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One more thing here on illegal immigration.
The New York Times has this today.
After aiding the bill on immigration, employers are now balking.
Big business is balking at this.
And by the way, the business community, some employers are the ones who helped shape this phone.
They love the cheap labor.
That's the Republican side of this politically.
And it just is, whether it makes sense to you or not.
That's why many Republicans, some, have supported this.
But some of these employers, some of these big business types said yesterday they're unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.
In addition, labor shortages, if there are labor shortages, it means that salaries ought to be skyrocketing.
Labor shortages this is one of the most bogus excuses i've heard, yet.
Not labor shortages, cheap labor shortages.
Cheap labor shortages is what they are talking about.
Everybody knows it's studied economics seriously that labor costs are the largest cost a business has and the more you can keep them down, the better the profitability and higher the profitability.
And of course, if you're a publicly traded company, then you've got stock mark, stock price to worry about with the shareholders.
But in addition to the uh, cheap labor shortage coming up, and employers expressed alarm as they learned that the Senate bill would require them to check a government database to verify that all current and former employees, aliens and citizens alike, were in fact eligible to work in the United States, the Senate begins debating the bill today.
That's sort of half-baked debate.
Supporters had hoped the senators would finish work on it this week, before the Memorial Day recess.
But leading members of Congress said someday the bill would take more time could face significant hurdles.
In fact, the Washington Times has a story today on how few senators actually support this.
Fewer than 20 senators are publicly committed to supporting the immigration deal.
It hits the Senate floor today.
Nearly 40 senators are already opposed or have serious concerns, underscoring how difficult it will be for president Bush and his allies to craft a coalition bill that can get passed.
Senator Specter one of the Republicans who helped craft the deal, by the way, if I hear this one more time, i'm going to blow a gasket.
Well, you know, good compromise makes everybody mad and that means it's good.
Don't fall for that, folks.
That's an old myth, that's an old wives tale that's always accompanied anything controversial.
Well, if it makes everybody mad, it's got to be really, really good, must be on the right track, must be if you, the track record of stuff that's Really, really bad never goes anywhere.
It may be thought to be good, but it never gets passed or very rarely does.
And I don't think this is.
I don't think this thing has a snowballs chance.
By the time this gets over to the House, I mean, you've got a lot of freshmen, congressmen over there who want to get re-elected in November of 08, and they understand full well that they won't be reelected.
Well, look, I don't care what Pelosi would read about it.
Pelosi is not family-friendly enough.
Screw that.
Pelosi, this is just strategic posturing on her part.
That's just to make it look like that the bill's not as radically oriented toward the left as it is.
You get one of the most radical leftists in government opposing it on some basis.
Well, it can't be that bad, Rush, not even Pelosi.
That's just strategic posturing.
And the same thing when Dingy Harry gets on board here.
It's the same thing.
It's like when you know a piece of legislation is going to fail, but you need to vote for it to help yourself get re-elected.
Pelosi, you know, she's got the comfort here of being able to rip the bill because it probably isn't going to go very far.
We'll see.
Pressure is going to have to be kept up on it.
The Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, said the immigration bill can't possibly be completed before Memorial Day.
He said that the Senate would need at least two weeks to digest and amend the bill, which he described as a big, complicated piece of legislation.
That's going to drive McCain crazy.
Debate!
There's no debate!
That's actually curriculum politics.
We're not going to have it.
You understand?
If you.
Well, how about that meltdown?
You see McCain talking to Kim Jong-il?
A delay over the Memorial Day weekend, of course, and beyond would give the public an opportunity to weigh the issue while lawmakers are home and would give critics more time to hone their arguments.
Here's Pelosi's comment.
She expressed concern about a central element of the bill under which the government would establish a point system to evaluate would-be immigrants giving more weight to job skills and education and less to family ties.
Now, I love it when I hear liberal Democrats like Pelosi worrying about family values.
Sorry, it just doesn't have a substance to it.
