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May 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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And it gets even better, folks.
Not only did the ICE guy, John Morton, say, nah, nah, nah, we're not going to take referrals from Arizona.
Big Sis live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
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Director of Homeland Security, Big Sis, Janet Napolitano, said that ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is not obligated to process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.
She said, ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel.
ICE also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even its own.
Meaning, ICE has the independent ability to enforce the law or not, depending upon the whim of whoever's running ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.
Now, Snerdley says something interesting to me at the break of the top of the hour.
He said, you know, any previous administration, this kind of opposition to what they're doing, they'd start backing off, but not this much.
It's almost like they enjoy getting up every morning and say, hey, you think it's bad now?
Try this.
They throw another mudball at us.
And they enjoy it.
So the ICE guy, John Morton, goes out there, loves telling the Chicago Tribune editorial board, oh, screw Arizona.
We're not going to take any referrals from them.
We don't have to.
We think of federal reform, comprehensive reform.
That's the only way to deal with this.
And Napolitano says, yeah, yeah, we don't have to.
We can or can't.
It's up to us.
So once again, the federal government is telling us in Arizona, psych you every day.
Yesterday it was Felipe Calderon brought into Washington to say to Arizona, you.
Today it's Janet Napolitano and John Morton of ICE.
You to a state.
It's not you to Ahmedine Izad.
It's not you to Hugo Chavez.
It's not you to Fidel Castro.
It's not you to the Chikoms.
It's not you to Kim Jong-il.
It's not you to Dmitry Medvedev.
It's not you to Vladimir Putin.
It's you and you, Arizona.
From Obama, from Napolitano, and now from John Morton at ICE, and also from Senor Wences.
And all of this, all of these you get the standing ovation from the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Standing ovation during a joint session.
And Snerdley says, you know, you'd expect these guys to start backing down after all this opposition.
They enjoy this, folks.
They enjoy roiling our culture.
Only people who do not like much this country would enjoy doing what they're doing.
If you had a profound love and respect for the greatness, the traditions, the institutions that made this country great, you wouldn't be doing what this regime is doing.
And if you did have respect for the greatness and the traditions and the institutions of this country and some of this was going on, you'd have a little guilty conscience about it.
But no, it's just the opposite.
They seem happy.
They seem to enjoy all of this.
They seem to actually enjoy every day getting up and causing more of this.
Janet Napolitano, when she was governor of Arizona, might I remind you, ladies and gentlemen, begged Washington to send National Guard troops to protect the Arizona border.
When she was the governor of Arizona, she begged Washington, that would be Bush for troops.
Now that she's part of the regime, well, you know, I wouldn't sign that bill, Senator McCain.
You know where I wouldn't sign that.
Why not?
Well, I haven't read it, but you know I wouldn't sign it, she said.
And the ICE guy, we don't have to accept referrals from Arizona.
And Big Sis says the same thing.
Barack Obama has his boot on the throat of this country, Snurdley, and he's not going to let it up anytime soon.
In fact, I think that ought to be our cover photo, a cover illustration for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
Barack Obama with his throat, neck, his boot on the throat of America, on the throat of the country, smiling.
Because that's precisely what's happening.
Now, listen to this.
Cybercast News Service from Thursday, Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois, said the efforts to secure the United States-Mexico border is like trying to guarantee that no narcotics and no guns are going to pass illegally along I-95.
Major highway up and down the Atlantic seaboard.
Durbin said the Mexico-U.S. border is almost 2,000 miles long.
It's the most frequently crossed international border in the world.
250 people cross annually.
1.5 million cross illegally, Durbin said.
So when there are folks who talk about sealing the border, it's like saying, well, we're going to go out to I-95.
We're going to guarantee that no narcotics and no guns are going to pass illegally on the interstate.
Senator Durbin, the difference is that people are trying to find the illegal guns and the illegal narcotics and the people bringing them across.
And we do find them, then we seize the drugs and we try to put the people selling them and delivering them in jail.
That's the difference.
Of course, we can't stop all murders.
We can't stop all bank robberies.
But we try.
We try to deter it from having.
We're not even trying to deter this, Senator.
What a silly analogy.
What a silly, insulting analogy.
Anybody with a pea brain could figure out we're not even trying to stop the people pouring across our southern borders.
This is the liberal argument for all corrupting things that they want to advance.
Let's go back.
Let's review.
Back in the early 90s, all of a sudden it became popular to say, Rush, we're not going to stop kids from having sex.
They're just going to do it.
So let's give them condoms and let's teach them how to use them.
Let's bring cucumbers and so forth into classrooms.
And Laura's start teaching them how to use condoms.
