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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.
It's just amazing.
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 on.
And I mean, I think the angle is 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 going to break my wrist if I used the keyboard today the way it was aligned.
Anyway, we've got it all fixed, and we're happy.
Far away, we're hunk.
Everything's hunky-dork.
Could not be better.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
It is a delight.
It's okay, John.
I'm just ranting.
Don't take it personally.
And the engineers, oh no, what did I do?
Nobody did anything wrong.
It is what it is.
Now, we talked a lot yesterday, folks.
By the way, the Ditto Cam will be on for all three hours.
It's www.rushlimbaugh.com.
And we might start playing around with the angle.
For those of you watching, it'd be exciting.
You watch it.
Something you never get to see.
We'll fix it right live.
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 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 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, you're going to be a little perplexed here, I think, as to what this issue represents to some people.
Immigrant supporters claim 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, 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 got to do is go out and raise a, 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 grant what you want.
It's real simple.
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 coming and increasingly large Hispanic sector of the voting population.
Everybody's trying, well, the Democrats are certainly trying to cater to them, and some Republicans are.
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 as close to permanently as possible by creating a Republican majority that can't be defeated after the congressional alignments would take place.
And I think the Democrats know full well that what's at stake for them is to create another minority bloc like the civil rights book, the black vote in this country.
They get the Hispanic vote.
And that will guarantee them a certain amount of support.
Other 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 secured, and we have a security problem and 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 business side.
It's all tied in together, and then there's all these different factions.
And when you're dealing with politicians and what do they need to succeed, votes, that's going to 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, let's see, this is the French news agency.
They got their own problems with protests.
They're turning violent over there.
These people, they're protesting work, right?
Essentially.
Yeah, you can fire a 26-year-old over there without cause.
And in France, you're never supposed to get fired.
They've signed up for that a long time.
You're never supposed to get fired.
And so now they're laying down.
It's turning violent in a lot of ways.
More on that coming up.
The French news agency, the headline, 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 Luis DiScipio, 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 12% of the 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.
Now that adds up to amnesty.
McCain, you'll hear later, was on Good Morning America.
And surprisingly, wait till you hear this.
Charlie Gibson finally treated McCain like every other Republican gets treated when they go on television in a mainstream drive-by media.
His answers were challenged, not accepted.
Gibson argued with him about his bill being amnesty, whereas McCain said it wasn't.
There's a little taste, Senator McCain, for what's ahead of him as the presidential season unfolds.
So they have to learn English, have to pay $2,000 in fines.
I don't want to be cynical about this.
I just.
We do this every 20 years, as I mentioned.
And nothing ever changes.
Another couple highlights.
Allows illegal immigrant students with hassruel diplomas or GED equivalent, no criminal record, and to meet other criteria to enroll in college or university or enlist in the military, permits state schools to charge such students in-state tuition.
Allows illegal immigrant students with high school diplomas and blah, blah, go to college and in-state tuition.
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 1.5 million immigrant farm workers who can also earn legal permanent residency and allows illegal immigrant students with high school diploma in-state tuition.
We'll take a break.
I'll come back and I'll let you hear the McCain soundbites 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 just any story?
Do you not get the impression that the vast majority of people in this country are all for this bill, all for the 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 6 in 10, 62%, say that they oppose making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 9 in 10 in that poll say they consider immigration to be a serious problem, with 57% of those polled 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.
And 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, bigots, sexist homophobes.
And Democrats are doing their best to stay unified on this and actually stay out of it in a controversial way.
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 Tinoco said on the 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 tried to portray this as something spontaneous.
We now know that it was planned and coordinated and urged by Spanish-language radio disc jockeys in Los Angeles.
In one sense, you could look at that and say, look at the power of radio.
But still, it was well organized and it was managed.
Didn't just happen spontaneously, as I suspected and as I thought.
All right.
You got to hear this.
Diane Feinstein, this is at the hearing yesterday.
Just a quick little sentence here, about eight seconds.
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.
Just bestowed upon them citizens and citizenship, which I think a lot of people don't take seriously enough anymore, because you're born with it naturally in this country.
But I'll tell you, this is how muddied the whole thing has gotten when you refer to illegal immigrants as some of the finest citizens.
And by the way, I'm not commenting on their character, and I don't want anybody to infer here that I am belittling their character.
To me, the word illegal there is the big bugaboo for me.
Because there are people going through the system as required by law, 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, this is pandering of the worst sort, 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 the 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.
In fact, it's very, very tough.
And that's a major provision of it.
That's not amnesty.
We tried amnesty in the 80s and it didn't work.
But Charlie Gibson won't give in here.
He said, look, I at my peril got into an argument with the guy who's fashioned this bill over the definition of amnesty.
But I said a moment ago, if they fulfill certain conditions which you outlined.
Then it's not amnesty.
Amnesty is forgiveness.
This is payment of a fine.
This is admission of guilt.
This is working for years.
This is learning English.
This is passing a criminal background check.
It's not amnesty.
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 deny it.
I don't deny it.
I know what the definition of the word is.
It 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 11 million people who are now here illegally to earn it.
Yes.
Okay, so Charlie gave it his best shot.
Three tries is enough.
And McCain, in this next bite, finally thanks Charlie for conceding and using his, McCain's, language.
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 the language.
