Roger Hedgecock in here for Rush coming at you from San Diego, California, in the studios of KOGO Radio.
On the left coast, an enjoyable book added to your summer reading list from Congressman J.D. Hayworth, Congressman Hayworth in the 5th congressional district of Arizona.
It includes Phoenix and Scottsdale and Tempe and lots of other nice places.
His book on illegal immigration is called Whatever It Takes.
Whatever It Takes.
That puts him in a different train of thought about immigration than the Bush administration.
And J.D. Hayworth joins us on the Rush Show now.
J.D., welcome to the program.
Hey, Roger, it is great to be with you again, this time on the golden phone line of the EIB network.
That's right.
That is exactly right.
Listen, your home state, and I got to say that I had Joe Arpaio on the last time I was here, the famous sheriff from your area.
Last time I was doing the Rush Show for Rush, and Joe was just, I mean, everybody in the country wanted to hire him as their sheriff.
He was just terrific.
But another local official out there has got on my bad list your governor, Napolitano, who talks a good game about immigration in terms of sending the people down to the border and other things that have gotten national press.
But I've watched her veto one bill after another.
For instance, what was it, just last week, to expand Arizona's trespassing law to make it a crime for illegals to be in the state, vetoed that, vetoed state sanctions on employers for hiring them.
She's not on your side.
Well, the bottom line is the governor, you know, we had a situation last year, Roger, where I guess back in August, I said it is time to put the National Guard on the border.
It is time to put Arizona's guard on the border.
And the governor sent her minions out to roundly criticize me.
But fast forward to this year in her state of the state address, and I guess after consulting the polling and taking a look, she said, hey, we're going to send the guard to the border.
Well, the legislature stepped in and said, fine, governor, here's the money to do it.
And she said, oh, no, no, we're not going to do it that way.
Then she said, when the guard goes to the border, it won't be there to militarize the border.
Well, here's a bulletin for the governor and other leaders.
The border has been militarized by the other side, by the incursions from the Mexican military and the narco-terrorists.
The border has been militarized by the other side.
But she sent the guard down, and amidst great fanfare, this is what the Arizona Guard was doing on the border.
It was changing oil and rotating tires on border patrol vehicles, and some members of the guard were helping to fix computers.
And that was it.
And you have a situation where, and it's pretty clever politically, I suppose, because the big East Coast papers and the wire services say governor to put guard on border, and you think suddenly it's something really profound.
But rather than standing shoulder to shoulder supplementing the border patrol, they're really handed a secondary or really a tertiary maintenance type of role rather than border enforcement.
All right, J.D. Hayworth with us.
Now, your name popped up in the lead editorial of the Wall Street Journal this morning, the Tancredo Republicans, where, of course, the Wall Street Journal hand in hand with the Liberals and with the Bush administration would have us open the border and legalize everybody illegally here.
It says about you, quote, J.D. Hayworth could lose his seat in Arizona despite taking his anti-immigration riff to any radio or TV show that will have him.
In fact, the Democrats have targeted you.
I'm told that they've got a top 15 list and that you are number 15 on that list because of some redistricting and some problems in your district.
How do you feel about it?
Well, I feel just fine about the race in the Wall Street Journal.
The amazing thing about the editorial writers there is they just ought to come out and admit it.
And, you know, the late Robert Bartley was a great man, but in retrospect, the notion when he pushed for an amendment to the Constitution that reads, There shall be open borders, I think Americans now understand that borders are reasonable, necessary, and proper lines of geopolitical demarcation to enforce sovereignty and security.
And certainly, if we learned nothing else from 9-11, you'd think that we would all have learned that lesson, especially the Wall Street Journal, where the editorial suite is ensconced just literally within eyesight of what was once the Twin Towers.
But the tragedy of the journal is the fact that not only do they advocate open borders, it's also like that old 1980s game show, Anything for Money.
And what you have right now, when you pull back the curtain, some of my traditional allies on the right, like the Wall Street Journal, they're all shouting cheap labor.
And those on the left are saying cheap votes.
And what you have are the American people in the middle, regardless of party affiliation or political philosophy on other issues, saying, wait a minute, we instinctively understand that border security is national security.
We have to deal with that first.
And all the talk about economic considerations and guest worker and amnesty is not only wrong-headed, it is way premature, and it is wrong to leverage our national security or make it conditional on some sort of economic accommodation that is amnesty for people who have come illegally and people who would be actually rewarded with another kind of amnesty for Social Security fraud,
for the failure to pay taxes, for various and sundry other things that are just dead wrong.
