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RUSH: You know, Harry Reid yesterday refers to Republicans who are blocking health care in the Senate as reminiscent of slave owners and Republicans who fought civil rights legislation and fought to maintain slavery. Of course, he\u2019s entirely wrong historically. It was — slavery, it was a civil war, it was all that gave birth to the Republican Party. It was the Democrat Party which stood in the way of civil rights legislation, all the Southern Democrats! <\/line> <\/line>But here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking. On Sunday Obama visits Harry Reid, goes up there, turns off his NFL games on Sunday, heads up to the Senate to, quote, unquote, save health care negotiations, gives Harry Reid a pep talk. On Monday Harry Reid plays the race card. Now, question: Does Dingy Harry, the incredibly shrinking senator, have the spine to say something so disgusting on his own, or was he just following orders? ‘Cause I guarantee you, had Obama said something like that, I would not have been surprised. I think Obama believes stuff like that. I think it\u2019s what animates him. But Harry Reid just does and says stupid things. Now, you tell me, is this a sign of confidence or is it a sign of desperation with Harry Reid coming out, whether he\u2019s following Obama\u2019s marching orders on that or not? I seem to recall, ladies and gentlemen, somebody warning the American people before the election that racism and related things would only increase in intensity, not decrease because of this.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Jeff in Youngstown, Ohio, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I\u2019ve been with you since the beginning. The hypocrisy of Harry Reid when his party presided over everything that has destroyed the black community, to use slavery as a ploy to say that we need to pass this health care, guess what? They\u2019re going to require you to have health care, and a lot of people it\u2019s going to hurt is going to be African-American people that are laborers, that are low cost labor people, that are small business people, because, guess what? They\u2019re going to be required to spend so much of their income on a premium that they\u2019re not going to be able to afford. This is not coming to you free. This is going to cost you. And then somebody to use slavery on top of that and say that, you know, that this is what, you know, it\u2019s the same thing, they said let\u2019s wait. No, we\u2019re not saying let\u2019s wait, we\u2019re saying what you\u2019re doing is foolish here. This is ridiculous. And you\u2019re going to hurt a whole lot of people, and I hope that people look at this, and cap and trade, and what they just came up with yesterday, that carbon dioxide, which we all breathe out, is a poisonous gas, so what\u2019s going to happen, Rush? They can then control the population, because too many people breathe out carbon dioxide, they can control big business, they will control every job in the world \u2019cause they destroy this economy and make us just as even with the rest of the world so they don\u2019t feel guilty or they think they have accomplished their case. I can\u2019t take it. I really can\u2019t take it. And I don\u2019t know why people, more people, 47% is way too high of an approval rating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang in there, Jeff, my man.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw no need to interrupt you because you got a gold star. That was a great call. I\u2019m out of time but that 47% will continue to shrink. People are waking up. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, I want to expand a little bit on the comments we just had from Jeff in Youngstown, Ohio, about Harry Reid and slavery, because it really is an abomination. Among the Democrats who voted to continue delaying the civil rights bill was Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered it for 14 hours. Historians note that ‘it was Southern Democrats who mounted an 83-day filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. The final vote to cut off debate saw 29 Senators in opposition, 80% of them Democrats. Among those voting to block the civil rights bill was West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered the bill for 14 hours. The next year he also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Byrd still sits in the Senate, and indeed preceded Mr. Reid as his party\u2019s majority leader until he stepped down from that role in 1989.\u2019<\/p>\n

For Harry Reid to say that Republicans obstructing the health care bill is no different than Republicans who tried to maintain slavery is just… I asked earlier if Obama put this thought in his head at the pep rally Obama held for these guys up on the Capitol Hill in the Senate on Sunday. Albert Gore Sr. was a huge anti-civil rights guy. J. William Fulbright, who was Bill Clinton\u2019s mentor in Arkansas, huge, all of these Southern Democrats. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat back then, he opposed it, all of these people opposed the civil rights movement, Lester Maddox, Democrat, Bull Connor. Had it not been for Republicans in the Senate, a greater percentage of Republicans in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats did. But as John Fund points out today: ‘The final reason Mr. Reid\u2019s comments were so inapt and offensive is that the battles for women\u2019s suffrage and civil rights he referred to were about expanding freedom. That\u2019s not what the 2,074-page health care bill being debated in the Senate today does.\u2019 It restricts freedom. <\/p>\n

