GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Tonight: Rush Limbaugh goes "On the Record" in a rare face-to-face interview in his radio studio in Florida.

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VAN SUSTEREN: So did you see the press conference?

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Well, of course, I -- you know, the first thing -- before we get into the health care aspect of this, I have to tell you, we learned last night that he did -- President Obama did listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years.

VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you say that?

LIMBAUGH: The last question, on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, I mean, he was more animated. He came more alive. He was more passionate on that last question from Lynn Sweet in Chicago about the arrest. And calling the cops stupid? I'm telling you, this is -- there's an undercurrent here.

I think Obama is largely misunderstood by a lot of people. I think his associations in his young life and early adult life matter. The people that mentored him matter. And we're finding out this guy's got a chip on his shoulder. He's angry at this country. He's not proud of it.

He talked about health care last night and never once talked about the greatness of our health care. Once again, when it comes to something American, he criticizes it.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Let's go back to Gates for a second. Gates is in his house and shows identification and says, This is my house, this is my name. You don't think that that was an unusual...

LIMBAUGH: I'm not talking about the incident.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK.

LIMBAUGH: Obama didn't know what happened.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK.

LIMBAUGH: We don't know what happened. The facts, as we tape this, are unknown. Obama admitted he didn't know what happened. And yet, the cops acted "stupidly."

For the president of the -- look at what's going on. We are in a major offensive in Afghanistan. We have an attack led by Obama on our private sector. This is a purposeful attempt to destroy the private sector as it exists. We have numerous problems. Jobs numbers are out this morning, and they're up, unexpectedly up, even though we've rescued the economy. And the he -- the president of the United States does not comment on local arrests and things like that. That question, I think, if it wasn't a setup -- it has to be -- it has to have been a setup.

That whole press conference about health care last night, that's the last question, that's when he came alive. He admits he doesn't know what was going on in there, called the cops stupid. The cop that he called stupid gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics when he was dying.

VAN SUSTEREN: The cop -- I mean, the police office has sort of an extraordinary history, the Boston Celtics, when Reggie Lewis was dying...

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VAN SUSTEREN: ... gave him mouth-to-mouth and...

LIMBAUGH: Yes. And racial profiling, I mean, I -- you know, race -- let's face it, President Obama's black, and I think he's got a chip on his shoulder. I think there are elements in this country he doesn't like and he never has liked. And he's using the power of the presidency to remake the country.

Lookit, Greta, he goes around the country, apologizes for this country everywhere he goes. He never once refers to, thinks about, talks about American exceptionalism. We've got the greatest health care system in the world. Nobody leaves this country for health coverage. Everybody in the rest of the world comes here.

He's going -- he lied through his teeth I don't know how many times during that press conference last night. He either is uninformed on the details and doesn't care about them and just has this ideological theory he believes in that he's going to try to get this thing passed because it really isn't about health care.

The one thing -- if I could tell people -- you're giving me an opportunity to tell them on your network. This is not about health care. It's not about health insurance. By the way, did you notice the change in terms last night, health care insurance?

VAN SUSTEREN: What does that mean?

LIMBAUGH: Well, everybody thinks that we need better health care. We've got the best health care in the world. His program is health insurance. But you realize, Greta -- now, you're a lawyer. You know there is no way we can insure our health. We can't insure our health. What health insurance is, is you taking a risk, paying a premium, what you think it's worth to guard against something catastrophic.

VAN SUSTEREN: It's gambling.

LIMBAUGH: It's -- well...

VAN SUSTEREN: A little bit. Insurance is gambling.

LIMBAUGH: In a way. But we've got great health care here. We don't need to redo this. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it. He's running it down. We've got health care that is better than anywhere else in the world. My point is, he doesn't talk about this.

When it comes to his jobs plan, the stimulus plan -- lied through his teeth! We're bringing the deficit down? We are creating jobs? We're saving the economy? You know, this is very difficult for me to say because it's drastic, but he's doing the exact opposite. President Obama and the Democrats are destroying the U.S. economy. They are purposely doing it, I believe.

I think it's -- the real reason he wants health care is because when he gets it, that is the single greatest power the government will have to regulate every aspect of our lives. And that's what Obama is. And that's what the Democrats and the liberal wing of the Democrat Party today is, total control. These people want nothing -- as little liberty and freedom for the American people as possible. And health care ensures it.

