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June 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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In addition to um describing generals as either corporate generals or warrior generals, there is another way to differentiate generals.
And actually, people in general.
There are womanly words and there are manly deeds.
It is pretty clear which category McChrystal falls into, and also pretty clear which category fits Obama.
Womanly words and manly deeds.
Let me read to you something from this Rolling Stone article, which again is just out about a little over an hour ago.
I have the PDF file here.
He went out on dozens of nighttime raids during his time in Iraq, unprecedented for a top commander.
Remember, he ran special ops there.
He turned up on missions unannounced with almost no entourage.
A British officer who serves now in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The lads love Stan McChrystal.
You be out in somewhere a rock, and someone would take a knee beside you, and a corporal will be like, who the heck is that?
And it's Stan McChrystal.
Show this is something leaders don't.
I mean, they stay safety behind the lines to stay alive to be the uh the leaders.
Now, would it be cynical of me to question the timing of this article?
An article which wasn't even supposed to come out until next Friday.
But it's clear it could have been written at any time.
What a great way to get BP off the front page, because you know what?
Obama's losing that one in the polls, folks.
Vast majority of the American people think he's not doing a right thing or good thing or has no strategy at all.
Uh Democrat Party thinks they've got a winner here in the whole BP thing, but especially with Joe Barton, but they don't.
Obama, I he's not getting majority support anywhere.
And you look at this, I mean, the military, the military is just as hated as big oil among the left-wing fringe base that Obama has to pander to.
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Audio sumbite number 10, John King, last night, Situation Room.
Uh John King has his own show called John King USA, said this about me in my remarks about Joe Barton.
Now, I'm playing these because you're gonna hear them again tonight regarding McChrystal.
It's music to their ears.
This is the fascinating.
If it's not the first time, Rush Limbaugh, who would identify himself as a conservative, not a Republican, because Barton apologized, they have decided to run for the Hills.
When you're investigating B. Peter to negotiate this fund, there are a number of conservatives who want to have that conversation.
Should the administration have done this?
Was it appropriate?
And to ask about oversight of that money, what Rush Limbaugh is saying is that because Barton apologized to Hayward, and because some Gulf Coast Republicans objected that he says they looked at the polling data and they ran for the Hills tension in a year when Republicans should have the wind at their back, is when it comes to turnout, when it comes to enthusiasm and intensity, it's a risk.
Yeah, and it's uh it's the timing of what Barton said is the only thing bad about it.
What he said is true.
And what McChrystal's aides are saying in this, it's all true.
This is the dirty little secret is it's all true.
That's why it's so objectionable.
Last night on PMS NBC was Sergeant Schultz.
He had on Anthony Wiener.
You know Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.
I know nothing.
Nothing.
Sergeant Schultz said, Why aren't Democrats screaming for the top of every building in Washington?
This guy needs to be replaced if he's this close to big oil.
Shown his cards when the Democrats are supposed to be the party so concerned about climate change and energy, moving the country forward.
Why wouldn't you want to try to take this guy out just on the shame alone?
And Wiener says, forget Joe Barton.
You're got you're focused on the wrong guy, Sergeant Schultz.
I have some empathy for Joe Barton.
First of all, I think he's a good guy, but he was not anything near even the first to say this.
In ten minutes this afternoon on the internet, here's what I came up with.
Other people who called it a shakedown.
Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Price, the entire Republican Party.
Uh my concern is we shouldn't be focusing on Joe Barton.
We should be focusing on what Ron Emanuel spoke about this week, and this is a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans.
They support big business.
We support trying to regulate some.
Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the leaders of that party.
There you have it.
That's Anthony Wiener of New York, a congressman on with Sergeant Schultz on Mess NBC.
Now I got a guy out there reading this piece, because I can't read it.
But I got a guy reading this McChrystal piece in Rolling Stone.
And he says, uh, I keep re-reading it.
I'm not saying any significant disagreement or disloyalty from McChrystal to the administration or uh uh or its policies.
He's not seeing a whole lot of disagreement.
Uh the aids are another matter.
Now, if if Anthony, we what would anybody call Wolf Blitzer?
What would you call this?
If this was not a shakedown, what would you call we proved it was a shakedown yesterday, as as uh uh these people are admitting it because Feinberg's out there saying, Well, Obama told me that we gotta get moving fast on this.
Obama told me this, Obama told me there's nothing independent about any of this.
You drag BP in there and you say, okay, here's what you're gonna do, or else it's gonna obviously it was a shakedown.
