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Feb. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, Rush is unwell today, taking a rare sick day.
He doesn't take them very often, but he was laid low by a fever and he's shaking it off.
And he will be here tomorrow for the real deal, authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting.
In the meantime, this is Mark Stein here, live from iStation EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
If you're fleeing the country, do swing by and say hello.
You can't miss this big sign on the highway saying last Rush guest host before the board.
And we always do like to see you.
HR is running things out in New York today, and so it goes from New Hampshire to New York and then over to California and up to the satellite and out to the world.
And it's always a great honor for a foreigner to sit behind the golden EIB microphone.
And it's one of the great blessings of my life in America that I get to do this.
I was thinking, do I have anything to plug at the moment?
Because it always helps to have something to plug.
If you haven't got something to plug, your career must be in real trouble.
And I was looking at my live engagement schedule and I've got a gig in Ottawa and a tour of Australia coming up.
So if you fancy making the convenient 17-hour drive up to Ottawa to see me, I'll be there on March 1st.
It's like Justin Bieber, when Justin Bieber, with his mile-high marijuana cloud private jet with the stewardess locked in the cockpit with the two pilots who have got their oxygen masks on to avoid getting the marijuana up their nose and failing the drug test.
Like Justin Bieber is about to be expelled from the country and I'm worried because the United States government doesn't deport very many of us aliens that they'll want to make it a TUFA and get rid of two Canadians for the price of one.
So if you're driving up to Toronto to see Justin Bieber in concert at Maple Leaf Garden, swing up to Ottawa and I'll be there doing a big confab of Canadian Conservatives.
Actually, I mean that semi-seriously because the fascinating thing about, you may not have noticed this, but Conservatives in Canada, Australia and New Zealand are in power.
Those countries have conservative governments.
David Cameron, who's a total squish, but he is at least nominally conservative, he's in power in the United Kingdom.
Obama leads the most left-wing government of any developed nation.
It's actually a remarkable thing.
It's a remarkable thing that you've got a guy who couldn't get elected.
The president here couldn't get elected in Canada.
He couldn't get elected in Australia.
He couldn't get elected in New Zealand.
But he's left-wing enough to get elected in the United States of America, which is a quite remarkable thing.
So as I said, I'll be up in Ottawa at a big gathering of Canadian Conservatives and any Republican operatives, he tries to say with a straight face, planning the 2016 campaign.
If you want to know what it's like to be on the Whittig side, you might want to swig through Ottawa and Suicide there.
And then I said, I'm going to be touring in Australia.
And I believe that's a convenient 16-hour flight from Seattle.
So it'll be well worth it.
If you want to see me live, come see me in Melbourne.
It's convenient, just a 33-hour round-trip flight from Seattle.
It'll be well worth the money.
But that's the point here.
Something has gone wrong.
Something has gone wrong in the U.S. political system when you have a guy who is, he's not a centrist opportunist like Bill Clinton was.
He's someone who has an avowedly leftist view of the world.
And yet he has twice been elected by the people of the United States.
And if nothing else, that doesn't say much for the way the Republican Party is doing things at the moment.
I mentioned, by the way, that garlic, garlic picking has been banned during the Winter Olympics.
Residents in several parts of Chechnya and Ingushicha have been banned from picking wild garlic during the Winter Olympics, reports the BBC.
This news was broken by the jihadist website, Kavkaz Center, which is one of these jihadist websites in the Caucasus.
If you're in the Boston area, this is probably the sort of thing that the Sarnaev brothers were reading just before they blew up the Boston Marathon.
But Kavkav Center says the ban will be imposed by Russian security forces.
The infidels and apostates have not explained in what way picking wild garlic in the forests could endanger the Olympics.
Well, Mike thinks it's for any vampire.
It's for the Transylvanian team, isn't it?
It would affect their performance if people.
Yeah, the old Transylvanian bobsled team at the Winter Olympics.
That's the thing.
It's the old Transylvanian ski jumper.
He just comes flying down, the Transylvanian ski jumper.
He's there in his body-hudding lycra with the big black vampiric cape, and he comes going down the ski jump off the thing.
And there's some guy holding a bit of garlic, holding a clover garlic up, and he just nosedives into the snow.
So taking precautions to not affect the performance of the Transylvanian bobsled team.
Yeah, oh, yeah, or the Transylvanian two-man luge.
You know, I always like the Transylvanian two-man luge.