Because they're going to do it, Rush.
You can't stop it.
We had parents actually letting their high school sons bring their girlfriends in to the basement because they're going to have sex anyway, Rush.
We'd rather have it there than in the dirty backseat of a car.
Actually, had parents call me and say so from Long Island.
And I said, okay, fine.
Well, if that's the case, put a pack of cigarettes down there and a case of beer.
Because we can't stop that either.
And marijuana, we can't stop that.
Abortion.
We can't stop it, Rush.
You're going to have them no matter what you do.
Okay, so let's not even try.
Rush, they're going to cross the border with guns and drugs.
And then, you know, it'd be like trying to stop it on 995.
Well, that's the point.
We do try.
We do try.
And we seize as much of the contraband.
And we seize as many, we stop as many of the people that we're trying to catch.
We're not making any such effort on the southern border.
People are caught all the time on 995.
I don't, they're caught everywhere except Mexico.
They're caught everywhere except on the southern border where the effort really isn't even being made.
Yeah, I keep trying to get off the subject.
There are other things going on out there, but this immigration stuff, they do.
They get up every day and they just, they have their boot on the throat of this country and they're smiling all the while.
They absolutely love this.
I sometimes wonder, you know, if I came onto this program every day and started laughing along with them, hey, folks, isn't this great how they're screwing it up today?
Look at how they're upsetting people.
I wonder if they like me.
I wonder if Chris Matthews and all these people hate my guts.
I wonder if I could win them over if I started sounding happy at the destruction and supportive.
If I enjoyed, along with them, all the pain and suffering that they are imposing, that they are causing.
Don't worry, folks.
It's just a thought piece.
I would never, ever do it.
Okay, so here it is.
Here's the bottom line.
We cannot check whether people are in this country illegally, but we can damn well make sure that everybody's bought health insurance.
Right?
And if they don't buy health insurance, Nancy Pelosi and Durbin say we can throw them in jail.
But we can't go out.
We can't find people here illegally, but we can damn well make sure everybody here has health insurance.
This is kind of fascinating.
You know, I love Megan Kelly.
Don't miss it.
She got Ann Coulter on a show on Fox right now.
And by the way, this should show you how confident I am.
Here I am talking about another show out of the same time as this one's on, and I'm not worried at all that you'll go watch it and abandon this.
I know you never would.
But they're discussing what I brought up in the first hour of the monologue.
Why?
Why are they doing this?
Why are they governing against the will of the people?
Now, Coulter just said it's that they don't know anybody who's not in the ACLU.
They don't understand this.
I think it's more than that.
I think they love it.
I think they know precisely what they're doing.
I think they know they're governing against the will of the people.
They knew it when they took office.
Obama knew when he was running for office that he was going to end up governing against the will of the American people.
He knew from the get-go what his policies are going to be.
He knew from the get-go what his agenda was going to be.
He's going to get up every day and he's going to tighten pressure on our neck with his boot each and every day.
What's he doing?
Why wouldn't he be happy?
Look at the power this man is amassing.
Look at the money that he doesn't have that he's spending.
I mean, from his perspective, when you have no concern for the outcome of your actions, when you're not concerned about the consequences, when all you want, in fact, is to transform the country and make it a redistributionist society, and when your aim is to cut this country down to size, how in the world would he not be happy?
Is he not doing it?
So, snerdly, you say, Well, these people, at some point, you and normal people back off.
No, they're not backing it off.
And in fact, they're priming the pump even more.
They're pushing a throttle even further forward.
They don't.
Obama doesn't care about getting reelected.
You've got to throw all the standard ways of looking at this out the window.
Oh, God, God, I care about getting reelected.
They think they will after Pennsylvania 12.
And hell, half of our people apparently do too.
But Obama doesn't have to get re-elected until 2012.
And the way he's going, he probably thinks he can get this done in four years and head back to Hawaii and spend whatever George Soros has given him here to make this happen and retire fat, dumb, and happy for the rest of his life.
If I were Obama and I was looking at this in a year and a half, I'd cause this much damage and I still got two and a half years to go.
In four years, I could bring this country down to size after it took 200 plus years to build it into the greatest superpower in history and I can tear it down and make sure it doesn't recover for decades in four years.
I'd be very happy with myself.
I wouldn't be concerned with backing off.
I wouldn't be concerned.
People don't like me.
Look at why people oppose my immigration policy.
You don't think he's smart enough to know?
I'm trying to regain my composure.
Bringing Felipe Calderon to a joint session of Congress and having him say what he says.
Folks, the President of the United States used the body of Felipe Calderon to flip us off.
That was a life-size bird that we were flipped yesterday.
