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October 19, 2009 |
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Story #1: Death Panels Rationing Health Care in Florida
RUSH: Story from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases." So it sure sounds to me like the Florida death panel has got a little rationing going on here! They've already started it before Obamacare has been passed! "The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital." And they want to sit there and tell us that there's no such thing in the House bill or any of the Senate bills? Well, it's there, but it doesn't matter. It's already starting in Florida.
And they're ginning up this swine flu scare. I don't know about you, I don't watch the local news anymore, but I hear from a lot of people that do. And I hear that every night on the local news from town to town in this country, you can bank on the first five or ten minutes of the latest swine flu panic story. They're ginning people up about this, it's going to be really bad and people are going to die, oh, it's horrible, it's horrible. Can I read this to you again? "The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals --" and this Florida health officials, now, I guess some state agency " -- The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital." Does anybody want to dispute here that whatever you call it, there are death panels headed our way?
Story #2: State-Run Media Gins Up Swine Flu Body Count
 RUSH: Another related story: "As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks. Delays in producing the vaccine mean 28 million to 30 million doses, at most, will be divided around the country by the end of the month, not the 40 million-plus states had been expecting. The new count from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention means anxiously awaited flu-shot clinics in some parts of the U.S. may have to be postponed." Well, now, wait a second here. I only have my wonderful memory to go on here, but I seem to remember that Kathleen Sebelius said that we had enough vaccine? Didn't she say we had enough, that we must take it?
You know, I'll give you an object lesson on how the left, the Democrat Party and the media operate. I'll take you back to the Iraq war. Do you remember the daily, weekly obsession with the body count? The body count was one of many elements in the project to turn the American people against the war. They reveled every time a new denominator had been reached: "A hundred deaths! Five hundred battlefield deaths! One thouuuuuuusand battlefield deaths! Fifteen hundred!" They trumpeted this, and they made it sound like it was the first time ever in a war that any soldier had died. And it was not worth it. It was horrible. We had to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, the tactic has been revised, and it's the swine flu. The swine flu and the news about it is the new body count news for Obama and the media.
No need to agitate anymore to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan since Obama has that in the works. The new priority is health care. The new body count is H1N1 victims -- and for the animal rights crowd now we're going to start counting the number of pigs who get the disease and die. And then we're going to threaten the pig industry, we're going to frighten people into not buying pork. It's the new battlefield, and the swine flu is the new body count. All because the priority is health care.
Story #3: Pork Industry Attack: H1N1 Virus Found in Pig
RUSH: And now, folks, I don't know if you've heard the latest panic, I don't know if you've heard this, the media running with this one all over the place. They have actually found the swine flu in a pig. (interruption) More than one? I thought it was just one pig, Snerdley. Now, granted it was during the top of the hour and I was glancing at this quickly. What should I do here, folks? For my own credibility, should I trust what I think I saw in a fleeting moment or should I trust a valued member of the staff who said, "No, it's many pigs"? Okay, I'm being told to trust the staff. I wonder who the New York Times guys are saying to themselves about who to trust now. Do they trust Wikipedia, do they trust the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, do they trust the Washington Post, Reuters, all these -- it's tough out there, folks.
Story #4: Washington Post: CBO Scoring of Baucus Bill was BS
RUSH: I think it was about ten days ago that I explained to you how the CBO scoring of the Baucus bill was a fraud, that there was no bill, no legislative language. It was just a wild guess. Washington Post yesterday: "In health debate, numbers are just numbers. The CBO's price tags are guesses." Ten days later. They just figured it out. It took 'em awhile. It took them awhile, folks, but they got there.
Story #5: Teachers' Unions Uneasy with President Obama?
RUSH: I'm a little suspicious here, folks. I keep seeing more and more of these stories. I really don't know what to make of them. For example from The Politico: "Teachers Unions Uneasy with Obama -- A skirmish between powerful teachers unions and President Obama over nearly $5 billion in education spending is shaping up as a preview of the battle to come over No Child Left Behind in Congress early next year, but the tables are turned. Now the unions are worried that Obama is going to be just as tough on them as President Bush… The disputes adds teachers unions to a growing list of key Democrat constituencies that have been frustrated by Obama's lunges toward the political middle." Ha, ha!
