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June 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam wondering what it is that I am uh moving and grooving to here, I was listening to uh Music Maestro Barry White.
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All right, I have figured this out.
I figured out what happened today.
Oh, and I have an update on what the House Republicans are going to do.
They're still they're still meeting uh well, they're going to meet later this afternoon, but the the odds are I guess little better than 50-50 they're going to come out with this statement uh disapproving of the legislation in the Senate.
But more on that in in just a moment.
The cloture vote today was simply a vote to uh uh start debate on amendments, stop the offering of amendments, and start debate on the amendments.
And that debate is procedurally allowed for 30 hours.
The C Senate's going to reconvene here in about seven minutes.
30 hours will take us to Thursday.
The real cloture vote is thus Thursday.
Now the vote today was 6435.
All they needed was 60 votes to uh stop the offering of amendments and open the debate process on these amendments that were offered.
These these amendments were allowed.
Uh the White House and Ted Kennedy and Dingy Harry Reed got together.
It's okay, we're going to need to do something to get some Republican votes.
They want some amendments.
So we'll let them uh offer their amendments.
Now, the the the thing about this, two things about this.
I can I can understand why a number of Republicans might say, all right, look it.
I'm going to go ahead and vote to shut down the amendment process so we can start debating the amendments.
I don't want to be seen here as somebody opposing debate on the amendments.
And I can clearly see, not clearly, but I can also see uh a number of people saying, All right, while I'm willing to vote for the debate process on the amendments to begin, doesn't mean that I'm going to vote for the bill.
So I'm saying it's possible that enough of these Republicans could turn around Thursday and vote against cloture, depending on how the debate process on these amendments goes the next 30 hours.
Now, my suspicion is that this whole thing with the amendments is a sham, uh, and it was done purposely just to get some support from Republicans.
The idea that the amendments, uh significant number of them will pass, is uh I'm dubious about that.
But anyway, that's what happened today.
So uh you you some of you angry at your Senate.
I'm not making excuses for them.
I'm I'm honestly after digging into this during the program.
I do show prep and show performance at the same time.
And what I think I've figured out here is that this was a process by which they want to be seen as encouraging debate on the amendments, shut down the the opportunity to offer them and move this thing on.
Thirty hours of debate, then the real cloture vote on Thursday.
And so there's there's still all kinds of time for you to be heard if you are so inclined.
Now, I mentioned earlier at the beginning of the program the Republicans in the House were considering issuing a one-sentence statement, essentially telling their Republican brethren in the Senate, you guys don't do this because we are going to officially stand in opposition today.
We're all gonna sign this one-sentence statement.
And so you don't have to walk the plank here.
You can you can you can vote the right way for your constituents and be off the hook.
That did not happen this morning.
However, it may happen later this afternoon.
House Republicans are set to vote on a measure this afternoon rejecting the Senate immigration bill.
Uh uh sometime after the uh uh cloture vote, which happened uh, I guess it was over about 1230 Eastern time this afternoon.
Uh representative Peter Hookstra, who is uh from Michigan, a Republican from Michigan, offered the resolution in a closed door meeting of Republican House members this morning, and a lot of them were surprised.
Uh They were eventually forced to postpone their vote because not enough members were in attendance, but they are expected to address the question later this afternoon when more Republicans show up.
Roy Blunt, the Republican whip, said clearly many of our members have problems with the Senate bill.
So uh the resolution is largely symbolic, but it would uh it would signal widespread displeasure of the Senate bill uh just as they had into the cloture vote uh for real, a real cloture vote on Thursday.
Well, the single sentence in the hookster proposal is this.
Resolve that the House Republican Conference disapproves of the Senate immigration bill.
That's as I the reason why it's symbolic is because it doesn't constitute an actual vote.
Uh and if the members of the Republican caucus don't sign it individually, then of course they're not officially putting their names to it, it'll be put out in the uh in the name of the entire Republican conference, so uh Republican caucus.
Uh so we'll see.
But that could signal uh big problems when the bill gets to the House.
There are many battles in this, as I keep saying.
Also, uh I want to go back to the call we had uh from the Ukrainian immigrant, the legal Ukrainian immigrant who offered his own theories as to why the votes are are happening the way they are, because Senators uh have far more concerns, geopolitical concerns uh in our hemisphere, uh revolving around oil and Hugo Chavez, the stability of the Mexican government and so forth that they can't dare talk about, that they offer as their as their reasons.
