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Jan. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Live from New York City.
It's open line Friday.
Thank you very much.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, Eric Erickson here, the phone number 800 282 2882.
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Now, there's some breaking news before I get to what I want to talk about.
There is some breaking news you should know about.
The president is going to impose sanctions on North Korea for the Sony hack attack.
What's so crazy about this is that there's this growing consensus among a lot of private security firms out there that the North Koreans weren't actually the ones who did it.
And so we're going to impose sanctions on the North Koreans who now people are saying maybe they didn't do it.
I I look, I've always been in the trust the government on these things.
The FBI is pretty sure they did it.
I just consider the amount of stuff they get wrong these days.
I don't know.
It's interesting.
I mean, I don't care that we're putting sanctions on North Korea, but that we're doing it and maybe they didn't do it is just I I think very, very funny.
Humorous, even, typical of Obama.
There's a story you need to be aware of.
And it is about Republicans wanting to expand Obamacare.
There's a point I need to make, and all I'm gonna do is ask for the patience of the audience as I make this transition, because I need to step away from the story to actually get to the meat of the story.
And that is randomly, there's another story out there on the wires.
Harper Collins, the publisher, published a an atlas for those of you who only have the internet, an atlas is a book of maps.
And the map omits Israel.
The map shows Jordan and Syria stretching to the sea.
It it just completely is out Israel.
The Atlas is catered to schools in the Middle East that don't want people to know Israel exists.
When I was growing up, I grew up in Dubai.
My dad worked for Conical Oil, lived over there from five to fifteen.
That when I was in ninth grade, our uh Mr. Von Spreken, he was our history teacher, he took the ninth grade class to Greece.
We always we took a big we were the senior class, we took a big class trip.
We went to Greece, and I'll never forget we went to the marketplace in Athens, was it the Agora and in Athens?
And there were a series of world flags up, and he pointed at one of the flags, and he asked us if any of us knew what that flag was.
This white flag.
Blue stripes had a blue star in the middle of it.
None of us had any clue what that flag was when we were smart kids.
None of us knew.
It was Israel's flag.
See, growing up in Dubai, all of our books, if there was any mention of Israel, the pages were cut out or they were redacted or they were replaced.
So our map growing up, my atlas, had Palestine.
Israel didn't exist.
It's amazing what people can learn through the efforts of the propagandists, and what they cannot learn by the absence of information.
It is a cultural thing in the Middle East.
Israel does not exist.
If my parents and my sisters and I we ever went to Israel, we couldn't get back into the country if we had a stamp from Israel in our passports.
The Middle East kids, they grow up, even the American kids grow up not knowing what an Israeli flag looks like.
Now that is a random transition.
I realize the point, though, is controlling information.
What you learn, what you think is real, what you think is fact, what you think does not exist, based on what you hear in culture, in the media, from the government.
The press today, as I began the show, is focusing on Mario Cuomo dying, the former governor of New York, in a way they've never focused on other governors, save for Ann Richards and other liberal heroes.
They pick and choose the stories to cover, and they would far rather cover that than they would cover the horrors of Obamacare.
In fact, there's a lot of polling out there that's just perplexed people that the level of of dislike for Obamacare continues to grow in this country.
And so the press response has been to say to themselves, we we're to blame.
We've We've led too many Republicans come on TV and talk about how bad it is.
We need positive stories about Obamacare.
The press, the propagandists of the left, they want to shape the narrative.
And in the same way these Middle Eastern governments, they want to scrap Israel from atlases so that children never know there is a country there, that they have a territorial right.
The left wants to get rid of any bad story about Obamacare, or they want to spin it against its detractors, and they want to have a series of victims, and they want to have enemies.
They want to have the victimizers.
And the victimizers are always Republicans.
And so we get to the story.
With the victims and the victimizers.
Governors across the political spectrum.
Key words here by Charles Babbington, the Associated Press today.
Key words, governors across the political spectrum, meaning left to right, conservative to liberal.
They're hitting a roadblock in their bids to expand Medicaid with federal funds.
Republican legislators.
That's right.
The governors here, they're the victims.
Even the Republican governors, they're the victims.
It's those redneck hicks, those rubes in the state legislature, those part-timers who they're not the experts.
They don't know.
Those Republican legislators, they're to blame.
While some of these governors themselves have criticized the president's health care plan in general, they've come to see one component.
