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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Great to be with you.
	I'll be here tomorrow, and uh Rush returns Thursday.
	Rush returns Thursday.
	We have uh we we have been trying to tease out of you some uh some some best estimates as to where he is.
	He had to fly eighteen hours to get there.
	It's a fifteen-hour flight back, so you can factor in the tailwinds on the return flight, work out where it which part of the planet's on we're getting and and as Rush said, he's going to scout out uh potentially viable uh health systems, still functioning health systems uh anywhere on the planet.
	Good luck finding one.
	He may be at one of those um atolls that's re-emerged in the Pacific now that uh Barack Obama has lowered the uh oceans, as he pledged to do in his first time.
	By the way, that's that's pretty much the first election, the only election pledge he's kept so far.
	Uh as you recall when he won the uh Democratic Party nomination, he announced that this is the moment when the uh the rise in the uh in the ocean levels uh began to fall away again.
	This is uh remember King Canute, he was on King Canute was on the beach, and uh his courtiers said he had such power, so he told them to take the throne down to the beach, he sat there and he would command the waves not to come in.
	But the waves did come in and they soaked his loafers.
	And King Canute was trying to show to his courtiers that the king was not all powerful and could not do anything.
	Uh and if Barack Obama had been like an old fashioned king like that, uh the minute these uh these democratic courtiers of his started saying, Oh, you can do anything, your Majesty King Barack, you can make the oceans recede, he would have said uh no, no, no, and would have demonstrated that he is just a mere mortal.
	But of course King Barack isn't a mere mortal, because he has made the oceans recede.
	Uh apparently the or at any rate the sea levels aren't uh the you remember the Barack the uh Al Gore movie where where the uh suddenly the water comes in and flash freezes New York Harbor the day after tomorrow.
	And um it's uh dick it's amazing film, actually.
	Dick Cheney gives a speech.
	The Dick Cheney figure gives a speech on Tuesday uh saying there's nothing to this climate change business, and then on Wednesday, New York City is flash frozen.
	And uh and uh that's that's the scenario we were looking at, but now with Obama in, the oceans have begun to recede.
	By the way, have you seen this story?
	This is uh this was reported over the weekend uh that um the the biblical plagues, they've now uh done a survey tracing the biblical plagues uh to climate change.
	Uh about you know uh all the plague of frogs they had in Egypt, uh I think this was the time of Ramesses the Second.
	Uh they apparently they got the old climate change scientists to work on it.
	And uh what do you know?
	It turns out that the uh climate that all the plagues, the biblical plagues and the plagues of Egypt uh afflicting the world during the reign of Ramesses the Second uh turned out to be due to uh global warming.
	Biblical plagues really happen, say scientists.
	Researchers believe they've found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the book of Exodus in the Bible were based.
	But rather than explaining them as the wrathful act of a vengeful God, the scientists claim the plagues can be attributed to a chain of natural phenomena triggered by changes in the climate, triggered by changes in the climate.
	Uh so you can mock climate change.
	You can mock it and you can be a denier.
	You can be like Rush does.
	You can you can mock these uh guys with the uh the the uh driving around in in the hybrids and all the rest of it, but you're gonna laugh the other side of your face when the plague of frogs shows up, aren't you?
	Because plague of frogs isn't gonna be covered by Obamacare.
	Huh?
	You get the uh you wake up, there's like frogs squatting all over you, and they're leaving their slime all over you, and you go to the uh emergency room, they're not gonna cover plague of frogs under Obamacare.
	Uh you can make all the jokes about it, but we now know scientists have proved that uh Ramses the second, the uh pharaoh Ramses the second, who ruled Egypt between twelve seventy-nine BC and twelve thirteen BC, and led to the abandonment of the city, these plagues were all caused by climate change.
	Undoubtedly brought on, I would say, by his excessive carbon footprint.
	I mean, I don't know what uh r uh uh what SUV Ramses the Second was driving in those days, but I would think uh average big shot pharaoh uh would have a hell of a carbon footprint.
