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Nov. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I have a straight-up question.
How in the world can I not be Time Magazine's man of the year?
I wonder if anybody's cited New York Governor Elliott Spitzer on a rowboat out on Lake Placid with Don Vito Clintony.
Supposedly having a good time over breakfast.
Greetings, my friends.
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And I uh actually thinking of suspending using the term El Rushbo today because a lot of illegal immigrants in New York might be uh rather bothered.
Elliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, has angrily withdrawn his plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
What coincidence?
It happens on the day prior to the next debate with the Democrats tomorrow in Las Vegas.
This is the debate where uh the Clinton camp has warned Wolf Blitzer to be good and not gang up.
By the way, Wolf's denying he's been uh warned or threatened he's uh is gonna go in without body armor, he's gonna go in without Blackwater uh uh bodyguards.
Uh he's gonna man up and uh and and head in there.
Folks, this this is amazing.
We've got to go back to the beginning here to trace this.
Because up until what?
Up until October 30th, the whole notion of driver's licenses for illegals in New York had not caused a ripple anywhere outside of New York, uh, and even in New York, you know, was was sort of small.
And then one day, October 30th, I happened to see an AP story, I believe published in New York News Day about the whole concept of driver's licenses for illegals.
And uh the reporter mentioned that it's a radioactive issue for Mrs. Clinton, being that she's a senator from New York and that she's a presidential front runner.
And I'm reading and I say, Yeah, your reporter, ask her about it.
Don't just talk about how it is radioactive.
What is amazing to me about this is how Mrs. Clinton gets to be quiet when she wants to be quiet.
This is her state.
The fact that she's a presidential candidate only adds to the fact she should be asked about this.
The fact that she's a senator from the state of New York and is not being peppered by the press.
What do you think of the governor's plans here for illegal immigrants getting driver's license?
It's amazing how she's able to skate.
She's given a pass.
It's too radioactive for her, writes the AP.
Man, oh man, oh man.
What I have loved over several occasions in the last 18 years for you Doomkoffs in the media to think certain issues were too radioactive for me to talk about.
Good grief.
Woman doesn't have to say diddly squat about anything, and she doesn't.
But that night, Tim Russert asked her very hard questions about this particular issue.
He said, Senator Clinton, Governor of New York Elliott Spitzer's proposed giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
He told the Nashville New Hampshire Editorial Board that you said that it you told the Nashua New Hampshire Editorial Board it makes a lot of sense.
Why does it make a lot of sense to give an illegal immigrant a driver's license?
Well, what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is fill the vacuum left by the failure of this administration to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
They are undocumented workers.
They are driving on our roads.
The possibility of them having an accident that harms themselves or others is just a matter of the odds.
It's probability.
So what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is to fill the vacuum.
She didn't answer the question, but she had stated publicly, and this is key.
She had stated publicly that she supported his plan in a Nashua New Hampshire uh editorial board meeting.
Now, Spitzer, when he pulled the plan, said he was abandoning it because the federal government had lost control of its borders and left states to deal with the consequences.
I have concluded that New York State cannot successfully address this problem on its own.
Does that sound exactly like Mrs. Clinton's answer here?
Well, I understand what Governor Spitzer's trying to do.
He's trying to fill the vacuum left by the failure of this administration, which tells me that my prediction yesterday that something was going to happen between then and tomorrow in this debate.
Maybe Bill goes to the hospital for an unscheduled checkup.
Maybe they discover a precancerous lesion.
It happened today when Governor Spitzer pulls his driver's license plan.
Get this issue off the table for tomorrow night's debate because it had not gone away, and it had spawned a number of other little controversies involving the Clintons, uh, particularly planting questions, not tipping waitresses and this sort of wait till you hear when we get to the full audio soundbite roster.
Wait till you hear the drive-by spinning away the planning of questions, the Clinton dishonesty that is that there's a trademark, uh, and some of these other things.
It's just it's just a hoot.
