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May 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You have to be kidding me.
ATT says we didn't pay the phone bill.
We are a radio talk show, and we didn't pay the phone bill.
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We got it back now, right?
We can take okay.
Well greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Here we are already at Hump Day on Wednesday.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and this is well, you know what it is.
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Well, by now you've probably heard about the story at page six in the New York Post today.
I get up, I opened my email this morning.
You haven't heard about it, Don?
Well, hundreds of people have sent it to me.
Zev Chaffetz, a renowned and well-known author, he was the writer of the New York Times uh uh magazine piece on me, whenever it was a year ago.
And Zev did he's done a book about me.
I ended up participating in the book because he's gonna write it anyway.
Uh, and it's entitled Rush Limbaugh, an army of one.
And the book comes out on May 25th.
And Zev told me that they got uh he got 200 interview requests in the first half hour when the publisher, Sentinel, uh, announced the book's availability on on May 25th.
So the New York Post story today has to do with something Zev uh, I think last summer said, uh, you know, I know Axelrod.
Would you would you play golf with Obama?
I said, well, sure, but it'll never happen, Zev.
But I mean, if you if you would play golf with Obama, she could show everybody we can all get along and so forth.
Go for it.
But I'm telling you, it's not gonna happen.
If if if he went on to play golf with me, his base would go nuts.
So uh unbeknownst to well, I I knew he was gonna call Axelrod.
He called Axelrod, because he knows Axelrod a little bit.
Axelrod didn't get back to him, so this is where I didn't know.
This is what I learned today in the New York Post for the first time.
So, and that New York Post story is the most viewed domestic story on the internet today.
So Zev Chaffetz calls some Democrat activist and says, Look, Axelrod won't help me here.
Would you see if Limbaugh and if Obama be willing to play golf with Limbaugh?
A couple days goes by, and the activist calls Zev back and says, uh, you tell Limbaugh to go play with himself.
I said, now wait a second.
They're confusing me with Bill Clinton.
Little Jocelyn Elderslingo there.
Uh they're confusing me with Clinton.
So anyway, that that that's in this book, uh, an army of one, and it's been it's made page six today.
And it's I don't know, I I had no idea that that's what the reaction was.
I all I remember being asked was, would you do it if they invited you?
But I said it's never gonna happen.
You don't have to sweat it.
I didn't have to sweat it.
I knew that it uh it would never happen.
So that's the story on that.
Uh big election news here.
Alan Molaghan.
Alan Molly, this is the guy who enriched himself to the tune of gazillions, a Democrat from West Virginia.
This seat has been held by Democrats for generations.
It's now up for grabs because Molaghan, 14-term incumbent, was swept out of orifice on a wave of voter unrest that an opponent called a referendum on President Obama.
Uh Molaghan's the first U.S. House incumbent to be ousted this spring primary season amid widespread anti-incumbent sediment.
Now, this is the AP, and of course they think it's anti-incumbent, but it's not.
It's anti-Democrat, it's anti-liberal.
Uh, it's anti-anybody who is in bed uh or on the golf course uh with Obama.
The same unrest helped end the 17-year career of Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett, who lost a GOP convention on on Saturday.
Obama ended up beating Bennett.
Wall Street Journal has a great editorial on that today.
More details anyway.
This fact, Molaghan, this guy, he voted for Obamacare.
And we remember, we remember Clinton.
Hey, you guys, you know, you remember what happened back in 1994.
We lost house cause.
That's because you uh we didn't pass health care.
If you'd pass health care back then, I'd have never lost a house.
You wouldn't either.
If you want to, if you want to, if you want to avoid that same kind of tragedy happened this year, you've got to vote for health care.
And so they went out and they fell on the sword, and this guy, Molaghan, ran on the fact the defeat was defeated by a Democrat in the primary.
He was defeated by a Democrat who ran on the fact that Molaghan voted for Obamacare.
The Democrat that beat Mullihan does not like cap and trade.
Now, of course, West Virginia is a coal state, and uh, and and that would uh that would make sense.
But, you know, liberals like to say that the the right is nuts and full of wackos out of the mainstream on these issues, which is why it's important to point out here that Mollahan was beaten by a Democrat because he voted with socialists like Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
And it's uh this is this is just a you know one of many little telltale signs uh out there.
