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RUSH: It\u2019s a total sham. It is a 100% fraud, a giant sham and it has once again, ladies and gentlemen, exposed the media and the Democrat Party who are aligned on the side of ruin of the United States of America. I\u2019m talking about the CBO number that everybody started running with today before it had been officially released. Steny Hoyer just told the media, ‘Hey, our health bill comes in at $940 billion with $110 billion in deficit reduction,\u2019 bam, every media outlet ran with it, they\u2019ve been running with it all morning. The only problem was the CBO had not officially released anything and now they have. <\/p>\n

Greetings, I\u2019m Rush Limbaugh. This is the EIB Network, great to have you here. Our telephone number, 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

This morning the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, said, ‘What\u2019s everybody talking about? There has been no official release here by the CBO.\u2019 That was about an hour ago, maybe 45 minutes ago. Well, the CBO has spoken, and all of these numbers are meaningless. Let me read to you from the first page of the letter from Doug Elmendorf, the director of the CBO, to Pelosi. ‘Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, the agency has not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft.\u2019 Because there isn\u2019t one yet! The reconciliation proposal is the Slaughter Solution. The CBO is saying, ‘We haven\u2019t seen that,\u2019 because nobody\u2019s seen that. ‘Therefore,\u2019 writes Elmendorf, ‘this estimate is preliminary, pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as further review and refinement of the budgetary projections.\u2019 <\/line> <\/line>So the numbers that have been put out today are meaningless. They are only for the purposes of depressing everybody, it\u2019s a giant PR scam run by Steny Hoyer, Pelosi and the Democrats and Obama and it\u2019s designed to get everybody depressed, designed to get all the wavering Democrats in the House giddy as James Clyburn said, but it\u2019s a fraud, it\u2019s a sham, there is absolutely nothing concrete in what the CBO has said. They clearly say these are preliminary estimates, because they haven\u2019t seen the guts of it. Essentially what they\u2019re doing here is simply redoing the Senate bill, which passed in December. But the reconciliation portion, the Slaughter solution, the deem-and-pass procedure, nobody has seen that. It has yet to be posted. Obama doesn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in his bill. This Bret Baier interview, we\u2019re going to dissect this as the program unfolds today. What a great, great job that Bret Baier did. That was the first time since Obama has been elected that anybody anywhere in the media challenged him on anything that he has said, and Obama clearly was uncomfortable with it. Obama was on the defensive. He was stuttering; he was aimless; he was angry. This upstart young little journalist, who does he think he is? Obama looked horrible in this thing; he sounded horrible in this thing; he didn\u2019t know what\u2019s in his bill and he doesn\u2019t care. <\/line><\/p>\n

He is right out of Marx, folks, the end justifies the means. It doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s in there, it doesn\u2019t matter about the process. When he says he doesn\u2019t care about the process it means the ends justify the means. Washington\u2019s a mess anyway, who cares, this is going to be a vote on health care reform, we\u2019re going to get it and he told Bret Baier yesterday, ‘This is not about my presidency. This is about the people.\u2019 It is about his presidency and the Politico\u2019s even reporting it today, confirming, ladies and gentlemen, exactly what I have been painting all along. It\u2019s totally about his presidency; it\u2019s totally about saving him, and that\u2019s how he\u2019s approaching wavering members, particularly most recently the Hispanic caucus. It\u2019s about saving his presidency. It\u2019s about making sure that he has a future as a president to get things done. It\u2019s not about health care. <\/p>\n

Now, we have quite understandably here a lot to do. I am a little excited, I\u2019m speaking probably a little faster than I should because there\u2019s so much to say about what\u2019s going on, and I\u2019m probably trying to say too much, too soon here. But I don\u2019t want people to get sidetracked with the CBO show because ultimately, as has been demonstrated this morning, the CBO number is a distraction anyway. It\u2019s designed to take our focus off what is really wrong with this bill and that is everything. The guts of this bill are why it needs to be opposed, not the CBO number, not the deficit number, not this or that, it\u2019s all part of the same combination. The one thing we don\u2019t know — well, there\u2019s several things that we don\u2019t know even now from this preliminary report from the CBO. We don\u2019t know what tax increases are in this bill. We can guess. We know what\u2019s in the Senate bill but we don\u2019t know what\u2019s yet going to be in the reconciliation package, we don\u2019t know what spending cuts. We know that they\u2019re double counting Medicare and the president was asked about this by Bret Baier last night, he didn\u2019t even know what he was talking about when he answered that. He got off on a tangent about closing a doughnut hole for senior citizens on the latest Medicare entitlement. But he doesn\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

