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Sept. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, the big voice on the right is away today, and it's your small, furtive, creepy foreign accent on the right sitting in.
Mark Belling is going to be here tomorrow, and Rush returns for full strength, all American uh excellence in broadcasting to take you through the end of the week live uh on Wednesday.
Um I mentioned I mentioned when I was here on Friday that I was going to be uh out in uh Ohio in a uh uh beginning of next month, and uh apparently uh I confused the date or something, so people uh a couple of people asked me to clarify it.
It's October the tenth uh at the Ashbrook Center, which is a great center uh for liberty and for the cause of liberty, and actually highly relevant the name.
People cause the Ashbrook Center is at Ashland University, and people get them mixed up.
I got it mixed up because you think oh it's the Ashland Center at Ashbrook University or whatever.
Uh and uh it's called the Ashland Ashland University is named after Ashland the town, but Ashbrook uh the center, which is part of Ashland University, if you're following this, if you f if you record it, get out your cassette recorder and record it and play the tape back very slowly, it'll all make sense.
But the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in the town of Ashland, Ohio, uh is named after an Ohio congressman, Congressman Ashbrook, who uh ran against Nixon in nineteen seventy-two in the Republican primary,
uh basically because he fought he felt Nixon had wandered uh too far towards the mushy middle, and in fact, way over the mushy middle, he had uh income and prices controls, which is a socialist thing, and he uh was responsible for the Environmental Protection Agency,
which is empowering the big arbitrary, whimsical, tyrannous bureaucratic state, which is now more important, the the bureaucracy is more important than the president, the house or the Senate, uh because uh basically the bureaucracy is for life and everybody else comes and goes.
And if you you don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life.
Uh when Obama, when he was uh here on Friday, uh uh when I was here on Friday, uh at the end of the show he was given a speech somewhere and he said, You always say the thing.
The trick is always uh you'll know this if you're ever like coaching a witness, if you're a a lawyer coaching a witness for a trial, and you keep saying to them, uh, you know, whatever you do, don't say, Oh, there's nothing illegal about it because immediately the jury thinks obviously this is illegal.
You always say the thing you don't mean to say.
So on Friday afternoon, Obama said, We're not a banana republic.
We're not a banana republic.
In fact, we're uh we're actually more sophisticated than a banana republic, because you don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life.
And Nixon one of the worst things uh of the Nixon years was that he significantly empowered the permanent bureaucracy.
And Congressman Ashbrook in Ohio decided to primary the guy and ran against him in the primary, uh, to his right.
And I think there's an important lesson there.
It's not you don't necessarily have to win.
It's not necessary to to decisively to beat someone in a primary or to beat someone in the general election.
What you're doing is you're keeping uh you're keeping uh real principles and real ideas alive so that the mushy opportunists, squishy politicians of no fixed beliefs, uh who often emerge as the victors in Republican primaries have to keep taking those views into account.
You keep those political ideas in play.
And uh a lot of people in countries that uh Americans think of as liberal, uh oftentimes they wind up actually having semi-conservative policies is because b because the losing conservative party is sufficiently alive uh that the the ruling Liberal Party will steal some of their ideas.
In in Canada, the right split in the nineteen nineties, and there were there were basically it split into th the the old Progressive Conservative Party split into three parties.
Uh the Quebec uh Quebec Separatist Party, the Reform Party in Western Canada, which was like a Libertarian party, uh and then the mushy conservatives in the middle.
And the Libertarian Party didn't win elections, but it was so successful that it obliged the Liberal Party of Canada uh to do things that uh to neutralize the appeal of the right wing party.
So for example, it started paying down the debt.
Uh it pa it imagine that.
Uh a Canadian Liberal government paid off the national debt.
I was at a conference uh somewhere, uh I think it was a national review, and somebody said, if only we could persuade American conservatives to to be as fiscally responsible as Canadian Liberals.
The Canadian Liberal government paid down the debt because it was terrified that the Conservative Party would would otherwise use their irresponsibility as a as a rallying crime.
