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Oct. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Yeah, and maybe three.
Hey, folks, here we are.
Great to be back.
Promised you'd be here and we're here.
It's 21 hours since we last were with you.
And it's uh that's a speedy 21 hours, and here we are already on Thursday.
Great to have you as always.
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I don't I've been searching my memory and I've asked some people, and and nobody can remember, nor can I a time, maybe Jimmy Carter, but when he didn't mean to.
But I have never I I do not remember a president of the United States talking down the stock market and the world economy like Obama did.
It is um it is unprecedented.
He was in an interview with CNBC, John Harwood, Obama warned the world markets that it cannot be taken for granted that Congress would be able to raise the debt limit before the October 17th deadline so that the U.S. doesn't default.
I kid you not.
And then he said that he thought world markets should be concerned.
Now, is that what he means by toning down or keeping down his uh his rhetoric?
I really think, folks, this is unprecedented.
No previous U.S. president has ever tried to talk down the economy like that.
Now, the Democrats as a party did so during the last three, maybe four years of the Bush administration.
But they were trying to create an image in people's minds.
They wanted people to think that we were in a recession.
They wanted voters to think that Bush's economic policies were creating havoc.
But that's different.
Those were random independent voices from people who are either one of 535 members or one of 100 members of the bodies uh Senator House, but this is the president.
And I I I really I can't remember a previous president ever trying to talk down the economy like this.
If if anything, in Obama's situation, they would be talking about how the country would never let a default happen.
But he's out there warning the world that it could have what uh and I'll tell you what this is.
All of it, everything you I get so blue in the face.
Everything Obama and the Democrats do is political and has an agenda, is part of the agenda, and the agenda right now is destroy the Republicans of the Tea Party.
And I think I could be wrong about this.
I think the Democrats are imploding.
I think they're getting baddie.
I think they're going nuts.
This is not playing out the way they thought.
The Tea Party is not going away.
The Tea Party's hanging in, and if anything, the Tea Party is getting stronger.
There is no sign of a cave anywhere out there.
The Democrats, because they know that they are aligned with the media, because they know they can bring untold pressure to bear.
They didn't think we would be here three days in.
I really believe that.
A couple of days ago, I wouldn't, I would not have predicted this scenario, actually.
I don't think the Republicans were gonna cave.
I just wouldn't.
I wouldn't have predicted the Democrats so off the rails.
But they really are.
I mean, they're they're off the rim.
I mean, with Harry Reed yesterday talking about, well, why would we do that?
Save one kid's life with cancer.
Why would we do that?
Um the president is is off the rails and attacking the Republicans here, and George Miller, the best friend to communists in Nicaragua ever had.
Democrat from California is out calling this a Republican jihad.
I mean, they're overdoing it.
Even for low information people, they're overdoing it.
Now, don't.
I'm not saying that there is a shift in public opinion on this, but it certainly doesn't hurt that these website locations for the exchanges remain a disaster.
Not one person in many states has actually been able to complete the process and get insurance.
James Taranto, the Wall Street Journal, has a story of a guy named Brendan Mahoney who did succeed.
It's a Hartford Current story.
And there's a this guy's being joked about as the as the man who saved Obamacare.
And the subhead is great news, they got a 30-year-old dude to sign up.
And here are the details.
Meet Brendan Mahoney, the young man who is saving Obamacare.
He's 30, a third-year law student at University of Connecticut.
He's actually been insured for the past three years.
In 2011, 2012 through a $2,400 a year scruble sponsored health plan.
So he's already got insurance and he went to the exchange.
This year he is insured through a high deductible, low premium plan that cost about $39 a month through a united health care subsidiary.
But even though he already had a plan at $9 a month, he wanted to see what Obamacare had to offer.
So he tried logging into the exchange's website at 8 45 a.m. yesterday, which is impressive.
Most young people his age aren't out of bed at that time.
He said the system couldn't verify his identity.
