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Oct. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Lots to do here and not enough time to do it.
So I'm just gonna try to get what I can in here in this hour, and what I don't get I will hold over and mix it in with a married.
If it's worth surviving, it does, and if not, then it goes to the ether.
And all of that's purely an editorial junk.
That's where empathy comes in.
Empathy, and if I care about it, I'll talk about it.
If it's not that interesting, I ditch it.
And that's stressful, but I never complain about it.
Because who would listen?
Greetings, folks, great to have you.
Rush Linbaugh, they're all saying in other sided glass, what the hell is he talking about?
It's enough that I know.
Telephone number is 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbow, EIB net.com.
John Bahner.
John Boehner says that by the end of the month, more Americans would have lost their insurance by being kicked off existing plans than the number who were able to sign up at one of the flawed healthcare.gov websites.
And the early numbers may back him up, it says here in the drive-by media.
Kaiser Health News reported this week that hundreds of thousands of Americans, I mean say hundreds of thousands, have received notices from their insurers canceling their policies.
300,000 from Florida Blue, 160,000 from Kaiser Permanente in California.
One industry analyst told Kaiser Health News that the uh the moves may be a way of insurers ridding their own roles of costly consumers they don't want and pushing those people onto the federal health exchange once again.
Everything I tell this is so frustrating, I cannot tell you how everything that we predicted, folks, is is panning out.
Every bad aspect of this is happening.
This is classic.
Right, just almost a half a million people, two companies have been tossed aside because their policies are not favorable to the insurance companies, and the insurance companies have a place to send them, Obamacare, except there's nothing at Obamacare to sign up for.
The thing is, this is by design.
This is what really, really frosts me.
All of this, and we talked about it with Vice President Cheney, what we are watching is the dismantling of the U.S. health care system.
We're watching the dismantling of the insurance part of it.
We're watching the dismantling of the treatment, the actual health care part of it.
We hear horror stories every week about what is happening in pharmacies.
Who knows what's going on at actual pharmaceutical companies in R&D, but they're But they are at the top of the enemies list as far as the Democrat Party is concerned.
But virtually every aspect of the health care when the Cleveland Clinic is laying off tens of thousands of employees, the premier Hart clinic and institute in the country.
This is not an accident.
It it's not because of the incompetence of liberalism, although it could be.
I mean, that did that that it could happen because of that, but this is purposeful.
I don't know that that's persuasive, though, to tell people that.
I don't know how many low information voters will believe that.
Um, but it happens to be the truth.
And right here, right, but let f forget for a moment that I predicted it.
I uh that that is frustrating.
But just look at the facts here.
In two companies, 460,000 people are losing their health insurance ever since Obamacare passed.
Now, what were people told about Obamacare?
I want to take you back to my first hour monologue, and in depth, well thought out, mature conceived monologue about the web of deceit this all is.
and how everybody involved in this, including Obama's insurance partners, were lied to about every aspect of this.
People were told that their insurance would be easier.
Pre-existing condition, you name it.
If you want it, you get it.
No way you can't get it.
They can't deny it to you.
Really?
It's gonna be cheaper, $2,500.
Keep your doctor.
I mean the lies, the deceit.
Just mount up and pile up.
And the exact opposite's happening.
It's not cheaper.
You don't get to keep your doctor, and now your insurance company's tossing you aside.
All because of Obamacare.
Because of it, because it exists, this is happening.
And they don't care.
I don't care what anybody said.
They don't care.
What they care about is that they are embarrassed.
They're the best and the brightest.
They're the smartest.
They know best, and they haven't got a slightest idea how to make this work.
I'm talking about their website.
I just saw Gretchen Carlson on Fox talk about, oh, it's gotta be the toughest job in the world for Jay Carney to have.
She's being polite.
Jay Carney can't answer the questions he's being in.
He walked out on an African American journalist yesterday.
You know, if a female African American asked some questions, he just walked out of the briefing room, said the hell with this.
He doesn't have the answers.
He's said already a hundred times, go talk to him at HHS.
So the journalists dutifully go over to HHS with their questions, and HHS reverse them to healthcare.gov, where they promptly get shut down because nobody can get in.
And then Obama's conducting his rose garden ceremony where everything appears to be hunky-dory would just need a little tech surge.
Well, the tech experts are saying there's no such thing as a tech surge.
It's just damn it, folks.
I I can't tell you it's so unnecessary, and everything.
You ever had kids, and you told them and you told them and you told them, and they did it anyway, and you ask why in the hell didn't they listen?
I know you have.
Isn't that every parent's lament?
Well, maybe not Dawn's her parents, her kids do everything she says.
But most parents, isn't it?