And that's why what when Congressman Ashbrook when he ran against Nixon, it's important to have people who who, however painfully tug the debate to the right.
Every time you have someone who's whose big thing is to move to the mushy middle, to meet your opponents halfway, to surrender half the stuff, to surrender on immigration, uh to to uh to surrender on Obamacare, to surrender on whatever's next to surrender on.
It's always important to have people to tug them back, tug them back.
Even if they don't mean it.
I mean are half these senators saying oh I'm going to vote for to defund Obamacare.
Then they don't care.
They don't care.
To them oh it's a it's a gesture they're making to avoid primary contests.
Well so what?
So what?
It's like Milton Friedman says it's if you wait to elect the right people to do the right things, you'll be waiting forever.
You've got to create conditions where the wrong people are forced to do the right things.
So if if all these Republican senators of no fixed beliefs start saying for entirely opportunist reasons to avoid primaries or whatever, no I'm going to vote to defund Obamacare, that's good.
That's absolutely necessary.
And that's what this Congressman Ashbrook did from Ohio when he ran against Nixon because he felt Nixon was moving too too far to the left in 1972.
And I'm going to be out there on October the tenth, October the tenth at the Renaissance Theatre or Renaissance Theatre, I guess you say, in this fine country the Renaissance apologies to anybody in Badsfield, Ohio, for mangling the name of your theater.
I think it's the Renaissance Theatre or Renaissance Theatre as sinister foreigners say on October 10th speaking for the Ashbrook Center.
But that's why it's absolutely critical it doesn't matter if these are losing battles.
You know that's the trouble with the whole uh David Brooks approach when he was writing about people like Ted Cruz are really a new phenomenon in Congress because they're not interested in making things happen.
They're not interested in working with the other side to make things happen.
Too much has happened too fast.
And particularly these days, I mean you can make an argument for working with uh the guy on the across the aisle in the 1950s or the nineteen twenties uh when uh they were small manageable bills crafted uh by the people who were introducing them in the Senate or introducing them in the House wasn't these vast entourages back then.
Uh people knew what was in them and they knew what what they were about and they were able to and you could have a negotiation with a guy like that.
With a three thousand page bill with continuing resolutions, that's a perversion of government.
A three thousand page bill is a perversion of government.
Nobody knows what's in it.
Uh the the the old phrase that is a known to common law, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Right now even the people who make the laws supposedly are entirely ignorant of what's in them.
That guy John Conyers remember when people were talking about how the it ought to be a requirement that every law be read in full on the floor of the House or the Senate and that every Congressman and Senator ought to be obligated to read the law and he said it wouldn't make any difference because I would need a lawyer with me to tell me what it all means.
He's a legislator he doesn't know what the laws he's inflicting on you mean.
And he says he doesn't have time to do it.
This is a guy by the way it's out there on YouTube.
You can see this fascinating video of him on a commuter flight uh back from Washington uh to Chicago.
Is it Detroit or Chicago John Conyers lives in?
I think it's Detroit actually uh going flying back home on his little commuter plane and somebody uploaded a video to YouTube of John Conyers with all the time in the world uh browsing that month's issue of Playboy.
So maybe if you could you know like the play the Playboy centerfold their three pages you have to unfold it uh and uh 'cause the girls now are too big to fit in just a double page spread, so Heff introduced the centerfold.
And that's how you should think of a law.
It's one thing, you know, you might have to fold it out, have a it might be a bit long, a bit complicated, so like a Playboy centerfold you should be able to to fold it out and see what's fully in it.
But the idea that it should be two thousand pages, that's not a law, it's a perversion.
Government by continuing resolution is a perversion.
Where you have these fake, phony showdowns.
October the 10th.
October 10th, actually, by the way, that very same day that I'm going to be in uh in at the Ashbrook Center in Ohio, that very same day is the day when America is supposed to come to an end, because that's when the government shutdown will begin, and that's when Granny will be eating dog food and all the rest.
