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June 11, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
I didn't see it.
I just uh got busy last night and I just didn't see it.
I've got it T-vot.
I've been reading all about it.
And it seems like uh people are livid and angry over the ending to this thing.
I'll tell you what I've that's what I'm thinking.
Snerdley just said over the IFB that it's it was great.
I I from what I've read, it sounds to me like it's what we all should have expected.
They never tie up loose ends on this show.
Why should they when it's over?
And I told you last week, they got to keep some of these characters around for something that might come up down the road later.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Great to be with you.
Rush Limbaugh back in the saddle here at the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
I was going to call in to the show on Friday and uh start do some minor gloating and take a little credit here for the uh immigration bill being pulled.
But right about the time I hit my third birdie on the front nine, I said, hell with it.
I'm gonna keep playing golf.
Uh besides, in all candor, uh it's not dead.
I mean, it's dead, it's still on life support.
The president's going to meet with some people, uh, Congress, uh, GOP, probably Ted Kennedy too, sometime tomorrow.
May even go up to the Capitol.
The original meeting is supposed to be lunch at the White House.
But uh I mean they're they're they're it they're gonna revive this, folks, at some point.
The question is, will they fix it before they revive it?
And that's something that we well, I've got my doubts.
And I I I don't know if you heard this.
I don't know if you're aware of this.
Diane Feinstein and some others uh are claiming that they have never received so much racist communication in all their years in Congress.
They've gotten emails, they're getting phone calls, they say it's unbelievable.
I've never, they're saying, receive this much hatred and racism.
Well, I want to see these emails.
I want to know how many there are, and I want to I I think they should release this information.
If they're gonna start talking about how rotten and racist and filled with rage you who have been calling them are, let's see what they're talking about.
You know, we uh we all receive emails.
Well, that's the I'm getting to that.
We but we all receive emails from nutcases.
I mean, I uh we all do.
Well, why should they be any different?
Well what what sets them apart?
Why should nutcases not communicate with senators?
In fact, I think nutcases would be more prone to communicate with senators and members of Congress than anybody else.
We all get emails from these people.
You don't have to be a senator to get them.
Uh and and you get them on a wide variety of issues, but the suggestion here that Senator Feinstein and others are uh are making is to assassinate the character of everybody who disagrees with them.
That's what this is about, and and they're setting the stage here for ignoring these people.
And ignoring you.
When they revive this bill, when they're gonna try to do this at some point, and by the way, everybody's out there, excuse me, blaming Kyle, a president, a Republican.
Harry Reid runs the Senate.
The Democrat pulled the bill.
I mean, the New York Times has got one of the most laughable editorials today on this, blaming Bush, blaming the Republicans, blaming Talk Radio, which is you know who.
Uh uh Harry Reid pulled the bill.
Harry Reed pulled the bill because he wants this fire storm.
He he he wants this thing to go down the tubes uh with Republicans getting blamed for.
We talk uh we talked about this last.
He ought to be taking credit for it.
Anyway, uh what what's happening here with these the senators, folks, uh Senator Feinstein and the others who are making these statements, they're using uh the rubric of uh of racism to smear millions of Americans who have legitimate concerns and raise them civilly.
I'm sure there's some nut cases out there, some kooks there.
We all get them.
But the idea here is to try to characterize every one of you who has spent time sending letters, emails, making phone calls to the offices of your senators uh and and uh members of Congress trying to tar you with that broad brush that you too are filled with rage and uh and are a racist.
So I uh they ought to produce these emails.
They ought to show us the phone logs.
Tell us, tell us what they have and who's saying what to them.
Uh and uh by the way, how about releasing if you're gonna go this far, release the running totals of phone calls and emails that they're getting and how they're cutting.
You know, how many?
If you're gonna start complaining about this, let's see some of the uh some of the details.
And I'll bet most of them are not positive toward these politicians, and I'll bet you most of them are not racist.
The um, in fact, this is one of the sly little tricks that the amnesty crowd is putting out there, oh, this is just racism.
They don't like Hispanics, don't like nothing to do with that.
And everybody up there actually knows this, but I'm this is nevertheless an effort to smear and castigate every one of you who has been calling uh Washington on this.
Uh I I you know, the these are these people act like they're elitists.
I think they're above criticism.
Uh and they're not.
Uh and you know, we're we're not gonna roll over on this.
I don't care what they think.
Uh but they're sitting there, how dare we challenge them?