The two-man luge is very difficult because you have to, the guy on top has to sort of arch his back, so it doesn't look like he's too friendly to the lower guy in the two-man luge.
And if you've got some guy waving garlic around at the Transylvanian two-lan Luge team, then he could just collapse down on top of the other guy, and it wouldn't look at all appropriate on the two-man luge.
Or maybe, yeah, I think, yeah, they've got their two-man luge bobsled is actually coffin-shaped.
That's true, and it's a very, makes a very impressive sight as it's going down.
By the way, the Transylvanian team always does well in the ice dancing because the vampire guy on the Transylvanian ice dancing team, always male guy, always looks like he's dressed for it.
He dresses for ice dancing in real life anyway, so it always works out there.
Anyway, that's the, by the way, just to go back to Joshua.
Joshua was saying, ah, Romney, Obama, there's no difference.
You know what the difference is?
You know what the difference is?
Like, you know, whatever you say about Mitt, and people had, Mitt, Mitt saved the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Mitt made, that was going down a bigger hole than the way these Olympics in Russia are looking at the moment.
And Mitt made them profitable.
Mitt made money off sports that people don't even like.
I mean, say what you like about the guy.
I mean, curling, curling.
Nobody in America watches curling.
In Canada, there's a curling channel on your cable package.
And it's not elite, it's basic cable.
It's like Channel 7, the curling channel.
I did play-by-play curling once.
I covered for a friend and had to do play-by-play curling years ago.
And so I know a little bit about the stones and brooms and all the rest of it.
No Americans interested in curling.
Yet Mitt Romney turned a profit on curling.
He turned a profit on curling.
And that's right.
He had shower curtains in the Salt Lake things.
But that's the thing.
Mitt Romney turned that Winter Olympics around.
He made it watchable.
There were some disgraceful things.
I feel, was that the French judge who marked down the Canadians in the ice dancing?
Absolutely deplorable.
Somebody had fixed the judging, and the French judge mysteriously marked down the Canadian team and gave it to the Russians.
I think it's that that French judge went on to serve on the Security Council of the United Nations during the vote for the Iraq War about three weeks later, I think it was.
But that is Mitt's great achievement.
Whatever you say about Mitt, he's not like Obama's never created a dime of wealth in his life.
He's never done anything.
Most of these Democrats have never done anything.
John Kerry was a sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston for two weeks.
Most of these guys have never earned any wealth.
Mitt Romney turned around that Winter Olympics.
If Mitt Romney had been running these Winter Olympics, and by the way, here's how basic things are.
Louisa Baibakova, who is a staffer at the Olympic Village, she goes, Attention, dear colleagues.
Due to an extreme shortage of pillows for athletes who unexpectedly arrive to Olympic Village in the mountains, there will be a transfer of pillows from all apartments to the storehouse on 2nd February 2014.
Please be understanding.
We have to help the athletes out of this bind.
So the caterers and the janitors at the Winter Olympics are having to give up their pillows for thethletes who, as Louisa Baibakova touchingly puts it, quote, unexpectedly arrived to Olympic Village in the mountains, unquote.
Who could have seen it coming?
Out of the blue, suddenly all these athletes show up in the Olympic Village expecting pillows because there's nothing you like more when you've got like the two-man luge coming the following day than to be sleeping on a hard bed without a pillow.
So the caterers and the cleaners have had to give up their pillows for the athletes who all unexpectedly arrived in the Olympic Village.
That's the same word they use for the if you notice, if you think applying unexpectedly to the Winter Olympics is ridiculous.
That's the same word that the media applied to any bad news for Obama.
Jobs, the economy unexpectedly took a sluggish turn in the third quarter of 2013.
Housing sales unexpectedly dipped in the fourth quarter of 2013.
So the Winter Olympics are just basically using the same excuses as the mainstream media uses to cover for Obama.
But it's getting worse and worse.
And the solution, as we discussed in the first hour, to these problems is more paperwork, more paperwork.
Climate hubs in New Hampshire, a regional climate hub, a federal regional climate hub in New Hampshire to advise farmers on local climate risks.
What it all boils down to is paperwork, paperwork, paperwork.
This country is drowning in paperwork.
This country's got paperwork for everything.
You've got to fill in 37-page forms.
You need government approval to do one in three jobs in this country.
And that's all it's coming down to.
Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, paperwork.
And that's all that will be left in the Republic of Paperwork.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Roslyn in Po Quag, New York, which I gather is in the envivon of Poughkeepsie, Rosalyn.
