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Panic in Liberalville: Poll Shows More Now Think Obama is Muslim

source: Rush Limbaugh.com

Rush Limbaugh talks to a Doctor on yesterday’s program. Is this typical for many of our Doctors who are in private practice today?

CALLER: I’m a physician. I’m in private practice and I think it’s very interesting how you are talking about the demise of small businesses. I experienced this during the month of June. All Medicare payments were held to my practice. And, you know, it made it –

RUSH: What does that mean? During the month of June all Medicare payments were held?

CALLER: Held. Held. Not given to us.

RUSH: You weren’t paid?

CALLER: No, we were not paid.

RUSH: Okay, they were held back, okay.

CALLER: Because they were trying to decide whether we were going to have a 21% fee cut in the month of June so they held back on paying us. They decided that we would not have 21% fee cut. Instead they’re gonna give us a 2% fee raise, but they haven’t decided when to implement that. So, at the beginning of June, payments started trickling in at like $500 a day. Well, I can’t pay my rent, I can’t pay my light bill, I can’t pay my staff, let alone pay myself. It’s like this is going to be the demise of small businesses.

RUSH: Yeah. And the dirty little secret is that the states who are increasingly approaching bankruptcy are soon going to learn that under Obamacare they have to make these payments. They are going to be responsible for it. That’s how the federal government says it’s cutting the budget. They’re just transferring the payments to the states, which don’t have the money, and they can’t print the money like the feds can to get —

CALLER: Well, South Carolina is a poor state. We don’t have extra money. We’re very poor.

RUSH: No state has extra money. Only people have extra money, and they are the targets.

CALLER: Well, people aren’t giving up their extra money. They’re holding onto it tighter than ever –

RUSH: Exactly.

CALLER: — for fear of what’s going on.

RUSH: Exactly right. How long have you been in medicine, Victoria?

CALLER: I’ve been in the medical field 30 years but I’ve been a practicing physician over 12.

RUSH: Over 12.

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: Would you say 15, 20 years ago when you started studying in earnest to become a practicing physician, did you ever imagine that your compensation would come in the form of reimbursements from the federal government whenever they decided to pay you?

CALLER: Never in a million years. I never thought that, because I said if they can do this now, what’s to say they can’t do it in the future and hold it even longer?

RUSH: Exactly.

CALLER: Where’s the guarantee?

RUSH: We’re talking medicine here. We’re talking people’s health. I mean the doctor is the doctor. The nurse is the nurse. You can’t farm this kind of work out to a subsidiary, and if the people who do this kind of work are not even going to be paid appropriately or even worse, on time, what’s going to be their incentive to remain in the field?

CALLER: You can’t. I mean we’ve already had to cut off assuming new Medicare patients.

RUSH: You know, listen, folks, do you hear the desperation in her voice? Do you remember the guy Clint Didier yesterday, the farmer? People are desperate out there over what’s happening.

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: This is a question from Tom Coburn yesterday [regarding the Kagan confirmation hearing]. He asked her about the whole business of natural rights. She’s not sure! She is not sure on the Declaration of Independence.

Tom Coburn (R-OK): “Do you agree that the natural right of resistance and self-preservation — the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense. He didn’t say that was a constitutional right. He said it’s a natural right. I’m asking with you: Do you agree with that?”

KAGAN: Senator Coburn, t-t-to be honest with you, I — I — I don’t have a view of what are natural rights, independent of the Constitution. And my job as a justice will be to enforce and defend the Constitution and other laws of the United States.

COBURN: So you wouldn’t embrace what the Declaration of Independence says, that we have certain God-given, inalienable rights that aren’t given in the Constitution? That they’re ours and ours alone and that government doesn’t give those to us?

KAGAN: Senator Coburn, I believe that the Constitution is an extraordinary document, and I’m not saying I do not believe that there are rights pre-existing the Constitution and the laws, but my job as a justice is to enforce the Constitution and the laws.

RUSH: And to hell with the Declaration of Independence. She is basically just throwing the whole concept of natural law down the toilet and flushing it. She is throwing the Declaration of Independence down the toilet. “We are all endowed by Our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” She was asked if she believes that and she essentially said she’s not sure. She wouldn’t even commit to the idea that human beings possess certain inalienable rights preexisting the US Constitution, and that is the best person Obama could find to become the next associate justice of the US Supreme Court.

