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March 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Holy smokes, did you see this?
Russ Feingold wants what's this John Dean to testify on the censure hearings that he hopes to have about George W. Amazing.
Greetings, uh French.
Welcome back.
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Uh U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald accused the newspaper staff of watching too many episodes of the Sopranos for interpreting a hand gesture he made at a cathedral as obscene.
Told you about this uh earlier in the week.
The Boston Herald reported Monday that Scalia made an obscene gesture, flicking his hand under his chin in response to a question about whether lawyers might question his impartiality in matters of church and state.
Scalia said in his letter that the gesture's not obscene at all, but it's dismissive.
Scalia said that he had explained the gesture's meaning to Noah Fail to the reporter, whom he referred to as an up-and-coming gotcha star.
To back his interpretation of the gesture, Scalia in his letter to the newspaper quoted for the book, The Italians.
The extended fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin means I couldn't care less.
It's no business of mine.
Count me out.
We've all seen that gesture.
I'm going to perform it now.
For those of you watching on the Dental Camp, it's all it is.
Couldn't care less.
Don't bug me.
That's all it means.
And they wrote this up as an obscene gesture.
And they and and they, you know what they were trying to make people think he flipped people off in the church.
They wanted people to think the Scalia was flipping people the bird in the church.
And he wrote back, angry about it, and that's why he uh tried to correct the record.
Scalia said in the letter written to the executive editor Kenneth Chandler that the reporter leapt to conclusions that was offensive because he initially explained his gesture by saying that's Sicilian.
From watching too many episodes of the Sopranos, your staff seems to have acquired the belief that any Sicilian gesture is obscene, especially when made by an Italian jurist.
Parentheses, I am, by the way, an American jurist, he wrote.
The Herald had referred to him as an Italian American jurist.
Well, the Boston uh, well, I guess who's who's done this today?
Is it the Herald or the Globe?
It's the Herald has stepped it up a notch.
Somebody took a picture of Scalia doing this.
The gesture, and Drudge has it posted on his website.
It's funny.
It is the it's a funny picture.
And you know, when he's talking to a reporter, it makes it even funnier.
So they've um they've stepped it up.
All right, I mentioned before the break of the top of the hour.
The uh uh Democratic Party has this new security plan.
They're gonna catch Osama.
Terrorists around the world quaking in fear, all Americans no doubt feeling much, much safer now that Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi are on the case.
But wait.
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers today's Los Angeles Times piece by Ronald Brownstein.
The headline Democratic plan to beef up security lacks specifics.
Party's blueprint targets midterm elections, but how it would reach its goal is unclear.
That's the subhead.
Now I'm not gonna what?
I'm I'm I'm not gonna I'm not gonna read the story here, folks, because the headline is all you need.
But I'm gonna tell you this.
When Ron Brownstein starts dissing Dingy Harry's plan, that means it's not going to be long before other Democrats, because you know what the members of the press do.
Because they hang around together, they they eat, they drink, they socialize, sleep together, all everything together.
One big click.
And so this is no doubt bit of conventional wisdom going around the Democrat, the the you know, the drive-by media.
Brownstein has just had, you know, the guess the temerity, the guts, the courage, the uh whatever, to write it up first.
Now, in truth, what this is is an attempt to help them.
Oh, yes.
Brownstein has appointed himself as as as uh he's raising the red flag.
Hey, you guys, this plan isn't gonna work.
There's nothing specific, and he's trying to help them come up with something else and to realize that this isn't it.
We'll just keep a sharp eye on this, as uh as we are wont to do, and as we are highly trained to do, by the way, on this program.
West Palm Beach, Florida, there were no hanging or dimpled Chads like during the 2000 presidential recount, but a ballot mix-up led Palm Beach County officials to mistakenly declare the wrong winner of a small town council race.
Supervisor of elections, Arthur Anderson.
What was the old one's name?
Theresa Lapore.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Arthur Anderson attributed the problem to human error.
