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May 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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I just thought of a good uh phrase to illustrate McCain's thinking and all the other senators who think that uh illegal immigrants who pay Social Security via identity threat, a theft, and stolen social security numbers so forth, should continue to get their benefits.
What McCain is essentially saying is they stole it, they earned it.
That's what they're saying.
They stole it, they earned it.
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Well, Condoleezza Rice showed up today for her uh much anticipated commencement address at Boston College, and of course the drive-by media.
All last week and the week prior, was telling us that this was the most unpopular choice that the school could have made.
A professor wrote an op-ed in one of the newspapers announcing his resignation.
He wasn't gonna put up with her speaking because she's a liar.
As though professors are telling the truth in classroom these days these days.
And they interviewed all kinds of students.
This is outrageous.
They have someone lying about the war on terror coming if you're not gonna go.
Well, a few students turned their backs, but more stood to applaud as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received an honorary degree and addressed the graduates at Boston College today.
After weeks of turmoil and anti-war protests over Rice's invitation to address the Catholic scrub, Rice told the graduates that their education comes with responsibilities.
She drew scattered applause when she discussed what she called a commitment to reason or an obligation to test and challenge their own views.
There's nothing wrong with holding an opinion and holding it passionately, but at those times when you're absolutely sure you're right, go find someone who disagrees.
The uh 50 students, about 50 students, stood uh with their backs toward the stage as Rice was introduced to give her commencement speech, but they were quickly drowned out by a standing O. And I tell you, in the last two weeks, uh uh we were seeing Fox is even doing the story.
Boston College demonstrators protest Condoleezza Rice.
Yeah, 50 of them.
50, yep, yep.
Reminds me uh the Rush to Excellence tour.
I went down to where was this?
South Carolina something.
I forget where there were three protesters outside.
There were 2200 happy, ecstatic people inside.
And the picture the next day on the front of the local paper was limbaugh protested in South Carolina appearance by three people.
And I think they were all women from the same family, or at least from the uh from the same block.
So another drive-by media hit fails to uh elicit the response that they hope to get.
Uh gasoline price, the oil price is coming down, and gasoline prices have uh what is this, fallen for the first time in what?
How long a period of time?
Um a couple of months, maybe.
The gasoline prices are coming down.
An investigation by uh U.S. antitrust authorities, the Federal Trade Commission found no evidence, zip zero nada, that oil companies illegally manipulated gasoline prices or constrained oil refining operations.
However, the uh agency said it had found 15 examples that fit lawmakers' definition of price gouging at the refining wholesale or retail level, said that factors like regional and local market trends appeared to explain the pricing in nearly all cases.
No evidence that big oil illegally manipulated gas prices.
And here's a uh headline story that you don't see much.
This is from the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Headline, mayor calls housing plan communist.
Mega developers and the city's mayor are shooting down a Fort Lauderdale, are shooting down a proposed affordable housing law, calling it unfair, communistic, and doomed to failure.
People could afford a place to live, the mayor said, if they were willing to work harder.
Okay, this guy is doomed to lose the next election.
You never tell your constituents that it's up to them.
You never tell your constituents that life is their responsibility.
You never tell them that they're supposed to work harder.
You're supposed to tell them what all you're going to give them and what all you're going to do for them and how it's everybody else's fault they don't have diddly squat.
The mayor's name is Jim Naugle.
He's a conservative politician in his final term.
Ah!
That's why he's speaking the truth.
He said people mistakenly think they are entitled to affordable single family houses on a 40-hour work routine.
They need to work more hours and even then settle for a condo or a townhouse, he said.
I'm supposed to subsidize some schlock sitting on the sofa drinking a beer who won't work more than 40 hours a week.
I deny that there's a problem.
You can buy condos all day for 160,000.
His comments may be contested by the working class citizens who've told the city they want homes but can't afford them.
His ideas might hit home in other circles where a city proposal to make developers slash prices or pay a fee was made uh met with skepticism.