This is how this bunch this bunch works.
Last night on uh Chris Matthews show, F. Chuck Todd talked about the Joe Barton situation and me.
Matthews said one after another Republican voices siding with BP against the American people.
What is one after another?
Republican voices siding with BP against the American.
Chris, would it be too much to ask that this administration side with the American people just once?
Anyway, here's the bite.
They know that it's unpopular to side with BP, and yet principally, and I think what you're hearing there, particularly when it comes to when you're hearing what Russia's talking about, principally.
I think there are a lot of conservatives who are uncomfortable with the idea of government being the intervening force here, that it goes against sort of their own principle of how they believe the private sector should be interacting with government.
And the problem is politics is getting in the way, because guess what?
BP is unpopular with everybody Republican, Democrat, and independent.
And so it's politically, and that's what I think is frankly.
I think it's the Republicans have been in a box on how to respond to this oil spill politically, more so than this White House.
Essentially, what F. Chuck Todd is saying is that I'm standing on principle in my remarks.
Uh, and I point out to the uh the the idealistic youth that uh Republican elected officials uh sometimes can't stand on principle.
They have to acknowledge the political reality of the situation, and that is the timing here was uh not the best for Barton's comments.
Yes, a program observer has a question.
What's the question?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh the question is, how come you mean the media?
Why is the media not troubled by the bypassing of the judiciary on what?
Uh I think the question answers itself.
These are acolytes of Obama.
Uh they love Obama.
They love the whole notion of a of a of a almost a totalitarian type chief executive that they have engineered into power and so forth.
Uh remember, what when liberals are in power, Mr. Sturdley, all the separation of power stuff goes out the window.
And all this concern about uh power being usurped from Congress, legislative branch, uh the judiciary being over it goes out the window.
Uh, you get a Republican in there, and then all of these assaults in the Constitution that never take place are routinely cataloged and made mention of accusations fly and so forth.
I mean, you you have I don't know, you just you have a slavish devotion to the guy here, whatever he does.
They cannot.
I mean, it they have to it it's gonna have to be something egregious before they are in unison in criticism over over something.
And remember, uh Snerdley, when you're talking about the media as well, they they know the dire consequences a Democrat Party faces, and they will do anything to reduce those dire quin consequences and to improve the Democrats' electoral possibilities coming up in November.
So when you give them an enemy like BP and now McChrystal, uh this is made order for propping up a but look at the stories.
Joe Barton turned a lousy week into a winner week for Obama.
That's all over the Washington Post.
Joe Barton turned a lousy week into a big winning week for Obama.
That's the perspective because they want this to happen.
So they're going to write that it has.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back right after this.
Well, this one takes a cake.
Old Gibbs up there, the White House press secretary just said about this McChrystal incident that Obama really feels bad to be distracted by the mission by this.
Feels bad to be distracted by from the mission because has he ever been focused on the mission?
I mean, you gotta be focused on it to be distracted by it or from it, or what have you.
Anyway, folks, uh the the this Rolling Stone piece, when you read it.
It almost appears as though these these damning quotes were leaked first because it was available so they would be much more sensational they turn out to be when you read the entire article.
And even so, the uh the quotes are not really all that sensational no matter how you look at them, just some staff people letting off steam.
And a lot of these comments are made while the staff is uh holed up at a bar consuming adult beverages, maybe to excess.
Which explains some of this.
Here, here before we go to the phones.
Here's an example of one of the most supposedly damning sections of the Rolling Stone piece.
And again, note that it is Team America here, McChrystal's staff who are reportedly talking in private.
Team McChrystal likes to talk dirty about many of Obama's top people on the diplomatic side.
One aide calls Jim Jones, a retired four-star general, veteran of the Cold War clown, who remains stuck in 1985.
Politicians like McCain and Carrie says another aide, turn up, they have a meeting with Karzai, they criticize him at the airport press conference, and they get back for the Sunday talk shows.
Frankly, it's not very helpful.
Only Hillary Clinton receives good reviews from McChrystal's inner circle.
Hillary had stands back during the strategic review.
She said, if Stan wants it, give him what he needs.
What what staff people don't talk like this?
You I'll bet you can bet Obama staff talks like this about people Obama has to work with.
I'll bet you they're just probably more obscene than these guys are since Ram Emanuel is present in these meetings.
But uh Hillary Clinton stands up for uh for McChrystal in this piece.
So you'd be interesting when you're taking this, when you read this, compared to all the sensationalism with which these so-called comments have been leaked from the story.