Election officials said a stack of 109 paper absentee and provisional ballots from Pahoke's runoff on Tuesday, mistakenly added to Mangonia Parks totals, which skewed the results of the race in which 122 people voted.
They screwed up an election here in Palm Beach County with a hundred and twenty-two votes.
We are so proud.
We have the distinction of having the dumbest voters in the country.
We have the distinction of having the dumbest election officials and a keep us at the top of that mountain.
We all, when I heard this story, we all saw at the same time.
We put our arms up in chairs and yes, everybody has to know.
Everybody has to be something.
Everybody has to be somewhere.
We are in Palm Beach County.
We're among the dumbest voters, and we are among the dumbest election officials around, and we are proud.
It's it's gonna keep us on the map.
122 people.
The mistake was discovered Wednesday, a day after unofficial returns handed the race to Mangonia Park Councilwoman Frances Alien, who appeared to win by 47 votes.
The new count shows that Alien lost by six votes to the challenger Peggy Cook.
I want to know what happened.
They're gonna have to show it to me.
That's too big of a mistake, said Ellian, who thought she won and then had the race taken away from her.
This is the 2006 version of Al Gore here in the area of Palm Beach County.
She said her concerns go well beyond this election, adding that the mix-up could shake public confidence in future election.
No, no, no.
We have no confidence.
There's no confidence to be shaken up.
We know our elections are going to be screwed up.
We know our elections are going to be voted on by dumb people.
We know there's no way to shake public confidence.
There's none left here.
We're talking about right now hundreds some votes, but when you're dealing with thousands, million of votes, uh becomes scary and uneasy, she said.
Reminds me of the year 2000, and that's something, and I don't want to happen again.
Something is definitely wrong.
No, it's very right.
It all makes sense here.
I keep trying to tell people it all makes sense.
If things happened right in this county, I don't know if people can accept it.
I I don't know.
I if things started going right here, they would suspect a conspiracy.
I kid you.
Well, I know you we we we have you have to question every election that's taken place in this county and uh go back ten, fifteen years.
How do we know that the people that are in office actually won?
We don't.
We assume they probably lost.
They just haven't figured it out yet.
But I'm just telling you folks, if if this county ever straightens up in all areas of it.
I mean, I like the cops and I like the fire rescue people.
They do they do a good job.
Uh but you get to the bureaucracies here of uh of local government.
I'm telling you what, we are proud.
We are proud to be at the top of the heap of the people that never get it right.
We don't expect them to get it right.
If they ever did, we would suspect a conspiracy.
Back after this.
Hey the way, folks, I have an addendum here to the ports deal story that I had uh uh uh whenever I did it.
Last hour, you know, the Portsdeal story is that the members of Congress, they're not they're not slowing down at all.
Eh, they're gonna make it really, really tough.
They get a new agency, they're gonna they're gonna police every one of these deals for some foreign terrorist outfit, wants to buy our terminals or our ports, and they're gonna make sure, folks, that it doesn't happen.
Not like last time.
They're gonna keep saving the day.
Well, we have a story, this is a Reuters story.
Top executives of seventeen major U.S. financial institutions expressed concerns about Congress adopting far reaching proposals to overhaul reviews of foreigners buying U.S. assets like ports.
The leaders of J.P. Morgan Chase and Company, Citigroup, Met the Life, Goldman Sachs Group, and others wrote the Senate banking committee chairman Richard Shelby, the head of a Thursday meeting where lawmakers will work on legislation to reform the uh U.S. review process.
In this letter, they say we urge Congress to embrace policies that protect national security without resorting to unwise and unnecessary new restraints on open markets and the free flow of capital in a global economy.
They also warned that legislation chilling foreign investment could lead other countries to retaliate.
We likewise are very troubled by proposals that would discourage foreign investment by requiring lengthy review periods or proposals that while intended to elevate national security scrutiny might well prompt decision makers to disapprove meritorious investments that do not pose genuine national security threats.
