh WNTK, one of the original first fifty Rush affiliates, uh twenty-something years ago, and still proud to be part of uh the Rush family.
	Great to be great to be with you.
	Uh Rush was talking on Friday.
	Uh he talked to a lady who uh was uh I think sending her had just uh sent her child to Hillsdale College in uh in Michigan and uh Rush was talking up Hillsdale College, and as it happened on Friday I was uh flying back from uh giving a uh giving a talk out of out at Hillsdale, uh huge uh successor, I do say so myself.
	They had to hold it in the sports arena.
	I felt like the uh who I felt like you too.
	I should have had some laser effects uh out there uh to to accompany me in the uh sports arena, but instead I just talked up the cause of liberty, which as Rush was saying is a big uh big deal at Hillsdale.
	And you can tell how committed to Hill uh to Liberty Hillsdale College is uh by the statues they have on their campus.
	These are guys you barely hear about at any other American uh college or university now.
	Uh when you when you uh approach when you enter the the grounds, the uh you see the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
	You advance from there, there's a statue of George Washington, uh, there's a statue of Thomas Jefferson, uh, there's a statue of uh Mrs. Thatcher, and there's a statue of Winston Churchill at the dispatch box in the House of Commons in the Student Union.
	Where you know, normally if you go to the student union in most colleges, uh they're all just uh lounging around listening to their uh hair grow or whatever these uh decadent youth do these days.
	But they're uh they're uh sipping their coffee and looking at a statue of Winston Churchill at the dispatch box in the House of Commons.
	Uh Hillsdale College is a great uh fan of Liberty.
	And uh Rush was talking about Larry Arne, Dr. Arne, the uh the president of the college.
	Uh he told me, I don't know whether I should say this, uh I don't know whether it's off the record or on the record or whatever, but I don't really care anyway.
	But uh uh he was he spoke to the Congressional Republicans at the same retreat that Barack Obama did.
	Do you remember that thing when it was on TV?
	And he was doing his little photo up with the Republicans and Paul Ryan eviscerated him basically, eviscerated his feeble arguments live on TV.
	Uh Dr. Arne uh said, I spoke to the Republicans after President Obama, and I was better, he said.
	And he said, uh you know, there were a few titters, and he said, No, it's true, I was, and I can believe it.
	He's a great uh friend to Liberty, and Hillsdale College is a great uh friend to Liberty, too, as you heard if you were listening uh to that lady who was calling in Speak to Rush.
	We've been talking about some of the uh strange uh professions, protected professions, when you get these heavily government regulated industries, and uh in Greece, if you're in dangerous professions like bomb disposal or hairdressing, you're allowed to retire at 50.
	Also, if you're a TV or radio host and you um uh you you uh are allowed to retire at 50 because otherwise you'd be at risk of bacteria uh from the microphone.
	Now fortunately, this is not the microphone used by the regular morning guy at WNTK because he's just uh he's he's just a cloud of bacteria when he walks in here uh every every morning.
	Uh but this is the one that's used by uh like guest state reps and that kind of thing, so who knows what they're bringing in.
	Uh but I'm I'm confident, and I hope uh there's no rock uh have you had any rock stars using this?
	Because I don't want to take I don't want there to be traces of cocaine on the microphone, and for me to accidentally snort it and contribute to global warming, which was uh report uh in the Daily Mirror in London today that apparently cocaine snorting causes global warming.
	So this may cause Hollywood to rethink its support for the whole climate change thesis, although you never know.
	A lot of these Hollywood big shots may be responsible and and start uh making serious efforts to uh reduce their caca uh their uh carbon noseprint.
	It would be good if they could set an example on that.
	Uh also in the news, I see that um uh Nancy Pelosi was saying that once we've got Obamacare, you'll be a you'll be able to leave your dull job and become a painter, become a musician, become a poet, become a singer.
	Uh A German opera singer has been arrested for murdering her husband and then hiring a doppelganger to impersonate him.
	It which sort of defeats the point of uh murdering your husband if you then hire a guy who looks like him to play the part of your husband.
	Uh but uh the soprano, Voltoid Hill, has been charged with murder and fraud over the death of her husband 71, a wealthy fisherman.