So what I think happened, I think just as Andrew Cuomo got a phone call once from Don Vito Clinton.
Hey, Andrew, how are you doing, bud?
You know, uh, we really need you to stand down from this election.
You're doing bad in the polls, babe, and we got we got somebody else.
I need Elliot Spitzer and I got things that we gotta get done here.
And if you if you if you just back out now, uh just sign this papers like I told Bob Torcelli, Bob sign this, or I can take you out of Lake Placid, too.
Um Bob Torres Ellie went along with it.
He knew his goose was cooked, and we can't have the party go down to that, and you're not helping here, Andrew.
So just like Andrew Cuomo and the Torch were taken out by Don Vito Clintoni.
I think Spitzer had to get a phone call.
Now, Spitzer was asked about this.
Let's uh let's let's see.
Audio soundbite number eight.
This morning in Washington, D.C., Elliot Spitzer held a press conference.
Unidentified reporter says, Governor, was Senator Clinton at the meeting this morning where you decided to pull a plug in the plan.
I'm sorry, Clinton at the meeting this morning.
And did anyone specifically try to talk you out of withdrawing this plan today?
No, the senator was not uh at our meeting today.
No, I don't think anybody has did anybody try to talk me out of changing course as of this moment.
No, I think that there is a consensus, and you you heard it from my great friends and colleagues who just spoke, that now is not the time to push forward with this plan because there is not the support for it.
Yeah.
Uh he goes on to say a number of other outrageous things.
It's too, it's polarizing uh hyperpartisanship has taken over, he quotes from a Ron Brownstein book.
We have all these bites coming up.
Um but there was there's no partisanship when 72% of the people in New York don't want the plan.
That's consensus.
That's a majority.
That is not partisan.
Uh or or polarizing.
Polarizing would be 50-50.
These guys just keep trying.
And by the way, folks, it ain't going away.
Just as Dick Turbin and somebody else in the Senate tried to get Amnesty back in front of us with the Wet Dream Act, so will this come back again because Governor Spitzer even said so.
Governor Spitzer uh said the issue does not disappear.
The issue will not be gone tomorrow or next week in the absence of federal legislation.
I hope I don't need to raise it again because I hope you'll see a comprehensive resolution of this issue.
But you have a polarization on this issue that has defied resolution.
Uh Elliot, over 70% disagreed with you.
This is not polarizing.
You lost.
The Democrats need these voters.
It's what this plan in New York was all about.
You go in, you uh you get a you sign up for uh voter registration.
Well, you get you get your driver's license, you get a photo ID, and they give you a motor voter form, and they just assume you're gonna be honest on it.
Uh, and it was a way to get a whole bunch of people registered, and they're denying this left and right, which uh you of course they liberals are not going to tell us the truth about anything.
But folks, this issue went on and on and on.
October 30th.
Today is November 14th, just over two weeks, and the issue is dead once again.
Uh because of me.
Isn't it great?
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Let's listen to a little bit of Elliott Spitzer today as he announces the pulling his plan for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York.
Here's the first soundbite, a portion of his remarks.
After serious deliberation and consultation with people I respect on all sides of this issue, I have concluded that New York State cannot successfully address this problem on its own.
I am announcing today that I am withdrawing my proposal.
It does not take a stethoscope to hear the pulse of New Yorkers on this topic.
It is also clear that even if I could convince the public of the utility of our cause, the legislative process, and any number of mounting obstacles, would have prevented us from moving forward.
So just declare yourself dictator of the state and do it anyway.
See what Hugo Chavez is doing.
Clearly, uh folks, this issue, I'm amazed that the Democrats remain tone-deaf on this issue and do not understand the level of heat in disagreement over the whole concept of anything legal being granted by virtue of a magic wand to illegal immigrants.
And this thing talks about polarization, as you know, the issue crosses party lines.
It doesn't matter.
Independence, Republicans, Democrats, hell, even moderates who don't take a stand on anything, have taken a stand on this.
More of Governor Spitzer.