They can deny people coverage based on their lifestyles. They can dictate what you eat, what you don't eat if you're going to get this precious health insurance. This is a dastardly thing here that's being done.

and he says things during the course of interviews that should just scare people to death. During that ABC infomercial, ask the president a question on health care -- I -- Greta, I could not believe an American citizen stood up, a woman, and essentially asked Obama, Look, my 100-year- old grandmother needed a pacemaker. And the first specialist said, No, she's 100 years old. I can't do any more for her. Went to another specialist -- yes, this woman's got a lot of spunk. I'll put the pacemaker in. She's now 105, living fine.

This woman asked the president of the United States if -- During your health care days, your health care plan, are we going to take into account somebody's spirit and love of life? And Obama simply said, Well, you know, we're going to get to a point here where 100 years old, they'll be better off taking a painkiller.

A citizen of the United States asking the president, Are you going to not kill my mother? I can understand Fidel Castro being asked that question, or Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il, or some of the other dictators, but I can't believe that these kind of questions are being asked of the president of the United States, because it's not his decision who lives and dies, but he wants it to be! And he wants it to be the prerogative of his party to determine who gets born and who doesn't, and who has end-of-life problems that are dealt with and not.

This is hideous. This is not about health care, it's about control. It's about remaking the country, the economy. Look, proof of my point here that the joblessness is on purpose -- if your number one signature issue is health care -- and his is -- and if, which is true, that health insurance is not portable when you lose your job, what's the best thing you can do for yourself? Create unemployment. The more people unemployed, the more people losing their health insurance, the more people scared to death, the more people clamoring for it, Please save my health insurance, Please give me health insurance. I'm scared because they've been drummed into the fact that there's something in this country killing them every day, from coffee to nicotine to whatever it is.

So all of this destruction is taking place -- redistribution of wealth. He wants to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. He thinks -- look at health care last night. He said, Well, you are going to get gold coverage, gold-plated coverage. You're going to get the best coverage in the world and millionaires are going to pay for it. A couple millionaires are going to pay for it.

Totally untrue. It's going to cost everybody untold amounts of money! They're not -- everybody's not going to be covered for everything that happens to them, but that's what people think he's offering. And he's not.

You know, again, you're a lawyer. We talk about rights. And they're saying health care is a right. If government can take it away from you, Greta, it isn't a right. And government can take away your health care if they decide you're too old and too sick that investing whatever expense would be to prolong your life is not worth it, you don't get the coverage. That's where we're headed, the only way he can make any pretense of saving money. So I think this is a bad guy. I think...

VAN SUSTEREN: A bad guy, or a different ideology than you?

LIMBAUGH: Well, I -- I -- this is the most radical liberal that has ever assumed this degree of power in the country in our history. This is - - this is -- I've never seen anything like this. I mean, we are destroying the economy. He's not fixing it. He's not rescuing it. The numbers tell the tale.

The wealth that has been lost -- when you look at the jobs that are lost -- let's -- let's -- let's look at it in a way to try to convince you. Jobs have been lost. That means what also has been lost? Revenue, tax revenue to the Treasury. Now, we're running with his own plans $10 trillion of deficits over the next 10, maybe 12. There's no money coming in. Tax receipts are way down. The states are experiencing the same thing because people are out of work.

If they're out of work, they're not paying taxes. They're not even concerned. The purpose of taxes is to raise revenue to run the government responsibly. That's not his purpose. His purpose, the tax code is to reorient society, punish achievers. We are printing money. We are printing money that people not even born yet haven't even earned. That's how in debt we are. We can't -- this is not sustainable. We cannot go on this way.

If -- and I'll go even further. I'll give you your headline and your promo-line for the show tonight.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK.

LIMBAUGH: I maintain to you that nobody who is economically literate, economically experienced and understanding would dare do what we are doing if their objective was growth and jobs. The world has proved it historically over and over. This country -- we have tried this on a limited range before. It doesn't work.

We know how to stimulate growth and jobs. You incentivize people in the private sector. How do you do that? You reduce the financial burden. You cut their taxes. You get out of their way in forms of regulation. We need people going back to work. We need people working. We need the country humming. We need the economy coming back. That's not happening. And they're talking about a second stimulus? And now their excuse is, Well, we didn't intend it to work this year. That was always going to work next year.

