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March 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
That's too late now.
We'll deal with it later.
That's just amazing.
I don't we're here at the Northern Command, by the way, folks, here at a big apple, big cigar dinner tonight.
Benefits Prostate Cancer Foundation, but every time I come up here, something's been moved.
And this time the Ditto Cam has been moved.
I don't know why.
I don't know what the thinking is.
Those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, it is it is on.
Uh and I mean I think the angle's kind of bad, but it is what it is.
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Well, it's not what it was the last time I'd ordained that it be something.
I come up here, computer was all screwed up, keyboard was at the wrong angle.
I was gonna break my wrist if I used the keyboard today the way it was aligned.
Anyway, we've got it all fixed, and we're we're happy.
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It is a delight.
It's okay, John.
I'm just ranting.
Don't take it personally.
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You didn't do nobody did anything wrong.
It is it is what it is.
Now, we talked a lot yesterday, folks.
Uh by the way, the Ditto Cam will be on for all three hours.
It's at uh WWRushlimba.com, and uh we might start playing around with the angle.
Uh for those of you watching, it'll be exciting.
You watch it something you never get to see, we'll fix it right live.
Or we'll have to.
Can't turn the bars on for that.
All right, the immigration bill came out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This thing is still not the law of the land yet, but but it's uh it it it's it's uh it's on the way.
Before I give you the details of what's in this bill, I have to share with you some of the some of the news stories about this.
Immigrant supporters.
Immigrant, this is AP, immigrant supporters claim their first major victory since the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Now when you hear this news today, folks, uh you you're gonna uh uh uh uh gonna be a little perplexed here, I think, as to as to what this issue represents to some people.
Immigrant supporters claimed their first major victory since the 9-11 terrorist attacks after a bipartisan group of senators approved legislation that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship.
Senator John McCain said the turnouts in the hundreds of thousands, these protests out there in Los Angeles and all over the place.
Uh helped galvanize support for the bill.
Well, that's a heck of a thing to admit.
So if you want a bill passed, all you gotta do is go out and raise a rub.
Well, be peacefully, but you show up big numbers and so forth, and supposedly wave the Mexican flag all over the place, and the Congress will hear you and uh and grant what you want.
Uh it's real simple.
What to explain what's going on here, folks.
Fear is governing both parties on this immigration business.
It's all about votes.
It's all about not alienating the um the coming and increasingly large Hispanic sector of the voting population.
Everybody's trying well, the Democrats are certainly trying to cater to them, uh, and uh some Republicans are.
Uh there's actually a three-way split in the Republican Party, because there are Republicans who are concerned about that.
And I would put the president in that camp, by the way.
I think the president would love to lead a movement to realign the country uh as close to permanently as possible by creating a a Republican majority that that can't be defeated uh after the uh congressional linements would take place.
Uh and and I think the Democrats uh know full well that what's at stake for them is to create another minority block like the uh the civil rights book, the the the black vote in this country, they get the Hispanic vote, uh and and that will uh uh guarantee them a certain amount of support.
The other two two factions on the Republican side are the business community who likes the cheap labor with the line, well, it's just only doing jobs the American people won't do.
And then there's the segment of the Republican Party that's listening to a grassroots base, is simply worried about the border not being uh secured, and we have a security problem, and the nobody paying attention to the law.
In fact, lawbreakers being rewarded.
So you've got the legal and moral, you have the security side, and you've got the future votes side, and you've got the uh the the business side.
It's all tied in together, and then there's all these different factions.
And uh when you're dealing with politicians, and what do they need to succeed votes?
That's gonna be the number one guiding thing, I think, at least for the Democrats and quite a few Republicans.
And I think that's how you explain McCain's statement that, well, yeah, all those protests, why that galvanized support here for the bill.
Then the uh, let's see, this is uh the French news agents.
They got their own problems with protest.
They're going, they're turning violent over there.
Uh these people they're protesting work, right?
Essentially.