J.D. Hayworth, Congressman from Arizona on the Rush Show.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
Now, what I did get from the White House today, J.D., is by the numbers, a press release saying, according to a new survey by the Terrence Group, 72% of Republicans say it is extremely or very important to them that Congress address the problem of illegal immigration this year.
And what the White House means by that, of course, is their so-called comprehensive reform, which they say 75% of Republican voters favor a comprehensive approach, including a temporary worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, already here just reading from there.
And they say that only from the White House release, only 17 percent of Republican voters, they say in this Terrence group poll, oppose that proposal, which, of course, is supported by the White House, but not supported by the majority of the House of Representatives.
What do you think about their numbers?
Well, I have not seen their poll, but I will tell you this: what is more important than any type of poll and the preamble explaining the situation, then asking for a reaction, is what the House is prepared to do.
And House Republicans are standing in the gap for the American people.
The fact that we are going to have hearings, the fact that if Memory Serves Roger, July 5th in your hometown of San Diego, we will be holding hearings.
And then in mid-August, here in my home state of Arizona, the more that people see the administration's Senate amnesty plan, the more details they get on that, the less they're going to like it.
And again, my book, Whatever It Takes, is the essential primer that sets this up.
As you know, Roger, I have one chapter that goes with this dynamic.
Guest worker equals amnesty equals surrender.
And you've seen the numbers, as have I. Robert Rector projecting through chain migration and families coming now to join those who were here previously illegal that would be granted sudden legal status.
Millions, millions of people coming to the United States, over 100 million, perhaps as many as 200 million in the next 20 years coming to the United States.
A raid on social security, the likes of which we've never seen, and a failure to have equal treatment under the law.
Roger, you and I know if we committed social security fraud, there'd probably be jail time and there would be a fine of a quarter million dollars.
What we are going to excuse if we enact some sort of guest worker amnesty plan is forgiveness for those who have committed ID theft and social security fraud.
All right, but now JD, but let me get to the other side of this because the other side says that the Wall Street Journal and others.
So what are you going to do about the 11, 12, 15, whatever the number is of millions of people who are in this country illegally?
What do you do about it?
Well, the first thing you do is deal with the issues in the proper priority.
If anyone says the first concern we ought to have is what do we do with the millions who are already here, let me respectfully suggest that that is the wrong thing.
And members of the United States Congress, and I think everyone in public office understands that the oath we take is to our Constitution and to the citizens of the United States.
And this analogy, I think, holds up very well, Roger.
When there's a hole in your roof and the rain is pouring in, the first thing you do is patch the hole.
Then you worry about the water damage.
But more to the point, the fact is, when you actually enforce the law in a humane way, you will see people return home voluntarily through attrition.
There need not be this straw man argument, and again, it was advanced in the journal editorial this morning.
Not only wrong about my district where I lead by 15 points, though I'll have a tough run because of the dough they're going to throw in here at me, but the fact is we're not talking about rounding millions of people up and sending them out all at once.
Although, if you take a look at the Senate bill, where they say if you've been here less than two years, you're going to be sent home.
Guess what?
That's millions of people.
Are they going to round them up?
No, what's going to happen is when the law is enforced and applied in a humane way, people will see that it isn't in their own self-interest to leave.
And if you don't believe me, take a look in the book, Whatever It Takes.
I chronicle an operation that went on in the wake of 9-11, a special registration program where our officials went to take a look at particular absconders, at those who had visas that had expired, at those who might have come in illegally from Islamic nations, as you recall in the wake of 9-11, real concern.
And once the word was on the street that the immigration officials were checking and there was scrutiny, I believe there were 1,500 arrests and there were 15,000 voluntary departures.
All right, J.D. Hayes.
Enforcing the law works.
J.D. Hayworth, enforcing the law works.
Wait a minute, J.D., I accepted everything up to that point.
You're getting way too radical on me.
J.D. Hayworth from Arizona, let me take a break on the Rush Show.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Back with your questions.
I want you to challenge J.D. Do you agree with what he's saying or not?
After this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush, taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
And our very special guest, Congressman J.D. Hayworth from Arizona, talking about, I think, the topic other than the war, the topic before the legislature in your state, in the national government.
And I think in every press report, I can't go a day without a stack of stories about immigration and how it's impacting good and bad, whatever, in communities across this country.
It is now everywhere.
20 years ago, it was just here in San Diego when we were first talking about it.
Now it's everywhere.
