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Sept. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever, living in the shadows and loving it.
Mark Belling is here tomorrow, and Rush returns live on Wednesday for authentic, full-strength, all-American excellence in broadcasting as only he can do it.
It's UN Dictator Week in New York this week.
I don't care what you say.
You can talk about New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
You can talk about Paris during the spring collections, but there's nothing like, there's nothing like the atmosphere of New York during UN Dictator Week.
President Rouhani, the new Iranian moderate, will be speaking.
And we could see the first handshake between U.S. and Iranian leaders since Jimmy Carter welcomed the late Shah way back in 1977.
This guy, Rouani, he's apparently like the George Pataki or Christy Whitman of Iranian apocalyptic millenarian lunatics.
He's Mr. Moderate.
The town is crawling.
New York is crawling with Iranian moderates this week.
You can't get into a restaurant for all the Iranian moderates.
He'll be speaking to the UN tomorrow.
And then I think on Thursday, he'll be giving a major address to the General Assembly's high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament.
This is where all the countries that are building nuclear weapons all get together and say, no, no, it's not me.
I'm not doing anything.
It must be one of you guys.
So they'll all be having a big meeting on Thursday about that.
But the excitement is that President Obama, the first Iranian president to the first American president.
I'm not implying he's got a job on the side.
There's many a slip.
He's not.
He's not the Iranian president.
That would explain certain things, but in fact, he's not.
He's the president of the United States of America.
And he's the first American president to refer to Ayatollah Khomeini as Iran's supreme leader.
He sent the guy supreme leader greetings on Supreme Leader Day in Iran a couple of years back.
So got all the dictators, big-time dictators in town.
I was sitting in for Rush during UN Dictator Week a couple of years back and doing the show from New York.
And I was absolutely furious with HR because I'd assumed like Excellence in Broadcasting Network would put me in a swank hotel with all the A-list dictators like Assad and Gaddafi and all those guys.
Instead, I was around the back of the freight yards in some econo lodge with all the Z-list dictators like the guy from Burkina Faso.
I've never been so insulted.
So I'm doing the show from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire today.
Not going to take a chance of that happening again.
No dictators in sight around here.
Unless General Bashir from Sudan is planning on doing a little leaf peeping up here this week.
1-800-282-2882 at the start of a brand new week in American politics.
We'll bring you all the exciting dictatorial updates live as they happen.
And also following our own thrilling political scene, Nancy Pelosi said on CNN over the weekend that all the cuts to government spending that can be made have been made.
They've cut everything that can be cut.
There's nothing more to cut.
The cupboard is bare.
Minority leader Pelosi told CNN's Candy Crowley, there's no more cuts to make.
There's nothing left to cut.
Oddly enough, I think that's also what Sudan's General Bashir said, but he was talking about women and children in Darfur.
There's no one left to cut.
Anyway, we'll talk about Nancy Pelosi's view of the state of perfection that American government spending has now reached.
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Chris Wallace interviewed Ted Cruz, my fellow Canadian, Ted Cruz, on Fox News yesterday and said he'd never received so much oppo research from the guy's own party.
You know, if the Republican establishment could do to the Democrats what they're doing to Ted Cruz, this country would have an entirely different political landscape.
So we'll try and figure out what's going on there with the Obamacare defunding debate and the alleged government shutdown coming down on October coming on October the 10th.
October the 10th, America comes to an end.
That'd be a good time to book a one-way greyhound ticket north of the border or south of the border.
Everything's going to come to an end on October the 10th.
If the Republican Party, as Nancy Pelosi sees it now, is basically, she's the moderate and she looks on the Republican Party the way moderate Iranian President Rouhani looks on his predecessor Ahmad Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He was the guy who was always claiming that the 12th Imam was about to arrive any minute.
When he was mayor of Tehran, he had the streets widened so that they would be wide enough for the 12th Imam to ride through on his return.
The Republicans are the opposite.