Uh I'm gonna tell you if if that the the what really gets to me about this too, when they when Senator Feinstein and the others start talking about the rage, the racism and the hatred.
Do you know that rage and hatred have been the two identifying characteristics of the Democrat Party for six years?
The rage and the hatred and the anger that's out there, then you can see it, you can hear it in their elected officials, you can read it on their websites.
Uh I mean, they're that they're plenty of deranged people out there.
The anger, the rage, all is on the left in this country right now.
Uh independent of this bill.
I mean, there's a lot of legitimate anger and rage over what they attempted to do uh with this.
Uh but uh you know the other side is not racist in this uh in this debate.
No politicians ever received a racist email or phone call from those advocating open borders.
So just get ready for this, folks, because they're gonna they're gonna, you know, the president is uh is gonna put this all on the line.
He's he's they're they're gonna do what they can to revive this.
Uh I don't know if they'll succeed, but they uh they certainly are going to try.
And I, you know, if if they bring it back, uh they should fix it.
And by fixing it, border security first has to win out.
And if that doesn't, the rest, the rest will follow.
If they just get serious about shutting this down, uh if they would just do that, then everything else will fall into place here.
That's what and I think the idea that they don't know this is absurd because they do.
They are not interested in tightening up the border.
They want to make us think that they are, and they want to make us think that uh this bill contains serious enforcement measures, but as uh you and I uh all know it uh it doesn't.
Uh president's had six years to uh to you know prove he's serious about border security here.
And I'm not talking about hiring a thousand or two thousand more agents.
Talking about legitimately securing the border, whatever it takes, and it just doesn't seem that that mindset exists anywhere uh on the pro side of this of this bill.
You know, I've you know this almost 60% of the illegals coming to our country are from Mexico.
Um so to point that out and oppose open borders is racist, yes, that's what they're trying to say.
Uh and uh the Mexican government can intentionally send its people here, and to oppose that is racist.
To point out that most of the people are uneducated and don't speak English, that's racist.
It's not, but that's what they're trying to suggest here in an ongoing effort to uh eventually be able to say we don't have to listen to these critics.
We don't have to listen to these emails and these phone calls that we're getting.
We're just getting a bunch of racists, and we're not gonna do legislation up here uh and let we're not gonna have our our bill shaped and uh and formed by by a bunch of angry racists and so forth.
And that's what they're setting up here, just to warn you.
Uh you mean point out the cost of all this uh to schools, to hospitals, the entitlements that exist in this country.
That's racist to point this out.
Well, that's what they're trying to say.
Let me take quick time out here, folks.
We'll come back.
Lots of stuff in the immigration stack today.
Try this headline.
This this story is worth it just for the headline.
Two TWO, two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses.
You heard right.
A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people.
I should laugh about this.
And let's see.
Oh, did you hear about what the Brecht girl's gonna do?
To fight Islamic terrorism?
A Peace Corps.
Don't we already have a Peace Corps?
Didn't JFK do this?
Is it the Peace Corps still around?
I I know I know we got Clinton's uh volunteers for freedom or whatever.
He did his own.
He had the s yeah, AmeriCorps.
He had the sense to call it something else.
The Breck girls out there here.
I mean, you really, folks, this this is a this is from press release.
Senator Edwards outlining a new national security strategy that hinges on the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries.
So we're gonna send a bunch of little lily livered, linguini-spined liberal kids over to Middle East countries where terrorists are being born and I know America that captured a peace act.
Well, it's that's that's stuff that's you just you oh, and school.
This is an Akron, Ohio.
Uh Ohio Charter School that emphasizes African history and culture served gin to sixth graders at a graduation ceremony.
State uh education officials said they plan to investigate.
You heard about this?
The uh four students were given a teaspoon of gin mixed with water in a ceremony modeled on a on a Ghanaian rite of passage event.
Uh no lime garnish.
And it is not even not even sparkling water.
I mean, gin just with water.
The ritual was intended, this is the truth now.
Ritual was intended to teach truthfulness.
This is uh the uh students were blindfolded, giving them the uncertain feeling that goes with moving from one stage of life to another, he said.
Each student was given a teaspoon of water and a teaspoon of gin water mix, and then asked to identify which contained water.
The uh students recognized the gin wasn't water and spit it out before swallowing, Whittaker said.
The point is to teach the children to be honest.
Yep, this is part of an ancestral African tradition, said Candy Nelson, whose 13-year-old son participated in the rituals.
