Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, July 29, 1994

by John Switzer

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July 29, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) praises White
House aides who testified at Whitewater hearings; Americans are
asking Democrats "where is your health care bill"; nearly empty
Health Security Express busses arrive in Tulsa; USA Today reports
that supporters of Clinton's plan are outnumbering protestors;
crowds at Springfield, MO for Health Security Express had more
opponents than supporters; Donna Shalala doesn't think businesses
should go into business if they can't afford to provide their
employees with health insurance coverage; poll finds that 64% of
Americans want Congress to delay action on health care until next
year; words to "Come On, Get Health Care"; Rep. Maxine Waters
tells Rep. Peter King to shut up; Maxine Waters gavelled into
silence by Henry G. Gonzalez this morning; Lloyd Cutler acted as
if he were the judge at the Whitewater hearings; NY Times reports
that White House aides claimed they met with Treasury officials
so as to deal with questions from the press, but they weren't
telling the press anything but "no comment"; Senate's health care
bill is the Finance Committee's bill; Donna Shalala's insistence
that businesses should not be able to go into business unless
they act as she wants typifies the views of those in the Clinton
administration; Senate Whitewater hearings will investigate
Vincent Foster suicide, but main witness can't be found; caller
doesn't like putting criminals in jail for life, where they will
get free health care for life; members of Congress are getting
flack for all the social spending in the Crime Bill; Thomas
Sowell points out that government officials, such as Joycelyn
Elders, will never admit that the failures in their personal
lives mean they shouldn't run other people's lives, nor will
government ever apologize for its failures; Rush points out that
LBJ, John McCormack, and Mike Mansfield are nowhere to be found
now, when their Great Society programs have failed so miserably;
caller sympathizes with the players in the impending baseball
strike; caller worried that Clinton will claim victory in health
care no matter what plan is passed; Health Security Express,
trying to find a rally location in Birmingham, sought refuge in a
church; Senate version of the Crime Bill would hire former Royal
Honk Kong police officers to help with Asian-related crime;
Health Security Express organizers refused to tell caller where
their busses would be unless she supported the Clinton plan; bus
tour organizers are undoubtedly angry that their tour isn't
generating the wild crowds of supporters that the 1992 campaign
tours had; police informant who helped to convict son of Joycelyn
Elders is found dead of an apparent suicide; transcript of
altercation between Maxine Waters and Peter King; Gephardt
presents summary of the House health care bill, claiming it's "a
piece of the American dream"; Tom Foley compares House health
care bill to Medicare and Social Security; House health care bill
claims it will be paid for by savings in Medicare, higher
cigarette taxes, and a new tax on health insurance premiums;
HUD's Henry Cisneros is being sued for breach of contract by a
former mistress; Sidney Blumenthal taken off of New Yorker's
Washington column because he's praising Clinton too much; words
to "Bogus Bus"; Health Security Express busses greeted by
sign-carrying protestors in Birmingham, along with towed
ambulance marked as "official pace car of government-run health
care"; Rush comments on the irony of a Health Security Express
bus tour trying to drum up support for the Clinton health care
plan by holding secret meetings and rallies; Health Security
Express bus tour reminds Rush of the Great Peace March of 1986;
White House criticizes Senate health care bill, even though it
would insure half of those currently uninsured, while saving the
federal government money; Jim Leach describes Whitewater hearings
in the House Banking Committee as an example of the arrogance of
power; Bernard Shaw insists CNN wasn't deliberately cutting to
commercials whenever Republicans spoke at Whitewater hearings;
Chattanooga nuns cancel Health Security Express rally after
learning of its true nature; defense cutbacks mean that there are
military officers who need to go on food stamps to feed their
families; liberals are continuing to cut America's military even
as they expand its use, stretching it dangerously thin; caller
thinks Clinton wants his health care plan so he will have new tax
sources to fund the national debt.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

July 29, 1994 - It's now day 556 (day 575 for the rich and the
dead, and 102 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 906 days left) and 633
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 648 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with over 450,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction
best-seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million
copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster
stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things
Ought To Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction
best-seller list for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told
You So," was on the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and
has sold over 2.25 million copies.

NEWS

o	Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) had the following to say yesterday
about the ten White House witnesses who testified before the
House Banking Committee in the Whitewater hearings:

"I am extremely proud of all of our witnesses here today. They
have comported themselves in an admirable way. I find them to be
bright, intelligent, hard-working. Certainly as I read through
these bios, it's obvious they have great family values, they're
law-abiding citizens, even regular churchgoers many of them. They
have worked hard to get where they are, and they continue to work
hard."

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, July 31,
1992:

o	Rush and EIB celebrated their four-year anniversary of being a
national show. On August 1, 1990, EIB started up with 56 stations
and about 250,000 listeners. Four years later, EIB had almost 500
stations and 12 million listeners. Rush pointed out, though, that
EIB was still a "crawling infant."

Rush was grateful for all the gifts coming in, but he was tired
at how many people thought EIB should dispense its goodies
gratis. In fact, many people were brazen enough to walk in and
even take stuff without asking. Rush pointed a finger at Bo
Snerdley who wanted some champagne so he could impress his
vegetarian friends.

o	The previous day's NY Times had the headline "Clinton assails
Bush on character issue." This was amazing, as Clinton evidently
felt he couldn't be harmed on character issues any more, perhaps
because he had such a willing and friendly media.

Clinton's position on the Gulf War was one example of how he was
providing the opposition with fodder for future attacks. Clinton
insisted he was an early supporter of the Gulf War, but Mary
Matalin, a Bush strategist, put out a FAX that called Clinton "a
silver tongued straddle panderer." Furthermore, "when it came to
Desert Storm, Slick Willie jockeyed for position, riding tall in
the straddle."

