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May 31, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
As usual, with a half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800 282882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Now you think that this Hillary idea of restricting corporate pay and giving the public access to it in veto power.
You think it's never going to happen?
Our old buddy Barney Frank in the House of Representatives is proposing the legislation that she's talking about in the House to reign in CEO pay.
And they've already done this, by the way.
One of the first things that uh Clinton did in 1993, as part of his massive tax increase, was to limit the deduct the deduction that uh corporations could take on executive pay over one million dollars.
Exempted athletes and entertainers, of course, just the evil CEOs.
And you know what the result of that was hello stock options and hello bonuses.
And guess where stock options led us?
That led us to all kinds of other legislation.
They never ever do get this right, but there's something else at work here.
You know, when you hear Democrats talking about fairness, which is an elusive concept, it is impossible to implement fairness countrywide.
It's as it's as complex and elusive as trying to nail down something like climate change and global warming and find a singular explanation for it, such as man-made carbon dioxide.
Uh it's just it's it's it's absurd.
Fairness to Democrats is misery spread equally.
Are they not all miserable?
Are they not all unhappy?
You don't see them smiling, and when they do smile, when Mrs. Clinton smiles, it looks forced.
They're not having a good time.
They're not enjoying their lives, and uh their supporters certainly aren't.
They get up miserable.
They get up angry, they get up filled with rage.
Who would want to live that way?
And they tell us then that we're miserable and that we should be miserable.
And so they want to spread the misery, and that equals fairness.
Nobody should be happy if everybody's not happy.
We've heard straightforward pronouncements by Al Qaeda.
Be it from bin Laden or Al-Zawayhiri, take your pick.
Uh Ahmadinejad in Iran.
State forward pronouncements of what their intentions for us are don't seem to phase a large portion of the American public.
Have you ever asked yourself why?
Well, some of it has to be due to the security that we have enjoyed since 9-11, because somebody is taking it seriously, and his name is George W. Bush.
And enough Americans do realize the stakes to continue to support the man who is taking what these enemies of ours say seriously.
Some people in this country are not so far removed from 9-11, and they know what actions need to be taken to keep us safe.
In the meantime, an increasing number of average ordinary Democrats think 9-11 was an inside job.
It's totally irrational, but they're there, and they believe it.
And so when somebody like Mrs. Clinton comes along and starts talking about uh, or any Democrat, in fact, you know, when when uh when Hillary goes around and talks about we're all in this together, yeah, we're all in the misery together.
And uh big government is the cure for this.
A redistribution of wealth, an opportunity.
Why that sells to certain people is because A, they're miserable, B, they're failures.
They have failed to make it, at least as far as their dreams had carried them.
And so most people never blame themselves for their own shortcomings or problems.
It's always somebody else's fault.
It's always some other entity's problem, it's the neighbor's fault, that's the whoever.
Most people very rarely, when trying to assess their problems, start with themselves.
They're not honest about it.
And so it's it's Bush's fault that I'm miserable, or it's Limbaugh's fault.
It's conservatives or whatever they come up with.
It's it's inane, but they come up with these things.
Some of them have forgotten what built this country.
What allows this country to lead the world.
Some of them know and resent that we lead the world.
They resent how the country was built because it's led to their misery.
They don't think that they're factors.
They don't think they're that important.
They think that uh, you know, life's an excrement sandwich, and some days all they get is mayonnaise on it.
So they're out there and they say they want everybody else to be miserable.
We're all in this together.
How else can somebody entertain the thought that we all ought to be miserable if if if they have forgotten or if they have never been taught what it was that built the country?
We've got growing wages across the board, despite this illegal immigration stuff that's going on, prosperity, GDP, stock market, whatever measure.
I know the first quarter growth rate of the economy was stagnant.
You have spikes like that, but my gosh, folks, this this uh my my parents would not anymore understand my life.
You know what my dad was h- when I got out of radio when I was 29.
I figured that was about the fifth time I'd been fired.
Well, if I haven't made it playing top 40 records when I'm 28 or 29, I better get out of it because it's, you know, it's a teenage market.
So I went to work for the uh and when I got when I lost my last radio job, I was making, I think something twenty-two or twenty-three thousand dollars a year.
I was out of work for three months.
I decided what I wanted to do, and I was this I was in Kansas City and I like living there.
So a friend of mine, the Kansas City Royal said, Why don't you say why don't you come work for us?
We need a group sales director.
Okay.
$12,000 a year to start at age 29.
Called my dad.
