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April 12, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying for a host of reasons.
Chief among them is I'm good and it's a good show and we are in relentless pursuit of the truth.
Nothing stops us here.
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If you want to be on the program, the email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com, the DA down in Georgia, has declined to prosecute Steelers quarterback Ben Rothlessberger, saying there's not enough evidence out there to get guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
So Rothlessberger off the hook.
The Steelers traded Santonio Holmes at 1115 last night to the New York Jets for a fifth-round draft.
I mean, they gave away the Super Bowl MVP two years ago.
He's in the last year of his contract, but his guy is doing weird things.
He himself's in a legal mess, claiming, woman claims he threw a glass at her in a bar.
He's been tweeting really weird stuff on his Twitter account, such as I can't wake to get up in the morning.
I'm going to wake and bake.
That means he's going to smoke some dope.
It's a really strange thing.
So they said, we want to mess with him.
They're sending a message, I think a message at Rothlessberger, too, by saying you get two strikes shape up where the Steelers and we don't put up with this kind of stuff.
Now, expect the sports writer community to not be happy with this at all.
The sports writer community, well, how can the DA decide it?
DA doesn't decide guilt or innocent.
It's a jury that decides that grand jury.
What the hell?
So they're going to say, did the Steelers apply pressure?
Did something?
You watch.
It won't be universal throughout the drive-bys, but there will be certain sports writers who will suggest maybe that there was undue influence placed upon the DA down there, Fred Bright, by powerful forces seeking to keep Rothlessberger, the $100 million quarterback of the Steelers, in the lineup.
All right, for Fort Lauderdale, a woman battling a cancer battle was dealt a surprise blow by Uncle Sam this month.
Diana Smith has gone through six months of radiation and chemotherapy one week out of every month.
She is in remission.
She had a donor for a transplant.
Being in remission is a prerequisite for the transplant.
But her hopes of receiving the transplant were dashed in March when she says the Social Security Administration contacted her without her soliciting it and told her that her three-year-old son was entitled to receive Social Security disability payments.
Even though she didn't ask for it, she signed the form and received her son's first check.
In April, Medicaid canceled her universal health care policy because her income level had risen with her son's payments, making her ineligible for the insurance program.
My friends, the largest insurance company in the United States, the United States government, and its CEO Obama tricked a woman.
They tricked a woman into out of getting her medical coverage.
Since when does the Social Security Administration start soliciting?
We know the food stamp crowd does.
But now the Social Security Administration called her up.
Hey, you want to get your kid on disability payments?
And of course, she said, yeah.
And that income vaulted her above her eligibility level.
The problem is that Jackson Memorial Hospital cannot provide the procedure because the risk is too high.
The universal policy from Medicaid helps shield the hospital from liability.
In this kind of case, without it, they are subject to liability issues.
Even though Smith offered to cancel her son's disability benefits, she was told it's too late.
She's got through six months' worth of radiation and chemo.
Her body can't take any more.
If they don't allow her to have this transplant coming up right now next week, they're in effect signing her death warrant, said her friend Tom Noonan.
Can anybody say death panel?
Now, here's your all-caring, all-loving federal government, the Obama regime, claiming that this only happens in the private sector.
Only the evil private sector insurance companies do this to people.
And now the regime tricks an unsuspecting citizen into accepting disability payments for her son, which launches her income above the eligibility level.
And universal care has been dropped.
She can't do any more radiation, chemo, because it would wipe her out.
The only thing now is a transplant.
She is in remission.
That has been denied.
So they tricked her.
Your coverage will not change.
Keep your doctor.
You can keep your doctor.
Coverage won't change.
The only thing missing from this story is an official letter from the White House saying, just take a pain pill.
That's all that's missing.
This is an important story.
Look at a picture of this woman here.
She's very young with her little son next to her, and she's bald because of the radiation treatments.
And I'm just struck by this because this is the exact kind of thing that the regime used to accuse the private sector of doing to try to convince as many people as possible to support the government running everybody's health care.
Yeah, let's just see if this woman's son becomes an Obama sob story.
Let's say, and is because he's still out there selling this, folks.
He's still out there selling his health care plan.