J.D. Hayworth, let's get back to some callers here on your comments about the Senate version of the bill, which, of course, includes a guest worker program, eventual citizenship, a path to citizenship, in addition to what the House bill has, and that's some security at the border, the House bill, obviously, with much more, and employer sanctions.
And J.D., I've been through this.
This is like deja vu.
This is like the Bill Murray movie.
You know, it seems to me that I woke up this morning and it's the same thing.
In 86, I was promised three things.
If we give amnesty to everybody illegally in the country, we'll tighten up the border and we'll have employer sanctions, and never again will we hire an illegal.
Well, we got the amnesty, but we never got the border security and we never got the employer sanctions.
That's exactly right, and that's why Mark Twain's admonition: history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes, is so appropriate here.
The American people instinctively understand, Roger, that we cannot have another amnesty.
We cannot continue to leave our borders unsecured, especially in the wake of 9-11.
And, you know, the reason it's like Groundhog Day for you to cite the name of that Bill Murray movie is because this issue is tied to everything else.
Border security is national security.
And far from economic security through cheap labor, what you're doing is you're basically undercutting those deserving Americans who want to get into the job market, who need help on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder.
You're also threatening Social Security, a tremendous drain on education spending and on health care spending when you basically provide entitlements for non-citizens who have come here illegally, and a tremendous cost shift from the businesses who bring in illegal laborers and then expect the taxpayers to pick up the tab for health and other services.
And that is why you not only have to have strong border security, you must have interior enforcement because it is wrong for employers to knowingly hire illegals, and it is time for our laws to be enforced.
And that's where there's agreement, Roger.
That's the whole thing about this.
If there's one thing you hear from the Senate, if there's one thing you've seen in a variety of different bills, including my own enforcement first, the basic component is that.
Enforcement.
Let's begin with that.
And then if the President and others want to make a case for guest workers, I have some profound disagreements, but they should do that later.
Let's find out more about that.
Let's find out more about that.
J.D. Hayworth, Congressman from Arizona with us.
Here's David on a cell phone in Morrow Bay, California on The Rush Show.
Hi, David.
Good morning.
Hi.
J.D., I'm in agriculture.
We pick avocados.
I would say from articles I've read from the University of California, 70% or more of the farm workers are not here legally.
Agriculture has tried for years to get those numbers changed and work some bill through Congress.
What's going to happen to the farms?
Who's going to do the work?
Well, David, first of all, as you recall, too, there have also been studies done by various universities that all the talk about produce costs rising astronomically just is not the case.
Take a look at what happened when the Bracero program was terminated.
We heard that tomatoes were going to rot in the fields, and yet what happened?
Well, J.D., you came up with a machine to pick tomatoes, but you can't use a machine to pick avocados.
But here's the thing: if we actually utilized the agricultural worker programs we have and we worked under the framework of those visas that we have now, rather than trying to carve out exceptions after the fact, we'd be much better off.
But a lot of my friends in agriculture come to me and they say, no, that's over-regulation.
It's too costly to have people obey the law.
Well, I think we need to have people obey the law in the post-9-11 era, and I don't think we're headed for economic ruination, but I think you can make that case, but we better deal with enforcement first, David.
All right, J.D. Hayworth with us, Congressman Hayworth.
Now, this out of Washington AP noting just now, a controversial Arizona law that requires voters to voters to prove they are U.S. citizens and present a photo ID is drawing the attention of a congressional panel.
Henry Hyde of Illinois is sponsoring legislation to prevent fraud, arguing, and opponents are saying you require citizenship papers and an ID to get a ballot.
You would deter many legitimate voters from voting.
Have you heard about this one?
Yeah, I've heard all this, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the simple notion of being who you are, who you say you are when you go to the polls.
And look, we've got to protect the franchise.
We have to protect citizenship.
And that is why it is vital that we get this done the right way.
And it's simple.
You know, when you line up to get on an airplane, you have to have some sort of ID.
And why not just simply be able to say, yes, I am a citizen, and here's the proof.
Here's my proof.
Here's my voter registration card.
And this is who I say I am.
And just one other note I have to pass along, Roger.
When David called up about his eyesight, according to him, 70% of the people are illegal working on the farms.
I got to tell you, what we've been able to find out and document, only less than one quarter of ag workers in the United States are here illegally.
20% of the time.
There are what they call H-1B programs.
I've had a ton of people on my local show who are brokers for workers who legitimately come across the border now with temporary worker permits.
They are given transportation.
They're adequately fed.
They are given the minimum wage or whatever the wage is that they've negotiated.
