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May 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
I am America's real anchor man, doing the job that drive-by media should be doing and some say used to do.
I have my doubts about it, but regardless, the work gets done because of me.
Happy to have you along, folks.
The fastest week in media.
Here we are already at Thursday, and we got lots of stuff to go through today.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
I got some emails after yesterday's program, and I want to share this concept with you.
I'm going to develop it later on during the program.
And some of the emails are for you, you've been taking a lot of time off.
You've been going and playing golf.
Don't we matter as much to you anymore?
And you just, you're constantly, you know, you're not talking about hard-hitting news.
You didn't talk about the debate hardly at all.
And you just, you're spending all this time talking about, you just, it got me to thinking.
You know, a lot of the stuff that I've been relating on the program recently has been about the fact that I'm enjoying life.
I'm having a good time.
Life's to be lived.
And no, it really got me wondering.
You know, there's all this talk about so much angst and so much tumult and such chaos.
People are just roiled out there.
They're don't know whether tomorrow's going to come.
And I'm wondering if the fact that I'm enjoying myself is a lot and a rotten way to relate to people.
Should I come in here and instead say I'm miserable, I'm unhappy, and be in a foul mood all the time so as to relate to people.
If I've got things going on in my life other than the news and I talk about them, some people seem to get a little bothered by it that I'm not sticking to the issues.
I want to develop this as the program unfolds.
But I've got to tell you a funny story.
It happened last night.
As you know, we're here in New York.
I'm coming to you today from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
And I told you about this Kobe Club steakhouse, Jeffrey Chattero's place.
I went to, was it two or three weeks ago when I was here?
And I went there and I absolutely loved it, had a great time.
And they told me, I went in there last night and they told me a slew of people have come in to check the place out.
So I was with the woman who poked me at dinner last Thursday night in Palm Beach when I was answering a question posed by the host.
I told you that story unphrased.
You're treating me like a wife and we're not even married.
I just met her that day.
So in fact, the two people, I'll tell you what I did, the two people who were at the dinner party, not going to name them, but they're big donors and supporters of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, were at that dinner party.
And the question involved that I was asked by the host, he was trying to stir things up.
The question I was asked was about Hillary.
And I'm not trying to cause problems.
It's a social league evening.
It's a dinner party.
I'm a gentleman.
So I gave an answer that I thought was extremely diplomatic and funny and warm and non-confrontational at all.
I'm not that kind of guy.
And that's when she poked me.
So I decided, I liked her poking me, even though we're not married because we're not married.
She couldn't do anything about it.
So I went to the website and I got a picture of those two people who were at the dinner party.
And I had my website people frame it.
And we got to the Kobe Club last night and I pulled the picture out of my jacket pocket, the small frame, put it on the table.
I said, okay, if I get going there here again tonight, you can pinch me all night if you want to.
We're engrossed in conversation.
And it was very noisy in there last night.
And I was having difficulty hearing.
And I was not looking around the restaurant.
I was as close to this woman as I could get to hear her because of the racket.
And I don't know.
I got in there at about seven.
And I'm guessing at 8 or 8.30, I'm looking at this woman, talking to her.
She's looking at me, not aware of anything else going on in the restaurant.
And all of a sudden, I become aware of a looming presence at the table.
And I'm seated in a booth, a half-moon kind of booth, and I'm facing the entrance to the restaurant toward the back.
And this looming presence, I look up, and golly, if it isn't former President Bill Clinton, and he's got a big smile on his face.
And I look up, and I imagine I was somewhat startled.
And I looked up and I couldn't hear what he was saying, but he was, because the noise in there.
So I'm turning my head, my left ear to it so I can hear a little bit more.
And he says, well, you're looking great.
You're tan fit.
You look really good out there.
And I reach out my hand.
Mr. President, it's a pleasure to meet you.
And we shook hands and so forth.
And he hung around for, I guess, two or three minutes, maybe five.
I've lost track of time.
And then he and his party went and sat at a table behind me and to the left.
And the woman I'm with is sitting, whoa, does this happen to you all the time?