My dad could not have been happier.
God bless him.
He thought radio was a waste of time.
He never forced me out of it because I had quit everything else prior to that.
I was a boy scout, I was a tenderfoot for a year in the boys got all you got to do is join to be a tenderfoot.
I got nothing done.
My first campout, I got the gold brick award because I was just a bump on the log, didn't do diddly squat.
I quit everything, except baseball, little league and minor league baseball.
But that that was just voc uh avocational stuff.
Uh so he he never pulled me out of radio, but they were constantly worried.
Where is playing Donnie Osmond records going to lead our son?
Nowhere.
What's the social relevance?
What's the So when I called and told him that I was joining Kansas City Royals, eh, he f he was ecstatic.
$12,000 a year.
And this is 1979.
And he said, son, if you play your cards right and be there 30 years, you may make $50,000 and get a car, company car.
I mean, that his formative experience was the Great Depression.
Uh and World War II.
And uh you didn't get a college degree, which I don't have, you didn't have a chance.
That was just his world.
He was trying to be a good father.
He was ecstatic.
After five years, I left the Royals making $17,000 a year, got a thousand dollar a year raise every year.
Uh, and went back into radio, and it started getting worried all over again.
But I was just pursuing my passion.
The point is uh my my father would no more relate to my life today.
Uh he'd be thrilled by it, don't misunderstand.
Uh and I think, you know, we've always had arguments in this society about uh, well, is this the generation that's not going to do as well as its parents?
We are nowhere near that yet, but the the misery index crowd would love for you to believe that that's the case.
You know, people have over the course of my career have come up to me and and and sought advice on getting into radio.
I said, well, uh the worst thing you could do is go talk to people who failed at it because they'll tell you that you shouldn't do it, that the business will eat you up, spit you out.
Uh make sure you talk to people who've succeeded at it.
It's easy to run into people tell you won't be able to do something.
You can find people who tell you you can't do something, and they because many of them don't want you to if they failed at it, uh, make them feel bad.
You could you can always find negativism.
You can always find pessimism.
You can always find these things.
But the opportunities in this country today are they're profoundly better, and yet people do not grasp it.
They don't grasp it.
Uh they don't understand.
In fact, people wondered why the uh news of the economy was not a factor in the 06 election.
I think one of the reasons for that is people now just demand and expect a roaring economy.
There's no appreciation for it.
There is an expectation of it.
And when we have a downturn, that's when there's hell to pay.
But no more uh will there be any laudatory congratulations for perceived politician who's brought, well, mad Democrat does it, the media will trump it back up again and try to create.
But there's this expectation.
Our expectations have risen, which is fine.
But coupled with that is the fact that people just have lost touch with how this country was built.
We've got growing wages across the board.
We've got we've blown records out of the water in employment.
Life expectancy is growing every year.
And we didn't just get here by accident.
We got here by virtue of a distinct American culture.
And all of this is happening while the drive-by media and some liberal Democrats are out there telling everybody how miserable they are.
It's time for a change.
We can't continue to go on this way.
And it burns me up when I hear this.
It burns me up not for political reasons.
I mean, that's a given.
It burns me up because I'm into inspiring people.
I'm into motivating people.
I'm into almost a cheerleader for this country.
We all conservatives are.
All we want's the greatest country we can have.
We know how we got here.
We know how we uh gonna stay here and how we're gonna grow.
And it isn't running around talking about collectivism and having the public get veto rights over CEO pay while Mrs. Clinton hitches rides on a corrupt business owner's jet while hoarding her own millions that she admits to having.
That isn't what made the country great.
And it and I'll it the the you know Edwards and whoever it was said the middle class made the country great, who I had this quote earlier today, I forget.
Uh that is Hillary said the middle class made the country great.
I don't disagree with that, but I disagree with the the tone and the implication of her statement.
It's a it's it's an attack on achievers.
It's an attack on attack on the wealthy.
Uh I'll tell you what made the country great.
It's the people who make this country work.
I don't care that a rich, middle class, third or fourth quintile, it's the people that make this country great, not government, and not government policies.
And not government regulations.
It is the freedom that we all acknowledge we have that allows us to pursue whatever our dreams and ambitions are as unfettered as any people in the history of civilization have ever been.
That's what sets us apart from all other countries in the history of human civilization.
And it's the liberals who are trying to look at this prosperity right in the eye, which is right out in front of our faces every day, and tell us we should be miserable, that it's unfair, that it's not right, that it's not going to last, and this all needs to be torn down.
