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RUSH: Now, on drug reimportation, the White House assured liberal-kook bloggers that Obama is working back channels to get that done later. Because the reimportation of drugs, that\u2019s another thing that ticked off the left because that means insurance companies here get ‘obscene profits\u2019 and people don\u2019t get to buy cheap drugs imported from Canada. So they held a conference call yesterday with liberal bloggers, and during the Q&amp;A, blogger Susie Madrak said, ‘I thought that whole maneuver with importing the pharmaceutical drugs was shameless. I mean, anybody in the industry knows that the FDA inspects those facilities in other countries, but in fact a lot of the pharmaceutical companies that are bringing those drugs into the country from those exacts same plants — you know, and considering that President Obama campaigned on this — I would just like to hear some feedback on that.\u2019<\/p>\n

WOMAN: One good thing that happened this week is that the Labor-HHS bill was among the bills that was finally approved by the Senate, and in that bill was a proposal that President Obama put forth as soon as he got here, which is to get the FDA started on the kind of work it needs to do to have the infrastructure and the system to do importation of drugs safely. The president is committed to that. He put money in the budget for FDA to start working on: How do we get the system up and running to do this kind of thing safely?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Were you able to understand that? I have the transcript so I know what she said. Basically she said: Don\u2019t worry about it; Obama\u2019s working on this back channels. He\u2019s going to get this done later on. Which I\u2019m sure all that\u2019s true. All of that and more is going to get done next year and then the year after that there will be more added. It\u2019s never going to stop. Now, this is the same phone call. This is David Axelrod trying to walk back his comment that Ben Nelson and Howard Dean are insane.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: I\u2019m not, uh, professionally qualified to judge insanity. Maybe I should have used a different word. I just think it\u2019s wrong-headed to suggest that, uh, somehow these bills, uh, uh, aren\u2019t infinitely, uh, better than what we have today. They are, and it would just be a shame… We have this extraordinary moment when we can win where we never could win, uh, before, and, uhh.. I just… That\u2019s the basis from which I use that word. I don\u2019t doubt the sincerity of people in this debate on all sides, and certainly people in the progressive community I know care deeply about, uh, rectifying the very problems I\u2019m talking about. But these bills will go a long ways toward doing that and that\u2019s why I feel so strongly about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, they\u2019re in trouble. They have to schedule this conference call with all these nut cake loopy tunes bloggers to try to assure them, ‘No, we don\u2019t mean what we mean and we didn\u2019t say what we said and you couldn\u2019t hear us right — and privately we do think you\u2019re insane and we wish you would leave us the hell alone!\u2019 Now the last one is a question from a blogger at the Huffing and Puffington Post, and the question is: ‘The president\u2019s approval rating. I mean, there\u2019s no up in these polls. It\u2019s straight down for several weeks now. The enthusiasm gap, the NBC poll today. You see, overall, really distressing signals for Democrats in 2010. Is there something in the context of this health care debate or beyond it? Is there something that you have in mind that will reverse this trend heading into next year?<\/p>\n

AXELROD: I\u2019d be the last person to dismiss polls. I mean, given the profession that I\u2019m — I\u2019ve been in. But there are things that transcend polls. We have the opportunity to do something that positive way. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here. We\u2019re not here to husband our poll numbers like a trophy on the shelf and take \u2019em down and admire them every once in a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ehhhhhhhh, don\u2019t be fooled, folks. They\u2019re worried about the plummeting poll numbers. Not because it\u2019s going to affect their energy to get this done but because Obama is a narcissist. He wants to be idolized, not just loved. He wants his face on Mount Rushmore, probably before he leaves office! So it does bother them in that context. But they didn\u2019t expect any of this. Folks, I guarantee you that when they were immaculated, they were thinking that this was going to be a road as smooth as any ever paved. They thought the universal love and devotion would make it so. They\u2019ve made the same mistake that the Republicans made in 1994. When we won all those House elections and took over the House in 1994, the Republicans assumed that the country at large had ideologically turned to conservatism, and they stopped teaching it. They stopped explaining why they were doing what they were doing, and that allowed the Democrats to butcher it. <\/p>\n

These guys, I think, have doubly overestimated that the country has turned far-left fringe because of the cultlike following Obama had. Therefore, I think they\u2019re shocked and stunned by all of this. I mean, that Olympic vote? They may act like it was no big deal but being the first nation tossed out after Obama makes a special trip over there? Presidents never do things like that without the outcome being set in stone before he even leaves town. But they had so much faith in the cultlike ability of Obama to mesmerize and hypnotize people! Just because he was there, Chicago would get the Olympics — and they loved snubbing the president of the United States. This Copenhagen debacle is more of the same. He gets lectured to over on his Asian trip. His only, quote, unquote, ‘success\u2019 is laughing and shaking hands with Hugo Chavez. But that didn\u2019t last long because Hugo is now referring to him as the devil. He still smells ‘sulfur\u2019 in the meeting room at Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, on drug reimportation, the White House assured liberal-kook bloggers that Obama is working back channels to get that done later. Because the reimportation of drugs, that\u2019s another thing that ticked off the left because that means insurance companies here get ‘obscene profits\u2019 and people don\u2019t get to buy cheap drugs imported from Canada. 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