That was Obama saying, you.
And he used himself and Felipe Calderon to do it, and the Democrat stood up standing out.
You cannot look at these people through the traditional prism of Democrat versus Republican politics, which is what too many of our people in Washington are still doing.
Yeah, yeah, Russie, just a Republican, just a Democrat.
They're going to win sometimes.
We've got to do what we can to stop the policy.
Oh, this is a whole different ballgame.
We've never had anything like this before.
We've never had an administration that agrees with our enemies when they criticize us.
We've never had an administration that has yet to say a positive thing about this country's past or its traditions.
We have never had in my lifetime a president running around the current world criticizing or apologizing for this country.
And we continue to want to look at this through the traditional Republican versus Democrat political prison.
If you do that, you are forever going to not get it.
You're forever going to misunderstand what's going on.
But they got it somewhere.
They got to get reelected.
Do you think they seem cared but worried about it?
I love it, love it, love it, love it.
The Democrats in Congress can't be this stupid.
They know what's going on.
Yeah, they do know what's going.
They also know they're powerless.
They're giving Obama every bit of power they've had.
They've just turned over the entire regulation of the financial industry to the executive branch.
They're going to turn over immigration to the executive branch.
All the other, healthcare, executive branch.
The administration of Medicare executive branch has it now.
They're giving it all up.
Because what are they?
They are liberals first.
Have you already forgotten the stories that we had earlier this year?
They would be willing to lose their seat in order to get health care passed.
Have you forgotten that?
Yes, you did.
They're telling us, this is the frustrating thing for me.
They're telling us exactly what they're going to do.
They are spitting it out in plain English precisely what they are doing and intend to do.
All right, Maggie in Enderland, North Dakota.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
We have North Dakota seems to be able to do what Arizona is being boycotted for.
We had 32 Mexican nationals that were arrested a few days ago, farm workers.
Some of them were illegal, some were not.
But the Border Patrol was called, they were stopped for erratic driving.
It was a routine traffic stop.
And they called Border Patrol for translation, and 32 ended up being arrested.
And the federal government is working with them to send them back to Mexico.
Really?
Really?
Interesting.
Well, who knew about it until you called?
If you change your name to Arizona, they won't leave you alone.
Maybe Arizona ought to become North Dakota.
See, this is another illustration of my point.
What happened in Arizona is a political opportunity.
It's a political opportunity to move the Obama agenda forward.
And the Obama agenda is moved forward by a series of repetitive moves.
You find a way to criticize the traditions of America that have succeeded, chief among them, private sector and everybody in it.
Big retail, big drug, big oil, big pharmaceutical, big whatever, big food.
You always play them off against the compassionate, understanding federal government that has all the answers and all the compassion and really cares, really, really cares.
That's why giant oil spill in the Gulf, it's an opportunity.
That's why a massive financial collapse, it's an opportunity.
And Rah Emmanuel said so.
I forget exactly how, but a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
A crisis gives you an opportunity to take advantage of it to advance the things that you really want to believe that you couldn't otherwise get done.
Well, the oil spill is a crisis.
Illegal immigration, open borders, it's a crisis.
The financial collapse, definitely a crisis.
I take you back to the top of the program today.
Another $200 billion called a jobs bill will be signed or passed next week after the first one of $800 billion has demonstrably failed.
So we're going to do the same thing over and over again with $200 billion, and we're going to extend unemployment benefits, by the way, through December, which is through November, which is through the election.
Everything is an opportunity.
Contrarily, if something positive for the country happens, that presents a problem, particularly if it happens independently of regime policy.
Then that has to be lied about and revised.
People have to be convinced, no, it's really not good.
Not good.
Welcome back on the cutting edge of societal evolution, El Rushball, on Open Line Friday.
I want to go back.
Grab, we're going to move up to audio soundbite number five.
This is me back on April 30th on this.
And this is a discussion here about Obama and the oil slick.
What a teachable moment.
Obama has a press conference today.
The original purpose of the press conference, not a press conference.
He had a ceremony outside the Oval Orifice in the Rose Garden.
And the purpose of it was to tout a non-existing economic growth rate.
The actual growth rate's about 1.6%.
I'll explain how that happens in mere moments.
But something got in the way of this.
That damn oil slick.
Obama's Katrina.
That damn oil slick just got in the way.
So he had to give some lip service to the oil slick.
It's all British Petroleum's fault.
They got to clean it up.
I'm sending some czars down there.
Now let me tell you what I really came out here for.
And look at these people.
And he has seven or eight props up there, disguised as human beings, to tout new jobs in the so-called clean energy sector and so forth.
It is clear this guy does not really want to be president.