Bill Shearer, a lawyer developer in the Fort Lauderdale's downtown development authority, said we ought to let the free market work.
Noggle, the mayor, the concept of this ordinance is from each according to his ability to each according to his need, which is the Communist Manifesto, who called the proposed law a luxury housing tax.
Yeah, see, that's that's a great thing about term limits.
I don't know if this guy's term limited, but he's not running again, so he can say whatever he wants to say.
Uh and and make some um sensible comments about something.
He can enrage everybody and then ride off into the sunset.
All right, back to immigration.
As you see, ladies and gentlemen, if you've detected my uh my plan today, there's a lot of immigration news, but I want to it with uh a number of other items because the stacks are loaded today.
Fred Barnes had a piece uh for the weekly standard uh most recent piece, and it's uh it's entitled How to Lose the House.
Republicans are staring political disaster in the face on immigration.
And essentially uh what Fred Barnes is saying, and he's wrong, is that the House needs to adopt the Senate immigration reform plan.
Hegel Martinez.
And if they do that, they'll keep the House.
Could not be more wrong.
Uh the House is, I mean, there it looks like if you if you look at it through the certain prism, uh, you could say that the Republican House is facing a disaster, but not because that they're not emulating the Senate.
It's because moderate Senate Republicans and the president and liberal Senate Democrats have joined up to push a bill the American people will never tolerate.
Uh the American people are not open borders.
Uh uh the American people are not all for a run on social security via identity theft.
The American people will never buy into the notion you steal it, you earn it.
Which is what that needs to be.
This is how we issue talking points on this program.
We don't get them.
We issue them.
And we're sending out a talking point to everybody.
This position on Social Security.
Well, they pay their taxes.
Pay their taxes.
I'm fair.
Give them the benefits.
Fine.
Okay, but if they stole the Social Security card to get there, and they've got a driver's license and a bank account, and they've dug deep into the system with a stolen identity, then and then they're gonna have the Congress come back and say they've paid into the system and they deserve it.
Okay, then they stole it, they earned it.
Wouldn't you love to have that apply to your life?
You steal it and you earn it.
You steal it and you own it.
Uh American people are gonna put not going to put up with that.
And they're not gonna put up with Davis Bacon union wages for so-called temporary workers, uh, temporary workers who uh aren't really temporary because they don't have to return home.
And then, of course, all these millions of new legal immigrants that this bill envisions.
Now, if the if the Republicans lose the House, it's not gonna be because they blocked this outrage.
It will be because conservatives and other Americans are so disgusted with what is going on that they'll either withhold their votes from Republicans in protest or they'll vote for someone else.
Um and yet, here comes our buddy Fred Barnes inside the bellway once again.
Uh You know what this you know what this all adds up to, folks?
It's really it's really not complicated.
What you have here, we have our own set of intellectuals in the conservative uh quote unquote movement.
We've got our own conservative elites.
And they're the New York Washington Boston corridor, the Axis.
And um they, like any elite, have a disdain for the common man.
You can look at calling the minute men vigilantes, uh average citizens trying to fix a problem that people in Washington refuse to acknowledge exists.
And there's a there's a disdain, uh, I think for the quote unquote uh common man.
They're uncomfortable.
They're uncomfortable having you on their side.
When you when you when you people who are considered the average American, the common man and the common woman, and when you're on television out there, you conservatives, when you're on television out there speaking your mind on immigration, the elites in our party look at you and they are embarrassed.
They're embarrassed to be identified with you.
They live in a world of elites, media elites, uh, academic elites, and so to stay on the good side with all the other elites, because this is a group that's bound by what they think their common IQs are, which are higher than everybody else, and to stay within the good graces and the cocktail party circuit, you speak in disdain.
I've told you the story about being these dinner parties out in the Hamptons in the 90s, early 90s, and all these country club big contributors that come up to me, introduced to me for the first time, meeting me for the first time, they come up and they're just they're just beside themselves about abortion.
