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RUSH: Bob in San Antonio as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thoroughly enjoy your show and I still thoroughly enjoy a couple ties that I have of yours.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I hope we get a chance to bring it on in terms of Sarah. But, you know, part of the reason I think that they fear her is she\u2019s not a soccer mom as I heard on the recordings while I was waiting. She\u2019s a hockey <\/emphasize>mom, and they\u2019re much more vicious.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, this is irrational. Their hatred for her is irrational. The woman can\u2019t do anything right to anybody right now. She can\u2019t do anything for anybody right now other than her family. But she has absolute values. She has no doubts about what she believes. She has no lack of confidence. And that just bugs \u2019em. It bugs \u2019em all to hell.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s why she connects so well. But the reason I called is I\u2019m not sure that the Democrats think they\u2019re committing suicide, as you mentioned earlier, with what they\u2019re doing with this bill. Because what I keep wondering is all of these districts around the country that are getting all these funds that Congress passed earlier this year, except that these districts don\u2019t exist. It makes me wonder where all these funds are going and where they\u2019re going to appear next year and if they think they have a chance to buying their way to election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re basically saying we have a giant slush fund here and it is being used to buy these votes: Made-up congressional districts, nonexistent congressional districts. You know, Mark Steyn had a great line. He said, ‘ACORN, why worry about registering individual voters when you can register a whole district?\u2019 This is made-to-order for ACORN. You got people voting now from these nonexistent districts. So there\u2019s no question votes are being bought. Mary Landrieu got a hundred million in the Senate health care bill from Dingy Harry — and, by the way, Dingy Harry is now going to go down to New Orleans for a fundraiser hosted by Mary Landrieu. I mean, we\u2019re dealing here with in-our-face, right out-in-the-open corruption. They\u2019re not even trying to hide it out there, Bob. It is just in-your-face corruption. They\u2019re saying, ‘You can\u2019t stop us and we\u2019re going to do this.\u2019 Now, you may be right that they don\u2019t think they\u2019re committing suicide. Some of them know that they are in the House. But Nancy Pelosi is happy to lose some of her herd. You know, thinning the herd? She\u2019d be happy to get rid of some of these Blue Dogs, have them go back home and lose.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Blue Dogs and pro-lifers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, she\u2019d be happy. Oh, she\u2019d love to get rid of Stupak. Oh-ho ho, yeah! But in the Senate it\u2019s a little different because only a third of the place is up for reelection every two years, and Dingy Harry is up next year. He\u2019s going to have some trouble in Nevada. And Rasmussen put out a poll today, by the way, that J. D. Hayworth — who, I don\u2019t think J. D. Hayworth has announced that he\u2019s going to run, has he? But Rasmussen did a poll out there and he\u2019s only two points behind McCain in the Republican primary poll for the 2010 Senate Republican nomination in Arizona. Now, here\u2019s the reason that they probably do not think they are committing suicide. You\u2019ve heard that the bill doesn\u2019t get implemented until 2013. Now, what\u2019s magical about that is that 2012 is the presidential year. That\u2019s interesting because the impact of this bill will not be felt before the presidential race in 2012. Then we heard — and we know it\u2019s true — that when they send these bills down to the Congressional Budget Office to get scored they have to score them in ten-year increments. I guess that\u2019s policy. <\/p>\n

And the way they come in with these low numbers, like Reid got for $848 billion, is that the health care aspect doesn\u2019t start — the benefits, the spending doesn\u2019t start — until year three or four. But the tax increases and everything else start immediately! For example, one that\u2019s going to start in January if the thing passes, is a new marriage penalty in the health care bill imposes a tax on individuals who make a couple hundred grand annually, but married couples making just $50,000 more. That\u2019s one of 17 new taxes imposed by the bill. It also creates a levy on elective plastic surgery, Botox — the ‘Botax\u2019 — and places a 40% excise tax on those who have generous or ‘Cadillac\u2019 health care plans, and some of these taxes will go into effect pretty soon. It\u2019s a long way, Bob, to getting to the answer you want but I need to set it all up. Snerdley asked me yesterday, ‘I don\u2019t understand how it is that the tax increases, say, start in 2010 and the health spending doesn\u2019t start \u2019til 2013. I don\u2019t understand how the Democrats aren\u2019t going to be hurt. I mean, people\u2019s taxes start going up with all these new fees and rules that you have to have insurance. All that stuff starts in 2010, or even \u201911. How can that not have a negative impact on the Democrats?\u2019 <\/p>\n