Uh you might agree that this story's not nearly as incendiary as it's been portrayed to be.
Still doesn't mean that there's not a uh going on up there of dissatisfaction with the way the whole program's being run, particularly the Afghanistan strategy.
All right, to the phones, as I promised, Jay in Jacksonville, Florida.
Thank you for waiting.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
Good afternoon.
Hi.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Been trying to get through since last November.
Listen, your comment about uh the there being two types of uh you know officers in the military, uh, you're spot on.
Uh my father, having been uh in the service for quite a long time, I have met uh both types of uh general officers, those that are the type, those that are the warriors.
Uh and again, you were you were spot on.
Yeah, the corporate generals are the uh and the warrior generals.
Yes.
Uh one being more concerned about politics, the other being more concerned about uh getting the mission done.
Uh uh the comments that the general mission.
Um the warriors say uh obviously there are some exceptions, uh, like in his apology.
Uh I have a very hard time believing that he actually meant what he said in his apology.
I don't know how a man of his caliber could actually have uh extreme uh admiration and uh respect for the current president.
Uh well, we're gonna have to wait for what McChrystal says.
I the the one thing we want to avoid doing is assuming what's in his heart and mind.
I I've gone a little bit farther than I intended to in that.
Because I I I don't think any of this is accidental.
I mean, I I think I think there's a genuine disconnect between the warrior side and the Pentagon and this and this administration.
And you know, these these staff people, you know, you you you you don't I just refuse to believe they don't know who Rolling Stone is.
I refuse to believe they don't know that they're talking to a pop culture leftist icon publication.
I just don't believe I don't believe that that's stupid.
Therefore, I don't believe that these comments were not intended for public dissemination.
Now, McChrystal is apparently apologized and wants to do so in uh in in person.
So we'll we'll have to wait and see what he actually says uh uh about this.
I don't know.
I don't certainly I don't know if the staff thought they were talking off the record.
Well wait and see on that too.
But no, that no people are not that you got reporters from Rolling Stone and you off the record.
That doesn't that doesn't compute.
I mean this does this does not hide the fact that the real story here is there is a huge split between the warrior side in the Pentagon and the administration and the regime.
And clearly they understand they've got you know sixties anti-war, anti-military people running the show now, community organizer.
They wake up one day, community organizers, the commander in chief.
Uh it's these guys have devoted everything to completing the mission.
Here's Kevin in Columbus, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
You're next.
Uh, yes.
First of all, I think being a veteran, I am highly offended with this general.
No matter what he thinks or feels, he is up he has sworn an oath to that office.
He has sworn an oath to this president, no matter what he feels about him, and to me that is borderline treasonous.
Have you ever seen that movie branded where they striped a guy down?
That's exactly what should happen to him.
Strip this guy down and boot him out of the military because when I was in the military, we were not allowed to do that.
You cannot say anything, and especially during a war.
Now that is very undermining, you're gonna get who knows how many people killed just by his comments, because he is uplifting the enemy.
They hear these comments and they get very excited.
Because they see that we're divided, and I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't mount some type of attack on our troops just because of what this stupid general.
Now wait a sec.
Kevin now let let's let's try to be a little reasonable here.
They're already they're already mounting attacks on our troops.
Our troops aren't allowed to fire back for crying out loud stupid rules of engagement.
That's not Obama's fault because they can't fire back.
He didn't make that uh rules of engagement.
That's Geneva Convention.
And you and No, they're not No, they're not the rules of engagement are not the only thing that's not fire back now, Captain.
Kevin, Kevin, we don't have time for sophistry here on this program.
The You're ignorant.
Rules of engagement have nothing to do with the Geneva Convention.
What about all these Democrats who are demoralizing the military during the Iraq war.
Well, I I guess now we know that's the Obama defense sector.
That's how they're looking at this.
So oh uh this uh McChrystal will be stripped and branded and fired.
Okay.
I wonder how many of you think Obama's gonna get rid of McChrystal.
Conventional wisdom is that McChrystal's gone.
He's gonna go in there, he's gonna explain himself, and Obama's gonna say, You're gone, buddy.
But I wonder, I wonder if uh I wonder if the one actually will fire McChristal.
Because there's a there's there's some negative downside if he does that, not to mention blowing up the whole Afghanistan policy.
But he might also be creating a Republican presidential candidate in the process.
I mean, you gotta consider all kinds of things here.
Westchester, Ohio.
Joe, welcome to the program.
