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March 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
And folks, don't get don't get so uh wigged out here over this Kucinich business.
And there's an easy explanation for this Kucinich business.
They either threatened him with a UFO trip, either threatened him with a UFO trip, or they offered to make sure that in his case, his pre-existing condition of mental illness will not be a barrier to any kind of coverage that he gets down the road.
Great to have you here, folks.
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Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
You see what's going on in Thailand.
Those people really do not want Obama showing up over there.
Um, Thailand and and uh Indonesia, wherever he's going, they're blood in the streets protest.
I mean, they're they're draining their own blood and they're pouring it out.
You know the Asians, they have all they've always outdone everybody in protests.
You know, you gotta you gotta just really admire them for this.
We wish to see stuff like that here, but I mean the 60s people, I mean, they're just a bunch of pikers uh compared to the Asians.
The Asians really know how to ramp up.
Uh protest.
They really do.
All right, let's go to the audio.
We'll have more on Kucinich in just a minute, but let's go to the audio sound bites from yesterday afternoon, last night, and this morning.
Rush Limbaugh does something on air.
He has only done one other time.
Rush Limbaugh put out the word to flood the phone system.
Rush Limbaugh, who urged callers to complain to Congress.
Rush Limbaugh told his listeners to call in On the radio, Rush Limbaugh doing something he rarely does.
Urging his listeners to call members of Congress.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh urged listeners to call the U.S. Capitol.
Phone lines were jammed up on Capitol Hill yesterday because Rush Limbaugh said, here's some phone numbers.
When Rush says something like that, I mean when he says call, that is basically a meltdown of the uh communication system on Capitol Hill.
The phone's being jammed to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, giving out numbers on his radio show and website.
All right, uh, it's even uh better or worse, depending on your point of view than uh than you've been told.
It was so bad that people inside couldn't call out either.
They were having to use their cell phones to get out of there.
I mean, I have you know, I have a couple people who are uh journalists, and they said they couldn't get through to their secret sources, and their secret sources inside the Capitol couldn't reach them.
They had to go outside, use a cell phone or something.
Uh I don't I don't see any reason to stop this.
Um in fact, I don't think you have let up.
I think uh I saw in on Fox this morning that the uh phone lines are not as busy as they were, but uh more often than not you are gonna get a busy signal.
But we may as well keep the pressure ramped up because they do not have the votes, and there is no reconciliation bill.
There isn't.
If they have not been Heritage has it, they have not been able to write it.
There is a lot going on with this.
Make no mistake about this.
What they really want is to pass the Senate bill.
That's the simplest way to get it to Obama to sign by Saturday so he can head off to wherever it is he's going.
Uh but but the the uh uh explained in detail where I think they are on this.
But where they are right now is no votes.
Even when they turn Kucinich, they're now down 11 according to uh CNN.
They're 11 votes shy.
And uh this this is this is uh actually uh dovetails with what we heard from Stupak the other day, who said they were 12 down or 16 down.
He said they were at 200.
So it's probably not five or four, even with Kucinich uh flipping.
So here are the numbers, and just keep barraging them.
And if you get a busy signal, understand um that it's a circuit busy.
They've and they've they've sent out warnings from the Capitol Communications Office to members that it's gonna be like this all week.
They sent that out yesterday afternoon.
Uh so may as well uh stay at this because you are the ones, you are the reason.
The American people are the reason why we are at this point.
And I'm not cutting the Republicans when I say this.
They don't have the votes to stop this.
And nevertheless, Harry Reed's out there attacking them again today, but they can't do anything.
They don't have the votes.
It is you, the American people speaking to your elected representatives all over the place on the Democrat Party side.
You are the ones who have stopped this.
And And it's it's time to keep the pressure up.
So here are the numbers, the toll-free number for the Capitol Switchboard 877-762-8762.
The uh the the toll call number, the direct toll number is 202-224-3121.
Now, we have these numbers at Rush Limbaugh.com.
