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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists, everybody.
	All across the fruited plain, L Rushball back here at the EIB Southern Command a day later than planned.
	But nevertheless, here.
	And I want to thank Mark Stein for being able and agreeing to the program yesterday on short notice.
	It was a tough day Sunday, and I kept holding out hope that it would pass.
	It's one of these 24-hour intestinal things.
	And it uh it eventuated that uh late Sunday night I couldn't get in here, and Mark was able to do it, so I sincerely appreciate that.
	I was still able, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
	I figured I was sick, why not watch Obama?
	Uh what more damage could be done.
	So I watched that silly Rose Garden thing yesterday.
	I said the limbaughorum was right there, and even the politico in a random act of journalism gets close to calling Obama on it.
	They've got a headline on their story here, Barack Obama's passive voice, as it's almost a random act of uh of journalism.
	But I mean, this was classic.
	There's Obama standing there in the in the Rose Garden, and he's got what uh people you've got 13 people behind him, or only three sign-ups of the props?
	Only three sign up.
	Now I have a question.
	And I'll bet you that many of you are asking the same thing.
	Where's the Republican Party yesterday and today?
	No, no, no.
	Seriously, forget Tea Party establishment stuff.
	Where is pushback from the Republican Party?
	Here you have, look, I know it's a rhetorical question, but I'm gonna I'm gonna mention it anyway.
	You've got the President of the United States, his signature piece of legislation is a bomb.
	It is an abject failure.
	He has to sound like he's selling what's that guy, the infomercial guy, Ron Popeel and the Ginzu knife.
	It's like Obama's out selling bamboo steamers yesterday.
	And and it would seem to me that the Republicans could easily call a press conference or some kind of an appearance and bring out a bunch of people who tried to sign up, haven't been able to sign up, get them to tell their stories.
	Uh, and and then in the same thing, let it be known that the Republican Party is looking out for you, people of the country and so forth.
	I mean, in the old days, this might have been done.
	I don't know how old the days would have to be for the Republican Party to have done something like that.
	But clearly, the establishment of the Republican Party doesn't want to do anything to incur the wrath of the media.
	Now it could also be, see what you think of this.
	It could also be, and we know the active theory, the Republican consultant class is that Obamacare is going to go ahead and implode, so just stand aside and let it.
	Don't get in the way when your opponent is making a fool of himself, or when your opponent's committing uh suicide, political suicide, just get out of the way and let it happen.
	But in this case, you know, a little nudge.
	The fact that that it isn't being done, the fact that there aren't ads on TV does raise questions to me that are not new.
	It just sort of illustrates the point where we are.
	You know what a Republican Party could do.
	I mean, if you want to talk about unity, Republican Party could have some Republicans up there and some conservatives up there and Tea Party people, establishment people, all unified in a in an appearance designed to let people know that they would do anything they can to help them and to see to it that this thing doesn't go any further and get embedded into our culture as an absolute disaster.
	Marco Rubio has uh introduced or says he's going to introduce a bill to delay the individual mandate until healthcare.gov is up and running normally and for six months.
	Now it'll never be signed into law, obviously, but Marco Rubio is attempting to make a statement and uh and and use the legislative effort here as an illustration of the absolute mess that this thing is.
	I mean, even the drive-by media, my my Obamacare stack today is littered with drive-by media criticism.
	I mean, they're really worried about this.
	They're really worried about Obama for this.
	And most of them are really surprised.
	Most of them really thought that this was going to be better than anything.
	Most of them are shocked.
	Most of them can't believe it's this bad.
	That's how much faith they've got in Obama.
	That's how much faith they've got in government.
	Jay Carney yesterday said Obama is frustrated with the rollout.
	Yep, right in line with the limbaugh theorem.
	Obama himself said that he's very, very distressed about this.
	Nobody, nobody matter than me about the fact the website isn't working as well as it should.
	It's his website.
	It's his stupid health care plan.
	It is his signature health care plan.
	It's called Obama can nobody matter than he is.
	You know, folks, I I do not watch.
	I haven't watched a network nightly news show in years.
	I kid you not.
	I haven't done so in years.
	And I found out over the weekend why.