Through a United Healthcare subsidiary, high deductible, low premium plan, school-sponsored health plan.
When the system couldn't verify his identity, he called a toll-free helpline.
The operator was also encountering computer trouble, but then he logged on a second time, and the system worked.
And he told the Hartford Current, once it got running, it was fast, really made my day.
It's a lot like TurboTax.
And he said that he got insurance through Obamacare.
Now he says, if I get sick, I'm definitely going to go to the doctor.
Even better, if he stays healthy, he won't have to go to a doctor.
And his premiums will support chronically ill policyholders on the wrong side of 40.
This is the guy.
This is what they're looking for.
Now hang in there with me, folks.
This is not over.
This is exactly what they're looking for.
A 30-year-old healthy guy to sign up and pay the freight so that Nano and Grandpa can be treated.
They're looking for 30-year-olds who are not going to get sick, not going to put any financial strain on the system.
They pay the premium, they pay the freight.
This guy had a premium of 39 bucks.
He wanted to see if he could beat that on Obamacare.
And he did.
How much of a premium is strapping young Brendan Mahoney paying?
The Hartford Current reports that Brendan Mahoney said that by filling out the application online at age 30, he discovered he was eligible for Medicaid.
So 30-year-old strapping, healthy dude, Brendan Mahoney, beginning next year, will not pay any premium at all.
Because Obamacare, the exchange, told him, based on the way he filled out the data, that he is eligible for Medicaid.
What a fabulous success story for Obamacare's first day.
Here we had a future lawyer.
Remember now, this guy is, I think, a 3L at the University of Hartford, University of Connecticut.
He was going to be a lawyer, might still be a lawyer.
He was Already paying for insurance, and he's been converted into a welfare case.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the objective.
When you strip it all away, this shows how all of this is really designed to work.
Now, on the surface, again, and everything I've told you here is true.
This 30-year-old guy signs up.
He's paying a premium of $39, but he, you know, he's curious.
He's a tech savvy guy.
He wanted to find out what it was all about.
See, maybe he could beat the 39 bucks.
So he fills out all the necessary forms and inputs all the data, and he finds out at age 30, he qualifies for Medicaid, and therefore he's become a welfare case.
So this 30-year-old guy, and hopefully, theoretically, millions like him who are going to be signing up and paying all these premiums so that Nano and Grandpa can get health coverage and treatment, qualified for Medicaid.
So a 30-year-old guy who is going to be a lawyer, figure he's got some decent earning power, has been converted by Obamacare into a welfare case.
And he didn't pull any strings, he didn't know anybody, he didn't ask for special treatment.
This is just what the system spat out.
So now he doesn't have to pay 39 bucks.
Now he can get rid of that health plan he's got at school.
At 30 years of age, he discovered he was eligible for Medicaid.
He's a healthy guy.
And it is a joke here.
Uh that they're saying here's here we great news.
A 30-year-old guy signed up because the story is nobody's been able to sign up.
But lo and hey, we got a guy.
You know, the regime can tell we got a guy, we got a guy, this guy in Oakland, Connecticut, 30 years old.
Look at this, what we did here.
We got a guy, we got a guy.
Exactly who we want sign up here.
And Obamacare turned him into a welfare case.
They turned him into a ward of the state, a guy that's going to be a lawyer, it's going to have decent earning power.
He's now a Medicaid recipient.
That's oh, come on, Rush.
This is just a just uh just a first-year glitch.
These things will get ironed out.
A little companion story here from the Washington Free Beacon.
Health insurance premiums for young people will rise in all 50 states under Obamacare.
The average increase 260%, according to a study released Thursday, the young and healthy segment of the uninsured, the Brendan Mahoneys, they're considered crucial for Obamacare to succeed.
Former President Clinton suggested last week, Obamacare only works if young people show up.
Well, what the hell, folks?
If we got this young guy that showed up and the system made him a Medicaid recipient.
He didn't game it.
He's just going through the process and found out that he qualified for Medicaid.
