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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 phrase to illustrate McCain's thinking and all the other senators who think that illegal immigrants who pay Social Security via identity theft and stolen social security numbers and 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 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 going to put up with her speaking because she's a liar.
As though professors are telling the truth in classroom these days.
And they interviewed all kinds of students.
This is outrageous to have someone lying about the war and terror coming in.
We're not going to 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 scruple, 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 50 students, about 50 students, stood 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, the last two weeks, we were, see, now Fox is even doing the story.
Boston College demonstrators protest Condoleezza Rice.
Yeah, 50 of them.
50.
Yip, yep.
Reminds me of 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 2,200 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 same block.
So another drive-by media hit fails to elicit the response that they hope to get.
Gasoline price, oil price is coming down, and gasoline prices have, what is this, fallen for the first time in what?
How long a period of time?
A couple of months, maybe.
The gasoline prices are coming down.
An investigation by U.S. antitrust authorities, the Federal Trade Commission, found no evidence, Zip Zero Anada, that oil companies illegally manipulated gasoline prices or constrained oil refining operations.
However, the 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 headline, a 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 prison for 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 Noggle.
He's a conservative politician in his final term.
Oh, 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 met with skepticism.
Bill Shearer, lawyer developer in Fort Lauderdale's downtown development authority, said, we ought to let the free market work.
Nogle, 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 a great thing about term limits.
I don't know if this guy's term limited, but he's not running against me and say whatever he wants to say and make some 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 plan today, there's a lot of immigration news, but I want to integrate it with a number of other items because the stacks are loaded today.
Fred Barnes had a piece for the Weekly Standard, his most recent piece, and it's entitled How to Lose the House.
Republicans are staring political disaster in the face on immigration.
And essentially, 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.
The House is, I mean, it looks like if you look at it through the certain prism, 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.
The American people are not open borders.
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, well, 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.
Hey, ta-da, fair, fair, give them 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, and then they're going to 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.
American people are not going to put up with that.
And they're not going to put up with Davis-Bacon union wages for so-called temporary workers, temporary workers who 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 Republicans lose the House, it's not going to 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.
And yet, here comes our buddy Fred Barnes inside the beltway once again.
You know what this all adds up to, folks?
It's really not complicated.
What you have here, we have our own set of intellectuals in the conservative quote-unquote movement.
We've got our own conservative elites.
And they're the New York, Washington, Boston corridor, the Axis.
And they, like any elites, have a disdain for the common man.
You could look at calling the minute men vigilantes, average citizens trying to fix a problem that people in Washington refuse to acknowledge exists.
And there's a disdain, I think, for the quote-unquote common man.
They're uncomfortable.
They're uncomfortable having you on their side.
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, 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.
They're introduced to me for the first time, meeting me for the first time.
They come up and they're just beside themselves about abortion.
It's going to tear the country apart.
We're going to lose the party.
The Republican Party is going to go down the tubes.
Rush, they listen to you.
You've got to straighten them out on this.
You've got to shut them up.
And it was just, they were embarrassed.
When the average abortion or pro-lifer was put on television, they saw a hayseed.
They saw a 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.
And so 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 in embarrassment.
And that's what's going on in the immigration debate, too.
It's just a matter of trying to save face with people of like-minded intellects and IQs within the subgroup that they are all a member of.
I got to take a quick time out.
We can 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 for what I'm sure to you seems like forever.
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Ronald in Los Angeles, or is it Louisiana?
Is he in L.A.?
Welcome, Ronald.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning, Russ.
It's great to be here.
My first time calling you, listening to you, and I'm just livid about a few things.
All right, guess let's hear about it.
Okay, especially the news I found out this morning about the Democratic Party trying to shaft black folks, trying to shaft Ray Nagan's reelection.
Yeah, how about that?
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 Reed, standing up in the Senate.
Yeah, talking about how it's racist, this the Inhoff Immigration Bill.