They also go on to point out if you go overboard on this, you're going to have a lot fewer people wanting to go through the whole hassle of investing in this country in the first place.
And I'm telling you, I mean, I don't care what you think about how the ports deal ended up, this it's become an obsession now with with these guys.
They're good, this this is just especially in light of other things happening out there.
All right, back to the phones.
Jim in Arkansas, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, uh I I have to disagree with one of your earlier callers.
I I agree with George.
I've I've got a small agribusiness, and I couldn't survive without illegal migrant workers since I've tried to get the legal migrant workers, and the bureaucracy causes such an increase in the cost that it becomes economically unviable.
I have to go through two departments, both the Commerce Department and the INS, in order to get workers in.
If I try and bring them in, I have to pay for transportation in from their point of origin.
I have to pay for housing for them, I have to pay for food, I have to provide them with a vehicle at least once a week for recreational purposes.
Uh I have to pay them a minimum of seven nineteen an hour, much above the the minimum wage, which I pay more anyway than the minimum wage as it is.
But I'm required to do all that.
I cannot get get American workers to take the jobs in my agribusiness because it's basically a stoop labor harvesting, and they don't they won't last.
They don't last.
And they don't want to do it.
Well, I know.
I've I've I've I've heard all the arguments.
Can I throw something back at you here, not not not meaning any disrespect, but you you you listed all the costs.
The first question are all those costs mandated by the bureaucracy?
Yes.
They are mandated, set in law view.
And you have to be open for inspection for housing and and uh transportation and everything else.
Okay.
All right.
Well, you know, uh bear with me on this.
All of us in business have a lot of mandated crap that we have to put up with.
You're in a business that has its own version of it.
And what I hear you saying is that you you you don't want to have to bear that expense, but you'll be happy if somebody else does, as in taxpayers.
Because when you go hire the illegals and and don't have to pay any of that, they automatically end up on social welfare roles, they end up uh getting health care and this kind of thing because it's not provided where they work.
So somebody is always subsidizing you.
I disagree, Rush, no more than than you getting somebody hired off the street at minimum wage.
What's the difference between me doing that and you doing that?
If they're working, they're not on the welfare rolls.
Okay, so you're I'm not talking about an immigrant.
I'm talking about a migrant worker who intends to go back to Mexico.
All right.
So you're not even talking about legal.
You just just you're just talking about people on a green card for a while.
I'm talking about people uh legal versus illegal.
I'm talking about the difference if I get somebody in who is illegal, I pay them the standard wage that I would pay an American worker.
But the law of the land right now is that you are to be fined if it is discovered that you're doing this.
Correct.
And you're not, and you're not being, so there's no enforcements, there's no disincentive uh anywhere along the line.
Now I understand I look at I'm sympathetic.
I'm not I'm not saying, hey, we all have to eat our uh excrement sandwich, you eat yours too.
I'm not saying that at all, but you've got the you've got the bureaucracy involved, and I'm not surprised that you've got that long list of things that you have to do when you hire a legal that's what you're saying, legal migrant worker.
Legal migrant worker, yes, Rush.
Now, i is this because part of them being granted legal status is the fact that they are going to have a job with you, and as such, because th the i if if if they can say they've found work and they're going to find work and so forth, and that's how they're that's part of a legalization process, then that's why all these mandates are placed on you?
No.
No, that's I believe the mandates were set up originally uh out of well a well-intentioned social program type thing.
Yeah.
But uh essentially doubles or bet better the cost of labor.
Yeah.
What's your commodity?
What do you what are you what are you what's your crop, your coronas or what's your product?
Not a brand name, just what is it?
Berries.
Berries.
Are you well, I just heard a car go by.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Okay.
Well, what do you think the solution to this is?
I think that there needs to be some easier way to get migrant workers in and out legally than the present system.
You know, if if I hire an American, I'm not responsible for their housing, their transportation, and everything else.
