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June 28, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 28, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ryan, you gotta check that humidor sometime today.
This cigar is so dry, it's falling apart.
I can't smoke that.
Here I had a victory cigar already to go, and it's falling apart.
I hope that's not an omen.
Greetings, my friends, you did it.
53 to 46.
Cloture goes down.
The amnesty bill is dead.
What a hot morning.
And we're going to turn up the heat here.
I hope you got your suntan lotion, your sunblock out there, folks, because it's hot.
It is going to be hot today.
Great to be with you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A telephone number.
I'm sure you want to talk about this today.
800-282-2882 and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
There's lots of stuff.
The White House declaring executive privilege today over the Leahy subpoenas.
That is huge.
The Supreme Court has rejected the uh whole notion of uh affirmative action and assigning students to schools using race as a as a basis for doing that.
It's not as sweeping a decision as you think.
I will explain to you why as the program unfolds.
It's a hundred and eighty-five-page ruling, and the uh there's a great line in here from the Chief Justice John Roberts who announced the ruling.
He said the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
It's sort of like abstinence works every time it's tried.
So anyway, 50 um uh 46 to 53, and it is over.
And I I I uh we have some audio sound bites from the debate that happened on the floor of the Senate this morning.
It's truly astounding, and I want you to hear these uh uh these sound bites.
Uh uh here's here's what's gonna happen next.
Uh just a little prediction here.
And I I told you, we went on a limb yesterday predicted to you this thing would go down in flames.
There were 18, as I counted 18 switch votes.
And by the way, if I want to tell you one thing, everybody's gonna try to portray this as a loss for the president, which it is, uh, and everybody's gonna try to portray this as uh talk radio running amok.
We've got to do something about it.
In fact, I know for a fact that uh Democrats were telling Republicans in the Senate yesterday, look, just go ahead and vote for this thing.
By the time you're up for re-election, we'll have dealt with talk radio.
There were there were Democrats telling Republicans uh that that they shouldn't worry about it, because we're gonna we're gonna deal with talk radio.
And now they're really gonna deal with talk radio.
This fairness doctrine stuff and uh oh, it's gonna really heat up, and what's gonna make it different this time, I think, uh at least on the side in the Senate, is that Republicans are gonna join Democrats in uh in all this.
But don't worry, folks.
We uh are geared up for this and ready for it.
In addition to all that, I think what's gonna happen is the uh there's gonna be propaganda now from the open borders Republicans like Lindsay Gramnesty, and I say this because some of the things that he said on the floor of the Senate today.
Um not just Gramnesty, but a bunch of others are gonna say that you and I are now gonna be responsible for Hispanics voting for Democrats because we opposed this bill.
Uh and you're you're gonna be tarred and feathered as uh as a vocal and loud minority and racists and all that, but they can't say you don't count.
And when the when the when the rubber hit the road, and it's like one of the reasons I was uh uh fairly confident about this and not panicking yesterday.
One of the reasons when the rubber hit the road, they listened to you.
They listened to the polling on this.
You shut down Washington's whole phone system today.
The government passport offices and all that, everything was melded down in the Senate.
I think they shut down the phone system just uh Jeff Sessions said something like that, just to uh avoid uh uh uh having the whole thing get shut down.
They had to limit uh access to it because uh you were being heard.
The American people in this country on balance, not in every instance, but they get what they want.
And uh in this case, uh you did this bill's dead for two years now because Dingy Harry says he can't bring this up next year.
It's the presidential election.
Well, fine and dandy.
This debate needs to be part of the presidential race, folks.
Make it a national debate and have it out in the open, not behind closed doors, with amendments that nobody read, amendments that nobody had uh that did not have a chance.
Uh by the way, all this talk about the fairness doctrine and there's too much one-sided uh opinion on talk radio.
How about the fairness doctrine applied to the Senate?
Dingy Harry literally shut down debate on this uh at a point yesterday.
I have some comments from senators on that in the audio soundbite roster as uh as well.
We are in our current situation with this whole immigration embrolio uh because people like Senator Lindsey Gramnesty and others who have served in Congress for many years and who have sworn to uphold the law have failed to uphold the law.
And let's be clear about this.