	These are the phrases, by the way, that you can only find in European newspapers.
	What does that mean?
	A wealthy fisherman.
	Is that one of those is that one of those dangerous professions like they have in Greece where you're allowed to retire at 50 because you uh you might be at risk of catching uh Eurasian milfoil or zebra mussel uh from from your infected rod.
	Uh but at any rate, she murdered her husband, quote, a wealthy fisherman, unquote, and hired a doppelganger to to replace uh replace him.
	So even if you do the Nancy Pelosi thing and you follow your dream and you become a great soprano.
	This is uh by the way, this is when it says soprano killed husband hired doppelganger, this is like the singing soprano, not the New Jersey kind of sopranos.
	But it's very interesting to me that uh even when even when these Europeans are allowed to explore uh their artistic talents to the fullest, as Nancy Pelosi wants us to do here, all they do is murder their husbands and then hire a doppelganger to uh to impersonate them.
	Very interesting.
	We've been talking about the runaway costs of uh Obamacare and the Obama project in general.
	I mean, uh this is essentially an illusion that he's perpetuating that you can introduce a new entitlement and it will save money.
	Uh the reality is that we live in a world now where Moody's uh says that the United States has moved substantially closer to losing its triple A credit rating because of the cost of servicing its debt.
	Um the US government is going to spend about seven percent of its revenue servicing debt in 2010, that's this year, and that will rise to eleven percent in twenty thirteen.
	Uh now, when it hits uh 14%, uh which it is predicted to a couple of years on from that, uh then America would lose its triple A credit rating, according to Moody's.
	This is what the American people get.
	This is a very, very basic uh it it's it's it's really nothing to do with whether you're in favor of this or you're in favor of that.
	Every time Barack Obama stands up and talks about it, people know it's a crock.
	Uh, this is the danger for the Democrats.
	It's really nothing to do with uh it'sy bitsy bits of policy on this page or that page, or even when even if you're philosophically well disposed to whatever it is they're planning to do, uh the danger uh in what they're doing is that people now see it as a fraud, that it's unaffordable and it will always be unaffordable, and that no society in human history has ever been able to make it affordable.
	And uh you hear you you hear, I think, a lot of uh r rather misplaced wishes on the right that assuming things go as they look in the polls this November and the Democrats lose the House and maybe lose the Senate as well, and in other words,
	you have a Republican Congress, that Barack Obama will do a Clinton and he'll uh triangulate and uh he'll work with the Republicans to get some you know so-called centrist legislation through, like Clinton supposedly worked with the Republicans to get welfare reform through.
	I don't think that's gonna happen.
	I don't think that's gonna happen.
	In fact, I think, if anything, if you look at the nature of the people around Barack Obama in the White House, this palace guard of Rahm Emanuel and David Axlrod and all these guys, I think they're more likely to just form an ever tighter protective circle around him, and I think Obama will move to the left and do far more things by executive order.
	But the idea that he will be reaching out and positioning himself as a centrist uh Republican uh centrist uh Democrat working with a Republican Congress, I think is off the table.
	Don't think that's gonna happen.
	My friend Rich Lowry, uh, my editor at National Review wrote a column suggesting that this would be the making of Obama.
	A Republican Congress would be elected and they would work on uh uh and it would enable Obama gracefully to turn into Bill Clinton.
	I don't think that's who he is, because if that was who he is, he wouldn't have decided on January the twentieth last year, that he was going to r ram health care through uh whatever the cost to the Democrats in numbers and whatever the cost to his own personal popularity.
	He's committed to being a a president of consequence.
	And if you think of what that means from his point of view, uh that means doing something that means doing something like health care, which is for all time, rather than reaching out to uh the likes of uh Susan Collins and Olympia Sla Snow and uh governing as an Eisenhower Republican, which is what uh Bill Clinton used to describe uh his uh his term of office as.
	So I don't think that's gonna be I don't think that's on the cards.
	The idea that you'll elect a uh Republican Congress in November, and that will make Barack Obama move to the right.