Matalin documented that Clinton's first comments on the Gulf War
appeared in an Associated Press story in the June 15th issue of
the Pine Bluff Commercial and Arkansas Gazette. Clinton said that
if he had been a member of Congress, he "probably" would have
voted to authorize Bush's use of military action although he
personally agreed with those in the minority. "I guess I would
have voted for the majority," Clinton said, "if it was a close
vote, but I agree with the arguments the minority made." Thus,
Clinton was indeed riding "tall in the straddle."

Clinton was also saying, though, "I think we ought to all at
least admit that the President was right to kick Saddam Hussein
out of Kuwait, and if he hadn't, he would still be there today.
He would be threatening Saudi Arabia, and the sanctions never
would have worked."

o	Meanwhile, Al Gore was redefining the concept of "family
values" - during an appearance in Washington with women
legislators, Gore attacked Bush's veto of $300 million for breast
implant research, his veto of a family leave bill, and his ban on
the use of fetal tissue in media research, claiming these showed
Bush's lack of "family values."

o	Robert from Oceanside, CA noted that while Gore and Clinton
were attacking Bush for his supposed lack of concern for the
environment, Arkansas rivers were full of chicken excrement, and
Clinton was flying around on the corporate jet of Tyson Foods,
which that was responsible for this pollution. Robert bet the
rivers had probably been cleaned up, but not because any
environmental wackos complained; rather it was because Clinton's
political opponents brought the subject up.

o	Maryland was going to require 75 hours of community service
from its public school students before they could graduate from
high school. Furthermore, students in the 10th grade would have
to decide whether they wanted to be in a college-prep or
vocational-style curriculum. Rush noted he didn't mind voluntary
community service, but was opposed to mandatory "anything" from
the government.

o	In Santa Ana, a painting was unveiled at a demonstration
against the area's ban against camping. August Spivey, a Newport
Beach muralist, said that he did the painting because "we need to
remind Americans that we are being systematically conditioned to
ignore and accept the demise of a whole segment of our society.
There are leaders in our cities who would rather lead us down the
path of shame, rather than the path of change."

Thus, in order to combat homelessness and spur society onto
action, this "long-haired, maggot-infested, FM-type artist"
painted a picture, which was titled "No Place to Go," and which
showed a homeless man defecating in front of a fast-food
restaurant." Rush bet that an NEA grant funded the mural.

o	A Congressional hearing interrogated the heads of the four
military services, with various feminists lecturing them about
their failures in dealing with sexual harassment and with getting
women in combat. "This is the end of the line," said Rep. Beverly
Byron (D-MD), "we have to make sure sexual harassment is no
longer given lip service."

Rep. Schroeder then chimed in by saying "the services still don't
get it." Pointing to the male aides sitting behind the military
heads, she complained "not one of you before us today is a woman,
not one of you understands."

However, one voice of reason, Rep. Bill Dickinson (R-AL), said
that physical and psychological differences were indeed enough to
keep women out of combat, but in any case the hearings on sexual
assault had nothing to do with women in combat. The two subjects
have nothing to do with one another. "They are two separate
issues," said Dickinson.

The Air Force General said that "my traditional attitude against
asking wives and mothers to kill people just is not logical." He
then added "our mission is not to provide career opportunities,
our mission is national security."

o	Arsenio Hall had as his guest Bobcat Goldwaith, and both men
attacked Charlton Heston for his comments against Time Warner and
their support for Ice-T's "Cop Killer." Goldwaith, referring to
Heston's appearance on MacNeil/Lehrer in which he said that Time
Warner wouldn't dare publish a song named "Jew Killer" or "Fag
Killer," called Heston a "no-talent, toupee-wearing has-been."

o	The EIB merchandising people asked Rush if they could sell
copies of the picture taken of Tony Lo Bianco with Vice President
Quayle. Rush protested that the EIB catalogue shouldn't have
anything in it that doesn't have his name or picture on it, so
the merchandising people suggested putting "photo taken by Rush
Limbaugh" on the back.

o	The House of Representatives approved a proposal to reclassify
Japanese minivans and sport trucks as trucks, which would add an
average of $4000 to the tariffs on these cars.

o	Van from Bermuda Vans, CA theorized that the U.S. economy had
never been able to sustain itself without having a war. Rush
promised to put EIB's crack research team on finding out "whom we
should next cream."

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MORNING UPDATE

On Wednesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry
Cisneros appeared in Arlington, TX to greet the arrival Health
Security Express busses. Cisneros urged support for the Clinton
health care reform plan, insisting that the American people were
most interested in having that bill provide universal coverage.
However, this is absolutely wrong - the question most Americans
have is "where is your bill?"

On the day before, Speaker of the House Tom Foley tried to blame
Republicans for being obstructionists and for putting politics
before the interests of the people. This is also absolutely wrong
- the Republicans can't be obstructionists because the Democrats
have no bill to obstruct. And Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich has
told senior citizens that the Dole health care bill was a
disaster, ducking the hard issues, and trying to con the American
people into thinking it was a "health care reform bill." However,
the fact still remains that the Democrats don't even have a bill
they could call the "health care reform bill."

And President Clinton told a group of disabled people that the
Republicans were moving away every time he reached out. "I wish
we were in a car," Clinton sighed, "and they would eventually run
up against a door and come back my way." This is again wrong -
aside from the scary idea of being stuck with Clinton in a car,
the Democrats have no bill. And having no bill is just fine with
most Americans who would rather have no bill than ruin what is
the best health care system in the world.

FIRST HOUR

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the Inoperatives,
"Bogus Bus")

Correspondents on CompuServe told Rush that when the Health
Security Express busses arrived in Tulsa, one bus was nearly
empty and the other was half empty, and those opposed to the
Clinton health care plan outnumbered supporters three to one.
Rush adds that his TV show will show footage of the Arlington
rally on Wednesday, where opponents to the Clinton plan
outnumbered supporters nearly ten to one. However, USA Today is
ignoring how outnumbered the supporters were, so Rush has to
wonder how trustworthy their other reports are.