If uh if you don't have a way to write them down, if you're driving around to something, but you do have a smartphone, you can uh you can log on at a red light and uh get the numbers.
Here they are again, 877-762-8762.
I guess this is the third time now that I'm or i maybe I can just say this as a continuation of yesterday, still only the second time in history, that um I have advocated this.
And this is there's no better time than now.
It is really crucial.
And I think I think all these phone calls that you made yesterday, there's no question, no question at all they had an impact.
I mean, everybody noted how the Capitol Hill switchboard, and you know what?
There hardly anybody, and this is surprising to me.
It may have been reported, but I've missed it.
One of the reasons I've I've always shied away from doing this is that it would allow critics to delegitimize the whole thing.
Well, of course people are calling.
They're not calling because they want to.
Limbards don't care.
You know, limb boss mining number robots.
And they're not reporting it that way.
They're not reporting it as a genuine outrage at the bill.
And it is.
There's no question.
So, 877-762-8762.
It's a toll-free number at the Capitol Hill switchboard, 202-224-3121.
And you probably are not going to have to pay for it because nobody's ever going to answer it.
The odds of you getting through with the hundreds of millions of people trying to reach there are so slim.
Go ahead and call a 202 number, even if you're out of work.
You're probably, you know, we did a bit di when it when does a call begin?
Does a call begin when you dial it?
Does a call begin when you get a ring?
Does a call begin when you get an answer?
And if it's unwanted call, you know, where where then you see the yellow blinking light if you have a yellow blinking light on your phone, or you hear the ringer?
Uh and if you're in the middle of the call and you don't want it, you've answered it, and you don't want to say, I don't want to deal with this, and you hang up.
Have you successfully aborted the call and therefore don't have to pay for it?
We checked this out with the phone companies back then in the uh late 80s and early 90s, and they were uh perplexed uh at the question that we would look at it this way.
But for practical purposes here, the likelihood somebody's gonna answer is so slim that uh and you're not gonna I don't think you get charged for a busy signal, do you?
You don't get charged for a call that's not completed.
What is it matter?
Folks, even if you do, what does it matter?
202-224-3121-877-762-8762.
Now everybody's asking me, and everyone, well, well, what caused Dennis Kucinich to flip?
I mean, Kucinich, I mean, he's principled.
Principles may be wrong and screwy and kooky, but but still, uh, he he's slipped.
He's swaying.
Why did this happen?
Well, let's listen to Kucinich.
A portion uh calls a press conference.
Takes ten minutes to get to the news that everybody knew.
They was going to flip and vote for the Obama bill, the Senate bill, and gave us this life history story of his own health care.
Uh it's, I mean, this guy clearly they played to his ego.
Here's here's probably how it went.
They're on Air Force One, and they'd taken off from Washington.
On their way to Ohio, to coincidentally, Kucinich's little district.
So Obama brings him up at a presidential cabin, says, Look, you effing R-word.
You hate the insurance industry.
You don't hate them any more than I do.
I hate them.
Are you really so stupid as to not understand that my bill is going to destroy the insurance industry?
How's that, Mr. Brother?
For crying out loud, Dennis, nobody's gonna have to have insurance till I get sick.
Nobody's gonna be denied.
The insurance companies can't stay in business with this kind of proposal.
They'll shut down and go to force everybody to the government.
The brilliant thing about this, Dennis, is we're going to get the single payer public option without anybody saying it.
You want to, you want to screw this by demanding a public option.
You're going to get it, but you're out there screwed around by demanding it.
We're going to get it, Dennis, without ever saying a word about it.
Now get on board here.
I mean, who's going to be dumb enough, Dennis, to pay for insurance when they can wait until I have the car crash or wait till they get the terminal disease.
All they got to do is pay a little fine.
Hey, Dennis, that fine is nothing more than a tax.
And we're pricing the tax, the fine much lower than the policy.
No idiot in his right mind would ever buy insurance.
But Mr. President, the bill says, and the insurance industry is supporting it at one time that they have to buy a policy.
That you're mandating it.