Gramnesty and his fellow Amnesty supporters have used rhetoric and arguments that have undoubtedly inflamed various ethnic groups, not us.
And we gotta be we have to go on the offense about this rather than be defensive, because we're now you and I, I mean all of us that uh that ganged up on Washington.
Uh we are gonna be accused here of all kinds of racism and hate and bigotry, and we have been, and it's going to continue.
It'll probably uh expand and increase, and they'll say, like if there are riots today, if the illegals come out of the shadow and riot.
And there's talk that they might.
No, well, it would be funny if they did.
We can't find them, but they'll come to us.
But there's talk, you know, that's people trying to stir the um the excrement out there, if you will, and they're gonna say, if that happens, talk radio did it.
This is what happens when you have uh lack of balance in the media and so forth and so on.
And uh, you will all be included in this in this rhetoric.
Uh, but the rhetoric that has been used by the uh open borders crowd has inflamed a lot of ethnic groups.
By the way, you realize the Democrats run the Senate, and he Harry Reid couldn't get this bill through.
Now you can sit there and blame talk radio all you want, and you can sit there and blame um uh the American people and racism and hatred and bigotry and all that.
Democrats could not get this done, and he couldn't get enough of his own senators to vote for this.
And and the primary group of senators he couldn't corral were the freshman Democrat senators, who are very, very much concerned about this.
He lost Mary Landrew.
And why do you think Landrew was opposed to this?
She's up for re-election, and she's also concerned about what the uh unchecked invasion of illegal immigrants might do to Louisiana, might do to uh New Orleans and so forth and uh the culture that she was born and raised in.
Uh this this whole thing that this is a racist idea and issue is absurd in the first place.
Border security is what this was all about.
Border security and complying with the law is what this was all about.
And that shouldn't be a pro or con Hispanic issue.
Yet that's how Liz Lindsey Gramnesty and a bunch of the other uh proponents on this is open borders supporters have defined the issue.
And of course, the drive-by media happily repeats it.
Now, if we lose seats in 08 and if we lose Hispanic votes, uh, you know, can't not gonna take the blame here, folks, and you shouldn't take the blame either.
If we lose seats, these guys are responsible for their elections.
They're the ones that go out and get the votes, and if people vote against them because of this, uh they will have their own actions to blame.
Uh give you, I've been talking about uh Lindsey Gramnesty.
Let me explain why.
Go to audio soundbites one and two here, just to give you an idea from the Senate floor today.
Here is Senator Gramnesty.
You're never gonna deal with this issue until you embrace the 12 million.
No Democrat is going to let you build a fence and do all the things that we want to do without addressing the 12 million.
That's never gonna happen.
I won't address the 12 million.
The reason I want to address the 12 million, it bothers me that there's 12 million people here that we don't know who they are and what they're up to.
I wish they would go away, but they're not.
It is a problem that America has to deal with, and we want someone else to do it because we're afraid that if we do a plea bargain, it's amnesty.
What in the world?
What did you hear this?
The reason I want to address the 12 million, it bothers me there's 12 million people here that we don't know who they are and what they're up to.
I thought they were doing the jobs the American people won't do.
All of a sudden we're getting a new characterization of who these people are.
They're a bunch of renegades and rag tags running around.
We don't know who they are or what they're doing.
But he basically said, you people who want border security first, you better check it at the door because it ain't gonna happen.
We gonna deal with these 12 million, and he said the Democrats aren't gonna let this happen.
So we find out that he's been counttoing to the Democrats.
He said Democrats are never gonna let no Democrats gonna let you build a fence and do all the things that we want to do without addressing the 12 million.
And he said our job's to go there and work with Democrats.
No, it's not.
Go there and debate them and defeat them.
Which we, I'm going to just assert this.
We did the job that Lindsey Graham Ste should have been doing as an elected Republican.
And a number of other Republicans, we, you and I, did the job they should have been doing.
Here's the second soundbite from Senator Gramnistink.
The 12 million will be dealt with.
They're not going to be ignored.
They will be dealt with firmly and fairly eventually.
They're not going to be deported.
They're not going to jail.
They can't be wished away.