Yeah, that you can now you can fire a 26-year-old over there without cause, and in France, you're never supposed to get fired.
Uh they they've signed up for that long time.
You're never supposed to get fired.
And so now they're laying down, they're just it's it's uh uh turning violent in a lot of ways.
More on that coming up.
The French news agency, the headline, Tom Today We March, tomorrow we vote.
Fearful U.S. Latinos flex political muscle.
The explosion of protests against tough U.S. immigration reforms marks an unprecedented flexing of Hispanic political muscle that's left the Washington administration scrambling to react.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote was the warning chanted by many of the 500,000 protesters who brought protesters, they're illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants are threatening us.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote.
Fears over what they see as a racist assault on their community, the U.S. Hispanic community, spurred in confidence by the sheer numbers of their growing ranks across the U.S. has hit the streets with a peaceful force rarely seen since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
In the last few days, we've seen a landmark show of numbers by the Hispanic community, said Louis De Scipio, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine.
It's fear, it's anger and frustration motivating this, he said of the 32.4 million strong U.S. Latino community who make up more than twelve percent of the uh U.S. population.
Here's some highlights of the bill.
Senate Judiciary Committee bill.
It allows illegal immigrants who were in the United States before 2004 to continue working illegally for six years if they pay a $1,000 fine and clear a criminal background check.
They would become eligible for permanent residence upon paying another $1,000 fine, any back taxes, and after having learned English.
Okay.
McCain, you'll hear later was on the was on Good Morning America today.
And surprisingly, wait till you hear this.
Charlie Gibson finally treated McCain like every other Republican gets treated when they go on television and a mainstream drive-by media.
His answers were challenged, not accepted.
Gibson argued with him about his uh bill being amnesty, whereas McCain said it wasn't.
Uh uh it's it's there's a little taste, Senator McCain, for what's ahead of him uh as the presidential season unfolds.
Um so they have to learn English, uh, have to pay two thousand dollars in fines.
Uh I don't want to be cynical about this.
I just we do this every twenty years, as I mentioned.
And and it doesn't nothing ever changes.
Another couple highlights allows illegal immigrant students with has screwed diplomas or GED equivalent, no criminal record, uh, and to meet other criteria to enroll in college or university or enlisted in the military, permits state schools to charge such students in-state tuition.
Allows illegal immigrant students with high school diplomas and blah, blah, blah to go to college and in-state uh tuition.
Uh new immigrants would have to have temporary work visas.
They also could earn legal permanent residence after six years.
It adds up to 14,000 new border patrol agents by 2011 to the current force of 11,300, authorizes a virtual wall of unmanned vehicles, cameras, and sensors to monitor the U.S. Mexico border.
What's wrong with a real wall?
Creates a special guest worker program for an estimated one and a half million immigrant farm workers who can also earn legal permanent residency and allows illegal immigrant students with high school diplomacy to in-state tuition.
We'll take a break.
I'll come back and I'll let you hear the McCain sound bites with Charlie Gibson today on Good Morning America.
This could be the new theme song of the pro-illegal immigration forces.
Fight the power.
Now, folks, let me ask you a question.
Have you been watching any news coverage on the drive-by media of the whole immigration business of the vote last night in the Senate Judiciary Committee, their bill, and uh just any any story.
Do you do you not get the impression that the vast majority of people in this country are all for this bill, all for the uh amnesty program, whatever you want to call it.
I do.
Well, imagine my surprise, ladies and gentlemen.
When I awoke today and started doing show prep, I do this exhaustively each day.
It's an associated press story about an NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
Most people in the U.S. think illegal immigration is a serious problem.
Solid majority oppose making it easier for illegal immigrants to become legal workers or citizens.
Here's some findings.
Some 59% say they oppose allowing illegal immigrants to apply for legal temporary worker status.
More than six in ten, sixty-two percent say that they oppose making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
Nine and ten in that poll say they consider immigration to be a serious problem, with 57% of those polls saying it's really, really serious.