And that made me mad because I don't I hate the insurance companies, and you're just giving them additional business.
Look, you effing our word, Dennis.
The fine does two things.
It's cheaper than the policy, it more tax dollars coming into the into the government coffers, which you like, and the insurance industry is put out of business, leaving the government as the only place that people can go for their insurance.
Dennis, it's exactly what you want.
We're giving it to you without saying so.
Only the bright people like Limbaugh and some of the people on the right have figured it out.
But you you you effing our word.
I mean, what more do I have to do?
I'm destroying the very industry you hate, Dennis.
You ought to be kissing my feet.
You ought to be bowing down and begging forgiveness that you've been so stupid as to run an obstacle course in front of me to stop this from happening.
These people, the American people, they're gonna see the light.
They're gonna leave these evil insurance companies high and dry.
Except when they need one of those uh unnecessary tonsolectomies or amputations that the doctors pull off.
You know, Mr. President, I saw the surveys though that say the doctors are gonna leave the profession.
There's an amazing survey that was released yesterday that over 60% say they would leave the profession of medicine.
Dennis, don't you understand that's what we want too?
How do you think we're gonna lower costs, Dennis?
We're gonna have less health care for people.
We're gonna have no insurance companies, less health care, the people we don't want to be around are not gonna be around.
The people who know the truth about us are gonna die off, the elderly and so forth.
Dennis, this is made to order.
We wrote this bill with people like you in mind.
I don't have to give you anything, Dennis.
I've given you nirvana in this health care bill.
It's exactly what you want.
But you're out there holding out because you want it to say public option.
Well, if we say public option, it doesn't have a chance, Dennis.
That's why we got it passed in the Senate.
So we had to put in a mechanism to destroy private insurance, and we've done it.
And it's gonna not take very many years, Dennis.
And meanwhile, your mental illness pre-existing condition will still be honored.
We'll make sure that somebody insures you for your mental illness pre-existing condition.
And that's probably folks, that all that's all it took.
At the end of this conversation, Kucinich probably looked out the window and said, Oh my God, is that the Statue of Liberty?
I've never seen it up close like this.
That's all it took, folks.
Here, listen to Kucinich himself explain this.
After careful discussions with President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, my wife Elizabeth, and close friends.
I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.
As a nation, we're losing sight of the expanded vision.
See?
The electrifying potential we caught when we caught a glimpse of the potential of the election of President Obama.
The transformational potential of his presidency.
Yeah.
And of ourselves, can still be courageously summoned in ways that will reconnect America to our hopes for expanded opportunities for jobs, housing, education, peace, and yes, health care.
Dennis, have you have you checked what's happening out there, the job market?
There are no expansion out there, Dennis, except in the government sector.
Have you checked to see what's Happening in housing, Dennis, after one year of this Messiah of yours, have you checked to see what's going on in education?
Closing 45 schools in Detroit, Dennis.
Hey, probably a prelude to shutting down the school system there.
Obviously it's a failure.
Peace.
Peace.
Dennis, have you seen what he's doing to Israel?
There's a story I've got this.
The New York Times is all in.
New York Times has two stories today.
Anti-states' rights on this health care business.
States have no business going their own way.
It's all in for the federal government.
And try this.
New York Times, Mark Landler, opportunity in a fight with Israel.
Do you know what the opportunity is?
No.
The opportunity for Obama in a fight with Israel is to shore up his standing in the Middle East.
That's the story in the New York Times.
In other words, to shore up his standing with Muslims.
To store up short to shore up his standing with the Middle East.
What about shoring up America's standard in the world?
What about doing something that helps this country, Mr. Prem?
What is it?
All about him?
It's good to get ticked off at Israel for building 1,600 new homes.
So that the Middle East has a more favorable impression of Obama.
This is where we are.
Before we go to the break, Kucinich, October 29th, 2009, was a true believer before they got to him.
Here's what he really thinks about the health care bill.
Forcing people to buy private insurance, guaranteeing at least $50 billion in new business for the insurance companies.
Is this the best we can do?