You know, we've we've we've gone back and forth trying to understand this uh for I don't know how long, ever since this uh most recent incarnation of the bill in the Senate came up.
Now we all know uh that on the surface of things, the things that we could figure out just on on our experience guided by intelligence, that the Democrats simply see these people that are flooding in here as new victims, new members of the welfare state regarding uh requiring the government to grow larger and larger and larger,
taxes to go up so that the redistribution of wealth can take place, creating as many dependents as possible, and then eventually getting them legal and getting them uh uh as many of them in citizenship as possible so they can vote for Democrats, because that's who they'll vote for.
Republicans.
On the other hand, you've got a bunch of different uh uh lobby interests on the Republican side of this.
One of them is big business, Chamber of Commerce, they like the cheap labor.
There's another element of this, and I'm I remember mentioning this to you probably six weeks ago now, maybe maybe a little longer than that.
Well, what's happening here largely is that we need they're flawed, by the way, in their in their reasoning here, but it's the old argument about saving Social Security.
We all know, if we choose to believe it, that Social Security has uh an end point where it's gonna require the taxes of one worker to pay the retirement benefits of one retiree, and that's gonna require a tax benefit that workers won't or tax rate that workers won't pay.
You're not gonna go convince 20, 22-year-old people today that in thirty years their tax rate's gonna be 75 percent.
They're not gonna pay it.
They're not gonna work.
They're gonna join the welfare state.
And it'll all break down.
Uh Congress doesn't have the guts to take on Social Security reform and really reform it.
It's the third rail of politics, you've heard that.
That's the fastest way to cause yourself to lose an election.
Actually, it's the second way.
The second best way to now cause yourself to lose an election.
The first best way is voting the wrong way on this immigration bill.
But the influx of all of these people, the theory is look at all these new taxpayers, because whether legal or not, doesn't matter.
They are paying Social Security taxes.
Even if they're on an illegal card, social security card with illegal number, the money's still being collected.
Now, do the do the businesses that are hiring these people pass it on to the government or not?
Probably not in the case of illegals with forged numbers because it's quick way to be identified is hiring illegals as a risk that some businesses don't want to take.
That's what's flawed about all this.
But the theory is that these people coming in uh will contribute all this new income because we've been aborting ourselves.
Fellow has we gotta we gotta throw this in the mix, too.
Since 1973, I mean run the numbers.
1.3 million abortions a year.
We've aborted 40 million potential Americans.
Forty million taxpayers who would be in the workforce producing income, generating wealth, and paying social security taxes.
Our our replacement birth rate in this country is not what it should be.
It's a little low.
So the fastest way to get bodies in here is to allow these illegals that want to come in, come in and pay their get their social security taxes and put off the day of reckoning on Social Security for another bunch of generation to deal with and not have to make the hard choices now.
And I think that's a factor too.
The problem with it is it'll all fall apart because these illegals that are coming that are coming in and will be allowed in if this thing ever happens, are going to be net drains on the whole so uh safety net because the low wages they're going to be paid will not allow them to fend for themselves in enough areas where compassionate country, and so they'll have the free dental care, to free health care, they've got all this stuff, and guess who's gonna be paying for that?
You will.
And the Liberals love that ultimately because that's just more taxes.
That's more bigger government, that is a greater redistribution of wealth.
Um and believe me, uh liberals, if they could if they could wipe out conservatism as a viable alternative ideology.
Uh they would love to be able to do it.
And if you bring 45, 50 million people in here that automatically vote Democrat, and you can create a minority that votes 90 percent Democrat like uh African Americans do, then you can effectively end the existence as a viable force of Republicanism or conservatism or what have you.
Those are all the Democrat uh motivations, which makes it even more puzzling why the Republicans don't see it and they're falling for it, which leads them to, well, clearly they're done uh dumb, so there's got to be something else going on here that we don't understand.
Uh but I wanted to r to review the whole thing here because the the vote that comes up on Thursday is uh is uh is another actual uh cloture vote, uh which I for when the show started it, I didn't know there was another vote on Thursday.