This is not the first time the Democratic National Committee has tried to sandbag a black candidate.
They tried to sandbag Carl McCall, who was running for, what, governor?
Was it governor?
Yeah, he was trying to run for governor, one of the two, but they didn't give him any money.
Absolutely.
You know, these guys, and you know what's amazing is that black Americans, Americans, African Americans, were waking up.
I mean, I read this on the computer 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 dark now.
Well, the reason for this, and I'm not surprised you had to read this on an internet chat because the drive-by media is totally uninterested in this.
But the reason for it is the last name Landrew.
Ray Nagan's opponent, Mitch Landrieu, is the brother of Mary Landria, and her reelection is going to depend on New Orleans and enough Democrat voters coming out of there.
And the DNC just thought, I guess they thought Nagan, two things.
They thought he's just a liability because his performance in the aftermath of Katrina was not good, and therefore he'd make a target down the road, plus the loyalty to the Landrieu family.
You know, the Landrieu family ran New Orleans for a while.
Their father, Moon Landrew, was the mayor of New Orleans to 1976 or 1978.
It's all about getting Democrat votes out of New Orleans because some of the other parts of the state are not as blue as they used to be in terms of Democrats.
I understand.
But aren't they beginning to, is the Democratic Party?
They're not getting it.
I'm going to vote.
I've been a registered Democrat all my voting life, and I'm over 55 years of age.
But now, at this point in time, 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.
Well, I'm also listening to 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.
But, Rush, I can't believe it.
And for Harry Reed to stand up 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?
That's racist.
Let me ask you, what color is English?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
It was not.
But see, Ray, you have to understand here.
Dingy Harry was simply reading from the talking points.
There's a template that 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, the Brett girl took the television on Sunday to say that this is the worst administration in the history of the country, that Bush is even worse than Nixon.
The Brett girl being John Edwards, defeated vice presidential candidate, ran with John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam.
So it's quite natural with Dingy Harry to just have a reflexive reaction.
Oh, racism.
Stand up and charge it before you even think about it.
And before you stop to recall that the Democrats are going out of their way to not only malign successful, high-profile, conservative blacks, they're not supporting their own, as in Carl McCall and a number of others.
And don't forget, I think it was in Marylander'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 down to Louisiana urging people to get out and support her.
So there's a lot of stuff tied up into this.
Lack of support for Nagan by the Democratic National Committee.
Strip it all away.
And what it's going to mean, folks, not what it ought to add up to, 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, encouragement of minorities.
That's a template.
It's just been etched in stone over the years.
They're going to chip away at that now because there's actual evidence that it isn't true.
And the other side, if you look at the Republican Party and who is a, candidates playing a central role in the Republican Party's future happen to be black.
Lynn Swan running for governor of Pennsylvania.
Michael Steele, who's running for the Senate in Maryland, and Ken Blackwell, who's running for governor of Ohio.
And these are all fabulous people, tremendous character, substantive intelligence, substantive positions on issues.
They'll be difficult to demagogue.
Democrats are still going to try it.
But with actions like this, by bailing out on Ray Neagan after making all these promises to the minority community, these days of this template being automatically accepted by people are numbered.
Fox News 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?
Oh, they apologized for saying they were ashamed of Bush's, and now 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 supporting our troops when you went over there.
I think that's a great thing you did.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Great to have you on the program.
Okay, my comment is on the illegal aliens and on the fraud of Social Security.
What about all those people that are in prison right now for stealing people's identity?
Are they going to release them when they're going to be able to do it?
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.
I think I'll go to another country, become illegal alien, and I can break all the laws I want.
Well, you know, I went, I understand, I went to Puerto Vallarta last November for a week, and I actually thought about sneaking back in over the border as an illegal so as to escape punitive taxes.
But then I found out that that wouldn't work.
Even if I came across, I would still be, even if I crossed illegal, I couldn't cross illegally because I'm a citizen.
But I wanted to come back without showing a passport or something just to try it, just see what I didn't say.