Will he grab this woman's son, Diana Smith's son, and will he parade him all over the country on these sales pitches at various town meetings and say, look what the federal government did to this man, this young child?
No, he won't.
Of course, Obama will not exploit this family for his own personal political gain.
This is a woman, according to a friend, who has been sentenced to death by the regime.
Now, I imagine, with all the attention this story is going to get, that there will be somebody come in on a white night, save the day, and suggest, oh, there was a mistake happened.
I'm sorry.
We're going to make this right.
So we'll see now that since this story has received a lot of attention, especially now, we'll just see if an exception isn't made here or some step is taken.
If that happens, don't forget what caused it, and that is existing federal rules.
You don't qualify for all this help if your income level is at a certain level.
And I bet it's not that high.
This woman cannot possibly have a whole lot of money.
So despite all the promises and all the talk about how everybody's going to get the coverage, we tried to warn you before the vote that there are more denials of claims, more declines of insurance from Medicare and Medicaid expressed as a percentage than anywhere in the private sector.
The regime's stories with all these kids, these sob stories, they're largely made up.
Now, big insurance, if this happened, if a big insurance company, if the news had gotten out, a big insurance company did this, but they'd admit they made a mistake.
They'd do something because the PR would require them to.
But the government does not have to admit that it made a mistake because it has no competitors.
Medicaid and Medicare are it for the poor and for the elderly.
So it'll be up to the magnanimity of the regime and whatever PR value they think might accrue to them if they reverse course on this.
And that's, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens.
Not to be compassionate to the mother and not to be compassionate of the child, but to limit the PR hit.
Brief time out.
Back with much more after this.
This story involving the woman down at Fort Lauderdale is far more dramatic and far more painful than any of the sob stories Obama misrepresented or even made up in his town hall tour to sell health care.
By the way, you know, we had the story earlier, the Bureau of National Bureau of Economic Research, New York Times big story today.
The board there cannot figure out if the recession's over.
They're really struggling out there.
Normally, it's easy to determine when the recession's over, but they're having all kinds of trouble.
Now, originally, I thought one of the things might be, well, let's just strategically decide when we're going to declare the recession over, such as September, October, right before the 2012 elections.
But something else occurs.
If the National Bureau, the National Bureau of Economic Research decides that we're no longer in a recession, how in the world can Obama continue to spend money and offer and suggest even more slush funds or jobs bills?
If somebody comes out and says the recession's over, then that means we're growing.
That means we got jobs being created.
The private sector's growing.
And it would kind of undercut Obama's efforts to create a permanent underclass by more and more spending, extension of unemployment benefits, and what have you.
I mean, how can they possibly justify extending unemployment two or three more months if the recession's over and if the economy's coming back?
I'm sorry.
I'm a little slow today, folks.
Sometimes it takes me a while to get there, but as you know, I always do.
Audio soundbite time.
Speaking of November and when the recession will be proclaimed over, this morning on MSNBC Scarborough show, David Axelrod was the guest.
Scarborough said to Axelrod, you do understand that health care and the stimulus and the bailout and all these battles have caused some serious problems for Democrats in the House that have won seats that McCain and Bush also took.
You do understand the past year has had a negative impact on their political chances.
Here's what every Democrat who's running and supported the president ought to be thinking.
They ought to be thinking, here's a president, and we supported him who stood up in a very difficult time, made some tough decisions, has a vision not just for how to solve the problem in the short term, but is doing things to strengthen the economy for the long run.
And on the other side, you have a Republican Party that has essentially said, we're going to sit on the sidelines and root for failure.
And that's our political strategy.
Yeah, we are sitting on the sidelines because we don't have the votes to stop you, Mr. Axelrod.
And we are rooting for your failure and Obama's failure, which means the country's success.
But so here's what they're going to run against me because I'm the only Republican who said, I hope he fails.
Other Republicans have come along and said he is failing.
But I am the only one, and I was alone for almost a year.
So what Axelrod is saying is to all these Democrats, if you know what's good for you, run against Limbaugh.
Limbaugh wants the country to go down the tubes.
Limbaugh wants Obama to fail.
That means the country to fail.