Medicaid expansion, as too generous to reject.
But they're battling conservative lawmakers.
Notice the language here.
The first paragraph, Republican legislators who adamantly oppose Obamacare.
And the second paragraph, they just go to calling them conservatives.
Conservatives are to blame for this, who say it's better to turn down billions in federal dollars than to expand Medicaid.
So far, 27 states have agreed to expand Medicaid, but several more, including some with Republican governors.
They now want in.
Several Republican governors, they're beginning to meet with Republican legislators to try to talk about it.
They want to hug it out.
Bill Haslum of Tennessee.
He now says Medicaid expansion, it's morally right.
Oh, so it's a moral issue.
Expanding government becomes a moral issue for these people.
He thinks Obamacare is really bad, but it's a moral thing to saddle future generations with more and more federal debt.
Folks, I've read Lord of the Rings.
I have read Lord of the Rings.
The J.R.R. Tolkien story, you can go see The Hobbit, you can go see The Lord of the Rings, you can see the movies.
You don't even have to read the books.
The books are somewhat different.
The movies are vastly more expansive, but there's that one ring to control them all.
I submit to you that that one ring in our country is the federal teeth.
For those of you uncomfortable with that imagery of Uncle Sam, the federal tax dollar.
I was a city councilman in Macon, Georgia.
I wound up actually, I got my radio show in Atlanta and had to resign my seat towards the end of my first term.
I wasn't going to run.
I was going to be very Calvin Coolidge.
I'd done what I wanted to do, which was to end a human trafficking issue in my area and decided I wasn't going to run again.
One of the issues that came up before I resigned, though, was federal stimulus dollars to expand the police in Macon, Georgia.
And it came with strings, those federal dollars.
And if we decided after three years or so of the federal government paying for the expanded police force, if we couldn't then pay for it ourselves, and we canceled the program, we had to give all the money back.
Now, the appropriations chairman and I, we ran the numbers.
And we knew there was no way we were long term going to be able to pay for this.
And we voted against it.
It wound up passing.
I think we were the only two people who voted against it.
We knew long term we couldn't afford it.
But the the lure, the shiny lure of federal dollars.
Well, it just gave certain members of council heart palpitations, and they needed to do it.
The same thing with this Medicaid money.
These Republican governors, they're looking at a problem and they see federal dollars to solve the problem.
What they don't see are the strings attached behind it.
The object is so shiny, the allure of the federal money so large in their eyes, they're blind to the strings.
They're blind to Sauron's power in Mordor coming for them.
In Wyoming, Governor Matt Mead opposed Medicaid expansion during his first term, but now he says it's going to save the state money.
It's going to provide insurance for poor people.
You know what it's going to do?
It's going to pile people on the social safety net and make it even more difficult for them to get off of it.
That's that's what the federal Medicaid expansion will do.
Those of us who oppose it were called heartless.
We're mean, we hate the poor.
No.
We love the poor so much, we do not want them to become entangled in the snare of a federal bureaucracy that will never get them or help them or allow them to elevate themselves out of poverty.
You expand Medicaid.
Your state becomes more and more indebted to the federal government and the strings that come with the federal money.
And when the federal government then says, oh, no, no, no, you don't have to come into the program.
But once you do, all of the strings come with it.
The state becomes entangled in the federal government.
The poor become entangled in the federal social safety net and are never able to get themselves out of it because they become too attached to the money.
They can't cut strings from it to try to elevate themselves.
and So they're just stuck.
Expanding these programs sounds good, but long term, we see more and more.
It just gets people stuck.
The upward mobility the left cares about, the gap between rich and poor, they've caused it.
With these federal programs that prevent the poor and the middle class from rising then make it impossible for them to.
And so instead, they decide to leave them comfortably on the social safety net.
It's a terrible thing to put on the people.
It sounds so good.
Those rings of power and Lord of the Rings, they sounded so good.
Look what happened to the people who got them.
It ended very badly for them, as this will too.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
We'll be back with your calls.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I am Eric Erikson filling in the phone number 800-282-2882.
Let's go to the phones, John, Chicago, Illinois.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
Sure.
I don't really agree with you, but I appreciate the chance to talk to you.
Absolutely.
Uh you said earlier in the program that uh that because Bill DeBlasio had been criticized uh critical of the police and had expressed support for the protesters, that violence against the police represented uh him finally getting his way.
