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"Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
Who have eyes but do not see; Who have ears but do not hear." ~ Jeremiah 5:21
Chris Wallace interviewed Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday a year after Obama's election.
Wallace asked Rush what he thinks Barack Obama has done for or to the country. ElRushbo
responded that there has been no "for" up to this point. Rush claimed that no one with any
economic literacy would do what the Obama administration is doing if they wanted to help the economy.
In part 2 of 3 of Chris Wallace's interview, he asked Rush about healthcare reform. Rush said
that it's an attempt by the government to steal 1/6 of the private sector economy and take control.
Once they get control of healthcare, they will be able to make more decisions about how we run
our lives.
I recommend watching this interview wheither you saw it 11 months ago or not! LMC
* P.S. Goto the Links page to see message from Michelle Obama re Her Majesty's Vacation in Spain !
"Stupid is as Stupid does."
~ Forest Gump
Who is that to the left of Rush? He is a conservative DITTO Head too!
Yes, it is Snerdly! This is one of the 20 pictures of Rush and Kathryn's wedding Rush
posted on his Facebook account Wednesday, 11 August 2010. Check it out at by
clicking Links or the Links tab above ........
"Tomorrow is Obama's birthday. Not that we've seen any proof of that, but tomorrow
is Obama's birthday."
The First Lady wants us to add our name to a cyber Birthday Card.
I'll think on it ... after I've seen your birth certificate ... or "GREEN CARD"!
"I have a question: Are there going to be any black members of Congress left after
Pelosi is done investigating them?"
"When Pelosi is finished, there won't be a Congressional Black Caucus - it's going
to be the Congressional Caucasian Caucus, and it'll be on the Democrat side."
"Vice President Bite Me was just ordered to pay back the Treasury because his
presidential campaign failed to report almost $4 million in payments and $1 million
in debts. But you have to ask: If he were a person of color, would he have gotten off
so easily? I mean, clearly a double standard here."
"If I'm Obama, I'm feeling pretty good about what I've been able to destroy here in
just 18 months. I mean, if wiping out the American capitalist system is the objective,
and if it's going to cost your political party a bunch of seats for a while, go for it - it's worth the price."
The preceeding Quotes in red are from Tuesday, 3 August Rush Limbaugh Show - America's Real Anchorman.
The Ruling Class, Big Clique, and "Why Don't the Republicans Do X?"
July 19, 2010
RUSH: Once in a while -- it doesn't happen very often -- once in a while you stumble across an article, an essay that demands to
be widely disseminated. This one that I stumbled across is from the July-August issue of the American Spectator, and the title is:
"America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution." It's by Angelo Codevilla. Ladies and gentlemen, it prints out to 16 pages.
Have you read it, Snerdley? It prints out to 16 pages. I could read the whole thing to you, and only I have the ability to probably do that
without boring you to tears and sending you elsewhere. But I'm not even going to try to do that. It is so good, it is so timely, it is so
thorough and complete, it's difficult to cherry-pick. It's difficult to pick a couple or three pull quotes to give you an idea. The reason this
appeals to me is that it dovetails with something that I have been trying to explain for 20 years on this program, and it's come to a head
now with the election of Obama. And, you know, for 20 years I have gotten the question, "Rush, why don't the Republicans do X?" And
I have struggled to come up with answers to this question. Every time I'm asked, I search for a different answer.
One of the things I've always settled on to try to explain to people is that people never really get out of high school. That the whole
concept of the big clique and wanting to be part of it dominates everybody's life: the quest for power, the quest for acceptance, the
quest to be in the "in" crowd, however it's defined. I've told you over the years that one of the reasons the Republicans are whatever
the way they are in Washington is because Washington is a culture and a place that is run and dominated, not just politically, but
socially, and I've always said that this is crucial to understand, 'cause this is the big clique aspect. Washington is dominated politically
and socially by Democrats, by the left. The Republicans also live there. Everybody wants to get along with who you live next to, and in
Washington, the center of power in the world, everybody wants to be in the ruling class. The ruling class is the subject of this piece by
Angelo Codevilla, who is professor emeritus at Boston University. It is just a wonderfully written and crafted piece.
Here's a couple pull quotes, but again, getting into various pull quotes will not do this piece justice: "Today's ruling class, from
Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably
uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits." This resonated with me because in explaining Obama to everyone. I said this
is how he was raised; this is how he was educated; this is what he believes: America is the problem in the world -- so do members
of the ruling class. The ruling class, it's important to understand, is not based on merit. In fact, the ruling class contains many
educational failures. People who would otherwise have flunked out of college were it not for their connections to others in the ruling
class.
Another pull quote: "Getting into America's 'top schools' is less a matter of passing exams than of showing up with acceptable
grades and an attractive social profile. ... Since the 1970s, it has been virtually impossible to flunk out of American colleges. And
it is an open secret that 'the best' colleges require the least work and give out the highest grade point averages," which explains
in part why we've never seen Barack Obama's transcripts or his writings or anything else from Harvard or the Harvard Law Review
because they don't exist. He was put in that position for reasons having nothing to do with merit, and the people in the ruling class do
not rise on the basis of merit; they rise on the basis of connections, saying the right things, thinking the right things, doing the right
things according to the code that is established.
We, in what Mr. Codevilla calls, the country class, meaning not the hick class, but the country, we are the country. The ruling class is a
minority, and I have touched on this. We are being ruled, i.e., governed by a minority. Less than 10, 15% of Americans agree with the
thought process, the philosophies, the goals and objectives of the ruling class. And we in the country class, we believe in merit. We
rise or fall based on merit. We believe that a good GPA is what's necessary to get you into college. We believe that performing well on
the job is how you get promoted and how you get paid well. Not true in the ruling class. In fact, that is looked down upon. It's sort of
like the old money versus new money business. The old money, inherited from robber barons of the past, great wealth. The people
who inherited it don't do anything for it, but it has great lineage. People who have earned great wealth rather than having inherited it
are shunned by the old-money people because it's working class to have earned money. It's just not done. It's considered gauche,
it's considered filthy. And it's much the same way with merit throughout the ruling class. You don't have to be the best. In fact, if you
do the right things and say the right things, you can be an abject failure meritocracy-wise and still be promoted.
Read all 16 pages of Angelo Codevilla's American Spectator piece @
"Back during the Carter administration I read an article on political cartoonists (being one myself at that time).
The article observed that as a president's job approval became more in question, he would be drawn smaller and
smaller. The example was the way Carter was drawn throughout his (One) term, progressively reduced in size.
A turning point to watch for is if liberal cartoonists - Pat Oliphant for one - begin to do this."
This Video needs to be forwarded to everyone you know. Most importanly is the explanation of the difference between “a U.S. Citizen”, and a “Natural Born Citizen”, as required by our Constitution to be President of the United States. Hear Obama, admit he is NOT a “Natural Born Citizen”.
As of 6-30-10, there were only 89,191 views of this on You Tube:
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,
in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves
the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange
indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
In the aftermath of a hotly contested GOP primary in California, and looking to
accelerate momentum for their party's candidates nationally, about 800 activists,
donors, politicians and party leaders gathered in Irvine for the Orange County
Republican Party's annual Flag Day Dinner and heard Florida U.S. Senate candidate
Marco Rubio outline a philosophy in lockstep with the Reagan revolution.
Please go to the rushlimbaughcluboc.com/links.php to see the entire Editorial and
three videos from this outstanding event at the Irvine Hyatt Regency Monday
evening, 14 June 2010.
Steve Sarkis took this picture during the reception. Webmaster Larry Collins, Hugh
Hewitt and RLCOC Vice President Bruce Brown. Bruce is a candidate for Maxine
Waters' Congressional seat in November. Collins is known to long time Hugh Hewitt
listeners, since day one of his national radio show that began in 2000, as "Larry in
Laguna Woods" and later as "Colonel Larry".
Guess who got married Friday, 5 June 2010?
Ooops, I didn't say unmarried!
Maggie's Notebook reported:
Rush has been dieting and losing weight - sure sign that something's up. I'm hearing that he will marry Kathryn Rogers in an "intimate" ceremony at his home, on the beach, at his North Palm Beach home. Here's bits and pieces of the news:
Rush is 59. Ms. Rogers, said to be a direct descendant of John Adams, is 33. She was or is a party planner for the South
Florida Super Bowl host committee.
Rogers and Rush met in 2004. At that time, she worked for golfer Gary Player. Rush was a celebrity guest at the tournament.
The gossip is that Rush was in the middle of a divorce from 'Marta.' Rogers and Rush began dating after the Rush-Marta
divorce in summer 2007.
Remember the "heart attack" Rush had in Hawaii last January? He was there to meet Kathryn's parents.
Rush Limbaugh's Home
Zev Chafets new book about Rush says the Limbaugh estate is a five-house compound - ocean front, of course. The main house is 24,000 sq. ft. The additional four homes are for guests. The property includes a private beach
and a putting green.