	I last night.
	I found out why.
	Or I reacquainted myself with why.
	For some reason, what was it?
	What would it have been?
	When I turned on the tube last night, it came on to the NBC affiliate here, Channel 5.
	No, what so I must have been watching football on Sunday.
	That's what it was.
	And I I must have gave up on the day in um, yeah, about even before halftime.
	I said, I can't, I gotta go to bed.
	Of the uh Broncos and Colts game.
	I didn't make it halftime.
	So it turned off to you.
	Turn it on.
	And I write at the beginning of Brian Williams introducing F. Chuck Todd on the White House lawn with an update and a story on what had happened with Obama in the press conference.
	I'll watch this.
	And it's Brian, and now we take you to our man on the scene, Chuck Todd, White House correspondent, NBC News political director, and a couple of other uh resume points.
	So, Chuck, uh, what what's what's going on there at the White House?
	Of course it's dark.
	Chuck's on the White House lawn, some lights there.
	And well, Brian, there's some problems up here.
	And uh you have to well, Brian in his intro has said, Chuck, we gotta admit, if if something this bad had happened in the private sector, either the the CEO would go or the company would fall to be out of business.
	I mean, this really wouldn't be tough, and so Chuck, what's the scoop with it?
	And and Chuck said, Well, Brian, you know, everybody up here knows that they've got a problem and they're uh they're working hard on it, and they're the Kathleen Sabilia's job is safe.
	Don't worry about this.
	Well, who's worried about Kathleen Sabutius' job?
	But I felt reassured.
	I was I was deathly afraid that Kathleen Sabilis is going to be canned, and I was comforted to know that Chuck Todd told everybody that she was safe or job safe.
	And he went on to describe how the White House is working very hard.
	They know they don't have much time to get this right, Brian.
	They know they don't have much time.
	They're gonna be putting in the midnight oil, they're gonna be working hard on this, and they figure they've got about three weeks, Brian.
	And I'm sitting there and I'm watching this.
	And I this is not verbatim by any means.
	But I'm this is I'm Chuck Todd knows exactly what he's not saying and what he is.
	He knows what he's reporting is a bunch of.
	It just it says nothing but but line crap.
	L I N E. Just here's the latest line of the day.
	This is the narrative.
	This is the template, and this is what's going to be reported.
	White House knows they've got a problem, they're working hard on it.
	The president's told uh wants 150% effort from the IT team.
	What the hell is that?
	Who talks that way?
	Hey, you give me 150% effort.
	IT team, you got them in here on 150% effort, that's what I want on this.
	Well, well, who talks this way in the real world?
	Anyway, my my whole point was that that it was just propaganda.
	It was just a report designed to carry forth the notion that Obama's a bystander, and he found out it wasn't going well, and he's really mad, but Kathleen Seville is safe.
	Don't have any fears about that.
	She's cool.
	Everybody's safe, but everybody knows that they've got do you know this company, this IT company that they hired.
	I have a this is from uh Joel Pollock, I think this is Breitbart.
	Obamacare tech firm tried and failed to build a gun registry in Canada.
	You think this might be why they got hired?
	CGI, the Canadian company, whose U.S. subsidiary built the failed Obamacare website, was once contracted to build a federal gun registry for the Canadian government, Breitbart News has learned.
	CGI's contract was canceled in uh 2007 after a report by the Auditor General found the Canadian firearms information system being built by CGI significantly over budget, and that it had been plagued by delays.
	The failed gun registry was only one of CGI's many Canadian failures, which included canceled contracts to build health care databases in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick.
	Despite CGI's checkered record, the regime, Obama, awarded the U.S. subsidiary, CGI Federal, the 93.7 million dollar contract to build healthcare.gov, part of the 678 million dollars in health care services contracts awarded to the company for crying out loud.
	Not only did they waste a bunch of money, they hired a firm which had a track record of failure.
	This is exactly what happens on.
	You get you if as long as you are trying to do something to to advance and further the agenda, and you're in your you're you're right in line with the cause, doesn't matter how much you fail, you're gonna get promoted.
	So here's a group tried to put together a gun registry in Canada.