However, USA Today is reporting that when the busses arrived in
Salt Lake City, UT on Sunday, about 70 people met them, with
protestors being outnumbered three to one. Even if protestors
were really outnumbered, though, can 70 supporters really be
considered a "rousing success"? And were the protestors
"outnumbered" because the rally organizers kept the time and
location of the rally a secret?

USA Today also reports that 100 supporters and a dozen protestors
showed up Tuesday to greet the busses in Denver. Rush, however,
thinks that it's an embarrassment if only 100 Clinton supporters
show up in the bastion of major Clinton supporter Patricia
Schroeder.

The tour had 20 protestors in North Plate, NB, and about 400
supporters and 400 protestors in Oklahoma City, OK in Wednesday.
A Catholic hospital that was originally scheduled as the rally
location in Oklahoma City cancelled the booking because the
Clinton plan would cover abortion.

USA Today does report, though, that Rush is encouraging listeners
in Independence, MO to greet the Clintons and Gores at a health
care rally with signs saying "The Bus Stops Here." Rush notes
that he fully expects the Clintons to get a lot of support in
Missouri, but admits he still has a grand vision of President
Clinton showing up to thousands of supporters, but with dozens of
these signs dotting the audience.

Rush notes, though, that the sites of these rallies are being
changed at the last minute, and the organizers blaming churches
for pulling back. However, one of the reasons for the changes is
so that the number of protestors can be minimized.

The news director of EIB's Kansas City affiliate, KNBZ, was in
Springfield, MO for the Health Security Express arrival and
reported that the anti-Clinton crowd outnumbered the supporters
by quite a bit. And today, there will be a rally in Birmingham,
AL, featuring a speech by Erskin Bowles of the Small Business
Administration; there will also be a rally in St. Louis, with
Donna Shalala speaking at McDonnell-Douglas facility.

Speaking of Shalala, Rush notes that the Milwaukee Sentinel
reports that on Monday, Donna Shalala said in a telephone
interview that "aspiring entrepreneurs should not be able to go
into business if they can't afford to provide their employees
with health insurance coverage." This statement should clearly
show what this administration believes - that it, the government,
should determine how businesses should operate.

However, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that by 64 to 31%,
the public thinks Congress should delay any vote on health care
until next year. On that note, Rush closes the segment with EIB's
remake of the Partridge Family tune "Come On, Get Happy":

<<Chorus>>

"Hello, world, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care!
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing
To give you health care!"

<<Verse>>
"We had a dream, we'd insure everybody,
Paint it as a crisis and then we'll come along.
But something always happens when you add up all the numbers,
You say it costs too much, but we'll tell you you're wrong."

<<Chorus>>
"Travelling along, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care.
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing.
To make you healthy, come on get healthy, come on get health care!"

*BREAK*

Courtesy of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the House Banking
Committee has seen some fireworks. While Rep. Pete King (R-FL)
was questioning some of the White House witnesses yesterday,
Waters started shouting at him to "shut up!" This created
pandemonium in the committee chambers until Chairman Henry B.
"Gonzo" Gonzalez banged his gavel repeatedly to silence
protesting Republicans.

And this morning Waters reportedly went so bonkers again that
Chairman Henry B. "Speedy" Gonzalez had to gavel her into
silence, which is the first time that a Democratic member of the
committee was so treated. Rush hopes to get audio of these
occurrences before the end of today's show.

Rush again stresses how Lloyd Cutler acted as if he were the
judge on Tuesday, insisting that nobody in the White House did
anything wrong; Cutler, though, wasn't at the White House at the
time the events in question happened. Former White House Counsel
Bernard Nussbaum did the same thing yesterday, which raises the
question if everything was so hunky-dory in the White House, why
was Nussbaum replaced by Cutler?

The basic question in all this is simple: were the President and
his wife warned about possible criminal actions against them in a
federal investigation? This certainly would never happen to
normal citizens, but the White House witnesses yesterday insisted
they were only trying to find out information about this to
satisfy the "press requests." Rush will give the press's answer
to this after the break.

*BREAK*

Neil Lewis of the NY Times has a story in today's edition
reporting that the current and former White House officials that
testified before the House Banking Committee yesterday repeatedly
stated that they met with Treasury officials so they could deal
with questions from reporters. However, at this time these same
White House officials were answering reporters' questions with
"no comment" - they weren't passing any of this information along
to the press.

Phone	Robert from Smyrna, GA

Robert says it's ridiculous for Donna Shalala to insist that
businesses must pay health care for all their employees; he notes
that minimum wage employees would be costing their employers
almost as much in health care costs as in salary if this idea
were adopted. Rush notes that this is not a ludicrous idea but a
scary one because the administration really believes in this.

Meanwhile, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is telling the nation
how to raise their kids, while having botched up the raising of
hers. She's also the one who allowed thousands of known faulty
condoms to be distributed to Arkansas schools because she didn't
want to cause a panic; in reality, though, Elders didn't want to
admit her mistake, nor will she admit her mistakes now.

Robert says that if the employer mandate is enacted, these
minimum wage employees won't have health care because they won't
have jobs. Rush says this is untrue - these newly unemployed will
still have their health care but it would be paid for by the rest
of American taxpayers.

He points out, though, that the Clinton administration really
wants to force businesses and everyone to do things their way;
this is why the original Clinton plan had fines and jail terms
for those who dared to get health care outside of the plan's
provisions. This is why 49 new "crimes" were created by the
Clinton plan.

