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RUSH: Here\u2019s a story from the Charlotte Observer: ‘Four years ago, Aaron Polkey, an African American lawyer from Charleston, lined up behind,\u2019 John Edwards, ‘but now he\u2019s backing Barack Obama. ‘Edwards has already had his chance,\u2019 Polkey says, ‘and Obama is a breath of fresh air.\u2019 Defections like his are a big reason Edwards trails [Ubama and Hillary] not only among African Americans, but among all Democrats in\u2019 South Carolina. So the news continues to be bad for every one of these nominees except Mrs. Clinton, who continues to skyrocket, being propelled and aided by sycophantic coverage in the Drive-By Media. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go Cape Coral, Florida, since we\u2019re on a roll here on the phones. This is Joe. Joe, welcome to the program, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: About ten years ago you had an article or story on your program about Hillary Clinton\u2019s drug task force being fined over $300,000 for not keeping proper records of all of her meetings.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why don\u2019t we hear that, anymore? Everybody talks about Dick Cheney\u2019s meetings. Nobody ever talks about Hillary\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course not! Well, you mean in the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media — and they\u2019re not going to. You know the fix is in here. She is their candidate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I\u2019m going to tell you, we\u2019re not going to need these people. Look, folks, this is going to be a long path to defeating Mrs. Clinton and this health care proposal. As I said yesterday, it\u2019s going to require going back to fundamentals. I opened the program today in a jocular mood. The jocular mood continues, but if I may get serious for a moment, simplicity is the simplest way to make a serious argument — and, as Shakespeare said, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.\u2019 There\u2019s one word that we could boil all of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s proposals and policies and all of the liberals\u2019 proposals and policies down to, and that one word will tell us why we oppose all of them, the people and their policies. The word is ‘freedom.\u2019 It\u2019s just that simple. Liberalism and this current crop of Democrat candidates, is out to take as much day-to-day freedom from you as possible. We\u2019re not necessarily talking about constitutional freedoms, just freedoms to live our lives. That\u2019s the objective, and the simplest way to explain what they want to do to people is to simply use that word: ‘Freedom. Do you like it? Do you want to keep it? It\u2019s threatened by today\u2019s Democrats.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yuba City, California, this is Santos. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos and all that jazz.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And God bless our troops serving around the world, including my brother and his son serving in the Middle East. Hey, Rush, my question is about Hillary\u2019s health care plan. Now, she said that people making over $200,000 a year would have to pay some sort of penalty —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Two-hundred-and-fifty a year.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, they\u2019d have to pay some form of penalty and private health insurance is better than the government. My question is how is that even possible? I mean, she wants to take over the health insurance system because she said it\u2019s broke. But private health insurance is still going to be better for some people? I mean, what chance does a poor sucker like me have of getting —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I understand the question. But this is why yesterday I said we\u2019re going to have to go back to the fundamentals and explain the whole concept of liberalism, health care, and how the two relate to one another. Now, to state this in an understandable, simple way, Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health care proposal contains a lot of danger. By the way, it\u2019s designed to get people who don\u2019t make $250,000 a year to support the whole plan, based on class envy. If your family has household income of $250,000 or more, and you go out and buy a health insurance policy that is better than what the government\u2019s offering, you are going to pay a tax. That tax could be as high, I have seen in certain stories, as $60,000. You are going to pay a penalty for having a better plan than somebody else does. <\/p>\n

Now, I understand you\u2019re asking, ‘How can you go out and get a better plan? I thought there was only going to be one plan, the government plan.\u2019 That\u2019s the theory, but it never works out that way. What Hillary knows is that the wealthy are going to be able to go out and do whatever they want to do and get better coverage than what she\u2019s going to offer. What you all ought to be realizing here is that Mrs. Clinton is admitting there\u2019s going to be better coverage than what you are going to get. Forget the rich, forget the fact they\u2019re going to pay taxes on it (although I\u2019m not going to forget it,) but what you need to be realizing here is what Mrs. Clinton is admitting, that there\u2019s going to be better plans that you can\u2019t get. There\u2019s going to be better coverage, better whatever, that you can\u2019t get, probably better treatment, too, that you can\u2019t get, even though the whole program is designed to fix everything that\u2019s wrong with the program and the whole industry. <\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t know whether Clinton and her strategists understand this or not, but they have just admitted that they\u2019re not going to fix this, and it\u2019s not going to be any better than what you have. End up being worse, probably. Then you\u2019re going to have to go out there, if you didn\u2019t hear this yesterday, you\u2019re going to have to go out there and you\u2019re going to have to have health insurance to get a job interview. You hear that and you say, ‘What? How do I get health insurance without a job?\u2019 Exactly! You go to your government health care center for it. The employer isn\u2019t going to provide it under the Hillary plan. The government is, folks. Ha-ha-ha, bye-bye competition. So you\u2019ve got to have your health insurance to get a gig. Now, she was asked about details. (doing impression) ‘Well, yeah, we have not had details yet. We envision this happening down the road. We\u2019ll let the congressional committees work this out.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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