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RUSH: Snerdley and I, during the top-of-the-hour break, had a little conversation. Snerdley was all worked up over what\u2019s being said about the Blue Dogs. The Drive-Bys are reporting, ‘Oh, the Blue Dogs, oh, they finally came around. The Blue Dogs are finally going to be loyal Democrats, oh, the Blue Dogs.\u2019 The Blue Dogs didn\u2019t come around. The Blue Dogs had guns to their heads. These are liberal Democrats. They didn\u2019t come around. They were arm-twisted, they were kneecapped, their futures were shown to them in vivid terms, and they didn\u2019t have any once Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi — the Blue Dogs saw the light? <\/p>\n

They saw the light at the end of the tunnel, which was an oncoming train headed straight for them unless they got their minds right. I told you that\u2019s the way it was going to be, they\u2019re Democrats. Blue Dog what? Blue Dog Democrats. Maxine Waters, though, she\u2019s still upset about this. Just this morning on PMSNBC, she was asked this question: ‘You were fairly candid a couple of days ago in noting that it\u2019s hard for the White House, and particularly for the chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, to put a lot of pressure on the Blue Dog Democrats \u2019cause he recruited many of them to run for office when he was in the House himself. Do you think, though, that the White House ultimately is going to need to put that pressure on in order to keep progressive Democrats in the fold, people like Lynn Woolsey, your fellow Californian?\u2019<\/p>\n

WATERS (sped up): We know that the Blue Dogs have been very, very successful in gaining a lot of attention from the White House and from the Democratic leadership and that they have been able to negotiate all of their concerns and their issues. Well, they continue to be the balance of power in this Congress, based on — on the fact that they all stick together and that they are going to continue to fight for what they want. I tend to believe that they are not going to let up, that they are going to continue to insist on having this bill or no bill at all, the bill the way they would like to have it or no bill at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Does she not know what happened yesterday? That\u2019s from this morning. (paraphrasing) ‘I think they\u2019re going to continue to obstruct and so forth.\u2019 Maxine, they were neutered yesterday. They were spayed, neutered, whatever you want to call them. But she clearly, she is so upset the Blue Dogs are running the show. So it\u2019s Democrat versus Democrat as it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, State-Run Media is not going to report this, but we don\u2019t need the State-Run Media to. <\/p>\n

Now, I had a spy on the ground in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, when Obama went in for the town meeting. And the state-run, state-controlled media would, of course, overlook all this. But there were people who were at the event, who then reported to my spy. Obama went to North Carolina \u2019cause he\u2019s having problems within his party, his party. And he was in North Carolina yesterday because he needs the vote of the new senator, Kay Hagan. She\u2019s the one who beat Elizabeth Dole. And guess who couldn\u2019t be bothered to come and be there? Kay Hagan, whose vote Obama needs, was nowhere in sight. And he does not have her vote yet because the people of North Carolina are swamping her office with objections to this health care bill. North Carolina is also the home of three serious Blue Dogs: Mike McIntyre, Heath Shuler, who is the Blue Dog whip, and Larry Kissell. Guess who was not there? All three of the Blue Dogs were no-shows.<\/p>\n

Now, before you say to me, ‘But, Rush, but, Rush, they were back working diligently with the leadership in Washington to slam out this deal.\u2019 When the president of the United States goes to your state on a meeting like this, he takes you on Air Force One. And you go, and you are introduced. Senator Kay Hagan did not want to be seen there, nor did the three Blue Dogs. So people are digging in their heels out there. Obama\u2019s expending, it\u2019s been reported even elsewhere, lots of political capital on this deal. Nobody wants it, and yet he\u2019s still ramming it down everybody\u2019s throat, and that\u2019s why people are gagging. It is rammed down our throat, and we are gagging. People are speaking, people do not want it, and yet they\u2019re not stopping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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