And everybody knows now, everybody knows now exactly what I meant.
This is Obama succeeding.
Obama is succeeding, and by virtue of that, the country is imperiled.
So Scarborough said, well, the Republicans had 80 amendments.
They had alternative health care bills.
Paul Ryan's come on this show, had very specific issues, very specific viewpoints, much different than the president.
But those were not allowed to be debated on the House floor.
The plan the president signed, Joe, included hundreds of different elements that were proposed by Republicans in the Senate, in the House.
Most people who look at that plan would say it reflects more of what Richard Nixon proposed and what John Chafee proposed to Republicans in the past than some radical plan.
What I recall is a parade of Republicans standing up and calling it socialism, calling it the end of freedom as we know it.
That harsh rhetoric was not healthy for the country and not healthy for the Republican Party.
Why the heck can he say it's not healthy for the Republican Party?
Mr. Axelrod, you are facing a bloodbath in November.
It is socialistic.
It may be even worse than that.
It may be fascistic before we all finished here, but hundreds of ideas, hundreds of Republican elements proposed by Republicans in the Senate, in the House are in the health care.
Name one.
Oh, there is one.
An exclusive Republican idea.
And that is eliminate fraud and abuse.
Obama said that was a great idea that somebody had on the Republican side.
I forget who it was, might have been Coburn.
Eliminate fraud and abuse.
So we were left to assume that if the Republicans had not suggested it, that fraud and abuse would still be in the health care, which of course it still is.
A real reporter might have asked Axelrod, would you tell me exactly what Obama's done to improve the economy for the long term?
Would you tell me, Mr. Axelrod, exactly how the economy's improved in the long term with all of these tax increases and all of the impositions coming on people with your health care as it's implemented?
Would somebody tell me where you have strengthened the U.S. economy in the long term?
You know, these guys run around, they say all these things, and the state-controlled media just, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, uh-huh, I see, mm-hmm.
They never question him.
What do you mean, strengthen the economy long term?
Hundreds of Republican ideas?
Name three.
I can name one, Mr. Axelrod.
Name three.
Hundreds of ideas.
It's absurd.
John in Crofton, Maryland, welcome.
You're back on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, you're the best.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was supporting you indirectly Saturday.
I went down to the Regency Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill at 3 o'clock, and WMAL had the Grandy and Andy guys and Chris Plant, and we had a regular town meeting.
I think they called it a free speech forum.
And I guess you were in town at that time.
If you had dropped in, I think they would still be trying to repair the place.
You would have brought the house down.
I have to plead ignorance.
I did not know this was going on.
Oh, yeah, we had a nice crowd.
How big?
And they had two microphones set up on each aisle, and we got to ask questions of the four or five participants.
They were all WMAL guys.
Well, yeah, there's a lot of experts at WMAL.
Oh, yeah.
Chris Plant is doing a hell of a job.
Fred Grandiy.
He's got a lot of refreshments and everything and passed out publications.
It was great.
But anyway, the reason I called is because at the top of the show, you were talking about this arms limitation nuclear conference in Washington.
Of course, the place has been tied up since yesterday.
Luckily, they had this thing I went to on Saturday.
But the town is going to be tied up until Wednesday with this stupid thing going on.
But they're trying to compare him to Reagan to kind of give some cachet to the stupidity of this decision on his part.
I saw Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Gates trying to defend it.
And when Gates got back into a corner, he said, well, you know, all the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, you know, they all agree with this.
That's what they do every time there's something that they can't support.
You just play the thing from David Axelrod about Nixon and Chafee supporting something.
They had to go with a Republican to say that it's okay to give it some support.
But the economy is also being devastated by this guy.
And I know you can't say it enough.
I'm worried because I looked at the value of gold a year ago when it was around $800.
And now it's $1,100, $1,200 sometimes.
I know it hadn't gotten up to $1,200.
Well, I don't know how much is left.
Gordon Lilly has bought it all up from what I understand.
Yeah, gold line.
And he starts throwing the coins in his hands like the Kane Mutiny with the brass balls that, what's his name?
I can't think of his name now.
Country Bogart.
Yeah, there it is.
But I just see the same thing that this guy is doing this on purpose.