Now, if you look at this, and then you examine what members of Congress are doing with their votes, and you compare the way the port deal went compared to the way this is going, you see an obvious difference in it, and it it's it's I'm telling you, it's all rooted in fear.
They just are afraid of angering the Latino vote and community, and the Democrats are playing this up.
The Democrats are playing it up.
They see a winner here by portraying the Republicans as cold-hearted, mean-spirited, extremists, racist, bigot, sexist homophobes.
And uh Democrats are doing their best to stay unified on this and and and actually stay out of it in a controversial way.
Uh this is a this is another AP story from Mexico City.
Mexicans cheered the proposal approved Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to legalize undocumented migrants.
Man, they keep changing the term here.
And provide temporary work visas and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote.
Mexican President Vicente Fox said the vote was the result of five years of work dating to the start of his presidential term in 2000.
Vicente Fox on record saying it's exactly what we've been looking for, to force the United States to legalize their illegals.
But get this reporter Alberto Tenoco said on the uh Televisa television network nightly news broadcast last night, with all due respect to Uncle Sam.
This shows that Los Angeles has never stopped being ours.
You heard right.
You heard right.
He was referring to a Saturday march in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 500,000 mainly Mexican.
And by the way, I told you people yesterday this wasn't spontaneous.
They try to portray this as something spontaneous.
We now know that it was it was planned and coordinated and urged by uh by uh Spanish language uh radio disc jockeys in uh in Los Angeles.
Uh in one sense, you could look at that and say, look at the power of radio.
But but still, it was well organized and and it was uh it was managed, didn't just happen spontaneously, as I suspected, and as I thought.
All right.
You gotta hear this.
Diane Feinstein, this is uh at the hearing yesterday.
Just a quick little uh sentence here about eight seconds, uh her description of illegal aliens.
They pay taxes, their children are Americans, they go to schools, they're good citizens, and they're needed.
So they're good citizens.
They're just just bestowed upon them citizens and citizenship, which I think a lot of people don't take seriously enough anymore, but because you're born with it naturally in this country, but I'll tell you that if this is how muddied the whole thing has gotten when you can refer to illegal immigrants uh as some of the finest citizens.
And I by the way, I'm not commenting on their character, and I'm not don't I don't want anybody infer here that that I am I am uh belittling their character to me it's the the word illegal there is is the the big bugaboo for me because there are people going through the system as required by law and there and some of them are not getting in and we've just made it possible here that if you want to game the system, that's the way to do it.
And in the process of gaming the system, we are going to praise you to the hilt.
Democratic senators will call you great citizens, backbone of America.
Can't get done what we need to get done without you.
And it just it's pandering of the worst sort, but it and it's pandering for votes.
All right, let's go to Good Morning America.
Charlie Gibson, Senator McCain, this bill.
Since it just happened to last 24 hours, I want to get straight exactly to what it does.
But as I understand it, this bill that came out of the Judiciary Committee, effectively does grant amnesty to millions of immigrants who are now here illegally.
That's just absolutely false.
It allows them to earn citizenship.
What it does, it takes a $2,000 fine, it requires a background check, it requires learning of English, it requires six years of working and then eligibility for a green card and five years after that.
That doesn't fit any dictionary definition of amnesty.
Uh in fact, it's very, very tough, and that's uh that's a major provision of it.
That's not amnesty.
We tried amnesty in the eighties and it didn't work.
But uh Charlie Gibson won't give in here.
He said, Look, I at my peril get into an argument with the guy who's fashion this bill over the definition of amnesty.
But I said uh a moment ago, if they fulfill certain conditions which you outlined.
Then it's not amnesty.
Amnesty is forgiveness.
This is this is payment of a fine.
This is admission of guilt.
This is working for years, this is learning English, this is uh passing a criminal background check.
There's a it's not amnesty.
Okay.
It's not amnesty, okay?
Starting to get a little testy here, but Gibson won't stop.
He treats he treats McCain like a Republican.