I saw Mark Krakorian's post at National Review Online, which uh bells and whistles was whoa, whoa, what what is what is this?
Okay, then I started delving into it and finding out what's up.
Now the Chinese story, when we come back, stay with us.
All right, welcome back.
Let's go to the funds.
They got some anger raging out there and at me, your harmless, lovable little fuzzball host.
This is Edgar in Nashville.
Hi, Edgar.
Yeah, okay.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh uh, I'm sitting here listening to you.
I don't get to hear you a lot, but Edgar, Edgar, slow down just a little bit so I can understand.
Can you not?
I'm sorry.
No, it's not your fault, it's mine.
But I just need you to slow down a little bit.
I will try to do that.
Let me say this.
You said you had uh show prep, and then you had show performance.
And your show performance, you have just pooped in your nest and made uh really, I think, uh kind of a fool of yourself by telling us that these people that voted for closure examined their conscience, did not want to stand in the way of amendments or debate on amendments.
That is soft speed of the first order.
Anyone that voted for closure, voted for amnesty, you know it.
I know it.
Your informed listers know it, and you are coming forward with this stuff about these people doing.
There is no way this thing is going to pass in the Senate.
We know it today.
We know it right now.
And you will not call these people's names.
All you've got to do is this.
Wait a second.
Wait, hold it a minute.
Name the senators that that voted for closure last time and didn't vote for closure and and voted for closure.
Voted for culture last time and it's because it's two different kinds of cloture.
It's what I'm trying.
I'm not justifying what they did.
You're getting all upset here.
You you call here and tell me I just pooped in my pants, and I haven't done that since I was one and a half.
You did today.
I did not.
I'm just I'm just trying to We do analysis here.
You want to know what I really I don't see why they would vote for cloture today on these amendments specifically because none of the amendments put security before amnesty.
I agree with you about this.
It's a done deal, Rush.
What do you mean it's a done deal?
I mean, the amnesty's coming out of the Senate.
You know it, I know it, your informed listeners know it.
Well, I tried to tell you last week, I said uh it's based on this vote today that you're defending.
I'm not defending the vote for Craig.
All their names and what are you listening to?
I'm not defending the vote, Edgar.
Rush, you are I am not you and I am the wrong guy for you to get mad at here, Edgar.
I am running America.
Yeah.
Well, I tell you what, I'm about I'm I'm gonna vote against you next time then.
Now I'm uh in all friendship here because I apologize since eighty eight when you came on.
But listen, start calling the names and getting behind.
We've got a Well good it we're gonna put them on the website, we're gonna do that.
Look, let me let me tell you, Edgar, let me just let me s because you you you've misunderstood here.
Yeah.
This was a big vote today.
Yep.
And those who voted the wrong way will not be forgotten, Edgar.
Call their names today.
I get Snerdley, get the names.
We d there there were there were there were seven there were seven Republicans here and uh and five of them went the wrong way, and I know I know who they are.
All right.
They were it's up it is all I'm trying to tell you is depending on how this debate goes, some of these guys, it's their amendments like Kit Bond and Lindsay.
Well, we know where Gramness is gonna be.
W they that it's entirely possible they'll change their votes on Thursday.
I know you're I don't know, no, no.
That's not going to happen.
You know it and I know it.
Uh I don't know what otherwise I wouldn't say it.
If I did if if I thought it wasn't gonna happen, I wouldn't say it.
Rush, now I agree that the pe that there's people that voted for closure today that will vote against the bill.
That's their lie to get out of being accused of voting for amnesty, and it's not an out.
You know it and I know it.
Am I wrong?
Well, no, I what what I I I've told you what this whole amendment thing was.
The amendment thing was was essentially a trick by the Democrat leadership and the White House to give these recalcitrant rhinos, as you call them, uh something to latch on to and make a false promise.
Okay, you want your amendment?
We'll give you your amendment.
I just last hour said these amendments are never gonna pass.
No, they're not, and they're gonna have a vote and they would you know they've got the votes when they bring it up, it's gonna pass.
You know it and I know it.
Well, the bottom line is the bill was revived today and it was dead before today, and uh you see It ain't dead right.
It's not a good thing.
You you see no justification for it being revived.
The reason it was revived was insider Washington politics.
Yep.
