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March 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 16, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And all eyes and all ears are pointed at this show today.
Tell me, Rush, what is going on?
Folks, I'll do my best to explain all of this.
But it is devious.
This is one of the biggest domestic threats.
We've got a we got a president who is essentially a third world president.
A president Well.
Let me give the phone number here before I go nuts.
800-282-2882 is the number if you want to call a program.
The uh email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air says that the Obama administration's decided that it's going to be too provocative for U.S. forces on a humanitarian mission to fly the American flag at their base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Flying our flag would be a statement that we are an occupation force, not an international partner.
There are a lot of things uh uh about this country not to be proud of right now, but they're happening in Congress.
They're not happening with the U.S. military.
Uh, and they're not happening outside of Congress.
It's all inside.
What have is anybody asked this question?
You know, Obama's obviously losing his cool, but let's look at the things that he does not blow up over, the things that he does not lose his cool over.
Unemployment, not a problem.
In fact, three members of his economic team said today, hey, uh nine percent, nine point seven percent unemployment for the next few years.
We don't see job creation improving at all this year, and not much uh in the year after and the year after that.
So permanent new statistical unemployment rate of 9%, the new norm, and the administration itself is saying after focusing, saying they focus laser-like on jobs.
Well, we're not gonna have any new jobs.
Not this year, certainly not next year.
Maybe we'll get started in the year after that.
So, the job situation, unemployment, not a problem.
Doesn't lose his cool over that.
The deficit, not a problem.
Doesn't lose his cool over that.
Greece, not a problem.
A little look into our own future, not a problem.
Iran getting nukes.
He couldn't care less.
He doesn't, he doesn't get worked up about it at all.
Now won't fly the flag in Haiti because he doesn't want to provoke people, but look what does get him mad.
Sixteen hundred homes in Israel.
Sixteen hundred new homes in Israel.
Israel wants to build uh these homes for people who can afford to pay for them in Jerusalem.
And this has got Hillary Clinton flying off the deep end, it's got Obama flying off the deep end, it's got Biden flying off the deep end.
This somehow is is is what it what it what angers this man, that's he's a third world president.
And he's a masquerade.
Anyway, let's go to the audio sound bites because the health care topic obviously is the one that's uh first and foremost front and center.
Let's go first to Sunday.
This is the uh the House whip.
Uh Congressman Kleiburn, James Kleiburn, Democrat South Carolina, former head of the Congressional Black Caucus.
They're not a happy bunch of these days either.
No, we don't have them as of this morning.
Uh, but we've been working this thing all weekend.
We'll be working it going into the week.
I'm also very confident uh that we'll get this done.
I have been talking to members for a long time on this, and they have the will to do it.
They've been looking through us to create a way to do it.
I think we have gotten to a place where we do have the way to do it, and I think the uh members are going to vote for this.
As Sunday.
He don't have the votes.
He doesn't even sound confident he's gonna get the votes.
Then he said in a in an interview with McClanchy newspapers, the House health care vote could be delayed until as late as Easter now.
Clyburn said it's possible the House vote on health care reform could take place long past.
The uh the vote that Democrat leaders had hoped for this week.
The chances are good, but I wouldn't bet on it, said a third ranking House Democrat of whether a health care vote would be held by the April 4th holiday.
So then this next story, and I got this in the email with a question.
Rush, I'm confused, I don't understand.
If they if they have the votes, why why would they need the slaughter rule?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still shoring up support for legislation overhaul the U.S. health care system vowed the Democrats will be ready to pass the bill when the time comes.
When we bring the bill to the floor, we'll have the votes.
They obviously don't have the votes.
Stupak, by the way, says they're 16 votes short.
But Stuck's been all over the board on this with his predictions.
But um that Stupak?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I predict it's stupid.
You gotta keep them at arm's length no matter what they say they're for against and moderate blue dog lapdog, rabbit dog, whatever they want to call themselves.
But I happen to think he's right about this one.
I think they are at about 200 votes.
And I think I think now this is, by the way, no I'm running a risk in telling you what I really think here, because I don't want anybody to relax over this, but I don't think they're close.
