{"id":33108,"date":"2009-08-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:05:26","slug":"obama_approaches_tipping_point_as_nation_erupts_over_health_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/08\/03\/obama_approaches_tipping_point_as_nation_erupts_over_health_care\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Approaches Tipping Point As Nation Erupts Over Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: The health care plan, people are erupting. We\u2019ve got the audio of Kathleen Sebelius and Arlen Specter being told what-for. People in Los Angeles, you ought to go to the Drudge Report. There\u2019s a poster in Los Angeles of Obama made up to look like Heath Ledger\u2019s Joker character in the last Batman movie. And I\u2019ve always said the downfall for Obama — when the tipping point\u2019s reached — is going to be when it becomes cool to dislike the guy, when it becomes cool to make fun of the guy, and it\u2019s starting to happen here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I have learned what the government\u2019s new insurance companies are going to be called. As you know, Nancy Pelosi has made it plain. It\u2019s time this month, in August, to demonize the insurance companies. That\u2019s how they\u2019re going to try to get you to change your mind and go the opposite direction from the way you\u2019re going now, and that is support Obama\u2019s health care plan. There are going to be two insurance companies run by the government: All Statist and Statist Farm. ‘Like a Big Brother, Statist Farm will be there.\u2019 Statist Farm is also where you will be put out to pasture once you\u2019re 70 years old and in bad health. It\u2019s just amazing. Listen to this audio sound bite. This is from Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center on Independence Mall. Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, and Senator Specter held a town hall meeting to talk about health care reform, and during the Q&amp;A an unidentified man had this exchange with Secretary Sebelius.<\/p>\n

MAN: My question to you is when congressmen stop at the notion of reading legislation because they aren\u2019t qualified or they aren\u2019t competent to understand it, how can we be confident that those congressmen are competent to reengineer the entire health care system?<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (cheering)<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: I am… I am not a member of Congress, have never been one.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (grumbling)<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: That\u2019s just a fact. I\u2019ve just — I\u2019m just telling you.<\/p>\n

MAN: You don\u2019t have to have been!<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: My observation is, I have never seen members of Congress work harder and it — it is acceptable to me for somebody — <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (boos and angry shouts)<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: Hours and hours and hours and hours have been spent. If people say they haven\u2019t read the legislation, then tell \u2019em to go back and read it. It\u2019s available.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what, this is just the beginning. This whole month is going to be like this if these people have the guts to go out and do these town hall meetings. I think that they won\u2019t. I think they\u2019ll do junkets. I think incidents like this like, as we discussed last week, will be dismissed. ‘Well, the audience, she shows up and they\u2019re uninformed. They\u2019ve been engined up by talk radio and it\u2019s an unruly mob! I — I — I can\u2019t even promise security.\u2019 This is how they\u2019re going to get out of doing this, but it isn\u2019t gonna matter. This is a fever pitch that people have gotten themselves into over this, and this is easy to understand. They haven\u2019t read the bill. It\u2019s easy to understand: When you\u2019ve got 72%, almost 80% of the people happy with their insurance, happy with their coverage, they don\u2019t want to give it up — and they\u2019re going to learn more and more, are learning each and every day that they will lose their private plan. <\/p>\n

In fact, we\u2019ve dug up some audio of Obama from a couple years ago stating that that\u2019s his objective is to get rid of private insurance. He said it may take a little while to do it, but the public option is the end. Barney Frank is confirming it, too. You are going to lose your private insurance. It\u2019s just… It\u2019s the plan. It\u2019s in the bill. It is going to happen. Obama is out there denying it when people ask him about it. Sebelius, I think, if you see that, she can barely hide her disdain for the voters showing up at these meetings. She has real contempt, and there\u2019s surprise. You know, she is part of this cabal that thinks people look at government as though it\u2019s parliamentarian royalty and that whenever anybody from The Government shows up, that we\u2019re in awe and that we are totally trusting and that we believe everything they say and that they are instrumental to us in our lives. And when she gets out there and she sees this… These people never in touch with real America. Even though she saw governor of Kansas, these people are not in touch with real America, and they run up against stuff like this, and they\u2019re totally shocked. They\u2019re totally surprised that these people know more about what\u2019s in the bill than Kathleen Sebelius even knows what\u2019s in it, but she\u2019s really shocked that these serfs have the audacity to object to anything she and Senator Specter say. Here\u2019s the next bite. Sebelius and Specter had this little exchange.<\/p>\n

SPECTER: We divide up the bill. We have to make judgments very fast…<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (shouts and booing) <\/p>\n