They're protected by law.
In other words, they're legal.
And this is what I don't understand.
We have those programs now.
Yeah, and what we have to do is take a look at those programs and then have the debate: do you expand those, but not carve out a new exception?
And nor should we carve out this excuse that, oh, gee, you don't need to be able to prove that you are who you say you are when you vote.
Talk about voter fraud and real problems at the polls.
All right, J.D., I've got to run.
I've got to run.
Keep with us because I want to talk to you about the war.
I want to talk to you about the resolutions.
Is it cut and run or cut and crawl?
Where are we going on Iraq after this?
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No, no, no.
We've got work to do, and we're doing it with J.D. Hayworth, Congressman from Arizona.
Big bullseye on this guy's back from everybody trying to prove from the Wall Street Journal to the FFL-CIO that they can kick out of Congress somebody who is this strong on the subject of illegal immigration.
Let's take a call for J.D. from Jeff in Detroit, Michigan.
Hi, Jeff.
Hey, J.D., how are you?
Hey, Jeff.
Thanks for calling.
You know, I'm a little nervous here, but I've got to tell you, you are one of my heroes, and I've been paying attention to your every word.
And thank God for people like you and Tom Tencredo and the others who are willing to stand up and fight this fight.
Thank you.
Well, Jeff, let me thank you because it's people like you from Detroit to Denver to Decatur, Georgia, all around the country, Jeff, who are making the difference because our founders designed this government.
They named us representatives for a reason.
And it's because representing the people and hearing from the people, we are able to make decisions with the people's welfare uppermost in our mind and not have a confluence of special interest try to get together and ram a bill down our throats that would try to leverage our national security in favor of some sort of amnesty program.
And, Jeff, I really appreciate you taking the time.
And that's what it's going to take, Roger.
You know, the people who've read whatever it takes understands the first thing that it takes is an informed electorate rising up to say no to the notion of allowing illegal immigration, saying yes to the notion that we understand border security is synonymous with national security.
And that is the most basic component of whatever it takes, people standing up.
And the good news is enough citizens have stood up now to be counted that the House of Representatives is hearing loudly and clearly, and that's why we're standing here in the breach.
That's why we're holding it up.
Yeah, these hearings, I was going to get to that.
Are these hearings announced by Speaker Hastard as the mainstream press has been painting them?
Are they an attempt to keep any bill from that?
They're saying, look, this delay is going to be tantamount to sabotaging getting any bill out of Congress into the President's desk, that in effect, Republicans who are pro-border security, who are in the majority in the House, would rather have no bill than a bad bill and therefore hand Bush a defeat and therefore maybe even in danger, because the public does want something done, endanger their own political lives by getting nothing done.
Well, that was one of the themes in the journal this morning, Roger, and I can see where people might have that impression.
But let us state for the record that, again, as I said before the break, there is already consensus.
You hear it from everybody.
In terms of priority, what is the most basic function of government?
And that's protection of the citizens.
So why hold hearings?
Well, because you have to have hearings to let people see what the Senate wants to do.
And you have to let people know that, no, it is wrong to basically allow millions of illegals to come forward here, to carve out special considerations for them, to give guaranteed Social Security benefits for illegals dating from the time they came to the country illegally, to allow them to commit Social Security fraud and have amnesty for something that would be a felony for citizens,
to allow illegals to pay only three of five years of back taxes, in other words, to have tax amnesty.
We need to go over the plan because it puts too much of an emphasis on the wrong parts.
And quite frankly, my desire, and I've expressed this to people in the legislative and the executive branches, again, we have agreement on enforcement.
Let us move forward there on enforcement and not try to leverage or hold up our security based on our amnesty plan.
Here's where we get J.D. Hayworth with us from Arizona Congressman Hayworth.
Here's where we get J.D. down to the problem.
It's a problem of trust.
If the Bush administration for five years had credibility on border security issues, I think a comprehensive program would sail through the House of Representatives.
I really do.
Because I believe that if you believed that George Bush really wanted to protect the border and get the border under control, that you'd be able to deal the other issues of legal immigration that do need to be addressed.
I got to believe when his guy comes out, the head of one of his programs here, comes out on border security and says he doesn't believe that offense is the answer.
When we in San Diego have proven that offense does work, it's here, and we have stopped virtually illegal immigration in those areas where we do have offense, certainly stopped the drug runners who used to drive their SUVs across the border every night.
We've certainly stopped a lot of stuff that used to just willy-nilly come across the border.