I think the only reason they're talking the slaughter rule is because they're not close.
And the slaughter rule is this basically they're gonna pass a bill what they haven't voted on.
They're gonna deem it.
It's totally, it's no question about it, it's unconstitutional.
This is not how legislation becomes law.
It's right there in the Constitution, I'm sure, and all of you who have been paying attention to this have heard this throughout the weekend and uh and yesterday.
It's it's it's it's what they're doing is totally unconstitutional.
I do believe I I believe that if Pelosi could pass the Senate bill, she'd do that.
She would do that, but they don't have the votes to pass the Senate bill, and they're probably not going to get the votes to pass the Senate bill.
So now they're doing this, it's it's got a bunch of different names.
Self-executing rule, uh, they're gonna deem the Senate bill to have passed.
What slaughter is doing is she's head of the rules committee.
What's and by the way, the Republicans have done this.
The Republicans have used self-executing things before.
The Democrats are saying, hey, well, wait a minute, you can't criticize this.
Why why the Republicans did this?
Yeah, they did it raising the debt limit, which is a perfunctory thing.
I frankly don't think it should ever be used.
I think the Constitution needs to always be upheld.
But uh just because the Republicans did it doesn't give everybody else light.
Just because somebody breaks a law doesn't give everybody else the right to break the law with impunity.
But the Republicans never did anything like this with this scope.
Nationalizing, socializing uh two and a half trillion dollars of the private sector economy in this country, one-sixth of it.
They've never done anything like that.
In fact, I have the details in my numerous stacks of stuff here today, but the first time the Republicans tried this, Louise Slaughter sued them.
And Pelosi sued them.
And Henry Waxman sued the Republicans for using this self-executive.
Basically, what slaughter's trying to do now.
The bad news is they lost.
An appellate court upheld what the Republicans did.
But that they didn't, they didn't endorse it, they just they just upheld it.
And again, it was on the basis, eh, you know, this is this this is perfunctory things.
The country has to raise a debt limit every now and then, and this is a fast way of getting it done.
So Democrats say, well, why are you why are you complaining at us?
Republicans have never ever tried to do anything like this.
But if if uh so I I really believe Pelosi, to get back to this train of thought, would love to be able to pass the Senate bill and not have to go this slaughter rule route.
But she will.
And I wouldn't the Democrats, they may be suicidal, and they may be willing to lose a lot of people.
But Pelosi doesn't want to get hurt, and Reed doesn't want to get hurt.
They're happy to sacrifice other members of the Senate, primarily of the House, but they don't want to suffer.
They don't want any bad hits to their reputation uh from inside their own camps.
So here's the I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they're going back and forth on the slaughter rule simply as a way to make it look like the Senate Democrats and Obama failed to get this done.
Because what'll happen if the slaughter rule is used, they will deem the Senate bill passed, but it will not have passed.
So the president really can't sign it, even though it's deemed to have passed.
So they'll they'll add the slaughter rule to it, which adds all these changes, uh, the term reconciliation Being used, and then those changes.
So one thing nobody has been talking about, and it finally hit me last night.
The one thing nobody's been talking about is what does Reed think of this?
What do all these senators think of this?
The House is here making unilateral changes to their bill.
What do they think of it?
Nobody's asking Democrats senators, what do you think about taking out the Cornhusker kickback?
What do you think about putting in the public option?
And what do you think about the abortion rules and then having it paid for by by taxpayers?
Well, what do you think of it?
Nobody's asking them that.
Well, those things eventually have to go to the Senate.
They have to eventually debate them and approve them.
And if the Senate says we can have a reverse situation here, theoretically.
Before this is all said and done, it could be the Senate that has to now deal with whatever the House has done.
And what if they don't?
What if they don't pass it?
Then who gets the blame?
Reed.
Then it's on Reed's head that the thing didn't happen.
And then it's on Obama's head because it did, but it's not Pelosi, because Pelosi can say, hey, I did whatever it took to get this passed.
There is so much intrigue going on with this.
