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RUSH: Yesterday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the hapless Obama, which is I think… You remember Neil Diamond, brother love traveling USO show, whatever? Town hall traveling campaign show is what the Obama administration is now. And Obama announced that AARP is totally on board his plan. Well, privately they are. AARP: Think of them as MoveOn.org with false teeth. <\/p>\n

AARP has been funneling big bucks that they scammed out of old people all the way to the DNC and so forth, but they never, ever wanted their rank-and-file to know they were on board with the Obama plan. They have not publicly said so. Privately, I\u2019m sure, they have assured the Obama administration and Democrats that they\u2019re all for it. But today the MoveOn.org for people with false teeth at AARP are scrambling because the rank-and-file at AARP are saying, ‘What the hell is this? We didn\u2019t sign up for Obamacare!\u2019 More and more senior citizens are coming to find out what\u2019s in this plan and do not want it, don\u2019t want any part of it. Even a lib blogger — or not a blogger. Well, I guess you call it blogger. Some lib, I got it in the stack here, posting on Tina Brown\u2019s new website Daily Beast, who\u2019s big lib, big pro-national health care, says: My gosh, we\u2019re killing it ourselves!<\/p>\n

There is end-of-life care. There is euthanasia if you want to look at this. This bill is horrible, if you want to look at it. And the libs are also upset with the deal Obama has made with Big Pharma. I had a story from Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-uh yesterday from Salon.com, didn\u2019t get today and today Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. What Obama did, what Obama did, is he accepted $150 million from Big Pharma in exchange for going easy on them with drug price demands, reductions. And the libs are upset. They\u2019re saying, ‘This is extortion!\u2019 And they\u2019re saying, ‘What are we doing? We\u2019re going to have our president getting in bed with big business to get big legislation done,\u2019 and they\u2019re just beside themselves. So there\u2019s a lot of stuff Obama is doing that his supporters don\u2019t know. The AARP has not officially come out for this. <\/p>\n

The rank-and-file has said, ‘What the hell is our organization doing?\u2019 Because they\u2019re more and more convinced that there\u2019s rationing, and there is, and that end-of-life is determined to be whenever you\u2019re not worth living, and more and more people are seeing this in the plan. So it\u2019s not good. Finally, we went back and found from Bloomberg, April 29th of this year, just a few short months ago: ‘President Obama said his…\u2019 Are you seasoned citizens listening to this? ‘President Obama said his grandmother\u2019s hip replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life…\u2019 Listen to me, now. Look at me. Look at me. ‘President Barack Obama said his grandmother\u2019s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a ‘sustainable model\u2019 for health care.\u2019 <\/p>\n

He had already thrown his grandmother under the bus, ‘she\u2019s a typical white woman,\u2019 when doing the speech on the Reverend Wright, and back in April, on the 29th, he said: Yeah, my grandmother got a hip replacement, and I said is this really worth it? She\u2019s terminal. Is it really worth it? We have to think about this. ‘The president\u2019s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had a hip replaced after she was diagnosed with cancer, Obama said in an interview with the New York Times magazine that was published today. Dunham, who lived in Honolulu, died at the age of 86 on Nov. 2, 2008, two days before her grandson\u2019s election victory. ‘I don\u2019t know how much that hip replacement cost,\u2019 Obama said in the interview. ‘I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she\u2019s my grandmother,” but people aren\u2019t going to be able to do that with this plan. But he actually tells the New York Times, ‘My grandmother needs a hip replacement. She\u2019s got cancer. Is it worth it? Can we sustain this?\u2019 It\u2019s like yesterday: What a faux pas in trying to sell his government-run — ripping the Post Office and praising UPS and FedEx.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I tell you, if the Democrats want a shot at getting what they want, they need to pull Obama off the circuit. They need to get him off the circuit. They need to get him off the stage. He is an idiot. He displayed it yesterday. He is not their hope; he is a disaster. He is now out there saying stupid stuff. He is making stupid analogies. He is detached from the reality of this debate where it is right now. There\u2019s a reason that David Axelrod has him wedded to a teleprompter. He\u2019s a disaster. He\u2019s an unmitigated disaster when he is away from the teleprompter. They\u2019ve got to get him off the circuit. We, of course, want him to stay. Camille Paglia at Salon.com says Pelosi\u2019s gotta go. I love Camille Paglia, but I respectfully disagree. We don\u2019t want Pelosi to go away. We don\u2019t want her to remain the Botox face of the Democrat Party and its health care efforts. We want Obama on the circuit. Something else he said yesterday, in addition to that.<\/p>\n

