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April 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, look, folks, the biggest news or the most important news of the day is not StuPak.
I mean, it's close.
We predicted this would happen.
Said uh Stupak would be hounded out of office the day after the House passed the bill.
And the biggest news of the day is not how they're trying to cover up the Stupec announcement, and that's the retirement of Justice Stevens.
Something else, much more important than all that.
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Okay, so Stupak's quitting.
He says he's not running because he's uh he's uh he says the Tea Party had nothing to do with it, me, which means the Tea Party has everything to do with it.
Uh one story says he's scared.
The truth is he has no prayer of being re-elected.
Zip zero nada.
And he's just the first of many dominoes to fall here in this regard.
And I just I hope all of these hope all these Democrats remember.
Bill Clinton, Obama, everybody's saying, you better vote for health care if you want to get re-elected.
We lost the House in 94 because we failed to get it done.
And now the Gallup poll has the Democrat Party's image at the lowest point it's been in memory.
John Paul Stevens quitting, no big deal, predictable.
He's been leaking it, he's been uh he's been talking about it.
I think the timing is interesting.
They're gonna lose their majorities in November.
Uh probably want to get uh some radical wild-haired liberal nominated and confirmed if they can before the November elections, or certainly before uh next January when the new Congress is sworn in.
But the big really important thing that's out there today is in the Wall Street Journal, because this is something that affects you and your family.
It is the health care reality check that is taking place in Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
And the health care plan they have is the role model.
It is a miniature laboratory, if you will, for Obamacare.
And even Democrats have described it that way.
Rates, insurance rates are going through the roof.
The governor has imposed price controls.
The insurance companies who ask for their rates to be raised are nonprofit companies.
Nonprofit tomorrow, Massachusetts, or today, Massachusetts, tomorrow, the rest of the nation.
This week it became impossible in Massachusetts for small business and individuals to buy health care coverage.
After the governor, Deval Patrick imposed price controls on premiums.
Read on, because under Obamacare, this kind of political showdown will soon be coming to an insurance market near you.
The Massachusetts small group market serves about 800,000 residents shut down after the governor kicked off his re-election by presumptively rejecting about 90% of the premium increases the state's insurers had asked regulators to approve.
They have to go get approval to raise their rates.
They went Deval Patrick said, hell no, you're not gonna and started tarring and fettering the companies as part of his re-election campaign.
Same thing Obama has done as demonize these people.
These are non-profit companies.
Health costs have run off the rails since Mitt Romney and Beacon Hill passed universal coverage in 2006.
Deval Patrick now claims price controls are the sensible response to this industry greed, exactly what we were discussing yesterday.
There is no greed in industry.
These are nonprofits.
They're trying to make enough money here to stay in operation in Massachusetts.
The real greed can be found inside most Congresses and legislatures in the States these days.
That's where the greed is, not in the free market.
All, all of the major Massachusetts insurers, health insurers, are nonprofits.
Three of the largest four Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tufts Health Plan, and the Fallon Community Health posted operating losses in 2009.
In an emergency suit heard in Boston Superior Court yesterday, they argued that the arbitrary rate cap, the price controls, will result in another 100 million dollars in collective losses this year.
Make it impossible to pay the anticipated cost of claims.
And this gets even better.
Stick with me.
It may even threaten the near-term solvency of some of these companies.
So until the matter is resolved, the insurers have simply stopped selling new policies.
They're not selling anything.
That's their response.
Now, let's extrapolate.
In Massachusetts, the government can't take over for the insurance companies or doesn't want to.
In the case of Obama, when this happens, as we predicted, as a lot of people predicted, when this happens in America's private sector nationwide, that's when Obama will move in if this happens and get his single payer.
When the insurance companies can no longer stay in business, even if they're nonprofit, they're just gonna quit.
That's the objective, mark my words, of the Obamacare problem.
A court decision on the insurance company lawsuit is expected by Monday, but state officials in Massachusetts have demanded that the insurers, under the threat of fines and other regulatory punishments, resume offering quotes price quotes by today, and to revert to year-old base premiums.
So the state of Massachusetts, oh, you're not selling policies.
You've got to better start quoting for people that want to buy, and you're gonna quote last year's prices.
And they talk about greed in the private sector.
Now let that one sink in, folks.