	So that uh so climate change, which is uh responsible for everything uh is now apparently to blame for the plague of frogs that should be showing up any day now.
	So don't worry, don't worry about it.
	Don't worry about the uh the the plague of frogs.
	Um the uh is a store there's a story uh in uh on Yahoo News.
	What is this?
	CQ politic that's congressional quarterly, isn't it?
	Congressional quarterly.
	So this is like a very uh authoritative publication.
	Political economy, the panic timeline.
	There's a lovely line in this.
	It says, quote, it's not the end of the world, that will come a bit later.
	It's not the end of the world, that will come a bit later.
	If you're wondering exactly when, like if you're planning when we need to abandon the city, as they did in Ramsey's II's day, uh it looks like it's gonna be about twenty twenty-nine uh because that is the point when uh America will have no more IOUs to call in.
	Uh there was a front page headline in the New York Times last week, uh, trumpeting that the end of Social Security was nearer at hand uh than anyone had ever thought.
	Now, this is before we've added the Obamacare to it.
	Uh and and if you notice, that's why it comes back to that poll uh that I quoted just before the top of the hour.
	Eighty-four percent of people, Americans, eighty-four percent of Americans think the middle class are gonna have to ha uh uh uh pay more money and suffer financial consequences in order to reduce the deficit.
	Um but they don't want anybody touching social security and Medicare.
	Okay.
	That's fine.
	But you can't make the two halves of that statement add up.
	You've got to touch Social Security and you've got to c touch Medicare.
	Except we can't touch Medicare now because we've just universalized Medicare.
	We Medicared everybody.
	Uh and there would be no way, there is no way uh that any of this uh can be reduced unless uh there is a dramatic increase in taxation.
	This is really the dishonesty, I think, of the uh of the liberal view of big government that it's not prepared to make you pay for it.
	Uh th this stupid poll uh uh accurately sums up the contradiction in the way people think about these things.
	Oh, yes, we like social security, we like Medicare, we just don't want to pay for it.
	And that's the delusion of big government everywhere they try it.
	So there's two things there's two things you can do.
	Uh even if you were to start taxing people to cover the unfunded liabilities now, uh it still wouldn't make th you you would either have to tax them to the point of total societal collapse or uh you you would you're you're basically going to have to cut back these programs.
	So if you've got a candidate, and this is the only candidates we should be interested now, if you're not if your candidate isn't talking about uh fewer government agencies with fewer employees on smaller salaries doing uh doing uh administering fewer programs, he's not serious.
	Because the point is n this stuff is unaffordable and can never be afforded.
	And it has other consequences too.
	Why is there such a rise in personal debt?
	Because it's not just government debt in this country.
	Uh we have now unprecedented levels of personal debt.
	Why is that?
	Why is that?
	That's because uh when government takes, as it does in some jurisdictions here, uh certain states here, you're already paying fifty-five percent of your income to the government.
	Now think about that.
	We think that's entirely normal.
	We think that's entirely normal to say if you make if if if you make ten thousand dollars, we're gonna give five thousand five hundred of it to Barney Frank and Henry Waxman.
	Uh once you've accepted the psychology of that, anything is possible.
	Anything is possible.
	Like in show business, for example, you have an agent, you have an agent, and some agents will take 10%, and some will take 12.5%, depending on what country you're in, some will take 10%, some will take 12.5%, some will take 15%.
	But if you had an agent who wanted to take 55%, you would want to go and work in a different market.
	Because you would not you would not go along with that.
	Yeah, we think it's entirely normal now to say, oh, here's your ten thousand dollars, and you go, oh yeah, that's great.
	It's only a check for $4,500 now, because the government's taken all the rest.
	Uh and that is that is what it is uh that is what it is right now, and it's still not enough to pay for this stuff.
	So what rate would it have to be?
	What rate uh would taxation have to be not to have a deficit, not to have a national debt, not to beggar your children, not to beggar your grandchildren.