Oh, yeah, constantly.
I can't go anywhere.
So about 10 minutes later, I become aware again of another looming presence at my table.
And I look up, and it's former president Bill Clinton.
The second time he has stopped at my table.
First time he stopped walking in.
Second time he actually left his table, came to my table, and he's got another guy standing with him.
And the guy looks familiar, but I can't place it.
And I can't hear the introduction.
So I'm shaking hands and so forth.
And this man is going on and on and on about how excited he is to meet me, wanted to meet me.
The former president brought him over.
When the former president told him I was there, so I have to meet Mr. Limboy.
It turned out it was the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villigarosa.
And so we chatted for a while.
And while I'm chatting, now this is hilarious.
While I'm chatting with Villigarosa, I kind of slid to the right in my half moon booth.
And as I did that, that created some distance between me and my guest.
And I'm talking with Villagerosa.
And when I'm talking to somebody in a very loud place like this, I have to devote full attention.
I had to turn my head to my left away from the action behind me to hear what the mayor was saying.
And at some point during conversation with the mayor, I looked to my left, and the former president was intently chatting up the woman that I was sitting with.
He had leaned down and his elbows and arms were on the railing of the booth, and they were in intense conversation.
And I chatted up the mayor Villigarosa some more.
And I guess then he left, and they both went back to the president's table.
And then they left.
They left, I guess, about five minutes before I ended up leaving.
As they left, the president had a friend with him.
The president didn't come back to the table when he left, but Ron Burkle was also in the president's group, and he stopped to say hello.
So we had, and I stood up, said, hello, Mr. Burkle.
I'm very familiar with Ronnie, a big Los Angeles guy and so forth.
And then they left.
And I guess it was 10 minutes, as I say or so after that, I left.
And as I get to the front door, there's a photographer out there in the street and the flash is going crazy, taking pictures.
And I said, oh, why didn't I think of this?
I knew this was going to happen.
Clinton is up the sidewalk a little bit chatting with somebody.
And when I walk out the door, the photographer sees me and then aims his camera at me and starts flashing pictures away.
Now, the former president's probably about 10 feet up the sidewalk.
And I decided I'm going to go up, shake his hand, say goodnight, because I'm a gentleman.
I mean, I'm not just going to walk out there and ignore him.
So I did, walked up, asked him what he had to eat.
He said, I had chicken.
I had fish.
That's what we, I said, well, you were good.
You were good.
You be, you got to be good, man.
You got to be good.
And so I says, nice to meet you.
Got back in a car, drove off.
I got home.
I sent an email to some friends.
I recounted the story pretty much as I've recounted it for you.
And I told them, I predicted, now you wait till this hits the papers.
When it hits the papers, it'll be the other way around.
I approached the former president and all of this sort of stuff.
And I did outside the restaurant.
I walked out, and the photographers, in fact, I said to the woman I was with, okay, let's give him a picture.
She didn't want to be in the picture.
She just made a B-line for the car, but I walked up and said goodnight to the former president.
And by the way, all this was like two old friends getting together.
It was just, it was idle chit-chat, smiles all around from the mayor of Los Angeles, from Ron Verkle, and from the president himself.
There was no tension about any of this.
It was a good time, and I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it, especially when I looked over and I saw the former president intently chatting up the woman that I was with.
It was cool.
So anyway, somehow Matt Drudge heard about this today.
So he's had it blurbed on the Drudge Report for, I guess, an hour or two.
Well, he said that he's been talking to sources close to Clint.
He said, no, the former president didn't approach Rush.
That would never happen.
Rush approached the former president.
I predicted this.
I predict that's somewhere in Clinton, Inc., that's the story.
And I did approach him outside the restaurant when I was leaving to say, I'm not just going to ignore him on the sidewalk there.
And they got photographers taking pictures of that, I'm sure.
But I was minding my own.
I didn't even know he was going to be there, minding my own business, like I was bothering nobody, sitting in the restaurant.
And when he stopped at a table, that starts this whole story.
