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May 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings to your thrill seekers, music lovers all across the fruited plan, Rush Limboss sizzling here at the EIB Southern Command.
And we are in charge of the thermostat here, ladies and gentlemen.
Turning up the heat.
Great to have you along with us.
The telephone number is 800 282-2882, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
One more thing here on the 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 folks.
They love the cheap labor.
That's the Republican side of this politically.
That just is.
Whether it makes sense to you or not, that's 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 that 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 publicly traded company, then you've got stock market stock price to worry about with the shareholders.
But in addition to the uh cheap labor shortage coming up, 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.
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 coalition bill that can uh get passed.
Senator Spector, one of the Republicans who helped craft the deal.
By the way, if I hear this one more time, I'm gonna 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.
If you the track record of stuff that's really, really bad never goes anywhere.
May it may be thought to be good, but it never gets passed, or very rarely does, and I don't think this is.
I I I don't think this thing has a snowball's chance.
By the time this gets over to the House, I mean, you've got 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 um that they won't be re-elected.
Well, look at I don't care what Pelosi'd 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 that uh the bill's not as radically oriented toward the left as it is.
You get you get one of the most radical leftists in government opposing it on some base, 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.
They just it's 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 she she's she's got the comfort here of being able to rip the bill uh because it it probably isn't gonna go uh uh very far.
We'll see.
Pressure's gonna have to be uh kept up on it.
Uh the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, said the immigration bill can't possibly be completed before Memorial Day.
Uh 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.
It's actually correct your politics.
We're not going to have it.
You understand?
If you 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 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, just doesn't uh doesn't have a um uh doesn't it doesn't have any substance to it.
I know they're saying that.
I know that uh in agriculture, labor shortages, according to news stories, say that fruits and vegetables are rotting.
Uh they uh they can't be harvested.
Well, I know they're they're they're saying that.
I look at uh well you you tell me.
Uh I I was at LA 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, uh the spinach, no, we don't have it.
Uh it's rotting out there because of uh now a labor shortage.
Uh uh at breakfast, some guys were having fruit.
Uh, it seemed to be boku fruit, this Southern California.
I haven't seen any shortages.
Uh uh 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 uh I don't eat fruit.
Can't stand fruit, but I mean I've seen people that order it and eat it and haven't had any problem with it.
I haven't seen any signs there were uh short a warning, no fruit for breakfast today at Denny's.
Uh there's a labor shortage in the illegal alien uh ranks and it's rotting out there, we can't I haven't seen this.
Pelosi said, uh, I don't care what Pelosi said.
Anyway, big labor all upset here uh uh about about the uh labor shortage, plus they're gonna have to go out and and do the checking themselves.
This is what they don't want.
They don't want this responsibility.
They uh they don't want it so um, you know, and and uh we we do we need cheap unskilled labor.
We just do.
America can't.
And I'm gonna, folks, I was gonna 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've 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 uh ball of fire, it's all coming up plus your phone calls after this.
By the way, this this may be uh, 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 robbing fruits and vegetables.
I was watching a news uh this handless, 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 is melded.
Now they got to invade the fruits and vegetable farms to survive because of global warning, 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 uh 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 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've they discovered over there a couple of uh of a new uh fish species they thought died out sixty-five 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 on 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.
Uh, said the I guess this is the uh 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.
Nah, it's not that bad.
I'm just I'm just kidding.
Some of this stuff I'm I I my tolerance today, folks.
Uh for stupidity is very, very low.
I don't feel like suffering fools.
It all started when I was watching the Today Show today, watching 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 uh uh 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.
And what mature person thinks the Constitution should be cluttered up with consciousness raising pieties or affirmations on the theory that uh 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.
I that's that's this is which which I have not hidden.
That fact I've not I've not hit.
Well, we're talking about the accuracy of Mr. V. B. Price.
Snerdley said, 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 uh behaviors.
Uh and basically trying to change human nature, which uh 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 due 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 uh with feminism.
Wait, let me find it first.
I had it here now, what happens?
There it is.
Let's go ahead.
Trumpet fan fair.
It uh update time, and it's time for Al Gore.
This is Ball of Fire.
It's sung by White Impressionist Paul Shanklin.
Let a rip out there, Al Gore.
Rabbin 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 we'll see what's the uh high school student.
High school.
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.
Uh 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, Babe Ruth 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 always been hot in the summer.
Experts predict scorching summer, as the Memorial Day weekend beckons.
This is 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 uh in the West.