And I consider that to be incredibly irresponsible.
But but despite that, I have to ask you, doesn't that therefore mean that uh when someone kills an abortion doctor or blows up an abortion clinic, that means it's just uh uh everybody in the anti-abortion movement, operation rescue, and people on right wing broadcasting, going out about abortion being murder.
That's just all you getting your way, right?
That's what liberals would have us believe, isn't it?
Well, how is it different?
Well, I mean, that that's what liberals would have us believe.
Should I play at a different level or different game than liberals?
No, I'm not gonna be able to do that.
But did I actually say that this was De Blesio actually getting his way?
I don't believe I said it that way.
That may be how you heard me, but I don't believe I I used that language.
But even if I had, that is the liberal standard for abortionist as you just so eloquently put it.
Well, you those were the words you used.
And and I mean, you know, last year.
I don't believe that's actually what I did.
In fact, the other day I said specifically that the guy who has blood on his hands is the guy who pulled the trigger, but the these people, they were to some degree incited by de Blasio and then turned on him when he tried to rain back in.
So then people who kill abortion doctors are incited by the rhetoric of the anti-abortion movement, right?
Yeah, I guess if you say love babies causes people to go in and kill doctors, maybe, but cops are out to get you.
I I definitely see that could incite people.
Well, I'm I'm asking you to try to not be such an incredible hypocrite.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Now let me ask you this, because every time there's a story in the media, uh the rare stories of when someone does something to an abortion clinic, the media spends days on how it was pro-life rhetoric.
Or for example, when Gabby Giffords was shot in Arizona, the media spent two weeks blaming Sarah Palin for daring to use 200 years of political war rhetoric that somehow her language was the fault.
So should I hold de Blasio to a different standard than people on the left in the media, but I repeat myself.
So then should I hold them to the standard that that they use?
If you're gonna do one, you have to accept the other, sir.
You're doing exactly what you criticize.
You're doing exactly the same thing.
Here's the issue.
Look, I appreciate your anger on this one, but I really do believe you misheard me earlier.
And in fact, had you been here the other day, you would have specifically heard me.
Or you can go to redstate.com and see where I wrote.
De Blasio's not the guy who pulled the trigger.
But but but here's the key.
This is Bill McGurn today, or Bill McGurk at the uh New York Post.
Let me read you this.
Let's stipulate up front that the man responsible for the murders of Officer Lewis and Raphael Ramos is not the mayor, but the node who pulled the trigger.
Let's stipulate too, the mayor does not have blood on his hands.
Let's do so, however, while acknowledging that the murders have illuminated the squalid assumptions behind so much of de Blasio's rhetoric about police.
I mean, when the mayor gets out there and he he does first the the Black Lives Matter 2 and he campaigns on how the the police are harassing people and largely sides with the protesters.
Well, then the protesters that they pack it up and they go out and they magnify their protest, and then the mayor has to rein it in.
You will not find in the pro-life movement the leaders of that movement standing up and saying, Oh, when if someone were to kill an abortion doctor, and by the way, it's only happened a handful of times, and everyone on the right says the guy's crazy, and it's you guys on the left saying, No, no, no, that's the abortion, that's the pro-life movement.
What you actually have are the leaders of the movement condemn the attack out of the gate.
They condemn that out of the gate.
De Blasio, when they started the rioting, when they started the protesting, he went out and encouraged them and sided with them, and then it got out of hand.
And de Blasio said, Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, we gotta rein this in.
And you've got international answer guys coming out and calling him a traitor for trying to rein them in.
I've never seen the pro-life movement go out and try to spark riots again abortion doctors.
And when some crazy loon relies on anything they've heard to go out and do it, they immediately come out and condemn the attack.
The difference between the two, John, that I I guess you can't distinguish between is that you never see pro-lifers go out there and try to incite protests and rallies against abortion doctors, and you did see De Blasio come out and use a ton of anti-police rhetoric, and when it went to the ends that so many people on the left accused people on the right of getting to, that is violence.
Let's just, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you you you can't blame him.
Which standard should I hold to?
I would submit to you.
The standard should be that the guy who pulls the trigger is the guy who gets the blame.
I would also submit to you, as this column does of the New York Post, William McGurn does, that you also do have to recognize that the longtime rhetoric of individuals does ultimately have consequences.
What is the longtime rhetoric of the ab of the the pro-life movement?
