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RUSH: For all this talk about the civil war in the Republican Party — like the Drive-Bys, the State-Controlled Media just loved jumping all over my comments about Mitch McConnell and the sense I was making about the fact that Republicans were not doing everything they could to stall this. They were running around all weekend. ‘There\u2019s a civil war in the Republican Party and Limbaugh is running the show and that\u2019s the death knell!\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you where the civil war is. The civil war is in the Democrat Party, and it\u2019s over health care. Lieberman is officially out now. Claire McCaskill says that she will not sign onto this if it spends more money. If it doesn\u2019t save money, she\u2019s not going to sign onto it. <\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t know about McCaskill but Lieberman sounds pretty locked in and that means he doesn\u2019t have his 60 votes unless he can get Olympia Snowe, and the Republicans seem to be holding pretty firm on this. The news of the day is that the health care vote that Reid has is in a big mess. Let me give you some headlines as an example. ‘Senate Health Care Bill Would Allow Insurers to Limit Coverage for Seriously Ill Patients.\u2019 Now, what have we been hearing for the past two weeks? We\u2019ve been hearing for the past two weeks that you\u2019re going to get coverage for existing preconditions and that no matter how sick you are you\u2019re going to get treated. However, there\u2019s a loophole. ‘There\u2019s a loophole in the Senate health care bill that would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses like cancer, which has prompted a rebuke from patient advocates.\u2019 So. The patients — people, American citizens — realize they\u2019re being lied to left and right.<\/p>\n

The Lieberman story: ‘Senate Democrats who thought they had found a workable compromise learned otherwise from [Joe] Lieberman over the weekend. Lieberman threatened Sunday to join Republicans in opposing health care legislation if it permits uninsured individuals as young as 55 to purchase Medicare coverage.\u2019 Now, Mike, let\u2019s move to the top of the sound bites rather than go to Kroft interview, because this is the dirty little secret that we\u2019ve known on this program for years. Expanding Medicare… We\u2019ve played you audio sound bites of Obama saying throughout his career of words that expanding Medicare and lowering the mandatory age at which you can qualify… Remember, Medicare and broke, and just a year ago people were talking about raising the eligibility age in order to save money. Now everybody\u2019s talking about — Obama and others — lowering it to 55. Which would break the system, but it is the way that they see to get to single payer. We have a newly discovered audiotape of Obama. This is in 2007 on the campaign trail admitting that he was considering a Medicare-plus plan. This is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on April 3rd, 2007.<\/line> <\/line>OBAMA APRIL 2007: Let\u2019s say that we — L-l-let\u2019s say that I proposed a plan that, uh, moved to a single-payer system… L-l-let\u2019s say Medicare plus. It would be, essentially, everybody can buy into Medicare, for example.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so he\u2019s thinking about it back in 2007. Let\u2019s go back further, February 16th, 2004, in Urbana, Illinois, on a radio show. Obama said this…<\/p>\n

OBAMA FEBRUARY 2004: At the federal level, what I\u2019m looking at is a very specific proposal that would provide health care coverage for all children who need it all across the United States, would allow 55 to 64-year-olds to buy into the Medicare system. And I think that if we can start with children and, uh, those persons 55 to 64 that are most vulnerable, then we can start filling in those holes and ultimately I think, uh, move in the direction of a universal health care plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘A universal health care plan.\u2019 We played all these sound bites for you but now this is coming out of the woodwork again because here\u2019s the timeline. Last Sunday, a week ago yesterday Obama goes up to Capitol Hill at two o\u2019clock in the afternoon for a pep talk with Dingy Harry and other Democrats in the Senate saying basically, ‘Win one for the Gipper, here. You gotta do this for me. Do this for me.\u2019 The next day Dingy Harry comes out and says, ‘I\u2019m dropping the public option and instead we\u2019re looking at expanding Medicare to people 55, maybe all the way down to 45 years of age.\u2019 So it looks like Obama went up and then proposed that. Now, in addition to that, back in 2007 at an SEIU health care forum. This is his buddies, the unions, the Service Employees International Union — and, by the way, when he\u2019s in front of these people (his buddies, the people he trusts) he tells them exactly what his plan is and what his hopes are. This is what he said in March of 2007.<\/p>\n

OBAMA MARCH 2007: My commitment is to make sure that we\u2019ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. I would hope that we can set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There\u2019s going to be, potentially, some transition process, I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out or 20 years out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is what\u2019s being planned on Capitol Hill. What the Senate is looking at doing. Obama has not put his name on any plan so that he can blame this all on other Democrats if and when it ever happens but we have these tapes. We\u2019ve got these sound bites. And we\u2019re going to be forever playing them, because this is Obama\u2019s plan coming out of the US Senate. Dingy Harry is doing his bidding. Let\u2019s go back even further at the 2003 AFL-CIO conference, while campaigning for the US Senate.<\/p>\n