And it's all based around the fact they don't have the votes.
Now I don't think they're close.
I don't think they're five short.
I don't think they're for short.
These whip counts, who can possibly know?
My instincts, I trust them.
I uh very seldom uh doubt my own instincts.
I mean, folks, even when I think I'm wrong, I'm usually right.
That's how right on spot on my instincts are.
And the way this is all playing out, I'm I I've seen it.
We've had how many end game stories have we had in the last year?
Democrats down to the end game on the for a full year.
They haven't had the votes for a full year.
There's nothing that's happened this year to make it any more palatable to support this thing.
It's only gotten worse.
There's no moment.
The White House even got a pollster out there who's lying about the about the support for the bill increasing since Obama's State of the Union show.
And what he's doing is say, look at this individual part of the bill.
Yeah, people like that.
That individual part, he's taking little parcels of it and asking poll questions about it.
But when they are asked, when people are asked about the whole comprehensive bill, they reject it by a majority poll number each and every time.
And the number is getting bigger.
The number of people in the country who oppose this is getting bigger.
There's nothing that has happened to inspire anybody to have any more confidence this thing's gonna pass in the last six weeks, the last two months.
Yet you turn on the television and all you see is we're gonna get this done.
We're really close.
We're only five votes down.
Obama's delaying his trip.
It's only a vacation trip, no big deal.
Now Clyburn's out there saying we may not get this done by Easter, which means if if if he can't get the votes in the House done, either slaughter rule or whatever, he can't, which is unconstitutional and ought to cause, if it happens, uh outrage, peaceful outrage like we have never seen before.
Peaceful.
But this news every day, oh, yeah, we're really, we're really close, we're really close.
It's all designed to dispirit us.
It's all designed to dispirit opposition and dispirit members are going to vote no.
It's all designed to create a false sense of momentum toward passage.
And I just I don't see it.
I know Pelosi's trying to buy votes, and I know this is all these things are going on, and it's it's I'm not saying it's dead.
Please don't misunderstand.
And I'm not saying stand down.
I'm not saying relax on this.
This is the time to stay as intense in your opposition to this as ever before.
But if if they if if this doesn't happen by the time the uh the Easter Passover break happens, and of course these members of the House are going to go home and they're gonna get an earful from their constituents, and that's one thing that uh everybody's worried about uh in in getting this done.
It's gotten to the point now where this is not even about health care reform.
It's not about doctors and nurses and clean water, it's not about insurance, it's about saving the Obama presidency.
That's what's driving this.
The absolute wrong reason, the wrong inspiration, the wrong motivation for doing this.
It's all about now saving Obama.
Uh, and he's not destroying the country, one sixth of the economy.
It's not worth saving Obama's presidency.
Obama's presidency is an abject failure and deserves to continue failing.
And we'll be right Back, don't go away.
You've all heard me say that exercise kills, right?
And everybody when I start talking about this, ah, come on, Rush, get off it.
We'll try this.
Some poor guy was on Hilton Head Island on a beach jogging.
He had an iPod in.
He couldn't hear anything but the music.
Above him, an experimental airplane lost its propeller.
Oil splattered all over the windshield.
The pilot's view was obstructed.
The plane eventually turned into a glider, no noise.
While landing on a beach, it struck the jogger, and he's dead.
He never heard it coming.
He never saw no clue.
The people inside the plane who were not exercising survived.
When no you talk about a freak.
At least we're comforted by the fact that some health official there said, Well, this doesn't happen very often.
Well, good.
That's that's great to know.
Now the very, very comforting thing out there.
Here's the story.
Uh U.S. employers will not hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the 9.7% level in February.
Uh the proportion of Americans who can't find work is likely to remain elevated for an extended period, said the tax chate Timothy Geithner, the uh the geek budget director Peter Orzog, and Christina Roomer, chairman chairman of Council of Economic Advisors, in a joint statement.
The official said that unemployment may even rise slightly over the next few months as discouraged workers, start job hunting again.
So there you have it.
That doesn't bother them.
Hey, get used to it, America.
This is your new country.