He says, certainly, if you quibble over the word or you deny the word amnesty, Senator, I don't deny it.
I I don't deny it.
I know what the what the what the definition of the word is means forgiveness.
This is fine, penalty, working, passing background checks.
It's not amnesty, it's earned citizenship.
That's what it is.
All right, it's earned citizenship, but it allows eleven million people who are now here illegally to earn it.
Yes.
Okay.
So Charlie gave it his best shot.
Three tries is enough.
And uh and McCain in this next bite finally thanks Charlie for conceding and using his McCain's language.
Um Gibson says, how critical is it that the president sign on to this approach of what you call earning citizenship for people who are now here illegally?
Thank you for their for the language.
Well, still arguable.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh I think it's important.
I think the president has spoken out recently on the importance of a guest worker program, I think very eloquently.
And I think he uh he understands the issue very, very well, having been governor of the state of Texas.
He understands very well, Charlie.
There are 11 million people who are here illegally.
Many of them have been here forty or fifty years.
How do you solve the problem?
Yeah, the only problem way you solve it is to punish those who have come here illegally, and it is a severe punishment, but at the same time, give them an opportunity for citizenship if they fulfill some very serious obligations.
And there we have that that figure again, 11 million, and nothing we can do about it.
What he's admitting, there's no way to enforce this.
No way to enforce existing laws.
So we're going to come up with these these new provisions that are really, really tough.
We're going to find them two grand.
We're two grand and an English club.
We're going to make them, we're going to make them uh learn English.
I want to s I am just cynical skeptic when it comes to this.
I want to see that.
These what's going to happen?
What if these people protest the provisions?
I am not going to learn English.
I refuse to earn We're going to deport them.
We're going to deport it?
Hell no, we're not going to deport them because that would make them mad, and then we won't vote for us.
I mean, this is it's just sad, folks.
It's just such a Look at this.
Washington Post Today, the headline, tougher enforcement may jeopardize support.
GOP Democrats both stand to lose.
Both Republicans and Democrats risk alienated alienating coveted supporters as they attempt to find the right balance between toughening enforcement and expanding legal opportunities for these millions of low skill foreign workers.
Why, what if low skill foreign workers, illegal migrants, wonderful migrants, illegal aliens, undocumented workers.
Now, and now they're coveted.
Washington Post says both parties are coveting them.
In some ways, the rhetoric of this debate is as important politically as the policy that eventually emerges, said Roberto Ciro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center.
A sudden spate of rallies on the streets of Phoenix and LA and Detroit really woke people up, apparently.
And so you can't see my point.
They refuse to obey the rules that we pursue them, they get mad.
That's right, folks.
Learn it, love it, live it.
America's anchor man firmly ensconced behind the golden EIB microphone.
Coming to you today from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
A little bit more on this on this Washington Post story because it says it all.
Tougher enforcement may jeopardize support.
GOP, Democrats, both stand to lose.
All right.
So Senator McCain out there, and we've really toughened it up.
This isn't an amnesty bill.
They gotta take a lot of steps here to pass our tests and stay.
They gotta go to English class, they gotta learn English, you've got to pay two thousand dollars in fines.
They gotta, you know, all these other things.
What if they refuse?
One of the things that worries me about this is uh if you look at what's happened in France with with the uh uh militant Islamists that have uh uh immigrated there, they have they've basically popped up and taken over uh various neighborhoods outside Paris, and they've created their own enclaves and their own laws.
And they're called no go zones, meaning the cops don't even go there.
Cops do not go there because everybody's afraid of irritating them and making them mad.
So basically, they've they've uh they've they've migrated, uh, immigrated to uh France, but they're not acculturating or assimilating.
And a lot of people have the same fears here with with uh not all of these, of course, but it doesn't take all of them.
Uh and if if there's going to be political fear of uh enforcing any of these new uh uh uh whatever you want to call them provisions in the bill, uh if they refuse, what wait if we if we have not expressed a um willingness to deport illegals now, what makes anybody think we're gonna start when they refuse uh if they refuse, if some of them refuse any of these provisions?