Isn't that the parents lament?
That's what I feel like here.
Everything predicted.
Now this insurance companies canceling people.
Because there's the exchange over there.
See you later.
That's where you should go.
And that's by design.
And as the private sector insurance companies cancel their bad policies, they're canceling customers, and they're gonna pretty soon they're gonna be canceling themselves.
Out of uh out of business.
Now, this next, this is in the CNN website, not the cable network.
Right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
To fix Obamacare website, blow it up.
Start over.
CNN.
Again, not the network, but their website.
Experts say the major problems.
What is this?
Detroit's attorneys try to prove city is bankrupt.
Really?
That takes lawyers to prove that?
What is this?
Detroit's attorneys try to prove city is bankrupt.
Twilight Zone.
Every day here.
Experts say the major problems with the Obamacare website cannot reasonably be solved.
Before the end of this year, the best fix would be to just start over from scratch.
After assessing the website, Dave Kennedy, the CEO of information security company Trusted Sec.
Estimates that about 20% of healthcare.gov needs to be rewritten with a whopping 500 million lines of code.
Kennedy believes fixing the site would probably take six months to a year.
This is after we have spent half a billion dollars on this thing.
And all that's happened is they have made it worse.
And now CNN, no doubt trying to help, has found some experts who say the whole thing just needs to be taken out, thrown out, and rebuilt from scratch.
In addition, the existing code is riddled with security holes.
Which is why corporate reports says stay away.
Those breaches will result in one of the biggest breaches of security in American history.
They don't think this thing can be fixed.
Here, let's keep Caple Sabilius cut five.
Last night CNN with uh Sanj Gupta, the doctor.
Gupta said to her, the president did say he was angry about this.
I mean, do you know when he first knew there was a problem?
Now stop and think of that question.
When did Steve Jobs know that there might have been a problem with the iWatch?
What do you mean when did Obama know?
And here's what she said.
Well, I think it became clear fairly early on, uh, the first couple of days that not before that, though.
Not before October 1st.
There was no concern at that point either in the White House or at HHS.
I think that we talked about uh having testing uh going forward, and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in, you know, a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years.
I'm sorry.
I this can't be happening to us.
So the president knew nothing of the problems until the first day.
And if they had five years, they could have gotten it right.
And I again I hearken back to where are all these people inspired by Obama who want to make him look good, who want to get this done right for the big guy.
Not to mention the country.
I mean, I he didn't know.
That's not possible.
It it it's it's not possible.
If he didn't know, then he didn't care to know.
If he didn't know, people were afraid to tell him what the truth was.
But I just can't accept any.
And if it was going to take five years, why did they say it could be done in three?
Okay, so let's delay it by five years then.
That's the solution here.
She said they need another five years, you got it.
We'll go back to the way it was.
And now, oh yeah, did you see that?
The Baltimore Ravens are gonna be paid 130,000 to promote Obamacare.
At uh at MT Bank Stadium, or I think that's the name of their place.
One more here from Sibelius.
Sanjay Gupta finally says, What about tech people?
We hear the best in the brightest.
Are there people or companies that we're gonna recognize?
Can you give us some names?
We've asked all of our contractors to look at their teams on the ground and bring in uh their absolute A-team, and I I am confident that that is happening every day.
While we also, the presidential contractors didn't uh didn't didn't do such a great job so far.
Well, I mean didn't why didn't they bring their A-Team in in the first place?
I can't tell you um, why are we saying three weeks now bring your A-team into this this whole equation?
We have hoped that they had their A team on the table, but I I am talking to CEOs and urging them to uh make sure that we have the talent that they have available.
What?
Folks, do you realize the level the level of abject stupidity that we're hearing here?
Not just ignorance in this case.
This is abject stupidity.
I'm confident it's happening every day.
Well, the contractors didn't do such a great job.
Well, well, why didn't you bring the A team in the first place?
I can't tell you that.
Limbaugh theorem.
Hey, we're as upset about this as you are, Dr. Gupta.
Uh, We don't know how this happened.
Well, we're trying we're trying to find out who's to blame for this.
And when we find out, we're gonna punish them.
We had nothing to do with this.
What do you what are you asking us this for?
Well, it's your website.
Whoa!
That doesn't matter.
Why are you saying in three weeks you bring your A-Team into this?
Well, we hope that they had their A team on it.
Who is they?
It's you.
And what is this about?
I'm talking to CEOs and urging them to make sure that we have the talent.
What are you raving?
Corporate America now?
Are you s are you calling CEOs and threatening them and having them send their best people to you?
This isn't it's an utter embarrassment.
I have never thought this woman was qualified.
I just this just and here, one more, and I gotta go take a break.