That we should end abortion, that we should we should stand up for children.
What is the long time rhetoric of Bill de Blasio de Blasio de Blasio?
Well, cops are bad.
Cops cops are infringing on our rights.
The guy who pulls the trigger.
He's the guy to blame.
The great difference between the two is that you don't see pro lifers out there rallying people to protest to cause damage, to let out their grievances in the public.
You see them standing out in front of an abortion clinic praying.
The Blasio, he stood out there and he whipped people into a frenzy, and then when the consequences happened, wanted to walk it back and say, Whoa, stop, stop, you went too far.
Which standard?
Welcome back.
That last caller, for the record, he hung up.
He he didn't want to stick around.
He just decided he wanted to get that out there and hang up.
They never like it the left does when you hold them to their own standards.
All right.
I want to get back to Obamacare because it's important, it's going to linger.
Uh Betsy McCoy is is with me.
You are much more of an expert on this than me, former lieutenant governor of New York, you've paid attention, you see the road ahead.
I'm deeply pessimistic about it.
Well, there is a lot of bad news immediately ahead for Americans.
They're gonna get clobbered.
First of all, if you don't sign up for some sort of health insurance that conforms to Washington's knows best definition of it by February 15th, you're gonna get clobbered with a big penalty when you go to file your taxes.
You literally have to attach proof to your tax return that you are enrolled in what they call qualified insurance.
Good Lord.
If you don't have it, listen to what the penalty is.
It's two thousand two percent of your adjusted gross income.
Well, it's two percent for you, then you're gonna also pay a penalty for your uninsured spouse and a penalty for each of your uninsured kids.
Good lord.
And so they're punishing you for for not wanting Obamacare, I get that.
And I don't get the sense that the Republicans have come up with any sort of way yet to undermine this.
Well, there's a lot of promise ahead, but let me just explain what's immediately facing Americans, and then we'll get to the solution.
What's immediately facing Americans is that they're gonna have to fill out a form if they want to get an exemption.
It's form eighty-nine sixty-five.
The instructions are twelve pages long.
So if you were planning on taking your kids skiing for President's Weekend or taking your wife out to dinner, uh, forget about it.
You've got to spend the weekend filling out this form instead.
It is really something.
This Congressional Budget Office does say that about 90% of the people that fill out this form will qualify for quote a hardship.
Now that puts Obamacare in a very different category from Hillary care, and that's important because Mrs. Clinton is still considered the front runner for the Democratic nomination for president, and she is ducking every question about her position on health reform.
But if you go back and look at her plan, she wasn't gonna take no for an answer.
I mean, the Obama administration, they're trying to convince you with threats with carrots, they're saying we're gonna run TV ads, we're holding street fairs.
Not Mrs. Clinton.
Her her position on this was you'll do it, right?
And if you if you didn't, the government was gonna automatically enroll you in Hillary Clare, whatever plan they wanted you to be in, and if you didn't pay the premium, she told the House Committee, they would garnish your wages.
So far more coercive even than Obamacare.
So Betsy, let me ask you this question.
I at the top of this hour, I I talked about these Republican governors who want to expand Medicaid in the States because of all the federal money they'll get for it, and it just seems like they're entangling themselves and their citizens more and more into side avenues of Obamacare.
Well, that's true, but here's what's ahead for Americans who are listening to the program.
Uh if you work for a company that has fewer than fifty employees or a not-for-profit or a little uh like a community college or local municipal government, you probably will lose your health insurance in the coming months.
Even though there was no employer mandate on these smaller employers, they they're only given two choices.
They can offer no coverage, or they can offer the Obama compliant coverage, right?
Yeah, and I'm seeing more stories about the the costs of this stuff in small businesses.
So some twenty million people, Eric, twenty million people are going to get cancellation notices in the coming weeks and months that their on the job coverage is canceled because it's no longer Obamacare compliant and their employer can't afford that Obamacare version of a health insurance.
Good gracious.
So what do we do?
Can we do anything?
Well, there's something big coming up.
In June, the Supreme Court is going to rule in a case called King versus Burwell.
Yes, the president has changed Obamacare some two dozen times, and the Supreme Court is saying enough is enough.
We're going to take a look at one of these changes.
Uh and if the court rules the way many of us believe the court should rule, right?
That will be the end of Obamacare, because it will it will say that in thirty-six states, most states, there's no subsidies anymore.