So we need to come together in a bipartisan manner, have principal compromise where we deal with the 12 million, we deal with broken borders, we get a temporary worker program to my Republican friends.
Remember this day if you vote no.
You will never ever have this deal again.
That's right, because we're going to get a better deal next time.
We'll never ever have this deal again.
We're going to get a better deal.
We never want this deal.
This was a bad deal.
It was the wrong deal to make.
It was the comprehensive destruction of the Republican Party Act of 2007.
Here's Dingy Harry Reed's response on the floor of the Senate after the cloture vote failed.
The vote has been cast, as I told a number of my Republican friends, even though the vote is really disheartening to me in many, many ways.
I think as a result of this legislative work that we've done the last several months on this legislation, that there's been friendships developed that weren't there before.
Trusts initiated that didn't exist before.
So I say to my friends.
Stop the tape.
Can I want to translate this for you?
What it means is we bought off a bunch of Republicans and made them see the world our way.
And that's called trust.
When Republicans cave to their own principles, when Republicans give in and have as their main objective getting along with people like Harry Reid.
Harry, this is great.
We've made new alliances.
We've come up with new friendships.
We've formed new bonds of trust here.
And all that means is we suckered a bunch of these Republicans into going along with us.
Here's the rest of this bike.
Democrats and Republicans, that this is this is a legislative issue.
It'll come back.
It's only a question of when.
We're only six months into this Congress.
We have so much to do.
And hopefully this lesson we've all learned will be one where we recognize that we have to work more closely together.
I hope we can do that.
So I say to all of you, thank you very much.
You can work as closely together as you want, but when you're wrong, you're going to hear about it.
When you do something that's so tone-deaf, when you're so out of step with the citizens of this country who've elected you, you're going to hear about it.
Whatever the new legislation, I don't care if you talk about taxes, I don't care if you're talking, because what people have learned here, Senator Reed, is that you can be stopped.
What people have learned here is that they do have power, that their vote does matter, that what polls say reflecting their opinions does matter.
People all over this country for years have thought they hadn't shouldn't get involved because their vote, their their uh action, their involvement was irrelevant.
They learned today just the exact opposite.
And they learned it during the Dubai Ports deal.
Still love saying those three words.
And they also, Senator Reed, have learned something else.
They have seen the arrogance and conceit of a bloated, inefficient, big government.
That is the thing that ought to cause some Democrats to quake in their boots more than anything.
Because the idea of how big government works, how arrogant and uh and uh condescending it can be, and even insulting, has been on full display.
So those are the opportunities I see.
The opportunities Dingy Harry sees to go on and convince more Republicans to cave and give in and join with Democrats, and to him that's a plus thing.
But if they're wrong in what they're trying to do, they will hear about it.
Be right back, folks.
Welcome back.
I am L. Rushbaugh, the man running America.
You know it, and I know it.
Really running America now will be the fear of those political elites in Washington, 800 two eight two-2882, if you want to be on the program's interesting story, funny story today, the New York Times.
Um, immigration bill prompts some menacing responses.
And we've been hearing this now for two or three weeks.
Now, in Feinstein, in her fifteen years in the Senate, she's never gotten more angry, hate-filled, racist messages and her email and phone calls and so forth.
And this story is about much the same thing.
I want proof of this.
I want to see some of these men.
I want to see what some of this hate-filled rhetoric is, and I want to see who it's actually coming from.
You know, they come in, they say all this stuff, and there's no backup for.
Prove it.
Show us.
Give us the text to some of these messages.
Senator Gramnesty said there's racism in this debate.
Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks.
The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally.
Now, why is it that the things that Senator Kennedy says during this debate don't do that?
Why is it that some of the debate that the senators engage in doesn't cause people to get emotional?
Well, we know it does.
How come that we're not enlightened to get emotional when we're lied to?
When we're told that we're racist, we're told that we're bigots, and when we're told that we don't know what's in the bill.
You know this $4.4 billion emergency spending uh procedure to supplemental uh spending bill that was going to build a fence, get started on border security.
Jim Dement, uh senator from uh South Carolina said, guess what?
There's a provision in this thing that allows that money to be used for the amnesty purposes of the legislation, and it's so designed.