And the fact that there are people who are running around panting with their tongues out, heh, lapping all that up, is a testament to the fact that if you browbeat people long enough and consistently enough with how miserable they are, and you blame other people for their misery, and you get them thinking that a magical government program or a singular politician is going to come along and make them happy, you can sell it.
And that's exactly what they've done, and it flies in the face of what is right in front of everybody's eyes to see.
Just like people have the freedom and the ability and the and the and the affluence to ignore the threats from Al-Qaeda and Ahmadinejad, well, let them threat.
We're the United States.
Nothing's going to happen.
We haven't had another attack since nine.
Why do you think that is?
Accidental.
I guarantee you, Mrs. Clinton had nothing to do with keeping the country safe, and neither has John Edwards, and neither has Barack Obama, and neither has John Kerry.
They have done everything they can to undermine this country's security by undermining our attempts at protecting ourselves in foreign theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
I gotta take a brief time out, but I'm nowhere near through here.
Something else I've noticed out there, and I don't know if you have, but all of a sudden we got Barack Obama now entering the policy arena.
He's not just uttering platitudes and bromides.
Now he's got this universal health care plan or this health care plan.
And they say Obama getting serious now.
And his health care plan basically is raise taxes on the rich.
And you got Hillary out there with her collectivism and you've got uh that's basically it.
What are the other Democrats saying?
I don't know what Biden said about anything.
Not that it matters, but I mean I don't know what he's saying.
I don't know what Chris Dodd's saying.
I don't know what Bill Richardson's saying.
But if those guys want to get noticed, they better start talking socialism.
Because that's what the drive-by media is going to promote.
Because that's fair.
It's fair and if equitable, Myther Limbaugh, if equitable, if the only way we can survive with a nature with pure happiness and fairness is thothalithm.
Collectivism.
We don't like those terms, but that's what it is.
That's the voice of the new Castrati.
Anyway, Teresa, is that right?
Yeah, Teresa in Walkegan, Illinois.
Isn't that where Jack Benny was from?
I believe so.
I how are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm I am so excited to be able to talk to you.
You I tell you, whenever I'm down about the country, all I have to do is wait until Rush comes on every afternoon, Monday through Friday, and I'll feel better about our country.
What is it?
I appreciate your saying that.
What is it that uh makes you down what what on the country or makes you feel down?
What what what happens to make you uh start thinking that way?
Well, because of the idiotic things that you hear that our leaders are doing in uh Congress, our president, the military leaders, which is what I was calling, and uh all these yahoos out here who've got everybody convinced of all the things you've been saying about Hillary, and I'm like going, uh I'm the one who's stuck in the middle.
You guys want to take my money, you guys want to take our money, what's left to feed my family, and uh then I've got to worry about the terrorists.
I gotta worry about taking care of my own kids because the government isn't gonna take care of it.
See, it's working.
They are trying to make you feel as miserable as they do.
Well, that's why I listened to you.
Well, thank goodness you have me, because if you if you didn't have me, I mean this stuff would overtake you and you'd you'd be throwing up your hands in frustration wondering what's the point of it all.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And that's you know, and that's why I was calling, because now I hear I who are these military commanders who are talking to the terrorists.
I mean, what kind of military strategy is that?
I thought.
You're talking about the ceasefire business?
Oh yeah.
Now why did they say this?
Now wait a second.
Why when you saw that story, what what was it that made you think that's happening because the United States has a weakened position there?
Oh, I didn't think we had a weakened position.
I didn't understand why they were, because we are on the good side, you know.
We are the same.
Do you understand how huge this is that the bad guys want to talk ceasefire?
Yeah, I think that means we ought to go down there and beat them some more until they scream some more.
Oh, okay.
So you want to wipe them out now that they're talking ceasefire and you don't understand.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, oh yeah, that's a sign that they're ready to give up.
That just is a sign for us to be harder.
I I I don't I wouldn't go so far as to say it means they intend to give up, but it does indicate a uh uh a much weaker position that they are holding than uh is being reported, of course, with the drive-by media.
Exactly.
But then we're talking to them.
Well, why doesn't the police just talk to the criminals and say, hey, why don't we just, you know, let's not have any more gangbang murders, okay?
They don't do that.
They go out there and they arrest them.
Well, that's what our military should be doing.
Shouldn't be talking to these criminals and terrorists.
Uh you bef you you you befuddle me.
We have a situation here.
Uh you you can't you can't compare this to local crime.