I'm I'm at a loss as to why I am more responsible for somebody from another country coming in as a migrant worker than I am for an a fellow American.
Does it bother you on the other hand, uh a little or at all that that what you're doing is illegal?
Yeah.
That's why I've tried to do it the legal way for the last two years.
And what's it do to the price of your berries?
How much would those how much uh give me a relative uh uh price comparison if you had to hire legals and you did hire legals and you had to pay all these costs, uh, what would happen to your your wholesale price where you sell these things?
My wholesale price would go up uh at least by half.
Well, that's significant.
That is significant.
All right, look, Jim, I'm glad you called out there.
I uh I I appreciate it.
I I this just confirms even more I know is going on out there.
We've built in this stupid little bureaucracy here, and he's right and probably well intentioned.
Don't judge our results, Russ.
our intentions.
We're good people, big hearts.
Uh which is I mean, very uh maybe not just liberals.
I think big government anybody's uh have have that attitude about it.
But the same token, what we have here, folks, it's real simple.
We have a bunch of politicians who are afraid to alienate anybody that is Latino or Hispanic.
Uh ten years down the road, the the the they don't want it said that they were anti-immigrant, they don't want it said that they were racist, they don't want to say any of this sort of thing.
And uh as as Sullivan said, just no there's just no courage and and and leadership here.
The w I think the one way to fix this, we could we can turn it around and we can s we could we can say pass a deportation but just hypothetically, pass a deportation bill called the Civil Rights Act of 2006 and nobody had the guts to vote against it, because nobody would have the guts to have their opponent in the next next campaign say, Hey, he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 2006.
You could probably legalize rape if you called it the Civil Rights Act of 2006.
Nobody had the guts to vote against it.
Here's Mark in uh Billings, Montana.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
Diddle.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I do want to take umbrage with George because he opened up his statement saying he's done very well.
In fact, he lives close to you, Rush.
And I tell you what, me being also a small business owner, if I had the opportunity to break the law and hire people that were illegal and not pay workmen's comp, not pay health insurance, not pay unemployment insurance, uh, not to mention the FICA, the income tax, both state and federal, and about eleven other fees and taxes that I have to pay, I would also be living next to you, Rush.
But I have to pay all these things.
Yes, and he does not.
And so that puts us on a whole different thing.
So you can you get away, get away, you're subsidizing George's success.
One hundred percent.
And not only is he successful, he is extremely successful.
And so there is the difference the problem that I have with him is he's saying he can't run a business without illegal aliens.
But the problem is he's making enough money to where all he has to do is pay enough money to hire legal citizens.
Enough mentioned.
I've got a rubber.
I appreciate the uh the call, Mark.
Thanks very much.
Back in a moment.
And we are back, ladies and gentlemen, solving the nation's problems simply and quickly here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
All right.
It has been it has been suggested to me by Mr. Winterbull, who was uh who was our he changed his name from Snerdly.
He wanted his own identity.
And he's got an idea to just end the the illegal immigration problem pretty much like that.
Bring back child labor.
Bring it back.
You don't need to pay them any peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Now he said to me they don't complain.
I refuse to believe that.
But let them complain.
They're kids.
That's right.
It's a good idea.
Show them the way of the world early.
All this talk about school starts too early.
Poor little kids not get enough sleep.
Put them out there in the fields picking berries.
Bring back the good old days.
Show 'em what life was really all about.
Teach them, ladies and gentlemen, the hard knocks and the experiences in life that will stand them in good stead once they become adults.
Here we go.
The this is a little noted story, I'm sure.
I don't know if I don't know if Mark got to this yesterday.
A panel of former foreign intelligence surveillance court judges, FISA court judges, yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency.
Foreign former FISA court judges.
By the way, one of their port deal story.
Before we get Cynthia McKinney, American companies operating in the United Arab Emirates say that they fear losing business if the U.S. rejects any more Arab investments like the DP World deal.
