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May 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to sizzle?
Boy, is it hot out there.
And I am not talking about the weather.
Greetings, my friends, Rush Limboy here, wrapping up a great week of broadcast excellence.
That means it's Friday.
Live from New York City.
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That's right, my friends.
We are here on top the uh EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, wrapping up a uh an eventful week in uh multiple ways.
And what better way to wrap it up than open line Friday?
And uh I can pretty much guess uh Mr. Snerdley, what you're gonna be getting out there on the uh on the telephones today.
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I mean, this program is constantly experiencing new tune-in factor.
That's what we in uh real radio call it uh when new people arrive, a new tune-in factor.
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I run the show as a benevolent dictator uh Monday through Thursday.
There's no first amendment here for anybody except me.
Uh but on Friday, I take one of the greatest career risks anyone's ever taken at this level of big media, turning over the content portion of the program to you, not highly trained broadcast specialists, as am I. And if you want to talk about something I'm uninterested in, you have the right.
I grant that right.
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Uh and I will fake it.
Uh, if if I don't care, I will fake as though I do.
Well, I might.
Uh, but it's always fun.
We always look forward to it.
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Illegal immigration.
Uh lots lots to say about this today, but I don't want to I don't want to go overboard on it.
This thing is 700 plus pages.
It hasn't been ready.
One one of the things that that uh uh I think is crucial here, this is not gonna go to the Senate floor for debate, and not gonna be much of that either, until Monday.
So from now through the weekend and all through the Sunday shows, uh, we're gonna be hearing about a piece of legislation that hardly anybody has ever seen, yet they're going to be talking about it as though they are experts, and though it's etched in stone.
There are walls of opposition that are being built on all sides to this.
And frankly, some of the most irritating uh things there's a big story in the New York Post today, there's a story in the Los Angeles Times, the illegals.
They've gone out and they've when you want to find an illegal to interview them, somehow you can.
Uh and they pop up and they'll give you their names and so forth.
And they're telling people it now, I'm happy with this.
Now, yesterday and the day before, one of the points I made about this whole thing is it doesn't make sense to me.
We're acting like we're the lawbreakers.
And we're acting like we owe them something because we're mistreating them.
We're acting like we're the criminals here.
And they have taken the bait.
They can't blame them.
I mean, they're being promised a brand new giant welfare state paid by the rest of us, and they're out there uh saying, Well, I don't like this.
I don't like having to go home.
I don't like having to go back to.
I don't know, sure I want to pay these fines.
Don't worry, you're not gonna have to go home, and you're not gonna pay any fines.
This is not gonna happen.
Once this bill passes, it'll be talking about how if you have to go home, it'll split up families.
We can't split up families and a and of course you can't you can't pay the fine because the the libs will say that well, we're we're we're taking we're taking food out of the mouths of poor children by making their parents pay these ridiculous fines, even though it's in the uh it's in the legislation.
You might wonder why the Republicans doing this.
I'm gonna get into this in great detail as the program unfolds.
There are different reasons for different Republicans, depends on who you're talking about.
Uh but primarily, you know, I once told you that you could legalize rape in this country if you simply called it the Civil Rights Act of 2007, because nobody on Capitol Hill's got the guts to vote against anything that claims to be broadening or uh creating civil rights.
It's code word.
And the and and the uh what what's happening here is that the proponents of this are and they it's not new.
They've actually been laying the groundwork for this.
If you oppose this way, you're a racist.
You're cold hearted, you're cruel, you're mean-spirited.
You don't like people of color.
And of course, you start telling an elected official that he's a racist and a bigot, uh, and uh an anti-Hispanic or whatever.
He's gonna turn on a dime because the last thing in the world he wants or she wants is to have that said about them to show up in a campaign ad the next time they come up for re-election.
Then you've got people like Senator McCain, who said we've got the let's see.
Uh Greg, grab, grab uh not forget it.
I don't, I'm not having time to look at the whole thing.
I'm gonna just read this, see what have I got very quickly here with McCain.
I'm gonna read it.
McCain said we can and must complete this legislation sooner rather than later.
We all know that this issue can be caught up in extracurricular politics unless we move forward as quickly as possible.
