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RUSH: ‘U.S. Sen. Harry Reid launched his re-election campaign Monday with a sentimental send-off from his hometown of Searchlight, cheered on by more than 100 close supporters.\u2019 Cheered on by ‘more than 100\u2019? Hell, at the tea party event in Searchlight they had over 10,000. One hundred? That\u2019s from the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper. Harry Reid says, ‘We have changed America forever.\u2019 This is from TheHill.com: ‘Healthcare reform has ‘changed America forever,\u2019 Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) confidently proclaimed Monday night. ‘People compare it to Medicare. Bigger than Medicare,\u2019 Reid told Fox News\u2019s Greta Van Susteren. ‘Medicare just affected old people. Bigger than social Security, beacuse at the time Social Security passed it dealt only with old people. This affects everybody,” which is the problem. And that\u2019s why it was so important for the Democrats to ramrod this through, no matter the cost. <\/p>\n

‘Reid acknowledged that there were flaws in the bill, but suggested lawmakers could fix those later. ‘If we have to go back and patch things up and fix a few things we can do that. This is not a perfect piece of legislation,\u2019 Reid said. The Nevada Democrat also expressed surprise that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) didn\u2019t brag more about the so-called ‘Cornhusker kickback\u2019 that secured extra Medicaid funding for Nebraska. (That provision has since been extended to all the states,) in the supplemental bill the House passed and sent over to the Senate for reconciliation. Reid said, ‘If I\u2019d gotten that for Nevada, I\u2019d have yelled it from the rooftops. He didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s a decision he made.” Now, this is very revealing, very revealing indeed. Harry Reid cannot even comprehend how some people might view selling one\u2019s vote as unethical. It\u2019s simply beyond his ability, being such a devout Mormon, of course. You know. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Harry Reid. We have a couple sound bites. And remember the Democrats — Harry Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Bill Clinton — told every one of these Democrats, ‘Now, look: If you want to get reelected, you gotta pass this bill.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘The reason I lost Congress in \u201994,\u2019 Clinton said, ‘is because we didn\u2019t pass health care.\u2019 So these guys listened to them, they passed health care, and now they\u2019re going home and they\u2019re meeting their constituents. Their constituents are not happy with them. That\u2019s why the media is unilaterally using the term ‘rage\u2019 to describe people like us who oppose the health care bill. It\u2019s not working. But Dingy Harry puts the lie to it. Last night with Greta, question: ‘Why do you think there\u2019s such — I don\u2019t want to use a term that overstates it, but there were an awful lot of people who didn\u2019t like it, many people were unhappy, I think, with the health care bill than were happy with it. Why do you think that?\u2019<\/p>\n

REID: Because the loud minority made a lot of noise. Now that the legislation passed, it\u2019s amazing how much different people\u2019s attitude is. I mean, traveling on an airplane people are so nice to me. We have — we have people — and it wasn\u2019t that way before. We have people come — sending me notes in church, you know, ‘I have a disabled daughter. Thank you very much for taking care of her.\u2019 I mean they — people have changed. Even the Republicans have changed their tune. So everybody acknowledges, with rare exception, that what we did was terrific and if there\u2019s some problems in the out years, we\u2019ll be happy to take a look at that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah! Problems? We\u2019ll be happy to look at that. I don\u2019t buy a word of this. I bet they\u2019re throwing spitballs on the airplane. Nobody is coming up to Harry Reid saying, ‘Thank you for helping my special needs daughter,\u2019 because nobody\u2019s special needs daughter is being helped yet! ‘Loud minority,\u2019 that\u2019s a code word for ‘racist.\u2019 By the way, Dingy Harry, we are not a minority. We are the majority. You in the regime are the minority here. Never forget that. So Dingy Harry makes a point. He goes to church and fellow churchgoers come up and thank him for taking care of their special needs daughter. Don\u2019t forget how Reid made up all those stories about people calling him with sob stories. He was never, ever able to produce the truth. So Greta then said to him, ‘What about Ben Nelson? You gave the Nebraska deal. Massachusetts, they were furious about the Nebraska deal.\u2019<\/p>\n

REID: Remember, the Nebraska deal was terrific for our country. Why do I say that? Because now everybody has a Nebraska deal. Every state in the union has a Nebraska deal.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: I don\u2019t think a lot of people feel like you do, Senator, on that. I think there were a lot of people who were disturbed about the fact that on the eve of the vote, that two United States senators meet and, you know, President Obama had promised transparency — and so all of a sudden Senator Ben Nelson walks out, and he suddenly says, ‘I\u2019m going to vote on this, and I got a special deal for my state,\u2019 and now the other states are just standing around saying, ‘Well, what about us?\u2019 <\/p>\n