You said that.
He's doing everything the opposite way.
David Axelrod is no economist, but I saw Robert Samuelson on being interviewed last week.
He said, until the net increase in employment every month is at least $400,000 to $500,000, and it has to go out for like around two years to get us back to where we were, the recession's not going to be over.
Right.
And the administration, the regime, is saying that isn't going to happen.
The regime is saying that the unemployment rate's not going to change significantly all the way through next year through 2011.
Everybody ready here for what appears to be now a permanent unemployment rate of 10%.
That's the new normal.
Now, the GDP, the gross domestic product, has to be more than 5% to even grow any job.
That means the quarter, every quarter economic growth has to be at least 5% before you create a single job in a sustained way.
Also, this business of trying to give Obama cachet by attaching himself to Reagan, or they are attaching Obama to Reagan.
Oh, yeah, this is like Reagan and Reagan and Obama.
Both want the same thing, reduction in nuclear weapon.
Yeah, but Reagan went about it a totally different way.
Reagan went about it by building missile defenses and investing in conventional arms buildups.
Obama's tearing it all down.
He's tearing down missile defense systems, those that are re-pledged to the Poles and the Czechs, and he's not doing anything to modernize any of our conventional weapons forces.
He's nowhere near a Reagan in any way.
Well, you know, Obama might be a better actor than Reagan was.
I mean, that would be the only comparison that I think would be valid.
Welcome back.
It's El Rushbo here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Look at this.
Nearly half, 50% of U.S. newspaper and broadcast TV news executives believe that their organizations will fold within 10 years unless they find new revenue streams.
This according to a new survey released today.
Could we make it next year and not 10?
46% of the execs surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, I wonder if they ever found any, said that they could remain solvent for more than 10 years.
46% said they could.
The others couldn't.
17% said they could go out of business within a decade without significant new funds, revenue streams, or partnerships, while 24% put their lifespan at three to five years.
Guess what's coming?
News organizations will be restructured as nonprofits, and we will be able to donate to them and contribute to them for as long as we're able to deduct charitable contributions, or they will be bailed out.
I mean, this is state-controlled media we're talking about, after all.
They would never think of changing their content.
They need new revenue streams.
They don't need new revenue streams.
They need existing revenue streams to rebuild, i.e. advertisers.
But advertisers are nowhere to be found because the audiences that they're reaching are older and older and smaller and smaller.
What do you mean, Rush?
Change their content.
Well, let me give you an illustration.
Every news organization that we consider to be state-controlled or government-run is identical to every other one.
It doesn't matter.
You can watch Face the Nation.
You can watch This Week.
You can watch Meet the Press.
And aside from the guests, everything's the same.
Everything it's said is the same.
The evening news, and the guests just rotate from show to show to Show it.
You watch the evening news.
Doesn't matter.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, throw them in there.
I mean, if you miss CBS, watch NBC.
Miss NBC, watch ABC.
Miss ABC, watch CNN.
If you miss all that, pick up the New York Times.
It's all the same.
If you miss the New York Times, get USA Today.
If you miss that, get the LA Times.
Miss that, get Chicago Tribune.
If you miss that, get the Atlanta Uranal Constipation.
I mean, they're all the same.
I'll give you an illustration.
Last week on this program, we highlighted a Wall Street Journal column or editorial, which illustrates the utter failure of the health care plan in Massachusetts that Obama has been pointing to as a model for what he has in mind for the national federal government health care system.
We went through it.
We explained what was in this editorial.
They have frozen, the insurance commissioner has frozen insurance rates.
Insurance companies are nonprofit.
They are not allowed to increase their rates to stay in business.
The state governor, Deval Patrick, you're going to not only stay in business, you're going to lower your rates to last year.
You're going to lose money.
This is all for my reelection campaign.
What was, without fail, the universal reaction in the state-run media?
The, well, a variation of that, the universal reaction to that editorial in the Wall Street Journal was that A, Romney care is an absolute failure in Massachusetts.
The word Obama never enters the story, even despite the fact that Obama has pointed to it, and members of administration have pointed to the Massachusetts plan as what they have in mind.
Now, the Wall Street Journal piece was oriented toward it's a debacle, this is what's in store for us.
