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April 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Lennon's middle name was Illich.
Vladimir Illich Lennon.
No relationship.
Denise Illich in Michigan, who was, by the way, rumored to be a Democrat Party candidate for governor of Michigan in 2010 after having met with the White House in early January to discuss it, but she later declined not to run, and she's doing fundraisers instead.
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AP beside themselves.
Even a Harvard University poll now showing Obama might not win the Ute vote like he did in 2008.
Now, during the campaign against McCain, Obama won two-thirds of the under-30 vote.
But a new Harvard poll shows Obama leading Romney by 23 points in the 25-29 group and only 12 points among those 18 to 24.
That's a plummet.
That is a major – yeah, he's still ahead, but it is a plummet.
And the trend is downward.
And that's why Obama's spending all this time trying to scare them.
The student alone interest rate doubling on July 1st, which the Democrats wrote, which the Democrats engineered.
Look, those of you who are new to the program, who knows what you think, what you've read about this program, been told.
One thing you have to understand if you're new to the program is I'm not interested in being wrong.
I'm not going to lie or make something up just to advance my agenda.
There's no point in that.
We are too rooted in substance and the pursuit of truth.
And frankly, I am passionate.
I am burning with passion for you to know the truth.
I'm not burning with passion for you to be lied to or to accept lies.
So when I tell you that the student loan rate doubling on July 1st, the Democrats wrote that into law.
They did.
It's undeniable.
It's not arguable.
And Obama's out now trying to make it appear as though the Republicans are going to do it on July 1st or 12th, whatever the date is.
And why are the Republicans going to it?
Well, what they want you to believe is the Republicans want you to suffer.
They want your student loans to cost you more money.
They want you to not have any money.
And it's just poppycock.
It is illogical, makes no sense.
Apply just a little critical thinking to all of this, and everything that you think Obama is falls apart.
This is a Democrat strategy.
It's a Democrat plan.
And now Obama is out running it because of these falling numbers in polls on how the Utes of America are going to vote.
AP also cites a Gallup poll, says that Obama's approval rating among young voters has declined.
It was 75% in 2009.
That was his first year in orifice.
And that's when everybody was filled with all of this utopian idealism and optimism.
75% approval rating among the UTs.
Now it's down to 57%.
That is a precipitous fall, and it's trending downward as we speak.
Now, if you read the AP story, it's clear that they don't believe Obama has any chance of actually losing the under-30 vote.
They note that the last Republican president to win the under-30 vote was George H.W. Bush.
And that's probably because that group thought they were voting for a third term of Ronald Reagan.
I'll guarantee you that's what it was.
I mean, Bush 41 campaigned as the third term of Reagan.
That's how he positioned himself.
But most of this AP article is spent complaining about how Romney and the rest of these venal Republicans hope to exploit poor old Obama's problem.
Just a terrible shame.
Now, here are the audio from this great video put out by freemarketamerica.org.
This video was actually done especially for IRF Day and the greenies.
IRF Day every year is April 22nd.
It is called, If I Wanted America to Fail, Get Three Bites.
If I wanted America to fail, I'd use their schools to teach one generation of Americans that their factories and their cars will cause a new ice age.
And I'd muster a straight face so I could teach the next generation that they're causing global warming.
When it's cold out, I call it climate change instead.
I'd imply that America's cities and factories, the ground wind power and wishes.
I teach children how to ignore the hypocrisy of condemning logging, mining, and farming while having roofs over their heads, heat in their homes, and food on their tables.
I would never teach children that the free market is the only force in human history to uplift the poor, establish the middle class, and create lasting prosperity.
Instead, I demonize prosperity itself so that they will not miss what they will never have.
It's brilliant.
I love it.
It is exactly Grand Slam home run material.
It nails the environmentalist wacko movement.
It's just perfection.
And it's close to my heart.
This has been this whole global warming climate change man-made has been probably in my top five most important to me to see people get the right news about it issue since I started this program.
For 23 plus years, practically every day have been talking about the lies and the techniques.
And right there, these guys nailed it here in that little bite of 49 seconds.
Guilt, everybody.
You're causing climate change with your factories and your thermostats and your comfortable lifestyle and the car you drive.
