{"id":32997,"date":"2009-07-20T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:11","slug":"barack_obama_is_an_illusionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/07\/20\/barack_obama_is_an_illusionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama is an Illusionist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: This story from state-run Associated Press. ‘The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today\u2019s bleak landscape. The administration\u2019s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama\u2019s budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress. <\/p>\n

‘The release of the update — usually scheduled for mid-July — has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.\u2019 That\u2019s when Obama is shooting to have health care signed, passed and signed into law. That\u2019s how fast that they want to move this, and they\u2019re trying to hide the actual budget numbers. Now, the interesting thing is if you go back to WhiteHouse.gov — I have it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. I have the memo from Obama. ‘Subject: Transparency and Open government. Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. From Barack Obama, President of the United States. My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. <\/p>\n

‘We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information…\u2019 It goes on and on and on. And now they\u2019re hiding budget data. Everything about this man, everything about this administration is a scam. Everything is a sham. Barack Obama is an illusion, practicing illusions. He\u2019s an illusionist, practicing illusion day in and day out. It\u2019s like we\u2019ve always advised you when liberals open their mouths and speak: Take the opposite of what they say to find the truth. <\/p>\n

Maybe in his next speech, maybe in his next speech President Obama will give us a telling statistic. Maybe he will tell us how many people leave the United States for medical treatment in Canada or Britain versus how many people in Canada or Britain leave to come for treatment in the United States. Maybe he\u2019ll tell us that number. Maybe he\u2019ll tell us that the plan that he wants is so good, it\u2019s a mirror image of the socialized plans in Canada and Great Britain. Maybe he\u2019ll tell us how many Americans are leaving our country for better health care in Canada and Britain. Maybe throw in Cuba! Let\u2019s look at a parallel situation. Government-run schools. Obama is the National Education Association\u2019s best friend. He even shut down a charter school program in DC because he wants to kill any competition with government schools — and this was a school for minorities, and the minorities in DC and this charter school were performing great. <\/p>\n

They loved it, their parents loved it. Obama shut it down. It was a school for minority kids. He wants to kill any competition with government schools. Yet he sends his own kids to an expensive private school. His commitment to government school is purely political. His personal commitment is to get the best education he can for his kids, so he sends them to private school. Obama and his ilk will do exactly the same thing with government-run health care. They\u2019re going to have their own plan. They\u2019re going to have their own exclusive doctors. This is why I suggested three weeks ago: Call your member of Congress, House or Senate, and ask them: ‘Are you going to sign on the public option you\u2019re writing for everybody else?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Answer: No. They will not give up their own health care plan. He and his other elites are going to find a way around every obstacle they\u2019re putting in front of us. The public will not be able to find a way around it. It will be condemned to whatever the government dictates. We are being condemned. We\u2019re facing an economy that is condemned, and it\u2019s a great word to describe what Obama is doing. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: ABC Radio News at the top-of-the-hour during the most recent newsbreak here on the EIB Network… This kind of drivel makes me sick. You know what? We ought to provide our own programming here. Don\u2019t have any break at the top of the hour and allow our stations to continue to carry the program rather than be polluted by some State-Run Media. Get this. ‘It\u2019s no surprise,\u2019 ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s no surprise whatsoever. This is the New Castrati voice, by the way. ‘It\u2019s no surprise that a president who grapples with tough issues should see his poll numbers drop.\u2019 Of course not! What a brave and courageous young man this young president is, willing to risk his poll numbers for all that he believes in for the American people. ‘It\u2019s not unusual at all to see a president who grapples with tough issues, see his poll numbers drop.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Did we ever, ever come close to hearing any analysis like that during the Bush administration? I\u2019m going to tell you what here, folks. All the networks are breathlessly awaiting Obama\u2019s speech on health care as he supposedly grabs the baton. He has never let go of the baton, and he\u2019s got this speech and there\u2019s this little children\u2019s hospital teddy bear logo that he\u2019s going to be standing in front of. I think they\u2019re in disarray. The White House is in disarray and here\u2019s the reason why they\u2019re in disarray. The so-called personal lovability, respectability, whatever you want to say, however you want to describe Obama\u2019s personality. ‘Well, at least he can talk. He\u2019s smart. He\u2019s educated. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah\u2019 is not working anymore. There is no Bam magic. When the approval numbers start falling, there is no Bam magic. You know, I was talking about Clinton and his poll numbers 60%. <\/p>\n