This just goes to show... How can anybody write that he's plunging in any direction toward the middle? My God, folks! There is not a word to describe what has happened to the media and the way they see things. Orwellian doesn't even get close to it. Machiavellian doesn't get close to it match. "The other groups that are angered at Obama are gay rights activists upset he won't lift the ban on gays in the military." That's because there won't be a military! Ha! You people need to understand what's happening here, "[A]nd Latino officials who say Obama's slow walking immigration reform. The story here is that they're all upset that Obama seems to have shelved everything for health care. I want to tell you how stupid these liberal constituent groups are, from the unions with the teachers to the gay rights activists and whatever.
The thing they don't understand, politically and realistically: First politically, he's got to get health care. He's got to get something or he's a bust. The second thing, realistically: If he gets health care, that's how he's going to do everything else that you want. Because in his health care, that's going to allow him to regulate our lives without any additional legislation. "Don't ask, don't tell", they'll find a way to say, "It'll help the health care costs if we eliminate "don't ask, don't tell" on the military," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Immigration reform? That's just a matter of time, slam-dunk. Immigration that means we got a Latino officials who want amnesty and they want it now so they're pushing for it. What do you think health care is all about?
Health care is all about giving access to the federal Treasury under the guise of health care benefits to illegal aliens. You know, Obama is going to legalize -- he's gonna just by fiat -- make illegal marijuana use legal by legalizing it. Same thing with immigration. These people just impatient. See, we think in nine months he's taken giant steps toward destroying this country, and these radical support groups think he's taking tiptoe steps. So I keep seeing these stories about how upset these people are. Now, Arne Duncan, the education secretary, when you say that he's doing it, not Obama, come on, now. These guys are not independent contractors out there; they're not working without the imprimatur of Obama. But I say, "Teachers unions? The teachers union is mad?" Right. As though they're so mad they're going to drop their support of Obama?
That isn't going to happen. Can I be honest with you, ladies and gentlemen? You know I always am. Until we get rid of the unions, we're not going to have any change in the public schools. I don't care, "don't ask, don't tell" in the military; I don't care if it's No Child Left Behind, I don't care what they do. Just ask the kids in Washington. Just ask the kids in Washington who were kicked out of Sidwell Friends when their vouchers were taken away, what a friend of quality education Obama is. It was Obama and Michelle (My Belle) who kicked the kids out and ended the voucher program. It was minority kids getting a quality education for once. Why did they do it? Well, there are two sets of rules. Their kids get to go to the elite schools; yours don't and besides that we want to make sure the teachers unions don't get hurt.
Why don't you ask Bill Ayers what he thinks of education in America? They go on to say what a giant Ted Kennedy was, how bad No Child Left Behind is, totally forgetting that The Swimmer wrote it! This story in Politico rips No Child Left Behind; at they same time it praises Ted Kennedy for being a great education visionary! He wrote it. How stupid do they think we are? Despite all the efforts of the NEA, some of us still have brains, miraculously. But if you want to clean up the schools, get rid of the unions. In fact...
You know, I can say this as a union member. I'm a forced member of union. What's the union? AFTRA. But a question for you, ladies and gentlemen: Is there any industry you can think of where a union shop produces the same product cheaper and better than a nonunion shop? I'd even settle for an example of the product that was more expensive but better. I'm just not sure... What, Snerdley? What do you mean, "It's not fair"? What's not? Yes, I am looking at results. Oh, you think I should be looking at good intentions? Fine and dandy. Well, I don't. We've looked the good intentions. I don't fall for that game. I'm just not sure what the value-added benefit to the consumer is when purchasing a union product, especially an education union product. Now, I realize that I'm on the edge of it here because there are a lot of union people in this audience and so forth, and I want you rank-and-filers to understand that I don't think you're the problem. I think what's done with your dues is the problem, and I think your leadership is the problem.
We've been through all this before. I'm sure we've got many, many conservative Republican union members. I just... I mean, you have to ask the honest question. Somebody tell me. I don't really have the answer. This just one popped into my head. So I'll ask it again: Is there any industry you can think of where a union shop produces the same product cheaper or better than a nonunion shop? I don't know. It seems like wherever you go in our economy today, and you find economic problems, you find a union somewhere in the mix. Union leadership. So it's just a question to throw out there.