Uh Obama health care, all kinds of stories today on how the unrest and the dissatisfaction, the opposition to Obamacare is rising, making repeal even more possible and more likely.
And the CBO, the CBO, health care, gonna end up costing over a trillion dollars, like we told you here.
115 billion dollars more than they initially knew.
This is in response to a question from a couple Republicans that the CBO got before the vote on health care, but they just now had the time to get back and answer it.
So you know what we talk about out-of-control spending, the CBO is just as culpable.
The CBO is just as culpable because they knew all of this stuff that they're reporting now in it in advance.
Everybody involved knew that they had to keep that number under a trillion.
Because that's what the uh that's what the uh the Gulf War cost.
You know, before the program started, I'm watching here, there's a joint press conference going on in the East Room of the White House, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan being hosted by Obama today.
And what's fascinating about this is that Obama is kissing up to Karzai, might even work in a bow to Karzai before it's all over with.
And this is what's interesting about this is that up until today, they were dumping all over Karzai.
They were working for Karzai's defeat.
You know, Karzai was out there, you keep this up, I'm gonna go ahead and join a Taliban myself.
I'm waiting for somebody in the media to ask him about that.
So I got to asking myself, what's the turnaround here?
You know, Ralph Peters, I had to stack yesterday and get to it.
Ralph Peters had a great column in the New York Post about about why the administration is all of a sudden getting real serious about terrorism.
And why they flooded the Sunday show zone uh with uh uh well, whoever it is, Holder to go out there and change the Miranda stuff.
And we're gonna we're gonna memorize them, but not so fast.
Uh and Ralph Peters theorizes that they have been scared to death over the intel they must have received about all the potential lone wolf terrorists that are lined up, ready to blow up things in this country.
Uh, and that they have to start taking this serious now.
And I think this may be part of why Obama, this is a huge 180 that he's doing with Karzai uh today.
This guy used to be scum to them, and they are treating him better than they've ever treated anybody from Great Britain in the Obama team.
So I bet what has happened here that uh some of Obama's advisors, maybe, maybe even Nurse Ratchet read him the riot act about the way he was treating them.
Look, Mr. President, whatever you think of him, Karzai's our only guy over there.
We're gonna have to woo him back.
Uh what What he's doing now, this is just it's classic.
Obama, before the program and in this press conference, Obama was announcing more money.
We're going to spend more money in Afghanistan.
We're going to rebuild Afghanistan.
He's rattling off how we're going to do it.
We're going to get everybody over there a nice job.
We're going to get everybody a nice house.
We're going to get everybody a nice education.
We're going to do all this stuff now in Afghanistan.
When in reality, our mission over there is to kill a bad guys.
The mission is to kill bad guys and any terrorists who are planning on attacking our country and to punish any and all people who might give them safe haven.
The U.S. Army is not acorn, but it sounds like he's going to dispatch the U.S. Army as acorn.
A bunch of agitating community organisms.
Build them houses.
Get them education.
Nice jobs.
Try that here first.
Focus on California.
Before you start dropping all this money into Afghanistan.
At any rate, now Obama's on the phone to the Spanish Prime Minister.
They got massive debt problems.
They're next in line after Greece.
Obama is called the Spanish Prime Minister to give him a lot of grief over his high budget deficit and his lack of spending restraint.
And he is demanding austerity.
He's demanding that Spain reign in their out of control spending the audacity of this guy who has tripled our debt in less than one year to now lecture any other leader on theirs.
Two stories here.
One is from the French agency.
Obama speaks to Pennish Spanish Prime Minister.
This would be Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Tuesday on the debt crisis discussed reforms needed to rescue the Spanish economy.
So first he calls Merkel and does a TARP routine on it.
If you don't, if you don't bail out Greece, the whole thing's going to collapse by five o'clock this afternoon.
And he calls Spain, urging them to act on the European debt crisis.
And then in the in the UK mail online, the German people are fit to be tied over what's happened there.
German anger at the 750 billion dollar Euro Greek bailout is swelling as world markets slid after initial excitement as the bailout fizzled.
The headline on the front page of Germany's biggest newspaper, BILD, summed up the national mood declaring we are once again the schmucks of Europe.
That's that's the headline on their front page of the biggest paper in Germany.
We are once again the schmucks of Europe because they think they've been had.
You know, they're having to bail out a bunch of leeches.
What they don't know is that we've been had too.
The Fed borrow window is wide open.