	What rate of taxation would it have to be?
	That's where big government is fundamentally dishonest.
	Because big government the whole rationale of big government is not to make you pay what this stuff really costs.
	Because if it did, you wouldn't go along with it.
	And I mentioned the I mentioned the uh the the levels of personal debt.
	Why is that?
	Well, it's because back in the old days, back in the old days when you you okay, you didn't keep a hundred percent of your income because the government still had to maintain an army and do the roads and have a volunteer fire department and one or two other things.
	So you paid uh you paid ninety percent, or maybe eight uh you kept ninety percent, or you pay uh you kept eighty-five percent of your income.
	Uh and so uh you had to take on less personal debt in order in order to buy accommodation and to live uh and to live.
	And now we have a situation where because partly because the government takes so much of your money, you have less discretionary income, uh, and so you take on more personal debt in order to fund not just you accommodate.
	We're not talking about mortgages now, but if you look at the levels of credit card debt.
	People uh fund vacations on debt.
	People fund uh electronic purchases on debt.
	Uh the level of personal debt would go down uh significantly if government got smaller and allowed you to keep more of your money.
	These two things are connected.
	But they boil down to that uh phrase of Charles Moore's that I used uh in the last hour.
	We're spending too much of tomorrow today.
	There isn't enough tomorrow to cover our spending today.
	We've spent tomorrow.
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	There's no tomorrow.
	Uh it's i we've already cleaned out tomorrow.
	It's not just that the cupboard is bare today, but next decade's cupboard is bare, and the decade after that.
	Uh and that is why we need candidates.
	We don't just need a guy with an R after his name.
	We need candidates who are explicitly committed to smaller government with fewer agencies, fewer employees, uh lower budgets running fewer programs, because if they're not offering that, they're not being serious.
	This is gonna this is global Armageddon.
	This isn't Greece.
	H.R. with his usual blithe insouciance saunters on uh uh when we uh we came on before the show and goes, oh, you know, this is the fast track to Greece.
	Greece can be Greece, because when Greece goes barely up, it can stick the tab to the Germans.
	It's run out of Greeks to stick it to right now, because they retire at fifty-five uh in if you're in uh uh certain dangerous professions uh like bomb disposal was we talked about uh a couple of weeks ago here, like bomb disposal experts or hairdressers, which are regarded as dangerous professions, you retire at fifty.
	So Greece has run out of Greeks to stick it to, so it's sticking it to Germany.
	Germany is gonna be bailing out Greece.
	Uh if Germany were to go barely up, Germany would look to America to bail it out.
	In effect the United States did that in the nineteen forties, and for sixty uh for sixty years now has covered the defense costs of the German State.
	So Germany doesn't have to spend anything on defense, it can spend it all on health care, it can spend it all on social programs because America pays for the defense of Germany.
	So Greece can stick it to Germany and Germany can stick it to Greece.
	When America goes barely up, who does America stick it to?
	Who does America stick it to?
	Uh the whole racket, the whole racket will come crashing down at that point because there is nobody left to stick the tab to.
	Uh and as I said, we can't even rely on uh on sticking it to our kids and grandkids, because in effect we've already spent that money.
	We've got to roll it back and we gotta roll it back urgently, or it's all over.
	On that cheery note, we will pause to earn to earn a few pennies to keep us going for just a little bit longer.
	And return with your calls are one-eight hundred-282-2882.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB Network, angry white male Monday.
	We've been talking to all you haters, haters out there, homophobes, racists, misogynists, bring it on.
	We're not going to get out the new age wind chimes and calm you down here.
	We like to wind you up and get you even more angry.
	Let's go to George in Chicago.
	George, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show uh uh y you're in Chicago, so I guess you are what, a community organizer?
	I don't think there's any other kind of employment uh uh out there, is there still?
	Are you a community organizer?
	No.
	Okay.
	Not really.
	You're not.
	Okay.