Please allow me this brief observation about another crisis.
The crisis of political discourse in this country that was on full display these past two months.
Uh-huh.
Some partisans unleashed a response that has become all too familiar in American politics.
Political opponents equated minimum wage undocumented dishwashers with Osama bin Laden.
Newspaper headlines equated a driver's license for an undocumented migrant worker with a passport to terror and a license to kill.
It remains a possibility.
All of those things remain possibilities.
Nine of the nineteen or eleven of the nineteen hijackers, governor, had New York or other states driver's licenses, sir.
And they were free to move around.
This is this it's happened.
But that's not the only reason people are upset about this.
These Democrats keep focusing on the things that miss the point.
It all is about the rule of law.
It's about right and wrong.
It's about it's about everybody knows the Democrats are trying to engineer a scheme to get these people registered as voters.
It's about the welfare state.
It's all about people being told they got to pay for health care.
It's all about people being told they got to pay for education.
It's all about people being told they have to pay for the illegals to get in-state tuition when they don't live in the state that they're in at some college.
Guess why they are supporting that, folks.
When you get into college, you get a photo ID.
You got a The whole thing here is oriented around creating new voters and new victims, new members of the welfare state for the Democrat Party.
Pure and simple.
If people haven't figured that angle out, they do understand that they are going to be paying higher taxes for all these benefits for people who are here illegally.
And it's repugnant.
It's not American.
It's simply un-American.
And the Democrats just, it's not that they don't get it.
They don't care.
They're going to find a way to get this done.
It'll happen under the cloak of darkness somehow.
And Spitzer admitted it on this.
that the issue is not going away.
Here's another bite from Governor Spitzer's press conference today.
In his new book, political analyst Ron Brownstein calls this a crisis of hyperpartisanship.
A crisis which has unnecessarily inflamed our differences and impeded progress against our most pressing challenges.
Nothing reflects the result of hyperpartisanship more than the current immigration debate, which has become so toxic that any time a practical proposal is put forward, it is shot down before it even can be weighed on its merits.
The consequences of this fear-mongering is paralysis.
Who is he talking about?
His reading from Ronald Brownstein's book.
I wonder who Governor Spitzer could be uh could be talking about here.
A crisis of hyperpartisanship, a crisis which has unnecessarily inflamed our differences and impeded progress.
See, when liberals don't get their way, when liberals don't get their way, it's always somebody else's fault standing in the way.
It's not their own failure to lead.
It's not their own failure to understand what the American people, or in this case the people of New York want and don't want.
It's all about ramroding what they want down everybody's throats by hook or by crook.
And when something stands in the way, such as opposition, then it's got to be dealt with.
It's got to be silenced, it's got to be destroyed, it's got to be re disre uh respected, it's got to be uh impugned or what have you.
Same way if you're in a pack of a bunch of liberals and you start talking about things they don't want to hear, they want to shut you up.
So what is Spitzer doing here?
He is leader.
He is the governor of the state of New York, and it sounds like he's cowering in the face of a little criticism.
He didn't care about public opinion when he was tossing all of his targets in jail in New York.
And now all of a sudden he can't uh he can't lead the people of New York to oh, it's too complicated, Mr. Limbaugh.
This if you myth Clinton illustrated if month too complicated for a 30-feck of found by Mr. Limbaugh, if this too complicated, the new Castratti.
Uh all believe this.
Shot down before it can even be weighed on its merits.
He's talking about the whole idea of illegal aliens getting driver's licenses in New York.
Shot down before it can be weighed on its merits.
This is a third or fourth time it's been shot down because the merits are known by the American people and the people of the state of New York.
They know amnesty when they see it, and they are never going to support it, whether it is citizenship or driver's licenses or what have you.
The American people are not going to support amnesty.
It's going to have to be forced down their throats.
And by the way, folks, uh, let us not forget in Oregon, North Carolina, New Jersey, all three states ballot initiatives.
In Oregon, it was health care for kids paid for by increased tobacco taxes.