Sir, great to have you here.
So it's an absolute honor to speak with you.
I'm a retired Army guy.
I'd like to make three comments.
The first comment is when you get a staff that's a high level, these guys are handpicked.
So if they're saying something, they're speaking as one voice.
The second thing I'd like to say is that there's a certain level of trust between the commander in chief and the generals they send out to do the job.
And if you don't trust the general to give you an accurate assessment and you don't support him, then that level of trust is broken.
And then the third thing is that the Liberals have always been anti-military.
This whole Afghanistan thing, I believe the Liberals are not in it to win it.
It was just one of those campaign things where Obama, he's lashed out at uh Bush saying, well Yeah, we're fighting a wrong war.
We should be in Afghanistan.
We shouldn't be in Iraq, and so, yeah, window dressing, face saving, and so forth.
Here's another thing to consider, and thanks, Joe, very much.
Another thing to consider if Obama does fire McChrystal, then McCrystal is free to launch.
Uh and that, believe me, will be a major factor as they mull this over at the highest levels of the regime, because McChrystal would then be free to speak his mind if he were cashiered.
Whether he would is a uh another matter, but he would be free to if they cut him loose.
And that may be something the regime doesn't want to deal with.
We'll see.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboss serving humanity, executing a high assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
There are other things going on out there.
We will not be distracted by any one thing, the BP oil spill, the McCrystal uh uh uprising and what have you.
Obama administration sources tell ABC News that Eric Holder, the attorney general, is expected to file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its immigration law likely next week.
Now the timing is not coincidental.
They're gonna do everything they can to take everybody's eyes off the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan.
Robert Bork came out the other day, said she should be conf not be confirmed.
She came out the other saying it's been discovered that she said the Bork hearings were ideal.
The Bork hearings were specifically and especially exactly what Supreme Court nominee can confirmation hearings ought to be.
So, if that's what she wants, that's what she ought to get.
There's a story out there that Republicans are threatening to boycott the Kagan hearings because they're not being uh cooperated with.
You know, they've requested all kinds of documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor from uh Kagan's days with uh with Clinton.
And the uh National Archives people and the library massage parlor people say that there's no way we we can't get these documents down there by June 26th.
What are you talking about?
It ain't gonna happen.
So the Republicans are thinking about boycotting.
I I will believe that when I say Republicans, and if they do boycott, they'll apologize for it the next day.
So I I wouldn't expect it.
Anyway, file suit against Arizona.
Uh and and now this Nebraska town has duplicated the Arizona law.
Uh, and a number of states want to duplicate the Arizona law.
John Kyle not backing down from his version of what was uh said by Obama to him in the oval orifice.
He says Obama said, Look, I'm not gonna secure the border because if I did that, then you guys, um, you guys would not be serious about comprehensive immigration reform, which means uh voter registration.
Amnesty is the single largest voter registration drive which has ever occurred in the country.
Now, Obama, by the way, speaking of that, a little blog here, numbers USA.
Several senators have learned of a possible plan by the regime that would provide a mass amnesty for the nation's eleven to eighteen million illegal aliens, led by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa.
Eight senators addressed a letter to Obama asking for answers to questions about a plan that would allow Janet Napolitano to provide uh an amnesty if they can't secure enough votes for a bill in the Senate.
They're just gonna deem that Senate bill to have passed.
The letter was sent to Obama earlier yesterday.
It asks the president for clarification on the use of deferred action or parole for illegals.
The executive actions are typically used in special cases and are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
But if 60 votes cannot be secured in the Senate to pass a mass amnesty, the regime may use the discretionary actions as an alternative.
Now, I have the text of the letter here, signed by Senators Grassley, Hatch, Vitter, David Vitter from Louisiana, Jim Bunning, Kentucky, Saxby Chambless of Georgia, Johnny Isaacson of Georgia, Jim Inhoff of Oklahoma, and Thad Cochran of Mississippi.
Dear President Obama, we understand there's a push for your administration to develop a plan to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States.
We understand the administration may include aliens who have willfully overstayed their visas or filed for benefits, knowing they will not be eligible for a status for years to come.
We understand that deferred action and parole are discretionary actions reserved for individual cases that present unusual, emergent or humanitarian circumstances.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So there are rumors out there of executive order amnesty for all of the illegal immigrants.
And not only do they want this, I mean, if they if they could get away with it, they would most certainly do it.
But also it would uh it would detract or distract people's attention from the Kagan hearings, which stand a chance to be Barn Burner.