They want to close all the roads and narrow all the roads because when their version of the 12th Imam arrives, the world is coming to an end.
So Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing more to cut, nothing more to cut.
We'll talk about that.
Whatever happened to global warming, if you are just starting your senior year in high school this year, there's been no, by the time you graduate, there will have been no global warming since you were in kindergarten.
There have been no global warming throughout your entire school career.
Yet you have had, you have had 12 years.
There's been no global warming since 1998.
Since pre-kindergarten, you have had this global warming thing shoved into your head.
And the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change, and all the big global warming guys are now finally having to confront the reason their models of all their climate models have all been completely wrong and have not come to pass.
So we'll talk about that.
Egypt has banned the Muslim Brotherhood.
So that's pretty much it for the Arab Spring.
The Muslim Brotherhood has got not messing around with the voice of the people or anything like that anymore.
They had that with Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, big landslide, didn't work out.
Military.
No, no, that's the moderate Muslim Brotherhood, HR.
That's the new.
They've taken power.
This is why, honestly, HR, I shouldn't have to explain Middle Eastern politics this way.
In Egypt, it's the Muslim Brotherhood.
And in the new Iran, President Rouhani is the leader of the moderate Brotherhood.
They're all these moderate brothers.
All the moderate brothers are in Iran in the moderate brotherhood, but the Muslim Brotherhood had the non-moderate brothers, so they've all been banned.
And the military, the military is now basically drawn a line under the Arab Spring.
Mubarak is out of jail.
He's tanned, rested, and ready.
I think I saw a car in Tahrir Square yesterday driving around with a Mubarak 2014 bumper sticker on.
So he's going to be back in the presidential palace any day now.
And actually, while we're doing all these roundups of the world on fire, you may have seen this shopping mall in Nairobi burning this morning live on cable TV.
It's the elite shopping mall in Nairobi.
Over 60 people dead so far.
By the way, when I say an elite shopping mall, this shopping mall is actually way nicer than any of the, no disrespect to anybody in the retail business in my own great state, but it's actually nicer than any of the shopping malls in New Hampshire.
This is a super elite shopping mall with all the best Emporia, all the classiest frozen yogurt joints.
This is the fanciest shopping mall in Nairobi.
Mr. Kenyatta, the Kenyan leader, his nephew and his girlfriend were among those killed in the assault on this shopping mall.
It's a lot of foreigners in there, a lot of the Nairobi upscale elite, a lot of children.
There are children's events going on there.
The fascinating thing, I'm watching all the cable news coverage, you're clicking from channel to channel and you're seeing smoke coming from the building and then you're seeing this cell phone footage of people running for their lives in terror through the aisles of the supermarket and this kind of thing.
What nobody seems to be talking about is the fact that this assault seems to have been perpetrated largely by Westerners.
Al-Shabaab, the group responsible, which joined up with al-Qaeda last year, it's like an official subsidiary of Al-Qaeda.
It's a wholly owned operating unit of Al-Qaeda.
They released the name of the people who'd pulled this off.
There's three British subjects listed in this list I have here.
Liban Adam from London, Ahmed Shaddoun from London, and Sherafia Luthwaite, who's from Aylesbury and is known as the White Widow.
She's the widow of one of the London tube bombers.
So three British subjects.
But then listen to where these guys come from.
Ahmed Issi, 22 of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Abed Fatah Osman, Kenadid, 24 of Minneapolis.
Abdig Dishakur Hassan of Portland, Maine.
Mustafa Nurudin of Kansas City, Missouri.
Shafi Dee of Tucson, Arizona.
Abdelkarim Ali Mohamed of Illinois.
This is, and where's, oh yeah, Abdirazik Mooled of Ontario.
There's more Americans.
At last count, that's what, half a dozen Americans, three British subjects, a Canadian in there, pulled off this attack on this shopping mall.
According to Al-Shabaab, now they might just be talking nonsense about this and it might not mean anything.
And of course, they're not.