Is that correct?
It's in Dutchess County, and we're snowbound today.
You are the wittiest, most entertaining talk show host ever.
I'm enjoying my Roslyn, by the way, which is with an L-Y-N, is one of my favorite names.
Is it on Russia's top-10 list of favorite ladies' names?
I don't think so.
Oh, right, right.
No, Russia's top 10 list of ladies' names is apparently sealed and on a need-to-know basis.
I can't tell you whether they are.
I used to date her Rosalynn when I was around 18 or 19.
I probably shouldn't get into that in case it turns out you're the one.
I'm not sure, but I'm sorry about that.
I'm calling about this Obamacare push towards part-time employment and so that the slackers can pursue their pie in the sky.
And more to the point is that they're paying less into Social Security.
And I'm sure everybody knows that you have to work 40 quarters, and after what amounts to 10 years, you get Social Security benefits.
And the less money you pay in, the better your rate of return is.
So what's going to happen with this if we have all these part-time workers, the poor slub American citizen that works a lower-income middle-class lifestyle has to pay into Social Security and will get for 40 years of work modestly more than these part-time workers.
And not only that, but what you were also saying, this will, of course, necessitate bringing in more foreign workers to fill in the gap.
And we have an immigrant advantage.
Immigrants typically pay less into Social Security, work fewer years because we allow 40, 50, and 60-year-olds to come to the United States.
Well, and you also allow chain migration, which means that once one person is here, they can bring in a whole bunch of elderly relatives as well, which doesn't do anything for improving the viability of Social Security.
You're right on this, Rosalind.
But you know, somebody said in the first hour that people are living paycheck to paycheck, and that's true.
If you look at what would happen if everybody lost their job today and they had to start with nothing tomorrow, people have only got like $3,000, $4,050, $6,000 in their bank account.
So they've got enough to get them for a few weeks.
And I think in that kind of world, people are not thinking about what's going to happen to Social Security down the road, except insofar that they assume government, if you were in a situation where Social Security was not enough to enable you to live the way you wanted to live, then government will simply wave its magic wand and improve it.
And I don't think that people are actually thinking that far down the road about what things are, as you say, the basic injustice, that the harder you work, because people always say about Social Security, it's like, I paid it in, so I want to get it.
And they don't understand that the harder you work and the more you work and the more you pay in, the less you get.
And so the system comes with inequality built into it like that, Rosalyn.
I can't hear you, Mark.
Okay.
We've got a bit of a problem in the lines between.
I think there's snow on the line between my daughter and North New Hampshire.
Thanks for your call, Rosalyn.
Great to talk to you.
Let's go to Elena in Washington.
Is that Washington, D.C. or Washington State?
Hi, good to speak with you, Elena.
What's on that?
Yeah, you know, I called in to counter some points made by, I think it was the first caller of the day who said that universal health care in America was inevitable regardless of who was in power.
I think that was the gist of it.
Yeah.
I just, I don't even know if that guy, I mean, he sounds like he's informed, but nothing he said was true.
I mean, everything speaks to the contrary.
Mitt Romney running against Obama said repeatedly on record that he would repeal it and that he was not for nationalized health care.
There was only roughly estimated 30 million people that were uninsured.
And as it turns out, most of those people are the young, healthy ones that are not signing up for Obamacare now or people that would have qualified for Medicaid anyways.
I mean, his opinions don't bear out any fact.
All the Republicans in the House and Senate voted against it.
I mean, half the nation were divided on that.
There's no way that this would have came if it wasn't done in backroom deals and through sequestration.
The guy just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Yeah, and as you say, you're right to look at these 30 million, 30 million uninsured, people always assume that these are frail, sick people who are somehow being denied health coverage.
As you say, they're often healthy young people, and it's a fairly rational decision to make if you're like 23, 24.
Or they're the people of the welfare state that all have cell phones, all have big flat screen TVs, and that would default on any bill they got anyways, regardless of if it's health care or otherwise.
But you know, there's another group, Elena, too, that's in here, and that is people who are extremely wealthy.
Well, not extremely wealthy, but they're wealthy enough to be, if they have an accident, to be able to afford to just go to the hospital and write a check.
And that is a rational decision, too.
That's what Rush did when he had his heart problems in Hawaii a couple of years ago.
He got there and they wanted to see his health insurance card.
And instead, he got out of his checkbook and said, how much is it going to be?
And actually, that's very liberating in the bureaucracy-clogged world of American healthcare.
