tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22315872215547984482024-03-08T06:54:28.587-08:00Listen to Rush BS, but get THE Facts HERERuBSh's JOB is to DISTORT THE TRUTH.
WHY would anyone listen to RuBSh?Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-50701724482718923312008-08-30T17:29:00.001-07:002008-08-30T17:29:27.595-07:00<b id="oon:">Some wonder - How can Anything, be Anything, if it can NOT be defined?<br /></b><b id="r-55">How can Conservative, be Conservative, if it can NOT be defined?<br /><br /></b>LVKen7@gmail.comKen - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-7141553867167262912008-01-25T10:31:00.000-08:002008-01-25T10:58:26.829-08:00<div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why I <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">(RUSH)</span> Might Not Vote for the GOP Nominee in November<br />January 24, 2008</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">BEGIN TRANSCRIPT</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: This is Dee in Aurora, Colorado, great to have you with us. Hi.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: My question to you is because I am absolutely beside myself, Rush.<br />Why in the world would you make a statement that you may not -- for the first time not -- vote in this election this year?<br />Wouldn't any one of the Republican candidates be better than Hillary or Obama? </span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Um, that's an interesting question that you asked. </span><br /><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">What I said was that I,</span></span></b><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">for</span></span></b></span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> the first time on this program,</span><br /><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I can see possibly not voting for the Republican nominee.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: But, Rush, there's enough of us...</span><br /><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">We all have problems with the fact that none of them are true conservatives,</span></span></b><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">but</span></span></b></span> isn't something better than nothing?<b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Well, let me try and explain it to you this way.<br />If one such as myself happens</span></span></b><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to</span></span></b></span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">believe that there's not too much of a substantive difference between Mrs. Clinton and acouple of the Republican potential nominees </span>-- and<br /><span class="GramE"><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">if</span></span></u></b></span><u><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> I believe that</span></span></u><br /><span class="GramE"><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">either</span></span></u></b></span><u><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> the Republican or</span></span></u><br /><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Democrat nominee is</span></span></u></b><br /><span class="GramE"><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">going</span></span></u></b></span><u><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> to cause</span></span></u><br /><span class="GramE"><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">great</span></span></u></b></span><u><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> damage and</span></span></u><br /><span class="GramE"><b><u><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">harm</span></span></u></b></span><u><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> to the country –</span></span></u><br /><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I would just as soon it <span class="GramE">happen</span> on the watch of a Democrat.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: Well, that certainly helps. That makes me feel a little better.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Look, that statement I made is based on substantive analysis. It was a knee-jerk, and I didn't just throw it out there to be picked up. I knew it would be, but that's not why I threw it out there, and I'll tell you, Dee, it's rooted in the fact that -- I'm blue in the face here –</span><br /><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I'm a conservative first and a, quote, unquote,<br />Republican second</span> -- and</span></b><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">party</span></span></b></span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> unity, at the</span><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">expense</span></span></b></span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> of conservative principles and</span><br /><span class="GramE"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">values</span></span></b></span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> to me is not advancing things.</span><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: Well, in the case of Rudy Giuliani... </span><br /><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I know you're not going to back anybody.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm not really quite sure who I'm going to back, who I'm going to vote for, but at least he said he would appoint conservative judges. And fiscally he's good. Crime he's good. I mean, you know, if you really have to weigh it all, to me, that's where it is right now. </span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: I have weighed it all.</span><br /><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I didn't say that there are no Republicans that I would vote for.<br />Did you assume I meant that?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: <span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Yes, I did.</span><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Oh, no, no, no. </span><br /><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">No. <span class="GramE">Just a couple, maybe one.</span></span> (<span class="GramE">sigh</span>)<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's not all of them by any stretch of the imagination. </span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that. As usual, you always have the right answers that make you feel better.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, and thank you for calling and questioning rather than going off knee-jerk.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: Yeah, it was bothering me terribly. I was kind of nervous to call but I had to get beyond that nervousness.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: Well, see, once you get past your fears, life opens up for you.<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CALLER: (giggles)<br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RUSH: You faced the fear, you confronted it, and now you're going away satisfied and perhaps even more since you did it. So it's great to have you calling. I appreciate it, </span></span></b>Dee.<b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">END TRANSCRIPT</span></span></b></p></div><span id="Par_89380" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:12;" ><img src="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012408/content/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg" align="right" border="0" /></span><br />LVKen7@gmail.comKen - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-66517696224982270012007-04-30T15:54:00.000-07:002007-04-30T15:56:07.522-07:00<span><strong>It is NOT "talk" radio - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">it is HATE RADIO</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042707/content/01125100.guest.