They're not British subjects or United States citizens in any real meaning of that term because citizenship is about allegiance.
It's about allegiance.
That's what it's about.
These people are flying flags of convenience.
They happen to have American passports and they happen to have British passports.
But nonetheless, it is interesting.
There may be more American perpetrators in this al-Qaeda terrorist atrocity than there are American victims, which is an absolutely astonishing thing.
U.S. citizens flying to Nairobi to blow up Kenyans and other people.
And just to go back to what Nancy Pelosi was saying on there's nothing more to cut from the federal budget, how about we cut this thing?
This has been going on a while.
There have been Somali terrorists who hold U.S. passports flying back from Minnesota to join the jihad in Somalia and in neighboring states for some time now.
When they self-detonate in their little corner of East Africa, the State Department pays, which means you pay, you pay, for all the various particles they've exploded themselves into to be collected up and flown back to be buried in a graveyard in Minnesota.
If you've ever had a relative who die abroad while on vacation or whatever, you'll know that the United States government is not the most cooperative or helpful or friendly if an American happens to die overseas and his family wish to bring him home for burial.
But the State Department, money no object, pays for these loyal U.S. citizens self-detonating mysteriously in Kenya and Somalia and other parts of East Africa for their dust particles to be collected back in a nice, attractive urn and shipped back to the United States for burial.
So when Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing to cut from the federal budget, we've cut everything to the bone.
Everything there is absolutely necessary.
What about cutting that one?
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We'll talk about that and the rest of the day's news straight ahead.
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Everyone's very excited about the new Mr. Moderate coming to town, Iranian President Hassan Rouani.
He's not like those old Iranians, those guys threatened to rain down death and destruction.
This guy is Mr. Moderate, and his trip to New York for UN Dictator Week this week has been described as a peace tour.
And for the first time in 35 years, an Iranian leader could meet face to face with an American president and shake his hand.
And so obviously, you know, the Iranian regime, it's not like that old guy, Ahmed Inujad.
This guy is super moderate, Mr. Moderate.
And just how moderate is he?
Iran held a large-scale military.
This is from the Washington Free Beacon.
Iran held a large-scale military demonstration over the weekend, parading ballistic missiles and other weapons that were painted with the slogans death to America and death to Israel.
Because nothing kicks off your so-called peace tour like getting out the missiles that are painted with the slogans death to America.
Nothing says moderate.
In the Middle East, nothing quite paints you as a moderate than going around with missiles saying, death to America, death to America.
That's a message we can all unite around.
So President Death to America, President Rouhani, is going to be in New York for Dictators Week this week.
And he's expected to maybe have a handshake with President Obama.
Maybe President Obama.
I bet they'll be laughing it up about the old Death to America missiles.
They'll be, uh, they'll...
They'll be kibbitzing about that one.
In amongst all the big news we've been talking about, let's not forget the biggest story of all, by the way.
Popular bathroom wipes blamed for sewer clogs.
This story is out of Bemis Point, New York, from the Associated Press.
Increasingly popular bathroom wipes, pre-moistened towerlets that are often advertised as flushable, are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the nation.
These moist tower lettuce that people prefer, I think Cottonell now is actually marketing it as the alternative to toilet paper.
It has a campaign called Let's Talk About Your Bum and ads showing people trying to wash their hair with no water.
And well, actually, I'm amazed Cottonell is doing this.
I'm staggered by this.
But apparently, a lot of it is to do with the fact that Tupai toilet paper became disparaged as environmentally unfriendly.
So people have now moved to these moist towerlets, which are supposed to be flushable, but they're seizing up sewer systems all over the country.
Now, President Rwani won't ever need to use his Death to America missiles because every sewer system is just coming to a halt and we're just going to be drowning in these pre-moistened tower lettuce.
Tom Walsh, the senior project coordinator at the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Sewer Districts in New York, that this Western New York community this summer, officials set up traps, basket strainers, in sections of pipe leading to an off-clogged pump to figure out which households the moist tower lets were coming from.