And I'm telling you, in my not-so-cynical opinion, I think that is the long-term objective is to turn everybody into a welfare case in this country, folks.
That's the long-term objective of not just Obamacare, but of the Democrat Party.
Turn everybody into a dependent.
Make everybody dependent on government for things they consider really important, like their health care.
Here's another one.
The Associated Press, a bumpy first day for new insurance marketplaces by Carla Cage.
Johnson.
The technical trouble couldn't dampen the relief Hussein Daoud felt for himself and his wife and their six children.
The 51-year-old Detroit man Hussein Daoud came to apply for insurance at the Dearbornistan-based nonprofit organization, Access.
With the help of counselors, he learned that his annual income of 14,500 a year made him eligible for Medicaid, and he won't have to pay for a plan that covers his family.
51 years old Himself, his wife, six children, annual income $14,500.
What in the world?
Eight, eight, we get eight people for free, but before you get there, how are eight people getting by on his $14,500 annual income?
Well, I know food stamps and all the other stuff, but so eight people in Dearbornistan go in to sign up and they end up becoming wards of the state.
Health care for them is free as well.
In addition to the strapping young 30-year-old Brendan Mahoney in Connecticut.
What a colon one hand, this is the biggest collection of Keystone cops and incompetence running.
On the other hand, this is a really, really profoundly dangerous thing that's happening here.
But there's a part of me that I'm sorry, I cannot suppress my laughter at the raging.
I know you might think it's a conflict to call them incompetent when they're registering all these wards of the state.
I am here to tell you, folks, that they did not intend for 30-year-olds to be comped.
That's not that was never part of the plan.
That's who is going up to pay.
How in the world that the way that they make those people wards of the state is take all of their disposable income in the form of health care premiums and make them dependent in other in other ways.
But they do need money flowing into this system.
They do need some people paying premiums.
And they can't get by with just the rich paying premiums and enough money there to cover everybody.
So they need these strapping young 30-year-old guys and women who aren't gonna get sick paying into the system.
And the system's converting them to welfare recipients.
Oh, Harry Reed, let's move on, sound bites uh let's just see five, six, and seven.
This is yesterday Dana Bash QA with uh with dingy Harry.
If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?
Why would we want to do that?
I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home.
They have a few problems of their own.
To have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing, maybe they're irresponsible.
She is so embarrassed.
Her idol.
Harry Reid has humiliated her.
Little Dana Bash, accredited CNN InfoBabe, official member of the establishment, part of the ruling class, walks up to her idol Harry Reed when she learns that Reed refuses a Republican bill that would fund the National Institutes of Health.
This is the story yesterday where 200 kids denied cancer treatment.
Republicans said, here's a bill that pays for that.
Dingy Harry said, No, I'm not gonna get tricked into that.
And she said, why why if you can if you could have one child as cancer, why wouldn't you do that?
And Reed said, Why would we want to do that?
You dumb B.I. We've got 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base sitting at home, they got a few problems of their own.
To have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing maybe means you're irresponsible.
I'm just asking a question.
I'm just asking Clinton.
Jeez.
Jeez, oh man.
So let me take a break, otherwise I'm gonna get panicked here from the broadcast engineer.
I'm gonna get all kinds of noise sound effects in my ear.
I'll be back and wrap this up.
You know, I heard and read the Dingy Harry answer to Dana Bash yesterday, but I didn't know it was anything like this.
This is just this is what I mean about them imploding.
So she says if you could help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do that?
And he gets I mean, this is his buddy in the media.
Harry Reed is one of her idols.
If she didn't work at CNN, she'd like to work for him.
Why would we want to do that?
Why would I want to save one kid with cancer when I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base sitting home, have a few problems of their own, have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing means that you're just maybe irresponsible.
I'm just asking a question.
And then he Harry was you you you asked to repeat what he'd said yesterday.
Little kids who are not gonna have clinical trials.
