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RUSH:
We were leading, as we always do, the cutting edge on this -- White
House now trying to destroy the US Chamber of Commerce as they try to
destroy the insurance agencies. Did any of you happen to hear Obama's
radio address, Internet address on Saturday? My friends, it was I
think one of the most demagogic, dangerous addresses that I've ever
heard a president make. I mean it was the ugliest presidential
message I've ever heard. I've got the text of it here. It
is just stunning, this attack on the insurance industry, and you'll
note that this is the technique. Every time they try to pass some new
kind of legislation or a new law, there always has to be a villain,
always must be a demon, and the demon always is a large corporate
entity that you deal with. It's either Big Oil or Big
Pharmaceutical, now it's Big Insurance.
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are trying to destroy the Chamber. Next in line will be the
Knights of Columbus and then the Lions Club, the Rotary Club, and then
they'll go off on the Shriners. The Chamber of Commerce needs the
support of every American who gives a damn about free markets, private
property, and fears of creeping fascism. This country cannot
afford for the insurance industry to cave. This country cannot afford
for the Chamber of Commerce to cave. The Chamber of Commerce has
been screwed by this administration's policies and now the Chamber is
the enemy and a hoax that they had changed their minds and are
supporting cap and trade gets reported by the Washington Post,
New York Times, Reuters and CNBC. A hoax! From an e-mail, a
single e-mail!
How do these people look in the mirror every
day and call themselves the great protectors and guardians of what is
news? "The Internet is just a sewer"? It seems to me they
get most of their news from that sewer these days. The Obama
administration systematically is destroying this economy, the
businesses that make up the Chamber of Commerce, and instead of remorse
we get fascism! This tells us everything we need to know about
Obama and his associates. It really is amazing. You've got
companies leaving and trashing the Chamber of Commerce because these
companies fear climate change and coming Obama legislation and
regulation as they try to escape it. You've got the health care
industry playing along with Obama on health care reform.
If
companies object to anything -- like the insurance industry -suddenly
they're a villain, they are a target. There's a story by the New
York Times today about this same infighting in the energy industry with
some companies playing ball with Obama for protection and others having
the guts to stand up. But more and more people -- I don't care,
industries, individuals, whenever they are, more and more of them --
just have lost courage. They are not willing to fight for the
system that made them prosperous. They're not willing to fight for the
system that built them into the companies they are. They are so scared
that they're playing ball with Obama in hopes that he'll exempt them in
some way from the harm they know will come to others in their business.
 It
is simply outrageous. Some of these companies may actually
believe in what Obama's doing in both these areas, but regardless, I am
reminded of a quote by Winston Churchill for all the others who damn
well know that this is BS. Winston Churchill: "An appeaser..."
and all of you in business and all of you in the pharmaceutical
business, all of you in the drug business, all of you in the insurance
business who are thinking of caving -- thinking if you cave, Obama will
exempt you from whatever damage you know he intends for the rest of
people in your business -- listen to Winston Churchill. "An
appeaser is a guy who throws his friends to the alligator in hopes the
alligator will eat him last."
An appeaser knows it's
over. An appeaser knows he's going to get his, he just hopes he's
last in line. We couldn't found the country today if we had to.
There aren't enough people. Now, that's not true. There
aren't enough current leaders. We certainly have enough people. I
find this just appalling. It has my blood boiling. A hoax
e-mail, and the New York Times and Washington Post, CNBC, and Reuters
post it that the Chamber has done a 180 on cap and trade.
Meanwhile, if the truth be known, Obama is having trouble holding his
coalition together on health care. Five different health care
plans? They're out there bragging about it, not one of them is
his. This radio address of his, this YouTube address on Saturday
was perhaps, ladies and gentlemen, the ugliest presidential message in
history. We have two sound bites from it. Here's the first.
OBAMA:
The insurance industry is rolling out the big guns and breaking out
their massive war chests to marshal their forces for one last fight to
save the status quo. They're filling the airways with deceptive
and dishonest ads, they're flooding Capitol Hill with lobbyists and
campaign contributions, and they're funding studies designed to mislead
the American people. Of course, like clockwork, we've seen folks on
cable television who know better waving these industry funded studies
in the air. We've seen industry insiders and their apologists
citing these studies as proof of claims that just aren't true.
It's smoke and mirrors, it's bogus, and it's all too familiar. |
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RUSH:
The president of the United States is calling out yet another industry
-- after calling out doctors, after calling out the drug
companies. Pricewaterhouse did this survey that's got him so
upset and the reason he's so upset is because they came out with the
truth, that his plan will lead to $4,000 in new taxes and bills. If he
gets this plan, if he gets this health care plan, it's $4,000 minimum
in new premiums! When President Obama sits here and says,
"Studies designed to mislead the American people," he may as well be
talking about himself and everybody in his administration. "Like
clockwork, we have seen folks on cable TV who know better waving
these-industry-funded studies..." Let me tell you something, Mr.