<\/a>They\u2019re double counting, and Brett Baier pointed this out, (paraphrasing) ‘Look, you can\u2019t say that you\u2019re taking $500 billion from Medicare and applying it to your new bill and say you\u2019ve cut Medicare by $500 billion.\u2019 So if they\u2019re not cutting Medicare by $500 billion then this whole $940 billion number CBO has is totally irrelevant because there\u2019s no $500 billion Medicare cut, they\u2019re spending it somewhere else. It\u2019s like you shifting money from one pocket to the other and saying you just cut your budget. It\u2019s irresponsible, it\u2019s silly. We don\u2019t know how many job losses are going to happen over this. Grover Norquist and a friend of his have a piece out today at National Review Online, David G. Tuerck, and they say that the health care legislation will cost up to 700,000 jobs by 2019 and that doesn\u2019t include the doctors and nurses who are probably going to opt out of this, stories about nurses wanting to quit and hospitals around the country trying to urge them not to quit. <\/p>\n

Then we throw this on top of it. I don\u2019t know what this means yet \u2019cause this just happened. ‘The National Council of La Raza just issued their opposition to the health care bill, saying that the immigration restrictions (which disallow undocumented workers from buying coverage on the exchange with their own money) are too punitive to earn their support.\u2019 So the La Raza gang says this is Kucinich all over; this is not liberal enough for us; there aren\u2019t enough transfer payments; there aren\u2019t enough giveaways for our people. Now, on the 21st, this Sunday the immigration crowd, the illegal immigrants are going to storm Washington and they hope to have a quarter million people there on a big March and rally demanding illegal immigration amnesty on the day they\u2019re theoretically going to be voting on the health care bill. And I still don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to be voting on the health care bill because I don\u2019t think they have the votes, and they don\u2019t have any actual numbers that they can take to anybody with the CBO. This is clearly preliminary. Everything about this, I told you, has been about dispiriting you, depressing you, making you think it\u2019s a lost cause, making you give up, making you think there\u2019s no way we can fight this. <\/p>\n

Today they just doubled down on that with the phony fraud of the CBO number. But they\u2019re no closer than they were, and that\u2019s what all this means. All of this trickery, all this chicanery, all of this behind the scenes stuff, the effort to create momentum where it doesn\u2019t exist. They\u2019re asking the president to delay his departure Sunday to later in the week. And the reason they\u2019re doing that is because they know they don\u2019t have the votes by Sunday, and it\u2019s really going to complicate things now because what\u2019s happened is that everybody now knows that the CBO number that came out today is fraudulent. Everybody knows that what went on this morning now is meaningless, and more and more people are going to know it as the day goes on. In the old days, before there was an alternative media, before there was an Internet, before there were independent people who examined and analyzed the lies, the deceptions, and the frauds coming out of the Democrat Party, the White House, and the American left, this stuff woulda stood, there would not have been any alternate news, we\u2019d have been stuck with $940 billion and they would have their vote. But they have been exposed again in a giant scam, a giant sham, exposed the media, exposed the Democrat Party who are joined on the side of ruin in the United States of America. <\/p>\n

Let me read to you again from the cover letter from Doug Elmendorf at CBO to Pelosi. ‘Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, the agency has not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft. This estimate is therefore preliminary, pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as further review and refinement of the budgetary projections.\u2019 In other words, whatever numbers you see in the following pages don\u2019t mean anything. This is a wild guess and it comes on the heels of Elmendorf saying, ‘We are overworked.\u2019 And my heart bleeds. We\u2019re overworked and these guys keep sending stuff to us. We\u2019re working hundred-hour weeks here trying to get new scores for them. The numbers are all over the place. This is a fire drill. We have utter chaos happening, there is no organization, there is no leadership, the Democrats — trust me on this — contrary to the image that the media and the Democrats have put forth today, are in disarray. Buck up. You keep calling. There is no reason to stop the intensity.<\/p>\n