And we all know none of it is ever going to happen, that all the checks will still go out, and the State Department will still be flying back the remains of Minneapolis jihadists who've self-detonated in East Africa.
All the government programs will still be so it's a phony, stupid perils of Pauline, tire to the railway track, the Republican guy in the top hat with the big twirly mustache, laughing and cackling maniacally as the train roars down on the helpless little girl tied to the of American government, tied to the tracks.
We all know it's rubbish.
Continuing resolutions and nonsense, phony crisis.
And Republicans at some point have to restore accountable government and say we're not going to go along with this.
We're not going to go along with this.
You want to put a number on Obamacare and fund Obamacare, let's have a bill to fund Obamacare.
Let's have a bill to fund the State Department so we can weed out uh the uh the the money that's going to uh uh to bring jihadist remains back home.
Let's let's get let's have human-sized government accountable to the people's representatives.
Uh that's absolutely vital, because this system doesn't work.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't know what's in it, Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing more to be cut.
Uh Nancy Pelosi says uh the you know we've cut everything to the bone, there's nothing more to c the reality is everywhere you look in any American government department there's disgusting waste.
And because of the failure of any kind of parliamentary accountability in this country, the total failure at the national level, uh where you have nothing where where there isn't even a legislature anymore.
There are no parliamentary debates anymore.
That's why C-SPAN is full of Prime Minister's question time from London and Canberra and Ottawa and everywhere else in the world, because at least there people can stand up and insult the Prime Minister and tell him his numbers are wrong and all the rest of it.
You don't just have one Senator delivering his speech written by some peripheral little minion of his uh to an empty chamber and it's broadcasts on television in the pretense that it's some kind of real legislative debate that's going on.
There's no such thing that happens in the United States.
Uh and as and as long as we have this phoniness of the the phony government by continuing resolution and phony showdowns, we're never going to get out of it.
And it's time for the Republican Party to actually go beyond the Obamacare thing and say what Obama repres care represents is the corruption, the total corruption of functioning, responsible government accountable to the people in the United States.
And uh that is that is actually what is at what is behind all this.
That's why he can shove it down the people's throat.
Uh that's why Obama can threaten the world is coming to an end on October the tenth.
And playing those games with him is a waste of time.
It's time to actually get back to proper, uh legitimate, responsible, accountable government at the federal level in this country.
Uh Mark Stein in Farush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
I I I said a moment ago that Harry Reed uh in parliamentary terms was one of the most contemptible figures uh in in the uh in the developed world.
And I want to explore that a bit, because uh and this is like arcane, this is a bit of arcane Senate procedural stuff, so it'll might give you a headache and you might be tearing your hair out.
But bear bear with me.
Bear with me.
I'll try to explain it in in layman's terms.
And and lots of, by the way, lots of legislatures have arcane procedural rules.
Um if you've ever been at the House of Lords and seen uh the Lord Chancellor uh walking Backwards, holding the cap of maintenance or the gentleman usher of the black rod uh slamming the door in the face of the House of Commons.
You'll know they're all kinds of arcane procedural rules.
The difference is that in the United States in the twenty-first century, Harry Reed makes up the procedural rules as uh he as he goes along.
And and again, the difference here is what he can do with a simple majority and what he needs sixty votes for in the Senate.
Uh there's a difference.
He ought to be trying to get sixty votes on this stuff, but uh if he can do it by simple majority, there's a it's a lot easier.
Now what he wants to do is to fund Obamacare by changing the House's bill, the continuing resolution, uh and changing it, amending it to a bill that fully funds Obamacare.
Uh and so to pass a to pass that continuing resolution uh to the uh but change it to fund Obamacare, he needs, as I said earlier, he would need to find six Republicans to change their position uh on the Obamacare law and vote with the Democrats to fund it.
Uh so without that locked-in agreement, uh without that sixty votes, uh voting for cloture on the House continuing resolution is actually his best path to funding Obamacare because it becomes in effect the equivalent to a vote in favor of Obamacare.
