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March 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I don't think so.
I don't think so at all.
I think the timing of this signing ceremony, which to me looked like the largest Star Wars bar scene I have ever seen.
I think this was in your face.
The timing of this was in my face, because they think that I am the ideological leader of the opposition.
This was, hey Limbaugh, look at us.
Look what we did.
Have a great day, Limbaugh.
We hope your day's ruined.
Greetings, my friend.
It's not by any means stretchy.
I'm still an American, and until they take that away from me, there's no day ruined.
800-282-2882 is the number, the email address, El Rushball at EIBNet.com.
It has really been instructive to observe things the past 24 hours.
I um I have, you know, people email me stuff all the time, and things that I've would not normally look at on the uh on the internet, and I've gone to some places myself to uh look at things, and I have I have been struck by two things.
Here at this Star Wars bar scene today, and the media all morning leading up to it, they kept celebrating this giant Obama Pelosi victory.
And by the way, just so you know, the one guy that was not thanked today was Bart Stupak.
And if it hadn't been for Stupak, they wouldn't be there today.
So Stuck, for all that he worked on, did not get recognized.
Marcellus, the little kid did, uh, and a woman in a hospital in Cleveland got recognized, but not Stupec.
But anyway, they kept they kept talking about this great victory that Obama and Pelosi had.
And I got the victory over who.
I mean, if you're gonna have a great victory, you gotta defeat somebody who'd they defeat.
And if you look at the polling data, 70% of the American people do not like this health care bill, even in a CNN poll, they can't ignore it anymore.
Two CNN polls, his approval numbers at 46%, and 59% don't like the health care bill.
And now we're told that Obama's gonna hit the road.
He's heading out to Iowa City on Thursday.
Top advisor said that Obama says people will embrace the health care overhaul once they get familiar with what is and what it isn't.
Well, my God, he's spent a year telling everybody what it is.
He's spent a what why why the need to keep explaining and selling this thing?
What it means is you gotta go out there and counter the truth that people have been told.
He's got to go out and convince people that the truth they have been told is not the truth about what is in this.
Look at I just got just printed off the uh off the printer mere moments ago.
Uh let's see.
Well, it's with a lot of don't tell me it's a 10-page here.
It is health care excess St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Healthcare experts expect rise in premiums to cover children's care provisions.
While most provisions of the health care overhaul package are not slated to take effect for years, family with children with chronic or civil severe illnesses can expect almost immediate relief from health insurance companies.
However, the premium rise for all this to cover the children's care provisions are going to be striking, already raising premiums.
And we're gonna keep it I have a network of spies throughout the country that are going to inform me whenever their insurance premiums go up from this day forward.
Because we've been told the insurance premiums are gonna go down $2,500 per person per family, whatever it is.
So we'll keep track of this.
We're gonna we're not gonna present it as sob stories.
See, that's the other thing that I wanted to get to.
In reading some of these internet things last night, I did something I very seldom do.
I always read the stories.
But I I never read the comments.
I never read the comments that people leave because it's kooks.
But last night I did.
And something struck me.
Something in in every comment to this healthcare story, whether it was uh well, whatever the story was, didn't matter.
Story is all about passage and and all this, but whatever the comments were, they ran only two ways.
Uh one of the one of the one of the comments or one of the one of the threads uh what from conservatives was all based on sadness over what this will do to the country.
Without exception, there it was it was there maybe you might have had some caustic comments about Obama and so forth, but it was all about the reason we oppose this is because we love.
The reason we oppose this is because we have a deep love and understanding for our country, for the United States of America.
The people who left comments supporting this exhibited no love whatsoever.
And they didn't even talk about country.
They didn't talk, they didn't say, well, what a great day for America this is.
Every comment was beat your ass.
How does it feel today?
You move into Costa Rica or whatever it is.
They were whatever comment was left by a person, this is a bad day for the country, we really fear for the country.
The snarky comment in return to that was, uh, how does it feel to lose?