He doesn't want to deal with the country's problems.
He does not have any desire to manage.
He can't be bothered with the responsibilities of his office.
He simply is wanting and is imposing his ideology without distraction.
Yeah, I'm revised a little bit.
He wants to be president, but I don't think he looks at it as an honor.
I really don't.
Continuing what I was saying in the previous half hour, I think to him, this is more of a job and a mission.
He has got to transform this country.
He knows he's going to be a one-term president.
He knows he's got to get it done in four years, and he's well on the way.
I don't think he's honored to be president.
I mean, his wife said, first time she'd been happy, proud of the country when he was nominated.
I bet this is the first time he's been proud of it since he's president.
But I don't think this is an honor to him.
I think this is a, you know, he's got a job to do.
He has got to tear this country down and rebuild it in a way he thinks it's more just and more fair.
It's a mission.
It's a mission, not an honor.
It's no big deal.
In fact, he's going to be happy to move out of the White House.
He didn't like being there in the first place.
It's no big deal.
Look who lived there.
A bunch of white racists.
He'll like it there.
He wants to move back to Hawaii or Chicago or whatever.
He has to put up with it in there.
But that's just where you have to go when you're president.
Me, I would never want to leave it.
If I were elected president, you couldn't get me out of there.
But he likes the perks.
Yeah, he likes Air Force One and all the perks, the parties and so forth.
But he's going to be able to do that as an ex-president.
He'll have a budget to do that.
And believe me, he's going to not be a piker when he walks out of there.
Anyway, I just took the occasion of a couple lines in there to amend my thought.
My point of this was that the whole oil slick is a distraction.
It's a political inconvenience.
Last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 135, he spoke with James Carville about the Gulf oil spill.
And Cooper said early on, conservatives were attacking the Obama administration, trying to say, look, this is Obama's Katrina.
And they fought back against that.
But you do have to raise questions about his Interior Department and the EPA.
You absolutely do.
And I think I'm as good a Democrat as most people.
And I think the administration has done some good things.
They're risking everything by this go-along with BP strategy they have.
And it seemed like lacks of days ago on this.
They seem like they're inconvenienced by this.
This is some kind of giant thing getting in their way.
And somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it all go away.
It's not going away.
It's growing out there.
It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they got to go to plan B. James, plan A is letting the disaster multiply.
James, see here, Carville, James Carville, on the same page as El Rushbo.
It's almost like they're inconvenienced by this out there.
It's almost like there's some kind of Jennifer getting in their way.
It is.
Afghanistan's the same thing, James.
Afghanistan's getting in the way.
It's just a little political inconvenience.
They got more important things to do here.
Let BP handle it.
But the bottom, James, it's even worse than that.
The longer it goes on, the better.
You blame BP even more.
You blame oil even more.
You blame the private.
You speed up the implementation of your cafe standards.
I find this is interesting.
You could carve it.
I think I'm as good a Democrat as anybody out there.
I like my gumbo like anybody else.
But it's an inconvenience.
It's just an inconvenience.
He's exactly right.
When's the last time you ever thought?
Let me ask it this way.
What's Media Matters going to do when they find out Carville is agreeing with me?
And what are Carville's buddies going to do when they find out he is agreeing with me?
Let's go to Indiana, Pennsylvania.
This is Randy.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're up next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing, Russ?
Very well.
Thank you.
It's an honor and pleasure, longtime listener.
First time getting through, and I'd like to thank Mr. Terley for that.
One thing, I agree with your analogy on the two-to-one margin, but there was one more aspect to it.
Bill Russell was, I feel, the stronger candidate.
He.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
He's calling here from Pennsylvania 12.
Indiana's in Pennsylvania 12 or close to it, right?
Yes.
We're in the 12th.
Yes.
He's a 12th district.
He's talking about.
And Mr. Russell is the Republican up there than Tim Burns.
Yes, sir.
Right.
Okay, just bringing the audience up to speed, getting up to your level of understanding.
Yes, he ran a good campaign four years ago and almost beat Mertha and did it without the backing of the Republican Party.
And again, this time they did not back him.
They went with a guy with big pockets.
He has money, and Bill Russell's just an average man off the street like the rest of us.
And he still did a good job.
But a lot of people didn't vote for Tim Burns.
I wrote in Bill Russell myself, my wife and I.
And it's just, I don't know.
Now, Randy, this is an interesting question I have for you.
You had a chance here to turn the district Republican, but it sounds to me like the candidate that they put up there is not as conservative as you would like.
So you made the decision to, it was more important to keep the wrong Republican out of there than it was to defeat a Democrat.
Is that right?
No, no.
I mean, we still wanted a Republican, but...
