CALLER: I don’t call it Obamacare, I call it the Obama con job. It’s nothing but a Ponzi scheme. This is the biggest “screw you” to the middle class that is out there.

RUSH: It is. It’s almost like Madoff.

CALLER: It’s worse than Madoff. You talk about taxation being a Ponzi scheme. If they get their hands on the money, the revenue stream that will come in from every man, woman, and child in this country on a monthly basis, once they go to this single payer thing going for them, once they get their hands on that money, that revenue stream, it will never stop. We’ve got to pray to God this thing does not go through.

RUSH: That’s exactly right. We’re talking about two-and-a-half trillion dollars that they control, which is largely what this is about.

RUSH: Now, we talked yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, about the largest health insurance company (if you will) in the country is the United States government, and the single most powerful insurance company executive is Barack Obama. He runs the S-CHIP program, he runs Medicare, he runs Medicaid, and the VA. And we went through the progression yesterday: Nobody gets everything they want in those programs. Just because the governments get behind it, they don’t get everything they want, and they constantly complain, and they deny coverage. The number one insurance company that denies claims in this country is Medicare. Medicare denies far more claims than any private insurance company does.

Yet here’s Obama with all these great reforms that are just going to compound the problems that we already have in government-run insurance. I want to ask you if you would put up with this in the private sector. Essentially if Obama’s bill passes, we get the paygo. We pay now. The taxes and all the other fees and everything will happen immediately as soon as the bill is signed. But the so-called benefits don’t kick in for four years, and this is so that they could get a ten-year score from the CBO of something under a trillion dollars. Now, let me ask you a question. Can you imagine what Obama would say if, say, Blue Cross/Blue Shield was out there selling policies that you had to pay for every month for four years but you didn’t get any insurance for four years? You had to pay into it, but you couldn’t file a claim for anything no matter what happens for four years, because that’s what they’re proposing. This is Obama’s paygo. It’s a stunt. And it’s a nightmare.

If you hate your insurance company, you’ve gotta understand that the biggest and the worst is the United States government — Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP, VA — and Barack Obama runs it.

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Anyway, speaking of Jim Bunning, I think we need to applaud the guy, and I think he has shown the way. The Jim Bunning approach should be used across the board now. If the Democrats are going to violate the budget reconciliation process, if they are going to violate it, then shut the damn place down. Shut it down. It’s time to take a serious stand. There’s enough talk that’s gone on now.

It really is time for Republicans to stand for the people who are paying for all of this, and that’s us. Government is not supposed to be about redistribution and subsidies and payouts and bribes and kickbacks to union people. It is supposed to be about promoting a healthy society and freedom for the individual within an ordered system called the Constitution. It is time, folks, to start kicking ass against the welfare state. It is time to stop this. Jim Bunning showed the way. Use the Senate rules to force senators to actually vote and debate and take a stand on this stuff. Ignore the media which is now attempting to make Bunning out to be a lunatic fringe kook and they’re trying to portray Republicans as embarrassed by the guy. Why is this controversial? Why at all is it controversial? Who cares what the Washington hacks say about it? They’re now being dismissed by the people. What in the world is controversial about a man standing up and saying, “We don’t have the money. We got a rule here that says we’re gonna pay for it before we spend it. And we’re not paying for it here so I’m not going to let it happen.” And that’s controversial.

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Folks this is pure folly. Here is the joke of all Senators telling the folks he was misled. It is such a ridiculous claim from a grown man that has been in the Senate for 24 years. I have absolutely heard it all now.

RUSH: This is from the Arizona Republic: “Under growing pressure from conservatives and ‘tea party’ activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government’s massive bailout of the financial system.” TARP. “In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary…” that would be J. D. Hayworth, I think. He’s not named here. “… the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.” He said he was misled on TARP, misled on the bailout. “McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown. … Nearly 15 months later, commercial lenders still are in shaky condition and the commercial real-estate industry is in trouble,” blah, blah.

He was misled. Four terms, that’s 24 years. Twenty-four years he’s been on the Commerce Committee and a bunch of other committees, essentially his whole adult life since having returned from Vietnam, and he doesn’t know when he’s being politically hoodwinked? Huh?

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So what we have here, folks, is a teachable moment about RINO Republicans: They will go after conservatives more than they will ever go after any liberal, including ones who are destroying the country!