How's it gonna tear the country apart?
It's gonna re we're gonna lose the party.
Republican Party's gonna go down the tubes.
Rush, they listen to you.
You've got to straighten them out on this.
You've you've you've got it, you've you've you've got to shut them up.
And it was just, they were embarrassed.
Uh when the average abortion or pro-lifer uh was put on television, uh they saw Hayseed.
They saw Hick.
They saw an uneducated, unsophisticated boob, and they just didn't want to be perceived as being on the same team by their fellow elites, even though they might be Democrats.
Uh and and so uh it's like you go up to one of these elites, so yeah, you're on the same side as Randall Terry, and they just shrunk uh in embarrassment.
And that's what's going on in the immigration debate, too.
It's it's uh it's just a matter of of trying to save face uh with people of like-minded intellects uh and IQs uh within the the subgroup that they are all a member of.
I got to take a quick time out.
We'll keep uh be back and continue here in mere moments and get to your phone calls as well.
I appreciate those of you who have been on hold and waiting uh for what I'm sure to you seems like forever.
800-282-2882, be right back.
Der Commissar is back.
And we're back uh as well uh from the prestigious Attila the Hun chair, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies in New York today, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, Ronald in Los Angeles, or is it Louisiana?
Is he in LA?
Welcome, uh Ronald, great to have you with us.
Good morning, Russia.
It's great to be here.
My first time calling you, listening to you, and uh I'm just livid about a few things.
All right, guess uh let's hear about it.
Okay, especially the um the news I found out this morning about uh the Democratic Party trying to uh shaft black folks, trying to shaft uh Ray Nagan's uh re-election.
Yeah.
How about that?
Uh I I mean, we kind of had an idea, you know, that the Democrats were totally against black folks in light of this whole immigration thing with Reed, Harry Reid standing up in the Senate.
Yeah, talking about how it's racist, this uh the thing, the N-hoff immigration bill.
This is not the first time the Democratic National Committee has tried to sandbag a uh a black candidate.
They tried to sandbag Carl McCall, who was running for uh what, governor?
Was it governor of yeah, he was trying to run for governor?
One of the two, but he but he uh they didn't give him any money.
Absolutely.
You know, these guys.
And you know what's what's amazing is that black Americans, Americans, African Americans, were waking up.
We're I mean, I read this on a on a on the Computer on a on a message board this morning when I woke up.
So that's how I was enlightened that it's being talked about.
And these idiot Democrats think we're still in the in in the dark now.
Well, the reason for this, uh, and and you're you it's I'm not surprised you had to read this on an internet chat because uh uh the the drive-by media is totally uninterested in this.
Uh but the reason for it is uh the last name Landrew.
Uh Ray Nagan's opponent, Mitch Landrew is the brother of Mary Landrew, and her re-election is going to depend on New Orleans and enough Democrat voters coming out of there.
And and the DNC just thought, I guess they thought Nagan, two things.
They thought he's just a a liability because um uh his uh his performance and the aftermath of Katrina was uh uh not good, and therefore he'd make a target down the road, plus the loyalty to the Landrew family.
You know, the Landry family ran New Orleans for a while.
Their father, Moon Landrew, was the mayor of New Orleans to 1976 or 1978.
But it's all about it's all about getting Democrat votes out of New Orleans because the uh uh some of the other parts of the state are not as blue as they used to be in terms of Democrats.
I understand.
But but aren't they beginning to get is the Democratic Party they're not getting it?
I'm gonna vote.
I've been a I've been a dim a registered Democrat all my voting life, and I'm over fifty-five years of age.
But now, at this point in time, I you talk about a black conservative, you're looking at one.
And you're talking about a new change in party, you're looking at one.
I'm also hearing you, which means I'm listening to one, and it's great to hear.
No, I know.
I get a little involved.
Um but rush, I I I can't believe it.