	I think if anything, he'll be more isolated by this uh the uh the uh naked Ram Emanuel and these other strange creatures he has around him, uh, and I think he will he will retreat and become, in fact, m even even more explicitly uh left wing president.
	But you know, it it remains to be seen whether whether that's the case.
	We'll talk about that uh in the hour ahead, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
	I'd also like to talk about uh this interesting uh revelations, ever more interesting revelations coming out about Eric Holder's Justice Department.
	This is about the various figures uh in Obama's Justice Department who previously uh represented uh the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
	Uh Andy McCarthy at National Review calls them the Git the Gitmo Bar.
	And it's true they are.
	They're like a Gitmo Bar Association.
	It would be i it is remarkable the number, the number uh of uh high ranking figures in the Justice Department uh who did pro bono work uh for the detainees at uh at Guantanamo.
	And it is uh not to do with the pr very important legal principle that everybody who is accused of a crime should be entitled to legal representation.
	It goes beyond that.
	It goes to whether we are entitled to make uh judgments about them when they're appointed to political positions, essentially political positions, at a time of war.
	So we'll discuss that uh in uh in the hour ahead too.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush, and rush back tomorrow.
	Mark Stein at the golden EIB microphone in Full Rush, the Golden EIB bacteria free microphone in for rush.
	Uh the ambassador to the Israeli ambassador to the United States says Israel and the United States are in a quote, crisis of historic proportions that has brought relations to a thirty-five-year low.
	Uh Israel's ambassador of Washington was quoted and Monday as saying, it's funny about all these rebuilding of alliances that uh Barack Obama promised to do.
	Uh I notice uh in Indonesia, for example, uh they're getting to ready to welcome him uh by Muslims are demonstrating against his visit by uh jumping up and down and shouting uh death to the great Satan.
	It's just like old times again.
	Uh there was a statue of him that they've now had removed from a park.
	They were uh hurling shoes at it, just as they uh uh they uh the Iraqi uh journalist did at President Bush a couple of years ago that the press made such a big meal of.
	Headline from the Times of London.
	Does Barack Obama give a damn about us?
	This is about uh uh uh uh British the the uh declining uh British uh US relations following uh Hillary Clinton's casual remarks uh calling on the British to negotiate with uh Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
	Don't hold your breath on that one.
	And oh, and here's just like a casual.
	These are now uh this is just like uh drive-thru alliance damaging that the administration is doing now.
	Uh in Chile, where they had an earthquake, uh Hillary Clinton got there, she landed in Santiago, and she happened to have twenty-five satellite phones with her, which she handed out to uh various uh Chileans.
	Uh and uh the Chile didn't like this.
	Quote, Chile wanted to be c wanted to be compared to Japan, not Haiti, unquote.
	Uh Chile is a member of the OECD, which is uh, you know, the rich countries club.
	So doesn't like Hillary Clinton landing and handing out satellite phones uh as if they're just like a basket case like uh like Haiti.
	Uh in Chile, the earthquake actually had some infrastructure to destroy.
	Uh so they don't like the way they look like uh Hillary Clinton landing and uh thinking that she's in Haiti.
	Uh the British are furious over the Falkland Islands thing.
	The Indonesians are hurling shoes, uh, and the Israelis say that relations between Israel and the US are at a thirty-five year low.
	Congratulations to President Obama on uh rebuilding America's alliances.
	Let's go to Steve in Columbus, Ohio.
	Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark.
	Uh I was thinking about Nancy Pelosi's comments that uh it'll allow a lot of artists to uh break out of the day to day doldrums of working.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And uh it occurred to me that it's gonna flood the market with potential wannabe artists.
	So the car artists are gonna see their revenue go down and we could end up with more starving artists than we have now.
	Yeah, well, I think clearly we're gonna need to uh we need to increase NEA funding uh for all the millions more artists that are gonna be out there.
	We're gonna l need even more NEA grants.
	Yeah, it'll it'll be ten times harder for artists to rise above and be the cream of the crop that uh are displayed in galleries, it'll it'll get the case.
	Well, no, no, no, no.
	I think we just need bigger galleries.
	I think we could take abandoned abandoned GM car dealerships and and convert them uh into uh into galleries.