	Oh yeah, we love those kinds of people.
	Oh yeah.
	Gun registry, that's the kind of people we need.
	And while we're working on health care, they can in a stealth way be establishing one of those here, maybe.
	Just ruminating here, don't know anything about that, but still, not one success on the resume, not one nothing but failure after failure and then Obama says he's gonna call Verizon and ask them to help fix this.
	Well, no, well, the reason you wouldn't call a successful company in the first place is because there's nobody better than government.
	That's why you wouldn't.
	This is what's ironic about this.
	Every one of these drive-by stories I've got, they're really worried.
	You ought to read Ron Fournier's piece today at National Journal.
	I mean, this he's a big Obama guy.
	He's scared to death that this thing is an absolute disaster, and he can't believe it.
	These people all think Obama is Harvard, he's Harvard Law, he's whatever their silly resume is.
	Qualifications are just far and above, way better than anybody else's.
	No real world experience, doesn't matter.
	He's just So smart.
	He knows how to do these things, and we love government, and government does this better than anybody, except they don't.
	And so when that's illustrated, oh no, they're really let down.
	You can see it.
	I'll share this with you in the uh as a program unfolds today.
	USA Today, Health and Human Services brings in Verizon to help healthcare.gov.
	The international telecommunications company Verizon has been tasked with uh with helping the government fix the federal health exchange, which at first blush here, folks, that's very peculiar, because we all thought the government could do anything, and especially better than the private sector.
	Of course, there's less private sector now, thanks to the overreach of the Obama administration.
	This this article acts, by the way, this USA Today piece.
	If it it it acts as if Verizon writes as if Verizon is not a government contractor, even though they later quote somebody who says it is a government contractor.
	And one of the experts that they quote only gives Verizon a 50-50 chance of fixing the problems.
	Which is still better odds than one would give the government for fixing it.
	So here's Verizon.
	You could have called anybody.
	You could call Jeff Bezos.
	You could have called people at Apple or people that run websites all you call them left and right.
	Get this thing fixed if you wanted to.
	Nothing is Verizon.
	I'm just saying it's I just it this is what a come down to have to call the private sector to fix your health care website.
	Gee, f for for ninety-eight million dollars, I would have set up the website.
	I would I would have set it up for fifty million dollars.
	And it would work, and I'd have it up running a lot sooner than these clowns did.
	Of course, if I'd set it up, if I'd set it up, it would have it would have backfired on them without them knowing it.
	But nevertheless, that's just it's and I it I know three years.
	Three years, and Obama's been a bystander.
	He only now learned of the trouble.
	Only last week.
	And then he had to blame it.
	He blamed it on the shutdown, and he blamed it on the Republicans.
	And meanwhile, in Low Informationville, the big news today is that Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian.
	Did you know that?
	That's a bit that that last bit and CeeLo Green gave some babe ecstasy.
	Of course, in his case, it might have been this.
	I don't know.
	And greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
	Folks, just uh I don't offer this as an excuse, but if it takes me a few seconds longer to come up with a word or thought that I'm looking for, just want to get I'm still got a low-grade fever in here.
	Sometimes, you know, hot flashes are chills.
	Uh I don't offer that as an excuse, just as an explanation.
	Uh, in the event things sound strange or slow to you.
	That's that would be the only reason.
	Grab audio soundbite uh 12 and 13.
	You got to hear this if you if you missed it.
	This is Obama at uh the Rose Garden yesterday morning.
	And talking about Obamacare, the ongoing problems with the website, two Sunbites is number one.
	Here's the bottom line.
	The product, the health insurance, is good.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	The prices are good.
	It is a good deal.
	No, it's not.
	People don't just want it.
	They're showing up to buy it.
	They're not.
	Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should.
	Nobody's madder than me.
	Limbaugh theorem.
	He's got nothing to do with it.
	He's a bystander.
	In fact, the politico, I I I kid you not.
	The politico's all over the board with this.
	Depends on who's writing about it.
	Because Edward Isaac Doveere, if he still has a job there, uh, has a piece running today called Obama's Passive Voice.
	This is the one that's an almost random act of journalism.
