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You know, to move this north of uh almost always right 99.6% of the time.
That's going to require 100% accuracy for months.
You get that close to perfection.
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It hasn't fallen a tenth of a point.
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All three of you were mentioned on the House floor or the Senate floor yesterday.
Dawn, Brian, and Snerdley all made their debuts on the House.
I'm sorry, the Senate floor yesterday, all because I happened to be misinformed about something.
Senator James Inhof.
Rush Limbaugh yesterday talked about somebody brought it to my attention.
Talked about the three people who are always in his studio, Don and Brian and Snerdley.
Have you ever heard of the Lord's Resistance Army, Don?
No.
How about you, Brian?
No, Snurley.
Have you?
No.
No one's ever heard of you.
Never heard of the Lord's Resistance Arm.
That proves my contention.
Most Americans have never heard of it.
And here we are at war with them.
Let me clarify that in a minute I'm going to talk about what their mission is there.
We're not at war with them.
And we're not, in fact, we are specifically precluding our troops from any kind of combat in that area.
And Enhoff uh went on.
Almost everyone who's reporting on this, including my good friend Rush Limbaugh, is talking about we're going, our guys are going to go and gals are going to go into combat.
No, they're not going to.
They are specifically precluded from doing that.
So it's not like it is in Libya.
Now we said they were sending in uh a hundred people as advisors and so forth, but that's one of I want to play the sound bites primarily because you three have now you're in the congressional record.
All three of you, and you're in the congressional record because you didn't know something.
How does it feel?
Anyway, I want to talk a little bit more about the Class Act that has been yanked by the regime because now Obama wants to put it back in.
Here's here's here's there are two stories from the same reporter at the same place, about seven hours apart.
Uh Jacques Piquet at the Hill.com.
He posted this story at 151 yesterday afternoon.
President Obama is against repealing the health laws long-term class act and might veto Republican efforts to do so.
A regime official tells the Hill, despite the government's announcement Friday at the program was dead in the water.
We do not support repeal, the regime official said.
Repealing the Class Act isn't necessary or productive.
What we should be doing is working together to address the long-term care challenges that we face in the country.
Over the weekend, the Hill has learned a regime official called advocates of the Class Act, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, to reassure them that Obama is still committed to making the program work.
The regime official also told advocates widespread media reports on the program's demise were wrong, leaving advocates scratching their heads.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius announced Friday in a blog post at the Huffing and Puffington Post that the administration did not see a way to make the program sustainable.
Sibelius indicated her agency had not been able to figure out a way to Ensure that the program providing long-term care paid for itself as required by law.
That's the key here.
Later in a call with reporters on Friday, a health and human services official said that work on the program was being suspended.
We won't be working further to implement the Class Act.
We don't see a path forward to be able to do that, said Assistant Secretary for Aging, Kathy Green Lee.
The CBO, meanwhile, said Monday that repealing the program would not add to the deficit, making Republican repeal efforts that much easier wouldn't add to the de this is where the something of 40% of the savings, so-called savings were supposed to come from.
CBO, nonpartisan.
This is the same people that told us this stupid act, the Class Act would save a trillion dollars.
Or whatever their made-up figure is.
Then, now that was at 151 p.m. yesterday at 820 last night, so basically six and a half hours later, the same reporter, Julian Piquet.
Congressional Republicans on Monday called for the immediate repeal of a major component of the 2010 Obamacare law as the issue blew up in the regime's face.
The seemingly unworkable long-term care benefit contained in the health overhaul has been indefinitely shelved, quickly triggering a new offensive from Republican lawmakers that's expected to put Congressional Democrats in a politically awkward position.
The administration announced late Friday it did not see a way to make the Class Act, which was crafted by Senator Kennedy pay for itself.
But perhaps even more damning is how the White House mishandled the controversy.
Consumer advocates accused the regime of being disingenuous and gutless.
Whoa, now when I read that, when I read that Jacques Piquet actually used the word gutless to describe the regime, i.e.
Obama, and I said something happened here in the six and a half hours he posted the first story.
Representative Charles Bustani, and I have no idea if I'm pronouncing that right, Republican uh Louisiana.