And for Harry Reid to stand up in in the Senate and say, because we want our country's national language, we didn't even say official language.
National language to be English?
Mm-hmm.
That's a racist.
Let me ask you, what color is English?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
It was not it's but but see, Ray, you have to understand here.
Dingy Harry was simply reading from the talking points.
There's a template.
That the the liberal wing, the Democratic Party, whatever, they don't have anything new.
And so this is it's always worked for them in the past to call Republicans racist, just like it's always worked for them, or they thought it was always going to work to talk about a culture of corruption trying to remake this administration into the Nixon administration.
Speaking of that, I mean uh the Brecht girl uh took the television on Sunday to say that this is the worst administration in history of the country.
That that uh Bush is even worse than Nixon.
The Brett girl being uh John Edwards, uh defeated vice presidential candidate who ran with John Kerry, who, by the way, uh served in Vietnam.
So it's it's quite natural for Dingy Harry to just have a ref uh uh a reflexive reaction.
Oh, racism, stand up and charge it before you even think about it.
Um and before you stop to re recall whether the Democrats are going out of their way uh to not only malign successful, high-profile conservative blacks, uh, they're not supporting their own, as in Carl McCall and a number of others.
And don't forget, I think it was uh uh in in Mary Landry's last election, it was very, very, very, very tight.
She was in a runoff of somebody, right?
And old Bill Clinton had to make a last-minute phone call uh down to Louisiana, urging people to get out and support her.
So this uh there's a there's a lot of stuff uh tied uh tied up into this uh lack of support for for uh Negan by the Democratic National Committee.
Uh you strip it all away, and and what it what it's gonna mean, folks, not what it ought to add up to, uh, but what it will mean down the road is that these kinds of associations that for a long time traditionally have existed, Democrats equal love, support, protection, uh, encouragement of minorities.
Because that's just that's a template.
That is it's it's just it's just been etched in stone over the years.
Because there's actual evidence that it isn't true.
And the other side, if you look at the Republican Party, and uh who is a who candidates playing a central role in the Republican Party's future happen to be black.
Lynn Swan, uh uh running for governor of Pennsylvania, Michael Steele, who's running for the Senate in uh in Maryland, and Ken Blackwell, who's running for governor of Ohio.
And these are all fabulous people.
Tremendous character, uh uh substantive intelligence, substantive positions on uh issues.
They'll be difficult to demagogue.
Democrats are still going to try it.
But uh with actions like this, by bailing out on Ray Nagan after making all these promises to the minority community, these days of this template being automatically accepted by people are numbered.
Uh Fox News uh reporting the Dixie chicks are taking back their earlier apology.
Well, what did they apologize for earlier?
What did they apologize for?
Do we know?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, they apologized for being for saying they were ashamed of Bush as and and now they've they've taken back the apology.
So they're back to being ashamed that Bush is okay, who cares?
Back to the phones.
Mark in San Antonio, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor and a pleasure.
And first of all, I want to thank you for the supporting our troops uh when you went over there.
I think that's uh great thing you did.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Great to have you on the program.
Uh okay, my comment is on the illegal aliens and uh on the fraud and social security.
What about all those people that are in prison right now for stealing people's identity?
Are they gonna release them when they're not gonna be able to do that?
Well, no, no, no, no, of course not, because those people are not illegal aliens.
Oh, well.
Illegal aliens are a protected class in the United States Senate.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
Right.
Uh I think I'll I think I'll go to another country become illegal alien, and I could break all the laws I want.
Well, you know, I I went uh I understand I went to Puerto Vallarta last November uh for a week, and I actually thought about sneaking back in over the border as an illegal uh so as to escape punitive taxes.
Uh but then I found out uh that that wouldn't work uh even if I came across, I would still be uh even if I crossed illegally I couldn't cross illegally because I'm a citizen.
So uh but I wanted to come back without showing a passport or something just to just to try it, just see what I can say, hey, I'm here illegally, I'm an illegal alien now, and I don't have to pay taxes.