It's doubtful that the Clinton plan will see the light of day,
but who knows, it might. The Senate is planning to announce its
"new" bill today, but in reality this plan is nothing more than
the Senate Finance Committee's plan which was shepherded by
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In any case, though, the
original Clinton plan does show how the administration really
thinks - someone in that administration really thinks it is right
to fine and imprison people for paying for their own health care,
in short being punished for doing exactly what they've always
been doing.

Shalala's comment is the same thing - sure, her idea is
ludicrous, but liberals throughout the years have been more than
willing to implement all sorts of programs which don't work. In
fact, liberals still herald the War on Poverty and the Great
Society are major successes.

Shalala's wording is important - she said entrepreneurs "should
not be able" to go into business unless they act as she thinks
they should. This is how liberals think, that they should be able
to dictate terms to American businesses and the American people.
This is how the tinkerers in Washington view America.

If entrepreneurs "should not be able," then there would have to
be some government authority enforcing these rules. But what do
these liberals know about entrepreneurs or business? Of course,
Shalala's idea is ludicrous, but she still wants to tell all
those companies with minimum wage employees that if they can't
pay for these workers' health care, then those companies
shouldn't stay in business.

And once this happens, what else will the administration decide
is "proper business behavior"? This one sentence uttered by
Shalala should speak volumes about what liberals really want to
see American society become.

*BREAK*

Items

o	Rush notes a steam pipe exploded right in front of the CBS
Broadcast Center, spraying asbestos everywhere, so "people are
running around in spacesuits" trying to clean up the mess.
Ironically, this means that the people in the CBS building are
basically imprisoned until it can all be cleaned up, so they
can't even cover the news.

o	The Senate Banking Committee began its own hearings into
Whitewater, and unlike the House hearings, these will consider
the Vincent Foster suicide. However, Senator and Chairman Donald
Riegle (D-MI) just announced that Charles Hume, chief of criminal
investigations for the Park Police, who was supposed to testify
about the Foster death, "can't be found." Republicans, of course,
jumped all over this; for example, Senator D.M. "Lock" Faircloth
(R-NC) immediately remarked "the cover-up continues here today,"
but Rush refuses to speculate any more about it.

Phone	Edward from Queens, NY

Edward says that things like the Crime Bill bother him; for
example, the "Three Strikes You're out" law ignores how criminals
have a right to free and complete health care. A woman cop was
killed in a police ward a while ago by a crook who grabbed her
gun, and the inmate was there because he was entitled to free
health care.

So why does it make sense to commit these guys to life when you
have to then give them free health care for life? If 100,000 cops
are going to be hired, more guys will be arrested, which means
the government will eventually go broke spending $20,000 to
$30,000 a year per felon.

Rush says he's heard many objections to the "Three Strikes" laws,
but this objection is a new one. He asks Edward what he would do.
Edward says that the laws are lax to begin with, and the country
should learn from the example of Michael Fay, who showed that
people in the United States care only about their "rights" not
their "obligations."

Rush, though, asks what Edward would do to those who do have
"three strikes" against them. Edward says that the country should
"up the ante," so that life in prison will be a bit different -
inmates will have to work for their bed, for their food, for
their health benefits, etc. just as everyone else outside of
prison has to do.

Edward notes that AIDS is running rampant in prison, and it can
cost up to $300,000 a year to treat. And if people are going to
die in jail, Edward states, they should just "die sooner!" Rush
laughs at how Edward is typical of the New York approach to life
in general: if you're going to die, die sooner. Rush remarks it's
unique attitudes and outlooks like this which are why he loves
living in New York so much.

As to the crime bill, Rush notes that it's not the slam dunk some
think it will be, as he'll explain after the break.

*BREAK*

Bill Clinton said he would sign the Crime Bill "into law without
delay," but there are a number of members of Congress who are
getting flack for all the social spending, such as that for
midnight basketball leagues, which is hidden in this bill. A lot
of people are starting to discover that this Crime Bill basically
includes a lot of the economic stimulus spending that Clinton
tried but failed to get through last year.

The Republicans have a procedure which they could try to use to
send back into committee, but they might not be able to get the
support for it. Also, crime is consistently showing up in the
polls as the number one issue that the people are concerned
about, and there is a lot of sentiment for the extra police
officers and expanded death penalty which are in the bill.
However, the mainstream media is not saying much about the
Assault Weapons Ban, the social spending, the basketball leagues,
the "arts and craft" funding, etc.

Rep. Newt Gingrich, though, hopes that Republicans could force
the Crime Bill to go back into committee, on the basis that this
bill has had too much stuff added to in by the conference
committee. This might happen, but then again might not.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Both Dr. Thomas Sowell and Charles Krauthammer have brilliant
columns in today's papers. Rush is always impressed with Sowell's
work, and today's column is no exception. Sowell writes that the
Clinton administration has been bedeviled by questions about
whether investigations into the personal lives of those in the
administration are appropriate, and whether these really reflect
on their agenda or competence to serve.

He points out that Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is in this
position now, thanks to the conviction of her son for drug
dealing. He points out that the central theme of Elders' career
has been one of "utter contempt towards traditional parents who
want to raise their children differently from the avant garde way
Joycelyn Elders thinks they should be raised." This "consummately
self-righteous woman" has built her career on trying to
circumvent these parents.

Sowell notes that Elders is more than willing to take over
molding the values of other people's children, so she's not in
much of a position to accept the "tolerance and sense of common
humanity which she has so long and so arrogantly denied to
others." Sowell continues on to note that "this arrogance, this
sense of being anointed to ride herd on the benighted permeates
the administration and its ideological media allies."

Rush points out that this attitude is perfectly illustrated by
Donna Shalala's comment that entrepreneurs shouldn't be able to
go into business unless they buy health insurance for all their
employees. This kind of attitude exists throughout the Clinton
administration, which is why the original Clinton health care
plan wanted to make it criminal to go see a doctor on your own.