We love beating you people.
We love it.
You can stop gloating, you can stop being arrow.
There was no love for this, and I know I've said this before.
Uh there's no love on the left.
There's no love of country, if anything, there is a dislike of it to whatever degrees, and this adds to the pain we all feel when we realize that a certain segment, percentage of the population has no love for the country.
And as such, it's not possible for them to see what kind of damage this is going to do.
And then we realize, take it even step further, that some of these people are looking, look at this is Christmas.
They have no more health care expenses for them, they totally misunderstand what's happened here because they believe they're lying leaders, and they are fully prepared here to just accept and go to hospital and not to pay for it, or get an insurance policy and only have to pay a copay.
Uh it it it there's a there's a striking ignorance on the left of economic, basic economics.
They have no understanding of it.
Uh and there's also no love.
There's no all of us, I think you all will agree with me that the reason that we oppose this is not because we hate Obama.
We might be afraid.
We might be afraid of what Obama's doing, and we might be afraid of the inability to stop it, but it's all based on love.
It's all based on love for the country, and love for our fellow citizens, and love for children and grandchildren.
We want to pass a legacy on that we inherited when we were born, raised, and grew up.
And that legacy is American exceptionalism, the opportunity to be the best you can be, with as few shackles and obstacles in the way as possible.
We love the concept of a limited government who, for example, there's a there's a story today, and you I had two reactions to this.
You know, Fargo, North Dakota, Red River, they flood every year.
And they need 1.3 billion dollars to build a 36-mile-long flood wall, essentially.
And the first reaction of why why how come everybody wants billions of dollars to do it?
Why not if you if if if the if a river floods every year, why not the hell you you move?
But that's not the correct reaction.
The correct reaction is that's the kind of expenditure that we think is okay for government.
1.6 billion dollars to protect people, to build a wall, a flood wall or what have you.
Uh not to tell them how to build it, not to tell them where they have to live, not to tell them, you know, a bunch of demands on it and mandates and so forth.
It's all based uh our opposition to this is based on love.
The opponents that we have are gleeful, not because of whatever they think is marvelous that's going to happen to the country, they're gleeful because we lost.
They get more thrill.
It doesn't mat in fact, the country could go to hell in a handbasket as long as it did so with us being defeated.
That is their primary, and this is what we don't understand.
I think some of us more and more are coming to understand it, but the uh there's a there's a striking contrast between the two groups of people in this country, left and right, who are seeking to advance their vision, and it's very important to Understand that one vision is rooted in hate, not just for us, but large elements of the country as it was founded.
There's no love.
I mean, these people today, the Star Wars Bar scene signing ceremony, you know, Obama gave them a bunch of false promises, things that are going to happen this year, and with the assumption it's not going to cost anybody anything.
I mean, how in the world, and insurance companies are not regulated until four years from now.
So if if they're told that from this day forward, they have to be, they have to cover people's preexisting conditions.
And if they are told that they have to insure children up to age 26 on their parents' policies.
Uh sorry, uh, enter basic economics.
What is folks?
Let me ask you a question.
What is it that determines the price of insurance?
Let's talk about health insurance specifically.
What is it that determines the cost, the price of health insurance?
No.
Well, yes, the risk, but that's No, no, no, no.
But the cost of health care expenses.
The cost of health care, I mean, if if you have if you're an insurance company and you have a pool of customers and you're going to insure them for whatever, your premiums are going to be based on what you are going to have to pay when you have a claim.
What you're going to have to pay is based on what the expenses in the health care system are.
I'm sorry, folks, they're not going down any time you add 32 million new people, any time you add all these pre-existing conditions, and you're going to make the insurance companies handle this, and you're gonna you're gonna exempt people who up to $88,000 a year from paying for it.
I'm sorry, somebody's gonna pay for it, and it isn't going to be cheaper for them, and health care expenses are not going down, so there's no way premiums can go down.
Not under these circumstances.
But none of this matters.