	He walked right up to the limbaugh theorem, but then they fall a little short.
	They don't quite make the connection.
	In another political story, they say that Obama was so busy negotiating the continuing resolution in the debt ceiling that he was blindsided by these website problems.
	I I kid you not.
	Now, apparently the politico missed all the times Obama said he wouldn't negotiate.
	Now think about something.
	Who can take the fall for these glitches?
	Now, on Sunday, F. Chuck Todd said that uh they're gonna have to have a fall person.
	He actually said that.
	Fall person, not a fall guy.
	And that Sibelius was very nervous.
	He said that on Sunday.
	And then it was last night that he said, everything's okay, she cool.
	Don't worry about her.
	But who can take the fall for these glitches?
	It can't be Obama because it would be racist.
	And he didn't know about because he was so busy trying to save the government during the middle of the Republican-inspired shutdown.
	So it can't be Obama.
	And it can't be Sibelius because she's a woman.
	That would make it sexist.
	So who can they blame this on?
	Maybe somebody who's no longer there, who had something to do.
	Blame Van Jones or somebody.
	They're gonna need a fall person for this if they go that route.
	Anyway, let's take a brief time out here at the bottom.
	Eleven sound bites about me today.
	Hi, how are you?
	Great to have you.
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
	I want to go back to something that I've said repeatedly in the past few months, but I think Obama's press conference yesterday adds uh some weight to this.
	My my belief is that the details, the minutiae of any of this, do not interest Obama.
	I don't think he really cares.
	I don't think he cares if people are gonna have trouble signing up.
	I don't think he cares what it's gonna end up costing anybody.
	That's not what this is about.
	Oh, he'll he'll act like it.
	But one of the reasons why, I mean, let's be honest.
	I don't know how many of you have I would assume almost all of you have real world business experience to one degree or another, and in every circumstance, let's let's take Obama at his word and let's say that this is the thing that he really loves.
	I mean, that's the impression he's given.
	This is his signature deal.
	This is what he's really wanted.
	This universal single payer health care.
	This is what he's really wanted.
	The Democrat Party has wanted it forever for 50 years, but he's the guy that really wanted it.
	Now, in a circumstance like that, when you have the president or the CEO, what whatever the top dog is called, that person's passion for it lights the fires under everybody else to make it happen.
	This is how Steve Jobs work, any successful CEO, a CEO cannot have hands-on every project that is going on in a business.
	But the one thing at the moment, at the time that matters most to that CEO, everybody knows about it.
	Everybody working there wants to impress the boss.
	Everybody working there knows how you add the the liberal political aspect to this, that the true believer, big government's the solution to everything aspect of this, and there's no reason Why this should have happened, except one thing.
	And that is these people are genuinely incompetent.
	They haven't the slightest idea what they're doing.
	They don't know what to do.
	And their arrogance and their condescending view of people outside of government makes it can't, they're not, they're only going to hire people to work for other governments.
	They're not going to go out and get, you know, they'll use private sector people as props, bring them in for photo ops, buffet in now and then whenever you need him, get a photo op, having lunch with Steve Jobs or what, but that's as far as it goes.
	Now the fact that this thing is an utter disaster is evidence.
	Obama doesn't care about this beyond the day it was signed into law.
	Because all the only thing that matters about this to Obama is that one day the government's going to be in charge of everybody's health care.
	And whatever happens between now and then is simply what has to happen.
	Good or bad, that's the price.
	It doesn't matter.
	He doesn't care about individuals and their problems with insurance, availability, cost, actual treatment.
	Doesn't care.
	Doesn't matter.
	Not what this is about.
	All that is nothing more than salesmanship.
	That's nothing more than a photo op itself, like yesterday.
	All that is you go out and act like you're Billy Mays or whoever the latest Ron Popeel is with the Ginzu knife, and you go sell it and you're wrapping it up and then ratchet it up and then you make sure everybody understands that you're upset with it too, which continues to just amaze me, that he gets away with this, this limbaugh theorem that he gets away with this.
	It's his plan.
	And it that the fact that it is bollocks up like this can be traced right back to him.