Sowell also points out that more than 20 years ago, Hillary
Clinton wrote that parents should not be permitted to
unilaterally decide how to raise their children. Rush notes this
point came up during the campaign, but people ignored it because
they didn't think it was a valid "issue." However, it's relevant
to know who our leaders are and what they stand for.

Sowell continues on to say that Hillary wrote that "children's
allies" should be given legal authority to tinker with families'
internal decisions. Defending children, though, as Sowell points
out, is the job of police and the courts, not those of "organized
busybodies" such as Hillary.

However, the busybodies have already imposed social services
programs that allow abusive parents to escape jail, which shows
how those in the administration think that major social problems
can be corrected by having the government teach this or that
skills to people. Robert B. Reich, Sowell notes, is another
example of this, as is the administration's grand plan to take
over medical care.

Sowell points out that the Clintons have no medical expertise,
and they are ignoring the experiences of other nations such as
China and New Zealand which have discovered problems with exactly
the programs that the Clintons want to impose on the nation.
However, Sowell says it would be foolish to expect these people
to admit to their mistakes; it's absurd to think Joycelyn Elders
will admit her mistakes and acknowledge that she's not the person
to tell others how to raise their children, given the failures in
her rearing of her son.

"Not a chance," Sowell notes, pointing out that neither will the
government ever admit to its mistakes; instead when problems with
the Clinton health care plan appear, the government will
inevitably reply with things such as spending caps and
bureaucratic over-management. However, a person facing death
would be more than willing to sell their car or home to get the
care they need; this, though, doesn't matter to a bureaucrat, who
will abide by those spending caps no matter what.

Sowell concludes by warning "if you seriously believe that people
in Washington have the understanding to run medical care across
this country, remember Joycelyn Elders and that it is pride,
indeed arrogance, that goeth before a fall."

Rush says this is a brilliant piece, and when he read it this
morning he was struck by the idea that governments never
apologize or admit to their mistakes. He started thinking about
how nice it would be to speak to President Lyndon B. Johnson,
House Speaker John McCormack, and Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield who were the originators of the Great Society
boondoggle of the 60s. He would love to show them how the War on
Poverty hasn't worked and then ask them what they were planning
to do about it.

Rush would ask these men what they would now do, given that the
country has spent from $3 to $5 trillion in this War on Poverty
to wipe out poverty, but without any progress on poverty being
made at all. In fact, these programs have destroyed the inner
city families, created a new dependent class of Americans, and
sent the illegitimacy rates soaring.

Thus, where are Johnson, McCormack, and Mansfield now, so that
they can be held accountable? Sadly, these men are no longer
around, so there's nobody to complain to. Rush thus has to wonder
if 30 years from now, Bill Clinton, Tom Foley, and George
Mitchell will be around to correct their mistakes when their
health care scheme blows up as the War on Poverty did.

When their plan ends up a disaster, will the nation be able to
call them up and complain? Will these men ever admit their
mistake? Mitchell, though, is already getting ready to leave
Congress, and Bill Clinton will be long gone in 30 years. Tom
Foley will also be shown the door once Washington voters get the
term limits they've demanded.

The fact is that in 30 years everyone in Washington will be gone,
and the country will be left with only one thing: Rush Limbaugh's
children will be on the radio, repeating this same message to his
current listeners' children. It will be too late then, though,
because there won't be any accountability then just as there
isn't any accountability now.

If people think government will ever admit its mistakes, then
they should try to find an example, especially in the social
spending arena.

*BREAK*

Phone	Keith from St. Louis, MO

Keith is 17 and a big baseball fan, so the upcoming strike
concerns him. He tends to sympathize with the players since it's
they who are drawing the fans in and are responsible for bringing
in the money. He thus thinks the players should get more than the
owners in profit-sharing.

Rush says that this is very true - the players are why the money
is coming in and why fans are watching. However, at the same time
the players aren't the ones taking the risk on the business side;
baseball teams aren't cheap, and its the owners who have put
their own money at risk to enable the players to play in the
first place.

Rush notes that those taking the risk in business should be
entitled to a fair return on their investment, and most
businessmen would be ecstatic with a 20% return on their money.
The current player proposal asks for 74% of the gross, leaving
the owners with only 26% which will have to go for paying
expenses, rent, etc. before it can go to profits.

By the same token, though, a salary cap is not the way to go,
given that the disparity between what teams are earning is due to
their respective markets. Big markets such as New York will draw
more and earn more than someplace like Montreal or Pittsburgh.
One thing Rush, though, would like to see placed on the table is
that if a team can't make money in one city, they should be
allowed to go to new cities where the fans will appreciate them.

Rush admits he can see both sides to this strike, and although he
understands that it's players who make the game, he also knows
the players can't demand so much as to be put the owners out of
business because they're losing money. The players, of course,
would demand that the owners' losses be proven.

Rush suspects, however, that the owners, who have yet to win such
a strike, will hold out, and he feels that one of the reasons
there hasn't been a new baseball commissioner appointed is
because the owners know that the commissioner tends to side with
the players. It's also likely that the Clinton administration
might try to intervene in any strike, so as to perhaps win some
votes for the November elections.

*BREAK*

Phone	Bob from Moberly, MO

Bob says that Rush hasn't yet mentioned how the Cato Institute
has found that there are only 6 million hard-core uninsured;
Clinton first said 16 million were uninsured, and over time this
figure became 25 million, then 38 million, 44 million, 57
million, and now it's back to 38 million.

Bob thus fears that should any health care plan be passed,
Clinton will take credit for it and then use the Cato Institute's
numbers to show he's "insured" millions of people, even though
the plan won't be implemented for years. Then Clinton will get
re-elected in 1996, and perhaps Hillary will take over after him.