And then he brought the mayor over, and then Virko came over.
And it was just, it was amazing.
By the way, there were people in there taking cell phone pictures of me.
I had four or five people come over.
The lady I was with had to excuse herself to go to the restroom.
And at that point, four or five people in the restaurant came over and wanted pictures and autographs and this sort of stuff.
And when she came back, my guest came back, those other people then stopped coming over.
But I mean, there are witnesses to this, is the point.
There are countless.
What was that, Mr. Sturdley?
There is no rest of the story.
That's the what, what, what kind of rest of the story do you think there would be?
There is no rest of the story.
No, Clinton, he had been.
I asked Villigar Rosa, what are you doing here?
He said, well, Clinton's got his green initiative.
They were working on global warming at some Clinton conference yesterday, and they don't come to the Kobe Club for dinner.
I don't believe in coincidences with the Clintons.
I just don't.
So, I mean, of all places, he chooses to go to dinner.
Kobe Club, the same night I'm there, back in just a second.
You know, folks, I always said, I remember telling you this back in the early to mid-90s.
I said, Bill Clinton is the kind of guy that you probably would love, you know, to go to a ball game.
We'll go out and chase women afterwards and have a great time.
And I'm already getting emails.
You're falling in with the enemy.
I knew it.
It happens.
Every one of our conservatives get famous.
You've fallen with the enemy.
Even you.
What am I supposed to do, folks, when he comes to my table?
Am I supposed to stand up and leave?
Am I supposed to turn my board?
What am I supposed to do?
I'm not that kind of person.
You guys, you people need to relax out there.
Some of you.
I mean, not all of you are uptight about this.
Some of you need to just lighten up out there.
I can't help it if I go someplace and this kind of stuff happens.
At any rate, here again, the phone number, 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
I've got an immigration stack today that we're going to be spending a lot of time on.
I'm going to answer questions.
I got a lot of people upset that I didn't fully answer the question from the woman who called yesterday from, I guess she was Flint.
Why can't the oil companies just be fair and lower their profits a little bit so as to help us all?
I'm going to answer that in great detail here from a number of different points of view, contexts, or what have you.
And there's lots of other interesting things that are all over the board here today.
The immigration bill, I guess, is the thing.
This is, I think, D-Day for it.
As of now, the AP has a story.
Let me find it.
I should have put it at the top of the stack here.
Yeah, here it is.
A bipartisan group of senators scrambling with White House officials to reach an elusive agreement to fortify the border and grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. Senator Kennedy, the Democrats' lead negotiator, called Thursday, D-Day, in the talk, saying it was likely the last chance for a compromise before senators scattered for a three-day weekend.
If no deal emerges, Senate Democrats were to vote Monday evening to bring up an immigration measure that passed last year over the objections of most Republicans who have said they will block it.
It'd be a highly partisan start to the immigration debate, divides the two parties and so forth and so on.
Dingy Harry, the Senate majority leader, said that he wants to complete a bill before Memorial Day, and President Bush says he wants to sign one by summer's end.
This bill is worse than doing nothing.
And we're back to the same old thing.
And this is what one of the things about Washington is very frustrating.
It has to be a bill.
Congress has to do something.
We must get something.
No, Congress doesn't have to do anything.
The immigration circumstance right now is bad enough.
This bill is going to make it much, much worse.
And what's happening now is in order to get a bill, in order to be able to say they've moved forward on immigration, in order to be able to say that something's been done, the Republicans are in the process, along with the White House, of backing off some of their original demands in this.
Because the Bush administration, trying to win this immigration agreement with the Democrats, is now backing away from safeguards, which are designed to target businesses that hire illegal aliens and to prevent a repeat of the rampant fraud that resulted from the 86 amnesty.
This is what Tony Snow was talking about with us on the program yesterday.
They were going to enforce this.
We talked to him yesterday.
We asked him, well, how are you going to enforce this?
The power of the law itself is not going to force these illegals to show up, sign up, pay their fines, or whatever.
Well, we're going to have businesses do that.