That got me to thinking: ‘I wonder when the ten years actually begin?\u2019<\/p>\n

When they say the bill isn\u2019t implemented until 2013, what if they mean the tax increases aren\u2019t implemented until 2013 and the health spending doesn\u2019t start \u2019til 2016? Now, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the case. I\u2019m going to endeavor to find out \u2019cause it is crucial. If they pass this thing any time in the next six months, Obama is going to sign it and the tax increases start immediately. Then there is going to be a negative impact on these guys and they are <\/emphasize>playing kamikaze with themselves. They are committing suicide. It\u2019s hard for me to believe that they would think that they could withstand that because these tax increases are massive. They are all over the place. They are on everybody. They are punitive. The IRS fining you for this and inspecting you, folks? It\u2019s insidious. So if they put all of this off until 2013, that gets Obama reelected. They hope they\u2019re out of the recession by then. Then after Obama\u2019s reelected in 2012 and these guys get elected next November and a couple years after that with Obama, then, as they say: The excrement hits the fan seven years from now. <\/p>\n

Now, I just can\u2019t believe they\u2019re going to wait that long to start the tax increases. So that\u2019s how, if these tax increases start immediately, and the health spending part doesn\u2019t start until 2013. Then there\u2019s going to be plenty of ammo that people are going to be fired up with and angry about because their taxes are going up and they will be committing political suicide. We\u2019ll just have to see how this shakes out. One other thing: The Senate Republican Communication Center has put out something that says this: ‘A new study of Senate voting patterns shows that the Senate has approved more than 97% of bills subject to a cloture motion to begin debate, a finding that could undercut Democrat efforts to paint the key health care vote Saturday as procedural or as a test vote,\u2019 which is what the media is calling it. Congressional Research Service put this out. <\/p>\n

Now, that is not good. If 97% of all bills pass after the first procedural cloture vote of 60 is achieved, then that\u2019s not good. It statistically indicates this thing is going to become a done deal at some point. This vote Saturday does not pass the bill, it just starts the debate. But history shows that 97% of such bills do become law after successful procedural or test votes like the one that\u2019s going to come up on Saturday. The Democrats are out there, ‘Oh, no, no, no! This is just a procedural vote. No big deal. Don\u2019t be worried about this. It\u2019s to see what our strength is.\u2019 Now, the Senate Republican Communication Center is putting this out trying to undercut the Democrats. It isn\u2019t gonna matter. The point is that Reid\u2019s going to get this done Saturday. They got Ben Nelson. Do you think there\u2019s any hope, Snerdley? Do you think there\u2019s even a shrivel, a shred of a chance they\u2019re not going to get their 60? Roland Burris, you know, he was an obstacle. They just gave him a little slap on the wrist for what his purported (I don\u2019t want to say ‘crimes\u2019) indiscretion, ethical violations. Yes, they gave him a slap on the wrist. So he\u2019s good to go. <\/p>\n