Rush says he has mentioned these things because many people fear
this could happen. President Clinton will undoubtedly take credit
for any health care bill that's passed (if any is), but it should
be remembered that the 435 members of the House will be in
session only for the first two weeks of August. They aren't going
to be very willing to hang on for much longer than that because
they have to get back home and campaign, given that every one of
them is running for re-election.

Thus, there will undoubtedly be quick action in the House, and no
matter what bill is passed, Clinton will claim it's his bill and
that he's responsible for it. And he'll take credit for any
improvements that might happen in the health care system over the
next two years, even though "his" bill won't go into effect for
years yet.

Many think Clinton could then get re-elected in 1996 because
Republicans have yet to come up with an alternative, someone that
people could vote for. This is why people are so concerned about
the health care bill because defeat of the Clinton plan is
anything but a slamdunk.

In fact, EIB is so worried about this that it has its own guy,
Johnny Williams, in Birmingham driving his own bus, Asphalt One,
trying to find out what's going on with the Health Security
Express bus tour, so Rush decides to do a Health Security Express
update.

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the Inoperatives,
"Bogus Bus")

Rush says that Johnny Williams called in a few minutes ago from
Birmingham to report that from 400 to 500 anti-Clinton
demonstrators showed up for their own rally, but they couldn't
find out the new location for the pro-Clinton rally. Apparently,
the hundred supporters for the Health Security Express is moving
from location to location, trying to find a location for their
rally, with the anti-Clinton people following them around,
reminiscent of the posse in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid."

Rush admits these crowd figures aren't necessary precise, but the
general trend is clear: there are no massive shows of support for
the Clinton plan. And from what Rush has heard, the bus tour
organizers will not tell anyone but Clinton supporters the
location of their rally. This is a real "stealth campaign," and
Rush bets that the administration never envisioned its bus tour
would be quite like this, with its supporters moving from place
to place, trying to find a suitable location, with their
opposition following closely, hot on their heels.

*BREAK*

Apparently, the Health Security Express types have sought refuge
in a Birmingham church, trying to escape the protestors following
them. Meanwhile, the protestors have been warned that they don't
have permits to "parade" around as they've been doing, trying to
follow the Clinton crowd, which is estimated to be only 100
people.

Phone	Janice from Albuquerque, NM

Janice says that she wants to talk about the Crime Bill, also
known as the Clinton Economic Stimulus Bill 2. Janice called her
local congressman to ask about why the federal government is
recruiting Royal Hong Kong police officers, but even after being
sent the information about this that's in the Crime Bill, she
still didn't understand it. This provision is on page 843 of the
Senate version of the bill, but she doesn't know if this idea
survived in the final version of the bill.

Rush tells his newsletter staff to call Newt Gingrich's office to
find out about why the federal government would want to
federalize Hong Kong police forces. He digresses to note that the
August version of the Limbaugh Letter includes a picture of him
as Sir Galahad, in search of the truth.

Phone	Deanne from Carmel, IN

Deanne called the organization that's sponsoring the Health
Security Express bus which will be coming into town tomorrow and
was told that they wouldn't tell her the time and place of its
arrival unless she supported the Clinton health care plan. Deanne
told them that she'd find out anyway and would pursue the bus,
and they then told her that she'd be arrested because the bus
would be on private property. When Deanne then said the crowd
would stand out on the street with their signs, the organizers
told her "well, be prepared to have the bus roll right over you."

Rush remarks that there isn't much love in those people, but he's
not surprised at their anger. He thinks the organizers of this
bus tour thought they'd be recreating the happy bus tour that was
part of the 1992 Presidential campaign, but Americans today
realize that this is a political event, not a campaign event.

Deanne adds that she did find out where the bus would show up -
it would be at a health care center, which she thinks is ironic
since the organizer was threatening to have the bus "roll over"
any of the protestors. Deanne knows that the organizer wasn't
seriously suggesting the bus would be knocking down protestors,
but still the anger and hatred in the woman's voice was sobering.

Rush says that these people have a right to be as secretive as
they want to be about their bus tour, but if the organizers
aren't prepared to tell people where they will be, it just shows
that they know they aren't getting a lot of support. The fact
they are keeping it a secret shows they are fully aware that the
American people aren't supporting the President's plan as much as
the administration is claiming.

In fact, as one of the EIB staff pointed out, this entire bus
tour is taking on the same cast as the Hillary Clinton health
care task force - nobody knew who was in the task force, where
they were meeting, what they were doing, etc., and the bus tour
is turning out to be the same sort of thing. In fact, it's the
second "stealth group" that's been put together by the
administration to advance its health care plan; the first such
group was the health care task force.

*BREAK*

A police informant who testified in the trial in which the son of
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was convicted of selling cocaine
was found yesterday shot dead in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the
victim of an apparent suicide.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

EIB has received an audioclip of the "tete-a-tete" that occurred
last night in the House between Rep. Pete King (R-NY) and Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-CA). Rush doesn't know what King's offense was,
but Waters, who had previously stated that she was bored by the
hearings, went ballistic. Rush plays the clip:

<<Rep. Maxine Waters>> You are out of order! Shut up!

<<Rep. Pete King>> What was that? What was that last remark! I
didn't hear, I'd like to hear it again.

<<Gonzalez, banging his gavel>> Mr. King, Mr. King . . .

<<Waters>> Oh yes, I find it very interesting . . .

<<King>> I would like you to say it again.

<<Waters>> You heard what I said.

<<King>> I didn't hear it.

<<Waters>> I said you're out of order.

<<King>> Okay, I see, your orders, out or order.

<<Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez>> Mister King and Miss Waters . . .

<<King>> I think the directive will speak for itself and I just . . .

<<Gonzalez>> Mr. King, . . .

<<King>> I would just like to say . . .

<<Gonzalez>> Mr. King, you are out of order.

<<Waters>> He is out of order, Mr. Chairman!