None of the reality of the economics matters here.
I mean, to the people who are who are for this.
Because in large part, the people who are for it don't think they're going to have to pay for it.
And that's where they're sadly mistaken.
Because every American is going to see his withholding get larger.
Every American is going to see the net in the pay stub or the automatic deposit every week or two weeks, however you get paid, shrink.
That is, if you have a job.
And that is, if you're able to stay in your home.
Home sales decline for the third straight month today.
Well, Obama did say we're going to get raises, but that's because we're going to have $2,500 with cheaper premiums every year.
Well, he actually said 3,000%.
Of course, they went out and said, look, that was a misspeak.
He meant he meant $3,000.
Not 3,000%.
It wasn't a misspeak.
He said it I don't know how many times.
It was designed to create the effect that it did among the ignorant and the people paying scant attention to this.
Anyway, I have to take a break here, folks.
Uh, but this this love versus hate business is is one of the reasons why there's no meeting these people in common ground.
I mean, you that there's no compromise in love and hate.
How do you how how do we compromise with these people by agreeing?
Yeah, you know, we'll agree with you to dislike or hate some of the country.
If you will agree to love some of us.
I mean, I I don't want to run around hating everybody.
I don't want around hating anything, but they do.
It's what energizes them.
And they don't care the damage that's caused in the process of, and I'll tell you, I I'm gonna be very I largely blame myself for this.
I do.
I'll tell you why I think I'm responsible for this.
This partisan divide.
It's a good thing.
Don't misunderstand, but I'm responsible for it, and I'll tell you how we come back.
That's right, Snerdley.
We criticize liberals because we love our country and we fear for it.
And we fear what the Obama left has in store for it.
And and make no mistake, this is not a revision of the health insurance industry that was just signed into law today.
This was the first step of a government takeover of the entire health care system, including insurance.
That's what's happened here.
Now, these people on the left, they attack us because they hate us, period.
They have no love whatsoever animating liberals, liberalism, People on the left.
They simply seek to eliminate all opposition.
And they don't have a uh they don't have a morally superior vision of anything.
Nobody with hate in their heart can.
They claim to be morally superior, but there's no way they can be with strict definitions of the of the word.
They are singularly focused on the elimination of all opposition.
Now, our principled opposition frightens them because it makes them face their own immorality and lawlessness, and they turn that around on us.
Now I said I'm responsible for this, and here's why I think that I am.
Very simply, I am the reason there is an alternative media.
Prior to 1988, they didn't have any opposition.
They pretty much in the media were able to create whatever fiction, premise, template, storyline they wanted.
And the only opposition to it was in obscure magazines, not widely read, and in various think tanks and so forth, who put out policy papers, position papers.
And you had you had Reagan, who was able to overcome it without a media.
Barry Goldwater, who was not.
But Reagan was an isolated four years, eight years.
And you see how they reacted then.
I mean, they hated Nixon.
But they were able to get away with that hate without any opposition.
When Reagan came along, the personal hatred for Reagan really skyrocketed.
And anything that he was doing, I mean, the things that they're saying about conservatives today are really not that different than what they said about Reagan.
But today there's an answer to it.
Today there's an echo chamber, and they now no longer have their monopoly, and they don't get away with it.
And they uh always have to explain themselves an answer for it.
And their organs, their media organs are losing.
Viewers, readers, advertising revenue, and thus money.
Our media is not.
Our media is just the opposite.
If I mean I I I think the basic um tendency, because liberals are who they are, the basic ingredient of hate was always there.
But it didn't need to surface.
I mean, after all, we had guys like Bob Michael, who led the House, Republican side, was content to be there with 130 seats.
And if the Democrats didn't let him into committee meetings, that's fine, go play golf.
As long as Tip O'Neill was nice to him now and then, everything was fine, hunky door.
The Republicans knew their role.
The Republicans knew that they were minority and to ever be minority and just be friendly and go along and let the left have whatever they wanted.