Also, tomorrow, big big day for the drive-by's.
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 uh 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 uh to the movement.
Um four times.
This kid has had to watch an inconvenient truth.
By the way, trouble with uh you know do you know they 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 Heffbunny, uh, is down dwindled by about 50% the past two years.
You know who's wiping them out?
Pussycats.
And we're back at a cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Snerdley uh uh shared with me an interesting point of view that he has on NBC's hatchet job piece today on Barack the Magic Negro.
Uh uh on the on the Today Show.
And I've got the piece.
I don't even feel like playing it.
I don't it's it's it's it's you know, it is so bad.
It's it's I think you're right.
The more I think about, 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 for I got the numbers here.
Uh for the week of May 7th, total viewers.
Now keep in mind, for the week of May 7.
I know these are daily numbers.
We have they the today's show, 5,530,000 viewers.
Our average quarter hour here is about 5.2 million viewers.
Oh, listeners.
Which which the way formulas and radio workouts are 20 to 22 million people unduplicated during a week.
During a three-hour program, we figure 12 million people tune in and out of this program during any of the three hours.
Uh ABC is at 4.8 million, almost 4.9, CBS at 2.6, and the demo they're they lead uh by about 500,000, a demo 2554.
But these are some of the worst ratings in over a decade for the uh for the Today Show.
And Snerdley's point was, you know, they they saw this little dust-up that you had with that uh 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 just 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 it's it had no place.
There was nothing to to peg the story to, nothing to peg their little piece on Barack the Magic.
It's a two and a half month old story.
And nobody's talking about it other than these these Democrat front group websites.
Uh so that's why I'm thinking about not playing.
In the meantime, while all that was going on, is of course on National Public Radio, Cokey Roberts is out there saying, well, quoting Democrats of the Immigration Bill, Republicans on the immigration bill, and Rush Limbaugh on the immigration bill.
On Saturday, Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, this is their media analyst show, the host Eric Burns, guest commentator's 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 gonna kill the Republican Party.
This is gonna bring in people who are gonna 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.
Well, framing is key in follow-up and how the media treat the follow-up after the 86 immigration bill.
There was no secure identifier.
Uh there's something like that apparently in this bill.
And if it clears the House uh with uh something that it has uh you know relatively simple to the similar to the uh 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 f uh something that it is.
It's amnesty.
Anyway.
This is uh being discussed on this is Saturday night.
Here's more from this.
Uh 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?
And well, as far as conservatives and Republicans are concerned, Rush Limbaugh said on his uh 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 the in in Congress go along?
Oh, I think I think the Republicans in Congress understand that Rush Limba made them what they were back in 1993 and 1994.
So if Limbaugh and these people stay against it, look, I mean that I mean, just to play politics here for seconds, post-media coverage.
Nancy Pelosi says she won't move the bill forward unless you get seventy 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 seventy Republican votes?
She doesn't want to de-attach to this.
She wants the result, but she wants this clearly pinned to the White House.
She wants this to appear to that's why she loves McCain up there trying to hog a little FaceTime on camera with Senator Kennedy.
Uh they know this is gonna give them what they want.
It's they know it it's it's gonna 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.
Uh and this bill is is is key to that.
So she can't why does she care how many Republicans if she can get the thing to pass?
If she can get it to pass with uh with with five Republicans, why not?
Why not take it?
If the legislation's good, no, seriously, folks, now 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 cliches.
And she could hold out, she won't move it forward without 70 Republican votes.
Uh 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 cliches 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 uh next week or so.
Carl Wynne 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, and by the way, this of the 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, uh the anti-illegal immigrant movement.
Go out and find one kook.
And the Fed Feds, this is who the feds are worried about.
Got to get those anti-immigrant extremists.
Forget the illegals.
We gotta get the anti-immigrant extremists.
At any rate, you see how this is shaping up.
Uh, 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.
Um, my worry continues to be uh those Arkansas grifters getting back in the White House, and I know you've said when it comes time to panic, you'll tell us, so I trust you in that.
Um in April It's time to panic.
It's time as we sit here today.
There's an eighty percent chance that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States.
Well, if that's the case, we are in trouble.
Well, we got a lot of 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 then in April, Mrs. Bill Clinton hired uh, I think his name, Rawl Ziguerra, he's uh the longtime president of that radical anti-American uh 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 La Rosa.
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 and f uh over this bill last week, and they're the ones, this La Raza and their uh 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 uh in 08, will this militant uh radical uh racist Zegara will he head for immigration department and then they'll be working for Mexico?