These guys are hanging on for as many goodies as they can get in exchange for their votes.
What in the world here am I saying, Edgar, that's got you all upset with me.
I'm just trying to explain to you because you're defending these people I was not defending them.
I told you I could no.
I what I said was I can understand why some of these guys might think that there is safety in voting for closure today because they don't want to be seen voting against debate.
Give me a break.
That is sophistry.
It's not sophistry, that's brilliant analysis.
I'm not agreeing with them.
I'm not saying I'm just saying it's a possibility.
There's a lot of guys voted for closure today are going to vote against it, but they know that it's a done deal and they were paid to do it today.
Yeah, well.
You know it.
I know it, you're informed listeners, and I hope somebody else will call and tell you that.
For oh, yeah, I thought you said my former listeners not.
No, no, no, no.
You're really you got a lot of listeners, and I'm not gonna hang out.
I'm gonna keep listening to you, even if I cut you every now and then when I hear you.
But uh here, my friend, uh I I appreciate everything you're doing.
But but you've got to get off this repo drinking this uh Republican Party cool.
You you have to look at the full body of evidence of my work here, Edgar.
And here I say one thing in the last three months about this, and you're willing to throw out the the the two months and twenty-nine day the two months and twenty-nine days of what you know I said.
They got one day here where you heard me say in one segment something that you've misunderstood.
Rush, I'm a portrait artist.
I'm in my studio all day.
I listen to talk radio, I watch about six, eight hours of talking to his on TV.
I know what's happening in Washington.
It's just not maybe as well as you do, but I know and you know what happened, and it's a done deal and the guys that voted for closure today.
All right, look, Edgar, okay, f let's let's move beyond that point.
Uh, what are you gonna do next if it's a done deal and there's nothing can be done to stop it?
What are you gonna do next?
Call another talk radio and complain, I guess.
Well, no, we gotta think we'll vote.
There is no other talk radio, Edgar.
That's what you're saying.
Well, and what what are we gonna what why do you want to complain?
What are you gonna accomplish by complaining?
Oh, maybe I should just fold my tent and forget about it.
Well, you that's what you're doing when you're pronouncing it with no chance of killing this.
You are f you folded the tent.
My what's the point?
If anybody I ought to be calling you and chewing you out and accusing you of pooping in your pants because of fear.
Because you're you're giving up here.
I'm not giving up.
One thing.
Talk radio can do this.
Start naming instances in Republicans and ferret these people out.
Call their names, just like the media.
Call their names consistently outgoing.
Hagel.
Talk about I'm losing my confidence.
I know I said all I've been doing.
You're not losing your confidence, but everybody knows Chuck Hagel's on the wrong side.
Chuck Hagel does that that's not one of the names we need to mention because nobody would be surprised by uh by that name.
Edgar, I uh I've enjoyed this immensely.
Uh thoroughly have.
I appreciate your phone call.
I gotta take a brief time out here.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
And we are back, serving humanity and executing assigned host duties flawlessly here on the EIB network.
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All right.
Um I have another theory out there about this vote today.
I'm afraid that I'd send Edgar uh over the edge if I if I mentioned this this uh this theory.
Now let's let's let me just throw it out there and and you digest it as you will.
I and I I know that somebody's gonna say that they're trying to defend what these traitors did.
Uh and look, the bottom line is the bill was dead, and there was no need to revive it.
But they did.
The bill was dead, and it has been revived.
And it's been revived on the basis of this amendment stuff.
Now let's take a look at two senators.
The senators from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, the Democrat voted no on cloture.
Kit Bond, the Republican from Missouri, voted yes to bring it all back for another round of discussion.
Why?
How do you explain this?
Well, uh, my astute, experienced analytical political mind has come up with a possibility.
It's worth getting the Democrats on record uh about this, and this is something Claire McCaskill.
I mean, she she could be forgiven for wanting to avoid a going on the record on this.
Every senator, I know you we we talk about the Republicans here, but I'm telling you, every senator knows.
They they read polls and they live and die by polls, and they know full well that 76 to 80 percent of the American people are opposed to this.
The Democrats have succeeded in getting this portrayed as a full-time Republican bill because the White House is pushing it.
But it's a Ted Kennedy bill, Ted Kennedy and McCain are the authors of this bill.