REID: Well, do you think it would have been better that I just let the bill fail?<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: I — I — I mean I — I don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

REID: You\u2019re speechless.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: Speechless?<\/p>\n

REID: Legis– legis–<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: This is the way it appeared to the American people, is that this Senator — Senator Ben Nelson — was for sale.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, here\u2019s Harry Reid bragging, ‘Every state got a Nebraska deal.\u2019 Oh, yeah, the Nebraska deal was unethical. It was a bribe. Same thing with the Louisiana Purchase. But he doesn\u2019t even understand what she\u2019s asking. They\u2019re not even on the same page. He has no clue what she\u2019s asking about — or if he does, he doesn\u2019t want to go there. But he\u2019s pulling out all the stops. He\u2019s down double digits. Let me get the polling data on this. The latest polling data is that Dingy Harry is down double digits in his reelection campaign, and so is a California congresswoman. There\u2019s a big story about it, just another of the many stories I have of Democrats going home and finding hell to pay rather than accolades and slaps on the back and all of that. So Dingy Harry\u2019s down by double digits to two different Republicans in Nevada. Nothing has changed. He\u2019s just trying to put the best spin on it he can.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to Greta Van Susteren. She asks Harry Reid, ‘What about all the people that are gonna scam the system?\u2019<\/p>\n

REID: Most people aren\u2019t going to be out looking for ways to scam the system.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: You don\u2019t think so?<\/p>\n

REID: No, I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think so. I think that most people are going to comply with what the rules are, and the rules are that people should have insurance, and I think people are not willing to do that gamble.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: I wish people were as decent as that. You know, I don\u2019t mean to be a cynic, but I could even point to members of the Congress and Senate that are sort of gaming the system. You\u2019ve got people in this country who are here not legally. You got people cheating on their income taxes. I would like to think that everyone is so noble as you say, although I\u2019m a little bit suspicious.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dingy Harry, ‘Oh, no, no! Nobody\u2019s going to scam the system.\u2019 They already are! (laughing) Now, the IRS… You know, to people that live in blue cities, their refund check? The common term for it is Christmas in July, Christmas in the summertime. And if they don\u2019t get it, you ever heard the term ‘long, hot summer\u2019? So the IRS people, if they start tampering with people\u2019s refunds — \u2019cause they are important to people. I mean people plan all year. People think they are shafting the government when they get a big refund. They really think they are sticking it to the government — which, of course, is not true. I understand the lure of wanting a relatively big pile of cash to go spend or save or invest or what have you. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Harry Reid says that there\u2019s no fraud out there. From the Houston Chronicle, today: ‘The former co-owner of a Houston durable medical equipment company has been convicted of bilking Medicaid of nearly $1 million in a scheme involving adult diapers,\u2019 the kind of stuff that Patrick Leahy, Senator Depends, wears. ‘Fred Jessie Cole Jr., 44, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of health care fraud,\u2019 don\u2019t tell Dingy Harry about this, ‘connected to a scam to file fraudulent claims for incontinence supplies, such as diapers and briefs, federal authorities said late Monday.\u2019 From January 18 of this year, from Reuters, unfazed: ‘Some 180 billion euros ($260 bln) is lost globally every year to fraud and error in healthcare — enough to quadruple the World Health Organisation\u2019s and UNICEF\u2019s budgets and control malaria in Africa…\u2019 So $260 billion, and that\u2019s all they found. There\u2019s undoubtedly more. This from CNN on October 22nd of last year: ‘Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it\u2019s safer and potentially more profitable to file fraudulent claims with the federal Medicare program and state-run Medicaid plans.\u2019 So the mob is involved. There\u2019s fraud and abuse all over. Remember Dingy Harry said, ‘No, no, no! There won\u2019t be any of that. People aren\u2019t going to scam the system.\u2019 Remember Obama said, ‘You know, Republicans have a good idea,\u2019 at the health care summit. ‘We ought to incorporate that in our plan, eliminating fraud and abuse,\u2019 as though if we don\u2019t incorporate the Republican plan to eliminate fraud and abuse, we\u2019re not going to have it in the plan. We\u2019re going to be sponsoring fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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