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RUSH: All right, the health care debate on the Senate floor yesterday, I was actually mentioned by Sheldon Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, and Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry is all upset, ladies and gentlemen, at me because I criticized McConnell. McConnell said, (paraphrasing) ‘No, we\u2019re working this weekend. You\u2019re not taking the weekend off, Dingy Harry, and so you can\u2019t go to your fundraiser down in Louisiana with Mary Landrieu.\u2019 So Dingy Harry is all upset that he can\u2019t go to his fundraiser with Mary Landrieu down in Louisiana, is blaming me for ripping into McConnell which caused McConnell to get tough, refused to give Dingy Harry his request for the weekend off.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: To the audio sound bites, Dingy Harry, floor of the Senate yesterday.<\/p>\n

REID: Based on that, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, which is on all the news today, they\u2019re upset at Senator McConnell because he\u2019s not opposing the health care bill enough, that reasonable process on this, there are no efforts made to improve this bill, only to kill this bill. And I think that this debate has really come to a point that I\u2019ve rarely seen in the Senate, in fact, I\u2019ve never seen it. To have my friends on the other side of the aisle come to the floor and in some way try to embarrass or denigrate me by virtue of the fact that — in fact, try to embarrass me. What they should understand, any events that I have scheduled this weekend have been canceled.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, okay, so he\u2019s upset about that. He\u2019s embarrassed about the fundraiser. McConnell embarrassed him with the fundraiser. He wanted a weekend off to go to the fundraiser after saying we\u2019re going to work, work, work, get this thing done. He thinks McConnell would not grant him the weekend off because I jumped on McConnell. So Sheldon Whitehouse bemoans the obstructionist Republican Party which is prodded by me to make sure the president fails. Last night in Washington, DC, Senate floor, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

WHITEHOUSE: This is about creating a political defeat for the president of the United States on their side, nothing to do with health care, entirely about creating a defeat for this new president, when in the face of all the obstruction that the distinguished Senator from Michigan described so eloquently, this record-breaking, unprecedented in the history of the Senate obstruction that we\u2019re seeing, the person who I think right now seems to characterize the leadership of the radicalized right wing that is running the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, is telling the other side that they haven\u2019t been obstructive enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. He\u2019s exactly right about that. Damn right. But only one correction, Senator Whitehouse. It is necessary to create a political defeat for the president. I don\u2019t deny that we\u2019re after that, but it\u2019s necessary to save the country, sir. It is necessary to save the United States of America as it was founded. It\u2019s necessary to defeat the president politically and this bill, \u2019cause this bill isn\u2019t about health care, Senator. What must it be like to be one of a hundred people in the most amazing deliberative body in the world and have the people who elect them be 25 times as smart and informed as they are on this? What an idiot.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, so Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat, Rhode Island, the American people, in his view, the vast majority of them oppose government-run health care, not because they oppose what the plan would do to them, no, no, no, no, we oppose it because we want Obama to lose. So Sheldon Whitehouse says that I am leading a conspiracy with the public against Obama. See, this is how these fools think. It\u2019s all about Obama. Not the people, but Obama and the Democrats and their power. It\u2019s not about you. It\u2019s not about us. It\u2019s about Obama and whether he\u2019s going to get a win here. Hopefully he won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Sheldon Whitehouse, here, play number eight again because we\u2019ve got this and then two more to go with this. This is Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate floor. Dingy Harry yesterday afternoon had denigrated me, blamed me for getting tough on Mitch McConnell, which made McConnell say no to Dingy Harry\u2019s request for the weekend off to go to a fundraiser. Sheldon Whitehouse then got up there, Democrat from Rhode Island, he said this. <\/p>\n