You're causing it, but there's redemption for you if you follow our directions.
You allow your taxes to go up.
You start driving a bunch of little clunkers around.
You basically give up a little freedom.
You stop enjoying as much of life as you can.
That's what the price is that you have to pay for destroying the planet.
This is exactly the technique.
These guys, these people, young people got it.
And other young people listen to young people.
And this is a video that went viral out there.
Here's the next example.
If I wanted America to fail, I'd make it easier to stop commerce than to start it.
Easier to kill jobs than create them.
More fashionable to resent success than to seek it.
When industries seek to create jobs, I'd file lawsuits to stop them, and then I'd make taxpayers pay for my lawyers.
If I wanted America to fail, I would transform the environmental agenda from a document of conservation to an economic suicide pact.
An economic suicide pact.
If I wanted America to fail.
Of course, this is especially warm to my heart since on January 16th of 2009, I said, I hope he fails.
Oh, that's an for those of you new to the program.
And by the way, we now know, we got numbers in from March, through the roof.
Skyrocketing.
All kinds of new people here.
January 16th of 2009, Wall Street Journal calls.
They say, we want 400 words on what your hopes for Obama are as this historic new presidency is inaugurated.
And they told me they were going to be asking a lot of other people to submit 400-word little mini essays.
They're going to publish them in the op-ed pages of Wall Street Journal.
I wrote back and I said, I don't need 400 words or 200 words.
I can do it in four words.
I hope he fails.
And reactions were predictable.
But everybody who criticized me knew exactly what I meant.
They knew it then.
They knew it now.
I hoped Obama's agenda would fail.
He's a liberal.
He's a socialist.
He's a Marxist.
I knew what he was going to do.
I knew what his policies were going to be.
And I didn't want them to succeed.
I believe in free market economics, freedom in general, pursuit of happiness.
I didn't want Obama to succeed implementing his agenda because it would be detrimental to the country.
Everybody knew that.
But it was too big an opportunity for him to let it go.
So they had to demagogue it, criticize it.
Here's how it ends.
This next bite is how this video, If I Wanted America to Fail, ends.
I would concede entire industries to our economic rivals by imposing regulations that cost trillions.
I would celebrate those who preach environmental austerity in public while indulging a lavish lifestyle and pride.
I convince Americans that Europe has it right and that America has it wrong.
If I wanted America to fail, I would prey on the goodness and the decency of ordinary Americans.
I would only need to convince them that all of this is for the greater good.
If I wanted America to fail, I suppose I wouldn't change a thing.
If I wanted America to fail, I wouldn't change a thing.
Meaning, Obama's headed down the right path toward American failure.
Okay, brief timeout.
We'll come back and we're going to get some phone calls in.
But on the other side of the phone calls, oral arguments today at the Supreme Court on the Arizona immigration law, and the same solicitor general, the same guy that botched the oral arguments on Obama's health care is back and apparently is doing just as bad a job today as he did on health care.
And there's other news about immigration and Hispanics and the vote and all that coming right up.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're going to go to the phones.
Try to get a couple more than just two calls in like we did yesterday.
Fortunate, California.
Hi, Denise.
Tell me your last name is not Illich.
No, it's not.
It's not.
You want to know my last name?
I don't think you do.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, you don't.
I would love to know your last name, but for your own privacy, safety, security.
For my own protection, no.
We're in Humboldt County, which I know is a liberal bastion and all that.
But we're in a little enclave here that's very, very conservative.
Let me tell you something, Denise.
I have been to Humboldt County.
I have made two speeches in Humboldt County, two Rush to Excellence appearances in Humboldt County, one in Humboldt State.
Oh, where they had hairy armpits?
Well, yeah, in the airport, there was a woman with her German shepherd guarding her that had hairy armpits.
You're exactly.
Girls have hairy armpits.
The more southern you get, the more conservative they are.
And in Fortuna, we don't allow that.
What do you mean, the more southern you get?
What do you mean southern in Humboldt County?
Well, Fortuna is...
Oh, oh, oh, the more southern you get...
And then on the other side, northern...
I thought you meant the more southern you get in attitude.
I'm sorry, the more southern part of the county.
The more southern part of the county.