We're going to have businesses that hire illegals find out about them and we're going to check on the illegals before they get on the path to citizenship.
And that's the stuff that now the Republicans are expecting to throw out in order to get Democrat support.
The Republicans, according to the Washington Times, are pleading with the Bush administration to hold firm on these safeguards, arguing that otherwise any new guest worker program will be unworkable.
John Cornyn said we need their help on that, meaning at the White House.
The Democrats say that Republicans are asking for too many restrictions and checks on illegal aliens before they can get on the path to citizenship and object to restrictions on future guest workers.
Now, 20 years after the 86 amnesty, which was the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, and that legalized 2.7 million illegal aliens, lawsuits are still pending from some of those who were denied.
One in four of those granted legal status submitted fraudulent applications, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Federal law also prevents the Social Security Administration, the IRS, from sharing information about illegal aliens.
It's sort of like we couldn't share information on terrorists during the Clinton years between the FBI and the CIA because they were taking everything to grand juries where evidence was presented.
And of course, it's private.
So some of the things that we were told yesterday that we're in here to safeguard are already being relaxed.
The Republicans in the White House are threatening.
I'm sorry, I just got distracted.
I looked at call screener board, and Snerley's got a little note up there for me.
And he says there's rampant anger out there over my meeting with Clinton.
Well, put him on.
I'll talk to him about it.
Anyway, the Democrats argue that removing confidentiality and sharing information could deter illegal aliens from coming forward to join the legalization program.
The Democrats are basically saying if you investigate fraud via information sharing, then the illegals may not come forward.
So let's, I'll tell you, well, let's make an exception for fraud then.
Let's just make an exception for fraud.
We're doing everything else in this bill that's cockamame out of the world.
So let's just excuse the fraud that exists here.
We're already excusing the illegal status.
We're already, and it's like I said yesterday, the thing about this that just doesn't make any sense is that we're treating the illegals as though we are doing something wrong, as though we've been bad.
We're guilty of something.
And we want them to forgive us.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something.
If this happens, I've already told you that I think as we sit here today, there's an 80% chance Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
If this happens, if this immigration bill goes through as the latest reports indicate that it might, we are doomed.
In 08, we are doomed because this would just be the next and maybe the last straw as far as the Republican base is concerned in being able to trust Republicans that it elects to represent them.
Because there's not much of that happening in this particular area.
Quick timeout.
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Cato Byrne, National Review Online, is calling this the latest incarnation of this immigration bill faith-based immigration reform, which is a great line.
Because what's going to happen here, all of these protections that are ostensibly built in, they're probably going to be removed.
I asked Tony Snow yesterday, what about these fines?
I can just see it happening now.
After this bill passes, if it does, you don't know what's going to happen in the House, and it may be stalled in the Senate for a while.
It depends on whether the Republicans, enough of them, can raise enough ruckus in there to get the minority leader Mitch McConnell to demand a full and open debate on this thing, which is not happening.
It's 600 pages long.
But all these fines, I'm just going to predict to you right now that it will not be long if this thing passes.
That after a while, people say, you know, these fines are just too oppressive.
How can we treat these poor people this way?
They're just coming here to better their lives.
We have no business.
Well, you wrote the law.
You guys passed.
I know, but we, you know, we're rethinking it now.
This is the way it's going to happen.
This really roils the Democrats and some of the Republicans in the White House who support it, but it's an amnesty bill.
It is.
That's the end result of it.
They can argue the finer points of the definition of the term, but it's, I don't know.
We're doomed here, folks.
If this goes through as is, because the base is a significant number of them, will remember this.
And they're going to get this.
We just can't trust Republicans.
There's no reason to elect them.
Anyway, go to the phones.
Let's start here in the Arizona desert, the arid Arizona desert.
This is Hildy.
Hildy, welcome to the EIB network.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I can't believe I'm the first caller, and I have to reprimand you.
Why are you acting like a little school girl about meeting Mr. Clinton?
I mean, this is your world.
This is where you belong.