I know they're saying that.
I know that in agriculture, labor shortages, according to news stories, say that fruits and vegetables are rotting.
They can't be harvested.
Well, I know they're saying that.
I look at, well, you tell me.
I was at L.A. over the weekend, and I went to dinner on Saturday night, and we had some vegetables, and they didn't say shortage.
They didn't say, well, the spinach, no, we don't have it.
It's rotting out there because of a labor shortage.
At breakfast, some guys were having fruit.
It seemed to be Boku fruit.
This Southern California.
I haven't seen any shortages.
Have you seen pictures of these veggies and fruits rotting on the vine?
Have you seen pictures?
I haven't either.
All I know is that whenever I want them, I'm able to get them.
You know, and I don't eat fruit.
Can't stand fruit, but I've seen people that order it.
He didn't haven't had any problem with it.
I haven't seen any signs.
A warning, no fruit for breakfast today at Denny's.
There's a labor shortage in the illegal alien ranks, and it's rotting out there.
I haven't seen this.
Pelosi said, no, I don't care what Pelosi said.
She's just anyway, big labor all upset here about the labor shortage.
Plus, they're going to have to go out and do the checking themselves.
This is what they don't want.
They don't want this responsibility.
They don't want it.
So, you know, and We need cheap unskilled labor.
We just do.
America can't.
And folks, I was going to tell you something.
If cheap, unskilled labor is what this country needs to continue to be, the major player in the world that it is, if cheap, unskilled labor is precisely the key to continued prosperity and economic growth and the maintenance of our superpower status, then Mexico ought to be right behind us because they lead the world in it.
Every nation that has cheap unskilled labor ought to be threatening our status as world superpower.
I have never heard anything more absurd.
I have never heard anything more insulting that without cheap labor, we can't survive as we have always known the United States to be.
That's just hey, we got a global warming update coming up next.
Al Gorby singing a ball of fire.
It's all coming up plus your phone calls after this.
By the way, this may be, ladies and gentlemen, why I haven't noticed any rotting fruits and vegetables.
I got a funny email.
A guy said, hey, Rush, I've seen these rotting fruits and vegetables.
I was watching a news this analyst.
We don't know what it was, but I saw some polar bears eating them.
It's so bad for the polar bears, their ice has melted.
Now they got to invade the fruits and vegetable farms to survive because of global warming.
And they're only out there because we got a shortage of cheap labor.
Anyway, tainted apples and toxic mushrooms were among 107 Chinese food imports detained at U.S. ports last month.
It was reported yesterday.
Excuse me, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detained the imports, along with more than 1,000 Chinese shipments of tainted dietary.
What are the Chinese doing?
Now they're poisoning our pets.
Now they're poisoning us.
The FDA found dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical, frozen catfish with...
Oh!
They discovered over there a couple of new fish species they thought died out 65 million years ago.
They haven't evolved.
Wait till you hear this.
The fish that these expert scientists think were us before we climbed out of the primordial soup onto the beaches and assumed our rightful place as the dominant creatures of the planet.
Those fish that had limb-like fins, they found a couple of them.
And they thought they'd been extinct for 65 million years.
They found a couple of them.
And they have not involved.
I got the details coming up.
China for years has flooded the U.S. with products unfit for human consumption, and only a fraction of the products are believed to have been detected.
Said the, I guess this is the Washington Post.
Consumer advocates and members of Congress are to renew their concerns during high-level trade talks with China in Washington this week.
Yeah, you know what's going to come out of that.
Zilch Zeronada.
If we need cheap labor, we need cheap food.
Hell of it's contaminated.
No, it's not that bad.
I'm just kidding.
Some of this stuff, my tolerance today, folks, for stupidity is very, very low.
I don't feel like suffering fools.
It all started when I was watching the Today Show today, watch it put forth some expert on how to eat less.
And I'm thinking, good Lord, and there are probably people out there taking notes.