A permanent unemployment rate of nine, ten percent.
That's the new norm.
Now, this Kleiburn business.
James Kleiburn coming out in McClanchy, so we may not get enough uh uh votes here to get this passed by Easter.
This is the first real public sign of weakness by the Democrats, and as I say, uh normally what we see each and every day is, oh yeah, like Pelosi.
If so this last Friday, with that Botox smile.
I I you know what?
I would love to know.
Never mind.
Never mind.
I've I was gonna say what pharmaceutical she's on, but I withdraw it.
She's up there smiling big time on Friday.
It's going to be so wonderful, and it's going to be so exciting.
Uh, a week from now, the president will be here.
This historic vote, that national health care, what which will happen next year?
We're so excited.
Uh, the president delaying his trip as though it's fate of compliment.
Well, why not do it now?
Why make him delay?
What's the magic?
What are you gonna find between now and Saturday?
Whose votes are you gonna change?
You know, taking Kucinich up for a spin on Air Force One and putting him under pressure in front of his constituents there in Cleveland, it's gonna make it make a difference.
Guys like Kucinich are not the problem.
Um, the problem is the 17 people that voted uh uh yes last time, uh, who are thinking of voting no this time because it's all everything's different in their district.
There's some people, there's some polling data I saw in the Wall Street Journal on uh Sunday night.
I mean, some of these Democrat districts, it's hopeless.
And some of these people voted yes the first time around and might be voting no.
This kleiburn coming out here and saying, well, health care vote could push past the Easter holiday, could be delayed.
Uh that's that's the first real public sign of weakness, the first deviation from this, oh yeah, everything's cool, we're right on track.
We're gonna have the votes, we're so close, we're so excited.
And you have all these the the three robots in Axelrod, uh Gibbs, somebody else in the White House all on the Sunday shows flooding the zone.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh we're gonna have these votes.
They don't have the votes now.
Audio sound bites, this is Obama.
Yesterday in Strongville, Ohio.
This whole appearance yesterday was filled with lies, falsehoods, untruths, Even, you know, another sob story about some person unable to get health care.
Yeah, she can't be here today because she's so sick.
The reason why she wasn't there, she's in a hospital, being treated at no charge.
Anyway, this is just one thing, Obama said.
How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now?
Raise your hands.
All right, well, a lot of those folks.
Your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000%, which means they could give you a raise.
3,000% premiums are gonna fall.
3,000%.
Now there were only 200 people that showed up yesterday.
I don't know if that's all that we're interested in.
That were not opposed to health care.
But let's use some numbers here.
Let's apply some numbers here to this 3,000% reduction in premiums.
Just gonna pick a random number here to use.
Let's say an employer pays $4,000 in health care premiums for an employee.
If his premium went down 100%, he would save $4,000.
All right.
If the premium went down 3,000 percent, that's a savings of 4,000 100% times 30.
That equals 120,000, which means, and if Obama's number is accurate here, that health care will allow employers to give people a raise because their premiums go down 3,000%.
That means the employer will make a 120,000 dollar profit on each employee's health care insurance since Obama or once Obamacare is passed.
Now you can buy a lot of unicorns for 120,000, and you can buy a lot of idiots for 120,000.
But that's what he said.
3,000% means they can give you a raise.
Dig.
Well, you're not gonna get any raise.
This is bogus.
3,000%.
The health care companies are gonna be giving employers 120 grand per employee?
Well, Snerdley's in a in a in a little fit here, folks.
He thinks I've really stepped in it by referring to our president as a third world president.
What do you mean by that?
You better explain what you mean by that.
It's very simple.
We have to destroy our country in order to save our leaders' face.
Now, where does this happen?
It happens in Cuba.
It happens in North Korea.
It happens in Venezuela.
It happens in every third world country there is.
They destroy countries in order to save their face, build monuments to themselves, leaders for life, or what have you.
This is not a health care bill anymore.
This is Save Obama's face bill.
This is Save Obama's bacon bill, save Obama's presidency bill.
It doesn't matter what's in it.
He'll sign whatever he gets as long as it says health care reform somewhere in it.