President. Anybody with half a brain knows that whatever you come
up with is going to cost much more than what you even say it is.
There's not one government program that's ever come in on budget or
under budget or on time. There's not one government program that
has worked as designed -- and the unintended consequences of all these
programs are too numerous to mention. Here's a second portion of
Obama's remarks.
OBAMA: Every time we get close to passing
reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a
prescription and say, "Take one of these and call us in a
decade." Well, not this time. The fact is, the insurance
industry is making this last-ditch effort to stop reform, even as costs
continue to rise and our health care dollars continue to be poured into
their profits, bonuses and administrative costs that do nothing to make
us healthy; that often actually go toward figuring out how to avoid
covering people. And they're earning these profits and bonuses
while enjoying a privileged exception from our anti-trust laws, a
matter that Congress is rightfully reviewing.
RUSH: Once
again let's go after profits, let's go after bonuses, and let's
threaten another American industry. It is thuggish
behavior. Now, I don't care... You know, I know a lot of you in
this audience don't like big business. I know a lot of you can
cite rhyme and reason and give examples how you think you've been
ripped off and so forth. That's one thing. But it is simply
un-American for an administration to target industry after industry
after industry after industry for trying to protect itself against his
takeover of that industry, which is what this is about. He wants
to run them out of business, and it's their right to stay in
business. Many of them are caving.
The dirty little
secret is that the insurance industry is not his problem when it comes
to health care. His problem is he's got every different coalition
on his side of the aisle opposed to it for one reason or another.
There isn't a public option in it, it doesn't fund abortions, it does
fund abortions, it's going to make union members pay more. I saw
the headline the other day: "Middle Class Workers Should Not Have to
Pay for the Uninsured." It was about union workers upset at one
of these five different plans that Obama is touting out there.
(interruption) It was Baucus' plan. Baucus plan. Everybody's
going to face higher taxes to pay for the uninsured, and the union guys
don't think they should have to. "Well, Obama's our buddy! Why, that's
not going to happen."
 You
know, at the end of the day, when President Obama's in the privacy of
his bedroom and he peels off his mask, the smiling-face mask, I'd love
to see his real face. I'd love to see his Chicago community
organizer face, his Alinsky face, his Machiavellian face. I know
what's vicious, and I know what's ugly, but I can't remember any
presidential message to the nation more vicious, more ugly, more
ruthless than the president's Saturday radio address. His attack
-- and this is an attack, make no mistake about it. His attack on
insurance companies, on statisticians, on accounting firms, on cable
news, on anybody who challenges his plan, is appalling! And he
doesn't even have a plan, he does not have his own plan. You have
to understand a little history here: The president bet his presidency
on health care reform.
That's what he bet it all on, and
he's losing. And he knows he is losing. He's losing with
his base. He is losing with his party. He cannot get two of
his biggest union supporters, the SEIU and the AFSCME, to agree with
each other about this. He can't get the Senate to agree with the
House! He cannot even get the most liberal senators to agree with
the less liberal senators. He does not have a plan. He has
five congressional plans, none of which agree with each other. He
said, "For the first time ever, all five committees in Congress
responsible for the health reform have passed a version of
legislation." For the first time? Five different
versions? Why not throw in a Republican plan so Obama could
pronounce we have six different versions, then? This is a mess.
And the president who smiles better than any president in
our history launches a vicious, bald-faced, demagogic attack on straw
men. These no-approval polls reveal that his previous attacks
blaming Republicans didn't work so now he's blaming it on insurance
companies, after blaming it on doctors, after blaming it on the drug
companies. Mr. President, if I may: The fault lies in the five
plans. All of your domination of TV time has not made a case for
a single plan. There are five different plans. You can't
figure out which way to go. It's Democrats and Democrats'
constituencies and voting blocs that are the problem here.
It
ain't talk radio, and it ain't Fox News, and you can try to distract
everybody from your plunging support on health care all you want by
picking a fight with Fox News -- and you can pick a fight with me, and
you can send your NFL buddies after me and do all you want. But we
cannot allow you to get away with covering up the fact that it is you,
sir, who are failing. The great unifier, Barack Obama, can't even
put the elements of his own party together on the same page to support
what he bet the ball game on: Health care. They are on the
defensive on this, folks. Do not fall prey to the sordid trash
that is disguised as news today, 'cause it is nothing but sordid trash
no matter where you get it. In a newspaper, on a television, in
sports magazine. It doesn't matter where you get it. It is
trash, drivel, and garbage.