The Senate health care bill creates ‘118 new regulatory boards and commissions,\u2019 new bureaucracies that will dictate the entire scope of health care. Fighting government controlled health care, the most personal of issues to many people, can more properly be construed to be as a fight for freedom, not against it. So Harry Reid is so off the wall and so inept and so wrong about this. This is the kind of stuff that smacks of desperation \u2019cause the real problem Reid has is his own party, right now he\u2019s four votes short of the 60 that he needs, and they\u2019re putting out this news, again another hoax, that everything\u2019s hunky-dory, that the tone\u2019s changed and we\u2019re moving in the right direction. They\u2019re trying to distract us with public option this, public option that. It\u2019s all a public option. It\u2019s all about the federal government controlling every aspect of every human being\u2019s life in this country. That\u2019s what this bill is about, with health care and costs as the mechanism to achieve that goal. This is the way totalitarian systems seek to cement their power. They\u2019ve all tried it with health care. The Nazis did it long before the holocaust. We hear about the great health care in Cuba, do we not? Health care\u2019s greater everywhere in the world but here. Right? <\/p>\n

I tell you, the only thing going on in the Senate that distresses me, and I\u2019ve been told I\u2019m wrong about it, I read a quote from Senator Kyl who said, (paraphrasing) ‘We\u2019re not trying to slow things down here, we\u2019re offering amendments and we don\u2019t want to be seen as obstructionist because we want the independent vote.\u2019 The independents are moving to Republicans anyway right now. This must be stopped. Now, we got a call from Mitch McConnell\u2019s office yesterday saying that Kyl doesn\u2019t speak for the leadership and we are trying to stop this thing. McConnell\u2019s office called H.R. and H.R. dutifully reported back to me. Because it would do no good for H.R. to know it and then not tell me so he told me so that I can tell you that that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying, they are trying to stop this. Good. This is not something that needs to be debated even on the merits or on the margins. This is something that needs to be stopped, just like cap and trade needs to be stopped. This is where we should all be proud to say, ‘Yep, we are just saying no to this. We\u2019re saying no to statism; we\u2019re saying no to Marxism; we\u2019re saying no to the overthrow of our Constitution; we\u2019re saying no to this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You fall into a trap when the media says, ‘Well, you never say when you\u2019re for, what are you for?\u2019 We make it clear what we are for every day. When you are for personal liberty, freedom, and responsibility, that about covers it, and we\u2019re not going to debate the merits here of to what degree of tyranny are we willing to accept. We\u2019re not going to debate that. That ought to be the stance. This is not your traditional ebb and flow of power from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. This is something we have never had before in this country. We have never had so many radical, radical leftists who have never done one thing of note in the private sector, achieve this kind of power. People who do not like the way this country was constituted are now running it. They are not traditional Democrats where you argue in the daytime, you go to a bar and have a drink at night, go out to dinner, this is not who this is anymore. This must be stopped ideologically. This is not politics as usual. This is not both parties are the same by any stretch of the imagination. <\/p>\n

Scott, Jacksonville, Florida, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sleep Number Bed mega dittos from your number one listener in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You remember several years ago Newt Gingrich was on the cover of Newsweek being the Gingrich that stole Christmas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, this past Saturday, Rush, the Democrats in the Senate cut over $40 billion from the Medicare home health benefit, over $40 billion. And we\u2019ve already talked about death panels. This is precisely what\u2019s going to happen. These folks, Medicare at home who choose to be in their own homes, their funding is being cut. It has death panels written all over it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, and they\u2019re cutting nursing homes by $15 billion as well. But Scott, with all due respect, and I remember when Newt was not even proposing Medicare cuts, they just took that whole thing out of context and said Newt wants Medicare to wither away on the vine, and now these guys in both the House and the Senate are proposing $500 billion in cuts in Medicare, $500 billion. Now, I don\u2019t believe that the final bill will have any Medicare cuts. (interruption) Oh, Snerdley, anybody who thinks the final bill\u2019s going to have $500 billion in Medicare cuts, if it does, if the final product of this has $500 billion in Medicare cuts, then that alone is a death panel. And that will convince me that this administration, that the Democrat Party is totally on board with the elderly passing away because they represent a problem. They\u2019re informed. They\u2019re educated. They have a memory of a better time in this country. They can remember what gets us out of recessions. They remember thus that what we\u2019re doing now is not ever going to work. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had the theory that the $500 billion cuts were just mentioned in the language so they\u2019d get a favorable CBO score. And I\u2019ve always been of the opinion that by the time the dust settled those cuts would not be made. But if they are, if they follow through on this, then people\u2019s deepest suspicions will be confirmed. They\u2019re essentially saying that elderly people, we\u2019re just not going to treat you, we don\u2019t have the money, it\u2019s not worth it, you\u2019re too old, and besides, you know too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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