	A nice quiet American.
	Really?
	That's uh a nice quiet American.
	That's the code again, isn't it?
	That's like code for racist hater.
	I'm not a racist and I'm not a hater.
	I love everybody.
	Okay.
	Well you're not sure.
	It's a privilege uh to talk with you.
	Uh you probably get that a lot.
	Actually, you'd be surprised at how rare it is, but uh it's a privilege to talk to you, uh, George.
	You uh uh you looking forward to Obamacare?
	Oh, please.
	Not really.
	Uh speaking of health care, and I call it the plague of the twenty-first century.
	Right.
	Uh why isn't it that the president, the vice president, senators, house representatives, their staff and all that.
	Why aren't they in this wonderful health care system?
	Why are they exempt?
	Because we are now ruled by uh what uh James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal calls the Obama clatura.
	I mean, we accept it now, and this is the argument advanced by so-called moderate uh Republicans, that we have rule by experts.
	That's what uh David Brooks, the House Conservative of the New York Times said when the Obama administration came in on January twentieth last year, that this is the most expert group of experts that any know-nothings like us have ever had the privilege of living under.
	So it is entirely appropriate that as they are a ruling class, a class of technocrat experts, that they should not be bound by the same petty laws that they pass for the rest of us.
	They pass they can pass a law for you, George, in Chicago, and they can pass a law for me in New Hampshire.
	But there's no reason by such a why such a skilled and gifted class of ingenious technocrats should have to be bound by these humdrum laws themselves.
	That's their that that is the reality of the situation there.
	It's well it's it must be reality, but uh I you know I uh I I don't get it.
	I really don't get it.
	It's it's this silly bill and whatever goes with it, but they're exempt from it.
	I don't I don't understand.
	That's right.
	And it's fundamentally un-republican as well, uh because uh what's the point of having a republic of citizen legislators uh if you then if effectively say we will have a privileged ruling class uh that will not be bound by the laws it passes for the rest of us.
	It is an abomination and an affront to Republican uh government.
	Let's go to Barbara in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
	Barbara, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Oh, thank you, Mark.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you.
	I was just wanting to get your thoughts on the possibility of the VAT tax.
	And if that if they have to do that, how do they possibly sell it to the country that it's uh not a tax?
	Well, uh a valued added tax, which is what they have in Europe, uh and people think of it like a sales tax.
	It's not.
	It's um it's much more complicated than that because they effectively levy tax at every stage in the production uh uh in the production process.
	But what the advantage of it, and in Europe, by the way, they take it seriously.
	You know, in Europe you are not allowed by l uh with unless the uh European Union in Brussels uh gives you permission, individual nations are not allowed to lower the rate of uh of of uh value added tax.
	It can go up, but it can never come down.
	That's how it works there.
	And in Scandinavia, for example, it's 25 percent.
	Now they won't introduce it at twenty-five percent here, but they're gonna have to introduce it first, because they need another revenue stream.
	And it's always easier to introduce a new tax uh than to increase an old one, because you can say, well, uh if we have ten taxes, they'll all be low, rather than having one tax because it'll be high and people will object to it.
	But it doesn't work like that in practice, because all these you can see it in states and cities too, that when people when they say, oh, uh we'll introduce this tax and it'll enable us to keep the others low, they all do they all go up.
	Instead of having five low taxes or ten low taxes, eventually you have five or ten medium rate taxes and then five or ten high taxes.
	Uh and I think they will introduce it and they will introduce it as a uh a measure of uh uh of financial necessity, and they may even do it the way they do it in Europe, where the tax is not you know, here when you go into a store and buy a Mars bar and it's whatever it is, seventy-five cents and and they and they add on the eight eight percent sales tax or whatever, according to what state you're in, uh you know at the point of sale that you're paying paying a little amount in tax.
	They don't do that in Europe.
	It's all factored into the straight uh the the total price, so it's disguised.