And I want to throw back something you said about when NFL players, remember a couple years ago when the whole NFL players get into the end zone doing their little dance and their little antics.
And you said when a football player gets the end zone and makes the touchdown, he has to act like that's where he belongs.
Yes.
And this is your world.
This is where you belong.
You know, the notion that you're excited about leaving this stain on our consciousness, Bill Clinton and his staff.
Come on, wait a second.
I have left a stain on you.
No, no.
Oh, Rush.
Don't mix my words.
That's not what I said.
The fact that hearing you talk about Bill Clinton that way, I just, I don't know how much I can take in this next day.
What do you mean, talking about this?
I'm hearing about Bill Clinton.
I knew this.
I didn't talk about Bill Clinton anyway other than describe what happened, which is what I always do on this program.
I, you know, it used to be stick to the issues.
Now, now it's, now it's, you're accusing me of acting starstruck, is what you're doing.
Yeah.
Well, I was, I was the one minding my own business.
Well, I understand, but is he, you think he got on his email when he got home and emailed all his friends that he met you?
To make a prediction.
I told, you know, you, look at, you missed a very funny, central element of the story, Hildy, based on what you have commented to me on.
I mean, the emails that I sent to friends were to describe the story.
Hey, hey, guess who I met?
Guess who I met?
The reason I sent the email was to describe what happened.
And some of it you have apparently, and I'm not, if you missed it, that's too bad.
Some of it went right by you.
But look at, I'm the one that was minding my own business.
I'm the one that looked up and saw a looming presence.
And it was the former president.
I did not leave my table other than one time to go to the restroom.
I never left the table.
He left his once and approached me as he was coming in.
What am I to do?
Ferris in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ferris, you're next on the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Good day, Rush.
Yes, sir.
On your near-death experience there, meeting the former president.
Yes.
I'm reminded of the time that he commented to a talk show host complaining that Rush Limbaugh comes on his airwaves afterwards and has three hours every day.
That was Cam Ox in St. Louis.
And that was reminiscent to me of a little fairness doctrine talk we're having now.
But I commend you on your handling of the interlude with Slick Willie.
Yeah, he in that phone call, he said there's no truth detector.
He was badgering the guys in the morning team at Cam Ox and St. Louis.
And Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, come on after you.
He gave three hours, three solid hours, and there's no truth detector.
And he was complaining that he, as president, couldn't compete with my three hours on the radio.
He's got the bully pulpit.
But he didn't complain about that to you when he met you when it was last night.
No, it was, no.
As I say, it was, look, in a social setting, it was, there was, there was no, no, it would have been inappropriate anyway, and I wouldn't have been able to hear him anyway had he done anything like that.
But that's, you know, I don't know how to describe this.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know how to explain it.
I am not rude.
I am a gentleman.
I was sitting there, and he came up and said, hi.
I'm not.
This seems perplexing to have to explain.
I'm not going to turn my back.
I'm not going to ignore him.
I'm not going to pretend I don't recognize him.
And then he came back with the mayor of L.A.
It isn't what it was.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Rodney in Alden, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Yeah, great to talk to you, Rodney.
Rodney.
Rodney, Rodney.
Hey, is it Alton, Illinois?
Alton, A-L-T-O-M, right across St. Fluke.
Okay, good.
Yeah.
I thought the story about former President Clinton was great.
He's treating him with respect and dignity, and every former president should be treated that way.
Well, and he was behaving in the same manner.
That's right.
Well, you're absolutely right.
You're showing an amazing level of maturity out there, Rodney.
Well, thank you.
Very proud of you.
Very proud.
But no, he came up to you and he treated you with dignity and class and nice.
He didn't come up to you and start insulting you at the beginning.
Yeah, it would have been a different story.
It would have been a different story, but he didn't do that.
He wasn't going to do that in a setting like that.
Right.
So I think it's Brighton.
I'm like you.
These people out there that's jumping up and down throwing a pit, they need to calm down a little bit.
Well, you know how it is out there, Rodney.
Passions get stoked.
They get turned up.