Reagan came along, and that was the beginning of a challenge to the FDR style of being able to get away with anything they wanted under the false notion that they were compassionate.
Now what's been revealed is that there's no compassion guiding these people.
It's nothing but pure hatred.
And the reason is that they've lost their monopoly and there's an opposition to deal with, and they have been exposed.
And they've been shown for who they really are.
Now, that I all I'm doing here is explaining their attitude in an attempt here to try to explain why working with them is not the point.
We ought to have the same attitude they do.
That is just eliminate them as opposition.
Get them to be so small and so ineffective that they cannot stop us.
But we love.
And one of the problems with loving is you want to be loved in return.
You want to get along.
And that's where this whole notion of bipartisan comes from.
It also stems, I think, from an inferiority complex that developed among Republicans and even conservatives for a while for being in the woods for 40 years.
And once you're in the minority for 40 years, once you're used to losing, and once you're being, once you're used to that, it's tough to all of a sudden transition to a proper attitude of leading.
There is a, I once heard Oprah Winfrey say, in response to some question from a media person, no, I don't have any guilt over my success.
I'm not one of these people who think that I don't deserve this.
And I'm going to act in a way that will result in my losing it because I don't deserve it.
But Republicans were in the woods for so long that even when they got the majority, they're like, eh, this doesn't feel right.
I don't know.
We, um, uh, it, it, maybe we really don't deserve this.
It wasn't totally it, but it was, it was, it was partly it.
and as such, they weren't prepared for the vicious, vicious return volley of fire from the Democrats once they lost the House, uh, and Clinton wins the White House, and the budget battle of 95 and all these things uh ensue.
And then when we have won the presidency, it has not been with the same mindset as theirs.
Uh their mindset is to forever alter the country.
We have not looked at that as something that is uh uh a requirement, because not until now, until this moment, not a lot of Republicans thought the country's fate was at stake, especially inside the Beltway Republicans.
But that's all changing now.
So there's a silver lining to all this.
But the bottom line is is that there is genuine pure hatred.
There is no love.
There is no that there is not one single thing.
You don't see, and I've got a story coming up.
Just two of the Democrats defeated by passing Obamacare.
It's Joseph Ashby and the American clinker.
And there's a New York Times story, not yet, New York Times uh big win for Obama, but at what cost.
Uh victory defeating us.
Really, the left is celebrating today, not because of the good they've done for the country, that's what they say publicly.
They're celebrating, and they did the signing ceremony when they did it as a cramdown in our faces.
They get more joy defeating us than they do passing their legislation.
And they don't care what happens to the country as a result of it.
Back in a sec.
Now don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, lurking out there is Obama's deficit reduction commission, featuring, of course, Irksome Bowles and uh Alan Babe Simpson.
And these guys are going to be coming back in December with their recommendations on deficit reduction.
What do you bet?
What do you bet that one of the things that's hat is going to happen is the proposal of a value-added tax.
A tax at every stage from production to sale of a good or service, much like they have in the U.K. You think taxes are going down.
Anybody who buys that is just is stupid.
There's no other way to describe it.
They're just stupid.
Now let me give you the costs of Medicare.
Medicare was said to uh let's see, day Medicare was going to cost something like eight billion dollars through 1990, 1965 to 1990.
It was going to cost eight or twelve billion dollars.
I don't thought I had the figure in front of me, but right I'll get it in just a second.
But instead, the costs of Medicare doubled every four years.
Oh, Medicaid was part of the Medicare signing ceremony, but nobody knew it.
And so we listened to Pelosi.
We got to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
What other tricks are in this, though we don't know?
It's just practically 3,000 pages.
We can't possibly know everything that's in it, so there's some surprises coming.
But the cost of Medicare doubled every four years between 1996 or 1966 and 1980.
According to the 2004 Green Book of the House of Ways and Means Committee, Medicare expenditures uh from the American government were 256.8 billion dollars in fiscal year 2008.