If this story is true, I wish Rush and Ms. Rogers every happiness. It cannot be easy to be married and be Rush Limbaugh,
and it cannot be easy to be married to Rush - not because of Rush's personality, but because he is a huge talent who
knows what he is talking about, is insightful beyond any norm - and thus is a target of every Liberal, all of whom want to
be him, can't get to first base and settle for an unattractive shade of green adorning their faces. God bless you Rush and
God bless your marriage.
"The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, and Sarah Palin have ten times the
guts of all the guts combined of the male Republicans in the U.S. Senate."
~ El Rushbo
Governor Jan Brewer:
"While the president is making wisecracks and playing racial politics, some groups have suggested that Arizona be punished for enforcing laws that our
federal government has failed to enforce. That is misguided at best. Our
purpose today is to help the rest of the nation understand the crisis which confronts our state. Our nation's government is broken. Our border is being erased, and the president apparently considers it a wonderful opportunity
to divide people along racial lines for his personal political convenience."
"It's fair to ask whether he intends to be the commander-in-chief or the comic-in-chief.
Since the president's joke was so inappropriate, I suppose if I wanted to join in the comedian game I could suggest that he not give up his day job."
"Unfortunately, though, he isn't doing very well at that one, either."
RUSH: The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer! Do we know of one Republican senator speaking this way?
We have some Republicans in the House that speak this way. Here's what she's referring to from the White
House Correspondents Dinner back on May 1st.
OBAMA: "We all know what happens in Arizona when you don't have ID."
"Do you realize that if Elena Kagan gets confirmed, the best-looking justice is going to be John Roberts?"
The basic 48'x14' billboard -- two Hollywood conservatives came up with the concept while daughter
Jennie DeVore crafted the design.
Laguna Woods Globe - Thursday, April 29, 2010
"Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, candidate for the United States Senate from
California in this June's Republican Primary Election, will address the Tea Party
Sentinels Club on Friday, May 7 at 6 p.m. in Clubhouse 3, Dining Room 1.
DeVore has been honored as Legislator of the Year; and has been endorsed
by columist George Will, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and numerous
Republican officials across the nation.
Information/RSVP: call Christopher Richie at (949) 310-4504."
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
~ Ambrose Bierce
Rush Limbaugh reacted to Barack Obama's mocking of the Tea Party movement during a speech, where the
President said, "You would think they would be saying thank you, for what he falsely claims are "tax cuts."
The transcript and video follow.
Semper Fidelis, Larry
RUSH:"Down in Miami at the home of Gloria and Emilio Estefan on Star Island, Barack Obama conducted a fundraiser.
After he went and lied through his teeth to the people at NASA. (doing Obama impression) "Yeah, we're not going
to land on the moon, no, we're going to land on an asteroid. We're gonna land on an asteroid." Gloria Estefan
angered the Cuban exile community in Miami. They don't understand. They thought Estefan was one of them.
They don't like Obama's policies. Gloria Estefan, "It's nothing political here, he's coming over for margarita or two,
a mojito." Wrong. It was a huge fundraiser, and it cost you 30 grand to get into it. It was totally political. And at
this event, the leader of the regime mocked and made fun of American citizens.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a classic illustration of authoritarian mocking control. He hasn't cut anybody's taxes.
The Recovery Act, stimulus bill, it's more like loaves and fishes. There are no tax cuts in that. There were some
tax credits. It's all bogus. But he wants to be thanked. Okay, I will oblige.
Mr. President, I want to thank you for seizing General Motors and Chrysler. I want to thank you for appointing a
pervert as our safe schools czar.
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the generational theft that you have committed with all of this borrowing
and spending. You have spent the wealth of two to three, maybe four generations in the future, before they're even born.
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for insulting and endangering Israel. I want to thank you, Mr. President, for driving
up the unemployment rate to near double digits for years to come.
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for telling everybody that it's going to be double digits as the new norm.
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for exploding the annual deficit to the level where it can never be repaid.
I'd like to thank you, Mr. President, for targeting and destroying private health insurance companies.
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for pushing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to stand trial in New York City
and receive full constitutional rights at a cost of $200 million per year. I want to thank you for that.
I want to thank you for helping to destroy the housing market, Mr. President.
And, Mr. President, I would love to thank you for your arrogance, because arrogance is part and parcel
of an authoritarian leader of a regime.
I would like to also thank you, Mr. President, for your divisiveness.
I would like to thank you for ignoring the public union pension time bombs waiting to explode out there.
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for mocking and disrespecting the American people.
And I'd like to thank you for your never-ending support of the New Black Panthers and for ACORN.
I'd like to thank you, Mr. President, for embracing our enemies and snubbing our allies.
But most of all, Mr. President, thank you for arousing the sleeping silent majority because we have been asleep too long. November is coming, Mr. President.
That is when we will really thank you."
Chuck DeVore will speak at the Orange County Tax Day Tea Party on April 15 at the Irvine Auto Center near the
5/405 interchange. This event is from 11:00am UNTIL 3:00pm with the speakers and presenters begining at noon.
*Click the Officers/Contact link above to see which RLCOC Officer is a candidate for
Maxine Water's Congressional seat !!!!
President Obama says he receives a daily
devotional on his Blackberry cell phone.
Today, in an exclusive interview with Today's Matt Lauer, Obama confirmed that he will not settle on a particular
congregation in Washington. Rather, the Obamas consider Evergreen Chapel at Camp David their "favorite place
to worship" as a family. Obama told Lauer, "What we've decided for now is not to join a single church, and
the reason is because Michelle and I have realized we are very disruptive to services."
Barack Obama returns to the White House on
Saturday in Washington after playing golf at Fort Belvoir.
Obama cited American troops who held a multifaith Easter service during some of the Pacific's fiercest fighting in World War II.
"As Easter begins and Passover comes to a close," he said, "let us remain ever mindful of the unity of purpose, the common
bond, the love of you and of me, for which they sacrificed all they had; and for which so many others have sacrificed so much."
I heard about this outrageous story on Gallagher's radio
program Monday morning. He pointed out that the "fiercest fighting" referred to above was Iwo Jima. Gallagher
played the audio (below) of the Chaplain's sermon and noted that President Obama did in fact remove "Christ"
from his "holiday greeting" ( & BTW "Marines" ) on Easter!. The following article compares the two.
No wonder Obama hasn't chosen a Church to attend in our Capitol.
Semper Fidelis, DONQOT
Obama Removes Jesus from Easter Message
Vince Haley
President Obama literally edited Christ out of his “holiday greeting” today when he
excerpted a sermon given by a military chaplain on Iwo Jima on Easter Sunday 1945.
Below is the relevant paragraph from Obama’s holiday greeting today:
The rites of Passover, and the traditions of Easter, have been marked by people in every corner of the planet
for thousands of years. They have been marked in times of peace, in times of upheaval, in times of war.
One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago. There, in
the wake of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, a chaplain rose to deliver an Easter sermon,
consecrating the memory, he said “of American dead – Catholic, Protestant, Jew. Together,” he said,
“they huddled in foxholes or crouched in the bloody sands…Together they practiced virtue, patriotism,
love of country, love of you and of me.” The chaplain continued, “The heritage they have left us, the vision
of a new world, [was] made possible by the common bond that united them…their only hope that this unity
will endure.”
Their only hope that this unity will endure.
Now read below the same paragraph again, but this time note the additional bolded language that
comes from the original audio of the 1945 sermon and its context, but which President Obama decided not to
include:
There, in the wake of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, a chaplain rose to deliver an
Easter sermon, consecrating the memory, he said:
He has risen. With all due reverence, we apply these words to our beloved dead.
There are too many air call wings encrusted with the stain of their owners’ life blood,
too many Marine trousers upon the graves, too many symbols of American dead – Catholic,
Protestant, Jew. Together,” he said, “they huddled in foxholes or crouched in the bloody
sands under the fury of enemy guns here on Iwo Jima. Together they practiced virtue,
patriotism, love of country, love of you and of me. Together they stand before the greatest
soldier of them all – Jesus Christ, to receive the token of our triumph. For Christ has said:
“Greater love than this no man hath then that he lay down his life for his friends.”
And so our beloved dead have gone from the world of hate to the world of eternal love.
The chaplain continued, “The heritage they have left us, the vision of a new world, [was] made
possible by the common bond that united them in the drudgery of recruit training or here in
the chaos of bursting shouts. Their only hope: that this unity will endure.”
And so our dead have risen to glory.
The American President is president of all the people, believers and non-believers alike. So
when presidential messages are delivered to mark the special observances of major religious
groups, it is understandable that a president will strive to provide some measure of explanation
of how a particular religious observance honors values that all Americans can share.