Yeah, yeah.
No telling about the reality.
No, I'm not.
I'm kidding you.
When I was in the airport at Humboldt County when I was leaving, there was obviously a militant.
This feminist, and she had a German shepherd.
I mean, you could spot this.
I knew what was going on.
The moment I walked into the waiting room, hairy armpits and all, you're exactly right.
Yeah, see?
Yes.
Oh, yeah, it's just wonderful.
But Fortuna, the sun shines.
This woman was waiting to be attacked, and there was no chance.
What?
Never mind.
What is it that you're calling?
You can't hear me because of our state-of-the-art phone system.
I don't watch Jimmy Fallon, but I saw excerpts on one of the programs that we do watch, and my skin started to crawl, and all I could equate that with was the Bill Clinton moment when they asked him boxers or briefs.
And I thought, oh, my God, this president has jumped the shark.
This may very well have been his moment, his low moment.
I don't know.
I wanted to throw up or take a shower or both.
I've had a lot of people, Denise, who have written me about Obama doing the slow jamming of the news on a show.
They had a similar reaction to yours.
I didn't see it, like you.
I've just seen excerpts, but video clips of it.
But I really have received a lot of email from people who thought it was beneath the office, beneath the dignity of the offices.
I don't know if the Jimmy Fallon show, I don't know if there are enough people watching that for Obama to have jumped the shark on it.
Yes.
Yeah, no, unbelievable.
There's enough people that have know what Jump the Shark means, I hope.
But no, it was truly an unbelievable moment for me.
My mouth dropped.
Well, speaking of which, do you know what Jump the Shark means?
Yes, I do.
Tell me.
In happy days, when the Fawns, oh, Lord.
When the Fawns always used to wear a leather jacket.
Henry Winkler.
Leather jacket.
Henry Winkler.
Whatever didn't make any difference because it was cool.
It's so frustrating.
Henry Winkler, the Fawns.
Right.
And one of the episodes when they, I think they made a trip from whatever state they were in.
It may have been Wisconsin.
I'm not sure.
Came to California.
And he was going to Jump over a shark on skis.
But he had his swimming trunks on and his leather jacket.
And that was the moment that people referred to jumping the shark.
And that was pretty much.
Yeah, but what does it really mean?
It means that was the end of happy days.
That's right.
That's exactly when they did that.
That episode, okay, they did jump the shark.
They just went beyond, no longer was it believable.
They went outside their formula too much.
Right.
And when Obama did that last night, the only thing, or not, whenever it was, but that's when I saw the excerpts.
When the president did that, the only thing I could think of, the picture that I saw with Fallon in the foreground and the president in the middle, and then I guess the band was behind him and it was all dark and everything, would have been better if there had been a billowing of smoke and a big cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
It was truly, truly nauseating.
Well, we'll see if it'll.
As I say, I have a lot of emails from people who have that reaction.
But I think, don't want to make too much of the emails in terms of anecdotal analysis.
I never do that, but I would never assume the whole country is having the same reaction that people emailing me are having.
Well, people on TV, people remember what they see.
There's no question.
But again, we have to look at where our culture is.
And to a lot of people, Obama is not even the president.
He's just the biggest celebrity in the country.
And that's cool.
I mean, the whole concept of the presidency for a lot of young people is not some august, serious, highly respected, most respected, it's the most powerful, but he's the biggest celebrity of the United States, even more so than he is president of the United States.
I mean, you can go all over Twitter today and read that people out there thought the slow jamming was great because it's new.
We haven't ever seen a president do it before.
It's hip.
He's like us.
He can relate to us.
There are people who have that reaction to it, too.
I mean, that's where we are culturally.
This is undeniable, undeniable truth.
By the way, Snerdley keeps hounding me to repeat the answer that I gave this guy from Detroit yesterday.
He wanted to know how I dealt with the fact that the owner of the Steelers was a big Obama guy.
And I told the guy from Detroit yesterday, I said, I told him, don't let Obama destroy the love you have for the Detroit Tigers.
And don't let this woman, who at the time I thought was sister, now daughter of the owner, don't let owners come and go.
Your team is your team.
Players come and go.
Owners come and go.