And there's nothing in the stimulus bill anyway that's about job creation. This is all about helping state governments with their budgets, transferring what -- there's no job creation in it. It's six months in. It isn't working. Anybody can see it isn't working.

There is an easy fix to this. It's the exact opposite of what Obama's doing. That's what's my contention that this has to be being done purposely.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Up next, Rush says your freedom is being taken away and the greatness of our country is under assault. He also has some nasty words for the media. More with Rush in two minutes.

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VAN SUSTEREN: More with Rush Limbaugh.

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VAN SUSTEREN: If you and I were talking one year from now, based on the direction of the programs that the president is creating ...

LIMBAUGH: Right.

VAN SUSTEREN: ... the stimulus, the health care -- what would -- what would you -- what would we -- what would we be talking about? What would be the state of the economy?

LIMBAUGH: Well, I can't predict this. You know, the American economy is a great thing. It's -- nobody, nobody can wave a magic wand or turn a couple knobs and manipulate a bunch of levers and cause it to magically change direction. It's just too big and too complex. That's another reason why he can't really end up controlling health care. It's too complex. Everything about this economy in this country is complex and it's big.

So it's -- I mean, the American people are very resourceful. At some point, people are going to say, I'm not -- I'm not happy sitting here being unemployed and I'm tired of waiting for whatever Obama said he was going to do for me. Entrepreneurs will get out there and they'll start getting work and the economy may come back, or it may start up-ticking.

The Obama people -- they're predicting the future, Greta. And they're saying it's going to be a jobless recovery. Now, how inspiring is that? Yes, the recovery -- I think Obama even referenced it last night. Yes, the economy's going to come back, but the jobs will be a lagging factor. Well, that's all that matters. If the economy's coming back and there aren't any jobs with it, for whom is it coming back?

So a year from now, the resourcefulness of the American people -- we could be ticking back up. Economic direction could be ticking back up. And I guarantee you when that happens, Obama and his guys are going to take credit for it. The stimulus worked, blah, blah, blah, which will not be the case.

That gets to the political question that the Republicans have got to - - this is a perfect opportunity for them to contrast themselves against who this guy is and what his policies are and lay the groundwork now for the elections in 2010 and what the run-on -- and it's not -- it's not complicated. Just do the opposite of this. Talk about American exceptionalism, American greatness, the abilities of the American people to build the greatest country in the history of civilization, being torn down now by this guy who has a deep resentment for it.

You can hear it when he talks about it overseas and in this country. And it's -- you know, it angers me. I love this country. I have a -- I am in awe. As human beings, we're no different than the human beings anywhere else in the world. And there have been families, clubs, countries, thousands of years on this planet longer that we have.

We're barely 250 years old, and we have outdone everybody in almost everything that lives -- raises the standard of living in the history of the world. It's not because our DNA is different. It's not because we're special human beings. It's because of our freedom. It's because of the founding documents and those rights that we have, where they come from.

We are having that freedom interrupted. We are having a tax on it. And the greatness of this country, its people are under assault right now. It just -- it angers me because I -- this is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing to come out of this recession. Printing money? Twelve trillion dollars in debt. And then last night, he talks about how he's reducing deficits? It was a big disconnect. It was -- I watched this thing with my mouth open in awe.

And the press -- this is the sorriest time, I think, in my lifetime (INAUDIBLE) I -- you know, Jim DeMint said that health care is Obama's Waterloo. The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama. They have sacrificed whatever integrity, character, professionalism, ethics that they've had. It's all gone. Their total reason, most of them, for existence, propping this guy up. They're not reporting the details of his plans. They're not reporting his policies. They're looking at it as a horse race. Did Obama win? Did Obama lose? They're running countdown clocks on some of the networks for the press conference last night! Countdown clock -- 8 hours, 25 minutes, 13 seconds to Obama's press conference.

These people sit around with the tingles up their legs all day. They marvel at how Obama is so smooth and elegant. They're not performing -- informing anybody about the details of his policies. And yet 53 percent -- over 50 percent, in most polls, now oppose his health care plan. So who's telling the people? Who's telling the people what's in it? Alternative media -- your network, talk radio, the conservative blog network.