This is this Sheila Jackson Lee, who thinks that we landed on Mars and it planted a flag there.
She was on CNN with Carol Costello this morning, talking about Sibelius, saying that Obama didn't know about the problems with the website at first.
And uh this is this is Costello's question will have Sheila Jackson Lee's stab at an answer next.
Kathleen Sabilius told our Sanjay Gupta that President Obama did not know about problems until a few days into the launch.
How can that be?
If I was responsible for putting my boss's signature program online, and I didn't tell him that there were major problems, and I left him in the dark, my boss would be really angry at me.
He may even fire me.
You never want to put your boss in that light, do you?
And then Sheila Jackson Lee, again being asked, how in the world is it possible Obama didn't know about this until after it launched.
You're absolutely right, and President Obama was mad as he could possibly be.
And I would imagine that the thought processes, right or wrong was we can fix this for the boss, we're gonna get this right.
The boss is focused on the threats of the government being shut down, as you well know.
The government started being shut down between September 30th and October 1st.
The boss has a lot of other issues.
I don't think it was in any way a hide-and-seek game.
Madam Congresswoman, this has been three years that you've been working on this.
You trying to tell us that over 24 hours of the sho.
They just insult our intelligence with this.
Folks, I'm uh we're we're living the movie idiocracy.
We're living it.
We're in the middle of it.
We're just in the middle of it.
I gotta take a break.
We're back.
L. Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's the story of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year.
The total figure was $359 billion, slightly down on last year, barely half the $700 billion per year that the World Economic Forum has said is needed to tackle climate change.
Now, this is good money being thrown away on a hoax.
And it just illustrates why the hoax lives.
If governments are gonna toss out $700 billion, you know they're going to be so-called scientists out there saying, I'll take it, I'll take it.
What do you want me to say?
I'll take it, I'll take it.
What do you want me to write?
$100 billion to fight global warming?
There hasn't been any warming in 15 years.
These people are not happy.
You know, this is I can't believe the tactics of these people.
Let's say that you've been part of the global warming hoax cabal, and you've been warning people, oh, it's gonna get bad.
It's gonna get really bad as the worst thing.
We don't want this to happen.
It's gonna cause this and that and all that.
And then it doesn't get warm.
And by the way, all that time you're urging people to buy junk cars and junk lawnmowers and junk this and get rid of this, get rid of that, start living a more simple lifestyle, people do this, and it stops getting warmer.
And instead of claiming credit and being happy, you get mad because it's not getting warmer.
All that does is prove this is an agenda, a leftist agenda.
If it were a real scientific fear, global warming is bad.
It's happening.
We can't stop it.
But then it stops getting warmer.
Wouldn't that be good news?
Wouldn't you at least go out and try to claim credit for it?
Because more people are driving hybrids, hybrids, and more people are buying electricity, more people doing it.
Now they're worried not enough money being spelled.
What does it tell you?
Tells you it's a full-fledged left-wing agenda item, and it's losing money.
Two years ago, $700 billion donated.
Last year $359 billion.
The fact it's becoming a hoax, the fact it is a hoax, is becoming is now more people are aware of it.
And so it's actually, in one sense, uh positive sign.
This is a story that troubles me.
AP headline, 15% of U.S. young people are out of school and out of work.
Six million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday.
That's almost 15% of those aged 16 to 24.
We're not talking teenagers here, just specifically, when you hear young people, 16 to 24.
A lot of uh Hascrawland college graduates in that group.
They neither have a job, nor are they in school.
And that folks, there's nothing good that's going to come from that.
Six million young people with all that boundless energy and what used to be dreams, in some cases, and what used to be wild ambition is now what?
dormant.
You have six million American kids, idle, Nowhere to go, nothing to do, missing out on experience that is essential to becoming solid human beings, good citizens.
Now, why are they in this why are six million people idle, aged 16 to 24?
15%.
I'll tell you why.
It's the Obama economy.
There are no jobs for them.
Pure and simple.
Most of these kids should be in school and working a part-time job.
And most of this activity or lack of it actually is in the largest cities.
Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Riverside, California, all of those cities have more than a hundred thousand idle youth.
Who do I suppose the youths voted for?
Well, I would assume that uh if they voted, obviously the youths voted for Obama.
Uh I don't know that they're bothered by it.
You know, I I don't know if they're that worried about it.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, our morning update today dealt with a Wall Street Journal story, which um says that business is frustrated with the Republicans.
Now, the Republicans are historically longtime allies, political allies of business.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Meckler said that she interviewed executives of small, medium, and large businesses, and they're all moderate.
And they're all dismayed that some Republicans didn't heed their warnings that closing the government and risking default would hurt the economy.