But there are limits. A president cannot possibly hope to be a grand synthesizer of all religious traditions in the United States. Despite his skills, it is above President Obama’s pay grade to
construct some kind of civic religion that stands above traditional religions and which should
guide Americans going forward.
Instead of providing separate messages to Jews and Christians on the observance of Passover
and Easter, President Obama said in this holiday greeting that “while we worship in different ways, we also remember the shared spirit of humanity that inhabits us all – Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, believers and nonbelievers alike.”
Obama then went on to say that “on this Easter weekend, let us hold fast to those aspirations we hold in common as brothers and sisters, as members of the same family – the family of man.”
The problem is that when you start to water down what people actually believe in an attempt to
construct a religion of the “family of man”, you start to misrepresent fundamentally the nature of
the hope that is at the center of lives of believers.
In the case of Christians, Christ is our hope. Our hope is in the risen Christ, which we celebrate
on Easter Sunday.
But if a president wants to water down religious beliefs in an attempt to find a synthesized religion
of the ‘family of man’, you end up removing Christ from Easter, which is, strangely, exactly what
President Obama did today in his Easter message.
Is this the first American president to dechristianize Easter?
Vince Haley is vice president for policy at American Solutions.The observations made herein are personal.
Karl Rove's speech at the Grand Opening of Orange County Republican Party
Midway through Rove's Red Meat speech, and during the first Q&A, you will hear a commercial
airliner on final approach to John Wayne Airport. That was Steve Sarkis passing between Karl
and Rhonda Rohrabacher's video camera and it was Tom Padberg asking the fourth question.
I thought this was one of the best political speeches I've ever heard ...Straight Talk with humor and
without BHO's everpresent Telepromptors!
An opening day guest holds his new copy of "Courage and Consequence," by guest speaker Karl Rove, former Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, as the Republican Party of Orange County christens its new Tustin headquarters.
First Day of Spring 2010 ... " A day which will live in INFAMY "!
RUSH: People are asking today, "What's the answer?"
The answer is to elect conservatives who are just as committed to taking back the nation as the left is in destroying it. Social Security is broken and collapsing. They've lied about it, they've pillaged it, yet they pat themselves on the back! Same as Medicare and Medicaid. These people get to own the benefits but not the destruction. That has to end. Same with education. These people are allowed to own all of the good vibes, all of the love for all these benefits, but they somehow always exempt themselves from the failure and from the destruction, and that must stop. Also, we must cease with this notion that there's anything other than a liberal Democrat. There are no Blue Dogs. There are no moderate Democrats. If the word begins with a D, it doesn't need a modifier today. They are all liberal Democrats. Some are just further left than the others but there's not a'one of them that is in the center, not a'one. For all practical purposes, Pelosi will get them to vote however she wants. They will continue to elect her Speaker, and all this talk about bipartisanship? There was bipartisanship, by the way, in this bill yesterday. You know where it was? In the disagreement. There were 30-some-odd Democrats who voted against it along with all the other Republicans. The bipartisanship in this, if you care about it -- and, frankly, I don't, because it's a losing proposition for us, but the bipartisanship -- existed on the side opposing this.
CALLER: And there was... I believe it was a congressman who was a Democrat, and they asked him a question, wasn't he concerned that if this passed, even though the people obviously didn't want it, wasn't he afraid of losing in November? And his answer was, "Well, they can't possibly maintain their momentum for those six months. As we know, as with everything else, they'll just get used to it and then it won't be such a big deal." I was appalled.
RUSH: That's what they're hoping, and that's what the media --
CALLER: I know and I certainly hope that everybody does not give up that momentum, that everybody maintains the outrage against what they did last night.
RUSH: Well, it's going to be tough. This guy had a point about one thing, and that is it is tough to maintain emotional intensity such as it has been for six straight months. I don't think that's possible, but I don't think he's right that people are going to forget this and just say, "Okay, well, it's here," and be comfortable with it. Especially the administration has said that they have to go out now and sell this to people. They're going to fan out -- Obama and others going to fan out -- and start explaining to people what this really is. They're going to keep the subject alive, as will a tremendous number of people keep the subject alive. Don't worry about November. There are enough people who realize what's happened here and enough people who realize what it's going to take to restore this country's greatness. They're not going to get comfortable with America being destroyed. It won't happen.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
~ Ronald Reagan 40th president of the U.S.A. (1911-2004)
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The following is an excerpt from the 3-2-10 TRANSCRIPT of the EIB show on the eve of the big ObamaCare speech:
"The things that are wrong with the US health care system have nothing to do with our health care. They have nothing to do with the actual care. They have to do with who's running it. The same people who blew up Social Security; the same people who failed at the war on poverty; the same people who failed creating the Great Society; the same people that have created this rampant entitlement mentality among way too many of our people now want to control all of health care.
I would simply ask anybody, go examine one massive federal program that costs less than what they thought it was going to cost, that is efficient, that has the people who interact with that program satisfied and happy with it, or are they always complaining about it? I don't care if it's Social Security, I don't care if it's the DMV, I don't care if it's Fish and Game or Fish and Wildlife, I don't care who it is, there's nobody that is happy interacting with a government bureaucracy. The next thing we need to do, Howard, ask ourselves why a guy whose only experience with medicine is as a patient is qualified to design the entire nation's health care system, a guy with basically no career in the private sector, a guy with basically no existence with having to make a payroll or understanding costs, a guy whose career is basically six to seven minutes old now from community organizing --well, I take that back. He did work somewhere in a law firm in the private sector where he said he felt like he was in enemy territory. And then he goes to community organizing and does his Saul Alinsky bit. Then he runs for the Illinois Senate, look at the state their budget's in. Then he comes to the US Senate. He voted for every spending bill that Bush proposed and he's blaming everything he inherited on Bush, when he voted for every dime of it and wanted even more. "
California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is the common sense conservative
candidate in the Primary for the United States Senate in 2010 ... for the
"PEOPLES SEAT" soon to be vacated by ultra-liberal Barbara Boxer.
View Chuck DeVore At CPAC - "Get Out Barbara Boxer!"
"He only had a few minutes to speak -- but when he did address the 2010
Conservative Political Action Conference, Chuck DeVore brought the house down."
"If any major candidate should be able to marshal that sentiment in California it is DeVore, a lifetime conservative rumbler whose policy positions dovetail perfectly with the mojo of the nation's guerrilla movement of the moment."
Mr. President, Mr. Limbaugh wishes to advise you… before it’s too late.
He thinks you desperately need guidance. As does much of America.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh read this bold, spot-on letter aloud on his EIB Network radio show Thursday, January 28, 2010, in response to the president’s State of the Union address.
Click tag in header above for the transcript of the preceeding video and additional info:
RUSH: Thanks very much, David. I appreciate the phone call. By the way, speaking of this Miss America Pageant, I was going to bring this up because I frankly had forgotten it until this guy's call. They've had a different emcee each night of the preliminaries: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. Last night was the final night of the preliminaries. Last night's emcee was Dena Blizzard, comedienne from New Jersey. She involved, off the cuff, us six judges. She said, "You know, it's time for us to judge the judges. The judges get to sit here and judge everybody else." So we're caught up in this, and we have to play along and there was only one thing we had to perform, and that is we all had to stand up on cue and dance -- all six of us -- and then the audience is going to vote as to which one of us was the winner. So I got up and I started dancing and I did the Jersey fist bump because that's what she said she wanted, and I was doing the Jersey fist bump and I went kind of nuts there for 30 seconds. And, lo and behold, if I didn't win it! I won the judge talent show last night, was called up on stage. The retiring current Miss America, Katie Stam, crowns the new Miss America on Saturday night, gave me a... They didn't have a Mr. America sash, so they created one that said "Mr. New Jersey," and there was a picture of me wearing that and they couldn't find a coffee cup named Rush so they got me one with the name Roy on it and gave me that. Katie Stam, the current Miss America signed it, and all the Miss America Pageant contestants are on stage. This is at the end of the night. So I just wanted you people to know: I won a talent contest here at the Miss America Pageant, but I was not competing against the girls.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi gave a speech following Senator
Hillary Clinton's address to the thousands of activists gathered in Washington ...
Now President Obama and Congressional Democrats are ramming health care reform through
Congress. In March 2008, President Obama promised the health care debate would be open
and transparent saying:
" I am going to do it all on C-SPAN so that the American People will know what's going on."
Now the Democrats are holding secret meetings to negotiate the health care reform bill -
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Mediaweek: Limbaugh Radio Personality of the Decade
Monday, 21 Dec 2009 03:51 PM
Rush Limbaugh has been named Radio Personality of the Decade by Mediaweek, a leading industry magazine and Web site.
In the December issue’s Best of the Decade feature, Mediaweek observed:
“No radio host or personality comes close to Rush Limbaugh in size of audience or volume of political discourse.
The man manages to stay in the headlines no matter who’s in the White House or who’s gunning for him.”