People will suddenly have to pay the true cost of these plans, which is four hundred percent quadruple what they're currently paying.
And when those premiums quadruple, that's the end of Obamacare.
We can hope, can't we?
I mean, we we've seen Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before on this.
Republicans in the House and Senate should be preparing repeal bills right now to get ready for this decision.
I look, I completely agree with you.
And it it seems to me, even based on John Roberts' logic in the original Obamacare case, particularly based on his logic and his sole focus, it seems like on the plain text of it all.
Yes.
That i y he's you're gonna have to look at this and say, hey, Congress specifically excluded uh states that don't do an exchange from getting the subsidy.
And by the way, Jonathan Gruber statements.
Exactly.
All the evidence seems to point to the fact that the Supreme Court will rule against offering these subsidies in most states, and that truly will be the end of Obamacare.
It will no longer be affordable.
People will stop buying those plans, and only the very, very, very sick will hold on to those plans, and that's what they call in the insurance industry a death spiral.
But more importantly, the Republicans in Congress should show real leadership and get ready with some repeal bills and not some two thousand page bill that nobody will read.
A twenty-page bill and plain honest English that members of Congress can read and be ready to vote on.
Praise God for that.
It just seems like that these Republicans, they don't believe their bill is good enough unless it's 5,000 pages long.
Not just Republicans, members of Congress in general.
But you know, Madison warned way back two hundred years ago, he warned in Federalist 62 against ever letting Congress pass a law, and this is Madison's own words, so voluminous that no one can read it or so frequently changed that a reasonable person doesn't know what the law is.
That is Obamacare to a T. That is Obamacare too.
That that's Congress to a T these days.
I wish the speaker would pay attention to that remote.
I hope also the Democrats start asking Hillary some very pointed questions about her version of health reform because making her the nominee or God forbid the president without getting answers to those questions could be very dangerous to your health.
No kidding.
Betsy, look, it's it's my pleasure to have you on here.
Thank you so much.
You're always so informative on the subject.
You're quite welcome.
Happy New Year, Eric.
Happy New Year to you.
Betsy McCoy, who is the lieutenant governor of the state of New York and has just become one of the great authorities on Obamacare.
Uh before we get to break, let me just for those of you who who aren't sure of one of the things we were talking about, there is this case before the Supreme Court, the borough case.
If you will recall, when they wrote Obamacare, the states were encouraged to start their state level exchanges.
And to incentivize the states doing this, according to Jonathan Gruber, who the left at one point claimed wrote the law, according to him, the states that didn't ex create their state level exchanges would not get a federal subsidy.
that they would not be able to subsidize the cost of health care for patients, for the insured in their states.
Well, once the law was passed and that provision wasn't there, then the IRS said, Well, we're gonna let the states that don't do an exchange, we're gonna let them get this federal money as well.
Well, there's been a lawsuit.
And uh several judges have held, including in the the DC circuit that the law the is plain.
The states that get the exchange that set up their own exchange, they get the subsidy.
The states that don't, well, it's in a completely separate provision and the language isn't there to give them the subsidy.
That's gone to the Supreme Court and it'll be resolved by June.
And l we sh we've learned enough now never to rely on the Supreme Court.
We've learned enough to to rely on John Roberts not getting it right necessarily.
And I'm sure we'll see another concerted effort by the left to politicize the court to try to make John Roberts fold.
But based on the plain language of the legislation.
States that haven't expanded the exchange shouldn't get the federal subsidy, and most states have not expanded the exchange or at least a a sizable, I think it's a majority still, but a great many of them haven't expanded the state level exchange.
So that should, as Betsy said, drive up the cost of Obamacare to the point that it breaks.
But there's no silver bullet here.
We gotta keep keep keep the pressure on.
Eric Erickson, in for rush.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Let's go back to the phones to Terry in North Dakota.
Welcome.
Happy New Year.
Hi, Eric, and happy new year to you.
Uh, we started the show off with mistrust of the government.
Yes.
That is so true.
Um I as just a normal American.
I m um my husband's working right now, but a person that went from a full-time job down to thirty hours a week and it goes to minimum wage, it hurts the normal American because if they have a house payment, rent, they have the bills, electricity is raising this year.
Up here in North Dakota, it's going up fifteen percent.
Now you calculate all that with this Obamacare, no one's going to make it.