Well, let's see here.
Ah, uh, this is uh today.
Daily Caller.
This is the website of Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer expressed doubt that the U.S. military will be successful in winning the Afghanistan war during remarks to reporters today.
What you've heard from me is a reticence on the probability of success after the investment of the most important treasure we have, and that's our manpower, our people, of course, are financial investment as well.
Hoyer defined success as an Afghanistan that's stable, strong enough to prevent a future basing organizing planning effort to attack America, which the Taliban clearly provided to Al Qaeda.
So the second war as lost.
So now the Democrat, second in command in the House, is out there saying Afghanistan's lost, we cannot win it.
And uh I mean, on the day that on the day that McCristol has been summoned to the office to explain this Rolling Stone article.
You know, it it used to be, folks, that uh the Democrats passed around cigarettes, little flasks of uh booze, walking around money to get votes, but now they're gonna give away citizenships.
I mean, if this rumor is true that Obama's planning a mass amnesty, I mean, this is taking walking around money and free cigarettes to a whole new level.
Now just gonna pass out citizenship.
We're from the Obama regime, and we know that you've been mistrated and you've been mischaracterized, and we want you to be citizens.
Here, here's here's your citizenship paper.
Anybody asks you for this in Arizona, you show it to them.
Well, the Democrat Party has come a long way.
Sales of existing homes dipped 2.2% in May, signaling that a boost from home buying tax credits is fading sooner than expected.
The only news agency that gets this right is Bloomberg.
They say not only are existing home sales down now, they're gonna even get worse.
They are expecting it to get worse over at Bloomberg.
What I want to know is who doesn't expect this?
People do not have jobs.
How in the world are they gonna buy a house?
Even with this tax credit business.
If you don't have a job, big whoop.
White House releases patients' bill of rights.
There's a lot of health care news out there today.
This is from the Associated Press Ricardo Alonso Zalivar.
Most health insurance plans will soon be barred from turning children down due to pre-existing medical problems, the White House announced today, spelling out how early benefits of the new health care law will work.
Obama's marking the first 90 days since he signed the health care overhaul by packing a series of consumer safeguards into what the administration is calling a patience bill of rights.
This is they're trying to make up for a big mistake.
All this stuff, remember all these children uh being able to go on their parents' health insurance plans.
They they they screwed that up.
Doesn't happen till 2014.
So they're gonna move it forward from the Boston Globe today.
Thousands of uninsured Massachusetts workers in low-wage jobs are ineligible for state subsidized health coverage, but they will qualify for these low-cost plans under the new national health care overhaul in 2014.
Now some consumer advocates arguing that the weight is unfair and a black eye for the state want the Patrick administration and legislators to launch a program to cover at least part of this group.
Now, the SEIU is who the AP means here by consumer advocates, because they represent the health care workers who would benefit from this uh this further expansion.
And another story along these lines.
Uh President Obama on Tuesday will announce new health care insurance benefits for consumers, marking the first 90 days since he signed the landmark legislation.
Consumers who buy their policies directly faced increases averaging 20% this year.
This is all about premiums are going up.
Uh people are going to lose their health care plan, so Obama is out there now announcing new benefits.
But the law hasn't gone into effect on some of these new benefits.
So it's all PR.
Here come the giveaways, here come the gimme's.
Here come the vote buying, and this is from the let's say uh well, the Chicago Tribune is published in the Los Angeles Times.
Pressure rising on health care long before overhaul takes effect.
Millions will struggle to keep coverage until the law sets up a safety net in 2014.
Despite passage of the landmark health care overhaul this spring, the nation's existing health system is continuing to fray, raising the prospect the country could experience a crisis before the law establishes a new safety net in 2014.
Three months after the president signed a law, state governments struggling with budgets, savaged by the recession, are contemplating further cuts in health care aid for the poor despite the promise of more federal dollars.
At the same time, several million laid-off Americans and their families who have used federal assistance to hold on to health insurance will lose coverage in coming months as the special assistance program expires.
Those with jobs face their own challenges as employers continue to look for ways to pair health benefits and shift more costs to employees, if not drop health coverage altogether.
How in the world can this possibly happen?
I thought we had a miracle piece of legislation signed.
None of this was supposed to, all of this was supposed to never happen.
This kind of stuff was supposed to be stopped.
Now, of course, you and I knew from the get-go that this was exactly going to be the result of this.
Now, one thing about this, and there are many things about this to say, but here's one.