Down the tubes, 6040.
The governor and supporters say, well, the people just didn't understand it's too complicated.
We're going to come back.
And we're going to get it done the next time.
North Carolina's 16 counties tried to pass what is called a transfer tax, basically a tax on homeowners when they sell their house.
They needed that money for development.
It went down 6040 in 16 counties.
Orange County, North Carolina's, no, we're bringing it back.
And of course, we all know New Jersey on the ballot, borrow 450 million billion, whatever it was, for stem cell research plant.
Voters said, Nope, sick and tired of this.
Governor Corzine says, screw you, we're going ahead and doing it anyway.
That's how Democrats act.
That's how liberals are, and that's what they're going to do with this illegal immigration issue, mark my words.
I have long wanted this issue to be part of the presidential debate and campaign, and it now is.
And even though Governor Spitzer has pulled his plan, it is still going to be part of the presidential campaign.
The whole subject, it is not going away.
But here's what happened in every instance in this illegal immigration business, be it the amnesty bill of this past summer, the wet dream act, now this driver's license is sham for illegals.
When informed people of this country make a difference, it shows.
This is a trip.
What happened in New York with Governor Spencer is a terrific victory for our side.
And you know all it took?
All it took was information, which we got out to the American people.
The drive-bys didn't.
The drive-bys were trying to cover it up.
The drive-bys wrote stories about, yeah, this issue radioactive for Mrs. Clinton.
They didn't dare ask her about it themselves.
No, no, no, no, no.
Can't embarrass Mrs. Clinton because an illegal immigrant issue for the Democrats is an illegal immigrant issue for the drive-by media.
So these are the challenges we face.
And this is who we're fighting on this.
Amnesty, the wet dream, now this thing.
This is the issue for the GOP.
The Democrats are hamstrung by it.
Voters sense this.
You couple the illegal immigration issue with taxes during the presidential campaign next year, and it's a win win for the Republican Party if they got somebody who can nominate somebody who can carry the banner on both of these issues.
Because the Democrats are out to lunch on it, and the drive by's are as uh as well.
Let's see.
Um let me play this bite one more.
Here's here's play soundbite eight.
This is the question about whether or not Hillary was at the meeting today.
I'm sorry.
Mr. Clinton at the meeting this morning.
And did anyone specifically try to talk you out of withdrawing this plan today?
No, the Senator was not uh at our meeting today.
No, I don't think anybody has did anybody try to talk me out of changing course as of this moment?
No, I think that there is a consensus.
That's not the question.
The question is, did somebody make you make this decision?
Did somebody call you, hey, Governor Spitzer, hey, Don Vito Clintonioli here.
I think you better get rid of that for a time now to pull it off for that debate.
We'll come back and attack the That's probably the way this went down.
The reporter asked the wrong question.
I ask again, how is it that I cannot become, cannot be the legitimate Time Magazine man of the year?
New Yorkers, New York liberal Democrats are livid.
They are outraged over the decision by Governor Spitzer to pull his driver's license for illegal immigrants plan.
First up, Charlie Wrangle at the Spitzer press conference.
There is no question that nobody's thinking about identifying, deporting, jailing these people.
They are part of our economy.
They're part of what America was supposed to be and will continue to be.
But somehow, for political reasons, we've been able to stigmatize to such a degree that those who challenge the system are being called unpatriotic.
There's no question that we lack the leadership on the national level to change the tone.
You know, Charlie, I tell you, uh, lack the leadership on the national level level to change the tone.
It seems to me that we have a president tried to change the tone with you people.
And when he tried to change the tone with you people, all you did was stomp on him.
He led this issue, Charlie.
You Democrats stood on the sidelines, letting the president take the bullets on this from the American people.
You didn't want to get involved because you wanted the Republican Party divided over this.
Um lately on the Democrat side, now all of a sudden you're absent leadership on this?
What about Senator Clinton?
What about Senator Schumer?
What about you?
What about President Bush?
President Bush was right.