OBAMA 2003: I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal health care plan. (applause) A single-payer health care plan. Universal health care plan. That\u2019s what I\u2019d like to see.<\/p>\n

RUSH (godlike reverb): ‘I happen to be a proponent of single-payer, universal health care coverage, a single-payer health care plan, universal health care plan. That\u2019s what I\u2019d like to see.\u2019 (end godlike reverb) That\u2019s what they have in Cuba. So let there be no doubt. All of this is smoke and mirrors. We are headed for single payer. We\u2019re headed for universal health care. And we\u2019re using it, we\u2019re going to expand Medicare, do whatever we can to get it, and it\u2019s Obama\u2019s plan. It is his desire even though he has not put his name on it, and this is what Lieberman — and I\u2019ll betcha quite a lot of other Democrats — are getting nervous about, because they know the Medicare program is going bankrupt soon. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, on the single-payer universal health care, it\u2019s not only Obama who since 2003 has been openly telling us his desires. So have various members of Congress. July 27th, National Press Building in Washington, DC, this is 2007, Barney Frank, reporter said, ‘Real quick, why is single payer off the table?\u2019<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Congressman, real quick, why is single payer off the table?<\/p>\n

FRANK: Because we don\u2019t have the votes. I wish it weren\u2019t. I\u2019m all for it. I\u2019m a big sponsor. I\u2019ve been a cosponsor of single payer for a very long time.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Don\u2019t you think we should scratch everything and start anew with single payer?<\/p>\n

FRANK: No.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Why shouldn\u2019t we start with single payer anew?<\/p>\n

FRANK: We just don\u2019t have the votes for it. I wish we did. I think if we if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer, and that\u2019s the best way to reach single payer. The best way we\u2019re going to get single payer, the only way, is to have a public option and demonstrate its strength and power.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the public option is now supposedly off the table, because that wasn\u2019t going to fly in the Senate. That wasn\u2019t gonna get 60 votes in the Senate. You see, regardless whether you listen to Obama or Barney Frank or any of them,, whatever is in this bill is just the vehicle to get to single payer. That\u2019s the objective. Jan Schakowsky, who is a congresswoman from Illinois, April 18th of this year.<\/p>\n

SCHAKOWSKY: And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn\u2019t let private insurance compete, that a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and — (cheers and applause) He was right! The man was right. I — I — here\u2019s what I told him. I said, ‘Excuse me, sir, the goal of health care reform is not to protect the private health insurance industry.\u2019 (applause) And I am so confident in the superiority of a public health care option that I think he has every reason to be frightened.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (godlike reverb) Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from April of this year. Do you understand what you are hearing? Whether it\u2019s Barney Frank or whether it\u2019s Barack Obama or whether it\u2019s Jan Schakowsky or any of them, there is a pure hatred for capitalism, a pure hatred of the private sector, and this audience is cheering the destruction of the private health insurance industry. She wants a public option, she wants single payer. Everything they say to the contrary is a lie. Now, from Byron York at the DC Examiner: ‘Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted Friday that he is ‘in the dark\u2019 about the national health care bill currently under construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In an exchange on the Senate floor, Republican Sen. John McCain asked Durbin, ‘Should we not at least be informed as to what the proposal is that the Senate Majority Leader is going to propose to the entire Senate?\u2019 Durbin\u2019s answer: ‘I would say to the senator from Arizona that I am in the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership.\u2019 Durbin explained that during a Democratic caucus, Reid and the small group of senators involved in crafting the bill turned to their fellow Democrats and ‘basically stood and said, ‘We are sorry, we can\u2019t tell you in detail what was involved.”\u2019<\/p>\n

So there you have it. It doesn\u2019t really matter what\u2019s in it, folks. They are just hell-bent on getting it passed so they can send it up to Obama for his signature just to give Obama a monument and something to talk about in his State of the Union speech in January. Although it\u2019s not quite that innocent, the things that are in this that are known are destructive. They would destroy the essence of what has made the United States the United States of America. And I believe that\u2019s the intention as I\u2019ve expressed and explained countless times before. If you listen to Obama talk with real anger in his voice about fat cat bankers and so forth, and then you go back and read Dreams from My Father where he rips into fat cat bankers and so forth, you readily understand what Obama was taught, the way he was raised, and what he believes now. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll summarize it for you yet again. He looks at the United States of America much as one of our enemies would look at it, Western European socialist or worse: unjust, unfair, immoral, no equality of outcomes, too great a disparity between achievers and underachievers, although he looks at that as the gap between the rich and the poor. And he\u2019s hell-bent on taking away as much as he can from the achievers and redistributing it in order to make this country more fair and to get even with it for all of its evil deeds in its history. That\u2019s who we\u2019ve elected as president of the United States, and it\u2019s patently obvious to anybody who wants to open-mindedly look at what he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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