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#003366;"><strong>Rush - "Talk radio is the last remaining place for the free and open discussion of all ideas. It's also where conservative ideas triumph."</strong></span></a><br /><br /></strong></span>LVKen7@gmail.com<style type="text/css"></style><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-9028068353270022152007-04-21T06:48:00.000-07:002007-04-21T08:00:28.935-07:00<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">The <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">ONLY time I listen to RuBSh is when I am in the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Yesterday I heard,<br />and today I got the transcript of his show -<br /><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html</a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">2 callers called about the Global Warming movie - <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">An Inconvenient Truth,</span><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">RuBSh take is – “<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">There are a number of tricks in this movie …it's pure propaganda… “It was all BS.”</span><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">He was upset, and tried to get his listeners upset because … “<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">In the state of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, some parents rebelled because both sides are not being presented. “</span><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">*** Yeah! RuBSh! Like YOU present “BOTH SIDES” OF ISSUES.</span><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">RUSH:<span style=""> </span>In fact we'll put a<br />whole new global warming segment on the website<br />this weekend so that you and the<br />woman in <st1:city><st1:place>Chicago</st1:place></st1:city><br />can get educated.</p><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold;">That's the best thing to do: </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;">just research the encyclopedia that's my website<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">and you'll be armed for battle no matter who you run up against.</span><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"> </o:p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">*** BUT RuBSh YOU LEFT OUT – YOU HAVE TO $$$$$$$ FOR IT.***</span><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">LVKen7@gmail.com</span>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-27425075745935798442007-04-14T12:25:00.000-07:002007-04-14T12:33:04.239-07:00What is Rush saying about "Liberal" today?<br /><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />expose lockstep<br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />You have seen how the liberal mind-set connected dots that didn't exist.<br /><br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We have had so many created truths, we have had so many liberal clichés, so much PC claptrap repeated and repeated, as though we've never lost this many soldiers in a war before, as though we've never screwed up this badly in a war before, as though there was never any reason for this war because the president of the United States is the equivalent of Hitler.<br /><br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The stretch is maybe, after this Duke business, and after the media creation of "truths without facts," a truth without a single fact, people have now seen how the liberal mind-set works. It connects dots where there are no dots.<br /><br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> So there you have it. The Reverend Sharpton has set himself up, and the liberals have made Reverend Sharpton.<br /><br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If it weren't for liberalism and the various constituencies of the Democratic Party needing the black vote and the women's vote and the labor vote and the homosexual vote, whatever else their constituency groups are, Reverend Jackson and Sharpton wouldn't be any more powerful than anybody else is. But they have been created. They have been granted seats at the Democrat Party power table in exchange for delivering votes, and now all of a sudden they're turning on the people who made them.<br /><br /></span><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Is there a black anchor on any of the three evening newscasts? Is there a black anchor on CNN in primetime? Is there a black anchor on MSNBC in primetime? No, there's not. No, why would that be? Reverend Jackson has brilliant point here. CNN, MSNBC, the home of good liberals! These are the crême de la crème. These are the most sensitive among us. These are Drive-By Media liberals. These the ones who understand the struggle, the civil rights community. They're "down for that struggle." They're doing everything they can to promote racial harmony and equality and so forth -- except in their own houses and in their own offices. </span><br /><span id="Par_89380" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><br />LVKen7@gmail.comKen - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-88815918722987565932007-04-03T15:00:00.000-07:002007-04-03T15:07:47.076-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">All Rush has to do it TALK. He doesn't have to be FAIR.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LVKen7@gmail.com</span>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-46626597988995150902007-03-28T10:00:00.000-07:002007-03-28T10:03:42.512-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rush advises - </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;" highlighter="#ff0">that the fifth.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;" highlighter="#ff0">How do members of the BuSh admistration - COOPERATE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;" highlighter="#ff0">and take the 5th? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LVKen7@gmail.com</span><style type="text/css"></style><div style="font-weight: bold;" class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"></div><div style="font-weight: bold;" class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-25298258860337170562007-03-27T08:01:00.000-07:002007-03-27T08:02:37.347-07:00<div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">How can the Cs use the excuse that Abortion kills,</span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">and be FOR BuShs war? </span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LVKen7@gmail.com</span>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-56879188567591240032007-03-24T08:22:00.000-07:002007-03-24T08:23:47.956-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;" highlighter="#ff0">Hey RUSH, you LOST the battle with ARNOLD, so shut up about it already. </span><br /><br />LVKen7@gmail.com<style type="text/css"></style><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-15571396562776359352007-03-22T10:25:00.000-07:002007-03-22T14:40:14.402-07:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Yesterday,<br />Rush<br />and<br />Schwarzenegger<br />talked on Rush’s show.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">I highlighted (what I think is important) it as I read it.<br />So,<br />take a look,<br />and at least read the highlighted parts.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">This is kind of long,<br />but be sure you read the –<br /><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">hidden tax</span><br />part.