I'm in a bad mood about this, Elena, because I went to the doctor yesterday.
But I would like to be treated in a supposedly private health care system as a private client again.
It's getting more and more the case with this sort of pseudo-insurance operated by the government, where insurers are basically sock puppets for government, that you're getting treated not as private clients, but as somehow petitioners for government largesse.
And it's entirely rational for people earning $200,000 a year or up to decide if they need a hernia operation that they'd like to get out their checkbook and pay for it that way, Elena.
So that 30 million group is flexible and it's not made up of poor people.
Hey, real quick, before I forget, I was listening the day that you guest host and you talked about roundabouts and the de-evolution of society.
I laughed so hard.
That was one of the funniest, funniest comments you've ever made.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's the roundabout is the hallmark of American decline.
Do you know something?
I shouldn't say this to you, Elena.
Thanks for your call.
We've got a heartbreak coming up, but I will say this.
My favorite roundabouts, they've got some roundabout, mini-roundabouts in certain towns in New Hampshire now that don't go anywhere.
And that's a metaphor for America, too.
Roundabouts with no exit.
Roundabouts where there is nowhere to get off.
You just go round and round and round.
So I do remember that.
The roundabout as a metaphor of American decline.
Thank you for your call, Eleda.
Lots more still to come on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush is a little under the weather, but we will pass on your good wishes to him, and he will be back tomorrow.
I was talking earlier, saying that they've identified where you uninsured people are.
You know, like the undocumented, the undocumented, they've got an amnesty for.
But there's no amnesty for you uninsured guys.
You got until the end of March to get with the program.
But otherwise, they're coming for you.
And they've narrowed you down, you uninsured people.
And they've discovered that more than half of you live in just 108 counties of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States of America.
And I suggested rather flippantly that it was boom.
It could all be over just like that.
Obama knows where you are, and boom, a couple of drones, that would solve the problem.
Jesse Ventura says that he is now off the grid in Mexico.
He's been kind of psychologically off the grid.
Former Minnesota governor and wrestler Jesse Ventura says he's gone off the grid in Mexico to avoid droning drones knowing where he is.
I don't understand why going to Mexico would make it harder to drone you.
They've got drones along the Mexican border.
They've got drones along the Canadian border.
Just far, just a stone's throw from me at Derby Line, Vermont, and Stansted, Quebec, where the Haskell Opera House.
You just, you, you, on the on that little building on the Vermont-Quebec line, where the opera house is half in Canada and half in the United States, and the town library is half in Canada and half in the United States.
They've got drones hovering over the non-fiction shelves to see whether the Canadians are accidentally stepping over onto the American side.
So Jesse Vandura is going to have to keep moving.
It's not going to be good enough to go to just to go to Mexico.
But he's now doing a show off the grid like this.
Half my neighbors are like this.
They won't have phones listed in the phone book.
They won't be on the electric grid.
They got their own generators or anything.
One of my neighbors is like this.
He just lives in like a cabin in the woods.
Always lived like this.
No phone line, no electric thing.
No, doesn't want to be in any of the documents.
So the government can't find him.
His kid goes to the school and he's late.
Nobody can pick him up for an hour after school.
So he goes to the library and he goes on the computer and he finds this thing called Google Earth.
And next thing you know, you realize he's got a camera hovering over my neighbor's house that can be seen from outer space.
The government can watch him from outer space.
And like many of my neighbors, he's got like a he's got more firepower than the Belgian army in his basement.
And it availeth him naught because the drones are watching.
The drones are watching.
So it's like you can be in, you can be living your uninsured lifestyle in your compound, but they're out there.
They're watching you.
They know which of these 108 counties you're in and they are going to get you.
More Americans, for the highest number ever of Americans, young Americans up to the age of 30 are now living with their parents.
The story in Bloomberg, going on 30, living with mom and dad.
It's not just, I thought with Obama when we were talking about that earlier, he said, you're 26, you can stay on your parents' health insurance.
And parents are thinking, well, gosh, it's only a couple more months more till Junior is 27, and then he'll move out of our insurance agency and he'll finally be a man and stand on his own feet.
No, there were no jobs.
He's got a worthless degree in colonial and transgender studies, and he's got a quarter million dollars in debt for that worthless degree piled up.
So he's 30 years old and he's still living at home.
There was a court case about this in Italy.
Same thing in Italy.
A lady who had been a young lady of, well, I say young, she's actually middle-aged.