So they didn't even tell us the truth about that.
There was a there was a caveat in the 4.4 billion dollars with 4.4 billion dollars buys.
You know, we spend that much on rubber bands in this government every year.
Uh 4.4 billion for fence security and so forth.
But um, yeah, it's only the rhetoric here on talk radio.
And by the way, the underlying notion here is that you people are continuing to be mind-numbed robots.
There's still no respect for the fact that you are informed, engaged, involved citizens who vote.
You're just sponges without minds of your own, and you are filled with what did he say, racism and bigotry, and it pushes you over the edge emotionally.
Uh let's see, get this.
This is not a quote from anybody.
This is just the New York Times reporter Jeff Zelini.
At the heart of the opposition rests conservative hosts on talk radio and cable television, which often are a muscular if untamed piece of the Republican message machine.
How in the name of Sam Hill do you come to that conclusion?
Because all these years, what I have heard is that I'm in the back pocket of the GOP.
I'm just sitting here getting their faxes.
I get their emails from the White House, and I get my marching orders from them, and then I go out and say what I say, then it ends up on Drudge, and it ends up on all other talk shows.
It ends up on the Internet.
Uh and I'm just my own mind-numbed robot, and whatever the White House says, do it.
Now all of a sudden I am an untamed piece of the Republican message machine.
An untamed piece of the how in after all of this, how I can be called a member of a piece of the Republican message machine.
But this is the template.
And this is the bias of the drive-by media, that uh there is no independence here like there is in the drive-by media.
There's no independent thought.
Uh there's there's no individuality whatsoever.
We're all just mind-numbed robots on the right, folks.
We're quirks.
We're we're we're we're kooks because we are conservatives.
Untamed peace of the Republican message machine.
Several senators said Wednesday, yesterday, that they did not care to be identified speaking critically of the broadcasters, fearing the same conservative backlash that befell Senator Trent Lott this month when he declared talk radio is running America, we have to deal with the problem.
So a lot of Republican senators apparently wanted a launch, but we're afraid of the backlash caused by us.
Untamed pieces of the Republican message machine.
Uh Dingy Harry, we have time to squeeze this in uh this morning on the Senate floor before the vote.
Talk radio has had a field day.
These generators of simplicity.
Now, Mr. Mr. President, I want everyone to know, and I want the record spread.
I do not believe that anyone who is a United States Senator that votes against this motion to proceed is filled with prejudice, with hatred, with venom as we get in our phone calls and our mail.
I don't believe that.
But I do believe, Mr. President, that we have an issue before us that we must resolve.
Okay, so now an untamed member of the Peace of the Republican message machine, but now we are generators of simplicity here on uh talk radio.
And here we're back to again these assertions that those of you have been calling Dingy Harry and his colleagues are racists, full of hate and venom.
Uh if there's any venom being directed uh at at you, uh Senator Reed and the colleagues, it's simply because you haven't listening.
And you haven't been telling us the truth, and you've been insulting us.
Back in just a second, folks.
As usual, my friends, talent on loan from God.
With half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
New York Times story by Carl Hulse.
New senators resist overhaul of immigration.
This is the story about the uh the problem at Dingy Harry had freshman Democrats, uh freshman Democrat senators among the wary.
Uh the there's a subhead on the uh that in fact that is the subhead on the front page above the fold on the paper.
The uh internet version of the story does not have that subhead, freshman Democrats among the wary.
But the one thing missing in this story is read and Democrats fail in the majority.
And Pelosi's not getting much done over in the uh House of Representatives either.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Nancy Pelosi last night.
She was on Charlie Rose on PBS, and uh he asked her this question have the proponents of this bill done a good enough job to sell it to the country?
Uh there is an element in our well, talk radio.
Or in some cases, hate radio, where they just go on and on and on in a xenophobic anti-immigrant.
And it's interesting because in my faith, I'm a Catholic and uh and we always talk where there is hatred, may bring love, whether it's despair, may we bring hopefully.
And to forgive is to be forgiven.
And all of a sudden, all of these people of faith are just very unforgiving.
How can you speak that way after some of the hate-filled rhetoric that you and the people you empower have offered up against President Bush?