The publication noted that when Sen. Harry Reid sent a letter to Limbaugh’s syndicator criticizing a remark by Rush,
Limbaugh auctioned the letter on eBay and donated the proceeds to charity.
“As Rush would say, it’s his opposition that is elevating him,” Mediaweek stated, adding:
“Limbaugh remains cleared on 600 radio stations, his audience falls somewhere between 14 million and 20 million
weekly listeners, and syndicator Premiere Radio Networks pulls in an estimated $50 million in annual ad revenue.
A recent CBS/Vanity Fair poll found that he’s the most popular conservative voice - no politician comes close.”
“You know, see, the politically correct thing to say here would be, "Oh, yes, I am very impressed that President Obama
decided to go show his concern for the remains, troops who've given their lives for freedom in this country. Itwas a
photo-op. It was a photo-op precisely because he’s having big time trouble with this whole Afghanistan dithering situation.
He found one family that would allow photos to be taken none of the others did. And of course whenever you have a
sycophantic media following you around, able to promote an antfly then he can create the impression that he has all this
concern, but Bush did this with no cameras."
RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, asked me yesterday if he could enter this fray. His theory is that he is Certified Black Enough to legitimately and without criticism criticize Obama. And he would like to say some words about this NFL episode. So without any further delay, here is Mr. Bo Snerdley, the Official Obama Criticizer here on the EIB Network.
SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, Official Obama Criticizer for the EIB Network. Certified Black Enough to criticize with 100% organic slave blood. Today, Obama isn't the issue. This is the special sports edition. And I have a statement: "My fellow Americans, this week, a racial spectacle has been played out which is nothing less than disgraceful." You know what? Screw this! We're going to the translation right now, only this time it's not a translation for the EIB brothers and sisters in the 'hood, it's a translation to the 'hood. Yo, my fellow homeys, especially those of you who play in the NFL: Every single one of you who shouted out against Rush, check yourself, dog. You got played, okay? Rush ain't your problem, yo. He never was your problem. He never will be your problem. Twenty years, man! For 20 years Rush has been telling everybody: You brothers in the NFL deserve to get paid.
The NFL and every other sports league there is got a break it off to you because you the best, right? The owners they got to break it off to you, give up your props, give you your props. Any of you fools know that, yo? No. Instead you get all puffed up behind some Obama flackie, jump on TV, start mouthing off about "Rush said this! Rush said that! Slavery this, slavery that," whatever, whatever. It was all made up, yo! Some of these clown reporters on TV who fed all the stuff to you, yo, you know what they doing now? They are out here trying to apologize quietly so they don't get their asses sued, yo! Check that out. Y'all got played. So here's your question for you brothers, especially some of y'all in the NFL. Y'all going to man up? Y'all going to man and up say, "Hey, we got played man. We kinda sorry. Oops, we didn't know."
Okay, now, let me -- while I'm -- yo, let me get this off, okay? McNabb. Can we just do this one more time? Square up. Even if Rush said what y'all thought he said, which he didn't say, what's the biggie? Y'all thought he said that McNabb wasn't all that and was getting props because people wanted a black guy to succeed at quarterback. So what? So what? Don't y'all want to see a black quarterback make it, yo? I do. So the sports media guys, he said they want him to succeed, what's the big deal? Is there a problem here, yo? And McNabb? You a punk, yo. Now, my NFL brothers, let me ask you a question here. Who was it that whipped Michael Vick a new one after he got done in the joint?
Was it Rush? Nope. It was a bunch of your white liberal sportswriter guys pretending they loved their dogs more than they loved their wives, okay? That's who ripped all over Michael Vick. Who's been ripping Plaxico, who's been ripping Pacman? Every time y'all get going... Who was it that ran T.O. on up out of Dallas, yo? Okay, was it Rush? No. Okay? Now for all of you homeys, this is outside the NFL. For all my brothers and sisters, y'all want to get pissed off about somebody insulting black people? Why don't y'all watch BET, Black "Exploitation" Television, okay? You want to know who's calling black women, "Bitches ho this, bitches ho that"? Is it Rush Limbaugh? No. Who's telling y'all that all you can do is jiggle your butts on TV? Is it Rush Limbaugh? Rush ain't your enemy, yo. You know what the biggest threat to black men is in America, yo?
It ain't Rush Limbaugh. It's other black men who are killing off brothers like they did that young boy out in Chicago, okay? A quarter of our brothers don't even make it to be age 25 'cause they get shot up by other black men. Is Rush out there pulling the trigger? No. And y'all brothers, you got anything to say about it? Especially y'all in the NFL. Y'all get paid, y'all leave the hood, that's that. Not a word. Okay? Now, for all of y'all who live deep in the hood, I got another question: Is it Rush Limbaugh stopping your kids from being educated in your run-down schools, in your run-down-ass neighborhoods? No. Who is it? And where's Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on that instead of flapping their mouth about all this other stuff that they don't know anything else about? How come Al, Jesse, and y'all are living large and the 'hood is still the 'hood? That concludes my statement.
RUSH: That's the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
RUSH: "All right, that's enough, that's enough. Now, I must acknowledge that Katty Kay certainly does not watch Fox News, which is the only place the video aired. We aired the audio here, but she's clueless. She has no idea of the story, zip, zero, nada. Katty Kay, BBC America, has no idea that schoolchildren across America are being propagandized and indoctrinated to support personally the dear leader, Barack Hussein Obama. So when I mock this and have fun with it, she thinks I am being derisive of insidious, insidious, insidious, I don't want to hear Limbaugh again, I heard it four or five times, I don't want to hear it again. Hey, Katty, try this:"
SCHOOL KIDS PARODY: Rush Hudson Limbaugh. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Rush Hudson Limbaugh. Mmm, mmm, mmm. (Battle Hymn of the Republic tune) My ears have heard Rush Limbaugh on my parents' radio. He tells me that the left is wrong and stuff I need to know. We turn it off when he is done 'cause there is no other show. Rush, keep broadcasting on. Glory, glory hallelujah. Glory, Clinton couldn't fool ya. Barack Obama can't ignore ya. Rush, keep broadcasting on. In 1951 he was born in Missouri. Now he's on the radio conducting EIB. On the air to set us free from sea to shining sea, he keeps broadcasting on. Glory, glory hallelujah. Glory, Clinton couldn't fool ya. Barack Obama can't ignore ya. Rush, keep broadcasting on. Rush keep broadcasting on!
Education: BA Washington and Lee University, 1969;
JD University of South Carolina, 1972
Birthdate: 07/31/1947
Birthplace: Charleston, SC
Religion: Presbyterian
Percentage in Last Election: 54%
Major Opponent: Rob Miller
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Sacramento, the shot heard round the world.
The start of a new revolution.
At the start of the first American Revolution the first shots were fired at the Old North Bridge in
Concord, Massachusetts in 1775. This event was memorialized as the shot heard round
the world in the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, "The Concord Hymn."
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard ’round the world.”
On August 28th, 2009 the farmers, truckers, loggers, and the people of California are now
fighting for their lives against the big government oppression that is bankrupting them and
seizing their land and assets. This time though their shots are not from the barrels of
muskets, but from their words and signs as the next American Revolution begins.
RUSH: "All right, folks, here's the way I see it.
And as you know, I see things very clear.
Obama's health care plan will be, one, written
by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it - that would be John Conyers;
two, his health care plan will be passed by
Congress that has not read it; three, signed by a president who smokes; four, funded by
a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes; five, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese; and, six, financed by a country that's nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong with this?"
SOUND Off NOW on Obama Care or Live (or not) to Regret It !
"I want to repeat the essentials of something I said
on Wednesday on this program. I really, I'm
optimistic about what is happening here and I
want to talk to those of you who may be pessimistic
about it for various reasons. I've heard from a
couple of people who are, who are pessimistic
simply because you think the message and
momentum's been lost - the subject of the argu-
ment has been changed with the thugs, the
intimidation of the union - and you're afraid that
the American people are believing that the people
showing up at the tea parties are an unruly mob
or that they're Nazis or something. Nothing can
be further from the truth. The majority of the
American people do not think that. You can see
it in the polls. The problem the administration has is trying to make the case that
all of you are an unruly mob - the polls agree with you." "You are the POLLS!"
Michael Ramirez will be our Key Note Speaker 8/11/09 - click "Upcoming Events" above for details.
House Democrat Plan Outlaws Individual Private Health Insurance
July 16, 2009
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Investor's Business Daily, a great editorial today on the Obama health care plan passed by the House of Representatives. How many of you have heard President Obama say, "Hey, if you like your plan, if you like your doctor, you'll get to keep 'em"? "It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's 'health care for all Americans' bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of 'Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,' the 'Limitation On New Enrollment' section of the bill clearly states: 'Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day' of the year the legislation becomes law."