So the point for Republicans here now is they've got to deny cloture on the and this is where it starts to give you a headache, and this is testament to how perverted and corrupted uh American parliamentary politics has become under the present system.
And in fairness to John Kerry, this is how you wind up with apparently sane guys standing up in public and saying I voted for it before I voted against itself.
Uh Republicans have to deny cloture on the uh House continuing resolution unless uh Harry Reed agrees that his amendment to strike the defunding language is going to be subject to the sixty vote threshold.
In other words, unless Harry Greed agrees that an amendment uh to remove the defunding requires sixty votes, uh then the Republicans have to vote to deny cloture uh on the House continuing uh resolution.
Uh and and that agreement, by the way, has to be locked in uh by unan for it to mean anything with this slippery wily duplicitous skunk of a man, uh that agreement has to be locked in by unanimous consent before the cloture vote.
Now do you see why uh people uh you know would rather just uh shoot themselves in in the head, would rather perform root canal surgery uh on themselves than than uh pay any attention to what is happening in Washington.
In other words, none of it means anything.
So when when you're listening to a senator saying he's a uh wants to defund Obamacare, does that mean he's voting for the continuing resolution?
You know, that's why it all gets crazy.
So unless, unless Harry Reed this but this is the point, all the power is in the hands of a parliamentary leader, a House leader, a Senate the Senate majority leader, a guy who o holds the uh the position of leader of one half of the legislature.
And in most functioning societies, he would be tied in uh by rules that were established decades, if not centuries, before he ever held the job.
But Harry Reed, under the perversion of parliamentary uh procedure that occurs in the United States Senate.
By the way, I'm in favor of abolishing the United States Senate and salting the ground so that it never rises again.
Um but the under under that he gets to make it up as he goes as he goes along, and so he's gonna make it up to go along to suit him, which is that he can effectively fund Obamacare with fifty-one votes if he dupes the Republicans uh into uh going along with the initial uh motion on uh the uh the continuing resolution.
So unless Harry Reed agrees to a sixty vote threshold for amendments.
And unless that is chiseled in granite before they hold the vote on cloture, Republicans have to oppose uh cloture on the bill, or they will basically uh be dragged along uh in uh in support of Harry Reed's scheme to fund Obamacare.
And the ever more thereafter, uh people are going to be going all over the Sunday talk shows and say, oh well this or that Senator voted for Obamacan, voted for Obamacare and all the rest of it.
Again, it's parliamentary maneuvering.
But the trick is to enable Harry Reed to say he's got the votes to fund Obamacare and that it's now a bipartisan measure because Republicans have supported it.
And this is why by the way, this it it should nobody can understand this and I don't blame you for saying to hell with this I'd rather uh I'd rather ch change over to the thrash metal network.
That's giving me less of a headache.
You're absolutely right.
This is disgraceful and it's a perversion of parliamentary procedure.
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Let us go to Mike in Salem, Alabama.
Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Mark it's an honor, sir.
No no the honor is all mine Mike.
Just want to let people know that uh the way things are going out here, I drive a truck for a living I deliver stuff.
They're talking about uh on our insurance and stuff we got a letter that they're gonna have a meeting here before too much longer and probably ask some of the employees to go to half days or half weeks so that the insurance will be changed.
talking about the insurance is going to go way up on us uh especially for family coverage that they'll still cover the employees but that rate's still going to go up some but if you're family and you have to and i'm a single dad now because of the economy and just the wear and tear and sadness on me and my wife trying to struggle and make things work and she couldn't take it anymore and she left me with two teenagers and uh just trying to make it out here and
people don't understand that those millionaires that are up there in Washington that don't have to worry about if their kids have food, don't have to worry about because I make too much money to get any any of the the helpful stuff that's supposedly out there that our government provides and also the uh free cell phone that I even stood in line for 30 minutes to see if I could get to them from my two teenage boys I can stay in contact with them but I've gone again I have a job I make too much money and couldn't get that either.
And uh I just don't I don't know where it's going to go.
I don't know what's going to happen to this country.