Of course I care about that.
I have sixteen of my own grandchildren, five children.
What I told Dana Bash, who is a fine reporter, is that we care about all these things.
We care about our state parks.
We care about our veterans, but we can't fall into the trap.
And here is the trap of the cruise-led Republicans.
And that is this.
Listen, we'll cherry pick will open this today and this tomorrow and this tomorrow.
And finally at the end, everything will be open except the money to finish Obamacare.
All right.
We gotta have some comment on that too, but we got a break.
So we'll be back.
Sit tight.
You know, I don't want to make too big a deal out of this, but I could.
I could spend 15 minutes on this exchange talking about this.
Well, there's so many other things going on out there, things I wanted to talk about would scroll out of view.
And I'm just I'm struck he says he's not going to fall for the cruise-led Republican trap.
And what is the cruise-led Republican tramp?
Cherry pick.
We're not going to cherry pick.
Would somebody explain to me what the hell Obama's been doing with his own health care plan?
He's been cherry picking who gets a waiver and who doesn't.
He's been cherry picking who's subject to it and who isn't.
He's been cherry picking laws that he doesn't like left and right.
DOMA, gay marriage, you name it, Obama cherry picks, and if he doesn't like a law, he just ignores it.
But his own health care plan.
He decides what will be delayed and what won't be delayed.
In fact, Betsy McCoy has made the point that what we are implementing today is not the legislation that was signed into law by Obama.
The law, as signed by Obama, did not have waivers for 2,500 companies, businesses, and unions.
The law, as signed by Obama, did not have a one-year delay of the employer mandate.
And the point that she is making in this is that we have a president who is behaving outside the bounds of the Constitution.
He's lawless.
By virtue of his own cherry picking, he's deciding what parts of his own law he's going to delay so as not to hurt him or his party in future elections.
So the employer mandate delayed till 2015.
A bunch of businesses and unions got waivers through the 2012 election.
And Betsy McCoy makes a great point.
This the thing that's implementing today, the exchanges, it's not what he signed into law.
He has changed it dramatically on his own, outside the law.
But folks, I want to I w I really want to go back, I mean, I because I want to go back to Dingy Harry's question.
Grab soundbite number or his answer number five.
Uh the the Dana Bash question, and I have the transcript of the full question that she asked here.
She said to Dingy Harry, given what you said, will you at least pass that?
And if not, aren't you playing the same political games that the Republicans are?
So even in her question, she savaged the Republicans.
Even in her question, she ripped the Republicans, and that wasn't good enough for him.
And then she said, I mean, the premise is the Republicans are playing political games with the lives of children.
How much more bias can you get?
And that's what her point is.
She's she she is saying in her question here, the premise of her question is that the Republicans are playing political games with the lives of children.
She's totally on his side.
The Republicans are not playing games.
It's Obama and Harry Reid who's shut down the government.
There are 200 kids that can't get treated for cancer at NIH.
The Republicans offered a bill to fund it.
That and many others.
And every damn one of them, Obama and Harry Reed have said no to.
And while they say no to it, they accuse the Republicans, and Dana Bash did in her question.
The premise of her question is Republicans are playing political games of the lives of children.
And that's still not enough for Harry Reed.
And then she said, you all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials.
House is going to pass a bill that funds at least that.
Given what you've said, will you at least pass that?
And if not, aren't you playing the same political games that Republicans are?
And Harry Reid said, Listen, Senator Durbin explained that very well, and he did it here.
He did it on the floor earlier, as is Senator Schumer.
What right did they have to pick and choose what part of government's going to be funded?
It's obvious what's going on here.
You talk about reckless and irresponsible.
Wow.
What this is all about is Obamacare.
They're obsessed.
I don't know what other word I can use.
They're obsessed with this Obamacare.
It's working now, and it'll continue to work, and people love it more than they do now so far.
So they they have no right to pick and choose.
And that's when she said, but if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do that?