So after this bill becomes law, nobody in the insurance business can offer anybody and you can't buy private medical insurance. "So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised -- with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers." You will have to go to the public option. "From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither." And you don't need to be an expert to understand this. The government can print money, it doesn't have to make a profit. Private sector people do or they go out of business. So you can't compete with somebody who's not worried about profit.
"Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage." We also know this. We know that many companies are looking very forward to off-loading their health care expenses to the government. "The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, 'fizzle out altogether.' What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law. The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts." Do you know HSAs are dead? And the reason health savings accounts are dead is because you have control.
This is something that Obama and his cronies want to get rid of, and it's in the legislation. Democrats have wanted to get rid of health savings accounts for years. They want to get rid of that because nothing gives individuals more control over their Medicare and the government less than health savings accounts. It took Investor's Business Daily just 16 pages of reading the health care bill, over a thousand pages, to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. So that's page 16, and they wonder what other horrors await us as we read the additional 1,002 pages here. So the day this private option becomes law nobody can buy and nobody can sell individual, private coverage. (interruption) Well, that's a good point. Obama has said, no, we need to offer this competition. We need to compete. The government competing, and they're already over a thousand insurance companies in competition out there. The governor, well, we need to really put pressure on them.
So the way they're going to put pressure on them is put them out of business. It's a horror story. It really is. This is why they're trying to push this through, folks, this is why they're trying to get all this done 'cause they know their buds in the State-Run Media are not gonna report this to you. This is not going to be told. Now, this is interesting from the Dow Jones News wire just now: "U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of fiscally conservative House Democrats, said Wednesday a House plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system is losing support and will be stuck in committee without changes. 'Last time I checked, it takes seven Democrats to stop a bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee,' Ross told reporters after a House vote. 'We had seven against it last Friday; we have 10 today.' Three House committees are slated to begin considering the $1 trillion-plus bill this week, but the Energy and Commerce looms as the biggest challenge. That's because it counts among its 36 Democratic members seven members of the Blue Dog Coalition," conservative Democrats that are opposing House Democrats' efforts in general on health care.
Mike Ross said that the bill doesn't include provisions adequate to curb rising health care costs including what the government spends on health care. So he says that his committee has the votes to block it. Yeah, well, he might think so, but he hasn't gotten a phone call from Rahm Emanuel yet. This really is going to be, I have to think, the overreach, the tipping point 'cause the Republicans can't stop this. Not with their votes. They might be able to do it in other ways. It's called television ads. I mentioned this chart in the New York Post earlier on the tax rates and what it's gonna cost various income levels in New York City where the top rate will go to 58%. And somebody at $80,000 a year in New York City will pay an effective 36% of their income in taxes. That New York Post chart, that graphic, I said, "If every newspaper in the country would put one of these together." Screw waiting on the newspapers, this is what the RNC ought to. Michael Steele ought to get busy getting some people to go to every major city and put this chart out and get it out in every city, what Obama health care is going to cost you, family of four, this income group, this income level.
You know, the Republicans have put together a pretty good flow chart to show the bureaucracy, but it's complicated. The numbers are what people will understand. How much it's going to cost them above and beyond what everything costs them now. Seventy-seven percent of the American people are happy with their health care. When they find out how much this reform is going to cost them, it could be killed. It's time to choose. Yesterday we said it. Got a great caller on this, said it's time to choose up here. Republican Party needs to put aside these little petty arguments over how they're going to go out and get that group to vote for them and that group and so forth. This is standing up for America and doing so, standing up for our traditions and our founding, standing up for the institutions and traditions that made and define our greatness. That's where their electability resides. That's where their reelectability is. Not in cherry picking votes from various groups with mindless little policy twitters.
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I don't care what your political views are...you must read this. Another look at our president,
unbelievable!!!!
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HERE IS the Commander in Chief''s RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION
TO LET THE MILITARY (individuals) PAY (with personal insurance) FOR THEIR WAR INJURIES
Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated
$540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel
received during their tours on active duty.
The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition
to his proposal.
"Look, it's an all volunteer force. Nobody made these guys go to war. They had
to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whineabout bearing the costs
of their choice? It doesen't compute. I thought these were people who were
proud to sacrifice for their country. I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With
the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that
the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is
that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues." ~ Barack Obama
2009 Flag Day Keynote Address
6/15/2009 Bruce Herschensohn
It would be much more appropriate for me to be introducing Tom Fuentes, rather than Tom introducing me. His influence has been felt throughout the nation. When Presidents speak at dinner events, it is common for people to want to be able to sit next to the President. But there have been Republican Presidents, when coming to events here, have insisted that they sit next to Tom. He is such a magnificent man and has done so much for Orange County and the nation.
I thank all of you deeply. I have always been a Republican and, of course, always will be, but many years ago there was a morning radio show in which the host asked the participants what they would do if they were told they had but one week to live. When it came my turn, I said ”in that case I would ask Tom Fuentes to come over and bring me a voter registration form – so that I could change my registration to Democrat – and in that way I would know that in one week there would be one less of them.”
There are two other people to whom I give particular thanks: Former President George W. Bush and Former Vice President Dick Cheney. Thanks are due them particularly because they insured that there isn’t one person in this room who was killed in a terrorist attack on the United States. We are all alive. Additionally, appreciation is due for President Bush’s directive for a surge in Iraq, the outcome of which has been a brighter outlook for a free Iraq. Please remember that two years ago, Democrat; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid turned our flag that we honor tonight, from red, white and blue into a white flag alone -- a White Flag of surrender when he said, "This war is lost. And the surge is not accomplishing anything.” And after two years; no apology. And one year ago, none of the Democrat’s eight presidential aspirants said they wanted to win the war – only to end it -- as though they didn’t know that wars are not ended; they are either won or lost. To this day, not one apology from any of those eight.
One of them is President, one is Vice President, and one is Secretary of State.
Former President Bush has become a victim of his own unwavering dedication to the success of the United States. In short, no matter the domestic opposition, he performed his constitutional duty to preserve the common defense. Therefore, if I wasn’t a Republican already – I surely would be a Republican now -- particularly after witnessing the first 143 days of the Obama Administration on this Flag Day Eve: 143 days that have brought about the most dangerous jack-hammering into the foundation of the United States – the Constitution. Our generation must not be guilty of leaving such rubble on which the next generations are expected to stand.
President Obama consistently states his primary goals for the nation: not the common defense, but Energy, Education, and Health Care. Unlike the common defense, none of those words are even in the U.S. Constitution. The reason they are not in the Constitution is that none of them are the business of the federal government. President Obama’s major pursuits are constitutionally not his to pursue. The 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights reserves all powers not included in the Constitution, directly to the States and to the people -- not the federal government. That is why we call this nation the United States of America. However the Department of Homeland Security issued a report in which it is written that one way to identify rightwing extremists is that they are “in favor of state or local authority.” That means that rightwing extremists include the Founders of the United States.
I saw part of this on FOX Tuesday night but did not hear the closing
... Jon will receive a lot of criticism for listing all those conservative
media folk I listen to on the radio and watch on TV. Good on him!
Gingrich (guest of honor) called Voight's comments a rallying cry
until the next elections in 2010.
I had not heard the following either ... it needed to be said and
repeated over and over ... IMO:
"Certainly, at the outset, the democrats fulfilled their mission to paint President Bush as a war monger. And once they were able to reach
out to the youth in colleges, on the internet with this lie, painting him
as the evil one, never giving him credit for keeping us safe .. once they
established that, then it would be easy to bring in 'The One', as Oprah Winfrey crowned him.
I’m also ashamed to say that Hollywood was a big part of tearing down
President Bush."
“A lot of people talk about Barack Obama and his messianic complex.
He does have one thing in common with God. God does not have a birth
certificate either."
"Fortunately, the Fairness Doctrine is so obviously unconstitutional in the eyes of
most Americans, so blatantly an attempt to block free speech, that it should be easy
to defeat. Respect for the First Amendment is broad in American society - American
soldiers fight to defend it, schoolchildren understand its importance. Happy warriors
like Rush and Sean are already taking on the Fairness Doctrine with full confidence.
Smart politicians on the left know this and it's unlikely that a Rahm Emanuel, for
example, would recommend support for heavy-handed attempts to censor conservative
radio via a renewed Fairness Doctrine.
More likely is that the left will use the subtle, silent, and creeping tool of government
bureaucracy to strangle conservative talk radio. The enforcement of "localism" reg-
ulations, as described in a 17 November 2008 American Thinker article by Jim Boulet,
would use a system of complaints to the FCC and community advisory boards to attack
conservative radio. A few tweaks in FCC regulations can require radio stations to submit
time-wasting and expensive reports, hold public meetings, and create panels of local
residents, led by community organizers, to evaluate programming. If the bureau-crats
and peoples' panels are not pleased with a radio station's compliance, they'll be able to
take away the station's license. The goal would be to attack conservative radio in
obscurity, without an open showdown."
