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You know, these vote counts, these whip counts, they\u2019re all over the place. You got Democrat leaders saying, ‘We\u2019re five votes short.\u2019 CNN says they\u2019re 12 votes short of passing the Senate bill. Ace of Spades, a website, they claim that Pelosi only has 192 votes, that she\u2019s 24 short and that there are 26 ‘maybes\u2019 left. And of the ‘maybes\u2019 there are ten who voted ‘yes\u2019 the first time but have refused to commit to voting the same way this time. They are named here, and there are 16 who voted ‘no\u2019 the first time who could be victims of Rahm-in-the-locker-room-with-the-lead-pipe bullying or Cornhusker kickback bribery because they haven\u2019t declared yet what they plan to do. Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania, is one of those. I\u2019ve got a list of some of these guys, their addresses in Washington and their phone numbers in Washington. Including fax. <\/p>\n

Now, if I can verify this, then we\u2019ll put it up at RushLimbaugh.com. But I don\u2019t have 26 of them here. I\u2019ve got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I know there are more than eight. So I need to check. A staffer sent me this, and staffers all assume I\u2019m brilliant. They think I\u2019m going to understand everything they send me without any explanation. But I\u2019m curious, I always have questions: Who are these eight? Why just these eight? I know there are many more than these eight. I\u2019ll get all that data, and we\u2019ll go from there. Now, this Ace of Spades — and put Stupak in there. Stupak says that she\u2019s at 200 votes, which is 16 short. Now, let me again rely on my common sense and instincts and my well-known, superior, critical thinking abilities. It\u2019s been a year. They have not been able to get this done. They really haven\u2019t been close. We thought they were close, then the Scott Brown election took place, but they really haven\u2019t been close in the traditional, required-by-the-Constitution way of passing a bill. <\/p>\n

The House and the Senate have been far apart. It doesn\u2019t matter where the Republicans are on this. They\u2019re all united against it. They can\u2019t stop it, except in the Senate now with their numbers. So we\u2019ve been hearing for a year, ‘The endgame is near! We\u2019re very close. We\u2019re very, very close.\u2019 I\u2019ve resisted saying what I really think about this very much, because I don\u2019t want to fall prey to my own wishful thinking compromising my objectivity. My wishful thinking is that this thing goes down a pile of dust and we never see or hear from it again, and I don\u2019t want that desire to pollute or corrupt my actual thinking on this. I\u2019ll just tell you: My actual thinking on this for the longest time has been that they were never close. Five votes? No way they\u2019re that close. They coulda found five votes by now. It took \u2019em, what, 48 minutes with Kucinich on Air Force One? <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how long the flight was from Washington to Cleveland: 48 minutes. That\u2019s all it took \u2019em to get Kucinich. I mean, if it were just five (it\u2019s gotta be more than five) they coulda had this wrapped up. They can\u2019t even get this Slaughter solution reconciliation bill written. That\u2019s not even written! And they\u2019re talking about having the final vote here Saturday. The only thing they\u2019ve got right now to vote on is the Senate bill, and they despise that in the House. So I see the Ace of Spades thing that shows Pelosi is 24 short. She\u2019s got 192 votes and there are 26 ‘maybes.\u2019 Now, the way they\u2019re looking at it at Ace of Spades — and I\u2019m not holding them out as having a better count than anybody else does. They\u2019re just an example to look at here. But if they\u2019re right, if she\u2019s 24 short and therefore needs 24 and there are 26 ‘maybes,\u2019 that means she needs 24 of the 26 ‘maybes\u2019 to say ‘yes.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, that makes sense that they\u2019re having trouble getting that many to switch. If it were just four or five, this would have been done. They\u2019d have plenty to bully, plenty to bribe, plenty to pay. I\u2019ve always thought and I\u2019ve always believed — especially when we\u2019re dealing with Democrat leaders in the media — that what they\u2019re saying is what they want us to believe but it really isn\u2019t the truth. How often is that accurate about any news story? I\u2019m not saying that to make everybody exhale and breathe a sigh of relief, because I want you to keep pounding those numbers, and I want you to keep thinking that they\u2019re just one vote short. But in the back of my mind it\u2019s been gnawing at me. Folks, there\u2019s another reason. I know that we have the most radical leftists running the Democrat Party than ever before in our history.<\/p>\n

We now know that the people who are running the Democrat Party have decided they\u2019re going to run it on the basis that this is a majority leftist country, and they\u2019re going to approach it that way. They\u2019re going to identify themselves that way. But we have seen for the past year: This is a conservative country. You can look at it by polling data, self-identification polls. You can look at it by how issue by issue Obama is doing. You can look at it and judge the reaction to the biggest socialist attempt in this country\u2019s history. You can see nobody wants it. It has no majority appeal, not even close to majority appeal. So in my mind… Now, this is a little Pollyannaish, and I will admit this, but I can\u2019t get my arms around the fact that we\u2019re three days away from the United States of America being over as we\u2019ve all known it. <\/line> <\/line> I have not lost that much faith in the people who work in Washington, DC. I know we got a big, bad bunch of them but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re the majority yet. They\u2019re trying to pretend that they are, but if they were, this would have been done last year, last August. I admit this is Pollyannaish. And this view is not clouding my objectivity. I know, and I\u2019ve led the train on this, the risks that we face. I know the horror show that awaits us. I know exactly who these people are and what their objectives are, and they do want to remake this country. They want to overthrow it, take it down and rebuild it in their own leftist, socialist image — and I know they\u2019re in the process of doing it. Obama, if he can\u2019t get it done through Congress, he\u2019ll go to the EPA. If he can\u2019t get cap-and-trade legislation, have the EPA do it by fiat. <\/line> <\/line>I mean, this is banana republic kind of stuff. I know what they\u2019re doing. I\u2019m just saying — and I\u2019ve always believed this and I\u2019ve always told you — the people of this country always triumph. They always, in the end, get what they want. And there have been numerous attempts to take this country in a radically different direction. They have, in some ways, succeeded for a time. And then the American people get rid of the people who tried it. FDR? He got away with a lot. We\u2019re still living with some of the disasters that he created. But I just don\u2019t believe that here we are in 2010 and in three days, the United States of America ceases to be a representative republic and turns into a veritable tyrannical dictatorship, which is essentially what\u2019s going to happen if this health care bill passes. And if it does pass, the American people aren\u2019t going to put up with it. They aren\u2019t going to comply. We\u2019re still the United States of America, and we are still the United States of America because it\u2019s the people who make this country work<\/line> <\/line> It\u2019s the people who have defined its greatness. Behaving and performing because of the freedoms and liberties that we acknowledge we are born with in our founding documents — and those are under assault, too. I\u2019m under no illusions of the heavyweight assault here, but I just… It\u2019s like I didn\u2019t have the guts to say this guy driving his Prius the other day was a fraud, but something told me: ‘This is not right. All of this is on TV, in the midst of all of these recalls, and here we got a guy who wants to be a reality TV ‘star\u2019? It\u2019s the balloon boy all over again.\u2019 But I didn\u2019t say it, and I told you I regretted not saying it. Probably a lot of other people did. Regardless, I could well be wrong about this. I could be wrong on the vote count. I could be wrong. They might be closer than I think. I just think if they were, that would have been done. (interruption) Yeah! (interruption) Snerdley, yes. Of course I\u2019m holding out hope, genuine hope here! Damn right. I\u2019m trying to mobilize the hope.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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