The temperatures get turned up.
And when they find out that I'm having dinner with President Carter next week, that's when I'm going to really be in trouble.
Because, you know, let me tell you, look at what's happening in the immigration bill.
See, I understand this to a degree because the conservatives are just waiting for their leaders to sell out.
It just happens.
They get elected, they go to Washington.
The Libs run the Beltway.
And we've talked about this.
They run the Beltway politically, they run it socially.
And Republicans get elected to go up there.
It's not long, and it'll all start selling out.
You get on TV by being critical of your own president or of your own party.
Senator McCain is an example of this.
But the thing that the Republicans never learn is that I know, no matter what you do, the Libs are never going to like us.
And to do things in order to make them like you is a losing proposition.
It never works because they're not interested in that.
I mean, they're focused on total annihilation of us in a political sense.
So when my audience, trusted, devoted, and loyal, here's me expressing the story, telling the story of meeting the president last night, former President Clinton.
Experience tells the, oh, gosh, oh, no, tell me it isn't going to happen to Rod.
Now, well, they don't think they've lost me yet, but they might.
See, there were, oh, no.
And I understand the fear, but folks, use your experience.
I've run into all kinds of these Democrats over the years, and you noticed, I mean, I am perhaps the last restraint against the onslaught that the liberals are making at us.
I am your bulwark.
I am your rock.
I have, I do not, I do not fade away.
I do not moderate.
I do not go out of my way to make the libs.
And I didn't last night.
I was minding my own business.
And my territory, my space was invaded by this looming presence.
What am I to do?
I did what I thought instinctively as a gentleman I would do.
Quick timeout.
And I'm through sounding defensive about this.
I'm through.
I don't have to be defensive.
I don't owe anybody XY.
I'm just sharing with you what happened.
Pure and simple.
I'm going to analyze that, I guess, all day if we don't get on something else.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushland bought talent on lawn from God.
Kelly in Dubuque, Iowa, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Raj, I can't believe I'm talking to you.
Well, it's your big showbiz break.
I'm totally livid, but don't worry, not about the Clinton thing.
That's just silly.
I'm mad about the immigration thing, something that actually affects our country.
I just feel like our elected leaders are, I just feel like they hold the illegals in higher regard than the count than our country's own citizens, and that they consider a compromise.
Oh, okay.
I just feel who else are you talking to out there?
Hello.
Who else are you talking to out there?
I'm just talking to you.
Well, then, what did you hear?
Because I didn't say anything.
Oh, I guess I just heard an echo.
I'm sorry.
I just think that they consider it a compromise now to secure our borders, but that's their job.
They should have done that already.
And now that's considered a compromise.
I feel like we're just getting screwed, that we're getting nothing and they're getting everything.
I know.
That's what it seems like to me.
It seems like we're going out of the way to apologize to these people for stigmatizing them as illegals and as aliens and so forth.
Because everybody knows that aliens arrive on spaceships that are holed up at Area 51.
Aliens are people who look like James Carville.
And so I know.
None of it makes sense.
I have asked.
I have asked people.
I can understand the Democrats.
Democrats are running out of victims.
The economy is very prosperous.
It's like Nancy Pelosi.
Once again, ginning up the gouging rhetoric on high gasoline prices.
Do you know the gasoline demand, gasoline consumption has increased 2.14% during the last year?
Gasoline consumption's, what does that mean?
People are driving more than ever.
The people, motorists, drivers, they're not acting like victims in the downtrial.
Oh, we can get a couple calls here from people who are spammers, you know, like we got yesterday from Flint, Michigan.
But most people are taking it in stride.
It's still, gasoline's nowhere near its historical high.
Even when you factor the price today into constant dollars, we're nowhere near the high in terms of its impact on the Family Four's average household budget.
People are driving around.
Yeah, here's Pelosi going on and on and on.
We've got to stop this gouging.
We've got Mrs. Bill Clinton out there claiming she wants to take all the oil company profits.
And by the way, something you need to know, 30% of big oil's profits occur in the United States.
