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Harry Reid on Sunday had a press conference, said this about Republicans regarding health care.<\/p>\n

REID: They\u2019re in a different universe talking about this bill being for illegal immigrants, this bill running up the deficit, which is absolutely false, this bill running up premiums, absolutely false. Republicans are being destructive, they want this to be, as one Senator said, ‘President Obama\u2019s Waterloo,\u2019 and it\u2019s not going to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something, Senator Reid, you just lied through your teeth there. You are living in a universe different than ours. Yours is the Universe of Lies. This bill is for illegal immigrants. I mean there\u2019s no question it\u2019s for illegal immigrants. This bill will run up the deficit. Everything government does runs up the deficit. It will run up the price of premiums. There\u2019s no question it will do that. President Obama\u2019s Waterloo is if this passes, not if it fails, if this passes. Well, actually that\u2019s not correct. It\u2019s America\u2019s Waterloo if this passes. Now, this number, listen to this, this sounds absurd to me.<\/p>\n

REID: Yesterday, Friday, 14,000 people lost their health insurance in America. Today, Saturday, another 14,000 people will lose their health insurance, and Sunday, and Monday, and Tuesday, and on and on. The American people don\u2019t get weekends off from this injustice. Bankruptcy doesn\u2019t keep bankers\u2019 hours. They don\u2019t go away just because it\u2019s Sunday or Saturday. The pain\u2019s still there. And so our work continues this weekend and it will continue until we give this nation\u2019s citizens a health insurance system that works for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fourteen thousand people every day lose their health insurance. Now, where\u2019s that number come from? Snatched out of thin air. I don\u2019t even want to accept the premise. Some people say, ‘Well, how many people get health care insurance?\u2019 I don\u2019t even accept the premise. He can\u2019t prove the number. Fourteen thousand, how in the world does anybody know this? It\u2019s not possible to know. I\u2019ll tell you something else. His health care bill does not insure the uninsured, even after 10 to 15 years. It doesn\u2019t happen. Now, let\u2019s go back, shall we? January 31st, 2008, in Los Angeles during a Democrat debate between Hillary Clinton and Obama, Obama made this promise.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: That\u2019s what I will do in bringing all parties together and not negotiating behind closed doors but bringing all parties together and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are, \u2019cause part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yesterday President Obama met with Democrats only in a private meeting. It was not on C-SPAN. There is no transparency in this administration. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Harry Reid, ladies and gentlemen, has compared Republicans who oppose health care as being no different than people who supported slavery. It happened today. ‘Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago. The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women\u2019s suffrage and the civil rights movement… ‘ which largely were Democrats in his party. ‘…even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery. Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid\u2019s comments ‘offensive\u2019 and ‘unbelievable.\u2019 But Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand why somebody up there just doesn\u2019t blast him, and Republicans can\u2019t stop anything. He doesn\u2019t have his 60 votes yet. That\u2019s his problem. He needs some Republicans to change their side of the aisle to get 60 votes because he doesn\u2019t have them. Frankly, with all the arguments they\u2019re having over abortion, illegal immigration, and a public option, unless they\u2019re really going to give these Democrats that are wavering a billion or two billion a year to buy \u2019em off I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to compromise on this by Christmas. I really don\u2019t. In fact, they\u2019re now saying, ladies and gentlemen, the media and observers that the tone is changing and they expect the bill to pass. Really, the tone is changing? Harry Reid\u2019s out there comparing Republicans to the same kind of people that supported slavery, the tone\u2019s changing? You start throwing around accusations like that, I mean you\u2019re not firing on all cylinders from a position of confidence and strength are you, doesn\u2019t seem to me. <\/p>\n

Somebody needs to get in his face and say, ‘Look, it was your party that stonewalled the civil rights acts of \u201957 and \u201964, it was your party that stonewalled getting anything done about slavery. It was your party and all those Democrats in the South that wanted to preserve it.\u2019 Why don\u2019t these Republicans speak up, for crying out loud? Because this is something that half the country believes, erroneously so. I ought to test these people some days. I genuinely detest them. There\u2019s not one syllable of honesty that\u2019s coming out of any Democrat on either of these two major pieces of legislation all year long. The lies, every day, you get up to another set of lies. Global warming, this, it\u2019s all fraud, it\u2019s all a hoax, manufactured crises. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We have the sound bite here, ladies and gentlemen, this morning in DC on the Senate floor, Dingy Harry.<\/p>\n

REID: Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans have come up with is this: Slow down, stop everything, let\u2019s start over. If you think you\u2019ve heard this excuse before, you\u2019re right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it\u2019s too early, let\u2019s wait.\u2019 When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote. Some insisted basically, slow down. When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats we hear today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They were Democrats. This is outrageous. This is not ignorance. This is outrageous because Harry Reid knows the Republican Party was born in the fight against slavery. That\u2019s how the Republican Party came to be. But I just wanted you to hear that because this is what they\u2019ve been reduced to up there to try and get this done. When it\u2019s Democrats they can\u2019t keep in line. The Republicans are not even trying to slow it down! That\u2019s not even their strategy. It should be, but it\u2019s not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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