Bush's Achievements Ten things the president got right.
by Fred Barnes
01/19/2009, Volume 014, Issue 17
The postmortems on the presidency of George W. Bush are all wrong. The liberal line is that Bush dangerously weakened America's
position in the world and rushed to the aid of the rich and powerful as income inequality worsened. That is twaddle. Conservatives--okay,
not all of them--have only been a little bit kinder. They give Bush credit for the surge that saved Iraq, but not for much else.
He deserves better. His presidency was far more successful than not. And there's an aspect of his decision-making that merits special
recognition: his courage. Time and time again, Bush did what other presidents, even Ronald Reagan, would not have done and for which
he was vilified and abused. That--defiantly doing the right thing--is what distinguished his presidency.
Bush had ten great achievements (and maybe more) in his eight years in the White House, starting with his decision in 2001 to jettison
the Kyoto global warming treaty so loved by Al Gore, the environmental lobby, elite opinion, and Europeans. The treaty was a disaster,
with India and China exempted and economic decline the certain result. Everyone knew it. But only Bush said so and acted accordingly.
He stood athwart mounting global warming hysteria and yelled, "Stop!"
He slowed the movement toward a policy blunder of worldwide impact, providing time for facts to catch up with the dubious claims of
alarmists. Thanks in part to Bush, the supposed consensus of scientists on global warming has now collapsed. The skeptics, who point
to global cooling over the past decade, are now heard loud and clear. And a rational approach to thetheory of manmade global warming
is possible.
Second, enhanced interrogation of terrorists. Along with use of secret prisons and wireless eavesdropping, this saved American lives.
How many thousands of lives? We'll never know. But, as Charles Krauthammer said recently, "Those are precisely the elements which
kept us safe and which have prevented a second attack."
Crucial intelligence was obtained from captured al Qaeda leaders, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with the help
of waterboarding. Whether this tactic--it creates a drowning sensation--is torture is a matter of debate. John McCain and many
Democrats say it is. Bush and Vice President Cheney insist it isn't. In any case, it was necessary. Lincoln once made a similar point in
defending his suspension of habeas corpus in direct defiance of Chief Justice Roger Taney. "Are all the laws butone to go
unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?" Lincoln asked. Bush understood the answer in wartime
had to be no.
Bush's third achievement was the rebuilding of presidential authority, badly degraded in the era of Vietnam, Watergate, and Bill Clinton.
He didn't hesitate to conduct wireless surveillance of terrorists without getting a federal judge's okay. He decided on his own how to treat
terrorists and where they should be imprisoned. Those were legitimate decisions for which the president, as commander in chief,
should feel no need to apologize.
Defending, all the way to the Supreme Court, Cheney's refusal to disclose to Congress the names of people he'd consulted on energy
policy was also enormously important. Democratic congressman Henry Waxman demanded the names, but the Court upheld Cheney,
7-2. Last week, Cheney defended his refusal, waspishly noting that Waxman "doesn't call me up and tell me who he's meeting with."
Achievement number four was Bush's unswerving support for Israel. Reagan was once deemed Israel's best friend in the White House.
Now Bush can claim the title. He ostracized Yasser Arafat as an impediment to peace in the Middle East. This infuriated the anti-Israel
forces in Europe, the Third World, and the United Nations, and was criticized by champions of the "peace process" here at home. Bush
was right.
He was clever in his support. Bush announced that Ariel Sharon should withdraw the tanks he'd sent into the West Bank in 2002, then
exerted zero pressure on Sharon to do so. And he backed the wall along Israel's eastern border without endorsing it as an official
boundary, while knowing full well that it might eventually become exactly that. He was a loyal friend.
His fifth success was No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education reform bill cosponsored by America's most prominent liberal
Democratic senator Edward Kennedy. The teachers' unions, school boards, the education establishment, conservatives adamant about
local control of schools--they all loathed the measure and still do. It requires two things they ardently oppose, mandatory testing and accountability.
Kennedy later turned against NCLB, saying Bush is shortchanging the program. In truth, federal education spending is at record levels.
Another complaint is that it forces teachers to "teach to the test." The tests are on math and reading. They are tests worth teaching to.
Sixth, Bush declared in his second inaugural address in 2005 that American foreign policy (at least his) would henceforth focus on
promoting democracy around the world. This put him squarely in the Reagan camp, but he was lambasted as unrealistic, impractical,
and a tool of wily neoconservatives. The new policy gave Bush credibility in pressing for democracy in the former Soviet republics and
Middle East and in zinging various dictators and kleptocrats. It will do the same for President Obama, if he's wise enough to hang onto it.
The seventh achievement is the Medicare prescription drug benefit, enacted in 2003. It's not only wildly popular; it has cost less than
expected by triggering competition among drug companies. Conservatives have deep reservations about the program. But they shouldn't
have been surprised. Bush advocated the drug benefit in the 2000 campaign. And if he hadn't acted, Democrats would have, with a much
less attractive result.
Then there were John Roberts and Sam Alito. In putting them on the Supreme Court and naming Roberts chief justice, Bush achieved
what had eluded Richard Nixon, Reagan, and his own father. Roberts and Alito made the Court indisputably more conservative. And the
good news is Roberts, 53, and Alito, 58, should be justices for decades to come.
Bush's ninth achievement has been widely ignored. He strengthened relations with east Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea,
Australia) without causing a rift with China. On top of that, he forged strong ties with India. An important factor was their common enemy,
Islamic jihadists. After 9/11, Bush made the most of this, and Indian leaders were receptive. His state dinner for Indian prime minister
Manmohan Singh in 2006 was a lovefest.
Finally, a no-brainer: the surge. Bush prompted nearly unanimous disapproval in January 2007 when he announced he was sending
more troops to Iraq and adopting a new counterinsurgency strategy. His opponents initially included the State Department, the Pentagon,
most of Congress, the media, the foreign policy establishment, indeed the whole world. This makes his decision a profile in courage.
Best of all, the surge worked. Iraq is now a fragile but functioning democracy.
How does Bush rank as a president? We won't know until he's judged from the perspective of two or three decades. Hindsight forced a
sharp upgrading of the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Given his achievements, it may have the same effect for
Bush.
--Fred Barnes, for the Editors
by Mark R. Levin
Posted: 01/07/2008
Rush Limbaugh’s detractors never learn. They’ve tried everything to come between Rush
and his more than 20 million listeners, intending to destroy his appeal and impact. But it’s
a hopeless, almost laughable endeavor. They led boycotts against his advertisers -- yet
his show continues to generate more revenue than any other on radio. They pressured his
affiliates to drop his program, but he’s still heard on more than 600 stations -- more than
any other talk host. They tried to keep him off Armed Forces Radio, of course, but he has
the most popular program on the military’s radio network.
Will Not Be Intimidated
Try as they might, the Rush-haters cannot silence him, or persuade his massive audience to
tune him out. After two decades as the top talk host in the nation, his ratings are stronger
than ever. He is more popular and influential than ever. And yet, the Rush-haters persist.
Their favorite tactic is to twist Rush’s on-air remarks to make them fit their stereotypes and
to advance their political objectives.
Rush has never bowed to efforts by the left to control our national debate through intimidation
tactics. A few months ago, when the Democrats shamelessly used Graeme Frost, a 12-year-
old who had been in a terrible car accident, to promote the expansion of the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) entitlement, it was Rush, with information from folks on
conservative websites such as Free Republic, who told America that the Frost family was not
as it was represented to be by the Democrats and the Big Media. The Frosts had been
financially able to purchase health insurance but apparently had chosen not to. Among other
things, the parents sent their two daughters to an expensive private school, at an apparent
cost of $40,000 per year. For exposing this sham, Rush was accused of picking on the poor
seventh grader. Well, as Rush explained at the time, she’d been used, but not by him -- by
her own parents, the Democrats and the media.
Home Run After Home Run
When David Ehrenstein, a Hollywood writer, penned an opinion piece last year in the Los
Angeles Times, characterizing Illinois Democratic Sen. Barak Obama as “The Magic Negro,”
Rush seized the moment to expose liberal hypocrisy with a parody -- “Barak the Magic Negro”
(played to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon”). The Rush-haters pounced, claiming falsely
that Rush, not Ehrenstein, was employing a racial slur against Obama. No, Rush was ridiculing
the left, and once again, it hit home. And when Rush was pressured to stop playing the
parody, he defiantly played it over and over again.
During the 2006 elections, the Democrats shamelessly used Michael J. Fox in targeted
congressional races to campaign against Republicans who opposed taxpayer-financed stem-
cell research, including running television ads featuring Fox. And in those commercials, Fox
was visibly shaking from the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The political message was clear:
Vote against these Republicans because they are heartless people who oppose curing
diseases. Well, Rush would have none of it. He criticized the Democrats’ use of Fox, Fox’s
politicization of a medical issue and the dishonesty of the ads. As usual, the Democrats and
liberal media distorted Rush’s argument, accusing him of mocking Fox and his ailments. They
sought to deflect criticism from their own crude political behavior. But again, they failed.