In the context he was trying to assure people that the public option would not ruin private insurance, would not get rid of private insurance companies, he said, ‘Hey, I mean, look, uh, uh, UPS, FedEx, they do pretty well. The Post Office is in big trouble.\u2019 Yeah, a government entity, much like the one he\u2019s setting up to run health care, can\u2019t compete, does it wrong. That\u2019s the kind of undisciplined, silly, stupid analogy. And then he said… He\u2019s back now to accusing surgeons of doing unnecessary surgeries for the money. He said, ‘If that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that\u2019s 30,000 to 40 to $50,000 immediately that the surgeon is reimbursed.\u2019 So he\u2019s accusing doctors of amputating feet and other limbs from diabetics simply for money. I tell you, he\u2019s turning into the biggest liability they have. It\u2019s just amazing to watch this, and I think they all know it. I think they\u2019re beginning to realize it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: ‘Democrats Have a Senior Citizen Problem.\u2019 This is The Politico, and I looooove how this article tries so hard. I\u2019m not going to read the whole article to you, but the article tries to get around the truth of what\u2019s going to happen to seasoned citizens under the public option at the end of their life. But at the very last paragraph they just can\u2019t help it. The very last paragraph, listen to this from The Politico, State-Controlled Media: ‘America\u2019s Health Insurance Plan, a trade group for insurers, contends that slashing $156 billion from private Medicare Advantage plans would have a significant impact on seniors. ‘Seniors have been told that their coverage is not going to change, and if they like their coverage, they can keep it,\u2019 said Robert Zirkelbach. ‘The fact of the matter is that if these cuts to Medicare Advantage go through as planned, seniors are going to face increased premiums, reduced benefits, and in some parts of the country they\u2019re going to lose access to their Medicare Advantage plan altogether,” and this, ladies and gentlemen, is in a story with the State-Controlled Media doing everything it can to assure seniors, ‘Yeah, there\u2019s a problem but it\u2019s not as bad as you think,\u2019 and that last paragraph says to senior citizens, ‘You are screwed, grandma!\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, the old reliable, Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, blog post: ‘Scaring the Elderly: Beyond Reprehensible — Sarah Palin talking about the death panels is just reprehensible. Rush Limbaugh telling people that the government will decide whether or not it\u2019s worth investing in their health care. It\u2019s just reprehensible. My entire adult life (including, of course, the period of time I have served as a national figure behind the Golden EIB Microphone) every two years, during every political campaign, I have had to listen — from Alan Cranston, to George Mitchell, to every Democrat I know, even Lawton Chiles in Florida — to Democrats threaten and tell senior citizens every two to four years that Republicans want to cut their Social Security, that Republicans want to kick them out of their homes. <\/p>\n

I remember Lawton Chiles doing it in a debate with Jeb Bush. I remember Alan Cranston doing it. I remember leading up into the \u201988 presidential election, Bush versus… I guess it was The Loser, Dukakis. Yeah. Scaring seniors? Reprehensible? We\u2019re warning them! We are warning seniors, Joe, you doofus! God Lord, what has happened to the mainstream media? It\u2019s as though all of this has never happened before except this time it\u2019s genuine. There\u2019s no fearmongering. There is a warning. We are shouting it from the mountaintops. Hey, Joe, you might want to go over to Tina Brown\u2019s website, because there\u2019s a post there by a guy named Lee Siegel, ‘Obama\u2019s Euthanasia Mistake.\u2019 This guy is a huge lib. He\u2019s big-time pro-national health care. <\/p>\n

‘For those of us who believe that the absence of universal health care is America\u2019s burning shame, the spectacle of opposition to Obama\u2019s health-care plan is Alice-in-Wonderland bewildering and also enraging — but on one point the plan\u2019s critics are absolutely correct. One of the key ideas under consideration — which can be read as expressing sympathy for limitations on end-of-life care — is morally revolting. And it\u2019s helping to kill the plan itself. Make no mistake about it. Determining which treatments are ‘cost effective\u2019 at the end of a person\u2019s life and which are not is one of Obama\u2019s priorities. It\u2019s one of the principal ways he counts on saving money and making universal healthcare affordable.\u2019 ‘Obama\u2019s Euthanasia Mistake,\u2019 by Lee Siegel.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know who Lee Siegel is. I didn\u2019t click on the bio, but it\u2019s at Tina Brown\u2019s website, The Daily Beast. There\u2019s much more said. He quotes from Obama what he told Diane Sawyer and so forth. This guy, he thinks the second greatest sin in America after slavery is we don\u2019t have national health care, and Obama is killing it. He says there\u2019s no way… Let me give you a quote, a pull quote. ‘This is the Big Brother nightmare of oppressive government that the shrewd propagandists on the right are always blathering on about. Except that this time, they could not be more right.\u2019 Propagandists. But anyway, what\u2019s in the bill is in the bill. And Obama can deny it all he wants. I don\u2019t even think he… This performance yesterday was as undisciplined, unprofessional, as attached from reality as any. It just summed up why Axelrod tethers this guy to a teleprompter at every occasion — and when he doesn\u2019t, I guarantee you they\u2019re down there biting their nails off to the quick backstage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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