I just Well it let's just walk through that that step you're talking about because your company is basically saying they cannot afford the impositions placed on them by Obamacare.
And so the first thing they're gonna do is they're gonna drop the coverage of your family.
So the guys who your colleagues they may have coverage like you they they've got coverage for the wife and kids and all the rest of it and now that's gone.
So it's just going to be you who's gonna be covered and you say you've got two teenage children and if they need health care you're either going to have to pay for it out of co uh out of pocket or you're gonna have to find uh some other means of a re some other uh insurance plan or whatever.
But basically uh if they drop the family coverage at uh on October the first and your kid uh has an accident on October the second you've got to write a check uh or uh that that kid is not going to get the uh the the health care uh that uh that he needs that's what's happening to you Mike.
Yes sir that's what's going on They're just saying they're not coming straight out and saying what they're gonna do, but from what we're hearing is they're going to make it to where we don't get a full forty hour week so that they can uh the insurance has some kind of a plan where if you have family coverage, you don't you can't afford it.
I mean I just there's no way possible that I can afford it with what I make.
I don't uh know what middle class America is.
When I hear seventy thousand dollars a year, I don't know of anybody that I know close to me that even close to that.
But y but yeah, but at the same time, Mike, you thought you had a pretty a pretty good job because th you you thought your job came with family health care.
So when let's let's wind let's wind it back a couple of years.
Let's wind it back two, three, four years when Obama comes in and and he starts talking and he's doing all this stuff.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor and all that kind of stuff.
And you assumed th am I right here that you assumed when he was talking about fixing health care, when Nancy Pelosi has said we've fixed health care, we need to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it.
You assume that he was fixing health care for the whatever it is, forty million Americans who have no coverage.
Uh you thought you've you've you're responsible, you work hard, you've got a job that covers provides health insurance for your family.
Did it occur to you at any point that Obama and Nancy Pelosi were gonna r y yank the rug out from under the provision you've made for your family?
No, sir.
I mean, uh you have no idea until you start getting these letters and start getting things telling you that you're uh I mean, even my family practice doctor uh he's telling us now that uh he's he's just gonna retire.
Right.
Right.
And I mean I don't understand why are the Congress people that we called.
I've called, I've done exactly what Russia said to you, what you have said done, I've done I've talked to I'm blue in the face to people and I just I have the feeling that they're all safe and secure, they're they're millionaires, they don't need to worry about anything, they're covered, they're taken care of.
But the people that are out here getting up every morning at six o'clock making sure their kids go to school and then they're told that their kids are fixing out to have health care energy if I do keep it, it's gonna cost me every bit of two weeks pay just for my insurance for my family.
Right, right.
And that's actually not insurance anymore.
If you're saying it costs you two weeks pay, in other words, if you're saying it's basically costing you half your income, that's not insuring.
That's not insuring against a disaster.
That is a disaster.
That's basically saying the only way you can have hell health insurance.
That's not that's entirely unrelated to the cost of any illnesses your children are likely to get.
Uh that is basically the cost of imposing this huge monstrous uh uh un unsustainable bureaucracy uh on what was once at one point, once upon a time long ago, a functioning health system.
And you know, Mike, you you've said you've got nowhere calling people in Washington.
I don't think this can be solved in Washington.
Uh and if I were you, I would start uh addressing it at the state level.
States need to push back hard on this.
And you'll see it in your town.
Uh terrible things will happen to neighbors and people you know and people you work with.
Uh because uh some clever guy in Washington decided he could devise a health care plan for three hundred million people from Maine to Hawaii.
Nobody has ever attempted that in human history.
And the idea that it could be pulled off without people warned of these consequences.
People warned of these consequences.
But that's why, you know, don't just don't just tell your congressman.
Deal with it at the state level.
We're gonna need state solutions to these things.
But uh demand too of the Republican Party, that it doesn't just in v in engage in the procedural mass machinations necessary uh to to stop Harry Reed, but that it also offers some constructive solutions.
Because you did everything right.