This is going to go on and on and on, and even, folks, Fred Barnes has a piece I\u2019m going to be sharing it with you as the program unfolds today, a pretty good piece in the Weekly Standard, even if it passes, it\u2019s nowhere near over. This is going to go on and on and on for years and years and years because nobody in this country wants it. The effort is going to be focused on repealing it and stopping it, rolling it back or what have you. Obama has succeeded in his primary objective, and that is dividing the people of this country. I mean even David Brooks, and I hate quoting Brooks here, forgive me on this, but even David Brooks in a blog at the New York Times — got a little chat going back and forth with Gail Collins of the editorial page — he thinks it\u2019s asinine for the Democrats to sign this. He thinks it\u2019s asinine to use the Slaughter Solution. Chris Matthews thinks it\u2019s not a good idea to use the Slaughter Solution. Mr. Leg Tingle himself. There are a lot of people that don\u2019t like what\u2019s happening here, even Lawrence O\u2019Donnell. It\u2019s a tax increase; they don\u2019t have the votes; this is illegal. We got the sound bites coming up here. They are in total disarray, and don\u2019t think the opposite, don\u2019t think they\u2019re a well-oiled machine heading down the tracks. If they were a well-oiled machine this would have been passed last August. Buck up, folks, hang in there and be tough. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, we know that the CBO numbers this morning that Steny Hoyer put out were fake, were fraudulent. The CBO had not released anything when he put the numbers out, the CBO then did put their PDF file out. They released everything, the letter to Pelosi. We know that all this is just a joke because it\u2019s preliminary. There\u2019s nothing official because there\u2019s no reconciliation bill to score. That\u2019s where we are. But again I want to stress: Let\u2019s not get caught up in the CBO aspect of this. I remember back in the 1995 budget bill between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, they got caught up in CBO numbers back then, what ten-year deficit projection numbers were going to be — and that wasn\u2019t the issue. Clinton was happy for our side to get lost and caught up discussing CBO. The point of CBO and its relevance this morning is that we\u2019re being scammed. The numbers are irrelevant. The fact of the matter is: The number doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way you can double count $500 billion in Medicare and save any money. There\u2019s no way you can register 30 million new people and give them insurance and save money. There\u2019s no way you can reduce the deficit. We have a $1.6 trillion deficit this year and we\u2019re going to spend another $1 trillion that we don\u2019t have. There\u2019s no way this does anything the CBO says. So the importance of CBO is it\u2019s just another lie. It\u2019s just another scam orchestrated by the Democrats and their buddies in the media. There\u2019s some people talking about also, ‘You know, we can get rehearse of the Cornhusker kickback and get rid of the Louisiana Purchase some of this other stuff maybe we could, you know, have something to talk about.\u2019 No, no, no. There are no ‘fixes\u2019 to this bill. We need to remain the party of ‘No, hell no.\u2019 There are no fixes to this bill, there\u2019s no streamlining it, there\u2019s no tweaking it. There\u2019s just destroying it. <\/p>\n

Then for whatever reforms are necessary get started with the way Mitch Daniels is doing it in Indiana. Heritage has a bunch of great ideas; we\u2019ve talked about them. There\u2019s a poll out there by a group that used to be called the Independent Women\u2019s Forum. Now it\u2019s IWV, and I\u2019m having a mental block on what the ‘V\u2019 stands for. They published the results of their poll Monday on the Wall Street Journal, and this is very interesting data in their poll. As much as people really oppose the corruption of all of this, as much as people oppose the process of how the Democrats are getting this done, the thing that really irks people (and thus should be the focus of any continuing opposition to it) is the underlying approach to the whole thing, the fundamental framework of it, the purpose of it. The purpose of it is not health care. <\/p>\n

The purpose is the growth of government, the elimination or the — Well, I wouldn\u2019t go that far, but the attack on liberty and freedom. Its\u2019 the ability, with one bill, to regulate every aspect of human life under the auspices that it has an impact on the cost of health care. Obama doesn\u2019t know care what\u2019s in this. You\u2019ll hear this. If you didn\u2019t see the Bret Baier interview, even if you did, you could see by his answer, he doesn\u2019t care what\u2019s in this. He\u2019s speaking purely philosophically about ‘we need to insure people and give them health care.\u2019 He was talking about… This bill is not about reforming the insurance industry. This bill\u2019s about destroying the insurance industry! (sigh) The point here is: People do not want the mandates. People do not want the federal government demanding, requiring by force of law, that they have to buy anything. Oh! And do you know, we have learned something?<\/p>\n