We have declared hostilities here.
Uh, but uh I read that same article.
Wait, well, wait, wait a minute now.
We've when when in previous wars that we've had, when the bad guys wanted to surrender, we talked to them.
Uh we issued terms of surrender and so forth, and that's what's being discussed here.
There are terms of surrender being being being uh determined and and uh uh thought uh uh uh what how they could be proposed and so forth.
Now, in in past, like in World War II, uh the Japanese surrendered after we did do what you suggest we do here.
You know, in Nagasaki, uh so forth and so on.
Um the uh the the big difference with with this is that that um uh this indicates a a show of weakness.
We're trying to preserve the Iraqi government and have it grow and so forth.
There's a there's the big the big thing here to me is is that this runs totally counter to what the daily drive-by news is every day, and that is that we're getting shellacked, that we're getting creamed, that it's hopelessly lost.
Dingy Harry's also said so.
Always said so.
We can't win this thing, and all of a sudden the bad guys want to talk about a ceasefire.
Now it may be a trick, but the reason they're talking about a ceasefire is because we're doing what you want.
It just isn't be reported.
We must be kicking butt big time.
It just may not be reported in a way that you know about it.
But these they're not coming along and saying, okay, we'll talk ceasefire because they're winning.
It's uh just the o this kind of stuff happens when you occupy the position of strength.
And I fully expect the Democrats to spin this uh and and to suggest that the administration wants to give up and admit defeat, uh, this the only way to save our brave soldiers from dying and all that.
I'm waiting for that to happen, by the way.
Saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in an entire career.
Rush Limboy, National Treasurer and uh Nobel Peace Prize nominee here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Folks, there is another possibility for this uh ceasefire uh little float that the uh the terrorists are engaging in here in Iraq.
And it could simply be um this.
I mean, it could be something totally unrelated to our analysis up to this point.
The terrorists suggesting that they're interested in talking ceasefire could simply be their way of telling the Democrats in this country that they're unhappy with the Democrats providing more funding without a withdrawal timetable.
The terrorists might have looked at the latest vote in the House where the Democrats retreated from retreat and surrendered from surrender.
They said, Well, my gosh, we've lost our allies uh in uh in Washington.
I mean, as long as uh we're gonna support them, we're gonna hang tough over here.
We're gonna try to we're gonna try to beat Bush for them and so forth, as long as they come up with a definite uh withdrawal date to get the army out of here, but now the Democrats are caved, and so the the terrorists say, well, I mean, well we don't know where bin Laden is, Zawahiri's a nonfactor, we're all over the place in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Uh jihad is not the organized thing it used to be.
Now we've lost our big allies, the Democrats.
What are we gonna do?
It could it could be that.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, here's Jan in uh Evergreen, Colorado.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
Greetings from Colorado, home state of Dan's Bakesale.
Yeah.
That's right.
Never forget were you there?
No, I wasn't.
I was in California and I immigrated to Colorado in 94, so I missed it.
Why'd you leave California?
Because of illegal immigration.
I knew that was going to be the answer.
I absolutely knew it was.
And have they followed you there?
Uh many have, yeah.
And Colorado is now becoming California.
They're gonna go where you go because that's where the jobs are.
Yeah.
Um, Rush, um, do you know of any provisions for health care screening in the Kyle Kennedy Amnesty Bill?
Are you kidding?
You talk, I bet you're talking about this TB case.
Right.
Uh let me to answer your question.
I have a story here right top of one of my stacks.
The government is investigating how a globetrotting tuberculosis patient.
By the way, this guy's a naval academy grad.
He's a lawyer in Georgia.
They've identified him now.
They've don't have his name in front of me, but they've identified him.
Uh government's investigating how a globetrotting TB patient drove back into the country even after his name was put on a no-fly list provided to border guards.
The failure exposed a major gap in a system that's supposed to keep the direst of diseases from crossing the borders.
Dr. Martin Setrin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it's regretful.
Uh we weren't able to stop that.
Uh talking about how the man fled when U.S. health officials tracked him down in Rome and told him not to get on an airplane.
Now, the big question here is if we can't stop this, and the guy's on the no-fly list.
I know it.
I know it.
How many others are walking in across the southern border carrying who knows whatever diseases that we're not stopping?
And uh this this this is this story, and it's a sad, sad story.
It is sad.
It's going to affect a lot of people, but this is the worst story could have happened for the pro-illegal immigration crowd.