They then contacted the householders whose moist tower lets they had identified as blocking.
You know, people worry about the NSA.
People say, oh, the NSA, they're reading our emails, they're tapping our telephone calls, they're monitoring our credit cards.
It's gone way beyond that, folks.
I can just about handle, you know, the big security state reading my emails and monitoring my telephone calls.
But when they're monitoring your moist tower, when they're in your sewer pipe monitoring your moist tower lets, then the big security state has gone too far.
That is what the south and center Chautauqua Lake Sewer District in New York was doing this summer.
They know the household the moist tower letter has come from.
And then the moist tower let SWAT team goes round to these Western New York households, Bemis Point, New York, and gives them a warning initially.
But you know what, the next thing, you're going to be looking at the TV and the nice little couple at 27B Elm Street.
The place is going to be a smoke in ruin because the Moist Tower Let SWAT team have had to go and take them out.
So this is what's bringing the country to a halt.
Same thing going on in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, which serves Montgomery and Prince George's County in Maryland.
The Orange County keep wipes out of pipes.
There's a whole new campaign now.
You know who I blame for all this, by the way?
Cheryl Crow.
Cheryl Crowe was the one who was very involved in the campaign against Tuply toilet paper.
And I took this personally because I'm a Canadian and the Canadians are basically the house of sound of Tuply toilet paper.
I mean, it's just like we're turning it out.
We're cranking it out all over Canada every day.
And then, like the Saudis with the oil, giving it all to you Americans.
And then an ingrate like Cheryl Crowe says that's wrong.
And you should only use one one ply piece of toilet paper every time you go to the bathroom.
I think they re-recorded the old John Lennon song, All We Are Saying Is Give One Piece a Chance.
Cheryl Crowe made a terrific awareness-raising single of that.
It was very moving.
And as a result, so suddenly, you know, people say instead of using half a roll of two-ply toilet paper, people are going on to the moist tower lettuce.
And the moist tower, the whole country is seizing up from moist tower letts.
And naturally, what's the government's response to a problem?
A big government program now where they're putting in these traps in the pipes to identify which household.
You know, in Britain, in Britain a couple of years ago, the Blair, Tony Blair, put mini cameras in trash cans to monitor your garbage.
They're putting them now in the toilet.
Now, I don't want to devote the entirety of today's show to the scourge of moist tower lets.
Just the first two, two and a half hours, maybe.
But let me cite Rush from a week ago, a week ago on this show.
I think it was last Monday, maybe Tuesday.
Tuesday, Tuesday, Rush was talking about what he calls the chickification of the National Football League, the chickification of the National Football League.
And he notes that four NFL linemen, and Rush is pointing out these are the big guys.
They're the guys who basically have to eat five times what a normal person eats to maintain the weight they have to keep up.
These guys have all signed on to endorse a moist towerlet for men called One Wipe Charlie.
One Wipe Charlie's, which is from a small company in Venice, California.
And as Rush said, they're trying to crack a new market with moistened toilet wipes.
And this is the Cheryl Crow thing.
All she is saying is give One Piece a chance.
And these are supposedly one wipe, one piece, one wipe.
Now, if you think about it, these guys have to eat five times what a normal person eats.
So they're putting in one end, they're putting in five times as much as anybody else has to put in.
So whatever the one wipe is, it's got to be fairly, the one wipe in the one wipe Charlie has got to be pretty substantial.
And let's, yeah, let's name names.
I named all the guys the American jihadists causing all the trouble out in Nairobi, so we should maybe name the one white Charlie guy.
The Dallas Cowboys, Travis Frederick, the Minnesota Vikings, John Sullivan, the Buffalo Bills, Eric Wood, and the San Diego Chargers, Nick Hardwick, have all signed on as endorsers of One Wipe Charlie's, the moist towerlet for men.
And now we hear that this whole thing is wrecking the sewer systems of America.
So it's going to be the whole country is going to be awash.