	Uh and that's why VAT is so attractive uh to Obama, because he needs urgently another revenue stream, a new fresh revenue stream, and even then it's not gonna be uh coming close to anywhere near what it's gonna cost uh to pay for all this stuff.
	But you're right, Barbara, value added tax is coming soon uh and you better look out for it.
	Mark sign in for Rush, more straight ahead.
	Yes, America's hand command is away, your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Uh Rush is gonna be here Thursday.
	He'll be back Thursday.
	I'll be here uh tomorrow.
	Who's who's who's gonna be in on Wednesday, HR?
	Uh Mark uh Davis.
	Mark Davis is here Wednesday?
	Okay, so I'm here tomorrow, Mark Davis Wednesday, and uh and then Rush is back on Thursday.
	And don't forget, if you guess where he uh has gone to check out uh healthcare systems, you could win your very own Rushlin Borghessos.
	We had a uh the first suggestion of Fiji, Fiji.
	Uh somebody thinks Rush may be checking out the uh the health care in uh in Fiji.
	Um let's uh let's look at some of the actual costs uh involved here.
	Uh w people say, well, can't you know this is the United States of America, can we not just print money uh to get out of this?
	Now I think the the U.S. has even less ability to print money to get out of the hole uh than other countries do.
	If you're in Greece, you can print money.
	Uh even to a certain extent if you're in uh another G7 economy you can print money.
	But America the dollar is the global reserve currency.
	You cannot print money.
	Uh the United States has less flexibility to debauch its own currency uh than Robert Mugabe does in Zimbabwe.
	Nobody cares what Robert Mugabe does to his currency, but there's a lot of people around the world uh in the global economy who care very much about what uh the United States does to its currency.
	So you can't just print the United States has less flexibility to print money uh than Robert Mugabe uh does in uh in Zimbabwe.
	So that ain't gonna happen.
	Because if that happens, it's all over.
	Then the Chinese yuan or whatever uh will become the global currency because the uh the dollar has simply uh decided to debauch itself.
	Um the uh Moody's uh who rate the uh uh who who rate countries like the way they do any other any other kind of uh potential business risk have already published a paper warning that uh exploding US government debt could cause a downgrade of treasury bonds.
	Uh Robert Samuelson writes about this in the in the uh in the Washington Post, and he points out that just six days later, out of the after this warning uh that uh the triple A rating that the United States has could be downgraded.
	Just six days later, uh the House of Representatives passed President Obama's health care legislation costing nine hundred billion dollars or so.
	By the way, this nine hundred billion dollars or so, did you notice that every time the bill was costed out under uh the so-called Congressional Budget Office, it always came in just under a trillion dollars.
	It was always I think the final amount was something like nine hundred and ninety-nine billion dollars uh nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand uh and ninety-nine cents.
	They it comes in just under a trillion every time.
	Because uh for whatever reason, the CBO seems responsive uh to uh to the the feeling that it wouldn't be good if they've got a trillion dollar price tag on this thing.
	And what I love about this Congressional Budget Office, I love the way people say, oh well, the Congressional Budget Office has scored the numbers.
	They score what they get.
	They score what they get.
	Uh a reader wrote to me a couple of days ago and he said uh basically the way the CBO works uh like is this.
	If Congress says we're gonna cover the cost of this thing by selling uh two acre lots uh on the dark side of the moon.
	Uh the CBO is obliged to take that at face value and simply report the revenue that would be generated if they were to sell two acre lots on the dark side of the moon.
	The uh the uh the basic insanity at the heart of the bill can never be questioned.
	So the CBO, you might want to ask when people uh come up with CBO numbers, you might want to ask the CBO whether the CBO have ever run the numbers uh on the potential savings if we got rid of the CBO and replaced it with a children's musician uh with an assistant in spangled tights and he just plucked numbers at random out of her cleavage.
	Because that would be as accurate as anything that is gonna come from these CBO numbers, which are scored uh essentially according to the political criteria that they are given uh by uh Congress.
