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RUSH: Remember Barack Obama and Caterpillar? If you don\u2019t remember that, let me give you the details of the story. Back before the Porkulus bill, the stimulus bill was signed into law, President Obama made a speech, and he had a big meeting with corporate execs in the East Room of the White House, and he made a speech, and he said that the CEO of Caterpillar said, (paraphrasing) ‘I\u2019m going to start hiring people back. We laid off a lot of people at Caterpillar, but Mr. President, with a responsible stimulus plan we\u2019ll hire some people back.\u2019 Obama said that, and he then said that what the Caterpillar CEO was talking about was his stimulus plan. So everybody believed that when Obama signed his stimulus plan, that the CEO of Caterpillar would start rehiring. They had a big town meeting out there in Peoria where Caterpillar is, and it turns out that the Caterpillar CEO didn\u2019t say what Obama said he said. Obama just put him in a position where it would be difficult for the Caterpillar CEO to deny it, but eventually the Caterpillar CEO did deny it. Not only have they not started rehiring, they are laying more people off at Caterpillar, even after it was signed. <\/p>\n

So earlier this week, the news was filled with excited reports that the health care industry, after a meeting with President Obama, had agreed to trim $2 trillion in health care costs over the next ten years, 150 basis points. And everybody said, ‘Whoa, all right, look at Obama. He can bring these people in, and he can hornswoggle \u2019em, and he can shake his finger at them, and he can make \u2019em do the right thing.\u2019 There\u2019s only one problem. This is Caterpillar all over again. ‘Health Care Leaders Say Obama Overstated Their Promise to Control Costs.\u2019 Shades of the Caterpillar CEO who had words put into his mouth on the Porkulus bill package by Obama. <\/p>\n

”These groups are voluntarily coming together to make an unprecedented commitment,\u2019 Mr. Obama said. ‘Over the next 10 years, from 2010 to 2019, they are pledging to cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year — an amount that\u2019s equal to over $2 trillion.\u2019 Health care leaders who attended the meeting have a different interpretation. They say they agreed to slow health spending in a more gradual way and did not pledge specific year-by-year cuts. ‘There\u2019s been a lot of misunderstanding that has caused a lot of consternation among our members,\u2019 said Richard J. Umbdenstock, the president of the American Hospital Association. ‘I\u2019ve spent the better part of the last three days trying to deal with it.\u2019 Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said ‘the president misspoke\u2019 on Monday and again on Wednesday when he described the industry\u2019s commitment in similar terms. After providing that account, Ms. DeParle called back about an hour later on Thursday and said: ‘I don\u2019t think the president misspoke. His remarks correctly and accurately described the industry\u2019s commitment.\u2019 The Washington office of the American Hospital Association sent a bulletin to its state and local affiliates to ‘clarify several points\u2019 about the White House meeting. In the bulletin, Richard J. Pollack, the executive vice president of the hospital association, said: ‘The A.H.A. did not commit to support the ‘Obama health plan\u2019 or budget. No such reform plan exists at this time.”<\/p>\n

Do you hear this? Not only did they not support it, there isn\u2019t a plan, and yet we were told after two hours of meetings that Obama had fixed it. ‘Moreover, Mr. Pollack wrote, ‘The groups did not support reducing the rate of health spending by 1.5 percentage points annually.” You know, the next industry that Obama tries to shake down, somebody in there needs to wear a wire, because this is unconscionable, this is outrageous. This is the second time, maybe it\u2019s happened more than this number of times, we just don\u2019t know about it, bring these people in, have a meeting with them, go out as president, make a speech, totally lying about what they agreed to in the meeting and what you said they said, and when you go out as president and make the speech, you\u2019re kind of pressuring them to go along with you, but they\u2019re not doing it, some of these people are not. So the White House first said the president misspoke and then later said, no, he didn\u2019t misspeak. But he did misspeak. <\/p>\n

President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has a track record of lying. He cannot be trusted. Nancy Pelosi can\u2019t be trusted to report honestly as to what happens in meetings, and neither, apparently, can Obama. Is he not obviously just using these people? They\u2019re nothing more than props. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s frustrating to me is how eagerly all these people — I know it\u2019s the president calling, I know it\u2019s a tough time and a tough invitation to refuse. But you don\u2019t have to go in there cowering in fear, but they do, because of the banks and because of the car companies. This administration is showing no regret, no compunction whatsoever about being authoritarian, autocratic. They\u2019re governing with fear and everybody that they\u2019re coming in contact with is afraid of them. I\u2019m still struck here, Obama making these comments yesterday out in New Mexico, ripping to shreds his own 100-day policy, all this spending, we can\u2019t sustain it, all this debt, we can\u2019t sustain it. Who gave it to us? He did! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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