The House sponsor of legislation to repeal the program, told the Hill that he is pushing Republican leaders personally to bring up his bill shortly after the House returns from recess next week.
The only Democrat who's co-sponsored his legislation is Daniel Lipinski from Illinois, who voted against health care reform last year.
The bill's Senate sponsor, Senator John Thuin, also took to the floor to urge quick action.
Thuin said, hopefully we kill this thing once and for all so it doesn't become a drain on our children and grandchildren.
The growing drumbeat for repeal comes after the White House announced that it's against repeal and remains committed to making the program work.
We're going to continue to fight for the Class Act.
Now, I think, folks, there is a straightforward explanation for why the regime announced the death of the Class Act aspect of Obamacare.
And it actually is in one of the first things that I said about it yesterday.
And it's a shame this had not been done by the Republicans throughout every aspect of Obamacare.
But unlike with the rest of Obamacare, the Republicans were able, with respect to the Class Act, to insert a provision that required Health and Human Services to certify its financial soundness before it could go into effect, i.e., before the government could start collecting so-called premiums.
Health and human services had to establish, had to certify that it was financially sound.
Apparently, if the program were to go Into effect, some accounting of it would have been necessary for the 2012 budget.
And uh from what I've been able to find out, the regime has been feeling the heat on this for several months.
Even Democrats like Kent Conrad, which is our story yesterday about this, asserted that it was unsustainable, although he naturally waited until after Obamacare passed to make this admission.
That he said the Class Act is not sustainable.
After they signed it into law, he's issued a warning that the class aspect of it is not sustainable.
So with fiscal 2012, which started October 1st, the regime was getting a lot of heat from Congress about the certification.
The law requires that Health and Human Services certify the financial soundness of the Class Act.
And that's why about a month ago, there was uh there was a minor stir when the Health and Human Services actuary for the class program, under pressure to come up with something plausible, suddenly announced that he was being laid off and that the regime was going to kill the program.
This this actually was a month ago, and not much news was made about it.
But they never have.
Health and Human Services was never even close to being able to certify the financial soundness of the program.
And this is the Judd Gregg inserted this requirement.
You know, when this whole thing was being done, that they had to be ashamed.
The whole Health Care Act itself, Obamacare, had not been subjected to this kind of scrutiny.
But the CLAS Act was.
And so a month ago, the actuary announced that he was being laid off and that the regime was going to kill the program, and this is not the way that Obama wanted that news to get out.
So they proceeded to deny that closure of the program was imminent.
They insisted that it was still studying the problem, finding a way to come up with funding, and last Friday, I thought they figured it was just a good day just to try to bury a story that was a mounting embarrassment to them.
It was part of a document dumped late in the afternoon on Friday, and they were really hoping that it would it would go unnoticed for a few days at least, so that whenever news was made, it's still a two or three-day old story and therefore a whole hummer.
Now it has been speculated by some, and I reported the speculation, that the regime would not be unhappy if Obamacare were actually declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because it is such an albatross around Obama's neck as a problem for his re-election.
And there are people speculating here that the uh if the Supreme Court, one of the reasons they asked for an early judgment, an early ruling from the court, was to get it out of the way one way or the other, and not necessarily they want to lose it, but that they won't be unhappy if they do.
But all the evidence is contrary to that.
The way they're litigating it, the way they are arguing it, the way they're preparing to argue it before the Supreme Court, they want to win it.
I I think it's it's always a um a dangerous thing when we start, and I'm I myself fall prey to this and am guilty of it on rare occasions, and that is trying to be too smart by half.
And trying to be too smart by half stems from the belief that the Democrats are always a step or two ahead of us, that they are crafty devils, and that they outstrategize us all over the place.
When in fact, as is the case in most every question or story that you tell yourself, the simplest explanation is most often the right one.
And the simplest explanation here is that there's no way to certify the class act can be paid for.
There is no way to sneak it in.
It would be too brazen a flouting of the law.
So they just whisper that it's gone by the wayside on a Friday afternoon.
Then when the news hits, Obama makes one last stand, just a verbal, I'm not standing for this.
I am gonna see to it that we re that we it doesn't get repealed and we re-implement it and then it dies.
The important thing is he stands up for it.