I left out something crucial in analyzing why Clinton\u2019s numbers stayed above 60 during impeachment and Lewinsky. The economy was roaring! The economy was roaring and people said, ‘Don\u2019t mess with it! Don\u2019t mess with it. We don\u2019t like the guy. He was a reprobate but don\u2019t mess with it. The economy is good, don\u2019t touch it!\u2019 Well, the economy ain\u2019t good, and Obama\u2019s got… There, look at that. Teddy bear for the children\u2019s national whatever the hell it is. The logo he\u2019s going to be speaking in front of or underneath. Obama is liked. Unlike Clinton was not liked, Obama is liked, but the economy is excrement. The only difference between our economy… It\u2019s just bad. We\u2019re going to see the real Obama, now. Because of this disarray and because of this frustration that that magic isn\u2019t working, we are now going to see the real Obama starting today with this speech, how he seeks to smear and destroy people behind the scenes who disagree with him. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to see the TV ads now. We\u2019re going to see ACORN and other groups become even more active. We will see efforts to mischaracterize Obama opponents. We will see and hear continual lies about their motives, people who oppose either cap and tax or the health care plan. So get ready, because we are going to soon see the real Obama. The magic has worn off. Folks, who was it that…? It was Jim DeMint. Senator Jim DeMint, South Carolina, said if Obama doesn\u2019t get this health care, Obama is over. Well, that really teed \u2019em off and they\u2019re using that statement in TV ads. They\u2019re going to be going after DeMint. But DeMint\u2019s closer to the truth than he knows. If he doesn\u2019t get this, this is the centerpiece of everything else. He had to destroy jobs in the private sector first. He had to… Well, he\u2019s had to start the assault. He had to weaken the economy. He had to run around and talk about how health care is a right. You lose your health care when you get canned, when you lose your job, when you\u2019re laid off. So Jim DeMint is more right on this than he knows. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want say one more thing because Obama just finished this breathtakingly misrepresentative speech on health care. ‘We can make reforms in ways that don\u2019t add to the deficit.\u2019 The CBO has put the lie to that and Obama is withholding the July budget update numbers precisely because it will add to the deficit. There\u2019s no interest in savings here. There\u2019s no interest in efficiencies. These people are acting like they\u2019ve got no record and that we don\u2019t know who they are. People like them have designed every losing program that we\u2019ve got, every money-losing, bank-breaking program that we\u2019ve got. Now, when Obama sends his kids to public school, government-run school, when Obama lives in real public housing, not the White House, when Obama uses public transportation like he wants all of us to use, or when he starts driving around a bubble car, and when Obama\u2019s retirement consists only of Social Security, a public pension system, then he might be more convincing about the wonders of public, i.e., government-run health care. <\/p>\n

But the truth is Barack Obama lives off of and has gotten wealthy off of capitalism and the private sector. Despite all his talk about the wonders of big government, he lives one way, he talks another, as do all the rest of the leftists in Congress. If he actually relies only on Social Security for his retirement, sends his kids to an average DC public school, then I\u2019ll listen to him when he tells me how wonderful the government runs things. But when he will not subject himself to the same public institutions that he\u2019s going to require all of us to be subjected to, and tells us how wonderful they are but he won\u2019t go anywhere near \u2019em, I\u2019m sorry, that adds up to zip, zero, nada credibility. <\/p>\n

John in Radcliff, Kentucky, as we go to the phones now. I appreciate all of you who are on hold, your patience. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How you doing today?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: As I told Mr. Snerdley, I\u2019ll get right to the point. I\u2019m retired from the Army, so I got a lot of time on my hands, and I decided to conduct a survey. I called around to as many congressman as I could get through to on Thursday and Friday of last week, and I got a hold of about 75 to 80 senators and around 125, 150 representatives, and I asked them that being as how they were so intent on giving us this health care program, I asked if they would be willing to add onto it and eliminate the health care program that they have for themselves and for the president and join us in the program they want to give us. Out of all those that I got a hold of, I got no takers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I had one — one of the staffers that I spoke with said that my idea had already been brought up during the markup process for the bill and rejected by the Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) It was a proposal in the House Ways and Means Committee by Sam Johnson. No, that was illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants being covered, but you\u2019re right. It did happen. This is why I say, John, when all these people, Obama, Pelosi, when they send their kids to public school, when they live in real public housing, when they take public transportation, when they avail themselves of all the wonderful benefits government-run institutions provide, then I\u2019ll listen to them tell me how wonderful it will be for me. But as long as they exempt themselves from the very things they\u2019re designing for us, I\u2019m sorry, they have no credibility, and it should be rejected. They\u2019re leaders, right? They should show the way. These are leftists, and they are elitists, and these people have a different plan. It\u2019s called power over you. It\u2019s called limiting your freedom. In fact, I want to go back to a sound bite from the open of the program, and I must remind you if you\u2019re just joining us, to illustrate the hurry that Obama and Pelosi are in, I directed today that all audio sound bites about health care from Obama and Pelosi be speeded up, not quite to chipmunk speed. <\/p>\n