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>*** I did stick a couple of MY comments in with a *** before and after ***.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">As always,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT YOUR TAKE IS,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">so let me know.<o:p></o:p><br />=============</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">EIB Interview: <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Governor Schwarzenegger Calls Rush<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><st1:date month="3" day="21" year="2007"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">March 21, 2007</span></st1:date><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Listen To It! WMP | RealPlayer </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Audio clips available for Rush 24/7 members only -- Join Now!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">BEGIN TRANSCRIPT</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: We have now with us Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>. He just touched down in <st1:city><st1:place>Fresno</st1:place></st1:city>. Governor, thanks for making time for us today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Absolutely. How are you today Rush?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Never better, sir. It's nice to have you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Terrific.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: It's nice to speak with you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>It's nice to talk to you. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The last time I think I saw you was at a fund-raiser for cancer research.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Yeah, <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">prostate cancer research.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">You were seated next to my wife.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Right, it was <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Michael Milken's thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">It was at the Bellagio.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>That's right, exactly, where they raised millions of dollars for cancer research. It was just a terrific event.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Played a lot of golf that weekend, too, out at Shadow Creek.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Right. So if we don't meet at the Smoke-Out, we meet at the cancer research fund-raiser so here we are, and here we are talking today. First of all I want to just say thank you for covering me yesterday after, you know, what I said about you. You explained exactly what I meant. I really appreciate that.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: You mean the "irrelevant" comment?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Exactly.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Well, I know you, and I knew... See, I think you just probably get a little flustered. Every time you go on these shows they throw my name up at you, and my interpretation was that you're governing <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>. I don't live there, and you're going to do what you're going to do regardless what anybody says.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Well, I think that the point also is when you have a radio show or a TV show or you write papers, and you write your editorials and all this stuff, your objectives are different than mine. You know, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I have to, ultimately, make decisions that are based on bringing people together, bringing Democrats and Republicans together, and to really working for the people and trying to resolve issues.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">If it is issues that have to do with <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">health care or <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">environment, if it is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">creating more jobs, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">getting more businesses to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, all of those things, I have to make tough decisions every day -- or prison reform, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">so I'm building more prisons. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So all of those things. So what you guys are talking about and the ideology and philosophy and, you know, the right versus the left and all of those things, I cannot deal with that as much because to me </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">what is important is that I bring both of the parties together and make things work to serve the people. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">This is what I do, and this is why I pay very little attention if someone criticizes me or calls me, you know, that I'm turning left and that I'm selling out or whatever. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I have to stay focused on results.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Well, we're doing the same thing. I react the same way to criticism as you do. I ignore it because there's too much of it. It's part of the territory. I'm all for bringing people together </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">but not compromising principles in the process -- </span>and, you know, one of the reasons they keep throwing my name at you is because </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I have said that your compromise looks more like agreeing with <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">liberals</span></u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">than maintaining your natural conservative beliefs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Well, I mean, you know, like I said: this is your interpretation, but the fact of the matter is that we are moving as a state forward exactly what my plan is. You know, when we last year -- you know, you maybe disagree with that but – </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we increased the minimum wage by $1.25 and I think the people of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, the hard-working people of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, deserved that</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">because for years they didn't have a minimum wage increase. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So we did it in a way that it is doable for businesses but we also did it in a way where we did not go as far as the </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Democrats wanted to go where they asked for a $2.50 increase</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">and to have an automatic escalator in there and so on. So we didn't go there. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">So we compromised,</span> and did something that I felt very comfortable with and thought that it was important. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">But the same thing again is with <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">health care.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">You know, some people want to go and have health care and reform the system, so we have a government-run health care system. Well, I disagree with that. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I think that the private sector can take care of it,</span> that we just need to create some guidelines of what it ought to be so that everyone is ensured, that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">insurance companies cover everyone, and to <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">create a pool – <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">a risk pool, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">a risk pool for insurance companies and to <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">make it a <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">partnership <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">within the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">private sector, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">hospitals, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">doctors, the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">state and the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">federal government.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">And I was very happy that the </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">federal government agreed to come in with $3.7 billion and help us with our health care reform. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So those are the bottom lines. So it's not "selling out." It is </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">just doing the work for the people because <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">72% of the people in the last poll said that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">our health care system is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">broken and yes, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we need to fix it, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">82% of the people said that it needs to be fixed in the way <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">where there's a <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">shared responsibility,</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">where everyone comes in and works. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So those, I don't see them as selling out but I can understand from where you're coming from, where you look at it just the ideology or maybe in just a more conservative way. We are a state that is in a majority of Democrats, and I have always said during the election process -- during the I was running for governor three years ago -- I said, <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">"When I become governor <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I will be the people's governor and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I will represent <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">everybody, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Democrats and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Republicans."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">RUSH: </span>Well, look I'm not looking at it ideologically. You and I both want the same things: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we want what's best for people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span>***BS!!!! ***</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Right.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: But ideology is a fundamental argument in that. <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I believe <u>conservatism</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">is the best way to provide the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">most opportunity and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">success for the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">vast majority of people. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Government simply can't do it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span>*** BS!!! ***</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">You mentioned the </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">minimum wage</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">and compromising. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">You compromised on the price, but </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">you still accepted the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">premise of <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">liberalism </span></u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">minimum wage is a <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">somehow going to improve people's lot in life, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">and it doesn't.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">You mentioned health care.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Let me just say to you something, that I have had many, many -- <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I would say hundreds of -- hard-working people in California come up to me and say it did improve their life.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So, I mean, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I think it is wrong to say that it didn't improve people's lives. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">I think those things do improve people's lives. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">If you create health care for people, it does improve people's lives.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">If you go and create accountability in education, it does improve education. So I think I'm a results-oriented person, and I personally believed 100% that we need to raise the minimum wage that the people deserve it. So it was not like selling out or going the other way. It is something that I believe in, but, I stuck to my principles of not doing it to chase the businesses out of the state because I'm very proud of the fact that since I came into office --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Have you reversed that trend of businesses and people leaving <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Yes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: They were leaving that state in droves, and that was one of your campaign promises, or premises, after the Gray Davis recall, that there were way too many businesses fleeing the state.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Rush, I just give you an example. I give you an example.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: High taxation, a number of things, regulation forcing people out.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: (Chuckles.) I give you an example that made me, actually, very happy. The other day we were at an event where a drywalling company -- a manufacturing company that produces drywalls -- has moved their operation to California, and it is the biggest one in the world, and they came here because they said, "This is a great business environment." They can do business here. They can be part of the great growth and the success of <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>, and said they're moving their workers and creating this huge business right here in <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>. That's just one out of many, many examples where businesses are feeling now, again very, very happy about coming to <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>. That doesn't mean that other businesses don't think about going to another state, but I would say a huge amount of businesses are coming back here because we are creating a much better business atmosphere -- and remember one thing, and I know this is something that you love, and that is giving money back to our private sector, to people. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">When we reformed workers' compensation, that has created now an additional increase in money for the private sector of $13 billion a year. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Now, think about how much money this is. Now, when we go into health care reform, as you know right now -- and this is the important thing for the conservatives to think about, that right now -- <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">everyone that is insured here in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >they are paying for the uninsured. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">That means there's a <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">hidden tax there, a huge hidden tax </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">– <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">so much that the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">private sector businesses in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> are paying $14.billion right now in the hidden tax.</span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">What I want to do is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">get rid of that hidden tax; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">reduce the cost of health care <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">through prevention and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">through insuring everyone and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">make sure that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">everyone carries insurance and that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">everyone is insured by the insurance companies. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So this is the kinds of things that we are doing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">RUSH: </span>Now, wait a second. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">You want to extend health care coverage to every child even the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">children of illegal aliens, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">immigrants in the country, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">you want to raise taxes to do this, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">you call them "loans."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Well, Rush, I just said that </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we're reducing the hidden tax of $14.7 billion.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">We want to get rid of this hidden tax that is being made right now.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: But a tax is a tax.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Billions -- every single --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: But if you replace the hidden tax with visible tax, it's still a tax.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>No. Hold on a second. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Every single person that is insured right now, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">is paying extra money. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">If it's the premiums, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">out-of-pocket expenses, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">copays, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">all of those things is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">more money because of the hidden tax</span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">because every time you get insurance, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">you pay for those that are uninsured – <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">and that is unfair to those people that are insured.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So what we want to do is insure everybody, and make it mandatory that each person has to carry insurance so </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we get rid of that hidden tax that is existing right now,</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">and this is why when we talk about the 4% increase, it's not really a tax. It is a fee, because actually </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">in the end those companies and individuals will profit by the lowering of our health care costs and getting rid of the hidden tax. So it's a wash, or it actually they come out much more ahead than they are now.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Governor, you were so good during your first campaign, and you had the whole country inspired. You were so good at the 2004 Republican Convention, and you had people in <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state> particularly, inspired and motivated.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Well, thank you. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: But they see a lot -- (Laughing.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: (Laughing.) Thank you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: But they see a lot of about-faces. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: What?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">RUSH</span>: For example, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">in 2005, you vetoed a Democrat bill that would have expanded the state's health care coverage to children because the $300 million price tag was too high. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Now you've turned around and your health care plan is being applauded by the state's Democrats.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>No. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">You're absolutely wrong, Rush.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Because </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I vetoed the bill to cover every child because they did not set up a revenue stream that shows where the money will come from.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">We are a state that is still paying off our debt. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Anyone that sends me a bill that costs more money, I will veto it <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">because it is not right until we pay off our debt. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">This is why I want to have a </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">comprehensive health care reform <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">where <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we know <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">where the money comes from, that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we create a pool of $12 billion where the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">state and the federal government comes in and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">helps us with that, and it is a <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">shared responsibility, and that will cover everyone. </span><o:p></o:p></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Now, let me go back to your question that you had earlier about undocumented immigrants. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Undocumented immigrants right now get health care and get coverage. They can go to any emergency in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: I know.