Deval Patrick has made the health insurance business in Massachusetts so painful.
The government actually has to order private companies to sell their products, albeit at submarket prices.
Stop and think of that.
They don't want to do business.
The governor is forcing them to sell a product.
This is unheard of.
One irony is that Davalpatrick's own attorney general and his insurance regulators have concluded, to their surprise, that the reason Massachusetts premiums are the highest in the nation is the cost of health care.
It is not the supposed industry abuses that Deval Patrick and his political mentor, Barack Obama like to cite.
And they're actually acting surprised.
They are stunned to learn that these costs going up are related to the price of health care.
They say they're surprised.
See, their template, their narrative has been the insurance companies are evil.
They've been demonizing, they're raising prices without any regard for the consumer, uh, raising prices without any regard for true market forces.
They're just greedy.
And now the attorney general and Daval Patrick, all of a sudden learn no, no, no, no, it's uh cost of health care is just skyrocketing.
And you'll hear why.
This gets even better in just a moment.
On top of all of this, like Obamacare, integral to the Massachusetts overhaul are mandates that require insurers to cover anybody who applies, regardless of health status or pre-existing conditions, and to charge everyone about the same rates.
This allows people to wait until they're about to uh incur major medical expenses, uh such as getting sick or right after they have the car crash before they buy insurance.
So they buy the insurance only when they need to, and then after the catastrophe has passed, they are selling, they're getting out, they're canceling the policies.
This week, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Massachusetts reported a big uptick in short-term customers who ran up costs more than four times the average, only to drop the coverage within three months.
Last July, Charlie Baker detailed similar gaming at Harvard Pilgrim, the health plan that he used to run.
So between April 2008 and March of 2009, 40% of Harvard Pilgrims' new enroll enrollees stayed with it for fewer than five months, and on average incurred costs about 600% higher than the company would have otherwise expected.
Well, bingo, this is perfectly allowed under Obamacare.
The only difference here is if you don't buy the insurance, there's a mandate that you buy, if you don't, you get fined.
And we now know the IRS will take the value of your fine, the amount of it from your so-called IRS refund, your income tax refund.
And then when you need the insurance, doctor tells you you got a bad sick problem, illness, uh, or the minute you have the wreck, call the insurance company, and they have to insure you just like they have to in Massachusetts at controlled prices.
Well, this is what's causing prices to skyrocket in Massachusetts.
This is why these insurance companies have asked the uh commission for rate increases from anywhere to 8 to 32 percent, and Daval Patrick said no way as part of his opening salvo and his re-election campaign, so the insurance company, well, uh we can't do business like this.
If they're nonprofits, don't forget so they've stopped selling policies.
And the governor has ordered them to start quoting prices at last year's premiums.
Well, folks, uh they can't stay in business this way.
It's not possible.
This is a 100% microcosm.
This is just one of the many aspects that is rife throughout Obamacare.
Now, Charlie Baker probably going to run as the Republican against Deval Patrick for governor.
The governor's lurch toward price controls is obviously part of a bid by Patrick to portray Charlie Baker as an industry villain.
We know that's going to happen because David Plough, who uh ran Obama's campaign, has signed on as a Deval Patrick consultant in his campaign.
So these kinds of collisions between politics and health care are going to occur constantly across the country as Obamacare kicks in.
The thing you have to realize is this by design.
I don't know if it's by design in Massachusetts, but this is by design in Obamacare.
And who knows?
Uh Patrick may be using this as uh as the same way that Obama intends to use it, and that is to continue to tar and feather the insurance companies.
To great to blame them for being uh involved in greed, making uh obscene profits and so forth, basically to run them out of business.
Because single payer is where they want to go.
And I don't know if they want to head that way in Massachusetts.
Uh, but regardless, you can't buy insurance there today.
You can't buy health insurance.
The companies that sell it refuse to sell it, and they're nonprofit.
All they're trying to do is make enough money to stay in operation.
And by the way, this is exactly how Obama envisions the private sector.
There shouldn't be any profit.
A company exists to provide health care and jobs.
And if they make exactly what it costs them to operate, then that's fine.
That's fair, and that's the way it ought to be.
It is profit, that is the evil thing, gets a bullseye painted on your back.
Much more, yet to come.
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I love this soundbite.