70% occur around the world.
And here's another thing.
You could take, what was Exxon's profit?
What was his reported profit?
What was it under $39.5 billion?
Is that what it was?
You could take their profit and you could give, you could divide it equally by whatever number of Americans there are.
And you might be able to go out and buy five or six gallons of gasoline with it.
If you take away all of their profit, it's not going to matter.
But you start taking away federal and state taxes off of gasoline.
That's who's profiting, folks.
And it's 100% profit because they don't do anything to produce it.
They don't do anything to drill it and find it.
They don't do anything to refine it.
Like we had the story out of Wisconsin last week.
Little gas station owner wanted to lower his price two cents a gallon for seasoned citizens and sports teams boosters.
And the states, you can't do that.
You have to charge 9.2% above your wholesale price.
Well, I never knew that I understand some of the reasons to protect the independents from the big jobbers who would be able to undercut them pricewise.
But still, competition is competition.
The state's denying it.
And so the governor of Wisconsin's running around saying, windfall, profits tax.
Why they're cheating the American people?
It's unfair.
We need a windfall profits tax.
His state determines how much you have to pay above the wholesale price.
Not big oil.
His state determines it.
The world's economy runs on oil.
My point about this, with all this increased driving, people are not victims.
Some people are upset about it, but the Democrats are running out of victims and all of these illegals.
The sooner they can be made citizens and can register to vote, and you don't think the big unions are going to be making moves on them for that, they're going to become Democrats.
That's what the Democrats care about.
The Republicans, I can't figure it out, other than the Chamber of Commerce and the big business lobby likes the cheap labor.
But there are some Republicans who actually believe we're going to convert these new arrivals, these illegals, to Republicanism and to conservatism because they're coming here and they're working hard and they're wanting the best in life and they're going over all of this rot cut.
It isn't going to happen.
We granted 2.7 or 3 million illegals amnesty in 1986 and it didn't turn them into Republicans.
Why do we think this 12 to 15 million is going to become Republican?
It's not going to happen.
Now, the economy is doing so well despite what you hear from the drive-by meeting of the Democrats.
This economy is roaring.
I know you think it might not be.
You're wringing your hands in angst and worried about, oh, look at the housing bubble and look at the price of gasoline and look at the price of foods and go, oh, how can you say the economies?
You compare the way you live today to the way your parents lived.
You compare the way your kids are going to live compared to the way you're living.
Every measure you want to make, the vast majority of them will show that we are roaring and in really, really good times here.
The Democrats are running out of victims and they need more.
Democrats need dependent victims.
And that's what this pool of illegal immigrants represents to them.
Plus, they've got the Hispanic constituencies that are already part of their party that can be bought off.
Plus, these people organize protests.
And what do they protest?
They protest America.
They protest our politics.
Democrats love that.
I mean, this group of people's made the order for them.
But back to this gasoline business for a minute.
The world's economy runs on oil.
The primary supplier of oil to the world, not us, but the primary supplier of oil to the world is Middle East, the Middle East.
And that is as volatile right now as nitroglycerin.
It could blow up at any time.
Plus, you got Hugo Chavez, and who knows what he's going to do day to day, but he's busy nationalizing all the oil that Venezuela has.
So he's going to be able to use it for blackmail.
In the meantime, we keep hearing about alternative fuels, alternative fuels.
In the real world, there aren't any blue sky alternatives out there.
This is a world that runs on oil, and it's going to be that way for a long time.
And it's the Democrats that won't allow any more drilling.
It's the Democrats that won't allow any more refineries in this country.
They're the ones that will not allow more available alternative or alternate energy, i.e. nuclear.
And they're the ones complaining about rising prices.
If you want to know why gasoline and fuel prices are rising, you need only look at the Democrat Party to find out why, because that's where you will find your answer.
Brief timeout, back right after this.
People want to know the name of the woman I was with last night.
Folks, none of your business, but there's a way you could get it.
You could probably call Bill Clinton's office and see if they have her name and phone number.
He might have gotten it last night.
I don't know.
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