McCain a rhino.
They've been portrayed here as as being the ones that uh the Republicans have being the ones fully responsible for this.
Remember, Dingy Harry said this is a Republican bill when he killed it when he when he took the bill off the floor.
It's a Republican bill.
This is uh this is a White House bill.
I urge the president to get his people going.
Nancy Pelosi will not let this thing pass the House without a whole lot of Republican votes.
Because I'm telling you folks, they're trying to do a bunch of things here, and one of them is destroy the Republican Party.
Uh that and conservatism and so forth.
This is war.
This is this is this is what politics is.
This is not the first time this kind of objective has been.
I mean, I think what Bush and Rove were trying to do, frankly, with this at the beginning.
I misguided as hell, but uh I think there one of their efforts was to do as much structural damage a Democrat Party, make them a minority party for as far out in the future as possible.
They just miscalculated on the way to do it.
Uh using the immigration bill.
So what happens here, uh uh well, let me ask you, how does it help any Democrat to be on record opposing any amendments which may be sensible, uh like that offered previously by John Carnett John uh uh Cornan of uh Texas.
His amendment would have barred illegal immigrant felons, including child molesters and drunk drivers, from obtaining any of the benefits of citizenship.
And would have sent them back.
And that amendment failed.
Uh Bond is offered an amendment striking the path to citizenship.
Uh and if and if his amendment fails, he says he's gonna vote against clocher.
That's what he says now.
Um So there's a possibility they want to get the Democrats in on that.
I I think, folks, these people are not stupid.
You may think that they're they're they're blind and dumb, but they're not.
They know full well how you feel.
And they are they are they're fully mindful of this.
And I think uh uh in terms the Republicans know full well, the Democrats are getting off scot-free on this.
But still, and the at the end of the day, all of this could have been avoided, and all of this extraneous analysis could be unnecessary because the bill was dead, and it was unnecessary to revive it.
None of these amendments put security first.
The amendments that have been offered, they're amnesty amendments.
Uh and the whole thing was a trick anyway.
I think these none of these amendments are gonna end up passing and being part of the bill.
So at the end of the day, it was dead, it's been revived, and there was no reason for it to be revived.
But if you're trying, like I always do to explain why people in politics do what they do, and I'm just throwing out these possibilities here.
Sorry, Edgar.
Uh he's probably racing the phone or call me back and say, all right, that's it, I'm never listening to you again.
Here's uh Dave in Gurney, Illinois.
Dave, welcome to the program.
Glad you waited, sir.
Ditto's rush on this hysterical, historical day on your show, and especially in the Senate.
Um actually, I'm going back to the beginning of the show.
You did you mentioned a poll of illegal aliens?
Yes.
Okay, now my point, I was waiting for you to make this observation, but this point I make is a perfect example how you taught me to observe, assess, and evaluate about the poll of illegal aliens.
Um, how did the pollsters find the illegals to ask them, and then how were they allowed to ask them if they are illegal.
Uh well, look, remember now when I read this, I was laughing myself silly.
Yeah.
Because those are those are obvious things.
We keep hearing the illegals, Ted Kennedy and uh well, even the president talks about how we need to get these people out of the shadows.
They've been out of the shadows for who they show up by the millions and protest and wave their uh you know the the Mexican flags.
The uh the uh media can find them all over the place to poll them, and yet law enforcement can't.
Exactly.
It speaks for itself.
It's laughable.
Just like yesterday, we found out that they discovered a tunnel from Tijuana into uh Southern California right under the uh the border patrol checkpoint.
They didn't know it was there for years.
And yet these are the these are the people tell us that, yeah, we're gonna find these people who shouldn't be here.
We're gonna uh 24 hours security check and we're gonna find out all of them, whether they're good or not, we're gonna ones that are not good, we're gonna send it it's all a joke.
The whole thing is exactly.
And then they're and then authorities are not able to ask at that same thing, you know, whether they're illegal or not.
Yeah, well, the real of course, that's obvious.
The real funny part about that story was I mean, it's it's mind-boggling.
Let me let me go back and get the story.
Let me uh it's a Washington Post story.
And what did I do the other?
I gotta put it all to one.
Yes, it's just stand by here and I'll have it in mere moments.