Landrieu apparently locked in with $100 million. Here\u2019s the story on that. It\u2019s from ABC, amazingly. ‘What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here\u2019s a case study. On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for ‘certain states recovering from a major disaster.\u2019 The section spends two pages defining which ‘states\u2019 would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that ‘during the preceding 7 fiscal years\u2019 have been declared a ‘major disaster area.\u2019 I am told the section applies\u2019 this is Jonathan Karl, by the way ‘to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.) Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana\u2019s Mary Landrieu. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, Mitch McConnell had a great line to describe the timeline on health care tax increases versus health care spending. It\u2019s like this. ‘You go in, you buy a house, the bank gives you a mortgage, and you have to pay four years before you get to move in.\u2019 That\u2019s what\u2019s facing us. Pay four years before you get to move in, all so they can hide the actual costs of this monstrosity.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Washington Post today: ‘Angry Congress Lashes Out at Obama.\u2019 Politico: ‘Obama Takes Friendly Fire on the Economy.\u2019 The Democrats are just getting paranoid over their reelection bids in 2010. They\u2019re asking, ‘What are Pelosi and Reid doing to us?\u2019 Much of the criticism of the leadership has poured out in the last 48 hours. These people fear getting wiped out in the 2010 congressional elections. I\u2019ll have details and, of course, on-the-spot commentary and analysis when we get back.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, we were talking about the timing of this bill and when the taxes start and when the spending starts on health care. Because, you know, to come up with a phony, supposedly low cost over a ten-year period, the health care spending doesn\u2019t start for the first four. The tax increases start the first year, but the spending doesn\u2019t start \u2019til year four. So you\u2019ve got basically six years of services with ten years of tax increases, and they\u2019re going to vote on this in the Senate tomorrow. Now, one question that I have is: ‘What are they going to do with all this new tax revenue they\u2019re collecting to segregate it to make sure it does pay for whatever new spending comes on health care?\u2019 Is there going to be a health care lockbox? <\/p>\n

Now, this was part of the Stupak amendment. Stupak said, ‘Hey, there\u2019s no record here of the allocation-of-funds. Where the hell is the money going, all this new tax revenue?\u2019 Hint, hint: There isn\u2019t going to be as much tax revenue as they think because this stuff\u2019s going to further shut down and stifle economic activity, and it\u2019s going to prevent hiring. It\u2019s going to force people off of their current insurance plans into the government option at some point because businesses are going to have to off-load these costs, which is the design. But over at Real Clear Politics, the Horse Race Blog, there is a post by Jay Cost. ‘Have Democratic Leaders Gone Mad? — With the introduction of Harry Reid\u2019s health care bill — talk will inevitably focus on whether the public option or the Stupak amendment will undermine the legislation. Yet, if the bill dies, I do not think either of these will be the primary cause of death. I think this will be the culprit: This is the CBO\u2019s analysis of how the Reid bill will cut Medicare. The total reductions come out to $491 billion over 10 years when everything is factored in. The following has been said by other commentators, but I have to add my voice to the chorus: This is insanity, Democratic leaders. Why are you doing this?<\/p>\n

‘Why are Obama, Pelosi, and Reid doing this? How could they be so foolish as to repeat the most egregious mistake of the Republicans of the 104th Congress,\u2019 when they tried to reform Social Security, you recall. Why are Reid, Pelosi, and Obama ‘forcing their vulnerable members to vote on a bill that would cut Medicare in this fashion? Do they dislike their moderate colleagues? Do they find the chore of being the majority party too burdensome? Have they simply gone mad?\u2019 Why are they doing this? They do hate their moderate colleagues! There\u2019s no question about it. So this guy\u2019s theory is that if this bill doesn\u2019t go anywhere it\u2019s because people are going to find out that there\u2019s nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts. But that\u2019s not news, at least not to me. I\u2019ve been following this for I don\u2019t know how long and I\u2019ve know about $500 billion in Medicare cuts. In fact, folks, I\u2019ll tell you what I think. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to be in there. I don\u2019t think when this bill finally gets implemented there are going to be any Medicare cuts at all because I don\u2019t think they are this insane. I think Medicare cuts are just in this so they can come up with a phony cost that is ostensibly low. <\/p>\n