She was like 33, and she'd been working on her college thesis for 12 years.
And her father had enough and decided to stop paying for her.
And an Italian court ruled he had to keep on paying.
The poor guy's 67, she's 33.
The Italian court ruled he had to go on, carry on paying for her.
And I don't know, she's never going to move out.
And I don't know what the 67-year-old guy can do about it, except move in with his 93-year-old parents or whatever.
But higher numbers of adults in their late 20s living at home than ever before.
More 27-year-olds live with their parents than with roommates, according to the headline of a piece in Slate.
This is what happens.
Again, this is the other thing that happens when you create a dependency culture.
Nobody ever grows up.
Everybody's a child forever.
There was a famous early Benny Hill sketch.
I like to cite scholarly authorities when I'm making a profound point.
There is a famous Betty Hill sketch from about 1962 where he's playing a sort of biker.
And he's talking about the problems that him and his bird are having getting a council flat to move into.
And the BBC interviewer says, well, have you considered moving back in with your parents?
And he goes, yeah, but they've moved back in with theirs.
And that's the world Obama is creating now.
30-year-olds living with mom and dad.
A 30-year-old used to be someone who had a home of their own, had a family of their own, had kids of their own.
Now a 30-year-old is basically just the guy, what is 12th grade, you're 18.
So yeah, he's basically just a grade 24-year-old schoolboy living at home with his mom and dad.
But don't worry, Obama is working on this.
As you know, he's had a lot of problems with his healthcare system and the website and everything.
But he released that video yesterday.
I mentioned it in which he had the rapping pug and the cat and the cockatoo and the goldfish and all these other and the fluffy bunny and all these other domestic animals urging America's pet owners to enroll for Obamacare.
And I made the point that I thought it would actually, in the long run, it would actually probably be better to enroll down at your dogs or cats local vet because you're going to be getting more timely and more efficient medical treatment there.
So that video hasn't quite gone viral.
It hasn't quite turned into an internet.
People didn't believe me, but they went out and they discovered that this video with the wrapping pug that you paid for, the American taxpayers paid for someone in the bowels of the American federal bureaucracy to come up with the genius idea of getting a rapping pug dog to sell Obamacare to the masses.
There's now a new video out.
Organizing for Action has put out a new commercial urging Congress to raise the national minimum wage for millions of low-paid Americans.
And it shows a low-paid American, and she's like sipping a coffee cup on her way to work.
And the problem here is that the picture of the low-paid American they're using is actually a woman strap hanging on the London tube.
Where I think it actually identified, this is a story in the Daily Telegraph.
I think it actually, yeah, the Obama, this Obama for America example of a low-paid American who needs her minimum wage raised is actually a commuter on the London tube line from New Cross to Newcross and Surrey Keys.
That's the, if I remember my London Underground, that's the southern end of the East London line.
I used to date a chick at the northern end who was a nurse at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in the sort of Jack the Ripper country.
So it's good to have a hospital nearby when you've got a guy slashing and murdering prostitutes in the slums of the East End.
But anyway, that's where the East London line starts.
And it ends with it ends around Newcross and Surrey Keys, which used to be called Surrey Docks, but then it got gentrified, so they changed the name to Surrey Keys.
So the only example of a low-paid American who needs her minimum wage raised is in fact a strap-hanging commuter on the East London line of the London Tube going to work.
And it's very, it's fascinating because the one thing we're told that Obama is good at is he's cool.
He understands the zeitgeist.
He's not like square guys like Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, was mocking the music that Mitt had on his iPod.
No celebrities want to be mixed up with Republicans.
They get no endorsements.
They get Pat Boone.
They get one of the Oak Ridge boys.
That's the only appeal they have to pop culture.
But Obama is different because he hangs with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the coolest people on the planet, a part of Obama, which is why he understands social media and pop culture and all the other things.
And in fact, he's just like rubbish at it.
He puts out the world's worst cat video to sell Obamacare.
And now he's put up a strap-hanging London commuter as an example of how oppressed Americans need to have their minimum wage raised.
That's the latest ad from Organizing for Action.
So if you want an example of a hard-working American, you have to go and find a strap-hanging commuter on the East London line of the London Underground.
Mark Stein in Farush, we'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush.
Let's go to Jesse in Miami.
Jesse, great to have you with us on the show.
Why, thanks, Mark.
So you take a look at the master plan, I guess.
What is the president's checklist to fundamentally change and transform America?