After listening to these four, I myself personally think they\u2019re much more palatable to listen to. They go by quicker, they don\u2019t sound as offensive, and it doesn\u2019t irritate me as much as listening to them at regular speed. I want to play this particular sound bite of Obama discussing the opponents of his health care plan. <\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): Opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That\u2019s not true, either. I don\u2019t believe that government can or should run health care, but I also don\u2019t think insurance companies should have free rein to do as they please. That\u2019s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, costs and track records of a variety of plans, including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest and choose what\u2019s best for your family.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let\u2019s examine the meat of this right in the middle. And it\u2019s, again, the straw dog argument that Obama uses, the either\/or. He says: ‘I don\u2019t believe that government can or should run health care,\u2019 which he does believe government can and should run health care. It\u2019s what his plan is. But then he says, ‘I also don\u2019t think insurance companies should have free rein to do as they please.\u2019 Now, having free rein to do as one pleases is a pretty good definition of freedom, is it not? We know that Obama despises free markets, he despises free companies, and he really is threatened by free people. None of us in his view should have free rein to do as we please. His health care plan will prevent us from getting the health care coverage we want. That will not be available to us. It will be available to him and members of Congress and other select few in government, but not us. So typical Obama pattern here, ‘I don\u2019t believe government can or should run things, but I also don\u2019t think insurance companies should have free rein to do as they please.\u2019 So demonize every free market business and industry that you can, go out and say, ‘I don\u2019t think government ought to run things, but I don\u2019t think the insurance companies,\u2019 which is designed to make people say, yeah, you punish them, you take care of it, Obama. I think it\u2019s frightening what is in store if this ever becomes reality. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned a moment ago that we\u2019re going to see the real Obama, how he seeks to smear and destroy people, behind the scenes, who disagree with him. Only now he\u2019s doing it in public. He takes on Jim DeMint here in an upcoming sound bite. We\u2019re going to see the TV ads. This is Obama. The White House is in a state of disarray. The Obama magic not working here selling this. So it\u2019s, you know, pedal-to-the-metal time. We have three sound bites. Children\u2019s National Medical Center, Obama delivers remarks on health care. Here\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): We spoke about some of the strains on our health care system and some of the strains our health care system places on parents with sick children. We spoke about the amount of time and money wasted on insurance-driven bureaucracy. We spoke about the growing number of Americans who are uninsured and underinsured. We spoke about what\u2019s wrong with a system where women can\u2019t always afford maternity care and parents can\u2019t afford checkups for their kids and end up seeking treatment in emergency rooms like the ones here at Children\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here we go, trying to ramp up the crisis mentality. Parents can\u2019t afford checkups for their kids! They have to go to the emergency room. Parents can\u2019t afford this; parents can\u2019t afford that. There\u2019s nobody leaving this country for health care, folks, other than some that go to Sweden to dry out, but traditional health care, nobody leaves this country to get their kids treated. Except for the charlatan cancer treatments you find in Mexico and places, but you know what I mean. Nobody is leaving here. Yet this guy has to once again run down this country\u2019s health care system just like Mrs. Clinton is over in India apologizing for all the carbon emissions that we have polluted the planet with, trying to get the Indians to agree with us and the Chinese to agree with us. The Chinese and the Indians are pretty smart people. They\u2019re saying, ‘Look, we want our economy to grow. You didn\u2019t hamper yourself when your country was growing with all this nonsense, so you can\u2019t lay it off on us now.\u2019 This diplomacy? How\u2019s that working out for you, Hillary? Hee-hee-hee. Second bite from Obama…<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): Just the other day one Republican Senator said — and I\u2019m quoting him, now — ‘If we\u2019re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.\u2019 Think about that. This isn\u2019t about me. This isn\u2019t about politics. It\u2019s about a health care system that is breaking America\u2019s families, breaking America\u2019s businesses and breaking America\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is about him. He\u2019s talking about Jim DeMint. I told you we\u2019re going to see the real Obama now. We\u2019re going to see. He\u2019s surfacing. ‘It will be Obama\u2019s Waterloo. It will break him.\u2019 It is about Obama! Read any Drive-By Media publication, and it\u2019s all about, ‘Can Obama win? Is Obama winning this or will Obama lose this.\u2019 We\u2019ve got one more to play for you.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): The reforms we seek would bring greater competition — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — choice — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — savings — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — and efficiencies — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — to your health care system — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope, nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — and greater stability and security — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — to America\u2019s families and businesses.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No!<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): For the average American, it will mean lower costs, more —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — options and coverage — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): — you can count on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped up): It will save you and your family money if we have a more efficient health care system. We can and we must make all these reforms, and we can do it in a way that does not add to our deficits over the next decade.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I will say, folks… I literally… You don\u2019t know how difficult it is for me to say the president of the United States is lying through his teeth. I — I don\u2019t know how else to say this. None of that last sound bite is accurate. None of it is true. If you don\u2019t believe me, listen to the governors who don\u2019t like this. It\u2019s just such a pity it has come to this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s move forward and let\u2019s be hypothetical. Let\u2019s say we get Obamacare. Let\u2019s say we get it next month, let\u2019s say we get it in August. What\u2019s going to happen to abortion? Certainly the government cannot refuse to pay for abortions when it\u2019s the only way people can get them. What do you think is going to happen to the number of abortions when the government\u2019s paying for it? In discussing abortion over the course of this program\u2019s histoire I\u2019ve talked about it in many ways. One of the ways is the medical ethics way, which a lot of this is now coming true. I remember way back even when I was working at KFBK in Sacramento when people started playing games with genetics, doctors, there was some news story that soon we\u2019re going to be able to tell you whether your kid\u2019s going to have a fat gene, a red hair gene, a fair-skinned freckled gene or what have you. And I said, ‘If that happens, then parents are going to be able to say, ‘Ah, I don\u2019t want that kid.” It\u2019s going to be conceived first before they know. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019ll abort the kid and then I said, ‘What happens if they do identify –‘ just pure speculation, ‘– but what happens if they ever identify the genetic marker that defines whether somebody\u2019s homosexual and they tell the parents? You\u2019re going to see the biggest switch around from pro-choice to pro-life you\u2019ve ever seen in the gay community. But I said, ‘If we\u2019re going to decide who lives and dies at the beginning of life and then if we\u2019re going to decide what kind of people they\u2019re going to be, we don\u2019t want any redheads, we don\u2019t want any fat people, we don\u2019t want any freckle-faced — whatever parents would find objectionable, we don\u2019t want any blondes, who knows whatever they come up with, it doesn\u2019t matter. What happens at the end of life? What happens then? What happens if you can see the child that has Down syndrome? The government says we\u2019re not going to pay for that child to be born. Aren\u2019t they mad at Palin for having a Down syndrome child? Folks, this is all possible. That\u2019s why everybody is trying to alert everybody as to what this health care plan really is. <\/p>\n