The original cost rejection was fact.
Let me let me find it right now.
Let's see.
Three billion at the start in 1966, Medicare cost three billion.
Medicare cost three billion dollars.
According to the 2004, that's what they projected.
Now, of course, Medicare spending is growing steadily in both absolute terms and as a percentage of the federal budget.
Total Medicare spending reached 440 billion dollars for fiscal year 2007, which was equal to 16% of all federal spending and grew to $599 billion in 2008, which was 20% of federal spending.
The only larger categories of federal spending are Social Security and Defense, which is going to get lopped.
At some point, they're gonna go after the defense budget because this is what Obama is about, really.
Uh Refused to take pictures with Bibi Netanyahu today.
Refused to pose for pictures with Netanyahu.
The Prime Minister of Israel, ostensibly one of our allies, Hillary, went over to APAC and made a speech yesterday, and she just dumped on Israel.
She basically gave a speech outlining U.S. Middle East policy, essentially saying that Israel is the problem.
She said this to APEC.
And Netanyahu stood up and fired right back at her and said, Well, Jerusalem is not a settlement.
Jerusalem is our capital.
So we we have now succeeded in alienating the only real democracy in the Middle East, the only ally we have, we have a president of the United States who refuses to appear in photographs with the Prime Minister after summoning him here to dress him down about these 1600 settlements in uh which were sure which are not a violation of anything, by the way.
It's it's a it's a nasty scene.
It is a dirty, dirty, nasty scene.
Here is Obama.
Sorry, this is Biden.
This is during the Star Wars bar scene today, the signing ceremony at the White House.
Uh he drops the F bomb here as he's embracing Obama, talking what a great day it is.
It's just three seconds.
I don't think everybody was able to hear this, but people close by were let's let's let's see if we can pick it up.
We have bleeped it, obviously.
I'm sorry I couldn't hear it with my uh could you guys hear any words there?
All I heard was a crowd.
Uh but apparently he said to Obama, this is a big effing deal.
And some people heard it because they've got the audio soundbite circulating around as of now.
This morning's Los Angeles Times, this is uh uh Joseph Ashby and the American thinker.
This morning's Los Angeles Times stumbled upon a remarkable point in its coverage of the health care bill.
In a drudge-linked article entitled, After Healthcare Vote, Democrats Turn to Damage Control.
The first line of the piece reads, Democrats may feel today as though they just fought and won the equivalent of a 100 year war.
And this sentiment does echo one of the talking points among Democrats over the final days of the debate.
Teddy Roosevelt knew that passing universal health care was right, thundered Obama, Fairfax, Virginia last week.
Pelosi repeated one day closer mantra, tells us that Democrats believe they have in fact won a 100-year war.
But if the Democrats were waging war, who were they fighting?
If the Obama and Pelosi team won, who did they defeat?
There are certainly the uh the public enemies, insurance companies, doctors who saw off limbs and rip out tonsils to get fatter reimbursements.
But the reason, the real reason socialized medicine has never passed is because the public has rejected it every time it's proposed.
Obama Pelosi and the others may have won a war, but if that's true, and if that's how they feel, and that's how they are acting, by the way, it's the citizens of the United States that they fought against.
It's the American people they've conquered.
Obama and Pelosi are the first to do it, and they're running around patting themselves on the back.
Don't tell me these people are possessed with any love for anything.
And here in the New York Times today, big win for Obama, but at what cost?
And here's an interesting quote from this piece.
For that lesson in governing, Mr. Obama paid a heavy price.
He nearly lost the health care debate.
He pulled out victory only after deferring nearly every other priority and stumping with a passion he had not shown since his campaign.
His winning argument in the end was that while the political result could run against him and other Democrats, remaking health care was a keystone of his change you can believe in, Credo.
His winning argument in the end was that while the political result he didn't what he didn't win an argument.
There's no way it can be said that Obama did anything great here.
I know they're praising him for not failing away and for sticking to it, and so forth, but he didn't win anything.