And by the way, this isn't, I should say, just as with the American jihadists blowing up people in Nairobi, there are also British subjects in there too.
There is also a British connection to the problem of the moist towerlets.
In London, England, in the sewer system in London, England, they also had a problem with moist tower letts.
And they eventually, the blockage was so severe in July, they found a 15-ton double-decker bus-sized lump of moist towerlets that had all stuck together down in the London sewers.
This thing, it's the size of a London bus, a double-decker London bus down in the London sewers.
It's like Wipezilla that's living there in the London sewers.
And next thing you know, it'll be in the new disaster movie.
You'll switch on TV, it'll be there.
It'll be eating Tower Bridge, tossing Big Ben over its shoulder, rampaging down Buckingham Palace to sit on the royal family.
They'll die a hideous death from fragrance-free moist towerlets.
This thing, this 15-ton wipezilla that had all stuck together down in the sewers of London.
But Rush was onto this tangentially a week ago when he was bemoaning the chickification of American football by these four guys signing on to be endorsers for One Wipe Charlie's.
Okay, let us go to Mickey in Longview, Texas.
Mickey, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Good morning.
I'm an architect, and we're already dealing with this problem.
What the problem is, is the codes that we have that have been in service for 100 years allow pipe to go down to an eighth of an inch per foot on slope.
Right.
All the sewer lines under all the streets everywhere are based on that.
Then we do away with all the water coming out of the toilets.
The toilets are reduced to practically no flush.
And so when you get these stupid toilettes in the minimum amount of water, we're having things block up everywhere.
This is government over-controlling itself.
If we yield to what they're requiring, we'll have to spend about a zillion dollars digging up all the sewer lines everywhere and relaying them.
Well, and not just the sewer.
As you say, that eighth of an inch a foot or whatever it is, that's standard.
It varies depending on the size of the pipe.
But in a residential, you can go to quarter inch per foot, but that is already blocking up.
I've got some property I own where the customers now are having problems with the toilettes because of the toilets.
So we've had to find some older toilets that produce more water to make them work.
Oh, so you're going to the because when they mean when we talk about, by the way, this toilet tank problem, the small toilet tank problem, that is the legacy of the Clinton Gore era.
Al Gore.
Al Gore's greatest accomplishment in public life was to reduce the size of the American toilet tank.
And if you remember in those...
That would reduce the flow of the water out of a showerhead so that you don't...
It's just absurd.
Yeah.
They need to leave us alone.
Well, as you say now, we now have pipes that were designed for like full force of water.
By the way, I love this because I mentioned all the two-ply toilet paper was coming down from Canada.
When they had these small toilet tanks come down, people were smuggling man-sized Canadian toilet tags over the border from Canada into America.
But I think all the full man-sized toilet tanks that can be illegally input, it's like the old bootlegging days across Lake Mem from Agor bringing in the Canadian whiskey from Montreal.
But I think all the full-size toilet tanks that can be smuggled in have been smuggled in now.
So we're going to have to find a better solution than that.
But basically, you're saying that the whole way that we line up plumbing, the whole amount of space you need between the floor and the ceiling if you're putting in a new bathroom to run a pipe down, basically doesn't take into account the low-flow water and the moist tower lettes.
No.
Absolutely not.
And it all needs to be changed, and I don't know how far you go with those changes because all that pipe that's in the ground has been there forever.
Well, I think, Mickey, we may finally have found the elusive shovel-ready project for that trillion dollars of stimulus that Obama couldn't figure out what to do with.
I think he threw that all down the toilet, judging from how visible most of it is.
And actually, the federal government more or less metaphorically wiped its bottom with that trillion dollars and flushed it down the toilet.
Thank you for your call, Mickey, in Long Future.
You just never know.
The whole point is, sometimes, you know, sometimes you deal with the big things, what's going on in Washington, whatever, but sometimes actually it's the little Things.
It's the little things that are actually more emblematic of what's going on.