But the team is the Detroit Tigers.
And I wouldn't let Obama destroy my passion for the Steelers.
I would not let that happen.
It couldn't happen.
And I wouldn't let this, for you in Detroit, I wouldn't let this little snafu upset your fandom and your love for the Tigers.
By the way, you're going to be encountering this stuff all through.
In fact, I would tell you if you're the kind of person, let's say you live in Detroit.
No.
Say you live in Pittsburgh.
Live in Pittsburgh, you're a conservative Republican, and the ownership of the Steelers makes this big, and they did a big deal about supporting Obama, fundraising for Obama, endorsing Obama.
If you're going to abandon the Steelers because of that, I don't know how you could ever go to a movie again other than one with Tom Selleck or I was going to say Schwarzenegger, but can we count on that anymore?
Charlton Heston is gone.
So if you're going to let, like, the Illich family doing a fundraiser for Obama destroy your love for the Tigers, then how are you going to go to a movie?
Because there's not one actor or actress that you agree with.
You just have to set it aside.
When it comes to passions, which are so important, keeping your life going, passion is the key to anything.
When you lose the passion, gosh, you lose so much.
And I would not let Barack Obama destroy my passion for whatever it is I've got, just because he likes it too, or because in the sports team case, the owner happens to endorse him.
Life's too short.
Got a break.
Come back with much more when we get back.
Don't go away.
And we are back for the Washington Times.
Oral arguments, a little tease here.
Oral arguments, the Arizona immigration law.
Supreme Court casts doubt on Obama's immigration law claim.
Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the regime's claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws.
That's what this is about.
Obama is suing Arizona for essentially enforcing federal immigration law.
Arizona created its own law because the feds were not patrolling the border, securing the border.
So Arizona said, okay, well, we'll do it ourselves.
And Obama is suing the state of Arizona, and that's what the oral arguments are about today.
And the Washington Times is reporting that the justices took a dim view of the regime's claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws.
The justices told government lawyers during oral argument today, the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them.
And that is exactly right.
The justices have it exactly right.
Arizona just wants some help.
They weren't trying to push against or conflict with Obama.
They were asking for help.
Chief Justice John Roberts said, it seems to me the federal government just doesn't want to know who's here illegally.
Wow, that is a profundity.
Well, it's not a profundity.
It's a profound statement for the Chief Justice of the United States after listening to the government lawyers.
It seems to me the federal government just doesn't want to know who's here illegally.
And he's exactly right.
Make no bones, folks.
I know it sounds well, sort of incomprehensible, but I'm telling you that the Democrat Party is looking at as many illegals as possible turning into voters.
That's why they don't want photo ID at the polling place.
It is the number one reason why.
There is no other reason.
Because it's racist or because it's big brotherish.
That's not the reason.
They want to be able to have people who aren't legally registered to vote vote.
If you have to have a photo ID, then you're shut out.
If you're illegal.
The Solicitor General, same guy, Donald Varilli Jr., said the federal government has limited resources, and the federal government should have the right to determine the extent of calls it gets about possible illegal immigrants.
But even Democrat-appointed justices were uncertain of that.
The wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, said, I'm terribly confused by your answer.
Sotomayor, the wise Latina, telling the government lawyer, Don Varilli, the same guy, smartered everybody.
He went to Columbia, you know.
That means he's smarter than all of us.
He said the government has limited resources.
What a crock that is.
What are all the Secret Service agents down in Columbia?
What do you mean by that?
For somebody in this day and age where the federal government is everywhere, for this guy to say the federal government has limited resources, it has hired 4,000 new IRS agents.
What the hell is that about?
For the health care law?
Limited resources?
So he says the federal government has limited resources and it ought to have the right to determine the extent of calls it gets about possible illegal immigrants.
Meaning, if somebody calls us, we ought to have the right to say we're not going to do anything about it or we will do something about it.
It's totally up to us.
And Sonia Sotomayor, there's a law out there about that.
You can't come to this country illegally.
And the Solicitor General is essentially saying, well, if we choose not to do anything about it, because our resources are limited.
She says, what?
I'm confused by your answer.
The wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, went on to say that the federal government can always decline to pick up illegal immigrants when Arizona officials call.