Uh well, no, I would have snuck over across the border at night.
I wasn't gonna come through a natural was going to do the whole thing.
Uh the way the way it's done.
Speaking of all this, well, we got a soundbite.
Grab number seven, this is Lindsey Graham.
He's on Meet the Press yesterday.
Uh Tim Russard said, Senator Graham, you said this is a defining moment for the Republican Party.
If our answer to the fastest growing demographic in this country is that we want to make felons of your grandparents, and we want to put people in jail who are helping your neighbors and people related to you, then we're going to suffer mightily.
There's respect for the law and there's justice.
If the law doesn't create a just result, what good is it?
I think it's not fair for a nonviolent offense to result into upheaval that would be required, a mass deportation, or making people felons.
If you're going to make 11 million people felons, you ought to put them in jail.
We as a nation have set on the sidelines and watched this happen.
Most Americans know for a long time, many years, that Hispanics have been coming across our border, working all throughout our economy, and it's like Casablanca.
Now we're saying, I can't believe there's gambling going on here.
So it's uh folks, it's your fault.
It is your fault because you've sat around and you watched all this happen and you didn't say anything about it.
Of course you did, uh back in uh 1986, uh resulting in Simpson Mazzoli.
But uh so it it's it's it's your fault because you've you've sat there and let this happen, and all of a sudden it's gotten too big for you to handle, so you want something done about it.
Um did you also catch him saying that there's really no reason to enforce the law if the result isn't justice?
If the law doesn't create a just result, what good is it?
Um let's let's say that we accept that rationale and that kind of thinking.
Do we have the freedom in this country just to ignore the law that is screw that?
Screw that law as an unjust result.
Enforcing that law gives an unjust result.
I'm not we're screw that law.
We're just gonna ignore it.
Is that not what the U.S. Senate is saying?
Now, once once some very astute people figure this out and try to uh apply this thinking to laws they don't like or laws that they think are unjust, and they break them.
Well, I'm it's an unfair result.
How can you enforce a law that's an unfair result?
Well, Who says it's unfair?
I say it's unfair.
It's not fair I should be caught doing this.
Uh this is uh this is not how you go about it.
You get rid of the law, uh, which may in fact be one of the intentions of this whole Senate bill.
Now here's an example of see I told you so, an example of we set the talking points on this program.
It was how many, how many weeks ago, must have been a month ago now, that I did a morning update commentary called the Limbaugh Laws.
And then I repeated that commentary on this program, outside of the morning drive time periods around the country where that commentary runs.
And I recited, I went through this limball law business, and I described under the limbaugh laws how we would deal with illegal immigration.
And basically, you can come here, but you don't get any, you don't get to vote, you don't get to buy prime property.
You you can't protest, you can't get a meaningful geocache.
You're just you basically you don't exist.
And I ended by saying, every law I just read to you is current law in Mexico regarding illegal immigrants.
Even so, there were news organizations that printed the limbaugh laws or referred to them without issuing the final note that I made, meaning, hey, these are the laws of Mexico.
Well, guess what we have now, folks?
The Associated Press has run a story on the limbaugh laws, although they don't call it the limbaugh laws because they would have to credit me.
If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he could not be a governor.
If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the September 11th attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of Nueva Orc, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants.
Its officials at times calling U.S. policy xenophobic.
Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.
In the United States, only two posts, the presidency and vice presidency are reserved for the native-born.
In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal naturalized citizens.
Foreign-born Mexicans cannot hold seats in either house of the Congress.
They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court, and all the governorships.
Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils, and Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts and any position in the military and merchant marine for quote native-born Mexicans.
Recently, the Mexican government's gone even further.
Since at least 2003, it's encouraged cities to ban non-natives from such local jobs as firefighters, police, and judges.
Mexico's Interior Department, which uh recommended the bans as part of model city statutes that it distributed to local officials, could cite no basis for extending the bans to local posts.