So here is, you know, right here in San Diego, we've shown that.
So here is the Bush administration, while they're saying, oh, we're going to put the guard on the border and we're going to do this and we're going to do that.
They just don't have any credibility.
No wall at the border, no enforcement at the border, no reaction to military incursions by the Mexicans, no reaction to anything.
Well, you know what?
There is something called proof of performance, and it has been lacking.
And to have the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security say, as Judge Chertoff said in Houston back in November, that it was his goal to have operational control of the border in five years' time.
Now, just stop and think about that.
That means on the 10th anniversary of 9-11, we might get around to having control of our borders.
Now, I don't care if people are in my party or where they line up if we don't move now to protect our borders.
Obviously, as recently as just a couple of weeks ago, not only our southern border, what was going on in Canada with the terror cell there, on our northern border.
If we don't move to have border security, our national security is at risk.
And when the president's right on something, I'm one of his chief allies.
But when I believe him to be mistaken, I do not hesitate to say we're wrong.
And right now, we're pursuing the wrong course of action.
We need enforcement first.
J.D. Hayworth with us.
The book is Whatever It Takes in the 5th District in Arizona.
J.D., what do you make of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America?
This is found on the web at SPP.gov.
Well, a working group apparently coming in under NAFTA that would implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, something signed here in March of 2005, which might lead to some things like a superhighway between the eastern shore of Monterey and so forth of Mexico, all the way up through Texas, Kansas City, and into Canada, and in effect,
trying to meld the U.S., Mexico, and Canada into a new, a la the European Union, into a new partnership in which the borders really are downplayed.
That's right.
That's just some of the open borders crowd.
And listen, you can never sacrifice national security.
This is not xenophobia.
It's just common sense.
We need to have our border security and our sovereignty and attempts to suborn our sovereignty to some sort of regional alliance or to make those borders disappear are harmful, are harmful to the American people and the future of the American nation.
Barry in Queens, New York is next on the phones.
Barry, welcome to the Russ Show.
Yes, good afternoon.
Roger, J.D., I just want to thank you guys for giving us a voice and not insulting our intelligence.
Enforcement first, yes, got to stop the flood.
And as far as the 12 million that are here now, the illegals that are here, what to do with them, let's first start by not publicly funding them at any level.
If they're going to work, we can't do anything about it right now until we can resolve the whole problem, fine.
But no public subsidies or funding.
Stop the anchor babies and stop the anchor babies extended to families and extended families so that it's a never-ending cycle.
You know, it may sound draconian, but compassion and charity begin at home, and we've got to fix the problem someway, and this might be a good start.
Well, you know what?
Yeah, Barry, don't be feeling bad about this or defensive about it.
Otherwise, you're going to fall for the logic that says that every single poor person in the world deserves to be in the United States.
We obviously can't physically do that.
What we can do is export the freedom and capitalism that would allow those people in their country to be as prosperous as we are.
They've done that in Hong Kong and in Singapore and with our help in parts of Western Europe.
They've done it around the world, anywhere where they want to embrace freedom and property and capitalism and democracy and all those good things.
So, Barry, I'm not in the least bit defensive about saying that you cannot come to the United States, every single one of you folks and the 6 billion people on the planet, to find freedom.
You're going to have to get it, most of you, in your own country.
In Mexico, for example, is there going to be a time when the Mexicans actually, the Guatemalans and many other people, face up to the fact that the potential in their country is being stifled by a couple of hundred families that own everything and keep everybody suppressed and the wages suppressed?
It's time for people to speak honestly about these things.
Mexico could be one of the most prosperous countries in the world.
They're sitting on top of an ocean of oil, precious minerals.
They're a tremendously hardworking people.
There isn't any question about that.
But they are caught in a political system that benefits the very few and punishes the many.
Else, why would a third of their people be seeking opportunity in the United States?
J.D., am I wrong about that?
You know, you lay it out, Roger, and I talk about it in the book, Whatever It Takes.
And I thank Barry for his observations there in Queens, New York.
Nobody is against legal immigration.
We have major problems with illegal immigration.
And the sad fact is the Republic of Mexico made a conscious decision.
President Fox and others decided to outsource Mexico's poverty to the United States.
And that is what has happened.
And even with the economic blessings, you talked about the energy resources, the precious metals, the hospitable climate for agriculture.
Even with all of that going on, the number two moneymaker, revenue source for the Republic of Mexico is remittances from the United States.
Number one, PIMEX, the state-owned, the Mexican-owned, a government-owned oil and energy company.