WHITEHOUSE: This is about creating a political defeat for the president of the United States on their side, nothing to do with health care, entirely about creating a defeat for this new president, when in the face of all the obstruction that the distinguished Senator from Michigan described so eloquently, this record-breaking, unprecedented in the history of the Senate obstruction that we\u2019re seeing, the person who I think right now seems to characterize the leadership of the radicalized right wing that is running the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, is telling the other side that they haven\u2019t been obstructive enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s Sheldon Whitehouse. Notice that we just want to politically defeat ‘this new president.\u2019 I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s new; I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s old; I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s black, I don\u2019t care. All I care about is what he\u2019s trying to do to this country and stopping it. So, Senator, you are exactly right. But I\u2019m not alone, Senator, do you realize that support for this bill in the Senate is plummeting, it is cratering? You\u2019re down into the low forties and high thirties in some polls, Senator, of people who approve of this. The vast majority do not want this thing to pass, and are you telling the world, Senator, that the American people, the vast majority of whom oppose government-run health care do so not because of what the plan would do to them but because they want Obama to lose? Are you saying the entire American population opposing this is only interested in Obama losing? So I\u2019m part of a conspiracy here with the public against this new president, Obama? This is how these fools think, folks. It\u2019s all about Obama. It\u2019s not about the people. It\u2019s all about Obama and the Democrats and their power. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a question. I have a question for Sheldon Whitehouse and his master, Harry Reid. Why do you reject what the people are telling you? Why do you hate the American people? Why do you hold the American people in contempt? Why do you insist on enslaving us in some kind of government-run health system, when they are telling you loudly and repeatedly they do not want this? Why don\u2019t you believe in the public\u2019s will? Why don\u2019t you understand that they understand what you\u2019re doing? Why don\u2019t you believe in representative government? Why don\u2019t you believe in the limits placed on you in the Constitution? What do you think your role is, to flood the zone with so much confusing rhetoric and stuff that you\u2019re just going to swamp people? What is your role here? Are you mini-little dictators talking about wanting Obama to fail? You want Obama to succeed regardless what it is he\u2019s trying to do? <\/p>\n

Tell me, Senator Whitehouse, why haven\u2019t you supported an amendment that would apply the same government health care you would impose on the rest of us on you and your own family? Why are you such a self-serving hack, Senator Whitehouse? If this is so wondrous, if this health care bill is so miraculously needed and wonderful, why don\u2019t you sign onto it? Tell me, Senator Whitehouse, who died and named you chief of doctors? Who died, Senator Whitehouse, and named you chief of nurses and hospitals and nursing homes? Tell me, Senator Whitehouse, who gave you the power over our health decisions? Tell me, Senator Whitehouse, who are you? Who appointed you? Who appointed you to suggest that we follow your mandates on any aspect of our health care? Who are you? Where\u2019s the resume? I want to see it. Well, this continued. He then asked, with Debbie Stabenow, what Rush Limbaugh would say if the Democrats tried to work with Republicans.<\/p>\n

WHITEHOUSE: Do you think there\u2019s any likelihood that people on the other side would suddenly want to cooperate with the president and not — President Obama and not hand him a defeat? Do you think suddenly if we did that, Rush Limbaugh would say, ‘Okay, Republicans in the Senate, go ahead, work with the Democrats now, don\u2019t just be the party of obstruction and delay, but try to work cooperatively for the American people.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Before commenting on that, this is what Stabenow said.<\/p>\n