Not that he actually succeeds in getting it re-implemented because it can't be.
But in Obama's world, what you say and when you say it is as important as what you do.
Now, as for this being a harbinger, they might want to lose at the Supreme Court.
I I I really this this bunch doesn't want to lose.
They don't they don't want this health care law ruled unconstitutional.
Because this is ball game for them.
They they are preparing and litigating and argue this thing at the Supreme Court.
They want to win it.
They want this thing cemented because it is the fundamental element to transform this culture and this society in their vision.
And I think they know that if it's ruled unconstitutional, to go back to the drawing board, they they they they had to skirt all kinds of legislative rules.
They were on the outer edges of the law to get this thing passed in the first place, and they know they can't get it passed again if it's declared unconstitutional.
And to the extent that they might think, well, it will help our reelection if it's if it's uh declared unconstitutional and give us an opportunity to go out and say to look at what the Republicans took away from you, free health care.
I really don't think they're thinking that way.
That's an example of being too smart by half.
They're not that smart.
What they are is plain as day to see.
They are leftist radicals who want this legislation implemented as soon as possible.
Look, they've canceled the waivers.
No more waivers.
I mean, that the waivers were granted to hide the absolutely horrible aspects of this from people before the election.
The waivers from health care uh requirements offered to companies was simply to make sure people didn't find out what this bill really is all about.
The waivers would be lifted after the election in 2012 when then all hell would break loose.
Well, they've decided to hell with it.
You know, we're not gonna grant any more waivers.
Yep, no more waivers gonna be granted.
They're they're all in here.
So I I don't I don't think that it's um I just think they got caught here.
They got caught by the law that they couldn't find a way to meet.
So they secretly try to get rid of this thing, and that didn't work.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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Here's Susan in Chicago.
Glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure and an honor to talk with you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that this um bill, that jobs bill he's got coming up.
He wants everybody to pass for him.
And all he's talking about are government jobs mostly.
Teachers and firefighters and construction workers that work for the cities and the counties.
Why didn't he put that together a bill for to put the private sector back to work so that the local localities could take care of their teachers and their firefighters like it's supposed to be?
Because that's not his objective.
His objective is not putting private sector workers back to work.
There's a way to do that.
It involves government getting out of the way primarily.
But he's not a he's not about that.
This is this is a tax increase bill, and you're right, the jobs that it creates are basically for one year.
Teachers, firefighters, cops.
After the one year, it's up to the local municipality to keep paying them or lay them off.
In the meantime, they're all members of unions and they all pay dues.
And where do the dues go?
To the Democrat Party.
So this jobs bill is really nothing more than another slush fund.
Pure and simple.
I mean, stop and think, folks, really.
A jobs bill that's 457 billion dollars or 427, whatever it is.
When is the last time anybody ever credibly thought that this is how jobs are created?
Federal spending and 427 billion dollars.
How many jobs can be created?
The whole notion here is absurd.
And so now to keep the ruse alive, Obama, okay, they tried they rejected the whole thing.
Well, I'll break it up into parts, and I'll have a $35 billion jobs bill.
This is for the teachers and the firefighters.
And let's make the Republicans tell the nation why they don't want cops to have jobs, or why they don't want teachers to have jobs.
And then when we get to the next section of it, let's have the Republicans tell the American public why they don't want new roads, and why they don't want new airports like the Chicoms have, and why they don't want new schools.
And all of this, you gotta understand here, uh Susan, this is never supposed to pass.
None of this.
I mean, it'd be a wet dream if it did, but it's not supposed to.
It is merely there as a campaign tool for Obama and the Democrats to hopefully be able to portray the Republicans as anti-people.
Republicans want dirtier air.
The Republicans want dirtier water, and they want less people with health care.
This is what Obama's saying.
We shouldn't say fewer.
There have been, there's already a 26 or 36 uh million dollar save jobs for teachers bill in California.
If you remember that one, the school districts that got the money did not use it to hire teachers.
They used it to shore up the pension fund for existing teachers.
We'll be right back.
And we're back, Gail Rushbow here at the Excellence In Broadcasting Network.