How to eat less.
Yes.
It may be difficult, but I think we all know how.
Anyway, there's a column here.
I don't know who this is.
V.B. Price.
This is in the Albuquerque Tribune.
Why is giving women equality such a threat to George Will and Rush Limbaugh?
Well, just I'll tell you where he gets this in just a second as I read relevant excerpts from this piece.
If you said to somebody like columnist George Will or radio personality Rush Limbaugh, you must really hate women if you feel that negatively about feminism, they'd deny it to their dying breaths.
But Will doesn't think women's rights are important enough for a constitutional amendment, nor does he think that such an amendment would do much good anyway.
And Will is right.
We're sort of the Equal Rights Amendment.
And what mature person thinks the Constitution should be cluttered up with consciousness-raising pieties or affirmations on the theory that by some mysterious causality, the social climate will be improved, Will asked in a recent column.
Let's get to me.
I wonder if George Will, often the conservative's most rational commentator, would see himself as belonging in the same general category of moronic women haters as Rush Limbaugh.
On a recent radio diatribe, Limbaugh gives mouth to the core brutality and idiocy of women hating in certain circles of far-right America.
Limbaugh blasts feminists while grousing and lamenting how hard it is for him to find a good old-fashioned gal anymore to cook and clean and genuflect for him.
I have never done that.
Those women are not hard to find.
Trust me.
But I have a staff that does all that.
Which I have not hidden.
That fact, I've not hidden.
Well, we're talking about the accuracy of Mr. V.B. Price.
Snirdlinson is no, you didn't say that.
Yes, I did.
Limbaugh blasts.
I blast feminists because they're liberals.
Feminism is liberal.
It screwed women up as I was coming of age in the early 20s.
It made a mess out of women, made a mess out of men.
Didn't know what they were supposed to do.
It changed naturally defined roles and behaviors.
And basically, they were trying to change human nature, which they can't do.
It seems impossible to understand why women are such a fearful danger to George Will and Rush Limbaugh, but such opinions never seem to go away.
Getting rid of them is as tedious and nasty as trying to scrape dog dew off the bottom of your shoes.
So George Will and I are dog dew to V.B. Price at the Albuquerque Tribune.
I have never, ever.
Those women are not hard to find.
Trust me, folks.
That's not the problem with feminism.
Wait, I'll find it first.
I had it here.
Now what happened?
There it is.
Let's go ahead.
Trumpet fanfare.
It update time, and it's time for Al Gore.
This is Ball of Fire.
It's sung by white Impressionist Paul Shanklin.
Let her rip out there, Al Gore.
Rev it up for us one more time.
That's Al Gore, Ball of Fire, as sung by white Impressionist and satirist Paul Shanklin.
Do you see the story out of Canada?
This kid has finally gone public.
He's been forced to watch An Inconvenient Truth four times in school.
He's a high school student.
High school student.
Why am I having to watch this four times?
They've had to watch the movie four times.
It's happening all over the northern hemisphere.
Propagandizing kids.
Experts predict scorching summer.
Now, I know some people are going to read this.
This in USA Today.
Oh, no, bad.
Folks, ever since I can remember, it has been hot as hell in the summertime.
It's why it's called summertime.
I can remember playing Little League Baseball, Baybrook League Baseball, hot as hell in southeast Missouri.
It's a swamp in the summertime.
High humidity.
Worse than it is in parts of Florida.
It's always been.
People, when I was a kid, people, it seems like the earth's getting closer to the sun.
This is something.
It's always been hot in the summer.
Experts predict scorching summer as the Memorial Day weekend beckons.
It's another thing for you to be fretting over in panic and maybe even in fear of.
Federal climate scientists predict drought will intensify in much of the West this summer and persist in the fire-scorched southeast despite recent rain.
They do get one thing right here.
Lightning sparks 70% of the wildfires in the West.
Also, tomorrow, big, big day for the drive-bys, the National Hurricane Center will announce its hurricane forecast.