This is an ancestral tradition designed to teach people to be honest.
You know, do you remember how they taught you to be honest when you were in the sixth grade?
George, Washington, and the Cherry Tree.
But I guess that won't work anymore.
Got to have gin in the sixth grade.
Back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
What I am saying to Senator Feinstein and these other people who are claiming that they've never gotten this volume of angry, enraged, racist email.
Prove it.
Prove it.
Everybody goes on, makes all of these claims.
Let's see it.
Prove it.
Show us some.
Give us a running total.
Give us a tally of how it's going out there.
Trumpet fanfare means an update's coming, and you guessed right.
Paul Shanklin here as uh Al Gore Ball of Fire.
Who's listening now?
Really?
That's a big question.
All right, one more time there, Al Gore, let her rip, baby.
You may have heard about this already, but you haven't heard what I think about it.
The city of Denver is gearing up to fight global warming.
This in the Rocky Mountain News Today, residents of Denver may soon be asked to make personal sacrifices to help save the planet.
Their goal is the equivalent of taking 500,000 cars off the road.
The new plan is aimed at making Denver a national leader in reducing gas emissions that have been linked to global warming, giving a major push to alternative energy, stepping up recycling, changing building codes to encourage energy conservation.
But the proposal also contains some ideas that may be unpopular, such as penalizing heavy users of electricity and natural gas, and basing auto insurance premiums on the number of miles traveled.
Much of the city's plan involves finding ways to encourage energy conservation by mandating efficiency standards for new construction, setting standards for older homes that would be enforced when the when the home is uh sold.
Denver would give incentives for carpooling, the use of hybrids, ten dollar a month trash would be uh something they're thinking of doing.
They're claiming that their era of denial now is over.
Denver joining a host of cities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including Seattle, Portland, and Chicago.
And you know, this is uh the the Kyoto Accord fell apart.
Have you noticed that drive by media is not talking about what happened in the G eight?
They drove right on by.
They didn't stop, they didn't report and do you do you do you have any idea why?
Because Putin had his lunch handed to him by George W. Bush, and so did the the the Kyoto Accord.
They the the Kyoto Accord standards were supposed to go into effect in 2012, and these nations that have signed it have said, all right, we'll move it back to 2050.
Well, wait a minute.
If this is so serious, if we're on the cusp of destroying ourselves, how can we wait till 2050?
It just got blown away.
So while reason is asserting itself in a number of places, people who live in Denver are going to be are uh they're not gonna put up with this.
You the it i it it is just hilarious and absurd at the same time to believe that cities, individual cities of people can affect the climate, can affect the weather.
It's not possible.
We don't have this kind of power.
Now, if see if somebody wants to say, well, Russia just trying to clean things up out there, uh less pollution.
Well, fine, we'll head and I mean it's it's still ridiculous, but they're not saying it to clean up pollution.
They're doing it just to reduce carbon footprints and is to to affect the climate.
Uh this is audacious in its arrogance and conceit.
Meanwhile, the truth about Denver.
This is a story from the uh what is this?
I guess is the um what's Channel 7 news out there, and it's from June the eighth.
So just three days ago.
They had the coldest June morning in over fifty years last Friday.
The coldest June morning in 50, it was frost.
There was frost out there.
And then they come up with this global warming stuff shortly after it.
And in fact, if you go to the National Weather Service forecast office and look up Denver, go to go to climate records and so forth, you'll find that nine of the twelve warmest years for Denver since records have been kept were before 1955.
Uh the sheer idiocy.
But this is this is what liberals do.
You know, somebody sent me a note, Rush.
You need to synthesize, synthesize for people.
The difference is too complicated.
All right, let me give you a very simple one.
Liberals want to run everybody's life.
Liberals want to run your life and everybody else's life.
Conservatives have no interest in running yours.
We want to be in charge of our own, and you can do what you want to do.
But liberals have to run your life.
And this story out of Denver classic illustration, how most people, as far as liberals are concerned, don't have the slightest idea how to live responsibly to do things right, and so government has to step in and take over.
Your guiding light.
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We're going to go to uh Norfolk, Virginia, start with uh David today on the phones.
David, nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi, Russ.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Well, thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I'm a peace activist, and I was born in Sri Lanka.
I'm a doctor, and I've been around.
Oh, wow.
Uh you are a peace activist?
Yes.
Now, we need to go back to the history of how we acquired these California and Texas and New Mexico.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, agent.