This stupid reconciliation bill that they've started work on yesterday, the budget committee is bigger than the original bill in either the House or the Senate.
There isn't a bill yet.
They don't know what's this.
This is why, this is why Pelosi is saying, when you remember she said we have to pass the bill so the American people know what's in it.
She wasn't being stupid or flippant.
She was being honest.
We've got to pass this thing that they're working on now, the slaughter rule thing, so people will know what's in it.
Because it's it doesn't exist yet.
Now let's go back to the audio sound bites.
This is Obama putting the screws to Dennis Kucinich.
Your own congressman who is tireless on behalf of working people, Dennis Kucinich.
Come on, guys.
Did you hear that, Dennis?
Go and say that again.
Yeah, big 200 crowd of people there.
Vote yes to Kisinichin.
And how do you buy off Dennis Kucinich?
Would somebody explain he's got he's got an extremely dishy wife, his wife's a millionaire.
How do you buy the guy off?
You got to put the public option in there to buy this guy off.
You gotta make it even worse.
What?
I know he well, he knows he said no last week, and now he's saying he's undecided.
I can explain that to you.
Uh well, not very many people get to fly on Air Force One, and the people that do very seldom are brought into the presidential cabin uh and wined and dined, or uh in this case, A chewed out.
You know, it's Dennis Kucinich, at the end of the day, is a non-entity.
As is every member of Congress compared individually compared to the president.
So you bring them into the Oval Office or Air Force One when you're flying him back to his district.
He gets to get off the airplane with you.
And it's this is this is presidential power.
This is how it's used.
It can be used to uh Dennis, you're really important.
I need you.
I need you.
Everybody wants to be needed.
Everybody at the end of the day wants to say, I'm the man, I'm the guy that helped the president get this done.
Well, he's a true believer.
Yeah, Kucinich is a is a is a true believer.
And I'm by no means predicting how it's going to go.
I'm just asking you what they could do to pressure the guy.
I mean, they can't buy him off, his wife's got a zillion dollars.
Say it's easy for him to go out and be a socialist.
And uh he he married up.
Uh and he did a by the way, here's latest news from the House.
Boehner today announced the House Republicans intend to force a vote on a resolution requiring an actual up or down House vote on the Senate health care bill.
This is a technique.
We're gonna try to to uh stop the Democrats from using the slaughter rule.
If passed by the House, the resolution would prevent Speaker Pelosi from implementing the slaughter solution, the scheme uh by which Democrat leaders are seeking to pass the Senate bill.
So this statement is that this week the House of Republicans intend to force a vote on a measure that would give the American people an up or down vote on the Senate health care bill with all this slaughter stuff.
Now I have no idea how a vote on that would come out.
Uh you I think what they're trying to do is let's force a vote, let's let's let's make the Democrats go on record that they are willing to break and violate the Constitution.
Let's get the Democrats on record saying, yep, they intend to be lawless, and they will use lawlessness.
What are the odds that Boehner is able to get this vote?
Pretty slim.
Pelosi would have to call for it, have to agree to it.
Uh, but at least not a bad uh not a bad countermeasure.
Uh, folks, you know, I very seldom, as you well know for 21 years, I very seldom encourage phone calls and emails and letters to members of Congress.
And the reason that I don't do it is that I I never want the charge to be leveled that whatever response you gave was not genuine, that you had been talked into it or motivated, inspired or manipulated into uh doing it.
I think it is pedal to the metal time.
And even if you have been emailing and faxing and calling, I think it's time to intensify it.
You call the local offices, you call the Washington office of these people, the Democrats and so forth.
Um, the Republicans are like Martians.
They can't stop this.
The Martians couldn't stop it, the Republicans can't stop it.
Not with votes.
They don't have the votes.
But you can.
The only reason we're where we are now is because of you, the American people.
That's the truth of the matter.
And I think, you know, I I normally I normally don't do this, but time to throw down the gauntlet here and really ratchet it up.
To go along with all the other pressure that is being brought to bear elsewhere throughout the uh the the rest of the media.