And here's that exchange again, soundbite number five.
Listen to this.
Now that you've heard her premise, which was to attack the Republicans, she is totally on his side throughout this question, except when she says, if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?
If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?
Why would we want to do that?
I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home.
They have a few problems of their own.
To have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing maybe mean yourself irresponsible.
I'm just asking a question.
Oh, God, Harry.
I love you so much.
I just asked you a question.
It's like I don't know.
I someone of your intelligence suggests such a thing, maybe means you're responsible.
Helping a child.
So he's on the hot seat.
Now that now the reason, folks, I'm spending time on this is because you know it as well as I do.
That meanness.
That heartlessness, which came naturally to him.
He was faced with a straightforward question.
If you could help kids, why wouldn't you?
Why would we do that?
The media tells everybody that it's the Republicans who have no heart.
It's the Republicans who hate women, war on women, kids, minorities, you name it.
It's the Republicans who are trying to fund these programs after the Democrats shut this process all down.
And the truth always comes out.
It's Dingy Harry is the mean SOB.
It's Harry Reed who is the snarky, mean, insensitive.
Little get off my yard guy.
Even snapping at one of his own friends in the media.
So then we get to the next soundbite where he's asked some some uh somebody in the press said a Bill Press released a clip of the interviewed Dingy Harry, and they released a clip of it because nobody listens.
They had to release a transcript.
And the question was, there's been some flack in the last few hours over comment you made on CNN, Dingy.
You were asked on CNN if you could help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?
And your response was, why would we want to do that?
Little kids who are not gonna have clinical trials.
Of course I care about that.
I have sixteen of my own grandchildren, five children.
What I told Dana Bash, who is a fine reporter, is that we care about all these things.
We care about our state parks.
We care about our veterans, but we can't fall into the trap.
And here is the trap of the cruise-led Republicans.
And that is this.
Listen, we'll cherry pick will open this today and this tomorrow and this tomorrow.
And finally at the end, everything will be open except the money to finish Obamacare.
Folks, this is a mean vindictive partisan little man who gets away with it because he's so soft spoken you can barely hear him.
Cherry pick Cherry pick.
What the heck is Obamacare now?
But nothing but a cherry picked amalgam of things that are taken out of it so that they will not hurt the Democrat Party if implemented.
I mean, this is outrageous.
2500 waivers.
You you name it.
The cherry picks that Obama has made with his own bill dwarf what's going on here.
And I think Harry Reed proves, folks.
Pardon me, I got something in my eye here, I need to rub it.
I think I think Harry Reid proves exactly why the government should not have so much control over people's health care.
Because Harry Reed was basically saying, you do what we say or kids will die.
Now a government, no government should ever have that much power over its citizens.
But particularly ours, particularly ours, which is a constitutional republic.
You do what we say or kids will die.
That was Harry Reed exercising the power that he thinks he has.
Why would we do that?
Why would we save the life of a child?
By the way, all of Harry Reed's kids are congressional lobbyists.
When it comes to cherry picking, what are the Republicans asking for that Obama hasn't already gotten?
They just asked for a delay of the individual mandate, just like Obama got an employer mandate delay.
Obamacare is a cherry orchard.
Obamacare is a cherry pie.
Obamacare is a cherry pop-tart.
Obamacare's cherry Kool-Aid.
And we're all being forced to drink the damn stuff.
Mr. President, the person holding up funding of this government and shutting it down is you, you and Senator Reed.
The GOP have already and is prepared to send you bills to fund the government.
If you really want to fund the NIH to help those sick little people, those kids, here's a bill.
Here's a pin.
Go fund yourself.
Wick, head start, the National Parks.
Here's a bill.
Here's a pin.
Go fund yourself.
Military.
No, you don't really want to fund them, so never mind.
Here's a bill that extends the same subsidies, waivers, and breaks that you've given members of Congress, your union buddies, other special interest groups.
Here's a bill that gives all that to the American people.
Here's a bill.