Why did you do a write-in?
Well, because we felt he was the better candidate.
At least I did, anyway.
But he wasn't on the ballot.
No.
He was on the ballot in the priority.
Primary, yeah, but for the special election, he wasn't on the ballot.
Right.
You know, you just feel strongly about something.
That's the way I voiced my opinion.
I thought that was the best way to go.
And apparently, a lot of people did it too.
Well, yeah.
I'll tell you what, this is just hello, third parties.
This is well, let me ask you this question, Randy.
In November, these two guys are going to have to run again.
It's going to be Burns versus Critz.
What are you going to do then?
Oh, well, I know Critz is perfect dog hind leg.
It'll be for Burns.
So you're going to vote for Burns in November?
Yep.
Okay.
And a lot of people feel the same way.
Yeah.
That's not what we wanted, but our Republican committee chair people just, you know, they just picked him.
And he was basically not aware of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know.
It's the same old song.
I hear you.
It is.
It's the same old song.
But also, inherent here is the lesson of third parties.
At some point, folks, we're going to have to stop putting a gun in our mouth and pulling a trigger.
At some point, we're just going to have to.
You know, yesterday's, let me.
I don't like these suicide analogies.
Let me move on.
All right, so you've won the lottery.
You've won the scratch-off lottery.
And you present the ticket and say, no, no, no, this is a misprint.
It's a misprint.
Your government.
Some state government.
By the way, that standing ovation yesterday for Felipe Calderon, you know who also stood up and joined the standing ovation?
Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder.
They were there at the joint session.
So when Calderon bashes Arizona, bashes the immigration law, the Napolitano and Eric Holder stand up.
Here's Kennan in Westchester, Illinois.
Wait to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi.
Thanks for receiving my call.
I'm a Marine veteran and a member of the American Legion.
And May 27th, 28th, in half a day on the 29th, they will be distributing poppies to raise money to...
Wait a second.
Yes, sir?
Poppies?
Poppies, yes.
Poppies were established in 1919 after World War I.
Oh, those poppies.
I was going to say.
Yes, sir.
Well, anyway, they established it back in 1919.
And the poppies are made by hospitalized veterans.
Ah, I got it.
And then we distribute them and we take the donations and in return, we redonate what the hospital needs or the veterans' home needs.
My particular post shares it with a veterans' home in Mantino, Illinois, or in Heinz Hospital in, I believe it's Bellwood.
And let's see.
I had a donor donate last year.
And this is all part of the build-up to Memorial Day, right?
Yes, sir.
We had, let's see, a gentleman told me 50 years ago, if you didn't have a poppy, you were a bum.
Today, nobody's aware of it.
And anyway, I was hoping that you could help us out a little bit by giving us a plug.
And then I have one question for you.
Well, you just gave yourself a good plug.
Well, thank you, sir.
I'd like to know how long you take to prepare for a program.
It never stops.
Oh, okay.
We're subscriber to your newsletter, and my wife has a rush babe in her sticker window, and you're part of the family.
Well, God bless you, sir.
And I mean, your work with the military, your American Legion work qualifies you for God blesses from now to the end of your life, which hopefully will be eternal for you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much for the call.
You know, this show prep.
I was telling somebody the other day, it used to be, when I started this back in 1988, all the way through, probably for two or three years, you could prep this show with five newspapers.
And then the internet came along, and it became impossible.
It used to be, okay, I'd prep at night, and I'd finish about 10 in the morning and start organizing things, and at noon we start.
Now it never stops.
I have three stacks of stuff here.
I still prep in the traditional way.
Last night, early into this morning, went to bed, got up packed.
I'm going to be gone for a couple days next week, Monday and Tuesday.
By the way, Mark Davis on Monday and Dr. Walter Williams will be back on Tuesday.
I'll be back on Wednesday.
But now, I've got the, no, I'm not walking out.
I got these three stacks, and I don't get to half of any of them.
Because especially with this regime, the news never stops.
News is breaking constantly.
So the preparation never stops.
I've never in my 20.
When are you going to slow down?
I mean, you've been doing this 21 years.
You don't have to do it anymore.
Frankly, it's never been more intense to put this together than it has been the last two or three years, which I like, actually.
It's a challenge.
Back to wrap it up after this.
You know, I'm just sitting here thinking, my entire preparation, all of my show preparation is nothing but a giant distraction for Obama, as is the program.
Again, Mark Davis out of Dallas will be guest hosting the program on Monday.
Walter Williams, Dr. Walter Williams, will be guest hosting the program on Tuesday.
I'll be out a couple of days and be back on Wednesday before you know it.
I'll miss you folks.
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