All the things that you have said to demoralize the troops serving this country, risking their lives, all of the investment in defeat that you and Senator Reed have made it plain your party is for.
You dare sit there and talk about hate speech and unforgiving speech, hate radio and so forth.
I think these people owe us an apology.
I think I think Senator Graham in South Carolina owes all of you in South Carolina an apology for his his rhetoric and his uh uh comments about you.
This is the this whole debate has featured elected officials insulting their constituents one way or another.
We either haven't read the bill when we have, or we haven't uh uh we haven't got minds of our own, or we're racist or bigots, and now there's hate.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something.
The hate one balance in this country resides on the left side of the aisle.
What is going on with Senator Leahy trying to subpoena and harass the Bush administration?
This is nothing more than harassment.
You might say it's politics, but you can't convince me these people don't viscerally hate George W. Bush, and they have hate, hated George W. Bush since uh the Florida aftermath.
Uh I wonder if Nancy Pelosi asked the people calling her office, she's talking about this.
Uh, I wonder if uh she asked those people if they were people of faith, or is that just more religious profiling?
She just saying that the people who called her were a bunch of Southern Hayseed conservative Christian hicks.
Remember that the the the people that work on bias and prejudice in this country are the people on the left.
They're the ones that form opinions Of people based on where they live, based on their accents, based on their skin color, based on their gender, based on their sexual orientation, and based on whether or not they can fit into a nice little liberal created victim group.
But anyway, this is this is what told you at the beginning of the show, this is only going to heat up.
And it is going to um it's going to manifest itself in more calls for fairness.
One element of the media should not be so out of balance as is talk radio.
Keep a sharp eye.
Want to hear some uh funny stuff from Ted Kennedy yelling today during the immigration debate.
He said this about those who oppose the immigration bill, this before the vote.
We know what they're against.
We don't know what they're for.
Time and time again, they tell us we don't like this provision.
We don't like that provision.
We don't want that part.
Well, they ought to be able to explain to the American people what they are for.
What are they going to do with the 12 and a half million uh who are undocumented here?
Send them back, send them back to countries around the world.
More than 250 billion dollars, buses that would go from Los Angeles to New York and back again.
Try and find them.
Develop a type of gestapo here to seek out these people that are in the shadows.
That's their alternative.
That's their alternative.
Well, this is laughable.
Uh, Senator Kennedy, perhaps you don't remember that there was an event uh or an amendment offered.
The touchback amendment.
And this is where all of these 12 million, as you say, we think it's closer to 20, but all these 12 million would have to go back to their home countries.
Now, just how in the world were they going to be found and forced to do this?
If we can't find them now, if it's going to cost too much money and uh all this, how in the world, oh, oh, oh, I get they were going to obey the law on their own.
Oh, they knew that they were You think that was going to happen?
They wouldn't trust that provision for a second.
And they know there's no reason to leave because the odds that they're going to be rounded up are no no better than they've ever been.
So why?
Why go back, touch back and come back when the overriding fear you might have is that you might not get back in unless you come in illegally.
Um so I this there's so many contradictions uh in all of this.
But we have shouted from the rooftops, I'm sorry, from the golden microphone, Senator Kennedy, uh we do know what we're for, and that's enforcement of current law.
Enforcement of existing law.
Not complicated.
Here's more of Senator Kennedy.
And we have a process that said, look, okay, you're here and undocumented, and you're gonna have to pay a price.
We're gonna take people that are in the line that have said that they want to play by the rules.
They go and they wait and you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait, and you pay and you pay and you pay.
You pay uh your fees, you pay your processing fees, your adjustment fees.
Uh, you pay not over for yourself, you pay for the other members of the family.
You demonstrate that you're going to learn English, you demonstrate that you've worked here, you demonstrate that you're a good citizen, you demonstrate that you haven't had any run-on in crime.
And then maybe, and then maybe you get on that pathway with the green card, and perhaps in 15, 18 years you'll be able to raise your hand and be a citizen here in the United States.
15 to 18 years of being a citizen.
You know, this is this is why it's laughable when they insult us for not knowing what's in the bill.