Remember the budget trick, the gimmick that was used to bring this whole debacle in under a trillion dollars, which of course made it somehow affordable.
The way that was done was the benefits don't start for four years, 2014.
But the taxes at all the costs commence immediately.
Well, guess what?
All of these people, the ill-informed, who believed everything, well, the lied to.
Let's not call them the ill-informed, the people who were lied to.
Obama said, You like your doctor?
You're gonna be able to keep it.
Your premium's gonna go down $2,500 a year.
And if you want this, you're gonna get it.
Everything.
And some millionaire was going to pay for it.
We had the stories a day after the laws passed, people showing up at doctor's office, okay, where's my health care?
Uh, we don't know.
What do you mean?
I don't have it.
Well, the law was signed yesterday.
What do you mean?
Well, no provision here for this to be covered until uh 2014.
Now it's 90 days in of what Obama's doing.
He's passing out benefits.
So we're not gonna wait till 2014 because the Hoy Paloi, the masses who were lied to are now ticked off.
They didn't catch the part about 2014.
Now they're hearing about they're losing their health insurance, or companies are saying, wait a minute, uh, our premiums are skyrocketing.
We're gonna try to offload these.
Here comes the public option, by the way, as a result of that.
So Obama has to go out there and say, okay, guess what?
We're gonna accelerate this.
And we're gonna move this up 24.
Well, there goes the whole budget gimmick.
There goes the whole trick to keep this thing under a trillion dollar, which it never was anyway.
It was just it's a mess.
It's a mess.
And highly frustrating, folks, because everything those of us in the know warned people about is happening right on schedule.
Well, the federal judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana has blocked the Obama offshore drilling moratorium.
The offshore drilling moratorium has been blocked by a federal judge, a Reagan appointee.
The uh the regime will not appeal this to the appellate level, but this gives me some hope is if a Reagan-appointed judge is going to decide with the regime here, then it would be problematic.
Uh Martin Feldman is the judge's name, and he has stripped is blocked.
The offshore drilling moratorium imposed by the regime, not his health care business.
Who is gonna pay for these benefits being moved up now from 2014 to the present?
All Obama's doing here, you you talk about executive power grabs.
All Obama's doing here is deeming the law in effect now instead of 2014.
Just deeming it into this was the plan all along.
This is a budget gimmick from the everybody in their right mind knew the Democrats couldn't afford to wait for their voters to wait till 2014 for these health care handouts.
It was all a giant lie.
It was all an obfuscation.
It was all a budgetary trick to get the media and some people, even some Republicans outside of elected office, to go along with this.
So what you have here is once again the president taking another power away from the courts, because I listened to him this morning talking about this.
A part of his announced plan involved setting up a process within the executive branch for adjudicating disputes between insurance providers, health care providers, and consumers.
These kind of disputes were previously handled in court or by binding arbitration.
Now you have to go to the regime to have your dispute arbitrate, just another power grab out there.
And who can keep track of them all?
There's several new ones every day.
In other words, what's gonna happen?
Here's the way to look at what Obama announced today.
It's very simple.
And that's what we do here, folks.
We make the complex understandable.
Essentially what's happened is Obama is gonna set up uh health court in the White House or some other executive bureaucracy where some bureaucrat will now be the judge and jury about your insurance coverage, uh insurance coverage.
And we we're supposed to believe this is an expansion of our rights as citizens.
Yes, it was touted today, yes, as an expansion of our rights, greater access to health care, more affordable insurance, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And now all of a sudden people are realizing wait a minute, my taxes are going up next year to pay for all this, but I don't get the benefits till 2014.
That's not good.
Right on schedule, Obama says, you know what?
You're right.
Uh we're gonna go ahead and move these benefits up to right now, and we're gonna we're gonna adjudicate all these disputes between you, your employer, and your provider.
We're gonna do it here at the White House.
The executive branch.
Meaning what?
Well, it means you're a Democrat, union member, you got a problem, they'll side with you.
Remember, this is all about buying votes.
It's all about creating dependency.
It's all about growing the federal government.
It's all a masterfully set up bunch of gobbledygook failure that the White House now gets to come in, wear the white hat and solve health care for everybody.
And the New York Times today, Obama also gave the insurers a huge warning.
A White House is concerned insurers will blame the law for rate increases, and Obama said, you better not blame the law.
You better not blame the law for these rate increases.
The plan is he wants insurers to have no choice but to raise premiums, folks.
The plan is for the insurance company to price you out of the market so you can only go to the government.
Public option, single payer eventually.
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