Do you really think the Democrat Party is going to have $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will be totally on their shoulders that every seasoned citizen in this country will know they did? It\u2019s just like this abortion stuff. When the final bill is done — and maybe not the final bill, remember. These cuts are not going to start happening immediately, only the tax increases. The spending and stuff and all that will start later. Maybe the cuts will start soon, but nah, because there are never any cuts! You see, this is the big fallacy. Everybody is buying into this cut business. There aren\u2019t going to be any Medicare cuts, just like in the final bill there will be federal funds for abortion. It may not be the final bill. Let\u2019s say that they pass a bill. They get a conference committee report with the House and Senate that has $500 billion in Medicare cuts in it. The president signs it and all hell gets raised. They\u2019ll go in the next session and they\u2019ll just take it out, ‘We saved Medicare! We saved Medicare from the evil Republicans! The Republicans forced us to put that in there but we saved it. We saved Medicare.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think anybody in their right mind should believe that the Democrats are actually going to cut $500 billion in Medicare. Folks, the only reason they would do that — I don\u2019t even want to contemplate this, but people are talking about it with this mammogram stuff and the death panels. The only reason that they would do that is if they really don\u2019t care whether people live beyond a certain age, if the cuts in Medicare are going to come in treatment for certain kinds of diseases in certain aged people. Maybe even regardless of age. We know that\u2019s going to happen. There is going to be rationing of care. But we\u2019re talking about the most radical, leftist Democrats. They are not going to cut the size of government anywhere. They\u2019re gonna say they are so they can get a lower cost when the CBO scores this stuff. ‘That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to pay for these $500 billion in Medicare cuts.\u2019 What stuns me is that apparently a lot of people believe that that\u2019s actually going to survive at the end of the day. I don\u2019t think it will. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, some economic stories here. From The Politico: ‘Obama Takes Friendly Fire on Economy.\u2019 Here\u2019s the pull quote: ‘The wave of Democratic grief had been building privately for months, but Hill Democrats had held back on publicly criticizing the Obama presidency. But now, Democrats who see that their economic agenda seems to be flailing and fear getting wiped out in the 2010 congressional elections are going public with a burst of criticism, and much of it has poured out in the past 48 hours.\u2019<\/p>\n

In the Washington Post: ‘Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration. Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans. President Obama\u2019s allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administration\u2019s handling of the economy, unexpectedly blocked one his top priorities, using a legislative maneuver to postpone the approval of financial reform legislation by a key House committee. … And Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Wednesday on MSNBC that he thinks Geithner should step down, pointing to his handling of the aftermath of American International Group\u2019s meltdown.<\/p>\n

‘The Congressional Black Caucus wanted the administration to do more to help African American communities suffering in the economic decline. … The caucus itself did not publicly detail its concerns Thursday, but one member, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), issued a statement: ‘The recession has created a unique systemic risk that threatens all parts of the African-American community, including the poor and the middle class.” Now, Maxine just wants some walking-around money. I think the Congressional Black Caucus is being shut out of the slush fund and that\u2019s what\u2019s got them upset. Somehow they\u2019re getting shut out of the slush fund. I mean, Landrieu\u2019s getting a hundred million for Katrina but none of them are. They get sent to jail like Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). <\/p>\n

‘Dems Fight Over Funds Left from Bailout,\u2019 not bailout the slush fund. ‘Senate Democrats want to put a big chunk — say, $40 billion — toward loans to small businesses,\u2019 this time an effort to direct a small amount to the private sector, $40 billion. We spent over $1.3 trillion. Forty billion for small business. There\u2019s trouble in paradise out there. ‘US Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High — 10% of mortgages are now delinquent.\u2019 Los Angeles Times: ‘Foreclosures Will Keep Rising Through 2010, Report Says — Mortgage Bankers Assn. says delinquencies and home repossessions have hit a new high. Blaming job losses for most of the pain, it sees a continued surge in foreclosures through all of next year.\u2019 For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be 2011. And is there another economic disaster story? Yes. ‘Culture Clash in Medicine.\u2019 This is about the mammograms. Folks, do you realize we\u2019re just a couple notches above what hell must be like, and we\u2019re still spiraling down? I mean, it is a disaster out there and when the Democrats start bellyaching like this, and you got people at Real Clear Politics, ‘Mr. Obama, Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Reid, what are you doing to your members? Are you insane?\u2019 I do think that they\u2019re committing suicide. They don\u2019t know it. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s this from the CNN polling unit on top of all this economic news: ‘Nearly two years into the recession…\u2019 and it\u2019s not two years. They say it started in December of \u201907 under Bush but it didn\u2019t start then. That\u2019s just to tar Bush with this. But anyway, ‘Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll. A CNN\/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans.\u2019 That\u2019s down 15 points from May when 53% blamed the Republicans. Twenty-seven percent now blame Democrats. That\u2019s up six points. So the bad news for the Democrats is that the number of Americans who hold the Republicans exclusively responsible for the recession has been steadily falling by about two to three points a month. So there\u2019s a shift out there. <\/p>\n