We and I read some of the documentation today.
If they don't repay the loan on the on the prescribed date, it just rolls over with no penalty.
It's exactly as I theorized yesterday.
There's no security in these loans, there's no collateral, so there they really don't have to be, don't have to be paid back.
This is a mess.
This is a literal out-of-control mess.
And meanwhile, meanwhile, the media is obsessing over whether Elena Kagan is uh homosexual or not.
And they're they're trying to dig deep, and they got pictures of her playing softball and so forth.
Uh speaking of which, President Obama has an announcement about his choice of uh Elia Kagan exclusively for you here at the EIB.
We have that ready, right?
Yeah, here it is.
Just to hot off of the uh we're hot out of the studio just this morning.
I can't, I can't get these stories off the top of my stack.
I just Obama speaks to Spanish prime minister to discuss debt crisis.
Obama urges Spain to act on European debt crisis.
The architect of the worst debt crisis in the history of this country is lecturing these other guys on their reckless out-of-control debt and spent yeah, he is.
That's the audacity of the guy.
And this German story from the UK mail online, we're once again the schmucks of Europe.
Uh German media's verdict as anger at Greek bailout swells.
I mean, for those of you who know, and the Germans do, what schmuck means.
I mean, they have that on the front page of the biggest newspaper in Germany.
I'm not going to tell you schmuck means.
If you don't know what it means, Snorley, go look it up, call Wikipedia, call your mother something.
I know the rest of you, if you know what it means, don't look to me to define it.
But I mean to have that on the on the front page of Germany's largest newspaper, and they're talking about themselves.
And of course, Obama is the one that pressured Merkel into making this uh participating in this bailout.
And then the New York Times today has one of the most naive stories on all of this that you can ever hope to read in Greek crisis.
Some see parallels to U.S. debt woes.
Mmm, really.
I mean, it is classic.
You only have to read the first half of this thing to discover how amazingly naive it is.
It's on the front page of the New York Times, and nowhere in the story is the word union used.
It's easy to look at the protesters and the politicians in Greece and at the other European countries with huge debts and wonder why they don't get it.
Why it is?
It's easy for whom?
No one in Washington seems to be wondering that or identifying the problem, which is socialism.
The problem is liberal.
There's no question here.
Parallels, damn right there are.
They have been enjoying more generous government benefits than they can afford.
No mass rally and no bailout fund will change that.
Only benefit cuts or tax increases can.
This is the New York Times.
No, and Mr. It's David David Leonard that's uh that's writing this.
And with all due respect, Mr. Mr. Leonard, tax increases are gonna are gonna make it even worse.
Benefit cuts over there are already causing riots.
The only thing that's gonna fix Greece is a systemic change to capitalism and conservatism and tax cuts and firing people who are in the public workforce, and privatizing so many of the things that Greece has nationalized.
Yet in the back of your mind, writes Mr. Leonard, comes a nagging question.
How different really is the United States from Greece?
Well, yeah, the back of your mind, Mr. Leonard, sort of nagging you in the in the back of your mind.
It's not a nagging little thought.
This is a freight train, Mr. Leonard, headed right for you.
You see the light in the tunnel, Mr. Leonard?
It's a freight train.
It's called Greece and the European Union, and Obama's a conductor, and it's headed right for us.
There's nothing subtle about this.
The numbers on our federal debt are becoming frighteningly familiar.
The debt is projected to equal 140% of GDP within two decades.
The United States will probably not face the same kind of crisis as Greece for all sorts of reasons, but the basic problem is the same.
Both countries have a bigger government than they're paying for, and politicians, spendthrift as some may be, are not the main source of the problem.
Get the next line.
We, the people, are.
We, the people, have not figured out the kind of government we want.
Oh, yes, we have, Mr. Leonard.
I totally figured it out 250 years ago.
The brilliant founders of our country figured out what kind of government we want 250 years ago.
A group of divinely gifted men.
It's called the Constitution, Mr. Leonard.
We have our government, the one we figured out all outlined within that document.
It is the plan, and we've all agreed to defend it.
Now the people in Greece, yeah, they are co-conspirators in this mess.
And we have some leeches in this country who are co-conspirators in ours.
But we know the kind of government we want, and it's not the kind of government Obama is building.
That is what we hope will fail.
Back in just a second.
