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RUSH: I feel bad about this. I do. I feel bad about it. mean I felt good about it at the time and I felt good about it for a couple months after. I feel bad about it now. Well, no, who else but me is responsible for Mrs. Clinton\u2019s plunge? Realize, folks, if I had not made such a big deal out of her avoiding the issue of driver\u2019s licenses for illegal aliens in New York, I mean that\u2019s what this tailspin began. You know it and I know it. And now we don\u2019t want her out of this race. As I said yesterday, we want her in this race for as long as possible to keep the chaos going in the Democrat Party. Anyway, greetings, great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh and another episode of the EIB Network\u2019s Rush Limbaugh program. We come to you today from the subterranean depths of the EIB Southern Command. Telephone number if you\u2019d like to be on the program is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Have you heard what has happened to Dr. Robert Jarvik? Dr. Robert Jarvik invented the artificial heart. Now, I used to live in New York in an apartment building where Dr. Jarvik lives. I don\u2019t know if he still lives there or not. Nice-as-hell-guy. His wife is Marilyn vos Savant, the genuine smartest woman in the world, the highest IQ in recorded history. She had, I don\u2019t know if she still does, a column in Parade magazine or one of those things that people send in genius questions, and she would answer them. I\u2019d run into them in the lobby now and then. Anyway, for those of you who take Lipitor, he\u2019s been the spokesman for Lipitor on television. All of a sudden Pfizer, the manufacturer, has decided to yank Dr. Robert Jarvik from its television commercials. ‘Pfizer took the doctor and inventor of the artificial heart off the mound as pitchman for the world\u2019s best- selling medication, after his credentials — in medicine and in his own exercise regimen — came under fire. In the ads, which began their heavy rotation on TV and in print in 2006, Dr. Robert Jarvik touts the benefits of Pfizer\u2019s cholesterol-lowering drug. As of Monday, Jarvik\u2019s photo still appeared on Pfizer\u2019s Web site advertising the drug. But House Democrats said the ads could be misleading to consumers because Jarvik appeared to be giving medical advice, even though he is not licensed to practice medicine. While Jarvik holds a medical degree, he did not complete the certification requirements to practice medicine. Democratic Reps. John Dingell and Bart Stupak said Monday the company made the right decision. ‘When consumers see and hear a doctor endorsing a medication, they expect the doctor is a credible individual with requisite knowledge of the drug,\u2019 Stupak said.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, you might be asking yourself, ‘Rush, with the big Democrat debate tonight and Hillary Clinton –‘ who, by the way, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, she\u2019s looking more and more like a women\u2019s basketball coach every day. This is not good. Shouting and screaming out there and pointing at everybody else as though they\u2019re to blame. At any rate, you may be wondering with all that going on, why am I bringing up Dr. Robert Jarvik and this Lipitor commercial? Because two Democrats in the House say he\u2019s not qualified, he\u2019s not a doctor. He can\u2019t be giving advice. What the hell do they do every day? Democrats in this country claim to know how to run the oil business. They know how to run Wal-Mart. They claim to know how to run the health care business overall. The Democrats in this country claim to know everything that\u2019s wrong with everything in the private sector and with capitalism, and they think they can do it better. I will stack Dr. Jarvik\u2019s credentials up against anybody when it comes to describing this drug and what it does to anybody in Congress. Misleading? All right, if we\u2019re going to go there, then everything that comes out of a Democrat\u2019s mouth about what\u2019s wrong with this country and how to fix it is misleading, because everything they want to do has been shown to fail, as in socialism, as in madcap liberalism. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying this because I know Jarvik — and I haven\u2019t seen him in decades, haven\u2019t seen him in years, but I saw the story, said, ‘Well, what in the name of Sam Hill?\u2019 (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know who they\u2019re going to get to recommend it. You can\u2019t go into the doctor\u2019s office and say, ‘Hey, I saw this Jarvik guy on TV and he said I need this.\u2019 ‘Oh, Jarvik, fine, here\u2019s your script.\u2019 Your own doctor has to give you the stuff in the first place. Your own doctor has to prescribe it. It\u2019s a cholesterol medicine, right? And, of course, the side effects of cholesterol medicine happen to be the liver and that\u2019s why it\u2019s prescription and they have to be very careful. Ted Kennedy would be good for it. His liver is already damaged. I mean, Ted Kennedy advising us on anything. He\u2019s the guy that invented HMOs and now he wants to put \u2019em out of business. It\u2019s just a little bugaboo of mine, folks. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another story from the Associated Press. You remember yesterday\u2019s opening monologue. I was on a tear. I was livid about a number of things but primarily among them is the fact that Republicans, for way too long, have just been accepting the premise of Democrat agenda items and then trying to massage these premises and make them look like they\u2019re more Republican. But if the Democrats come out and say, ‘We need universal health care,\u2019 the Republicans don\u2019t say, ‘No, we don\u2019t, what we need to do is come up with a way to make it more price conscious relative to people\u2019s ability to pay in the private sector.\u2019 No, we come out with our own plan to get everybody insured to show that we care. When it comes to CAFE standards in automobiles, Democrats say we all gotta start driving junk. Republicans say, ‘Well, okay, we\u2019ll start driving junk,\u2019 but 15 years later the Democrats want us to start — they never challenge the premise of anything. Of the three areas of the private sector I talked about yesterday that are out of control: price of food, biofuels and all that, energy, and medicine. And, lo and behold, the AP: ‘Inflation at the wholesale level soared in January by the fastest pace in 16 years,\u2019 pushed by what? Rising costs for food; rising costs for energy; rising costs for medicine. <\/p>\n