Eric Holder and others in the administration have claimed that Arizona's attempt to enforce federal law is an assault on the federal government, which is crazy.
But that's what he said.
Now, Elena Kagan has recused herself from this one.
Yes, she has.
Well, because she was involved.
It makes no sense to recuse herself from this, but not health care.
But she recused herself because she said she was too close to this one.
So since she has recused herself, this is probably going to be upheld.
Arizona might win this thing.
Of course, if it's 4-4, yeah, if it's 4-4, that stays.
So anyway, it's fascinating to watch this.
The Washington Times story goes on to portray Varilli as out of his league again, the government lawyer.
Now, folks, I had this yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
But know this.
New York Senator Chuck Yu Schumer said yesterday or the day before that they are, the Democrats are going to pass new legislation to bypass the Supreme Court if the Supreme Court finds for Arizona here.
If the Supreme Court finds that Arizona is within its rights to enforce the immigration laws that it wrote, Chuck Yu Schumer says that Congress is going to pass a new law saying Arizona can't.
No state can.
No state can have its own immigration laws.
So Democrats expect to lose this, and Chuck Yu is sitting around waiting to put his new law forward, bring it forward if this happens.
Now, since we're talking about the Hispanic vote, Jonathan Tobin, a commentary magazine, myths about the Hispanic vote.
Let me give you a couple of pull quotes from this story.
And by the way, you know, myth is another word for conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom is what supposedly these smart people all agree on.
Whatever it is.
Conventional wisdom is Obama can't lose.
It's a myth.
That's an example.
One pull quote from the story, the assumption that Hispanic voters are a monolithic group with similar backgrounds and points of view about the issue is also a simplification that has a lot more to do with the desire of pundits and political scientists to make points than it does with political reality.
Have you ever noticed that leftist pundits, when talking about women, monolithic, all women think the same way, all women vote the same way, all women are soccer moms, whatever the Democrat structure of the day is in terms of a campaign and how to get votes from a certain group, they're all the same.
Women think the same way, they act the same way, they do the same things.
And the same thing with Hispanics.
They're monolithic.
That's the way the left looks at every one of these groups, and they're to be managed and controlled in that way.
The next pull quote: unlike blacks and Jews, Hispanics are getting more Republican the longer they're in the country.
And that'll present a problem for Obama and other Democrats who assume they can use the immigration issue to increase their electoral advantage.
Now, the Republicans have thought this too.
I can't leave them out.
The Republicans, all through the early 2000s, believed that the Hispanic vote was monolithic.
McCain, comprehensive, meaningful immigration reform, yeah, whatever that was called.
McCain, who?
McCain Kennedy?
Was it Kennedy?
McCain.
Meaningful, meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform.
It was all about the Hispanic vote.
And there were dreams from the upper levels of the Republican Party in the early 2000s.
Don't doubt me on this.
There were wild dreams that if we came out for a policy that was amnesty but wasn't called that, that we'd send a signal to all Hispanics, hey, we're not your enemy, like the Democrats say, and we get their vote.
There were dreams of the Republican Party becoming a majority party for as far as we can see, using the Hispanic vote, securing the Hispanic vote, and using the immigration issue as a means of getting it with sort of a wink and nod at amnesty.
Now, if you ever called it amnesty, you heard from, like I call it amnesty, I'd hear from them.
And I had to get my mind right a couple times.
Sometimes I was called to meet them.
Sometimes they came to meet me in my home, the Republicans, to tell me what was what and how I was wrong in misunderstanding the objective here.
So both parties have, and here's the problem with this, folks.
You want to get people to vote for you, particularly if you're a Republican.
You want to get people to vote for you, just articulate Conservatism to them.
But if you're going to pander to people as members of groups, then you first have to treat them as victims.
And that's insulting.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't want to attract people to my side of the aisle by telling them they're victims and I'm going to take care of them.
That's, you know, I'm going to tell them about the greatness of America.
I am going to, they're new arrivals.
You want to be in this country because of the opportunity.
Well, here's how you get it.
And I wouldn't base my campaign on ethnicity or race or gender or orientation.
I'd base it all on conservative ideology and then contrast it with the liberalism that is on display every day with Obama and the Democrats.