I asked Cookie to give it back to me today, uh, just for my own entertainment.
This is his past Monday, Obama, after what was called a ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals game, then it went up to the broadcast booth, where he was asked by Rob Dibble to name his favorite Chicago White Sox players.
You know, uh I I thought that uh you know, the truth is that a lot of the Cubs I like too.
Uh, but uh I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago.
Because I uh you know, I was growing up uh in Hawaii, and so I ended up actually being uh an Oakland Ace fan.
But when I moved to Chicago, uh I was living close to uh what was then Kaminsky Park, right?
And went to a couple games and just fell in love.
And the nice thing about the Sox is it's real blue-collar baseball.
What the hell is blue-collar baseball, and where was Kaminsky Park?
You know, Kaminsky.
That's a Soviet name.
It was Kamiski Park.
This is the second or third time he's mispronounced it.
Does nobody have somebody afraid to go to and say, uh, Mr. President, it's uh it's not the Kaminsky field.
Uh it's Kamiski, or is he doing this on purpose?
Just toying around with people.
Well, you know, well, he calls these uh military people corpsmen.
Uh when he's being serious.
What is a blue-collar baseball team?
If there's a blue-collar team in Chicago anywhere, it's the Bears of the National Football League.
Anyway, that's that's uh that's the leader of the regime of President Obama there, not having the slightest idea who plays for his favorite team.
Day after health care passed, on this very program behind this very microphone, your host said.
You know, they're looking for a new judge to replace Paula Abdul on American Idol.
Obama!
He's doing television everywhere else.
Nobody wants Ellen de Generis on there to be a judge.
Paula's gone, so put Obama give me on TV every Monday or Tuesday and Wednesday night in the important winter months when people are staying at home.
So let Obama, if he's willing to call Kanye West a jackass, imagine what he can say about some of the other talent on American Idol.
Well, that's not what I said the day after the program.
I said that September 15th of 2009.
I uh I gave the broadcast engineer the wrong number of sound bites to start with.
Uh, but nevertheless, I said it.
I predict I made a joke about it, and he's gonna be on American Idol.
He and Michelle are going to appear on American Idol to tout something or other.
I swear every time I start making jokes about these people, whatever it is, they happen.
They come true.
Here is what I said the day after the health care bill passed in the House.
There's a lot of anger at Bart Stupak today.
Bart Stupak was always going to vote for this.
The thing that Bart Stupak needs to be hounded out of office for is for misleading an entire nation.
And giving an entire nation a big fake, faint job that he and his cohorts were somehow going to do something to stop this on the basis of a false premise, anyway.
And so Stupak, let it be known today that he is going to retire.
Um he's a big target of the of the Tea Party, but he says the Tea Party's got nothing to do with it.
He said he can win re-election.
He'd been thinking about retiring for the last six years, the last three congressional cycles.
He's the Tea Party didn't run me out.
If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the channel.
Well, then hang in there, Bart.
If you would we know your personality, you are willing to lie and mislead an entire nation.
You were you this is a uh 50-50 district.
This is a likely now Democrat loss.
It was gonna be a loss.
Anyway, which is why Stupec's getting out.
I don't know what, if anything, they promised him uh job wise.
His wife's out there uh saying, and and this is becoming a common refrain.
Stuck's wife saying that he retired because of death threats.
But Stupak himself says, I'm not afraid of anything.
You know me.
Tea Party didn't run me out.
Stupak has been threatened numerous times during the whole health care debate from people in his district.
Most of them who called him are probably Democrats.
We have the audio sound bite to replay for you and confirm that.
But we got a obscene profit rate coming up right now.
Is that is that live?
Yep, there's Stupak doing the dirty deed now, awaiting his retirement announcement.
It's all unofficial as we speak.
You remember Obama was running around out there after the health care bill uh was signed into law.
Hey, the earth's not opening.
Uh in a birds are chirping, sky's blue and I think the earth just opened up and swallowed up Bart Stupac.
I don't care how they try to spin this.
This is the guy perceived to have betrayed not just his district, but the way that whole thing played out, the entire country.
And within, I mean, not even a month.
The guy says he's out of there.
He says, I uh feel like I can finally step away.
I can be home more often with my wife.
Right.
I'm young enough to start a new career.
I'm at peace.