But but look, La Raza was in the room when this when the with the Democrats and the La Raza representative had veto rights over their ideas in this.
Now, as I as I asked last week, can you imagine if the Republicans 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?
Uh that's exactly what happened.
But look at La Raza is just another of the multiple Democrat constituencies.
You get big labor, you have uh and all the different unions in big labor.
You've got the feminists, you have the civil rights coalition, which is the the Reverend Jacks and Reverend Sharpton, uh the Ralph Nees types, people for the American way.
You got the racco, wacko environmentalists, uh and you've and you've got this group, uh La Raza, the uh the and that's the this is uh not even all of them, but these are the people that make up the coalition that is the Democrat Party.
That's just another tip-off as to as to who really benefits this from this and who wants it uh to uh to pass.
Uh 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 E.I.B. nether.
We just did the story that the uh 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 eleven thousand 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 TJ 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 front line guys.
So uh uh better add them to the list of extremists out there that the feds are gonna 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.
Uh Rush, you have talked with Dick Cheney, Tony Snow, had him on the air, and the standard line is we can't deport twelve 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 uh Chertoff has been recently quoted as saying will not qualify, even under this plan.
So uh Tony Snow says they'll have to go home.
What does that mean?
How are they going to do it?
Again, you know, I I just I really do not enjoy having to assume this position.
But I'm uh my my great fear, uh the thing that concerns me is that that little statement, two to three million weren't gonna qualify, are gonna have to go home.
Who is going to make them?
They're gonna have to report in.
All these all these people are gonna have to report in and they're gonna have to pay their fines if if uh there's no enforcement here because there's no incentive to cause the exodus to go the other way.
So I think I I just I don't I don't look at the the same bureaucracy that couldn't keep track of Fort Dick Six, the same bureaucracy that didn't know Mohammed 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 if look by the time this is passed, we're not gonna 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 gonna tell some that they have to go and some that they can stay.
And so look at if it were that easy to get rid of two or three million, then it shouldn't take very long number number of years to get rid of twelve.
Richard, thanks for the call out there.
Uh appreciate it.
Snerdley, wake up.
Where are we going next?
Visalia, California, home of the onions.
Uh, Dave, nice to have you with us.
He's gone.
I'm glad he's gone.
He wants to talk about Bush owns defeat in the rock.
He's an idiot.
Why'd you put him up there?
Uh uh Susan in Baltimore, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
Hey.
I guess I'm one of those extremists.
I don't know, but um, I used to watch your TV program two in the morning.
That's when the UK morning Baltimore they didn't want us to watch it, you know.
But and I had to get up and go to work.
I was always sleepy, but I couldn't 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.
Um don't give me this finally.
Yes, finally.
You don't talk about it that much.
Roger Hedgecock, when he's still in for you, he always talks about out there.
It'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 the bigger.
Oh, well, look, I don't want to argue about that.
I mean, you're ticked at me, and I want to f what what besides the fact that I'm a later rival 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.
No, 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'm 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, uh, the survival of our country.
I'm nervous, though I'm, you know, I may not be.
Wait a minute.
What's my sense of humor got to do with the country?
But you you think I'm having too too many laughs here?
Well, I think we should be talking seriously about this, what's going to happen.
And you think that's were you were you listening here Thursday in the case?
Yes, I am, yes.
I mean, that was pretty down the down the middle of the road series as it could be.
And this is so it has been today.
And I love it that you do that.
Okay, so now when you're getting what you want, you call a complaint.
Well, I this first time I could guess.
The guy in Albuquerque wonders what my problem with women is.
But right now you you laughed at that, so you knew what I meant by it, right?
Well, what it is, Rush.
Uh 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.
And um Well, that's me, and I'm not running.
Well, you should.
I'm kidding.
Look.
Uh I've spent a lot of time today talking about the demographic shift that could result from this, and that the the no assimilation.
I I uh there have been a couple people who've written this that I've quoted today, uh Stephen Worszowski and and uh Selwyn Duke, both at AmericanThinker.com, and they're they're worried about the exact same thing that you just said, and I I I I can't disagree more.
You get this massive uh massively large demographic shift.
You're gonna change the country forever.
They a a conservative movement will a viable one to think one that has a chance of uh mobilizing people uh 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, I mean uh uh look it.
I just want to tell you something.
None of this is gonna happen before two thousand eight.
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 number for 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.
Uh but this can be headed off at the Well.
It can.
You shouldn't give up on that 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.
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