	Let's go to Jeff in uh Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	Uh Jeff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Terrific to have you with us.
	Well, thanks, Mark.
	I really am just excited.
	I'm first time caller.
	I love Rush, but I I really like it when you host.
	Um That's not a good thing to say.
	Well I was gonna be here tomorrow, but I think that's just been cancelled.
	Uh Rush I love uh I love this is my this is my hobby.
	I couldn't uh I couldn't handle this or this is uh when when Rush was away, you know, with his little uh troubles in Hawaii over the Christmas period, and I did whatever it was four or five days in a row.
	By the uh by the end of it, I was thinking, wow, this is this is like hard work.
	Like three hours a day, five days a week for twenty years, and people get mad at Rush because he takes a couple of days off to go and scout out uh, you know, quality health care in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
	Uh five days three hours a day, five days a week for twenty years.
	That's that's serious.
	You gotta you've got to be good to do that.
	Jeff, uh what's what is uh what's what's what's what is your point?
	Well, I'm on a mission today because um the Republicans and conservatives, uh and unfortunately some of the talk show hosts that are conservative as well, are just killing me by stupidly agreeing that the free preventative care and removing the pre existing conditions exclusion are fantastic ideas.
	Right, right.
	They they're all fantastic ideas until you show someone how much it's gonna cost.
	Right.
	So let's say okay, pre or uh preventative care.
	Let's say a certain percentage of us go out and get colonoscopies.
	Right.
	Eighteen hundred dollars.
	Right.
	Well, you just gotta do the math, divide that by twelve.
	Well, you're it's it's worse than that though, Jeff, because we're doing all these things as third party transactions, either through insurers or through the government.
	And by definition, a third party transaction will always be more expensive than if it's just between you and the doctor and you're writing a check.
	That's that's just the nature of a third party transaction.
	Yeah, but being an insurance agent, I totally agree with that, um in terms of it's gotta cost more because of the nature of the B. But now wait a minute, you say you're an insurance agency.
	Okay, now we've been told the pre-existing curr uh conditions are no reason to deny insurance.
	So in what sense is it insurance anymore?
	If I come in to see you and I say, I'd like to buy some health insurance, by the way, and they say, okay, what pre-existing conditions have you got?
	And I and y I say, I've got everything.
	I'm disease-riddled.
	I'm uh I'm I've uh I've got tertiary syphilis from head to toe.
	Everything that about me that could be wrong is wrong.
	Uh and the government says uh and the government says you are not allowed, in effect, to evaluate uh that risk in the way you would have before the government uh decided to take away your freedom to do that.
	In what sense are you then still an insurance agency?
	Not.
	In fact, I won't be, it probably in about two years just because of the way that this is gonna happen.
	But you've definitionally destroyed insurance.
	It's no longer insurance.
	No.
	No.
	So we're not gonna be able to do it.
	No, but why don't you cost any less.
	Right.
	So it's just impossible.
	The whole thing is impossible.
	But the point is, is like, look what'll happen next year when you're at health insurance companies will come back and say, well, to cover those colonoscopies, everyone's got to pay a hundred dollars more per month.
	Yes, because it's the same as if you if if you were if the government said, well, you're allowed to get car insurance after you've crashed the car.
	In other words, you drive it up the interstate, you flip it over and it's burning there, and then you go to the pay phone and we call Jeff in Minneapolis and say, I'd like to buy some car insurance, and you say, uh, okay, what kind of car have you got?
	And you say, well, it's a Ford Chevy burnt out wreck uh lying on the middle of uh on the median of I ninety five uh and you are obliged by law to insure that.
	What's it gonna do to all the people who insured their cars before they flip them over on the interstate?
	It's gonna send the cost of their insurance way up, isn't it?
	Exactly.
	But you know, this whole thing is totally designed to say, okay, look, we gave the insurance companies a chance, they're coming back with huge rate increases again.
	They've either left the market or have raised premiums so high that n you know we have to step in now.