The uh Bush administration and Congress currently is scrutinizing a second deal involving the purchase of a Doncaster group, uh L T D. That's a British aerospace company.
We've told you about this deal.
They own nine American plants that manufacture parts for American tanks and military planes.
Uh and the Doncaster group, what with the the the going to be purchased here by uh Dubai International Capital, which is another UAE company.
The deal is under a special national security review to determine whether it would jeopardize U.S. interests.
Kim Childs, an American equipment manufacturing exec working for one of six hundred U.S. companies that she said do business in the UAE.
Uh she and other members of the American uh business group of Abu Dhabi met with editors and reporters at the Washington Times yesterday.
She said it takes a long time to develop relationships.
One bad Congressman and all that trust goes one bad choice and all that trust goes away.
For now, UAE officials are willing to give America the benefit of the doubt and view Congress's rejection of the ports deal as a one-time internal political issue.
But if it keeps happening, then they're gonna start looking at it in a different way.
Here's Jim in Syracuse.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to go online here and uh let you know that you know all I hear about is lettuce picking and lawn mowing and uh uh waitressing and so forth.
Uh I'm in the construction industry and have been for the past thirty years.
And everywhere I go now, there are Hispanics that are doing jobs that are quite a bit less than uh idiot jobs.
Uh drywall framing, drywall finishing, electrical work, plumbing work.
I was in Colorado, and quite a few of the fellows there uh were driving in from Tijuana and uh Chihuahua, Mexico, and they were driving in weekly and uh working the week and then heading home.
And these are jobs that Americans do want.
Uh-huh.
See, that's the other side.
Uh Rush, it's not idiot work at all.
No, I know that's...
Well, Edwin would probably argue with me, but, you know, it's skilled labor is what it really is.
I know I know this is why I said at the uh at the top of today's program that this argument that they're only doing jobs Americans won't do is actually insulting.
And people like Ted Kennedy, who are born into great wealth, and John Kerry who managed to marry it after three shots at it, uh, are all just out there insulting the American worker.
Ah, they won't do this, they won't do that.
As I pointed out, uh you don't see a bunch of illegals in the U.S. military, you don't see them in the mines mining coal in West Virginia.
See a lot on the construction projects.
I work a retail construction, big malls and so forth, and seventy percent of the workforce in Colorado where I built a large mall out there, uh seventy percent were uh Hispanics.
Now they work like crazy.
You can't take their work ethic away from them, but they're working for less, and they're taking jobs from people that that would love to have them.
You know, the average American guy, I mean, you know what that what what's more red, white, and blue than being a construction worker.
Well, excellent point.
I'm glad you called and brought that perspective into this.
That's uh that is something that that I haven't heard um anybody but me uh mention, so that you're pretty bright guy.
Uh Cass and Ada, Oklahoma.
Well stop rolling your eyes, Brian.
Cass in Ada, Oklahoma.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
I'm coming because I disagree with uh we won't take any jobs that we can get as Americans, because I have had that position where after 9-11 I lost a pretty well paying job, but I was a single father.
Yeah.
And when I went out to get anything I could, came back to Oklahoma, went out to the uh job lines, and never got anything.
And after about a week of trying to stand out there in line and watch the illegals and maybe some legals get uh picked over me, I finally found a friend of mine and asked him why.
Why couldn't I get anything?
He said, because the Hispanics will work harder and longer than you will and for less, so we'll take them over to American.
And I'm like, I'd take any job I could get to help feed my kids.
Yeah.
And it didn't even matter what the price was.
Well, that had that now that had to that that had to insult you.
Yes, it did, very much.
And like I said, they can guarantee the that they would get pay them less.
Okay, so there's another all right.
So now now here's here here's another element of this that surfaced.
It's not just that these illegals will do jobs that the American people won't do anymore.
It's that they're better workers to boot.
They're harder workers.
They're more reliable.