But I this business about earning uh learning English is I think that's gonna end up being the flash point of this.
Because those there are those that come that don't want to learn English that refuse to, in fact, demand that everything be available in Spanish or in their native tongue.
And if if they refuse to go to English school and learn the language, what are we going to do?
Well, this story makes it plain.
Nothing because all will happen, all that'll happen is we may jeopardize political support if we try to enforce these provisions.
Both Republicans and Democrats risk alienating coveted supporters.
This is what I mean.
What about the poll I just read you that the vast majority of people in this country don't like this, think it's a major problem.
Those those people, the vast majority of the people of this country are being totally ignored in this, and the support that's coveted is the illegals.
And it's all because of this giant voting block of Hispanics and the assumption that they will all be monolithic and all end up voting one way, and both parties are going to try to secure the total support of uh of this new block, and in the process can't do anything that would have been offensive, can't do anything that would hurt their feelings, can't do anything to uh be even be critical.
So the majority of the people, at least expressed in the, and it was two different polls, uh, one was uh Quinnipiac and one was NBC Wall Street Journal.
Those thoughts, those opinions are being ignored, and instead, the illegals now are being coveted.
There's another little paragraph of the second page of this Washington Post story.
At the same time, however, lawmakers face the potential ire of voters who want more done to crack down on the estimated eleven million illegal immigrants now in the country.
The problem led Democratic governors in both Arizona and New Mexico to declare states of emergency in counties along the border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration.
talking points circulating among Democrats on Capitol Hill stressed the following: "If you do not seem credible on enforcement, you may lose credibility, which will jeopardize other components of immigration reform." So the Democrats have sent talking points.
Look, you've got to seem credible on enforcement.
Doesn't mean you have to be do anything about it.
You just have to seem credible.
Just like the ports deal.
You gotta act like you are not going to allow this to happen, but then you don't do anything about it.
Well, the ports deal they did something about it, but in this case, they're just telling the talking points advise Democrats on the right attitude to cop.
Not the right policy to have, but the right attitude to cop.
And so it's a balancing act.
Democrats, we gotta seem like we're really tough on enforcement, we've got to be credible on that.
Otherwise we may lose credibility, uh, which will jeopardize other components of uh of immigration reform.
So this is why I have my sincere doubts that these provisions here are going to be enforced and uh and followed by all that many people.
There's no reason for them to.
They're being courted, they're being wined and dined, they're being referred to here as coveted.
In the meantime, they're talking about how this this proves Los Angeles has always been ours.
This television news guy from Mexico City last night said that.
Uh Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post today, decency to those people.
Half a million people poured into the streets of LA on Saturday to protest the uh various Republican sponsored proposals in Congress that would demonize illegal immigrants.
You see how this is working out politically.
That would demonize illegal immigrants.
Hundreds marched yesterday in Detroit, which uh last I checked is nowhere near the Mexican border.
Tens of thousands have demonstrated in Phoenix and Denver and other cities across the country.
In every case, the crowds were mostly Latino.
We know that Latinos are the nation's largest minority, and that most of the people in those demonstrations were either born in the U.S. or here legally.
We do.
We know that.
We're assuming that.
Eugene's assuming that we don't know that.
But we also know that at least some of those protesters had gone through the experience of crossing the border illegally under the tutelage of a v of uh avaricious people smugglers known as coyotes.
At least some had been here for months or years working to send money home to their families, keeping their heads down, somehow managing to carve out lives for themselves and their children, somehow managing in America to carve out a life.
It's tough out there, but they somehow managed.
Who are they?
Well, after the demonstrations were over, where did they go?
Are they so diabolically clever at hiding in plain sight, or is it that the rest of us refuse to see them because by seeing them we would have to acknowledge their humanity?
And it continues.
Understand that these are human beings.
So this is just a little flavor, a little taste for what's uh what's what's going on out there.