Well, uh you know, Rush, I think that most Americans believe that this hideous uh Saturday night live compromise legislation needs to go to the government printing off its trash bin where it belongs because it just it's just comical.
It's worse than that.
Um it's it's it's um it's it portends danger.
It does.
And you know, in America as we know it will be gone forever if this goes through.
America as we know it, yes.
Yeah.
Um in time that that is a real possibility.
But you know, I mentioned earlier, uh, Jan, that the the divide here that exists between us, the common ordinary everyday people, and the elites and the politicians on this is a as wide a gap as I can remember, uh, since I became a national treasure and host in August of 1988.
Well, somebody just sent me an email saying I'm a national treasure.
I said it's a good phrase.
Sounds good coming off my lips and out of my mouth.
But it I mean it's it's I've never seen this kind of a gap.
And this kind of a gap this big and and uh demarked by such divergent views on this is an eye-opening thing for voters.
They're learning really how what they want and what they think they're gonna get are not really important when the politicians really want something, they're gonna ram it down the throats.
They'll do it in secret and private if they have to.
And this is um in the whole mix of of of uh what this program's primary objective is, and that's increasing the numbers of people informed and educated in the arena of ideas.
This has been uh well, well, I wouldn't call it a godsend, but it's uh it's it's a good development.
It's a nice aspect to this.
Because there and and by the way, the anger at Washington over this crosses party lines.
Democrats are mad about it.
I think I think this case, I think even the moderates who don't care about anything until the majority forms are even upset about it.
And the precious the beloved, the coveted independence.
Why, even some of them are fit to be tied over.
They won't admit it publicly because then they wouldn't be independent.
And the moderates won't admit it publicly because then they wouldn't be moderates.
Uh moderates can't take sides.
They can't be judgmental, can't be discriminatory, uh, at least publicly, because then people would know they're not moderates.
Uh but it's crossing it's it's crossing the divides, and and the the amazing thing is that the political class, the elite class, doesn't understand how this is going to come back and bite them.
They seem to be uh they give me no indication that they're aware of that.
This uh how to pronounce it, Bava?
Bava in Brooklyn.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you very much.
It's a pleasure talking to you.
I've been listening to listening to you for ten years now.
I appreciate where are you from originally?
Uh Israel.
Israel.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
I I called the Senator Clinton's office in Washington yesterday, and I mentioned that I heard her, I heard that she spoke about the sharing society as opposed to the ownership society, and I suggested, I asked, you know, she's building with her husband, they're building a new a mansion in Puerto Rico, I think.
No, it's in the Dominican Republic.
She she and her husband have either been given who knows what these people a plot of land or else they've bought it, and they're they're building a big hideaway down there next to Oscar De La Rente.
Uh-huh.
So I s I asked, you know, if she believes in the sharing society, if maybe we can go on vacation in the home.
I mean, they should share it with everyone else.
Well, we call a Dominican offshore, wouldn't we?
Uh yeah, I guess so.
So anyway, so the the person who answered me, she was uh shocked at the uh suggestion she didn't really understand what I was suggesting, and I kept pressing the matter, and she said, Well, you know, we can't really talk policy uh to the people who call here.
So that was it.
Can't talk policy to the people who call here.
That's right.
That's right.
Can't talk policy.
It's more like won't talk politics.
More like who the hell do you think you are, Baba, calling here demanding that Mrs. Clinton explain herself to you.
You're just a voter in Brooklyn.
That's right.
That's right, absolutely.
But well, that was really to be expected.
So anyway, I just want to tell you again, it was a pleasure talking to you.
Thank you, Bob.
I appreciate the great story.
We don't talk policy on Callers.
That's why I say talk radio is the most democratic, wide open forum for the exchange of ideas in the American media today.
And that is precisely why the left finds it fearful and problematic and wants to do a Hugo Chavez on us.
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El Rushball, all right, time to delve here into our uh illegal immigration stack.
And as we always do, ladies and gentlemen, we stand for the Star Spanglish banner prior to getting into the stack.
That is Jose y los ilegales and the uh Star Spanglish banner.
All right, a couple of people I know, and uh I I consider these guys' friends, Jeb Bush and Ken Melman have a piece today in the Wall Street Journal.
And what they do is it in this piece is blame Prop 187 in California for the Republicans losing political control of that state.
Uh their point is that Prop 187, you remember what Prop 8187 was, but the proper 187 was Californians were fed up with paying the health care and uh education and uh a lot of other entitlement programs for uh illegal immigrants and their children.
