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RUSH: Jim in Port Huron, Michigan, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush! Happy New Year and happy birthday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, Rush, the reason I called is to make a couple comments. You know, I\u2019ve been following the health care debate and the new vote, and what\u2019s interesting is that every time you see a Democrat talking about that health care program, they\u2019ve got three or maybe four points that they can point to that make the health care program worthwhile; yet they pushed through 2700 pages of BS on the American people that they said we had to have — which is absolutely ridiculous — and you find out that that the three or four points are something Republicans were along with them on when they wanted to go bipartisan to begin with. So it\u2019s absolutely sickening to listen to them talk about it now. The other item is the cost of that health care bill. Paul Ryan was on Greta Van Susteren last night, and he probably gave the best and most articulate reasons for the costs of the health care bill versus what the Democrats are putting\u2019 forth. He made it very plain where the cost and the CBO estimates that the Democrats are giving us were way out of line, the fact that they wanted to cut Medicare by $500 billion and they wanted to cut Medicaid. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous, their stance on this, and I just hope the Republicans stand up and put pressure on the Senate to get rid of this crazy bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, they will. The first time around it isn\u2019t gonna happen; that\u2019s why they gotta keep plugging at this. It\u2019s not gonna pass the Senate first time around. There are some Democrats that are gonna vote to repeal it in the House. They announced today. I forget who these were. Two of them I saw, maybe more. Some Democrats in the House are gonna vote to repeal it, and it\u2019s not gonna pass the Senate the first time. But the more you do this, the more pressure you bring and the more the polling data shows that people want this repealed. The more the Democrats have to defend this, the better. That\u2019s why: Send a repeal bill up there every month if you have to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled) MVP, with the IR people he\u2019s had all year, and he\u2019s carrying his team to the playoffs? He\u2019s gonna win the Super Bowl. Peyton Manning for MVP.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. I didn\u2019t hear the first part of what you said \u2019cause you\u2019re breaking up. Are you picking the Colts?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am. I think Peyton Manning should be the MVP of the league. No other quarterback has had to play with the amount of injured reserve players that they\u2019ve had on the Colts this year. They\u2019re still making it to the playoffs and I pick \u2019em to win the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Peyton Manning for MVP, winning the Super Bowl. So you think they\u2019re gonna through the New York ‘Jits\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re gonna kill the Jets!<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re going to kill…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Peyton Manning is the man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. There you have it. That\u2019s Jim in Port Huron, Michigan, who\u2019s obviously given up on the Lions, and I guess the Colts are the nearest (geographically) good team, and there you go. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 13, Mike. We don\u2019t have Paul Ryan from Greta last night. We do have him yesterday afternoon, Wall Street Journal, Conversations With, he talked to Paul Gigot. And this is a small sound bite, but Ryan, pay attention to him, brilliant guy. Budget matters, brilliant guy. Gigot said, ‘Some Democrats criticize you for backtracking on the promise, campaign promise, hundred billion-dollar deficit reduction, can you respond to that charge you\u2019re already backtracking, is that true?\u2019<\/p>\n

RYAN: If people think we\u2019re afraid of cutting a hundred billion dollars they got another thing coming. This is just the beginning. Wait \u2019til we do our budget resolution; wait \u2019til we do our fiscal year 2012 spending bills, we\u2019re gonna keep going.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the Paul Ryan that I know. I met Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan was an intern at Empower America when Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett ran that shop in Washington. I flew up there one weekend to meet Bennett for a weekend of revelry and they took me by the office, and Paul Ryan was in there as an intern. He remembered meeting me, he told me that was the first place that we met, and so there he was, interned for Kemp and Bennett, Empower America, Forbes and all that, bammo. And here he is now running the budget for the US Republicans in the Congress, saying, ‘A hundred billion? Hell. That\u2019s just the beginning.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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