Now that is unbridled unknown arrogance.
Can I define a term for you here?
When he says we all know that this issue can be caught up in extracurricular politics.
That means you, you can stop this.
The American people, you start debating this, you are extracurricular politics.
What that means is we in the Senate, we in this exclusive club, we are not going to listen to you.
We don't care what you think about this.
You are extracurricular politics.
We gotta move forward as quickly as possible before you people find out what's in this bill and get really mad and stop it.
It's too important.
And Senator Kennedy's saying the same thing.
Here's Kennedy.
Grab grab audio soundbite number five and not number four.
Here's Senator Kennedy yesterday.
Members of the Senate held a news conference out there.
We must strike where the iron is hot.
I've been around here long enough to know that opportunities like this don't come very often.
The American people are demanding a solution.
They are not.
Senator Reed has made this a priority.
Senators from both parties are now determined to solve this crisis.
Politics is the art of the possible.
And the agreement we just reached is the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders, bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America.
All you gotta do is send journalists to where they live and they'll come out of the shadows.
You don't have to give them free access to our hammocks and our welfare states.
But here you have it.
We must strike while the iron is hot.
I've been around here a long time.
He's right.
He's been there 47 years.
It is too long, folks.
These people are dinosaurs of Senate's becoming Jurassic Park.
The American people are demanding a solution.
Yes, but not yours.
The President's committed.
Yes.
I'll tell you why in a moment.
Senator Reed has made this a priority.
Oh, by the Dingy Harry and Nancy Plosi are also in the crowd saying, Well, I'm not sure we like this.
And that's just strategic maneuvering.
The reason they're doing this, they they they want the opponents of they they want the bill to appear to be moderate.
Uh and with Senator Kennedy involved, of course it's moderate.
So they're out there objecting to it.
Say, ah, there are provisions in here I don't like here.
And they're just trying to toughen it up.
They're trying to make it even more unwieldy.
Uh but it's a strategic maneuver.
They love this.
It's gonna have some problems in the House if it gets out of the Senate uh in its current form.
But here's Ted Kennedy on immigration.
Let me give you some quotes from Senator Kennedy.
1965.
1965.
Let's do the math here.
35 plus uh seven.
That's a 42 years ago.
Forty-two years ago.
You coming in to watch a show, Eddie, because it's hot today?
I knew it.
All right.
Senator Kennedy, 1965, the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants.
It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.
It will not relax the standards of admission.
It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.
This is immigration bill in 65.
It did exactly that.
1986.
Simpson Mazzoli.
This amnesty will give citizens uh citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens.
We'll secure the borders henceforth.
We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.
That's Senator Kennedy, 1986.
Senator Kennedy yesterday, now is the time for action.
2007's the year we must fix our broken system.
Let me tell the dirty little secret.
This is exactly what Ted Kennedy wanted in 65 to happen.
It's what he wanted to happen in 86.
He knew it was going to happen.
All this a bunch of BS.
He's very excited that this is happening now.
These are future Democrat voters, but it's a it's an opportunity.
They need new victims.
With new victims, they get to create and expand the welfare system paid for by all of us.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue with all the rest of the program, which I know you can't wait for right after this.
Yes, I did go to dinner last night, but nothing happened.
Fidel Castro didn't show up, it was entirely uneventful.
It was quiet.
Nothing happened.
I don't think anybody cared I was there.
It was it was bliss.
It was actual bliss.
Welcome back, folks.
L. Rushbow here.
We're discussing the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act today, also known as the comprehensive.
It just it's well it if they vote for it, but if you just let me finish my thoughts, Mr. Snurdley, I'll explain all this.
It's the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act, and the Republicans are too idiotic to figure out that that's what this is.
What the Liberals are trying to do is tear this country down institution by institution and rebuild it in their image.
And this is one of the steps that they're trying to do this.
Now, this bill, if it comes out of the Senate in its current form, and it's highly doubtful that it will, because we're going to turn this into the next do by ports deal, folks.
Get ready to get mobilized here.
If it comes out in this present form, goes over to the House, they got a whole bunch of House freshmen in there that are not going to vote for this because they want to get re-elected.
This the opposition to this crosses party lines.