I mean, this this is this is what sucks about life in the United States in a republic that was born with the idea of liberty.
You get up every morning, you go to work, you've got two teenage kids you're trying to support.
You took a job on the basis that uh it came with certain benefits uh including the provision of family health insurance.
Now you're discovering that they're still gonna they're still gonna insure you uh but they're not going to insure your two children.
So that's the nature of that job has changed.
You are in fact poorer.
It's like taking a wage cut.
Uh nobody in Washington, D.C. is taking a wage cut.
Nobody in the unions is taking a wage cut.
Nobody in Congress is taking a wage cut.
That's a real wage cut for you because if your kids get sick, you've either got to write a check or you've got to make alternative arrangements for them.
And and whatever system eventually emerges from this, it has to be one that gives more control uh to families so that they are they do not have the the rug yanked out from under them uh in the way that this government did to you, Mike.
Uh and I hope it I hope it goes well for you, but there are stories like this all over the country, and if it's any consolation to you uh, you know, there are there are uh all levels of American life now, the universities that are doing the same, they're dropping the family coverage, all those uh tenured professors teaching transgendered and colonialism studies who thought they had it pretty good.
Uh their spouses and their kids, they're now being dropped from the coverage.
Uh eventually this will reach up to uh impact everyone except the tiny little privileged nomenclature at the top, as you say, the people for whom it doesn't make any difference.
But all these changes, all these changes uh that you can't reform this system.
Obama, I think understands that.
That's why he thinks when it collapses, it'll be a one-size-fits-all socialized universal single payer system.
The alternative is to actually dismantle it in the other direction, to say, look, nobody else.
There's all kinds of ways you can do health care.
You know, if you go to uh Italy or if you go to Sweden, they have a government system and they have a private system.
And believe it or not, the public system is genuinely public and the private system is genuinely private.
We're the only ones.
I mean, even when you try to explain it to foreigners and you say, well, it's because here the employer provides uh provides health care.
And you go, uh and the foreigner will go, the Italian or the Swede or the Finn or whoever it is, will go, why?
Why why is that?
Well, that's true.
Why is that?
Why is that?
It distorts the labor market.
People take jobs, uh a job they don't particularly want to do.
Because if you notice uh if there's two working people, it's the standard pattern in my corner of northern New Hampshire.
You'll have a guy who's got his own uh little uh construction firm.
He's a carpenter, he's a painter or a plasterer, he does snowplying or whatever, and it's great.
He's his own boss, he's uh out there uh in the open air, he loves it.
Uh and then his wife has to do some boring uh administrative job that she finds boring as hell, but she does it because it provides health insurance.
It distorts uh the labor market.
There's no reason.
Who said that health care had to be part of uh your anything to do with your employment?
Who took the two?
It's like saying uh why not say health care insurance is to be provided by your church?
Why not say health insurance is to be provided by the Elk's Lodge?
It makes no more sense than that.
There's no other country in the world that does it this way.
And so the Republicans have to come up with they have to clear these monstrous carbuncles that have accrued to the rusted hulk uh of America's health care structures and actually think about the best way to hook up a patient with a doctor uh with the minimum number of intervening parties.
Uh that's to say, with the minimum uh number uh instead of putting your boss in there and whoever the administrative services company, the boss contracts it out to, and the insurer that the administrative services company contracts all that's rubbish, nonsense.
Uh but we have to get back.
So if we we either get back to a genuinely private system or Obama, maybe before the end of this term will say, you're right, Obamacare doesn't work, we're moving for a single payer government health care system that will be the biggest employer on the planet.
It's bureaucracy will be so large.
Mark Steinforus, more to come.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network, a sixty-six-year-old politician in gigante Colombia, the town of Gigante Colombia, a member of the gigante uh mini municipal council, underwent a penis amputation after enthusiastically overdosing on Viagra.
A sixty-eight-year-old politician from the gigante municipal council in Colombia, uh overdosing Viagra and he w underwent a penis amputation.
And he uh apparently uh he's he's said to be recovering well after his penis amputation.