People start, it's like banning the plastic bags, which they're doing at a lot of American supermarkets, and they're saying, oh, do you want to recycle a bag?
Do you want to bring back a bag?
And all the rest of it.
So people are coming back now with old shopping bags.
They went to the supermarket three weeks ago and they come back to the supermarket with the shopping bag they've lovingly saved from their trip three weeks ago and they and they bring that shopping bag into the store and it's got all these little germs and microbes that have been sitting there because, instead of doing it as we used to do it in the old days was to just take the bag, throw the shopping bag away.
Now we keep them all and take them back to the store and there's all these germs and microbes running around from something that's supposed to be more environmentally friendly, and that's the same way.
By the way, we'll be back to what the Romans were doing.
If you're wondering where the expression the wrong end of the stick comes from, that's from Roman baths 2,000 years ago, and that's that's what the environmentalists will have everybody back doing before before too long.
That's not the only story that's going on today.
I mentioned that.
Significant numbers of Americans and other Westerners, British subjects Swedes, Finns.
There's a Dagestani, of course.
You can't really have a big jihad plot without a Dagestani.
It's like the Sarnaya brothers at the Boston Marathon.
But, Mike Plough, this is being pulled off by Al-Shabaab, by the way, Al-Shabaab is like it's.
This group nobody ever heard of until a couple of years ago and people think ah Somalia, who cares about a bunch of guys killing each other in Somalia?
The guy who chopped off drummer Rigby's head in the streets of London, in Woolwich, South London he had been repeatedly picked up flying to Kenya was arrested in eastern Kenya trying to join up with Al-Shabaab in Somalia and eventually figured it's easier to stay in London and chop somebody's head off.
And these American guys from Tucson not just from places you'd expect like Minneapolis or Maine there's a ton of Somalis got relocated to Lewis And Auburn in Maine, not not just from Minnesota Maine, from Tucson Arizona Tucson, Arizona.
There's apparently a guy he's one of the perpetrators of this thing in Nairobi, as Mike Plough tweeted to me a moment ago, who put the barb in the Al-Shabaab Shabaab?
That's a very profound question, Mike.
And, as we also say, who put the ram in the Ramadana ding-dong?
Mark Stein in for rush more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EYE Network.
Let's go to Tony in Milburn, Florida.
Tony, you're live on the Rushlimbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Mark, let me just preface this by saying you're our favorite fill in my wife and mine when we listen, when Rush isn't there.
That said, let me I I need your insight into something, and this morning I was listening to FOX NEWS and I happened to see Lindsey Graham on and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
I got to find out if this is true or not.
Did I just hear him say that the Republicans in the Senate are now going to vote with Ted Cruz and defund Obama and throw it back to the Democrats to get a yes or no vote from them and put the weight on them as being the ones that aren't going to defund Obamacare?
Yeah, as I understand his position, I think he's mocking the House Republicans who claim that they want to defund Obamacare but don't know how, whereas he's saying he's the wise old bird who knows how to defund Obamacare.
That's as I understand his position.
Yeah.
Yeah, he says he's definitely going to vote to defund it.
And he's mocking the Tea Party, what he calls the Ted Cruz guys, for saying that they don't know how he works.
I mean, he's basically saying, leave it to me.
You don't need those excitable loons.
I can defund it for you.
But if that's the case, didn't Ted Cruz actually win the argument that if they're going to vote with him in the Senate, that he won the argument, and now the Republicans are going to go along with his train of thought and have the Democrats be the ones to say no, they're going to fund Obamacare, and then the Republicans use that as an issue?
Because I thought it was the other way around, that they were going to fight amongst themselves and split it up, and as the Republicans were going to splinter in the Senate, and half were going to vote this way, and only five Republicans were going to vote to defund Obamacare, and the rest were going to vote against it.
Yeah, I mean, that's the interesting point, isn't it?
Is that everyone makes the assumption that the Democrats are united on this?
