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RUSH: From St. Louis, St. Louis Business Journal: ‘US Steel Corp. is the latest publicly traded company to announce a first-quarter charge as a result of changes under the recently passed health-care reform law. US Steel, which owns a mill in Granite City, Ill., said Wednesday it will record a charge of $27 million in the quarter to adjust deferred tax assets related to Medicare Part D subsidies offered to retirees.\u2019 This is a perfect opportunity for me to explain again, because I\u2019m still getting e-mail from people, ‘Rush, we don\u2019t have regimes in America, it doesn\u2019t sound right, it doesn\u2019t feel right.\u2019 I know, folks, I know. But we have a regime here. And by regime, I\u2019m talking about authoritarian. So this is a great example. US Steel joins John Deere, Caterpillar, AT&amp;T, Verizon. We\u2019re up now to over $14 billion in hits to the bottom line, corporations have had to take because they found this tax change, and the law says, it\u2019s very clear, the law says that you must take the charge in the quarter of the year that the legislation is signed into law, not when it\u2019s implemented, but when it\u2019s signed into law. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re following the law. If they don\u2019t follow the law, the SEC is gonna come after \u2019em. So what happened? They followed the law, and they get a letter, essentially a subpoena from Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, who is Waxman\u2019s second in command on that committee. They are instructed to show up before the committee sometime in April, not just bring themselves, they gotta bring their books because Waxman says this is crazy, everybody knows health insurance is going to lower costs. So here\u2019s what happens. You follow the law to the letter of the law, you do exactly what the law says or else the SEC comes after you, and after you do what the law says, the regime comes and gets you and asks for your head on a platter before their committee. This is why this is a regime. This is intimidation like you can\u2019t believe. It\u2019s a golden opportunity for these CEOs, too. Who was it? Was it Big Oil I think at one point got so fed up with all this. I think the guy from Shell, yes. It was a congressional committee, House committee, Maxine Waters was on it and Maxine Waters totally slipped up and said, ‘What we want to do is social–‘ and she caught herself. I think we even have this in our archives. <\/p>\n

She started fumbling around, the people in the camera shot started laughing, and then she said, ‘If you don\u2019t do what we want, we\u2019re just going to nationalize your companies.\u2019 She said it. So these guys and the Shell Oil Company guy just read her the riot — not about that, but read the riot act to Congress, ‘If you want to know why prices are up take a look at you, take a look at yourself.\u2019 I mean read them the riot act, and that\u2019s what these CEOs have a chance to do. And all they have to do is tell the truth. ‘The law is the law, Mr. Waxman, and your health care law is the law, and it says X, it\u2019s going to force us to do this, which we did, and now we\u2019ve been called up here by you, and you want to see our books. Well, take a look.\u2019 It\u2019s a golden opportunity. I really hope they don\u2019t cave. I really, really don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, here you go. This is May 22nd, 2008, the House Judiciary Committee task force looking into competition in the oil industry. This is Maxine Waters.<\/p>\n

WATERS: And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be all about socialize — uh, uh —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, oh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — will be about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, oh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — basically —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — taking over — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — and the government — <\/p>\n

RUSH: (gasping)<\/p>\n

WATERS: — running all of your companies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (gasping) Maxine Waters, May 22nd, 2008, four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline. Back before you know it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back to Maxine Waters and I want to play for you what precipitated her comment. Now, again, this is May 22nd, 2008, we\u2019re at or near 150 bucks a barrel for oil. That meant four-dollar gasoline, four-dollar-a-gallon. Everybody was just fit to be tied. And Maxine Waters asked the Shell Oil Company president, John Hofmeister, the following question: ‘Can you guarantee the American people that the price of oil will go down if oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want to off US shores?\u2019 And this is what he said, and this is a lesson for all these guys that have been summoned by Henry Waxman to take not only their books, they\u2019ve been told to bring all their e-mails, to explain why they\u2019re taking all these charges. This is how they should respond to Waxman or whoever else is up there.<\/line><\/line>HOFMEISTER: I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever increasing prices unless the demand comes down, and the five dollars will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: He just hit her right between the eyes, and that\u2019s when she responded with…<\/p>\n

WATERS: And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be all about socialize — uh, uh — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh oh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — will be about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — basically taking over —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ahhh.<\/p>\n

WATERS: — and the government running all of your companies.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: She means it. If she had the druthers and the power she\u2019d do it. She means it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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