SPECTER: Every bill was read fully and understood by me before I voted.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (booing) <\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: The Senate bill isn\u2019t written, so don\u2019t boot the senator for not reading a bill that isn\u2019t written!<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Sebelius there at the end saying, ‘The Senate bill isn\u2019t written, so don\u2019t boot the Senator for reading a bill that isn\u2019t written. They know what that bill\u2019s going to contain. There are a couple committees working on it. There\u2019s some Republicans trying to come up with their own stupid (I think it\u2019s idiotic) ‘bipartisan\u2019 contribution to this thing. But the House bill, they ought to read that, too, because they\u2019re going to be conferencing with it once the Senate bill gets done. But that crowd… I mean, this is Philadelphia, folks. This is not some red city or red state. This is Philadelphia. This is as Democrat union as you can get. This is a city that recently built a brand-new tall skyscraper and they did not install flush toilets and… Well, they installed newfangled toilets, and they didn\u2019t install certain aspects of them because they weren\u2019t needed. And the pipefitters union blew a gasket and they had to put in worthless pipes in the building just to keep the steamfitters and the pipefitters happy. This is a liberal town, and these people showing up, I\u2019m sure that this was an unexpected reaction for both Specter and Sebelius. And you notice Specter said, ‘We have to make judgments very fast,\u2019 people say, ‘No, you don\u2019t!\u2019 This bill doesn\u2019t get implemented until 2013, four years from now. Why the haste? What really is the need for the speed? People are not stupid. This is easily understandable, and that\u2019s why there\u2019s so much trouble with it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: For those of you that are going to go to town meetings during the congressional recess this month, I have some specific questions that you need to start asking — and I\u2019m going to be asking them, too. It is time to start demanding that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid and your member of Congress or your senator — you start demanding: What diseases and illnesses are covered? How much is covered? What drugs are covered. Let\u2019s start getting specific with these people. Let\u2019s move beyond, ‘Why don\u2019t you read the bill first?\u2019 and let\u2019s start asking them specific questions. ‘How long will it take before I lose my own private insurance or my own employer insurance that I like? What diseases and illnesses are covered? And up to what age are these diseases covered? How much is covered? What drugs?\u2019 Let\u2019s start getting specific with these people. Here\u2019s Nancy Pelosi on Political Capital, Bloomberg TV. Al Hunt interviewing her. Question: ‘You don\u2019t expect health insurers to be part of my coalition that supports this bill?\u2019<\/p>\n

PELOSI (sped up): Well, I think — eh, uh, you know what? I don\u2019t like using words like ‘villains,\u2019 but people call me a villain all the time, so I figure that, uh, it\u2019s probably okay to use it back. They have been the ones who have held — eh, eh, eh… The American people have been at their mercy, have not made healthier. They have made health care more costly. And it is important for us to have this legislation, um, that puts the leverage back in the hands of the patients. It\u2019s about the American people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That just flat-out not true. You are not being given more leverage, you\u2019re not being given more power, you\u2019re not being given more coverage, and you\u2019re not being given more care! You are being sandwiched and squeezed and all of that. And their purpose here is demonizing the insurance companies like they\u2019ve always done to Big Pharma, Big Oil, big whatever. It\u2019s now Big Insurance\u2019s turn to be demonized and villainized by these people, because you don\u2019t like what they see in the polling data. The polling data says more and more people now do not support the Obama health care plan than do. You note one of the groups, according to polling data, one of the groups that Obama\u2019s losing the fastest is the precious independents. <\/p>\n

Everybody in politics just goes gaga over ‘the independents,\u2019 and the independents are bailing on this thing faster than any other identified political group and demographic. If they start losing those people, and when they start losing the seasoned citizens, folks? When that starts to happen — and it is — then there\u2019s going to be hell to pay for these people. Here\u2019s the bottom line: It doesn\u2019t matter to them. It doesn\u2019t matter what you think. It doesn\u2019t matter what a majority of public opinion is. When they see a majority of public opinion opposed to them they start thinking, ‘How can we ram it down their throats anyway?\u2019 Not listen to you. Not react to you. Not respond to you. This is about forcing something down all of our throats, even when a vast majority of people do not want it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to one of these things in June. This is a Democrat. This is a town meeting in Setauket, New York, June 22nd, and it is Representative Tim Bishop, ripped at his own town hall meeting. We have three sound bites. Here\u2019s the first.<\/line><\/line>MAN #1: Are you a veteran?<\/line><\/p>\n