The mainstream media has cashed in its chips. They have become nothing more than stenographers for Rahm Emanuel, in large part. And it's just -- it's breathtaking to see, willingly sacrifice every characteristic that makes quality journalism.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Up next: Rush says President Obama attacked pediatricians last night and the president is just making up numbers out of thin air. What exactly does Rush mean? The radio powerhouse also has his own plan for health care. That and much more next.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Continuing with Rush Limbaugh.

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VAN SUSTEREN: What would you have asked the president last night if you were in the press corps?

LIMBAUGH: Well, about health care? That was a big thing. Mr. President, the CBO says that a minimum $240 billion annual deficit with your health care plan. You're saying you're going to reduce deficits. What do you say about the CBO numbers?

I would have then said, The Heritage Foundation commissioned an independent body, the Lewin Group, to run out and do an analysis of the House plan. And they have found that 83 million Americans would lose their private health insurance and be forced onto the public option. You say people would be able to keep their private insurance, yet the House plan says that -- and he -- he said last night -- he unwittingly did this, or did it on purpose. He attacked the profit of insurance companies!

They're making too much -- look at the profits they're making. I'm going to go after those profits and (INAUDIBLE) and they're not going to give those profits up easily, just like big oil's not going to give up their profits easily, he said during the campaign.

Well, if you take the profit out of any private sector business that has to compete with the government, guess what? Private sector doesn't exist. The government doesn't have to worry about a profit. So if he's going to attack profit in the insurance agencies, in the companies, they're gone. Businesses already want to off-load a lot of their health care plans to this public option.

So this group, Mr. President, 83 million, will lose their private health insurance. You say nobody will. What's the disparity?

I would have also asked for a follow-up after he accused doctors of doing unnecessary surgeries and organ removal to line their pockets. I think that comment, unremarked on by most so far -- now, it may have been during the day today, but -- he's asked a question and he lays into pediatricians. Well, we're going to do it smarter, we're going to do a more efficient job. You take your kid in, sore throat, repeated sore throat. Doctor says, Where's the reimbursement fee schedule? Oh, I get this for a tonsillectomy. So I take the tonsils out, even if they don't need to come out.

Well, for one thing, a pediatrician doesn't take the tonsils out. The pediatrician recommends a surgeon. Pediatricians are not surgeons, for the most part. So he'd have to get a kickback from the surgeon. But just to accuse doctors of doing unnecessary things for a profit, for fee -- doctors do do a lot of unnecessary things, but it's because of malpractice suits. They do all these unnecessary tests because there are lawyers out there waiting to jump on any of them who misdiagnose or don't diagnose something. So that's why there's are all these -- you really want to cut costs in health care, tort reform. Put limits on damages in malpractice cases.

VAN SUSTEREN: There are limits.

LIMBAUGH: Well, there aren't enough.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, well there ...

LIMBAUGH: You know what? I could throw a figure out. I could say, We are wasting a trillion dollars a year in health care costs just on malpractice and not doing tort reform. And you might say, Well, where did you get that number? I don't know. I made it up, just like Obama made his numbers up last night.

VAN SUSTEREN: I was going to ask you where you got that number.

LIMBAUGH: I made it up! A trillion seems to be the number that works these days. Back in the campaign, it was $250,000. Anything above that, you're going to get soaked. And then below it, you're not going to get attacked.

So I'll throw the numbers out like he does. We spend $6,000 more per citizen in this country than other advanced countries and we got to reduce that. Does he not understand this is the best health care system in the world, the best costs things. The American people, because of our exceptionalism, expect the best. I'm not saying there aren't efficiencies and savings to made here, but I'm getting sick and tired of being compared -- nobody leaves this country for health care. Nobody takes their kids anywhere.

They don't take them to Cuba. They don't take them to Great Britain or Canada. Everybody in the world comes here for their health care. There's nothing wrong here structurally with the care that we get. This is an insurance problem, catastrophic problem, basically. This is not the way to fix health care.

VAN SUSTEREN: How...

LIMBAUGH: This is not the way to reform it.

VAN SUSTEREN: How would you fix it?

LIMBAUGH: Well, long-term, easy. The answer is easy. Health care, other than catastrophic, accident, severe illness -- health care's got to be priced the same way a hotel room is or a car is. You want to stay at the Ritz, you pay for it. You want to stay at a Motel 6, you pay for it. You don't -- we don't have insurance for hotels. We don't have insurance for airplane travel. We have it for health care because the government's been paying it, or insurance companies have been paying it for 50 years. People now assume it's their right to have it because they're Americans.