You know, maybe if these events that Obama is um, these staged astro turf events, if they weren't stuffed with reporters, all these bus tour stops in North Carolina, Virginia, you know, maybe somebody would stand up and ask, hey, Mr. President, you spent billions of our dollars on phony green jobs, solar, wind, jobs in China, jobs in Brazil, jobs in Mexico.
How about you give us all that money back?
Where is there any accounting on the money that's already been spent and been wasted by this regime?
Look at all the cylinders that are out there that are known, and look at all of the all of the the the the wind energy that is now being funded.
And it's there's no business to fund.
No energy is being created.
There aren't any jobs being created.
There's a whole lot of crony capitalism going on.
And nobody ever, ever asks this guy to account for the money he's already spent that's gone toward ostensibly gone toward job creation.
Really, this is absurd.
Almost a trillion dollars in combined stimulus before he throws this one up at everybody.
In a sane media world, the first question out of anybody's mouth would be, well, the first one didn't work.
And no matter what you say, we're nowhere near the targets you said that first stimulus would get us.
Why in the world are you doing it again?
There hasn't been one question of that nature.
The questions are all to the Republicans.
Why do you hate people?
Why do you want people to have dirtier water and bumpy roads and dirty schools?
Flat out plain ridiculous and absurd.
Okay, folks, a little time out here for a two if by tea update.
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Now back to the phones.
James in uh Canova, West Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, how are you doing?
Just great, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I actually had two questions.
You answered one of them already for me about your tea.
Um, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What was the question?
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Well, that wasn't it.
What it is is I've been listening listening to you for a few months now.
I'm brand new to politics, and all I've heard is how good your tea is.
And my birthday was tomorrow, and we've been trying to figure out a way to order tea.
That's what I wanted for my birthday.
Yeah.
And she was going to do it online, and believe it or not, we got robbed.
And she didn't she could just go to a store or if she would have a phone number to call or whatever.
I just answered that.
What do you mean you got robbed?
Yeah, I run a business for my house.
Uh I actually built my own business up.
We uh it's a sales business.
We're door-to-door sell thing.
We sell steak pork chicken and seafood.
Okay, so you got robbed in West Virginia.
Is there an Occupy West Virginia protest going on near where you live?
Yes, there is.
There's one in Huntington.
Well, maybe be one of those people came over.
I wouldn't doubt it.
I mean, they're into redistribution.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's you should look into it.
What was the second question?
Um, why can't the Democratic Party bring in someone else to run for president?
It has to be Obama.
Well, they they they could, but I don't I don't I don't uh that that you know it it depends, you know, Obama has to cooperate.
If if somebody Democrat Party says, hey, Barack, uh, we think you're dragging us down a defeat.
Why don't you step aside?
He has to agree to step aside, and I don't think he would.
I don't either.
No way.
He's not gonna say he wants this badly.
He's already campaigning.
He's campaigning big time.
He wants this, he wants to be re-elected.
Don't believe these stories that he doesn't like the job that it's too beneath him or any of this.
Um it just uh he's he's he's desperate to get re-elected.
And you don't tell a narcissist that he's a problem.
This isn't the problem they've got.
Uh I know that I mentioned that.
All the Democrats in Virginia are going nowhere near him.
Even Tim Cain wants no part of Obama.
The Democrat, but but he's such a you don't go to a narcissist and say we don't want you.
You don't go to a narcissist and say they don't want you.
It's a very, very tricky thing, and I I think if truth be known, truth be known, in certain sectors, this is not party-wide.
Because most of the Democrat Party is on the same page Obama's on.
But in certain sectors of the Democrat Party, there is abject fear over what might happen to these people in the November elections.
Nationwide, statewide, citywide, there is abject fear.
You don't we have had an economy like this for this long since the 30s.
And there is no way they can run a campaign that tries to shift the blame for this to Bush or to Reagan or who knows, the Republicans on Capitol.
That that they might try it, but it's not gonna work.
Uh, and that's why they're engaging in all this class warfare and class envy populism stuff, and that doesn't work either.
At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't work.
And now you've got the Occupy Wall Street stuff, which which this could turn into exactly what happened to Democrats at their convention in Chicago, 1968.
In the in the in the bowels in the deep dark crevices and recesses in the basements of a lot of Democrat minds.