They see somebody coming along that's uh not even an immigrant, legal or illegal, and they say, uh, uh your work ethic, I'm just sure it's not gonna match uh what uh what the illegals will do.
It it's it's gonna and they'll tell you any any number of things, Cass, but uh uh it it generally will always come down to the money uh in in final analysis.
But still, uh rather than tell you that they uh they they insult you.
So there's there's a lot of myths that are being uh uh raised and established uh on all this.
Christine in Fullerton, California, hello and welcome to the program.
Hi, Nick Adidas, and I'm calling I I'm totally upset with the immigration issue because of the underlying current of people that are anti-American, all the Hispanic, the Mexican flag, brown pride.
It it's just incredibly and it it's just irritating.
If you're proud to be here, then you should be carrying an American flag, not the Hispanic flag.
It's warm.
Where where are you getting the notion that there's anti-American sediment?
Well, that's just the kids getting out of school, it's all about brown pride and waving their Mexican flag.
You know what something I'm gonna tell you about that.
Most of these kids getting out of school or doing it the same reason I wanted out.
They just didn't want to be there.
Half of them don't even know what they're doing, why they're doing it, and what the point is.
They're just kids.
They're being rounded up.
It's like a retomob.
But I I can understand people getting the sense that there is uh um anti-Americanism in the uh in some of these protests, when you've got people saying uh this proves Los Angeles has always been ours, um, that can convey an us versus them uh mentality.
And when you uh when you when you when you hear them say we're not gonna put up with this discriminatory treatment and so forth, they've got good role models, folks.
They've got excellent role models.
The current leadership of the civil rights coalition in this country is a great lesson.
And now that Senator Kennedy wants to bestow upon the illegal immigrant population the title of the new modern civil rights movement.
Uh and you you get an idea where where this is headed, and it also I think Senator Kennedy, it's not an accident that he's doing that.
He's not doing it just to sell this, he's doing it to appeal to these people because they're the largest minority now.
And the Democrats always recycle what they think are their glory years, like they're trying to recycle McGovernism now at Watergate and the Vietnam, all in the issues of Iraq, the war on terror, and uh the President Bush and his supposed scandal-ridden uh administration.
Christine, thanks for the phone call.
A brief timeout.
Back with more after this.
That's an outtake, folks.
Uh big recording session.
Um, I can't reveal how we got it, but I don't think that's the one they intend to be uh aired.
All right, we're back, and I I saw this and I went, uh oh.
Oh, folks.
I tell you, I just love this.
Ross Al Khamaya from the United Arab Emirates.
There's a vague notion on this tiny satellite campus of George Mason University.
That basketball is played by bouncing a ball and tossing it towards a hoop.
It's also starting to sink in that classmates on the other side of the world have done something remarkable.
Go Mason Go yells 19-year-old Mohammed Eltigani, who was born in Sudan.
The far-fetched success of the George Mason Patriots caught many people by surprise, none more than those at George Mason's UAE campus.
Where basketball's about as popular as cricket is in America.
The University II is even less of a household name in these parts than in the States, and it doesn't officially open its doors until September.
Now, this ought to disqualify George Mason University from being in the Final Four.
They have a satellite campus in the United Arab Emirates.
You know that there are transfer students.
You know that there are exchange programs.
How did Peter King miss?
I'm going to tell you what, this is going to change my entire perspective watching George Mason.
I don't care about Dr. Williams and only not be happy with me here.
He may not even know about this.
He probably does.
He probably teaches over there and hadn't told anybody.
Dr. Williams probably going back and forth between the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, and uh in the George Mason uh campus.
Folks, we the more we learn about this, the sleacier it seems.
Well, you mean George Mason, what else is George Mason or what UAE?
Well, they own the Essex House Hotel in New York.
So you could comp a terrorist the presidential suite in there, and nobody would have.
It's terrible out there.
Very, very bad.