STABENOW: I can\u2019t imagine. Frankly, I think it\u2019s unfortunately they view it as in their self-interest, whether it\u2019s a business decision, as a radio host, whether it\u2019s a decision of the other party. I appreciate the fact that it\u2019s hard to lose elections. We\u2019ve all been in those situations. I appreciate the fact that folks don\u2019t want to be in the minority and most of us have been in that situation. I appreciate that. But I think all of us were really hoping that this year, with two wars, with the deficit we have, with the challenge on health care, with the need to create jobs, with the financial crisis that we have, that this year, somehow, it would be different for a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Play me the violins. Let\u2019s get the piano from Love Story, ‘Where do I begin?\u2019 Back to Sheldon Whitehouse, ‘Any likelihood that people on the other side would suddenly want to cooperate with President Obama and not hand him a defeat?\u2019 See, even it\u2019s about Obama. It\u2019s Obama that\u2019s not talking to Republicans, Senator Whitehouse, it\u2019s Obama that\u2019s not accepting any alternative ideas, it\u2019s Obama this, it\u2019s Obama that. And, by the way, why do you need Republicans, you have 60 votes there. Why do you need the Republicans? Obviously you\u2019re worried, you don\u2019t have 60 votes; you don\u2019t have 60 Democrats so you dump on me? You blame me because you don\u2019t have any Republican support? You ever stop and think that maybe there are people that genuinely don\u2019t like this bill? I listen to these people in absolute awe. I am overawed by these people and not in a positive way. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Hi. Welcome back. Senator Whitehouse, tell me one more thing. Who is it who is meeting in secret? Who is it who cut out Republicans? Who is it who keeps these bills from the American people? Who is it who promised transparency and negotiations aired on C-SPAN but lied about it? Who? It was President Obama. You guys, you Democrats are the ones doing this in secret. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, Mike, on the audio sound bites, stand by for 11, 12, and 13 in order. <\/line><\/line>I have a question, ladies and gentlemen. William Shatner asked me, ‘How do you know? How do you know?\u2019 Do you know who that question needs to be asked of? Why doesn\u2019t somebody ask Sheldon Whitehouse, ‘How do you know?\u2019 Somebody needs to ask Harry Reid, ‘How do you know?\u2019 Somebody needs to ask Barack Obama, ‘How the hell could you know? What the hell have you ever done? Who the hell are you?\u2019 Somebody needs to ask Hillary Clinton, ‘How do you know?\u2019 I\u2019m talking about this health care fiasco. They ask me, how do I know? I do know. I know more than they know. They\u2019re lying. They are liberals. Somebody needs to ask Dianne Feinstein, ‘How do you know it is moral to take taxpayer money to fund insurance policies that will pay for abortions? How do you know that that\u2019s right?\u2019 We\u2019re asking the wrong people, ‘How do you know?\u2019 I\u2019m not the subversive. <\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, I want to tell you something, folks. These same people, the Obamas on down, these people in the sixties, they were the ones, their mantra was: ‘We must challenge authority.\u2019 So here I am challenging authority, and I\u2019m the subversive. I gotta shut up. ‘How do you know, Limbaugh? How do you know?\u2019 That\u2019s not the question. I can\u2019t do anything to anybody. I can\u2019t get in the way of your doctor-patient relationship. I can\u2019t do a thing about your insurance policy. Harry Reid is trying to. Obama is trying to. How do they know? Where is it written we have to be deferential to these people when we elect them? <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s get to the guts of this. Here\u2019s the latest intelligence, ladies and gentlemen, from Capitol Hill and the Senate particularly on health care. Staffers from Senator Reid\u2019s office, the Senate Finance Committee, and the health committee all had a conference call with several stakeholders last night. Here are the notes from the call. Health care will resume on Monday, the Congressional Budget Office score will come out on Monday or Tuesday, they will finalize the language on the OPM and the Medicare buy-in and any roll of public option and abortion and then Reid will file cloture on Tuesday or Wednesday. Now, the three cloture motions, because there\u2019s three different versions floating around here, and all these amendments, the three cloture motions will each take 30 hours of debate. This means if you do the math that they are hoping to pass a bill, anything, in the Senate, on the 22nd or 23nd of this month. <\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s also known is that the House will not pass the Senate bill. Whatever comes out of the Senate, the House is not going to go for it. So there will have to be some kind of conference. The original plan was to have the House rubber-stamp a Senate bill and a Senate bill that would look much like the House bill but that\u2019s not going to work out. Obama is not going to have a bill on his desk by Christmas, but they want the Senate for Obama to get the bill in the Senate done by then. Now, many experts think that this is a very ambitious and optimistic timeline, that there\u2019s a lot to try to get done here by the 22 or 23rd and here are the factors. Dorgan has an amendment, and he\u2019s irritated. Dorgan is irritated that his colleagues, particularly Carper, who has the hold on it, and Lautenberg, who is trying to neuter it with a second degree amendment, are messing with his amendment. I\u2019ll tell you about his amendment in a second. It\u2019s about the reimportation of drugs from Canada, cheap drugs. <\/p>\n