Most Important Voice on the Right
What is it about Rush that drives the left crazy (that is, crazier than they already are)?
The answer is actually quite simple: Rush is the most important voice in the conservative
movement. Others want to be, some claim to be, but he is. More than any conservative
politician, columnist or pundit, Rush speaks for us. His opinions are principled and consistent.
He has a brilliant mind and a voracious appetite for knowledge and truth, all of which he uses
behind his golden EIB microphone to teach and persuade as he cuts through the daily media
clutter. He has the guts to say what so many of us are thinking to ourselves. And Rush’s
likable and optimistic personality and entertaining style attract increasing numbers of
conservative adherents. Liberals consider Rush and his talk show the greatest threats to
their agenda and pursuit of power, and they’re right.
The most stunning and desperate assault on Rush was launched just a few weeks ago when
the ethically challenged Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) -- armed with
propaganda prepared by a Clinton front group that calls itself “Media Matters for America”
(which also claims to be a tax-exempt charitable foundation) -- tried to use the power of his
office to squelch Rush with a threatening letter, signed by dozens of his Democratic
colleagues, to Rush’s Clear Channel broadcast partner. What was all the fuss about?
During a Morning Update broadcast, Rush criticized fake soldiers such as Jesse MacBeth and
the left’s support for them. MacBeth claimed to have served in Iraq as an Army Ranger.
MacBeth was embraced by the anti-war movement and appeared on several media outlets
solely because of his vicious smears against the United States military. But MacBeth was a
fraud. He was forced out of the Army in 44 days and never received the Purple Heart, as he
had claimed. A press release from the United States attorney’s office that prosecuted
MacBeth, among other fake soldiers, states:
“Jesse MacBeth, 23, Tacoma, Wash., sentenced today in connection with his fraudulent claims
of military service. MacBeth sought medical benefits claiming to suffer from PTSD related to
service in Iraq and Afghanistan, in fact, Macbeth was discharged from the Army about a
month after he joined. MacBeth never traveled outside the U.S. with the Army. Macbeth
duped reporters, claiming to be a decorated Army Ranger who had witnessed war crimes.”
In a subsequent conversation with a caller who complained that the media “never talk to real
soldiers,” Rush referred to these fake soldiers as “phony soldiers.” There was nothing remotely
controversial about his statement. But Media Matters, putting words in Rush’s mouth, claimed
that Rush had challenged the patriotism of real soldiers who had actually served but opposed
the Iraq War.
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Advocate of the Military
Now, anybody who has spent any time listening to Rush knew this was false. There is no
greater advocate -- on or off the air -- for the military and its mission. And unlike Reid and
most of the other anti-war Democrats, over the years Rush has quietly made significant
contributions to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. But it didn’t matter.
Reid ran with the lie, as did many of his fellow Democrats and media friends, believing they
could damage Rush’s reputation, drive a wedge between Rush and his audience and advance
the Democrats’ political agenda. To my knowledge, never before has a Senate leader
attempted to use the force of government against a private citizen in this way. And rather
than condemn Reid, the Big Media cheered him on by repeating his lies.
So, the stakes were extremely high. Would a powerful Democratic politician and Clinton front
group be able to cripple Rush and damage the conservative cause through intimidation and
dishonest tactics? Well, they don’t know Rush like we do. They picked a fight with the wrong
guy.
Rush confronted, mocked and exposed Reid and Media Matters as dissembling bullies. And in an act of absolute brilliance, he put the Reid letter -- signed by the likes of Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), John Kerry (Mass.), Teddy Kennedy (Mass.) and other anti-war senators -- up for auction on eBay, not only pledging that all proceeds would go to his beloved
Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, but announcing that he’d match the winning bid.
The auction brought $2.1 million, and when combined with Rush’s matching donation, the Reid letter generated a whopping $4.2 million for the foundation! But Rush wasn’t finished. He
challenged Reid to raise or contribute an equal amount for the troops. We’re all still waiting.
For this, and all else he does every day to defend our founding principles, HUMAN EVENTS
confers on Rush Limbaugh its 2007 Man of the Year Award. .
_________________ Once A Marine - Always A Marine Semper Fidelis, Ugly Angel '65-66
QUOTE FOR THE DAY!
"Here's what I do want to ask you to do today, and this is something
you can do yourself. We don't need to spend a whole lot of time here
on the radio reliving it in order for you be able to accomplish this. I
want you to take, especially with what is happening in the country today
and around the world, the threats that we are faced with, take just a
few seconds and recall how you felt on that day when you first saw
pictures or when you first heard what had happened. We usually don't
want to dwell on feelings. We like to deal in thoughts here at the EIB
Network. But this is an exception. Because I think we've lost the
feeling, and naturally so. These are not the kind of feelings you want to
revisit. They're not the kind of feelings you want to stew in. I think you
should, though. I think you should take the time whenever you have
time today, just think back to how you felt. I don't care what the feeling
was: shock, sorrow, disbelief, rage, anger, desire for immediate
reciprocity. Because I think the whole country needs to be yanked back
into the memorial of how we all felt that day, how scared, how helpless,
how stunned and how shocked and how sad and how mad everyone was
as the event unfolded right before our eyes. This is one bad memory
that we need to keep as a bad memory and never forget it, if we are
to deal with these people who perpetrated this act effectively in the
future."
~ Rush Limbaugh ... 9/12/07
Monday, December 15, 2008
Democrats don't need to kill talk radio
Many pro-Republican talkers helped push more votes to Obama
By GARY JASON
The Cal State Fullerton instructor is a contributing editor to Liberty
"talk radio" like "soap operas" is just entertainment. Intelligent, educated people don't ssek out talk show hosts to guide their politics, religion or economics, instead they seek out credible sources to make informed decisions on important issues. the fairness doctrine
is another useless piece of legislation that will demand tax dollars to support the fairness doctrine agency to monitor radio talk shows.
In essence it will be just a costly, self-serving government appendage .
12/15/2008 5:17:08 AM
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."
Do liberals actually believe that conservative opinions are pornography?
Are liberals so threatened that they're plotting and planning right now, at this very minute, to silence conservative thoughts and opinions from the public airwaves?
You be the judge.
FOX News asked Senator Chuck Schumer if liberals in Congress will try to implement the so-called Fairness Doctrine - a measure specifically designed to shut down Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and conservative talk radio.
Schumer replied indignantly:
“Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not. Particularly on television or radio."
Huh? No, it's NOT a joke! And he didn't stop there.
Schumer nastily admonished decent Americans for some imagined hypocrisy:
“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air.... That’s not consistent.”
It's almost beyond belief.
We couldn't have made it up!
Is Schumer so unhinged, that he's not even capable of understanding the fundamental difference between smut and political expression?
Craig Parshall, general counsel for the National Religious Broadcasters said:
"I was stunned by Senator Schumer’s suggestion that by keeping filth off the air, the federal government has somehow become empowered to take over the control of legitimate programming content of broadcasters."
But Parshall missed one very important point.
With control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, Schumer and his liberal colleagues are twisting the First Amendment’s guarantees of Freedom of Speech and of the Press – ALL TO SET THE STAGE TO SILENCE RUSH, HANNITY AND OTHERS.
If you're a liberal, you can burn the flag, put four-letter-word bumper stickers on your car, commit lewd acts on-stage, play profane rap music loudly on your car radio, produce, rent and distribute the most disgusting filth in broad daylight and on the Internet in plain view of minors and even use taxpayer dollars to depict Jesus suspended in bodily waste.
But when it comes to shutting down conservative thoughts and opinions, now that they have grabbed the reins of power, liberals are making control over the content of speech a top priority!
They're plotting and maneuvering behind the scenes to make it happen RIGHT NOW!
Peter Kirsanow writing in National Review Online tells us why this fight is URGENT:
"Imposition of some form of the Fairness Doctrine likely will be one of the Democrats' agenda items for the first 100 days of the new administration. It's important that conservatives begin working now to stop it."
Kirsanow went on:
"Waiting until Inauguration Day to get geared up is too late. By that time the Fairness Doctrine Express will be at full steam— wavering Democrats will be pressed to support the new Democratic president, weak-kneed Republicans will want to display comity, the mainstream media will not be saddened to see talk radio annihilated and much of the public will be too enraptured by Obama's Camelot inauguration to notice or care."
Kirsanow is right.
There is not a moment to lose. If we take a stand now, we can defeat this threat to our civil liberties.
If we wait, it will be too late.
"Congress Shall Make No Law..."
Use the hyperlink below and bombard President George W. Bush and the Republican Members of the Senate with your Blast Faxes. Demand that they stand firm against any attempt by liberals in Congress to effectively outlaw the First Amendment.
We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.