And of course, the Proposition 187 was defeated, and a federal judge said it was unconstitutional proposition in the first place, so the people and their expressed will was shot down by the federal government.
So uh Jeb Bush and Ken Melman today say that it was Prop 187 that led to the Republican Party losing the state of California.
The point that they're trying to make is that the Republican Party is going to lose its entire national base, just as it's lost California if we oppose illegal immigration, the bill that's going through the Senate.
Heather McDonald at the Manhattan Institute has written a response to Jeb Bush and Ken Melman, which is brilliant today.
She said it's too bad that they didn't.
And by the way, uh uh Ken and uh Jeb Bush say that uh uh California'd still be Reagan country.
You know, and if if if that were the case.
That's not at all, I mean the case.
This is where everybody's on the Republican side that's looking at these people as potential voters and a way to expand the Republican Party missing the point here.
Uh, as Heather McDonald writes, too bad that uh Jeb Bush and Ken Melman didn't read their own op-ed.
No Republican presidential nominee has won California since 1988.
Well, Prop 187 must be one powerful toxin if it could alienate Hispanics six years before it even exists.
Republicans lost California long before Prop 187.
California's transformation from Reagan country to labor union country is the far more likely consequence of the growing Hispanic population per se and the corresponding outflow of white Republicans to other states.
Republicans have fled the state of California.
It's not that Hispanics are not voting Republican, it's Republicans have fled.
Listen to this.
In 1990, California was 25% Latino and 50% white.
In 2000, it was 32% Latino and 47% white.
In 2005, just two years ago.
Latinos constituted 35% of the population, whites, 43% of the population.
That is a microcosm of the demographic shifts that are likely to occur nationwide if this bill becomes law.
I mean, the that that's a profound democrat uh uh uh demographic shift.
And you know, you could you could still have a rising Hispanic population and a constant white population, except for what?
Whites are leaving.
We just had Jan from Green Green, whatever it was in Colorado, uh, who used to live in California.
She's moved to Colorado.
She said she fled illegal immigration.
Uh Jan was from uh Evergreen.
I know it was green something.
And so this is little little microcosm of what's happening.
The reason the white population since uh 1990 has gone from 57% to 43%.
Now you might say some of that's abortion, a lot of libs out there, but but a lot of it is flight.
People are leaving the state.
And these shifting demographics, Heather McDonald writes, have been accompanied by the growing clout of the Democrat Party and of California's public service unions.
Not because some vestigial memory of Prop 187, but because Democratic policies appeal to low-wage, low-skilled Hispanics.
California is a microcause of what's going to happen in this country if, in fact, this bill was to is to become law.
I said last week we've lost California.
We're close to losing Florida because of this.
And the nation hangs in the balance in terms of these.
I'm talking, I'm talking political parties.
This is why the Republican Party is so off base on this and doesn't understand why this legislation is, as I dubbed it, the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
And they want to sit there and try to tell us that Prop 187 made it possible for all these Hispanics, angry at that legislation, uh, to join the Democrat Party wrong.
They are low skilled.
They are uneducated.
They are low wage.
That's the Democrat constituency.
They are not entrepreneurial.
That's they are rushed.
Look at the look at the risks they're willing to take to cross the border and so forth.
Well, California will give you a good look through the looking glass as to what's going to happen.
Los Angeles politics, uh, Ms. McDonald says, are now closely intertwined with the unionized left.
Now that Latinos in 2005 made up 47% of the LA population, whites are 30% of the population in LA.
Now, I'm not don't don't no anybody misinterpret this.
We're not talking here about race.
We're talking about demographics and how demographics affect political parties.
And trying to disabuse people of the notion that arriving hordes of low-wage, uh unskilled, uneducated people are going to become conservative Republicans.
The evidence isn't there.
The idea that Proposition 187, now 12 years old, is driving this massive demographic shift is fanciful.
And as I just said, uh she concludes here by saying California provides a glimpse of the likely political future if poor Hispanics continue to be the fastest growing demographic in the country.
This is exactly why the Democrats love this.
It's exactly why they're going to be able to remake the country in their own image.
I'm sure Jeb Bush and Ken Melman are being honest.
I bet you they they really think we lost California because we made these arriving Hispanics mad with property at 187, exactly what's going to happen, they think with this.
But the evidence tells a different story.
Or if you can read this, please take it back to the jewelry store and keep the money.
All right, we gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
But uh we have we have more immigration news coming up.
And uh the length of your child's fingers and why that matters.
And much more, too.
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