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Any emergency room in <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">because that's the federal law.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Right, <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">and many of them in </span><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Southern California</span></st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> --<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Rush --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: -- <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">closed down because they're not being paid for the visits by these people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>But listen, Rush. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">It is not a question should we cover them or not. They are covered. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">It is illegal to turn anyone away from any emergency room.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">That's for emergency health care, though, governor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>-- and therefore in <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">my health care reform, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we are debating <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">not</span></u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">"Should they be covered or not?" <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">but it is a debate, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">"How it can be done cheaper and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">more cost effectively?" <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">That's what we are going to work out. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">It's one-fifth of the cost that we are paying right now, which is a great benefit to the taxpayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">But emergency room coverage is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">emergency coverage. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">What you are proposing is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">universal, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">all over the place <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span>*** Emergency Room Treatment is THE <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE</span> THAT THERE IS. ***</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>You know when you don't </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">go to an emergency room, do you know that 90% of the time there's no emergency?</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">If they would have a health clinic or some kind of a medical clinic </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">they can go get those things done for $50 rather than paying a thousand dollars </span>– </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">what they're doing right now --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH:<span style=""> </span>Well, they're not paying the thousand.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span>*** SOMEBODY has to pay the thousand. THAT is the <span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">HIDDEN TAX.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>-- in the emergency rooms, and it crowds up the emergency rooms, and therefore <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">people has to wait five to seven hours</span>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So, I mean, believe me: we are moving forward. The important thing you need to know is, that 91% of the votes from Republicans in the last election, which was just two months or three months ago: 91%. I won with a 17% lead over my opponent. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So I have a lot of </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Republicans on my side, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">they understand that <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I want to get the job done rather than fighting like they do in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> over nothing --<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Well, I don't --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: -- </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-size:16;" >fighting over who is right and who is wrong and nothing gets done. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">Imagine that for </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">years now we are <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">debating over <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">immigration reform, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">they can't get their act together. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">That is embarrassing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I think that those guys should sit down and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">be serious about it, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">forget a little bit about their ideology and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">get things done and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">represent the people of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> and the <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">people of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">I think that's what the bottom line is.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: The problem with that is the <u>liberals</u> and the Democrats are not going to punt their ideology because it defines them, and so when we end up agreeing with them just to get compromise, even if the numbers they want are not as much as they wanted, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we are still compromising our ideology</span>, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">they are not -- and this is what people are upset about. It's happening in <st1:state><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:state>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Rush? Rush?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: It's happening in <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>I happen to disagree with that, Rush, because I think that they should not get stuck --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: You know<u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> liberals</span></u>, governor. You've been around them your whole career! You know who they are. You know that they don't waive --</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>I understand it, but I'm just saying that in the end, </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">we have to represent the people and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">do the job for the people, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">that sometimes takes compromise and there's nothing wrong with that, and you <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">still can speak to your ideology, and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">stay with that, but <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">you still have to compromise in order to get things done, and that's their job in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> – <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-size:16;" >to get things done and to represent the people and to do a great job and to fix things, to fix health care, to fix immigration reform – <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-size:16;" >not to argue year after year after year and to make promises that they can't keep. <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">So anyway, so you and I, we're going to have a good time again on our next smoke out that we're going to have?