	We could take actually most of downtown Detroit and take it uh and turn that into who is the guy, the famous NEA guy who uh who got the grant uh who got the NEA funding for the crucifix uh submerged in some of his own urine.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, Andres Serrano, that's that's great.
	He was uh he got the big uh NEA now with all these artists that uh that Nancy Pelosi uh says will be free to pursue, so we could actually have we could turn the whole of Detroit into a whole lake of urine uh and give it the world's biggest NEA grant.
	Uh so I think I think you're you're not looking at this in a macroeconomic sense, Steve.
	Well, you we we try to raise the bridge, not lower the river, and I think they're all their incomes are gonna go down.
	You know, the uh uh ten ten uh artists to the square block trying to hawk their uh paintings for a dollar.
	Yeah, but you know who buys all this terrible art?
	It's it's wealthy uh people like these guys in Hollywood.
	So the more terrible art they're buying, the less cocaine they can snort, and so they'll cause less global warming.
	And and we'll have and we'll have health care.
	That's right, all these starving artists, by the way.
	So for example, if if one of these guys uh putting the old cute crucifix in urine, uh starts to develop a urinary tract infection and uh get cystitis and his whole career dries up, he'll be able to be treated for that uh in a uh under uh Obamacare now.
	So he'll soon be back and uh urinating uh to the full as uh as as healthily as ever.
	And so there will I think I think uh Steve, you have to look at the big economic picture the way a somebody who's got the grasp of uh of the macroeconomic geopolitical scene like Nancy Pelosi has clearly looked at it.
	I see no problem in all of us becoming government funded artists with free health care.
	I think that economic model is right for the United States, uh, and I'm glad that that she's decided to stand up and uh and argue for it.
	Let's go to Danny in Cookville, Tennessee.
	Danny, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Hey, Mark, uh I'm I've been watching a little bit of C-SPAN since my uh representative up here is Bart Gordon, and he's not even representing the Democrats.
	So I have to, you know, try to figure out what's going on.
	And it looks like to me that uh this health care thing, they keep talking about saving money.
	The only they're gonna do for health care the same thing that Detroit did for sprawl.
	They're going to uh clear out what they're saying is that if you're a small uh office, you're not gonna survive.
	Only the big guys are gonna Survive.
	And it looks like it's nothing but wage and price controls where the doctors take less money and you and I have less disposable income because we're paying more taxes.
	And a third victim is local governments, because once the uh once we begin spending more and more money on insurance, that means I've got less and less money to go to the Walmart and and uh the states take in less sales tax.
	That's that that's that's right, Danny.
	Uh uh uh uh essentially they've decided to control costs by uh by declaring that something uh costless, by in effect not recognizing the true cost of it.
	That's what they mean by capping Medicare.
	Uh they've essentially said we can make the math add up uh by not bothering with the basic arithmetic.
	And you're right that it's like wage and price controls.
	Mark Stein InfoRush on the uh EIB network, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	Yeah, great to be with you.
	Rush back uh tomorrow.
	Did you see this uh I think it was in the LA Times yesterday, but it's all over the media today.
	Clarence Thomas's wife is under fire for her ties to a Tea Party linked group.
	Now, obviously Clarence Thomas's wife is uh married to Clarence Thomas, but she has her own life and uh she does her own thing, and uh uh if she wants to uh get mixed up with uh Tea Party group, that's her right as a citizen.
	It's interesting to me the difference, for example.
	People are outraged that this calls into question the entire integrity of the uh Supreme Court, the fact that one of its members wives is openly involved with some political group.
	Uh but the fact that uh what are we up to now?
	Uh eight or nine key uh members of the Justice Department, including the Attorney General Eric Holder, uh, were uh doing significant amounts of work for the Gitmo detainees and appear to have gone to some considerable length to hide that uh both from the public and from uh the various confirmation uh hearings they went through uh to get their jobs in the Justice Department.
	That apparently is irrelevant.
	That's just uh the beauty of justice being blind, that one day you can be representing some uh gitmo guy, and the next uh next time you have some key national security position in the uh Justice Department uh deeply involved in the war on terror.
	That's entirely that's entirely irrelevant.