There are Democrats in California and Arizona and Texas and Virginia.
And for look at we lose, we lose, we've lost California.
It used to be a Republican state.
We've lost it.
It's gone.
We don't even compete there, do we?
When we elect a Republican governor, looks what he has to do to stay in office.
Become one of them.
If we lose Virginia, and we're if we lose Florida, folks, it's over.
I'm talking about electorally here.
And this is this is very, very serious stuff.
These these Democrats will get hurt.
Some of them will, Mr. Snurdley, particularly the freshmen in the House.
The Senate Democrats, the Democrats would love for the Republicans to be the ones seen as passing this bill.
They would love two things to happen.
The bill gets passed.
You know, one of the one of the provisions in this is scary.
It allows family members to come on in.
And by the way, don't believe this business.
They gotta go back home, come back, get in line and so forth.
The minute this bill passes, if whatever form, the minute the president puts signature on it, they are legal.
And that is something everybody's missing.
They are legal without having to leave the country or go home or come back and do anything.
And the uh the the fact of the matter is that the Democrats would love for this thing to get passed, create their new welfare state, and then the anger in the country over it be directed at the Republicans.
And the key to this is there's a Republican president that's gonna sign it.
So if you don't think the Democrats can shift the uh credit for this, they're all they're focused on the end result here.
Let me share a couple things here with the uh out of the news.
Los Angeles Times, illegal immigrants, skeptical about overhaul, but who cares?
You know, who else can we confer a legal status on?
Let's how about bank robbers?
I just saw a guy, a guy held up a bank somewhere.
Well, why are we trying to do this?
We're stigmatizing these people.
Who else are we going to find in our society breaking our laws that we feel guilty about, and we're gonna confer legal status on them and get rid of the the stick?
Al Qaeda.
Very good uh answer, HR.
Let's let's let's uh let's confer legal status in Al Qaeda.
And by the way, I have to ask, you know, we've got uh clump gitmo.
We have terrorists in Al-Qaeda and and they're gonna get released at some point.
Bring them in.
They're just seeking a better life in their terms, uh in their own way.
Uh are they gonna get uh uh immediate access and status and their family, but this family business, these people are gonna bring in their families.
We're not talking 12 million.
We're we're we're talking 48 million.
And if you think that's not gonna happen, the bill provides for it.
If you think it's not gonna happen, wait till you hear the Senator Kennedys and even some on our side caterwalling about how we're splitting up families.
They're already doing that.
We gotta let these people in.
We can't we can't charge these fines.
Why, that's taking food out of the mouths of hungry babies.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So we're looking at a profound demographic shift in the makeup of the population of the country.
And that's another one of the things.
Getting some attention.
But there's so much in this.
I went to a website, went to the Library of Congress website where they looked at the bill.
I didn't even have time to print out the text of the bill, just the headers.
It's massive.
It's over 700 pages this.
There's nobody that's read the whole thing.
Anyway, LA Times has a story with the illegal immigrants skeptical about the overhaul bill.
And of course, what I said yesterday has given life in quotes today.
Well, you know, those fines are a lot of money.
I really I have to leave and go home.
I don't like that provision.
I I don't want to have to leave and go home.
And I I don't want to pay that fine.
That that's a lot of money.
I mean, being a single mother with three kids, that would be very hard on me.
Oh, well, we're sorry.
We'll rescind the fine.
And you know, we won't make you go home.
Why?
That's just going to cost somebody some transportation.
Ah, you can see how this is going to shape up.
But we sit here.
We're on the defensive.
We're acting like we've committed the crime here.
And we owe these people an apology.
Uh legally the program isn't going to work, said uh said uh to who some uh uh well I don't know.
Not gonna work.
We need amnesty for everybody without requirements, another ill illegal immigrant saying this.
Uh amnesty without requirements.
Then in the uh uh LA Times immigration bill faces a wall of opposition.
Bill Nelson of Florida wants legal immigration fixed before amnesty.
Charles Grassley doesn't want info sharing, you know, that's Patriot Act times 10.
He doesn't want violation of civil rights.
There's opposition from both sides in this story.