I'm very comfortable with my decision.
Yeah, because you were gonna get shellacked.
We don't know what's in store for him, what this new career is, and whether or not Reed.
Well, Reed.
Now Pelosi and Stanny Hoyer apparently tried to get the guy to change his mind and stay in there.
Obama too.
Obama was in on that.
From where?
Prague.
Obama call Obama called Stu Pak from Pro Well.
Look at Obama called Stupak a bunch of times before and Stupak folded.
Obama calls Stupak now, Pelosi calls Stupak now.
Stor Hoyer calls Stupak now, and basically Stupak flipped him off.
So he can leave.
So the earth has opened up.
See, Obama did not, this is not the picture they wanted.
There's not a lot of smiles out there.
The poll numbers against Obamacare continue to rise.
I think up to 56% in the Fox News opinion dynamics poll.
Uh that came out yesterday.
Here is Stuck.
This is March 18th on Mess NBC.
Uh, the host, Savannah Guthrie, said, Congressman Stuck, we noticed in your quote where you said that since you've come out and taking a stand like this, your life has been a living hell.
What does that mean?
Was it mean it means that uh some people disagree with me, they can't have an honest discussion about it.
You get cussed out wherever you go.
Unfortunately for my wife, she's got to unplug her phone at night because you get the phone calls at two or three in the morning and they want to cuss you out.
She can't even uh do that.
My staff is overwhelmed, and we're accosted basically wherever we go by people who disagree.
We should have disagreements in this country.
I, for one, is staying on a principle that most Americans agree with.
There's no reason for that kind of language, abusive behavior to my family, my staff, or even myself.
Okay, so March 18th is before they pass the bill.
His position prior to the passing the bill was he's not gonna get the abortion language he wants, and therefore he's not gonna vote for it.
So the people that would be calling Stupak would be pro-choice activist wacko leftists, who would be angry at him because he was going to sabotage the bill.
So all these hate calls to his wife at two or three in the morning could not possibly have been coming from the Tea Party people.
We were all holding out hope that this guy would actually follow through on his principles and hold to them.
So he had to be his life was made a living hell by people in his own party.
And now they want us to believe it's the Tea Party that's giving him all this trouble and his wife threatening his life and so forth.
Here is speaking of Savannah Guthrie, we have a little clip from her today on Morning Joe with uh the correspondent Nora O'Donnell.
This is about the Stupak retirement.
Getting uh death threats and nasty messages, which his office released in the audio of them.
I mean, it was painful to listen to, and of course, members on all sides of this issue have received messages like that.
So what do you make of it, Nora?
Is it that he's tired of the lack of civility?
Or is it that he's facing perhaps a tougher re-election because of his health care vote?
I believe that uh Palin has spoken out publicly about him.
Bachman has as well.
I mean, his wife got some very threatening phone calls.
They had to turn off their phone, change their number.
That was before the bill was passed, you ditzy broads.
This is why, folks, you cannot rely.
Everything is a template.
Everything is a narrative.
These people live in the most narrow little cocoon world.
Turning off the phone happened before they passed the bill when he was still assumed to be pro-life and was going to vote against the bill.
So he's now getting out.
Wife said death threats.
Savannah Guthrie or Nora O'Donnell said, I just doesn't like the lack of civility anymore in Congress.
And Stupak himself says, I'm not scared, not at all.
I just want to be home more often with my wife.
That's a new one.
I mean, usually spend time with my family.
But you don't hear guys of Stupak's age say they want to spend more time with the wife.
You just don't hear that.
I'm not passing judgment on it.
I'm just saying you just don't hear it.
Because I'm young enough to start a new career.
I'm at peace.
I'm very comfortable with my decision.
I'll bet this is the last thing he wanted to do.
I bet I I think he once probably wanted to stay in Congress.
He just doesn't want to get shellacked running for re-election.
I guarantee you, they've got they got polls, focus groups.
It's gonna be folks, it's gonna be a bloodbath.
Well, you know, I well, there some of these uh Pelosi, the guy that the the the really fringe kook.
Uh by the way, about this guy.
This guy, the judge thinks he's bipolar and he doesn't have medication.
This guy was calling a church in San Francisco and reading them the Riot Act.
It's a Baptist church, so I looked it up.
There, you'd have to say that's a very conservative church and congregation.