Twelve thousand brand-new IRS agents will be hired. Twelve thousand! Why? Because the IRS is responsible for the enforcement of the mandates that you either buy insurance or pay a fine if you don\u2019t. Twelve thousand new IRS agents in a health care reform bill. It\u2019s that kind of stuff, when people learn about it, they want no part of. They don\u2019t like the penalties. They don\u2019t like the fines, the possibility of going to jail if you don\u2019t buy the insurance mandated by the government, which they also don\u2019t like. They don\u2019t like the massive government configuration. They don\u2019t like the Marxism in the bill, they don\u2019t like the socialism in the bill, they don\u2019t like the loss of freedom in the bill. They\u2019re sophisticated. The American people understand what this is about and that\u2019s why they oppose it in increasingly large numbers, and they\u2019re not running around saying, ‘Well, look at the CBO number, the CBO number.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not talking about the cost of the deficit as it relates to CBO number. They\u2019re talking about the cost of the whole thing as it relates to bankruptcy for their children and their grandchildren. The people of this country know we can\u2019t afford this, no matter what the CBO says. The CBO came out and said it\u2019s $1.5 trillion. So what? We know it\u2019s going to be more than $940 billion. We know that there\u2019s not one government entitlement that\u2019s ever cost less than projected. We know that there\u2019s not one government entitlement that\u2019s ever worked as advertised. The American people are fully aware of what they face in this, and it\u2019s the substance, the underlying foundation of this bill that they oppose. All of these unaffordable entitlements, the loss of choice, the cuts to Medicare Advantage, these are the things that people know in this bill they do not like and want no part of. <\/p>\n

So go ahead and focus on the CBO number if you want, but focus on the fact that it\u2019s nothing more than the latest element of fraud and scam that is part of the sales job of this whole thing. So the media ropes you in. We\u2019ve all been breathless waiting for…what? Two things this week: The reconciliation text, the actual words, and what the reconciliation bill will be? What are the fixes to the Senate bill? (We still haven\u2019t seen that.) And the CBO number. Oh, yes, we\u2019re waiting on the latest CBO score! We can\u2019t move forward \u2019til we get that.\u2019 So the media, breathlessly in their horse race-reporting mentality, breathlessly (panting) waits for the CBO number, and before the CBO even puts it out Steny Hoyer comes out and says what he says. They run with it. ‘Oh, wow!\u2019 They got Juan Williams on Fox. ‘Oh, this is great for Obama! This is really going to put people over the edge. This is exactly what they want.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They go get Clyburn and Clyburn, says, ‘Oh, members are giddy over this!\u2019 They get an hour and a half out of this, maybe two hours out of this, and then all of a sudden Paul Ryan says, ‘Wait a minute. There is no official release here.\u2019 Steny Hoyer was just making it up. Steny Hoyer is essentially the big editor today for the State-Controlled Media. So then we get the CBO numbers and then we get the cover letter which basically says: This is a preliminary estimate. It\u2019s like the weather forecast: It\u2019s a wild guess. Algore and the people at East Anglia may as well put the CBO process together. It\u2019s just as fraudulent, not because of the CBO people. The CBO people don\u2019t have anything concrete to work with. They\u2019re being asked to calculate estimates. So what\u2019s happened? We may as well get Michael Mann from Penn State and Phil Jones from East Anglia and James Hansen at NASA and Algore, put \u2019em over at CBO, and have them write the report. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s essentially what\u2019s happened here. The same hoax that gave us the nonexistent, man-made global warming is now perpetrating itself in the CBO because of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Steny Hoyer, and the rest. It\u2019s a hoax. This number is a hoax. It\u2019s not real, because what they\u2019re going to be voting on isn\u2019t even real yet. It doesn\u2019t exist. Nobody has seen it. It was supposed to be posted last night. Obama said, ‘You\u2019ll know what\u2019s in it when it\u2019s posted. I\u2019ll know what\u2019s in it when it\u2019s posted.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in it! He doesn\u2019t care what\u2019s in it. ‘It\u2019s going to be up there for 72 hours.\u2019 No, it won\u2019t be. If they put it up tonight or tomorrow and the vote is Sunday, it\u2019s not going to be up for 72 hours. They\u2019re going to limit Republicans to 30 minutes of debate on Parker Griffith\u2019s idea of having a vote on not using the Slaughter Solution. Just 30 minutes. They\u2019ll wipe that out. They\u2019re in trouble. They don\u2019t have the votes here, and it is patently obvious to anybody with an objective eye looking at this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Pelosi continuing this fraud-sham here of the CBO numbers, had a little press conference to talk about the numbers out there. Here\u2019s first of two sound bites we have.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: (haltingly) They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, a number is worth a lot, too. I love numbers, and today the number from the Congressional Budget Office that this health insurance reform legislation will save $138 billion in the first ten years and $1.2 trillion in the second ten years speaks very eloquently to the deficit-reduction that is in our package.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is she on? Did you hear the way she sounded there? Very hoarse and tentative. Madam Pelosi, your days of getting away with this kind of trickery are over. We have the CBO report ourselves, and it says all of this is a preliminary estimate. You don\u2019t love numbers \u2019cause you don\u2019t have any! You don\u2019t have the votes, you don\u2019t have an accurate CBO number. You\u2019ve got nothing, Ms. Pelosi. You got nothing, right now. You don\u2019t even have a bill. She doesn\u2019t even have a reconciliation bill. ‘I love numbers, and today the number from the Congressional Budget Office\u2019 is a sham! Not because of them but because of Pelosi. There\u2019s nothing to score. It\u2019s an estimate — and, of course, what Democrat press conference would be complete without a parade of victims?<\/p>\n