Uh and here in uh the New York Times in a story by Robert Pearr and our old buddy Jim Rutenberg, uh John Sweeney, president of the AFL CIO, denounced the bill from a different angle.
He said it would create a massive guest worker program.
All workers will suffer because employers will have available a ready pool of labor they can exploit to drive down wages, benefits, health and safety protections, and other workplace standards.
Uh Byron Dorgan, Senator Helmuthead uh from North Dakota said he would offer an amendment to eliminate the guest worker program uh from the bill.
Uh so there's there's opposition out there.
Some of the opposition on the part of Democrats is clearly strategic posturing.
Hugh Hewitt on his blog today at Townhall.com said something there's really, really good, and I want to share this with you.
He wrote GOP leader McConnell has got to recognize this spreading disaster, call a very public halt to it, and do so with transparency, something along the lines of saying this.
Well, we tried, but it's clear that our party is opposed to the only bill the Democrats would allow to get to the floor, so it's shelved until after 2008.
The presidential candidates will have to debate it, as will our respective parties.
But the GOP is for border security first.
That's what he would like McConnell to say.
And that's, by the way, make this a debate issue for the presidential campaign.
Absolutely right.
Why ram this thing down everybody's throats?
Because it can't stand that kind of scrutiny, that's why.
The reason that it's not being debated, the reason they've do you realize no Senate, no common Senate procedure was followed in putting this together.
They always have oversight hearings.
They have witnesses come in to discuss the impact of this element of the legislation.
None of that, none of the usual stuff that goes into this boiling cauldron of garbage that produces legislation happened here.
They compromise occurred behind closed doors between uh members of the Republican Party and this in a in a and then the Democrat Party of the Senate, and they come out.
We've got a bill.
That's not how it happens.
They went, it's not illegal, but it is this is just not normal Senate procedure.
Uh and and Hewitt's point here is right on the money.
And McConnell can do this.
McConnell can kill.
He's got all kinds of procedural uh options at his disposal.
And to say, look, our party isn't like this, and uh uh this is the only bill, the only bill the Democrats are gonna allow to get to the Senate floor.
Well, we're gonna put this off until 2008.
We need this to be part of the presidential debate.
Excellent, excellent point.
So when you boil it all down here, we're looking at a total sellout.
The comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
It's um you know what?
Uh citizenship is not the issue here.
Uh, this is this is uh another thing.
It, you know, they there's so many terms that the supporters of this are using to try to capture your heart and to uh wrest control of your emotions.
Uh this is not about citizenship.
Citizenship, say it's about citizenship is a diversion.
All of these people will become legal the moment Bush signs the bill.
Whether they become citizens or not, they become legal.
Therefore, and the courts have ruled.
We gotta educate the children of illegals in some states.
We have to educate the children of legal immigrants, even if they're not citizens, we have to pay their health care.
Hello, new welfare state sanctioned simply by the signature on the bill.
Don't get caught up in in citizenship.
Get caught up in the word illegal and what that will mean legally and financially.
You have no idea how much that scares certain people.
The truth.
You need courage to deal with the truth if you are going to listen to this program, because if you don't, and you're gonna hear the truth, it'll go it'll you'll make you bad if you turn into Michael Moore.
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I want to make this point again.
The citizenship is not the uh the issue here, that's a diversion.
When the president signs this immigration bill for it happens, all this is down the road, all of these illegals become legal, and that's the key.
When they become legal, they are conferred with rights and benefits.
Those those rights and benefits are immediately conferred upon them.
They are here legally, they cannot be deported.
They can work wherever they want, they can live wherever they want, they receive the same due process rights as the rest of us.
Uh this is the this is the big lie in the in in the bill, where they tell us all the measures an illegal has to take to become a citizen, they have to pay $5,000, have to go home, come back, and so forth, they become legal immediately.
All of that is just it's it's window dressing to make you think there's going to be some sort of effort made on these people's part for this to happen, but it's not.
Once they become legal, citizenship or no citizenship, then it's over.
They are they are legally entitled to the welfare state, they are legally entitled to the you know, whatever uh uh any any other citizen is entitled to, even though that they're they're not citizens.
Uh Ted Kennedy knows this.