All right, Greek workers today called a 24 hour strike on May the 19th, the uh latest in a series of protests against planned pension cuts.
By the way, they're not they're not eliminating anybody's pensions.
They're just asking the pensioners to agree.
They haven't pared down a little bit.
And of course, the leeches uh are are gonna go on a 24-hour strike to oppose this.
And they're not doing themselves any favors.
The Germans do not want to bail out these lazy jackasses, as you can see by the headline on the front page of build today.
Once again, we're the schmucks of Europe.
Now, when Americans figure out that we're bailing out these Greek leeches as well, Americans are not gonna be happy, and we are well on the road on this program to letting Americans know that not only are we bailing them out, but we're not securing these so-called loans.
And if they don't make the payments on the required date, we just roll it over.
We are in effect giving Greece the money.
There's there's no structural or systemic change in Greece right now that's gonna allow them to generate GDP that will allow them to pay back these so-called loans.
So you have these rioting, lazy socialist union leeches in Greece, upset that their unearned, unaffordable pensions are being paired back, not not eliminated.
Simply cut back so the country can survive.
Oh no, not on our backs, you're not gonna do that.
Europe, United States are quote unquote lending them money to make sure they keep their welfare, and these leeches in Greece, and the New York Times store does not once use the word union in describing these people.
They're rioting.
Okay, fine.
So here's folks, is what you need to do.
You need to take a hard look at what's happening in Greece.
We have the largest debt crisis in the history of the world, right here in the United States of America.
It is, it has been authored by Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm.
So we gotta take a hard look at what's happening in Greece.
It's our future if we keep Democrats and their Union stormtroopers in power.
It's our future unless we elect principled conservatives.
I mean, Chris Christie is a model.
You look at there's a there's a poll today in in uh Utah.
You know, Bob Bennett's gone, and now Orin Hatch is in trouble out there.
Orin Hatch is in trouble.
And that to me is totally understandable.
These these, you know, there are a lot of we've been we've been suggesting on this program for I don't know how long, urging people, calling here, otherwise, what can they do, Rush?
We're gonna gotta get involved.
And a lot of young buck conservatives are getting involved this time when they show up to support them.
Now, I know Hatch isn't up till 2012, but the fact that he's in trouble, I mean, this this is an establishment Republican guy who had at one time really down the line.
He was a fighter back in the Bork days and back in the uh the Iran-Contra days.
I mean, this this he was he was as staunch conservative as you could get.
Now he's out there saying, Well, you know, I could see voting for Elena Kegan.
I um I don't think that we're gonna have any uh no need to filibuster.
Oh, I find a dandy.
You don't say it at this stage in the fight.
Or crying out loud, the objective here is to find out what this woman's qualifications are, find out what's in her mind.
Well what what do we hope to get?
What is there to gain by any and Lindsay Gramnisty's doing the same thing as hatch?
What is what is to gain be gained when anybody but running around and saying, you know, I've looked at Elena Kagan and I uh I'm pretty open-minded here.
I don't even think she should be uh should be confirmed.
What do we think is gonna happen?
The Democrats are gonna play fair the next time we have a Republican president making nominations, it's not gonna happen.
Who are we trying to impress here?
Why are we playing defense?
There's no reason to say I'm gonna vote for this woman yet.
We don't know what she thinks.
We got a pretty good idea, but the hearings are to find that out.
Are we trying to say, well, no, I'm going into this open-minded?
Why do you have to prove you're open-minded?
Because other people say conservatives aren't.
Screw it.
Why always be on the defensive?
Why accept every Premise, the left puts out and respond to that.
That's why I like these young conservatives coming along.
They're not they're not afraid, they're not embarrassed, they're not ashamed, and they don't want to play defense all the time.
Look at back to this Greece thing, and because it's coming here, there's no way.
Just like I said yesterday.
If the Arizona law doesn't stand, what are we going to do?
If we can't close the border, if we're going to grant amnesty but not close the border, where are we going to end up?
Likewise, there is no way to avoid a fight with Democrats and their union thug leaders.
There's no way to avoid it.
It's coming.
It's going to have to happen.
And they're going to have to lose at the ballot box.
It'd be much easier to take them on now rather than wait like Greece did.
These these, you know, these pictures, these stories all coming out of Greece and Europe, they're not going to help Obama.
They're not going to help Obama nomics.
These people are just, you know, four or five years down the road ahead of us.
Where we're headed.