Uh don't uh I'm I'm I regret to mention this because I'm worried uh Nancy Pelosi will be proposing it for the Republican Party.
Uh although you may find it hard noticing the difference at some point.
So let's go to Christine in Cookville, Tennessee.
Christine in Cookville, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Mark.
It's so nice to speak with you.
It's such a pleasure.
Um I'm a big fan of yours as well as Rush.
Um what I wanted to bring to the American people was um I had the privilege to attend uh a dinner on Saturday evening for the local Republican Party in Cookville, and Dr. Van Carson was our speaker, and we are so privileged to have him.
One of the things that he brought up was that we do need to call our senators and let them know how we feel about Obamacare and defending it or f defunding it.
Um my husband actually is also a neurosurgeon, and I have to tell you that uh insurance companies are already tell him telling him who he can operate on and who he cannot operate on, who's basically it's a death panel that already are in effect.
Right.
And um we have to call our senators.
And I just called our two ten senators from Tennessee, and I told Senator Alexander's representative that if he has any prayer of being re-elected this fall, uh the first thing he needs to do is defund it.
Mike Lee says that he has 48 votes in the Senate right now to defund Obamacare.
We need to put the pressure on the rest of the senators who are not behind it right now and let them know where their constituents stand.
Right.
And actually, your your husband, uh, Christine is is the is the way of the future when he's saying he's being told what he who he can and can't operate on.
That's basically what this is about now.
Uh basically the uh the the care of the sick is being taken out of the hands of the doctors, out of the hands of the hospitals, and it's being pushed way along the line.
If you notice all the new insurance plans right here in New Hampshire, uh Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, their latest uh plan uh only uh allows you to go to sixteen of the twenty-six hospitals in the state.
Um so people are gonna be driving, you know, instead of driving to the hospital that's forty minutes away, they're gonna be driving three hours to the hospital that they're allowed to go to.
That's all that's all that's gonna get the care they need when they get there.
No, they no, they don't, but the but you you think about it if you've got a chronic illness, Christine.
Uh if you're going to uh uh if you got chemo and you're having to drive to a hospital three hours away and then three hours back, that's way more stressful than if the hospital's half an hour up the road.
I mean, this is transforming for everyone, even those few people who are still gonna have reasonably functioning health insurance uh policies at the end of it.
This changes everything about American health care.
Thanks, uh thanks for your call, uh Christine.
She said she was at uh dinner with uh Ben Carson uh and uh the uh the the she's been calling her two senators there in in Tennessee.
And and it shouldn't be necessary to do that.
This is not a popular bill.
No one's asking these people uh to to stand against a massively popular piece of legislation.
They're just asking them to do what is necessary to prevent a disaster, uh uh an untold disaster that actually affects people where they live.
That actually affects people's lives.
As I said, that's not a small thing.
If you've got cancer and you can't go to your hospital half an hour away, but you have to go to the one three hours down the road.
Uh that means your your friends, you're gonna be you're gonna be dying alone in a strange town, unsurrounded by tarsomed loved ones, because they can't take six hours to make the drive to come and see you and give you some flowers and a box of chocolates.
It affects real people, real people uh uh and uh the absolute essence of how you live in America.
And when Nancy Pelosi says, No, this is it.
We've passed Obamacare, she said this the other day.
She said, This is the secret to liberty.
This leads you free to pursue your happiness.
No, it doesn't.
It leads you free to to pursue the ever shrinking number of doctors in your state uh that your health care insurance plan is gonna go and let you see.
It's an absolute disgrace, and it should not require political courage for Republican senators to oppose this.
Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush.
Story at Hotair.com revealed Obama came up with Obamacare because he needed a throwaway applause line in a campaign speech.
It was his like his red line with Syria.
It was uh it was a complete accident.
Uh Obama came up with Obamacare because he needed a throwaway applause line in a campaign speech, just like the red line in Syria.
But unfortunately, on Obamacare, there's no Vladimir Putin to rescue him on it.
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