Where were you joining him on this, Charlie?
If it's so important, if these people are the backbone of America, and by the way, that's a stretch.
Immigrants to America have never been illegal, the ones who the backbone of the country, the melting pot.
This is these comments that these guys are making make it clear, do they not, that this is purely a political partisan issue to them.
It is them who are those guys are making this political.
They are making it partisan.
Those of us who oppose all of this are simply standing for the rule of law and American tradition.
American exceptionalism.
Charlie Wrangle, Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, any number of Democrats doing just the opposite.
They're willing to wreck the country's foundations, traditions, and institutions, regardless, as long as it gives them more voters and a greater chance to win elections.
Now, Gary Ackerman, a congressman from New York, also at the Spitzer press conference today, and he loses it a little bit.
This might not have been the exact right plan, but the governor is on to something.
And that is that we have to really be attentive and try to solve this problem.
Those people who just want to use the jingoistic terms that are popular, round them all up, put them on planes and send them home.
I challenge them.
Call the immigration commissioner of this country.
Tell them that you've just caught an illegal immigrant and you have them hog tied here right in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Come and collect them.
And I guarantee you no one's going to show up because they don't know what to do with them.
And that's the problem.
Well, you get you guys are the ones in Congress for crying out loud, Ackerman, Wrangle, all these people are in Congress, and you're blaming who.
It's like you guys are start are spectators.
You're just standing around watching all this.
You have no impact on it.
You could have done any number of things about this.
By the way, who is it that these people are referring to when they keep talking about rounding them up and flying them home on airplanes?
Nobody was ever talking about deportation.
We were talking about border security first.
Get that done and stop the flow.
And then we'll deal with the problem of the twelve to twenty, whatever millions are here.
But if you don't do the border first, then nobody's gonna take anybody seriously on this issue because we've been here and done that 1986 since the Missoulia.
I don't want to relive all this, but I'll tell you what, it's gonna be it's it's gonna be an issue that will be predominant throughout the presidential campaign.
And it's about time.
This issue should have always been part of the presidential campaign, and uh and now it is.
To the phones, Minneapolis, this is Mick.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, Megadiddles, it's great to talk to you now in wonderful FM stereo.
Oh, thank you, sir.
Okay, listen, I want to make a prediction of what's gonna happen tomorrow night in this debate, though.
And I think it goes to the second part of your monologue about why Republicans need to slam dunk it.
If you heard what Hillary said in the second part of her excuse, you were gonna hear tomorrow night every Democrat on that stage.
You're going to hear talking points from every Democrat mayor of every dem of every city try to throw this back at George Bush by saying, look, the reason why this is a crisis is because we're not enforcing our borders.
The reason why these governors have to make these tough decisions is because every state is being flooded with people, it's the federal government avoiding their responsibility.
Now it's probably wrong, it's an excuse, but you mark my words.
You're going to hear that from everybody on that stage tomorrow night, including Hillary.
And my question for you then is because Bush was soft on the borders, and you pointed it out very well over the last year.
What what Republican candidate, certainly I don't think Giuliani, is the best to lead this fight and make it a real slam dunk that you're talking about, because they're gonna throw it back at Bush.
And that's my question.
See, if they let them throw it back at Bush.
Bush isn't on a ballot.
I hope they do keep focusing on Bush.
I hope they do try to convince every Democrat voter that's gonna go to the polls next November, they're gonna see Bush's name on the ballot.
Uh if they would blame it on Bush, uh then that that's you know, that'll work to our benefit too.
Uh because the blame is gonna come off as whining and moaning.
The thing about Bush, he stood up for his beliefs.
A lot of people disagreed with him.
He fought for what he wanted.
He did not stay on the sidelines like all these Democrats did, and he's not blaming anybody else for the failure of what he wanted to become law, this amnesty bill.
He's not blaming anybody else.
He just realizes it can't be done now because of American sentiment.
So uh as to which specific Republican candidate uh best carries the uh immigration issue, I uh I'm only familiar with a couple.