	It's designed to make the insurance companies fail.
	No, and that is the that is also the point.
	That when uh left wing commentators say w we those of us on the right are being hysterical here because this still preserves the role of private insurers.
	You are right, Jeff, that it's that's not the point.
	This is uh we're halfway across the bridge uh to the other side of the river where the where the uh government health care single pay utopia that Barack Obama is in favor of is.
	And the intermediate stage is to impose such mandates on private insurers that in two to five years' time he'll be able to say, Well, look, uh Jeff of Minneapolis has gotten out of the insurance business entirely.
	Insurance agencies won't cover this stuff anymore.
	Private insurance has failed.
	We have to go to a single payer government system.
	That this is this bill is only the intermediate stage, right?
	Totally.
	It's so it's the mechanism for taking apart one by one everything that people are thinking.
	We went through a thing where we talk as a group and someone came across and said they were so glad that health savings accounts were spared.
	They said, You can't be serious.
	Look at how the bill's design.
	They they don't have to fight that fight right now because they know they have the mechanism in place.
	They can quietly dismiss that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	With a pen stroke and it's over with.
	Yeah.
	And this is and this is where it is.
	Yeah, and and you're but you don't miss, folks.
	Jeff made an excellent point that we shouldn't forget.
	This is the intermediate stage.
	It's uh burdening private insurers so that they can no longer function as what is an insurer?
	An insurer is an evaluator of risk.
	But the government now says you can't evaluate risk.
	Uh the guy comes in riddled with disease, you've got to cover him anyway.
	So in a couple of years' time, private insurance will not be functioning, and that's when uh the Democratic Party will say we have to move to the next stage.
	It's the only one that's left, uh, and that is single payer.
	Thanks for your call, Jeff.
	Mark Stein Infrarus.
	More of your calls straight ahead on the EIB network.
	The famous Tea Party spitting movement.
	Uh they're currently going over it uh on TV, frame by frame now, as Mike was saying, it's like the Zapruda uh thing of the Kennedy assassination.
	They're freeze-framing it.
	There's f uh we do we have expectorant?
	Do we have uh do we do we do we have saliva?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they're uh it's all it's always something, isn't it?
	The Republican National Committee is in trouble for spending two thousand dollars running up a two thousand dollar tab at a bondage themed nightclub in West Hollywood.
	Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chair, is having to defend his expenditure of two thousand dollars at this uh at this re uh at this bondage themed nightclub in West Hollywood.
	You know, I I don't know.
	Maybe there's an issue here, maybe they shouldn't have spent it, but in many ways it's symbolic of what's happening.
	The whole of America sometimes seems to me as if it's ch uh turning into a bondage themed nightclub.
	Let us go to Cynthia in Where H. Where is Cynthia on Rush's list of uh m most favorite girls' names?
	Is that number thirteen, no, number thirteen.
	No, it ought to be way up.
	Let's let's get it into the top ten.
	It's number seven or six with a bullet, Cynthia, one of my favorite uh ladies' names.
	From Bel Air, Maryland, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Well, Bel Air Maryland, birthplace of John Wilkes Booth, our contribution to the nation's heritage.
	Oh no, no, no, no, you know this is what they're talking about.
	The overheated rhetoric.
	Well, actually I have a little more, which is you would have thought that Michael Steele of all people would have avoided the whole chains theme.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's another you could you can you can take my Michael Steele.
	That's right.
	He can't wait.
	The minute he starts working for massive Republican, he can't wait to get into the chains at the bondage nightclub.
	Oh dear dear dear, Cynthia.
	Great uh great to have you with us.
	Well, that one was irresistible.
	Yeah, you might as well take it.
	Take a swing at it while swinging it.
	Now are you one of these uh racist uh homophobic, misogynist, uh angry, uh angry white uh guys out there who are itching to do the John Wilkes Boog thing?
	Well, not entirely.
	Uh I I did march with the Tea Party and then I marched the next month with uh uh March on equal march for equality for gays and lesbians because I've been in most of those marches since the late eighties.