It's our future that we're looking at.
No question about it.
Now let's move to health care for just a second.
Congressional budget office estimates released yesterday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost.
The additional spending, if approved, would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to about one trillion dollars.
Now you and I are not surprised by any of this.
The CBO released the estimates in response to a request from California Representative Jerry Lewis, ranking Republican in the House of Appropriations Committee.
The spokesman for Lewis said the inquiry was filed before the House voted on the bill.
Large sums of discretionary spending in both the House and Senate versions of the health care reform bills have not yet been included in estimates by the CBO, rendering it impossible to make informed decisions regarding the outcome of the legislation.
That's what Jerry Lewis wrote in a February letter to Pelosi, asking her to postpone votes until the discretionary spending analysis was complete.
Well, guess what?
Now, after the bill has been signed, it is complete.
The nonpartisan CBO expects the Internal Revenue Service to spend another $5 billion to $10 billion on implementing the rules regarding premiums and cost sharing credits.
We had the story yesterday that, oh, guess what?
You know what?
You got this great new part of health care that you can keep your kids on your health care plan when they graduate college up to all the way up to age 26.
Oh, thank God I don't have to worry about getting my kids' health care.
Uh-uh.
It's going to cost additional on your premium.
It's been discovered.
It's going to cost people thought that was just going to be free because the Democrats in Obama made this sound like everybody else, but you was going to be paying for it.
A couple millionaires are going to be paying for it.
But oh yeah, your premium's going to go down 2,500.
They're going to reduce your premium.
Hey, we're going to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars in over 20 years.
And the news ever since it's been signed is how much the deficit is going to expand after this.
The Heritage Foundation morning bell, the road to repel, is a repeal, is well underway.
And folks, I'm going to tell you something.
Do not think that repeal is out of the question.
In fact, repealing the health care plan is something that may well really happen.
And the reason is this, it's not just the constitutional question of whether or not the government can mandate that we buy insurance and the government can fine us for not doing something.
It is that the state simply can't afford the Medicare mandates that have been slapped on them in the bill.
And here is an example.
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch yesterday.
Missouri lawmakers set an August vote on a referendum that'll allow Missourians to voice their opinions on the federal health care legislation that passed earlier this year.
The ballot issue August 2nd will ask voters to decide whether to amend State statutes to deny the government authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private insurance.
State Representative Tim Jones, a Republican from Eureka said this will set up a constitutional showdown.
Democrats are calling this an election year stunt.
But the states can't afford this, and they're going to try to go at this in any number of ways.
The constitutional route is just one of them.
Nancy Pelosi, we have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it.
This is what she said just weeks before Congress passed the bill.
And the nation's post-passage Obamacare education continued yesterday.
CBO confirming federal government will spend an additional 115 billion dollars implementing the law, bringing the total estimated cost over a trillion dollars, and we all know the 115 billion dollars is low, and we all know the one trillion dollars is low.
And we know that the estimate had been requested before passage, but the CBO was too overwhelmed by the Democrats' other constant revisions to the law to get back to Lewis before the vinyl vote.
Now, this is by far not the only nasty little surprise that has come back to bite Obamacare after passage.
Shortly after it became law, U.S. employers began reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, thanks to tax changes in the bill, ATT of Verizon, pegged their Obamacare tax losses at around a billion dollars each, you remember.
Henry Waxman says, We can't do that.
Everybody knows this is going to lower costs.
You guys, they sent out a letter like a subpoena.
You guys get up here.
You bring your emails and you bring your books.
We're gonna see this and this is you can't do this.
The regime was in the law gets you one ways.
If you don't like that, the regime's gonna go after you.
The regime went after them.
And then they discover guess what?
Well, they're right, they were being the law, so regime cancel the hearings.
Because the regime didn't want these guys coming up telling the rest of the country everything that's in this monstrosity and disaster.
Remember that the Democrats were outraged by these announcements, threatened to hold hearings.
But then they not only found out the companies were obligated by law to report these losses, that the losses were a signal these companies might have to dump their employees and retirees health care coverage altogether, and then we got a story later on that that's exactly what a lot of companies are going to do.
Then the Obama administration's own centers for Medicare and Medicaid services released its final cost projections for Obamacare, finding that contrary to White House claims, the legislation will increase national health care spending by $311 billion over the next decade.