We you are from Sri Lanka.
Well, I'm an American citizen now.
Oh, well, welcome.
Congratulations.
But what we uh d do you know the history uh how we acquired uh these all these states, a lot of land.
How much land would you acquire from Mexico?
Uh well it's a lot.
It's like, well, we bought a lot of the country, the Louisiana purchase, then we uh beat the Indians in a bunch of wars, and we beat the Mexicans, and we took what we wanted and uh annexed it and uh made it a great country.
Beat the Indians, we kill them to get the land.
Well I mean civilization.
You can't you can't find a place on earth where that hasn't happened.
Well, uh don't so you're gonna try to attach all kinds of im are you are you are you heading in the direction?
Are you did you call here to say that uh we took the land from Mexico and so uh the they have rights to that land and so they should be allowed to come here illegally?
But they were not compensated, right?
I mean, how much is California worth today?
Would you uh would you donate California to Mexico?
Uh uh depends on who you talk to now.
California may have lost some value.
Uh uh depending on your perspective.
Uh this depending on your point of view.
What do you compensate them?
Well, I mean, it was the exact one.
I don't know how many financial crises we have bailed Mexico out of over the years.
I don't know how much foreign aid that we have sent them.
We buy oil from them.
We've done everything that we could with to to to help the Mexican government and the Mexican economy become a free market.
We've done everything we can do.
This is a are you?
I can't believe you're serious about this.
Now stealing land is one thing, but we stole it and kill them.
That's mass murder.
That's what we are doing in Iraq.
Aren't we doing the center Iraq to get the oil?
I mean, this is uh outrageous crime.
Yes.
Yes, I just a crime against humanity.
Oh, give me a break.
My gosh.
You are you are a peace activist.
Can you uh can you name it?
Well, I think we can live in peace.
Wait a second.
Wait, you're from you're from Sri Lanka.
Yes.
Can you name for me one area of the world that has not been conquered by people and claimed as their own without quote unquote compensation to the losers.
You know, we we say losers.
We killed them and uh took the thing, and we should uh we should be uh compassionate about those things.
They're not answering the question out there, uh David.
I'm trying I'm trying to have a peace-oriented discussion with you here.
Right.
I'm trying to illustrate to you that this is the way of the world.
You're trying to attach immorality to the existence of the United States.
You you you I mean, you you do great teaching American history these days in American high schools, because they're out there trying to say that everything about this country is illegitimate because of the way it was founded and the way that it was expanded and the way it was acquired and so forth, and it's absurd argument.
It's a totally because it's not gonna change.
We're not gonna give anything back.
You don't justify slavery because that was the normal of those days, you know.
We we ought to condemn that.
I'm not justify we're the one nation in the world that led the world in getting rid of slavery.
We had a civil war partially about what are you talking about here?
We don't have slavery here.
We did have slavery.
We did, but we fixed it.
And what's the one?
What are you obsessing?
You're you know, I well, I tell you.
Russia, you know, um we are doing an uh orphanage in Sri Lanka if you want to contribute to that, you know.
Uh 50,000 people in Sri Lanka.
Oh, you now you're asking.
Asking for a donation now.
Right.
Well, I mean, we we want to make peace.
Uh we make peace.
Well, you're a great peace activist, I gotta tell you're one of the best peace activists that we've ever had call this program.
Uh you you take the cake for it, David.
It's great to have you with us, thanks so much.
People need to hear uh what you think.
People like you.
Uh people need to hear it not from my lips, but from uh but from yours.
I appreciate the phone call.
Who's next?
Uh Paul in mid-Kansas.
Uh, doesn't want to identify the city for some reason.
Uh well, I'm on the road.
I'm on the Kansas turd bike rush.
Uh I just wanted to say that we should inform uh Miss Feinstein that our that our current policy, our current immigration policy is already racist.
It's very much in favor of our neighbors to the south border.
If someone comes over from China in a shipping container where half of those people die, the other half that survive get sent back to China.
If somebody comes floating over the ocean, not a boat or a piece of raft of some sort of thing.
Like from Sri Lanka.
Yeah.
We send them right back.
So we don't do the same thing for it.
And we show a great deal of excellent.
Yeah, we are biased against uh uh all other people uh in the because sixty percent of the illegals in this country are from Mexico.
You're absolutely right.
But you know, you understand what Feinstein's doing, though.
