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RUSH: This is Shannon in Summerton, South Carolina. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega dittos. This is a real honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I am the wife of a recently retired United States Marine Corps officer, 21 years served, and I am seeing things in this in this country that are absolutely shaking me to the core. I\u2019m in the middle of raising two girls — who, by the way, do not throw like our current commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I\u2019m seeing more and more that the days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O\u2019Neill being able to come to a compromise in the Oval Office are over. There\u2019s a line that\u2019s being drawn that needs to be drawn in this country. Republicans need to quit being afraid of being called racist, of being called bigots, of being called small-minded for standing up for what is right. And then this line… I see two sides now where you\u2019re either going to stand on the side of everything that made this country great, or you are going to stand on the side of what is going to be the fall of this country and everything ever fought for and worked hard for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that is profound. We are at that point where it\u2019s time to choose sides. You\u2019re either going to stand aside and let this country be remade in ways our Founders would not recognize —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that will end the days of prosperity or you\u2019re going to stand up for the country. Standing mute is not an option right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what are you reacting to? It\u2019s a great point, but what are you reacting to? The Republican —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I just see — whether it\u2019s in the House; the Senate; these hearings; the White House using our Bill of Rights, the Constitution pretty much as a hand towel to wipe their hands with — I mean, it\u2019s all over the place. The media is in the back pocket. You know, people are afraid to be… You know, Senators don\u2019t want to be aligned with you because they\u2019re afraid they\u2019ll be seen as small-minded or in the minority. And it\u2019s the minority that they\u2019re thinking about and that they need to be fighting for, because that is the backbone of this country. It always has been and it always will be, and we\u2019ve gotta start standing up straight and be heard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Forgive me here, but my ego is my ego —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and it sounds to me like what you are saying is that these senators who it is said are timid because they are afraid of being compared to me or they are pandering, what you\u2019re saying is they should be in my back pocket, not running away from me, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. My neighbor is afraid to be called, you know, right-wing conservative Republican.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know all about it. Look, there\u2019s genuine fear the left has made this happen. There is genuine fear in this country over speaking out. Great call. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, remember the week before last, I had a somewhat lengthy monologue on how fruitless and ridiculous it is to predict the future of the economy until we see every program the Democrats are going to pass and sign into law. For example, until we know that cap and trade is actually going to be passed and signed into law, we can\u2019t tell anybody — we can\u2019t predict — what kind of economic growth there\u2019s going to be, what the employment numbers are going to be. And we can\u2019t do it because if cap and trade happens, it\u2019s gonna devastate the US economy. And if health care happens on top of that it\u2019s going to double devastate the US economy. <\/p>\n

So all these predictions that you\u2019re hearing from Obama, ‘Yeah, well, we\u2019re gonna start to have a jobless recovery. It\u2019s gonna start turning around. We\u2019re in the end of the recession here, economic growth,\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean diddly-squat. Even if in the next quarter it shows growth — and if it does, then they\u2019re gonna be all kinds of celebration, ‘The stimulus worked!\u2019 and so forth — but then they passed these two things? If they do, bye-bye growth forever, folks. That\u2019s how bad all of this is. Bye-bye, sayonara growth for a generation or two — and I\u2019ll tell you something about health care. People ask me, ‘Rush, you keep saying once they get that, we can\u2019t roll it back. How is that? Why can\u2019t we just…? <\/p>\n

‘If they pass a law, they nationalize health care and it goes back, why can\u2019t a future president and Congress simply pass new law saying, ‘No, we\u2019re not going to do it anymore\u2019?\u2019 Here\u2019s one of the reasons why, and this is just one of the reasons. Where is Obama going to get these promised cuts in health care? He\u2019s going to doctors, the AMA, hospitals. He has announced that he\u2019s going to squeeze insurance companies and doctors, meaning they\u2019re gonna earn less. Now, if you are an enterprising person, you have the aptitude, the education, or the intelligence to go to medical school, graduate, either be a GP or a specialist. Why are you gonna bother? Why you gonna bother, if you\u2019re not going to make any money?<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s going to cost you to go to med school. You want to go for altruistic reasons to a point but it\u2019s also a living, and if it\u2019s not going to provide you the living because you\u2019re going to be squeezed in order for government health care to so-called be affordable. So with fewer doctors in the picture, you just can\u2019t say, ‘Okay, we\u2019re getting rid of this,\u2019 \u2019cause where will the doctors be? We will not have a supply of doctors to pick up the demand once you go back. With tax cuts, but if they raise taxes say to 90% — you could roll back tax rates, tax increases you could say roll them back — but with the intricacies of health care and all of the interdependence of thousands of government agencies and doctors and Medicare… And, by the way, it\u2019s being modeled after an abject failure, Medicare. So rolling it back is not going to be easy, and it\u2019s not something that can be done on a dime, stopped on a dime like lowering tax rates can. <\/p>\n

Now, when you talk about predicting the future of the economy, you can\u2019t, as I said, until you know what of this agenda is going to pass. If any of this madness gets crammed down our throats, every economic prediction you\u2019re hearing today is worthless. This is such an opportunity for the Republicans right now, given Sonia Sotomayor illustrates it. The idea is a contrast like our last caller said: This is it. You stand up, take a side, choose. There are two sides now. We don\u2019t have time to pander to moderates. We don\u2019t have time to pander to people that don\u2019t have the courage of their own convictions. We don\u2019t have time to pander to people that don\u2019t know what they think until they figure out what the majority thinks and then agree with them. <\/p>\n

The two choices are: Are we going to remake America and destroy the elements that made it great and have permanent poverty and lack of opportunity disguised and called fairness, or are we going to maintain this country as it was founded: as a beacon of freedom and liberty around the world to people everywhere who wish to come here, that offers unbridled economic opportunity, depending on how much you want to put into it? Those days will be over if the Obama agenda succeeds. There won\u2019t be enough capital. There won\u2019t be enough money in the private sector. It\u2019s all going to be taken over by government. The car companies are an example, the mortgage industry. Health care, that\u2019s one-sixth — one-sixth! — of the US economy, one-sixth of our GDP. You take that out of the private sector. That means the private sector has shrunk by one-sixth. That means there\u2019s less capital for people to compete for and earn, and there\u2019s less opportunity for that remaining five-sixths (and it\u2019s going to be less than that because all this other stuff\u2019s going to take even more of the private sector) to grow. So it\u2019s time to choose sides. <\/p>\n

It really is. And for the Republicans, this is not the time to start debating the future of the Republican Party and, ‘Do we need to get rid of the social issues? Do we need to get rid of the conservative Christians? Do we need to become more moderate and seek out the Hispanic vote? Do we have to go out to the black vote? Do we have to go out to the female vote? Do we have to go out to the Asian vote?\u2019 We don\u2019t have the luxury of playing those kinds of political games because the future of the country is at stake, and there is only one choice in opposition to Obama. We cannot say that as a party to survive, ‘We must recognize that the American people want big government. They like government doing things for them and we must find a way to reach them and the people in the middle class, and we must find a way to get there and tell them that we can do it better for them.\u2019 This is not a time to compromise on the belief that limited government, personal freedom, is the definition of greatness of this country. It\u2019s time for the Republican Party to put aside its primary calculation of, ‘How can we win elections?\u2019 and instead focus on, ‘How can we save America?\u2019 and in the process, they will win elections if they are oriented toward saving the country, \u2019cause those are the two choices. The lady was right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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