Now, that would take a while (INAUDIBLE) health savings accounts could get the ball rolling on that. But a first thing -- catastrophic insurance is what the government ought to provide or what people -- that somebody -- the ordinary, everyday doctor visits, check-ups, and so forth, pay for it yourself or go buy your own policy that you can afford, that covers what you want covered, if you don't want to pay for it yourself. And then have the catastrophic stuff that everybody's worried about wiping them out -- you would save so much money.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Up next: Rush says President Obama wants to control every aspect of your life and behavior. Rush also says there is a bad reason that the White House wants to pass this health care plan so quickly. More with Rush next.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Continuing with Rush Limbaugh and one of the topics on everyone's mind, health care. And believe it or not, Rush has a lot to say.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Suppose that a woman doesn't go for annual visits and has a lump in her breast. That's not -- I mean, that would not be a catastrophic visit. It turns into a catastrophic problem when you don't do -- when you don't do the annual visits. What about that situation?

LIMBAUGH: Well, what do you want to do with that situation? I don't...

VAN SUSTEREN: I'm just -- I'm posing the problem. I don't...

LIMBAUGH: See, I think...

VAN SUSTEREN: I don't know...

LIMBAUGH: I think that the premise of the question is where we're going wrong here.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK.

LIMBAUGH: Because the premise of your question relies on this woman having been irresponsible. She had a lump. She didn't get it checked out. Or she didn't have a lump, she didn't get it checked out. She didn't do her regular checkups. And all of a sudden one day, they discover a lump and the treatment is expensive. What do we do about this?

What Obama is going to do is say, you didn't get checkups, you didn't do this. Well, we are going to have to limit our coverage. You did not live right. You did not do when you're supposed to do. What did you do that caused the lump? We have put out guidelines on what you can do to avoid breast cancer. Did you do those?

That's what it's going to come to.

VAN SUSTEREN: There are two issues. There is one woman who has the lump and is irresponsible.

LIMBAUGH: I'm not saying she has been irresponsible. We have freedom. If she does not want to go to the doctor, she does not have to go to the doctor. Why should everyone else have to pay for her?

VAN SUSTEREN: I understand that, but there are some people who make an election not to go to a doctor. There are some people cannot afford to go to the doctor, and it becomes catastrophic, and then it is enormously expensive for whoever.

LIMBAUGH: I think there is a myth in this country about all the people who don't get medical treatment. I think that is part of the sales pitch here.

I have talked to a number of doctors, surgeons, ER, intensive care. The patient comes in, they get treated whether they can pay or not. And they get sent a bill if they don't have insurance. And they make arrangements with the hospital to pay off over time. And if they don't, then the car repossessors head out and take the car, what have you.

People get treated. You walk into the emergency room, by law you have to get treated. People get health care in this country, whether they have insurance or not. We have the best health care in the world. We don't need to make giant fixes based on assumptions that there are a whole bunch of people getting sick and not being treated.

That is not the case.

VAN SUSTEREN: So, in your view, there's nothing to be fixed in the health care system from the government's standpoint?

LIMBAUGH: Well, we don't need an overhaul. And we certainly don't need Obama's reforms. We don't need the government running health care. We don't need the government telling doctors what specialty they're going to go into.

How are you going to insure 47 million people and cover them with no doctors? And he is putting squeezes on doctors. He is going to squeeze doctor fees.

Obama's plan is not about health care, it is about control. Obama's plan is about reorienting the American society. It is the single one thing that government could then have control over every aspect of our lives and our behavior.

So I gave you an answer -- deal with catastrophic. That is what scares everyone.

If getting health care coverage for people, Greta, was so important -- - 12 million people in this country is the number that I found that are literally too poor to have insurance at all and they're unemployed and so forth.

For $29 billion you could cover those 12 million for a year. We just spent $700 billion, $800 billion in the stimulus. Now, if health care is so important and these people without health insurance, without coverage are so important, why not add $30 billion in the stimulus to insure them?

Why $1 trillion dollars to take everyone out of their current plans and enroll them in a public auction that no government official will be part of?

VAN SUSTEREN: That might be more cost- effective if you insure the 47 million, if we did that.