She's trying to tar and feather good people like you and others who have called them to complain and to voice their opposition to the bill.
They're setting this up uh so as to be able to disregard and pay no attention to this criticism because it's coming from a bunch of racists.
But you're right.
That's an excellent point.
We'll fire back at them with it.
Absolutely, Rush.
They're trying to they're trying to pin the blame on us, where it's really them that's that's accepted the situation and has actually benefited.
They're they're standing at the border with a blue stamp to stamp them as blue democrats right as soon as they cross the border.
And it's they can't control a border, but the one thing they can control is they can they can try to get these people to vote for them.
Right.
Precisely that that and expand the welfare state, uh, expand the uh uh uh redistribution of wealth, expand government and so forth.
There's a whole lot of things that politicians like about this, uh, and they're they're totally uh unconcerned about the long-term consequences to the country.
Here's here's a thought uh as well, folks.
Uh Rasmussen reports did a lot of polling on this bill, and uh they they got some very accurate results.
Uh only 26% of the American people support it.
But here's here's a from last Friday.
This is uh just a a paragraph pull quote from the entire article.
The reality is much simpler, has nothing to do with legislative tactics.
The immigration bill failed because a broad cross section of the American people are opposed to it, pure and simple.
Republicans, Democrats, unaffiliated voters are opposed, men are opposed, so are women, the young don't like it, neither do the no longer young.
White Americans are opposed, Americans of color are opposed.
The opposition to this crossed every line, crossed every boundary, crossed every marker.
And yet, they are still going to try to revive this and force it down our throats.
You know this is coming.
Uh and it makes you wonder.
You know, we have the uh our founding documents we're all taught in civics 101 about the will of the people, a consent of the governed.
Uh when something is as widely opposed as this, and yet the effort is going to be to revive it, probably in its in its in its same form.
Because amnesty is what they want.
They want amnesty in the bill.
That's the nothing else works.
They need illegals to be immediately legal, hell with citizenship.
They need them to be immediately legal for for what their idea of this uh legislation is to work.
And it makes you wonder.
This is the kind of thing I think that the founding fathers would be turning over in their graves uh if they knew was going on when the this much broad opposition to something, and yet the elected representatives of the people uh are still trying to well, ignoring that and force it down the uh throats of the of the people of the governed.
Fascinating.
Here's Steve in Ogden, Utah.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Russ, what a pleasure it is to talk to you.
My conservative savior.
Hey, I just wanted to uh mention I'm I'm livid about this, Diane Feinstein uh mention racist email.
I'm just I'm tired of being a guilty white male in America that's g that's shamed into uh sending over and taking this.
That's what they're doing.
They're shaming us into uh slowly taking taking this uh this bill.
Well, they may be trying to do that.
I th I I think that uh if I discuss that only too repetitive here, they're they're they're setting themselves up for the next time this comes up to be able to ignore the complaints next time.
Yeah, it's just a bunch of racists, and we're not gonna sit here and be governed by a bunch of racists and people filled with rage and so forth and so on.
That But that there's a a second thing, too.
Maybe you you may have a point.
They may be trying to make it tougher uh for the opposition to hold together because they hope that guilt will descend and people will say like you, I don't I don't want to be associated with a bunch of racists.
I don't know.
Uh I I and I think in addition, they're just they're elitists, they're above criticism.
I can't believe everybody gets these kinds of emails.
It's in public life.
It's nothing unique.
They think somehow, for some reason, they should be immune from it.
Back in just a moment.
This is kind of a cute story, and I I must admit, it's nice to see this kind of motivation in a kid these days.
Stories at a North Bend, Oregon, a middle school student at junior high for those of you in Rio Linda who didn't go to school.
Kyle Ray Catherman is the kid's name.
He had a hunch that something was amiss with the Scrual's drinking fountain water.
So for an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains at the Scruel and one toilet.
And he did this to challenge a ban on students and bringing bottled water to class.
Some were using it to sneak in gin for their uh lessons in honesty.
Jen and vodka.
So they banned bottled water, and the kids drinking fountain water is something not right about it.
So he got these four Petri dishes when I did the testing, and sure enough, the toilet water was far cleaner, much more cleaner than the fountain water.
Now, that's probably because they clean those toilets every day, you put all those disinfectants and stuff in there.
But uh the kid, I uh kid's getting a lot of credit for this as he should, but dogs have known this for ever.
Your dog would rather drink out of the toilet than your sink, right?
Your cat too.