It is the single greatest tool to regulate every aspect of our lives this government could ever have, all predicated on whatever they want to say: quality of life, costs. We decide who lives and dies at the beginning of life, we\u2019re certainly going to decide who lives and dies at the end. An 84-year-old guy needs a quadruple bypass and a heart valve, ain\u2019t going to happen. By design it won\u2019t happen because it wouldn\u2019t facilitate saving any money. It wouldn\u2019t be worth the investment. This is dreadfully serious stuff that is being talked about here in the most irresponsible, dreadfully irresponsible way by this president to talk about it in terms of a crisis, mom and dad can\u2019t afford checkups for the kids when nobody\u2019s leaving this country to find health care for themselves or their kids. It\u2019s just irresponsible. I think they\u2019re in a state of disarray. You have Mitch McConnell now out saying Obama\u2019s Porkulus is a failure, and the media jumping right on that. Of course, they love that. So the magic is sort of on the wane here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cameron in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, those sound bites sound like a bad Ross Perot imitation. But anyway, with regard to health care, this isn\u2019t rocket science. We need to get back to the time when you can — as an individual or family you can — deal with the doctor and the hospital directly. Get the insurance company\u2019s out of business except for catastrophic situations. I realize people would need insurance for situations like that. But get the insurance companies out, deal with the doctor in the hospital directly, therefore costs would come down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there\u2019s one way of getting started on this, and that\u2019s the concept known as HSAs, health savings accounts. The health savings account idea, naturally, sprang from conservative thinking — or sprung. Well, it originated with conservative thinking. And it basically is this. The federal government is spending X on health care every year per person. So theoretically, you would divvy up the amount of health care per person and you would give each adult that amount of money to spend themselves on health care for them and for their children. And they would go shop, and they\u2019d find the best deal — whatever doctor they wanted, whatever price — and whatever they didn\u2019t spend on health care, they got to keep. It\u2019s just returning their money to them. They\u2019re already being taxed for this. The government\u2019s not giving anybody anything. <\/p>\n

Under HSAs, the government is returning what was money earned and produced by people in the first place and letting them spend it. That\u2019s the way you get started on the consumer choosing services he can afford to pay, like hotel rooms, airplane flights, and so forth and so on. And then you get started here on bringing a free market, cost-and-ability-to-pay oriented system back into health care. HSAs have been specifically killed in the House plan. There is no way we are going to survive the Obama administration of Pelosi do not want you having that freedom or that ability to spend your own money on your own health care. And, by the way, whether it\u2019s with the health savings account or not, they do not want you having the ability to pay your own money for your own health care. This bill is not about health care, folks. It\u2019s not about health care reform. It\u2019s not about making your health care better. It\u2019s not about giving you more access. It\u2019s gonna give you less. It\u2019s not about anything they are saying it\u2019s about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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