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: (Laughing.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>We'll smoke a stogie together and we'll be talking about this from here to eternity. The key thing is that people should know that you and I, we don't have a fight. We don't argue over those things. We just have different opinions, and, you know, and </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I am enjoying that because I think the Republican Party has a big tent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Governor, look, I've always liked you, and I've always admired you. The first time I met you at that Planet <st1:place>Hollywood</st1:place> opening in <st1:city><st1:place>Dallas</st1:place></st1:city>, I had a great time. We've all got so much hope for you. Everybody wants you to be who you are. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">I know there are a lot of Republicans -- and it was in the paper today – <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-size:16;" >hoping you wake up one day and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-size:16;" >become a conservative again.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span>*** Mean, Nasty, and Hateful ***</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Right, right. (Laughing.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: I'm sure you saw that. Look it, I appreciate your calling.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Thank you!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: I appreciated the time and I'll see you at the Grand <st1:city><st1:place>Havana</st1:place></st1:city> Club next time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>You got it! </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: All right. Take care.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER:<span style=""> </span>Bye-bye. Thank you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">RUSH: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">END TRANSCRIPT</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;">END</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 89.3pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LVKen7@gmail.com</span>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-83107910712155623582007-03-21T10:01:00.000-07:002007-03-21T10:04:56.987-07:00<span id="Par_89380" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:12;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">TUESDAY = RUSH: Yes, it is, but there's something more incredulous about this than just that. By the way,<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" highlighter="#ff0" >members of the Senate intelligence committee<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">who were listening to her testimony said, "She never said that. She never told us that when she testified under oath.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">It was a HOUSE hearing.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">NOT a Senate hearing.</span><br />WHAT A DUFUS.<br /><br /></span></span>LVKen7@gmail.com<style type="text/css"></style><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-24926763344987439192007-03-20T14:35:00.000-07:002007-03-20T14:36:34.827-07:00<strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Question for Rush - </span><br />Will the USA Troops be there FOREVER?<br /><br />Ans = Probably not.<br /><br />Then why not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">SAY - WE ARE SORRY, AND PULL OUT NOW?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's defeat or bust for libs, so don't count on the Drive-Bys to report any success in the war on terror.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But, Rush, there is nothing stopping YOU from reporting successes.<br />I mean, except THERE ARE NONE.<br /><br /></span>Phony Polar Bear Pic Featured in Enviro-Wacko Ad</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: normal;"> This polar bear photo is being used everywhere.</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">WHY is BuSh Prohibiting ANY scientist from talking about Polar Bears?</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> "To the liberals -- I don't care what it is -- if the earth wobbles on its axis, we have to talk to Karl Rove. These guys have Rove-itis."<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Rove to appear before committee. To LIE? </span>Otherwise, why wouldn't BuSh allow him to be sworn in?</span><br /></span></span></strong><br />LVKen7@gmail.comKen - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231587221554798448.post-50110164112672737052007-03-18T07:28:00.000-07:002007-03-19T11:46:39.537-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">Valerie Plames BOSS told Waxman = Plame WAS a Covert Agent.</span><br /><br />Rush you can call yourself the "</span><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> The Truth Detector!"<br />But you misspelled Distorter.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Rush is - The Truth Distorter. </span><br /><br /></span></strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Democrats Ban All Important Questions, But Valerie Plame's Story Unravels Just the Same<br /></span></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">The </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">Gop'ers </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">on the House Plame hearing </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">whined -</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">we didn't get to ask all the questions we needed to be answered.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Well, DOPEY, WHY didn't you have MORE GOP'ers attend the hearing.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">GOP'ERS attending = 3</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">Demo attending = 8 or 10.<br /><br /></span><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> If Rove has NOTHING TO HIDE - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">why won't BuSh let his testify before Congress?</span><br /><br />"Serve at the pleasure of the President".<br />Tony Snows answer for the attorney firing.<br /></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This is a propaganda fest, folks...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Correct - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" highlighter="#ff0">BuSh Propaganda - just like he used to justify HIS War. </span><br /></span></span></strong><br />LVKen7@gmail.com<style type="text/css"></style><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"><a style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" title="why won't BuSh let his testify before Congress?" href="javascript:scrollTo(pageXOffset,228);">¶</a></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div><style type="text/css"></style><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_t_holder"><a style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" title="Valerie Plames BOSS told Waxman = Plame WAS a Covert Agent." href="javascript:scrollTo(pageXOffset,3);">¶</a></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_m_holder"></div><div class="hl_holder" id="hl_b_holder"></div>Ken - LVKen7@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805787632385914395noreply@blogger.com0