Yes.
Because I gotta I want to read this passage as it's written in the uh New York Post.
By the way, did you have you seen this story on the um on the on the Drudge Report of this guy over in Germany who lives with big cats, lives with tigers and lions and leopards, and they got pictures of this.
This guy's a dead man walking.
He just doesn't know it yet.
We'll link to it at Rushlimbo.com later you can uh you can see it.
GOP backers offer immigration bill change.
Uh Lindsay Gramnesty from South Carolina has moved an amendment that says illegals must touch back.
They must go back to their home countries to get Z visas instead of presto.
The current legislation is that after the president signs a bill, 24 hours later, background check on all these people, hardy har har.
And then they're legal.
Not citizens, but it doesn't matter.
They only pay the fines in this bill if they become citizens.
And there's no requirement that they become citizens.
All they want is legal status anyway.
They're going to get that within 24 hours.
So Lindsay Gramnesty moves his his amendment that says illegals have to go back home To get their Z visas instead of presto.
So the two polling companies went out and talked to sixteen hundred illegal citizens, and of the sixteen hundred, thirty-seven percent said, Oh, we're not gonna go for that.
No, no, no, we're not going back home.
And the Washington Post reports this.
It's surreal.
Uh thirty-seven percent oh, we we're not gonna go for that.
It's like telling anybody else that commits criminal activity.
Look, uh, we're gonna give you a pass here, but you're i if you want amnesty from your crime, uh you're still gonna I'm I'm not gonna take that deal.
I want full-fledged amnesty, I want it twenty-four hours.
Oh, okay.
And then we write a story about what they want and don't want.
Uh Michael in Austin, Texas.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Um hope I don't blow this one.
Um, wait, wait, wait, wait.
How could you blow it?
Well, there was a lot of other things I would have rather have uh talked about, but I heard the guy from the Ukraine talk about the geopolitical potential of this.
Uh uh I hate, I'm not I I don't want to be uh nitpicker here, but it's Ukraine.
There's no the or the in front of I just it's we're an educational informative program here.
He was he was from Ukraine.
Okay.
Uh I I think this goes back a lot of it to the Cold War.
I don't think originally it was.
I a lot of us held our nose with Bush and the way he's always saddled up to the illegal alien community around here.
But in the last two years it's like he's thrown open the doors.
And and I think his reasons for doing it are far different from the Democrats, and I don't I don't think we really know what his reasons are necessarily.
Uh you've got Russia that's basically fomented the Middle Eastern terrorists and their allies with Iran and a non-aggression pact.
They will defend Iran supposedly if if anyone goes against them.
You have China with North Korea, and they also have control of the Panama Canal.
You have Hugo Chavez down in Central America, and you got a half a dozen people on the r going on these talk shows with all sorts of different scenarios about potential nuclear weapons going off on the shore, you know, in the coastland of or in America, and also potential EMP devices going off.
Maybe he knows something.
Bush knows something, uh that we don't.
Maybe he's concerned that we're gonna have a flood of uh just the masses from the south of the border, uh in a in a middle of a bunch of chaos as our enemies orchestrate some form of attack against us and wants to engender a lot of support with those countries by allowing a large number of their citizens to go in there and ha have roots in there.
Um I mean, it's something it would have to be something so big that that you know maybe he's got some piece of evidence he's sitting on and I don't I I I look I I admire listening to people's thought processes.
And uh because I I admire people who think and I admire people who are not robots.
Uh but on this I I I respectfully say that that is a bit of a stretch.
Uh that we if I heard you right, uh we want a flood of illegals, so we have allies if Al Qaeda and the Russians and the Iranians decide to nuke us.
Uh man, if we're gonna depend on illegals and uh and I don't mean in joining the army.
I'm talking about creating goodwill so we have allies.
We may as well just re-elect Kerry and have him do the goal global test.
We may just turn over our whole sovereignty to what the rest of the world thinks.
I don't think with Bush that's what it is.
And with Bush, he's devout in his faith.
And I I I really think you've got second-term presidents and they're concerned with legacies.
Uh don't know to what extent he has that concern.
Uh not certainly strong as Bill Clinton did, but I do think that with Bush, uh it it's probably a more simpler explanation than it is complicated.