To this group of moderate businessmen that she found that she claims is now representative of the whole lot.
Obama's non-negotiation stance and Harry Reed's ignoring every proposal that the House made had nothing to do with the shutdown.
It was all a Republican's fault.
Things are so bad, she said in her story, Ms. Meckler, that the Chamber of Commerce is thinking of taking sides in the primaries.
They want to throw out Tea Party conservatives and replace them with more business-friendly pragmatists.
Who get to the crux of the matter, would also be friendly to immigration reform, i.e.
amnesty, which is the real news of the story.
Okay, so that was the morning update today.
Next story.
This is uh from the uh uh Washington Bureau of the chief of the hell, I don't know what it's it's it's I don't know what this is.
It's a different source, though, and it's the same story.
And this is the other Democrats tell business we stood with you on the shutdown and the dead ceiling.
So while the journal has this story about how big business is really ticked off at Republicans because the Tea Party, the Democrats see that, and they're moving in and they're promising a new alliance with big business.
And they're moving in on the Chamber of Commerce.
It was House Democrats who worked with business leaders to reopen the government and meet our obligations.
It was House Republicans who turned their backs on business in favor of the radical demands of the Tea Party.
That that is a quote from a Democrat congressional campaign committee letter that's gone out.
While the Chamber will support some Democrats in next year's congressional elections, it wants the House to remain under Republican troll control.
On behalf of the American business community, given a choice, I would not like to see this administration with the White House Senate and the House, said the uh Chamber of Commerce had Honcho.
The Democrats are making a move on big business, claiming that they are more friendly based on immigration.
I'm just gonna tell you the reason I'm mentioning this to you is because this is going to stoke the Republican establishment even more on going after the Tea Party.
Look what you're doing now.
Cruz, Lee, look what you're doing now.
Now you're sending a chamber to the Democrats.
Oh my god, this is the worst thing gonna happen.
We were gonna nail them, we're gonna lock them in with amnesty, and now you've blown that up.
While Obamacare is over here falling apart by day, exactly what Cheney was talking about.
There's interesting war he doesn't like.
Another story that D.C. This is this is from a website called Yellow Hammer.
Uh and it is a uh uh it's it's a news site that that concentrates on on Alabama political news.
It's a bird, but they have they have come across a tidbit that makes total sense.
The D.C. political class thinks it's time to take a bite out of Apple.
People are really ticked off at Apple because they don't have a pack, they don't spend lobbying money, they don't have anybody interacting with K Street, and they are going to be targeted.
I mean, this story lays out in great detail what really an extortion town Washington can be.
You want the Justice Department to lay off payup.
You don't want a class action suit or a uh Microsoft kind of treatment, pay up.
And Apple has that was because of jobs.
They don't want any part of it.
They don't want any political identity and so forth.
Not directly linked to the business.
And now they're gonna pay.
Since they're now reported these major profits and so forth, it's just it's uh extortion town.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, folks.
I have come to a conclusion, sad though it may be, I don't think any of this is unknown, This website, I don't think there's any surprise.
I don't think anybody's shocked, including Obama.
I think this business that he didn't know about this until the day after, or whatever.
All of that is a crock, and it's so simple.
Obama knew this was a disaster.
And you know how we know he knew?
Because he granted 2500 waivers to friends.
He granted people exemptions.
He gave enough waivers to big business people and anybody else he needed on board for this.
He gave them an out.
People have been demanding an individual waiver for weeks, well before October 1st.
And Obama has steadfastly refused.
He knew they're just they're just flat out lying about this.
This is nothing more than a huge, intricately woven web of deceit.
That they're trying to pass off as well-intentioned incompetence.
They are lying through their teeth about this, and there is no other possibility.
Steve in in Moments, Illinois, I've got about a minute.
You've been waiting.
I wanted to get to you.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, third-time caller and longtime student of the Limbaugh Institute.
Thank you, sir.
I have, I believe what's a perfect solution for the Obamacare website.
Uh, we simply have NSA take it over because they collect and store information better than anybody, and in all likelihood nobody would really have to sign up since they already have the information.
They could just notify you what your new program is gonna be.
You know, that that is an interesting thing.
I heard um damn it, I can't remember.
Um there was something that happened this morning.
You you have you have uh reminded me of something that I can't fully remember that would say the opposite.
Something that happened that if the NSA was on the ball wouldn't have uh.
I get the point you're trying to make.
Why are we going to they've already got everybody's information?
Just get the get everybody's data from the NSA.
I'm not sure that they do, is the point.
But I get your point.
I'm glad you waited, Steve.
Thanks much.
A brief brief break here, folks, back after this.
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