BISHOP: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

MAN #1: Have you ever been there? Have you ever been there as a vet? Okay, well, I have. And if I want to see a doctor, I don\u2019t want to have to wait months. Do you know that? <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: Yeah! (applause)<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Sir…<\/p>\n

MAN #2: I\u2019ve been there for years and you want to tell me how they run?<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Sir, I understand the anger.<\/p>\n

MAN #2: I\u2019ll probably die in their hospital, so don\u2019t lecture us that you know that the VA is an efficient medical system. It\u2019s a very difficult system. It\u2019s nothing to be proud of.<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Shh! Sir? Sir! I am sorry, but I am proud of the VA.<\/p>\n

MAN: Well, I\u2019m not because I have (garbled).<\/p>\n

RUSH: This whole thing started when Bishop started telling this town hall audience how proud he was of the VA system, and so that vet just launches into him. Now cap and trade comes up — and other thing… You know, another thing that\u2019s happening to these town hall meetings is they are stunned at how informed you are. They are stunned at how educated you are about what they\u2019re doing. In many cases you know more about legislation they\u2019re going to vote on than they do. This next one is cap and trade. An unidentified guy says to Bishop, ‘Cap and trade\u2019s got me scared to death.\u2019<\/p>\n

BISHOP: The overwhelming weight of the evidence, the scientific evidence, is that global warming is real. I also believe that it\u2019s caused by human activity. I do. If in fact we go to cap and trade — and by the way, I don\u2019t… There\u2019s no guarantee that we will have it, but the vote —<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (uproar)<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Can I finish this sentence?<\/p>\n

WOMAN: We need to know where you stand!<\/p>\n

BISHOP: I\u2019m about to tell you! Let me finish!<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Yes or no.<\/p>\n

BISHOP: I believe we have to reduce our carbon footprint, I believe that we have to get polluters under control and I believe that we have to make an investment in alternative and renewable sources of energy. That is the only path.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, this guy is just reading talking points. He has been indoctrinated by Democrat Party leadership or whoever\u2019s indoctrinating him because he\u2019s just mouthing talking points. ‘We gotta reduce our carbon footprint! Manmade global warming is happening! We\u2019re causing it. Human activity is causing it. We gotta get invested in renewable energy\u2019 and this sort of thing. They have been working on this. You know, markets are an amazing thing. If there was an alternative energy out there, we\u2019d have it. The fact is it isn\u2019t there because there\u2019s no market for it right now. The scare tactics are really coming out. Now somebody — it was a UK paper over the weekend? We are gonna hit peak oil production in ten years, and then it\u2019s downhill after that. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s absolute BS. Get this about the New York Times: ‘New York Times Blames 2009\u2019s Record Cold on Natural Factors; But Blamed Record Warmth in 2000 on Man-Made Global Warming! — The media and climate fear promoters appear to be in overdrive trying to spin recent global cooling and particularly the ‘year without a summer\u2019 in many parts of the US … The New York Times reports that the record cold of 2009 is due to natural variations and even warned skeptics of man-made global warming not to be ‘buoyed\u2019 by the brutal cold.\u2019 But then back in 2000 they blamed all that record heat on global warming. Global warming is no different than health care; it\u2019s no different than cap and trade. It is simply another branch of liberalism, statism, that is designed to expand government control over individuals and their liberty and their freedom and their income. It\u2019s just that simple. And the worm\u2019s turning on global warming, too. Do you realize the worm\u2019s turning on that. More and more people are not buying this health care business whatsoever. The numbers on that are expanding with every poll. And if this plays out right, and we\u2019re going to have a big role in this, you could do some great damage cultural to liberalism for a long time. Now, they\u2019re never going to go away, and they\u2019re always gonna keep trying this stuff. But they\u2019re now out in the open, and they\u2019re saying some of the most outrageous things that betray their real intentions. And their intentions are not what people want. Liberalism, statism is not what people want. Here\u2019s the final sound bite from Tim Bishop\u2019s June 22nd town hall in Setauket, New York. He gets a question from somebody to name a government agency that runs well.<\/p>\n

MAN: What government agency has the government taken over that\u2019s run beautifully and makes money?<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Sir, we are not talking —<\/p>\n

MAN: No, no, no! Please tell me. Please tell me.<\/p>\n

BISHOP: That couldn\u2019t —<\/p>\n

MAN: I asked you a question. Please answer it.<\/p>\n

BISHOP: Next! Okay when you stop talking I\u2019ll be happy to answer. No one is talking about the government taking over health care.<\/p>\n