Story #6: More State-Run Media BS: Libs Frustrated with Obama
RUSH: This is from the New York Daily News: "Liberals Frustrated with President Obama; Angry Their Issues Took Back Seat to Health Care Reform." This is by David Saltonstall, the senior political correspondent. "To the mad-as-hell conservatives on the right, now add a new and increasingly vocal group of critics attacking President Obama -- impatient Democrats on the left," and then, see, they put the knife in their story with the next sentence: "To be sure, Obama's favorable rating among Democrats in general remains a stratospheric 89%, according to a Gallup Poll released last week. But..." There in "but." All this is BS! "But increasingly, noisy factions on the party's most liberal flank - among them gay rights proponents, pro-choice activists and immigration reformers who Obama courted last year - are incensed that their causes have taken a backseat to the White House's all-out push on health care reform.
"Case in point?" The feminazis. That word doesn't appear in the story. I throw it in there. They write "pro-choice activists," but I tell feminazis in there to make it require less of my time to read this. The feminazis "who right now are livid that the leading health care bills winding through Congress don't include federal funding for poor women to get abortions." But they do. This is the... Even these guys believe the BS that comes out of the Obama propaganda machine there at the White House. So, anyway, these stories are all over the place, and I don't know what to make of them, because I know that at the end of the day none of these people are going to abandon Obama because they hate us more than they can ever be mad at him.
Story #7: Teachable Moment: Capitalism vs. Liberal Capitalism
RUSH: Now, this is an interesting story from Bloomberg News, ladies and gentlemen, and it's a snapshot out of economy. I love the story for its teachable moment. "Harvard's Bet on Interest Rate Rise Cost $500 Million to Exit." Now, that's the headline. It's a teachable moment about capitalism versus liberal capitalism. Harvard University. Now, what is Harvard? It's our citadel! I mean, it's the best and the brightest, the smartest, the brainiest, our best. The people who know more than the whole world combined are at Harvard. It's America. "Harvard University's failed bet that interest rates would rise cost the world's richest school at least $500 million in payments to escape derivatives that backfired. Harvard paid $497.6 million to investment banks during the fiscal year ended June 30 to get out of $1.1 billion of interest-rate swaps intended to hedge variable-rate debt for capital projects, the school's annual report said. The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said it also agreed to pay $425 million over 30 to 40 years to offset an additional $764 million in swaps. ...
"'When we went into the fall, we had some serious liquidity management issues we were dealing with and the collateral postings on the swaps was one,' [Daniel Shore, Harvard's chief financial officer] said in an interview yesterday. 'In evaluating our liquidity position, we wanted to get some stability and some safety.'" This is the Harvard endowment. They have their own economic meltdown caused by risky derivatives. Perfect! And this is just what those Harvard grads like Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick and Larry Summers and Obama did to our economy. So Harvard is producing the same stupidity! Harvard is producing the same results. We hear about all these horrible, irresponsible risks taken by these mean Wall Street people. Where the hell were they educated? I don't think... Geithner is Yale, I believe. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. But this explains the entire economic meltdown caused by a bunch of Harvard grads just like the people at the university at present who were betting on interest rates to go up, and they bombed big time on the derivatives side of it.
Story #8: Corzine Uses Fear of Rush in New Jersey Campaign
RUSH: Get this, now. This is from Politics Daily. It's a website, Walter Shapiro, columnist, used to write for USA Today. "In New Jersey, It Was Christie's Race to Lose -- and He May Have Lost It." They're talk about the gubernatorial race there, and then halfway down you get to this paragraph: "With billboards and posters featuring the president and the slogan 'Keep It Going,' Corzine has been unabashed about trumpeting the Obama connection in a state which the Democrats carried by 600,000 votes last year. Corzine warned on Sunday morning that 'the Rush Limbaughs' would exploit his defeat 'as a platform to tear down the president.' The message for Latinos here in the Democratic stronghold of Hudson County: 'Our president needs our help.'" So Corzine is using fear of me to motivate voters in New Jersey, yet David Brooks thinks I'm irrelevant and some of these other guys. I mean this is hilarious. Fear of me, the Rush Limbaughs of the world. By the way, Governor Corzine, there's only one Rush Limbaugh.
Story #9: Sotomayor Not Wise Enough to Choose Own Clothes
RUSH: My friends, it's even worse than we knew. Get this. This is from NBCConnecticut.com. Sonia Sotomayor, the "wise Latina," is telling people that the White House picked out her clothes. Officials took over her fashion decisions. So this "wise Latina," Sotomayor, was not wise enough to pick out the right clothes to satisfy Obama. We might have details tomorrow if I can stay interested in this.
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