We can win this fight. It only takes 40 Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.
If the hyperlink above does not function, please copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
You might think it's almost beyond belief, but our Founding Fathers understood and dreaded the danger we presently face.
They feared the danger to such an extent that they ratified, as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, words they thought would be our primary line of defense against the government evolving into a tyranny that would trample on the rights of the people.
To them the danger was real:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and some of the people some of the time, but you
can not fool all of the people all of the time."
~ Abraham Lincoln ... must have been thinking of '09 Obamanation
Tea Parties work in Cal.e.fornia!
California voters kill budget measures Only salary curbs survive in a rout of Schwarzenegger's slate of reforms
Colonel, I saw part of this on FOX Tuesday night but did not hear the closing
... Jon will receive a lot of criticism for listing all those conservative media
folk I listen to on the radio and watch on TV. Good on him!
Gingrich (guest of honor) called Voight's comments a rallying cry until the
next elections in 2010.
I had not heard the following either ... it needed to be said and repeated
over and over ... IMO:
"Certainly, at the outset, the democrats fulfilled their mission to paint President Bush as a war monger. And once they were able to reach
out to the youth in colleges, on the internet with this lie, painting him
as the evil one, never giving him credit for keeping us safe .. once they
established that, then it would be easy to bring in 'The One', as Oprah Winfrey crowned him.
I’m also ashamed to say that Hollywood was a big part of tearing down
President Bush."
Speaking of "The One" ... Rush said this on his show Wednesday:
“A lot of people talk about Barack Obama and his messianic complex.
He does have one thing in common with God. God does not have a birth
certificate either."
Speaking of "The One" ... Rush said this on his show Wednesday:
They are the key dems to write, phone, fax. or email.
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Mr. President, Mr. Limbaugh wishes to advise you… before
it’s too late. He thinks you desperately need guidance. As does much of America.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh read this bold,
spot-on letter aloud on his EIB Network radio show Thursday,
January 28th 2010 in response to the president’s State of the
Union address.
It's wedding bells for Rush Limbaugh – for the fourth time.
The conservative firebrand, 59, exchanged vows with Kathryn Rogers – a blond bombshell half his age – in a lavish Hawaiian-themed wedding bash headlined by none-other-than Sir Elton John Saturday in Florida.
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote
came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable
of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier
to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore
the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved
electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem
is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere
symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should
not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their
prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all,
merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as
those who made him their president."
RUSH: Once in a while -- it doesn't happen very often -- once in a while you stumble across an article, an essay that demands to be widely disseminated. This one that I stumbled across is from the July-August issue of the American Spectator, and the title is: "America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution." It's by Angelo Codevilla. Ladies and gentlemen, it prints out to 16 pages. Have you read it, Snerdley? It prints out to 16 pages. I could read the whole thing to you, and only I have the ability to probably do that without boring you to tears and sending you elsewhere. But I'm not even going to try to do that. It is so good, it is so timely, it is so thorough and complete, it's difficult to cherry-pick. It's difficult to pick a couple or three pull quotes to give you an idea. The reason this appeals to me is that it dovetails with something that I have been trying to explain for 20 years on this program, and it's come to a head now with the election of Obama. And, you know, for 20 years I have gotten the question, "Rush, why don't the Republicans do X?" And I have struggled to come up with answers to this question. Every time I'm asked, I search for a different answer.
One of the things I've always settled on to try to explain to people is that people never really get out of high school. That the whole concept of the big clique and wanting to be part of it dominates everybody's life: the quest for power, the quest for acceptance, the quest to be in the "in" crowd, however it's defined. I've told you over the years that one of the reasons the Republicans are whatever the way they are in Washington is because Washington is a culture and a place that is run and dominated, not just politically, but socially, and I've always said that this is crucial to understand, 'cause this is the big clique aspect. Washington is dominated politically and socially by Democrats, by the left. The Republicans also live there. Everybody wants to get along with who you live next to, and in Washington, the center of power in the world, everybody wants to be in the ruling class. The ruling class is the subject of this piece by Angelo Codevilla, who is professor emeritus at Boston University. It is just a wonderfully written and crafted piece.
Here's a couple pull quotes, but again, getting into various pull quotes will not do this piece justice: "Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits." This resonated with me because in explaining Obama to everyone. I said this is how he was raised; this is how he was educated; this is what he believes: America is the problem in the world -- so do members of the ruling class. The ruling class, it's important to understand, is not based on merit. In fact, the ruling class contains many educational failures. People who would otherwise have flunked out of college were it not for their connections to others in the ruling class.
Another pull quote: "Getting into America's 'top schools' is less a matter of passing exams than of showing up with acceptable grades and an attractive social profile. ... Since the 1970s, it has been virtually impossible to flunk out of American colleges. And it is an open secret that 'the best' colleges require the least work and give out the highest grade point averages," which explains in part why we've never seen Barack Obama's transcripts or his writings or anything else from Harvard or the Harvard Law Review because they don't exist. He was put in that position for reasons having nothing to do with merit, and the people in the ruling class do not rise on the basis of merit; they rise on the basis of connections, saying the right things, thinking the right things, doing the right things according to the code that is established.
We, in what Mr. Codevilla calls, the country class, meaning not the hick class, but the country, we are the country. The ruling class is a minority, and I have touched on this. We are being ruled, i.e., governed by a minority. Less than 10, 15% of Americans agree with the thought process, the philosophies, the goals and objectives of the ruling class. And we in the country class, we believe in merit. We rise or fall based on merit. We believe that a good GPA is what's necessary to get you into college. We believe that performing well on the job is how you get promoted and how you get paid well. Not true in the ruling class. In fact, that is looked down upon. It's sort of like the old money versus new money business. The old money, inherited from robber barons of the past, great wealth. The people who inherited it don't do anything for it, but it has great lineage. People who have earned great wealth rather than having inherited it are shunned by the old-money people because it's working class to have earned money. It's just not done. It's considered gauche, it's considered filthy. And it's much the same way with merit throughout the ruling class. You don't have to be the best. In fact, if you do the right things and say the right things, you can be an abject failure meritocracy-wise and still be promoted.
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The answer is to elect conservatives who are just as committed to taking back the nation as the left is in destroying it. Social Security is broken and collapsing. They've lied about it, they've pillaged it, yet they pat themselves on the back! Same as Medicare and Medicaid. These people get to own the benefits but not the destruction. That has to end. Same with education. These people are allowed to own all of the good vibes, all of the love for all these benefits, but they somehow always exempt themselves from the failure and from the destruction, and that must stop. Also, we must cease with this notion that there's anything other than a liberal Democrat. There are no Blue Dogs. There are no moderate Democrats. If the word begins with a D, it doesn't need a modifier today. They are all liberal Democrats. Some are just further left than the others but there's not a'one of them that is in the center, not a'one. For all practical purposes, Pelosi will get them to vote however she wants. They will continue to elect her Speaker, and all this talk about bipartisanship? There was bipartisanship, by the way, in this bill yesterday. You know where it was? In the disagreement. There were 30-some-odd Democrats who voted against it along with all the other Republicans. The bipartisanship in this, if you care about it -- and, frankly, I don't, because it's a losing proposition for us, but the bipartisanship -- existed on the side opposing this.
I would simply ask anybody, go examine one massive federal program that costs less than what they thought it was going to cost, that is efficient, that has the people who interact with that program satisfied and happy with it, or are they always complaining about it? I don't care if it's Social Security, I don't care if it's the DMV, I don't care if it's Fish and Game or Fish and Wildlife, I don't care who it is, there's nobody that is happy interacting with a government bureaucracy. The next thing we need to do, Howard, ask ourselves why a guy whose only experience with medicine is as a patient is qualified to design the entire nation's health care system, a guy with basically no career in the private sector, a guy with basically no existence with having to make a payroll or understanding costs, a guy whose career is basically six to seven minutes old now from community organizing --well, I take that back. He did work somewhere in a law firm in the private sector where he said he felt like he was in enemy territory. And then he goes to community organizing and does his Saul Alinsky bit. Then he runs for the Illinois Senate, look at the state their budget's in. Then he comes to the US Senate. He voted for every spending bill that Bush proposed and he's blaming everything he inherited on Bush, when he voted for every dime of it and wanted even more. "
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Here is a list of the Blue Dog dems in the House that are most opposed to Obamacare:
So after this bill becomes law, nobody in the insurance business can offer anybody and you can't buy private medical insurance. "So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised -- with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers." You will have to go to the public option. "From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither." And you don't need to be an expert to understand this. The government can print money, it doesn't have to make a profit. Private sector people do or they go out of business. So you can't compete with somebody who's not worried about profit. 
RUSH: Once in a while -- it doesn't happen very often -- once in a while you stumble across an article, an essay that demands to be widely disseminated. This one that I stumbled across is from the July-August issue of the American Spectator, and the title is: "