MAN: Oh, no, no, no!<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (roars boos) No!<\/p>\n

BISHOP: One question at a time!<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Nobody is talking about the government taking over health care,\u2019 and this is a Democrat. This is a Democrat in New York, and his constituents are not buying it. This is back on June 22nd.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Syracuse, Indiana, and this is Chris. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir, and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi. Oh, I\u2019m sorry you\u2019re a female. That\u2019s why you got confused. I\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m not confused. I think maybe you are. I know I\u2019m a female.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was apologizing to you for calling you, sir, and that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Okay. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I said ‘Chris\u2019 instead of ‘Christine\u2019 to the screener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. That was why.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s all my fault.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just a misunderstanding. Anyway, I\u2019m calling because I was listening to your program driving Friday, and I heard about your Democrats facing horrors at town halls. And then I listened to Richard Wolffe on MSNBC, and he informed me that most of these town hall hoopla is coming from an organization. Well, actually it\u2019s right-wing organization, and they are in cahoots with insurance companies, and it\u2019s the same group that has orchestrated the tea bags (sic) and that most of this is all orchestrated, that some of the individuals are being bussed to these town hall meetings for Democrats and, uh, and um, they\u2019re being told to be disruptive, they\u2019re being instructed how to logistically stand in different portions of the room so that they, uh… They get more bang for their buck, and I was wondering if you had heard about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. NBC is not a credible source with me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But Politico is?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not everything on Politico is, but NBC clearly is not. And Richard Wolffe, I… But let\u2019s ignore the source and let\u2019s play a game, Chris.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s assume it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s assume that everything you heard is true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know my reaction?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: About damn time! We have had groups like ACORN and Democrat rent-a-mobs making up excuses and lying about things they oppose to effect public policy for years while people like me haven\u2019t had time because we work. We do not protest for a living. We do not rent ourselves out to be part of mobs. So, if this is actually an orchestrated event, then I\u2019m glad somebody on our side is getting in gear. I don\u2019t happen to believe it \u2019cause I happen to see the polls — and I know what Richard Wolffe and NBC are doing, Chris. They\u2019re trying to cover for Obama. These people are not ‘reporting\u2019 anything about the health care program. They are repeating what they hear from the White House and from people there: Rahm Emanuel; Robert Gibbs, press secretary; Obama himself. It\u2019s the definition of propaganda. It\u2019s the definition of state-controlled media. <\/p>\n

These people whoever they are and wherever they\u2019re coming from they know what\u2019s in the health bill. They are asking questions — and members of Congress at these town hall meetings, Chris, don\u2019t know the answers. These are informed people. They know what\u2019s in it and it hasn\u2019t been because NBC and Richard Wolffe have told them. It hasn\u2019t been because anybody at ABC or CBS or the New York Times or the Washington Post has told them what\u2019s in the health care bill. There is an alternative media out there that\u2019s getting the news out on this, and when people find out about it, they don\u2019t like it. I don\u2019t care… There are a lot of Democrats that don\u2019t like this as well. These are Democrat districts where this is taking place! <\/p>\n

You gotta understand something, too, Chris. People know who to protest. The Republicans can\u2019t stop anything. The Republicans don\u2019t have the votes in the House or the Senate to stop one thing. So why go protest Republicans? This isn\u2019t a Republican initiative. The Republicans are not in charge of writing this health care bill. They don\u2019t support it. They\u2019re not in favor of it. They have no role — and even if the majority of the American people don\u2019t want it, it\u2019s still going to be rammed down their throats. So I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019ll check. Have you heard this anywhere? Have you heard anybody else charge this? I haven\u2019t heard it, either. It doesn\u2019t matter to me one way or the other. The people who are showing up are genuinely angry. And if their transportation is being facilitated, it\u2019s about dame time. You gotta take these people on the way they play the game. The aggressor sets the rules in a conflict.<\/p>\n

Now, this next story this is from state-controlled Associated Press. Now, this story… The information in this story is a grand, perfect illustration of the folly of the Obama economic program. ‘Tax Revenues Post Biggest Drop Since Depression — The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation\u2019s plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion,\u2019 and it\u2019s going to come in higher than that. ‘Other figures underscore the recession\u2019s impact: Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. <\/p>\n