Now, back to Obama, Strongville, Ohio yesterday, final portion of uh of his remarks.
We need an up or down vote.
It's time to vote.
And now as we get closer to the vote, there's a lot of hand wringing going on.
We hear a lot of people in Washington talking about politics, talking about what this means in November, talking about the poll numbers for Democrats and Republicans.
We need courage.
That's what we need.
That's why I came here today.
We need courage.
That's why he went there today.
We need courage.
We need an up or down vote.
No, Mr. President, we're not gonna get an up or down vote.
Your party will not permit an up or down vote.
You're gonna lose your up or down vote.
You have to break and violate the Constitution blatantly in order to save your presidency.
Think about it.
That's why I call him a third world president.
Let me tell you something, folks.
Very, very, very simple.
This is fundamental.
If Obama was proud of this bill, if he was proud of this process, he would have a full-blown news conference tonight.
And he would answer every question about it.
And he would plug it and he would show it.
He'd point to page X and say, This is where your premiums are going to go down 3,000%.
By the way, if Bush had ever said that, I mean, you'd never hear it again.
3,000%.
Premiums are going to go down 3,000%.
And his stupid audience is applauding that.
But he doesn't dare do a news conference.
He doesn't dare go on television to hype this bill.
And you know why?
All deception requires secrecy.
Secrecy is the number one desired weapon of tyranny.
You have to be able to do things in secret that nobody knows about to have a successful tyranny.
Secrecy.
That's what this is all about now.
Because they need deception.
No one has seen the slaughter solution bill.
What's been posted is a shell bill.
That's just a bill to distract everybody.
That bill is just to get something posted just to get the process going.
It'll be gutted.
It'll be replaced.
The Congressional Budget Office cannot score the final bill because nobody has seen it.
It doesn't exist yet.
That's why Pelosi said they'll have to pass the bill for us to know what's in it.
It's a patchwork of deceptions, threats, backroom deals, passed by unconstitutional parliamentary tricks.
And the President of the United States, in order to save his face, is lying to the American people about Obamacare.
His speeches are laced with fiction after fiction after fiction.
And everybody knows it.
Everybody's watching this, scratching their heads, trying to understand.
Does he not know that we know that he's lying?
I mean, health, even the Washington Post today editorialized against the slaughter solution.
Hey, call it unseemly.
The Washington Post, I mean, they've done everything but poll in favor of Obama.
They did everything, they're the first bunch to run all the puff pieces on Obama.
A year and a half, two years ago, the start of his campaign.
So he's out there lying to the American people about his health care bill.
Fiction after fiction after fiction.
The lies are so blatant.
The process is so corrupt that Obama wouldn't dare attempt to defend any of it in a press conference, even if every question was posed and written by David Axelrod.
There is no way he can publicly defend this bill.
He has to lie about it.
He has to make things up about it.
He has to deceive you.
He cannot, his most important thing, the thing most importantly he can't defend.
Not the real thing.
He refuses to.
This procedure, the slaughter solution.
Not only is it unconstitutional, not only is it universally unpopular, not only does it ignore the one issue Americans really care about right now in jobs, not only are bribes necessary to get the required votes, not only will it require and guarantee Republican control of the House and maybe the Senate,
not only will it destroy every budget until the country's bankruptcy, not only will passage spark protests like this country hasn't seen since our founding, this bill is so unpalatable that Obama can't get more than a couple hundred people to show up for his narcissism-fueled monument grab yesterday in Cleveland.
Two hundred people.
Oh.
And one of them fainted.
You hear that?
They're pulling out all the stops now.
We're going back to the campaign where people are so deliriously happy in Obama's presence that they are fainting.
And Obama just happens to see it every time it happens.
Oh, oh, wait.
Oh, somebody fainted up.
Medic Med again here.
Uh, somebody give him some space, get your person some space, and then goes on with his deception speech.
Quick timeout.
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Now, I have done this one time.
I have actually given out a phone number in Washington one time.
It was during the 90s.
It was in New York, and Howard Feynman was doing what was to be a cover story on me in Newsweek.