LIMBAUGH: Some of them are illegal aliens.

VAN SUSTEREN: I pick the umbrella number.

LIMBAUGH: Fine, do that. But 12 million people who don't have insurance could today have if just $30 billion of stimulus money had been spent on it.

This is not about insuring people, Greta. I know this sounds radical itself.

I'll tell you another truth. Obama said last night, I don't have to worry about health care. It's all about him. Every aspect of his administration is about him. The press coverage is about him.

He talks about all of the great plans that the elected officials have, members of Congress, the Senate, himself, and it's true. They have a smorgasbord of health care plans they can choose from, all paid for by the taxpayers.

Not one of them is government run. Every health care plan a senator chooses or a Congressman chooses is run by a private sector. The government does not run their health care.

And they are not going to opt out of that and join us in the public auction. It is not going to be any good.

Here is one for you. I read this on the Internet yesterday, theamericanthinker.com. Under Obama's plan, would Ted Kennedy have gotten the treatment for his brain tumor that he was able to get because of his own private insurance and his private wealth?

VAN SUSTEREN: Meaning he would not under the government plan?

LIMBAUGH: Obviously not. Obama has said as much in the ABC special. It would cost too much, and end of life, give them a pain pill. Loop them out so they don't know what's happening and don't feel the pain of their disease.

It makes perfect sense if the government is going to decide who gets health care and who doesn't, there is going to be criteria.

Why invest all the money to treat someone 76-80 or older with a terminal disease? The government is going to say this is not worth our investment to treat you.

As a former Democrat governor of Colorado said, Richard Lamb, we've arrived here. You old people have a duty to die and get out of the way. And the vast majority of health care expenses are spent by the elderly. That makes sense, end of life and monitoring their health more closely.

Young people, they are not worried about dying. They are worried about a severe traffic accident or some other catastrophe befalling them. But they are not worrying about terminal diseases.

So they don't go to the doctor as much. They don't spend as much time in the doctor's office as elderly people do.

So I said earlier, they say health care is a right, but anything the government can take away from you is not a right. And if they can deny you health care, which they're going to, they have to, everybody is not going to be covered, then it can't possibly be a right.

And what was wrong with this press conference last night is it made it sound like everyone will get whatever health care they want. It just may have to be a little more efficiently with fewer tests, maybe fewer tonsils taken out so the surgeons don't get rich.

But everyone will get coverage, it will be gold-plated, and a couple of millionaires are going to pay for it. And it's just the exact opposite, Greta.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do you make of the big push to get it done now before the recess instead of, you know...

LIMBAUGH: So people don't find out what's in it. And it's a little late for that now, because the polls are already in a majority position showing opposition to this plan.

These members of Congress and members of the administration are going out doing town meetings. Their constituents, their voters know more about what is in the plan than they do.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, they don't read it.

LIMBAUGH: They're being laughed at. Russ Carnahan in St. Louis was laughed at by his audience. Kathleen Sebelius, health and human services secretary, went down to Reserve, Louisiana, and the first question she got, you are not socializing my country.

And she was taken aback. She had no clue.

Obama is God. All of his cabinet and czar people are God junior. They live in the bubble of D.C. thinking everybody is just loving Obama and has this tremendous respect.

And they don't -- and whatever he says is -- and the magic is not working anymore. He can't pull it off. The power of his personality cannot overcome the truth that he has not done one thing for anybody.

You go out and ask the unemployed, what has Obama done for you? How is that hope and change working for you? What has he done for you? And then ask him, what has he done to you? Has he made it easier for you to get a job or has he made it harder for you to get a job?

And obviously he has made it harder because -- and there is another reason why he doesn't want -- I can't prove this, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if today, tomorrow, and through the August 7th break, Rahm Emanuel and Obama bring up some of these Democrats, some of these Blue Dogs, and say, you have seen what has happened to some of these congressman at town meetings.

If you don't get this done, you go home in August, you do your town meetings and meet with constituents, they are going to rip you to shreds over this. And there is going to be footage of it and it's going to be on TV. It's going to be radio and you're going to be a laughingstock.

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VAN SUSTEREN: We know you want more of Rush. Tomorrow night, you are going to get it. In part two Rush goes "On the Record" about soon to be ex-governor Sarah Palin and her sudden resignation. That and more tomorrow night.