Uh bottom the the last paragraph of this story, whatever Congress does, twelve million people aren't going to pack up and go home overnight.
They're here.
And their names are Juan and Maria.
They are not those people.
We see them every day.
Let's deal with them as fellow human beings.
Be still my beating heart.
I'm on the verge of tears.
Here's let's go to the phone.
Sal in Charlotte, North Carolina, you're up first.
It's great to have you with us.
Welcome.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
Fine.
Long time listener.
Hey, I want to say one thing before we get uh I want to say a hello to all its all drug country to everybody also listen to you every day.
Okay.
Uh to my point.
Um my parents are immigrants.
They came over from uh Italy back in the early.
Oh, hold on.
South, slow down a little bit.
I'm having trouble understanding.
It's not your problem, it's mine, but slow down just a little bit.
Okay.
My parents were immigrants.
They came over from Italy back in the early uh 1940s.
Okay.
I got it.
And what I'm I have that bias.
Okay, so when I'm coming from, I'm saying, okay, these people are here, they're here illegally.
Let's uh find out who they are, make sure they don't have no uh make criminal background checks, make sure they're not terrorists.
That's what we're gonna do.
That's what the the Senate's taking care of that.
The Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee Bill S does just that.
These people got to show up.
They got to admit who they are, they got to pay a thousand dollar fine for being here illegally, then they gotta go learn English, and then they've got to start paying taxes if they're not back taxes if they owe them, and then after five or six years, whatever it is, another thousand dollar fine to stay here and then voila.
That's good.
So I'm saying so long as that charge is not criminals, let's uh they're already here, they're already uh uh consuming stuff, you know, producing.
That's the Sal, one thing here.
Uh uh the bill does not require terrorists to show up and identify themselves.
Uh the the bill, the bill does not uh uh criminals, yes.
If that well, we're we're assuming they're criminals because we're making them show up and be counted.
But there's no provision in the bill that says if you are a terrorist, you have to show up and admit it.
Uh and and I think that that is obviously an oversight.
Uh the Judiciary Committee forgot this.
Uh I do think it needs to be worked out in conference.
Because we're going to have these people show up and admit, essentially, that they were legal or illegal and then pay the thousand dollar fine and then and then get their um school lunch card to go to English class, or however we're going to make that happen.
Because you know we'll end up paying for that.
You have to entice him in there somehow.
And he'll probably well, I'll cease at this point.
But he Sal makes a great point.
He really does.
We forgot to tell the people who have entered the country illegally have terrorist ambitions to identify themselves.
And since this bill is going to fix it all, well, let's fix the terrorism problem too.
Let's put in the bill terrorists must also show up and register.
Uh they can stay, but they have to show up and regularly.
They have to learn English.
They have to pay the fine.
They just they just have to tell us that they're here.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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While all this immigration stuff is going on, listen to this.
There is Dubai Ports World news today.
President Bush yesterday yanked the nomination of a top Dubai Ports World executive who had been nominated to be the top maritime official in Washington.
Bush had nominated David Sanborn, who headed European and Latin American operations for DP World.
Nominated him to be the top maritime administrator in January.
This was before controversy erupted over a deal to sell operations at six ports to the uh to the company.
Bush strongly defended a company's right to go through with the purchase pending a review, but under congressional pressure, the firm backed out and agreed to find a U.S. based company to run the ports.
Democratic Senators John Kerry and Bill Nelson of Florida said they would block Harry, by the way, served in Vietnam.
Uh Nelson said they would block Sanborn's nomination from coming up in the Senate.
Sanborn is an American.
He had served in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
He spent a long career in the shipping industry.
If he were illegal, and if you're if it were in Mexico, I mean he would get the gig.
He's an American, he's legal, he's been in a Navy.
He is a maritime expert because he used to work for DP World.
The guy's out.
We're coveting illegal, whatever they are.
I don't even know what the terms are anymore.
Undocumented workers, that what it is.
Unauthorized immigrants.
Whatever.
This this is this is absurd.
This is absurd.