The simple fact of the matter is that there's no need for these people to pursue the path to citizenship, because the minute this bill would have been signed, and you all know all this.
I mean, I we're going really blue in the face talking about it.
The minute if this bill ever did does or did become law, the minute it's signed, they're legal.
After the mythical 24-hour background check.
How are we gonna do the background check?
We can't find them.
But there's they don't have to pay the fines if they don't pursue citizenship.
This is, you know, I uh there really is a disconnect here.
I don't know if it's just tone deaf.
I I I think they have, Senator Kennedy, some of these people may have such a lofty view of these people that uh he thinks that they all want to be full-fledged citizens, and that that's what they're dying to do, and that's what they came here for.
We're standing in their way because these bigots are racist and restrictions and truck radio.
All we wanted to do is be citizens of 15 to 18 years.
Which they don't have to do any of that.
And that's the only way they get out of paying the fine.
And we also know that if they did pursue citizenship, it wouldn't be long before the senators would say, Well, you know, this $5,000 fine, that's a bit.
It's a bit punitive.
Why we're taking food out of the mouths of starving children who are someday going to be American citizens.
All of this was popping out.
What it boils down to is very simply, the American people, you didn't believe what your elected officials were telling you.
And you didn't believe that they could do what they said the bill would do.
You have and that's why I said this is an opportunity.
People got a great illustration here of the of the inefficiencies and the unworkableness of a bloated over-the-top size government.
And believe me, folks, that is a that's a premise I am not going to abandon.
It's uh it's something that's going to be a uh a reminder I'm going to continue to make is that's something that people have uh they may not even notice it themselves until their tits pointed out to them.
Uh and until they're reminded of it.
But th this was uh one of the fabulous aspects of all this that happened.
Pensacola, Florida, let's get a phone call in here first before the break.
Jim, glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I've been listening to you since 1989.
I'm a retired Marine.
I'm a conservative, and I agree with you most of the time.
When was the last when's the last time you agreed with me?
What was it?
Well, I'll tell you what, uh, just a couple of minutes ago.
I agree with you 100% on the fairness doctrine.
And I'll be in your camp.
I'll be calling my senators if they try and force that down your throat.
Right.
Guaranteed.
Thank you.
Uh I also um.
Jim Jim, excuse me, I don't mean to insult you, but let me tell you why I asked you that, because everything you said to start your call with.
Yeah.
Is how Democrats and liberals who want me to think they're big fans start their calls with.
I've been listening to you since 1989, 1990, and I'm a conservative.
And I agree with you most of the time, but we have identified those as seminar callers.
They've tried many techniques over the years.
I've heard you take those guys on, and uh and you should.
And uh but I'm just giving you what the facts are.
And uh I I have been listening to you since 1989, and I'm I'm generally uh a big fan of yours.
But uh like everything else in life, uh I'm never right all the time, and nor are you.
Although I uh I know you're right most of the time.
Close.
Close.
That's right.
Well, the only the only point I was trying to make uh to your screener was that I think that uh you're not right about only a portion of what Lindsey Graham was talking about, and that is I believe that the crux of the issue, obviously, in any of this emigration business has to be what are you gonna do with the illegals that are in this country?
The twelve to fourteen to twenty million, whatever the number is.
I just heard you say it's simple.
We just enforce the current laws.
Well, the current laws says if they're here illegally, we're gonna deport them.
And there's no way that we can do it.
Well, that's not what I stopped.
Nobody's talking about deportation.
Well, but that's what the current laws are.
But the current law also though I'm referring to is border security.
Stop the invasion.
Stop the invasion.
Then we deal with the 12 to 20 and figure out what to do with it.
But stop the invasion because if we don't besides, this bill was going to make the 12 to 20 55 to 60 million.
We've got to stop the invasion here.
We have to, if we're going to have immigration, we need to go out and find the best people in the country and around the world.
Legal immigration, in increase the uh the skilled and educated that come into this country.
Protect and defend the culture of the United States for the future of those not even conceived and born yet.
Well, we talk about enforce the law, the border, border security, stop the invasion, and then deal with everything else.
And the fact that our senators don't want to do that, and you heard Senator Gramnisty say it isn't going to happen because the Democrats don't want it to happen.