He's come to divide and conquer.
He had to overcome opposition.
And he did not overcome the opposition.
The opposition is still there, and it's growing.
He didn't persuade anybody, the more he spoke, the greater the opposition to the plan became.
And so I'm all for it.
if they want to send him out to Iowa City on Thursday.
If they want to send him out to try to now sell this, why have at it?
Have at it.
He was lying when he was out there telling people what was in this when it wasn't, try to get their support.
Now he's going to go out and do what?
Tell people what's in it.
We got a taste of it at his signing ceremony today when he talked about all the great new benefits are going to kick in this year.
And they may well kick in.
But what he didn't say was how much it's going to start costing everybody immediately, insurance premiums.
There's no way they will not go up.
They're not mandated yet.
The insurance companies are not yet under the control of the federal government.
Obama can't say you keep your rates the same.
That's coming, but they're going to go up.
Obama, folks, Obama wants premiums to go up.
This is what we talk about love and compassion.
If people think that people and the Democrat Party left to have compassion for the American people, and this is rooted in it, take a look at what Democrat social programs have done.
Take a look at the havoc and the destruction among the people.
They have targeted as beneficiaries.
Don't take it from me.
Take it from several black Americans.
American welfare plans, the welfare state has largely destroyed the black family.
There's nothing wrong with the black culture.
It's the fact that the Democrat Party has sought to make them entirely dependent.
And so they became de facto fathers to mothers with uh with uh with no husbands around.
Didn't matter.
The government will provide what the father should be, and the father was content to run around and not have to access the responsibility.
And this happens, by the way, throughout all races.
But this is something that the Democrat legislation actually brought about.
And it's it's headed for all of us now, because they don't care what pain and suffering they've caused poor black people in this country.
All they care about is that they are forever dependent on them.
There's not love in that, and there's no compassion in that.
It's the exact opposite.
There is contempt and resentment and a total lack of caring about their general welfare.
And it's not just minority communities, it's all of us who are now targeted in much the same way.
And that's why we fear.
We fear for the country.
We fear for the people.
You know, I've said it throughout my entire career.
We conservatives love people.
We want the best for everybody.
We want a country where anybody who wants to be the best they can be can go for it.
We don't want a country where people think that there's no hope, that there's no chance that the only thing going for them is maybe somebody in government cares about them.
That is reprehensible to us.
That is an attack on human dignity and humanity itself, under the guise of compassion.
When in effect, what they really want to do is act on their hatred for their opposition.
Obama, big win at what cost?
His winning argument, did Obama really have a winning argument?
You had Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel running around with baseball bats, an overflowing purse and back pocket filled with bribe money.
Obama was able to bully and buy the already true believers in Congress into voting for his health care plan.
He didn't win them with his argument.
They were already on board.
All he did was hit them over the head until they cried uncle.
But outside of Washington, D.C., outside of the political class, Obama's argument was and continues to be a loser.
And the opposition to it is growing.
Obama gave a major speech weekly, over 400 of them, I think, for over a year.
And we never once came close to buying his argument.
Americans hate this.
Americans instinctively understand that this is going to cause great harm to the country and ultimately for their kids and their grandkids.
And we have acted on our dislike for this.
We have voted against it.
We have expressed dislike for this horrible bill.
people in Massachusetts even elected a Republican for Ted Kennedy's seat in order to show how much they didn't want any part of this because they're already living a miniature version of it in their state.
So Obama didn't win an argument here when it comes to his actual constituency represents the American people.
He lost it.
There's no greatness in Obama.
What there is in Obama is a contempt for anybody opposes him, and he's gonna ram down his agenda and change this country to what he wants it to be, regardless.
I was thinking today how quickly George W. Bush's social security reform bit the dust in 2005.
It bit the dust in 2005 because the Democrats successfully lobbied against they had their media with them, and they convinced senior citizens that they're gonna lose all their money in the stock market.