	One eight hundred two eight two eight eighty two.
	By the way, uh Prius Prius speeds.
	Uh we were up to with the record was uh one hundred.
	Al Gore Jr.
	Uh when he was pulled over a couple of years ago with his preus existing condition.
	That was the uh that was the fastest uh speed.
	But we have had a uh we've had a Victor write to me who said that last summer he drove a Prius on a German autobahn at a hundred and fifteen miles per hour, no problem.
	So uh Victor, if you've any sense, you you should now be uh suing Toyota for that runaway Prius of yours.
	You could make far more money than this Sykes Guy could.
	Let's go to Jack in Orlando, Florida.
	Jack, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey Mark, it's great to be on the show.
	I'm a big fan of yours.
	Well, I I'm uh I'm glad to have you with us, Jack.
	Um I'm worried about the Tea Party movement.
	Now I'm I'm I'm a big uh opposer to these this Obamacare that's that's coming out.
	But I'm worried that so this Tea Party movement, because I'm in college and I keep hearing more and more about it, is gonna pull away from Republican votes.
	Where third parties and and uh other movements in the past have pulled away from votes and and uh people who have it or shouldn't have been elected ended up getting into office.
	No, that's uh that's true.
	Obviously, uh that uh that that has happened and that happens in small ways that uh are harder to quantify sometimes where you have an effective libertarian candidate siphoning votes off uh from a Republican candidate and the Democrat ends up being elected.
	I don't think that's gonna happen this time uh though, uh because I think the Tea Party uh for start has been dragging has done quite well in dragging uh the Republican Party along with it.
	Uh in other words, that uh the Republicans, the Congressional Republicans basically uh sat back and waited to see how things played out last summer.
	They distanced themselves from the Tea Party movement and all the rest of it.
	And then what you saw in December is that every single Republican Senator, all forty of them held firm against the uh Obamacare bill.
	Even your you nice ladies from Maine, you reach across the aisles types like Susan Collins, they didn't get one Republican vote to go for that bill.
	And I think essentially that's because uh the Republican uh the Republicans in Washington were dragged by the uh the the populist anger in the rest of the country in a conservative direction.
	I don't think that's gonna change.
	I think you'll risk third party candidates if local Republican parties are stupid enough to uh nominate people like uh D D Scossa Fava, uh up in that uh New York Congressional uh district, but they're not gonna but they're not gonna drive a real big third party thing.
	I don't think you need to worry too much about that, Jack.
	Okay, thanks so much.
	I I over re I overreassured you.
	Yeah, I should be doing like the drive-through surgeries when uh when the Obamacare is introduced, boom boom boom, yeah, we can uh I'll diagnose that in point eight of a second and you'll be out of here.
	Um I didn't mean I I thought he was gonna give me an argument there.
	I think I mean I think you can make the argument that if if people start uh saying oh we need uh we need third party candidates, uh the the things could get or uh uh very wobbly.
	We don't need third party candidates.
	What we need, what we need is Republican candidates, Republican candidates uh who are not squishes, and on these key on the key issue of the spending uh are on the right side.
	Uh so that for example, on this uh health care bill, uh they have to I think they have to specifically pledge uh to roll it back when they can and to throttle it in the meantime.
	And I think they also have to be made to take a hard line on uh beggaring our future too.
	So in other words, I don't think this is one of those things where you need to uh where where the Conservative base needs to be asked to swallow candidates uh that are uh repellent to it, uh because uh apart from anything else, they always stiff you down the line like Arlen Spector did.
	I think all those I think all those candidates, I think all those guys should be uh hung around the Democrats next.
	I think it's beautiful that Arlen Specter uh is a Democrat in November two thousand and ten, uh as far as we know.
	I mean he may not make it through uh may not make it through the primary.
	But I think it's beautiful uh that that this uh shabby grubby opportunist who jumped at the most stupid moment in history.
	Has there anything ever has there anything ever been more stupid than jumping to Obama and embracing Obama at the moment when the Sheen wore off Obama's halo?
	I think it's beautiful that he is gonna have a D after his name if even if he's on the ballot uh in Pennsylvania this November.