I think it's these are the great unwashed.
These are the huddled masses.
These are the people that want to improve their lives, that want to access the greatest country in the world because of the opportunity we have.
And he's he's not gonna close the door on them.
He's just not gonna do it.
Uh now there's more to it than that.
I I don't want to go into much more detail on that, but I think I think that obviously there's some political concerns too.
I think there's some misjudgments, miscalculations.
I really do think that there's some Republicans who think that these people are going to end up being conservative Republicans.
Because they're pandered to enough that we can show the people that we're nicer to them than the Democrats will be.
It's absurd.
If you're somebody who's seeking to access a relevant spot in the safety net, why would you go to the pretenders to get what you need when you can go to the real guys?
In this case, the liberal Democrats.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Michael.
I've got a quick timeout here.
We'll be back after another EIB Obscene Profit Break.
Stay where you are.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
Great to be with you as always.
Holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a list of the Republicans who voted for cloture today.
In alphabetical order, they are Bennett of Utah.
These are all Republicans now.
Kit Bond of Missouri.
Sam Brownback of Kansas.
Richard Burr of North Carolina.
Norm Coleman of Minnesota.
Susan Collins of Maine.
No surprise there.
Larry Craig of Idaho.
Pete Domenici of New Mexico.
John Ensign, Nevada.
That's really curious to me because this is the guy who's in charge of re-electing Republicans to the Senate and finding new candidates and fundraising.
Lindsey Graham-nesty.
South Carolina.
Judd Gregg, New Hampshire.
Chuck Hagel.
No surprise there.
John Kyle, Arizona.
No surprise there.
He's carrying the bill for the Republicans.
Trent Lott.
No surprise there.
Richard Lugar.
Mel Martinez.
No surprise there.
John McCain.
No surprise there.
Mitch McConnell.
Be interesting to watch him.
Murkowski from Arkansas.
Olympia Snow.
Arlen Spector, no surprise there.
Ted Stevens of Ark of Alaska, no surprise.
Uh uh George Voinovich.
Don't know if he cried before the vote.
Uh from Ohio, but uh he voted yay, as did John Warner, the Southern gentleman from Virginia.
So those are your names of the Republicans who voted for cloture and revived a dead bill.
Go to Staten Island, Sal, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
My teaching's the king.
You are the king.
Hello?
Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to understand.
Uh uh just a comment about this uh uh talk radio stuff.
Um uh a quick a quick thing is uh uh Cork radio was um what's the word for they would be ignored by all the uh liberal media.
Uh they took over university, they took over uh Hollywood and everything else, and they they deemed radio as insignificant.
And so you came along.
You took talk radio.
And we were, you're right.
We were able to sneak up on them because they had all those other institutions.
They didn't think anything of radio.
It was nothing, it's something you listen to.
That's right.
And they had they had a networks, and they had the newspapers and they had everything.
But you see, your popularity stems from the fact you enunciate brilliantly at the conservative position.
But you're saying what the people are believing.
And there was no other aiming you out there for people to have to to have someone enunciate what they were, you know, what they were feeling, and you did it.
And you were brilliant at it.
And you power grew.
Wait, what was this were?
What?
What was this was brilliant at it?
I'm sorry, you are brilliant.
Thank you.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Excuse me, Rush.
Sorry.
You're very kind.
I appreciate that.
And you're you're very perceptive.
You've you've um you've come up with a new way of describing how we destroyed their monopoly.
Because they they had a monopoly on it, and the very I I I can't thank you enough for the nice things you said about why uh uh uh program has the popularity that it does.
I've I uh I never I'm never gonna be able to adequately thank those of you in this audience for what your uh your listenership here has meant to me and my family and all that.
I will always try, but I don't think there's a sufficient uh way to do it.
But I appreciate that, Sal.
Thanks uh so much.
We have to close it out here, folks.
So be back and uh give you a heads up on what's happening on tomorrow's show.
Well, I can tell you now, I don't know what's happening on tomorrow's show because whatever is going to be on tomorrow's show hasn't happened yet.
It's not topical, it's current.
Stay with us.
Rush Limbaugh running America.
You know it, I know it.
I forgot to get to the story about uh Marxism failing in China.
We'll do that tomorrow, and whatever else happens between uh now and then.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
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