They were the only ones in their editorial.
Doesn't matter.
You watch CBS, NBC, CBS, I don't care who it is.
If they reported on it, it was all from the same narrative.
And that is, is this going to kill Romney's chances to get the Republican nomination?
No reflection whatsoever on Obama.
Now, if you people in the state-controlled media want to revive your revenue streams, you might try to look at all of your other competitors as genuine competitors and not brothers in arms and try to come up with some content that's a little different from your competitors.
How far would I have gotten if everything I did was modeled after what Larry King did or Bruce Williams did or Sally Jesse Raphael when I started?
I'd be complaining about no revenue too, just like they are and were.
It's silly.
And why do you care about new revenue streams?
I am convinced when I read Newsweek, does anybody read Newsweek anymore?
We're all socialists now as a cover story.
The Pope, of course, is rotten.
I think Newsweek is writing for the reporters at Time.
The reporters at Time are writing for the reporters at MSNBC.
Their audience is themselves.
Their audience is not even the consumers of news.
The audience is the professors at Harvard and Yale, the students at Harvard and Yale.
Anybody that's in the elite Washington salons, they're writing for each other.
And yet they sit around here and they worry about needing new revenue streams, and they don't for one minute examine the content of what they're doing.
And it's understandable why.
They're on a mission.
They're all agenda-oriented toward advancing the left's agenda to one degree or another or standing by Obama.
The world will be destroyed by global warming.
Every damned media outlet, everywhere you went worldwide, the world will be destroyed by global warming.
Not one variation, not one alternative point of view from any so-called mainstream media outlet.
And global warming is just one instance.
But I mean, it's a crimey river of tears here.
You got a revenue stream.
You may go out of business in 10 years.
Any CEO who publicly admits, you know, without new funding and without new revenue streams, this company is going to be dead.
The board of directors says, you like working here because if you do, you're finished.
You don't go out there and say, we're dead in 10 years.
Who the hell's going to invest in this company?
It's your job to get the new revenue streams.
You're going to whining on television and the media.
They can't get new revenue streams.
We're going to go out of business in 10 years.
And you people said you're going to go out of business in two to three years without new revenue streams.
You let any public sector CEO say anything like that and he is gone because it's his job to make sure the company not only doesn't go out of business, that it thrives and prospers so that it can become a target of the regime.
All right.
Who's next on this show?
Richard in San Antonio, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yeah.
Hi, Rush, William F. Buckley Dudos.
I read a speech over the weekend by Ronald Reagan.
He called the Soviet Union an evil empire.
This president is calling America the evil empire in essence.
And by his behavior and by the Russians shooting down or possibly shooting down that airliner over the weekend last week.
And I think this was in memory of the Caton elimination of all those Polish officers in World War II.
And I hope Americans think about that and think about this president who...
Now, wait a minute.
I haven't heard the plane got shot down.
I've heard the question.
Well, this is theory, and I think it's only theory.
But I wouldn't put it past the Russians because they did it with a KAL 007 shooting down that Korean jet going to Korea from JFK airport.
Yeah, that ventured over their airspace in the Chitka Peninsula.
Yeah.
And I think that Mr. Obama, President Obama, is now in essence calling us the evil empire.
Why?
Because he thinks we're the problem in the world?
Because we're the problem in the world.
He's apologized for the last 14 months.
And he wants to, in essence, eliminate every single nuclear weapon that we have.
They disintegrated 5% annually anyway.
An old Air Force person knows that, who works in nuclear weapons that I know.
And our nuclear essence is being, in essence, verbally destroyed by this man.
And ultimately, if the military lets it happen, it will happen over the long term.
And hopefully we can get him out of office by then.
Well, we'll see.
Time will tell.
As to that plane being shot down, no evidence plane was shot down.
It is a really strange coincidence that a country Vladimir Putin despises because it's no longer part of the Soviet bloc has a plane go down that has virtually every important leader in Poland, from the president, his wife, the head of the military, the clandestine secret service, the 96 of them perished.
And now they're blaming the pilot for not responding properly to air traffic control, who urged him not to land the fogs too thick.