	Conservatives have a right to demand something better.
	And if this monstrosity passes, which I think will be uh certainly I think you can make the case that it in its implications it's the worst federal legislation uh since the New Deal.
	Uh then I think uh uh conservatives have the right to demand aggressively uh that on this issue at least uh Republicans were not interested in reach across the aisle type.
	This isn't gonna be a reach across the aisle election, so don't worry about that.
	Let's go to uh RC, R. C. in Scottsdale, Arizona.
	A place that's uh a place that's full of Canadians the last time I went there.
	You're not one of those, are you?
	It's full of everybody.
	Is it?
	Ditto's to you, Mark, and ditto's to Rush.
	Oh yeah, great great uh Rush will be back tomorrow.
	Uh so uh so he'll be here to take you take you through the end uh end of the week.
	But it's full of everybody, Scottsdale.
	It's boomtown, isn't it?
	It is.
	The question I have for you, well it's not a question, it's it's all I guess it is a question.
	Um it seems to me like the one thing the left is good at taking control of the terms of the conversation.
	Right.
	And one of the things I don't understand why it wasn't put immediately to Nancy Pelosi was when she said if you don't have to pay for health care, you you can you can leave your day job because you can then go be an artist or any other empty promise she has this week.
	What I what I don't understand is when freedom from tax day comes, I forgot when it is.
	It's it's it's pushing into well into seven months now.
	That's right.
	That's um What about reducing taxes to make it so that we don't have to have two jobs?
	Yeah, but you see, uh she doesn't think about that.
	Uh someone like Nancy Pelosi, I genuinely believe is an economic illiterate, but there's a lot of there's a lot of people who uh smarter than her in Canada and Europe who think the same way that somehow if everybody pools the cost of everything, in other words, if you don't if you're not responsible for your health care, but the government is, and you just give money to the government, uh the government will uh take care of health care and uh and and and that will relieve you of the obligation.
	The result of that is that you have less disposable income to pursue your dreams in Nancy Pelosi terms.
	That's uh that's certainly the case in uh France and uh Germany.
	I mean, if we're talking about how people live, uh if you if you go over to Europe, you will notice that uh people drive smaller cars and dri uh and live in uh uh smaller accommodation.
	And I think Americans will get used to that uh too, that if this if this uh legislation passes and stays, uh then your children and grandchildren will live in smaller homes than you do.
	Uh that is that is simply the world they're building, their world they're building for us where government decides uh about the big key expenditures of life, and as you say, takes more and more of your disposable income, and so-called Tax Freedom Day, uh in real terms gets pushed back.
	Uh now it's in uh whatever it is, the sixth or seventh month, and it gets pushed back to the eighth or ninth month.
	And at that time, basically you're just the world's oldest teenager.
	You'll have money to spend on your C D collection and beer, but that'll be it.
	Do you do you know one of the things that I don't know, it it it's um it's it's hard for me to put into exact words, but um when uh I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to put this in into the kind of terminology that um This better be good now because that's a pregnant pause.
	Yeah, I know, and I'm sorry, and you don't want pregnant pauses on the radio.
	I remember No no no, as long as you deliver at the end of it.
	What's what's what's coming up?
	What are we building up to here?
	I remember uh I remember in the sixties there used to be a very, very, very famous t-shirt that said, uh fighting for peace is like you know what chastity.
	Yes, that's right.
	That's right.
	That was a famous I used to scream at the top of my lungs that we were never fighting for peace during the sixties.
	We were fighting for freedom.
	But when they take control of the conversation like that, then you have to justify fighting for peace.
	Yeah, and and and that actually r uh RC uh the the pregnant pause was worth it because that is an important point.
	Um the the left is extremely good at seizing hold of the conversation, and that's really the what's brought us to this pass that uh the idea of of health care reform.
	Reform, for example, is a weasel word that could mean anything.
	What matters is not health care reform, but what kind of reform.
	Uh and that's why the language that uh we use has to be important too.
	Uh so uh fr Nancy Pelosi's freedom, the freedom to live a government regulated life where every aspect of your life is micro-regulated, uh and your options are shriveled uh by the degree the ever tighter uh constraints of government, micro regulating every little aspect of life.