RUSH: Tom Coburn was incredulous that Elena Kagan would not even comment on the concept of natural rights, natural law, inalienable rights. So, he said, “Well, I understand that.” As a justice you’re going to do this and do that, but, “Well, I’m not talking about as a justice. I’m talking about Elena Kagan. What do you believe? Are there inalienable rights for us? Do you believe that?”

KAGAN: Senator Coburn, I — I think that the question of what I believe as to what people’s rights are outside the Constitution or the laws, that you should not want me to act in any way on the basis of such a belief if I had one or –

COBURN: I would want you to always act on the basis of a belief of what our Declaration of Independence says.

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Comment by American Grand Jury:

Kagan is a progressive, Marxist liberal.. she hates the Declaration of Independence. She won’t admit it but he hates the Constitution too.

Kagan is such a slug.. I am sure Obama took great joy in appointing this person to wreak havoc in the Supreme Court.

RUSH: Obama Stimulus Has Been Spectacular Failure:

“The economy didn’t grow as much as the Obama administration first claimed in the initial quarter of 2010, the Commerce Department reported today. The Q1 GDP was first announced at an annualized growth rate of 3.2%, revised downward now to 2.7%.” Can we all declare that Obama’s grand stimulus bill has been a spectacular failure? Yes, we can. And if you can’t, you should join us, because it has been.

Okay, with these revised GDP numbers in, again, I think we can all declare Obama’s grand stimulus bill a spectacular failure. We certainly have not had a winter of recovery. We did not have a spring of recovery. Given what we’ve seen in the housing market, unemployment numbers, why would anybody believe there’s going to be a summer of recovery as Vice President Bite Me and President Obama are suggesting. The president and his accomplices in the Democrat Party took $1 trillion, folks, $1 trillion from taxpayers, they threw it down a slush fund rat hole called economic stimulus. They said it would stimulate job and economic growth. Two possible ways to look at that. Either they were wrong or they lied to us. Whichever answer, it’s unacceptable.

Despite the fact that the Obama, Pelosi, Reid spending spree has failed in spectacular fashion, they just tried to ram through another $100 billion transfer of our cash to their accounts. It was defeated. Thieves don’t stop stealing ’til they’re locked up. Spending and tax cuts are what spur growth in the private sector. Obama knows this, and it’s why he doesn’t want to do it. You’ve heard him. We’re not going to be an engine of growth anymore. He has no interest in growing the private sector. His goal is to pare it down to size and make it fair for the rest of the world. He’s made significant progress on that goal paring down the private sector. First quarter GDP drops to 2.7%. It didn’t grow as much as the Obama administration first claimed.

RUSH: General Petraeus to Alter Rules of Engagement:

According to Fox News, General Petraeus is going to change the controversial rules of engagement to make it easier for our troops to attack the enemy and defend themselves. I predicted this yesterday. You’re right, Snerdley, I predicted this. I said we’re not going to be getting out July 2011, and Obama confirmed that yesterday. I said, Obama’s war is now in Petraeus’ hands, and Petraeus, because he’s bailing Obama out here is going to be able to get whatever he wants. The rules of engagement have changed. What does that tell you about what they were?

There’s also this, ladies and gentlemen, from the UK Telegraph: “General Petraeus to review the courageous restraint medal idea. ‘There will be no change in overall policy but all aspects of tactics and implementation will be looked at afresh,’ a Pentagon official told The Daily Telegraph. ‘The issue of “courageous restraint” is a controversial one on the ground and there may be ways it can be modified.’ Robert Gates, the Pentagon chief, said that ‘Gen Petraeus will have the flexibility to look at the campaign plan and the approach and all manner of things when he gets to Afghanistan.’”

Courageous restraint is a medal. It’s a NATO idea but I’m sure Obama’s fingerprints are all over this. The courageous restraint medal would be awarded to soldiers who do not pull the trigger and thus do not kill innocent civilians. And when I heard about this, I said, “Well, they’re going to have to award most of these posthumously because our soldiers in the process of courageous restraint are going to get killed.” So now Petraeus, in one day, is going to throw out the rules of engagement and is taking another look here at the so-called courageous restraint.

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: LifeSiteNews.com. “Voters in Oklahoma will be given a chance in November to decide whether they want to reject the core of the recently-enacted national health care reform, which includes taxpayer-funded abortion and requires individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, thanks to a legislative action that bypassed the objections of pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Brad Henry.” So in November, voters will be allowed the chance to nullify the federal health care law, and I predict massive and record turnout in Oklahoma in November. source…