And they're saying that the president of Poland, Mr. Kaczynski, suspected a plot because he was told the plane was ordered to divert to Moscow.
He didn't want to divert to Moscow.
He wanted to go where they were going because he wanted to commemorate the slaughter of Polish soldiers 40 years ago, whatever it was, 70 years ago in the Katyn forest.
Well, you can, depending on your avionics snurdly, you can land in a fog.
This is a 25-year-old Russian tupolov.
And I don't know what upgrade.
Obviously, it couldn't land in the fog.
Obviously, it could not.
It didn't.
I don't know what the minimums are for this airport.
I don't know what the minimums are for that particular aircraft, but apparently it couldn't.
Story we're getting is the pilot made four attempts to land, dumping fuel each time.
People think that might have indicated a mechanical problem.
But Pravda is blaming the Polish president because they say a pilot cannot refuse an air traffic control order that the Polish president had to be told, Mr. President, the tower is telling us we got to divert to Moscow or Minsk.
And they're saying that Kaczynski didn't want to do that because he thought it was a Russian trick to keep him from landing.
So he forced the pilot to land.
Therefore, they're blaming him.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't shh.
Rush Limbaugh back with have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
A little public service announcement here, folks.
A lot of you are buying iPads.
And one of the things I'm reading about the iPad is that people who've never had a computer before are buying the iPad because the iPad makes computing simple.
It's not so much a production device, although you can use it to produce, but it's more a resource device, a consumption device, consume news, emails, so forth and so on.
But if you are one of these people that's buying an iPad and you have limited experience with a computer, I'm reminded of a friend of mine who bought her first iPhone and had no clue about backing it up, didn't even know the thing existed, did not ever connect it to iTunes.
She was taking all kinds of pictures with it.
She lost all of them when the phone froze.
They tried to recover the data at the Apple Store and they couldn't.
She lost it all, but she did not understand the concept of backing up.
Now, you cannot back up your iPad directly at Carbonite.
You have to use iTunes either on your Mac or your PC.
And every time you connect it to sync it, load new data on it, it will automatically back up.
But then what happens if your computer hard drive frozes and crashes?
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It's not enough just to back it up to iTunes.
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Bob in Sacramento from KFPK, our Blowtorch affiliate out there.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
For 20 years, I've been working in the Medi-Cal, Medicare, veterans benefit field, and the story you were telling earlier is not an isolated event.
That happens, has happened hundreds of times in my career.
Exactly like you mean the government will call solicit Social Security, in this case, Social Security supplemental payment, putting the patient above the eligibility line and losing her coverage from the government.
Because they're different programs, people have no idea that one impacts the other.
So they think that they're going to go out, and in this case, she thinks she's helping her son, and in helping her son, she finds out that she loses Medi-Cal.
We've had people denied organ transplants.
We've had people die while waiting for medical care from the government.
Right now, the VA takes a year to get people medical care in some cases.
This is not new.
I've been telling people for years that in effect, I know it's not technically correct, but that death panels already exist because we have government bureaucrats somewhere sitting in an office who are making health care decisions and life and death decisions for people, and they don't know anything about what's going on.
Well, what's really, do you think it's possible?
45 seconds.
Is it possible this woman was genuinely tricked that Social Security called her up to get her to take the supplemental benefits precisely to disqualify her from Medicaid payment for her organ transplant?
I can't say that for a certainty because I wasn't there, but let me tell you, I've seen nefarious activities happen all the time in which workers don't tell people about if you do this, it will impact this.
We see that all the time.
Well, we see it with IRAs.
We see it with pension plans.
We see it with homes.
We see it with all kinds of stuff where people are given incorrect or very misleading information.
Bob, thanks very much.
That's excellent.
The largest insurance company in the country owned and operated by the regime.
And this apparently is very common, which a lot of people tried to inform everybody of, and it wouldn't have made any difference.
The Democrats in the House simply didn't care about any of these kinds of details.
Back after this.
You know, this is puzzling even for Obama, Josh Rogan at the Weekly Standard.
President Obama said yesterday the United States is still working on democracy, and a top aide said Obama has taken historic steps to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office.
This is after meeting with Kazakhstan's president.
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