So this clown is a uh is he doesn't discriminate when he gets kooky.
And he called Pelosi, that his mother blames it on Fox News.
The radical information available on Fox News.
Well, the thing that was on Fox News about health care happened to be the truth.
And talk radio happened to be the truth.
Was the only place that you could get it.
So anyway, it's gonna be an electoral bloodbath uh for the Democrats in November.
And and everybody says the uh the uh, well, that fever pitcher motion.
Rush that cat, that can't last.
I mean, people don't have uh you've said it yourself, Rush, uh reservoirs of emotion are not that large or deep.
They're not gonna need reservoirs because every day you wake up, this regime is doing something that either scares you to death or makes you angry to the boiling point.
They're not letting up.
They're gonna cram as much stuff as they can down our throats before these elections in November.
Uh from St. Louis, St. Louis Business Journal U.S. Steel Corporation, the latest publicly traded company, to announce a first quarter charge as a result of changes under the regimes.
Recently passed health care reform law, U.S. Steel, which owns a mill in Granite City, Illinois, said yesterday, or actually Thursday, uh Wednesday, it will record a charge of 27 million dollars in the quarter to adjust deferred tax assets related to Medicare Part D subsidies offered to retirees.
This is a perfect opportunity for me to uh explain again.
I'm still getting email from people.
You we don't have regimes in America.
I mean, it just doesn't.
He doesn't sound right.
It doesn't feel I know, folks, I know.
Uh but we have a regime here.
And by regime, I'm talking about authoritarian.
So here's this is a great example.
U.S. Steel joins uh John Deere, Caterpillar, ATT, Verizon.
We're up now to over 14 billion dollars in hits to the bottom line.
Corporations have had to take because they found this tax change.
And the law says it's very clear.
The law says that you must take the charge in the quarter of the year that the legislation is signed into law.
Not when it's implemented, but when it's signed into law.
They're following the law.
If they don't follow the law, the SEC is going to come after them.
So what happened?
They followed the law, and they get a letter, essentially a subpoena from Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, who is Waxman's second in command on that committee.
They are instructed to show up before the committee sometime in April.
Not just bring themselves.
They got to bring their books.
Because Waxman says this is crazy.
Everybody knows health insurance is going to lower costs.
So he's going to bring so here's what happens.
You follow the law, the letter of the law, you do exactly what the law says, or else the SEC comes after you, and after you do what the law says, the regime comes and gives.
And asks for your head on a platter before their committee.
This is why this is a regime.
This is intimidation, like you can't believe it's a golden opportunity for these CEOs, too.
Uh who was it?
Was it big oil?
I think at one point got so fed up with all this.
Uh the I think the guy from Shell.
Yes, yes.
It was a congressional committee, House Committee.
Maxine Waters was on, and Maxine Waters totally slipped up and said, What we want to do is socialize.
As she caught herself, I think we even have this in our archives.
And she started fumbling around.
The people in the camera shot started laughing.
And then she said, We're just we're good, we're if you don't, if you don't do what we want, we're we're we're just gonna nationalize your companies.
She said it.
So these guys and the Shell Oil Company guy just read her the right act.
Not about that, but read the Riot Act of Congress.
If you want to know why prices are up, take a look at you.
Take a look at yourself.
I mean, read them the Riot Act.
And that's what these CEOs have a chance to do.
And all they have to do is tell the truth.
All they have to look at the law is the law, Mr. Waxman, and your health care law is the law, and it says X, it's gonna force us to do this, which we did, and now we've been called up here by you, and you want to see our books.
Well, take a look.
There's an old a golden opportunity.
I really hope they don't cave.
I really, really don't.
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I uh listened in quickly to some of Stupak's retirement speech here, and he's uh said something incredible.
He said how uh health care reform was the single most important cause of his life.
Now that tells me, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that he's trying to get the pro-choice people to call off their dogs and stop these threats.
Uh he's obviously out there placating them.
Oh, yeah, I always wanted this.
The most important thing I have ever done in my career.
And up to four hours prior, he was gonna vote against it.
If he was worried, if Stupak and his wife were worried about threats from the Tea Party, wouldn't he be trying to placate them a little bit in this speech?
And maybe he will.
I have uh I can't listen to the whole thing here and host the program at the same time.