But number two, remittances from the United States sent back by workers, many of whom are here illegally, and the multiplier effect may make that the most profound source of money coming into Mexico.
And you have to ask yourself, gee, as the Mexican people face an election, isn't it time for the Mexican government to step up and care for its own people rather than sending out pamphlets saying, here's your guide, how to, quote, immigrate to the United States, that is, sneak into the country illegally.
And that's why I have a chapter, sadly, about Mexico, friend or foe, because as the days and years are passing, it seems the Republic of Mexico, our close neighbor, has not been much of a friend.
Big election coming up in that regard, too.
J.D. Hayworth with us from Congress from Arizona.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Back right after this.
I'll tell you something else.
Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, and J.D. Hayworth, Congressman from Arizona, our guest.
I'll tell you something else that bothers me, J.D., about George Bush, and I do get frustrated about this, is we have been discovering weapons of mass destruction since 2003 in Iraq.
There have been, and the most recent one that Santorum points out in a declassified partial briefing that he got, the part was declassified over 500 chemical weapons, artillery shells and canisters with poisonous gas, sarin gas, mustard gas.
We know the toxicity of this kind of thing.
We know its lethality.
And yet it's poo-poo time.
It's no big deal.
The Bush administration doesn't even want to tout it, doesn't want to get out in front, doesn't want to say, hey, you guys are all wrong.
You've been banging me about the head and shoulders for three years that we never found the WMD.
And here they are, and they've been there.
We've been discovering them ever since we got there.
What's the story with that?
Well, I think what we have to understand is this.
President Bush is our chief executive, and he has an administration ostensibly working for him and the American people.
Now, some within that administration have decided not so much to work for the president, really for the American people.
A lot of people throughout the bureaucracy and some officials take it in their own hands to cast a poor light on things.
I cannot understand the comments from some within the Defense Department.
Oh, well, these weren't the weapons of mass destruction we went to war over.
Oh, really?
Well, they're weapons of mass destruction.
They were utilized against the Iranians in that war in the 1980s.
They were utilized against the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs.
They do carry lethality.
They are still apparently being uncovered.
This is a very dynamic situation where we have to continue to uncover these weapons dumps and these chemical dumps and to simply try to understate the seriousness of this, I likewise find is a major concern.
And ultimately, the president, when he takes a look at situations and deals with them head-on, I think he does a good job.
He may not have the most eloquent way to turn a phrase, but when he lays it out in a common sense, no-nonsense fashion, the American people get it.
And I will tell you, in stark contrast, sadly, to what we have with our border situation, when it comes to the war on terror, in terms of being firm in his resolve and strong in his intent, this president has stood tall.
It is a pity that there are those minions within the bureaucracy across the administration who I believe seek to undermine him.
Interesting.
Well, let's talk about a test that's coming up in North Korea.
The North Koreans may be testing their missile that could go to two-thirds of the United States.
Isn't it time to test our anti-missile defense?
Yep, as you know, we've activated.
We've seen the reports about activating our missile shield using the Aegis cruisers and the other land-based features of this system, and I think it's entirely proper to do so.
And I think that North Korea should understand, as has been stated in fairly frank diplomatic language, the gravity of this situation.
Some say that he's Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-mentally ill, as I think I call him, is a guy who does these kinds of things in order to, well, stimulate some response from the United States.
He's like a three-year-old.
He needs attention.
We've paid too much attention to Iraq, to Iran.
What about my attention?
Well, I don't know if I can really offer a psychological profile of the North Korean dictator.
Hey, why not?
Everybody knows.
I know that they are looking for some sort of concession.
They are looking, you know, here's a guy who starves his people.
The famine in North Korea has been just a tragedy in human dimensions.
And yet, this ruthless despot has been after these nuclear weapons and is now this Tapo-Dong missile with the ability to strike the United States.
It is a very serious situation.
JD, I appreciate your being with us today.
Thanks for hanging with us.
The book is Whatever It Takes on the Border and Lots of Other Subjects.
J.D. Hayworth in Arizona is right at the cutting edge in this House of Representatives.
J.D., thanks a lot.
Roger, thank you.
Appreciate it.
We're going to be back.
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Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
I want to get back to Iran, Iraq.
By the way, things are normalizing in Iraq as the ice cream parlors open up in Baghdad.
Got to be a sign of security somewhere.
We'll come back with Korea as well.
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And again, this is, I know it's a substitute teacher, but hey, all of us, you know what we're doing?
That's the pursuit of truth.
And you know that's what Rush would want us to do.
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