Hey, I'm here illegally.
I'm an illegal alien now, and I don't have to pay taxes.
Well, no, I would have snuck over across the border at night.
I wasn't going to come through a natural, I'm not going to do the whole thing the way it's done.
Speaking of all this, we got a soundbite.
Grab number seven, this is Lindsey Graham.
He's on Meet the Press yesterday.
Tim Russert 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 in the 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 sat 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 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 back in 1986, resulting in Simpson Mazzoli.
But so it's your fault because 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.
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?
Okay, 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 then?
Screw that.
Screw that law as an unjust result.
Enforcing that law gives an unjust result.
Screw that law.
We're just going to ignore it.
Is that not what the U.S. Senate is saying?
Now, once some very astute people figure this out and try to apply this thinking to laws they don't like or laws that they think are unjust and they break them.
Well, 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.
This is not how you go about it.
You get rid of the law, 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 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 Limbaugh 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 can't protest.
You can't get a meaningful joke.
You're just, 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 Takate 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 recommended the bans as part of model city statutes that it distributed.
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 delete the native-born requirements, although they said the modifications had nothing to do with AP's inquiries.
AP's inquiries.
I wonder where AP got onto this.
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, even though foreigners constitute a tiny percentage of the population.
They pose little threat to Mexico's job market.
So the immigration laws south of the border in Mexico are just punitive.
They are restrictive and impossible.
And it's something that we brought to your attention a month ago.
The AP finally on the case.
Don't know what the, I mean, Mexico is not going to change anything about this.
I don't care what AP thinks.
Being on the case is not going to change any of this.
And there's a new phenomenon.
I don't know how new it is, but there's another interesting aspect of this 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 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.
Oh.
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 in Central America.
We'll put 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, 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 state's governors, said Carvajal, 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 boxcars, is so tough they're willing to lie to U.S. agents about their nationality to avoid being flown back.
Man, I when you have to pretend to be better not to say it.
Rush Limbaugh 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 the Medicare that I pay in, even if I'm maxed out on that, then he draws first.
Hey, look, according to the Senate, you steal it, you've earned it.
Well, I guess I need to move to Mexico and come back over so I can get my money back.
Well, it's an excellent question, but you know, you think I'm joking.
I want you to listen to this soundbite from Lindsey Graham.
He was on Meet the Press yesterday with Tim Russert, and the question was this.
Russert 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 11 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.
Whoa, man, is that 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 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.
And he 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 got to go out and recruit these new members because we know when it gets down to the pedal meeting the metal, the rubber meeting 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 to go and get stuff, you're going to come back to us.
So in effect, it's take for granted the support they have now in the base.
Don't worry about that.
And then get into competition with this new demographic, the new arrivals.
And so then after all that, we get into competition with the Democrats over how to get these people.
And what does it say?
What does it say 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.
If you pay Social Security taxes, if you're here illegally, we're going to find a way to forget it.
The Democrats have made it clear with Mrs. Clinton they're going after the felon vote.
The felony provision that's in the House bill, don't forget, there's 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 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 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 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, pandering, demagoguery, and all that is the way to compete.
So in other words, to outdo a Democrat, they're going to try to be better Democrats than the Democrats are 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, 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?
A bunch of Democrat voters in South Carolina?
It's not what put him there.
So it's clear that they think that they can run the risk here of angering you and take you for granted because time comes.
For whatever reason, you aren't going to vote Democrat.
You'll vote these guys back into office.
And it's a calculation.
And they make it sort of like, if I can draw an analogy, the way the Democrats take for granted the black vote.
They say, eh, they're not going to vote for Republicans.
We've taken care of that the last 50 years.
So we can campaign against Neagon, we can campaign against Carl McCall, we can do all that.
Blacks are still going to stay with us.
I guess that's what Senate Republicans think of their base, based at least on this soundbite.
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 through exhaustive searches of the Nexus database.
I'll have the details and lots of stuff.
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