Uh Cynthia McKinney and a police officer scuffled Wednesday after the Georgia Democrat entered a House office building unrecognized, refused to stop when asked, according to the Capitol cops.
McKinney struck the officer, according to one account, police official said, adding there were conflicting accounts.
Members of Congress do not have to walk through metal detectors as they enter buildings on the Capitol complex, they wear lapel pins, identifying them as members.
Now, McKinney routinely doesn't wear her pin and is recognized by many officers.
By one police account, she walked around a metal detector, and an officer asked her several times to stop.
When she didn't, the officer tried to stop her.
She then struck the officer according to the account.
Well, I mean, she had a good reason to hit the security officer.
Well What would happen if uh you Brian, what happened if you did that in the airport?
Strike a security officer.
They don't have to go through these metal detectors.
Another thing, they go and make laws for everybody else, but not for uh for themselves.
Give them their own.
I understand they can't forty stand in lines and this sort of thing, but give them their own metal detector.
Make them go through.
We're gonna be serious about security.
Be some of them are security risks already, if you ask me, just with the lack of IQ they've got.
I know you can't check that with a metal detector.
I mean, we got so many dumb people in Congress, you never know what they're gonna do.
Uh Eugene in Odessa, Texas.
Hey, sir, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, how are you doing?
Uh couldn't be better.
Well, I actually I'm kind of freaking out that I got through, so I don't know if I'm gonna make sense or remember everything I was gonna say, but mostly I'm upset at that McCain thing that you're doing with with the accents, uh, you know, me being being Hispanic.
We don't all talk like that, and and I I'm like I said, I'm probably not gonna make sense because I'm kind of upset.
We're we don't all talk like that.
We're not all over here looking for those jobs.
We're over here, you know, some of these guys are looking for opportunity.
Everybody is.
I look, I understand it, but uh Senator Cain McCain's normally more sensitive than this.
Well, you know, forgetting them.
I mean, just in general, everybody's here for opportunity, and everybody is is so upset at the immigrants and stuff, they should be upset at the Mexican government for being so corrupt and having their people want to run out of their country as fast as they can.
And then on the other hand, we're over here in this country, and you know, we can't say we haven't prospered from these people's labors for so many years, and then here at the last minute decide to make this big hubbub about it, and for year after year after year, nobody's done anything about it.
You know, and then here's the thing.
Well, that's right.
They but they've tried to tell us they've done things about it, but they haven't.
You're absolutely right.
They haven't done anything.
And here is my party, the Republican Party, insulting us.
And and you know they we want these guys.
You know, here's the thing, you Eugene, they're afraid of losing your vote because you're Hispanic, not because you're Republican.
They're not they don't even look at you as a Republican.
That's the insulting thing, Eugene.
Both parties are looking at you as a as a member of a group, and they think they're gonna do what everybody else in the group does.
You're in the has Hispanic group plus your minority, they're not gonna look at you as a Republican.
They're gonna hope you vote that way, so they're gonna go out of their way not to offend you, and in the process they're doing just that.
Well, you here we are.
I mean, getting insulted by my own Republican Party.
We should be out trying to get our votes, my vote, and people like myself, instead of insulting them with these kinds of things, you know.
Uh you know, where do we stand?
The the Democrats, or I'm gonna say liberals, you know, they use these things and and I don't know what we fought for it year after year after year.
And then, but the Republicans don't do anything to get us, you know.
Well, we're more Republican than you can think.
My dad.
See, you no, I I agree with you totally.
It's called conservatism.
It works every time it's tried, outreach, conservative policy, and then if you get elected, you better govern uh on that basis.
Look, Eugene, I I appreciate your sentiments.
I'm glad you called.
I uh wish I had more time here, because uh you're a bright guy, and I hope you have influence with a whole lot of your friends.
Back after this, folks.
Stay with us.
Folks, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed being with you today.
Great to be back, and we'll look forward to uh open line Friday tomorrow and uh being together then.
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