	As I'm just, I'm telling you, whoever is the leader of people in a group, be it a business, any organization, once that leader comes up with something, and if there are true believers in that organization, and there are throughout this regime, they are all true believers.
	They are they're true believers blinded by reality.
	They haven't the slightest idea what they're doing, but they believe that only they are equipped to do this, that only they care enough, that only they are compassionate enough, that only they are the ones that can make this work.
	They're the only ones.
	And the fact that this thing had three years and is an utter disaster goes right to the top and shows absent leadership.
	it.
	Now, when I say that Obama doesn't care, I don't want you to misunderstand me.
	It's not that he doesn't care whether it works or not.
	He's not worried about it not working.
	He's not worried about it being repealed.
	He's not worried about it being defunded or delayed.
	He got it signed into law.
	He signed it.
	His signatures on it, it's gonna happen.
	The Supreme Court's backed him up.
	Whatever goes on between now and that magic day of single payer, he doesn't care about.
	There are gonna be times he has to go out and act like he does yesterday was one of those.
	But he doesn't care.
	The irony of this is that this guy's supporters think he cares more about them than anybody ever has.
	And the people that voted for him did oh.
	But you know as well as If if you are a CEO, or if you're a general manager, if you're if you're a leader of a group, and you have true believers, people that love you and want to look good to you, want to impress you, and also want you to succeed because they go along with you.
	They're gonna bust their rear ends to get what you want done.
	The fact that that didn't happen here is a testament to so many things.
	A, you've got nothing but glaring incompetence.
	People are just incapable of doing this.
	And there's no evidence anywhere that the people involved know how to do this.
	Kathleen Sevelius doesn't know how to do this.
	She doesn't have know to do one thing that she's doing.
	Not one.
	Neither does Obama.
	They didn't.
	They they they I bet you they didn't know they had a problem until it went live.
	They think magic happens because they did it.
	They might have been aware that it was gonna glitches, I don't know.
	But I I think they're so incompetent that I believe they're they love themselves so much, they have such a vaunted self-image and self-view of themselves that whatever they touch is going to turn to gold.
	Now, our old buddy, let me see if I can uh find this.
	Jim Pethacucus.
	I gotta figure out what stack I put this in.
	I wish I could remember it.
	I wouldn't have to look it up.
	Jim Pethicouk.
	We interviewed him, by the way, for the Limbaugh letter, the upcoming next issue of the uh Limbaugh letter, and he had a great observation about what Sibelius said last week when these problems erupted, and I don't know what stack I put it in.
	But it was it was when she said, let me say I can paraphrase it.
	She said, I got hold of the IT team and I told them to double down and give us a hundred and fifty percent effort to fix this.
	And his point was who in the world, here it is, who in the world talks that way.
	In other words, in fact, it's exact quote, how people who've never run anything talk.
	And they quote Sibelius, I called on the contractor to get its A team here and give us 150%.
	And he says, Democrats speak this way.
	Obama speaks this way.
	Sometimes it's due to the fact they haven't run anything, sometimes it's because they know the audience is never run anything.
	It's the difference between a young, wild-eyed Buffalo Bills fan saying, we're gonna beat the 49ers by 30, and Vegas odds makers favoring the 49ers by 13.
	This is that's one way of looking at it.
	But they don't know what they're doing, folks.
	There's not one of them that does.
	There's not one of them that does.
	I use Steve Jobs as an example.
	At one time had this Internet Services division called Mobile Me.
	It was the forerunner to what they now call iCloud.
	I was a customer.
	And what it was was basically many things.
	It was a sync service for all of your contacts, calendars, email addresses, and account settings that would keep them synced from device to device to computer to computer.
	Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
	It mostly never reached its full potential.
	One day, Jobs called a whole team in, and uh they think they're in there if you get a some praise and a couple of attaboys.
	And Jobs says, can somebody in this room tell me what mobile me is supposed to do?
	And one of these bright-eyed team members raises his hand and jobs calls on him, and the guy spells out exactly what it's supposed to do, and Jobs says, Can you tell me why the hell it doesn't do any of that?
	And he let everybody go.
	He disbanded the team.
	And it was working 150% better than what this is.