Harry Reid has voted for the reimportation previously, but the White House knows — and this is key, this is the Dorgan amendment, now — the White House knows that if Dorgan wins his amendment, and that means this bill permits the reimportation of ‘cheaper\u2019 drugs from Canada, then Big Pharma has no choice but than to try to kill it, and they don\u2019t want a fight with Big Pharma. They\u2019d rather have Big Pharma on their side. So Reid is in a pickle still. Don\u2019t believe any of these stories that say they\u2019re close, that they\u2019ve come to a groundbreaking deal or any of this. There is a long way to go before they get to paradise. And Senator Obama, by the way, Senator Obama voted for reimportation. When he was still in the Senate he voted for reimporting drugs from Canada at a cheaper price. Next is CBO. Reid is counting on getting favorable estimates next Monday or Tuesday from the CBO on this latest deal that they announced earlier this week where they get to get rid of the public option, they\u2019re going to have this nonprofit insurance company, private sector supervised by the federal government. That\u2019s what they\u2019re waiting on the CBO to score and he\u2019s expecting that he\u2019s going to get a favorable number out of that.<\/line> <\/line> Then there\u2019s Lieberman. Lieberman is there because if the public option is not done away with to his satisfaction, he\u2019s not on board, and they need Lieberman. Then of course there\u2019s Ben Nelson, and he\u2019s twisting in the wind on abortion. Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu still not a done deal. Any of these things can still blow up. Plus, there are the Republicans using procedures, parliamentary procedures and offering all these amendments. Now, I talked to Senator McConnell about the purpose of the amendments. He said we\u2019re trying to flush out with these amendments just who it is that really we have to focus on here. The two names that he mentioned were Ben Nelson and Jim Webb in Virgina because there\u2019s something that Webb is not going along with the Democrats on, I forget specifically what it is. My point in mentioning all of it is that the Republicans in the Senate are using parliamentary procedures, they are offering all these amendments, not to make the bill better but to flush out and to find out who it is that they really need to work with to stop this. That is their objective to stop it. <\/line> <\/line> So Reid has a very ambitious and optimistic plan with a lot of obstacles in his way, and part of the plan is to adopt a public position, ‘Oh, we\u2019re so close. It\u2019s just a fait accompli. It\u2019s just a matter of time. We\u2019ve all come to agreement on these big things,\u2019 it\u2019s designed to dispirit people and get you not to show up on December 15th at a Code Red rally, that\u2019s Tuesday afternoon, December 15th at 1:30 in the afternoon, people are going to be flowing in, flying in, driving in, busing in. The question is, will Pelosi let \u2019em get anywhere near the Capitol? She denied it last time. But there\u2019s a huge groundswell because just like the Sheldon Whitehouse guy, he\u2019s blaming every American who opposes this of simply wanting to defeat Obama, not that they don\u2019t want the bill, not because they don\u2019t like what the bill is gonna do to them and their doctor-patient relationship. So Sheldon Whitehouse is not listening to his e-mails, he\u2019s not listening to his phone calls. He\u2019s in Rhode Island. I don\u2019t even know what the polling on this health care is in Rhode Island. They don\u2019t poll much there. So, anyway, people are fried on this, they\u2019re fit to be tied. Because they believe that this is a representative republic and that elected officials serve constituents, and they\u2019re learning that these people serve Obama. <\/line> <\/line> Now, here\u2019s Reid\u2019s problem with Dorgan, and I referred to this mere moments ago. Reid has the problem that he has to figure out what to do with Dorgan\u2019s amendment, which is ready to be voted on. Dorgan\u2019s amendment would allow drug reimportation, which most of the left and some Republicans for various reasons would vote for \u2019cause it\u2019s cheaper prices and, of course, you think you\u2019re serving your constituents if you do anything that lowers prices. Now, if it passes, Big Pharma will have to get involved, take on the bill, and Reid does not want that, nor does Obama. Lautenberg\u2019s amendment is the loophole that makes reimportation toothless, and this is what Dorgan is not happy about. The Lautenberg amendment to the Dorgan amendment would preclude reimportation unless safety were certified by the secretary of Health and Human Services. And since we don\u2019t have the capacity to certify manufacturing and distribution abroad, certification never would happen. It is a toothless amendment, and it makes Dorgan\u2019s amendment worthless, and Dorgan\u2019s not happy about this. <\/line> <\/line>Now, I would assume that the Republican leadership knows that the Dorgan amendment is one of our best weapons right now, which is why Reid doesn\u2019t want to bring it up for a vote right now. By refusing the uniform consent, that means that they can skip all the procedures, just skip all the debate, just vote on it. So if they refuse the uniform consent, McConnell has made life really miserable here and more difficult for Harry Reid and has bought us a lot more time. I would rather deal with this, as I say, on the ideological front and just say this whole thing is worthless and needs to be opposed because of the people supporting it. But I know that doesn\u2019t fly with a lot of people. Some people want details so I dug deep and that\u2019s the best that I can figure out to tell you where this stands legislatively. To me it\u2019s all. It is a piece of garbage that needs to be thrown out, and certainly do not put it in the recycle bin. Put it where it is going to be destroyed and never come back. But people want to know what the details of it are, the Dorgan amendment, the Lautenberg amendment. The point of all this is that the Democrats are the ones not unified. The Democrats are the ones angry at each other. The Republicans cannot stop this with votes. The Democrats have the votes. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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