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RUSH: Now, what was the biggest lie since he mentioned the joint session speech? What was the biggest lie Obama told during his speech to the joint session? It\u2019s kind of tough to pick one out, isn\u2019t it? (laughing) Yeah, there is one, though. (interruption) No, no. No, no, no. No, none of that, not the abortion, not the illegal immigration. Those are all lies, but the biggest lie told by our president was that he had a health care plan. <\/p>\n

If he had a health care plan, then what is this Baucus bill? This Baucus bill comes out of nowhere yesterday. Obama gave his speech talking about ‘his\u2019 plan a week ago. Why are we even discussing the Baucus bill? What the hell is this? Obama said he had a plan. We were told by the president of the United States during a speech to a joint session of Congress, that he had a health care plan, and he had a bill — a magical health care bill, by the way! A bill that would guarantee health coverage for everybody except illegals (ahem) and it would reduce costs, that it would improve coverage, and it wouldn\u2019t add a cent to the deficit and nobody would have to pay any more than they\u2019re paying now. So what is this Baucus plan? <\/p>\n

What the hell is that? Where in the hell did that come from if Obama has a plan? Now, was the president lying? If not, where\u2019s the plan? I want to see it! I want to see it today or the president should apologize to the American people for lying to us and the Congress. Because, folks, the joke\u2019s over. The president had a plan, and yet this idiot Baucus comes out and announces his yesterday. Now, if President Obama\u2019s got a plan, what\u2019s Baucus doing? Shouldn\u2019t Baucus have shut up because there already is a plan? Look, here\u2019s what Obama said in his speech: ‘The plan I\u2019m announcing tonight would meet basic goals.\u2019 He goes on and on detailing ‘his\u2019 plan. Yet we haven\u2019t seen it. All we\u2019ve got is this Baucus debacle! So forget the Baucus plan. We\u2019re told the president has a plan. We just want to see it. Until we do, that\u2019s the biggest lie he told before a joint session.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So it\u2019s the top-of-the-hour break, and I\u2019m in there in Snerdley\u2019s office, and he\u2019s got all three TV monitors on. He watches C-SPAN, Fox, and PMSNBC. And over on PMSNBC, somebody is sitting in today for Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington), who\u2019s not there. I think it was Savannah Guthrie. And she\u2019s talking to The Hack, a White House health care hack, Linda Douglass, formerly of state-controlled ABC. And they put up a quote from Howard Dean about the Baucus bill. Do you know what Howard Dean said about the Baucus bill? He said this is the worst piece of legislation he has seen in Washington in 30 years, and I busted a gut laughing! The worst piece of legislation? He said this was written by insurance lobbyists, that the Baucus bill is nothing but a giveaway to the insurance companies. I\u2019m thinking, ‘Circular firing squad,\u2019 and then I stumble across this story by Ceci Connolly in the Washington Post today. <\/p>\n

‘On the surface, it appears that no one is happy with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — and that may be the best news President Obama has had in months.\u2019 Now, follow… (laughing) Follow the logic here from State-Controlled Washington Post. ‘Within minutes of the release of [Baucus]\u2019s long-awaited health-care reform bill Wednesday, the attacks started flying. Liberal Democrats and allies, particularly labor unions, fumed. Republicans, after being courted for months, denounced the work as pure partisanship. But behind the rhetorical fireworks was a sense that the fragile coalition of major industry leaders and interest groups central to refashioning the nation\u2019s $2.5 trillion health-care system remains intact. As they scoured the 223-page document, many of the most influential players found elements to dislike, but not necessarily reasons to kill the effort. Most enticing was the prospect of 30 million new customers. <\/p>\n

‘At the White House, after the delays and drama of summer, strategists spoke finally of movement and a possible path toward success … Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), who is upset that Baucus did not include a public health insurance option, tempered his criticism after a private meeting with Obama, signaling that he hopes to work out a compromise. … At the heart of the administration\u2019s strategy — and Wednesday\u2019s guarded optimism — is a collection of deals intended to neutralize the interest groups that helped defeat President Bill Clinton\u2019s health-care overhaul 15 years ago.\u2019 So the Washington Post has a story: This is exactly what Obama needed: Something that everybody hates! Something that everybody hates, but the coalitions Obama needs in the private sector to go along with it are happy. Now, did Howard Dean kill it when he comes out and says, ‘This is the worst piece of legislation I\u2019ve seen in 30 years\u2019 or did Howard Dean give it a boost? According to the Washington Post, the more you say you hate the Baucus bill, the better it is for Obama. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned what I watched on MSNBC at the top of the hour here. Here\u2019s the question that Savannah Guthrie asked the health care info hack at the White House, Linda Douglass. Question: ‘We just heard the president talking about the Baucus bill. Howard Dean, a Democrat, says about this bill, ‘The Baucus bill is the worst piece of health care legislation I\u2019ve seen in 30 years. In fact, it\u2019s a $60 billion giveaway to the health insurance industry every year. It was written by health care lobbyists, so that\u2019s not a surprise. It is an outrage,” and so the infobabe, the anchorette asks the hack, Linda Douglass: ‘Is this a good bill?\u2019<\/p>\n

DOUGLASS: Look, there are many things in this bill that share common features with what the president has laid out and what is in the — four of the five other bills that have passed through committees. As you just heard the president say, there\u2019s 80% agreement. Obviously many, many common features. Now the five bills will have to all come together. We\u2019ll be pulling together features of each of these bills, and, uhh, they are very, very, you know, uhhh, similar in many ways, and the legislation will be built upon these principles that they share.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, I ask: Why is this even necessary? The question to Linda Douglass ought to be: Why the Baucus bill? What\u2019s the Baucus bill? The president just went before a joint. He just did a joint last Wednesday night, and he told us what\u2019s in his plan. He spelled it out what\u2019s in his plan, so what\u2019s this Baucus bill stuff? That\u2019s the real question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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