Rush Urges America to Keep Calling Congress

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RUSH: The phone lines in Washington continue to melt.  I don't even think I have to give the phone numbers out, but get 'em for me and put 'em up in a box somewhere because I didn't keep the page from yesterday.  We're going to keep hyping the numbers because it's working.  Here is CBS News this morning on the Early Show, the correspondent Nancy Cordes.

CORDES:  Members are getting so many calls from constituents on both sides that House phone lines have been overloaded. We couldn’t get through to anyone.

RUSH:  We couldn't get through to anyone.  Now, they're really hearing from both sides, right?  (laughing)  They may be by now, actually. Once the fruitcake left understands the success we've had in bombarding the phone system, they're probably trying to get in on the act, too.  Join us. Hey, go ahead and call, as many of you people on the left, here's one number: 877-762-8762.  That's toll-free.  The other is: 202-224-3121.  We welcome all calls.  We welcome anything that will shut the place down.  Go for it.

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RUSH:  Folks, you keep those phone calls going to 877-762-8762 and 202-224-3121.  What's happening is your phone calls are actually taking the Easter break to Congress.  They are hearing today and yesterday and the day before, and they're going to hear tomorrow, what they would have heard had they gone home and passed this thing, or not passed it.  Your phone calls and what they think they're going to hear from you is what is keeping the vote from happening.  So to borrow a phrase: We are the ones we are waiting for to stop this travesty!  Your phone calls are taking the Easter break straight to Congress.  Keep dialing

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RUSH: Okay, I have a couple of names here for you to target on the phones, ladies and gentlemen.  One's in Ohio and one is in Louisiana.  But I'll tell you, we just heard from Paul Ryan who said that a busload of seasoned citizens just arrived in the Capitol from Florida and they off-loaded there and they ran down the halls and they started pummeling people (verbally) they ran into, about they don't want any part of this.  Seasoned citizens all over the country are very up in arms.  I'm going to tell you why, a very simple reason why they're up in arms.  They are watching. We're talking Medicare here, and don't think for a moment they don't hear the words "Medicare cuts."  Don't think for a moment they don't hear those words.  They do hear those words.