The ethnic groups that had veto do you know that the Democrats had La Raza and other activist organizations in the negotiations with Republican senators to put this bill together?
In other words, they let activist illegal immigration organizations craft the legislation.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine if Dick Cheney, well, now you wouldn't have sent it.
Let's pick a senator, let's say Mitch McConnell, putting together a new energy bill, and in there writing it is big oil.
The CEOs of Exxon Mobil and Shell, wherever.
Can you imagine?
That's exactly what happened here.
So Kennedy knows what's up here.
Uh, the ethnic groups that had veto power.
If they didn't like something that they heard being negotiated, they had the right to veto it in the negotiations between House and Republican senators.
In addition, they plan to allow 400,000 new aliens to come to this country every year who will be on a fast track to legalization.
We are not just talking here about legalizing the 12 million or 15 million or whatever the number is.
We're gonna now add 400,000 more per year on a fast track.
In addition to that number.
And each one of them, the 12 million fifty million who are here, the 400,000 who come each year uh legally can bring certain members of the family with them, on average at least four.
You bring husband, you got wife, you got kids, you got parents.
We are talking tens of millions.
We're talking a profound demographic shift, radical demographic shift uh on this.
And what's this about?
Let's get into the politics of this.
Because it ain't about citizenship, and it isn't about any of these other.
It isn't about compassion.
It isn't about leading the poor, the tired, the worn out, to brighter futures and brighter lights.
The liberals and the Democrats in this country are changing the electorate so they can destroy the Republican Party and guarantee victory for as far as the eye can see.
This is about anybody out there who thinks that these new millions who are coming in here are going to somehow become conservatives when they don't have to.
Why do we have so many people in the welfare state now?
Because it's easier.
Conservatism's hard.
Self-reliance is a tough thing.
When you come into the country that you've always wanted to come into anyway, and the minute you get here, you're legal, and then you have access to all these benefits.
Why and you contrast the value of that compared to your lifestyle from the country that you left.
Why in the world take up this notion of hard work working for yourself independent of all that?
They are going to be wards of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party knows it.
Check out who's behind the sponsorship of this bill.
Check out who had veto power, check out who it are all liberal organizations, check out who runs these protests on illegal immigration, and look at how many people show up.
If you think you're looking at a pool of future Republican conservatives out there, you need to look again.
And this is about getting a brand new election, reshaping it, and being able to win election after election after election.
These are socialist folks.
I'm not talking about the illegals, I'm talking about the liberals.
They are socialists who want a big government and they want a big state, and they want people in need and dependent on that state.
They are running out of victims.
Hence this is part of it.
I'm I assure you that I am I am right about this.
This bill, this piece of legislation assaults virtually every aspect of our belief system.
Let me run down the list here for you.
I wrote some things down.
We are giving benefits and rights to lawbreakers.
That's not conservative.
That's not even American.
We are expanding massively the size of entitlement programs.
Meanwhile, Social Security is on the brink.
Medicare's about to fall apart.
And what are we doing?
We are redistributing wealth to subsidize all the poor people who flow into our country from the third world.
We are leaving border security to another day.
And out of these phony arguments that uh they're beefing up the border.
That's that's just strategic posturing as well.
They haven't built the 700-mile wall.
They're not in a rush to do so.
In fact, they've built like 2.286% of it.
They've been like 2%, almost 3% of the wall are going to stop.
Or maybe 20, built 28%.
I'm sorry, I read the decimal point in the road, but they're 28%.
Uh and and so it's it's this is going to become going to be a huge push down the road to give all these people the vote.
Look how hard they're working.
Even if they don't become citizens, that's the next thing that's going to happen because that's what this is all about.
Yes, these people, they they they must have the right to vote.
They're hard workers.
They are among us.
They are contributing to this country's GDP.
They must have the right to vote on their registr uh on their on their representation.
You can hear it all now.
They work hard.
Get the violins out, folks.
They work hard, they they pay taxes, they contribute to our society.
Why shouldn't they vote?
This is slavery, Ted Kennedy will say.
It's slavery.
Why, it's bigotry.
And it'll all, of course, be blamed on the Republicans.
Republicans are racists and sexists and bigots and don't want these people in the country at all, and then they don't want them voting and all that.