After being contacted by the Associated Press about the issue, officials changed the wording in two statutes to de delete the native-born requirements, although they said the modifications had nothing to do with AP's inquiries.
AP's inquiries.
From the limbaugh laws, no question.
We're in a cutting edge on this.
These statutes, as an Interior Department official of Mexico, these statutes have been under review for some time and they have or are about to be changed.
But because the model statutes are fill-in-the-blanks guides for framing local legislation, many cities across Mexico have already enacted such bans.
They've done so uh even though foreigners constitute a tiny percentage of the population, they pose little threat to uh Mexico's job market.
So uh the immigration laws south of the border in Mexico are just punitive.
They are restrictive and impossible.
Uh and uh it's it's uh something that we brought to your attention a month ago.
The AP finally on the case, don't know what the I mean, this is then Mexico's not gonna change anything about this.
I don't care what AP thinks uh being on the case is not gonna is not gonna change any of this.
And and there's a new phenomenon.
I don't know how new it is, but there's there's another interesting aspect of this uh that is occurring.
Non-Mexican Hispanics entering the United States illegally are studying up on Mexican history and geography, even learning to whistle the national anthem in order to beat U.S. plans to fly them home.
Now wait till you hear this.
As part of a proposal to overhaul immigration laws and tighten border security, the president, President Bush, pledged last week to increase deportations of illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico caught crossing the border.
Mexicans who make up most of the almost 1.2 million immigrants that are detained crossing the border illegally in 2005 are given a criminal background check, then sent over the frontier, usually within a day.
Many often try crossing again immediately.
But other um so-called other than Mexican or OTM illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America, are increasingly being flown back hundreds of miles to their home countries, which can effectively end their dream of entering the U.S. to earn a better life.
Aww.
So many of these Central Americans are pretending to be Mexicans in order to get into the United States.
Because they come from anywhere else and Central America will put them on an airplane and send them packing.
But if they're from Mexico, hey hey, amigo, come on in.
Senator McCain wants to say hi.
Yeah, we heard we could be sent back to our own country, so many of us are trying to pass ourselves off as Mexicans, said Jorge Alberto Carvajal, who's from Honduras, uh, as he stood with a group of Central American migrants outside a shelter in the sweltering cities south of Laredo, Texas.
A lot are learning the Mexican national anthem and they learn to whistle it.
They're learning the names of the states in Mexico, and even the names of the states' governors, said Carvalhall, former street trader from the city of San Pedro Sula.
Central American immigrants say their journey north through Mexico to the border, often riding train box cars, is so tough they're willing to lie to U.S. agents about their nationality to avoid being flown back.
Man, I I when you have to pretend to be never gonna lie.
I better not say it.
Rushlin ball with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Mark in South Bend, Indiana.
Thank you for waiting.
You're up next.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes, sir.
I had a quick question.
Yes, sir.
If an illegal steals my Social Security, my ID, and pays taxes on that, who's entitled to that money that's going into my account?
He is, because he is the backbone of the country, sir.
And uh the Medicare that I pay in, even if I'm maxed out on that, then he draws first.
Uh I'm Hey, look, according to the Senate, you steal it, you've earned it.
Well, I guess uh I need to move to Mexico and come back over so I can get my money back.
Well, it's a it's an excellent question, but you know, you think I'm joking.
I want you to I want you to listen to this soundbite from Lindsey Graham.
He was on he was on uh Meet the Press yesterday with uh with Tim Russert, and the uh the question was this.
Uh Russard says, isn't this a debate over the future of the Republican Party in many ways?
I mean, you believe that states like swing states could go democratic if Hispanic voters are angry at the Republicans.
Yes, I believe it's deeper than that.
I believe that we've got a fast-growing demographic.
I want to send the right signal to one, you're welcome to be part of this party.
You're welcome to be in America under conditions that make sense, and you have to earn your way to become a citizen over eleven years.