18 million Americans will pay $33 billion in penalties for failing to comply.
U.S. employers will pay $87 billion in employer mandate penalties.
Fourteen million Americans will lose their current employer-based health coverage.
This is Obama's own Medicare group saying this.
The centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medicare Actuary, the government saying all this, not Heritage Foundation, not some other think tank.
7.4 million seniors will lose their current Medicare Advantage benefits.
15% of all Medicare providers will be made unprofitable, thus jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries.
So facing this onslaught of reality, the Obama administration has swooped into full spin mode, devoting the weekly presidential address to explaining the real benefits Obamacare is already delivering to Americans.
Kathleen Sibelius sent letters to House and Senate leaders touting her progress in implementing the law, and then last night.
White House aides Nancy Ann DeParl and Stephanie Cutter briefed House Democrat caucus members on the tangible benefits of the law.
And the sales pitch for all three events was the same.
I'll tell you what they are when we come back after this obscene profit timeout on the EIB network.
Okay, so the White House in gear now to counter all of the truthful news about the exploding costs of Obamacare.
Last night, the White House aides Nancy Ann DeParl, Stephanie Cutter briefed House Democrat caucus members on the tangible benefits.
Here's the sales pitch.
Adults 26 and younger can be added to their parents' plan.
Never mind that it drives up their parents' costs, we've learned.
Number two, new high-risk pools for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Never mind that 19 states have rejected working with health and human services since Obamacare massively underfunded the pools.
This is what I was talking about earlier.
They can't.
They can't afford the Medicare mandates, these states, and that's that's that's where the real likelihood of repealing this monstrosity lies.
And number three, supplemental insurance, supplementing insurance for early retirees.
Um that's a tangible benefit, but never mind that the Medicare advantage cuts and tax changes mentioned above are a big reason why seniors will need supplemental coverage in the first place.
Now, the dirty little secret here, folks.
The Democrats know that that the American people are not buying what they are saying.
Where is this?
Yeah, here's the Washington Times.
Congressional Democrats in Obama still feeling the euphoria after their health care bill.
Uh, but the administration's deafness to public opinion may prove to be Obamacare's undoing.
So far, lawmakers representing half the country have introduced legislation that would exempt residents from the federal health care mandates.
And we have the Missouri General Assembly story they written, mentioned, and I just mentioned to you.
Uh the the fact is that there are it's an increasing number of Americans who oppose the bill in whatever survey you look at.
The administration thought this would all die down.
Just like they thought that the Arizona law, well, people are gonna be embarrassed about this and then support for the Arizona law.
That'll die.
It's not, it's just the exact opposite.
Opposition to Obama's health care plan is growing.
The momentum to repeal it outside Washington anyway, is growing.
There is no massive momentum to accept this monstrosity.
The left can't even figure out what is in the bill.
The latest Rasmussen report shows that 63% of likely voters now believe it will increase the deficit...
56% now favor repeal of the bill.
Uh it's it's on life support.
Well, I can't say it's on life support.
But it's uh the momentum to get rid of this or to change it drastically is building.
The Democrats know it, Obama knows it.
You've got this Mullihan guy who lost after 14 terms of Congress, defeated in a primary in West Virginia by a Democrat reminding everybody that uh Mullihan voted for Obamacare.
You've got David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, retiring, quitting because he's going to lose re-election.
And he's the guy that pounded the gavel to announce passage of Obamacare using the same gabble that was pounded when they passed Medicare.
This administration is governing against the will of the people.
They know it, but they don't care.
They're doing it arrogantly.
They cannot win a policy argument.
The administration is not winning anything by convincing a majority of anybody that they're right or to support them.
They're bribing members of Congress, they're threatening members of Congress, they're using thuggery.
They are using lawlessness.
They're not winning any argument.
What's Massachusetts, 70% in Massachusetts favor a ban on public benefits for illegal immigrants.
70% in Massachusetts.
So the bill is this unpopular, and we haven't even started paying for it yet.
Wait till we start paying for Obamacare.
Now, the sad reality is it'll never be repealed as long as Obama's in office.
Even if we have a landslide Senate win in uh in November, they'll still have enough senators to veto or to at least filibuster.
Uh we could defund parts of it, perhaps, but I mean, to really get rid of this thing, Obama is going to have to be defeated in uh in 2012.
We have to take the presidency and Congress to beat this back, folks.
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