But that's what Tobin has basically done here in Commentary Magazine.
He has exploded all these myths about the Hispanic vote.
And one of the big myths is that all they care about is immigration, legal or illegal.
The Hispanics who are here might care about it a bit, but it's not the animating issue.
It's not the number one issue.
Now, if you listen to La Raza, you could be convinced it is.
If you listen to leftist Hispanic organizations, which are no different than leftist feminist organizations or leftist gay organizations, the key is they're leftist.
Everything else falls by the wayside.
And so immigration, illegal immigration, is a big deal to the left because it's a source of voters.
The Democrats are losing voters.
They have to replace them.
They're aborting voters, literally.
They are aborting their own future voters.
They need new voters.
The illegal population is a gold mine for them.
And that's why they don't want photo ID to vote.
Fastest way to kill that potential voting block.
They use ACORN and these other community organizer groups to intimidate people at polling places, such as in Philadelphia and the new Black Panther Party, for illegal or non-citizens to vote.
Pure and simple.
The other bit of news on this that's interesting is the fact mentioned at the top of the program that almost as many illegals are leaving the country now as are arriving.
And I predict to you that if this trend keeps up, it won't be long before the Democrats all of a sudden start supporting fence.
This time to keep them in.
The purpose of the fence, of course, is to keep the illegals out.
But if the illegals are leaving as fast as they're arriving, that's net zero.
Why are they leaving, Mr. Limbaugh?
You're just making no, no, no.
I'm not.
We're in a recession.
That's why the Mexican economy happens to be doing better than ours.
Stirdby, you're acting like you haven't heard any of this.
Is this news to you?
The Mexican economy in sectors is doing better than ours is.
That wouldn't be too hard.
It would not be too hard to find an economy around the world doing better than ours.
The Brits, by the way, just entered their double dip.
They just into a new recession just this week.
It's now official.
And we're headed that way.
Durable goods orders are weighed down.
Housing prices are still plump.
We're headed toward a double dip.
I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Don't go away.
Look, snurdley, Mexico's drilling for oil.
We're not.
We've talked about it.
Mexico's GDP for 2010, 5.5%.
Ours, under 2%.
Mexico predicting 3.5% GDP for this year.
But we're nowhere near that.
We're revising our GDP down.
They report 2.5%, but we end up under 2%.
There's no economic growth going on here, and there's no real job creation happening here.
And that's why illegal immigrants here are leaving at almost as rapid a rate as others are arriving.
Tim in Santa Barbara, California.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Oh, Rush.
Yeah, the President Barack Hussein Obama is a great apologist for the United States of America for our greatness, but he won't admit anytime he's made a mistake.
He got his, the closest he came is when he admitted that his party got schlapped in 2010.
And because he won't admit it, Romney is going to possibly kill him in this election.
Because Barack is a mistake.
What's this big deal about admitting mistakes?
I remember a press conference, George W. Bush, I forget which term.
The whole press conference, the media said, have you made any mistakes?
Is there anything you think you've done wrong?
And he wouldn't bite.
He wouldn't, because he knew if he admitted that he had made a mistake, that's all they would report, and they'd harp on it for months.
Why do you want Obama to admit that he's made a mistake?
The sign of true character is a humble person who can admit I had a mistake somewhere and he won't.
There is no humility in the gentleman.
There's no stretch calling him a gentleman.
Look, we're dealing here.
There's a word for somebody who thinks that everything that goes wrong is not just not his fault.
It's yours.
There's a word for somebody who has no conscience, who has no sense of responsibility for anything.
There's a word for this.
It's sociopath.
And they are typified by people who blame everybody else for what's gone wrong.
They never blame themselves.
They never accept responsibility for it.
And not only did they do it wrong, you did.
It's always you or somebody else.
So that's why Obama admitting a mistake.
I mean, he's never done anything wrong his whole life.
He's never had anybody tell him he did anything wrong his whole life.
And that's it.
America's the one that's made the mistakes.
Founders made the mistakes.
Bush made the mistakes.
Obama done anything wrong.
What are you talking about?
Here's a great question from Scalia to the Attorney General, the Solicitor General Varilli.
What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?
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