PELOSI: I\u2019m very pleased that we\u2019re joined by Ed Morris, Kim Muldofsky, Stella Johnson, and Carolyn Comeau. Uh, their personal stories tell the eloquent story of why health care is needed, uh, to make America healthier, to lower the cost of America\u2019s families\u2019 budget while we lower the cost to the federal budget.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is where they\u2019re losing ground because people know that none of that\u2019s going to happen. We\u2019re not going to reduce deficits; we\u2019re not going to reduce spending. You know something else? We hear Pelosi and the Democrats talking about these numbers: $940 billion, $1.2 trillion. You know what they can\u2019t tell us? ‘What\u2019s my insurance premium going to be next year after this passes in relation to what it is now?\u2019 When Ronaldus Magnus went out there and started talking about tax cuts in the eighties, there was a workable number that everybody knew that would apply to them. If their taxes got cut by 10, 15%, they knew what that meant. It was there. Nobody, nobody on the Democrat side can tell anybody what their insurance premium\u2019s going to be the year after this thing goes into law. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what people want to know. Now, they\u2019re giving us hints. Dick Durbin\u2019s out there saying, ‘Well, anybody who thinks these premiums are going to go down is not looking at this honestly. We hope to reduce the rate of increase, but health care premiums are going up.\u2019 That\u2019s why they\u2019re not telling us what it is because it\u2019s not going to be what they say. I got e-mail. These are challenging days for your host because, you know, I\u2019m working on prep to coordinate my own thoughts, and I\u2019m getting drowned in e-mails from everybody who wants me to tell their thoughts. ‘No, Rush!\u2019 (interruption) Yes, it\u2019s real e-mail. You want me to show them? I\u2019ll put a couple of them on the website. I\u2019ve got about 15,000 of them in the last week. <\/p>\n

‘Rush, what you need to be saying is we\u2019re going in the wrong direction.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, you need to focus on X Y, and Z.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I just want a new open. You open the program the wrong way.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You need to do this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Somebody said, ‘You just went past the CBO numbers too fast. You said they don\u2019t matter.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said they don\u2019t matter in terms of reality. What matters is it\u2019s part a piece of a puzzle and it\u2019s the latest piece of a fraud. But, okay. If you want a specific reaction to the CBO number of $940 billion even though it means nothing, I\u2019ll tell you. We\u2019re supposed to be applauding this number? (clapping) Really? This is the same president who has run up tens of trillions of dollars in deficits in record time, he has destroyed the private sector economy, and we\u2019re supposed to be excited and that a phony number comes in after a-two-day delay that\u2019s just $60 billion magically short of the $1 trillion figure? What has this president said that\u2019s been correct or truthful through this entire process, or during his entire presidency? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s more bad job news out there today, folks, and you have to remember this continues to be bad. People are upset. The nation\u2019s being laughed at by our enemies. We\u2019re trashing our allies. What\u2019s to celebrate with this number? What\u2019s to celebrate with this guy? He\u2019s wrong about everything! He\u2019s screwing up everything. And now we\u2019re going to say, ‘Okay, well, you\u2019ve shown us what a failure and liar you are. We\u2019re now going to confer on you the power to destroy the health care system.\u2019 Is that what we\u2019re going to do? And Pelosi, one of the most hateful and foolish people to ever serve as Speaker, she didn\u2019t have a single thoughtful idea or policy. I don\u2019t care what number the CBO puts out. The Democrats are involved. It\u2019s a fraud, it\u2019s a sham, it\u2019s a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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