And of course, sadly there'll be some Republican types.
You can name the names, be out there agreeing with them when they when they try to change the definition of terms in these uh in this legislation, like giving them the vote before they become citizens.
Uh and at the at the end of the day here, what we're talking about is the marginalization, if not the destruction of the Republican Party.
And I I look at it's time to be blunt here.
I said I'm gonna stop carrying the water last November and I'm not carrying the water.
I the current crop of Republican leaders has not only lost the Congress, the current crop of Republican leaders is on the way to destroying the base.
Uh if if but by by signing on to this kind of uh of legislation.
People are livid out there.
And actually it crosses the aisle.
Democrats, uh Democrats are too.
Uh the Republican leadership.
We're destroying the movement that Reagan built.
We've got no child left behind.
We've got the McCain Feingold, which was a legitimate, they're legitimized infringement on free speech, the First Amendment.
Massive new farm subsidies, massive new prescription drug program.
We're just growing the government here.
It'll be worse when the Democrats get in charge if you think it's bad now, but all of these virtues, all of these aspects of our belief system are assaulted in in this bill that is coming out of the uh the Senate.
Anyway, I've got to take a quick break.
We'll get some of your phone calls after this.
Uh, because I don't want to say if I keep going, uh, there'll be nothing left for you to say, as I will have said it all.
And it is open wine Friday.
Sit tight, your turn next.
Look, folks, I'm sorry I can't shut up on this.
I I'm gonna I'm gonna get to your phone calls, I uh promise you.
We don't need 700 pages of legislation to make this happen.
Monopoly, Parker Brothers had one card.
One card said, get out of jail free.
Well, let's just confer a card, get into the country legally.
Give them the card.
One page, because everything else in this legislation is meaningless and work.
Well, it's not meaningless and worthless because it is it's it's a it's a piece of legislation that creates brand new government programs, grant brand new bureaucracies.
It just expands this already bloated government beyond its current imaginable size.
We and I'll tell you something else.
Nobody's talking about this, and that's why I'm here, folks, to bring up things that nobody else thinks of.
And I do that well, I do it often.
We have an entire mentality in this country now that discourages assimilation.
Do you notice nobody's talking about assimilation here?
That used to be the point of immigration.
Peep.
Okay, they they have to go these they have to learn English.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
You realize how that's not going to happen.
Don't give me this.
You sound like you're buying into this.
You know, they got to learn English.
Right.
There's no focus on assimilation.
We have an entire mentality in this country that discourages it, in fact.
It's called multiculturalism.
It's called bilingualism.
Uh what what in the world is there what's necessary about assimilating it?
We used to have, and we still do, but it's at risk.
A distinct and unique American culture.
And immigrants wanted to become part, they wanted to become Americans.
They didn't want to become hyphenated Americans.
And they didn't come here and balkanized.
They didn't come here with their, I mean, they they kept speaking in their native tongue, but they learned the language.
They assimilated into society.
There's no discussion of that.
Uh affirmative action is another program that argues against assimilation.
Uh uh, or or is an obstacle to people assimilating it.
We don't even have in our society this desire for this to happen now.
This is all about bringing in workers, guest workers.
It's all about appearing compassionate.
If you're Republican, it's all about not being a racist or a sexist or a bigot or being called that.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
This is, along with the war on terrorism, this is the battle of our time.
Because these two issues, the war on terror, which the Democratic Party has already surrendered, the United States to defeat.
These two issues are going to define America for generations.
This illegal immigration argument and the war on terror.
This is not some sterile policy debate.
Uh what we have to stop.
We're being run here by a bunch of political elites, both parties, apparently, who are undermining the foundation of our country for their own special desires.
Re-election, power, growth of government, who knows what else.
Some of this is so inexplicable to me.
Uh uh I've even come up with theories to explain the inexplicable, what I'll get to it some point on the program.
Uh, the people haven't voted for this.
And the people will not get a chance if the politicians have their way.
Whole thing negotiated in secret.
We don't still have a finished bill to even look at.
In the meantime, the spinners are already out there telling us why this is such a great thing before we can even read it.
They don't have the guts to show it to us.
We're supposed to believe them.