And the Bush administration didn't have a good counter for it.
It was a really a great something that has to be done too, and the plan was actually very good.
But look how quickly Bush gave up on it when the public was not for it.
Gave up on it.
Bush was not Obama.
Bush did not say this is good for you.
I'm doing this to help you and to save your future and everybody in your family's future.
We can't afford what we're spending on this anymore.
After you're a certain age, you're going to be exempt from this.
You won't have to do this.
But we got to start somewhere reforming this for the good of the country.
Didn't say that.
Didn't say it that forcefully.
So we listened to the opposition, falsely generated, trumped up on lies.
Our opposition's based on truth.
They hate us for telling the truth about them.
So the objective, if you have the audacity to stand up against us, you have the audacity to oppose us.
Well, all right, fine, take this.
Open your mouth and they ram whatever they have in their hand right down our throats.
In this case, the health care bill.
I saw this story last night.
If this health care plan is so good, how come the people who wrote it are exempted from it?
Hotline on call by uh Reed Wilson, leadership aides exempt from the bill.
House Republican aides and the nonpartisan congressional research service believe that health care legislation signed today by Obama requires lawmakers to enroll in government run insurance programs while exempting leadership staffers, many of whom were instrumental in crafting the bill.
Top staffers buzzed today and yesterday on an off-the-record Capitol Hill listserv, citing the part of the mammoth legislation that deals with members of Congress.
The federal government can only make available to members and their official staffs health plans created by the bill or offered through an exchange.
But a member's staff in a subsection of the bill is defined as a full-time and part-time employee employed by the official office of a member, whether in Washington or at a home office.
The Congressional Research Service has uh interpreted that clause to mean the bill applies only to a personal office and not to committee staff or leadership staff.
Leaving out committee staffers means that aides at the 24 standing house committees and the 20 Senate panels will each be exempted as well if the Congressional Research Services interpretation of the measure stands.
So the people who wrote this are exempt from how great can it be if the people that wrote it do not have to abide by it.
Stacy in uh in hiding in at least this is our insurance babe.
Stacey, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush.
Do you know you have gotten me into into so much fun hot water?
I know I've heard.
Do you know how you did that?
I did by coming on about Costa Rica.
You came on and you told me that your insurance company was setting up medical operations in Costa Rica.
You're gonna take the doctors and everything down there, and you're gonna sell insurance policies if this thing all happened to your customers, and and uh included in the premium would be trips to Costa Rica for medical treatment and so forth.
So after having heard you say that, uh somebody asked me what I was gonna another caller asked, Well, what are you gonna do if it passes?
I'm gonna go get treated in Costa Rica.
And so now everybody thinks I said I'm leaving the country for Costa Rica.
So I need to ask you, how soon are you gonna get those clinics set up so I can go?
Well, I'm afraid that even that's not gonna save us.
Oh no.
I gotta I've got to revise my estimate.
We may last two to three years, tops, and let me tell you why.
The 8515 provision that has just been signed into law an hour ago.
Yeah.
By definition of every state and federal insurance regulator makes us financially unsound.
All right.
Now I have to take a break here.
Uh and can I want to ask you if you can hold on till the top of the next hour where we will get your details on this uh without any time constraints.
Can you hang on?
Um I'll skip a bit of a meeting, sure.
Uh you tell them it'll be worth it.
Okay.
Tell them it'll be worth it.
And if you can't, you tell Snerdley, and we'll call you back when you have time, okay?
Okay, thank you, Derek.
You bet.
Back in just a second, folks.
Listen to it and weep.
Raleigh television last night, uninsured patient DeCarlo Fly was asked about Obamacare.
It's just gonna be like Christmas.
I mean, it's gonna be great.
You know, worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
Gonna be like Christmas.
Uh no worries.
No bills.
Go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
That's it.
Gonna be like Christmas.
Listen to it and weep.
I mean, that's why Obama's got a forty-six percent approval rating, folks.
Right there.
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