‘Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever.\u2019 We have gone beyond the malaise of Jimmy Carter. All of these job losses have led to fewer taxpayers. These numbers make total sense. Now, the question… See, to me this is basic. If you\u2019re worried about government revenue, if you really want to generate some genuine revenue rather than print it, the mechanism for doing this is taxes. There are blueprints to show how you do this. Let me give you the numbers again. In 1981, Ronald Reagan when he was inaugurated, the top marginal income tax rate was 70%. And the annual take, the federal budget, was around $500 billion. In 1989 when Ronald Reagan left office, the top marginal rate was 28%, the tax take had doubled, almost doubled. It was $950 billion, after reducing tax rates from 70% to 28%. <\/p>\n

Reducing the tax rates incentivized people in any number of ways. There was job creation. But we had a recession in \u201982, and it was a bad one. And we stuck with this program. Cut people\u2019s taxes. We got out of their way. The economy boomed and rebuilt and went all the way through the 1990s on a gigantic roll. Now, you come to the Obama administration. He takes office, 500 or 600,000 people a month losing their jobs. Since he\u2019s taken office, over two million people have lost their jobs! That\u2019s two million people who are not paying taxes anywhere. We know the value of people\u2019s homes has gone way down. So there\u2019s no state tax revenue being collected — and you know something? The states, they\u2019re going to be lagging whenever this economic recovery does start, whenever it happens, they\u2019re going to be lagging. The Democrats are running most of these states, especially the ones that are in deep doo-doo, and there may be hell to pay in the election of 2010, and don\u2019t think the Democrats aren\u2019t thinking about it. <\/p>\n

But I have say… I have to ask the question. I don\u2019t think Obama cares about revenue. I don\u2019t think he cares. I don\u2019t think Lawrence Summers cares. I don\u2019t think Rahm Emanuel cares, and I don\u2019t think Geithner cares. Two things they care about is convincing the ChiComs they\u2019re going to reduce the deficit so the ChiComs go along and continue to buy our debt. But if they really cared about raising revenue, they would not be doing what they\u2019re doing! What are they doing? They\u2019re printing money. The cash for clunkers program they said is bankrupt? The government is bankrupt! The cash for clunkers program had no money before they put a billion dollars into it. Where did they get in the billion? We\u2019re running a deficit of $1.8 trillion? Where did the money come from? There is no money! They can\u2019t possibly care about raising revenue — and to the extent that people are losing their jobs…<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Amanda in Jacksonville, Florida, as we go back to the phones. I really appreciate your patience, Amanda. Thanks for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. How are you? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to call in response to the woman who said that obviously when conservatives go to tea parties, that we\u2019re rented protesters, but when it\u2019s the left… I mean, does she not know that we have a fear of what\u2019s going on in the country?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Let me explain this woman to you. She\u2019s talking about Chris who called from Syracuse, Indiana.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trust me on this. I can read the stitches on a fastball. Chris is a woman who only watches NBC or CBS or ABC. That\u2019s it. She doesn\u2019t listen much to talk radio. She probably does not access any of the alternative media. So she has never heard that people protesting Republicans are rent-a-mobs. She\u2019s probably never heard that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I probably told her something she didn\u2019t know, that whenever ACORN or whoever lines up to protest some Republican or whenever there\u2019s a meeting in the anti-globalists show up that they\u2019re all Democrats. She doesn\u2019t know that. She probably heard that for the first time in her life. When NBC told her that you and others like you are going to these town hall meetings that you\u2019re bought and paid for that you\u2019re given transportation, I\u2019m sure this is the first time she\u2019s ever heard it about any group.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I bet you\u2019re right. It\u2019s just sad because I do my job, I work every day. My parents raised me in a conservative atmosphere and they worked hard their whole lives. I care about the country. I can rest assured tell Chris I\u2019m not getting paid. It\u2019s just the love of my country and I don\u2019t want to see it sink into the sea. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. Look, I said, ‘Even being hypothetical. Let\u2019s say the stories you heard in NBC is true. Fine and dandy with me.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m telling you what. These are not people who have to be told what to say. These are people who are not just speaking in slogans. ‘No, we won\u2019t!\u2019 These are people showing up with specific questions, with specific knowledge of what\u2019s in the bill. They are more informed than the members of Congress or the Senate that they\u2019re talking to or whatever government official. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s a good agenda. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So how they got there is irrelevant to me. They are showing up and they\u2019re genuine. I know you are. The tea party people are genuine. There\u2019s a whole segment of this population that state-controlled media does not know exist. Well, they know it exists because they can see it in the polling data. But their objective is to ignore you and do what they can to persuade and change your mind and overwhelm you. You\u2019re not part of the story. You represent an obstacle to them in their efforts to help Obama get what he wants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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