I know Romney talks tough on it.
Um but but I'm I'm not sure about the others.
That's that's actually a good question.
But the all they have to do, it's it shouldn't matter uh right now.
All a all the Republican candidate has to do is have ears and a and the ability to read recent history, like the last six months, and they will be guided as to what to do to win on this issue.
It's not complicated.
Solving the issue is going to be complicated, but but uh well, that isn't even really gonna be the case.
But we don't need to keep trying what has failed over and over again.
Let the Democrats whine, let them blame the federal government, let them blame George W. Bush.
That's gonna come across as whining, cowering in fear, a shirking responsibility.
But you better believe this.
This issue taken off the table by Spitzer, not because he doesn't want it to pass, not because he doesn't think he can get it to pass.
This is off the table because it cannot be mentioned as a prominent, still ongoing issue tomorrow night in the debate for Hillary to Muff again.
It had to be taken off the table.
And so I think that the um you know the momentum on this issue is always going to be uh with the Republicans.
The uh the Democrats are the drive-by's a unit here operating together.
Uh I don't think I well.
It's tough to say they don't get it because it doesn't matter to them.
They really they're gonna try to do what they want to do regardless what the American public wants and uh in whatever numbers.
Here's Brian, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Thanks for calling.
Hi, Russ.
Greetings from the uh Tar Hill State.
Thank you, sir.
Um question.
In your um in in the first part of the hour, you cited a 72% disapproval rate for Governor Spencer's proposed proposed plan as justification for yanking it.
And I'm wondering why the same or similar disapproval rate for the Iraqi war is not justification for yanking that, and for you further to get in and put your considerable clout behind a glassroots effort to do that.
Uh well.
First place, I don't think the polls, if the polls actually showed 72% of the American people wanted out of Iraq, we would be out of Iraq.
And the the Democrats wouldn't have had any trouble passing a resolution as this immigration bill indicates.
You know, I'm going to take a break, but you have provided me, Brian, with an excellent transition.
I went, I went back and I looked at something.
I know people think that the uh six, November 06 elections were about getting out of Iraq.
Uh the Democrats have been running around saying we were elected to get us out of Iraq.
So I went back, I looked at the exit polls, because I knew that wasn't the case, but I wanted to document it.
And Brian, I'll just give you a little hint.
On the exit polls, you know what the number four issue was?
Iraq.
And it wasn't getting out.
It was doing it better.
Hang in there, Brian.
Keep listening to the break, because the two issues do not have the same degree of passion.
If the passion to get out of Iraq was the same as the passion on illegal immigration, we would have been out of there by now.
Hi, welcome back, Rushlin bought talent on lawn from God.
When a person, usually a liberal or a member of the drive-by media, says that the 2006 November election was about withdrawing from Iraq, is that person a storyteller?
Is that person a liar?
Is that person a manipulator?
Let me ask it this way.
When a journalist accepts that the 2006 election was all about a rock, is he or she uninformed?
Is he or she a pawn?
Is he or she an anti-war activist or just a rotten journalist?
Today I ask this question.
Can truth trump what the Nazis called the big lie, or we call truth by repetition.
I went back, because I keep hearing, and we just had this guy, Brian from Raleigh wanted to know, well, hey, look, if 72% of people want uh no uh amnesty for illegals and no driver's licenses for them, and 72% of people want us out of Iraq.
How come we're not in Iraq and the illegals don't get their driver's license or amnesty?
I said because the the the polls showing 72% want us out of Iraq are not accurate.
2006 election was not about that.
I went and I looked at the exit poll data.
2006.
And if you are a drive-by news junkie, meaning if you spend all day watching cable news, reading the New York Times, the Washington Post at all, you are in for quite a surprise.
Iraq wasn't the first issue.
It wasn't the second issue.
It wasn't the third issue mentioned by voters that was most important to them.
It was the fourth issue, and it wasn't necessarily about leaving Iraq.
It was about the progress or lack of it in Iraq.