<<King>> I don't think anyone needs Miss Waters butting in all the time . . .

<<Waters>> Order, Mr. Chairman, order!

<<King>> No one cares when you are, nobody cares about you . . .

<<Waters>> Order, Mr. Chairman!

<<Gonzalez>> Next witness! Mr. King, Mr. King.

<<King>> Nobody cares about you!

<<Waters>> Order, Mr. Chairman!

Update	Health Care (Bill Clinton, "Read It in the Headlines")

Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO) has come up with a 17-page summary
of the House's version of the health care bill. When he presented
this summary to the full House and to reporters, Gephardt stated
"it's more than a piece of legislation, it is really a piece of
the American dream. If we triumph over the special interests and
obstructionists, it will be every American's guarantee of
security and decency for as long as they live."

Rush, though, wonders how many adult Americans while they were
growing up were thinking about health insurance as being part of
their "American dream." Gephardt's outline suggests that most
employers would pay 80% of each worker's health insurance, with
"most" Americans being covered by 1999 at the latest.

House Speaker Tom Foley added that this bill "was of the
magnitude of the Social Security Act and Medicare, that have
affected the course of our history and redounded to the benefit
of all of our citizens." In fact, Gephardt's bill would create a
new section in the federal Medicare program, which would be paid
for by slowing the rate of growth in Medicare and Medicaid.

Thus, the myth is still being put forth that "savings" in
Medicare will pay for health care reform, yet these "savings"
will be achieved by "slowing the rate of growth"; this means that
the country will still be spending more on the growth of Medicare
and Medicaid, but not as much. The only way you can "save" money
is by spending less, yet the Democrats think that not growing as
much will "save" money.

This is typical of how Congress works, with savings being defined
as "slowing the rate of growth." There are no savings, though,
but in fact more spending. Of course, the cigarette tax will also
be increased by 45 cents per pack, and Americans will have to pay
a new 2% surcharge on private health insurance premiums. In
others words, Americans who have private insurance will be taxed
on them.

And all these new taxes will be levied because health insurance
has become part of the "American dream."

Items

o	HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros is being sued by a former mistress
for fraud and breach of contract. Rush promises more on this
later.

o	The New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who has been writing its
Washington column, has been reassigned because he is doing
nothing but writing glowing puff pieces praising the Clinton
administration. One observer noted that editor in chief Tina
Brown "is not stupid - she can see which way the wind is blowing
in Washington. She doesn't want to go down with the Clinton
ship."

Michael Kelly of the NY Times will take over the Washington
column, while Blumenthal will be doing "longer pieces" on foreign
policy stuff. Rush thinks this is "one down, one to go," with
there being one other shill for the Clinton administration in the
mainstream media: Newsweek's Eleanor "Rodham" Clift. Rush bets
Clift is getting a little nervous as she sees what is happening
to Blumenthal.

*BREAK*

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the Inoperatives, "Bogus Bus")

Rush promises that he'll be shortly talking to Dave Perry of
EIB's Birmingham affiliate WERC for an "authoritative report" of
the Health Security Express bus tour's arrival into town. For
now, Rush just wants to play the appropriate tune "Bogus Bus":

"They're on a bus trying to sell their plan, (Get off this bogus bus)
But they don't have one you can understand. (Get off this bogus bus)
They're changing their plan at every stop, (Get off this bogus bus)
Every day there's a new flip-flop." (Get off this bogus bus)

"Health care's fine without the feds, (Get off this bogus bus)
We just don't care for VA beds. (Get off this bogus bus)
They think the bus will divert the press (Get off this bogus bus)
While Congress is hearing their Whitewater mess." (Get off this bogus bus)

"They're taking our country for a ride, (Get off this bogus bus)
Don't want our health care socialized. (Get off this bogus bus)
Don't want it, don't want it, don't want it, don't want it (You gotta have it!)
Don't want it, don't want it, don't want it, don't want it!"

"They say they're on the road to cure our ills, (Get off this bogus bus)
But they're just rambling down a campaign trail. (Get off this bogus bus)
Their bus broke down along the street, (Get off this bogus bus)
Why don't they get it fixed before they work on me?" (Get off this bogus bus)

"Get me off this bogus bus! (Get off this bogus bus)
With my health, you're the last I trust! (Get off this bogus bus)
Bogus bus! (Bogus bus) Bogus bus! (Bogus bus)
Bogus bus! (Bogus bus) Bogus bus! (Bogus bus)
Get off the bogus bus!" (Get off the bogus bus!)

(repeat and fade)

********

Rush welcomes Dave to the show, and asks him what happened when
the busses showed up this morning. Dave says the Health Security
Express people are holding a rally right now at the 16th Street
Baptist Church, but the anti-Clinton health care reform people,
who constitute a much greater crowd, are staging a separate rally
a few blocks away in a public park. In addition, another 100
protestors are outside the church, across the street, chanting
slogans like "Heil Hitlary," and holding signs like "Hillary's
Bill Needs an Enema," "Bill, Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire," "Comrade
Klinton, take your socialized medicine back to Moscow," and "If
you like the IRS and the Post Office, you'll love government
health care."

Dave guesstimates that the anti-Clinton forces outnumber the
Clinton supporters by about three to one. In fact, the
anti-Clinton forces have their own bus, equipped with a PA system
which they've been using to follow the Health Security Express
busses around town. They also have a tow truck which is hauling
an old, dilapidated ambulance or hearse which is labelled
"official pace car of government-run health care."

Rush loves the creativity of all this, and says he had heard the
anti-Clinton forces were following the pro-Clinton forces around
town; supposedly, the pro-Clinton forces used decoys and other
tricks to try to get away and eventually ended up in the church.
Dave says that there are about 100 people in the church at the
moment, listening to various speakers such as Erskin Bowles and
local politicians.