And I think when I listen to all that you say and I try to put myself in those shoes and figure out what does he really want to do and how is he doing it, I think the checklist begins to emerge.
And you see, first of all, take over a big chunk of the American economy through stimulus and through taking over health care.
And I think all the chaos in the rollout of Obamacare certainly actually perhaps was intended, not just accidental or they didn't see it coming.
And out of that chaos will become perhaps demands for single payer, which is perhaps where they wanted to go in the first place.
And then the starting point, of course, is with the population.
The American people are fundamentally kind, caring, generous people.
And so when you tell them, my gosh, 30 million people are uninsured.
Well, actually, he doesn't say they're uninsured.
He says they have no health care, which is quite different from being uninsured, but now we don't know the difference between those two.
So kind, caring Americans say, oh my gosh, we must do something about that.
So that's another item on the checklist.
And there you get Obamacare rolling out.
And then, of course, in order to get people all together to support and to perpetuate this new order, you've got to get as many of them as dependent as possible.
And so you see this burst in welfare and in food stamps and all those everything else on that list.
And finally, if you're really going to cement the glue of keeping people in line, you're going to stoke a little class warfare, or in fact, a lot of class warfare.
And you're going to perpetuate the notion that the rich are rich, the poor are poor because the rich are rich.
So I see an emerging checklist.
And I'm wondering about your take on all of that.
I think you're right, Jesse, that there is a view that Obamacare was never going to be the final answer, that it's an interim stage to a single-payer government healthcare system, the biggest on the planet.
And Obama has been relatively explicit about that.
He said that's what he favors, but that he can't do it all at once.
Other Democrats have said that this is a necessary feint to get there.
It's like a lot of things.
It's like college loans.
It's like the housing industry.
It's like the banking industry.
You have the dead husk of a private sector, but with a government hand stuffed up it, operating it, moving it around, like your local bank.
The banks are all the same in this country.
They can compete on checkbook colour, and that's it.
Otherwise, they're just enforcing banking regulations.
They're de facto nationalized.
And same thing with housing and all kinds of other things, college loans.
What they were trying to do here, I think, is to create a sort of, again, a husk of the private sector that would provide a veneer of private sector health care, but that would move them towards single payer.
You're right in that.
Where I think you're wrong is that I don't think the chaos of the website rollout was intentional.
I think Obama would have liked that to be efficient so that all people complained about was that they were losing their health care plans and had to move on to the government plans.
But he would have liked to, I think in an ideal world, he would not have created a totally incompetent flop website because that gets to issues of competence with Obama.
And frankly, you know, you don't want to get too mired in left-wing conspiracy thinking where you think, ha ha, Obama deliberately created the world's worst website in order to drive us all here their way.
I think he wanted that website to work.
It's not like Mel Brooks and the producers where they wanted to create the all-time great Broadway flop of websites because if government had tried to do that, it would have accidentally turned out to be the biggest, best website in the world.
And they would have been in that, whatever the great line from the film, The Producers is, where did we go right?
I think what they did here, they do want to move to single payer, but it was not Obama's intention to have four months of disaster and bad news and bad press.
But again, that works.
Ultimately, that works to his advantage because when people are saying, oh, this is terrible, we need something else, which way are they going to jump?
Are they going to jump back to genuinely private health care with a small public system for those who can't afford it or are too sick or have failed to make provision?
Or are they going to say, oh, no, this is all too scary?
We need big nanny government to come and look after us.
Because Obama's bet that the American people are no different from Swedes or Greeks or Italians.
They want the apron strings of big nanny government.
And that test for Americans is coming as Obamacare collapses and takes everything down with it.
Markstein for Rush.
We'll close things out in a moment.
Mark Stein in For Rush.
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Police arrested Luis Miguel Chavarin, 31, after the fight happened around 4 a.m. Monday at the Loose Caboose on West Flamingo Road in Las Vegas.
I often get asked on this show, when are people going to get riled?
When are people going to see what's happening to the country?
When are people going to see what's happened to their health care?
To their jobs, to their opportunities?
And at that point, all hell will break loose and we will have a civil war.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
This is the way it is, this Las Vegas story.
When civil war breaks out, it will be over a song on a jukebox.
In Thailand, they have had people killed for some reason when a guy goes into a karaoke bar and sings My Way.
And now the end is near.
And that's how it breaks out.
That's how it's going to happen here.
Civil war over songs played on the jukebox at the Loose Caboose.
Thanks for sticking with me.
Rush.
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