Alan Queens, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, hi, Rush.
Hello, sir.
Uh something you said concerned me.
Uh-oh.
Uh you said that uh if we just build a fence, border security first, everything else will fall into place.
I didn't say a fence.
I said get serious about securing the border and make sure that there's not a run-up of you know we did this in 1986.
And since we did this, we've had twelve to twenty million come in in that time, and who maybe maybe even more.
Oh, okay.
So border security first, that's fine.
But if we're going to legitimize twelve million people who are going to sponsor over another fifty million, entitled to social security benefits, welfare, food stamps, Medicare.
I submit to you that the wall or the fence or whatever is irrelevant.
Because the damage is done.
Uh well, I don't I'm not advocating that now.
I'm not saying the rest of the bill's okay with me.
You should know this.
You should know better after listening to me regularly on this.
I'm all these provisions uh bother me.
But the point is they're gonna I was in the context, speaking in the context, they're bringing the bill back.
And if they don't fix it, and the first thing to fix in this bill is border security and get serious about it.
I don't mean just a thousand or two thousand new agents.
If they but if they don't do that, the rest of it's all academic.
If they do do that, then there's a chance to make other parts of it right.
But I think I th this this legislation, this whole topic should not be brought back as a as uh as another, you know, under the cover of darkness piece of legislation.
This ought to be front and center in the upcoming presidential campaign.
Uh because this that that is where the people of this country will actually have a say in uh in the outcome of the of the whole concept of what to do about uh about immigration.
But uh, you know, too many people looking at this for all the wrong reasons.
Political legacy in case of the White House, uh future voters for the Democrats, Republicans worried to death that Hispanics are gonna hate their guts and never vote for them again for anything.
Uh meanwhile, Mel Martinez.
Let me find this in the stack.
The the uh senator from Florida.
Uh his poll numbers are are are yeah, here it is.
This is from uh the Orlando Sentinel Emigrant Bill, Hertz Martinez in polls.
An incumbent with a 37% approval rating needs to mend some fences, said Peter Brown, the assistant director at the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
They polled about 1,100 Floridians from May 24th to June 4th.
Mel Martinez, 37% approval.
And we're just a bunch of Yahoo racists.
This is a guy running the Republican National Committee, by the way.
And I they had better start listening.
And by have you, by the way, have anybody ask this question to yourself?
Why all of a sudden now?
They've had this administration had six years to do something on this.
The Clinton clowns had whatever number of years we've we've had 10, 12 years to get serious about this.
Why all of a sudden now is this mandatory?
It has to be done now.
If we don't get it done now, why it's the worst possible thing that could happen.
Why now?
Well, when you start answering that question and start throwing the variables out, the possible answers, you don't find any of them that are good.
To do it just to do it is not the best reason to do it.
And when you look at how the Democrats in the Senate snookered the Republicans on this.
Look at some of this stuff in this bill.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
And you still to this day have got Republicans out there trying to defend it.
Comprehensive destroyer Republican Party Act of 2007.
Quick timeout.
We'll squeeze a couple calls in when we come back.
Don't uh don't go anywhere.
Listen this quote from Senator Martinez from last week in the uh Orlando Sentinel.
Uh the alternative, frankly, is to leave the problem unresolved, to leave the problem lingering longer.
The 12 million that are here today illegally will become 13 and then 14 million, only making it a bigger problem.
This is the time to fix it.
Do you realize do you do you do you?
Senator Martinez, this bill doesn't fix it.
It doesn't fix it.
It doesn't.
The 12 to 13 that are here are going to become 50 to 80 million.
Under the bill doesn't fix it.
We don't have to do anything new, Senator, except enforce the law that was written in 1986.
Simpson Mazzoli.
Just enforce the existing law.
You know, build that fence that you said you were going to build a couple days ago, two years ago.
Build a fence, enforce the law.
I know I I gotta I gotta dial it back here, folks, because I'm starting to sound enraged, right?
Uh and so I'm I'm gonna give all of us a bad name here by not appearing civil.
Uh and and uh reasoned and uh and polite.
But that this this is this is a United States Senator, the guy running the RNC thinking if we don't do anything, why the 12 are gonna become 13 or 14 million.
And this bill would what?
Make the 12 to 20 million become what?
Legal.
So there aren't any illegals here.
This is what I mean about our guys getting succored on this.
Uh it just folks, it defies uh a logical explanation here.
Quick timeout.
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