It did not specify, yes, fourth thing most important to me is get out of Iraq.
What was stated was about the progress or lack of it.
Now this is only common sense.
The Democrats have offered 40 resolutions to get us out of Iraq.
They have lost them all.
Well, they won one, but President Bush overrode the or vetoed it and they didn't have the votes to override.
They're 40 and one.
And they're back for more.
That's coming up in just a minute with good old Dingy Harry.
So invested in defeat, and that's because we're winning.
And the drive-by is now starting to acknowledge it.
And the Democrats cannot have that.
This cannot stand.
That's why we'll pull these troops out of there now, do whatever, screw up the funding, do whatever they're going to do.
They're serious about it.
But back to the exit polls for a second.
For you pretend journalists out there.
For those of you who say you practice journalism, the number one issue on the exit polls in 2006, corruption.
Corruption.
Earmarks, corruption by high officials.
The number two issue in exit polls, the economy.
And the left is doing everything it can to slow it down, trash talk it, and ignore the good news.
The number three issue in the exit polls, terrorism.
And guess what?
The left is doing everything they can to make it harder to deal with terrorists.
Did you ever hear a Harry Reed or Nancy Pelosi say the 2006 election was all about dealing with terrorism?
Did you ever hear them say the 2006 election was all about the economy?
Did you ever hear them say it was all about a corruption?
No, you hear them say it was all about getting us out of Iraq, and it was not.
According to the Exit poll.
Speaking of corruption.
President Bush vetoed the Labor Health and Human Services Education Appropriations Bill that was enacted by the Democrat Congress.
The bill contains $10 billion in spending that was not in the President's budget, not a whole lot of money.
But the veto was important because this bill, the Labor, Health and Human Services Education Appropriations Bill, included a number of earmarks that were dropped into the bill in conference, and therefore nobody knew about it.
They had no public scrutiny.
Can you say corruption?
The bill included around 2,000 earmarks that nobody knew about until the president saw it and vetoed it.
One million dollars requested by Senators Reed, Byrd, Tim Johnson, and Tom Harkin for the Thomas Dashel Center for Public Service and Representative Democracy in Brookings, South Dakota.
One million dollars requested by Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mike Mark Pryor of Arkansas for the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas Little Rock.
That was vetoed.
100,000 requested by Representative Sam Farr, Democrat California, for O'Neill C. Odyssey, an educational program conducted on board a 65-foot catamaran sailing Monterey Bay.
There were 2,000 other of these earmarks.
Corruption, the number one issue on the exit polls from the 2006 election.
Kevin in uh in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I'm a former New York City resident, and uh Elliot Spitzer, Michael Bloomberg, and Chuck Schumer are always the first to demand the lion's share of the homeland security funding.
Yet they don't do anything fighting uh illegal immigration, which is the biggest threat to national security.
Uh if there's any city or police department in the country that could help fight it, it's the 30,000 member uh New York City Police Department.
Did you hear did you hear the soundbite that I played moments ago from Spitzer talking about this?
Yes, I did, and that's the reason why I called.
And uh, you know, they blame President Bush, which again, part of the blame is his on it on as far as the federal government, but the New York City police department has 30,000 members, and they're told not to challenge somebody's immigration status.
So, you know, I I can't figure it out.
You know, there's enough blame for everybody to go around, but uh they need to take some of the blame as well.
Uh look at when they say the Democrats say there was no leadership at the national level.
Oh, there was.
There was all kinds of leadership.
The leadership was to do it in quiet, in private, in the dark.
So the public didn't know about it.
That was leadership.
They tried to get it done.
What stopped them was an informed public.
And informed public stopped them.
Anytime a leader is trying to go against That kind of informed number of people, that leader is making a huge mistake.
There's nobody that could have led a botched bill past this number of informed people.
Couldn't have happened.
Lots still ahead.
Variety says that I am responsible for the writers' strike, the writers' guild of America.
And in Australia, they're trying to get Santa Claus not to say ho ho ho.
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