	Uh that is not what freedom means.
	And we have to be uh we have to be bullish in standing up and take and and returning uh control of the language uh to the dictionary definitions.
	Uh in this coming election, we should be the party of liberty, the party that stands for letting individuals live lives to their fullest potential by putting them in charge of the decisions of their life.
	Uh you can call a life regulated uh uh in every aspect by Nancy Pelosi, a lot of things, but freedom isn't one of them.
	Thanks a lot for your call, R. C. Mark Stein in for Rush.
	More to come.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Janine in Hamilton, Montana.
	Janine, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hello, how are you?
	I'm doing good.
	How how how's things with you?
	Beautiful.
	Good.
	I was just listening to the caller who was worried about the tea parties Trying to break off and be a third party, and it just irritates me to hear that term applied to this huge group of people.
	The left and the media globed on to Tea Party to identify a group that is not homogenous, not easily packaged, but really a very amorphous group of Democrats and libertarians and Republicans and people who are just scared and mad.
	And to be packaged so neatly and then ridiculed is making us mad as individuals in a group.
	But we aren't a very neat group that's so organized.
	No, no, no.
	And that's that's true.
	It's not a national leadership, and there's significant regional variations.
	If you if you go to a uh tea party in the Pacific Northwest, there's a lot of uh differences between what the concerns are there from uh when you attend one in Florida.
	I mean, there's there's lots of variations, there's lots of different emphases.
	And you're and you're not uh interested, uh, and nor are most people who are going to the tea parties in actually becoming a formal organization with a lead ahead running candidates here and there.
	That's not gonna happen, is it?
	Absolutely not.
	What we're gonna do is vote the bastards out, excuse me.
	Okay, well, you got your work cut out there, and when you're picking uh which bastards to uh vote in, uh that's what matters too.
	Uh uh, Janine.
	You you've got to the way to look at this thing is it's not about uh running third party candidates, but it is about looking at each candidate uh in each particular district and weighing up whether that candidate is the best you can do uh to roll back uh what is uh what are disastrous levels of spending and a bill that is an abomination uh in in terms of what it does to uh individual liberty.
	So, Janine, thank you very much uh for your call.
	And I agree with you.
	I don't think any third party candidates are are a threat.
	Uh you can bet your life that uh Barbara Boxer in California would love a third party candidate to come along right now.
	It ain't gonna happen.
	This is gonna be one of those elections where it's uh team A versus team B. And the and the Democrats are not looking at good electoral math for this.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush.
	The Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein in for Rush from the Daily Mail of uh London.
	Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly after being denied cancer drugs on the National Health Service.
	It was revealed yesterday.
	Uh apparently um NICE, NICE, by the way, this is this is how big government thinks.
	Nice me stands for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, which is in effect the name of the British government death panel.
	It's called NICE.
	NICE promised to make it easier for drugs for rarer cancers to be approved.
	But since then, four drugs which could have benefited sixteen thousand people have been turned down outright, and a further six, which could have helped four thousand more have been rejected too.
	So NICE, uh the National Institute of Clinical He Excellence, the government death panel has said that um these drugs could have could have uh perhaps have saved your life or prolonged your life, but we're not we're not going to approve them.
	Uh in the end, uh all government health care, the only way at which they can genuinely control costs is by restricting your access to the system.
	When uh Barack Obama talks about controlling costs, what he means is denial, denying to uh acknowledge them, uh that the he's gonna reduce the rate of Medicare reimbursement.
	That doesn't mean he's controlled costs, it means he's just stiffed the doctors.
	He's just stiffed the doctors, and he thinks that that way uh we'll have no consequence on the number of doctors who want to take Medicare uh patients or want to work in the medical profession.
	Uh lots more to come on this.
	Rush will be back tomorrow.
	Uh this has been Mark Stein at uh courtesy of our friends at WNTK, New London, New Hampshire.
	I'd like to thank Matt and Bob and everyone at the station.
	If you're standing on the roundabout at the edge of town, stand well back because I'm going to be coming through at a Prius speed of 94 miles per hour.

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