Just because the guy worked for DP World, he cannot receive this appointment.
The nation could not withstand the threat.
The threat of having David Sanborn, who once worked for DP World, be our top maritime official in Washington is just something we can't risk.
And uh thank I'll tell you what, I want to thank John Kerry and Bill Nelson for making sure that they are doing everything they can to protect our borders and our national security by keeping this American off of the Maritime Commission.
Just because he worked for DP, which is the kind of leadership we need.
Far sighted, able to see through the fog, a lot of fog in the ports, a lot of fog underwater.
A lot of that these two senators can see through it and realize the threat that our security and future faces with David Sanborn running the maritime agency.
And Bill Clinton's back at it again, folks.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Tuesday that Britain's economy, environmental policy, and attempts at modernization were envied in the United States.
Where comparable policies under President George W. Bush were lacking.
Speaking to a pact, I've told you this is what he does.
He leaves this country, he goes somewhere else, usually in Europe or the Middle East, and starts ripping his new brother.
George W. Bush.
He's a member of the Bush family, a surrogate brother.
He rips Bush, rips the country.
We're in the midst.
I got a story today from the conference board.
Consumer confidence.
In uh, what was it, uh, February, all-time high since well, 2002.
Higher than since 2002.
And there's Slick Willie over there once again rapping and berating his own country and telling the Brits we envy them.
Now, I don't have anything against the Brits.
But I've been there and I don't envy their hotels and I don't envy their toilets.
They're odd, they're small.
Oh, their health care system.
I certainly don't envy the health care system.
You know, we don't need Harrods.
We've got 15 or 20 different Herods over here.
Marshall Fields, Sachs Fifth Avenue, you name it.
Now, I you know, this this is this is just beyond the pale to me.
When he was in office, Bill Clinton was extended every courtesy by his predecessor, his surrogate father, George Bush 41, who never publicly criticized him or his policies.
And he's been expended every courtesy by Bush 43.
But he has no courtesy to extend himself.
He's just chump change.
He is small-time pickyon, childish and immature.
You know, I mean, terrorism and Islamo fascism, which were never big on his radar, are not the biggest threats we face, according to him in this article.
Clinton calling Blair's government the envy of the United States.
Monica Lewinsky saved Bill Clinton's presidency.
If you want to lend one way, and Florida saved his legacy.
If Monica did not distract us from his inept leadership, if Monik had not given him sympathy from the Oprah in most Americans, if Monica did not give Clinton a rallying cry for the left to accuse the right of being unfairly after him, his presidency would have been seriously examined.
What he didn't do after the first attack on the World Trade Center, what he didn't do about terrorist feelers on our national resolve, what he didn't do about Osama when handed him on a silver platter, what he didn't do or what he did do in Somalia, pulling out of there showing the uh Islamo fascists that we will cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
If it weren't for if it weren't for Monica Lewinsky, America might have concluded, boy, this guy can talk a great game, he can take credit, better good things better than any president in history, and he can pass the buck for bad things better than any president in history.
We might have actually had a serious analysis of this guy's presidency.
He's still trying to write his legacy, because there isn't one because it's been covered up.
If Al Gore had won in 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst and the market crash became obvious to everyone, the blame could not be passed on to George W. Bush.
It would have been the reality check on the Clinton so-called economic plan.
So Florida 2000 saves Clinton from a serious analysis because everything that happened after Clinton left it was bad, Bush automatically gets the blame for.
Were Al Gore the president had Florida uh uh gone the other way, then there would have been nobody to pass the buck to.
If Al Gore had won in 2000, the 9-11 attack would not be blamed on Bush or both parties, it would have been blamed where the blame belonged.
If Al Gore won in 2000 when the recession hit, the Clinton tax the rich economic plan would not have led to a recovery or boom, and we'd have had it.
So the guy's been lucky.
And he has no gratitude whatsoever for anybody.
Quick timeout back after this.
And try this.
Bill Clinton's chauffeur is an illegal immigrant.
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