And now the White House has stepped back from stimulus jobs claims. This is Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. ‘The White House stepped back yesterday from claims that the stimulus plan created or saved 640,329.2 jobs through September in the face of mounting criticism over errors in reports by tens of thousands of recipients of stimulus money.\u2019 So they\u2019re backing away from it. They haven\u2019t saved or created a single job other than the public sector. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bob in Roosevelt, Utah, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, sir. Thank you for talking with me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got a question for you. I basically go along with the political suicide on this vote, but you see the politicians voting against the American people, and… I mean, I need a logical answer. What could the politicians be more afraid of than the American voter?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that there is a fear component here. If there were a fear component, they wouldn\u2019t be voting the way they\u2019re voting. I think people do not understand who these people are. I don\u2019t think people have an understanding of just how radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-liberty these people are. I don\u2019t think people understand how devoted these people are to the government being the single citadel in this country for everybody. I don\u2019t think people understand their radical thirst for total power. People do not understand that people like Pelosi and Reid and Barney Frank and Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus. Practically 80% of the Democrats in the House and Senate have been yearning for this for their entire lives, many of them since the sixties. This is their utopia! They don\u2019t care. They\u2019ve got it. It\u2019s within their grasp. Have you ever wanted something so bad you\u2019ve devoted your life to it, and you get within an inch of it, and you find out that nobody else wants it, but you don\u2019t care?<\/p>\n

This is where we are. People have been either unwilling to accept or unwilling to believe just how radically left the current Democrat Party is. There is nothing remotely ‘democratic\u2019 about this bunch. There is no democracy going on here. What is happening is pure, unadulterated leftist corruption. It\u2019s happening right in front of our eyes and they don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care what we think, Bob, because they don\u2019t think we have the power to stop them — and when this passes they will have even more power regulating every aspect of our lives, because they believe in their minds and hearts that we have no competence whatsoever so lead our own lives and make our own decisions. They look at average Americans with pure contempt. They look at the Constitution with contempt. So when you look at what are they afraid of, if they\u2019re willing to so anger their constituents, what out there must they be afraid of? There\u2019s nothing else they\u2019re afraid of. They\u2019re excited! This is like 14,000 Christmas Eves on one day to them. <\/p>\n

I wish I could come up with an analogy that would properly convey the excitement, the passion, the single-mindedness they have about gaining finally, after 200 years, dictatorial control over the US government. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. But people don\u2019t want to look at it that way. They say, ‘Oh, Rush, come on. This is just standard Democrat-Republican Party politics.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not. It has gone way beyond that. These people… Here\u2019s the analogy. If they get this — remember, I called \u2019em ‘political suicide bombers.\u2019 They\u2019re strapping the bombs on. The bombs are these health care bills. They\u2019re going to get — with this bill, if it\u2019s signed into law — their 72 virgins. They\u2019re going to get a lifetime supply of Viagra or Cialis, their choice, and they\u2019re not going to die. They\u2019re going to get the 72 virgins in their offices or in the Capitol wading pool or wherever they want them. And the Cialis and the Viagra, whatever it is, are the health care plan that they will sign up for. <\/p>\n

If you really have avoided facing the reality of how radical left the Democrat Party is today, then this that I am saying to you is probably not going to penetrate. ‘No, Rush! This is the United States. It can\u2019t be happening. These people, they just want power and money.\u2019 No, folks. They want to remake the country. They\u2019re telling us! Obama, Barney Frank, they\u2019re all telling us. They want to remake this country. They want to be in charge of what everybody earns! Barney Frank says so. They\u2019re all out there telling us this stuff, just like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is telling us he\u2019s going to nuke Israel at some point, and the 12th imam\u2019s going to come up out of the well and we\u2019re all going to be whatever. In their own way they are just as radical as religious radicals are. But people don\u2019t want to face it. That\u2019s where we are. So there\u2019s no fear here. There\u2019s joy; there\u2019s anticipation; there is excitement. And to hell with us! We\u2019re going to finally be put in our place. This notion that they work for us? Unh-uh! Not in their minds. Never has been the case, and now they\u2019re going to establish it as fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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