I'm telling you, there is abject fear.
No, I'm just talking about the whole cumulative effect of the protest, whether there's riots or not, this bunch is the Democrat Party.
This bunch of malcontents is the Democrat Party when they stand up and make all their ridiculous claims and say they want this and redistribution and they don't want to have to work and they want this is this you know uh America doesn't resent success.
We're not to the point where Americans resent success.
A minority of Americans resent it, but they are nowhere near mainstream.
This, folks, this is why, to be honest, is why I'm so frustrated the way Republicans are dealing with this.
We've got a slam dunk here to have a meaningful conservative candidate with a landslide sweep, which would mean a mandate to do serious rollbacks of what's happened the last two and a half years, the last 50 years.
This is no time to be electing moderates.
This is no time to be electing mishmash.
This is this is a truly once-in-a lifetime golden opportunity where the stark contrast between who we are and what we're up against has never been clearer.
Yeah, yeah, and what they're trying to do is shake our confidence and make it sound like all that I just told you is not true, that we're the minority, that Obama is loved, that all of this negative economic stuff, the American people understand it's Bush's fault.
It's a Republican.
It's not true.
The crowds got a story and a uh Drudge has it.
It's all the crowds at Obama's drawing on his bus tour.
You need a microscope to see them.
They are not.
Look at the picture he had on Drudge of Obama in 08 in Pittsburgh versus last week in Pittsburgh at a Union Hall.
200 people max versus a full civic arena.
Not even close.
The enthusiasm, all this hope and change stuff, it's not there.
The media is pulling out all the stops to make it appear the exact opposite.
I gotta take a break.
I'm way long here.
Sit tight and we're back and continue right after this.
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Oh buddy Jacob Tapper at ABC News.
He was on Good Morning America today, and the uh co-host George Steffi Stephanopoulos said to him, a lot of retail campaigning on these bus tours.
What kind of reception is the president getting out there, Jake?
It's positive, but the crowds are so much smaller than they were when I did these tours with then Senator Obama in 2007, 2008.
It's just remarkable how much smaller the crowds are.
They love him, but there are fewer of them who do so.
There you have it.
I mean, stay control media, they know there are other cameras out there.
The crowds are puny.
And also missing are other Democrats.
Don't want to be on the same stage with Obama.
Now, Snerdley just asked me in the IFB when I mentioned the Chicago riots, 1968, if I meant I thought that was coming.
I don't know.
I can tell you this, other people do.
I mentioned last week to you, I've I've got uh a couple of well-placed people who think that riots of of all shapes, sizes, and and persuasions are on the drawing board, if necessary.
And I like to take you back to a Daily Caller website story from June the 6th of this year.
Story quoting James Carville, who said 2012 could be very rough for Obama, says civil unrest, imminently possible.
Whoever thought the saying it's the economy stupid from James Carvel, 1992 would become a staple in presidential elections 20 years later.
That expression made its way into campaign in 2008, and according to Carvel, it could be the theme for the 2012 campaign as well as uh Obama seeks re-election in an appearance on a radio show.
He was on IMUS on Monday back in June on the Fox Business Network, Clinton said, based on the May jobs number, if the unemployment picture does not improve, 2012 could be rough for the president.
Look, I don't think anybody.
That's not gonna be very tough.
Very, very, very rough.
2012 for President Obama.
If that's all the jobs are creating out there, he went on to say this is humanitarian.
You know, look, this is humanitarian.
You're smart enough to see this.
People, if it continues, we're going to start to see civil unrest in this country.
I hate to say that, but I think it's imminently possible.
James Carbo.
He of the Clinton clan.
But as far back as June was talking about it.
Now, we've got Doug Schoen has gone out and polled the organized Wall Street crowd, and what is it, 32, 33%?
Say they are revved up for civil disobedience?
If they don't get what they want, which is Wall Street people in jail and as much of your money as they can get, and never having to work themselves.
And I just tell you, if if chaos, this, this bunch, the regime thrives on it, if they think they can benefit from it, it'll happen.
Plain and simple.
We already got two down and one to go.
Still lots ahead, folks, in addition to your phone calls.
So sit tight, be patient, and we'll be back and get started with the next hour before you know it.