Other forecasts envision more storms than normal.
The climate center says that tropical storms can break droughts quickly, but cautions that is unlikely in the southeast because rainfall deficits exceed one foot in many areas.
Now, we are in the southeast.
And finally, global warming debunked.
Climate change will be considered a joke in five years' time, according to meteorologist Augie Auer, who made the claim at the annual meeting of the Mid-Canterbury Federated Farmers Association in Ashburton this week.
It's in New Zealand.
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he said.
We're all going to survive this.
It's all going to be a joke in five years.
A combination of misreported, misinterpreted, misguided science, media hype, political spin.
He says it created the current hysteria, and it was time to put a stop to it.
It's time to attack the myth of global warming.
Now, Augie's in New Zealand.
He obviously doesn't know that I've been doing that for about 15 years, but we welcome him now to the movement.
Four times this kid has had to watch An Inconvenient Truth.
By the way, trouble with, do you know, I didn't know this until today.
They named some rabbits some bunnies after Hugh Hefner way back some time ago, and they're in Florida in Big Pine Key.
And the population of the Hefner rabbit, the Hef bunny, is down dwindled by about 50% the past two years.
You know who's wiping them out?
Pussycats.
And we're back.
The cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Snerdley shared with me an interesting point of view that he has on NBC's Hatchet Job piece today on Barack the Magic Negro on the Today Show.
And I've got the piece.
I don't even feel like playing it.
You know, it is so bad.
I think you're right.
The more I think about it, I think they did this in a perfunctory way, and I think they want me to start railing against them because the Today Show's numbers are in the tank.
I got the numbers here.
For the week of May 7th, total viewers.
Now, keep in mind, for the week of May 7th, I know these are daily numbers.
We have today's show, 5,530,000 viewers.
Our average quarter hour here is about 5.2 million views.
Oh, listeners.
Which the way formulas and radio workouts are 20 to 22 million people unduplicated during a week.
During a three-hour program, we figured 12 million people tune in and out of this program during any of the three hours.
ABC is at 4.8 million, almost 4.9, CBS at 2.6.
And the demo, they lead by about 500,000 demo 2554.
But these are some of the worst ratings in over a decade for the Today Show.
And Snerdley's point was, you know, they saw this little dust up that you had with that CBS affiliate out there in Sacramento, and they saw how many website hits that little station got and all the publicity it got.
I think they're trying to get you to give them a bump.
Because there's no news value in this thing, and they didn't present it with any news.
It had no place.
There was nothing to peg the story to, nothing to peg their little piece on Barack the Magic.
A two and a half-month-old story.
And nobody's talking about it other than these Democrat front group websites.
So that's why I'm thinking about not playing.
In the meantime, while all that was going on, as of course, on national public radio, Koki Roberts is out there saying, well, she's quoting Democrats on the immigration bill, Republicans on the immigration bill, and Rush Limbaugh on the immigration bill.
On Saturday, Fox News channels Fox News Watch.
This is their media analyst show, the host Eric Burns, guest commentators Jane Hall of the American University Cal Thomas, and they're discussing the new immigration bill.
The first voice you hear will be Jane Hall.
Rush Limbaugh is already saying this is going to kill the Republican Party.
This is going to bring in people who are going to overwhelm our schools.
The way it's framed, if you call it amnesty, that sounds like forgiveness for bad behavior.
If you call it earned citizenship, that's another thing.
Framing is key, I think, to how people feel about it.
Framing is key in follow-up and how the media treat the follow-up.
After the 86 immigration bill, there was no secure identifier.
There's something like that, apparently, in this bill.
And if it clears the House with something that it has relatively similar to the Senate, then I think it might be all right.
But Jane is right.
The key is talk radio, Limbaugh and some of the others, and whether this is going to be amnesty or not.
There's no weather about it.
You know, if you have to start framing it, then it means you're massaging it.
It means you're spinning it.