It's not about the next election.
What Republicans need to get away from is fear of the next election and do things that are good for the country down the road.
Well, man, is that a that that is that's absurd.
He just says it's about the election.
You're welcome to be a part of this party, and you're welcome to be an American under conditions that make sense.
Then he says it's not about the next election.
It's about doing things that are good for the country down the road.
So there you have it.
At least with Senator Graham, ladies and gentlemen, it's out there.
It's honest.
This is about a competition with Democrats for these people and their votes.
That's what this is.
Thank you, Senator Graham, for making the statement.
And then and then couching it in terms, and this is good for America too.
So what's good for the Republican Party is good for America.
And this is a fast rising demographic.
Okay, let's say that's the objective.
says it is, is this the way to go about it?
Do you just tell the existing base of your party, screw you for a while, we've got to go out and recruit these new members because we know when it gets down to the pedal, meat and the metal, the rubber meat and the road, you're going to be with us.
You're not going to go to the Democrats.
You can get mad at us all right now all you want, but we know when the going gets tough, you're going to come back to us.
So in uh in effect, it's to it's it's take for granted the support they have now in the base, don't worry about that.
And then get into competition with these uh this new demographic.
Uh the new arrivals.
Uh and and so then after after all that, uh, we get into competition with the Democrats over how to get these people.
And what does it say?
What does it say about about competing with Democrats?
That in order to have a chance, which we don't, by the way, in this technique, but I'm just speaking hypothetically, philosophically and theoretically.
If we have to compete against Democrats by getting this demographic by saying if you steal it, you earn it.
Uh, if you pay Social Security taxes, if you're here illegally, we're gonna find a way to forget it.
Um the Democrats have made it clear with Mrs. Clinton they're going after the felon vote.
Um this this the felony provision that's in the House bill.
Don't forget some guys in the House who are livid at the administration because they say that a lot of what's in their bill is what the White House asked for.
And now the White House has abandoned them and has turned its attention over to the Senate on these various compromise proposals.
And that felon provision was in there, apparently because the White House thought it'd be cool to have it in there.
The Republicans voted in some point when they're uh uh revising the bill to take it out, and the Democrats voted to keep it in for the express purpose of being able to run around and say the Republicans want to call all these uh immigrants here felons.
And they're trying to make big hay out of it, yet at the same time Democrats are making a move on the felon vote.
So it's it's it's really instructive when you see Republicans in the Senate particularly, who think that there is a competition for votes, how they think they have to go out and get those votes, and it certainly appears to me that they don't think conservatism will do it.
They think statism, uh pandering, demagoguery, and all that is the way to compete.
So, in other words, to outdo a Democrat, they're gonna try to be better Democrats than the Democrats are rather than uh rather than be conservatives.
And yet what is it that assembled their base?
What is it that put together the base that swept them to power in 1994?
And some of these uh Graham, by the way, was a freshman class member of 94, I think, and now he's in the Senate.
What does he think put him there?
Bunch of Democrat voters in South Carolina?
It's not what put him there.
So uh it's clear that uh they think that they can run the risk here of angering you at the and and take you for granted because time comes for whatever reason.
You aren't gonna vote Democrat.
You'll vote these guys back into office.
And it's a calculation and they make it sort of like uh if I can draw an analogy, the way the Democrats take for granted the black vote.
They say, eh, they're not gonna vote for Republicans.
We've taken care of that last 50 years.
So uh we can we can campaign against Negan, we can campaign against Carl McCall, and we can do all that, and blacks are still gonna stay with us.
I guess that's what uh Senate Republicans think uh of their base, based on at least on this sound bite.
We found it, folks.
I'll have it for you the next hour.
Bill Clinton out there saying that global warming is a bigger threat to the future than terrorism, and I said, I'll bet you sometime in his administration, he said terrorism is a bigger threat to the future than anything else that we have, and he did, and we have found it uh through exhaustive uh searches of the Nexus database.
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