	I'm just those of you, again, who have led groups of people who know they're working on your baby.
	This is your deal.
	This is your life.
	This is what you want more than anything in the world right now.
	And I'm talking about people loyal to you.
	Not everybody is, but the people that are loyal to you want you to look good.
	They want to look good in your eyes.
	They want you to succeed because they will go with you as that happens.
	They might also make a name for themselves.
	It's an it's it's an all in for a great potential positive outcome.
	Everybody is humping to please.
	They're just doing working overtime, whatever it takes.
	And that's how greatness happens.
	And that's hard work and people just busting their butts with passion on things they really that could not have been present here.
	Or this wouldn't have happened.
	If all of that was present, if there was everything I just described, then the only explanation is glaring incompetence, which is entirely possible and is probably the real cause.
	There just isn't anybody.
	They are the equivalent of people in the faculty lounge at Harvard sitting around theorizing on how the private sector screws up and cheats everybody and lies to everybody and rips everybody off.
	And if they ran the show, this ought to be better.
	And they find they're running the show and they don't know what they're doing.
	There's nobody in this regime's got any private sector experience because they hate the private sector.
	They despise it.
	They think it's the problem.
	Just like the United States is the problem in the world, the private sector is the problem in the U.S. economy.
	The private sector is the root of inequality.
	The private sector is the root of unfairness and racism and sexism and inequality and income.
	It's where it's where all the bad stuff is, is the private sector.
	So why would you get anybody from there?
	You know better anyway, because you have a bigger heart.
	You have more compassion.
	And the private sector would never try to give insurance to everybody.
	And the private sector would never try to make it affordable.
	And the private sector doesn't, they don't do any of it.
	Killer customers anyway.
	We're better people.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	But don't you find it strange that after three years of this, there's not you can't find one person, not one person who apparently cared enough about this to make Obama look good.
	Not one person.
	One person wanting to make Obama look might have, but that's not even possible either, because bureaucracies just split things up into so many different groups.
	It's just not it's not possible to achieve what they're trying to accomplish here.
	Now let me, ladies and gentlemen, offer a counter-theory to my just explained flawless theory.
	Because there is another possibility.
	Do you remember in the debates when Romney said to Obama, why do you always pick losers?
	And he was talking about Obama's green tech choices, like Sylindra, you know, all of the wind and solar energy companies that Obama chose to give money to that went belly up.
	And they all did.
	They all went belly up.
	And Obama, as a side note, ended up getting some of that money back because those people then became donors.
	They all got rich, but the companies went belly up.
	And Romney was talking about Obama's green tech choices.
	But you know it's true about everything Obama does.
	And with incompetence, this is just a counter-theory, a contravailing theory.
	With incompetence, every now and then you would get something right.
	But Obama never does.
	No, I'm not talking about legislation.
	I'm talking about when Obama attempts to take over something in the private sector on the theory that he knows better, or that he's in touch with the future and he's gonna move us forward.
	Everything he picks goes belly up.
	Obama, Sibelius, Pelosi, Reed, they have all talked about their desire to go to a single payer system.
	And I'm telling you, that's where Obama is confident this is going to end up.
	That's why he doesn't care about any of this minutiae.
	It is why he doesn't give a darn about it because he knows where it's going to end up.
	And what if that, as I've even said so myself on previous programs, is not the plan.
	Now that the government is legally in charge of health care.
	What's so bad about it screwing up?
	So bad, so much, that people demand it be simplified.
	And what would simplify it?
	Get rid of these insurance companies.
	For God's sakes, that's where all the confusion is.
	Got this company here and that policy there and this deductible over here and and and what just get rid of that.
	This is this this the government do it.
	What if that's what's going on?
	Could very well be, because you know they all want single payer.
	And Obama has told his union buddies it's going to take five, ten, maybe fifteen years to get there, that the American people wouldn't accept it if it were just legislating on them.
	But if they end up demanding it out of a mess like this, that's what they're coming for.
	So great to be back, folks.
	And isn't it for you two?
	Yes.
	What would I do if I were I'd be glad to answer how I want to handle this?
	That's no brainer.
	We got a lot still.
	Eleven sound bites about me.

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