You don't want it to be called something that it is.
It's amnesty.
Anyway, this is being discussed on this is Saturday night.
Here's more from this.
Eric Burns, the host, says, well, when you say the key is talk radio, are you seriously giving talk radio one segment of the media so much authority it will determine the outcome of this?
Well, as far as conservatives and Republicans are concerned, Rush Limbaugh said on his program on Thursday or Wednesday that if the Republicans go along with what is perceived to be amnesty, they're finished in the next election.
That's pretty strong.
Right.
Does that mean that Republicans in Congress go along?
Oh, I think the Republicans in Congress understand that Rush Limbaugh made them what they were back in 1993 and 1994.
So if Limbaugh and these people stay against it, look, I mean, just to play politics here for second post-media coverage, Nancy Pelosi says she won't move the bill forward unless she gets 70 Republican votes out of the Republican conference.
If talk radio can push that number below 70, then one would presume this deal is dead.
Now, why would Pelosi not move it forward without 70 Republican votes?
It doesn't want to be attached to this.
She wants the result, but she wants this clearly pinned to the White House.
She wants this to appear to me.
That's why she loves McCain up there trying to hog a little FaceTime on camera with Senator Kennedy.
They know this is going to give them what they want.
It's going to be bad news for the country as it's currently structured, but they're trying to tear that down and rebuild the country in their own liberal socialist image.
And this bill is key to that.
So she cared.
Why does she care how many Republicans?
If she can get the thing to pass, if she can get it to pass with five Republicans, why not?
Why not take it?
If the legislation's good, no, seriously, folks, if the legislation's good, who cares?
If it's the right thing to do, if it's the best deal we can get at the time, if we miss this chance, we may blow it for all these clichés.
And she's going to hold out.
She won't move it forward without 70 Republican votes.
This ain't about the bill, then.
It's not about the last chance.
It ain't about the best bill we can get.
It isn't about all these other clichés that we're hearing about.
This is about cover.
This is about political cover.
And this is a fascinating story.
This also from USA Today.
The headline alone says it all.
Feds watching anti-immigrant extremists.
Well, you people out there in the feds have better keep a sharp eye because I have a feeling these groups are about to quadruple in number in the next week or so.
Carl Wynn Jr., who last fall posed as a U.S. border agent and wrongly suggested that a Little Rock construction company had hired illegal immigrants, has come to symbolize how the divisive immigration debate can progress from legal expressions of opposition to offensive action.
Wynne, also accused of attempting to sabotage the same company by planting tire-ripping spikes outside the business, has quickly come to represent a troubling development within the radical ranks of the anti-immigration movement.
So what's happening now is that those of you who are anti-this bill, by the way, there's no anti-immigration movement that I know of.
There's an anti-illegal immigration movement that I know of, and there's an anti-this bill to deal with it movement that I know of, but there's no anti-immigration movement to speak of.
So they've got one kook here, one looney tune, who now comes to represent the Timothy McVeigh of the illegal immigrant movement or the anti-illegal immigrant movement.
Go out and find one kook.
And the Fed Fed, this is who the feds are worried about.
Got to get those anti-immigrant extremists.
Forget the illegals.
We've got to get the anti-immigrant extremists.
At any rate, you see how this is shaping up.
Here is Janet.
Janet's been on the phone for a while holding, I appreciate it.
Northport, Florida, and you're next.
Welcome.
Yes, Rush.
My worry continues to be those Arkansas grifters getting back in the White House.
And I know you said, when it comes time to panic, you'll tell us.
So I trust you in that.
In April.
It's time to panic.
As we sit here today, there's an 80% chance that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States.
Well, if that's the case, we are in trouble.
Well, we've got a lot going on out there.
It's time to panic.
And by panic, I mean, you know, don't take anything for granted out there.
Well, I'm concerned.
In April, I was doing some research on this immigration thing.
And in April, Mrs. Bill Clinton hired, I think Rawl Zaguera.