‘The Labor Department said Tuesday that wholesale prices rose 1 percent last month, more than double the 0.4 percent increase that economists had been expecting. The worse-than-expected performance was certain to capture attention at the Federal Reserve, which has chosen to combat a threatened recession by aggressively cutting interest rates,\u2019 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, rising prices, who\u2019s been in charge of fixing these areas of our culture and our economy? A bunch of bureaucrats, both parties. Democrats get most of the blame here because they\u2019re the ones behind biofuels which is causing food prices to rise. Energy, Democrats again, not allowing us to go find our own sources, increasing the world\u2019s supply, bringing the price down. And, of course, medicine. You all know the story, what\u2019s going on with medicine. In fact, get this, there\u2019s a companion story. ‘By 2017 –‘ that\u2019s only nine years from now. ‘By 2017 total health care spending will double to more than $4 trillion a year.\u2019 Folks, the whole federal budget this year is, what, three trillion, $3.1? In eight years, health care spending alone will be $4 trillion. ‘It will account for one of every $5 the nation spends. Health is projected to consume an expanding share of the economy, which means that policy makers, insurers, and the public will face increasingly difficult decisions about the way the health care is delivered and paid for, said a bunch of economists.\u2019 Hell\u2019s bells. <\/p>\n

Same thing headed down the road with Social Security and Medicare and any number of other things that are entitlement in nature. Do you think at some point we might want to look at how to reduce costs rather than factor who\u2019s going to pay for all of this and how? Is the idea here that we\u2019re going to, okay, $4 trillion every year by 2017. Cool! Fine. Let\u2019s figure out who\u2019s going to pay the bill for it, let\u2019s figure out who\u2019s not going to get covered when their insurance — because this is unaffordable. You think it might be wise to start looking at reducing costs, nine years? That\u2019s going to go by like that. And, by the way, it\u2019s not just going to jump up to four trillion overnight. It\u2019s going to be a gradual increase to get there. I don\u2019t hear anybody talking about health care talk about reducing costs. I hear about getting everybody covered and I hear if you choose not to get insurance, Hillary or Obama is going to garnish your wages and make sure that you get covered, otherwise universal health coverage doesn\u2019t work. If you are a young buck, a young stud, you\u2019re single, 26, 27 years old, you don\u2019t want to buy health insurance, they\u2019re going to make you. You have to spend money you don\u2019t want to spend, after you\u2019ve gone out and spent money on a bunch of lightbulbs you don\u2019t want. <\/p>\n

By the way, a story in the Boston Globe, some woman was running around and her compact fluorescent blew up and broke, mercury all over the place. She was urged to get out of the house, not vacuum it up, that would just circulate it more in the air. They had to cut out a section of the carpet where the mercury spilled, actually cut it out and get it out of there. And these things, in 2012, are going to be mandatory if all that holds? Still steaming here, ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019m partially steaming at what so many people in this country just sit back and accept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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