It's such a great thing.
Show it to us.
Show us what's in this thing.
736 some odd pages.
If so great, let's see it.
If it's so great, start singing every detail.
If this bill is so wonderful, put out ads.
You know, have the government printing office in Pueblo, Colorado, wherever the hell it is, print up copies and mail them to every citizen.
It's so wonderful.
Tell us what's in it.
Here's Laura as we uh start on the phones of Parkville, Maryland.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Yeah, my pleasure.
Um my question originally was based on an assumption that um these illegals who will be um signed legal if the bill goes through.
Will there be a registration process?
Will they need to come forward?
And if so, will there be consequences to those who don't come forward?
Well yeah, you these are all great questions.
Uh we've discussed them on earlier busy broadcasts.
Yeah.
Here's the th yes, they have to come forward.
They have to come forward and say, I'm here illegally.
And then they have to uh if if they have to then supposedly go back to their home countries and get back in line, come back in, some of them do.
Uh, and then they have to pay a fine.
What I'm what I'm telling you, uh, Laura, is that none of that's going to happen.
That will after the president signs a bill and this starts being implemented, we're gonna hear a bunch of things.
That's too arduous.
I mean, we can't we can't deport 12 million.
How do we expect 12 million to go back home?
We can't do this.
The fines are too repressive.
We're taking food out of the mouths of starving babies.
Uh all of this, but your your questions, you know, what if they don't do it?
Doesn't matter.
Won't they need documentation then?
Legal documents saying that they are legal, or it doesn't matter.
Yeah, it's called the Z visa.
Stands for zero.
You gotta do nothing to get it.
Absolutely.
Well, will they Will they have to pay taxes?
Will everybody know?
No, absolutely they have to pay taxes.
Now, probably the first thing the Democrats will do is take them to massive voter registration uh place.
I'm joking about that.
But there aren't any enforcement.
There is no incentive on enfor when you when the when the purpose of the bill is to grant permanent or guest worker status, let's call it's amnesty.
The purpose of the bill is to grant amnesty to twelve million people.
Where why enforce it?
What what is there to enforce?
Once they're legal and they're legal with the president's signature.
They're legal.
What whether they have documents or not?
If they got a document that says, hi, I'm here illegally.
Not anymore.
President just signed the bill.
This is what everybody's misunderstanding.
It's not about citizenship, it's not about going out and getting documentation, green cards.
Once the president signs a bill, they're legal.
Anyway, Laura, I can tell you're worried about it.
You should be.
Here's Harry in Washington, D.C. Harry, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, Megaddo's from Washington.
I actually work on Capitol Hill, and I just want to thank you for all the work you do to promote conservative principles.
We are getting absolutely flooded today with people all across the country who are very upset with the Senate immigration bill.
And I have a feeling it's a lot of your listeners.
Um are they identifying themselves by party?
No, they are not, Rush.
Most of them uh are from the uh districts they live in, but they're not identifying themselves by party.
I don't think Americans really care about party affiliation on this.
I that's what I think too.
I I think this this issue, like to do by ports deal crosses the spectrum.
I think there's many Democrats as Democrats are having their lives affected by this too.
California, Arizona, Mexico, Virginia, Florida, everywhere you go.
So, well, it is it is it obviously free.
If you're calling to tell us about the heavy volume of phone calls, it must be much more than normal.
It is much more than normal.
What impact is it having on the like you're a congressional guy?
What impact is it having on on uh your congressman or and I don't know if you have work I'm assuming that since you said you work on capital, maybe maybe you're what impact's it having on elected officials?
Well, I know a lot of times when people call, they don't think it has much impact, but when it comes from people who are taking their own initiative to call, and it's not from an organization, it makes a huge difference.
It gets everyone's attention and it affects public policy.
Well, you tell people up there that there may be other people giving out the phone number up there, but I don't.
And people are if they're calling on their own, which is happening, I am certain of it.
Um the country is being heard from.
I'm glad you called, Harry.
Thanks so much.
You'll be back right after this.
Smooth Operator, that's me.
This is Sade singing the two.
Well, she won't sing it.
We just played the music of the bump rotation.
Uh, time for me to take a much-deserved uh break, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
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