He's the longtime president of that radical, anti-American illegal immigration group, La Raza.
You know what that stands for, by the way?
Do you know Spanish?
No, I don't.
It's the race.
The race.
Okay, I have.
Yeah, that's right.
La Raza.
Okay.
Well, he.
We're not talking about the gumball rally here.
Well, she's hired him to co-chair her national campaign and then also to head her Hispanic outreach program.
So this is the group that had total veto power over this bill last week.
And they're the ones, this is La Raza and their other organizations under them.
They want to reclaim the Western United States.
And they want total rights for illegals.
And so if she is to win in 08, will this militant radical racist Zaguera head her immigration department and then he'll be working for Mexico?
But look, La Raza was in the room with the Democrats, and the La Raza representative had veto rights over their ideas in this.
Now, as I asked last week, can you imagine if the Republican senators wanted to meet with big oil and give them veto power over energy legislation?
Can you imagine the fur that would be flying out there over this?
That's exactly what happened.
But look, La Raza is just another of the multiple Democrat constituencies.
You get Big Labor, you have all the different unions in Big Labor, you've got the feminists, you have the Civil Rights Coalition, which is the Reverend Zach and Reverend Sharpton, the Ralph Nies types, people for the American Way.
You've got the racco, wacko environmentalists, and you've got this group, La Raza.
That's not even all of them, but these are the people that make up the coalition that is the Democrat Party.
And that's just another tip-off as to who really benefits from this and who wants it to pass.
They're just, you know, you could call this, as I have, the Comprehensive Destruction of the Republican Party Act of 2007.
You could also call this the Comprehensive Import More Democrats Act of 2007, because that's also what this is.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
We just did the story that the feds are all worried about these anti-illegal immigrant extremists.
Well, they better add some border agents to the list.
The leadership of all 11,000 non-supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents yesterday criticized an immigration compromise by senators and the Bush administration as piecemeal legislation that invites future terrorist attacks and fails to secure the nation's borders.
The National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner said every person who's ever risked their life securing our borders is extremely disheartened to see some of our elected representatives once again waving the white flag on the issues of illegal immigration and border security.
Rewarding criminal behavior has never induced anyone to abide by the law.
And there's no reason to believe the outcome will be any different this time.
These are border patrol agents, non-supervisory guys.
They're on the frontline guys.
So better add them to the list of extremists out there that the feds are going to have to pay attention to.
Richard in San Marino, California.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, good morning from the left coast.
Yes, sir.
I was just out there, but I, unlike you, escaped.
Yes.
Rush, you have talked with Dick Cheney, Tony Snow, had him on the air, and the standard line is we can't deport 12 million people.
But apparently they have a secret plan of some kind where they're going to be able to deport two or three million, which is what Chertoff has been recently quoted as saying will not qualify, even under this plan.
So Tony Snow says they'll have to go home.
What does that mean?
How are they going to do it?
Again, you know, I just, I really do not enjoy having to assume this position.
But my great fear, the thing that concerns me is that that little statement, two to three million aren't going to qualify, are going to have to go home, who's going to make them?
They're going to have to report in.
All these people are going to have to report in, and they're going to have to pay their fines.
There's no enforcement here because there's no incentive to cause the exodus to go the other way.
So I think I just, I don't, I don't, look at the same bureaucracy that couldn't keep track of Fort Dick VI, the same bureaucracy that didn't know Muhammad Atta and his boys were out there taking flying lessons, are somehow going to be able to round up two to three million who won't qualify.
But look, by the time this is passed, we're not going to have a gust to say they don't qualify because it's being judgmental.
Well, it's really not fair.
We're letting nine or ten or whatever the number is stay, and we're singling out.
We are singling out stigmatizing these poor two to three million.
This is not the America I know.
We're not going to tell some that they have to go and some that they can stay.
And so look, if it were that easy to get rid of two or three million, then it shouldn't take very long, a number of years, to get rid of 12.