And if I had my choice, I would host and not listen to any of that.
Uh and I can't even read the closed caption, nor do I wish to do that.
I pay people to listen to schlubs like this, and then tell me what's interesting that they might have said.
Okay, it's open line Friday, Nicholas in Dallas.
Start with you.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
Mega genius Ditto's here.
You bet.
Um, I work with specialists in medicine, um, cardiology, neurosurgery, allergy, any kind of specialist that's not primary care.
And I can tell you that this bill is going to destroy those specialists that are the hardest to replace in medicine.
With what'll happen is he'll say, Oh, we can promote nurses, we can have physicians' assistants to be those primary care physicians.
But the problem is is when you need to go get an aneurysm taken care of or something to that point, they're already doing charity by accepting Medicare.
They're some of these guys are posting a hundred to a two hundred dollar loss for every Medicare patient that they see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But wait a minute, wait a minute.
The Democrats say that they're gonna do the dock fix.
But even with the doc fix, they're on a losing end of the proposition, right?
They're taking a loss now.
They're already doing charity, and they do it because they love the patients.
I mean, these guys didn't get to start working until they were thirty-six.
Sixteen years of additional college.
And and now you you want to say, Well, we're gonna make all your patients charity.
Congratulations.
Yeah, this is this is a recipe for disaster of epic proportions, and here in Dallas, this is the best medical market in the nation right now, as far as reimbursements and stuff go, and I'm already helping people plan their exits.
So You're helping doctors plan their exits?
Absolutely.
Because they can't just leave.
There's a there's a bunch of things that they hurdles that they have to achieve.
But most of them can get out within 18 months.
So, and I'm already helping these guys plan these things out.
What are they gonna do when they leave?
What career are they gonna go into?
A lot of them have side investments that they're working on that they're gonna sell the big house, they're gonna just have to cut back and wait till things pass out.
If things get too much worse.
Well, I don't think this is by design.
I know a lot of this health care plan is by design, but I don't think uh that the regime intends to force specialists out.
There's nothing in it for the regime for that to happen.
I mean, uh the that's the kind of stuff if there aren't any doctors, no matter who's paying for it, uh you the that's the stuff that revolts are made of, and the regime doesn't they don't even want to contemplate revolts.
Here's uh Aaron in San Diego.
Aaron, welcome to Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you here.
Good morning, Rush, and may I call you my very own rush.
I just want you to know that first of all, I am a fully recovered Democrat.
Absolutely 100% recovered.
I don't even have to work the twelve steps anymore.
Were you a born Democrat?
Is that what happened to you?
Well, I was born in Minnesota, so you know, that was that was tough, right?
But uh I I started to see the light a little bit.
Then I I got married to a wonderful man, World War II veteran, volunteered when he was eight seventeen to go and fight those Nazis.
And I used to say to him, Would you please turn Rush off?
He's absolutely inflammatory.
And now I say, Would you please turn Rush on?
I don't want to be alone.
What was what was inflammatory?
Oh, well, you know, you've got a big booming voice and quite a personality on you.
And I just I just I just thought that it was, you know, I know what it was.
I I know I know exactly what it was.
And I've had people say, Well, if you know what it is that makes certain audience members, especially women not like it, why don't you stop doing it?
And I said, Well, if I stop doing it, I'd have to stop being me.
What it was, I'll bet you money was you just revolted at somebody so damn sure of himself on everything.
You just who does he think he is?
Because most people don't have the courage or guts to come down one way or another on an issue.
They want to maintain some gray so they can be perceived as open-minded, uh, close-minded is when you have firm beliefs and and so forth.
And of course, when I add to it my trademark braggadocio, people just go, hell with him.
Who does he think he is?
But then the regime comes into power, and all of a sudden, uh full nation of people who used to think one thing about me now realize I'm right.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
You're you're you're Aaron, it's a courageous thing you did.
And to call here and admit it.
Great trend.
Thanks much.
Back in a second.
All right, here you go.
This is May 22nd, 2008.
The House Judiciary Committee Task Force looking into competition in the oil industry.
This is Maxine Waters.
And guess what this liberal would be all about?
This liberal will be all about socializing.
Uh-oh.
Basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.
Maxine Waters, May 22nd, 2008, $4 a gallon gasoline.
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