Government negotiates rates which will drive up insurance costs, but the government won't negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies, which will drive up pharmaceutical costs.
Is this the best we can do?
Eliminating the state single payer option.
We're forcing most people to buy private insurance.
If this is the best we can do, then our best isn't good enough.
And we have to ask some hard questions about our political system, such as health care or insurance care.
Government of the people or government by the corporations.
That's Kucinich just last October.
That's what he really thinks.
When he was bought off, he was told, Dennis, everything you want is going to happen here.
Just under the cover of darkness.
By the way, I said yesterday that Kucinich's wife would have a role in this.
And uh Scarlet Johansson, the actress, and activist Elizabeth Kucinich will soon be working in tandem with Michelle Obama's anti-obesity efforts, taking up the benefits of plant-based meals.
So Mrs. Kucinich wants to be someone.
She's sitting right next to Michelle, turning everybody into vegetarians now.
Eric Holder says that uh terrorists have the same rights as mass murderers.
Eric Holder also said yesterday that Osama bin Laden will never be tried in the U.S. court system.
That he'll either be killed by his own people or just die.
The reason he will never be tried in the U.S. court system is he's already dead.
He's been dead for years.
Everybody knows it.
The reason we're not talking about getting bin Laden now is because everybody knows he's already dead.
They just used that against Bush to show his Iraq policy was wrong.
His Afghanistan policy was a failure.
Now, if you notice nobody has any interest in getting bin Laden, and holders are saying, eh, yeah, we're never gonna bring him to trial.
Older can't wait to try these people in court.
But we're never gonna because he's not alive.
Don't doubt me on this.
All right.
Heritage, morning bell.
I'm gonna get started on this.
I'm gonna take a break and we'll come back to it.
It's a little complicated, be only because of what's so convoluted and unconstitutional about what the uh the House of Representatives is is trying to do here.
But there is no bill but the Senate bill, the reconciliation bill.
All these changes that they want to attach to a deemed to have passed Senate bill has not been written.
They say they're waiting on the score of whatever the yet to be written bill is from the Congressional Budget Office.
Well, a little hint for you.
Pelosi got that number yesterday.
She's whole I don't know what it is, but you know, they've well I I I do know what it is.
I'll guarantee you the numbers under a trillion dollars.
That's the tipping point number.
So she'd been working with the CBO.
She's told them whatever's hit there, but there's nothing to score again.
There's not even a draft outline of this.
It's why they don't have any votes.
The only bill they have right now is a Senate bill.
They haven't put together this reconciliation thing, yet she got a score from the CBO yesterday, I'm told, and is going to announce it tomorrow to try to ignite some momentum heading into the weekend.
Her objective, if she can do it, is to sign this bill on Saturday, or to pass this bill on Saturday, when there aren't as many uh well, no, just not as many people running around.
Uh and this is this is her objective.
Now, we're told all over the place that there are 11 votes shy, 12 votes shy, 16 votes shy, five votes shy.
There are four different estimates coming from the four different leaders of Pelosi's leadership team.
But what is known is that right now there is no bill except the Senate bill.
And there was another poll that came out yesterday, the NBC News Wall Street Journal poll released theirs, and it showed the percentage of Americans who believe Obama's health care plan is a bad idea, is at the highest level since they started asking the question last year.
Forty-eight percent.
Only 36% of Americans are willing to call Obama's plan or the Senate plan or whoever's plan a good idea.
Uh, and that's up a whole four points from the time Louise Slaughter started writing things about it.
So there's no improvement, it's worsening.
There is no reconciliation bill yet.
And I'll explain what's in the works when we come back.
It's great to have you with us, L. Rushbow, behind the golden EIB microphone still, suggesting that it will be productive and useful.
For all of you to keep hounding the Capitol Hills switchboard, here's the number, toll-free 877-762-8762.
And it's to the uh the uh non-Toll-free number, 202-224-3121.
Both numbers posted at rushlimbaugh.com.