The fact is they're on the
defensive. This health care thing is ballgame. So keep
attacking the insurance companies. You keep attacking all these
straw dogs. We are going to keep pointing out the real problem
and real solutions, such as portability of private insurance plans from
state to state so you can put all these 1700 insurance companies
competing with each other to lower premiums. Just because you live in
Alabama doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to buy a plan from a company
in Missouri, but you can't right now. We're also talking tort
reform, reduction in defensive medicine, real competition among the
1300 to 1700 insurance companies. Let 'em compete across state lines!
Consumer control, the kind of reforms that would really reform.
As for his vicious attacks on insurance companies, I have a suggestion,
sir.
If you're going to attack insurance companies, would you
please attack those in Iran and Afghanistan and in North Korea and the
Taliban insurance company and the Venezuelan insurance company?
You know, our real enemies, sir? The really enemies of this
country are not Fox News, talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, you name it.
Our foreign policy is falling apart. This Afghanistan thing is
spinning out of control and we're letting lug heads like John Kerry and
Joe Biden dictate what the hell is going to happen there. Folks,
it is a disaster mess that we're in (sigh) and the business that was
once the safeguard against all this has thrown in its lot with the
Obama administration, and whatever character and integrity they used to
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RUSH:
And, ladies and gentlemen, another sound explanation on why Obamacare
is a fraud. It is from the Denver Post today. The
headline: "Colorado Insurers Say Health Care Bill Would Lead to
'System Collapse' -- Executives, who critics say are using scare
tactics, contend proposed penalties for opting out are too low.
Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care
reform throughout the past year, are now warning that current proposals
could cause a 'system collapse.' At issue are what insurance companies
consider absurdly low penalties for people who choose not to buy health
insurance." See, this is the dirty little secret. If you want
somebody to sound irritated at an insurance company I'll do it for you
right now. They were all for it when they thought people's
penalty for not having insurance would guarantee a bunch of people
having to go out and buy policies. Then the White House got wind
that people were on to that scheme so they lowered -- in publicity only
-- they lowered what the fine would be. And the insurance
companies, "Well, that fine is not low enough to motivate people to go
buy a policy because the fine is cheaper than the policy," so now some
insurance companies are starting to back out of this.
Their
concern: People will buy insurance only when they desperately need it,
such as after they're diagnosed with cancer or heart disease." Well,
common sense thing to do. "Healthy people might choose to pay the
penalty, now proposed at a few hundred dollars per year, because it is
far less expensive than buying insurance." See, this is what
happens when the government tries to control actions with centralized
control instead of letting market forces influence decisions.
There is no one to pay for the people who need it. Every time
they reach their grubby little hands into the private sector and try
all this command and control it botches things worse than they could
ever be botched if the private sector were left alone. Look at
what's happening to us here. I mean we're trucking along here
just fine, all of a sudden here comes Obama, massive reform that,
believe me, has as its endgame the elimination of private
insurance. That's what these clowns in the insurance business had
better realize and fast. They're getting distracted here by how
big the penalty is going to be for not having insurance and what that
will mean to them in terms of selling policies. You people in the
insurance industry had better understand something real fast, and I
hope you do now that Obama has trained federal government big guns on
you.
The objective is your end. The objective is to
have a giant public option and have it be so cheap at first that
companies will automatically off-load all of their employees onto
it. You friends of mine in the insurance industry, you can sit
around there, you can finesse this or debate this on the margins but
you're being distracted. What is really at risk here is the
survival of your industry. Obama may let one or two of you hang
on just for the illusion that there's some private sector competition
going on, but the truth of the matter is, everybody's going to be
steered to the public option. That's all this is about.
It's not about anything else. It's not even really about health
care. It's not about improving health care. It's about
Obama and the Democrat Party controlling everybody's future, regulating
their freedom and their lives and putting the insurance industry out of
business.
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 RUSH:
Now, I have here, ladies and gentlemen, page 187 of Saul Alinsky's
Rules for Radicals. This is in a chapter on converting the middle
class. "The middle class are a fearful people who feel threatened
from all sides, the nightmares of pending retirement and old age with a
Social Security decimated by inflation, the shadow of unemployment from
a slumping economy, with blacks already fearsome because the culture's
conflict threatening job competition, the high cost..." Whoa, it looks
to me like Saul Alinsky was advocating racial agitation here.
"...threatening job competition, the high cost of long-term illness and
finally with mortgages outstanding, they dread the possibility of
property devaluation from nonwhites moving into their neighborhood."
Now, this is Rules for Radicals, Alinsky advising people like Obama how
to take advantage and promote all of these emotions, how to create this
angst amongst people! And then there's this: "Repeated financial
crises result from accidents that the middle class thought they were
insured against only to experience the fine print evasions of one of
our most shocking confidence rackets of today: The insurance
racket." So Saul Alinsky advocated converting the middle class to
your side by attacking the insurance agency -- and isn't it
coincidental? It's happening right now. |
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