Rush notes that the purpose of the Health Security Express is to
drum up support among the public for the Clinton plan, but
they're now holding rallies and meetings in secret. In short,
they're talking to themselves, preaching to the converted. Dave
adds that Erskin Bowles confidently told him that the Clinton
plan will pass in Congress.

Rush says this might be the case, but that's yet to be decided.
He asks where the busses will be going next, and Dave has no
idea. Rush thanks him for being EIB's on-the-spot reporter,
giving such an authoritative account of today's events.

*BREAK*

Items

o	Rush hopes he can get video of the Birmingham tow truck with
the ambulance for use on his TV show. He recalls that when the
bus tour began, it reminded him of the 1986 Great Peace March for
Nuclear Disarmament. At the time Rush had a Peace Update that
used Slim Whitman's "Una Paloma Blanca" (with appropriate bomb
noises) as his update theme.

o	Rush has gotten the scoop about the idea to federalize the
Royal Hong Kong police. He still doesn't know if this idea has
made it into the final version of the Crime Bill, but the Senate
version of the bill wanted to recruit and hire former Hong Kong
police officers into federal police positions, so as to provide
some expertise in dealing with Asian-related gangs and drug
dealers.

o	The Congressional Budget Office has been analyzing the Senate
Finance Committee health care bill, and it found that this bill
would insure 20 million of the estimated 39 million who
supposedly aren't now insured, and at the same time would save
the federal government money. The White House, though, criticized
the CBO report, with a spokeswoman saying "we doubt that leaving
tens of millions of hard-working, middle-class Americans without
health security would be acceptable to the public."

Members of the Finance Committee, such as Senator John Breaux
(D-LA), are ecstatic about this bill, noting that the CBO's
report shows market reforms could worse. Rush finds it
fascinating that this bill has no employer or personal mandates,
yet it could still insure a supposed 20 million people. This
shows that the White House wants the employer mandate so that
government can get control of all this money and all of
Americans' health care.

Phone	Rick from Bay City, MI

Rick heard Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) describe the House Whitewater
hearings as an "example of the arrogance of power." When the ten
White House staffers testified yesterday, they started out by
giving individual speeches; one Republican congressman complained
that allowing everyone to give an five to ten minute individual
speech would take a couple of hours, with the result that the
hearings wouldn't be able to make the evening news, and Mac
McLarty nodded and smiled, as if this was precisely the
administration's intent.

The hearings have been a joke, with the Democrats giving nothing
but softball questions. Lloyd Cutler was even making objections
to the questions that Republicans were asking him. And Rick
noticed that on Tuesday CNN conveniently cut for commercials when
Republicans were asking questions, although Bernard Shaw insisted
that CNN "would never do that."

Rick thinks all of this shows the absolute arrogance of power
that's prevalent in these hearings, and Rush thanks him for his
report.

*BREAK*

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the Inoperatives, "Bogus Bus")

The Health Security Express bus tour currently in Birmingham is
expected to leave town tonight and travel to Chattanooga, TN. A
reporter at the Chattanooga Business Journal told EIB that the
Health Security Express booked a site for their rally tonight at
a place run by nuns, but the organizers used an assumed name when
making the booking.

However, when the nuns learned the true nature of the rally, they
cancelled the appearance. Thus, the Health Security Express
organizers have until 5:45 p.m. today to find a replacement site
before running out of options for tonight's rally. To show his
sympathy for the poor, beleaguered Health Security Express, Rush
again plays EIB's remake of the Partridge Family's tune "Come On,
Get Happy."

Phone	Rich from Bowling Brook, IL

Rich is in the military and remembers that President Clinton once
said he would not give raises to government employees. This has
resulted in corporals - E-4 specialists - having to go on food
stamps to feed their family. Meanwhile, though, Clinton is too
worried about health care because his own party isn't supporting
him, and the Democrats in Congress are stonewalling Republican
attempts to increase military pay.

Rich says the military needs some help on this since those in the
military are not allowed to complain about this. Since the
Congress isn't doing anything and the press doesn't care, he
hopes this issue can get some more coverage.

Rush says that this means that not only do those in the military
have a problem, but the entire nation does, too, since what
happens to the military affects the security of the nation.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is planning on sending thousands of troops to
Rwanda, and Newt Gingrich is saying there's a good possibility
that the U.S. might also send up to 25,000 troops to Bosnia as
part of a U.N. force.

America, of course, is preparing to invade Haiti, and many of
those troops are being pulled from drug interdiction programs.
North Korea is still a dangerous problem, too, but the
administration still has no discernible foreign policy. This
administration, full of people who not only don't understand the
military but used to hold in contempt in their youth, is sending
American forces all over the world, and given the defense budget
cuts being made, it should be asked just how thin these forces
are being spread.

Phone	Richard from Orlando, FL

Richard says he's seen predictions that in the year 2000, the
interest on the national debt will take up most of the federal
budget. Richard thus wonders if the Clinton health care plan, and
its range of new taxes, is being pursued so that it can generate
a cash flow to pay for those debt payments.

Rush says this is possible, but he thinks the Clinton
administration wants the employer mandate precisely so that its
program stays off budget, so nobody knows how much is really
being spent on it and how much it is affecting the national debt.
Those in Congress want more money to spend, but they also have a
clear ideological reason for doing what they're doing. This is
why Shalala is insisting all businesses shouldn't be allowed to
go into business unless they can pay their workers' health
insurance.

*BREAK*

On Saturday, President and Hillary Clinton, along with Algore and
Tipper, will be in Independence, MO tomorrow for a Health
Security Express rally. Rush still is hoping to see signs all
over the place reading "The Bus Stops Here." And tonight there
will be a rally in Chattanooga, assuming they can find a place.
And in Boston Sunday night, Hillary will kick off another tour.