In fact, according to, if you follow the so-called rules of the Senate, which are whatever Harry Reid happens to say they are at any moment, but he does, he needs six, he actually needs six Republican votes on this.
And I don't see where he gets those from.
But, you know, just to look at it this way, Tony, instead of saying, you know, the Lindsey Graham faction versus the Ted Cruz faction or whatever it is, this is an issue where the public is overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare.
They're overwhelmingly opposed to it.
So this isn't one of these tricky issues where there's different factions out there in public opinion that this or other part of the Republican Party might want to woo.
This should be like it was when this thing came in.
If you remember when Obamacare passed, it was without a single Republican vote.
All the squishiest squishes of spineless, jelly-spine rhino squishes held firm for Obamacare.
Those ladies in Maine didn't vote for Obamacare.
Nobody, no Republican voted for Obamacare.
And it ought to be, this thing ought to be the same way, because at some point this is going to be a disaster.
And it'll either be a disaster that leads to sanity in health care arrangements, or it'll be a disaster that leads to the world's biggest and most expensive and most bureaucratic and most incompetent socialized health care system.
But when it becomes a disaster, who are you going to give more credence to?
People who stood on their principles and said, no, I've never believed in this thing.
I'm tired of the stupid political games here.
I mean, how difficult is it to say for a Republican to stand up and say, I'm sorry, I'm not interested in what John Roberts says about the constitutionality of this thing or other.
That's not what it's about.
This is an inappropriate thing in a free society to annex a sixth of the economy on a party-line vote and shove it down the country against the wishes of the people.
And when anyone in 200 years' time wants to look up my voting record, they'll see I honorably opposed it on principle all the way down the line.
And that's where these give a little, take a little, reach across the aisle types like David Brooks and the New York Times are looking at it all wrong.
If you believe this is going to be a disaster for America, how can you do other than vote against it, Tony?
So, how do you think it will turn out?
Do you think the Republicans will stand together and vote to defund Obamacare?
Well, I would hope they do.
I would hope they stand on the same argument.
By the way, I want to talk about this in the next hour, too.
You know, the reason this threatens so-called military spending and Social Security and all the other stuff, and your granny's going to die and nobody's going to be getting their food stamps, is because this whole business by continuing resolutions.
And that's a relatively new thing in American life.
I mean, that's basically the way it's been now since the 90s.
But in a sane world, Obamacare would be funded on its merits.
And the idea that it's all or nothing, that you have government, that government either signs on to whatever the president wants or the whole thing comes juddering to a halt.
The legislature either gives him everything he wants or the whole thing comes juddering to a halt, is entirely new in American political life.
And it shouldn't come to that.
But I hope as long as we're doing it this way, as long as Harry Reid, who's an absolutely, as a parliamentarian, is about as low and contemptible a figure as you could find in any civilized society, as long as Harry Reid wants to play these games this way, and that's the only way to do it, I hope the Republican Party stands firm and votes to defund Obamacare.
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush, at the start of UN Dictators Week, I think the last time I was here was what turned out to be Colonel Gaddafi's swan song a couple of years ago.
Do you remember he wanted to pitch his tent in Central Park, and Bloomberg wouldn't let him.
It was a zoning issue or something.
He wasn't allowed to pitch his tent in Central Park.
He had no means of disposing of his moist towerts or whatever it was.
So he then went and pitched it on an estate up north of New York owned by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, people forget about the Trump-Gaddaffi connections, but Donald Trump leased this house to Colonel Gaddafi, and then that zoning board closed him down.
And poor old Colonel Gaddafi wound up having to take the dictatorial suite at the Plaza or the St. Regis or whatever it was for dictators.
He spoke for over an hour and a half to the General Assembly.
And 75 minutes into the speech, the official translator yelled into the microphone, I just can't take it anymore, and ran out of the room.
Seriously, the official translator fled.
So I'm hoping, I have high hopes that President Rouani, the new Iranian moderate, moderate, he only has Dith to America painted on half his missile.
So that's how moderate he is.
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