Well, I'll still argue about that.
Okay.
Okay.
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 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 40 or 50 years.
How do you solve the problem?
The only 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 figure again: 11 million.
Nothing we can do about it.
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 new provisions that are really, really tough.
We're going to find them too grand.
And an English club.
We're going to make them learn English.
I am just a cynical skeptic when it comes to this.
I want to see that.
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 him.
Hell no, we're not going to deport him because that would make them mad and we won't vote for us.
This is 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 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 illegal aliens, undocumented workers?
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 Siro, 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 that's my point.
They refuse to obey the rules and we pursue them.
They get mad.
That's right, folks.
Learn it.
Love it.
Live it.
America's anchorman 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 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 got to take a lot of steps here to pass our tests instead.
They got to go to English class.
They got to learn English.
They've got to pay $2,000 in fines.
They got to, you know, all these other things.
What if they refuse?
One of the things that worries me about this is if you look at what's happened in France with the militant Islamists that have immigrated there, they've basically popped up and taken over 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 migrated, immigrated to France, but they're not acculturating or assimilating.
And a lot of people have the same fears here with not all of these, of course, but it doesn't take all of them.
And if there's going to be political fear of enforcing any of these new, whatever you want to call them, provisions in the bill, if they refuse, if we have not expressed a willingness to deport illegals now, what makes anybody think we're going to start when they refuse, if they refuse, if some of them refuse any of these provisions.
But this business about learning English is, I think that's going to end up being the flashpoint of this, because 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 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 will 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 people, the vast majority of the people in 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 this new bloc.
And in the process, can't do anything that would be offensive, can't do anything that would hurt their feelings, can't do anything to even be critical.
So the majority of the people, at least expressed in the, and it was two different polls, one was Quinnipiak 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 11 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 stress 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.
It doesn't mean you have to do anything about it.
You just have to seem credible.
Just like the Porch deal.
You've got to act like you are not going to allow this to happen, but then you don't do anything about it.
Well, the Porch 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've got to seem like we're really tough on enforcement.
We've got to be credible on that.
Otherwise, we may lose credibility, which will jeopardize other components of immigration reform.
So, this is why I have my sincere doubts that these provisions here are going to be enforced and followed by all that many people.
There's no reason for them to.
They're being courted.
They're being whined and dined.
They're being referred to here as coveted.
In the meantime, they're talking about how this proves Los Angeles has always been ours.
This television news guy from Mexico City last night said that.
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 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 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 avaricious people smugglers known as coyotes.
At least some had been here for months or years working to send money home to their familias, 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.
We must be decent.
Understand that these are human beings.
So this is just a little flavor, a little taste for what's going on out there.
Bottom, the last paragraph of this story: whatever Congress does, 12 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.
I want to say hello to all law control consultants throughout the country.
Everybody also will listen to you every day.
Okay, to my point.
My parents are immigrants.
They came over from Italy back in the early 20s.
Sal, 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 1940s.
Okay?
I got it.
And what I'm, so I have that bias.
Okay, so when I'm coming from, I'm saying, okay, these people here, they're here illegally.
Let's find out who they are, make sure they don't have no, do criminal background checks, make sure they're not terrorists.
That's what we're going to do.
That's what the Senate's taking care of that.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Bill does just that.
These people got to show up.
They got to admit who they are.
They've got to pay a $1,000 fine for being here illegally.
Then they got to 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 $1,000 fine to stay here.
And then Voila.
That's good.
So thinking, so long as I target criminals, they're already here.
They're already consuming stuff, you know, producing.
Sal, one thing here.
The bill does not require terrorists to show up and identify themselves.
The bill does not criminals, yes.
Well, 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.
And I think that is obviously an oversight.
The Judiciary Committee forgot this.
I do think it needs to be worked out in conference.
We're going to have these people show up and admit, essentially, that they were illegal or illegal and then pay the $1,000 fine and then get their school lunch card to go to English class, or however we're going to make that happen, because you know I'll end up paying for that.
You have to entice them in there somehow.
And he'll probably, well, I'll cease at this point.
But Sal makes a great point.
He really does.
We forgot to tell the people who have entered the country illegally who 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.
They can stay, but they have to show up and register.
They have to learn English.
They have to pay the fine.
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 company.
Bush strongly defended the 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.
Kerry, by the way, served in Vietnam.
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.
I know he's not an illegal.
Probably if he were illegal and if he were in Mexico, I mean, he would get the gig.
He's an American.
He's legal.
He's been in the 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's what it is.
Unauthorized immigrants.
Whatever.
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 I think, 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.
This is the kind of leadership we need.
Farsighted, able to see through the fog, a lot of fog into 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, what was it, 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.
They're a healthcare system.
I certainly don't envy their health care system.
You know, we don't need Harrods.
We've got 15 or 20 different Harrods over here.
Marshall Fields, Sachs, Fifth Avenue, you name it.
Now, 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 extended every courtesy by Bush 43.
But he has no courtesy to extend himself.
He's just chump change.
He is small-time, piki-yune, 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 win one way, and Florida saved his legacy.
If Monica did not distract us from his inept leadership, if Monica 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 in 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 Islamo fascists that we will cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
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 that was bad, Bush automatically gets the blame for.
Were Al Gore the president, had Florida 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.
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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