You know, a lot of people who are starting to say John Hood is one from the Carolinajournal.com, is saying, you know, if if they pass this using the slaughter solution, in other words, literally shredding the Constitution.
If they do this in a lawless way, then he's not going to comply.
He's simply not going to comply, and he's urging everybody else not to comply.
We don't have to comply with illegally passed bills.
We don't have to comply with things which are unconstitutional.
For example, maybe we can just deem our tax returns to have been filed.
But we don't actually file them.
We just deem our taxes to have been paid.
We just deem it.
I mean, if they can deem to have passed laws, we can certainly say that we are deemed to have complied with them.
The word deem means what?
It means pretend.
That's what it means.
We're going to pretend that we passed the Senate bill.
That's what it means.
We're going to pretend that we paid our taxes.
Lawlessness, unconstitutionality, why do we have to comply with it?
Now, let's get back to this mess as taking place in the in the House of Representatives.
The Senate Health Bill is so unpopular in the House that the leftist House leadership is desperately trying to trick the American people into believing that the House can pass the Senate bill without voting on it.
There are many reasons why they want to do this, but at the top of the list, and I kid you not, is that members of the House want to be able to go home during their campaign for re-election and say, no, I did not vote for the Senate bill.
You won't, you won't find a vote for the Senate bill.
I didn't vote for it.
No, no, we we deemed it to have passed, but we didn't vote.
They do not want to be tied to a vote on it.
I know this this sounds convoluted, And it is.
It's unconstitutional and it is illegal.
So that's why they've come up with the slaughter rule, which would deem the Senate bill passed at the same time the House would approve a new reconciliation bill.
Pelosi was crystal clear on her motives this week.
She told a group of leftist bloggers it's more insider and process oriented, most people want to know about, but I like it, because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill.
There is one increasingly glaring problem, however, with Pelosi's passed the bill without voting plan.
It's impossible, proving impossible, to draft that reconciliation bill.
Now, again, not to insult your intelligence.
You probably know, but I just want to explain what the reconciliation bill is.
Think of it as a bunch of amendments.
Think of it as the House fixes what they don't like about the Senate bill, and they end up with two separate bills.
They don't end up with a reconciliation bill that is attached to the Senate bill as one bill.
They end up with two separate bills.
The Senate bill, which they deem to have passed, and then their reconciliation package.
And those two bills would not go back to the Senate.
They would go straight to Obama.
If the House votes on these this way, that's the slaughter rule.
So, and they even found the drive-by are desperately looking for constitutional lawyers to say this is no problem.
And they found some doofus in Maryland, some university in Maryland, who actually said, somebody show me in the Constitution where it says you can't pass two bills with one vote.
And this is a guy teaching constitutional law to people.
Show me in the Constitution, he said where you can pass, where you can't pass two bills with one vote.
Now, the problem is that it's proving difficult to draft that reconciliation bill.
The Democrats first promised to unveil their new bill last Wednesday.
Then it was Thursday and then Friday.
Then they were going to release it Monday.
Then we were told they were going to release it last night.
As of this morning, still nothing.
The Democrats say they're waiting for a score from the Congressional Budget Office before they release their bill.
But there's nothing stopping them from releasing whatever text they have now and then publicizing the CBO score when it comes back.
But they don't want to do the open and transparent path.
And I want to take that way.
They got, I'm told in a very, very reliable source, a spy, that Pelosi's got her CBO score.
And she's waiting to release it tomorrow to provide some momentum.
And if she's got it and is going to wait to release it, then it obviously is a score that she likes, which is something under $1 trillion.
Now, the Heritage Foundation insists that getting a CBO score consistent with reconciliation is going to be very difficult.
And they tell me their reasons here.
But if if if the if the House Democrats have chosen to break the law, if they have chosen to ignore the law, if they have chosen to simply violate the Constitution, then why would they stop or be stopped by any other rules?
Now here's what heritage says will be the difficulty in getting a CBO CBO score that is consistent with reconciliation, according to House rules.
But what do they matter anymore now?