Here's a pen.
Fund that.
How about an Obamacare that treats everybody the same, Mr. President?
Or how about an Obamacare that we just simply don't do right now because it's such an abject mess?
Okay.
Harry Reed.
And yet, folks, it's the Republicans.
Even after that happens, listen to Van Jones.
He's on crossfire last night on CNN, and they're talking about Harry Reed, saying, What do you mean, save one child's life?
Why would we do that?
He's gonna get beat up for that.
I think we all know that Reed cares a lot about kids.
It was a good question and a bad answer.
I'll give you that.
I'll think anybody's gonna sit here and say that he handled the question well.
Except except that you naturally want to come and give him the benefit of the doubt.
Why?
Because he's a good liberal.
Do you guys give Romney the benefit of any doubt when you're telling lies about him, Mr. Jones?
Have you seen the lead headline at Drudge?
Folks, you can't make this up.
Do you know what the national telephone number is, the national hotline number for Obamacare?
It's one eight hundred F U C KYO.
The number is 382, 1800-382-532.
318.
1-800-318-2596.
And that spells out 1-800 F U C O. Can't make it up.
And Drudge has it up.
It's a it it you don't have to say it, but you can read it and pronounce it in your mind.
It's right there.
And you ought to see what's on the front page of the New York Times today.
I mean, this is just they have an article.
Millions of poor are left uncovered by health law.
And it's a sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans who leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kind of people the program was intended to help.
The Times is claiming that because some states have refused to extend Medicaid, all these millions of poor black people not going to get insurance because of Republican governors.
Republicans don't want poor black families to have health insurance.
Front page, New York Times, back after this.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, a Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a delight to have you with us.
First up from the AP, online delays signal strong demand for health care.
This is the AP doing everything it can for their Democrat masters.
I still can't get over that Dana Bash question to Harry Reid and his answer and her reaction.
I mean, he says to her, I can't believe you'd ask me a question like that.
You must be very irresponsive.
He says that to her because he knows that she's on his side.
He says that to her because there's no way he's going to put him on the spot.
She's not going to do that.
And she did.
And he can't believe it, and that's insolent saying you don't do that and stay in the ruling class.
So he had to challenge her qualifications, her womanhood, her femininity, everything.
And what was her reaction?
I'm just answering a question.
Oh god, I'm just asking a question.
And then nothing more said about it.
I don't, I think she's the only one who's even mentioned that this all happened.
I haven't seen anybody other than you know, occasionally somebody on Fox.
We have here have pointed out that Dingy Harry said, Why would I save the life of one kid?
When I got 1,100 people at my air base in Nevada that I got.
Nobody else has brought it up.
I'm still struck by that, folks.
That there's so much to learn from that.
He couldn't believe she would act so insolent.
How dare her embarrass him?
Doesn't she know who's running this show?
Doesn't she know that she's only allowed to be in the establishment because people like him permit it?
Who does she think she is?
That's what's all wrapped up into that.
Do not doubt me.
And she knows it by virtue of just asking a question.
Oh God, okay, just asking a question.
So here's the AP in their version here.
Uh online delays signal strong demand for Obamacare.
Oh, yeah.
Overloaded websites and jam phone lines, frustrated customers for a second day as they tried to sign up.
It was putting pressure on the federal government and the states.
The delays that continued Wednesday offered a good sign for President Obama and supporters of his signature domestic policy achievement.
And that is that there is apparently a lot of interest in it.
AP people don't have a choice here.
They have to do this, AP.
This isn't like some new Product has been announced, and there's massive national demand for it.
And as usual, you get to the British press for the truth.
UK Daily Mail exclusive.
Less than 1% of visitors are signing up for Obamacare on state exchange websites.
AP, so much demand we can't deal with it.
It's so b- UK Daily Mail, nobody is showing up.
Who's right?
Well, I don't know where the time went, folks, but it's gone.
And this busy broadcast hour is now his roi.
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