If the house something happens in your home, you've got you've got to fix that.
You don't have the money to do that.
Not on minimum wage and not on thirty hours a week.
Well, and you know, Terry, uh a lot of people forget that in all these job creation numbers that the media and and the president have been heralding is just wonderful, wonderful things, that they changed the calculation for people working full time.
It's no longer people who have a full-time job.
It's those people plus all the people who are having to work multiple full-time jobs to get to full-time hours.
And I I'm sorry, when you're making minimum wage in three part-time jobs, you're struggling for benefits, uh, you're raising your kids if if you have kids, i it becomes a real problem.
Now most people don't make minimum wage, they make more than that.
But I I do know some people who make minimum wage, and even then the lower middle class, they're getting taxed and their money given to the poorest of the poor to subsidize Obamacare.
There have been a number of studies out on how uh the the lower middle class are the ones getting stuck the worst in Obama's economy.
I agree with you very much.
So we own our home, thank goodness for that.
But the fact is that these he's taking America down to its knees.
And you you if you listen to Fox News or any of the other ones, you have to wonder if ABC, CBS, NBC, if any of them are really telling the truth.
The media is after Democrats, they love Democrats.
And and my husband and I watched it all the time.
Now we don't even turn it on.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
It look, they're propaganda machines.
Terry, thanks very much for the phone call, by the way.
They they absolutely are propagandists for the Obama administration, and and they shape, withhold, and skew information to try to make him look good.
But unfortunately for them, Americans are living his economy and they know it's not that great.
Uh Dominic in Staten Island, let's go to you next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Happy New Year.
Hey, happy new year, Eric.
Um, I just wanted to comment.
My daughter and her husband, he has a good job, he has medical insurance, but they're middle class, And every time she goes to the doctor, it's a hundred dollar co payment.
Now, an office visit, they don't get that much from Medicare or Medicaid for an office visit, but now they let them bundle in a hundred dollar co payment.
And when you have a young child, you have to go all the time.
They get sick, they need shots, and this is just how he's killing the country.
And you know, I'm tired of the Democrats controlling the language.
They say, oh, now you want to take health care away from ten million people.
Well, yeah, because you screwed 290 million to get those ten million health care.
You know, the the way they're driving costs up on families is pretty profound.
I I've got a nine-year-old and I've got a six-year-old, and I I've got a good job with good insurance, and I'm very, very blessed as a result and and just very lucky.
I have a lot of friends though who have kids who who who aren't as fortunate as as me in the benefits I get for my job, and they are struggling.
Uh some of them work for the government teachers and whatnot, some of them work at small businesses.
The uh the cost that they're seeing in the run-up in their health care really is frightening uh that it's happening.
And uh the burden on your family just uh man, I sympathize with you.
And I don't know that the people in the the the bubble in Washington in the beltway really understand.
Even the Republicans, I don't know that they really get it.
I uh people this is the Obama economy.
And they're spinning right now saying that it's a good economy, that it's on the rebound.
There are all sorts of warning signs on the horizon.
Uh first foremost among them, when people can't pay their health care insurance premiums, and they're gonna get fined by the government if they don't pay them.
We're in for a lot of cutbacks from people to make ends meet, to comply with their government, and that's gonna end badly ultimately.
Uh Betsy McCoy was right.
The Republicans, they need a short, clear bill to repeal Obamacare.
They better get it done quick.
Eric Erickson in for us.
I just before I get out of here, let me end somewhere near where I began today.
We're gonna hear a lot in the coming year about the two thousand sixteen race.
Will Hillary run or not?
Will will someone from the right rise up and consolidate?
Here's what I want to hear.
I don't i they're gonna bash Obama, okay, hallelujah.
The they're gonna give us multi-point plans.
What's their vision gonna be?
I I do an annual red state get together, and we're gonna be in Atlanta this coming year in August.
I w I want 'em all to come and just tell us.
I I don't need your multi-point plan.
I I don't need you to attack the president.
Tell us what's the country gonna look like in twenty twenty with foresight instead of hindsight.
What's your twenty twenty vision for the country?
Where should we go?
I uh we need that.
Don't tell us you're gonna be like Reagan.
Show us how you're going to fix the country, how you're going to improve the morale of the country.
That's what I want.
Thanks for being with me this week, folks.
Happy New Year to you.
Eric Erikson, in for Rushland.
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