According to House rules, a reconciliation measure must reduce the deficit by at least two billion dollars over five years compared to existing law.
In this case, however, existing law would be the Senate bill, which has yet to be passed.
It exists only in the Senate.
So that's the existing law.
All the changes the Democrats want to make to the Senate bill, the amendments, the reconciliation, such as scaling back the tax on high-end health insurance policies, closing the Medicare D loophole, boosting insurance subsidies, increasing Medicaid payments, and expanding the Cornhusker kickback to every state.
That's how they're dealing with it in the House.
They're not taking it away from Ben Nelson.
They're going to give it to every state.
And they can't do any of this and satisfy the rule that says the bill must reduce the deficit by at least two billion dollars over five years compared to existing law, which is the Senate bill.
There's no way what they're writing is going to reduce the deficit at all.
Even the AP today does a fact check on Obama, and virtually everything he's saying about this bill is a lie.
They even point out that he says premiums are going to go down.
They're not.
Premiums are going up.
Even the AP, it's getting to the point now.
You know, I I would like, I would like one of you Obama supporters in the audience to call me today and tell me one thing about health care Obama said that's true.
It would take a lot less time for you to tell me what he said that's true than for me to sit here and list all the lies, because he's lying about everything.
None of what he's saying is factual, none of it is truthful.
So expanding the corn husker kickback, scaling back the tax on high-end health insurance policies, closing the Medicare D loophole.
Oh, do you know they're also double counting?
$500 billion in Medicare cuts are then going to be taken and applied to the new reconciliation bill.
And they're counting it twice.
They say, well, we're cutting the budget by $500 billion.
You're not, because you're just changing pockets.
You're changing taking the $500 billion out of the out of the Senate bill and you're moving it into your reconciliation bill.
Same $500 billion, there's no cut.
But they're counting it as a cut.
And anything the CBO comes up here with is not going to be factual or true either.
Now, all of this means that the Democrats are going to have to identify some new revenues to make the CBO score work.
And the Congressional Quarterly said yesterday that Democrats have not yet identified the right pay for game the CBO and get the number right, which is why the House leadership has not unveiled their new bill yet.
They can't figure out how to pay for it.
Now, again, it's not that they care about having to pay for it.
It's they've got to have a way on paper that makes it look like it's being paid for.
But my my reaction to what Heritage says here, this is their morning dough blog, is if they're willing to go the total unconstitutional, if they are willing to uproot the very fabric of our country to pass this.
And you got to ask yourself something about that, by the way.
Just what is in this that makes it so important for them to do what they are doing.
Why are they willing to lose the majority in November in the House, maybe the Senate as well.
Why are they willing to risk losing the White House in 2012?
Why are they willing to openly violate the Constitution?
Why?
What's in this?
What's in this that we don't know?
What makes this so important?
I think if I had to take a stab at this, when you boil it all down, what this does is destroy the private insurance business.
Just wipes it out.
Just eliminates it.
And it gets them single payer within years without ever having to really vote on that concept.
There are so many deceptions and tricks going on in this.
Now, Heritage says after all of this, after saying the House hasn't produced their new bill because they can't figure out how to pay for it, it really doesn't matter if they ever do.
The reconciliation bill is never going to become law.
The Senate will never pass it.
They have no reason to.
The Senate likes the existing Senate bill.
That's why it's called the Senate bill.
They're the ones who passed it.
The White House also likes the Senate bill.
As soon as the House passes it, Obama will sign it and then leave for Asia.
That's it.
Obamacare will be the law of the land.
But my fear, going a bit beyond heritage, my fear is that they will do the slaughter solution with the claim that they have deemed the Senate bill to have passed, and then they will send the Senate bill to the President to sign without sending reconciliation to the Senate.
the plan is to treat them as separate bills the Senate bill is passed The reconciliation bill as a second bill.
So the Senate would not have to vote again.
The Senate could ignore the reconciliation bill altogether.
And if they wanted to, they could go ahead and say that we're okay, we're going to attach this to the Senate bill, make it one bill, and the president sign all this.