From McCain’s campaign staff:

Senator John McCain has full confidence that the people of Arizona will again return him to the US Senate this year and will work hard to earn their continued support. … Former Congressman Hayworth obviously disagrees, and it was sad to see [Hayworth] use blatant lies and fabrications to attack Senator McCain when he ‘officially’ entered the race for US Senate today. … Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah]. Mr. Hayworth falsely said [blah, blah, blah, blah]. … One would think that when asking Arizonans to entrust him to represent them in the US Senate, Mr. Hayworth would have the decency to at least respect them enough to tell the truth.

Instead, Mr. Hayworth has started his campaign with a litany of lies. Sorry J.D., the people of Arizona aren’t stupid. They’re on to you.

Mr. Hayworth has obviously resorted to lies and distortion today because he has no record of his own to stand on.

RUSH on this LAST statement: Now, this is a great line coming out of the campaign McCain. Why the hell didn’t they use it against Obama? Why DON’T they use it against Obama? Talk about no record of his own to stand on! He was a community agitator. He had a five-minute career.

CALLER: Sir, I would like to hear your opinion on Sarah Palin’s endorsement and campaigning for John McCain. Thank you, sir.

RUSH: Well, I’ve been waiting for this question to come up, and I see there’s a story out there today that Joe the Plumber says that he cannot and will not support Sarah Palin because of her endorsement of McCain. It is problematic, but you know what’s going on here. She’s a Republican. She’s not a tea partier, she’s not a third party person. She’s a Republican. McCain picked her. No matter what has been written about how she wasn’t supported by some people, I think — and I’m not coping out here — I just think I understand the reality of the circumstance. Maybe she coulda stood mute and not said anything but it would have really, really caused some problems in the other direction for her if she had not endorsed McCain. She’s in a no-win in this situation as far as I can tell. I’ll have more when we come back.

I haven’t forgotten about Sarah Palin and McCain, I’m not avoiding this. Folks, I’ll say again, Sarah Palin is not a tea partier, she spoke there, but she is a Republican, and I’ve interviewed her a couple times for my newsletter and the radio show, but I haven’t gotten into any of this kind of thing. We talked about her bio and her book. So my guess is as good as yours. But I think if she’s going to have a political career, it’s going to have a big capital R next to her name, not a capital TP or some other party, not third party. She’s going to go Republican. And there are just rules. Politics is repulsive to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons, but the one thing that she knows — I mean, you’ve seen the story about how she went into Daytona and totally took over the place. Danica Patrick who?

Sarah Palin went in there and was mobbed at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. She was in there to speak I think to the Daytona Chamber of Commerce on Monday, and she went into the drivers meeting before the race on Sunday and got standing O’s from everybody on every crew. She could not get out of there, signing autographs, and there’s one person that made that happen, and that’s John McCain. Despite whatever happened during the campaign to belittle her and closed budget and all that stuff, one thing she knows is that nobody would know any more about her than they knew before McCain picked her were it not for the fact that he picked her.

This is why, folks, the tea party movement must stay oriented on reclaiming the Republican Party and not going third party, but reclaiming it, and then establishing a new set of principles here that rewards conservatism first, foremost, and down the line. It’s going to be a slow evolutionary process because the RINOs are entrenched in this party, and a lot of them are very wealthy, personally and corporately. And they’re not going to give up the power that they’ve got easily. It’s going to be an ongoing battle. We’ve talked about this battle for two years. As conservatives you and I know that we’re persona non grata in the RINO Republican Party and in the liberal Republican Party, the New York elitist, Washington corridor Republican Party. We know those are the people saying the era of Reagan is over. They’re the ones that didn’t like Reagan in the first place. He was embarrassing, they didn’t like abortion. It boils down to the social issues with these people.

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RUSH: Have you heard this story? It’s been going around. I’ve seen this now three times in the last four days that Obama wants to dump Biden and that the next Supreme Court vacancy he’s going to nominate Biden for it so he can get Hillary on the ticket to run as his VP to try to put things back together in 2012.

It’s all over the place out there.

Here it is in USNews.com: “Democrat strategists say that if Obama’s reelection prospects look shaky, he could dump [Plugs] Biden from the 2012 national ticket and choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate.”

Well, well, well. Interesting. We’ll keep a sharp eye on that.

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