Richard, thanks for the call out there.
Appreciate it.
Snurdley, wake up.
Where are we going next?
Visalia, California.
Home of the onions.
Dave, nice to have you with us.
He's gone.
I'm glad he's gone.
Wants to talk about Bush owns defeat in Iraq.
He's an idiot.
Why'd you put him up there?
Susan in Baltimore, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
I guess I'm one of those extremists.
I don't know.
But I used to watch your TV program two in the morning.
That's when you came on in Baltimore.
They didn't want us to watch it, you know.
But I had to get up and go to work.
I was always sleepy, but I couldn't go to sleep wondering what I was missing.
And I could have taped it, but then I still was wondering what I was missing.
So I had to get up and watch it.
But I am disappointed with you.
You are talking now about illegal immigration finally.
Don't give me this finally.
Yes, finally.
You don't talk about it that much.
Roger Hitchcock, when he stops in for you, he always talks about LGBTI.
That's where Roger talks.
He talks about it, so we talk about it here.
It happens on the program.
I've talked about it countless times.
Well, not very long.
You don't get it.
Oh, well, look, I don't want to argue about that.
I mean, you ticked at me, and I want to, besides the fact that I'm a late arrival in your opinion of the issue, I'm only the leader on it.
What?
Or else are you ticked at?
Well, many things.
I voted for President Bush twice.
Believe me, I did.
Is that my fault, too?
Yes.
No, I'm only kidding.
I'm only kidding.
But anyway.
That is what you want to say.
I know it's what you want to say.
No, no, no, no.
I'm so worried.
I think we are, you know, I love your sense of humor.
I think you're fantastic.
But at this time, I think our country's at stake.
I mean, the survival of our country.
I'm nervous, though.
I may not be.
Wait a minute.
What's my sense of humor got to do with the country?
But you think I'm having too many laughs here?
Well, I think we should be talking seriously about this, what's going to happen.
And you did that.
Were you listening here Thursday?
Yes, I am.
Yes.
I mean, that was pretty down the middle of the road serious as it could be.
And so it has been today.
And I love it that you do this.
Okay, so now when you're getting what you want, you call a complaint.
Well, this first time I could guess what.
The guy in Albuquerque wonders what my problem with women is.
But, Rush.
Now, you laughed at that, so you knew what I meant by it, right?
Well, what it is, Rush, I think our survival is at stake.
And I watched the debates belatedly.
Someone taped it for me, and I watched it.
And I really like Duncan Hunter.
I think he's another Ronald Reagan myself.
Well, that's me, and I'm not running.
Well, you should.
I'm kidding.
Look, I've spent a lot of time today talking about the demographic shift that could result from this and that no assimilation.
There have been a couple people who've written this that I've quoted today, Stephen Warshowski and Sullivan Duke, both at AmericanThinker.com, and they're worried about the exact same thing that you just said.
And I can't disagree more.
You've got this massive, massively large demographic shift.
You're going to change the country forever.
A conservative movement, a viable one, one that has a chance of mobilizing people in sufficient numbers to win elections might become a practical impossibility.
I know.
This is what frightens me.
I mean, I cannot vote for the Marxist Democratic Party, and I feel that's what they are.
Well, look, I just want to tell you something.
None of this is going to happen before 2008.
Elections matter.
Now, you and a lot of others are sitting out there thinking there's nothing we can do.
You're just one person.
You feel a little powerless.
But this bill, as it's currently crafted, doesn't have a snowball's chance.
Mitch McConnell says we can't get this done before Memorial Day, and he wants to, well, he should.
I hope he says something about making this part of the presidential debate.
That's where this debate really needs to happen.
But this can be headed off at the possibility.
All right, a quick question.
Why is it okay for agriculture and other businesses to have cheap labor?
But if Walmart tries it, they get targeted and they are targeted for punishment, raising wages and health care benefits.