Well, hell's bells.
What does that tell us?
The Democrats don't want to stop the invasion because that's their new collection of victim voters.
That's why this is the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
And how they don't get this is beyond me.
Your guiding life through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation, executive privilege assertions, and big time victories.
Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Reuters headlines, Senate, hands Bush, major defeat on immigration.
What about Ted Kennedy or Harry Reid?
They run the Senate.
They couldn't get it done.
And believe me, don't believe for a moment that Harry Reid's upset about this.
He he pulled the bill two weeks ago.
He's fine with this, folks.
He loves these headlines.
Senate hands Bush, major defeat.
They want it to look like Bush is the guy that can't get anything done.
Harry Reed's not that disappointed about this, I guarantee you.
Even our buddies at the Wall Street Journal.
A little flash news alert.
Uh let me uh probably deleted it.
Well, I can find it real quick, though.
Hang on, because you gotta listen.
Well, same thing.
Bush loses big on immigration, is is uh uh essentially what they said.
Washington Post today, uh immigration stance costly for McCain.
Yes.
I warned him about this many, many moons ago, but what's interesting about this story.
Now, here I am.
Um I'm uh what what would Reed say I do?
Sponsor simplicity.
I'm a generator of simplicity.
I'm running America.
I'm an untamed piece of the Republican message machine.
I am irrelevant.
By the way, they're not gonna be saying that anymore.
But now, in this story, once seen as the inevitable Republican presidential front runner, McCain is sinking in the polls, particularly in the all-important early primary states.
On conservative talk radio, he's lumped together with Senator Kennedy and derided endlessly.
A top fundraiser for the Arizonan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak for the campaign was more blunt.
This, this, this criticism of Senator McCain on Talk Radio is hurting with the main money guys.
Overall, it's definitely a negative.
This top fundraiser added that the constant barrage of criticism from the likes of Rush Limbaugh is making it difficult to raise money from the conservative wing of the party.
Like it or not, our base listens to that stuff.
No, you guys have got it wrong.
The base listens to Senator McCain.
The base listens on their own.
They see what Senator McCain did with McCain fine gold.
You think that endeared him to the base?
They see him sucking up to the drive-by media for the last six years.
Do you think that endeared him to the base?
How tone-deaf are these people?
You want the Republican nomination.
You don't make your best friend Ted Kennedy.
You don't make your friends your enemies.
And you don't run out there sucking up to the drive-by media and making them your big supporters when everybody knows they're going to throw you overboard when you get close to the nomination or the primaries.
Whoever this fundraiser is in Arizona, you know who you are, and you're probably out there listening, and I'm telling you.
The base, yeah, they listen to me.
Lots of Americans listen to me in huge numbers, but they listen to Senator McCain too.
You note what's shaping it.
Folks, here's here's the here's the picture that these country club blue blood Republicans, the rhinos, and these leftist Democrats have of you.
You get up and you go about your business.
Some of you might even work.
Some of you, in their minds, might even have jobs.
And then from noon to three, you turn on the radio.
At three o'clock, you turn it off.
You expose yourself to no other media.
And only what you hear on this program from noon to three informs you.
You don't watch news, you don't hear Senator McCain, you don't watch C-SPAN, you don't watch any of these things.
You get every single morsel of information that you know from me.
Or perhaps somewhere some other conservative talk show.
And that's the picture that they uh they have of you.
I'll tell you something else that the base didn't forget.
They didn't forget Senator McCain's attacks on the religious right, although he's come around in time for the election season.
Um Rudy got criticized by talk radio.
We've criticized a lot of these people.
I haven't endorsed a Republican in this race.
And I've been I've been critical of each and every one of them on certain things.
How come their numbers aren't falling apart?
You know, the idea that you elected officials have uh no impact on your own fortunes and futures and your own status, that you were total prisoners to what people like me say about you to other people.
You can't possibly believe that, but something leads me to believe that they do.
Hence, McCain find gold and talk radio's fairness doctor.
I don't know how we're gonna squeeze it all in here today, folks, but we will find a way.
I may speak faster.
You may have to listen faster.
We'll come back from this time out and rev it up all over again.
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