	I'm a uh conservative lesbian.
	I became a uh fiscal conservative during the two thousand and eight campaign.
	Right.
	So you're a fiscally conservative lesbian.
	So you uh as a uh you don't do you find any homophobia at the uh at the tea parties, or you get uh get treated uh nice when you go down there.
	Well, uh actually I started a blog in January of two thousand and nine called a conservative lesbian, and then I went to CPAC and uh I was expecting to get uh beaten up because I would have been in a leftist uh uh convention.
	Right.
	But I was actually uh treated extremely well.
	I was embraced by the uh other uh right wing bloggers, and in fact uh uh Stacy McCain, who actually opposes uh gay marriage, has was very helpful in mentoring me.
	Oh right.
	And so I have stood by him and and uh the uh character assassinations that they've tried because he's been so effective uh against the bloggers who are trying to uh take uh Sarah Palin down.
	Yeah, and this is the whole thing.
	They don't really want to discuss the issue.
	It's not it uh they never want to discuss the issue.
	Uh they just want to they just want to steamroller you.
	They just want to damn you as a hater.
	Uh they just want to damn you as a racist, because it's a lot easier than getting into a discussion of the uh the policy.
	But now you now you are basically uh uh signing up with the Tea Party crowd for the uh whole fiscally conservative thing, because you don't want Obama spending your future, is that right?
	Well, yes, the uh capitalism is is what we have to have for the maximum amount of opportunity and and uh I'm fifty-six, my best uh and I've been uh uh caregiver first for my uh late life partner.
	We were together for over twenty years and uh she died of uh complications of multiple sclerosis in two thousand and four, and now I'm caring for my father.
	But when I uh uh want to support myself, if I were to take a job based on my resume, I would be, you know, working at Walmart, and I can't support myself on that.
	But I'm uh a writer and I believe that I can uh make an excellent income as uh a writer and an entrepreneur, but I need a capitalistic society in order to do that.
	Yeah, that's uh that's that's true.
	So capitalism.
	You know, in a in a way the spending thing is so obvious uh because th this is gonna destroy us all.
	And it doesn't matter whether you're black or white or gay or straight or whatever, uh, because you're gonna be screwed if this thing uh if this thing isn't reined in.
	Uh and that's why it's it's a y it's a uniter.
	Th this that is why they are so desperate to say that uh oh no, no, no, no, no, if i it's just angry white men.
	But you're you're saying that as a fiscally conservative lesbian, uh you're happy to stand with the uh angry white male, racist, homophobe, misogynists or whatever Frank Rich is saying about them this week.
	Because on this issue, on on uh on on the Tea Party issue and the insane spending of the Democratic Party, they're on the right side of history.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And and uh frankly also I want to shift uh the discussion about whether or not gays should be equal to uh uh one that isn't religiously motivated, but one that is uh held in terms of the Constitution.
	Right.
	And as conservative values, because I think uh when we reach down to the commonality about that, there will be uh a a big shift.
	Okay, s Cynthia, I gotta run because we're we're pushing up against the uh end of the show.
	But it was it's great to uh talk to you, and I'm glad to hear uh that when you go uh to CPAC and when you go to tea parties, you have a good time with uh with all the other conservatives uh down there.
	Great to hear from you.
	Bel Air, Maryland, birthplace uh of John Wilkes Booth, but she doesn't mean anything by it.
	Mark sign in for us, more to come.
	Hey, I've had a uh uh had a rollocking time these last three hours, but I gotta run.
	The uh border patrol's waiting for me, uh and my uh hernia operation at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal has just been brought forward to October.
	So I want to get there early so I can get in line for a bed in one of the more comfortable corridors.
	Uh but it's been great being with you.
	Uh I will see you tomorrow.
	Mark Davis is in on Wednesday and stand by Rush returns, fifteen hours flying time away, but Rush will be back on Thursday.

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