No!
Steve Roberts.
It was Steve Roberts for U.S. News and World Report.
Yeah, that's right, HR with Steve Roberts, the husband of Koki Roberts.
And the question came in well, you know, but you're always having people call Washington and you're always telling them to do this and do it.
And I said, No, no, no, no.
I I'm not part of that crowd.
I said, you want me to you want me to show you what happens if I do it?
He said, Yeah, okay.
Today I'm gonna give out a phone number and you watch what happens.
I gave out a phone number and the place shut down.
Just a demo.
I'm not the one.
It was a big deal, too, because you know, I never wanted to uh be able to offer the libs and the Democrats the opportunity to say that the effort was illegitimate because it was manipulated by me.
But it's time to go all out here.
I've got two toll-free telephone numbers here.
They are both to the Capitol switchboard.
You think I ought to give them out snurly?
Do you, Dawn?
You gotta give the numbers out.
Okay, here we go.
Toll-free Capital switchboard.
When you call these numbers, you gotta identify to whose office you wish to be connected.
So you gotta have a name out there.
You're gonna have to do some work on your own.
Get a name of a representative or a senator, Democrat, that you want to hear what you think.
First number is 800 965701.
800-965-4701.
The second toll-free number of the Capitol switchboard, 800-828-0498.
That's 800 828-0498.
I'm gonna have Coco post these at Rushlimbaugh.com in case you didn't have a way to write these down, and you can't commit the numbers to memory just with a couple of recitations by me.
So you go to Rush Limbaugh.com in a couple minutes, and the toll-free Capital Switchboard telephone numbers will be posted.
Let me give them to you one more time, 800-965-4701-800-828-0498.
And you call these numbers, you gotta you gotta have somebody to direct the call to.
Don't tell the operator anything.
And the operators just, hey, Capitol Smith Point, can we help you?
Yes, I want to talk to Congress and Zilch.
Uh would you please pull me through?
Just find the name of the Congressman.
The Washington Post today.
We understand the administration's sense of urgency on health care reform.
I don't know that they do.
Uh the sense of urgency is not health care reform.
It's not insurance premiums, it's nothing.
It's saving Obama's face.
The urgency is about saving Obama's presidency.
But then the post editorial continues.
What is intended as a final sprint threatens to turn into something unseemly and more important, contrary to Democrats' promises of transparency, uh transparency, and time for deliberation.
Well, big deal.
When's a land who ever believed that they still believe at the Washington Post that transparency and proper time for deliberation is a factor here.
Pelosi told reporters Monday she's leaning towards a parliamentary maneuver under which the House would vote on a package of changes to the Senate approved reform bill, and the underlying Senate bill would then be deemed to have passed, even though the House would never vote on it.
Now that may help some House members dodge a politically difficult question, but it strikes us as a dodgy way to reform the health care system.
Well, that's exactly right.
Here we are.
Look at the Tricks, the unconstitutionality, the lawlessness that the Democrat Party is having to resort to in order to force something down our throats that nobody wants.
And this is not just, you know, a little bit of debt uh raising.
This is this is one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
This is more than unseemly.
It is unconstitutional.
It's more than dodgy.
It is lawlessness.
It is perhaps the greatest assault on the Constitution in our lifetimes.
The one thing, I mean, the c the Constitution is probably more specific about how a bill becomes a bill than it is about anything else in the Constitution.
It spells it out from beginning to end with no ambiguity.
A president cannot sign a bill until it has been passed by both houses.
And this will not do that.
Even the slaughter solution, this will not do that.
This is more than dodgy.
This is more than unseemly.
It's illegal.
It is un-American.
It is unconstitutional and it is lawless.
And it deserves no patience or tolerance whatsoever.
Say if you want a Republican listing of the undecided Democrats on this, just Google code red, and that'll give you the website to the code red uh uh plan that the Republicans have in a code red, just Google it, get the link.
Code red will give you a listing of the undecided reps that people ask to speak to when you call a toll-free numbers.
They're busy, by the way.
Keep trying.
We knew they'd be busy.
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