I mean, once you throw down the rules, once you say that we're going to deem it to have passed, there's no limit to what you can do.
None.
Once you pretend that you've done something, you you don't have to stop pretending at all.
So it is it is convoluted, but at the bottom of all this is they still don't have the votes, and they don't have the votes because the members of the House despise the Senate bill.
They don't have a reconciliation bill yet, because I mean there's 435.
Well, however many Democrats in there that want their fingers in this pie who have to be satisfied.
Uh and it's just, it's a mess.
That's why Clyburn's saying, I don't know, we might even get to this by Easter.
And Hoyer's saying, uh, we don't have the votes now.
They don't have the votes to pass the Senate bill, and they never will have the votes to pass the Senate bill.
It is despised in the House.
This reconciliationist slaughter rule.
Um just and this is where Pelosi is willing to trick her own members.
Go ahead and you know, put together this amendment thing, this this reconciliation bill, and tell the members, yeah, we're gonna fixing this, we're fixing this.
All of this is gonna be fixed.
We're just gonna deem the Senate bill to be signed, we're gonna fix it, we're gonna send this stuff back over to the Senate, we're gonna fix it all.
But what won't happen is sending it back to the Senate.
The Senate will never see it.
It'll just die.
President will sign the Senate bill, deemed to have passed, nobody in the House will have actually voted on it, and House members get screwed.
The only upside for them is they get to run home and say, I didn't vote for the Senate bill.
We deemed it to have passed.
This is beyond rational explanation and description.
This makes Watergate look like romper room.
This is the overthrow of a U.S. constitutional system, orchestrated from the White House through the House of Representatives, uh Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
That's what's going on here.
We'll take a break, because I'm way along in this segment.
And we're back, El Rushbo on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Remember now, if if they deem the Senate bill to have passed, then it includes everything in the Senate bill, but none of the changes, because the reconciliation bill is going to be a separate thing.
This is why Pelosi needs the reconciliation bill.
They want to be able to have it both ways.
They that they have approved the Senate bill but amended it, which allows the President to sign the Senate bill, and House members to claim that they had wanted it amended, but the Senate wouldn't do it.
This is all about putting Harry Reid and Obama on the spit.
This is this is Pelosi taking care of herself.
House members can blame the Senate while in the meantime the bill they never voted on but said was voted on is supposedly law.
Let me run through this again.
Pelosi needs the reconciliation bill because she wants to be able to have it both ways.
She wants to be able to say that they deemed the Senate bill to have been passed, but that they amended it, which allows the president to sign the Senate bill, and everybody is under the illusion that the amendments, the reconciliation will then go to the Senate and they'll pass that, and it'll go to some back and sent to the president will get two bills, but it's not gonna happen.
What will happen is the president will sign the Senate bill and that's it.
End of story.
House members able to claim they had wanted it amended and they did amend it, but the Senate wouldn't do it.
Then House members can blame the Senate, while in the meantime, the bill they never voted on, but said was deemed to have passed, uh supposedly becomes the law of the land.
This this allows them to basically say anything they want, which is exactly the purpose, to get the bill but claim no responsibility for it.
That's why this is dictatorial.
This is why this is a dictate.
This is not governing.
This is not even this is not even managing.
This is dictatorial.
Pelosi and Reed are delivering victory to Obama and their party against the will of the people and in contravention of the Constitution.
That's what this really is all about.
So she needs that reconciliation bill in order to get the House members that hate the Senate bill to vote for it.
She needs it.
And right now they don't have it.
Right now they don't have any text for it.
So I hope that this makes a corrupt, polluted circumstance, somewhat, and very complex circumstance, somewhat understandable.
Again, the two phone numbers.
I'm told that there's been a change here.
877-762-8762 is not answering.
No busy signal, just a care a never-ending ring.
Is that right?
Okay, we've called it twice, and that not a busy signal.
It's just not being answered.
That means it's still working, folks.
The system's still tight up.
The 202-224-3121 is still busy.
We'll be back.
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